Word: clinically
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WHEN SHE HEARD LAST WEEK that a doctor had been gunned down outside an abortion clinic in Florida, B.J. Isaacson-Jones was shaken -- but not surprised. At the St. Louis, Missouri, clinic where she is president, staff members always vary their routes home from work. Mail is opened only by employees trained by a bomb and arson squad to detect suspicious envelopes or packages. "Those of us providing abortion services feel very vulnerable," she says. Even more so since December 1991, when a man in a ski mask opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun at a clinic in Springfield...
...rising violence may reflect in part the sense of stalemate among antiabortion groups. Now that the Supreme Court has stopped short of overturning Roe v. Wade and a pro-choice Administration rules Washington, clinic operators fear that frustrated pro-life militants will become even more aggressive and threatening. According to the National Abortion Federation, a Washington-based advocacy group, in 1992 alone there were 116 cases of clinic vandalism, 12 reported incidents of arson, 9 cases of attempted arson, 5 burglaries and a bombing...
This year is not shaping up any better. In Corpus Christi, Texas, last month, arsonists burned from one of the city's abortion clinics, along with four neighboring businesses in the same building. A new tactic is to spray the interior of clinics with butyric acid, a chemical that ruins carpets and furnishings and leaves behind a revolting stench. During one night last week, five San Diego clinics were made a stinking mess. "It smells like rancid meat and a sewer together. It's awful," says Ashley Phillips, whose WomanCare Clinic was one of those attacked...
...addition to providing information about AIDS, Zuromskis said, the clinic will provide patients, doctors and others with information about newly-developed treatment and drugs...
Although there is as yet no definite schedule, Zuromskis said he expects the clinic will be open every two weeks for two-hour sessions...