Per the FBI, the vast majority were motivated by racist and anti-government ideology. Types Anti-abortion violenceĪnti-abortion extremists in the United States have committed violence against individuals and organizations that provide abortions or abortion counseling, acts that are considered terrorism. Incidents have included crimes against people, such as murder, assault, kidnapping, and stalking crimes which affect both people and property, such as arson or bombings and property crimes such as vandalism. Notable incidents of anti-abortion violence include the murders of a number of doctors and clinic staff in the 1990s: Perpetrators of these incidents may defend their actions by stating that they are necessary to protect the lives of fetuses, and they are often motivated by their Christian beliefs, leading to anti-abortion violence's identification as Christian terrorism it is also associated with antifeminism. John Britton and clinic escort James Barrett to death, also wounding Barrett's wife June John Salvi shot and killed two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols. Paul Hill would yell at the clinic "God hates murderers". Eric Robert Rudolph bombed the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in protest of abortion, killing one person and wounding 111, and bombed several abortion clinics in 19, killing a security guard and critically injuring a nurse.In 1998, James Kopp shot a number of abortion providers, killing one, Dr.In 2009, Scott Roeder shot and killed Dr.Tiller served as an usher at church he had previously been a target in 1993, when he was shot by Shelley Shannon. The Army of God, an underground terrorist organization, has been responsible for a substantial amount of anti-abortion violence, including a number of the above murders. In 2015, Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old Kentucky born, moved from South Carolina to North Carolina to Colorado where he opened fire on a Planned Parenthood facility, killing two civilians and a police officer.
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