*Abortion-Related Violence and Alleged Violence
An Investigative Report by Life Research Institute
January 5, 1995
This report is a production of:
Life Research Institute
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Concord, CA 94521
This report is not copyrighted.
It covers violence and alleged violence
only in the United States
This is a second printing of the January 5 report.
Typographical errors and minor grammar changes
have been made for this second printing, but
no information has been added or deleted.
Proverbs 18:17 of the Bible says, "The first to present
his case seems right, till another comes forward and
questions him."
This report gives the second side of the violence story.*
*Executive Summary
*
This report finds that there has been far less violence by pro-life against pro-abortion than
pro-abortion against pro-life, and that there has been a great amount of violence by police
against pro-life but no violence by police against pro-abortion. In order to understand the
misconception that pro-life is violent, one must understand the abortion-industry definition of
violence. (The abortion industry has defined the term for the media and for you.) Although not
always, from time-to-time the abortion industry will define even legal, peaceful, constitutionally
protected praying and picketing as violence. In addition, they will manipulate statistics to
multiply the numbers of alleged incidents. For example, a legal, peaceful, constitutionally
protected picket by 100 pro-lifers will be counted as 102 acts of violence--100 for the pro-lifers,
one for the clinic, and one for the incident.
This report presents the following findings (with the definition of incident explained on page 5):
*
*No. Listed*[1] *No. Guilty of*[2]
Incidents by pro-life against pro-abortion 164 12
Incidents by pro-abortion against pro-life 218 15
Incidents by police against pro-abortion 0 0
Incidents by police against pro-life 29 11
Total 411 38
*
Generally speaking, in this report a verdict on guilt comes from a court of law, not from the
prejudice of Life Research Institute (LRI). This tends to make pro-abortion look far more
innocent than they would otherwise look: LRI has viewed many, many video tapes showing
obvious pro-abortion guilt, but has chosen to not call pro-abortion guilty independent of the
courts or confessions.
This report also presents the following findings:
� There have been more bombings of religious facilities than all types of medical facilities combined.
� Bombings and attempted bombings of any type of medical facility have been rare. There have been
230 times as many against other industries, homes, and other buildings.
� Only thirty-five one-thousandth of one percent of all U.S. arsons can be attributed to pro-life.
� Only one one-thousandth of one percent of all U.S. homicides can be attributed to pro-life.
� The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has never connected any act of violence to any pro-life
organization.
� The Federal Bureau of Investigation does not list any pro-life organization as terrorist.
� There are many very significant reasons for the abortion industry to deceive the public.
� The abortion industry has been unwilling and/or unable to substantiate their accusations against
pro-life.
� There are many reasons for violence against abortion facilities other than pro-life activism.
� The media rarely portrays violence by pro-abortion, but rarely doesn't portray violence by pro-life.
1. These figures are found by counting incidents in Investigations I - IV herein.
2. These figures are found in "Summary of Conclusions Regarding Each Investigation" herein.
*Table of Contents
*
*Busy people may wish to read highlighted entries first. These
convey the most important information but comprise only 25% of
this report.*
PAGE NUMBERS ARE NOT VALID IN THIS FILE!
*Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 *
*A Notable Dangerous Incident . . . . . . . . . . . 2 *
*Purpose of this Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 *
*Bombings and Attempted Bombings of Religious Facilities
And Other Bombing Comparisons . . . . . . . . . 4 *
*Definitions of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 *
The Feminist Majority Foundation Report . . . . . . . 7
*We bomb clinics (don't we?) . . . . . . . . . . . 8 *
*Arson Perspective: Comparison of Numbers of Arsons . . . . 14 *
*Homicide Perspective: Comparison of Numbers of Homicides . 15 *
*Testimony of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms . . . 16 *
*Terrorism Perspective: Organizations Involved . . . . . 18 *
*An Epidemic of Antiabortion Violence? . . . . . . . . 19 *
*Activists' Attitudes and Morals . . . . . . . . . . 21 *
*Lies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 *
*Criteria for Forming Conclusions . . . . . . . . . 27 *
*Notable Quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 *
*Non-Substantiation by Pro-Abortion . . . . . . . . . 30 *
Alternative Reasons for Violence "Against" Pro-Abortion . . 32
Investigation I: Alleged Violence of Pro-Lifers against
Pro-Aborts and their Facilities* . . . . . . . . 33
*Excerpts from <Clinic Defense: A Model> by Bay Area
Coalition Against Operation Rescue . . . . . . . . 60*
Investigation II: Alleged Violence of Pro-Aborts against
Pro-Lifers and their Facilities* . . . . . . . . 66
Investigation III: Alleged Violence of Police against
Pro-Aborts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Investigation IV: Alleged Violence of Police against
Pro-Lifers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
*Summary of Conclusions Regarding Each Investigation . . . 123*
*Final Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126*
*Excludes violence by pro-life or pro-abortion police
*Introduction
*
In Congress, in the legislatures, in the courtrooms, in the media, and in the homes in the United States,
nearly everyone "knows" that pro-life people are violent and that pro-abortion people are peaceful. But is
that the truth?
This document analyzes that possibility.
The reader should realize that the pro-life activists are not solely trying to prevent abortion of pre-borns
that are so small as to hardly be visible: Abortion is legal through all nine months of the pregnan-cy.
Furthermore, the pregnant mother can give any reason for having an abortion, or she can give no reason.
Only two percent abort for combined reasons of rape, incest, life of the mother, and fetal handicap.
In this report, violence against pro-lifers excludes violence against the pre-born. (All the pre-born would
be pro-life if they knew what was going to happen to them.) The reason for the exclusion: 35,000,000
entries in the tables would be needed for the period 1973 - 1994.
When reviewing the allegations from each side of the abortion issue, one might be surprised to find that
there are more alleged incidents of violence against pro-life than against pro-abortion. This is in spite of
the following:
1) Until Life Research Institute began this project in 1992, the files incidents alleged against pro-abortion
were not accumulated and incidents alleged against pro-life were almost totally unsubstantiated. Thus,
many of the latter could have been invented. Life Research Institute therefore tried to get pro-abortion to
document their allegations, but they were either unwilling or unable to.
2) Being under-funded by a factor of thousands, pro-life activists rarely make their living as activists, while
those who collect data for National Organization for Women and National Abortion Federation <are>
employed by them. Thus, pro-life has few people collecting data, and until late 1994, no pro-lifer had a
significant collection plan, a central collection point, or a computer file such as the pro-aborts have.
3) Pro-abortion knows this, and therefore knows that it is very diffi-cult for pro-life to refute pro-abortion
claims of violence and other incidents. Abortion profits are tremendous, and money is an incentive to lie.
This does not <prove> that pro-abortion lies, but Life Research Institute is confident that the intelligent
reader will make that decision.
In the following tables, alleged incidents involving butyric acid are listed. It needs to be pointed out that
butyric acid is not a sub-stance used to physically harm people. It is a very smelly substance used to
drive people from clinics so that no abortions will be done for a period of time. The acid has never been
used physically on personnel, nor has the acid has ever been involved in a fire or explosion.
Lastly, I must include a note about me. Although I show in this report that my name is Lynn K. Murphy,
that is not my real name. For my protection against pro-abortion violence, several years ago I selected
an alias. I believe that this was a very good decision.
You will readily see why as you examine this report.
The time span this report covers is all years prior to 1995. From a practical viewpoint, however, long-ago
incidents are easily forgotten. Thus, there are few listings of early incidents.
*The police found
an HK MP5AZ fully
automatic 9mm machine gun,
a Remington 12 gauge pump shotgun,
a Sig Sauer P228,
a 9mm, semi-automatic pistol,
a Ruger P101 .357 magnum revolver,
a Colt .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol,
a Sphinx AT380M .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol,
and an American Arms 22 magnum revolver.
All the weapons had rounds
in the chambers and
most were in the cocked position.
Who had these loaded guns? Pro-life or pro-abortion?
The source of information is Legal Action for Women (LAW).
Is LAW a pro-life or pro-abortion organization?
For the answer, see "Investigation II," page 82.*
*Purpose of this Report
*
The purpose of this report is as follows:
� To assess the validity of allegations of pro-life violence against pro-aborts and their facilities
� To assess the validity of allegations of pro-abortion violence against pro-lifers and their facilities
� To assess the validity of allegations of police violence against pro-aborts
� To assess the validity of allegations of police violence against pro-lifers
The first two purposes exclude violence by on-duty police who are pro-life or pro-abortion.
*Bombings and Attempted Bombings
of
Religious Facilities*
*And Other Bombing Comparisons*
Although this report is primarily about violence concerning abortion, it is very important to set
the accusations of the pro-aborts straight. This is the primary accusation:
Abortion clinic bombings are committed by religious, bigoted, pro-life, right-wing fanatics who
are full of hate.
But the truth is given by (Federal) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, <1993
EXPLOSIVES INCIDENTS REPORT,> Table VI: "BOMBING INCIDENTS BY TARGET,
1989-93", 21.
The ATF report shows bombings and attempted bombings of religious facilities and medical
facilities only for 1992 and 1993. There is essentially no difference between the statistics in
these categories for these two years. For the *average* of 1992 and 1993, the report reveals
bombings and attempted bombing incidents as follows:
*
*Number of* *Rank*[1]
Against Religious Facilities 15 14
Against Medical Facilities[2] 13 15
*
1. I.e., other categories of bombings are presented. E.g., residential, commercial, utilities,
etc.
2. *Medical facilities means all types of medical facilities, even those which do not do abortions
or have anything at all to do with abortion or reproduction.*
Let me put that in the most clear terms:
There were more bombings and attempted bombings
against the religious (so-called fanatics)
than against abortion clinics!
Furthermore, arithmetic division of total bombings plus attempted bombings reveals that
proportionately, only *1* out of *230* was against *ANY TYPE* of medical facility. Yet the press
makes very sure that when you read about a bombing or attempt, it is almost always abortion
related. Thus, the proportion shown by the press is highly skewed, and pro-life looks vicious to
the public.
*Definitions of Terms
*
<Precise> definition of terms is inappropriate in this report. Definitions used by one side of the abortion
issue often do not match those used by the other side. General definitions follow:
*Arson* - An act of deliberately starting a fire.
*Assault* - Unfortunately, this term is used (by all parties) interchangeably with battery. Generally, it
includes having physical contact.
*Battery* - See Assault.
*Blockade* - Pro-lifers physically putting their bodies between the abortionists and the girls and women
seeking abortions.
*Bomb* - An explosive device. Often used interchangeably with Firebomb. Firebomb is not defined by
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and is a term used by the abortion industry to generate angry
emotions against pro-life.
*Butyric acid* - A very smelly substance used by one side to close clinics and by the other to close pro-life
offices and churches. It is used only because of the smell, and it is not used in any dangerous way.
*Deathscort* - A term used by pro-lifers to describe an escort at a clinic who attempts during a rescue to
escort a woman to the abortionist.
*Firebomb* - See Bomb.
*Incident* - In the "We Bomb Clinics (don't we?)" part of this report, the definition of an incident of violence
is the definition which the pro-aborts use. This definition is very difficult to pin down. However, in
addition to including the obvious, this definition includes constitutionally protected praying and
constitutionally protected picketing. In the rest of the report, generally an incident is defined as the *date
and place* of an occurrence of violence. For example, on October 5, 1994, a Planned Parenthood
executive and armed security guard assaulted four pro-lifers with a deadly weapon, kidnapped one of
them, and falsely imprisoned one of them. Because they did this at one particular date and place, for the
purposes of this report this incident is counted as one incident instead of many.
*Mother* - Any girl or woman who is or has been pregnant notwithstanding whether she has given birth.
Reproduction occurs at fertilization; females become mothers at the time of fertilization.
*Rescue* - See Blockade.
*Resisting arrest* - This includes many acts. Among them are *not assisting* in one's own arrest. Pro-lifers
go limp when arrested. Thus, police must carry them to the police buses. Functionally, the pro-lifers are
not resisting, but legally they are because they are not assisting.
*Pro-abortion* - In a poll[1] of staggering importance, researcher David Reardon shows that the abortion
industry rarely counsels their patients about alternatives to abortion. Thus, the abortion controversy is not
about choice and it is not women's rights. Let there be no misunderstanding: Abortion is an immensely
profitable business; *abortion is not about freedom of choice, it is about money.* Offering choices to not
abort costs the industry money. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood set up mainland China's
*forced-abortion* policy, National Organization for Women called it "among the most intelligent in the
world," and NARAL co-founder Lawrence Lader also supports it.[2]
This is why in this report Life Research Institute uses the term "pro-abortion" instead of "pro-choice." All
along, "pro-life" should have been called "pro-choice": Pro-life offers more choices.
*Terror* - To the pro-aborts, any act which the pro-aborts call violence. For example, according to National
Abortion Federation, their reported 1,307 acts of legal, pro-life picketing were acts of violence and
terrorism. (See "We Bomb Clinics (don't we?)" herein.
*Violence* - The definition of violence which the pro-aborts use is found in the "We Bomb Clinics (don't
we?)" part of this report. This definition is very difficult to pin down. However, it includes constitutionally
protected praying and constitutionally protected picketing. In the rest of the report, violence is defined as
acts, attempted acts, and threats of arson, assault, bombing/firebombing, burglary, kidnapping, murder,
stalking, and extreme acts of vandalism (including use of butyric acid and other noxious substances).
Thus, it includes violence against people and violence against property.
Endnotes:
1. David C. Reardon, <Aborted Women, Silent No More,> (Chicago: Loyola University
Press, 1987) 333-6.
2. David C. Reardon, "Compulsory Population Control." Address of Reardon: Elliot
Institute, P. O. Box 9079, Springfield, IL 62791)
*The Feminist Majority Foundation Report
*
Life Research Institute (LRI) has made a thorough analysis of The Feminist Majority Foundation's <1994
Clinic Violence Survey Report.>
That report is unverifiable and false throughout.
The report is approximately 99% generalizations coupled with unsubstantiated and unsubstantiable
allegations. While alone this doesn't entirely prove falseness, before believing any material in the report,
one should read the following material in the LRI report you are now reading:
� We bomb clinics (don't we?)
� Arson Perspective: Comparison of Numbers of Arsons
� Homicide Perspective: Comparison of Numbers of Homicides
� Testimony of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
� Terrorism Perspective: Organizations Involved
� An Epidemic of Antiabortion Violence?
� Activists' Attitudes and Morals
� Lies?
� Non-Substantiation by Pro-Abortion
� Alternative Reasons for Violence "Against" Pro-Abortion
� Summary of Conclusions Regarding Each Investigation
� Final Conclusions
The intellectually honest must also consider The Feminist Majority Foundation itself. First, it is not
feminist. More than half the babies killed by abortion are female. Furthermore, pro-aborts, pro-lifers, and
those doctors who don't care about the abortion issue almost universally agree: Abortion seriously hurts
nine out of ten women who have it.[1] This fact was determined before the connection of abortion to breast
cancer was discovered. To date, more than thirty studies[2] show this connection, and the number of
additional breast cancer cases due to abortion is approximately 50,000 per year.[3] Thus, to be
pro-abortion/pro-choice cannot possibly be construed, to the intellectually honest, to be feminism. It is
not feminism to favor killing females.
The Feminist Majority Foundation does not hold the opinion of the majority. Poll after poll shows that the
majority of women are pro-life. Furthermore, the combined membership of The Feminist Majority
Foundation, National Organization for Women, and other pro-abortion organizations is far exceeded by
one (of many) pro-life organizations: Concerned Women for America.
The Feminist Majority Foundation's <1994 Clinic Violence Survey Report> begins with two lies, Feminist
and Majority, and the lies continue to the end. Included in the lies are statements--represented as
facts--that blockading and picketing are violence. Blockading is trespassing, not violence. Picketing is
peaceful and is a constitutionally protected right.
It is a shame that so many people have accepted "feminist" reports at face value. It is unfortunate that
such reports deal in unverifiable generalities. You will not find that to be the case with the report you are
now reading!
Endnotes:
1. "Abortion Hurts Women," Life Research Institute.
2. Life Dynamics, December 1994. Phone is 817 380 8800.
3. Conservatively, without abortion 1 in 10 women will contract breast cancer. A mother's first abortion is
most important, and there are about 1,000,000 of these annually. Thus, 100,000 of these would get
breast cancer without aborting. But abortion increases the risk by *at least* 50%. 100,000 x 50% =
50,000. This analysis provides a very conservative result.
*We bomb clinics (don't we?)
(A June & July, 1993 article by Jenny Westberg*)
*
(All emphases and brackets are by Life Research Institute.)
In the wake of the Pensacola shooting, pro-aborts have taken every opportunity to remind us, through the
media, that anti-abortion zealots have a long history of "domestic terrorism." Specifically, we are
reminded, there has been a relentless 20-year campaign of violence against abortion mills.
Most media reports have relied on statistics compiled by the National Abortion Federation (NAF). *Using
the NAF's data, journalists have been able to refer to "hundreds -- even thousands -- of violent incidents
and "millions of dollars in damages."
A review of the NAF's own figures, however, tell a different story. *
*Numbers unimpressive*
The most recent NAF figures[1] on anti-clinic bombings and arson -- and attempts -- are shown in the
graphs accompanying this article. [Life Research Institute has chosen not to include the graphs. NAF's
numbers are so low, as you will see from the text, that the graphs are not worth presenting.]
One of the first observations to be made on these graphs is that the numbers are not terribly impressive.
*In 1990, for instance, there were four incidents of arson; no bombings; and four attempts at one or the
other.* [These are NAF figures. Correct answers are lower.]
<Four? >Aren't there hundreds, or at least dozens, each year? Just how does this constitute an epidemic
of anti-abortion violence" (as it was called recently in a respected medical journal)?[2] Clearly, public
perception bears little resemblance to the actual data. This is no accident. It is, in fact, a public relations
triumph engineered by the pro-abort spin doctors at the NAF.
*Statistics show low risk*
*The figure of four arson incidents in 1990 is even less impressive when you consider the number of
abortion mills in the United States. *
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, there are 1,405 hospitals that provide abortions, and 1,503
"non-hospital providers" -- that is, freestanding clinics. No hospital provider has ever been the subject of
an attack.
Using the figure of 1,503 abortion mills, we can calculate the statistical probability of an arson or
bombing at a given location during a one-year period.
Over a period of 15 years (1977-1991), the NAF reports that there have been 34 instances of bombing
and 61 instances of arson, for a total of 95 instances. Dividing this total by 15, we get an annual average
of 6.33.
Applying this annual average figure to the number of mills (1,503), *we get a risk of 0.42%--less than
one-half of one percent.* This, then, is the risk that any given abortion mill will experience an arson or
bombing in a given year.
*The author, Jenny Westberg, is formally of Advocates for Life. Advocates published this article for her in
their <Life Advocate> magazine in June 1993 (p. 44) and July 1993 (p. 50).
*Complication rates*
*But wait: isn't there something familiar about that phrase, "less than one-half of one percent"? You bet
there is. It's the same figure used by the NAF -- and repeated by the media -- when reporting the risk of
maternal complications due to abortion.
According to the NAF, this 0.5% risk (which is an average for all gestations and all techniques, and
applies only to major complications) is sufficiently low to make abortion "an extremely safe
procedure."*[3] . . .[Other pro-abortion groups, uncommitted groups, and pro-life consider the risk to the
mother to be very much higher than 0.5%.]
Of course, arson and bombings cannot really considered "abortion complications," but there is more of a
direct relationship than any pro-abort would care to admit. Several instances of anti-clinic violence have
been traced to a bereaved parent of an aborted child. Thus, in a way. each individual baby's murder
does carry an inherent risk of retaliation by the child's relatives. . . .
*Defining terrorism*
It turns out that many of the NAF's "incidents of violence and disruption" are simply incidents of pro-life
activism. *The NAF list features a huge figure -- 30,000 -- under the heading "Clinic Blockades." *This, of
course, is their term for rescue missions.
Many pro-lifers would question whether rescue activities can honestly be categorized as "violence." In
most rescues, there are no injuries and no property damage. The few exceptions involve violence by pro-
aborts and police, and the pro-life rescuers are generally the passive recipients of any injuries that occur.
The pro-abortionists at the NAF, however, do consider rescues to be instances of violence; and to make
sure everyone gets the point, they footnote the category and deliver the following helpful clarification:
"Despite claims to be nonviolent, many 'blockaders' are arrested for assault, trespass and invasion."
Of course, a "total number of incidents" of 31,289 in any category on a report of this nature gives a
highly misleading impression.
*Pro-aborts flunk math*
*But the figure of 31,289 total incidents of "clinic blockade" is, itself, entirely worthless, due to a lapse in
mathematical logic on the part of the NAF.*
*The NAF report actually shows 476 total incidents, not 31,289.
The report's authors, possibly suffering from gender-based math anxiety, took the 476 rescues and added
the 30,512 individual arrests.* [Arrests are almost always for trespassing.]
Then to compound the error beyond all reason, they added in the 301 clinics at which the rescues
occurred.
*What the NAF's arithmetic implies is that each rescue represents an incident of violence; each individual
rescuer represents an additional incident; and each affected clinic is, itself, an incident of violence as well.
*(Actually, they might have a point about that last part.)
*Using NAF-math, a single rescue with 100 arrests would be reported as 102 total incidents, as shown
here:*
*
No. of Clinics 1
No. of Incidents 1
No. of Arrests 100
Total Incidents 102
*
*Constitutionally protected terrorism*
Another source of overall distortion is the NAF's inclusion of certain First Amendment activities in their
"violence report." *Incredibly, they list 1,307 instances picketing --in the same subcategory as bomb
threats.*
Perhaps the NAF hasn't heard, but picketing is a legitimate exercise of free speech in this country. Does
the NAF really favor a revision of this right?
Of course not. And their report would be more credible if they eliminated the "picketing" category entirely.
While they're at it, *they should also delete the 375 instances of "hate mail and harassing calls.*" These
calls and letters, apparently, contain no threats ("death threats" and "bomb threats" have their own
separate listings). Therefore, it is quite likely that these are simply calls and letters expressing the opinion
that abortion is bad, and/or calls and letters with the intent of evangelization.
Again in case the NAF hasn't heard, expression of opinion is constitutionally protected free speech. The
fact that the recipients do not happen to agree with the expressed opinions does not qualify them as "hate
mail" or "harassment."
In fact, a great deal of the "hate mail" that abortionists receive is along the lines of "Jesus loves you"; "I
am praying for you"; and so on. Unfortunately, some pro-aborts feel "threatened" by these sentiments.
That still doesn't make it violence.
*Bombers and arsonists*
Yet, there are still, on average, about two bombings and four arson per year. Who is actually behind
these acts?
The pro-aborts are sure they know: the pro-life movement is responsible for each and every one of them.
When a Concord, California Planned Parenthood was damaged by fire in 1990, PP representative
Heather Estes said. "There's no doubt in my mind it's the work of anti-abortion terrorists."
In Sacramento in 1992, after another fire, clinic escort Christine Gilpin said, "I think it's obvious what
happened here. I think the anti-choice people set the fire."
[The previous ends the June part of Jenny Westberg's article; the following quote introduces the July part.]
<By day, anti-abortion demonstrators . . . scream epithets and wave posters of bloody fetuses in the faces
of abortion clinic patients and staff; by night, inflamed zealots are using bombs, torches and
sledgehammers to bring their holy war against abortion to the facilities where abortion is performed.> --
Patricia Donovan
If there is one area where pro-aborts really excel, it's disinformation. Their propaganda campaign, which
characterizes pro-lifers as wild-eyed, heavily-armed terrorists, has been chillingly successful -- to the
point that even our friends are wary of us. There are two parts to this campaign. First, as we saw in Part
One of this article (Life Advocate, June 1993), pro-abort groups like the National Abortion Federation
brazenly inflate their statistics on "anti-clinic" violence. *Second without the least regard for minor details
like, proof and documentation, they attribute every incident of havoc to the pro-life movement as a whole.*
Sometimes the accusations are specific.
After a November 1992 fire at a Redding, California abortion mill, for instance, the local newspaper that
Jody Muller, chair of the Sacramento-based Organization for Women, blamed the Lambs of Christ.
Muller also informed the paper that the Lambs of Christ have burned [other] abortion clinics in Redding
and elsewhere in Northern California.
The Lambs of Christ were never linked to the fire. But that's not surprising, considering that Father
Norman Weslin, who heads the group, bases the group's tactics on a principle of complete
"helplessness'" in order to identify with unborn children. In a letter to supporters, Weslin wrote: "The
Lambs are never violent. If you are inclined toward violence, please do not gather with the Lambs. You
will set us back ten years."
In fact, federal investigators have never found a trace of the "violent anti-abortion conspiracy" that
pro-aborts insist is out there. Officials from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
(BATF) spelled this out before a Congressional subcommittee in 1985, and they have restated it as
recently as last November (1992).
Of course, according to some abortion advocates, the reason no terrorist conspiracy has been uncovered
is that law enforcement agencies have been slack in pursuing clinic bombers. Actually, over 60% of clinic
arsons and bombings have been solved. The federal agencies' conclusion that no conspiracy exists is
based on their knowledge of real perpetrators, while the pro-aborts' accusations, apparently, are based
on nothing more solid than their own paranoid fantasies.
*"No conspiracy theory survives the arrests we have made," BATF Special Agent Jack Killorin said last
year. "The connection would have been found. We're looking for these kind of connections."*
Who is actually responsible for anti-clinic violence? The perpetrators fall into several categories.
*1. Abortionists and pro-abort sympathizers.*
Perhaps, unsurprisingly, the pro-abortionists themselves may account for the largest percentage of
so-called "terrorist acts."
In 1985, while investigating a series of package bombs sent to clinics in Portland, Oregon, *the Portland
Police Department *assessed national intelligence data concerning violence at abortion clinics. According
to insiders, their *findings indicated that between 80-85% of bombing and arson incidents were "related to
someone inside the clinics."* The motive? Insurance money, coupled with a desire to gain public
sympathy. Many of these cases are yet unsolved, but evidence clearly points to an "inside job."
Here are a few examples:
<Forest Grove, Oregon - 1985: > Two arson attempts at the (then) Bours Birth and Surgery Center caused
about $1,000 damage. According to a source who was, at the time, a detective with the Forest Grove
Police Department, and was involved in the investigations, the cases involved "very suspicious
circumstances," including an employee's fingerprints on one of the incendiary devices. The investigations
were "leading to suspicions concerning the doctor." The two cases were never solved. One reason for
this was that certain clinic employees refused to cooperate with investigators.
<Wichita, Kansas, 1986: >A bomb, placed in [abortionist] George Tiller's clinic doorway, exploded close to
midnight. Tiller, who reportedly had prior plans to remodel the entranceway, was on the scene almost
immediately in suit and tie. Later, he reported approximately $100,000 in damages to his insurance
company. According to a local activist who spoke to federal investigators, the BATF considered Tiller the
main suspect.
<Los Angeles, California, 1988: >Pro-abortion activist Frank Mendiola pleaded guilty to charges of
telephoning a series of bomb threats to local abortion mills, abortion-rights organizations, and his own
home. Mendiola said he made the calls to arouse public sympathy for abortion rights. and to motivate the
media to "come down with a harder line on [pro-lifers] who [were] harassing the clinics."
<Concord, California, 1990:> After a Planned Parenthood abortion mill was severely damaged by arson, the
clinic immediately pinned the blame on "anti-abortion terrorists." A month later, police arrested David
Martin, who lived across the street from the clinic. Martin told the "Contra Costa Times" he was "p__d
off" by the pro-life protesters who he hoped would be blamed for the fire.
<Wichita, Kansas, 1992: >During the Summer of Mercy rescues at George Tiller's mill, a clinic volunteer
discovered a disarmed hand grenade in the bushes outside the facility. Even though the street had been
barricaded for three days, during which time pro-lifers had no access to clinic grounds, the rescuers
were automatically assumed to have placed the grenade. The incident was widely reported, gaining
public sympathy for the besieged clinic. Local activists are still wondering how the paper bag containing
the dead grenade had managed to stay dry through a night of torrential rain, and whether it's just a
coincidence that Tiller is known to be a collector of antique army memorabilia (such as disarmed
grenades).
*2. Friends or relatives of an abortion victim.*
Thirty million abortions leave behind a lot of grief and a lot of anger. Literally thousands of men -- of
varying degrees of emotional stability -- have discovered, after the fact, that their unborn babies have
been slaughtered by the local abortionist. Thousands more have seen a "safe, simple procedure" maim or
kill the woman they love.
At the same time, literally thousands of women have discovered -- too late -- that those nice,
compassionate folks at the clinic essentially conned them into cooperating in an unimaginably cruel and
vicious act. Even if a woman was fairly well-balanced (and many abortion clinic clients are not), this is
the sort of realization that can cause emotional trauma up to and including a psychotic break.
For some of these thousands and thousands of wounded individuals, performing some small act of
violence against a clinic must seem like the very least they can do.
Don Blythe, head of the California-based At The Well Ministries, suggested this possibility in a 1992
letter, in which he wrote: "Many people have stopped to talk to sidewalk counselors in front of the mills
and told us they would make the place pay for their grief."
<In 1985, again in Portland,> a series of package bombs was sent through the mail to three abortion mills
and a Planned Parenthood clinic. All four devices were discovered before they went off, but the
pro-abortion community exploded with indignation.
Suddenly, Portland was on the map: Every two-bit pro-choice newsletter had to get in its licks (the phrase
"Khomeini mentality" was popular at the time); and the national media milked it for all they could; and the
clinics were inspired to approach the courts for injunctions and damages that eventually restricted the
constitutional rights of just about everybody in town.
Most people probably still think the pro-lifers had something to do with those mail bombs. In fact the case
was quietly solved.
The perpetrator, Richard Duane Batson, was caught when one of the bombs he was making exploded,
blowing off part of his arm. Evidence linking Batson to the package bombs, as well as to a bomb that had
exploded outside the Lovejoy mill, was presented at Batson's trial on a separate bombing charge. Batson
was convicted of the separate charge and sent to prison.
And what was Batson's motive? His girlfriend, it seems, had obtained an abortion without his
knowledge.
*3. Other causes.*
Columnist Jack Anderson reported in 1984 that some clinic bombings may have been related to
organized crime efforts to take over the profitable abortion trade. Some mobsters, he wrote, have used
strong arm tactics -- including arson -- to collect kickbacks and "protection from competition."
Other arson incidents have been traced to attempts to cover up burglaries. "[These perpetrators] had
nothing to do with the abortion issue, they were crooks," said the BATF's Killorin.
And some are just accidental fires. In Redding, California, investigators determined that a clinic fire had
been started by a portable electric fan.
"It was not arson," said Redding police Sgt. Dave Mundy. But some folks are never convinced.
"I don't buy it." said Susan Landau, the facility manager, after the fire had been traced to the
malfunctioning appliance. The clinic continues to insist that the fire was part of "a wave of anti-abortion
terrorism. . . ."
1. National Abortion Federation, "Incidents of Violence and Disruption Against Abortion Providers,"
Washington, DC: NAF, 1992.
2. Grimes, David, MD, et al., "An epidemic of anti-abortion violence in the United States." American
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 165, no. 5, part 1, Nov. 1991, p. 1263.
3. National Abortion Federation. "Fourteen Years of Legal Abortion: Benefits to the Nation's Health."
Washington, D.C.: NAF, 1987, p.3.
*Arson Perspective
Comparison of Numbers of Arsons
*
According to the abortion industry itself, a count of all the incidents of arson and
attempted arson which pro-life *supposedly* perpetrated due to the abortion
controversy yields 45 for the period 1989 - 1993. (See Investigation I herein.
This figure includes electrical failures, accidents, arson by angry boyfriends and
husbands, arson by clinic owners to collection insurance, etc.) There were no
deaths and no injuries. The number of convictions of and confessions by pro-life
was 1.
In its report, <1993 EXPLOSIVES INCIDENTS REPORT,> (The federal) Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), shows on its page 66 a table for all arson
for any reason at any type of facility for all the U.S. for the same period, 1989 -
1993.
*
*1989 - 1993 Total*
Number of incidents 2,835
Number killed 491
Number injured 1,246
Property damage $2,893,200
Defendants recommended
for prosecution 2,090
*
Even accepting the *grossly exaggerated* figure of 45 in paragraph 1, the
percent that figure is of 2,835 incidents is only 1.6%. The correct figure is 1
of 2,835 or .035% (thirty-five one-thousandths of one percent).
The ATF report is 91 pages long. Yet it only shows one conviction of a
pro-lifer for arson or bombing! (This was arson on October 10, 1993 in
Houston.)
*Homicide Perspective
Comparison of Numbers of Homicides
*
* Total Homicides Percent Percent
*Year* *U.S. Homicides* *by Pro-Life* *by Pro-Life* *not by Pro-Life*
1973 20,465 0 0 100
1974 21,465 0 0 100
1975 21,310 0 0 100
1976 19,554 0 0 100
1977 19,968 0 0 100
1978 20,432 0 0 100
1979 22,550 0 0 100
1980 24,278 0 0 100
1981 23,646 0 0 100
1982 22,358 0 0 100
1983 20,191 0 0 100
1984 19,796 0 0 100
1985 19,893 0 0 100
1986 21,731 0 0 100
1987 21,103 0 0 100
1988 22,032 0 0 100
1989 22,909 0 0 100
1990 24,932 0 0 100
1991 26,513 0 0 100
1992 22,540 0 0 100
1993 25,500 1 .004 99.996
1994 25,000 4 .016 99.984
Totals 488,166 5 .001 99.999
*
*The proper way to read .001 percent is one one-thousandth of one percent.*
Following is an example showing how the press makes it look like the pro-life religious community is
violent compared with those who commit violence against the religious. On November 12, 1994 <Contra
Costa Times> wrote a very short (67 words) article (and buried it in a corner of page 15A) showing the
conviction of a man for murdering a pastor at the pastor's church. The article mentions that another man
was convicted of murdering a second victim at his church. The shooting ended a string of robberies of
church workers. *When abortionists are shot, the press makes sure it is publicized on the front
page! The public thinks pro-life is extremely violent because of media prejudice!*
Endnotes
Homicide is defined as willful murder and non-negligent manslaughter as determined by police
departments, not courts or coroners. It excludes justifiable homicide.
U.S. Homicides for 1973 - 1991: United States Department of Commerce, <Statistical Abstract of the
United States,> various issues as follows: For 1973 - 1975, 1978 issue, Table 295; for 1976 -
1979, 1986 issue, Table 287; for 1980 - 1991, 1994 issue, Table 307.
U.S. Homicides for 1992: Federal Bureau of Investigation, <Uniform Crime Report for the United
States, 1992, >16.
U.S. Homicides for 1993 and 1994: These are not available and therefore are estimates. Any error
won't significantly affect percentages.
Homicides by Pro-Life: This report.
*Testimony of
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms
*
"On March 12, 1985, Stephen E. Higgins, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stated
before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives that 'In summary,
based on our investigations to date, these crimes appear to have been primarily the work of small groups
or individuals who are acting out of a strong personal opposition to abortion. *They are members of no
'Army,'they belong to no one faith, and most appear to have little or no connection to established pro-life
organizations.*[1]
Jack Killorin, then investigator with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, confirmed this view when
he observed that *'Overwhelmingly, the fires tend to be the work of a loner. A lot of these people
have uncovered] no sign of support from anti-abortion organizations for this kind of activity. Many of the
bombers rejected the organization. They thought of it as weak, impotent, not serious-minded. These are
the kinds of things you hear when you talk to them.'"*[1]
*The following is from a newspaper article* about a fire in Redding, California[2] The information is also
from Jack Killorin.
"The typical arsonist in health center fires has proven to be a loner with little or no connection to
anti-abortion groups." (This is probably a paraphrase.)
"A lot of these people (convicted) have never had any visible or traceable connection to anti-abortion
activity."
"No arrests have been made in any of the arson fires this year, but 62 of 103 arson fires or bombings of
clinics in the past 10 year have been solved."
*Federal investigators have uncovered through the years "no sign of support from (anti-abortion)
organizations for this kind of activity."*
Killorin said he could recall only one prominent anti-abortion leader . . . being convicted. . . . here the
newspaper is paraphrasing Killorin.
Newspaper again paraphrasing Killorin: "Some of the people convicted have had a 'fringe association'
with anti-abortion groups, but *many 'rejected the organization' They thought of it as weak, impotent, not
serious minded.*
"A couple of burglars have been convicted of setting fires to cover their thefts, and some have given us
reasons we haven't understood."
*This is from a transcript* of a telephone conversation of Jack Killorin with Lynn K. Murphy.[3] Killorin did
not know Murphy's position on abortion at any time.
Killorin: introduced himself.
Murphy: Hello. I read comments by you in a Redding, CA newspaper regarding an investigation you
participated in in 1990 in a fire of an abortion clinic. And, I'm not a reporter, by the way. You made
comments to the effect that you could not connect any pro-life organization with fires so far to date across
the nation, fires at facilities such as this fire was at. I was wondering if there is an official government
report or something that I could have or buy that would show this kind of information.
Killorin: Well, I mean we don't, because we don't write reports of what's not there. You know, and in
essence that THERE'S NEVER BEEN. I'm not . . . to be careful as how that's interpreted I wouldn't go
that far. Many of the people who have been involved in bombings and arsons have at some point been
involved in ah ah ah pro-life demonstrations or organizations. The thrust of the question in the reverse is
what is not true. *Do those organizations institutionally or collectively support, condone, induce,
participate in or direct those attacks, and not true.* We believe the bombers and arsonists should rot in
prison for most of the rest of their lives and that's what we look at.
Murphy: Okay. And when you said that pro-life organizations haven't been tied to these activities, does
that include threats?
Killorin: Well, lemme say this. We've done a lot of the threats [???] are handled at the local level
although it can be a federal offense to make a threat. *The ones we've been involved in were generally
involved ah . . . juveniles.*
Murphy: Okay. So again, no ties you can establish for sure to organizations?
Killorin: No. I mean if we want to establish ties to organizations, certain demonstrations, blockading have
certainly been tied to organizations, but the bombings and arsons are not. Ah, to date, and of course that
changes day-by-day, but to date, ah, most of the people, well, yeah I'd say most of the people we've
apprehended and sent to prison for these offenses, probably the most uniform ah ah thing that they tell us
is that they think that even some of the more active demonstrators simply do not have the right stuff.
Murphy: They're not active enough.
Killorin: They're not active enough. They're failures and weaklings.
Murphy: Yeah. Yeah. I guess you said that in the Redding newspaper.
Killorin: I mean it's sad. And lemme say too that lots of the folks we've arrested have never participated
in a, I mean from the get-go, they were not folks who joined, you know they acted out of an individu-al
motivation. And we've caught a couple of burglars who were doing something else entirely.
Murphy: So some of these guys, they don't think pro-lifers are active enough, they've never acted with
pro-life, they just took over with some plan which included a firebombing or something.
Killorin: Yep.
Murphy: Okay. Well that's very interesting information, and I appreciate your time and the call.
Killorin: Take care.
Murphy: All right. Thanks, bye.
Killorin: Bye.
*Update:* After the above testimony was taken, a Mr. John Salvi III apparently attacked two abortion clinics
on December 30 and one on December 31. Salvi killed two and wounded five. While these were
reprehensible acts, they do not contradict the testimonies above. If anything they reinforce them: By
press time no information was brought forth linking Salvi to any pro-life organization. *Knowing that no
pro-life organization agrees with or condones violence, he knew he had to act alone.*
Every incident of extreme violence against abortion is committed by those apparently very dissatisfied
with the non-violent nature of pro-life organizations. Therefore, every incident of extreme violence
against abortion reinforces the fact that neither Operation Rescue nor any pro-life organization is violent.
Endnotes
1. Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-3.
2. "Abortion Clinic Damaged in Arson, <The Record Searchlight,> 11 June 1992, A26.
3. Jack Killorin telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 28 March 1994.
*Terrorism Perspective
Organizations Involved
*
Source of information: Federal Bureau of Investigation; Terrorist Research and Analytical Center
Counterterrorism Section, Intelligence Division; <TERRORISM in the United States: 1982 - 1992>; Appendix B.
The document referenced above lists all incidents of terrorism in the United States for the period 1982 - 1992.
The FBI defines terrorism as armed robbery, arson, assassination, assault, attempted bomb-ing, attempted
fire-bombing, attempted pipe-bombing, attempted takeover, bombing, car fire, fire-bombing, hostile takeover,
malicious destruction of property, pipe-bombing, rocket attack, sabotage, shooting, takeover, and tear-gas
bombing.
These are all the organizations the FBI shows are involved in terrorism and the numbers of times each were
involved:
*
Affiliates of the Aryan Nations 5 Mexican Revolutionary Movement 1
Animal Liberation Front 3 Mujahedin E Khalq 1
Anti-Nuclear Activist 1 National Revolutionary Front of Puerto Rico 5
Antonia Martinez Student Commandos 1 Omega Seven 9
Armed Forces of National Liberation 0 Org Alliance of Cuban Intransigence 1
Armed Forces of Popular Resistance 3 Org of Volunteers for Puerto Rican Revol 8
Armenian Resistance Unit 1 Pedro Albizu Campos Revolutionary Forces 5
Armenian Secret Army for the Lib of Amer 1 People of Omar - Anti-Qadhafi Libyans 1
Boncua Revolutionary Front 2 Popular Liberation Army 3
Boncuan Armed Anti-Imp Commando+Guerr Colmn 1 Provisional Coordin. Comm. of Labor etc. 3
Boncuan People's Army - Machetetos 4 Red Guerrilla Resistance 2
Boncuan People's Army - Machetetos+Star Grp 1 Republic of Revolutionary 1
Brigada Int Eugenio Mana De Hostos etc. 1 Revolutionary Fighting Group 1
Croatian Freedom Fighters 2 Sheriff's Posse Comitatus 1
Disassociated membrs of the Moslem religion 1 Star Group 1
Earth Night Action Group 1 United Freedom Fighters 2
Ejercito Pop Boncua-Machetetos+Org Vol etc. 7 United Freedom Front 4
Ejercito Popular Boncua - Machetetos 4 United Jewish Underground 1
Ejercito Popular Boncua - Mach+Org Vol etc. 1 Unknown Group 5
Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist Int Conspiracy 2 Unknown Puerto Rican Group 4
Ewan(?) Mecham Eco-Terrorists Int Conspir 1 Up the IRS, Inc. 3
Guerrilla Forces of Liberator 7 Vieques Pro-Lib Group+ Boncuan People's Army 1
Individual Action 1 TOTAL 140
Jewish Defense League 6
Jewish Terrorist Elements 6 TOTAL PRO-LIFE 0
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide 4
*Included in the above are five "Unknown Groups." Per Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, these
groups cannot be pro-life groups.
*Conclusion: Pro-life organizations were not involved.*
*An Epidemic of Antiabortion Violence?
*The following is excerpted from <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia.>[1]
*One Person's Summary of Alleged Incidents of Pro-life Violence
(1984, 1985, and 1986)*[2]
*
* Alleged Incidents *
*Type of "Violence" * *1984* *1985* *1986* *Totals*
Picketing 160 139 88 387
Nasty mail/calls 17 32 34 83
Bomb threats 42 75 34 151
Sit-ins 34 47 42 123
Death threats 23 22 5 50
Assault 7 7 9 23
Burglary 2 2 2 6
Attempted or actual arson or bombing 30 22 55 107
Annual Totals 315 346 269 930
*
References: The various National Abortion Federation (NAF) annual reports on clinic "violence," 1985 - 1987.
* Examining the Charges. *In an article apocalyptically named <An Epidemic of Antiabortion Violence in
the United States,> David Grimes reports that there were 108 'attacks' against a total of 77 of the 2,908
total abortion providers in the United States over the period January 1, 1977 to December 31, 1988.[3] A
little simple math shows that using Grimes' figures, each abortion clinic is 'attacked' an average of once
per 323 years -- hardly an 'epidemic' by any possible definition, despite his article's name. Now let's
take a look at the 880 incidents of 'violence' that the National Abortion Federation alleges took place
during the three years l984, 1985, and 1986.
To begin with, it is interesting to note that the pro-abortionists classify simple picketing or disapproving
mail as violence. In fact, 42 percent of the events the NAF listed as 'clinic violence' are picketing!
Remember that pro-abortionists pride themselves on their 'progressive' attitude. But this statistic shows
their darker side: If anyone disagrees with them, then those persons are automatically classified as
violent fanatics and must be shut up. In their eyes, as shown above, FREE SPEECH = VIOLENCE.
Any activity that opposes abortophiles must be labeled as violence. For example, Tom Haranek of
Endicott, New York merely sent Alex Aitken, assistant administrator of the Southern Tier Women's
Services abortion mill, an Easter card asking her to 'repent of your profession.' She complained to the
District Attorney, and Haranek was arrested and charged with a felony - aggravated harassment![4]
More than 100 lawsuits have been filed against pro-life activists by pro-abortionists across the country
since 1982. In every one of these actions, the plaintiffs demanded to have picketing banned from the
public sidewalk in front of the clinics either because the picketing itself is alleged to be violent or
because it supposedly leads to worse violence such as clinic bombings.
For example, Warren Hern, a Colorado abortionist, has stated as fact that *'The general atmosphere is
one of survival. Twenty-five percent of the clinics have been bombed. This is a highly repressive,
totalitarian [pro-life] movement, similar to the Brown Shirts who broke windows in Jewish shops
in Germany.'*[5]
And, even more absurdly, abortion mill staffers have actually told the media that pro-lifers operate
camps in the mountains whose purpose is to train religious fanatics to be bombers and killers![6]
Gwen Elliott, a police commander and a former board member of the Women's Health Services abortion
mill, and a member of the National Abortion and Reproduction Rights Action League (NARAL), insisted
that she had been assaulted, even when confronted with solid evidence showing no such assault ever
happened. Elliott alleges that her mother died of an illegal abortion, and has started a fund for poor
women to get abortions.[7]
Even though many pro-life women were sexually abused and beaten, so-called 'Women's rights' groups
like the National Organization for Women (NOW) either applauded the brutality or remained silent about
it when approached by pro-lifers.
This proves once and for all that the NOW and other organizations are not really for all women, but
instead only for those women who happen to agree with them on social issues.
*[Life Research Institute points out the following facts: 1) The pro-life Concerned Women for
America have nearly three times the membership as NOW. 2) There is a nationwide Feminists for
Life organization. 3) There is a nationwide pro-life organization called Victims of Choice. 4) There
is a nationwide pro-life organization called Women Exploited by Abortion 5) Two-thirds to
three-fourths of pro-life activists are women. 6) Nationwide polls of the public show that women
are more pro-*life* than men.]
*
Endnotes
1. Each of the following citations/endnotes are found in: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life
Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League, 1993). In that book, endnotes 3,
4, 5, & 6 are found on page 19-2; endnote 7 is found on page 19-3.
2. Figure 19-1.
3. David A. Grimes, et al., "An Epidemic of Antiabortion Violence in the United States," <American
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,> November 1991, 1263-1268.
4. "Easter Card Leads to Arrest of Pro-Lifer," <ALL News,> 25 May 1990, 8.
5. "Why Three Abortionists Quit: Picketing, Conscience, Old Age," <ALL News,> 16 February 1987, 7.
6. <The Oregonian,> 30 June 1986.
7. Gary Potter, "Brutality in Pittsburgh," <The Wanderer> 6 April 1989, 10.
*Activists' Attitudes and Morals
*
The attitudes and morals of pro-abortion activists and pro-life activists are completely different from each
other. The pro-aborts would have everyone believe that the pro-lifers are nasty, evil, and *violent*, and the
pro-lifers would have you believe the same of the pro-aborts. What is the truth?
*To begin with, why not look at the words of the pro-aborts? *Let's start with excerpts from the <Clinic
Defense . . .> Manual of Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR). (Complete citations
are elsewhere in this document, and BACOAR has recently changed its name to Bay Area Coalition for
Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)). Bay Area Coalition . . . is pro-abortion; Operation Rescue is
pro-life. While reading the excerpts from the <Defense> manual, keep in mind that even though Operation
Rescue (OR) trespasses, trespassing is not violence, but the pro-abortion response to that *is* violence.
(Emphasis below is by Life Research Institute.)
This worked not only because of the coordination done by the defenders, but because we
knew the passive style of resistance to expect from OR . . .
Work with defenders around you to focus on a person or persons who need to be removed,
identify them, and push the OR out from one defender to the next until they are put out of the
defense line. . . .
We have heard that many organizations tell people not to "touch" OR, but this of course is not
really clinic defense. We advise people about not taking independent physical action against
OR, which could cause them to be singled out for arrest or reprisal, etc., but instead, to work
in groups to move, remove or isolate ORs as needed.
There are innumerable instances of clinic defenders neutralizing male ORs by shouting "get
your hands off me, don't you dare touch me" all the while they are tugging or pushing OR out
of the line.
Once the majority of ORs have been pushed or moved out from the door, if others remain,
they can be picked up by several defenders in much the same way police remove them.
It all worked well until the police captain showed up at around 7 am to try to put a stop to
it. . . .
We do not call police ourselves during a hit. *Our best work is done before police arrive, or
when there are not enough police there to prevent us from doing what we have to do: Get in
place before the cops can mess with it, establish balance of power early, do key acts requiring
physical contact with OR as much as possible before cops have enough people to
intervene.* . . .
Do not let the police separate us from clients, either in their minds or physically; Words with
cops are best backed up by deeds; if police try to stall our actions (by saying they will open
the clinic once all arrests have been made, for example) push the issue by taking action
(whether real or diversionary), threatening action, etc. Be prepared to act; don't let police be
sole dictaters [sic] of clinic defenders' actions.
Avoid letting the actions be slowed or stopped by police orders; if we are engaged with OR -
pushing the ORs out, clearing a path, etc. it is less likely the police will jump in to try to stop it
en masse; they don't know who is on what side; Those officers will often try to tell us not to
defend the clinic if OR hits, and tell us we should obey orders to get out of the way if we are
can not picket on the sidewalk in front of the clinic; this is our territory. Enforcement is not
assured, and *confining our behavior toward OR to the legal realm has distinct limitations*.
*Summary by Life Research Institute: *Keep Operation Rescue confused. Keep the police confused.
Disobey the police whenever the police get in the way of BACAOR objectives. Tactics include assault,
battery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, eavesdropping on the police, subterfuge of police goals,
interfering with free speech, and blockading Operation Rescue.
The attitude of BACAOR is that BACAOR is far superior to the police and the police shouldn't even show
up. BACAOR is the definition of righteousness. This "righteousness" includes several classifications of
crimes, some of which are violent.
*This is the attitude and morality of hardened criminals normally found in this nation's penitentiaries.*
*BACAOR admits to the non-violence of Operation Rescue* (See page 61 of this report).
What does Planned Parenthood say about obeying the law?
According to International Planned Parenthood Federation, "Family Planning Associations [the 180+
United States Planned Parenthood affiliates] and other non-governmental organizations should not use
the absence of law or the existence of an unfavorable law as an excuse for inaction; *action outside the
law, and even in violation of it, is part of the process of stimulating change."*[1]
Following are other violence-endorsing and promoting remarks from this nation's pro-abortion leaders:
Eleanor Smeal, previous National Organization for Women (NOW) President and current Fund for a
Feminist [alleged] Majority President said in 1992: "They [abortionists] not only need to stand up and say
*'I'm going to defy the law,' they've got to follow through and we've got to support them."*[2]
Jill Ireland, 1992 NOW President, boasted in 1992: *"We will break the law* to make sure women have the
right to safe, legal abortions."[3] (Safe is her word. Abortion kills babies. Also, more than thirty studies,
most by pro-aborts, show that abortion greatly increases the risk of the woman contracting breast
cancer.)[4]
Another document, described in "Endnotes" below, proclaims: *"We refuse to comply with any law,
regulation, or restriction of any kind* on any woman's reproductive freedom to decide when or if to bear a
child. *We will do whatever is necessary to defy such laws, regulations, and restrictions, to encourage
others to do so, and to build mass resistance against such restrictions."*[5]
Faye Wattleton, former President of Planned Parenthood of America said: *"We will disobey laws* requiring
notification to parents of minors receiving contraceptive drugs or devices."[6]
Another document, described in "Endnotes" below, proclaims: *"Planned Parenthood provides
suggestions and assistance for bypassing and disobeying various local and national laws restricting
abortion."*[7]
Malcolm Potts, M.D., former director of International Planned Parenthood Federation said: *"There are
some laws that can and should be broken* . . . restrictive abortion laws . . . are as obsolete and irrelevant
to the contemporary world as . . ."[8]
Now let's look at attitudes and morals from another perspective. Planned Parenthood-type sex education
courses are the most prevalent type in the U.S. Planned Parenthood even teaches the teachers of these
courses. One program involved is called "Values Clarification." This term is a misnomer. A valid term
would be "Values Declarification."
The courses aggressively teach that the student's values should be her or his own and that therefore the
student should greatly resist the teaching and instruction of her parents, of the law, and of the church.
The point is strongly and firmly made: Make up your own values; what *you* say is moral is *moral*, and
*nothing else is*.
While it is unnecessary to point out the obvious illogic of this, we must understand its effect on violence,
and especially violence at clinics.
It is easy to observe the difference in attitudes between pro-aborts and pro-lifers. One need only visit a
clinic during a picket or rescue. You will quickly see how peaceful and prayerful the rescuers are, and
how loud and threatening the pro-aborts are and how they scream obscenities.
The difference is also very apparent at events such as the annual <Roe v. Wade> memorials and counter
memorials. If one approaches the pro-lifers with a pro-abortion sign, she is welcomed calmly, and gentle
attempts are made to show her what is wrong with abortion. But if a pro-lifer approaches the pro-abortion
counter-demonstrators, obscenities are screamed in her face. If you doubt this, try it. The memorials
usually take place on or near each January 22. Your local pro-life or pro-abortion group can give you
details.
If you have any doubts remaining about whether the pro-aborts are violent, consider the murders which
you will find in "Investigation II."
Endnote
1. International Planned Parenthood Federation, <The Human Right to Family Planning>, (IPFF,
London: 1984). Also see <The Voluntary Sector in Population and Development> IPFF, 1979.
2. Eleanor Smeal, <RU-486, NORPLANT, and Title X,> speech delivered and recorded at 1991 New York
national conference of NOW, 5-7 July 1991.
3. Jill Ireland quoted in Karen S. Schneider and Elizabeth Velez, <Too Nice to Be One of 'Those
Women?'>, <People> magazine, 13 January 1992, 93-94.
4. Life Dynamics, December 1994. Phone is 817 380 8800.
5. <Plan of Action for the Battle for Reproductive Rights,> adopted at the Strategies for Mass
Resistance National Conference at MIT 2-3 December 1989, quoted in <Revolutionary Worker,> 18
December 1989, 15.
6. Faye Wattleton, former President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1983.
7. Donald P. Warwick, <Bitter Pills: Population Policies and Their Implementation in Eight
Developing Countries,> (London: Cambridge University Press, 1982) 64.
8. Malcolm Potts, M.D., <Population Growth and Abortion,> quoted in Gerald I. Zatuchni, John J.
Sciarra, and J. Joseph Speidel, eds., <Pregnancy Termination: Procedures, Safety and New
Developments,> (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1979) 424.
*L I E S ?
*
Lying
Even a casual observation will show that either the pro-lifers lie about violence or the pro-aborts lie. To
help you decide who is telling the truth read the following.
The concept is very simple: A person is much more likely to lie when she has an incentive to do so, and
much less likely to lie when she has an incentive not to. So, let's look at incentives.
Incentives for pro-aborts to lie
� Incentive one: Money
Planned Parenthood is this nation's and the world's largest provider of abortion.
Although Planned Parenthood is legally non-profit, and although they may be meeting their *legal*
requirements for this status, functionally and literally, they make a profit. The following information is from
Planned Parenthood Federation of America's <Annual Report: 1993 - 1994,> page 19:
Total income for twelve months: $462,467,000. Profit: $18,667,000. Fund balances at end of
year: $263,300,000. Total assets: $337,600,000. Total liabilities: $74,300,000.
They also make a profit at their local levels. For instance Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo
clinic in California buys $100,000 in securities annually.
The point is, they're functionally for-profit. If people tell certain lies, they can make more profit. If they
were functionally non-profit, this would not be true.
� Incentive two: Politics and public relations
When considering arsons and bombings, one must consider two very important factors: 1) For every one
of these alleged incidents, pro-abortion gains much sympathy, and 2) for every one of these incidents,
pro-life is thoroughly condemned. Thus, a clinic could set their own facility on fire and gain as follows:
Collect on insurance and make big gains nationally from politics and public relations.
� Incentive three: Keeping status
The media constantly portrays those who advocate abortion as having the politically correct high ground.
The pro-aborts want to keep this status.
� Incentive four: Keeping importance
To thousands of civic leaders, those who advocate abortion are "important" in the community and to the
community.
� Incentive five: Keeping their jobs
Notwithstanding whether any abortion provider makes a profit, the employees in the industry make
profits. Employees have jobs so that they can make money to pay their bills. If one of their bosses says,
for example, "Tell the reporter that you heard the pro-lifers discussing burning the clinic," what do you
think that person is going to do?
� Incentive six: To avoid lawsuits and jail
Pro-life has documented cases where pro-abortion has conspired to invent counter accusations (to force
pro-life to drop valid charges) and to gather false witnesses to lie about valid charges. Thus, many civil
and criminal cases are dropped.
Now lets look at some famous, documented lies by pro-aborts:
Dr. Nathanson is a co-founder of NARAL, currently having the name National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League. Nathanson is also a former abortionist who, in his words "presided over the
deaths of 60,000 babies." Then he turned pro-life and admitted that as President of NARAL he
deliberately invented the results of a public-opinion poll. His purpose was to present it to the United
States Supreme Court for the <Roe v. Wade > and <Doe v. Bolton> cases so that the Supreme Court would
legalize abortion on demand (request). It is hard to know how much effect this lie had on the decisions,
but the Court <is> sensitive to public opinion, and they did legalize abortion on demand via those two court
cases.
Dr. Nathanson admitted that he and his co-founders of NARAL fabricated the figure that a million women
were getting illegal abortions in America each year. The approximate number, he says, was actually
ninety-eight thousand per year. Nonetheless, the abortion advocates fed their concocted figures to the
media, who eagerly disseminated the false information.
Nathanson says he and his associates also invented the 'nice, round shocking figure' for the number of
deaths from illegal abortions." In his book, <Aborting America,> Nathanson said: "'It was always "5,000 to
10,000 deaths [of the mothers] a year.' I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose
the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure,
widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The overriding concern
was to get the laws [against abortion] eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was
permissible."[1] Lying to Congress and to America was apparently permissible.
In a major address delivered at the National Right to Life Convention in 1980, Dr. Nathanson disclosed
the strategy employed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to seduce the media into acceptance of a
pro-abortion mentality. "We fed a line of deceit, of dishonesty, of fabrication of statistics and figures. We
coddled, and caressed, and stroked the press,' he declared. 'We, in one short year, succeeding in striking
down the abortion laws of New York State."[2]
In another speech, presented almost a year later, Nathanson again elaborated on the process involved in
exploiting the media for malevo-lent purposes: 'We, of course, stroked the media shamelessly. We played
on them. We took them out to lunch. We wined them and dined them and gave them all sorts of
exclusives . . . We were embarked on what looked like a historic crusade, a sweeping social revolution,
and they loved it.'"[3]
Another famous pro-abortion lie is related to the abortion pill, RU-486. The issue is, does RU-486 have
any value in curing disease? Dr. William Regelson, in <Journal of the American Medical Association>,
August, 1990, made many claims of its alleged value. His article had footnote references to the scientific
studies on which the claims are supposedly based.
But Dr. Nathanson was a doubter. He followed up each footnote, track-ing down the often obscure
journals in which the original research ap-peared and read it for himself. The result? Every one of
*Regelson's *claims was a shameful scam, unsupported by the doctor's own footnotes! According to
*Regelson's *own sources, examined by Nathan-son,
RU-486 did not cure breast cancer, had no effect on its metastasis, and did not help a single patient live
longer.
A study on meningeomas never even mentions RU-486, but reports that results with similar drugs were
"inconclusive to disappointing".
An experiment on using RU-486 for Cushing's disease was never fol-lowed up by anyone, because the
original trial was too unpromising, as its authors themselves admitted.
No evidence supports any claimed benefit in the treatment of any kind of cancer whatever, and one of the
papers Regelson cited doesn't even exist.
Not a single scientific paper in world medical literature suggests that RU-486 can help with AIDS in any
way.
Disincentives for pro-aborts to lie
� Getting caught
This does not appear to be much of a disincentive: They've been caught many times, but they rarely
stop.
Incentives for pro-lifers to lie
� Incentive one: To meet pro-life goals
Disincentives for pro-lifers to lie
� Basically, one can summarize the disincentives by saying: "If you lie, you will
burn in Hell."
Whether *you* believe in God and/or Hell notwithstanding, pro-lifers believe in both.
Salvation begins with faith that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that He was resurrected to prove that
He is what He claimed: The Son of God. But this is just the beginning for salvation. Jesus forgives our
sins, but this forgiving is not a license to sin. It does not mean that we can go around sinning knowing
that we will be forgiven and go to Heaven.
The Bible clearly shows that we must repent of our sins. Repent means turn away from. If we don't
repent, we go to Hell. Lying is, unquestionably, a sin. If we lie without trying hard not to, we haven't
repented: we go to Hell. Thus, we try hard not to lie.
These are quotations from the Bible (with emphasis by Life Research Institute):
From Collossians 3:8 and following: "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
filthy communication out of your mouth. 3:9 ** Lie **not one to another . . ."
From Ephesians 4:28 and following: "Wherefore putting away** lying, **speak every man truth with his
neighbor: for we are members one of another. 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying . . ."
From Revelation 21:27 and following, speaking of the New Jerusalem, the new Heaven which God will
make after His second coming: "21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth,
neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a** lie: **but they which are written in the Lamb's book
of life. . . 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as
his work shall be. 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 22:14
Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city. 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a** lie.** 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to
testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and
morning star. 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let
him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
Endnotes
1. Bernard Nathanson, M.D., <Aborting America, > (Life Cycle Books: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1979)
193.
2. Bernard N. Nathanson, "Aborting America," Keynote Address, National Right to Life Convention
1980, Anaheim, California, June 26, 1980.
3. Bernard N. Nathanson, Featured Address, Missouri Citizens for Life Convention 1981, Columbia,
Missouri, May 2, 1981.
4. Human Life International, <Special Report #81,> June 1991.
*Criteria for Forming Conclusions
*
Four tables in this report list and describe incidents and alleged incidents in four categories. These
categories are:
� Alleged Violence of Pro-Lifers against Pro-Aborts and their Facilities (Excluding Violence by Police)
� Alleged Violence of Pro-Aborts against Pro-Lifers and their Facilities (Excluding Violence by Police)
� Alleged Violence of Police against Pro-Lifers
� Alleged Violence of Police against Pro-Abortion
Life Research Institute has not formed incident-by-incident conclusions. If the reader chooses to do so,
then he or she should consider the following:
The determination of the credibility of the witnesses is very important. To make valid conclusions one
must assess the incidents together with an overall basis of indisputable beginning facts, namely:
� Pro-abortion has greatly exaggerated claims of violence: Per page 4 of this report, there have been
more bombings and attempted bombings of religious facilities than of all medical facilities, including those
not abortion related. Information is from Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
� Pro-abortion has falsified statistics and exaggerated their significance: Per pages 7 - 13 of this report,
the magnitude of pro-life violence is very small.
� Per page 14 this report, the number of abortion-related arson incidents is extremely small compared
with all arsons. Information is from Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
� Per page 15 of this report, the number of abortion-related homicide incidents by pro-life is extremely
small compared with all homicides. Information is mostly from <Statistical Abstract of the United States,
1994.>
� Per page 16 of this report, no pro-life organization has ever been linked to any act of arson or bombing
of any facility of any type. Information is from Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
� Per page 18 of this report, no pro-life organization has ever been linked to any act of terrorism of any
type. Information is from Federal Bureau of Investigation.
� Per page 21 of this report, many pro-aborts have the attitude that their own vigilantism is justified and
important. Source is Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue.
� Per page 22 of this report, Planned Parenthood said, "action outside the law, and even in violation of it
is part of the process of stimulation of change." Planned Parenthood does more abortions in the U.S. and
in the world than any other organization.
� Per values clarification (also known as situation ethics) on page 23 of this report, the pro-aborts
consider themselves free to make up their own "morality." (This includes lying and committing violence.)
Source is Planned Parenthood.
� Per page 24 of this report, the pro-aborts have the following incentives to lie:
� To make more money.
� To play politics and get great press coverage
� To keep their "moral" status.
� To keep their importance.
� Individuals ordered to lie can get fired for telling the truth.
� Per page 25 of this report, pro-abortion lied to the U.S. Supreme Court for <Roe v. Wade.> Information is
from the liar.
� Per page 25 of this report, pro-abortion lied to the nation about the alleged value of the abortion pill,
RU-486. They said it has great promise as a miracle drug for many diseases. Information is from a
medical doctor who found the pro-abortion author provided non-existent citations in his article in <Journal
of the American Medical Association>.
� The truly great *dis*incentive for pro-*lifers* to lie is stated on page 26 of this report: "If you lie, you will
burn in Hell." For the purposes of this report, it doesn't matter whether YOU believe this. What matters is
that the pro-lifers do.
� Per page 29 of this report, for non-violent acts there have been over 75,000 arrests of pro-life,
Operation Rescue rescuers at clinics, but not even one of these has led to a conviction for a *violent* act.
The incidents in the following tables are about violence.
One must also consider the general nature of arsonists: To help avoid detection, they operate in realms
of controversy. Thus, for example, if someone wants to burn a building, he could choose to burn a clinic
so that pro-life would be suspected instead of himself.
These are the overall bases of indisputable facts which must be used in assessing the validity of
allegations in this report. These facts strongly indicate that the benefit of any doubt of guilt be resolved in
favor of pro-life being not guilty. The above 18 reasons strongly establish this, and there simply cannot
be another valid interpretation.
*Notable Quotes
*
*
An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust, and
who willingly accepts the penalty
of imprisonment in order to arouse
the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for
the law.
A quote[1] by Martin Luther King, Jr., a man the liberals love.
In the over 75,000 arrests that
have taken place in Operation
Rescue events since 1988, there has
not been one convicted act of
violence. Not one. This makes
Operation Rescue the most peaceful
social revolution in the history of
this country. It is peaceful
precisely because it is governed by
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
A quote[2] by Flip Benham, President of Operation Rescue National,
a man the liberals hate.
1. <Why We Can't Wait,> "Letters from a Birmingham Jail," 1964. Letter was
written on April 16, 1963. It began with "My Dear Fellow Clergymen:"
2. Reverend Flip Benham (who has also spent much time in jail for his civil
rights actions), telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 20 December 1994.
*
*Non-Substantiation by Pro-Abortion
*
The Constitution of the United States, Article VI, mandates that the accused shall have the right to
confront their accusers. For many years, pro-abortion has accused, and they have accused frequently.
Now that pro-life is ready to ask questions and demand answers, pro-abortion has run away and hidden.
Now that it is time for them to substantiate their allegations, they are silent.
Life Research Institute has made a diligent effort to have pro-abortion provide substantiation. Using a
process which is deemed sufficient by the courts to serve legal papers, Life Research Institute has written
to four pro-abortion organizations demanding answers. This process is certified mail. According to postal
form "PS Form 3811, DOMESTIC RETURN RECEIPT," all certified mail was accepted by three of the
four parties between the dates of October 21 and November 7, 1994. Life Research Institute is prepared
to provide photocopies of the returned postal forms. These parties are:
National Abortion Federation
Refuse and Resist
The Feminist Majority Foundation
A response deadline was given to each of the above. Each missed the deadline, and none responded
even after the deadline. National Organization for Women refused to accept the letter, perhaps knowing
its contents from speaking with National Abortion Federation, which had already received their letter.
Thus, Life Research Institute has used in various places in this report, the comment:
*National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist,
and The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this
accusation."*
The above organizations tell the media that more than 1,000 acts of violence have been committed by
pro-lifers since 1977. However, the above organizations could not or would not even provide a list of
these. Therefore they have this lack of credibility as well as being unable to substantiate those claims
which they do list.
In the table, "Investigation I: Alleged Violence of Pro-Lifers against Pro-Aborts and their Facilities," the
above indented statement was used 119 times for 73 percent of the alleged incidents.
With extremely little word variation (but with formatting changes to get the letter on one page), this is a
copy of the letters sent to each:
*Life Research Institute*
Lynn K. Murphy 4279 Armand Drive, Concord, CA 94521
October 17, 1994
**CERTIFIED, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED**
Current President
National Abortion Federation
1436 U Street, NW, Suite 103
Washington, DC 20009
Dear President:
Pro-life is conducting research and will issue a report on real and alleged violence connected with abortion. National
Abortion Federation tracks such incidents and reports them to many people.
It is my intention to find the truth about what you report.
It is my intention to show the truth to the policy makers of this nation and to the media.
I therefore offer to you this opportunity to prove your accusations. I will not offer you another opportunity. Let me
make the point again so that there cannot be any opportunity for misunderstanding: *This* is the time. *This* is your only
chance to verify your claims.
NAF has made hundreds of accusations. For every accusation for which you will not provide documentation, I will,
accusation by accusation, indicate to the policy makers and media the following:
"National Abortion Federation is unable or unwilling to substantiate this accusation."
I will prove that I gave you the opportunity to respond.
I must receive all of your answers to my request by November 22, 1994.
As you should expect, I will not consider your answers to be the truth. They will be thoroughly examined by the
accused across the nation.
This is what I am asking you for:
1) Exact details of each incident you claim occurred. Since my work will exclude all but the most serious vandalism,
you may also exclude all but the most serious vandalism, but that is all you can exclude.
1a) Provide your concept of the truth.
1b) For *each* incident, comment on the likelihood that it was perpetrated by a pro-life person.
1c) For *each* incident, comment on the likelihood that it was perpetrated by a pro-life organization.
2) Do not miss any incidents. I have a long list of what you claim, and I will use it as a check list.
3) Do you claim that there have been incidents of police violence against pro-aborts? If so provide all details. See 1a
for what this means.
4) Define your terms. Specifically, but not all inclusively, this means define: incident, violence, arson, attempted
arson, noxious substance, attempted murder, bombing, attempted bombing, bomb threats, fire-bomb, invasion,
attempted invasion, vandalism, assault, attempted assault, death threats, kidnapping, attempted kidnapping,
burglary, attempted burglary, stalking, attempted stalking, hate mail, harassing calls, picketing, blockading, arrests,
and police (just to make sure you're not talking of clinic security guards).
In closing I want to remind you of two things:
1) The time for the truth is *now*.
2) Your deadline is November 22, 1994.
In God's Service,
Lynn K. Murphy
*Alternative Reasons for Violence
"Against" Pro-Abortion *
Whereas it can't be denied that there has been violence against pro-abortion people and pro-abortion
facilities, it is nonetheless true that the existence of such violence does not by any means automatically
imply that pro-life was involved. The following are alternative reasons such violence can occur:
� As with arson at any type building anywhere, the motive can be to collect insurance money.
� The clinic, especially if it is part of a chain, could inflict the violence, e.g, arson, for the purpose of
enabling the abortion industry to gain from bad press against pro-life. The loss can be especially
considered acceptable if insurance money would pay for the damages and/or they wanted to remodel
anyway.
� Again for bad press for pro-life, violence could also be perpetrated by a pro-abortion individual without
permission from the clinic.
� National Abortion Federation will nearly always claim violence and let the media and the public assume
it was cause by pro-life. Often, since no one is caught, such claims can't be specifically denied in a
believable manner.
� Even without such claims, the violence can be aimed not at a clinic, but at some business associated
with the immediate geography, such as an office next door to the clinic
� Boyfriends and husbands angry with a clinic either for murdering their sons or daughters or butchering
their girlfriends or wives could take action for revenge and/or to stop them from doing this to others.
� If a clinic is being sued for medical malpractice, the clinic can set a fire in order to burn medical records.
� A fire can be set by an arsonist without regard to the abortion issue. Some arsonists just like to go
around setting fires. Pro-life didn't invent arson.
� "Often," according to Jack Killorin, former agent of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, "the
arsonist is attracted to the power and fame gained by setting a fire that will receive a lot of attention.
Even if you're anonymous, you're in the news."
� A fire can merely be an accident or caused by, for example, malfunctioning equipment, an electrical
short, or a grease fire in a kitchen. Pro-life is blamed.
� The motive for a break-in can be ordinary burglary. Arson can be then used to cover-up the motive and
the evidence.
� An angry, dissatisfied customer can take revenge.
� An attack can be the result of juvenile delinquency.
*Investigation I
Alleged Violence of Pro-Lifers
against Pro-Aborts and their
Facilities
(Excluding Violence by Police)
*
*Notes: *
*Butyric acid* is not considered by either side of the abortion issue to be a *dangerous* substance in the way
it is used by pro-life. Butyric acid stinks. Pro-life uses it to close clinics by causing them to stink.
Pro-abortion also uses it.
Instead of often using terms such as "alleged," incidents are described as though true. This does not
mean that they are true; it only means that the source(s) of the allegations claim they are true.
Each incident or alleged incident lists a "Source of allegation." Occasionally, this source is not
necessarily alleging, but may be only providing information. That is, the term could be used
interchangeably with "Source of information."
Entries are alphabetical in this priority: State abbreviation, city, year, month, date of month. Exceptions:
Details of these criteria aren't always known.
All underlining is by Life Research Institute.
Pro-abortion organizations tell the media that more than 1,000 acts of violence have been committed by
pro-lifers since 1977. The following list, which mostly is a list comprised of all the available pro-abortion
lists, falls far short of showing 1,000 incidents. The reason is simple: In spite of a diligent effort to get
them to provide a complete list of these allegations, they could not or would not.
Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that they exaggerated to the media. *It is reasonable to assume that
there are far, far fewer than 1,000. You will also see that very, very few of the incidents were actually
perpetrated by pro-life.*
*May 1991; Mobile, AL - Arson, $60,000 damage*
The arson was at Bay City Women's Medical Center. Source of rebuttal indicates Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
agents believe it was an inside job.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Mike Conroy, Legal Action for Women, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 15
November 1994.
*August 1993; Mobile, AL - Abortionist Wayne Patterson murdered*
Abortionist Wayne Patterson of Mobil, AL, a former partner of David Gunn, was murdered by an unknown assailant.
The motive apparently was robbery, and the investigation is continuing. "Two facilities are forced to close as a result
of the murder."
This paraphrases National Abortion Federation's allegation. This is typical of pro-abortion attempts to lay the blame
on pro-life. Patterson was killed in a robbery attempt as he was coming out of a pornographic movie theater. Yet this
murder appears in a list of incidents which occurred at clinics, and NAF uses the words "Two facilities are forced to
close as a result of the murder." In other words, the author is saying. "Pro-lifers did it."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 24, 1987; Montgomery, AL - Attempted arson*
This was at Beacon Women's Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 21, 1993; Southside, AL - Assault*
This was at New Woman Health Care. Roger Hall was protesting; Abortionist Bruce Lucero was abortionist. This is
a case of "you started it." "No! You started it!" Abortionist was slugged; pro-lifer was pushed. This incident is
included in this table, but could have been put in the table showing pro-abort violence against pro-life.
Source of allegation: "Doctor, protester scuffle outside clinic," <The Birmingham News,> 21 March 1993, 12A.
*January 1991; Little Rock, AR - Shotgun fired through window*
This was at Little Rock Family Planning. That's the extent of the accusation.
In rebuttal, Wendy Wright of Operation Rescue National said, "No local pro-lifers have ever heard of this. Curtis
Stover is the abortionist there. In January 1991 one of his ex-wives had hired a hit man to kill him, according to Jerry
Cox (head of local Right to Life.)
Also, the director of clinic had filed lawsuit against the abortionist for irregularities in running of the clinic, so she (the
director) was ostracized by the pro-abort community."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*September 20, 19??; Bakersfield, CA - Arson*
Clinic owned by Family Planning Associates burned, but two buildings not associated with them burned also. If
arson, the target of the arsonist could have been either of the other two buildings.
Source of allegation: <The Washington Post,> September 20, 19?? in an extremely prejudiced article quoting
pro-abortion sources far more than pro-life.
*September 20, 1993; Bakersfield, CA - Arson*
This was at Family Planning Associates Medical Group. Further details on the allegation are not available.
Details on rebuttal from source listed below: "This fire is still [November 14, 1994] unsolved, and as far as we can tell,
they are doing little or no investigation. . . . Larry Toler [Bakersfield City Fire Marshal] appeared on KGET-TV 17
locally that night [September 21] and said that the reason that they have not questioned any local pro-lifers is that
pro-lifers are not suspects. . . . There have been several suspicious aspects to the way in which FPA obtained their
new property following the fire. One local man involved in real estate says that a realtor told him that FPA had put
down a deposit on their new property before the fire . . ."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Tim Palmquist, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 14 November 1994.
*September 17, 1992; Chico, CA - Butyric acid*
This was at Feminists Women's Health Center. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on
October 24, 1994. *She admitted doing it.*
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*October 9, 1994; Chico, CA - Arson*
This was at Planned Parenthood. Details are not available yet.
Source of allegation: Associated Press.
*September 1990; Concord, CA - Arson, $90,000 damage*
*The suspect was convicted, and was unrelated to pro-life. *He was a pro-abortion neighbor who set the fire because
he was mad at pro-lifers for demonstrating often. He therefore wanted pro-life to be blamed. Obviously, they were.
This was at Planned Parenthood.
This one is a classic example of media prejudice and pro-abort callousness. <Contra Costa Times> ran many stories
on the fire, but they never mentioned the fire in 1983 at the California Right to Life office in adjacent Walnut Creek,
CA. Many of the stories on this 1990 incident quoted Planned Parenthood's Executive Director as blaming pro-life for
the fire. When the truth came out, the Executive Director was silent, and so was the newspaper.
Source of allegation: Several articles, <Contra Costa Times,> September, 1990.
*December 1992; Fresno, CA - Arson, $50,000 damage*
This was at Abortionist Weiner's office. However, Abortionist Weiner expressed no recollection of this in a personal
conversation with pro-life activist Terri Palmquist. This could make one wonder about all the National Abortion
Federation's claims.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Abortionist Weiner, telephone conversation with Terri Palmquist, March 1994.
*June 1988; Long Beach, CA - Attempted arson*
This was at Women's Family Planning Abortion Counseling Clinic. *A woman was convicted. Source didn't say if she
was pro-life.*
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 1988; Long Beach, CA - Arson*
This was at Women's Family Planning Abortion Counseling Clinic. *A woman was convicted. Source didn't say if she
was pro-life.*
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 1993; Los Angeles and San Diego, CA - Butyric acid vandalism, $100,000+ damage*
This was at eleven clinics.
(The butyric acid attacks, if they occurred, apparently didn't last long enough to prevent Suresh Gandotra, an
abortionist convicted on May 1990 of seventeen felonies and misdemeanors, from killing Magdalena Orteg Rodrigues
with a legal abortion on December 8, 1994. This was at El Norte Clinica Medica in San Diego, CA. Magdalena was
more than 5 months pregnant.
The state medical board is investigating another problem with the killer stemming from an incident at another location
in 1991. It seems that the State, which released the killer by 1992, should have had tougher standards. Magdalena,
all must presume, would agree. Magdalena, all must presume, instead of meeting her appointment with death, would
have met her appointment with butyric acid.)
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation, no details given; Rex Dalton, <San Diego News Tribune,> B1-B3.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 1992; Newport Beach, CA - Arson, $9,000 damage*
This was at Family Planning Associates. Elisa Moore indicated: Has never heard of those incidents in Newport
Beach. Knows that none of the people she's ever worked with would be involved in such a thing.
No one was charged.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Elisa and Greg Moore, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist.
*September 1993; Newport Beach, CA - Arson*
This was at Family Planning Associates.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1993; Newport Beach, CA - Attempted bombing, $3,500 damage*
This was at Family Planning Associates.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 21, 1989; Redding, CA - Arson*
The facility was Feminist Women' Health Center at 1901 Victor Avenue.
This first fire here consisted of trash being ignited in a crawl space. This fire damaged water pipes and burned itself
out. The clinic did not close. There were no arrests.
Source of allegation: Unknown.
*July 11, 1990; Redding, CA - "Arson"*
The facility was Feminist Women' Health Center at 1901 Victor Avenue.
This was a non-arson fire. Police reports show that it was started by an electric fan. Only the clinic said it was
arson, and, of course, they blamed pro-life.
Source of allegation: "California Clinic Fire Not Arson," <The Advocate,> October 1990.
*June 6, 1992; Redding, CA - Arson, $70,000 damage*
The facility was Feminist Women' Health Center at 1901 Victor Avenue.
This was begun by igniting a flammable liquid on an outside wall. The fire spread to the attic and roof. The damage
was about $70,000. No arrests were made.
In Oregon, there had been a fire "similar" to this fire.
A pro-abort leader said of this Redding fire, "I think a terrorist act was committed." The newspaper didn't say who
she might have thought did this or how she would know.
The pro-aborts had a rally to raise funds to reopen the clinic after the third fire. (It was not fully insured.) Enough
funds were raised, and the clinic was reopened.
The page in this report entitiled "Testimony of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" specifically concerns
Redding.
Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted for this fire on October 24, 1994. Confirming the
testimony above, Shannon had no connection with any pro-life organization.
The distinction is very important.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*October 9, 1994; Redding, CA - Arson*
This was at Feminist Women's Health Center. The fire was reported at 4:30 a.m. A witness allegedly reported
seeing someone wearing a stocking mask and carrying a gasoline container speeding away from the clinic just before
the flames rose.
Source of allegation: Associated Press.
*October 16, 1994; Redding, CA - Arson*
This was at Feminist Women's Health Center. Apparently one week after the above incident, this clinic was broken in
to. Police see no connection between the two events.
Source of allegation: "'Flames of the holocaust' hit four clinics," <Life Advocate,> December, 1994.
*Unknown date; Redding, CA - Threatening letter*
*Pro-lifer Ronald Max Walters pleaded guilty for mailing a threatening letter to an abortionist, Bruce S. Steir.*
Source of allegation: Probably <Sacramento Bee,> unknown date. Original source is California Wire Services.
*Probably in 1980s; Sacramento, CA - Vandalism*
Alan Swarthout twice rammed abortion clinic with World War II Army amphibious vehicle. He smashed 10-foot hole
in a brick wall in back of building and knocked down 20 feet of brick and wood in the front. Swarthout stayed at the
scene of the crime and waited for his arrest.
This is a very old incident.
Source of allegation: Newspaper clipping has no identification or date.
*July 18, 1992; Sacramento, CA - Arson, $5,000 damage*
This was at Feminist Women's Health Center. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on
October 24, 1994.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*November 28, 1992; Sacramento, CA - Arson, $175,000 damage*
This was at Pregnancy Consultation Center. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on
October 24, 1994.
Source of first allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*July 27, 1987; San Diego, CA - Attempted bombing*
This was at Family Planning Associates Medical Group.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 18, 1994; San Jose, CA - Arson*
This was at Women's Community Medical Clinic and caused $500 damage. Details are not available yet. Although
the newspaper alleges arson, the fire could have been started by an electrical failure. E.g., see July 11, 1990,
Redding, CA.
Source of allegation: "Bombing is probed for clinic link," <Contra Costa Times,> 4 November 1994, 14A; Ed Gleba,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 23 November 1994.
*November 3, 1994; San Rafael, CA - Bombing*
This *may not* be an abortion-related bombing. Although this was quite near a Planned Parenthood building, it was
apparently closer to a non-abortion-related building because, according to ATF source below, only the latter
sustained damage. Not all bombings are against clinics and pro-life didn't invent the bomb: This report shows more
bombings against religious facilities in 1988 - 1992 than bombings of all types of medical facilities combined. (More
recent data is not available.)
Clinic Director, Linda Davis, said that an anonymous telephone caller claimed credit for the bombing and said
something like, "We missed and it'll happen again." Officials could not verify that such a call was made. One should
consider the likelihood or whether Davis was telling the truth in conjunction with considering the likelihood that a
bomber could miss an entire building while hand-placing a bomb.
Source of allegation: "Bombing is probed for clinic link," <Contra Costa Times,> 4 November 1994, 14A; Ed Gleba,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 23 November 1994.
*November 1993; Ventura, CA - Attempted bombing, $500 damage*
This was at Family Planning Associates.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 9, 1992; Aurora, CO - Noxious chemical, $15,000 damage*
This was at Mayfair Women's Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1981; Clearwater, FL - Firebomb*
"In 1981, the [Bread and Roses] clinic was firebombed. There have been no threats of any kind since." No men-tion
of arrests or convictions was made.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 19. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 15, 1993; Fort Lauderdale - Death threat*
This was at All Women's Clinic. "After the murder of [Abortionist] Gunn in Pensacola, Dr. Lehler was called and
warned that 'he would be next.'"
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 14. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 9, 1989; Fort Meyers, FL - Burning*
Fort Myers Women's Health Center burns. Source didn't say it was arson, just said it burned.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 19. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 1989; Ft. Myers, FL - Arson, $50,000 damage*
This was at Ft. Myers, FL.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 1992; Fort Meyers, FL - Bomb threats*
At Fort Myers Women's Health Center, "Several bomb threats, the last one in October, 1992."
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 19. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1993 and prior; Hialeah, FL - Threats of murder*
This was at Hialeah Ladies Medical Center. "For years staff have received phone calls from individuals saying
'Murderer, you will be punished. We'll blow you up.'"
Perhaps so. Perhaps an angry boyfriend or husband made the calls, if they were made. Fathers don't necessarily
want their children killed.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 13. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 29, 1993 - Jacksonville, FL - Threat*
Threatening letter was received at Max Suter Center for Reproductive Health.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 17. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 1994; Mary Ester, FL - Stalking*
An anti-abortion protester was arrested for stalking Sandy Sheldon.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 10. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 1993; Melbourne, FL - Death threats*
Aware Woman Center for Choice received numerous bomb threats.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 2. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 1993; Melbourne, FL - Multiple stalking incidents*
Various quotes from source:
"One employee only managed to evade her stalker through a dangerous, high speed car chase. Other employees
have been spied on by abortion foes who parked outside of their homes for several hours"
Abortionist "Snydle was chased down the road . . . by anti-abortion protester and Impact Team member pointed his
finger at him and pre-tended to shoot him."
"A staff member who is in the process of a a divorce was photographed with her new boyfriend. The photos were
then sent to her estranged husband."
"Photographs were taken of a staff member's son at his high school and then sent to the child's non-custodial parent
in an effort to frighten and intimidate the staff member." Huh?
"Patient's license plates are traced through the DMV and they are contacted at their homes by mail and telephone."
"Photos of the three young daughters of one of the staff were taken and sent anonymously to her ex-husband."
Life Research Institute analysis: The source shows no arrests. Even if all incidents are true, all are not stalking as
source claims. E.g., following legal procedure of checking plates through DMV and then contacting former patients.
The contact would have consisted of showing them what abortion is, what the medical risks are (clinics avoid
mentioning these), and offering assistance with supplies and adoption referrals if the patients will choose not to abort.
Even if all the above is true, the fact that source lists them indicates the triviality to which they will sink in order to
allege an incident.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 4. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 1993; Melbourne, FL - Stalking, staff member injured*
This was Aware Women Center for Choice. Bruce Cadle said: "Although NAF alleges stalking, they [alleged
stalkers] were never charged with anything. No 'clinic incidents' ever occurred that caused injury. However, 60 miles
south in Pt. St. Lucie, there was a butyric acid incident some time earlier. Reports said that they didn't think local
pro-lifers were suspects." [Life Research Institute's comment: We know from the BACAOR manual, <Clinic Defense:
A Model> (a part of this report), that pro-aborts advocate that pro-aborts stalk pro-lifers. The alleged stalking incident
could be pro-aborts stalking pro-lifers.]
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Bruce Cadle of Operation Rescue National, tele-phone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 2 March
1994.
*February 1993'Melbourne, FL - Butyric acid attack*
Abortionist Carlito Arrogante's car was contaminated with butyric acid while it was parked at his house.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 2. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 1993'Melbourne, FL - Butyric acid attack*
This was at Aware Woman Center for Choice. Several staff became ill and one required oxygen for several hours
and medication for two weeks. A local police officer required hospitalization.
The source of this allegation has been caught in many lies. This is the first source which has claimed any injury from
the use of butyric acid.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 2. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 10, 1993; Melbourne, FL - Death threat*
On the day Abortionist Gunn was murdered by pro-lifer in Pensacola, an individual called Aware Woman Center for
Choice with the message "One down--how many more?"
Life Research Institute is perhaps generous in listing this. It did so because the source below did. However, perhaps
there was no incident. Perhaps a pro-abort was depressed about the murder and groaningly asked the rhetorical
question, "One down--how many more?"
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 3. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 1989; Ocala, FL - Arson, $190,000 damage*
This was at all Women's Health Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 11(?), 1993; Orlando, FL - Bomb threat*
This was at Every Person's Own Choice.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 11. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*May 24, 1984; Pensacola, FL - Assault*
It is unclear whether the date is May 24 or December 24, 1984. Source of allegation says clinic administrator, Ms.
Taggart, suffered severe injuries. Source of rebuttal says court records show injuries were preexisting. Source of
allegation says several clinic workers suf-fered severe injuries, but didn't say who they were or what the inju-ries were.
Since the court records showed they were "mistaken" about Taggart, perhaps they were "mistaken" about the others.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, <Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida, > 7. (Their report makes many accusations, but these are usually too general allow listing in this
report or to rebut them.)
Source of rebuttal: Mike Conroy of Legal Action for Women, document prepared for Florida Governor Lawton Chiles,
October 1994.
*December 25, 1984; Pensacola, FL - Three explosions at three locations*
Two locations were abortionists' offices, one was Lady's Center. One abortionist's office was of Abortionist William
D. Permenter, the other was of Abortionist Bo Bagenholm. One facility was destroyed. (Article doesn't say which.)
There were no injuries. Explosions were all at about 3:30 a.m. Information from The Feminist Majority [sic]
Foundation indicates one of the clinics may have been The Ladies Center of Pensacola and may have been hit on
December 25, 1984 and in 1985. Their report does not indicate that the 1985 incident was a bombing, arson, or any
other type of violence.
Rebuttal source indicates pro-abortion source wrong, dates were both in 1984: May 24 and December 24 (not 25).
Sources of allegation: Newspaper clipping has no identification or date; The Feminist Majority Foundation, <Reported
Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion Clinics in Florida, > 7. (Their report makes many accusations, but
these are usually too general allow list-ing in this report or to rebut them.)
Source of rebuttal: Mike Conroy of Legal Action for Women, document prepared for Florida Governor Lawton Chiles,
October 1994.
*May 1988; Pensacola, FL - Attempted bombing*
This was at Ladies Center. John Brockhoeft was sentenced to 30 months in prison and 3 months probation. Source
didn't say criminal was pro-life, just made allegation.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*August 26, 1992; Pensacola, FL - Threat of murder*
On Women's Equality Day, John Burt threatened the life of Julius Wernicke, a clinic escort. Incident was allegedly
videotaped. However, rebuttal source, who lives in Pensacola and is involved with legal defense of pro-life, hasn't
heard of a report being filed with the police. If the pro-aborts call this violence, where is the report? If they only call it
harassment, it doesn't belong in this study.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, <Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida, > 8. (Their report makes many accusations, but these are usually too general allow listing in this
report or to rebut them.)
Source of rebuttal: Mike Conroy of Legal Action for Women, document prepared for Florida Governor Lawton Chiles,
October 1994.
*1993; Pensacola, FL - Bomb threats*
The Ladies Center of Pensacola has received bomb threats. Police now spend nights in the clinic.
Source doesn't say if "police" are private security guards. This sometimes includes city police on the private payroll
of the clinics.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 7. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 10, 1993; Pensacola, FL - Abortionist David Gunn murdered by Michael Griffin*
In March 1994, *Griffin was found guilty* and was sentenced to 25 years to life.
Comments by Life Research Institute: There is no doubt that Griffin is guilty, and there is no doubt that the murder
was extremely significant and important. Because of the topic of this report, however, we need to look at a related
issue. Yes, a pro-lifer was violent, but why don't people yet understand that the pro-aborts are even more violent?
The answer is media prejudice. Polls show that more than 90% of members of the media are pro-choice. In my own
experience, this manifested itself in the following way:
Gunn was murdered. <Contra Costa Times> covered the situation very thoroughly and very prominently. When
pro-lifers were restricted from their activities through passage of the <Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of
1994> (FACE), the paper again gave good coverage, but, of course, without printing pro-life's charges that the law
restricts freedom of speech. Also, when the Supreme Court ruled against pro-life on a free-speech issue at the clinic
where Gunn was murdered, the paper again gave good coverage. Funny thing though--on the day of the ruling, *the
murdered abortionist's replacement, while killing a baby, also killed the mother, Pam Colson, by botching her
abortion*--and <Contra Costa Times> didn't say a word about it. This is common behavior by the media, and strongly
indicates why people think pro-lifers are violent but pro-aborts are peaceful and righteous.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 29, 1994; Pensacola, FL - Murders, attempted murders by Paul Hill*
Pro-life extremist Paul Hill murdered abortionist John Britton and Britton's escort James Barrett, and he wounded
Britton's wife.
*Hill was found guilty of these crimes*, and unquestionably, Hill is guilty. Unquestionably, good pro-life lead-ers had
been trying to convince Hill that he should not commit any acts of violence. It didn't work.
On October 5, 1994, Hill was also convicted of violating the new <Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994>.
This was for the same incident, but this law has nothing to do with violence; it has to do with restrict-ing freedom of
speech of pro-life.
Although the following does not in any way excuse Hill, it is noteworthy that the media exhibited extreme prejudice in
coverage. In the San Francisco area, for example, <Contra Costa Times> gave Hill front-page coverage often if not
always. Yet, when former abortion-clinic owner Alicia Ruiz Hanna was convicted of unlawful abortion and
second-degree murder of Angela Nieto Sanchez, mother of four, <Contra Costa Times> chose to print a story on this
which was only 60 words long and was buried on page 14A. One should especially notice that the more local an
event is, the more coverage a paper gives. But Hill killed in far away Florida, and Hanna killed in the same state
where the newspaper is.
Source of allegation: "Conviction in clinic shooting, <Contra Costa Times,> 6 October 1994, 1B; American Life League
Bulletin, December 1994.
*October 24, 1992; Port Saint Lucie, FL - Butyric acid attack*
The attack was at Aware Woman Center for Choice. Source alleges a number of staff needed hospitalization and
one is still on workers' compensation.
This is very doubtful, since this is exactly the type incident which would be reported on the front pages of newspapers
nationwide, and it wasn't. Furthermore, this would be, to Life Research Institute's knowledge, the first case
nationwide of medical problems caused by butyric acid use by pro-life.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 5. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1993' Sarasota, FL - Bomb threat*
At Sarasota Women's Health Center, a bomb threat was made. No bomb was found.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 6. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1993' Sarasota, FL - Shooting*
At Sarasota Women's Health Center, one patient's car was hit with pellet gun fire during drive-by shooting.
(This is very unlikely. Pro-lifers try to help patients, not hurt them. They talk to women to offer help and show them
the dangers of abortion that the clinics won't show. (See several Supreme Court decisions on informed consent.)
Clinics call this harassment.)
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 6. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1989; St. Petersburg, FL - Arson*
In reference to St. Petersburg Women's Health Center: "In 1981, the clinic was firebombed on the same night as the
Clearwater Bread and Roses clinic." No mention of arrests or convictions was made.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 21. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1987 (approx); Tallahassee, FL - Faked assault*
At Feminist Women's Health Center, pro-lifers overheard pro-aborts training children, ages approximately 10 - 12,
how to fake being assaulted by pro-lifers. Pro-lifers subsequently told police about this so that the police would be
aware that when an incident was alleged to happen, it would be a set-up. Pro-lifers took pictures.
A fake occurred, but the pro-life victim-to-be was exonerated.
Pro-aborts are well trained to fake incidents. In fact sometimes when beating pro-lifers, they will scream such things
as "Get out of my crotch!" or "He kneed me!" or "Let go! Let go of me!"
Source of allegation: Carole Griffin, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 5 December 1994.
*1993; Tallahassee, FL - Death threats*
Abortionist Boone received series of death threats.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 18. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1993(?); Tallahassee(?), FL - Stink bomb*
In reference to Tallahassee Feminist Women's Health Center: "At the clinic's last location, a 'stink bomb' was placed
under the door."
If a stink bomb can fit under the door, they should use a different carpenter next time to install the door.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 18. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1993(?); Tampa, FL - Firebombing*
This is shown to be the facility "Alternatives of Tampa." Source says "The physi-cian's birthing center in Hyde Park
was firebombed."
Pro-lifers firebombed a birthing center?
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 22. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*August, 1994; Tampa, FL - Death threats*
In reference to Tampa Women's Health Center: "The clinic received several calls from individuals threatening to 'tear
you apart.'"
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 22. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 4, 1993; Venice, FL - Arson, $300,000 damage*
This was at Venice Women's Health Center.
This is a very interesting situation. The following is an analysis by Life Research Institute from facts provided by the
source of "rebuttal":
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) was pleased to make an accusa-tion, but provided no details. The following
analysis doesn't prove pro-life isn't guilty, but consider what NAF didn't say.
The clinic's owner is abortionist Ali Azima. The state has made a five-count indictment against Azima for malpractice
and failing to perform to "community or peer standards." Azima has a long history of professional and legal trouble.
Ten complaints have been filed against Azima since he obtained his Florida medical license, and Azima has been
convicted of negligence for placing an intrauterine device in a pregnant woman. In 1985 Azima's license to practice
in Florida was suspended for failure to adhere to acceptable standards while perform-ing several abortions. This led
three other states to suspend Azima's license.
If one feels there is nothing wrong with abortion, she can still see that Azima has a long history of legal trouble.
Possibly, he would burn his own clinic to destroy incriminating medical records which would reveal further
incompetency and/or to collect insurance.
This clinic was a true back-alley clinic. If the NAF truly wants to protect women and truly feels that abortion is safe
and legal (as a pro-abortion bumper sticker says), then why are they pleased to make accusations that pro-life
burned the clinic while apparently not being pleased to make accusations against Azima?
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: John Hill, "Agency wants doctor punished," <Sara-sota Herald-Tribune,> 11 February 1993.
*1993(?); West Palm Beach, FL - Several bomb threats*
In reference to Presidential Women's Center: "Have received several bomb threats and had to evacuate the clinic
twice."
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 23. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1993(?); Winter Springs, FL - Vandalism*
In reference to a clinic apparently named "Dr. Monthree Ruangsomboon": "Baby socks filled with cement were
dropped into the plumbing vents requiring expensive and difficult repairs. A jack-hammer had to be used to break
through floors and the total cost exceeded $6,000."
There are two problems with this allegation: 1) It is unlikely a jack hammer would be used on vents, since vents go
up, not down in to concrete, and 2) If pro-lifers had done this, they would have plugged drains: One way clinics
dispose of dead bodies is to grind them up in garbage disposals.
Source of allegation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, "Reported Incidents of Violence and Harassment at Abortion
Clinics in Florida," 1993, 23. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 1990; Atlanta, GA - Noxious chemical, $2,000 damage*
Noxious chemical was poured into the ventilation system at Surgi-Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*May 27, 1993; Boise, ID - Arson, $100,000 damage*
This was at Women's Health Care. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on October 24,
1994.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*June 3, 1992; Chicago, IL - Noxious chemical, $5,000 damage*
This was at Family Planning Associates.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June 18, 1992; Chicago, IL - Noxious chemical, $1,500 damage*
This was at American Women's Medical Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 1993; Chicago, IL - Attempted bombing*
This was at Family Planning Associates.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June 30, 1992; Downers Grove, IL - Noxious chemical, $2,000 damage*
This was at Access Health Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1993; Peoria, IL - Arson, $10,000 damage*
This was at National Health Care Services.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*January 6, 1987; Rockford, IL - Arson*
This was at Northern Illinois Women's Center. Damage was minimal.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No other details given.
*November 1990; Fort Wayne, IN - Arson, $10,000 damage*
This was at Fort Wayne Women's Health Organization. Wendell Brane rebuttal: "This case has been exploited
beyond any sanity. Behind abortion clinic is a patch of ground, then a print shop, then a city park. It is common at
night for vagabonds, town drunks, etc. to go behind clinic (dark area near park), smoke dope, etc. Police ruled that
the fire was caused by vagabonds. They stopped the investigation. Probably only $1,000 damage, $10,000 was
probably entire remodeling including new iron gate. Fire started on a step & caught the door on fire."
Wendy Wright rebuttal: "Police think it was vagrants or homeless people (in that type of area). Molly Yard (president
of NOW) quoted as saying 'it burnt to the ground.' <USA Today > said cost only $3,000. Yard obviously lied. Couldn't
replace either building or furnishings for either $1,000, $3,000, or $10,000."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Sources of rebuttal: Wendell Brane, personal testimony to Tim Palmquist, March 1994 and Wendy Wright, telephone
conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*December 1990; Fort Wayne, IN - Butyric acid*
"Avon lady" tosses butyric acid.
Northeast Indiana Rescue has never heard of the Avon Lady or the incident.
Source of allegation: Unknown.
Source of rebuttal: Wendell Brane, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 5 October 1994.
*February 12, 1987; Indianapolis, IN - Attempted bombing*
This was at Clinic for Women.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*May 1993; South Bend, IN - Butyric acid "vandalism"*
This was at Women's Pavilion.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*January 1990; Kansas City, KS - Attempted arson*
This was at Aid for Women. (Don't confuse this with Legal Aid for Woman, a pro-life organization.)
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*January 1992; Overland Park, KS: Picketer assaults 3 staff members.*
Also television smashed. This was at Comprehensive Health for women.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June 8, 1992; Overland Park, KS - Noxious chemical, $500 damage*
This was at Comprehensive Health for Women.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July-September 1991; Wichita, KS - Blockade*
Operation Rescue protesters block access to three clinics in Wichita, Kansas. More than 2,000 are arrested. (Do not
confuse this with violence. This is trespassing and perhaps passively resisting arrest by laying down instead of
walking to detention bus. This incident is included only because source listed it.)
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June 1992; Wichita, KS - Disabled grenade found*
This was found outside Women's Health Care Services. Rebuttal: Circumstances suggest it came from abortionist
Tiller. (He collects these type of old grenades.) Paraphrasing Wendy Wright, Operation Rescue National: "Police &
pro-aborts were there all night & it rained all night. Grenade was found in a bag. Bag was not wet. Grenade was
found by a pro-abort. Police didn't even check into it, so they obviously didn't take it seriously. Pro-lifers were
restrained by court order from being on same side of street as clinic."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*August 1993; Wichita, KS - Rachelle Shannon shoots abortionist George Tiller*
March 26, 1994: *Shannon found guilty of attempted murder.*
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 28, 1992; Louisville/Lexington, KY - Noxious chemical, $800 damage*
This was at EMW Women's Surgi-Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*January 1989; New Orleans, LA - Attempted bombing*
This was at Delta Women's Clinic.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 30, 1994 - Brookline, MA - Murders, attempted murders by John Salvi*
At two abortion clinics about a mile apart, a gunman shot several people. Two died and five others were wounded.
The gunman used a .22-caliber rifle.
The suspect is John Salvi. Salvi apparently drives a pickup truck with a picture of a preborn on the back. The source
didn't mention whether the picture is a depiction of a live preborn or one which had been ripped apart.
One of the clinics was Planned Parenthood; the other was Preterm Health Services.
It is not known whether this incident is connected with the botched abortion of December 18, 1990, at this same
Planned Parenthood. On that date, a one-pound boy, nine inches tall and six months old from conception, was found
dead in the street in front of Planned Parenthood. (Source: Medford Police Department)
Surely, more information will become available soon. However, the document you are reading is scheduled to be at
the printers by January 6. Thus, the above is incomplete.
Life Research Institute makes these observations:
1) Until the murders and attempted murders, the murderer probably was pro-life, but when he crossed the line and
killed, he became just as pro-death as the abortionists he abhors.
2) Although the murders and attempted murders were probably done by a pro-"life"r, there can be other reasons for
the murder. (Pro-life did not invent death.) Among these are a boyfriend/husband angry that he had no choice for the
life of his baby or a boyfriend/husband angry because his mate was injured by abortion; or a disgruntled employee; or
an insane person.
3) The following is no excuse whatsoever, but if these were murders by pro-"life," then they were the fourth and fifth
since abortion was legalized in 1973. Since 1973, there have been 488,166 homicides in the U.S. Five is five too
many, but five out of 488,166 is only one one-thousandth of one percent of the total.
4) Life Research Institute and other pro-life organizations have been quick to condemn Salvi's violence against
pro-abortion. However, pro-abortion has been quick to *recommend* violence against pro-life because of Salvi's
violence. *Revolution* Books of Cambridge, MA handed out flyers on January 6, 1994, saying among other things:
"The situation cries out for a mass, *militant* response. The people must stop these reactionary attacks *by any means
necessary*." "The truth is that no amount of writing to our congressperson, or kissing Janet Reno's ass, is going to
protect our rights. That we have to do ourselves and *by whatever means necessary.*" ". . . that *only *[can't read 1
word], *militant mobilization is effective in defeating the anti-abortionists.*" "*We ourselves* are the ones who have to
create a situation where the anti-women goons are the ones *afraid* to show up at women's clinics."
Pro-lifer Salvi shouldn't have killed. But the above shows that no intellectually honest person can consider
pro-abortion innocent. Many other parts of this report, including "Excerpts fro <Clinic Defense: A Model,> also show
this.
Also see December 31, 1994; Norfolk, VA - Attempted murder
Source of allegation: Christopher B. Daly, "2 women at Boston abortion clinics slain," <Contra Costa Times,> 31
December 1994, A1.
*September 1990; Worcester, MA - Attempted bombing, $500 damage*
This was Planned Parenthood of Central Massachusetts.
Rebuttal: No one was apprehended or charged (therefore no proof was a pro-lifer). This was a Molotov cocktail
(gasoline in a jar with soaked a rag protruding from the top).
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Unknown.
*April 15, 1992; Ann Arbor, MI - Noxious chemical, $5,000 damage*
This was at Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 10, 1992; Detroit, MI - Noxious chemical, $3,000 damage*
This was at Women's Health Services.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1992; Detroit, MI - Spraying of noxious chemicals at more than 12 clinics*
Two of the sites were Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1989; Kalamazoo, MI - Attempted bombing, $5,000 damage*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Kalamazoo. Why would a failed bombing cause $5,000 damage?
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 17, 1992; Livonia, MI - Noxious chemical, $1,000 damage*
This was at Women's Advisory Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 1990; South Bend, MI - Stink bomb attack*
This was allegedly perpetrated by Lambs Rescue. Planned Parenthood offered $100,000 reward for capture of
perpetrator. However, Scott Blackford said the incident was completely bogus.
Source of allegation: Unknown.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Scott Blackford, South Bend, IN, personal testimony to Tim Palmquist.
*October 5, 1987; St. Paul, MN - Attempted arson*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Minneapolis. Damage was minimal.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No other details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*January 28, 1987; Minneapolis, MN - Arson*
This was at Midwest Health Center for Women.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*Late 1993; Minneapolis, MN - Stalking*
Stalking charges have been dropped against four pro-choice activists who were arrested while following a caravan of
Operation Rescue supporters. A pro-life activist arrested for stalking a security guard still faced charges as of
December, 1993.
The charges were dropped against the pro-choice women after their attorneys argued they were legal observers.
This listing of violence is also made in "Investigation II."
Source of allegation: Unknown.
Source of rebuttal: <Life Advocate,> December 1993, 37.
*September 7, 1987; Robbinsdale, MN - Arson*
This was at Robbinsdale Clinic. Allegation is arson; rebuttal is arson attempt. Rebuttal is pro-life, but this does not
make pro-life guilty of the attempt. Pro-life simply says there was no actual fire.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form, 10 December 1994.
*September 14, 1987; St. Paul, MN - Attempted arson*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Minnesota.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 21, 1987; St. Paul, MN - Attempted arson*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Minnesota.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June 1990; St. Paul, MN - Assault*
Assault on Tom Weber, director of Planned Parenthood/Minnesota. Paraphrasing first rebuttal source: "This was by
an escaped mental patient, not a pro-lifer (looked like Charles Manson), green teeth, little guy (under 5'1"). Guard
asked him, 'may I help you'? He said 'I'm a reporter from the Catholic (something)' No obvious damage to Mr.
Weber." Paraphrasing second rebuttal source: "Not a pro-lifer, a guy who had escaped from a mental institution.
Sidewalk counselors who were there that remember this guy, looking like Charles Manson. They all let him in the
office, then he started beating on them. But after the assault, the director came out with no visible injuries. Proven in
court that he had no connection with any pro-life group."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Various articles, Pro-Life Action Ministries; Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim
Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*December 1989; Independence, MO - Bombing, $50,000 damage*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Greater Kansas City. Two juveniles were arrested.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No other details given.
*May 1992; Kansas City, MO - Assault*
Two protesters assaulted a neighbor near Planned Parenthood of Greater Kansas City.
Life Research Institute doesn't see the connection to Planned Parenthood.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June, 1992; Kansas City, MO - Attempted arson*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Kansas City.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*November 1993; Southaven, MS - Plan to explode bomb*
This was at Tri-State Medical Center. Man was arrested and found with plans of clinic, abortionist's itinerary, and
bomb-making materials. [If this is a true story, man may have wanted itinerary to be sure he *didn't *kill abortionist.]
Source of allegation: Unknown.
*January 1992; Helena, MT - Arson, $75,000 damage*
This was at Intermountain Planned Parenthood.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 11, 1994; Kalispell, MT - Arson*
A fire set in the office of Abortionist James Armstrong. Other details are not available.
Source of allegation: Associated Press.
*1993; Missoula, MT - Threatening letters*
Michael H. Ross *sentenced* due to writing letters to abortionist Susan Wicklund. She testified that the letters
terrorized her and her staff.
Source of allegation: <Life Advocate,> February 1994, 7. Source is pro-life, complained of conviction.
*March 1993; Missoula, MT - Arson, $250,000 damage*
This was at Blue Mountain Clinic.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 17, 1991; Greensboro, NC - Arson, $100,000 damage*
Arson at Piedmont Carolina Medical Clinic. Paraphrasing Wendy Wright, Operation Rescue National: "Done by
somebody who had no connection with any pro-life group (schizophrenic). Person plea-bargained, and they put him
in an institution. He gouged out his eye. No newspapers ever hinted that it was pro-life connected (even though they
are normally biased), but his mother was involved in picketing and his father was a respected doctor. Arsonist was
Robert Hugh Farley. NAF claims Farley confessed and was arrested. NAF does not say Farley was pro-life."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*August 1991; Fayetteville, NC - Arson, $50,000 damage*
This was at Carolina Women's Center. Paraphrasing Wendy Wright, Operation Rescue National: "This was in a very
poor section of town; no one caught or charged. Police think kids broke in, stole from snack machines, then burnt the
place. The place was very over-insured. It was insured at $100,000. Reasonable property in that area would have
been $25,000."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*April 1992; Fargo, ND - Arson, $2,000 damage*
This was at Fargo Women's Health Organization.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 4, 1992; Omaha, NE - Noxious chemical, $1,000 damage*
This was at Women's Medical Center of Nebraska.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 3, 1989; Concord, NH - Arson*
Bookcase at Feminist Health Center burns.
Source of allegation: "Arson at Abortion Clinic," <The New York Times,>
*October 1989; Fairfield, NJ - Attempted arson, $5,000 damage*
This was at North Jersey Women's Health. *A woman, presumedly pro-life, was convicted.* (Most women are pro-life;
most pro-life activists are women.)
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 22, 1991; Woodbridge, NJ - Arson, $500,000 damage*
Arson at Medical Care Center. Source of allegation says that officials do not believe pro-life is guilty. Four people,
apparently not pro-life, were arrested by local police.
National Abortion Federation, quick to point to a fire which would interfere with a woman's right to choose, apparently
had no difficulty with problems at this clinic with the bad practice of "medicine" which should interfere with a woman's
choice. There have been a lot of state medical challenges against the clinic, and one woman has died as a result of
her abortion there. Interestingly, mostly files burned in the fire. Perhaps this was to destroy evidence of malpractice.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 17 November 1994.
*September 1992; Albuquerque, NM - Arson, $500 damage*
This was at Abortion & Reproductive Health Services.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 1991; Las Vegas,NV - Fish oil sprayed through door*
Fish oil was sprayed through the door of the Family Planning Institute.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 16, 1992; Reno, NV - Arson (two attempts) $5,600 damage*
This was at West End Women's Medical Group. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on
October 24, 1994.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*July 1992; New York, NY - Dead fetus shown to Clinton*
Harley D. Belew of Operation Rescue thrusts an aborted fetus at then Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas at the Democratic
National Convention in New York. Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue is later *sentenced* to five months in
prison for his involvement.
What can possibly be the objection of NAF, Clinton, or any pro-abort to seeing the dead body of a former fetus. After
all, they *supported* her death. Furthermore, echoing <Roe v. Wade,> they don't consider the fetus to be a person. So
to them it wasn't like someone thrust the body of a dead baby or a dead human in their face.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*May 1990; Syracuse, NY - Arson, $570 damage*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Syracuse. Sara Jo Mendez (Ithaca), pro-lifer, said it was not done by someone
with the pro-life group. Shari DiNicob was arrested on May 28, 1994. *She committed herself* to a mental institution;
state won't prosecute.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source(s) of rebuttal: Tim Palmquist, telephone conversation with Sara Jo Mendez (Ithaca), March 1994; Wendy
Wright, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 9 November 1994.
*February 23, 1987; Cincinnati, OH - Attempted bombing*
This was at Margaret Sanger Center.
Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. She said in her book, <Woman and the New Race,>
(Brentano's, Inc., 1920), p. 63:
The most merciful thing that a
large family does to one of its
infant members is to kill it.
Today, The PPFA Margaret Sanger Award is the highest honor Planned Parenthood Federation of America has.
PPFA says so in their annual reports.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 1991; Columbus, OH - Arson, $25,000 damage*
Arson at Capitol Care Women's Center of Columbus. Paraphrasing Wendy Wright, Operation Rescue National:
"Apparently only one procedure room, files, and waiting room were damaged. Why would FILES be burned?
Pro-lifers wouldn't want files burned. If pro-lifers had any interest in the files, it would be to see them in order to reach
out and help those victims of choice. [There is even a pro-life organization called Victims of Choice. It was formed by
victims of choice to help victims of choice.] Pro-life, if they had any interest in arson or destroying things, would
destroy equipment or facilities which would be used to kill babies and damage/kill mothers. This is not destroying
paperwork. No one was ever charged or convicted of either of the alleged crimes." Perhaps, since it was paperwork,
Planned Parenthood started the fires to damage pro-life reputation through public relations and advertising. Perhaps
they started it to destroy medical records relevant to a malpractice suit. Perhaps they started it to collect insurance to
remodel. Insurance was collected.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*February 1991; Columbus, OH - Arson, $75,000 damage*
Arson at Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio DBA Central Ohio Women's Clinic, Inc. This is probably the same
incident as above. National Abortion Federation perhaps tried to make two incidents of one by exploiting the possible
fact that one facility has two names.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 17 November 1994.
*April 14, 1991; Columbus, OH - Attempted bombing*
This was at Founder's Women's Health Center of Columbus. Source of allegation says perpetrator tried four times to
throw Molotov Cocktails through a window. Source of rebuttal says no damage - pipe bomb found outside, no one
charged or convicted.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 15 December 1993.
*September 1993; Dayton, OH - Vandalism*
Man flung red paint on sidewalk and steps. This was at Women's Med+ Center. Man was armed with rifle.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*June 8, 1987; Toledo, OH - Arson*
This was at Toledo Medical Services. *A woman was convicted.*
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No other details given.
*March 8, 1987; Toledo, OH - Attempted arson*
This was at Toledo Medical Services. *A woman was convicted.*
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*July 10, 1992; Toledo, OH - Noxious chemical, $20,000 damage*
This was at three clinics.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 11, 1992; Ashland, OR - Arson, $225,000 damage*
This was at Catalina Medical Clinic. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on October 24,
1994.
The pro-aborts surely must have a problem with her. A woman is supposed to be pro-abortion.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*September 16, 1992; Eugene, OR - Arson, $2,000 damage*
This was at Feminist Women's Health Center. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on
October 24, 1994.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*March 1993; Forest Grove, OR - Arson, $5,000 damage*
This was at Bours Health Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*1985; Portland, OR - Bomb threat?, attempted bombing?*
This was at Feminist Women's Health Center DBA(?) Lovejoy Surgicenter. *Richard D. Batson plead guilty, was
sentenced* to 3 years in prison. Court records show this was not abortion related.
Paul deParrie of Advocates for Life said: Four bombs were traced to a guy whose girlfriend wanted to abort.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Paul deParrie, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 2 March 1994.
*May 1990; Portland, OR - Lovejoy arson, $15,000 damage*
Paraphrasing Paul deParrie of Advocates for Life: Remembers a report with the description of a guy (street person)
who did it. Clinic information suggests that it could have been an inside job, because the only thing damaged was an
ultrasound machine, and for several weeks before the fire, Lovejoy's ultrasound machine had been broken and they
had been sending ultrasounds out to be done.
Daniel Carver, now a fugitive, was indicted. His position on abortion is not known to Life Research Institute.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Paul deParrie, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, 2 March 1994.
*August 1, 1992; Portland, OR - Arson, $250,000 damage*
This was at Lovejoy Surgicenter. Rachelle Ranae Shannon, 38, a pro-life activist, was indicted on October 24, 1994.
Source of allegation: U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, <Press
Release>, 24 October 1994.
*July 1993; Lancaster, PA - Attempted bombing*
This was at Planned Parenthood Lancaster County.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1993; Lancaster, PA - Bombing, $130,000 damage*
This was at Planned Parenthood Lancaster County.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1989; Pittsburgh, PA - Arson, $10,000 damage*
This was at Allegheny Reproductive Health Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 1990; Pittsburgh, PA - Noxious chemicals flushed into clinic, $12,000 damage*
This was at Women's Health Services. Chemicals flushed into clinic with water from floor above. [Toilet overflow?]
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*November 20, 1993; York, PA - Attempted arson*
An attempt was made to set fire to Hillcrest Women's Medical Center by throwing candles through broken windows
into a gasoline-saturated area. Clinic representatives declined to comment.
Source of allegation: Unknown.
Source of rebuttal: "Abortuary Arson Attempt Leaves Few Clues," <Life Advocate,> December 1993, 9.
*January 1990; Memphis, TN - Concrete block thrown through window, $3,000 damage*
This was at the Memphis Center for Reproductive Health. Mike Donato of Northeast Mental Health Center: Mike
laughed when hearing of this.) Memphis Center for Reproductive Health is an old house (no big windows). He said
he didn't know how breaking a window could do $3,000.00 damage. He didn't know if there is any partial truth to the
incident.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Mike Donato, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, March 1994.
*May 1992; Memphis, TN: Butyric acid attacks, $225,000*
Paraphrasing Mike Donato: "Was at Memphis Center for Reproductive Health. The attack happened on
Wednesday or Thursday, MCRH was open on Saturday. Memphis Area Medical Center for Women was closed for
about a week, pulled out carpet etc. News clip was on ABC affiliate, channel 13. MCRH is a "NOW" type agency
(deathscorts, etc.) Pro-lifers have been squirted with water, spit on, etc. During the only two rescues they've had,
police have been very professional."
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Mike Donato, telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist, March 1994.
*January 1992; Beaumont, TX - Arson, $300,000*
This was at Women's Community Health Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 1993; Corpus Christi, TX - Arson, over $1 million damage*
This was at Reproductive Services.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 1988; Dallas, TX - Arson*
This was at Fairmount Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 1988; Dallas, TX - Arson*
This was at Metro-Plex Gynecological Group.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 1988; Dallas, TX - Arson*
This was at North Dallas Women's Clinic.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 25, 1992; Dallas, TX - Noxious chemical, 25,000 damage*
This was at four clinics.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*March 1993; Dallas, TX - Tear gas-like chemical sprayed*
This was at Dallas Medical Ladies' Pavilion. A tear gas-like chemical was sprayed into a Dallas clinic while patients
were present in the facility, which was immediately evacuated. One staff member and one patient required oxygen.
See Investigation IV in this report under same date. This was actually the police spraying mace into pro-lifers who
were laying down in protest. Pro-life has it on video.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Flip Benham, Operation Rescue national office, Dallas, TX.
*July 1, 1993; Dallas, TX - Bomb threat*
This one is a real classic. The pro-aborts who devised this one could show the KGB a thing or two.
Oldrich Tomanek is a pro-lifer who likes to call abortionists and abortion workers to talk them out of killing. Oldrich
lives in Dallas, and on July 1, 1993 was at the Newark, NJ airport on his way to visit his homeland of Czechoslovakia.
Having plenty of time to spare, he called North Park Medical Group in Dallas to talk them out of killing. This is his
constitutional right of free speech.
According to FBI records, Oldrich made four calls to them. (Perhaps the clinic hung up on him three times.) The
records show the clinic alleges that during each call, Oldrich said that there was a bomb in the building. At one point,
Oldrich (allegedly) stated that the bomb would go off in nineteen minutes. In spite of this, a subsequent call lasted
approximately one hour. *Not only there was no explosion, but the person and facility receiving the call didn't believe
there would be one--or they would have evacuated instead of chatting!*
Nonetheless, Oldrich's calls were traced to the phone booth he was calling from in Newark, and Oldrich was arrested.
(United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Case Number 93 3120C-01) Oldrich had identified himself to the
clinic, and the arresting officer confirmed that at the time of the arrest, the telephone connection was to the clinic.
But this doesn't mean there was a bomb threat or a bomb!
*The timing of this allegation is very interesting. The phone call took place on July 1, 1993. Before Oldrich was
released, his incarceration and alleged bomb threat was used to get a judge to place an injunction against Operation
Rescue from getting within 300 feet of abortionist Norman Tompkins' house. Tompkins was the abortionist working
at North Park Medical Group.* Operation Rescue likes to picket abortionists' houses to embarrass the abortionists
into getting legitimate employment. This is a very effective tactic.
*The Oldrich case was dismissed on July 22, 1993.* It was dismissed for lack of any substance to the allegation, but
the harassment against him cost Oldrich over $6,000 and his European vacation.
As a matter of further interest, Carolyn Tompkins, the abortionist's wife, who had testified on <Freedom of Access to
Clinic Entrances Act of 1994> (FACE), is awaiting trial for macing a peaceful pro-lifer. This was not self-defense:
Police were on the scene. (See the Investigation II table.)
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 12 December 1994; Flip
Benham, Operation Rescue National, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 28 December 1994.
*February 1993; El Paso, TX - Assault*
This was at office of Abortionist Franz Theard. Several clinic staff members were assaulted. Some required medical
treatment.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*February 7, 1994; Fort Worth, TX - Bomb threat at Fort Worth courthouse*
According to source "The threat came from a caller who said a bomb was set to go off at 11 a.m. in another judge's
chambers. He[?] was presiding over a case involving dozens of abortion protesters charged with trespassing at a
women's clinic."
Source of allegation doesn't say bomb was found.
Source of allegation: United Press International, 7 February 1993.
*September 9, 1992; Houston, TX - Noxious chemical, $500 damage*
This was at Aaron Women's Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*October 10, 1993; Houston, TX - Arson*
*Joshua Graff confessed to arson* at Houston-area clinic. Although Life Research Institute knows nothing about Mr.
Graff, since ATF found cards from pro-life groups in his wallet, LRI will assume this is a guilty pro-lifer.
Source of allegation: <Los Angeles Times,> 15 October 1993.
*February 1993; San Antonio, TX - Butyric acid "vandalism"*
This was at Reproductive Services.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*December 31, 1994; Norfolk, VA - Attempted murder by John Salvi*
John Salvi III, apparently, opened fire on a clinic from outside the clinic. Since he fired from the outside, he probably
had no specific human targets. Nonetheless, Life Research Institute, because of the December 30, 1994 murders
and attempted murders in Brookline, MA, lists this as attempted murder. Salvi was seriously implicated in the
Brookline crimes. *Not reported by the secular press is the fact that Salvi also shot at pro-lifers!*
At this time (January 2) it is not entirely clear whether Salvi did actually open fire on a clinic in Norfolk. Although that
was almost certainly his intention, one newspaper article said, ". . . he allegedly shot at ground-floor windows in a
building housing the Hillcrest Clinic." The clinic may not have been on the ground floor. Again, Salvi's obvious
intention was to shoot the clinic.
Significant information exists that John Salvi III is insane. A profile newspaper article accompanying the January 1
article describing this incident provides several mini-testimonies about his weird behavior. Examples are: On
December 23 "A customer came in last Friday [to Salvi's place of employment], and John just ripped the guy's coat
off, forcefully." "Potter said she heard that Salvi ran screaming through a local church on Christmas Day. 'His father
had to take him out,' she said. 'He was lost. I think he was really lost.'" "He never discussed his views on abortion--or
politics, or anything else." "His room was weird. He had furniture blockading the window." "Most of the students
agreed he was pretty weird . . . He never showed emotion. He was not angry, sad or happy. He always had a
straight face."
A January 2 newspaper article quoted Preterm security guard Richard Seron, who was shot by Salvi: "I think he was
seven or eight feet from me. He looked like the devil. He had a fierce look in his eyes, and his eyebrows were in a
deep frown and his eyes had a manic quality about them." He also said, "I would say that he was a proficient
madman."
This information does not excuse guilt.
As more facts become available (which will be after publication of this document), the reader can decide whether
Salvi acted because of insanity, or his views on abortion, or both, or for some other reason(s).
Source of information: John Kifner, "Cops arrest man in deaths," <Contra Costa Times,> 1 January 1995, 1A; Sara
Rimer, "Salvi's acquaintances call him an 'oddball,'" <Contra Costa Times,> 1 January 1995, 1A; Nancy Roberts Trott,
"Suspect wept in call before last attack," <Contra Costa Times,> 1A, 2 January 1995; "Guard: 'He looked like the devil,'"
<Contra Costa Times,> 1A, 2 January 1995.
*September 1992; Richmond, VA - Arson, $40,000 damage*
This was at Richmond Medical Center for Women.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*January 1988; Everett, WA - Attempted arson*
This was at Planned Parenthood of Everett.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*April 1991; Milwaukee, WI - Abortionist detained at highway rest stop.*
Abortionist from Bread and Roses clinic was detained at a highway rest stop and protesters chained themselves to
his car. Detailed report of incident from Missionaries to the Preborn verifies no violence occurred.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
Source of rebuttal: Missionaries to the Preborn.
*May 1992; Milwaukee, WI - Four or more mailed death threats according to source of allegation*
Now, isn't that interesting! Deaths threats are pretty serious. So how come NAF doesn't know if there were more
than four?
Source of rebuttal shows two death threats were actually reported by 1994.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given, not even on the first four.
Source of rebuttal: Wendy Wright, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 17 November 1994.
*August 1992; Milwaukee, WI - Bomb threats, vandalism, stalking*
This was at Wisconsin Women's Health Care Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*August 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Butyric acid*
This was at Imperial Health Center.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
*September 1993; Appleton, WI - Butyric acid, $40,000 damage*
This was at Planned Parenthood Appleton North.
Source of allegation: National Abortion Federation. No details given.
National Abortion Federation, National Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist, *and* The Feminist Majority Foundation are unable and/or unwilling to substantiate this accusation.
This ends the listings of violence and alleged violence of pro-lifers against pro-aborts and their facilities. Life
Research Institute concludes with comments for the media. It concerns what clinic personnel continually tell the
media after rescues. Quoting from source listed . . .
"The primary lie is that no women were turned away during the rescue, and that all appointments for abortions were
kept [or rescheduled]. In many cases, female OR members have made appointments to insure that the clinic is open,
or to gain access for rescue, 'truth team,' or 'inside counseling' purposes. Obviously, these women do not get
abortions, as so, just as obviously, the pro-aborts are lying."[1]
Even rescheduled appointments aren't kept. Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood
says that one in five women who must forgo their abortions for 24 hours changes her mind.[2]
1. Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League, 1993) 81-9.
2. Alan Guttmacher Institute, <circa> 1990.
*Excerpts from
<Clinic Defense: A Model>
First Edition, March, 1990
by Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue
(Also Known As BACAOR)
*
Notes:
1) Since writing <Clinic Defense: A Model,> Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR) has
changed its name to Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights.
2) The author of the following abstract and summary (only those) is not BACAOR, but Life Research
Institute.
3) Comments are also by Life Research Institute. These will be denoted by super-scripts such as [A] and [B].
Abstract: Operation Rescue is famous for blockading and picketing Killing Centers (which are called
clinics by BACAOR). The purpose of BACAOR's manual is to teach pro-abortion activists how to
"effectively" counter Operation Rescue and similar organizations in their blockading and picketing.
This is the manual's Table of Contents:
I. Clinic Defense: Organizing/tactics to overcome blockades.
II. Client Escorting: Organizing/tactics to help clients past harassing pickets.
III. Temporary Restraining Orders: Some legal strategies.
IV. Grassroots Organizing: Spreading a successful model to nearby communities.
From Chapter 1, section "AT THE CLINICS," pages 5 & 6:
"We talk about the difference between 'violence' and physical action, telling people that we use only the
degree of physical force against OR that is needed to accomplish our goal, i.e., pushing them back,[A]
getting them off us, moving them to clear a corridor, etc. Explain the level of aggressiveness and tactics
we can expect from OR. Actual clinic defense inherently requires contact with OR. We have heard that
many organizations tell people not to 'touch' OR, but this of course is not really clinic defense.[B] We
advise people about not taking independent physical action against OR, which could cause them to be
singled out for arrest or reprisal, etc., but instead, to work in groups to move, remove or isolate ORs as
needed."[C]
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. Unauthorized touching is illegal.
B. This admits that this manual is not designed to teach non-violence.
C. Be as violent as needed and instructed, but do so in a way not to be arrested.
The validity of these comments will be even more apparent by further reading of this document.
From Chapter 1, section "AT THE CLINICS," pages 5 & 6:
"The vests (or buttons comparable items) work best also, because, in the heat of battle with police,[A] we
can tell them that all of us wearing that particular item are there to help women into the clinic and are not
to be arrested."
Life Research Institute's comment:
A. BACAOR apparently feels that they are at least as righteous as the police.
From Chapter 1, section "CLINIC DEFENSE TACTICS," page 9:
"Work with defenders around you to focus on a person or persons who need to be removed, identify
them, and push the OR out from one defender to the next until they are put out of the defense line. . . .
This worked not only because of the coordination done by the defenders, but because we knew the
passive style of resistance to expect from OR . . ."[A]
Life Research Institute's comment:
A. *This is a pro-abortion admission that OR is non-violent.*
From Chapter 1, section "CLINIC DEFENSE TACTICS," page 10:
"While there are instances of viciousness on the part of individu-al ORs, and we never underestimate the
violence they are capable of, at the same time, we use what we know of them psychologically to defeat
them, and in almost all cases, the most our physical contact with them amounts to is a 'scuffle': pushing,
shoving, grabbing. Their passive-aggressive tactic of pushing at us with their bodies gives us plenty of
places to grab hold of their jackets, etc. to pull on. They are coached not to hit people out-right,[A] and they
are also told to rely completely on their marshals for instructions. . . .
There are innumerable instances of clinic defenders neutralizing male ORs by shouting 'get your hands
off me, don't you dare touch me' all the while they are tugging or pushing OR out of the line.[B]
Once the majority of ORs have been pushed or moved out from the door, if others remain, they can be
picked up by several defenders in much the same way police remove them."[C]
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. BACAOR, themselves a radical, violent pro-abortion group, admits that OR is non-violent, though they
portray OR as violent whenever they can.
B. Again, unauthorized touching is illegal.
C. This is felony kidnapping and false imprisonment. Kidnapping does not have to in-clude removing the
people from the location.
From Chapter 1, section "CLINIC DEFENSE TACTICS," page 12:
"It all worked well until the police captain showed up at around 7 am to try to put a stop to it. . . .[A]
Follow cars: We have a moderate sized force of defenders who follow OR from their gathering point to
the hit site."[B]
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. Resist what the police want.
B. BACAOR is in California. This behavior in California is called stalking, and it is illegal.
From Chapter 1, section "THE POLICE," page 13:
"They essentially warn us not to do clinic defense and try to pinpoint one person they can hold
responsible at the clinic if we do not follow their directives. . . .
When we get word of a hit we notify the director, who should tell police that there are going to be trained
escorts and defenders at her clinic and demand[A] that police work with defenders to keep the clinic open.
Of course, the degree of impact this has on the day of the hit is rather negligible, because police will try to
pressure directors to shut down or order us away, but it can lay the groundwork for us . . . .
We do not call police ourselves during a hit. *Our best work is done before police arrive, or when there
are not enough police there to prevent us from doing what we have to do: Get in place before the cops
can mess with it, establish balance of power early, do key acts requiring physical contact with OR as
much as possible before cops have enough people to intervene.*[B] . . .
We do not 'negotiate' with police on site, in terms of expecting or asking for control or direction from them.
Our discussions consist of repeatedly asserting our view of the situation, that we are planning and
prepared to get clients into the clinic.
We assign at least 2 people to listen in on cop dealings and be 'police dogs.' This role can range from
keeping the police busy with talk while the defense line continues its work, to the more complicated work
of representing ourselves as contacts for the clinic and pressuring them to accept our presence or do the
job themselves."[C]
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. The attitude is that the police must be there to be under the direction of BACAOR.
B. Underlining by Life Research Institute.
C. At least shows considerable disrespect for the law. Depending the methods of listening to the police
and/or following them in order to listen, they may be committing violations of privacy and stalking laws.
Also, there must surely be laws about interfering with police actions which BACAOR is violating.
From Chapter 1, section "THE POLICE," page 14:
"Do not let[A] the police separate us from clients, either in their minds or physically; insist that our escorts
are staying with clients and will take them to the clinic doors, and we will not be separated from them until
they are in safely. Convey to police that scheduled clients have placed their trust in defenders to get
them inside; we are there to help clients in whether police want us/authorize us to or not. This also
minimizes the ability of police to treat us as vigilantes[B], agitators, or people with no rational plan. . . .[C]
The police will try to persuade her that clinic defenders are making the situation bad[D], or they will try to
persuade her to believe that diverting or delaying clients from entering is an acceptable thing . . .
Words with cops are best backed up by deeds; if police try to stall our actions (by saying they will open
the clinic once all arrests have been made, for example) push the issue by taking action (whether real or
diversionary)[E], threatening action[F], etc. Be prepared to act; don't let police be sole dictaters [sic] of clinic
defenders' actions."
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. Disobey police orders.
B. Which of course they are. The whole tone of this clinic de-fense manual is that they would much rather
not have the police there at all. Then they could deal with OR in their own way entirely.
C. The inference here is that BACAOR does, of course, have a rational plan. How could it be otherwise?
Interestingly, however, this "rational" plan includes pushing, kidnapping, false imprisonment,
eavesdropping on the police, trying to subvert the lawful duties of the police, and vigilantism.
D. If anyone wants to say that OR makes the situation bad because OR breaks the law, then they must
agree that BACAOR makes the situation bad because BACAOR breaks the law.
E. Fool the police.
F. Extortion?
Page 14 continuing to page 15:
"Avoid letting the actions be slowed or stopped by police orders; if we are engaged with OR - pushing[A]
the ORs out, clearing a path, etc. it is less likely the police will jump in to try to stop it en masse; they
don't know who is on what side; they likely do not have enough officers to stop what appears to be a
full-out, equal confrontation[B]; police arrive there more likely prepared to stop new actions, prevent clinic
defenders from moving in on OR again, etc. It is harder for us to re-organize and put a plan into motion[C]
once there has been a period of stoppage in the action than it is to keep the main work going of clearing
the ORs out; the police tend to think that once there has been a settling of the action, whatever is in place
right then will stay that way until they decide what will happen next (when they will make arrests, etc); if
that happens, it is much more difficult to rescue the situation from that *deadly period of inactivity*[D] which
signifies that the cops intend to let the clinic be closed down for several hours."
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. They admit to committing a violent crime.
B. Let's look at the reverse of the tone of this manual. If BACAOR was non-violent, wouldn't they
advocate separating them-selves from OR so that the police could arrest the allegedly violent pro-lifers?
C. They want violence, and this is an admission of a conspiracy to create violence.
D. Inactivity, they say, is deadly, not violence.
From Chapter 1, section "THE POLICE," page 16:
"Be aware of what police can really carry out against clinic defenders, regardless of what they threaten us
with; do they have enough manpower to arrest us all? what would it look like for them to arrest people
trying to keep a clinic open against an illegal force while the police did nothing to prevent the illegal act; if
we have worked with the assembled clients and they have agreed to participate in our plans to get them
in, that is added pressure on clients, police have to take into account that if they try to break up the group
or begin to arrest the group, they are essentially going to be arresting clients as well. Make sure they are
aware of this. . . .[A]
Those officers will often try to tell us not to defend the clinic if OR hits, and tell us we should obey orders
to get out of the way if we are told. This is all mostly wordplay.[B] In turn, we tell them we intend to keep
the clinic open and ask what plans they have made to assist us in doing so[C]; the conversation becomes
less definitive from then on."
Life Research Institute's comments:
A. Tie their hands. Manipulate them.
B. Disobey the police; BACAOR violence is justified.
C. BACAOR, not the police, should be in charge.
From Chapter 1, section "THE POLICE," page 17:
"It was theoretically possible, but not physically possible for the police to go in and separate out the
pro-choicers, and charge them with the proper charges. . . . [A] It is a given that police will apply pressure
and intimidation to get us to back off, but we must make the call for ourselves whether or not we comply;
we must make the final decision about whether to call the bluff or back off, based on our own assessment
of logistics, our strength, police strength, etc. The police must be regarded as a factor in our decision
making process, and not the sole arbiters of our actions."
Comment
A. An admission of guilt. An admission of teaching that BACAOR is to have lawlessness as a policy.
From Chapter 1, section "CLINIC [probably meaning CLIENT] ESCORT-ING," page 18:
"As OR has shifted to picketing more than blockading, we've learned that we can't relax and let them 'just'
picket. It's critical to keep pushing, to not lend any legitimacy to their harassment of women on any level.
clinic; this is our territory. Go across the street, go away, go wherever - but as far away from the clients
as is possible to assert. Even if the sidewalk is 'public,' we've had success at putting enough of us out,
early enough, to basically bully the ORs into staying across the street."
Life Research Institute's comment:
A. Constitutionally, a public sidewalk is a free-speech area. BACAOR, which obviously considers
themselves superior to the police (government), wants to deny constitutionally guaranteed free speech.
From Chapter II, section "OR DOGGERS," page 21:
"Using signs to visually blockade them is critical if the ORs have camera or gruesome signs. . . .
Escorts counter-demonstrate, strategically block gruesome signs . . ."[A]
Life Research Institute's comment:
A. This is an admission that BACAOR is defending an activity (abortion) which is gruesome. Why is it
gruesome? Because it is violent. Thus, BACAOR is defending violence.
From Chapter II, section "COORDINATORS," subsection "The Police," page 25:
"Try to keep them out of it. If they are cruising by, wave them on. Be a voice of authority and reason; let
them know we have it all under control and everything is just fine, thank you, officer. (Another good
argument for official vests or shirts is that it gives us a tremendous amount of authority)"[A]
Life Research Institute's comment:
A. BACAOR considers themselves to be above the level of govern-ment.
From Chapter II, section "COORDINATORS," subsection "The Police," page 26:
"Invariably, the police never demand that the ORs leave the area; they always want us to retreat behind
the property line. Don't. Explain that this is not a debate about abortion; we are here to make sure
women can get into the clinic safely without being blocked or harassed. If the ORs can be on the 'public'
sidewalk, after all, so can we.
The most common objection the police raise is to our 'blocking' the ORs from reaching the clients. Modify
the dogging technique so that the escorts face the client instead of the OR, and focus on using our bodies
to form a corridor for the client. This approach makes the same situation show how the ORs are
attacking the client, not that we are blocking the ORs."
From Chapter III, "TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS," page 30:
"Enforcement is not assured, and *confining our behavior toward OR to the legal realm has distinct
limitations*."[A]
Life Research Institute's comment:
A. Underlining by Life Research Institute.
Summary: Keep Operation Rescue confused. Keep the police con-fused. Disobey the police whenever
the police get in the way of BACAOR objectives. These objectives include assault, battery, kidnapping,
false imprisonment, eavesdropping on the police, subterfuge of police goals, interfering with free speech,
and blockading Operation Rescue.
The whole attitude of BACAOR is that BACAOR is far superior to the police and the police shouldn't even
show up. BACAOR is the definition of righteousness. This righteousness includes several crimes, some
of which are violent.
Interestingly, this is the attitude of hardened criminals normally found in this nation's penitentiaries.
BACAOR admits to the non-violence of Operation Rescue (manual pages 9 and 10).
*Investigation II
Alleged Violence of Pro-Aborts
against Pro-Lifers and their
Facilities
(Excluding Violence by Police)
*
*Notes: *
Given the fact that no baby would choose to die, one can say that all babies are pro-life. (This is true
even for "unwanted" babies, just as it is true for us when we are temporarily unwanted.) Thus, it would be
justified to include in this table one entry for every abortion. However, this would make this table too long:
There have been more than 33,000,000 abortions in the United States since abortion was legalized in
1973.
Thus, the term "pro-lifers" as used in this table means born pro-lifers.
From talking with many rescue leaders, Life Research Institute (LRI) has learned that incidents of
violence of pro-aborts against pro-lifers occur at nearly every rescue. These are "minor" incidents,
incidents which the pro-lifers simply accept as what will happen to them. They are so common that to
include them all in this table would cause the table to be many, many times longer than it now is. Thus,
LRI has only included some of the more significant acts of violence.
Instead of often using terms such as "alleged," incidents are described as though true. This does not
mean that they are true; it only means that the source(s) of the allegations claim they are true.
Each incident or alleged incident lists a "Source of allegation." Occasionally, this source is not
necessarily alleging, but may be only providing information. That is, the term could be used
interchangeably with "Source of information."
Entries are alphabetical in this priority: State abbreviation, city, year, month, date of month. Exceptions:
Details of these criteria aren't always known.
All underlining is by Life Research Institute.
*Unknown date; Mobile, AL - Reckless endangerment*
This was at The Ladies Center. The director, Patricia Mitchell, pointed a hand gun at two peaceful, legal protesters
as they drove away from the clinic.
*She was found guilty*, but her sentence was 14 days of community service. The criminal is appealing the decision.
The judge said that if she misused her gun again, he would take it away from her.
Now that's punishment!
Source of allegation: Unknown, but it almost certainly is a Mobile, AL newspaper. Photocopy was bad.
*Unknown date; Little Rock, AR - Assault*
A pro-abortion man and woman attacked a pro-life man and woman. The pro-lifers were exercising their
constitutional right of free speech by handing out life-saving literature offering more than one choice.
Source of allegation: "Handling out fliers, pair attacked in lot." Other source identification is missing.
*Spring, 1984; Tempe, AZ - Vandalism*
The Right to Life office was vandalized.
Source of allegation: Vivian Warner, "On This Picket Line, Trouble," <National Catholic Register,> 13 May 1984, 1.
*April 24, 1984; Tempe, AZ - Attempted vehicular assault*
Pro-lifer Kathleen Mooney, who has taken a needy pregnant woman into her home, was nearly hit by a car driven by
a pro-abortion demonstrator at Family Planning Institute.
Source of allegation: Vivian Warner, "On This Picket Line, Trouble," <National Catholic Register,> 13 May 1984, 1.
*July 1994; Beale's Point, CA - Battery, stalking*
At least two pro-aborts were arrested for battery and stalking. No other details are available.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 30 October 1994.
*June 29, 1991; El Monte, CA - Indecent exposure/assault*
Many, perhaps dozens, of pro-lifers were *sitting* at the door of a clinic. At a distance of 6 feet, two pro-abort women
barred their breasts to them, and two others (of unknown gender) barred their butts to them and bent over for
greatest exposure.
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, personal video recording of incident.
*March 28, 1981; Fresno, CA - Assault*
At a legal, peaceful picket at Family Planning Associates Medical Group, four men wrenched picket signs away from
pro-lifers and hit several of them with the signs. One 14-year-old boy was knocked to the ground.
Source of allegation: "Anti-abortion pickets claim signs taken by 4 assailants," <The Fresno Bee,> 30 March 1981.
*1991; Gardena(?), CA - Butyric acid attack; vandalism*
This was against a church. The vandalism was spray painting. This was on day of an Operation Rescue rally.
Source of allegation: Wendy Wright, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 23, November 1994.
*September 1993; probably near Hollywood, CA - Conspiracy to commit murder*
Hollywood lawyer wanted his girlfriend to murder his/her preborn baby twins. She refused, so he hired a hit man to
murder her and the babies. [This is anti-choice.] The hit man was instructed to use a baseball bat to bash the
mother in the stomach to make sure the babies were dead, and then to beat the mother over the head to murder her.
Interestingly, in California at least, if the hit man had killed the babies, it legally would have been murder, but if she
had killed them, it would only have been choice.
The lawyer's name is David Lusskin; the mother's name is Kim Mascola.
Source of allegation: "Free me without bail, asks lawyer accused of plotting to kill woman," <Miami Herald, 22
September 1993.>
*August 1983; Long Beach, CA - Abortionist strangles unwanted, born baby*
Abortionist strangled a 2.5 pound, 7.5 month old baby who survived an abortion because he knew the 'mother' didn't
want the baby and he feared a lawsuit. He was indicted for murder.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*December 10 (approx), 1988; Los Angeles, CA area - Several phony bomb threats*
In a sense this should be listed in Investigation I instead of here: The phony bomb threats were against pro-abortion.
It is listed here because the intent of the bomb threats was to greatly harm pro-life.
All the time the pro-aborts are telling the world how violent pro-lifers are and how terribly dangerous illegal (in
contrast to legal) abortions are. *To any person who thinks for herself or himself, the following series of incidents must
clearly and convincingly prove that a lot of the pro-abortion rhetoric is lies. Can one ever again know what part of
what they say is the truth?*
The following is a word-for-word copy of an article found in <Action News,> March 1988, by Pro-Life Action League:
"The story in the December 10th issue of the <Los Angeles Times> tells of a pro-abortion activist, Frank Mendiola, who
was arrested for calling in phony bomb threats to abortion mills and the homes of abortion providers in order, as he is
quoted, 'to have you people, the media, come down with a harder line on those people who are harassing the clinics.'
He even called in three bomb threats to his own house. At first, investigators viewed Mendiola as a victim, but they
gradually changed their view of him as the evidence started to point to him.
The Mendiola story confirms what many of us have been saying all along: that the abortionists are probably the ones
calling in many of the registered bomb threats, and possibly bombing abortion mills to collect insurance and discredit
the right-to-life movement. When the League first learned of the Mendiola story, we sent out a mailing to key
right-to-life activists to ask them to draw attention to it. We encouraged them to publicize it in every way possible.
Mendiola became well known in the Los Angeles area for telling a gut wrenching story about his sister, who died from
an illegal abortion. At pro-abortion rallies, he would read from a letter he wrote to President Reagan about how '*she
bled to death on a kitchen table.* Yes, Mr. President, on a kitchen table.' *The only problem with the story is that it
was completely false.* Mendiola never had a sister, but sticking to the truth has never mattered much to those who
promote the murder of babies.
Mendiola faced the possibility of a long prison sentence for his crimes but was sentenced to probation for one year,
apparently because he had good intentions. The message of this sentence is that it's all right to make bomb threats
as long as you have a good intention. Mendiola's intention was to discredit people who are trying to save babies--a
'good' intention.
One wonders what kind of sentence Mendiola's judge would give to a right-to-lifer who got caught making bomb
threats with the intention of saving babies' lives. Since that might be considered a 'bad' intention, the right-to-lifer
would probably get the maximum prison sentence." (Underlining not in original)
Source of allegation: Mentioned in the text. More information can be found in "Pro-Life Action League Helps expose
Pro-Abortion 'Bomber,'" <The Advocate,> May 1988, 10, quoted in <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia,> (American Life
League: Stafford, VA, 1993), 19-9. Also see Patt Morrison, "Zealot's Tale: Pro-Choice Activist Faces Sentencing in
Bomb Threats to Stir Sympathy for Cause," <Los Angeles Times,> 10 December 1987, F1, F4, F6.
*1989(?); Los Angeles, CA - Church defaced*
This incident was similar to that described under "March 18, 1992; Los Angeles, CA." But this is a separate incident.
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, comments in personal video recording of March 18, 1992 incident, March 1992.
*March 1989; Los Angeles, CA - Smoke bomb set off at Operation Rescue rally at Melodyland*
Three radical pro-abortionists were arrested after igniting an incendiary device in a church packed with pro-life
activists. The three suspects were caught by OR security. Percussion grenades were also found beneath the
speaking platform where pro-life leaders were to speak. Approximately 2,500 - 3,000 people were present.
The three pro-aborts were arrested, but only one was brought to trial. The judge dropped his sentence because the
man was dying from AIDS.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, Blue Jay, CA.
*April 14, 1990; Los Angeles - Assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment*
This was at Family Planning Associates. Pro-aborts assaulted and removed passive pro-lifers from the area.
Legally, this is kidnapping, and, since it restricts liberty, legally it is false imprisonment. This is not merely the opinion
of Life Research Institute, it is a matter of Law.
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, personal video recording of incident.
*February 1991; Los Angeles, CA - Pro-lifers kicked and beaten by ACT-UP protesters*
ACT-UP is a radical, violent, vigilante homosexual-activist group. From source below, who is husband of victim: "This
was a rescue at the La Mujer abortion chamber on Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles. The ACT-UP people had
gotten to the doors first, and Terri Palmquist and the other rescuers just sat down in front of them. One of the
ACT-UP people (a man in his 20's with a ponytail) was kicking Terri severely and probably performing lewd acts. The
pro-lifers around Terri tried to do a citizen's arrest, but the LA County Sheriffs ignored them. The rescue was
videotaped by Bill Souci (the video captured the pictures of the man who was beating Terri) and we know [there are]
several other witnesses of what happened at this rescue. We also took pictures of Terri's injuries after the rescue,
and then brought the pictures to LA county Sheriff's Department and filed a complaint (along with other pro-lifers who
had been beaten). We never heard any more from the Sheriff's Department about this. Terry was able to show the
video and pictures to the jury when she was on trial for this rescue, but the trial resulted in Terri being found guilty on
three out of four charges (not guilty of trespassing, guilty of failure to disperse, blocking a sidewalk, and 'resisting
arrest' for going limp). The judge [perhaps because he knew the ACT-UP man had indeed brutalized Terry]
sentenced Terry to 'one day sentenced, one day served,' (even though he was very adamant pro-abort)."
Source of allegation: Tim Palmquist, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 14 November 1994.
*March 1991; Los Angeles, CA - Assault with a deadly weapon*
Chris Keys was bitten two times by a member of the vigilante, homosexual group ACT-UP. It is more likely than
unlikely that the vigilante had AIDS.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
Pro-lifer Tim Wilson is kidnapped and falsely imprisoned by pro-aborts
At Family Planning Associates on April 14, 1990.
*1992, probably Los Angeles, CA - Attempted murder*
A member of the radical pro-abortion, pro-homosexual ACT-UP organization rammed pro-lifer Bill Soucie's car with a
Chevy Blazer and thereby forced him into oncoming traffic. The criminal fled to Canada.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*March 18, 1992; Los Angeles, CA - Vandalism*
Pro-aborts defaced a church with red paint, red coat hangers, and posters accusing the church of "crimes against
women." This was at The Sherman Oaks Church.
Pro-life says that abortion, not anti-abortion, is a crime against women. Planned Parenthood, in an internal
document, agreed with pro-life that abortion hurts nine of ten women who have it. And even <this >admission was
made before 26 studies, most by pro-aborts, showed a tremendous increase in the breast cancer rate among those
who have had abortions.
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, comments in personal video recording of March 18, 1992 incident, March 1992.
Planned Parenthood internal document was "Department of Education: 3-Year Plan and Long Range Program Goals,
1990 - 1993," Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
*April 18, 1992; Los Angeles, CA - Assault and hate crimes*
Quoting the source: "<Los Angeles>- A pro-abortion advocate, under the leadership of Julie Schollenberger of the
Clinic Defense Alliance, (the militant group that led pro-abortion activities last Saturday, April 18) was arrested for
sexual assault against a female participant of Operation Rescue.
Also, about a dozen Clinic Defense Alliance members, and militant homosexuals, dressed up as Jesus Christ,
dancing and mocking, using crude & offensive language in front of pro-life women and children. The pro-abortion
advocates held makeshift crucifixes, applied red dots of paint to their hands (mocking the crucifixion marks of Jesus
Christ) in efforts to shock and offend the Christians gathered to rescue women and children from abortion. To the
tune of the song Hokie Pokie, they sang, "You put your crucifix in, you take your crucifix out . . ."
'This is unquestionably the lowest the Clinic Defense Alliance has ever stooped,' said Jeff White, Director of
Operation Rescue of California. 'Their members continually sexually assault our women, beat up our rescuers, and
now they blatantly mock our God. Their agenda has never been so clear. *If we were Jewish or Black, they would
have been arrested for hate crimes.'*
A female participant from Operation Rescue was assaulted from behind by a male Clinic Defender who simulated
sexual acts on the traumatized pro-lifer. An L.A.P.D. officer took him into custody. 'Tragically, this is just the most
recent assault that has happened to a pro-lifer. We have had dozens of cases of sexual assault from members of
Clinic Defense Alliance.'
White challenges Clinic Defense leader, Julie Schollenberger to sue him if even one word is untrue. 'I hope she
does,' said White. * 'We have more evidence of violence, hatred and sexual assault, and we will expose her and her
commitment to violence & sexual harassment.'"*
Source of allegation: Press release, Operation Rescue of California, 21 April 1992.
*July 25, 1992; Los Angeles, CA - Bibles burned, many assaults*
At a prayer vigil which 150 Christians attended, six militant pro-abortion activists dressed as the Virgin Mary and
carrying a six foot phallic-looking cross beat on drums, shouted obscenities, tore pages out of Bibles, ripped the
pages up, tossed them into the faces of the pastors and praying crowd, and called nuns "lesbians."
The Christians, following original plans, then walked three blocks to Women's Center abortion mill. There, the
pro-aborts began mocking God, screaming blasphemies, and assaulting Christians. One transsexual pro-abort
"woman," Connie Norman, repeatedly cursed and verbally attacked a Catholic priest with crude and offensive
language.
Then the pro-abortion group brought out a portable barbecue, placed a stack of Bibles on it, poured lighter fluid on
them, and ignited them.
The Los Angeles Police Department charged them with setting an illegal fire.
Though many Christians were physically assaulted at the church, the police did nothing about it.
When interviewed by the press, in an attempt to violate free-speech rights of the pro-life California Coalition
spokeswoman, homosexuals made sounds simulating sex and blasphemed the Lord.
The following Tuesday, members of the groups which were involved in the crimes and harassment appeared before
the Los Angeles Police Commission--not to apologize for their hate crimes, but to complain about their "unfair
treatment" at the hands of the police.
The pro-aborts were charged with an offense similar to setting a backyard fire. They were not convicted.
Source of allegation: "Pro-abortion demonstrators barbecue Bibles at prayer vigil outside abortion clinic," <Life
Advocate,> September 1992, 11.
*Late 1993; Los Angeles, CA - Assault, harassment, lewdness*
This was at Her Medical Clinic. Pro-life woman whose name I'll call Susan (for her protection), was in a dense crowd.
Suddenly Susan felt a man--one of the pro-abort's "big guys"--press against her. The man pushed his body tighter
and tighter against Susan's. She felt his hot breath on her neck as he hissed in her ear, "I bet you like that don't
you?" Then the man started making explicit sexual comments in her ear as he pushed against her. Another
pro-abort said, "She's one of those frigid ones." "The first pro-abort said, "I like 'em that way," and then he made
various sexual movements.
If this had happened at a U.S. Navy party, this would have been in your local newspaper.
Source of allegation: American Anti-Persecution League, December 1993 fundraising letter.
*July 20, 1993; Los Gatos, CA - Assault*
Pro-abort Charles Minster stomped on feet of Elizabeth Foster and hit her with his elbow. At the time Elizabeth was
legally and peacefully exercising her constitutional right to offer alternatives to abortion to a woman entering an
abortion clinic.
Case was dismissed due to lack of evidence.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
*July 7, 1994; Modesto, CA - Stalking*
Pro-abort was arrested for stalking, but charges were dropped. No other details are available.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 30 October 1994.
*Unknown date; Newhall, CA - Abortionist murders eight born babies*
Abortionist Milos Klvana was sentenced to 53 years in prison after being found *guilty* of the mass murder of eight
newborn babies. One must presume the babies were pro-life.
In an unrelated case, *In 1990, Abortionist Kenneth Edelin, convicted child killer (not pre-born child), was Chairman of
the Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.*
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*March 1989; Oakland, CA - Attempted murder*
Pro-abortionists attempted to kill a disabled pro-lifer by kicking him repeatedly in the head with heavy boots, even
after they had knocked him unconscious. Details can no longer be found.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*March 3, 1989; Oakland, CA - Spitting, shoving*
At Planned Parenthood, pro-aborts spit and shoved peaceful, legal pro-lifers. Police feared for the safety of pro-lifers.
*This is nothing unusual. Rescuers say that this happens at nearly every rescue. Furthermore, they say that,
just as at this rescue, the screaming and chanting by the pro-aborts is overwhelmingly loud. From
interviews with many pro-lifers, Life Research Institute has concluded that it would take dozens more pages
to list all the incidents where the pro-aborts spit and/or shoved pro-lifers!*
Source of allegation: Tom Vivian, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 12 October 1994.
*Summer(?), 1989(?); Pomona, CA - Butyric acid (or similar) attack into church at OR rally*
Details are no longer available. No one was charged with a crime.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, Blue Jay, CA.
*September 24, 1993; Redding, CA - Assault and battery*
During a legal, constitutionally protected picket, Pro-lifer Richard C. Rudolph was attacked at Women's Feminist
Health Center by abortionist Carl Serratt and others. According to a lawsuit 124449 filed by Richard on September
23, 1994 in Shasta County Superior Court, agents, servants, and employees committed the following acts: Grabbed
Richard; falsely made a citizen's arrest; stole picket signs; hit, kicked, struck, punched, and jumped on Richard.
Redding Police Department report number is 93-51505.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 20 December 1994.
*December 2, 1994; Redding, CA - Violent assault*
On this cold winter date, at Redding Women's Feminist Health Center, pastor Steven McCallister and his video
camera were soaked with a hose. Charges of disturbing the peace and violent assault were filed.
Quoting source: "Acts of Pro-Death persons trying to run Pro-Life people over with their cars, assaulted physically
and taken to the hospital, being spit on, stalked while protesting, having rocks, bottles, glass, nails and other things
thrown at us, churches vandalized, cars scratched and damaged, protest signs stolen, death threats by phone and in
person, harassing phone calls all times of the night, demeaning letters and many other acts of violence and
harassment have not stopped. This does not include the bold face lies told in court or to the police and media.
Also the Pro-Death people from the Clinic tax our police services by calling them out almost every time there is a
protest and yet never file or press charges of any kind for the intent purpose to intimidate, threaten and deny us the
freedom to speak, assembly and of religion.
If this goes unchecked, I believe that you will see Pro-Death people becoming more bold and they will eventually
shoot us as they have verbally threatened (we have tape recordings), hurt us with physical violence, run us over with
their cars (even a local reporter was mistaken for a pro-life person while doing a story and wrote an article
condemning the Pro-Death side for their violence.) They must be held accountable for their actions.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 20 December 1994.
*June 1993; Redding, CA - Assault*
This was at Redding Feminist Women's Health Center. Debbie McCallister, Walt Runyon were sprayed by debris
and almost hit by a truck driven by the assailant. A police report was filed.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 30 December 1994.
*July 1993; Redding, CA - Assault*
This was at Redding Feminist Women's Health Center. A man across the street from the clinic came to Ron Walters,
took his sign away from him, and beat him with it. Ron was taken to the doctor bleeding. A police report was filed.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 30 December 1994.
*Summer 1993; Redding, CA - Assault*
This was at Redding Feminist Women's Health Center. Steven McCallister was hit by an object thrown at him by a
clinic worker. A police report was filed.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 30 December 1994.
*November 1992; Sacramento, CA - Arson at a church*
Church next door to Alhambra abortion chamber had a fire set in the dumpster under the church window. Fire was
put out soon, but officials said if it had not been caught soon, the church would have burned down. ACT-UP was
demonstrating at another church that morning against the previous day's arson of the Alhambra abortion chamber.
The vigilante ACT-UP group had previously said they would burn down a church every time a clinic burned down.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue, Sacramento, CA.
*July 7, 1994; Sacramento, CA - Assault*
In a peaceful, legal picket, "Condom-man" blasted a radio to interfere with prayer and a woman dropped condoms at
the feet of Christians. "Condom-man" then yelled at those praying telling them to go home, that they aren't
Christians.
Pro-aborts then bounced inflated condoms off the heads of the Christians.
Source of allegation: Video taken by pro-life at scene. Life Research Institute has copy.
*Unknown date; Sacramento, CA - Assault*
At Alhambra Women's Center, pro-lifers were legally and peacefully singing to the Lord. Pro-aborts started using a
bull-horn directly into the ears of pro-lifers. The volume was so loud that it may have caused permanent ear damage.
Source of allegation: Law office of Cyrus Zal, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 7 November 1994.
*Several dates; Sacramento, CA - Christian coffee house windows broken* The coffee house name was Pilgrim's
Cafe. Murray Lewis (SOHLnet) said in a March 2, 1994 conversation with Tim Palmquist on the day after there were
several arsons against abortion clinics, that a Christian coffee house in middle of homosexual district in Sacramento
had stained glass windows broken. One of these acts against pro-life was the day after Bakersfield Family Planning
Associates arson; this happened three times. This was apparently a part of the threat where ACT-UP would burn
down a church every time a clinic burned down.
Depending on the reader's viewpoint on abortion, she could have any of the following thoughts: 1) Pro-life deserved
this if they burned clinics, 2) Each fire may not have been arson, 3) Any arson may not have been committed by
pro-life (pro-life certainly didn't invent arson), 4) The coffee house didn't deserve revenge because the coffee house
had nothing to do with pro-life activity, 5) The attacks on the coffee house were nothing less that vigilantism:
Someone decided she should replace the police, judge, jury, and jail and carry out "righteous" punishment.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue, Sacramento, CA.; Murray Lewis, telephone conversation with Tim
Palmquist, 2 March 1994.
*July 7, 1994; Sacramento, CA - Assault*
Pro-abort was arrested for assault. Charges were dropped. This was at Sacramento Feminist Women's Health
Center. No other information is available.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 30 October 1994.
*July 7, 1994; Sacramento, CA - Battery*
Pro-abort was arrested for battery for grabbing a pro-lifer in the groin area. Charges were dropped. This was at
Sacramento Feminist Women's Health Center. No other information is available.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 30 October 1994.
*May 12, 1990; San Bernardino, CA - Assault*
This was on Mother's Day. Witness Tamera Retino reports that Family Planning Associate's private guards trampled
on pro-lifers and that one pro-lifer's face was stepped on.
The source was in a video tape. The focus of the tape was on the police violence against pro-lifers that day. (See
table on that topic.) Because of that focus, perhaps there was much pro-abort violence against pro-life that wasn't
reported. Or perhaps the pro-aborts didn't feel they needed to be violent this time because the police were doing
such a complete job of being violent for them.
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, personal video recording of incident.
*May 5, 1990; San Jose, CA - Extreme assault, stalking*
This was at Family Planning Associates during a blockade by Operation Rescue. Pro-lifer Suzanne Summerhays
was sitting in front of one of the clinic doors. A pro-abort came along and sat on her head. This resulted in back
injuries, neck injury, and a dislocated shoulder. In her neck, one of her vertebrae became compressed to the point
that it was nearly a fracture which would have caused paralysis. In her back, a vertebra was dislocated from her ribs
and she had numerous torn ligaments. Doctor's reports show these injuries.
The assailant tried to flee. He first went into the clinic, and then came out in a disguise. His acquaintances tried to
sneak him away, but they got caught.
He was initially charged with felony battery, but this was decreased to misdemeanor battery. In the trial, a video was
shown of the assailant sitting on Suzanne's head, but the jury found him not guilty allegedly because they weren't
sure he was sitting on her head on purpose.
According to the victim, the lawyers rooted into every aspect of the victim's life, focusing on her beliefs and the beliefs
of her friends. Neither the lawyers nor the judge would allow any questions about her injuries. According to the
victim, the jury selection methods were very slanted toward abortion "rights."
The victim was a college student, studying nursing, and the incident occurred just prior to finals week.
Notwithstanding that her severe injuries would affect her scholastic ability, the pro-aborts began to stalk and harass
her. Unsavory-looking men appeared on campus trying to find where she lived. They questioned many students,
saying they wanted to find her to give her a gift. They also called her parents and showed up there to try to find her.
So she hid with friends. The victim's roommate, also fearing these unsavory-looking men, also had to move
temporarily to hide from them.
The victim's injuries were so severe that for a while it had been unclear whether she would be able to continue in
nursing school. The victim, now more than four years later, still has back pain on a regular basis, and the vertebra in
her neck goes out once or twice per year. Furthermore, pain from back spasms causes one hip to rise, and this
causes one leg to be higher than the other.
Because of the pro-abort harassment and the extreme prejudicial treatment which the victim received at the hands of
the "justice" system, she decided there was no point in suing.
The same assailant had been violent with other women elsewhere. At least once, he pushed an elderly women over.
He was also seen by Suzanne on television participating in the Rodney King riots and being arrested for this
participation.
Source of allegation: Suzanne Summerhays, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 29 October 1994.
*July 24, 1993; San Jose, CA - Assault, attempted kidnapping*
This was at Planned Parenthood. Pro-lifer Robert Collins was taping a girl to prevent pro-aborts from harming her.
They were trying to surround her to render the taping ineffective. So Robert moved in closer. This made them mad,
so they decided to remove him from the public sidewalk. Robert wrapped his arms around a pole, and the pro-aborts
hit his arms so that he would release the pole.
When the police arrived, Robert tried unsuccessfully to get them to enforce a citizen's arrest for the assault. The
pro-aborts made counter charges of sexual assault and more. (This is a typical ploy used to have charges against
them dropped.)
Source of allegation: Chet Gallagher and Robert Collins, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 12 October 1994.
*July 17, 1993, San Mateo, CA - Assault, kidnapping*
At Planned Parenthood, several pro-lifers were thrown to the ground. Several were picked-up and moved away from
the area. Legally, this is kidnapping, and, since it restricts liberty, legally it is false imprisonment. This is more than
opinion; this is law.
Source of allegation: Bill Newsome, personal video recording of incident, 17 July 1993.
*1989; San Rafael, CA - Sprayed urine, pushing, shoving*
Besides the usual pushing and shoving by the pro-aborts, this time one of them had a bottle of urine and sprayed
pro-lifers with it. It is not known what animal the urine was from.
Source of allegation: Tom Vivian, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 12 October 1994.
*Unknown date; Santa Ana, CA - Attempted butyric acid attack*
When Cardinal Mahoney was speaking, a pro-abort had a vial of butyric acid, but the vial broke when the pro-abort
was in the middle of a crowd of people & the evidence was all over the pro-abort's clothes.
An arrest was made, but it isn't known if he was convicted.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue of California, Blue Jay, CA.
*November 6, 1993; Santa Rosa, CA - Bucket of urine dumped*
This was at Women's Choice Clinic. Pro-abort Glenn Johnson dumped a bucket of urine where pro-lifers were
intending to legally and peace-fully picket. Apparently, the pro-abort didn't want mothers to know of any choice but his
own.
*It is interesting that the pro-aborts condemn men for speaking out against abortion, saying "it's none of a man's
business," but the pro-aborts never have difficulty using men to promote violence. Furthermore, almost all
abortionists are men.*
Source of allegation: Love Opincar, testimony to Life Legal Defense Foundation, 8 February 1994.
*1990(?); Silver Lake, CA - Church defaced*
This incident was similar to that described under "March 18, 1992; Los Angeles, CA." But this is a separate incident.
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, comments in personal video recording of March 18, 1992 incident, March 1992.
*1990; Stockton, CA - Assault*
While a rescuer blocked a Planned Parenthood clinic entrance, a grandmother escorting her daughter in to abort her
daughter's baby grabbed a sign from the rescuer, and then she hit the rescuer with the stick part of the sign.
Source of allegation: Law office of Cyrus Zal, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 7 November 1994.
*July 9, 1990; Torrance, CA - Painted obscenities, cross sculptured with used condoms, mattress with animal
intestines*
"On Sunday, July 9, 1990, the Catholic Church in Torrance, California, and the building housing the Los Angeles
Archdiocese were sprayed with obscene graffiti. *The vandals left a wooden cross festooned with used condoms and
a mattress stuffed with animal intestines outside the church. Police speculated that the animal entrails were the
products of Satanic rituals.*
The next day, an anonymous woman called the church, and proclaimed herself to be a member of 'Artists Against
Religious Oppression'. She warned the Catholic Church to 'stay out of politics' and to 'stop its oppression of women,
gays, and lesbians.'"
Source of allegation: Joseph Sobran, "Liberals Obsessed With Imaginary Dangers," <Conservative Chronicle,> 25 July
1990, 20, quoted in <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia,> (American Life League: Stafford, VA, 1993), p 19-8.
*June 6, 1981; Walnut Creek, CA - Assault*
This was at Planned Parenthood. Pro-lifer Raul Gomez was hit by one of the clinic staff, but Gomez was arrested
because the assailant said Gomez hit him.
Source of allegation: "Pickets slugged, then charged with 'trespass' at PP Clinic," <International Life Times,> 10 June
1981.
*1983; Walnut Creek, CA - Arson, $1,200 damage*
Office of California Right to Life was set on fire. Fire officials ruled it was arson. There were no suspects.
Source of allegation: Camille Giglio, President, California Right to Life, Pleasant Hill, CA.
*Denver, CO; October 5, 1994 - Kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment*
This was at Planned Parenthood in Denver. Picketers were in the habit of placing their signs and crosses in the right
of way. On September 6, 1994, Planned Parenthood got the opinion of their attorney that they could remove these.
Therefore, they did so five or six times in September.
On October 5 they, without any provocation, got illegally violent. Gary Jamieson, the number two person of Rocky
Mountain Planned Parenthood, and Mike Newell, a private investigator for Planned Parenthood (not a security guard
as the press reported), were the aggressors. When the picketers were picking up signs *to leave* anyway, Jamieson
and Newell came quickly down the sidewalk and pushed pro-lifer David Lane. Then, Newell pulled out a metal baton.
The two pro-aborts threw pro-lifer Terry Sullivan to the ground, and then Jamieson started hitting Terry with his fists.
So Terry grabbed his legs and took him to the ground. In the meantime *Newell hit Lane with his metal baton, and
then Newell hit pro-lifer Cliff Powell once on top of his head, once behind the head, and twice on his body. Powell
bled a lot, and Lane got a big gash requiring ten stitches and lost his sight in his left eye for a while.*
Newell then dragged and handcuffed Lane to the fence. This is called *kidnapping and false imprisonment*.
*Newell, a former Denver cop and big and burly, was carrying a concealed gun.* Both he and Jamieson were about 40
years old. Jamieson is also heavy-set.
All the pro-lifers had average builds. Lane was 24, Sullivan 56, and Powell 40.
None of the pro-lifers had weapons or struck any blows.
Two pro-life women, Bernadette and Dianne Cordova, tried to protect the men. *Dianne got hit on her arm by the
baton, and Jamieson slugged Bernadette.*
Pro-lifers Cliff, Dianne, and David were treated in an ambulance, and the pro-life men were taken to the hospital.
Then the cops came and released Lane from his illegal confinement to the fence.
Not related to this incident but extremely significant for background information is the apparent fact that several
Denver policemen are security guards at Planned Parenthood. Though off-duty from their police jobs while on-duty
for Planned Parenthood, they wear their Denver police uniforms.
Newell was a former cop with the Denver police, and his father either is or was a lieutenant with them. *Newell,
clearly a vicious aggressor, rode to the police station in the front seat of the police car.*
*The three pro-lifers who went to the hospital were chained to their beds there.*
No criminal charges were filed against anyone. Clearly, there were none to file against the pro-lifers, but there were
felony charges which should have been charged against the pro-aborts. The district attorney never even asked the
pro-lifers what had happened. Why the aggressors weren't charged is more complicated than just to say that Newell
was a former cop and his father either was one at the time or just previously.
The following shows why there was no justice. *Unfortunately, analogous situations prevail in many places time after
time across the nation.*
In Denver there has been a long history of collusion with Planned Parenthood. U.S. Senator Pat Schroeder was a
lawyer for Planned Parenthood before she got her political start. Governor Lamm and Schroeder attended and spoke
at the August, 1993 mass pro-abortion demonstration at Planned Parenthood to show support for Planned
Parenthood. The demonstration, which was in response to Pope John Paul II visiting town, included training for
hundreds of clinic defenders and it enlisted statements of support from the Denver City Council, state legislators, and
congressional representatives.[1] As a result of this giant public display of political correctness and political power, the
judges and DA's must also be politically correct--or their careers will be ended.
Furthermore, since the liberal Democrats are in power, the judges and DA's are appointed and/or supported by the
liberal Democrats. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League throws parties for the Denver
Democrats and funds their election campaigns.
Naturally, appointments and support go only to those who are pro-abortion. The radical feminists have imposed on
the national Democratic Party what is called a litmus test. This means that nobody is allowed to get to power unless
he or she acts pro-abortion. And if you're in power already, you'd better act pro-abortion or your career will be ended.
Thus, accountability is not to justice, but to the pro-aborts.
Denver has the additional problem of having two board members and one former board member of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America living nearby. Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the governing body
of all the Planned Parenthoods in the U.S. One board member, Alfred J. Dietsch, lives in Aspen. The Second Vice
Chairperson, Joe Louis Barrow, Jr., lives in Denver.[2]
The former board member is none other than Timothy Wirth, Clinton's Under Secretary for Global Affairs (State
Department office). Wirth spearheaded Clinton's/Planned Parenthood's attack on families during the 1993 Population
Conference in Cairo, Egypt.[3]
Governor Lamm, by the way, in 1993 won "The Humanist of the Year" award from the American Humanist
Association for doing the most in 1993 to spread the doctrine of Humanism.[4] Included in this doctrine is "We affirm
that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational needing no
theological sanction. . ."[5] I.e., there is no God; murder is okay if man says so. Lamm is a man. Lamm was a man in
charge of a state.
Footnotes:
1. <Annual Report: 1993-1994>, Planned Parenthood of America, 1994, 19.
2. Ibid, 24.
3. "Humanists of the Year," <The Ryan Report,> December 1994, 2.
4. "A Look Back at Cairo," <The Ryan Report,> December 1994, 6.
5. <Humanist Manifesto.>
Source of violence allegation: Terry Sullivan, victim, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 15 October 1994.
*January 25, 1994; Bridgeport, CT - Macing*
Peaceful pro-lifers Carmen Vazquez and Stanley Scott were maced by a patient. The head escort at clinic
encourages patients to carry mace.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 1 December 1994.
*July 22, 1990; Greenwich, CT - Abortionist dumps bucket of urine and feces on pro-lifer's head*
"On July 22, 1990, abortionist Stephen Kaali, the owner of New York's Women's Medical Pavilion, arrived at his
Greenwich, Connecticut home to find a legal, peaceful pro-life picket in progress. Police had just left the picket site,
and Kaali pulled up alongside picketer Carol Centonze in a pickup truck and dumped a bucket of urine and feces on
her head, saying 'This is all for you, honey.' He was arrested for 'breach of peace.'" This was obviously
premeditated. Why else would someone be carrying a bucket of urine and feces around?
Source of allegation: "An Abortionist Shows His True Colors," <ALL News,> 11 September 1990, 6, quoted in <Pro-Life
Activist's Encyclopedia,> (American Life League: Stafford, VA, 1993), p 9-10.
*March 1975; Washington, DC - Murder, kidnapping, perjury*
Abortionist Robert Sherman was tried for murder after killing 16-year old Rita McDowell. Rita was pro-life for her own
life.
Do not let the abortion industry complain about illegal, back-alley abortions. *Sherman ran a legal back-alley
clinic--and there are many, many of these still around today because the various state "health" departments will not
fund inspections.*
Sherman was not convicted of murder, but this was because of legal technicalities of the trial, because witnesses
were too tired of testifying, and because he pleaded guilty in a plea-bargain to perjury. *He was convicted of sixteen
counts of perjury and nine counts of subordination of perjury* (forcing others to perjure), all regarding his murder trial.
Many of these convictions were felonies.
His legal, back-alley clinic--a place where pro-aborts would say one could get a safe, legal abortion--was located four
blocks from the White House. His legal, back-alley clinic, is a place where pro-lifers would want to picket, and a clinic
the entrance of which they would want to block. Now, because of the <Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of
1994>, it would be a felony to block them. That is, it would be a felony to try to stop the following:
Quoting from sources listed below: ". . . the prosecution contends that Sherman 'deliberately performed incomplete
abortions, used unclean instruments, and allowed unqualified personnel to perform medical procedures at his clinic.'"
"Testimony during the eight-week trial revealed that Sherman deliberately performed partial abortions and then asked
patients to return for a second procedure at additional cost."
"Sherman advised [a 15-year old girl (not the one he was on trial for killing)] that this second procedure would cost
between $300 and $500. The patient's sister, who was also called as a witness, informed jurors that when she told
Sherman they didn't have the money, Sherman gave her a plastic garbage bag and said that the patient would
probably abort on the way back to Delaware where she lived. She testified that Sherman asked her to dispose of
'any products of the abortion in the Chesapeake Bay as they made their way home over the Bay Bridge.'"
"Preterm [a different clinic from Sherman's and a witness provider at Sherman's trial] while one of the least
scandalized of local abortion outfits, has nonetheless been the recipient of eight major malpractice suits in recent
years."
"Sherman reused disposal instruments from patient to patient--sometimes still covered with the blood of previous
patients . . ."
". . . instruments were soaked in a water-filled 'boiler box' that was crusted with blood clots and pieces of tissue."
"Sherman has been the defendant in at least 30 medical malpractice suits, many of which are still pending. He has
been blamed in two other patient deaths, but no criminal charges have been filed against him in those cases."
"According to a government sentencing memorandum and affidavits from numerous former patients, Sherman
performed abortions on patients who had not even been told they were pregnant; he advised at least one woman that
the procedure would help prevent a miscarriage, and he forcibly confined another woman for three days in his clinic
and at the home [kidnapping?] of an employee before manually yanking a five-month-old fetus from her womb."
"The series of affidavits also reveals that Sherman had a lucrative abortion practice as early as 1967, several years
before abortion was legalized . . ."
Thus, we see that the legalization of abortion did not change back-alley killing centers into warm, comfortable,
respectable, women's-help clinics.
One prominent pro-lifer noted: "Thank God for Operation Rescue and the other pro-lifers. Because the states
constantly refuse to inspect Killing Centers, mothers have no one else to act in their behalf."
Source of allegation: Elizabeth Moore, "Trial of D.C Abortionist For Murder," <National Right to Life News,> December
1978, 3; "Abortionist Sentenced," <National Right to Life News,> October 1979; "Sherman Forced Abortions," <National
Right to Life News,> October 1979.
*April 4, 1992; Washington, DC - Assault, desecration of crosses*
At a pro-life vigil at Hillcrest, pro-life leader Joe Scheidler was beaten by eight men and four women. Then, Queer
Nation types broke down a fence and destroyed many of the 2,200 crosses erected to memo-rialize the 2,200 baby
girls killed daily by abortion in the U.S. The dictionary, in its definition of woman, includes girls. The desecra-tion was
therefore anti-feminist. The feminists, instead of destroy-ing the crosses, should have erected them.
The 2,200 crosses covered an area the size of two football fields.
Memorials on the site represent the deaths of 229 grown women who, according to government records, *died from
legal abortion.*
Source of allegation: "League Counters NOW Rally, Joins Pro-Life Vigil," <Pro-Life Action News,> June 1992, 1.
*April 1988; Fort Lauderdale, FL - Abortionist rapes wife; abortionist forcibly aborts wife. Invades privacy.
Anti-choice*
Abortionist Theodore Lehrer was charged with forcibly aborting his wife against her will after raping her, handcuffing
her and tying her to a table. His wife was pro-life for her own baby.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in Leslie Bond, "Abortionist Charged for Aborting Wife Against Her Will," <National Right to Life
News,> 23 June 1988, 9.
*Approx July 1989; Fort Lauderdale, FL - Bullhorn struck from mouth*
Pro-abort struck a bullhorn from mouth of pro-lifer. Another pro-abort stuck her own "keep abortion safe and legal"
sign into the face of a baby and said, "Here baby, read this!"
Source of allegation: Letters to the Editor, <Sun Sentinel,> 16 September 1989.
*May 19??; Fort Lauderdale, FL - Assault with intent to commit murder*
Pro-abortion but anti-choice Patte Martin knew that pro-lifer Jennie Drake was pregnant. Nonetheless, allegedly
Martin slugged Drake in the uterus.
One witness testified that Martin had said that she (Martin) "would destroy that girl." Other witnesses testified that
Martin did strike Drake. Pro-abort Bill Baird testified that Martin slipped and accidentally struck Drake. Baird also
testified that he was not a clinic owner, but Baird owns three abortion businesses. The verdict was "not guilty."
The article/source also said that another time, Martin actually drove her car over the curb towards Mrs. Drake.
Source of allegation: Unknown, but more information can be found by contacting Women Exploited by Abortion, P. O.
Box 2227, Casselberry, FL 32707.
*Summer 1991; Fort Walton Beach, FL - Attempted murder*
Several pro-life picketers were at Family Planning, Inc. They were legally and peacefully picketing on the public
sidewalk at the street. Bob Brady, Randy Hinesley, Vicky Hinesley, and the Hinesley's two children, ages 2 and 3,
were assaulted with a car with intent to murder. A pro-abort, Robin Howser, charged her car into these pro-lifers
where the clinic driveway crossed the sidewalk. If Randy had not pushed the baby carriage out of the way, his
children would have been murdered.
The state attorney was very pro-abortion. The pro-abortion assailant was arrested only for reckless driving (and this
was after one full week), and the state attorney constantly pressured the Hinesleys to reduce the charges even
further. Finally, the Hinesleys did, and then the state attorney dropped those charges. (Apparently, the initial
charges were too serious to drop legally.)
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*Spring, 1993; Fort Walton Beach, FL - Assault*
This was at a rescue at Family Planning, Inc. At the time of the assault, all clinic doors were blockaded but rescuers
were letting people out of the clinic. Vicky Hinesley was video-taping in a vain attempt to reduce the risk of
pro-abortion violence and to provide evidence to the courts if there would be violence by the pro-aborts or false
accusations against pro-lifers. It is rare that pro-lifers don't take these necessary precautions.
In this case, the precautions were ineffective in preventing violence. A pro-abort, Darryl Day, came out of the clinic
and pushed some people and struck an elderly woman named Norvell. When pro-lifers told pro-abort Day he was
being taped, he struck Vicky with his fist and also destroyed her camera.
Unfortunately for Day, the pro-lifers had three other cameras taping the incident. The Sheriff was on the scene, but
nonetheless Day tried to escape. He got in his truck, and in his mad flight from the scene of his crimes *he ran over
the ankles of a 17-year-old boy.*
Since the state attorney was pro-abortion, attempting to flee was hardly necessary: Day was allowed to plea guilty to
battery and was fined approximately $50 plus the cost of the camera.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*October 10, 1994; Fort Walton Beach - Assault*
Life Chain is an annual international event where the entire activity is legally and peacefully lining streets with people
carrying signs such as "Abortion Kills Children" and "Abortion Hurts Women." At this Life Chain, a broken soda bottle
was thrown at a 74-year old man. The bottle could have hit his eyes or throat, but didn't. The man wasn't cut, but he
was bruised.
In the U.S. alone in 1992, the last year a Life Chain count was made, participation was 1,000,000 or more.
Source of allegation: Bennett Luke, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 7 December 1994.
*February 13, 1993; Gainesville(?), FL - Arson*
Much publicity has been given to the shooting of Florida abortionist David Gunn. However, one month before Gunn
was shot, the Right To Life office in Gainesville, Florida was torched. The act of arson to the Right To Life Office
failed to be covered in the papers outside of that state. Carole Griffin spoke accurately in saying, 'If that had been an
abortion clinic, it would have been all over everywhere'.
There were no suspects.
This is the fourth incident of arson, vandalism, or theft in two years.
Source of allegation: <Life Issues Connector,> August 1994, 3.
*Probably October, 1989; Kissimmee, FL - Aggravated assault*
Pro-choice demonstrator, Carl Carlander was arrested for striking a pro-life marcher, Ron Martin, in the face with a
video camera.
Source of allegation: "Senate panel kills attempts at restrictions," <Palm Beach Post,> probably October 1989, probably
page 1.
*1991 - 1994; Mary Esther, FL - Stalking and harassment*
Pro-abort Linda George stalked Randy Hinesley and several of his employees. Randy owns a maintenance
company, so he and his employees go from site-to-site to do maintenance work.
The pro-abort stalked to learn where some of the sites were, and upon learning she sent pornographic material to the
sites allegedly at the "courtesy" of Randy. The bills for the material went, of course, to Randy.
Also, a large number porno subscriptions and mail-order merchandise items, including sex toys, started showing up
at the Hinesley home--all charged to the Hinesleys.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*Spring 1994; Mary Esther, FL - Stalking + ?????*
Pro-abort Linda George went to the home of Randy and Vicky Hinesley deliberately when Randy wasn't home. The
pro-abort was wearing a trench coat, hood, and shades. As she rang the doorbell, Randy arrived at home. The
pro-abort was caught and questioned, but released without being charged.
Had this been a pro-lifer stalking an abortionist, it would have made the front pages of newspapers across the nation.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*September 1994; Mary Esther, FL - Attempted murder*
A car owned by pro-life activists Randy and Vicky Hinesley was tampered with at their home. Lug nuts (which hold
tire rims onto the car) were loosened down to the last threads. This was during the darkness of night on the one
wheel where the lighting was too poor for likely observation of this dark deed.
Besides wanting to murder Randy and Vicky Hinesley, the criminal apparently also wanted to murder their two small
children. Otherwise, he would have chosen a more precise method of targeting.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*October 1994; Mary Esther, FL - Attempted murder*
A Ford van owned by pro-life activists Randy and Vicky Hinesley was tampered with at their home. A tie rod (which
is a part of the steering mechanism) was removed. This was during the darkness of night on the side of the car
where the lighting was too poor for likely observation of this dark deed.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*September 27, 1993; Melbourne, FL - Aggravated assault*
This was at Aware Woman Center for Choice. Four pro-life legal, peaceful picketers were almost killed by a
pro-abort driving a black Ford Bronco II. The driver approached them at a high rate of speed and swerved away at
the last moment. The license plate was covered with paper and tape.
Although the pro-lifers knew enough to enable the police to find the truck owner, the pro-lifers were unable to pick the
owner out in a line-up. (It can be pretty hard to focus on who the driver is when you have to get out of the way of a
speeding truck.) Thus, no charges were filed.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 27 November 1994.
*May 19, 1990; Miami, FL - Threat with deadly weapon*
Nationwide, this was a day of pro-life protest against the media prejudice in favor of abortion. In Miami, about 25
pro-lifers were legally and peacefully picketing <The Miami Herald> when one to three (depending on who you believe)
pointed guns at the pro-lifers. At least one of the assailants was wearing a <Miami Herald> T-shirt. Eileen Lichwiarz
told police one of the assailants began waving what she called a black, 9 mm handgun in the air, then pointed it at
her and said: "This is my point of view--this is your choice."
The protest was called to criticize the newspaper for using terms such as "anti-abortion" instead of "pro-life" in
stories, for underestimating crowd totals at movement rallies, and for not giving enough coverage to the abortion
issue--and for not reporting incidents such as those found in this table and for reporting allegations by pro-aborts
without verifying their accuracy!
Perhaps this is an example of the validity of the protest: <The Miami Herald> reported one assailant; pro-lifers report
three.
Pro-lifers feel that the secular media is a major tool of the pro-abortion movement.
Source of allegation: Brian Rotzlante; Operation Rescue National's "Violence and Disruption Report," 4 December
1994; "'Pro-life'" protesters report man pointed gun at them," <The Miami Herald,> 20 May 1990, 4B.
*December 28, 1992; Miami, FL - Breaking and entering, burglary, vandalism, attempted desecration*
Human Life International's office was broken into and vandalized. $7,500 worth of equipment and money was stolen.
An attempted was made to destroy a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
*August 8, 1994; Miami, FL - Mass murder threat*
Five days after the July 29, 1994 shootings in Pensacola, a caller to a Catholic parish in the Miami Archdiocese
threatened to *kill 10 priests for each person killed in front of an abortion clinic.* Apparently, this wasn't reported by the
secular press.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*Unknown date; University of Miami, FL - Breaking and entering, destruction of property, invasion of privacy,
restriction of freedom of speech, restriction of freedom of press*
A group of radical pro-abortion, anti-choice feminist, pro-abortion women broke into the editorial offices of the student
newspaper at the University of Miami on March 28[th]. They destroyed 10,000 copies of a pro-life advertising
supplement that was to be distributed inside of newspapers the following week by pouring dye and paint on the
copies. This group, calling itself POW or 'P---ed-Off Women,' faxed a statement to the student newspaper, <The
Hurricane, >taking responsibility.
Life Research Institute's comments: Since counseling in abortion clinics is basically a sham when it is even offered, it
is a fact that clinics don't offer choices: They offer abortions. *The above incident merely emphasizes the anti-choice
attitude of many pro-aborts: Don't let anyone know of alternative choices. Furthermore, the incident was an act of
bigoted censorship and was full of hate of those with traditional, Christian viewpoints.*
Source of allegation: <Life Issues Connector,> August 1994, 3.
*October 1992; Midland, FL - Attempted assassination of politically incorrect Republican*
Pro-abortion Democrat Eric Capun fired five shots through the window of the home of his political opponent, pro-life
Republican Robert Stark, wounding Stark's wife Judith.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*May 8, 1993; Pensacola, FL - Desecration of graves and statue*
After a national rally by abortion-rights activists, two graves of two aborted children were desecrated, and a
world-famous pro-life statue was destroyed.
The site, next to an abortion mill, is where Florida pro-life activ-ists buried the remains of two aborted children. (In
many areas abortion mills put them in garbage disposals or dumpsters.) But a spokeswoman from National
Organization "for" Women called the *burial*, not the desecration, "the grossest assault against women ever
perpetrated." Pro-life wonders why NOW doesn't feel that ripping apart baby girls is grosser.
The statue is entitled <Rachel Mourning.> The inscription comes from the Bible: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting
and weeping bitterly: It is Rachel weeping for her children, because they are no more." The head of the statue was
knocked completely off its shoulders. Perhaps the pro-aborts were trying to re-enact the daily crushing of skulls in
the wombs of women across the nation.
In a group prayer meeting at the statue, Christians prayed for the nation and community to turn to God, and they
prayed for the family of murdered abortionist David Gunn.
Source of allegation: "Media Release," Our Father's House, Inc., 17 May 1993; "Prayers for unborn ascend from
vandalized memorial," <Pensa-cola News Journal,> 9 May 1993.
*1986(?); Port Charlotte, FL - Vehicular assault*
Legal, peaceful pro-life picketer, Theresa Knight, was struck by a car in the presence of her two children. The
assailant was Dr. Cyze, an "eye doctor" who owned the facility which the abortion clinic rented.
Theresa didn't press charges because she wasn't injured and didn't want the hassle.
Source of allegation: Theresa Knight, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 10 December 1994.
*1993 and other years; Sarasota, FL - Assault*
Perhaps this incident shouldn't be listed--it is perhaps to common to include. Elderly John Hungerman had a carton
of eggs broken over his head, and many times has had water balloons and other objects thrown at him. These
actions by pro-aborts against pro-lifers are extremely common.
Source of allegation: John Hungerman, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 11 December 1994.
*March 18, 1994; Sarasota, FL - Weapons possession, possibly stalking*
Various quotes from articles/sources: "Two men, armed with submachine guns, shotguns, Mace, and semi-automatic
pistols, wearing bullet-proof vests, spend several hours photographing and videotaping pro-life protesters at the
Sarasota Womens Health Center abortuary on March 18."
"The weapons were discovered in the process of questioning the men, Robert Thrasher, 35, and Albert London, 45,
who had arrived in a red and white Chevrolet Suburban.
One of the two officers on the scene say what he called 'gun-type carrying cases' in the back of the vehicle. Upon
searching, he found an HK MP5AZ fully automatic 9mm machine gun, a Remington 12 gauge pump shotgun, a Sig
Sauer P228, 9mm, semi-automatic pistol, a Ruger P101 .357 magnum revolver, a Colt .45 caliber semi-automatic
pistol, a Sphinx AT380M .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol, and an American Arms 22 magnum revolver.
All the weapons had rounds in the chambers and most were in the cocked position."
"Both men claimed that they were 'just doing a favor' for abortionist W. Phillip Keene who works at the clinic. Keene
confirmed the story."
"Police released the men with only a trespass warning."
Imagine the press this one would have gotten if the men had been pro-life!
Source of allegation: The pro-life organization, Legal Action for Women, 800 962 2319. Also, Rick Barry, <The Tampa
Tribune,> 29 March 1994, 1; Mike Spencer, <Sarasota Herald-Tribune,> 29, March 1994; Mike Spencer, <Sarasota
Herald-Tribune,> 30, March 1994; also Sarasota Police Services Bureau, "Offense Incident Report," 18 March 1994.
*May 10, 1994; Sarasota, FL - Battery*
At Sarasota Womens Health Center, deathscort Judy Kulman attacked legal, peaceful pro-lifer picketer, John
Lightner, hitting him and breaking his sign. His sign said "Malpractice Is Not Legal."
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 4 December 1994.
*May 12, 1994; Sarasota, FL - Vehicular assault*
At Sarasota Womens (Women's?) Health Center, pro-lifer John J. Hungerman, was legally and peacefully picketing.
He heard a car coming and looked into the driver's face and saw him laughing. As the driver tried to hit John, John
sidestepped, but he was hit anyway. John said in the police report, "If I had froze and not taken the step back I would
have been killed as the driver tried to do. I thank God for His [God's] care."
The assailant also brushed the clothing of two other pro-lifers on his way to hit John.
A photograph clearly depicts the tracks of the tires off the driveway and on the grassy area and thus clearly indicates
that the driver left the driveway in an effort to strike Mr. Hungerman and the other protesters.
The "justice" system dismissed the case, saying the driver was only joking, and then, for John's continuing legal
picketing on May 17, fined him $50 for having an "illegal" picket sign. The sign said "Babies Killed Here."
Source of allegation: John Hungerman, Operation Rescue National's, "Violence and Disruption Report," 4 December
1994.
*1978 - Now; Tallahassee, FL - Intimidation with speeding vehicles*
Clinic works and escorts often speed into driveways at both Tallahassee clinics to intimidate legal, peaceful picketers
who are located near entrances. This happens approximately four times per month. One result is that picketers no
longer bring their children. Evidently, children are in danger at abortion clinics.
Source of allegation: Carole Griffin, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 2 December 1994
*1987; Tallahassee, FL - Assault with a deadly weapon*
A Clinic defender attacked legal, peaceful pro-life picketer Carole Griffin with a running, gasoline-powered lawn
mower. The type was rotary, where the blades are like a helicopters'.
The police were called, and they stopped him but didn't arrest him.
Source of allegation: Carole Griffin, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 2 December 1994
*1987; Tallahassee, FL - Assault*
A pro-abort ripped a picket sign from the hands of a peaceful pro-life pastor, tore the stick off it, and beat the pastor
with the stick.
The police were already at the site, and when the police tried to arrest the pro-abort, the pro-abort and two other
pro-aborts attacked the police. Subsequently, the pro-aborts charged the police with police brutality. Apparently, the
pro-aborts didn't know that pro-lifers were taking pictures (pro-lifers generally do). Because of the pictures and
pro-life witnesses, the police were exonerated.
Source of allegation: Carole Griffin, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 2 December 1994
*Summer of 1988; Tallahassee, FL - Shooting, multiple attempted murders, nineteen death threats, vandalism*
Carole Griffin, president of Tallahassee Florida Right to Life, is a visible pro-life activist. The paint on her car was
ruined with chemicals, and the windows of her car and home have been shot out. But read on--your newspaper
wouldn't carry a story like this (it's anti- pro-life), so this is the only place you can learn about this.
One summer day, when Carole was very tired from taking care of her dying husband, she was taking a nap on a float
in her swimming pool. She was awakened by something crawling in her hair. This turned out to be a *sixteen-inch
water moccasin. Another twelve-inch water moccasin was found in her pool.* Carole said she hasn't seen a water
moccasin in seventeen years, and one never finds more than one at a time. She said water moccasins normally
attack when disturbed, but the one in her hair fled.
*During the last three months of her husband's terminal cancer, her family received nineteen telephone death threats
from the same man.*
Aside from that, a caller left a message in her Right to Life office saying, "Who would want to work for you, you
scum?" Very near to the office a vandal wrote, *"Die you scum."*
*Six days after Carole's husband died, she found a three to four foot rattle snake trapped between her sliding glass
door and screen.* This was the only time she has seen a poisonous snake at her home except in these acts of
attempted murder.
Source of allegation: Carole Griffin, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 2 December 1994
*May 19, 1990; Atlanta, CA - Assault*
This was on pro-life's National Day of Truth protesting the secular media's bias on the abortion issue. (See snake
incident above.) Pro-lifers, believing that the secular media is a major tool of the pro-abortion movement, picketed
the media nationwide.
On this day in Atlanta, approximately 100 pro-lifers were quietly and legally picketing <The Atlanta Journal &
Constitution.> Quiet and legal picketing is constitutionally protected.
About seven pro-abortionists clad in costumes arrived and shouted slogans such as "A raped woman is a blessed
woman," "Kill Jesus not women," "and "Kill fetuses not women." Many of the seven bragged about their
homosexuality.
During a later press conference, the pro-abortionists began shoving and assaulting the pro-lifers, including several
women. (Perhaps they thought they were blessing them.)
One TV station, perhaps showing that the pro-lifers are right about biased reporting, actually said that the sodomites
were pro-lifers.
Perhaps another example of bias is that <The Atlanta Journal & Constitution> reported a total of 40 protesters from both
sides of the issue, but pro-lifers reported 100 pro-lifers alone.
The pro-aborts were arrested for assault.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 4 December 1994; Richard
Greer, "Police cite 3 protesters in downtown scuffle over abortion," <The Atlanta Journal & Constitution,> 20 May 1990,
D-9.
*July 7, 1993; Dunwoody, GA - Assault*
An pro-abortion, anti-choice, anti free-speech driver of a car beat Paul Fergus, 71, with Fergus's picket sign. Fergus,
being prepared as pro-lifers obviously should be, warded off his attacker with Mace.
The pro-abort was a mortgage banker named Joel Marks. He was charged with assault and theft-by-taking.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*May 1992; Des Moines, IA - Five assaults, one vandalism, two contempts of court, one Mace threat*
The article/source for this presents the information much like this: Abortionist Herbert Remer assaults pro-lifers on
three occasions. His daughter, Sarah, who has a black belt in karate, struck first-time picketer Gaylord Victoria. The
abortionist and his wife are being charged with contempt for ignoring a subpoena. Abortionist hosed pro-lifers David
Shedlock and Judy Maki. Another time the abortionist bloodied Shedlock's lip, did $300 damage to his car, and
threatened him with Mace. In February, 1992, the abortionist stomped on the knee of rescuer Carol Douglas.
Source of allegation: "Abortionist assaults pro-lifer," <Life Advocate,> July 1993.
*August, 1975; Chicago, IL - Assault*
At Concord Medical Center, pro-lifer Laura Canning was struck by an abortionist.
Source of allegation: "Illinois RTL group does battle with personnel at Chicago clinic," <National Right to Life News,>
May 1976.
*1976; Chicago, IL - Assault*
Pro-life leader Joe Scheidler sustained *permanent eye damage* when an abortion security guard shoved Joe's
camera into his eye.
Source of allegation: "Illinois RTL group does battle with personnel at Chicago clinic," <National Right to Life News,>
May 1976.
*August 15, 1981; Chicago, IL - Assault and battery*
At Michigan Avenue Medical Center, pro-abort Ida Garcia, an abortion clinic worker, attacked pro-lifers Julie Skokna
and John McCartney.
*The pro-abort was found guilty on three counts of assault and battery.*
Source of allegation: "Abortion Clinic Worker Guilty," <Register,> 31 January 1982.
*August 8, 1981; Chicago, IL - Assault*
Two pro-lifers were burned with chemicals sprayed on them during a protest at Michigan Avenue Medical Center.
Source of allegation: "2 injured by disabling chemical during protest at abortion clinic," <Chicago Tribune,> Section 3,
17.
*Spring, 1984; Chicago, IL - Vandalism*
Pro-Life Action League office was vandalized, windows were broken, tar and paint was thrown on walls.
Source of allegation: Partial list of incidents provided to Life Research Institute, 20 December 1994.
*1985; Chicago, IL - Battery*
Pro-life activist Brian Pabich was assaulted by Leonard Nelson, a clinic administrator.
Source of allegation: John Lucadamo, "2 at abortion clinic acquitted of battery," <Chicago Tribune, 9 April 1991;> Tim
Murphy, "Abortion Clinic Administrator and Wife Charged With Battery," <The Wanderer,> 4 October 1990. (Wife's
charge was for different incident.)
*January 25, 1985; Chicago, IL - Fire and bomb threat and much more*
This is a word-for-word quote from press release from source listed:
"(CHICAGO) -- An anonymous letter received at the office of the Pro-Life Action League January 25 asked, *"How
would you like it if your place has a big fire or gets bombed?"*
The letter was postmarked January 21 but bore the address of the League's former office, 6369 N. LeMai Avenue.
The League moved out of that office in June, 1984, when the landlord would not renew its lease due to damage done
to the office on numerous occasions.
That office had had rocks thrown through the windows, glass cutters had sliced large pane windows, buckets of black
tar had been thrown on the facade and *dead animals* had been left at the doorstep. The League has received many
personal threats, but this was the first threat of a bombing or fire.
The League Director, Joseph M. Scheidler, reported the bomb threat to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
at 230 South Dearborn Street."
Source of allegation: Press release, Pro-Life Action League, 25 January 1985.
*December 12, 1986; Chicago, IL - Bomb threat*
The Crisis Pregnancy Center was phoned by a man asking where they were. After being answered he said, "Thank
you very much. I'm going to deliver a bomb there."
Source of allegation: "Bomb Threat," <New Life Crier,> January 1986.
*1990s(?); Chicago, IL - Extreme perversion, blasphemy*
Activists from ACT-UP, a radical, pro-homosexual and pro-abortion group, invaded Armitage Baptist Church during a
sermon. They attempted to place condoms in an offering plate. Ushers escorted them out and turned them over to
police. The church had been legally and peacefully picketing a local abortuary weekly for three years.
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1.
*August 25, 1990; Chicago, IL - Battery, attempted kidnapping, interfering with police*
This was at Women's Aid Clinic at a rescue. Quoting from source below: "Leonard Nelson, an administrator . . .
turned on the rescuers and began to push and shove them, demanding that they get 'the hell away from the door
Nelson was joined by his wife who also shoved, kicked, and scratched a number of rescuers. Mrs. Nelson attempted
to drag one girl, a first-time rescuer, away from the door by her hair."
"While the police were trying to remove the pro-lifers from the doors, the Nelsons interfered with the arrests by
pushing and shoving the rescuers. The police . . . ordered them back to their office. The Nelsons went back [but] . . .
returned yelling and screaming to repeat the scenario."
The Nelsons were arrested, but they were acquitted. The judge said, "[the] statute permits use of 'reasonable force'
when a person believes it is necessary to prevent or terminate trespassing" and "Obviously, the force was not
unreasonable because it got no results." The judge obviously needs a course in logic.
"Nelson, incidentally, is no stranger to controversy. In 1978 <The Chicago Sun-Times> 'abortion profiteers' series
reported that Nelson referred women over 12 weeks pregnant to a Detroit abortionist who, according to a former
patient, kept a dog in the surgical room, *lapping blood off the floor."*
"Since 1974 [till September, 1990] [Women's Aid Clinic] has been sued for abortion-related medical malpractice at
least 24 times."
"Sidewalk counselors at the Rescue, armed with summary sheets of the *24 malpractice suits, copies of coroners'
reports,* and reprints of <The Chicago Sun-Times> 'abortion profiteers' expose, were able to dissuade three
abortion-bound mothers from entering. . . ."
*The new <Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994> makes it a felony to do this. A better name for the law
would be <The Felony Life Saving Law.>*
Source of allegation: Tim Murphy, "Minuteman Rescue Targets Suburban Chicago Mill," <The Wanderer, >20
September 1990.
*March 16, 1991 (date case filed); Chicago, IL - Battery on child*
Fourteen-year-old pro-lifer Kelly Fedele, according to court reports, was intentionally and without legal justification,
poked about the left eye with a wooden stick. Pro-abort Gordon McGrew was arrested.
Source of allegation: Court records, Case 91MC1 - 260555, Circuit Court of Cook County, IL, 16 March 1991.
*September 28, 1991; Chicago, IL - Assault*
At American Women's Medical Group, several pro-aborts shoved and punched pro-lifer Jerry McGloughlin. Police
would not take action against assailant, but committed illegal violence against pro-lifers. See Investigation IV.
Source of allegation: Tim Murphy, "Rescuers Grind Chicago Mill To a Halt," <Life Advocate,> November 1991, 5.
*December 1991; Chicago, IL - Vandalism*
The offices of Pro-Life Action League were vandalized. *Windows were shot.*
Source of allegation: "Pro-Life Action League's Office Vandalized For Second Time," <The Wanderer,> 22 July 1993.
*July 7, 1992; Chicago, IL - Bibles desecrated*
This was on the porch of pro-life leader Joe Scheidler's home. Ob-scenities, vulgarities, *blasphemies,* and insults
were written in black and red magic marker on the front covers, the spine, the sides, and random pages inside each
of several *Bibles*. The titles had been marked out and were substituted with nonsensical statements such as "Holy
Babble."
Source of allegation: "Pro-Life Action League's Office Vandalized For Second Time," <The Wanderer,> 22 July 1993.
*September 20, 1992; Chicago, IL - Vandalism*
Pro-life leader Joe Scheidler's home was picketed and vandalized by pro-abortion demonstrators from Refuse and
Resist while the Scheidler family was away. The garage was spray-painted with pro-abortion slogans. The house
was covered with pro-abortion stickers and magic-marker graffiti.
Source of allegation: Partial list of incidents provided to Life Research Institute, 20 December 1994.
*November 7, 1992; Chicago, IL - Vehicular assault*
At Albany Medical Surgical Center, which specializes in killing babies older than six months, pro-abort Bruno Canale
ran over the feet of several rescuers.
When a television interview began, the pro-aborts surrounded the interviewers and pro-life leaders screamed and
chanted obscenities repeatedly in order to stifle free speech and information on choices. Several pro-aborts shoved
Joe Scheidler and attacked the TV stations van. Police ordered Scheidler and his wife to leave for their own safety
and escorted them away.
Police arrested six pro-aborts including four wearing masks.
Source of allegation: Tim Murphy, "First Post-Election Rescue . . .," <Pro-Life Action News,> February 1993, 5-6.
*June 17, 1993; Chicago, IL - Vandalism*
The offices of Pro-Life Action League were vandalized. *Windows were shot.* A large swastika was painted on a
plate-glass lobby window.
Source of allegation: "Pro-Life Action League's Office Vandalized For Second Time," <The Wanderer,> 22 July 1993.
*March 12, 1994; Chicago, IL - Battery*
This was at American Women's Medical Center. Deathscort Joel Finkel was found *guilty of battery* against pro-life
sidewalk counselor Catherine Mieding. (A Deathscort is what pro-lifers term an escort who facilitates the way for a
mother to enter the clinic. A sidewalk counselor tries to talk the mother out of having the abortion as she enters.)
The pro-lifer was trying to approach a car to legally counsel about choices when Finkel pushed her back with a
wood-framed white placard.
The pro-abort was convicted.
Source of allegation: Pro-Life Action League, August 1994. Pro-Life Action League is in Chicago.
*Unknown date probably in 1989; Bloomington, IN - Leader spit and vomited on*
During a speech by Joe Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League, radical feminists screamed the whole time and spit and
vomited on him. Police finally had to remove him from the platform for his safety.
The feminists apparently believed in freedom of vomit and freedom of spit, but not in freedom of speech of pro-lifers.
Source of allegation: "CALL Veteran Joins Pro-Life Action League." For better verification, call Pro-Life Action
League at 312 777 2900.
*March 17, 1993; Gary, IN - Abortionist assaults pro-lifer*
Abortionist Ulrich G. Klopfer was visibly angered by pro-life intervention and physically assaulted one pro-lifer. He
later called the rescuers "Christian Terrorists." No legal action mentioned.
Source of allegation: <Life Advocate,> February 1994, 23.
*January 7, 1989; Wichita, KS - Attempted vehicular homicide*
*"Wichita abortionist George 'Killer' Tiller, the most notorious third-trimester baby killer in the country, *arrived at work
on Saturday, January 7, 1989, only to find 67 pro-life rescuers blocking the entrances to his clinic. Enraged, he ran
over and seriously injured a pro-lifer with his car, and then rammed a policeman on a motorcycle. Incredibly, the
police allowed Tiller to enter the clinic, where he killed ten babies before police finally responded to the demands of
outraged rescuers and arrested him. Twenty women were turned away that day by the rescuers.
*Tiller was eventually charged with felony assault. *The attitude of the police towards him was typically cavalier; while
Tiller had attempted to kill a pro-lifer and a cop, he would have gone scot-free had the other activists not demanded
his arrest. Meanwhile, all 67 of those attempting to save lives by trespassing (a misdemeanor at most) were
arrested."
*The press neglected to cover Tiller's attempted vehicular homicide, and in 1994, when a pro-lifer allegedly (only
allegedly at that time) attempted to murder Tiller, the press again neglected to cover Tiller's attempted vehicular
homicide. Neglect by the media is typical of nearly all these incidents of violence against pro-lifers, and this is one
reason pro-life asserts that the media, knowingly or unknowingly, is a major tool of the abortion industry.*
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-10.
*Spring, 1990; Wichita, KS - Macing, stun-gunning*
At Wichita Family Planning Clinic, clinic director/vigilante maced about six pro-lifers. Director's name was Deb Riggs.
One pro-lifer, Harry Stilts, was repeatedly prodded with an active stun-gun immediately after being maced.
Source of allegation: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 29 November
1994.
*1991 - 1993; Wichita, KS - Shootings, run over by cars, assault*
"Pro-lifers in Wichita have been shot, run over by cars and assaulted repeatedly over the past two years--and the
news media has remained silent."
Source of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993. CSR's address is P. O. Box
7423, Villa Park, IL 60181.
*October, 1991 until now; Wichita, KS - Death threats, vandalism, breaking and entering*
Probably as a result of pro-life's rescues the previous summer at clinics throughout Wichita, various types of attacks
were mounted against pro-lifers living in Wichita. These included breaking car windows, breaking house windows by
throwing bottles of ketchup, breaking and entering houses, and placing threatening notes. These notes appeared
when pro-lifers would, as part of efforts to sell their homes, have open houses. Upon returning home, they would find
notes speaking of abortion and saying things such as, "We know you have kids and your kids are in danger."
Source of allegation: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 29 November
1994.
*1992?; Wichita, KS - Bucket of unknown material poured on pro-lifers*
During a rescue, a pro-abort who was also a sodomite, poured a bucket of liquid on a pro-lifer from his roof-top perch.
His sexual disorientation may be an indication of what he poured.
Source of allegation: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 29 November
1994.
*February 26, 1992; Wichita, KS - Car runs over pro-lifer*
Abortionist Darren Sparkman ran over pro-life video cameraman Darrel McKinney. McKinney! was charged with
assault for "walking too close to Sparkman's car." McKinney still has physical problems from the attack.
Source of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993.
*February 26, 1992; Wichita(?), KS - Assault*
An elderly pro-life woman was shoved in the chest by a young man whose wife was having an abortion. The elderly
woman was merely exercising her right to choose to speak.
Source of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993.
*October 27, 1992; Wichita, KS - Severe vandalism*
On the same night, other, unidentified pro-life businesses were vandalized.
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1.
*October 27, 1992; Wichita, KS - Severe vandalism*
On the same night, the Abate Abortion office was vandalized.
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1.
*October 27, 1992; Wichita, KS - Severe vandalism*
On the same night, the Esther's Flower Shop was vandalized. An arrest was made.
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1.
*October 27, 1992; Wichita, KS - Severe vandalism*
On the same night, the HopeNet office was vandalized. In an interview, former pro-abortion activist Raymond Rivera
tells about his defacing of this office and LIFE's office listed above, and about other aspects of the pro-abortion
insurgency:
"I was also told to antagonize the pro-lifers and I made the girls throw out [this is anti-choice] any pro-life literature
before entering the clinic. . . . We would tell them, 'Those people out there are terrorists, it's safer in here. They're
crazy.' I even told one group, 'That woman out there was just released from Meadowview Mental Hospital. Don't talk
to her; she killed her family.' . . .
As soon as I got here last August, I joined the <Freedom of Choice Action League.> They're big at Pine and Market.
Some of them practice witchcraft and sometimes they chalk pentagrams [a symbol of Satan] on the sidewalks. . . .
I had written about how they openly practice witchcraft and how the clinic director tells us, every time *we beat up the
pro-lifers*, to cover their cameras. . . .
I wrote [editorial to <Wichita Eagle>] that pro-aborts displayed sex toys in front of children and how *they dumped semen
and urine on people at national rescues*. I personally defaced churches, LIFE, Inc., and HopeNet. I apologize for
that. . . .
*They hate God, they're anti-Christian. . . ."*2
Raymond keeps talking, but now it is about the situation after he found God became a pro-life rescuer: "I . . . ran into
some pro-lifers that only a month before, I'd beaten up. When they saw me and heard I was pro-life they started
crying and praising the Lord."
When asked, "What are the greatest contrasts between pro-choice and pro-life activists?" he answered:
"*Pro-aborts are the terrorists not the pro-lifers. They're the ones throwing bricks through people's windows and doing
obscene things. I was shocked when I went to the Crypt to pray and they were screaming and yelling, shouting
obscenities, while all the pro-lifers were praying silently.*"
(All underlining is by Life Research Institute.)
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1; Gayle Mercer, <The Facts of Life, Inc.>
newsletter, June 1993, 4-5.
*October 27, 1992; Wichita, KS - Severe vandalism*
The LIFE, Inc. office building was vandalized. Pro-abortion slogans were painted on the glass door and west exterior
walls. The painted signature of "Queer Nation" was neatly done with stencils. Queer Nation is, among other things,
an active group in fighting for abortion.
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1.
*Late 1992; Wichita, KS - Pro-lifer shot*
This was with a pellet gun and was at Wichita Family Planning Clinic. A pellet gun is more dangerous than a BB-gun,
but less dangerous than a 22.
Source of allegation: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 29 November
1994.
*October 6, 1994; Baton Rouge, LA - Attempted murder*
This was at Delta Women's Clinic where ex-clinic employees recently filed a complaint about unsanitary, unsafe
conditions. Richard Mahoney was a pro-life sidewalk counselor at a legal, peaceful picket. (A sidewalk counselor
tries a last-ditch effort to talk the mothers out of having abortions. It is a legal choice of free speech. They do this
from the sidewalks as the mothers enter the facilities.)
A woman went for an abortion. Her boyfriend, Ernest Robertson, 22, was with her. Pro-lifer Richard was counseling
her as she walked in. The boyfriend came up to Richard and yelled in his face and threatened him. Richard told him
God loved him and would forgive him if he repented. The boyfriend pushed him, then the clinic manager came out
and saw that a scuffle was about to happen, so he convinced the boyfriend to go into the clinic. He went in, but then
came out and started yelling and went to his truck and took a gun out and fired at Richard. He missed, and Richard
ran. The boyfriend chased him, firing twice more, but the gun jammed.
The boyfriend stopped chasing Richard, returned to his car, and drove away alone. The police were called. The
boyfriend was arrested and booked for attempted second-degree murder. This is punishable by up to 50 years in
prison.
The mother was not charged with the murder of her baby.
When the police showed up, they asked Richard, "What happened here today?" Richard said, "Twenty babies were
killed here today." The police said, "No, we're not talking about that . . . ." Richard said, "There were twenty-one
attempted murders here today, and one escaped to tell the story."
Source of allegation: Bill Shanks, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 16 October 1994.
*July 9, 1988; Metairie, LA - Aggravated assault/attempted murder*
Abortionist I. A. Okpalobi, at a picket at his house, attempted to run over legal, peaceful picketers. These included
Pastor Bill Shanks, several women, and two children. In spite of the whole incident being videotaped, everyone
refused to make arrests, and they wouldn't even say why.
Source of allegation: Bill Shanks, (written) <Statement,> 26 August 1988.
*January 1975; Boston, MA - Abortionist leaves baby to die, and he does die*
Abortionist Kenneth Edelin aborted a live 22-week baby boy and then left him to die. He was subsequently *convicted
of manslaughter*. The baby would have been pro-life.
*This convicted killer later was elected Chairman of the Board of Planned Parent Federation of America.*
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*August 1976; Boston, MA - Assault*
A 20-year-old pro-abort beat 85-year old Ignatius O'Connor so badly that he was hospitalized for three months.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in "O'Connor Braves Death Threats; Leads Prayer March And Vigil," <ALL About Issues,>
September-October 1992, 20.
*January 1985 (trial date); Gaithersburg, MD - Assault, assault with a deadly weapon*
"Get out of here; don't come back; I'm gonna kill you," said abortionist Alan Ross. Then the abortionist kicked and
punched pro-life activist John DeLozier. Then the abortionist stabbed him with a hypodermic syringe.
*He was convicted of assault and assault with a deadly weapon*. The newspaper said there have been two other
convictions of violence against pro-lifers, but it did not elaborate.
Source of allegation: Mary Meehan, "Abortionist found guilty of assault," <Register.>
*April 20, 1985; Gaithersburg, MD - Battery *
Abortionist *Alan Ross was convicted* on August 19, 1985 in the Sixth District Court of Montgomery County, MD, on
three counts of battery and was acquitted on one count of assault. The incident began in front of the abortionist's
house where Christians Dennis Burdick and Vincent Fitzpatrick were legally and peacefully praying for the
abortionist. He hit and kicked Dennis. The peaceful Christians fled to a nearby gasoline station, but Ross found
them there and attacked Dennis again.
Later, all were at the abortionist's killing center. There, he punched Donna Boccadella.
Source of allegation: Raymond Thomas, "Maryland Abortionist Convicted Again." Other source identification is
missing.
*August 1979; Pittsfield, MD - Arson*
A pro-abortion arsonist destroyed the local Right to Life office.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in
Leads Prayer March And Vigil," <ALL About Issues>, September-October 1992, 20.
*November 18, 1989; Suitland, MD - Threat with a deadly weapon*
Pro-life sidewalk counselor Debra Braun was peacefully and legally explaining legal alternatives to abortion to a
woman entering a clinic. The woman pulled a knife on Debra and held it to Debra's face. Deathscorts accompanying
patient would not intervene.
Later, a police officer asked the woman if she had a knife. She said she didn't, so the investigation ended.
Source of allegation: Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form, 10 December 1994.
*October 1994 (probably); Bangor, ME - Assault*
A pro-abort threw a bottle at a legal, peaceful pro-life protester who was holding * a legal, peaceful pro-life baby*. This
was at Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center. The assailant said he did it because he did not agree with what
the protesters were doing. Apparently, since the protesters chose to protest, the assailant was
pro-abortion/anti-choice.
Source of allegation: Ranee(?) Ordway, <Bangor Daily News,> 27 October 1994, A1.
*January 21, 1989; Detroit, MI - Assault*
At East GYN Center, a pro-abort grabbed a pro-lifer by the neck and throat. Police prevented other pro-lifers from
being doused with water and paint in the sub-freezing weather.
Video shows a pro-abort apparently spitting on police.
Ann Rock said she was stuck under some pro-aborts, and one man kneeled on her chest and then her neck. Also,
her neck was twisted sideways into an unnatural position. Nerve damage resulted. She also said, "Others fared
worse . . . some babies died."
Quoting from the second source shown below, Ann said, "I was punched, kicked, and kneed in the spine. My head
was pushed into my shoulders. My hair was pulled, some clothing was pulled off. I was dragged underneath a group
of pro-abortion demonstrators where I was pinned on the ground by a male pro-abortion demonstrator who was
kneeling on my chest as he shouted, 'women have a right to their own bodies.' As I struggled he put his knee in my
throat. Other pro-life rescuers fared worse.
The ultimate victims were decapitated and dismembered or burned alive. They were 34 years younger than myself.
Their age is what killed them. They were pre-born. . . .
[This next part exemplifies why the public wrongly thinks pro-abortion is non-violent and pro-life is violent.] After the
pro-abortion demonstrators violated my human rights, I returned home to see and read my First Amendment rights
trashed by the TV and print media. According to news accounts, my battered body never happened. To add insult to
injury, the peaceful, non-violent, non-retaliatory pro-life rescuers were accused by the media of being raucous and
worse. Thank the Lord we have video tapes to prove the truth."
But who wants to know the truth?
Source of allegation: <For the Children,> videocassette; Ann Rock, letter to Senator John Engler, 12 February 1989.
*March 24, 1989; Detroit, MI - Assault, kidnapping*
At Oak Park Women Care Abortion Clinic, many rescuers were assaulted and kidnapped by pro-aborts bodily
removing them. One person had clumps of hair pulled out.
Four pro-aborts were arrested.
Source of allegation: <For the Children,> videocassette.
*April, 1989; Detroit vicinity, MI - Assault*
A 69-year old Port Huron pro-lifer was assaulted at Sterling Heights demonstration.
Source of allegation: <The Detroit News,> 30 April 1989, 18A.
*May 7, 1989; Detroit, MI - Assault and battery*
Four people with the Coalition to Defend Abortion Rights were charged with assault and battery.
Source of allegation: <The Detroit News,> 7 May 1989, 19A.
*October 7, 1989(?); Detroit(?), MI - Assault*
Pro-abort bit pro-lifer. Pro-lifer was advised by doctor to get test for AIDS. (In many areas, radical homosexual
groups and radical feminist groups have the same people on their boards of directors.)
Source of allegation: <For the Children,> videocassette.
*May 1984; Livonia, MI - Shooting*
During a legal, otherwise peaceful picket, several pro-lifers were shot by a pellet gun or BB gun. This was a drive-by
shooting. Too many cars were driving by to identify the car which contained the assailant.
Source of allegation: Source of allegation: Mary Meehan, "Abortionist found guilty of assault," <Register,> 6.
*November 12, 1988; Livonia, MI - Assault*
At least four pro-aborts assaulted pro-lifers.
Source of allegation: Ronald C. Dehne (police officer at the scene), <Livonia Observer,> Letter to Editor, 26 June 1989.
*Mid 1993; Livonia, MI - Assault*
A pro-life woman was in the process of serving legal papers to a male abortionist. After the server handed the
abortionists the papers and turned around to leave, the abortionist kicked her in the upper back of her thigh with all
the force of his 200 pounds.
He denied that the collision of his foot with her leg was intentional, but the crime was caught on videotape. The
police report states ". . . that the suspect's account in no way coincides with the videotape." The city attorney is
prosecuting.
The abortionist's name is Enrique Gerbi; the woman's name is Terri Buckshaw.
Source of allegation: "Abortionist Gerbi kicks pro-life process server," <Life Advocate,> September, 1993.
*November 18, 1994; Owosso, MI - Attempted felonious assault*
Undercover police officer observed pro-abort intentionally (according to police) swerve his car toward pro-lifer holding
a picket sign.
Source of allegation: Police report, Owosso Police Department, 20 April 1993. (That's what is says.)
*Late 1993; Minneapolis, MN - Stalking*
Stalking charges have been dropped against four pro-choice activists who were arrested while following a caravan of
Operation Rescue supporters. A pro-life activist arrested for stalking a security guard still faced charges as of
December, 1993.
The charges were dropped against the pro-abortion women after their attorneys argued they were legal observers.
This listing of violence is also made in "Investigation I."
Source of allegation: <Life Advocate,> December 1993, 37.
*September 1987; Robbinsdale, MN - Threat of bombing of office and homes*
Following an unsubstantiated arson attempt at Robbinsdale Clinic on September 7, 1987, a man phoned the offices
of Pro-Life Action Ministries and said, in effect, that if another arson attempt occurred at a local abortion center, that
the office and the homes of several staff members of Pro-Life Action Ministries would be bombed. According to the
source, some of the phrases used in the threatening message were identical to phrases attorney Daniel Dobson, an
attorney for pro-abortion, used in a subsequent communication with the source.
Source of allegation: Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form, 10 December 1994.
*November 23, 1987; Robbinsdale, MN - Assault*
Pro-life sidewalk counselor Debra Braun was legally and peacefully offering life literature from a public sidewalk to an
occupant of a car when the Robbinsdale Clinic security guard shoved her away.
Source of allegation: Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form, 10 December 1994.
*September 19 1992; Robbinsdale, MN - Assault, false imprisonment*
Pro-life sidewalk counselor Debra Braun was legally and peacefully discussing abortion with a man whose female
companion was in the Robbinsdale Clinic. Clinic security guards Shawn Fahrmunn and Michael Carlson asked the
man if he wanted Debra to leave. He answered that he did. At this time, all were on a public sidewalk away from the
clinic. Then Fahrmunn grabbed Debra and threatened a citizen's arrest. Debra escaped his grasp, returned to the
picket area, and waited for police.
Source of allegation: Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form, 10 December 1994.
*September 17, 1994; Robbinsdale, MN - Assault, false imprisonment*
Pro-life sidewalk counselor Debra Braun was legally and peacefully offering life literature from a public sidewalk to an
occupant of a car when the Robbinsdale Clinic patient maced her in the face. *The patient had already had five
abortions.*
Source of allegation: Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form, 10 December 1994.
*March 1, 1985; St. Paul, MN - Pro-abort hits two pro-lifers with car*
This was at Planned Parenthood on Ford Parkway. Four men, twelve women, and two small children were legally
and peacefully picketing. Paul O'Donnell and Barbara Juba were struck by a Planned Parenthood employee's car
being driven by the employee. They were on the public sidewalk when struck.
The employee, a woman named Victoria L. Long, had often been observed speeding into the parking lot and
intimidating picketers (apparently with her car).
When the car stopped and O'Donnell confronted the employee saying "You hit me," she smiled and replied "Good."
At this time a Planned Parenthood security guard yelled at O'Donnell to get off the property.
O'Donnell's foot was caught by the right rear wheel of the car and was injured. His picket sign fell from his hands and
hit him on the head.
After the police investigated the incident, O'Donnell returned to the Planned Parenthood parking lot to assess the
condition of the car so that future allegations wouldn't be made that he had deliberately damaged it. The security
guard cursed him very vulgarly while he did this.
These were the injuries of O'Donnell: Severe foot pain, severe leg pain, severe migraine, torn ligaments, multiple
sprains, multiple contusions. The treatment involved crutches, cold and hot packs, and pain medication.
Apparently, Juba was not injured.
Source of allegation: Paul O'Donnell's, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, undated.
*Unknown place, unknown time - Threat of mass arson and mass murder*
This information is from a poster. No date, place, or source is shown. A reasonable approximation is St. Paul, 1990.
The poster, showing a Molotov Cocktail, says:
OPERATION RESCUE
COME TO OUR TOWN
WE'LL LOCK YOU IN A CHURCH
AND BURN THE FUCKER DOWN!
Please see the page at the beginning of this report entitled "Bombings of Religious Facilities."
*July 1993; St. Paul, MN - Stalking*
Assistant attorney general from St. Paul and three other pro-aborts were arrested for stalking pro-lifers on their way
to picket.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*Summer 1993; St. Paul, MN - Threat of murder*
The outside front cover of a magazine shows a masked man portrayed as stabbing Randall Terry, the founder of
Operation Rescue, in the throat with an approximately 12 inch knife (plus handle). Words surrounding the picture say
(RETROACTIVE)
ABORTION
(FOR ANTI-CHOICE OPERATION RESCUE SCUM)
WITHOUT APOLOGY
Source of allegation: Either <Profane Existence> or <Making Punk a Threat Again,> (it isn't clear which is the magazine's
title) Summer 1993, front cover.
*Summer 1993; St. Paul, MN - Undefinable threats of violence*
Article says "Their cars, property, billboards, and especially anti-choice offices, churches, and 'crisis pregnancy' fake
counseling clinics are all fair targets. They need to be shown that we are seriously fucking pissed off that they think
they can harass wimmin in our town or anywhere. We need to be creative and pick our targets carefully, and then we
need can send them away wishing they had never tried to show their pathetic faces here." This was signed "Sister
Immaculate Conception."
Source of allegation: Unknown, but likely as above: <Profane Existence> or <Making Punk a Threat Again,>
*October 13, 1993; Anne Maloney/College of St. Catherine in Minnesota - Breaking and entering, vandalism,
threats of murder*
Anne Maloney, a vice president of Feminists for Life and philosophy professor at the College of St. Catherine in
Minnesota, reports that twice during the month of October she found her office covered with ketchup (apparently to
simulate blood). On October 13, 1993, the vandal(s) wrote the words "Woman Killer" in the ketchup spread across
her desk. The next day, she found 20 coat hangers. A picture of her four-year-old son was smeared with ketchup
both times, as were her chairs, carpet, bookcases and class notes.
Someone nearly came forward as a witness, but then changed his/her mind.
Source of allegation: <Abortion Report,> 19, October 1993 quoted in <All About Issues,> November-December 1993, 9.
*January 16, 1988; St. Louis, MO - Assault*
Quoting from source: "The morning of Jan. 16 started out like every other Saturday rescuer mission at Regency Park;
babies were scheduled to be killed and rescuers were on hand to try to save them. The rescuers arrived at the mill
and began their picketing, ever on the alert for a car bringing in a young mother to do away with her child.
As the rescuers walked along the side, a car pulled onto the lot and a young couple got out. Immediately two
Pro-Life women went to counsel them in an effort to let them choose life for their child. As they approached the door,
one of the rescuers blocked it in an effort to stop the woman from going in to kill her child. As she did so a guard
burst through the door and bodily tossed her aside. He then turned to the other rescuer and pulled her top up over
her head, knocking her down in the process! Other rescuers went to help her and the guard continued to push,
shove, and hold onto them as he willed.
When one rescuer went into aid the others and tell the guard that he had lost control and was assaulting people who
were not fighting back [RESCUERS DON'T FIGHT BACK], the guard reached for his gun! Luckily for the rescuers,
as he did so he looked right into a video camera and, seeing that he was being filmed, left it holstered. When police
arrived they refused to do anything to him and instead stayed to arrest the Pro-Lifers a bit later."
Source of allegation: "Rescuers Assaulted During Rescue," <Direct Action News,> March 1988, 4.
*August 1983; University City, MO - Assault and destruction of property*
Ingrid Smith, director of the Ladies Center for Abortion struck sit-in activist John Ryan and knocked his movie camera
to the ground. *The pro-abort was convicted of assault and of destruction of property.*
Source of allegation: Mary Meehan, "Abortionist found guilty of assault," <Register,> 6.
*March 19, 1994; Jackson, MS - Assault with a deadly weapon*
In Jackson, Mississippi, an abortionist, Joseph Booker, confronted legal, peaceful pro-life sidewalk counselors
outside of his New Woman Medical Center, opened up a black pouch, pulled out a gun and waved it at the women
and children, specifically pointing it at pro-lifer Roy McMillan. Police confirmed the incident and charged Booker with
assault, and with pointing and aiming.
Booker was not convicted. McMillan said that Booker and his security guard lied in court. McMillan on November 23,
1994, said, "Anyone who rips arms and legs off and crushes skulls for a living is certainly not beyond lying."
(Pro-lifer McMillan's wife opened Mississippi's first abortion clinic, but now, like McMillan, is a rescuer. She, being an
ob-gyn doctor, a Christian, a woman, and a former abortionist, has been a great witness for life. Other former
abortionists also are.)
Source of allegation: <Life Issues Connector,> August 1994, 3.; Roy McMillan, telephone conversation with Lynn K.
Murphy, 23 November 1994.
*All of 1994; Asheville, NC - Desecration of memorial*
Twelve times this year a memorial to choice deaths was vandalized. Twice it was dragged from the ground with
chains attached to a vehicle.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 20 December 1994.
*October 4, 1994; Asheville, NC - Threat with gun*
This was at Western Carolina Medical Clinic. Jo Ann Ellington was a sidewalk counselor. In her own words, "As a
red and white pick up truck came up the driveway I got up from a small stool and stood at the edge of the driveway
and held literature out.
I said, 'I have some important information for you.'
The truck drove by me, stopped before the train tracks, then backed up. The young man driving picked up a gun - a
small hand gun in a leather holster - from his dash board.
With the barrel pointing down toward the dash he said, 'See this, get over there and sit down!'
'Oh sir, I am here to help,' I responded.
'See this, get over there and sit down,' he repeated. . . .
As he passed me driving out I stood at the edge of the road with my back to the road praying for him."
Note that now, because of the new <Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994>, if the pro-lifer had been in the
driveway instead at the edge of it, she would have been charged with a felony and the assailant would be a righteous
witness against her.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 20 December 1994.
*October 21, 1992; Omaha, NE - Two assaults, one disorderly conduct*
Abortionist G. W. Orr was arrested at Women's Services for spraying water on demonstrators and pouring gasoline
on their equipment.
Source of allegation: "G. W. Orr Faces Charges Tied to Abortion Protest," <Omaha World Herald,> 17 December 1992,
17.
*December 17, 1992; Omaha, NE - Assault, disorderly conduct*
Abortionist G. W. Orr was arrested for assault and disorderly conduct stemming from an otherwise legal and peaceful
picket at his home in 10 degree wind-chill weather. Pro-lifers wanted to expose his practices to his neighbors to try to
embarrass him to getting legitimate employment. This often is a very effective tactic.
Orr worked at Women's Services.
Source of allegation: "Omaha abortionist arrested for assault," <Life Advocate,> March 1993, 31.
*February 11, 1994; Omaha, NE - Assault*
At Women's Medical Center of Nebraska, pro-lifer Sharon McKee was twice knocked to the ground by a pro-abort as
Sharon approached a vehicle in order to offer the mother legal alternative choices to abortion.
Pro-lifers have long complained that the judge involved was prejudiced toward abortion. The pro-abort aggressor
had alleged that Sharon, another woman, and Sharon's 75-year old father had been the aggressors even though the
pro-abort was a very large man. In order to not put her very old father and the other woman through the difficulties of
a trial, Sharon pleaded guilty to trumped-up trespassing charges: Sharon, had been only on a public sidewalk.
Because of the plea, Sharon was convicted of trespassing. In a prime example of hate and persecution against
Christians, the judge, apparently just as prejudiced as pro-life claimed, gave her six months in jail.
A lawsuit of pro-lifer Sharon is still pending against the pro-abort and the clinic. The lawsuit claims injury and general
damage. Presumedly, following court procedure can legally disqualify the above judge from hearing her suit.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 1 December, 1994.
*August 2, 1989; Greenland, NH - Reckless conduct*
Thomas Sanford was charged with reckless conduct due to his activities at New Hampshire Feminist Health Center.
Pro-lifers say two men threw rocks and smoke bombs, and they claimed that one of the attackers had a gun. The
pro-lifers were Deborah Mears, Ralph Poland, and David Homich. They were very concerned that Sanford was not
charged with carrying a gun. They had observed him with a rifle.
Source of allegation: "Man Charged With Misdemeanor After Anti-Abortion Altercation, <Manchester(?) Union Leader,>
2 August 1989.
*April, 1988; Cherry Hill, NJ - Abortionist runs over pro-lifer twice*
An abortionist from Cherry Hill Women's Center ran over pro-lifer George Krail twice with his car.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*November 1989; Las Vegas, NV - Arson *
Pro-abortion arsonists burned Pro-Life Andy Anderson's car, which had been covered with pro-life bumper stickers.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in "Pro-Life Andy Anderson's Car Torched," <ALL About Issues,> November-December 1989, 9.
*1988 - 1993; Auburn, NY - Threats of murder, Miscellaneous violent acts against disabled pro-lifer*
Various quotes from the elderly, female victim: "The city manager says he will have me arrested if I don't move
continuously." "I was stopped from picketing by the city manager." "Cars would aim for me." "I was also told by a
policeman and a governmental departmental head that I might be snatched by Rescue Squad [this would be police
rescue, not Operation Rescue] personnel and sequestered in a geriatric wacko ward unit." "I have had rocks thrown
at my car, pencils, spit, plastic quart containers thrown at me." "Cars will try to force my car off the road." The victim,
who describes herself as "Older than Europe," also said "On several-lane highways or streets--the guys and gals will
scream at me and try to cause me to have an accident by startling me in this manner (as they drive along side of my
car). They scream also, 'you're going to get shot!'"
Source of allegation: Elizabeth Zubon, letter to Lynn Murphy, 5 October 1994.
*December, 1988; Buffalo, NY - Deadly attack with a baseball bat*
"Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian went wild when several pro-lifers sang Christmas carols outside his home on a
public sidewalk on December 5, 1988. Slepian, who kills children at three local abortuaries, grabbed a baseball bat
and severely injured Ronald Breymeier, 48, by beating him on the head, back, and arms, before smashing out all
the windows on Breymeier's van.
Slepian surrendered to Town of Amherst police at his home a short time afterwards, and was charged with felony
assault and criminal mischief.
Local pro-abortionists vocally supported this incredibly violent attack, perhaps because Slepian sniveled that the
pro-lifers were anti-Semitic. Clinic owner Marilynn Buckham told the Buffalo News. *I think it's [picketing] religious
persecution. These 'good Christians' don't respect anyone else's religion.* [Apparently, she thinks killing babies is a
religion. In a way, she is right.]
At Slepian's trial, Amherst Town Justice Sherwood Bestry said to him, 'The Court feels you have suffered a great
deal on account of this.' Following this trial, the Amherst Town Board immediately banned the picketing of homes by
pro-lifers. Violators of this ordinance face a $500 fine and six months in jail.'"
Source of allegation: Paul Likoudis, "Buffalo Abortionist Arrested on Sex-Abuse Charges," <The Wanderer,> 5 January
1988, 1, quoted in <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia,> (American Life League: Stafford, VA, 1993), p. 19-10.
*Unknown date; Buffalo, NY - Criminally negligent homicide*
Abortionist Jesse Ketchum was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after killing 25-year old Margaret Louise
Smith. Certainly, Margaret was pro-life for her own life, but Life Research Institute is not counting the abortionist's
conviction as a murder of a pro-lifer.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*March 2, 1991(?); Dobbs Ferry, NY - Four assaults*
During an otherwise peaceful blockade of the entrance to a clinic, abortionist Stephen Kaali assaulted the rescuers.
Quoting the source listed below, but with underlining by Life Research Institute: "The abortionist punched one woman
in the back, then he tossed a bucket of soapy solution over the head of another woman. The baby killer then
proceeded to repeatedly kick two male rescuers as they sat in front of the main entrance to the killing center. *Police
Chief Perilli stood by and witnessed these assaults, yet refused to arrest the abortionist.* Charges are being filed with
the Westchester County D.A. to have the baby killer arrested for assault (but not for murder).
Debra Smaloore, who was drenched with a solution tossed by the killer himself, stated, 'It was demonic to see the
venom in that man as he went wild. He spit in my face, too.' Another rescuer, Barbara, who was punched in the
back by Kaali, said, 'He knocked the wind out of me, and it hurt.' Several rescuers were spat upon by the abortionist.
[It is not apparent what was in the soapy solution besides soap and water. It may have contained legally infectious
hazardous medical waste including crushed and severed body parts and afterbirth.]
A third rescuer, Richard Ciaoli, was kicked in the groin, stomach, and legs by Kaali. The security guard at the
[abortion] mill assisted the abortionist in his brutality against the rescuers
No pro-aborts were arrested.
A total of 12 rescuers were arrested on trespass charges and released the same day. Two mothers left the killing
center and did not return."
(Regarding the last sentence, a woman becomes a mother the instant she becomes pregnant, not when she gives
birth. Thus, two babies were saved from death. Rescuers would call this "two confirmed saves.")
Source of allegation: "Abortionist Kaali Assaults Four Rescuers," <Life Advocate,> May 1991.
*May 1, 1993; Hempstead, NY - Assault*
Sidewalk counselor Pat Erickson, 71, was walking in front of an abortion referral "service" when a pro-abortion young
man came up to him and punched him in the face several times. Erickson, taken by surprise and with his hands full
of pro-life literature, was completely unable to defend himself.
Pro-abort was obviously anti-choice, feeling that there should only be abortion, not adoption and certainly not birth.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*July 1991; Jericho, NY - Assault*
Rev. John T. Murphy was assaulted by Abortionist Michael Cuccienello. The abortionist jumped on the pastor,
banging his own head against the victim's head. He also spit and vomited on the pastor's face and shirt.
Source of allegation: Rev. John T. Murphy, "Violence and Disruption Report," 15 December, 1994.
*June 1993; Jericho, NY - Threat of assault*
According to victim, Rev. John T. Murphy, Abortionist Michael Cuccienello said he would "'beat his head in', etc. etc."
Murphy says, "The Nassau County D.A. claims that he is 'pro-life' and therefore he can not handle any complaints
that are related to abortion. We visited him several times in his office, and he refuses to take complaints. He says
that the public confidence in his office would be undermined, if he, as a publicly avowed pro-lifer, would prosecute
any case involving a pro-lifer. . . . [However!] His office dispatches claims made by the abortionist to a special
prosecutor who is pro abort. And we are prosecuted with vigor."
Source of allegation: Rev. John T. Murphy, "Violence and Disruption Report," 15 December, 1994.
*June 6, 1993; Jericho, NY - Attempted murder*
Mrs. Margaret Cowell, 79, was nearly run down by abortionist Stanley Brown. Complaints to the police were
rejected.
About abortionist Brown, source says "Charges of cutting up babies and leaving body parts in the womb; perforating
uteruses; acting as both anesthesiologist and surgeon; administering wrong anesthesia; tubal ligations without
consent of patient; gaps and blanks in medial records; falsifying diagnosis to insure payment; misjudging a 17 week
baby for a 10 week baby . . . . these and other macabre charges led to a two year suspension of Dr. Brown by the
State Board of Health in 1988.
He extracted a baby's arm and leg, leaving torso in the womb. . . . But the Review Committee in Albany
recommended a STAY of the suspension, so that he would not lose income. . . .
You may be surprised to learn your County Prosecutor's Office has spent in the area of 70 to 100 thousand dollars of
your tax monies representing this man's false charges against pro-lifers. . . .
[Nassau County police] have stationed 5 or 6 patrol cars and men several days a week to sit for hours at Brown's
killing center . . . . We have pictures of 11 cars at the site!"
Source of allegation: Rev. John T. Murphy, "Violence and Disruption Report," 15 December, 1994; Rev. John T.
Murphy, <Save the Babies Foundation> newsletter, November 1994, 2.
*December 1989; New York, NY - Severe vandalism*
Pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, and para-military ACT-UP raided a church service, heckled and mocked Cardinal
John O'Conner's mass, and destroyed consecrated material.
Source of allegation: <The Facts of Life, Inc.> newsletter, December 1992, 1.
*June 1992; New York, NY - Cardinal O'Conner gets death threat*
Quoting exactly from source: "Defying a death threat and hundreds of angry protesters, New York's Cardinal John
O'Connor became one of the highest-ranking Church officials to take part in a U.S. anti-abortion street protest.
O'Connor was joined by 2,500 abortion foes, who assembled first for a Mass at a church 13 blocks from Manhattan's
largest abortion clinic. He warned the congregation that 'violence begets violence' and instructed them not to engage
in conversation or exchange insults with the pro-abortion demonstrators, who heckled the pro-life marchers and
booed and jeered when they saw the Cardinal. At least 11 of the pro-abortion demonstrators were arrested for
disorderly conduct.
Source of allegations: <USA Today,> 12 June 1992.
*July 1992; New York, NY - Death threat & other harassment at Democratic National Convention*
Anne Maloney, a pro-life feminist and a pro-life delegate to the 1992 Democratic Convention, received a "death threat
and other harassment' after declining to vote for Bill Clinton at the convention.
Anne said, "I thought this was a party where everybody could have a voice [*choice*]. Instead, however, I was
screamed at, shoved, pushed, and verbally harassed. I have 21 black-and-blue marks on my legs from the shoving.
One large heavyset man attempted to rip my sign from my hand, wrenching my shoulder in the process."
Anne also said, *"In the row in front of us while all of this was going on, there was Walter Mondale. He didn't say or do
anything."*
Pro-life observer Angel Bennett said, "I was told to get out of the Democratic Party. . . . I watched, horrified, as a
gentle woman was hit in the face with signs, kicked and shoved without any security bothering to remove the
perpetrators. . . ."
Source of allegation: <Abortion Report,> 19 October 1993 quoted in <All About Issues,> November-December 1993, 9.
Also see Nat Hentoff, "Freedom of Speech Under President Clinton," <Village Voice.>
*July 1992; New York, NY - Death threat & other harassment at Democratic National Convention*
Quoting source below: "Another Minnesota pro-life delegate, Grant Colstrom, of the United Auto Workers, said: 'A
pro-abortion Minnesota delegate pushed and shoved me until he succeeded in getting me partially out of the spot I
had been in for seven hours--in order to keep me from holding any "STOP ABORTION NOW" signs before the
cameras. He threatened to punch me if I attempted to regain my prime spot. He bragged to his cohorts that they did
not have to worry--that he had me 'under control.'"
Source of allegation: Nat Hentoff, "Freedom of Speech Under President Clinton," <Village Voice.>
*July 1992; New York, NY - Death threat & other harassment at Democratic National Convention*
Quoting source below: "Another woman pro-life delegate, only a few feet away, was being continually body-pressed
by a woman trying to force her out of her chair for almost one-half hour. Later, a large aggressive male delegate
karate chopped at her arms about six times."
Source of allegation: Nat Hentoff, "Freedom of Speech Under President Clinton," <Village Voice.>
*Unknown date; New York, NY - Abortionist rapes child*
Abortionist Ronald Tauber raped a six-year old girl and spent seven years in prison. He had previously killed a
woman in a botched abortion in Florida. Now he is licensed to commit abortions in New York State.
Life Research Institute (LRI) comments: Perhaps the girl wasn't pro-life, so perhaps this incident doesn't belong in
this report. But it is included to show something about abortionists' mentalities. LRI did not count this guilty verdict in
its totals of guilty verdicts.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*Unknown date; unknown city in Ohio - Attempted murder by arson plus three smoke bombs*
Janet Folger, a spokesperson for Ohio Right to Life, is an effective lobbyist and has her own radio program. There is
no question of her high visibility on this issue, nor of her unusual effectiveness.
Recently, while backing out of the driveway of her home on a quiet cul de sac, she noticed gray smoke billowing out
from under the hood of her car. She remembers thinking, 'Radiator, better call AAA', but as she glanced back toward
the house, she saw a line of fire following her from the garage down the drive and into the street. She rushed out of
her car and into the house. While dialing 911, she looked out to see the front of her car explode into flames. By the
time the firemen arrived, the entire street was engulfed in smoke.
Fire inspectors and police have combed every possible clue and have come up with a solid conclusion. This was an
act of arson, designed to put an effective, pro-life spokeswoman out of action. Since that time, she has experienced
repeated telephone threats, and three smoke bombs have been thrown onto her backyard patio.
Source of allegation: <Life Issues Connector,> August 1994, 3.
*May 20, 1993; Ohio - Death threat*
A company called Museum Replicas produces real size models of pre-born babies as an effective educational tool
showing that pre-borns are not just blobs. Museum Replicas has an 800 number, which means that incoming phone
numbers are recorded. On May 20, 1993, they received a call from 703 347-9786 and recorded the phone number
and the following:
"Hello . . . I was wondering why you guys make those cuz it's really disgusting. And you guys are really narrow
minded little fanatics and I think you are crazy and *I'm going to blow up an Operation Rescue Van, and you all are
going to die*, and I'm going to stick one of those fetus models down your throat."
It is interesting that the caller considers a model disgusting, but not the real dead bodies he fights to cause nor the
bombing and murders he said he'd perpetrate.
Often, when Museum Replicas receives such calls, they call back within three minutes and play the recording,
without speaking a word, to the harasser. This has proven very effective.
Source of allegation: Museum Replicas, fax to Lynn K. Murphy, 22 December 1994.
*April 21, 1990; Youngstown, OH - Cross trampled*
At a peaceful, legal prayer service, a pro-abort deliberately stomped on a hand-held cross used by a pro-lifer.
Source of allegation: Tom Matthews, "Sparks fly over trampled cross, <The Vindicator,> 22 April 1990.
*July 31, 1990; Youngstown, OH - Felonious vehicular assault*
Quoting from source: "No one was killed when a van with signs reading 'Pro-Choice and Proud' rammed into a circled
gathering of praying pro-lifers. The gathering was *across the street* from Youngstown's Abortion mill. . . . "I flipped on
my video camera and shot the last seconds of him plowing through the crowd.
After stopping he waited a second or two and then he lurched into the crowd knocking down four of five older people.
The he continued to advance as our people desperately helped the fallen get out from under his wheels. . . . Then he
hit the accelerator and sped down the sidewalk while our people jumped out of his way . . . In all, 10 of our people
had been knocked to the ground, some nearly escaping death.
This occurred in full view of at least three parked police cruisers. Tow priests were knocked down. One woman
received a broken wrist. Another black woman, whose daughter is a police officer for the city, was pulled from under
the wheels. She suffered severe back injury as a result.
He was charged with 8 counts of felonious assault."
Source of allegation: Brian Scarnecchia, written testimony, 31 July 1990.
*October, 1990; Youngstown, OH - Truck ran over four pro-lifers*
In October, a large 4-wheel drive truck with a client and her boyfriend approached a clinic. At the urging of clinic
escorts chanting 'Run them down!,' the truck literally drove over four rescuers, including Joan Andrews.'
Once again, the only people arrested were the rescuers."
See "Denver, CO; October 5, 1994" for comments about why the courts so often turn against pro-lifers.
Source of allegation: "Another Rescue Held at Youngstown Abortion Mill," <The Wanderer,> 6 December 1990, 9,
quoted in <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia,> (American Life League: Stafford, VA, 1993), p 19-10.
*November, 1990; Youngstown, OH - Vehicular assault*
"A man and a woman laying in front of an abortion clinic were run over by a pickup truck and a retired Catholic priest
was sprayed with Mace." The man who was run over said he would not press charges because it would detract from
what he called the "sacrificial rite" of his protest.
Source of allegation: "Protesters return to abortion clinic," <Associated Press.>
*1990; Youngstown, OH - Aiming gun, using mace on several pro-lifers*
"In another series of attacks on pro-lifers, this time in Youngstown, Ohio in 1990, a man calling himself 'Lucifer'
aimed handgun at a 17-year old girl who was legally and peacefully videotaping a rescue. Another man maced and
clubbed passive pro-lifers as he laughed wildly.
*1983 to 1985; Oklahoma City, OK - Doctors murder thirty-three babies. *
Research doctors at Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital murdered thirty-three babies having spina bifida by
denying treatment to the babies. Spina bifida is a birth defect.
The hospital is part of University of Oklahoma's medical school, and this was a situation of medical research. The
thirty-three babies and several other babies were guinea pigs in a project to determine whether untreated spina bifida
babies would die faster than treated ones. They did.
The parents of the thirty three were not informed that their children would not receive treatment. They assumed that
they would. That's why the children went to the hospital. The children weren't supposed to be there as guinea pigs.
They were supposed to receive critical medical intervention.
Those babies which were treated lived.
Although there was a formal investigation by the university which resulted in reprimands, the district attorney did not
prosecute. He determined that he would likely be unsuccessful in that effort. This was because the scientific
community was divided over the proper way to treat spina bifida. A doctor is allowed more leeway in his actions
within medicine than others are in other situations. Thus, he must either be grossly negligent, or he must intentionally
kill. The district attorney didn't feel, with such division among scientists, that the doctors would likely be shown to
have done either.
*Five or six sets of parents of the dead babies did, however, prevail in lawsuits.
The Spina Bifida Associating does not take the position that any spina bifida babies, born or pre-born, should be
killed.*
A parallel situation of callous bigotry against human life occurred in Mississippi in the 1930s (approximately) in a
study of syphilis treatment. All whites received treatment; no blacks received treatment. All whites lived; all blacks
died horrible deaths.
Source of allegation: Curtis Harris, M.D., telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 6 December 1994. Dr. Harris
is President of American Academy of Medical Ethics.
*Probably early 1994; McMinnville, OR - Forced abortion by government employees, kidnapping*
An 18-year-old pregnant girl attended Amity High School. School officials forced her to have an abortion.
Indictments included conspiring to change school attendance records to show that she never left school to have the
abortion, witness tampering, and kidnapping. The forced abortion by government employees, apparently, is not
illegal, though it is, of course, anti-choice.
The source listed below provides the excuses of the government employees. Presumedly, a jury will decide their
validity.
Trial is pending as of October 8, 1994.
Source of allegation: "Three face charges in teen's abortion," <The Oregonian,> 28 April 1994, one.
*January 1989; Philadelphia, PA - Abortionist murders baby *
Abortionist Connie Tan Yen was charged with infanticide after allowing a third-trimester baby to die. Baby would
have been pro-life.
(By the way, Jane Roe never did have the abortion she went all the way to the Supreme Court to "justify." Her
daughter is alive--and is pro-life! Roe, whose real name is McCorvey, had given up her daughter for adoption (a
choice most pro-aborts don't even consider). When the daughter was 19, Roe wanted to find her. And she did, and
she found her pro-life. In the other Supreme Court decision announced on the same day as <Roe v. Wade, Doe v.
Bolton> also greatly expanded abortion opportunities. Doe herself (Sandra Cano) is a pro-*life* activist. Ref: David C.
Reardon, <Roe and Doe Parties Oppose Abortion,> 1992.)
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in Liz Townsend, "Pennsylvania Doctor [Connie T. Yen] Charged In 'Failed' Abortion," <National
Right to Life News,> 26 March 1991, 9.
*May 1990; Philadelphia, PA - Abortionist murders girl, was anti-choice*
Abortionist Joseph Melnick was *convicted of allowing a 32-week viable baby girl to die* by ordering 'no care' to be
given her after she survived his third-trimester abortion attempt. The dictionary defines "woman" as any female
human. In killing this woman, abortionist was anti-woman, anti-women's rights, and anti-choice. One must assume
the baby was pro-life.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in Leslie Bond, "Melnick Convicted Of Infanticide In Death Of Live-Born Aborted Baby," <National
Right to Life News,> 22 June 1989, 1, 11, and Debra Braun, "Murder Charge Dropped Against Abortionist," <National
Right to Life News,> 14 March 1985, 1, 8.
*1989; Pittsburgh, PA - Simple assault*
Sharon Henry, pro-lifer, was legally and peacefully sidewalk counseling at the Highland Building in East Liberty.
Dean Rubine was a pro-abortion activist. According to court testimony by Sharon, "All of a sudden out of the blue Mr.
Rubine smacked me. I was heading in a straight forward manner. He smacked me on my left rear part of my
shoulder and I flew about three feet to, almost to the ground and caught myself. That is what happened. After that
he went in the totally opposite direction." Court records show Sharon suffered a sprained shoulder.
Rubine was convicted. Indictment was number CC:8907011, Allegheny County, PA, Criminal Division.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 12 December 1994.
*1993; St. Davids, PA - Death threats*
Nancy DeMoss, executive director of DeMoss Foundation, received death threats by mail after airing of the DeMoss
foundation's pro-life television advertisement, "Life, What a Beautiful Choice."
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*Probably early 1993; Puerto Rico - Terrorism*
Quoting article listed below but with underlining by Life Research Institute: "Puerto Rico--Pro-life advocate, Father
Patricio Welch, has requested that the F.B.I. open an investigation regarding the possible arrival on the island of a
pro-abortion terrorist group known as 'Refuse and Resist.' Referring to this group, Father Welch warned, '*This is an
extremely dangerous leftist terrorist group, which the F.B.I. has investigated in other cities of the U.S. for attacking
pro-life organizations, *and for other terrorists acts against the government.'
Father Welch has over the last two years organized and carried out numerous rescues that have resulted in the lives
of dozens of children being spared. Most recently, he led over 500 people in a rescue that took place one week
before Christmas in San Juan.
Father Welch claims that recently numerous threats have been directed at him and his supporters by means of
intimidating telephone calls demanding that he and others '*get the hell out of Puerto Rico, or else.*' In addition to the
threats, *three vehicles have been physically damaged, tire bolts loosened, and brake systems tampered with.*
In a formal statement, Father Welch has also charged that 'there is an element protesting against us in Puerto Rico
composed of homosexual activists. The group is known as 'Act Up.' The lawyers representing the anti-life groups are
organizing protests with the participation of university professors from the University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras and
Cayey campus), and from the Sacred Heart University. These professors, in turn, consider anti-life protests and
court hearings as class projects, forcing students to participate. I strongly urge all Puerto Rican families to carefully
evaluate the institutions in which these professors have infiltrated and investigate their activities. The government
must investigate the possibility that tax dollars are utilized to support feminist anti-life activities.'"
Source of allegation: "Pro-Life Priest Requests FBI Investigation of Radical Abortion Terrorist Groups," <Life Advocate,
>May 1993. 27(?) or 37(?)
*1977; ABERDEEN, SD - Manslaughter*
Abortionist Benjamin Munson was tried for manslaughter after killing Linda Padfield. She may have been his
patient-victim, not a pro-life victim in the usual sense, but she was pro-life for her life.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in the following three articles: "The Munson Case: How They View Abortion Verdict Back Home,"
<National Right to Life News,> February 1978, 8.; "Abortion Activist Faces South Dakota Manslaughter Trial," <National
Right to Life News,> October 1977, 1, 5.; "Abortionist Tries To Evade Charge," <National Right to Life News,> October
1976, 15.
*April 1990; Knoxville, TN - Five pipe bombs found, placed as revenge*
Five pro-lifers found pipe bombs in their driveways. Police stated that this was retaliation for recent pro-life activities.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7.
*April 10, 1993; Memphis, TN - Threat of murder*
At a rescue at Memphis Area Medical Center for Women, clinic owner showed up for work and threatened to run over
the rescuers with her car. The police restrained her. She called the *rescuers* terrorists, not herself.
Source of allegation: Michael Donato, "First Memphis Rescue," <Life Advocate,> July 1993, 29.
*Unknown date probably in early 1993; Austin, TX - Aggravated assault, resisting arrest, property damage*
Abortionist Peter Kropf at an Austin ob-gyn office was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun and an automatic hand-gun at a
protest prayer vigil. (We would have heard about this in the news if a pro-lifer had a 12-gauge shotgun and/or an
automatic hand-gun at a pro-abortion rally.) After the prayer vigil the abortionist called the police saying he feared a
prowler was around. An officer said the abortionist pointed the gun at the police and refused to put it down.
During the prayer vigil, a woman destroyed two pro-life signs. She was videotaped doing so.
Source of allegation: "Gun-toting Abortionist Arrested," <Life Advocate,> May, 1993, 19.
*August 1994; Austin, TX - Assault with a deadly weapon*
Pro-abort Peter "Doe" attacked legal, peaceful sidewalk counselor with a weed eater. He held it to George Wooley's
neck. A weed eater is capable of cutting down young trees having trunks of perhaps one-half inch.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
*August 1994; Austin, TX - Assault with a deadly weapon*
This is also about pro-abort Peter "Doe." Quoting source: "Chris Keys and several others filed against Peter. Chris
and others were praying outside the killing center. Peter came with his running lawnmower and ran over wooden
crosses . . . Chris stood about five feet in front of Peter who came at him with the lawnmower - just missing Chris's
feet. Peter came at him again from another direction."
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
*Spring, 1992; Dallas, TX - Macing*
Pro-lifers were legally and peacefully picketing the house of abortionist Norman Tompkins and his wife Carolyn. The
police were on the scene, and at one point the abortionist was talking with them while the abortionist's wife was
sitting in her car at the location of the discussion with the police.
Pro-lifer Rick Blinn walked up to the discussion to learn what was being said, and the abortionist's wife sprayed him
with mace from inside her car.
The police took Rick to a fire station for emergency eye irrigation. Rick pressed charges for assault. The trial is still
pending.
Also see: Investigation I, July 1, 1993; Dallas, TX - Bomb threat.
Source of allegation: Rick Blinn, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 8 December 1994.
*February 27, 1993; Dallas, TX - Tear-gas-like chemical sprayed into clinic*
This was at North Dallas Women's Clinic. (This is, for obvious reasons, a duplicate of an entry in the Investigation I
table.) Flip Benham, head of all Operation Rescue said, "We have video of a rescue where police maced the
rescuers who were laying down, and have news reports of police admitting they were wrong to use mace this way.
But it is routine for pro-aborts (security guards, etc.) to mace them.
This police incident includes macing one pro-lifer who was handcuffed and laying on the floor."
Source of allegation: Flip Benham, Operation Rescue national office, Dallas, TX; Al Brumley, <Dallas Morning News,> 2
March 1993.
*Probably May 1993; probably Dallas, TX - Mace, vandalism, vehicular battery, assault*
Quoted from source: "Mrs. Tompkins maced a picketer. A picketer's windshield was smashed when his car was
parked in the neighborhood. A picketer was deliberately hit by a car as she walked on the sidewalk. Picketers have
been threatened with being shot or having guard dogs unleashed on them.
Source of allegation: <Network News Update,> unknown date, 2.
*June 1983; El Paso, TX - Manslaughter*
Abortionist Raymond Showery killed Mickey Apodaca during a legal abortion and was indicted for manslaughter.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in "Convicted Abortionist Now Charged With Manslaughter in New Tragedy," <ALL About Issues,>
June 1984, 47, and "Doctor Gets 15 Years in Infanticide Case," <ALL About Issues,> November 1983, 35.
*June 1983; El Paso, TX - Abortionist murders abortion survivor*
Abortionist Raymond Showery was *convicted of murder* for drowning a five-pound viable baby who survived one of
his third-trimester abortions. He also killed Mickey Apodaca during a legal abortion and was indicted for
manslaughter. One must assume baby was pro-life/anti-drowning.
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) 19-7, quoted in "Convicted Abortionist Now Charged With Manslaughter in New Tragedy," <ALL About Issues,>
June 1984, 47, and "Doctor Gets 15 Years in Infanticide Case," <ALL About Issues,> November 1983, 35.
*Summer, 1992; Houston, TX - Assault*
This was during the Republican National Convention in Houston. At an abortion clinic, 30 homosexual activists were
blockading the doors so that the pro-lifers wouldn't. Sixteen rescuers, not caring who blocks the doors as long the
doors are blocked, pressed the homosexuals inward.
Police were everywhere, but when they saw a homosexual kick Randy Hinesley so hard in the back that it drove the
air from his lungs, they did nothing. Had the kick been in the kidney area, Randy could easily have died.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*October 10, 1994; Houston, TX - Stalking*
In her car on the way to inform abortion clients of choices and help the clinics won't offer, pro-lifer Mary Daley was
stalked and nearly sideswiped by a woman who had her license plate covered. The person, apparently recognized
as one of Mildred Hanson's staff, the parked in a clinic parking lot which was off-limits to pro-lifers.
Source of allegation: Mary Daley, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 20 December 1994.
*Late 1993 or early 1994; place = ? - pro-lifer assaulted while praying and walking*
A woman gaining entrance to an abortion clinic was praying and moving to block the door to a procedure room when
the clinic director grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her back. No legal action mentioned.
Source of allegation: <Life Advocate,> February 1994, 23.
*November 22, 1993; ? city - Vandals destroyed crosses*
Vandals knocked down 4,400 crosses representing the number of babies aborted each day in the U.S. About 10% of
the crosses and accompanying pro-life signs were destroyed. No suspects or legal action.
Source of allegation: <Life Advocate,> December 1993, 35.
*Unknown date; unknown location - Arson*
Offices of famous Christian singer, Sandy Patti, destroyed. Her pro-life stand appeared to be a part of the reason.
Source of allegation: Unknown.
*November 11, 1994; Arlington, VA - Assault*
The Reverend Robert Schenck, pastor of the National Community Church on Capitol Hill, was assaulted today by an
advocate of abortion in a parking lot not near an abortion facility.
Rev. Schenck emerged from his car and noticed another car with a bumper sticker reading "Pro Child, Pro Choice."
Rev. Schenck said he smiled, and, speaking across an entire car length in a medium level voice, complimented the
driver saying, "I couldn't help noticing your bumper sticker. It really makes a statement. Have you ever had the
opportunity to cradle an aborted child in your hand?"
At that, the man emerged from the car, rushed toward Rev. Schenck, pronounced some expletives about the pastor's
religion, grabbed him by the lapels, slammed him against the car, and attempted to punch him.
Police were called to the scene, but Rev. Schenck declined to press charges, saying to his assailant, "I forgive you in
the name of Christ."
It is interesting that the assailant violently objected to the thought of an mangled child in his hand though he was in
favor of mangling her.
Source of allegation: <News Release,> Christian Communication Network, 1 November 1994.
*1993; VA - Assault and battery, destruction of personal property*
Abortionist Olubenga Oredein of Chesapeake, VA, has been charged with assault and battery, and destruction of
personal property (a video camera). According to source below, "The charges stem from a fight with two protesters in
Mr. Oredein's neighborhood." The protesters work with Operation Rescue in Virginia, and were apparently legally
picketing the abortionist.
Oredein was convicted of destruction of personal property. Case on assault was dismissed because pro-life couldn't
prove intent to assault.
Source of allegation: "Doctor Charged After Scuffle", <Washington Times, >12 September 1993, A13.
*September 21, 1991; Milwaukee, WI - Attempt to paint a pro-lifer*
A pro-abort was arrested at a rescue for trying to spray-paint a pro-lifer.
Source of allegation: <Rescue Update,> Missionaries to the Preborn, Milwaukee, undated.
*May 6, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Assault*
At Summit Women's Health Care Organization, Trina Haas of Clinic Defense Coalition bit pro-lifer Bryan Longworth
on the arm and pushed him. Haas said that Bryan had hit her, but a video showed the judge that he hadn't. But the
judge said that "she believed you were going to, so she was restraining you by biting you."
It is not known whether the pro-abort had AIDS.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 12 December 1994.
*May 6, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Assault*
In full view of police, a female pro-abort tried to pull Gary McCullough up by his hair and then jacket. Pro-lifer Bryan
sat with his hands in his pockets. The pro-abort said that McCullough had fallen on top of someone, presumedly a
pro-abort, but a video showed that he hadn't. But the judge said, "Though he did not fall on top of anyone, it appears
that that is what he wanted to do." No pro-aborts were arrested, but Bryan was--for criminal battery.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
*May 15, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Assault on a little girl*
At a Youth for America Milwaukee rescue, *7-year-old* Ekaternia Engelke knelt in prayer at the edge of the parking lot
for the Wisconsin Women's Health Center. As she prayed, a middle-aged women approached for conversation.
After some discussion and cussing by the woman, the little girl told the woman, ". . . You're killing babies." This
enraged the woman, and she began cursing the little girl, and *kicked her in the face so hard that bystanders heard
the impact of the kick on the face from several feet away.*
The obviously violent, anti-choice pro-abortion assailant, Catherine Doyle, is the sister of the Attorney General of the
state of Wisconsin. She is also a leader of the Milwaukee Clinic Protection Coalition (MCPC), a radical pro-abortion
group that is not particularly discreet in its advocacy of violent tactics against pro-lifers.
Although there were four eyewitnesses, charges were not made against Doyle.
An MCPC hotline called "Voice for Choice" urged clinic "defenders" to "polish up their football tactics." Another
message, which was played after a pro-lifer was seriously bitten by an MCPC member said, "We take them out with
our choppers."
Pro-lifers offer various choices besides abortion. MCPC is therefore obviously anti-choice.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*May 31, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Threats*
Several pro-lifers received threatening phone calls, and Ekaternia Engelke's father had nails pounded into three tires
of his car.
Source of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
*June 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Assault*
At Affiliated Medical Services, Trina Hass of Clinic Defense Coalition bit pro-lifer Tom Nowack on the arm and
pushed him.
It is not known whether the pro-abort had AIDS.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 12 December 1994.
*June 4, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Assault*
John Zecca was kicked in the head by an abortion clinic worker at Imperial Health Services. Zecca, who was seated
in front of the abortuary door, required medical attention at a local hospital. The DA refused to press charges on the
assault, claiming that Zecca should not have been on the property.
I thought that in the U.S. the "justice" system, not the vigilantes of the clinics, was supposed to enforce the law.
Source of allegation: Missionaries to the Preborn, letter to Operation Rescue National, 22 November 1994.
*Fall, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Assault*
At the back door of Metropolitan Medical Services, a now-closed abortion center, pro-abortion activist Katie Doyle
deliberately stomped twice on the leg of pro-lifer Kathy Klagg when she was laying on the pavement.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
*Fall, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Breaking and entering, theft, invasion of privacy*
An anti-choice, pro-abortion thief broke into Pregnancy Help Center and stole all the VCR machines as well as a
computer which contained all the records of the center's clients. Also the videos shown to women were tossed
about. Timers for pregnancy tests were stolen.
*November 13, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Pro-life counselor threatened at gunpoint*
Pro-life sidewalk counselors, Gene Orchardt and Joan Altman, was threatened at gunpoint after offering literature to
a man leaving a Milwaukee clinic. Despite the vehicle license plate, a statement by the woman the gunman dropped
off, witnesses, and a person who knows the gunman, no arrests were made.
Source of allegation: "Counselor Threatened at Gunpoint," <Life Advocate,> December 1993, 29; Operation Rescue
National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994; "Milwaukee Police Report," <Incident Report 93 317
0073,> 1.
*February 19, 1994; Milwaukee, WI - Clinic workers attacks picketer on the public sidewalk*
Laurie Swan, who was simply legally picketing on the public sidewalk, was attacked by a clinic worker. This was
captured on video tape. Even though Mrs. Swan received several fisted blows to the head, the DA has still not
pressed charges even though Mrs. Swan was not on clinic property.
Source of allegation: "Christians interpose at 64th and Capitol abortuary, <MTP Mission Update,> 3 July 1993, 94.
*October 3, 1993; Milwaukee, WI - Breaking and entering, theft*
A thief broke into Pregnancy Help Center and stole a VCR.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 10 December 1994.
*November 6, 1993; Racine(?), WI - Pro-abort intentionally strikes pro-life protester with car*
Brad Lescher was legally and peacefully picketing at Wisconsin Women's Health Center. At 10 a.m. a woman
named Maureen Taylor driving a white Jaguar attempted to drive into the clinic driveway while Lescher was crossing
the sidewalk area intersecting the driveway. This driveway was an "exit only" type.
The car stopped before hitting Lescher, but then as pro-aborts began chanting, "Run him over! Run him over!" she
pulled forward more and more. The car broke his large sign (or sign pole), and then the driver lunged quickly
forward. Lescher fell onto the hood of the car. Lescher had been struck in the knees by the car.
The police officer, Officer Blake, wouldn't accept or write any testimony of pro-life people. No charges were filed
against the driver, but charges <were> filed against Lescher. Two days after the incident Lescher was charged (by an
officer that never appeared at the scene) with disorderly conduct.
Lescher said afterward, "The pro-abortion violence is escalating every day, and I've got to do what I can to help stop
it."
Source of allegation: <The Christian Interpreter,> December 1993, 11.
*Investigation III
Alleged Violence of Police
against Pro-Aborts *
*
National Abortion Federation, National
Organization for Women, Refuse and Resist,
*and* The Feminist Majority Foundation were
unable and/or unwilling to provide any
instances of alleged violence of police
against any pro-abortion (pro-choice) person
or facility.*
*Investigation IV
Alleged Violence of Police
against Pro-Lifers *
*Notes:* Instead of often using terms such as "alleged," incidents are described as though true. This does
not mean that they are true; it only means that the source(s) of the allegations claim they are true.
Each incident or alleged incident lists a "Source of allegation." Occasionally, this source is not
necessarily alleging, but may be only providing information. That is, the term could be used
interchangeably with "Source of information."
Entries are alphabetical in this priority: State abbreviation, city, year, month, date of month. Exceptions:
Details of these criteria aren't always known.
All underlining is by Life Research Institute.
For the purposes of this table and all of this report, the term POLICE explicitly excludes clinic employees,
security guards hired by anyone, private investigators, para-military organizations such as Refuse and
Resist, Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR) (whether under this name or their new
BACORR one), and any other vigilante organization which "justifies" its actions through its own
determination of what is right and wrong.
*Easter 1991; Montgomery, AL - Illegal pain compliance*
At a rescue at Beacon Women's Clinic, police tried to break Randy Hinesley's hand. Randy believes the reason for
this was to make an example of him so that the other rescuers would decide to walk instead of staying limp. Randy
didn't walk anyway.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*March 1989; Orange City, CA - Beating*
During a rescue at Family Planning Associates in Cypress, an Orange City police officer took a pro-lifer behind a wall
and beat him brutally.
Source of allegation: Tim Palmquist, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 14 November 1994.
*October 21, 1989; La Mesa, CA - Illegal pain compliance*
Inappropriate pain compliance techniques were used quite often, perhaps as much as 20% as often in the Los
Angeles police brutality described under "June 10, 1989 . . ."
*Life Research Institute emphasizes in the strongest terms that the reader should not minimize the police
crimes in La Mesa on the basis that the description of the problems is short. *Very* much happened, but there
was no point in expanding on them because you can read of extremely similar problems below in Los
Angeles.*
*March 25, 1989; Los Angeles, CA - Beatings*
Also see June 6, 1989; Los Angeles, CA.
Source below says: "On March 25, 1989, hundreds of pro-lifers staged a series of massive rescue missions at Los
Angeles area abortuaries.
The Los Angeles Police Department was exceptionally brutal when arresting these non-violent, non-resisting
protesters. One wave of police (who had removed their nametags and badges to hinder positive identification) would
move in and savagely beat rescuers, and then a second wave would go in and make arrests.
The pro-lifers were tightly bound and lifted by police who jammed their fingers up the rescuer's nostrils and into their
eye sockets. Rescuers were dragged by their hair and ears, and mounted police horses 'accidentally' and repeatedly
stepped on them. Police stood on rescuer's backs and repeatedly slammed their faces into the concrete pavement.[1]
A total of <six hundred> injuries--including seven broken bones--were reported out of a total of 1,100 arrests in two
days.
When the Los Angeles police removed the rescuers to the booking areas, they sexually molested pro-life women and
strip-searched them in a mocking, exaggerated, and sexually explicit manner.
The reaction of the city power structure to this massive brutality and abuse was -- deafening silence. The Mayor's
office did not say a word. The American Civil Liberties Union was utterly silent. Congress [temporarily] turned its
collective back.
When the Civil Rights Commission considered investigating police *and pro-abortion* violence against pro-lifers,
Congressman Don Edwards (D.-CA.) threatened to defund the Commission entirely."[2]
(The American "Civil" Liberties Union is funded largely by the abortion industry. Obviously, they do not defend civil
liberties!)
*Life Research Institute emphasizes in the strongest terms that the reader should not minimize the police
crimes in on this date on the basis that the descriptions are short. *Very* much happened, but there was no
point in expanding on them here because they are shown below.*
Source of allegation: Brian Clowes, Ph.D., <Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, > (Stafford, VA: American Life League,
1993) pp. 81: 4-5, quoting the following:
1. Stanley Interrante, "In Southern California, Operation Rescue Marked By Massive Arrests and Police Brutality,"
<The Wanderer,> 13 April 1989, 1, 8.
2. Free Congress Foundation, <Family, Law and Democracy Report,> November 1989, 11.
*June 10, 1989; Los Angeles, CA - Murders, broken bones, crushed ligaments, crushed tendons, goosing,
grinding face into asphalt, sprains, strains, extreme excessive police brutality performed gleefully*
The source of this information is several videotapes (combined into one) taken by pro-life rescuers. The purpose of
the final tape is to show Los Angeles police violence, not police violence by location and date. Thus, it is not clear
when they show violence of March 25, 1989; April 14, 1989; June 10, 1989; or July 1989. Therefore, in this
description, Life Research Institute mixed descriptions of both. The locations of the various rescues were Family
Planning Associates at 6[th] and Westmoreland and at Midland Medical Center.
It is necessary to first understand the nature of rescues. Rescuers simply put their bodies between the clients trying
to enter the clinic and the clinic itself or the abortionists. Generally, this is trespassing. Often, they are arrested for
this, though their hope is always not to be arrested at all. Though there are many arrests for trespassing, this report
is about violence. Trespassing is not violence.
Rescues, obviously, are not where SWAT teams of pro-lifers raid a clinic to drag out gorgeous night-gowned young
maidens who are about to kill their babies. Rescues are not where pro-lifers lob grenades and gleefully spray bullets
from assault weapons into crowds of clinic defenders and police. It was shown in Investigation II that the pro-aborts
are the ones with assault weapons. (See March 18, 1994; Sarasota, FL.)
Being peaceful and non-violent, when arrested most of the pro-lifers purposely go limp rather than walk to the police
cars or buses. This is to prolong the safety of the babies who just might not meet their appointment with death
because of the prolonged demonstration. It is also an imitation of the helplessness of the babies. During the whole
rescue, including during the arrests, the pro-lifers pray and sing Christian songs. This is non-violent and so far
remains a constitutional right.
During the period of fourteen months prior to the March 25[th] rescue, while saving the lives of 259 babies, 28,000
rescuers were arrested, but *none of the arrests were for any act of violence.*
*This is not the picture of violence or terrorism. This fact must be heavily considered when evaluating whether any
described police action is beyond reasonable action.*
At one of the March, June, or July rescues, 725 pro-life rescuers were arrested. (The July rescue isn't explicitly
mentioned elsewhere in this report.) The following is a list of injuries mentioned in the videotape. The tape clearly
shows them being inflicted.
Abrasions
Broken foot
Broken wrist
Compression injuries
Contusions
Crushed ligaments
Crushed tendons
Dislocated shoulders
Goosing
Handcuffs left on very tightly for hours even in cells
Injuries requiring long-term physical therapy
Numbness lasting weeks
Open wounds
Pain to point of fainting
Pain to point of vomiting
Placing rescuers face down in rain on street
Pressure burns
Severe swelling from lost circulation
Sexual abuse
Sprains
Strains
Three or more broken arms
*In a police videotape secured through a forced legal process, one can actually hear bones breaking.*
One of the pain-compliance techniques the police used involved the nunchakus. This is a martial-arts weapon that is
illegal for private citizens to even own (though they can own guns). Possession by a citizen is a felony; use by a
citizen is assault with a deadly weapon. These were used in the March 25 police violence against pro-lifers, and at
that time the police learned, as they had other times, that there was no need to use them: the rescuers were
peaceful. Police in a Walnut Creek, California, Planned Parenthood rescue used wheel chairs. Nonetheless, they
had orders to use them again, and they did in June and July.
The persecution, of course, went beyond infliction of physical injury. The Christians were denied pastoral visits on
Easter, were denied access to their prescription medication, were denied the right to contact attorneys for more than
fifty-six hours, and had their Bibles confiscated.
Rod Gregory, a former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) police officer, said that there was nothing he saw
which would justify pain compliance. He said the purpose of pain compliance is to protect the officer. Nine other
police departments in Southern California do not use these brutal methods against peaceful demonstrators, and
some of them even decline to arrest these demonstrators.
Paraphrasing another, apparently current, LAPD police officer: *"The level of force police officers were using on a
continuous basis for two or three hours was very excessive. . . A police officer's job is not to punish people. That's
for the courts; that's for the judge* . . . . Because of the extreme height officers would raise rescuers hands in back of
them, their torsos [upper bodies] would rotate down. Then another cop would apply the mastoid hold [pressure
behind the jaw] for no apparent reason. . . . Rescuers were not struggling. . . . Pain compliance was used on elderly
women, thus raising them to their tiptoes. . . . Once on the bus, burly cops lifted fifteen to twenty rescuers up and
slammed them into their seats and metal partitions."
Some of the following paragraphs describe specific incidents of the police brutality as shown on the videotape and/or
as described by eye witnesses, including police.
*One cop dropped to his knees with all his weight onto the chest or stomach of a rescuer.*
While one cop twisted a woman's hand one way to control her direction, another twisted her other hand the other
way.
*One woman, a mother of six, was so brutalized that she miscarried her seventh baby as a direct result. Functionally,
literally, and legally, this was murder.*[1] In California when a citizen kills a pre-born (if she isn't killing her own), she or
he is tried for murder.
Deborah Grumbine also miscarried. She had previously had eight children without miscarrying. Doctors said that the
most probable cause was her treatment at the hands of the police--*another murder.*
According to an eyewitness:
*
There were so many cops that
they needed to get in line
to arrest the Christians.
At the back of the line,
they would pat each other
on the backs and joke about
what they were doing.
*
One woman, who weighed only 115 pounds, was carried by 5 officers using pain compliance. These were at her
feet, arms, and thin, fragile neck. This was followed by handcuffs so tight that they caused her to have *weeks of
numbness*. Once in the police bus, a policeman, though he knew she had already been frisked by a policewoman,
"frisked" her lavishly in the buttocks region.
One man, on the ground, had his ears severely twisted by one cop while another applied the mastoid hold behind his
jaws.
*While police solidly held one man, another cop kneed him in the groin twice.*
*Police kneeled on heads and necks.*
*Compliance against one man included police fingers in his nose and police fingers in his eyes.*
While ordering one rescuer to stand, police prevented him from standing with mastoid hold, nostril hold, police knees
on his feet police knees on his neck, and another policeman sitting on him.
In another situation, police were carrying a man roughly face-up horizontally but with his feet higher than his head.
One cop, at his head, was carrying most of the load--with a mastoid hold.
In another situation, four or five officers applied pressure points while *they ground a man's hand and face into the
asphalt. While doing this, they were ordering him to get up.* They sprained or strained his ankle and thumb and
bloodied his face and mouth.
Pat Wire's wrist was bent so severely that he did a somersault. Pat Wire said, "Men, women, young, and old,
everyone got the same treatment. It wasn't necessary."
Michael Grumbine, among other things at the same time, had a cop standing on his back and another cop doing knee
drops on his back.
Two passive demonstrators were maced, apparently only because they were heavy. The Director of the Police
Executive Research Foundation, among others, indicates that mace should only be used on those resisting arrest
and not on passive nonviolent demonstrators.[2]
One woman was on her knees praying. Without warning and without being ordered to stand, her arms were
suddenly pulled around to her back and pain compliance was inflicted. Concurrently, her jacket hood was pulled over
her head and tightened and hands were placed over her nose and mouth for suffocation. Although she said she was
willing to walk, the police pulled her up the four steps into the bus, without her feet touching the steps, using the
pain-compliance involving her arms in back of her body.
Police dragged a passive man along the ground. Then to rotate him, they jerked his foot and broke it.
Life Research Institute secured an official video of the Los Angeles Police Department. This showed the most gory
details available.
A summary of the views on that tape finds that the police, singling out victim after victim, rushed in time after time,
behaving like a pack of wild lions eager to share in a kill and obviously eager to inflict as much pain as possible.
Sometimes up to six police would attack one passive pro-lifer. Pro-lifers were screaming and writhing on the wet
pavement.
*Police Chief Darryl Gates had no problem with the behavior of his police.*
Several of the Christians (pro-lifers) uttered while being tortured the same words that Jesus Christ uttered on the
cross: "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM."
Many civil suits were filed, and they were settled out of court.
Comments by Life Research Institute: WHEN SIMILAR BRUTALITY WAS INFLICTED ON MARTIN LUTHER KING
AND HIS FOLLOWERS, THE LIBERAL MEDIA MADE SURE THE WHOLE WORLD KNEW ABOUT IT, AND THE
GOVERNMENT QUICKLY ACTED TO END THE SEVERE SIN OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
BUT WHEN PRO-LIFE CHRISTIANS ARE BRUTALIZED, THE PRO-ABORTION MEDIA IS SILENT, AND THE
GOVERNMENT PASSES MORE AND MORE LAWS RESTRICTING THE RIGHTS OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE
AND FREE SPEECH. AND THE SEVERE SINS OF MURDERING CHILDREN AND GRAVELY INJURING WOMEN
ARE THEREBY PROMOTED.
THIS MARTIN LUTHER KING, THIS GREAT MAN WHO THE LIBERAL MEDIA WAS SO FOND OF QUOTING,
ONCE SAID, *"THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF A MAN IS NOT WHERE HE STANDS IN MOMENTS OF
COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE, BUT WHERE HE STANDS IN TIMES OF CHALLENGE AND
CONTROVERSY."*[3]
*TODAYS LIBERAL MEDIA NEVER HESITATES TO CONDEMN PRO-LIFERS FOR PUTTING THIS INTO ACTION.*
Endnotes
1. Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11 September 1994, 11.
2. <Congressional Record,> 101st Cong., 1st sess., 1989. 135: 6.
3. Martin Luther King, Jr., <Strength to Love,> (Fortress Press: Philadelphia, 1981) 35.
Source of allegation: "LAPD Violence," videocassette. This is the main source; endnotes are a minor source.
*April 14, 1990; Los Angeles, CA - Murders, broken bones, crushed ligaments, crushed tendons, goosing,
grinding face into asphalt, sprains, strains, extreme excessive police brutality performed gleefully*
Most of what happened on this day of infamy is described in the above entry. In addition, the LAPD video shows the
police dragging pro-lifers through piles of horse manure even when they could easily have avoided doing so.
*Life Research Institute emphasizes in the strongest terms that the reader should not minimize the police
crimes of this entry on the basis that there is only one description of the problems. *Very* much happened,
but there was no point in expanding on them because you can read of them above.*
Source of allegation: "LAPD Violence," videocassette.
Police use illegal pain-compliance on limp pro-lifer Chuck Michenoche
At Family Planning Associates on April 14, 1990.
*1993; Redding, CA - Assault*
This was at Redding Feminist Women's Health Center. Two pro-lifers were to be arrested, but a third pro-lifer, Walt
Runyan, had his arm severely twisted behind his back by police. The police knew Runyan was not one of those to be
arrested. A police report was filed.
Source of allegation: Operation Rescue National, "Violence and Disruption Report," 30 December 1994.
*July 1989; Sacramento, CA - Passive rescuers maced*
"Approximately 100 people, many of them women, some with babies in arms, had assembled at dawn in an
unannounced occupation of the street entrance to the abortion facility [in Sacramento, California]. . . . When the
protesters ignored orders to disperse, the police without apparent threat of arrest or warning, took canisters from their
belts and began to spray the crowd with mace. . . ." Videotapes of the incident were shown on the news.
This was at Feminist Womens Health Center. Police illegally used mace against many pro-lifers to move them away
from the clinic entrance. The decision to use the mace was made in collusion with clinic executive director Shanna
Heckert(?), and future founder of the para-military group, Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR),
Allison Goody(?). Goody is the author of <Clinic Defense: A Model,> which is a part of this report. The document
clearly advocates BACAOR domination of the police.
The jury ruled that the police did nothing wrong. This includes doing nothing wrong by macing babies.
Source of allegation: <Congressional Record,> 101st Cong., 1st sess., 1989. 135: 6; Jed White, telephone conversation
with Lynn K. Murphy, 15 December 1994.
*May 12, 1990; San Bernardino, CA - Excessive force*
This was on Mother's Day. This rescue was very much like the Los Angeles police violence incidents.
*Life Research Institute emphasizes in the strongest terms that the reader should not minimize the police
crimes of this entry on the basis that there are no descriptions of the problems. *Very* much happened, but
there was no point in expanding on them because you can read of them above.*
Source of allegation: Bill Soucie, personal video recording of incident, 12 May 1990.
*April 4 and 29, 1994; San Diego, CA - Excessive force*
At pro-life rescues at clinics of Donald Byrnes in Hillcrest and at Phillip Rand in Loma Portal, police used excessive
force while using the martial-arts weapon called nunchakus and using various other actions designed to inflict severe
pain. Criminal trials against the police were won by the city, and an appeal was also won by the city. However, the
rescuers are suing.
As know many police forces across the nation, San Diego's also knew that Operation Rescue was non-violent. That
is why they left behind their helmets, face masks, and batons. At rescues, pro-lifers submit to arrests by remaining
limp. (These arrests are almost always for trespassing.) At rescue after rescue across the nation, police carry the
Christians to the police cars or buses. They all know that pain-compliance techniques are unnecessary--unless the
goals of the police are vigilantism, punishment for social opinion, political incorrectness, and just plain brutality.
Six rescuers were injured: Michael Forrester, Donna and Dena Niehouse, Michaeline Jenkins, and Nancy and Harold
Scofield. Injuries included tendon damage, a broken wrist (of a pro-life surgeon), and temporary blindness.
Source of allegation: "We are a civilized people who abhor brutality," <News Notes,> August 1994, 1.
*July 17, 1993; San Mateo, CA - Pro-lifers sprayed with Cayenne pepper*
This was at Planned Parenthood. Twenty-three rescuers were present when police showed up and told them to
move from their position or get maced. According to a video tape of the incident, eleven seconds later the police
started spraying the pro-lifers with Cayenne pepper. They sprayed adults and children. The children were later
treated by paramedics. Police dragged one of the adults, Pastor Peterson, a block and a half to an ambulance,
rather than bring the ambulance to him. This was not a case of passive resistance by pro-lifers where the pro-lifer
purposely goes limp--Paterson was physically unable to walk.
According to specific police training for this occurrence, chemical spraying was not to be used for passive
demonstrators: The purpose of sprays is to make aggressive people passive. According to the officer who had done
the training, the police who sprayed had acted improperly. Furthermore, he either used or intended to use the video
tape of the incident (taken by a pro-lifer) as further training to show offic-ers exactly what not to do with sprays.
Source of allegation: Robert Collins, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 12 October 1994.
*May 6, 1989; Santa Cruz, CA - Broken wrist, excessive force against six pro-lifers*
At a clinic, police had arrested several rescuers for blocking clinic doors to prevent mothers from entering to have
abortions. After those arrests the police arrested rescuers not near the clinic, but in the public street.
One of these was Beth Hockel, who was kneeling in prayer. The police used a pain-compliance hold on her and
broke both bones in her wrist. Beth still has a piece of her bone "floating" within her arm.
Police lifted Ron Maxon off the ground by one arm while twisting it.
Excessive force was also used on four other pro-lifers. One sustained permanent nerve damage.
All six sued. The police compromised on the suit, not admitting guilt.
Source of allegation: Beth Hockle, personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy, 5 October 1994.
*April 28, 1989; Walnut Creek, CA - Excessive use of pain compliance methods*
This was at Planned Parenthood. Police used a SWAT team and pain compliance when unnecessary. The incidents
were videotaped. Rescuers were only breaking trespassing laws, and they, as is typical of them, would not
cooperate with police by walking to police cars, but were limp. Proof that pain compliance was unnecessary can be
seen by noting that toward the end of the arrests, which were for trespassing, they quit using pain compliance and
started using wheel chairs. This worked fine even from their perspective.
Source of allegation: Video tape, available from Life Research Institute, taken at the incident by a rescuer.
*June 17, 1989; West Hartford, CT - Assault*
This was at Summit Women's Center. About 275 rescuers were present. This was a rescue with prayer support (as
always). The police arrested not only the rescuers but also prayer supporters. Rescuers will break trespassing laws,
but those who only pray do not. Prayer is currently constitutionally protected.
*When the police arrived, they immediately removed their name tags and badges. Then they quickly arrested four
members of the media and de-stroyed their notes, video film, and still-photo film so that there would be no evidence of
their obviously planned brutality.*
The police did not have on riot gear, showing that they did not expect resistance from the rescuers. Fr. Norman
Weslin, O.S. said, "We've been in Atlanta and others, and you know they got rough, but we ex-pected that, it's a
consequence of what we do. *But here it was calcu-lated torture, and the policemen were enjoying the pain. They
laughed at the people screaming."*
Randall Terry, rescuer and founder of Operation Rescue, said that the police were ordered to use pain techniques.
Rescuer John Kissane reported what he and others experienced: "Once out of public view I saw much more kicking
and punching going on. I was particularly surprised to see old men and women being treated like this because of
how brittle the bones are . . . *people were thrown down stairs, or into sinks and walls head first.* Certain elements of
the prison staff seemed to be extremely provoked by continued prayer and song. Prison officials prohibited the
rescuers to sing or pray. Mass on Sundays for Catholics was prohibited. Some of the rescuers kept repeating 'help
me Jesus,' while being tortured, and one officer responded, 'Jesus isn't helping you. *Call out to Satan.'* One officer
stated that he disagreed with the way we were being treated strongly, but that in this building, Chief McHugh is God.'"
*Later, one rescuer was ordered to be imprisoned until he changed his mind about abortion.*
Rescuer Lianne Azevedo said," *It didn't matter whether you were a woman, a man, an old person, it didn't matter
what your age, sex, or anything, that they were just going to brutalize everybody, and probably the woman
particularly.*"
Brian Phaneuf, a young man, said about his experience in jail, "*They [his friends] told me I had stopped breathing in
excess of two minutes, and Father Weslin said they couldn't find a pulse for one minute."* Brian described the jail
surveillance setup and commented that the police had to know of his condition and said that they did not call for
medical assistance.
Lillian Loughlin, *a 62-year-old grandmother, was thrown to the ground by a police officer and beaten until she was
bleeding severely.* At the time of the attack, she was praying, watching her 9-month old granddaughter, and trying to
comply with police instructions. In 1993 Laughlin won a settlement against the police for this for an undisclosed
amount.
[From this point until William F. Buckley's quote below, we have various quotes from the Congressional Record as
cited below.]
"*One policeman pushed his nightstick across an elderly woman's face, threw her to the pavement, twisted her arms
behind her and put his weight on her back.*
The scene was repeated, with variations, many times. Nightsticks were used liberally. Several Rescuers were
beaten. One experienced a nightstick placed between his legs and jerked sharply upward. *Another's arm was
broken with such force that the snap was audible 40 feet away.* Many of the Rescuers were elderly; they were not
spared the violent treatment . . ."
*
Another's arm was broken
with such force that
the snap was audible 40 feet away*
"In the jailhouse, the police punched, kicked and tossed the arrestees about. *One man was pitched head first into a
sink from a height of five feet."*
"They came [the rescuers] to break the law [trespass law], fully expecting to be punished [for that]. What they did not
anticipate was the treatment they received at the hands of those sworn to uphold the law. Dr. Joseph Stanton, *a
68-year-old disabled physician, who walks with the aid of two canes, says an officer pushed him down a staircase.*
Spokesmen for the organization maintain rescuers were dragged by the hair, thrown off buses face down, and had
arms bent behind their backs until they screamed in anguish. They say an elderly lady was lifted by the neck with a
night stick.
Paulette Marshall, a registered nurse, told me *she witnessed a policeman punching the head of a man down on the
pavement, and others kicked as they lay prone.*
Her treatment was no better, Marshall discloses. While he was trying to handcuff her, *an officer dislocated her
shoulder. After applying particularly painful plastic handcuffs, she was dragged face down on carpeting--pulled so
hard her hands actually slipped out of the cuffs, at which point an irate cop knelt on her back and slammed her head
into the floor, causing her to black out.*
Later she was lifted by her arms (cuffed from behind) and hair and thrown into an elevator. 'I expected this in Nazi
Germany or South America, not in Connecticut,' says Marshall, 'I went to work on Monday and couldn't stop crying.
*I'm grieving for my country.*'"
"My plastic cuffs had been pulled so tight on my way into the courthouse that my fingers on both hands starting
ballooning up, and they were in great pain"
"When I started to faint they pushed my head into the corner of the elevator. . . . [at another place] He told me to get
up and walk, but when I tried, *he grabbed me by the hair and dragged me along the length of the bus and threw me
on top of other people*. Then I must have passed out. When they were taking the people off the bus, *they were
calling me the 'dead girl*.' . . . The paramedic looked at me and wanted to take my handcuffs off, but the policemen
wouldn't let her. . . . Then they took me upstairs to the courtroom and took my handcuffs off. My right shoulder was
very painful. *The paramedic looked at me again and said I was in shock. She wanted to take me to the hospital, but
[the officer] said [I could] only leave if it was life or death.*"
[Where were the feminists on this one? Were they on the side of this abused woman? No, they were back at the
clinic cheering!]
"*And how have our valiant watchdogs of civil liberties responded to this violence? On June 21, the New York Times
carried an extensive story on the Hartford arrests, without a word of allegations of police misconduct. In an editorial,
the <Hartford Courant> congratulated the boys in blue.*"
[Most of us have heard the philosophy question: If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it
make a sound? Continuing now with the <Congressional Record . . . >]
"*Does a billy club cracking a skull make a sound, if the media choose to ignore it.*"
[<New York Times> gives money to National Organization for Women and Planned Parenthood, the nation's and
world's largest abortion provider.]
Distinguished journalist, William F. Buckley, wrote about this incident, "It is certainly a day that can be compared to
the famous day that featured Selma, Ala., in 1965. It is hard to believe that Bull Connor, directing redneck policemen,
caused more brutality in the treatment of blacks than was caused by the police of West Hartford in their treatment of
members of Operation Rescue . . ."
Jim Altham, Esq. (attorney) said, "The only thing a police officer has to back him up is the use of force that he may
use in Connecticut law, that force and only that force which is necessary to achieve legiti-mate police objectives,
legitimate law-enforcement objectives. *When it crosses over into the line to use illegitimate force, then he himself
becomes a criminal."*
*Unquestionably showing malice aforethought, the Town Board met quickly after the incident and ratified the action
and proclaimed their right to brutalize the limp rescuers.*
Sources of allegation: Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers," <Catholic Twin Circle,> 11
September 1994, 11.
<The 700 Club,> (a television program), Christian Broadcasting Network/The Family Channel, June 29, 1989.
<The Pittsburgh Nightmare: An Interview with Attorney Larry Washburn and Two of the Victims,> cassette.
<The Brutal Truth,> American Portrait Films, 1990.
<Congressional Record,> 101st Cong., 1st sess., 1989. 135: 6.
*September 14, 1994; Pensacola(?), FL - Gun pointed without need*
During the evening, two pro-lifers, Vicky Conroy and Sharon Glass, were parked near Ladies Center to make legal,
peaceful observations. A policeman in an unmarked car legally observed the pro-lifers. But then, without showing
identification, the un-uniformed policeman got out of his car, pulled a gun and a flashlight, and while shining the
flashlight in Sharon's face, broke her car window.
Charlie DeCosta of police internal affairs was very hostile when asked who the assailant was, but finally gave the
name as Wayne Todd. DeCosta said that he had commended Todd for the way he handled the situation and said
that every time she (Vicky) was out there, she could again expect the same.
The police would not let the pro-lifers file a complaint.
Source of allegation: Vicky Conroy, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, 17 November 1994.
*November, 1986; Tallahassee, FL - Beatings, property damage*
Police attacked peaceful pro-life picketers (picketers, not rescuers!), beating the picketers and smashing their video
cameras.
Source of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993.
*October 4, 1988; Atlanta, GA - Beatings, torture*
Police beat peaceful pro-life rescuers and used forms of torture which are used only on the most violent criminals.
This was shown on CBS's <48 Hours.>
Source of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993.
*January 25, 1992; Aurora, IL - Illegal pain compliance*
"Police used pain compliance holds, as rescuers screamed in agony. Officer Koskie was particularly brutal, bending
the wrists of those who refused to walk, including 71 year old Dominic Locascio, a first time rescuer."
Source of allegation: Tim Murphy, "Thirty-two Arrested at Jakubowski's Aurora Abortion Mill," <Pro-Life Action News,>
March 1992, 10.
*September 28, 1991; Chicago, IL - Illegal pain compliance, sexual harassment*
At a rescue at American Women's Medical Group, police bent wrists and used unnecessary, and therefore illegal,
pain compliance techniques. Female officers grabbed pro-life women where their pants fasten in front. Male officers
urged them to "yank hard and break the snaps" so that the female rescuers' pants would come loose.
Source of allegation: Tim Murphy, "Rescuers Grind Chicago Mill To a Halt," <Life Advocate,> November 1991, 5.
*July 21, 1991; Wichita, KS - Beatings*
Police brutally beat pro-life rescuers who were handcuffed and sitting in a police bus. Also, police maced several
people in the face while they were laying in Central Street. Some of them were handcuffed behind their backs.
Sources of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993; Public Forum letter, <The
Wichita Eagle,> 30 July 1991, 4A.
*July 22, 1991; Wichita, KS - Police marched with horses into very dense crowd of pro-lifers*
This was at Wichita Family Planning Clinic. Horses stepped on and hurt several pro-lifers. Some handcuffed
pro-lifers were forced to lay in horse manure.
Pro-lifers had blockaded the doors 24 hours per day for 10 days. Possibly because the pro-lifers were peaceful, as
they are with only extremely rare exception, there had been no arrests. At the time of the polices' crime, the pro-lifers
were densely packed 10-deep at the front door.
Suddenly, without warning or provocation, the police marched several horses into the pro-lifers. They did not try to
miss the rescuers, but tried to hit them. Fortunately, the horses were somewhat more respectful of human life than
the police. Apparently, there were no serious injuries.
Some pro-lifers were arrested, presumedly for trespassing (which they were doing). On this very hot day, those
arrested and those not arrested were forced to lay on the pavement. Someone measured the temperature of the
pavement at 107 degrees.
Source of allegation: Public Forum letter, <The Wichita Eagle,> 30 July 1991, 4A; Denise Billings and Harry Stilts,
telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 29 November 1994.
*July 23, 1991; Wichita, KS - Police jab pro-lifers with nightsticks*
While some were jabbed, 500 other rescuers, behaving the same way (peacefully) as those being jabbed, were
arrested on the 23[rd] and 24[th] without the need of jabbing. Thus, jabbing exceeded need. Thus, the jabbing was
illegal.
Source of allegation: Public Forum letter, <The Wichita Eagle,> 30 July 1991, 4A.
*Summer of 1992; Wichita, KS - Illegal pain compliance*
Police used unnecessary pain compliance against pro-lifers at Women's Health Care Services.
Source of allegation: Denise Billings and Harry Stilts, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 29 November
1994.
*July 1992; Baton Rouge, LA - Illegal pain compliance*
At a rescue, illegal pain compliance was used against several pro-lifers. Though limp, Randy Hinesley was thrown to
the ground, and a police officer heavily placed his knee on Randy's back and twisted his arm. At the police bus, Ron
Block was tossed into the bus via a mastoid (jaw) hold. Chet Gallagher was attacked with a mastoid hold. Flip
Benham was thrown to the ground and dragged. These rescuers were not fighting back--they were limp the whole
time
Approximately 100 complaints were lodged against the police.
Source of allegation: Randy Hinesley, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, 31 December 1994.
*October 22, 1993; Watertown, NY -- Police break rescuer's arm*
The rescuer's name was Mrs. Vicki A. Kraeger. While she was holding her six-month old son, police pushed her onto
the hood of a car. After she handed the baby to a pro-lifer, police handcuffed her and dragged her several feet along
a sidewalk and stuffed her into the back seat of a patrol car. In this process, the police broke her arm. Nothing else
is known about the incident.
However, there is ample evidence of--not that this is violence--police harassment of these pro-lifers because of their
politically incorrect opinion on life and because of their Christianity. This harassment includes many, many
consecutive hours of interrogation and excessively high bail set by a judge who was a golf buddy of the local
abortionist.
Source of allegation: Marc Heller, "New Flap Hits Office Of Doctor," <Watertown Daily News,> 22 October 1993.
*February 25, 1989; Pittsburgh, PA - Torture, sexual abuse*
Police tortured a group of pro-life rescuers which included students from Franciscan University. The women students
were sexually abused.
Source of allegation: Chicago Suburban Rescue (CSR) news release, 21 August 1993.
*March 11, 1989; Pittsburgh, PA - Numerous assaults, numerous sexual harassments, denial of food, water,
and bathrooms for very extended lengths of time*
This series of incidents is known as "The Pittsburgh Nightmare."
This began at Allegheny Reproductive Health Center.
Just as in West Hartford, CT (on June 17, 1989), the Pittsburgh police immediately removed their badges and name
tags. Evidently, they had plans to commit illegal acts, and they didn't want to be identified.
A very young rescuer named Frank, one of about sixty men and sixty women, was arrested and falsely charged by a
police officer who was a member of the board of directors of an abortion clinic. As a result of this, all the other
rescuers went limp in order not to cooperate with the police.
Per the typical plan at rescues, all rescuers were limp throughout all the arrests and booking procedures. The police
separated the women from the men, and once the women were in jail the women were verbally abused: lewd
comments on breast sizes were made, and *the police told them what they were going do to them--rape and sodomy.
Two women had her breasts exposed by police. Twenty four of sixty women were bru-talized and sexually harassed.
Where were the feminists on this one? Where were those women who scream sexual harassment when a man gives
even the slightest hint of bothering a woman? Were they back at the clinic cheering?*
One pro-life woman in the jail was unconscious. The cops wouldn't let the others comfort her.
Janet Cookie(?) testified: "The police held twelve women to a one-man cell without food or water. They denied
phone calls to attorneys or others. The rescuers weren't told the charges against them. The police dragged the
women from the cells, while using vulgar language, and put them into a paddy wagon. Then they drove violently
while the prisoners bounced off the walls in the back. They would go up and down twelve inch curbs. The prisoners
were not told where they were going.
These women got to the county jail, which is for men only. The police threw the women on the ground from the
paddy wagon. They pulled them by their hair, arms, and clothes. *One girl was made topless. Others had their shirts
pulled over heads. Naturally, there was crying and screaming. [Again, where were the feminists, not only then, but
during the years since then? The radical feminists pro-aborts scream incredibly at the demonstrations. But in all the
years since 1989, did anyone even hear them whisper about this?]*
As the police carried them up the stairs, they beat the women. The police wore no name tags. This wasn't the worst
to come.
For twelve hours no one was allowed to go to the bathroom, call attorneys, etcetera. Only after a long time did one
prisoner get treatment for her asthma attack.
In the county-jail processing area, very lewd remarks were made and there were threats of rape. Many were
photographed topless, etcetera. *Then they were dragged around the stairwell where no one could see, and while
one man held my head up by my hair, two others kicked me in the side. They did this because they wanted me to
walk instead of being limp. They said that if I didn't take my 'bleep bleep' up those steps, I would be thrown into [?]
to be raped by the inmates. They were serious. I knew now that if I didn't cooperate, they would kill me."*
Finally upstairs, she was strip-searched in front of a male guard. Men were walking in and out, and *the men made
her do some things that were too graphic to describe*.
*Others were brutally beaten at the same steps.*
[From this point until the quote-out about joking and laughing, we have various quotes from the Congressional
Record as cited below. Any text which is missing is also missing from the source.]
*"Many were strip-searched in front of male guards and prisoners, fondled and punched in the breasts." In one case a
matron kicked a naked prisoner between the legs*.
"One guy was gonna carry me up the stairs but the other guy said not to and make it hard on me. . . . He grabbed me
between my breasts and dragged me up the stairs by my wire-rimmed bra. *My breasts were fully exposed* as I was
being dragged up the stairs. My hands were still behind my back and I couldn't pull my top down. Then I was taken
to another room and thrown to the floor.
Another woman in the same rescue reported difficulty with a matron assigned to perform strip searches:
After I had my picture taken I was carried up the stairs. Before being carried a policeman pulled up my shirt in order
to expose me. Then he and one other policeman took me up the stairs. One, whose name was . . . , after she
realized I wouldn't stand, threatened to take off my clothes . . . and molest me in front of the male guards.
[Special insert by Life Research Institute:]
Anita! Hello, Anita Hill!
Where are you?
Other women complained of male police officers taking full advantage of their passive resistance:
As I was being carried onto the bus, *one of the officers . . . reached down my pants to carry me* and told the other
guy, "Hey just reach down her pants." . . . Then when we got to the Allegheny County Jail . . . people grabbed my
clothes and just heaved me way up in the air much more than was necessary and I just felt like I was flying through
the air. . . . When they carried me out they lifted my shirt up [and] it went over my head and I couldn't see
anything . . . they carried me that way up the whole flight of stairs and I think down a couple hallways and left us on
the floor. They made no effort to cover me in any way. . . . I'm really afraid of police officers now and I always
thought they were there to protect us."
They threw me in . . . and rolled me over a bunch of people . . . I was the last one out. He got me out and they
laughed and *he put his arms around me and held me around by boobs. . . . And he squeezed super hard and I
thought he was trying to break my ribs*. . . .
One woman reported the following acts of sexual harassment:
[W]hen I was being dragged onto the bus . . . I was drug by my ponytail and a lot of my hair came out. . . . I was
dragged in front of a table and they asked--told me to get up and I didn't say anything back. Then the male officer
started to undo my coat and he tried to undo my pants and I just like pushed my stomach out so that he wouldn't be
able to. . . . And then he opened my coat and they stood me up on my feet and I went limp and they raised me to the
table. Then a male officer frisked me, *a female was standing there but a male officer actually touched me . . . on my
breasts and also between my legs . . . I felt them pull my T-shirt and my bra all the way up above my head* . . . [and]
one of the guards . . . punch[ed] me in the chest on this side and on this side and I have bruises . . . I don't know if it
was two or three and *I felt one of the guards take me by my breast and squeeze and I have bruises all around where
he squeezed with his fingers."*
*
Policemen were joking and laughing.
*
Arlene Eddy testified: "Policemen were joking and laughing. They had the appearance that they couldn't wait to get
their hands on them. At each landing/level, the "guards" threatened even when the prisoners were cooperating by
walking. They again threatened to throw them into cells with prisoners who would rape and sodomize them."
Janet Smother testified: "The police blew smoke into the face of the woman who had the asthma attack."
After the jail, the women were taken to the state mental facility. When leaving the jail, the male inmates, having
heard all that had happened to the women, clapped for them.
Also, two or three hundred Christians were waiting on the side of the hill clapping for the women.
All charges against all the women were dropped.
Concerning the male pro-life prisoners, they police put ten men in one-man cells for 36 hours without food or water.
*Afterward, the city and county government would not accept papers from these victims for legal complaints.*
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate the various
law-enforcement agencies.
Sources of allegation: <The Pittsburgh Nightmare: An Interview with Attorney Larry Washburn and Two of the Victims,>
cassette.
<The Brutal Truth,> American Portrait Films, 1990.
<Congressional Record,> 101st Cong., 1st sess., 1989. 135: 4, 6, 7.
*February 27, 1993; Dallas, TX - Tear-gas-like chemical sprayed into clinic*
This was at North Dallas Women's Clinic. (This is, for obvious reasons, a duplicate of an entry in the Investigation II
table.) Flip Benham, head of all Operation Rescue: "We have video of rescue where police maced the rescuers who
were laying down, & have news reports of police admitting they were wrong to use mace this way. But it is routine for
pro-aborts (security guards, etc.) to mace them.
This police incident includes macing one pro-lifer who was handcuffed and laying on the floor."
Source of allegation: Flip Benham, Operation Rescue national office, Dallas, TX; Al Brumley, <Dallas Morning News,> 2
March 1993.
*December 12, 1994; Houston, TX - Assault, stalking, trampling of First Amendment rights, verbal harassment*
Following are various quotes from victim, William Burban: "I went to the death camp of Planned Parenthood [analogy
is made to Hitler's very similar death camps] at approximately 7AM to protest the killing of innocent human lives by
abortion and RU-486. I set up my signs as usual and began to pray, counsel mothers, and picket. At approximately
8 AM I noticed that the baby shoes were missing from a cross that I usually drape on to symbolize the killing of
unborn children. . . . [now on Bolsover Street(?) asking residents to sign a petition against the FACE law and against
abortion] an off duty COH [City of Houston] Police Officer driving a Southampton Subdivision Security vehicle got out
of his vehicle and approached me again and asked the question if I had permission to go door to door. I stated that
my permission comes from the First Amendment which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting the
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press, or
the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and held up the petition for the officer to observe. . . . he stated his
name was John E. Zitzman. [Similar recitations of the First Amendment occurred.] I thanked the off duty officer for
his time and turned to go to the home to have them sign the petition when officer Zitzman tackled me from behind
and started hitting me with his baton. I went limp and said 'What are you doing?!?!' The off duty officer continued to
beat me with his baton. I begged him to stop the beating! It was at this point that he mentioned that he was arresting
me. It is important to note that he never mention[ed] anything about me being arrested [earlier]. *I received 30 baton
blows before I was notified that I was being arrested.* It is important to note that not a single hint that I was going to
be arrested up to this exact point.
As I was being arrested, I started to cry, I stated the FIRST AMENDMENT, sang Christmas Carols, and
sang a Civil Rights song 'We shall overcome'. The officer called in for back up at this point and I was in handcuffs
when the other officers arrived. They started cussing at me and using the Lord's name in vain. . . . I was placed head
down in a City of Houston Police Vehicle as I continued to cry from my wounds that have been inflicted, sang
Christmas Carols, stated the First Amendment . . . I was verbally abused by the Black Police Officer . . . I told them
that I wanted a report to be made of the Police Brutality that I have received and they did not answer me and *dragged
me out and were prodding me with cattle iron rods that burned my flesh. They slammed me against the wall and
pulled my hair . . .* The handcuffs were squeezed so tightly that it burned . . . [They denied pro-lifer access to his
attorney.]
During the pretrial they stated that I attacked Officer Zitzman."
A medical report and pictures in the possession of Life Research Institute verifies many injuries.
The victim was charged with resisting arrest.
Source of allegation: William Burban, "Violence and Disruption Report," 9 December 1994.
When the police beat you, who can you call for help?
*Summary of Conclusions
Regarding Each Investigation
*
Following is a list of incidents from the preceding tables which show guilt. This means guilt as
determined by the courts, by confessions, by Congressional testimony, or by overwhelming evidence
captured on video tapes. The latter was only used by Life Research Institute to determine guilt of the
police, not guilt of pro-abortion.
For each investigation LRI has listed the incident headings (which the reader can find in the previous
tables) together with the reason LRI lists the perpetrators as guilty.
*Investigation I: Alleged Violence of Pro-Lifers against Pro-Aborts and their Facilities
(Excluding Violence by Police):*
*The following 3 incidents were not abortion related:*
June 1990; St. Paul, MN - Assault. Guilt determined by apparent conviction.
March 17, 1991; Greensboro, NC - Arson, $100,000 damage. Guilt determined by conviction.
1985; Portland, OR - Bomb threat?, attempted bombing? Guilt determined by conviction.
*It was not possible to determine whether the following 6 were abortion related:*
June 1988; Long Beach, CA - Attempted arson. Guilt determined by conviction.
October 1988; Long Beach, CA - Arson. Guilt determined by conviction.
October 1989; Fairfield, NJ - Attempted arson, $5,000 damage. Guilt determined by conviction.
May 1990; Syracuse, NY - Arson, $570 damage. Guilt determined by confession.
June 8, 1987; Toledo, OH - Arson. Guilt determined by conviction.
March 8, 1987; Toledo, OH - Attempted arson. Guilt determined by conviction.
*The following 1 was committed by Pro-abortion (Purpose was to create problems for pro-life):*
September 1990; Concord, CA - Arson, $90,000 damage. Guilt determined by conviction.
*The following 12 were committed by pro-life:*
September 17, 1992; Chico, CA - Butyric acid. Guilt determined by confession.
Unknown date; Redding, CA - Threatening letter. Guilt determined by conviction.
Probably in 1980s; Sacramento, CA - Vandalism. Guilt determined because he just had to be guilty.
March 10, 1993; Pensacola, FL - Abortionist David Gunn murdered by Michael Griffin
Guilt determined by conviction.
July 29, 1994; Pensacola, FL - Murders, attempted murder by Paul Hill. Guilt determined by convictions.
August 1993; Wichita, KS - Rachelle Shannon shoots abortionist George Tiller
Guilt determined by conviction. Tiller recovered.
December 30, 1994 - Brookline, MA - Murders, attempted murders by John Salvi
Guilt determined by tremendous evidence against him. Also see December 31, 1994; Norfolk, VA.
1993; Missoula, MT - Threatening letters. Guilt determined by conviction.
July 1992; New York, NY - Dead fetus shown to Clinton. Guilt determined by conviction.
October 10, 1993; Houston, TX - Arson. Guilt determined by confession.
December 31, 1994; Norfolk, VA - Attempted murder by John Salvi
Guilt determined by tremendous evidence against him. LRI breaks with its policy of showing guilt only when the
courts or confession show it. (This hasn't yet been shown for Salvi.) Otherwise the abortion industry would severely
attack the omission of the Salvi apparant guilt. However, to provide equal treatment, LRI therefore showed
pro-abortion guilt when attempts were made on the life of pro-lifer Carole Griffin but no one was apprehended.
April 1991; Milwaukee, WI - Abortionist detained at highway rest stop. Guilt determined by confession.
*Investigation II: Alleged Violence of Pro-Aborts against Pro-Lifers and their Facilities
(Excluding Violence by Police)*
*The following 15 were committed by pro-abortion:*
Unknown date; Mobile, AL - Reckless endangerment. Guilt determined by conviction.
December 10 (approx), 1988; Los Angeles, CA area - Several phony bomb threats. Guilt determined by conviction.
March 1989; Los Angeles, CA - Smoke bomb set off at Operation Rescue rally at Melodyland
Guilt determined by conviction.
Unknown date; Newhall, CA - Abortionist murders eight born babies. Guilt determined by convictions.
March 1975; Washington, DC - Murder, kidnapping, perjury
Guilt determined by perjury conviction. Read rest of writeup.
1987; Tallahassee, FL - Assault with a deadly weapon. Guilt determined by overwhelming evidence.
Summer of 1988; Tallahassee, FL - Shooting, multiple attempted murders, nineteen death threats, vandalism
Guilt determined by overwhelming evidence.
August 15, 1981; Chicago, IL - Assault and battery. Guilt determined by conviction.
March 12, 1994; Chicago, IL - Battery. Guilt determined by conviction.
January 1975; Boston, MA - Abortionist leaves baby to die, and he does die
Guilt of manslaughter determined by conviction. (This convicted criminal would be future Chairman of the Board of
Planned Parenthood Federation of America.)
January 1985 (trial date); Gaithersburg, MD - Assault, assault with a deadly weapon. Guilt determined by conviction.
April 20, 1985; Gaithersburg, MD - Battery. Guilt determined by conviction.
August 1983; University City, MO - Assault and destruction of property. Guilt determined by conviction.
May 1990; Philadelphia, PA - Abortionist murders girl, was anti-choice. Guilt determined by conviction.
June 1983; El Paso, TX - Abortionist murders abortion survivor. Guilt determined by conviction.
*Investigation III: Alleged Violence of Police against Pro-Abortion *
There were no reported incidents of police violence against pro-abortion.
*Investigation IV: Alleged Violence of Police against Pro-Lifers *
*The following 11 were committed by police:*
October 21, 1989; La Mesa, CA - Illegal pain compliance. Guilt determined by much on video tape.
March 25, 1989; Los Angeles, CA - Beatings. Guilt determined by Congressional testimony and much on video tape.
June 10, 1989; Los Angeles, CA - Murders, broken bones, crushed ligaments, crushed tendons, goosing, grinding
face into asphalt, sprains, strains, extreme excessive police brutality performed gleefully
Guilt determined by Congressional testimony and much on video tape.
April 14, 1990; Los Angeles, CA - Murders, broken bones, crushed ligaments, crushed tendons, goosing, grinding
face into asphalt, sprains, strains, extreme excessive police brutality performed gleefully
Guilt determined by Congressional testimony and much on video tape.
May 12, 1990; San Bernardino, CA - Excessive force. Guilt determined by much on video tape.
April 4 and 29, 1994; San Diego, CA - Excessive force. Guilt determined by much on video tape.
July 17, 1993; San Mateo, CA - Pro-lifers sprayed with Cayenne pepper. Guilt determined by confession.
June 17, 1989; West Hartford, CT - Assault. Guilt determined by Congressional testimony and much on video tape.
October 4, 1988; Atlanta, GA - Beatings, torture. Guilt determined by much on video tape.
March 11, 1989; Pittsburgh, PA - Numerous assaults, numerous sexual harassments, denial of food, water, and
bathrooms for very extended lengths of time
Guilt determined by Congressional testimony and much on video tape.
February 27, 1993; Dallas, TX - Tear-gas-like chemical sprayed into clinic. Guilt determined by confession.
*Final Conclusions
*
Since abortion was made legal in 1973, there have been approximately 500,000 homicides in the United
States. Do we paint all Americans murderers because of this? Then let us not paint all of pro-life guilty
for the crimes and hopes those such as Hill, Griffin, Shannon, Salvi, and murder-advocate Michael Bray.
Let us call them guilty, but call the hundreds of thousands of other pro-lifers just as inno-cent as you
personally are because you didn't murder one of the 500,000.
Facts in this report conclusively show the following:
� There is very little violence by pro-life.
� There is a great deal of violence by pro-abortion.
� There is a great deal of violence by police against pro-life.
� There is no violence by police against pro-abortion.
Since it is quite apparent that pro-abortion has been lying, there still remains a very important issue which
has not been addressed in this report: Can you ever again believe anything that the pro-aborts and/or
the abortion industry tell you?
The reader, if he or she wishes, may refer to the pages on activists' attitudes and morals, on lies, and on
criteria for forming conclusions. Yet without even considering the generalizations in those documents,
the specific investigations show time after time, incident after incident, that the pro-aborts invented,
exaggerated, and lied. Their long list of alleged incidents of violence has, for the most part, gone
unsubstantiated--and this is in spite of efforts to get them to provide more than accusations, but facts.
The United States Constitution provides that when you are accused of a crime, you have a right to face
your accusers in a fair trial. Pro-life has the right to expect this, but the pro-aborts, instead of coming
forth, are hiding.
They are hiding because they have lied.
When someone lies to you once, do you still give him your unqualified trust? If a husband says, "I'm
staying late at the office tonight, honey," and then you accidentally find out he didn't, what will you think
next time he says that? How much will you trust him?
If he lies to you ten times, how much will you trust him? What about one hundred times?
Lying to the Supreme Court, lying about RU-486, lying about violence, everywhere the pro-aborts have
lied.
What is it that they could tell you that you could believe honestly and in your heart?
Can you ever again legitimately believe anything they say?
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