Scott Roeder told AP Monday he killed abortion provider Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas.
The man who allegedly shot and killed a physician in Wichita, Kansas who provided abortion services, admitted to the Associated Press to the killing and said he intends to defend himself by arguing that it was justifiable homicide.
In a phone call Monday, Scott Roeder told the news service he killed Dr. George Tiller, the AP said .
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Defiant and unapologetic, a man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed to the slaying Monday, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children.
Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., spoke to the AP in a telephone call from jail, saying he plans to argue at his trial that he was justified in shooting Dr. George Tiller at the abortion
provider's Wichita church in May.
"Because of the fact preborn children's lives were in imminent danger this was the action I chose. ... I want to make sure that the focus is, of course, obviously on the preborn children and the necessity to defend them," Roeder said.
"Defending innocent life - that is what prompted me. It is pretty simple," he said.
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