</noinclude> Baby killer is a defamation used to accuse people of infanticide. It was used again in the year 1910 as an invective against patent medicines. Being called baby killer was used in the movie First Blood: "It wasn’t my war. You asked me, I didn’t ask you and I did what I had to do to win, but somebody wouldn’t let us win. And I come back to the world and I see maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting, calling me baby-killer and all kinds of vile crap!" George Tiller was first discussed on The O'Reilly Factor on February 25, 2005 as "Tiller the Baby Killer". O'Reilly did not invent the nickname; previously, Congressman Robert K. Dornan had used it on the floor of Congress. It is also a term used against pro choice advocates. It was shouted by Representative Randy Neugebauer during a 2010 House of Representatives debate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It has been argued that such usage foments violence against abortion providers.
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