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...with a 46-day clinic blockade in 1991 that nearly paralyzed Wichita, Kansas. This year the organization has intensified its harder-edged tactics aimed at clinic employees: wanted posters of doctors, picket lines around their homes, and harassment of their children and neighbors. After one such target, physician David Gunn, was shot to death in March by a man connected with an unrelated but similar organization, "the pro-life movement was on the ropes a little bit," admits Operation Rescue's national spokesman, Patrick Mahoney. Nonetheless, Rescue continued a Melbourne "boot camp" that tutored recruits in everything from sidewalk "counseling...
...Those of us in the front lines know we're in a war. If you don't believe me, ask David Gunn's family," Baird said. Dr. David Gunn was murdered in an abortion clinic last month by pro-life activists...
When Dr. David Gunn was shot last month outside the abortion clinic where he worked, pro-choice forces treated the ideologically motivated killing as spectacular proof of the dangerousness of the pro-life movement...
...Florida, where Gunn practiced, the state legislature deliberated about and finally failed to pass a bill that would have made most anti-abortion demonstrations outside clinincs into acts of criminal trespass. Though this proposal was portrayed as a response to the assassination, the bill was actually filed before the tragedy occurred...
Judging pro-life activism by the actions of its most violent adherents is about as justified as judging Christianity by David Koresh. Even Randall Terry, head of the controversial Operation Rescue organization, was not condoning Gunn's assassin so much as pointing out a perceived hypocrisy when he noted that those who were outraged at Gunn's murder had condoned the murder of the fetuses he aborted...