<div id="subtitle">Widow of slain abortion provider among those praising NY's tougher state laws</div><div><p>The widow of a doctor who was shot to death in his New York home in 1998 by an abortion protester said Thursday the new state law setting tougher penalties for people who ...

<div><p>“I would not be friends with someone who didn’t feel comfortable sending me offensive things,” wrote a Democratic political staffer, 23, who asked not to be named. In the next email he begged to strike that from the record because it sounded “abrasive,” even though he was being quoted anonymously: “I would be ...