Crime and Crime Prevention in 1994: Abortion Clinic Violence

In August the Clinton administration sent federal marshals to a dozen abortion clinics around the United States in an effort to end violence against the clinics and their personnel. Separate trials in Pensacola, FL, of two men accused of killing abortion doctors resulted in convictions, one on federal charges under a newly enacted law to combat violence against abortion providers. As the year ended, a gunman fired on two Massachusetts clinics, killing two, and then fired on a clinic in Virginia a day later, after which he was arrested.

 

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