Word: salvie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning of Friday, December 30, two people were killed and five wounded when an armed assailant went on a shooting rampage at two Brookline abortion clinics. John C. Salvi 3d, the suspect in these attacks, has become the center of national attention. The deeds Salvi allegedly committed have led to a heated debate within the anti-abortion movement over what means can be employed in the fight against abortion...
...might appear at first that one's reaction to the case of Salvi would simply reflect one's position on abortion. Demonstrators in Norfolk, where Salvi was apprehended, expressed support or condemnation of him depending on their views on abortion...
...Salvi's rampage brought to five the number of abortion-clinic killings nationwide in the past two years. There have also been countless lesser acts of violence against abortion providers and their patients, including verbal and physical harassment, assaults and fire bombings. Government officials and activists on both sides of the contentious abortion issue were quick to condemn the killings. "You don't use murder to solve the problem of other murder. It is heresy," said the Rev. Flip Benham, director of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "While there...
...With Salvi in custody, any threat he might pose is over. But how many others like him are out there, waiting to act? If it wasn't already clear to law- enforcement officials, abortion-rights activists and clinic workers, it should now be tragically evident that the safeguards that exist to protect a woman's right to abortion are not enough...
...Brookline, Massachusetts, and opened fire with a rifle. Two people were killed and five wounded in the shootings, which occurred within minutes of each other. The fbi immediately joined local authorities to search for the killer, presumed to be the same gunman in each attack. On Saturday John C. Salvi III, the suspect in the attacks, was arrested after he fired shots at another abortion clinic in Norfolk, Virginia...