Clinic blockades nearly doubled. Arsons and bomb threats quadrupled. Acts of vandalism went up fivefold. Threats of bodily harm increased by 94 times. And an armed gunman named Robert Lewis Dear killed a police officer and two civilians inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, later proclaiming himself “a warrior for the babies.”
All together, 2015 was the worst year in history for anti-abortion violence, according to a new report compiled by the National Abortion Federation (NAF). For NAF, which has been collecting statistics on anti-abortion violence since 1977, the reason for 2015’s extreme level of violence couldn’t be clearer.
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