I want to recommend these 3 articles for posting, usual situation with introduction and title.
“Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy our civil rights – so don’t ask us to be ‘civil’ ”, May 10, 2022, Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/
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“The Anti-Abortion Movement Has a Long History of Terrorism. A Roe Repeal Will Make It Worse”, May 6, 2022, Kathy Spillar, MS Magazine, at < https://msmagazine.com/2022/
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“Violence to Abortion Providers”, n.d., anon, Feminist Majority Foundation, at < https://feminist.org/our-work/
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Introduction by dmorista:
The outraged mostly young people of the U.S. have reacted with vigor to the leaked Draft Opinion that the reactionary Samuel Alito wrote with the intention to start, in earnest, the attacks on the personal liberty and lifestyles of those young people, by the American Far-Right. Among the many protests and gatherings, some were events in which groups of peaceful and polite young Americans went to the homes of Samuel Alito and John Roberts to show their opposition to this assault on needed social and health care services. Various right-wing Republicans including the loathsome Ted Cruz issued distorted statements about the supposed violence of the Left, while also stating that the January 6th events at the U.S. Capitol was a well-mannered peaceful protest. Various outlets from the Liberal Corporate Controlled Media have published opinions that it is necessary to be civil to this cabal of authoritarians and beg for relief with the greatest humility and courtesy. Fortunately there are some organs of the Liberal Corporate Controlled Media that have published some different opinions and of course the internet is alive with a lively dialogue about how to confront this dangerous cabal.
The first article “Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy our civil rights – so don’t ask us to be ‘civil’ ”, published in the Guardian is a good example of a Liberal publication giving some room to those who do not intend to be meek and humble supplicants, but will engage in demanding that our rights not be infringed. An article from the truly alternative media “As Protesters Rally Outside SCOTUS’ Homes, Another Exhausting Round of ‘Civility’ Conversations Begins”, May 9th, 2022, Vivian Kane, The Mary Sue, at < https://www.themarysue.com/
The young people of the U.S. apparently are not going to take this lying down. Exactly what they will end up doing is not clear. But they do not believe the false narratives about just who has been violent and what the real ramifications of this upcoming ruling by the Discredited Partisan Hack dominated U.S. Supreme Court will be. Safe Abortions, Birth control, Morning after pills, travel to other states to obtain reproductive health care, criminalization of providers and women seeking abortions with murder charges (this mostly in retrograde states that still execute prisonsers), and even a National Ban on Abortion are all at least potential realities now. This is in addition to the bleak prospects young people face when looking for decent paying work, in the dead in the water U.S. economy; and the looming destruction of the Earth as a viable place to live.
After decades of murderous violence conducted against the providers of Abortion and other Reproductive Health Care Services and the endlesss threats to women attempting to get into the clinics that was largely ignored an tolerated. The U.S. Senate acted within a few days to provide greatly increased Secret Service protection to the Supreme Court Justices, after a few totally peaceful demonstrations in front of their homes. Various figures, including the Republican Attorney General of Virginia, quickly called for increased protection and repression of those who had the temerity to demand exercise their “1st Amendment right to Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances.”
The Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares called on the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland to hold protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices accountable, Thursday, telling "Fox & Friends First" that the federal government needs to do their job and protect the judges. Of course the right
to Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances, is specifically mentioned in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and there is, as far as I know, no law against peacefully protesting, while staying on the public streets, at the homes of public figures.
New draconian police state legislation will be needed to start a round of harsh repression against the young abortion ruling protests. So despite Miyares blather there is no accountability possible for these particular protests. This is in stark contrast to the attitude of most Republicans to the occupation of the Michigan State House by heavily armed, assault rifle toting, paramilitaries who actually stood with their weapons outside of the door to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's office for hours. And then they went to not just her house, but also to the homes of both the state Attorney General and the state Secretary of State and lurked around, including creeping around the back yards and neighboring home yards. They did this all while carrying assault rifles and who knows what other weapons. And they stayed through the night for several nights, and of course some of the more hard-line reactionary activists made plans to abduct, conduct a mock trial, and execute the Governor. They were arrested but in the end were not particularly harshly punished and are all or mostly all back on the outside now.
In contrast to the civility and well mannered approach of the protesters at the homes of Alito and Roberts; the Anti-Abortion movement has used horrific violence against abortion providers and women for decades. The two final articles both enumerate this. The Second article, “The Anti-Abortion Movement Has a Long History of Terrorism. A Roe Repeal Will Make It Worse”, points out that between 1977 and 2020 the Anti-Abortion movement murdered 11 people and attemped to murder 26 more. They also committed 4 kidnappings, issued 956 threats of harm or murder, were involved in 624 Stalking incidents. They bombed 42 places and were involved in 194 arson events. Furthermore they attempted another 104 bombings or arsons and issued 667 bomb threats. And these figures are undoubtedly low since many incidents were never reported to the police (who were often hostile to abortion poviders). The final article, “Violence to Abortion Providers”, provides a list with short descriptioins of a variety of violent attacks on clinics and providers from 1982 to 2015.
Overturning Roe v Wade will destroy our civil rights – so don’t ask us to be ‘civil’
Arwa Mahdawi 4-5 minutes The Guardian, May 10, 2022
So, this is how our civil rights end, eh? Not with a bang but with a lot of people whimpering about “civility”.
Last week, the US was rocked by the leak of a draft supreme court opinion signalling the court is ready to overturn Roe v Wade. Outrage quickly mounted – but not everyone was outraged by quite the same things. While some people were upset that five out of nine unelected judges (two of whom have been accused of sexual misconduct) have the power to take away women’s bodily autonomy, CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin (who reportedly exposed himself on Zoom) had a meltdown over the impropriety of the leak itself. “The idea that a decision of this magnitude could leak is really a shattering experience for the justices and the court,” he told viewers, breathlessly. “I really don’t know how or if the institution is going to recover.” Shattering for the justices? He doesn’t know if the institution is going to recover? Talk about missing the damn point.
Uh-oh! I apologise to anyone who may have been offended by my use of the D-word. Naughty me: it seems I haven’t absorbed one of the big lessons of the past week. Which is this: when your civil rights are in danger, the most important thing you can do in response is Be Civil. If five unelected judges decide that you have no control over your uterus and no right to privacy, that’s just democracy in action, my friends. If, on the other hand, you decide you want to respond to the dismantling of your civil rights by protesting outside the houses of the judges responsible, then shame on you! How dare you violate these people’s privacy!
I wish I was exaggerating here, but it seems that large swathes of the US have decided the most outrageous thing that has happened in the past week is that some of the peaceful protests sparked by the leaked Roe v Wade opinion have taken place outside the homes of the conservative judges involved. The Washington Post’s editorial board, for example, preached that everyone should “leave the justices alone at home”. Prominent conservatives, such as Bill Kristol, tweeted things such as: “Please don’t protest at people’s homes … Organize politically, be civil civically.” And the White House issued a statement about how judges must “be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety” that was interpreted by many as a condemnation of the protests.
It’s reasonable to argue that protests outside officials’ houses aren’t appropriate. What I object to is the cynical way in which “civility” is constantly weaponised, the way it has become a sneaky byword for “servility” – a way to tell people to shut up and accept the status quo. Arguments for “civility” certainly aren’t used with much consistency: many of the people clutching their pearls about the protests making judges’ personal lives “miserable” (as the Washington Post put it) don’t seem to be quite so bothered about how miserable it might be for a woman to be forced to give birth. And I don’t think there was much discussion of “civility” when, in 2014, the supreme court struck down a Massachusetts law that mandated a 35-foot buffer zone around clinics that provide abortion services. The court found that it was unconstitutional for protesters not to have to the right to get in the faces of vulnerable people who were just trying to access healthcare. If protesters want to protest in front of a judge’s house though? Uncivil!
I am all for civility, of course I am. Here’s the thing though: civil rights have never been won by grovelling at the feet of people who hate you and saying, ‘Please sir, can I have a few more rights?’ You simply do not owe civility to people who don’t see you as a full citizen. It’s worrying how many people seem to think otherwise. If you want a picture of the future, based on the past week, imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever – and telling you to say please and thank you while it does so.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
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The Anti-Abortion Movement Has a Long History of Terrorism. A Roe Repeal Will Make It Worse.
In the face of the recent leak of a draft opinion that confirmed the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion advocates and providers are bracing for a surge in clinic violence.
In the face of Monday’s unexpected leak of a draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito that confirmed that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion advocates and providers are bracing for a surge in clinic violence. In a Wednesday call, officials with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security raised concerns about an increase in violent rhetoric from far-right aggressors in the wake of the draft opinion’s release. And private intelligence groups have released reports detailing violent reactions and threats to bomb clinics and hurt pro-abortion protestors on far-right online forums in response to the draft leak.
For nearly 50 years, as anti-abortion legislators in states around the country have chipped away at the constitutional right to a safe and legal abortion, they have done so with the steady drumbeat of violence at their back.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the most recent attack on the constitutional right to abortion last December. The question in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is whether Mississippi’s ban on pre-viability abortions is constitutional. Under the Supreme Court precedent set by Roe v. Wade in 1973 and reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey in 1992, the answer is clearly no.
Though violence and threats of violence directed against abortion providers have been a prominent aspect of abortion in the United States since Roe was decided, anti-abortion legislators would like to ignore this history. Instead, they try to frame the history of post-Roe abortion as a “hard issue” and one of mere “controversy” that should be settled by these same state legislators. But decades of violence make clear that the debate over abortion in America isn’t a matter of some “civil disagreement.” It is the subject of unrelenting attacks by those who have no regard for the rule of law.
Though violence and threats of violence directed against abortion providers have been a prominent aspect of abortion in the U.S. since Roe was decided, anti-abortion legislators would like to ignore this history.
In the decision expected within the next few months, if the Supreme Court overturns or severely guts Roe v. Wade, it will send an unmistakable and dangerous message: that the violence against abortion providers has worked.
Mississippi provides a dramatic illustration of how extremists have employed violence and other lawlessness to reduce access to abortion. After a rapid expansion of abortion services in Mississippi in the years immediately following Roe, anti-abortion extremists waged a campaign that included stalking, intimidation and violence against doctors who provided abortion care.
This campaign was not isolated or sporadic but sustained and pervasive. The campaign of violence and threats was effective, coinciding with a sharp decline in the provision of and access to abortion services in Mississippi. In fact, Jackson Women’s Health Organization—now the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi and the target of the law at issue in Dobbs—was established in response to the clinic closures that resulted from this anti-abortion violence. At the time of its founding, only one other provider offered abortions for Mississippi residents.
Although Mississippi stands at the heart of the current attack on the constitutional right to abortion, violence against reproductive health providers and clinics has cast a shadow across the entire country. March 10, 1993, marked the first-known time in the U.S. that an anti-abortion extremist committed murder. Michael Griffin joined an anti-abortion protest at a reproductive healthcare clinic in Pensacola, Fla., and then fatally shot Dr. David Gunn in the back as the doctor was walking into the clinic.
Just over a year after Gunn was murdered, Dr. John Britton and Ret. Lt. Col. James Barrett, a volunteer clinic escort and a veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, were gunned down in the parking lot of another Pensacola clinic. Barrett’s wife, who saw her husband and Britton murdered, was shot in the arm.
Although Mississippi stands at the heart of the current attack on the constitutional right to abortion, violence against reproductive health providers and clinics has cast a shadow across the entire country.
In December 1994, an anti-abortion extremist opened fire on two clinics in Massachusetts, killing both clinics’ receptionists—Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols—and wounding five others. In 1998, Eric Rudolph, who bombed the Olympic Games, a clinic, and a lesbian and gay bar in Atlanta, detonated a bomb at a clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson, who served as a security guard at the clinic, and critically injuring a nurse. In 1998, a sniper murdered Dr. Barnett Slepian in front of his family as he was standing in the kitchen of his home in upstate New York.
On a Sunday at the end of May 2009, Dr. George Tiller was attending services at his church in Wichita, Kan., when anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder entered the church, raised a gun to Tiller’s forehead and shot him at point-blank range. Tiller had survived being shot in both arms by a different anti-abortion extremist in 1993.
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Most recently, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. traveled to the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., with four SKS rifles, five handguns, two additional rifles, a shotgun, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and propane tanks, intending to wage “war” on the clinic because it offered abortion services. Dear shot at six peo- ple outside the clinic, killing two and injuring three more. He then shot his way into a clinic entrance while 27 healthcare providers, employees, patients and their companions attempted to hide, one of whom was shot during the course of the attack.
In the approximately five-hour standoff that ensued, Dear turned his weapons on law enforcement, shooting and killing one officer and injuring four more. In total, Dear fired 198 bullets during the attack. According to Dear’s documented interview with the police, he was “happy with what he had done because his actions … ensured that no more abortions would be conducted at the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs.”
The murders are, of course, the highest-profile examples of violence against reproductive health providers and clinics, but they alone don’t come close to telling the full story of the unrelenting, daily violence and harassment that anti-abortion extremists visit on providers and clinics. Attempted murder, death threats, stalking, kidnapping, bombings and arson are a routine part of life for providers and clinics.
And disturbingly, studies show that violence and threats have not only continued in recent years, but have risen.
A steady stream of examples illustrates the ever-present risk to providers, patients, staff and the public. In 2019, a 17-year-old in Texas was arrested after threatening to “commit jihad on an abortion clinic.” An Ohio man was charged with threatening to assault federal law enforcement officers after he made online threats against Planned Parenthood and others; authorities recovered more than a dozen rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.
In 2020, a Rhode Island man was sentenced to federal prison for stalking and sending threats after he threatened to torture and kill a university professor who supported abortion rights, and left more than 100 threatening voice mails for a clinic. And in 2021, a Delaware man pleaded guilty to federal charges after he threw a Molotov cocktail through a clinic’s window and painted a slogan associated with white supremacist groups on the clinic’s wall.
Anti-abortion extremists have employed and continue to employ violence and threats as part of a deliberate strategy to reduce or eliminate abortion, with a concerning number of anti-abortion extremists openly endorsing violence. Shortly after Gunn was murdered by Griffin in 1993, a statement signed by 34 extremists was released, stating:
“We, the undersigned, declare the justice of taking all godly action necessary to defend innocent human life including the use of force. We proclaim that whatever force is legitimate to defend the life of a born child is legitimate to defend the life of an unborn child. We assert that if Michael Griffin did in fact kill David Gunn, his use of lethal force was justifiable provided it was carried out for the purpose of defending the lives of unborn children. Therefore, he ought to be acquitted of the charges against him.”
Over the years since, several more versions of the statement were released, each time adding more extremists as signers.
Anti-abortion extremists have also expanded the targets of their violence beyond abortion providers. A number of prominent anti-abortion extremists were among those who participated in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Individuals interviewed outside the Capitol that day cited their anti-abortion views as the reason they traveled to Washington, D.C., with one person explaining that her decision to come to the Capitol was, in part, “to fight for the unborn.” Another extremist who filmed himself at the Capitol that day was previously convicted of planning to bomb an abortion clinic in 1988, and later admitted to setting fire to that clinic and another.
Violence has also been directed toward the Supreme Court. A shot was fired through the window of Justice Harry Blackmun’s home following years of death threats that began when he wrote the Court’s decision in Roe.
Extremists have used these acts of violence and other illegal tactics to further their goal of stopping abortion by reducing or eliminating access to abortion services, which disproportionately impacts low-income women, women of color and teenage girls. Over time, the violence has contributed to a substantial reduction in the number of clinics as well as the number of physicians and other clinic staff able and willing to perform abortions. Many doctors trained to provide abortion care opt not to do so to avoid subjecting themselves to harassment and violence, and other trained providers are leaving the practice due to the stress and burdens of living with the constant threat of violence.
As one doctor explained, she stopped providing abortions altogether because she was attacked on the internet and “hunted down by protesters” who broke into her home and left behind dead animals.
Anti-abortion extremists have employed and continue to employ violence and threats as part of a deliberate strategy to reduce or eliminate abortion, with a concerning number of anti-abortion extremists openly endorsing violence.
There is a real risk that overturning Roe would further embolden extremists to engage in violence in their crusade to end abortion in the United States. While some states would ban all or nearly all abortions if Roe is overturned, many states would continue to allow abortion, and there is little question that providers in those states would remain targets of violence.
After all, extremist violence has not been confined to those jurisdictions that would be expected to curtail abortion rights if Roe is overturned. Six of the murders committed by anti-abortion extremists occurred in jurisdictions that would likely preserve access to abortion: Colorado, Massachusetts and New York. If anti-abortion sentiments are unable to sway legislators in some states to ban abortion outright, there are very real reasons to be concerned that extremists—who for decades have disregarded the rule of law and legitimate political process—will take matters into their own hands.
The Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms.) and a number of other women’s and civil rights organizations, represented by pro bono counsel John Hall, Elizabeth Saxe, David Zionts, Kate Thompson, Molly Doggett, Marisa Tashman and Megan Keenan of Covington & Burling LLP, filed an amicus brief with the Court last fall in Dobbs to ensure that this long, devastating history of violence is not ignored as the Supreme Court considers the most serious challenge to the constitutional right to abortion care in a generation.
In 1992, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe in Casey, it said it could not “overrule [precedent] under fire.” Overturning Roe now would, whatever the Court intends or says, be perceived as rewarding anti-abortion extremists’ violent acts and would undermine the rule of law. In Casey, the Court refused to overrule a landmark precedent under threat of violence. It should not do so now, a generation later, when even more anti-abortion violence has become an undeniable part of our nation’s history.
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Violence to Abortion Providers
For nearly four decades reproductive health clinics and abortion providers throughout the United States have been under attack. There have been thousands of violent incidents including blockades, invasions, chemical attacks, arsons, bombings, death threats, shootings, sniper attacks, and cold-blooded murder.
Anti-abortion extremists are waging a war of attrition. This strategy targets one set of clinics and health care workers today … then after these clinics are closed or severely injured, extremists move on to target another set of clinics. While abortion remains legal, the tide of violence jeopardizes access to vital medical services.
GRANITE CITY, IL – August 1982. Dr. Hector Zevallos and his wife were kidnapped at gun-point by members of the ‘Army of God” and held hostage for over a week.
SPRINGFIELD, MO – December 1991. A masked gunman shot and paralyzed a clinic worker A second person was wounded in the attack. No arrests have been made.
HOUSTON, TX – 1991. Dr. Karpen was shot and wounded outside his clinic. Assailant was never apprehended.
PENSACOLA, FL – March 10, 1993. Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed while entering a clinic during an anti-abortion demonstration by Rescue America. Michael Griffin was sentenced to life.
WICHITA, KANSAS – August 19, 1993. Dr. George Tiller was shot in both arms at point-blank range by Rachelle “Shelley” Shannon as he was leaving his clinic. Shannon was sentenced to 11 years. During its investigation of Shannon, law enforcement uncovered the “Army of God” manual buried in her backyard.
MOBILE, AL – August 21, 1993 Dr. George Patterson is shot to death in a parking lot; police classified his death as the result of a robbery, though nothing was taken from his car or on his body. Patterson owned the clinic in Pensacola, FL where Dr. Gunn was shot and killed, as well as three other clinics.
PENSACOLA, FL – July, 1994. Dr. John Bayard Britton and volunteer clinic escort Lt Col. James Barrett were murdered by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill as they arrived to the clinic. Barrett’s wife and volunteer escort, June Barrett, was also shot and wounded in the attack. Paul Hill was convicted of the double murders and sentenced to death. Hill was executed in 1103, becoming a martyr in the Army of God.
VANCOUVER, CANADA – November 8, 1994. Dr. Garson Romalis was shot and severely wounded in the leg by a sniper with a high powered rifle shooting through the window of Romalis’ home. James Charles Kopp, a member of the Army of God, remains a primary suspect in the assassination attempt.
BROOKLINE, MA – December 30, 1994. John Salvi shot and killed Planned Parenthood receptionist Shannon Lowney. Going to a second clinic, he shot and killed receptionist Leanne Nichols. Five others were wounded in the attacks. Salvi then drove to a clinic in Norfolk, VA and was arrested after repeatedly shooting outside the clinic trying to gain entrance. Salvi killed himself while serving a life sentence.
ST. LOUIS, MO – August 16, 1995. FBI arrests Robert Cook who was threatening to start a war by killing an unnamed abortion doctor on August 22. Cook is later convicted of an armed car robbery and of using some of the funds from the robbery to buy and store an arsenal of weapons to kill abortion providers.
ANCASTER, ONTARIO – November 10, 1995. Dr. Hugh Short was shot in the elbow by a sniper using a high-powered rifle to shoot through the window of Short’s home. Army of God member James Charles Kopp charged in the assassination attempt.
NEW ORLEANS, LA – December 1996. Dr C. Jackson was brutally stabbed 15 times outside his clinic. The assailant was then arrested at a Baton Rouge clinic as he lay in wait for another doctor.
ATLANTA, GA – January 6, 1997.Two bombs explode at Northside Family Planning. The first bomb destroyed the clinic interior, and the second bomb, an anti-personnel device, went off an hour later injuring seven, including federal law enforcement agents. Three weeks later a similar double bombing occurred at an area lesbian nightclub, injuring five people. The Army of God claimed credit for both bombings in letters to news media. Eric Robert Rudolph was eventually charged in the bombing after he also bombed a clinic in Birmingham, AL in 1998 (see below).
WINNIPEG, CANADA – November 11, 1997, Dr. Jack Fainman was shot by a sniper with a high powered rifle while in his home. Missing his heart by only inches, the bullet tore through his shoulder. Army of God member James Charles Kopp remains a primary suspect.
ROCHESTER, NY – October 28, 1997. Dr. David Gandell was wounded by flying glass when a sniper with a high powered rifle shot into his home. Army of God member James Charles Kopp remains a primary suspect.
BIRMINGHAM, AL – January 29, 1998. A bomb packed with nails exploded at the New Woman, All Women clinic killing the security guard and maiming a clinic nurse. Army of God claimed credit in letter to news media. Eric Robert Rudolph was charged; and placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. He remained a fugitive for 5 years before he was finally captured in May 1103. Rudolph pled guilty to the Alabama and Atlanta bombings, and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms.
AMHERST, NY – October 23, 1998. Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot and killed by a sniper with a high powered rifle while standing with his wife and children in the kitchen of his home. Army of God member James Charles Kopp was charged in the slaying and placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. Kopp escaped through Mexico to Ireland and France, remaining a fugitive for three years. He was arrested in Dinan, France where he had taken refuge in a monastery run by a St. Pius X Catholic sect.
VANCOUVER, CANADA – July 11, 2000. Dr. Garson Romalis was stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant as he entered his clinic. Assailant remains at large.
WICHITA, KS – May 31, 2009. Dr. George Tiller, a longtime target of anti-abortion extremists, was shot and killed by a single gunshot to his head. Tiller was killed as he was attending services at his church. Anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder has been convicted of the murder and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. Roeder reportedly had participated in demonstrations organized by Operation Rescue and had a note in his car with Operation Rescue’s Cheryl Sullenger’s name and phone number when he was arrested. According to press accounts, Roeder had also met and been in communication with Army of God members Shelley Shannon, David Leach, Michael Bray, and Regina Dinwiddie.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – November 27, 2015. Robert Lewis Dear killed three and injured nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Dear has been formally charged with 179 felony counts, including eight counts of first-degree murder and 131 counts of attempted first-degree murder. Dear’s rampage was one of the worst acts of violence carried out by an anti-abortion extremist in the United States. Dear used the language “no more baby parts” upon his arrest, leading many to believe that his motivation for attacking the reproductive health clinic may have been tied to the release of several deceptive and highly edited videos created by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress several months prior to the attack.
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