Murder trial judge bans word 'abortion'

Lawyers prosecuting a man who gunned down a controversial pro-abortion doctor had to get through the first day of evidence without mentioning the word “abortion” in front of jurors.

On the 37th anniversary yesterday of the landmark US Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion, the prosecution instead began presenting a murder case at the court in Wichita, Kansas, focusing on emotional eyewitness testimony, recordings of frantic emergency calls and photos of Dr George Tiller’s body lying in a pool of blood in his church foyer.