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...After Gunn's murder, representatives from three abortion-rights groups held a joint press conference with two Democratic Congressmen to call for an FBI probe of the antiabortion movement. Congress is expected to speed up action on a bill that would make it a federal crime, punishable by up to three years in prison, to blockade an abortion clinic. At a meeting with the President on Thursday, members of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues urged him to support legislation that would strengthen federal antistalking laws. The President, says Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder, "was fully in agreement that this...
...what was to be his last morning, Dr. David Gunn, 47, woke up in a good mood. "He was happier than I'd seen him in a long time," says Paula Leonard, his girlfriend, in whose apartment he stayed when he came to Pensacola. He did so regularly, another stop on his 1,000-mile, six-day-a-week schedule of performing abortions at seven clinics in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly...
...that that day was her 34th birthday. "We joked because I had forgotten, not my birthday, but the date of it." Griffin then picked up a drink at the Circle K and walked toward the site of a planned pro-life demonstration in front of the clinic where David Gunn was expected. The night before, Griffin had called John Burt, regional director of Rescue America, an activist antiabortion group, to say he would take part...
...never joined the people gathering in front of the clinic. Instead, he made his way to a small parking lot behind the building. After Gunn drove up, parked and walked slowly away from his car, Griffin shot him three times in the back with a .38-cal. pistol. He then dropped his weapon, approached a police officer and said, "I just shot someone, and he's laying behind the building." Gunn died roughly two hours later...
Neither man seemed destined or even inclined to star in a national morality play. Gunn grew up in Benton (pop. 3,800), Kentucky, where his family was active in the Church of Christ. Old classmates remember him as funny, convivial, not at all self-pitying about the brace on his withered right leg, and smart. Beverly Beasley, now an insurance agent in Benton, says, "I remember once when we were in the fifth grade, the history teacher started talking about the Constitution. David stood up and said he could recite the Bill of Rights from memory, and he proceeded...