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APPENDIX A. TALK.ABORTION: AUGUST 9, 1994 142
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>: The recent murders were the work of a militant fringe, who do not at
>: all represent the majority of abortion opponents.
>: What they did was despicable
>: and undermines their claim to be "pro-life," and I personally would rather
>: have a woman get an abortion than have her or her doctor killed. You can’t
>: generalize from these isolated instances to the entire pro-life movement.
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>: Patrick Crotty prc@physics.physics.wm.edu
>This is a false statement. The pro-life movement from it’s inception has
>been based on fear and violence.
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>Exhibit one: Firebombings at womens clinics nation wide. Opersation rescue
>has never come out against the firebombings of clinics. They figure that
>since the bombings take place at night when the clinic is empty, it’s not
>violence. All I have to say is that’s what a group of anti-war activists
>thought in the 60’s when they bombed an ROTC building and killed a man.
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>Exhibit 2: The stalking of clinic Doctors and their families. If you
>don’t think stalking is a form of passive aggression, let me have the
>address of someone you care about and I’ll prove it to you.
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>Exhibit 3: The vicitimization of clients that go to womens clinics for
>reasons beyond abortion. ie. The couple who went to an obstetrician that
>worked at a clinic, had their licence plate number taken down by an
>Operation Rescue member and then were harrassed about having an abortion,
>just days after the woman lost her child in miscarrage.
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>Exhibit 4: The victimization of anyone that attempts to enter a clinic.
>Thankfully this type of harrassment is at an end. However, prior to FACE
>anti-choice activists would scream at, pull at, spit at people who
>attempted to gain access to the clinics. They figured make the place scary
>enough and people will stop coming.
The fallacy in your reasoning:
"Operation Rescue=The Pro-life Movement"
>Admittedly these people are not the IRA but many of their tactics would
>qualify them as a terrorist-like movement. Many will argue that many
>anti-choicers are stricktly mainstream politically active. I would remind
>you that the IRA also has it’s legitimate political arm. As a side note,
>lat night on CNBS I saw Paul Hill, not only did he advocate the killing of
>doctors, he advocated the killing of women that have abortions.
There are radical feminists who advocate breeding out men from the human
race, and reproducing via artificial insemination. Shall we assume that
*all* feminists believe this? I doubt *most* do. Likewise, shall we
assume that all abortion opponents believe what Randall Terry and
Paul Hill do?
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Patrick Crotty
prc@physics.physics.wm.edu
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