Abortion clinics still face violence

[deadparrot]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A study by two criminal justice professors indicates legislation has not ended crime and violence against abortion clinics in the United States.

William Pridemore of Indiana University and Joshua Freilich of City University of New York found that U.S. abortion clinics are still subject to violence and vandalism and their employees often face harassment.

A survey of 361 abortion clinics in 48 states revealed that 7 percent of the facilities experienced major violence or major vandalism while 9 percent reported minor violence and 27 percent experienced minor vandalism.

Pridemore says 44 percent of the clinics reported being subject to harassment.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060929-111236-5032r

[bluestateguy]

1. Under the new laws passed by Congress...

a Democratic president will be fully empowered to put all of the resources of the federal government behind catching and destroying these anti-abortion terrorists. They can be wiretapped without a court warrant, detained indefinitely, labeled as enemy combatants without the right to challenge that designation in court, and tortured so that we can get information from them and catch other anti-abortion terrorists.

[Megahurtz]

2. I wish. n/t

[loves_dulcinea]

3. rofl

that won't happen. he'll be too busy defending against partisan attacks from the right.

[Doctor Venmkan]

4. Ahhh, the "culture of life"

....

[Zero Division]

5. Clinics mistaken for abortion clinics are attacked, as well.

Such as this incident, http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2006/09/26/news/local/doc45184a4d50b64214860149.txt , which occurred recently here in Davenport, Iowa.