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Property damage, bad as it is, is not what frightens clinic workers the most. Doctors, their staffs and families find themselves stalked, harassed and threatened over the phone. After he was confronted several years ago by a man who threatened to cut off his fingers, Dr. Buck Williams, the only doctor who provides abortions in South Dakota, got a licensed .38 revolver. He jokes grimly about it now: "I figured if I had only one finger left, I could use it to pull the trigger." After he learned about the Pensacola killing, Williams upgraded his weapon...
Even the children of clinic workers are targets. Lisa Merritt is a counselor at a clinic in Melbourne, Florida. She says that last month her 13-year-old son Justin was approached by a woman and a teenage girl who told him they were thinking of moving into the apartment complex where he and his mother live. A day later, the girl phoned to ask Justin to join her at a Burger King. The girl picked him up in a car driven by a woman in her 30s whom she identified as a friend...
...Bible and asked Justin if he was aware that both he and his mother were going to burn in hell. According to Merritt, they identified themselves as members of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue and asked the boy whether he had names of patients at his mother's clinic. Justin refused to answer, and bolted for home. "We're all tight as guitar strings around here," Merritt says. "I can't believe they came after...
...life organizations were divided last week about how to respond to Gunn's killing. Even groups that have supported clinic blockades issued unequivocal condemnations. "To shoot and kill a human being in the name of saving human life is grotesque," said the Rev. Richard D. Land, who heads the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. But more militant outfits played rhetorical games, dancing around the crime. Don Treshman, national director of Houston-based Rescue America -- which had mounted protests at Gunn's home -- called the doctor's death "unfortunate." Then he added, with a logic long familiar among...
...murder in Pensacola has already led to the resignation of two doctors at the clinic in Melbourne. Antiabortion groups had featured them on wanted posters similar to those that Gunn had appeared on before his death. Clinics elsewhere are finding themselves compelled to take expensive precautions against attack. The Houston chapter of Planned Parenthood is spending $100,000 on security devices for its new headquarters. Last week their clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, hired an armed guard...