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Jury to Hear Case of Anti-choice Activist’s Threat to Dr. Mila Means
It will be up to a jury to decide whether anti-choice “activist” Angel Dillard’s letter to Dr. Mila Means, a former abortion provider in Kansas, was in fact a “true threat.” Via the Associated Press:...
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Protest, Harassment, Terrorism—Regardless of the Name, It’s Wrong
So-called “sidewalk counseling,” the practice of harassing women seeking abortions with non-medical, unwanted “advice,” and stalking the medical professionals and volunteers who assist them, has been...
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Florida Arsonist Gets Ten Years for Pensacola Clinic Firebombing
The fire at the American Family Planning Clinic in Pensacola, Florida, on New Year’s Day, 2012, now seems like a morbidly symbolic start to what became six months of violence against family-planning...
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Violence in Front of Planned Parenthood that Doesn’t Perform Abortions
Many anti-choice activists, unhappy with limiting their protests just to clinics that terminate pregnancies, have expanded their reach to reproductive health clinics that don’t even provide abortions....
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Harrisburg, PA Creates 20 Feet Clinic Buffer to Protect Patients and Staff
Patients seeking access to reproductive health clinics in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania will be able to get through the doors with less potential for harassment, thanks to a new 20-foot buffer zone aroud...
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Anti-Choice Harassers Re-double Attacks On Jackson Women’s Health...
“Please, Mommy, don’t kill me!” The words have become a standard refrain on the sidewalks in front of Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO) on the days where abortions are to be performed. While...
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Kentucky News Outlet Glorifies Clinic Bomber
It seemed at first to be a sort of odd article to run on a day to celebrate a woman’s right to choose. A northern Kentucky media outlet decided that the 40th anniversary of Roe would be the perfect...
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Legacy of Tiller’s Murder: Anti-Choice Terrorists Threaten Staff at Wichita...
Every community has its own unique history shaped its people, its geography, and its circumstance. Wichita, Kansas, has been home to such notable people as Carrie Nation and Wyatt Earp. Its geography...
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Indiana Man Attacks Planned Parenthood With Ax Because of ‘Religious Beliefs’
A 27-year-old Indiana man is being held by police after taking an ax to a Bloomington, Indiana, Planned Parenthood clinic and then vandalizing it with red paint. The attack, which happened in the early...
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Shooting Outside Indiana Planned Parenthood (UPDATED)
UPDATE, Monday, 8:45 p.m.: NBC Chicago has more details on the incident outside the Merillville clinic. A police officer reportedly shot a truck driver outside the facility. “Officials said they don’t...
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Legal Wrap: Finally Some Justice for Bei Bei Shuai
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. The prosecution of Bei Bei Shuai in Indiana is one of the best examples of the shift by anti-abortion activists toward...
View ArticleVandal of Kentucky’s Last Full-Time Abortion Clinic Arrested Again
The vandal who twice broke the windows at Kentucky’s last full-time abortion clinic was arrested again last week near the clinic on an unrelated charge. Timothy Lee Haste was first arrested and pleaded...
View ArticleReproductive Rights Advocates Honor Victims of Colorado Shooting
Read more of our articles on the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting here. Supporters and allies of Planned Parenthood gathered in Washington, D.C., and Colorado on Saturday to pledge their...
View ArticleVideos to Violence: The Escalating Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood
Read more of our articles on the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting here. On Friday, November 27, authorities say Robert Lewis Dear Jr. laid siege to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado...
View ArticleColorado Shooting Underscores Existing Laws Not Sufficient to Protect...
Read more of our articles on the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting here. The year 1993 was particularly violent for reproductive rights providers. Following a rising tide of anti-abortion...
View ArticleAdvocates: Accused Planned Parenthood Shooter’s Outburst ‘Not a Coincidence’
Colorado pro-choice activists, who claimed in a news conference that anti-choice rhetoric has incited clinic violence, now say that an in-court outburst by the accused shooter in November’s attack at a...
View ArticlePoll: Support for Abortion Highest in Two Years
Public support for legal abortion in the United States is at a two-year high, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that showed increased support over the past year among both Democrats and...
View ArticleArson Suspect Arrested in Connection With California Planned Parenthood Fire
California authorities arrested an Oxnard man Tuesday in connection with a suspected arson attack that caused significant damage to a Southern California Planned Parenthood in September. Alvaro Perez,...
View ArticleHouse GOP Marches Ahead With Fetal Tissue Research Investigations
U.S. House Republicans are plowing ahead with an investigation into unsubstantiated claims that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue, with plans this week to subpoena three organizations involved in...
View ArticleAccused Clinic Shooter Says His Victims Are ‘Casualties’ of ‘War’
Robert Lewis Dear Jr., who admitted his guilt in a court outburst in the shooting death of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, told a local TV station that he has no remorse...
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