Man plotted to shoot abortion provider, spied on doctor and wife eating dinner in their home
The man also confessed to a 2023 abortion clinic shooting, admitted to plotting to bomb a second abortion clinic, and said he planned to assassinate the head of Planned Parenthood.
A 20-year-old man—whom I am not naming because he doesn't deserve the name recognition—has confessed to plotting to assassinate a Montana physician because the physician provides abortion care. He also confessed to firing bullets through the front door of an abortion clinic in 2023, when he was 17 years old, and he admitted to plotting to bomb a second abortion clinic in 2024. In addition, he said that he was planning to assassinate the head of Planned Parenthood.
As rePro-Truth recently reported, acts of anti-abortion terrorism is on the rise.
On March 8, 2026, the man drove to an abortion provider's home. Peering through the window, the man said he watched the physician and his wife eat dinner.
As the man climbed onto the back porch with a .327 revolver, he said that he suddenly changed his mind. Instead of shooting the doctor, he threw the gun through a sliding glass window and into the home.
He told police that he doesn't know why he changed his mind.
The man was reportedly radicalized when he was in high school. That's when he started idolizing anti-abortion terrorists who assassinated doctors and bombed health care centers.
As rePro-Truth has previously discussed, frustration with the persistence of abortion and a belief that anti-choice groups and/or anti-choice officials are not doing enough to stop it, has led abortion foes to commit acts of terror and violence. When anti-choice leaders’ actions are out of sinc with their moralizing and outrageous language and claims, that incongruity can be a source of radicalization. According to the police report, the man who confessed to plotting to kill the Montana abortion provider “felt the modern pro-life movement was 'just pathetic and was not accomplishing anything.’” So he took direct action.
He has been charged with two counts of assault with a weapon (felony), one count of intimidation (felony), and criminal trespass (misdemeanor).