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Anti-abortion group moves Wichita service
After a service inside an Operation Rescue office, the activists placed flowers at several locations, including the site of Tiller's abortion clinic, The Wichita Eagle reported. Tiller's family closed the clinic, one of the few places in the country offering late-term abortions, after he was killed May 31.
The original location for the gathering, billed as a memorial and healing service, was outside Women's Health Care Services, the former clinic. It was moved after abortion rights groups announced a counter-demonstration.
"We're not interested in confrontation," Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, told the Eagle. "We're praying for healing and that Wichita would become a city of life."
About 40 people came to the clinic site. Marla Patrick, state coordinator for the National Organization for Women, said she respects the decision to move the anti-abortion service, but the group should not have considered Tiller's clinic as a site.
"We're here to prevent them from dancing on the proverbial grave of a murdered man," she said. "We don't want them to go unchallenged."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
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