1.   Violence and harassment against abortion providers continued to escalate.

2.   An abortion provider in Wichita, Kan.

3.   And so it is that abortion providers are walling themselves in.

4.   Authorities believe the slaying may be linked to four previous shootings of abortion providers at this time of year in northern New York and Canada.

5.   Bisnett expressed a certain empathy for antiabortion activists moved to attack abortion providers.

6.   A bombing at an Atlanta abortion clinic last Thursday that injured six has drawn new attention to violence against abortion providers.

7.   A number of doctors and abortion providers said in interviews that they knew of no partial-birth abortions being intentionally performed in Massachusetts.

8.   Abortion providers operate under no such illusion.

9.   Abortion rights leaders say right-wing militia groups apparently have been organizing possibly violent campaigns against abortion providers.

10.   Abortion providers say they read radical anti-abortion publications for tactical reasons.