Women's Rights

Abortion: Scared Women, Extreme Measures

Just one week after the Roe v. Wade anniversary, on Thursday Jan. 29, [1998] at 7:33 a.m., a bomb went off at the New Woman, All Women Health Care Center in Birmingham [Alabama]. The homemade bomb killed a clinic security employee, off-duty police officer Robert D. "Sandy" Sanderson, and severely injured nurse Emily Lyons ... letters were received by news agencies claiming responsibility for the bombing. The letters were signed by "The Army of God" (now.org).

Why would someone claiming to be pro-life commit murder? According to Paul Hill, who shot and killed John Britton and his armed escort James Barrett, "I realized that a large number of very important things would be accomplished by my shooting another abortionist in Pensacola [Florida] ... most importantly, this would uphold the truth of the Gospel at the precise point of Satan's current attack (the abortionist's knife). (armyofgod.com)"

Are the most dangerous people in the world the most religious? Rachelle Shannon, in 1993, shot an abortion clinic doctor in Wichita, Kansas. She boasted that she was enforcing "God's will." Police later found buried in her back yard an Army of God manual filled with Bible quotes, bomb making instructions, and a "Declaration" saying abortion providers must be assassinated. The manual said Army of God units aren't told the identity of members elsewhere, so "the Feds will never stop us." After two bombings in 1997, a letter was sent to Reuters news agency, that was later turned over to the FBI, that illiterately read, "We declare and will wage total war on the ungodly communist regime in New York and your legaslative-bureaucratic lackey's in Washington. It is you who are responsible and preside over the murder of children and issue the policy of ungodly preversion thats destroying our people....