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Keep Our Doctors Safe
October 21, 1999
"It is vital that we keep our doctors who provide
abortions and the staff who work with them safe. A year ago Saturday,
Dr. Barnett Slepian was murdered in his own home in Buffalo. His death
is a grim reminder that abortion providers are targets of the
terrorist fringe of the anti-abortion movement." stated Marsha Peone,
Rochester NOW Reproductive Rights Task Force Chair.
Four
other abortion providers in western New York and Canada have been shot
at around November 11, Canada's Remembrance Day. Anti-abortion
activists in Canada have used the date to "remember the unborn
children."
Since
1993 eight people who work to keep abortions safe and legal have been
murdered. Sixteen have been wounded in anti-abortion attacks in the
last five years.
James
Kopp, who has been charged with Dr. Slepian's murder, is still at
large.
"No
one should be subjected to the death threats and harassment that our
doctors live with every day," stated Peone. "Disagreements over
abortion should be voiced through peaceful demonstrations, not with a
high power rifle."
Peone
praised local doctors and staff who provide abortion services.
"Rochester NOW especially wants to thank Dr. Morris Wortman and Dr.
Eric Schaff for their courage in speaking out against the
anti-abortion terrorists," she said. "They and their staff are to be
commended for literally putting their lives on the line every day in
order for women - not the government and certainly not militant
religious zealots - to decide when to have a child."
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