x-post from WRI - Arson, Bombs, and Break-Ins at Women's Clinics Seek to Instill Fear [View all]

Bombs and fires at women's health clinics are happening where abortion rights are under assault.


May 31, 2012 |

"There's a history of terroristic violence by anti-abortion extremists, up to and including murders of doctors and clinic workers," Rachel Maddow said on Friday night, reporting on suspicious burglaries and fires at two women's health clinics in Georgia.

It looks like that violent history's new chapters are being written in tandem with the continual legislative incursion on reproductive rights.

Friday, the day of Maddow's broadcast, was the very same day the healthcare providers at Women With a Vision, a provider in New Orleans that serves the most marginalized members of the population, woke up to find their offices charred and blackened, their equipment, files and resources devoured by flames.

A statement on the clinic's Web site reads, in part:


We lost everything. We do not have an office to operate out of right now. Most of our office equipment and all of our educational resources were destroyed. Because of the targeted nature, we can only assume that this was intentional.

more:
http://www.alternet.org/news/155669/right-wing_terrorism%3A_arson,_bombs,_and_break-ins_at_women%27s_clinics_seek_to_instill_fear