A fucking nutcase religious right wing shot him in church.
I don't believe in torture, but am willing to make an exception for this guy. He should be waterboarded 3 times an hour for the rest of his life.
This website says it best:
http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/175 Every day that Tiller went to work, he directly confronted
the most difficult of reproductive health questions -- questions ultimately decided not by him, but by his patients. His Women's Health Care Service was one of just three facilities in the country providing access to abortion after the 21st week of pregnancy.
The work was not easy. Tiller took intimidating lawsuits and protests in stride. He accepted the necessity of cloistering his family within a gated community, of hiring bodyguards, of wearing a bulletproof vest. He overcame repeated attacks on his place of work, and a previous assault by a gunman. But he could not overcome an assassin's bullet, aimed point-blank to his head, delivered inside the sanctuary of his own church on a Sunday morning.