Word: clinically
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...groups held a joint press conference with two Democratic Congressmen to call for an FBI probe of the antiabortion movement. Congress is expected to speed up action on a bill that would make it a federal crime, punishable by up to three years in prison, to blockade an abortion clinic. At a meeting with the President on Thursday, members of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues urged him to support legislation that would strengthen federal antistalking laws. The President, says Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder, "was fully in agreement that this was a real crisis...
Meanwhile, clinics are bracing themselves for another season of assaults. Melbourne is now the site of a 12-week training camp, organized by Operation Rescue, where about 25 men are learning tactics for blockades. Pro-choice activists who are monitoring the group contend that the men are also being instructed in how to stalk and harass. The convergence of pro-life forces has placed great strain on the area's sole abortion clinic, where about 30 protesters have been picketing for the past month. Merritt, the clinic counselor whose son was harassed, says when the murder of the doctor...
...told him that that day was her 34th birthday. "We joked because I had forgotten, not my birthday, but the date of it." Griffin then picked up a drink at the Circle K and walked toward the site of a planned pro-life demonstration in front of the clinic where David Gunn was expected. The night before, Griffin had called John Burt, regional director of Rescue America, an activist antiabortion group, to say he would take part...
...never joined the people gathering in front of the clinic. Instead, he made his way to a small parking lot behind the building. After Gunn drove up, parked and walked slowly away from his car, Griffin shot him three times in the back with a .38-cal. pistol. He then dropped his weapon, approached a police officer and said, "I just shot someone, and he's laying behind the building." Gunn died roughly two hours later...
...this reticence a matter of residual shame -- retained from his religious childhood -- or considerate tact? People who were close to Gunn are sure they know the answer. Says Vanessa Caldwell, his assistant at the Montgomery (Alabama) Women's Medical Clinic: "He was a very open, honest man. I think that's why it bothered him that his family didn't know the kind of work he did, exactly. He knew it would hurt them if they found...