Shocking news from America.
A doctor who was one of the few in the US to continue carrying out late-term abortions was shot dead in a church today.
George Tiller, 67, who had been picketed, bombed and shot in the arms in previous incidents, was killed at his church in Kansas, according to police sources.
His was one of only three clinics in the United States to carry out late-term abortions, which are legal in Kansas if two independent doctors agree that the mother would be irreparably harmed should the pregnancy be allowed to continue.
Tiller was a controversial man, whose clinic has been the site of protests for two decades. He was shot and wounded by a protester in 1993 and someone placed a bomb on the roof of the clinic in 1986, seriously damaging the building.