premise: The New York Times said in an editorial on Monday, Oct. 26:
  The murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian is the latest depraved assault on the small number of courageous physicians who still risk their safety to perform legal abortions in this country. Slepian was one of only three doctors who performed abortions in the Buffalo, N.Y., area, and harassment and threats against him by anti-abortion groups had become routine over the past decade. He persevered through courage and a belief in the right of his patients to choose whether to bear a child.
  But a principled commitment to provide a constitutionally protected service could not stop the assassin's bullet that tore through his kitchen window and into his back Friday night. His death shows again how tentative the right to abortion has become in the face of terrorism by anti-choice fanatics.
   What can happen to doctors who risk their safety to perform abortions?
hypothesis: depraved assault