Assassination of George Tiller was polarized: the pro-life blogosphere appreciated the episode's handling of the abortion issue as a whole, while many pro-choice sources condemned the episode. The aftermath of Tiller's death is also the subject of the 2013 documentary "After Tiller", which follows the lives of four other late-term abortion providers after Tiller's murder. The George Tiller Memorial Abortion Fund was established by the National Network of Abortion Funds. Assassination of George Tiller On May 31, 2009, George Tiller, a physician from Wichita, Kansas who was nationally known for being one of the few doctors in the United States to perform late-term abortions,
Assassination of George Tiller sham" and felt the justice system failed in letting Tiller go free. On May 30, one day before Tiller was killed, a worker at a Kansas City clinic told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Roeder had tried gluing the locks of the clinic shut, something Roeder was suspected of doing there before years earlier. The "Kansas City Star" reported that a man of Roeder's description had glued the locks shut at the Central Family Medicine clinic in Kansas City on May 23 and May 30. President Barack Obama said, "I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr.