Word: pensacola
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...criminal opinion. In 1994 ACLJ lawyer Michael Hirsh, who was representing antiabortion activist Paul Hill in an abortion-protest case, submitted an article to the review that justified killing abortion doctors. The piece was approved and scheduled for publication--until the day Hill murdered two people outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article was yanked, and Hirsh was fired several months later. The uproar caught Regent Law School dean J. Nelson Happy by surprise: "If the student editors decided to publish this, I didn't feel it was appropriate to stop them. It didn't strike...
...hostility in the country's rancorous -- and increasingly deadly -- abortion debate. But few doubt that the shootings in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia -- and the vocal support for these actions from some antiabortion extremists -- have altered the landscape even more drastically than the earlier murders of two doctors in Pensacola, Florida. If pro-choice forces now fear more for their lives, some antiabortion advocates fear for the future of their cause. "What Salvi has done has pushed the movement back years," says Serrin Foster of Feminists for Life of America. "People who want to support the pro- life movement...
...March 10, 1993, in Pensacola, Florida, Michael Griffin, a "deeply religious" man, shot physician David Gunn three times in the back. Gunn was on his way into a health care facility where he offered reproductive services, including abortion. The response of the anti-choice (they ironically call themselves "pro-life") community? Operation Rescue's Randall Terry called the killing of Dr. Gunn "an inappropriate, repulsive act." The U.S. Catholic Conference said the "violence of the killing makes a mockery of the pro-life cause...
...call on all Americans, regardless of their personal views about abortion and reproductive choice, to join together in opposition to the anti-abortion terrorism perpetrated this past Friday, December 30, in Brookline, Massachusetts, and also in Pensacola, Florida and elsewhere," Fineberg said in a statement first released last week...
...appears that Paul Hill won't serve the two life terms to which he was sentenced just last week. Today a judge sentenced the antiabortion activist to death in the electric chair for slaying an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic. Hill listened with a blank look on his face as Judge Frank Bell read his sentence. But an abortion foe who was in court yelled out: "This man is innocent and his blood will be on your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge...