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Report: 2015 Brought Unprecedented Violence, Threats Against Abortion Providers
NAF has compiled statistics on incidents of violence and disruption against abortion providers for almost 40 years, according to a press release the organization issued Tuesday.
The statistics for 2015 “reflect a dramatic increase in hate speech and internet harassment, death threats, attempted murder, and murder, which coincided with the release of heavily-edited, misleading, and inflammatory videos beginning in July.”
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There were 94 threats of direct harm in 2015 as compared to only one such threat in 2014. After the videos were released, one NAF member received a voicemail that said someone planned to “pull a Columbine, and wipe everyone out.” An unknown male called a hospital switchboard in North Carolina and said “We will kill all (hospital) abortion doctors.”
The threats of violence were so overwhelming that NAF hired a security firm to monitor online threats. The security firm began its work in mid-November, four months after the CMP smear videos were first released. The security firm identified more than 25,000 incidents of online threats in six weeks.
https://rewire.news/article/2016/04/06/statistics-back-national-abortion-federation-claims-increased-violence-abortion-providers-clinics/
The statistics for 2015 “reflect a dramatic increase in hate speech and internet harassment, death threats, attempted murder, and murder, which coincided with the release of heavily-edited, misleading, and inflammatory videos beginning in July.”
...
There were 94 threats of direct harm in 2015 as compared to only one such threat in 2014. After the videos were released, one NAF member received a voicemail that said someone planned to “pull a Columbine, and wipe everyone out.” An unknown male called a hospital switchboard in North Carolina and said “We will kill all (hospital) abortion doctors.”
The threats of violence were so overwhelming that NAF hired a security firm to monitor online threats. The security firm began its work in mid-November, four months after the CMP smear videos were first released. The security firm identified more than 25,000 incidents of online threats in six weeks.
https://rewire.news/article/2016/04/06/statistics-back-national-abortion-federation-claims-increased-violence-abortion-providers-clinics/
And this is why it's important that Daleiden is under investigation. This wasn't just 'political', it incited violence, and the actual murders.
