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SENTENCED. JOHN SALVI, 24; to life imprisonment without parole for the first-degree murder of two receptionists at a pair of Boston-area abortion clinics; in Dedham, Massachusetts...
These doubts only increased in the wake of John Salvi's horrendous killing of Planned Parenthood receptionist Shannon Lowney (which took place at the very same clinic in front of which we prayed this weekend). I came to view the protests as counter-productive and even a bit intrusive. As we walked over to the clinic, passing an intimidating group of angry pro-choicers, I became even more nervous and confused. I leaned over and asked my roommate, a fellow protester, "Do we really have the right to be doing this...
...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; the sniper was never caught. The question now is whether this attack-rather than Salvi's alleged rampage seven weeks later-represents the cutting edge of antiabortion extremism, and whether the reign of terror can be stopped before more people are injured or killed...
...extent to which Salvi was a pawn of others remains unclear. Tantalizing bits of evidence link him to the most murderous offshoots of the antiabortion movement. After the carnage in Brookline, Massachusetts, for example, Salvi drove to Norfolk, Virginia, and allegedly blasted out the windows of the Hillcrest Clinic, which even locals have trouble finding. In his pocket was the telephone number of Donald Spitz, a Norfolk-area proponent of "justifiable homicide'' who has been a frequent protester at Hillcrest. Yet so far an extensive federal investigation has failed to establish a criminal conspiracy in the Salvi case...
...fear is real, as Bonnie DeAngelis, director of Norfolk's Hillcrest Clinic knows only too well. Even before John Salvi allegedly shot up the clinic's windows, four Hillcrest doctors had decided to quit performing abortions. "Providers and pro-choice people don't want to admit that the antiabortion movement in this country has been succeeding in their terrorist tactics," she said. "But a very, very small group of people is winning...