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In reply to the discussion: It isn't so much they hate us for our freedoms. They just hate freedom. [View all]progressoid
(49,988 posts)11. In recent history?
Abortion providers.
- March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.[10]
- July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside another facility, the Ladies Center, in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed on September 3, 2003. The clinic in Pensacola had been bombed before in 1984 and was also bombed subsequently in 2012.
- December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the killings. He died in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.
- January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
- October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York.[11] His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Slepian's murder after being apprehended in France in 2001.
- May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder as Tiller served as an usher at a church in Wichita, Kansas.[12]
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It isn't so much they hate us for our freedoms. They just hate freedom. [View all]
arely staircase
Jan 2015
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the American fundies really don't get that ISIS and other crazy jihadis are fellow conservatives
arely staircase
Jan 2015
#6
and when you say modernity it's things like equal rights, civil rights, women's rights
JI7
Jan 2015
#2
I wonder if the poster yr replying to will try to claim the Muslims made those Christians do it? n/t
Violet_Crumble
Jan 2015
#15
"were not done as an attempt by a religion to impose their will on everyone."
NewDeal_Dem
Jan 2015
#23
So Christian fundies are better than Muslim fundies? good grief. Grow up.
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#14
A whole lot of them went to Iraq. That 'crusade' led by our very own fundie leader who was
sabrina 1
Jan 2015
#16
It doesn't matter what you think. It is what the Iraqis think. What does the word 'crusade'
sabrina 1
Jan 2015
#28
They may not do that, but they still want the rest of us to follow their rules
treestar
Jan 2015
#31