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FILE- This undated booking photo originally released Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by the Sedgwick County Jail shows Scott Roeder, who is suspected in the shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller. The man charged with killing a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks. (AP Photo/Sedgwick County Jail)
Operation Rescue president Troy Newman, left, prays during a memorial for abortion deaths at Operation Rescue's headquarters Saturday, June 20, 2009, in Wichita, Kan. The anti-abortion group had originally planned to have the memorial outside the now closed abortion clinic of Dr. George Tiller, who was killed May 31, but decided to do it at their headquarters instead to avoid a confrontation with pro-choice activists camped at the clinic. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
FILE - In this June 15, 2005 file photo, test pilots do a preflight inspection before making a test flight in a Cessna Citation Mustang business jet, in Wichita, Kan. Aircraft maker Cessna announced Friday, June 12, 2009, 1,300 more layoffs in new round of cuts. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Scott Roeder  makes his first court appearance via a video link from the Sedgwick County Jail on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 in Wichita, Kan.   Roeder, 51,  has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.  Judge Ben Burgess ordered Roeder to be held without bond,  and said he was not allowed to communicate with Tiller's family. The judge also told Roeder that he would be assigned a public defender.  (AP Photo/Jaime Oppenheimer, Pool)
FILE - This  April 18, 2007, file photo, shows Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, middle, speaks during a press conference by Operation Rescue on the 5-4 vote by the  U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban of partial-birth abortions, outside Dr, George Tiller's clinic in Wichita, Kan.  In a nation divided by abortion, Kansas has become perhaps the fiercest battleground -- with mass protests, prosecutions, lawsuits and now the killing  of Dr. Tiller on Sunday, May 31, 2009, keeping the issue almost constantly in the public eye. (AP Photo/Larry W. Smith,file)

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