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Britton and escort James Barrett, 74, died instantly. Barrett's 68-year-old wife June suffered an arm wound. Minutes later, police arrested Paul Hill, a local antiabortion extremist who had long called for the blood of clinic personnel...
Britton died last Friday with his liver whole. Moments after he and the elderly couple acting as his volunteer guards arrived in the parking lot of the Ladies Clinic of Pensacola, a gunman ran up to the driver's side of their blue pickup truck. The killer was no prudent sharpshooter: he got quite close with a 12-gauge shotgun and blasted the faces of the two men with round after round of buckshot...
President Clinton was on television by the end of the day, calling Britton's death a case of "domestic terrorism" and promising federal aid to the local police. Women's groups were angrily demanding greater protection for clinic workers and full-scale investigations into other extremists. Behind the public rage was a great deal of frustration and perhaps even some despair. Pro- choicers began to wonder: What good is constructing an indestructible garment of laws to protect a constitutional right if some extremist simply ignores them all and blows someone's head...
Many abortion-rights supporters had hoped that the 1993 murder of Gunn by antiabortionist Michael Griffin would be unique -- and not only that but a turning point. As the apparent climax to a period of growing violence and obstructionism by hard-core clinic protesters, it became a catalyst for public disgust and government action. Within the next 15 months, two Supreme Court rulings, an act of Congress and dozens of state and local ordinances contributed to the impression that few places on earth could be much safer than an abortion clinic...
...siege, a truckful of soldiers and armed civilians opened fire on a former member of the Haitain Senate, Reynald Georges, an outspoken political opponent who appeared on international television and in foreign newspapers in recent days criticizing the junta. Georges was in hiding this evening after a private clinic removed three bullets from his back and arm. Haiti's de facto authorities, meanwhile, ordered local news outlets to stop issuing "foreign propaganda" or face closure or take-over. One local radio station fudged the issue by vowing to keep delivering the news -- without labeling the military-backed authorities "de facto...