Men smoking cigars and drinking beer with friends after shooting skeet at the Buffalo Shooting Club in Amherst said their feelings about abortion were mixed, but they uniformly denounced the killing of Slepian. Many residents said abortion had gradually dwindled as a local issue since Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group, started a series of largely unsuccessful  Spring of Life  demonstrations in 1992 intended to shut down abortion clinics and (harass) local doctors, including Slepian.  
 Verb: harass
Yes