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Targets are kept secret until the last minute, since Operation Rescue's tactic is to jam all entrances to an abortion clinic before the police can muster sufficient officers to begin arrests or before pro-choice activists can pre-empt the doorways and leave funnels for staff and patients to enter. Some clinics will close if they know they are going to be hit, so Operation Rescue has made appointments at a number of the clinics, relying on cancellations to tell them which targets are unavailable that day. The scouting of the sites has been thorough: there are diagrams...
...tactic of the rescuers, consciously drawn from the nonviolent techniques of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., is to knead themselves so densely in around the doors that no one can thread a way through the inert resisting bodies. Rescuers are not supposed to push or shove, and they are told not to bring poster sticks or umbrellas that they might be tempted to use as barriers. If the mass is penetrated, it is supposed to ooze back out and around the rift, enclosing it in a new carapace of seated bodies. They move in a human sludge, on their...
...court upholds the Missouri law, even without reversing Roe, legislatures under pressure from pro-lifers can be expected to pass a flurry of measures making abortion more difficult. One likely tactic would be to drive up the cost, now about $235. At this session the court has been asked to consider an Illinois law that would place expensive building and staffing requirements upon abortion facilities. In an earlier case the court disallowed a law that would require first-trimester abortions to be performed in hospitals; just 13% of all current abortions take place there, mostly on an outpatient basis...
Bozzotto says he chose this tactic because negotiations were taking place during the summer, when it would have been futile to picket the University...
...much of the rhetoric of activists of the late '60s was blatantly anti American. And although I staunchly support the right to burn the American flag as a matter of freedom of expression, I don't feel that it is a particularly effective tactic for a movement which is trying to convince the majority of voters to support their cause...