New tactic in abortion battle | Chicago Tribune

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New tactic in abortion battle
Texas activists pressure subcontractors, slow construction at a Planned Parenthood clinic

By Howard Witt
Tribune senior correspondent
Published February 2, 2004

AUSTIN, Texas -- There are no signs outside the construction site heralding the new building that's going up alongside a busy Austin highway. The trucks and other work vehicles that pull in each day are anonymous and lacking any company markings. Even the building permits on file with the city don't disclose the identities of the subcontractors working on the project.

What's being built on this nondescript urban parcel, next to a Wendy's and a Brake Check repair shop, is a new Planned Parenthood clinic that will offer abortions to women who cannot otherwise afford them. And the stealth nature of the construction reveals much about how the relentless struggle over the procedure is now being waged, 31 years after the Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade decision that established a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.

Inaugurating a pressure tactic they hope to export across the country, anti-abortion activists targeted the subcontractors working on the clinic last fall, threatening to reveal their identities to local churches and launch economic boycotts against them if they would not quit work. By November, the main contractor pulled out and construction ground to a halt.

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[4morewars]

1. Well....

...we need them kids for the never ending war !!!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. If the anti-abortionists get away with this, then it's open season on all

developers who develop in environmentally sensitive areas.

[MisterC2003]

3. Good point

And the article indicates they HAVE gotten away with it.

So it IS open season on all developers who go after environmentally sensitive areas.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, eh?