Right-Wing Terrorism: Arson, Bombs, and Break-Ins at Women's Clinics Seek to Instill Fear

[maddezmom]

Bombs and fires at women's health clinics are happening where abortion rights are under assault.

May 31, 2012 |
"There's a history of terroristic violence by anti-abortion extremists, up to and including murders of doctors and clinic workers," Rachel Maddow said on Friday night, reporting on suspicious burglaries and fires at two women's health clinics in Georgia.

It looks like that violent history's new chapters are being written in tandem with the continual legislative incursion on reproductive rights.

Friday, the day of Maddow's broadcast, was the very same day the healthcare providers at Women With a Vision, a provider in New Orleans that serves the most marginalized members of the population, woke up to find their offices charred and blackened, their equipment, files and resources devoured by flames.

A statement on the clinic's Web site reads, in part:


We lost everything. We do not have an office to operate out of right now. Most of our office equipment and all of our educational resources were destroyed. Because of the targeted nature, we can only assume that this was intentional.

more: http://www.alternet.org/news/155669/right-wing_terrorism%3A_arson,_bombs,_and_break-ins_at_women%27s_clinics_seek_to_instill_fear

[Gormy Cuss]

1. She did a good job of connecting the dots.

T

he other new facet to the Georgia violence Maddow noted? An apparent strong connection between the very details of the policy decisions in Georgia's legislative body and the nature of one of the burglaries. You see, as the legislators debated whether or not to release the names of abortion-providing doctors, the thieves in one of the clinics targeted a file containing...the names of abortion-providing doctors. The vitriolic nature of the public debate is bleeding out of the chambers of law, manifesting in criminal activity.

It's also true that political currents affect how vigorously law enforcement will pursue cases where there were no injuries to people. It's easy to let property damage slide when it suits TPTB.

[pennylane100]

2. When will it become acceptable to start playing by the same rules.

The religious right have been murdering and terrorizing the employees women's clinics and destroying their property for years with very little consequences. They target the workers and their families at home and schools and of course churches. I do not believe in violence but we must start getting a little more confrontational with these people.

We know who many of them are and where they live, why can't we take the fight to them, nonviolently, and see how they like it. We should start making their lives a living hell, following them, photographing them, etc. When are we going to teach them that there are stronger consequences for their actions than just demonstrating against them.