Minister endorses murder

Shreveport, Louisiana —A Texas minister and anti-abortion leader endorsed the slaying of doctors who perform abortions, in an interview with The Shreveport Times [8/21/94]. W.N. Otwell, pastor of Heritage Baptist Church, in Nacogdoches, Texas, said, “I didn't do it [the recent murders of two Florida abortionists], but I'm not against those that do.”

Otwell also heads an organization called God's Special Forces, a division of God Said Ministries. About 40 members of his group — many of whom were dressed in camouflage Army clothing and berets — recently demonstrated in front of the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport. The protestors carried signs saying, “Abortion is murder,” “There will be no murderers of babies in heaven,” and “We have warned you of God's judgement to come!”