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Paul Hill, the anti-abortion radical charged with shooting a doctor and his escort outside a Pensacola, Fla., clinic, pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Hill, who had previously pleaded innocent to violating a new federal clinic protection law, had no other comments for the Pensacola judge. Hill-watchers are expecting the activist to turn his trial into another ideological platform. His previous bully pulpit, before the Florida deaths: "Donahue," "Nightline" and other TV shows, where he proclaimed that killing abortionists...
...wake of angry demands by abortion-rights groups for greater protection following the July 29 double murder at a clinic in Pensacola, Florida, the Justice Department mobilized an interagency task force to investigate antiabortion terrorist acts and deployed squads of U.S. marshals to stand guard at clinics around the country...
...July 29, Hill shot and killed Dr. John Britton and a clinic volunteer at an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Almost all elements of the right-to- life movement condemned the killings. But why? After all, the practical effect of such actions is not merely to put one baby killer out of business but to chill the entire practice of abortion in America. Surely during the real Holocaust it would have been "justifiable homicide" to kill a German camp guard, if that would have slowed the feeding of the gas chambers...
...abortion clinic is not a lunch counter -- and anyway, no one was ever prevented from eating lunch by the civil rights movement. The antiabortion movement, like the civil rights movement, may ultimately persuade society that it has been profoundly wrong. But meanwhile, a democratic society cannot fail to protect the exercise of what it has determined to be a fundamental right...
Anti-abortion activist Paul Hill pleaded not guilty to a new federal law meant to get tough with protesters who block abortion clinics or threaten clinic employees. Hill is accused of gunning down an abortion doctor and his escort in a Pensacola, Fla. clinic on July 29. Hill's lawyer said that he planned to challenge the constitutionality of the federal law that took effect in May. Separately, Hill faces state charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with the shooting...