Anti-choicers declare war on abortion clinics...

[cynatnite]

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By January 22, the 36th anniversary of Roe, the administration's appointment of numerous outspoken pro-choicers to high level positions provoked fury within the Right. The prominence of Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emmanuel, Ellen Moran and Dawn Johnson, a former NARAL staffer, led Flip Benham of Operation Save America to make a thunderous declaration from a Charlotte, NC podium: "No more will we peacefully co-exist with child killing. We are at war."

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And in many places across the country they are, with clinics seeing an uptick of violence, harassment and menace. Since the start of 2009, there has been a fire of unknown origin at a Nebraska clinic and significant property damage at a St. Paul Planned Parenthood caused by a man who drove his SUV into the facility's entryway. What's more, clinics across the country are reporting increasingly vulgar taunts: you're leaving baby road kill, among them.

According to the 2008 National Clinic Violence Survey compiled by the Feminist Majority Foundation and released in February 2009, 20 percent of clinics reported severe violence such as blockades, invasions and stalking last year--yes, even before Obama took office--up from 18.4 percent in 2005.

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Pittsburgh is a case in point. "Right after the election we saw a small upsurge in anti-abortion activity," Claire Keyes, former Director of the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center, begins. "But since the inauguration, things have gotten measurably worse. There's been an increase in picketing by students from Franciscan University in Ohio. On Saturdays there are 60-plus protesters and there's been an increase in screaming and aggression. We don't have a parking lot so people park on the street. The antis have surrounded cars, trapping the women inside, and in several cases the antis jumped into vehicles and touched or grabbed at them. The police were called but so far they don't seem to be responding appropriately."

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As important as it is for the feds to take a firm stance in support of Roe, other activists are taking a different tack, creating videos documenting anti-choice harassment for eventual posting on YouTube and Facebook.

The project, called BASTA! ENOUGH! Stop Sidewalk Bullying at Women's Clinics, is the brainchild of the Abortion Care Network. "When people read about bullying at clinics, their eyes glaze over. It's old news," says Pittsburgh's Claire Keyes. "People don't realize how dangerous the situation is. These protesters are so aggressive. Things can easily escalate because people don't want someone screaming in their faces or jumping into their cars. Putting pictorials and audios on YouTube and Facebook will show the public what's really going on."

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/03/02/under-a-prochoice-president-clinics-ready-uptick-violence

[defendandprotect]

1. Wouldn't it be great if they declared war on WAR . . . ???

Of course, they could also report the "child-killing" to the police . . . ???!!!

FFM has been saying this for decades --- the domestic terrorism at the clinics

is never treated as terrorism -- the RICO challenge was turned down --- and

very many areas have no clinics open.

Doctors have been thoroughly intimidated --- and they don't teach how to do an

abortion any more in med schools!!

[tosh]

2. Not this crap again.

:shrug:

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Didn't rush raise money for Clinton during the primaries?

[ljm2002]

4. But when will they declare war...

...on the fertility clinics?

Among other things -- never mind the embryos. Why, those wimmin are gittin' pregnant without benefit of, you know, God-given natural male/female sexual relations. That can't be a good thing! And then, why some of those places, they just *dispose* of the unused embryos. Or they terminate several if too many get implanted.

Yes, by all means, let's go back to how it was 150 years ago. Maybe these yahoos would like to get their teeth pulled the old fashioned way -- have the patient swig a pint of whiskey, and then hold 'em down while you remove their tooth with a pair of pliers...

Actually, I'd pay to watch.

Oops, strayed off a little there ... :-)

[Old and In the Way]

5. Funny how this issue was pretty well squashed during the Bush administration.

Nothing happened to get the anti-abortion agenda furthered while Republicans had the WH and both branches of government...no outrage then. Of course, that administration was busy killing a million BORN innocent Iraqi's, so that wouldn't have been a problem for these people. Abortions will go down under Obama because we will provide more money/outreach to women for preventative methods...but that won't change their outrage. These people really don't give a shit about the fetuses...what they care about is making sure this country remains divided under Democrats.