November 30, 2015

These Tweets About Attacks on Abortion Providers Should Make Your Blood Boil

Attendees at a University of Colorado vigil for those killed in Friday's shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic David Zalubowski/AP

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Last Friday, three people were killed and at least nine were injured when Robert Lewis Dear allegedly shot them at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility. This assault was the latest in a recent surge of violence against women’s health clinics following the release of doctored videos this summer by anti-abortion activists who claim the videos show Planned Parenthood staffers selling fetal tissue.

But even before this summer, US abortion providers have weathered a long and deadly string of violent attacks. On Sunday, Michelle Kinsey Bruns, a feminist organizer and the woman behind Twitter account @ClinicEscort, tweeted a roundup of 100 attacks on women’s health providers, beginning with the 1976 arson attempt at an abortion clinic in Eugene, Oregon, and ending with the response from some anti-abortion activists to Friday’s shooting in Colorado.

Here’s her list:

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