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anti-abortion activists stories: 31 news summaries

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Man Shot Anti-Abortion Protester Over 'Grudge'

Gunman also killed a gravel company owner, had a third target

Sep 12, 09 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Harlan Drake, the 33-year-old trucker who shot noted anti-abortion activist James Pouillon in front of a high school yesterday, also shot a local gravel company owner, and intended to kill a third man before police arrested him. He had “a list in his head,” a police chief... More »

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abortion • murder • Michigan • shooting • anti-abortion activists • James Pouillon • Harlan James Drake

 Mich. Anti-Abortion 
 Activist Killed in Drive-By 

Perp also admits to shooting local business owner; motive unclear

Sep 11, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prominent anti-abortion protester was gunned down this morning outside a Michigan high school, the Detroit Free Press reports. Owosso High School students were among the witnesses to the drive-by shooting, which police say was committed by a 33-year-old man who was arrested at his home and promptly confessed... More »

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murder • Michigan • protests • shooting • anti-abortion activists • Owosso • drive-by • abortion debate • James Pouillon

(Newser) - We've had the birthers, the deathers, and now here come the right-to-lifers to cast their two cents on the health reform debate, reports the Wall Street Journal. Democrats are bracing for protests from anti-abortion advocates, who are preparing a major push against what they call taxpayer subsidies for pregnancy termination.... More »

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abortion • health insurance • insurance • health care reform • anti-abortion activists

 Randall Terry 
 Booted From 
 Va. Town Hall 

Crowd chants 'kick him out' at antiabortion activist

Aug 26, 09 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Theatrical antiabortion protester Randall Terry was escorted from a town hall last night as he hammered Howard Dean for "baby-killing," Salon reports. Terry has been protesting outside town halls, but last night, he came indoors as the former DNC chair and Rep. Jim Moran met with constituents in... More »

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Howard Dean • health care reform • town hall meeting • anti-abortion activists • Randall Terry • Jim Moran

Accused Killer of Abortion Doc Wrestles With Pro-Life Group

Operation Rescue
denies donations

Jul 26, 09 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Kansas City man accused of gunning down an abortion provider is upset over his rocky relationship with a major pro-life group, the Kansas City Star reports. In a jailhouse interview, Scott Roeder said he has donated thousands of dollars to Operation Rescue—which denies the donations, denounces Roeder, and... More »

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abortion • murder • shooting • pro-life • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller • Scott Roeder • Operation Rescue

(Newser) - Anti-abortion groups are launching a full-scale assault on health reform plans, contending that current proposals include an “abortion mandate” and would spend taxpayer money on the procedure, Politico reports. The first claim is based on a plan to federally mandate a basic set of procedures insurers must offer. Abortion... More »

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health care • abortion • health insurance • Focus on the Family • health care reform • insurance providers • House Democrats • anti-abortion activists

'Jane Roe' Arrested After Ruckus at Sotomayor Hearing

'You're wrong, Sotomayor,' plaintiff-turned-anti-abortion-activist screams

Jul 13, 09 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Norma McCorvey, better known as “Jane Roe” from the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, was arrested today after causing a ruckus at Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing, ABC News reports. McCorvey was removed from the Hart Senate Office Building and charged with unlawful conduct after she began to... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Roe v. Wade • confirmation hearings • anti-abortion activists • Sonia Sotomayor • Norma McCorvey

(Newser) - Could abortion be the hidden trap that kills health care reform? Federal regs already prohibit the use of Medicaid money for the procedure, but 19 anti-abortion Democrats got in front of the issue last month, Time reports. They sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi warning that they won’t support... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • abortion • health care reform • House Democrats • anti-abortion activists

(Newser) - Today's shooting at the Holocaust museum, on the heels of the murder of an abortion provider, is bringing renewed attention to a Homeland Security report issued in April that warned of a rise in exactly these kinds of attacks, Politico reports. At the time, critics including Rush Limbaugh blasted the... More »

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Holocaust Museum • Department of Homeland Security • Janet Napolitano • domestic terrorism • anti-abortion activists

(Newser) - The man accused of murdering abortion provider George Tiller told CNN today that he considers it a “victory” that Tiller’s family will shut his Kansas clinic. The closure means “no more slicing and dicing of the unborn child,” Scott Roeder said in an interview. He did... More »

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abortion • murder • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller • Scott Roeder • late-term abortion

 Anti-Abortion Activists 
 Target State Battlegrounds 

In Mississippi, only one clinic remains

Jun 8, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - With President Obama in office, abortion is unlikely to become illegal under federal law anytime soon. So activists are taking their battle to the state level, pushing for complex rules and limits that make the procedure difficult to obtain, the Washington Post reports. "The states are the battlegrounds and... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Planned Parenthood • Mississippi • state governments • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller

More Violence Looms, Warns Suspect in
Tiller Slaying

'Many other similar events planned'

Jun 7, 09 2:16 PM CDT
(AP) - The man charged in the shooting death of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller warned today that more violence is possible. Scott Roeder, being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in Tiller's killing one week ago, called the AP from jail. "I know there are many other... More »

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abortion • crime • murder • shooting • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller • Scott Roeder

Tiller 'Knew Something
Was Coming' 

Murdered abortion doc worried about upsurge in protests, threats

Jun 6, 09 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Tiller noticed a worrying rise in protesters outside his clinics and threats against him and his staff in the weeks before his death, the Kansas City Star reports. The abortion doctor shared his concerns with a colleague in North Carolina two weeks before he was shot. "I said,... More »

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abortion • murder • Kansas • Wichita • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller

OPINION

O'Reilly to Blame for Abortion Doctor's Murder

And I'll never appear on his show again, says pro-choice advocate

Jun 4, 09 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion-rights advocate Mary Alice Carr has made many appearances on The O'Reilly Factor, to the anger of her progressive friends. But in an article for the Washington Post, Carr says she's through with the program—and blames Bill O'Reilly for the murder of Dr. George Tiller. "O'Reilly knew that... More »

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abortion • Bill O'Reilly • murder • Fox News • NARAL • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller

OPINION

George Tiller's Murder Was Terrorism

But despite her fear, abortion clinic worker vows to stand strong

Jun 3, 09 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion clinic worker and activist Heather Corinna doesn’t support the Patriot Act, but the murder of Dr George Tiller appears to “fits squarely in its definition of domestic terrorism,” she writes for the Guardian. Abortion clinics have been dealing with this kind of violence and... More »

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abortion • terrorism • abortion rights • pro-life • anti-abortion activists • clinic • George Tiller

Operation Rescue: Tiller 'Reaped What He Sowed'

Founder says pro-life movement not guilty in doctor's death

Jun 1, 09 10:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The head of a national anti-abortion ground based in Wichita, Kansas said yesterday that his organization was not responsible for the death of Dr. George Tiller, Gawker reports. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry immediately went on to say Tiller “was a mass-murderer and, horrifically, he reaped what he sowed,... More »

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pro-life • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller • Operation Rescue • Randall Terry

(Newser) - The ex-wife of the man suspected in yesterday’s fatal shooting of a Kansas abortion doctor says Scott Roeder underwent a mental evaluation and that, though he didn’t consider himself unstable, “everyone else did.” Lindsey Roeder says Scott’s views on abortion were so fierce she stopped... More »

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abortion • crime • murder • Wichita • anti-abortion activists • murder charges • George Tiller • Scott Roeder

Abortion Doc
Was Dedicated Despite Dangers

Kansas physician believed passionately
in right to choose

Jun 1, 09 2:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dr. George Tiller persevered as one of the nation’s highest-profile abortion providers despite decades of violence against him and his clinic because he was a staunch believer in a woman’s right to choose, reports the Wichita Eagle. The Kansas physician—who was shot to death yesterday in the... More »

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abortion rights • Wichita • doctor • shooting • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller

updated

 Police Arrest 
 Suspect in 
 Murder of 
 Abortion Doc 

Obama 'shocked and outraged' by killing

May 31, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Wichita, Kan., have arrested a 51-year-old male suspect in the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, who was gunned down today as he walked into church, the Wichita Eagle reports. Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred did not name the suspect but did say other agencies, including the FBI,... More »

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abortion • Wichita • church shootings • shooting • pro-life • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller

OPINION

 A Win for Obama, 
 Moderate Catholics 

President's Notre Dame speech was radical and conservative: Dionne

May 18, 09 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion opponents protested and pro-life students skipped, but Barack Obama's Notre Dame commencement address was at once "the most radical and the most conservative speech of his presidency," writes Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne. The president refused to indulge the protesters' desire to "reignite the culture wars,... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • Catholic Church • Notre Dame • Catholics • commencement speech • pro-life • culture wars • anti-abortion activists

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