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...list, since doctors identified in antiabortion literature have a habit of becoming targets. Moreover, at least one shooter remains at large. Last October, McMillan was quoted in the New York Times Sunday magazine, apropos of the case in which Paul Hill killed a doctor in front of a clinic, as saying, "Why would a person do it publicly, when maybe he could have done it clandestinely, with a high-powered rifle ...'' Nine days later, Dr. Gary Romalis was gravely wounded as he sat at his breakfast table in Vancouver, British Columbia. The rifle bullet had come through the window...
...violence was used in a lawsuit filed this month by the family of Dr. David Gunn. The suit, authored by attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks to hold antiabortionist John Burt and his group, Rescue America, liable for Gunn's murder outside a Florida clinic two years ago. It claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled the trigger but that the shooting was encouraged to stop abortions," explains Dees, who has won two similar "wrongful death'' cases, against...
...outspoken antiabortionists into a loose network. Many have signed a petition that justifies the murder of abortion doctors with arguments rooted in Christian theology. Major players are in frequent contact, sometimes through couriers to avoid possible government surveillance. They swap tactics and quietly circulate a how-to manual for clinic attacks that explains how to superglue locks, build bombs and burn clinics. Most alarming, in January a new group called the American Coalition of Life Activists released a "deadly dozen" list of abortion doctors. The Justice Department quickly dispatched U.S. marshals to protect the physicians, one of whom was tracked...
Three months later, Hill did pull the trigger. Twice. He killed Dr. John Britton and his escort, retired Air Force officer James Barrett, outside a Pensacola, Florida, clinic, not far from the one where Griffin had killed Gunn. Griffin too had ties to the extreme wing of the movement. The week before the Gunn shooting, Griffin had met five times with Burt, the Pensacola-based official of Rescue America. Burt showed Griffin and his wife gory videos of dismembered fetuses and a life-size effigy of Gunn with bloodstained hands and the biblical inscription, "If man sheds man's blood...
...Griffin's trial, a clinic nurse testified that she saw Burt and another protester shake hands moments after Griffin fired his gun, something that Burt denies. Though he is now a target of the Morris Dees civil suit, Burt was never charged in the murder. He defended his role on a television talk show, saying, "If I am a general with troops under me and I give them a game plan and send them out, I can't be responsible for every soldier in that army...