Snaptu: History of violence: how doctors who perform abortions in US have been targeted

April 2007 Nail bomb is left in car park of Austin women's health centre in Texas, but found and defused.

23 October 1998 Dr Barnett Slepian shot dead at home in Buffalo, New York. Militant anti-abortionist James Kopp convicted of murder in 2003.

29 January 1998 Bomb explodes outside clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing police officer and ­wounding several others. Eric Rudolph later pleads guilty,and also to deadly bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

16 January 1997 Two bomb blasts at Atlanta abortion clinic. Seven people injured. Rudolph charged in ­October 1998.

30 December 1994 John Salvi opens fire with rifle in two clinics in Boston, killing two receptionists and wounding five. Kills himself in prison in 1996.

8 November 1994 Dr Garson Romalis, who performs abortions in Vancouver, Canada, shot in the leg at home.

29 July 1994 Dr John Bayard Britton and volunteer escort, James Barrett, killed outside clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Paul Jennings Hill, a former minister, is sentenced to death for murder.

19 August 1993 Dr George Tiller is wounded outside clinic in Kansas. Rachelle Shannon jailed for 11 years for shooting.

10 March 1993 Dr David Gunn shot dead in Pensacola, Florida, first US doctor killed during anti-abortion protest. Michael Griffin jailed for life.

* United States

* Abortion

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