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Though John C. Salvi III -- the man charged with closing out 1994 by shooting up three abortion clinics, killing two people and wounding five others -- was under lock and key last week, the reverberations of his two-day rampage could be felt from coast to coast. In St. Louis, Missouri, the Reproductive Health Services clinic is purchasing an intercom so that the security guard posted outside can relay messages without having to open the front door. The Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, which is already patrolled by armed guards, made plans to install a metal detector...
...early to tell whether Salvi's alleged rampage will ultimately foster a new sense of restraint or raise the level of 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...
...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...
...executive director of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, says that "Some people are so unbalanced that they are just waiting for something to become angry enough to kill somebody." That "something" is the harsh rhetoric of the anti-choice movement. It is the movement that put the bullets in John Salvi's gun. All that was left for him to do was to pull the trigger...