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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A 70-year-old man from Spokane, Wash., has been indicted on charges he made a threatening phone call to a doctor who performs abortions in Colorado.
Donald Hertz was charged this week under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, The Denver Post reported Thursday.
Dr. Warren Hern of Boulder said he got a call June 23, three weeks after Dr. Gregory Tiller of Kansas City was killed, saying two Vietnam veterans from Utah were coming to Colorado to hurt him and his family. Hern, like Tiller, performs late-term abortions.
Federal marshals immediately began guarding the family.
"My family was terrified," he said. "I was frightened, my staff was frightened. My 92-year-old mother was taken from her apartment in the middle of the night, and it was quite a frightening experience, and we took it seriously because Dr. Tiller had just been assassinated."
Hern said FBI investigators traced the call to Spokane, where public records show Hertz is owner of Great West Properties.
Dan Kennedy of Human Life of Washington State said his group had no knowledge of Hertz and does not support violence or threats of it.
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