WICHITA, Kan. — Abortion never came up in jurors’ brief deliberations Friday at the end of Scott Roeder’s trial in the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, according to the jury’s foreman. ‘It was never spoken of,’ said the 54-year-old, whose first service as a juror came in a trial that drew reporters and activists on both sides of the abortion issue from coast to coast. He said the jury discussed only the question of whether Roeder was guilty of first-degree murder for shooting Tiller while Tiller served as an usher in his Wichita church, and whether Roeder was guilty of aggravated assault for pointing a handgun at two people who tried to block his escape. Because of security concerns, the juror asked that his name not be used. He said he didn’t want to take any chances that someone might lash out against him. The guilty verdict was unanimous from the beginning of the deliberations, he said. ‘There wasn’t much to argue about.’ They found the evidence against Roeder ‘overwhelming.’ That’s why it took only 37 minutes to decide, he said. For security during the trial, he said, jurors were […]