“I cannot sit down at my kitchen table without thinking of Dr. Slepian’s murder happened far away from Kristina, she said she thinks about it every day.
Barnett Slepian, one of a few doctors performing abortions in Buffalo, New York, was murdered in his kitchen by a sniper in 1998. Kristina’s clinic started providing abortions not long after Dr. They would get upset at times when they’d hear or see things.” “They knew not to let him go with just anybody and that if somebody came to pick him up that wasn’t me, they would call.” Still, Kristina’s children were affected. She moved her son from public school to a private school where the administrators were aware of her profession. Kristina is concerned not only for her own safety but for her children’s safety as well. It gets into your head, it gets into your heart. The pictures were all up the main street I travel on, all the way back to my house.” “That was probably one of the creepiest days. “I left to pick up the doctor, and I got to the corner of my house, and there’s a big picture of the doctor with a bulls eye on him, and every corner that I turned was another picture,” Kristina said. Kristina knows that she has been followed home at least once. “There’s always that moment when your heart starts beating a little harder.” This system is not foolproof, and Kristina says she understands the risks. For extra security, they vary the locations where they meet.
Because of past violence against abortion providers, the doctor drives to another public location to meet Kristina, and then she drives the doctor to the clinic in her own car. Perhaps the riskiest part of her job is when she drives the doctor who performs the abortions to and from the clinic. She has also received cards in the mail that describe what type of car she drives, and where she drives it. Kristina has been accosted entering and leaving the clinic.
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