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Such violent attacks have “been successful insofar as it’s made people less interested in going to abortion clinics and less interested in going to abortion providers,” Ziegler said.
But Ziegler said the attacks were often counterproductive because they swayed public opinion against anti-abortion groups and reminded Americans of“People in the United States thought more negatively of the anti-abortion movement as being a kind of misogynist white supremacist movement. Being a violent movement makes a lot of people reluctant to associate with you,” Ziegler said.
rose last year compared with 2020, including stalking of clinic staff, which in the US jumped 200% from the year prior, with 12 incidents reported.Photograph: Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis/Getty Imagesabout Planned Parenthood, while the following year’s election further raised tensions. In 2009 came the assassination of George Tiller at his church in Wichita, Kansas. Hern considered him a friend.“He was a very fine person and a friend of mine and helped a lot of women, and that was why he was killed,” said Hern.
Prominent anti-abortion organizations have repudiated violence. Following Tiller’s assassination, the executive director of National Right to Life, David N O’Steen, said the group “unequivocally condemns any such acts of violence regardless of motivation. The pro-life movement works to protect the right to life and increase respect for human life. The unlawful use of violence is directly contrary to that goal.
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