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...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...
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...