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Trial begins in slaying of Kan. abortion provider

January 22, 2010
Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. -- On the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, prosecutors who charged a man with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers managed to get through the first day of testimony without mentioning the word abortion in front of jurors.

They instead began presenting a murder case focused instead on emotional eyewitness testimony, recordings of frantic 911 calls and photos of Dr. George Tiller's body lying in a pool of blood in his church foyer.

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