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Jackson Clinic on Alert

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The Jackson Women's Health Organization is on high alert today after an assassin gunned down Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Kansas yesterday. The Jackson clinic is the only place in the state of Mississippi that provides legal abortions.

"It really shakes you up when you know this extremism is back again, apparently, and it does make you fear for your life," Dr. Joseph Booker, a physician at the Jackson facility, told WAPT Sunday.

This battle is decades old but Booker says his fears of being attacked won't keep him from doing his job.

Tiller was in the foyer of his church Sunday—the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas—serving as an usher, when a gunman fired once, killing him. Police arrested suspect Scott Roeder 170 miles away, after he fled the scene. He is being held without bond, according to the WAPT story.

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