Europe Doesn’t Even See The Kind Of Anti-Abortion Violence The U.S. Tolerates
Europe Doesn’t Even See The Kind Of Anti-Abortion Violence The U.S. Tolerates
by Justin Salhani Dec 1, 2015 11:27 am
Robert Lewis Dear’s killing of three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last week is the latest incident in a string of anti-abortion violence in the United States. The level of violence here is an anomaly in the world, especially compared to the absence of such violent incidents in Europe.
“I am not aware of this kind of violence,” Gilda Sedgh, a research scientist at the reproductive health advocating Guttmacher Institute, told Foreign Policy, about anti-abortion violence in European countries.
Since 1977, anti-abortion violence in the U.S. resulted in the murder of 8 people, the attempted murder of 17, 186 arsons, and 42 bombings. Thousands of other incidents also targeted abortion clinics.
But in Europe, such incidents are quite rare. Only Spain, which allows abortions only for women with potential mental or physical problems in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, saw a string of incidents of vandalism last summer.
More:
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/12/01/3726837/in-contrast-with-us-anti-abortion-violence-is-almost-unheard-of-in-europe/
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