The motive for the murder might finally get achieved after all. The ‘abortion doctor’ Dr. Tiller was murdered apparently because he was carrying out abortions without ever listening to the activists etc who staged dharna outside his clinic. But now that he is murdered and no more, his relatives are going to close it down permanently. The doctor was famous for carryying out late term abortions also very successfully. His clinic in Wichita, Kansas, was one of only a few to offer such late abortions in the US.

His family said they were proud of the “service and courage” shown by Dr Tiller, who was shot dead on 31 May while serving as a church usher. Scott Roeder, 51, has been charged with shooting dead Dr Tiller.