An abortion-performing doctor is killed by a terrorist sniper at the doctor’s upstate New York home.
Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician/gynecologist and abortion provider in Amherst, N.Y, became the fourth doctor and seventh person in the United States known to have been killed because of their involvement with performing abortions.
His death marked the fifth consecutive year that an abortion doctor in upstate New York or Canada had been the victim of a sniper attack. Slepian and his family had just returned from their synagogue when a bullet shattered the kitchen window and struck him in the back. Each of the five attacks, the first four of which did not result in fatal wounds, occurred around Canada’s Remembrance Day.
Authorities charged James Charles Kopp, known among abortion opponents as “Atomic Dog,” for Slepian’s murder. Kopp, a member of the terrorist group Army of God, was captured in France in 2001. He is serving a 25-years-to-life prison sentence for second-degree murder.
