Word: salvi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December 30, 1994, in Brook-line, John C. Salvi III, a "Scripture-quoting believer," entered the Planned Parenthood health care clinic and shot and killed Shannon Lowney, a 25-year-old clinic receptionist, and seriously injured three others. Fifteen minutes later, Salvi entered the Preterm Health Services Clinic down the street, where he shot and killed receptionist Leanne Nichols and wounded two others. The reaction? Massachusetts Citizens for Life said: "We are absolutely heartsick at the news of the shootings. We are praying for those persons who have fallen prey to the action of an obviously deranged individual. Such acts...
...staffers at women's health clinics are ruthlessly killed while anti-choice leaders condemn the violence, attempting to distance themselves from the killers. They could no longer call themselves "pro-life" if any of this violence could be linked to them. So they try to paint Griffin, Hill and Salvi as extremists, radicals, and deranged lunatics, acting in isolation...
Anti-choice leaders vehemently deny any involvement in this brand of domestic terrorism. The state and national anti-choice organizations claim they have never heard of Salvi. They say meekly, "We didn't tell him to do it." Don't believe it. The anti-choice movement, at every level from Sunday morning pulpit preachings urging "protection of the unborn" to sidewalk counselors who harass doctors and women with screams of "baby-killer," "murder," and "assassin," is sending out a call to arms...
Certain members of the anti-abortion camp have supported Salvi's actions. They argue that defending innocent lives in danger through the use of force, even deadly force, is morally justified because of the greater harm that it prevents. For example, they reason, if we knew that an individual was about to shoot into a crowd and kill many people, murdering him would be justified if it were the only way of preventing these deaths...
...press conference yesterday morning, Dean of the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and other SPH affiliates condemned recent attacks on abortion clinics. They made specific reference to the Brookline shootings. A suspect, John C. Salvi III, has been charged with two counts of murder...