Anti-abortion violence

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Violent anti-abortion is violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion. Violent incidents include property destruction, in the form of vandalism; crimes against persons, including kidnapping, stalking, assault, attempted murder, and murder; and crimes affecting people and property, including burning and bombing.

Anti-abortion extremists are considered a domestic terrorist threat today by the US Department of Justice. The most widely recorded incidents occur in the United States, although they also occur in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. G. Davidson Smith of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service defines anti-abortion violence as an issue terrorism. A study of violence 1982-1987 considers "limited" terrorism or "sub-revolutionary" incidents.

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Anti-abortion violence is specifically directed to persons who or places that provide abortion. It is recognized as a "single issue of terrorism". Incidents include vandalism, arson and abortion clinic bombing, as did Eric Rudolph (1996-98), and murder or attempted murder of doctors and clinic staff, as did James Kopp (1998), Paul Jennings Hill (1994). ), Scott Roeder (2009), Michael F. Griffin (1993), and Peter James Knight (2001).

Those who engage in or support such acts retain the use of force with justifiable killing claims or the defense of others in the interest of protecting the fetus's life. David C. Nice, from the University of Georgia, describes support for anti-abortion violence as a political weapon against women's rights, which is associated with tolerating violence against women. Many organizations also recognize anti-abortion extremism as a form of Christian terrorism.

At least eleven murders have occurred in the United States since 1990, as well as 41 bombings and 173 arson at the clinic since 1977. At least one murder occurred in Australia, as well as several attempted murders in Canada. There were 1,793 providers of abortion in the United States in 2008, as well as 197 abortion providers in Canada in 2001. The National Abortion Federation reports between 1,356 and 13,415 incident precautions in US providers annually from 1995 to 2014.

The Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was passed in 1994 to protect reproductive healthcare facilities and their staff and patients from threats of violence, assault, vandalism and blockades. The law (18 U.S.C. 248) also provides the same level of legal protection for all pregnancy-related medical clinics, including pro-life counseling centers; it also applies to the use of threatening tactics directed at churches and places of worship. State, provincial and local governments have also passed similar laws designed to provide legal protection against abortion access in the United States and Canada.

Maps Anti-abortion violence

By country

Australia

• July 16, 2001: Steven Rogers, a security guard at a clinic in Melbourne, Australia was shot in the chest and killed by Peter James Knight. Knight brought ropes and gags into the clinic along with 16 liters of kerosene, intending to burn all 15 staff and 26 patients to death. Knight was indicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on November 19, 2002.
• January 6, 2009: The burning of fires using Molotov cocktails was tried at a medical clinic in Mosman Park, Western Australia. The faulty construction of the bombs limits the damage to an external burning area, even if the damage is successful will be very severe. It is believed that the men who carried out the attack were responsible for the graffiti "killer baby" on the site, pointing out the reason for the anti-abortion attack. The site was not an abortion clinic, although the attackers were most likely not aware of this.

Canada

Attempted murder

Violence also occurs in Canada, where at least three doctors have been attacked to date. Doctors are part of an attack pattern, targeting providers in Canada and northern New York (including the fatal shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian from New York). All of the victims were shot, or shot in, in their homes with guns, at dusk or in the morning, in late October or early November for a multi-year period. There has been speculation that the shooting time is related to Canadian obedience on Memorial Day.

With Canadian-F.B.I. a task force investigating the shootings was formed in December 1997 - three years after the first attack. A task force coordinator, Inspector David Bowen of Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police, complained that the Government of Canada was insufficient to finance the investigation. Inspector Bowen said the task force, mostly funded by the community where the shootings occurred, "operates with little money" on a $ 100,000 budget. He said he asked for more funds in July that would raise his budget to $ 250,000. Federal officials rejected the request on October 15, a week before Dr. Slepian was killed. Inspector Bowen says that there is no funding to follow up on potential prospects.

In 2001, James Kopp, a citizen and resident of the United States, was charged with murder. Slepian and attempted murder. Short; some speculated that Kopp was responsible for other shootings.

• November 8, 1994: In 1994, a sniper fired two bullets at Dr.'s home. Garson Romalis, 57, from Vancouver, British Columbia who was having breakfast. One strikes his thigh, destroys some of his muscles, breaks his femur and damages his femoral artery. Dr. Romalis saved his own life by using a bathrobe belt as a tourniquet. Dr. Romalis has become more blatant about the right to abortion since he was shot, citing the danger posed by women with illegal abortion and thousands of cases of septic abortion who come to his hospital in residence.
• November 10, 1995: Hugh Short, 62, from Ancaster, Ontario was shot. A sniper bullet fired at his house destroyed his elbow and ended his surgical career. Dr. Short is not a high profile target: it is not widely known that he has an abortion.
• November 11, 1997: Jack Fainman, 66, from Winnipeg, Manitoba was shot. A gunman shot through the rear window of the Fainman riverside in Winnipeg around 9 pm and struck him on his right shoulder, inches from his heart. The police will not comment whether Dr. Fainman, who has refused interview requests since the attack, is still having an abortion.
• July 11, 2000: Romalis was stabbed by an unknown assailant in the lobby of his clinic.

Bomb and property damage

• February 25, 1990: Two men walked into a clinic in Vancouver and destroyed a $ C30,000 medical device with a crowbar.
• May 18, 1992: A clinic in Toronto operated by Henry Morgentaler was bombed, causing the entire front wall of the building to collapse. Clinic Morgentaler on Harbord Street in Toronto was bombed at night by two people (caught security cameras) using gasoline and fireworks to trigger an explosion. The next day, the clinic management announced that the bombing failed to prevent abortion, because all scheduled abortions were conducted at alternative locations. A portion of the Toronto Women's Bookstore, next door, broke down. No one was hurt but the building must be dismantled. On the day after the bombing, Morgentaler came to check the damage and crowds of abortion-abiding supporters appearing in the clinic with signs that read, "Just Say No to Bombs." As a result of the burning, the Ontario government decided to spend $ 420,000 to improve the safety of the abortion clinic. At that time, all free-standing clinics in Ontario were in Toronto. The government wants to collect information about activities by anti-abortion sympathizers; at the time, Canadian law enforcement agencies did not collect statistics on abuse and abuse against their abortion providers, their clinics, or their clients. 6 months after the attack, Toronto Police still have not made any progress in exposing the attackers, any clue about the suspect leading to a dead end.

New Zealand

• Around 1999 : In the late 1990s, Graeme White was found guilty and sent to prison for digging a tunnel into an abortion clinic with what the police described as "incendiary".

• 1976 : The combustion attack took place at the Auckland Medical Support Center, which is estimated to cause $ 100,000 in damages to the facility. The Office of the Sisters Overseas Auckland Service Organization is targeted on the same night.

United States

Murder

In the United States, violence directed at abortion providers has killed at least eleven people, including four doctors, two clinicians, a security guard, a police officer, two (unclear), and a clinician; Seven murders occurred in the 1990s.

• March 10, 1993: David Gunn from Pensacola, Florida was shot dead during a protest. He has been the subject of the style posters deployed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Gunn's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• July 29, 1994: John Britton and James Barrett, clinic escorts, were shot dead outside another facility, Ladies Center, in Pensacola. Pdt. Paul Jennings Hill is accused of murder. Hill received the death penalty and was executed on September 3, 2003. The clinic at Pensacola was bombed before 1984 and also bombed in 2012.
• December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinical attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to murder. He died in prison and the guard found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi also admitted to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia a few days before the Brookline killing.
• January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, a non-commissioned police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Rudolph acknowledged responsibility; he was also accused of three Atlanta bombings: the 1997 bombing of the abortion center, the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, and another lesbian nightclub. He was accused of a crime and received two life sentences as a result.
• October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot dead with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York. He was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and the northern state of New York which is most likely done by James Kopp. Kopp was found guilty of Slepian murder after being arrested in France in 2001.
• May 31, 2009: George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder when Tiller served as an escort at a church in Wichita, Kansas. This is not the first time Tiller has been the victim of anti-abortion violence. Dr. Tiller was shot once before 1993 by Shelley Shannon, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the shootings.
• November 29, 2015: The shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, left three people dead and several injured, and suspect Robert L. Dear was arrested. The suspect had previously acted against another clinic, and referred to himself as a "fighter for the baby" at his trial. Neighbors and former neighbors described the suspect as "closed", and police from several states where the suspect lived described the history of detention that began at least since 1997. Until December 2015, the trial of the suspect has been opened; but, on May 11, 2016, the court declared the suspect incompetent to stand trial after the mental evaluation was completed.

Attempted murder, assault, and kidnapping

According to statistics compiled by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an organization providing abortion providers, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, there have been 17 murder attempts, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of attacks or batteries, 13 wounded, 100 bomb attacks of butyric acid, 373 physical invasions, 41 bombings, 655 anthrax threats, and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers. Between 1997 and 1990 77 death threats were made with 250 made between 1991 and 1999. The homicide trial in the US included: IN 1985 45% of clinics reported bomb threats, down by 15% in 2000. A fifth of the clinics in 2000 underwent several forms extreme activity.

• August 1982 : Three people identifying as the Army of God kidnapped Hector Zevallos (a doctor and clinic owner) and his wife, Rosalee Jean, held them for eight days.
• June 15, 1984: A month after he destroyed the sucking equipment at the Birmingham clinic, Father Edward Markley, a Benedictine priest who is the "Co-ordinator of Pro-Life Activities" of Birmingham's diocese. (and perhaps accomplices), entered the Women's Community Health Center in Huntsville, Alabama, attacking at least three clinical workers. Kathryn Wood, one of the workers, received a back injury and a broken cervical spine while preventing Markley from splashing red paint on clinical equipment. Markley was convicted of first-degree crime, a third level attack, and one count in Huntsville's attack.
• August 19, 1993: Dr George Tiller was shot outside an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas. Shelley Shannon was convicted of a crime and received an 11-year prison sentence (20 years later added for burning and acid attack at the clinic).
• July 29, 1994: June Barrett was shot in the same attack that claimed the lives of James Barrett, her husband, and Dr. John Britton.
• December 30, 1994: Five people were injured in the shooting that killed Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols.
• December 18, 1996: Dr. Calvin Jackson of New Orleans, Louisiana was stabbed 15 times, lost 4 liters of blood. Donald Cooper was charged with second-degree homicide attempts and sentenced to 20 years. "Donald Cooper's Hard Days", by Kara Lowentheil, Options! Magazine, December 21, 2004.
• October 28, 1997: Dr. David Gandell of Rochester, New York suffered serious injuries after being targeted by snipers who shot through a window in his home.
• January 29, 1998: Emily Lyons, a nurse, was badly wounded, and lost her eyes, in a bombing that also killed police officers outside of police duty Robert Sanderson.

Burning, bombing and property crime

The first false letter claiming to contain anthrax was sent to a US clinic in October 1998, a few days after the Slepian shootings; since then, there have been 655 bioterror threats made against the provider of abortion. None of the "anthrax" in these cases is real.

• November 2001: After the 2001 anthrax attack, Clayton Waagner sent a hoax letter containing white powder to 554 clinics. On December 3, 2003, Waagner was found guilty of 51 counts related to anthrax fears.

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Special incident

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The Department of Justice and the Terrorism Knowledge Base of the Department of Homeland Security, identified the Army of God as an active underground terrorist organization in the United States. It was formed in 1982, and is responsible for a large number of anti-abortion violence. The group has committed property crimes, kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder. When sharing common ideologies and tactics, members admitted to rarely communicating; to avoid the risk of information leakage to external sources.

In August 1982, three people identifying as the Army of God kidnapped Hector Zevallos (a doctor and clinic owner) and his wife, Rosalee Jean, held them for eight days and released them unscathed. In 1993, Shelly Shannon, a member of the Lord's Army, recognized the assassination attempt. George Tiller. Law enforcement officials found the Army of God Manual, a tactical guide to combustion, chemical attacks, invasions, and bombings buried in Shelly Shannon's backyard. Paul Jennings Hill was found guilty of murder. John Britton and clinic escort James Barrett.

The Army of God published a "Defensive Action Statement" signed by more than two dozen supporters of Hill, saying that "whatever the legitimate power to defend the life of a born child is legitimate to defend the life of an unborn child... if the fact , Paul Hill kills or injures players abortion John Britton and clinical assistants James Barrett and Mrs. Barrett, his actions are morally justified if they are needed for the purpose of defending innocent human life ". AOG claimed responsibility for bombing at Eric Robert Rudolph's 1997 abortion clinic in Atlanta and Birmingham. This organization includes descriptions as terrorists.

Poster "wanted" doctor

In the late 1990s, an organization called the American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA) was accused of implicitly advocating violence by publication on the Nuremberg Files website of desirable style posters, featuring photos of a doctor who had an abortion along with a gift money for any information that would lead to "arrest, conviction, and revocation of medical practice licenses". The ACLA website describes these doctors as war criminals and accuses them of committing "crimes against humanity". The website also publishes the name, home address, phone number, and other personal information about the provider of abortion - highlighting the names of those who are injured and attacking those who have been killed. Dr. George Tiller is included in this list along with many others. The site was accused of being a veiled covert hideout intended to incite violence; others claim that it is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. In 2002, after a prolonged debate, the Circuit Court of Appeal 9 decided that "posters" were an illegal threat.

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Reaction

Anti-abortion reaction

The American Life League issued the "Proclamation of the Proclamation of Nonviolence" in 2006. Other anti-abortion groups expressed their opposition to violence including the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and Pro-Lifers Against Clinic Violence. Anti-abortion organizations The National Coalition for Life and Peace has also issued a declaration that rejects violence as a form of resistance to abortion.

Many anti-abortion organizations - including Family Research Council, American United for Life, Women Cares for America, Susan B. Anthony, American Life League, American Life Student, Pro-Life Action League and 40 Days For Life a statement condemning the 2009 assassination of long-term abortion physician in Kansas, George Tiller.

In a press release in 2009, the founder of Rescue Operations Randall Terry issued a statement calling for peaceful protests to expose abortionists. According to Media Matters and the Colorado Independent, however, Terry has also led a seemingly contradictory public prayer that the abortion provider will "[transform] to God" or that "the catastrophe [will] attack it". Terry added that he hopes "baby killers will be tried and executed for crimes against humanity". Doctors targeted by Terry's prayers told the press, "He's obviously inciting someone, anyone, to kill me"; a spokesman replied that Terry just meant that "God will deal with [the doctor]".

The Rev. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, accused "those in an industry that provides abortion" committed most of the violence in an attempt to discredit the anti-abortion movement. He defended the use of inflammatory rhetoric from his organization, saying: "All this is not about violence, it's all about silence - silencing the Christian message, that's what they want." He also stated, "The rhetoric of our inflammation just reveals a much more inflamed truth."

Reaction support for abortion rights

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