Dr. Barnett Slepian, Abortion Provider, Murdered by Anti-Abortion Fanatics
Dr. Barnett Slepian, an abortion provider in Amherst, New York (near Buffalo), was murdered by anti-abortion fanatics.
Eleven people were murdered at abortion clinics (including both doctors and staff members) by anti-abortion activists between 1993 and 2015.
For the murder of Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, go to May 31, 2009.
Read: Carole Joffe, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (2009)
Learn more about anti-abortion violence: http://www.prochoice.org/news/kit/violence.html
Learn more about “America’s Forgotten Terrorism:” http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/domestic-extremism-terrorism/c/anti-abortion-violence-americas-forgotten-terrorism-1.html
Read: James Risen and Judy Thomas, Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War (1998)