Murders
In the U.S., violence directed toward abortion providers has killed at least eight people, including four doctors, two clinic employees, a security guard, and a
clinic escort.
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- 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 Dr. Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
- July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside of another facility in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed September 3, 2003.
- December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi, who prior to his arrest was distributing pamphlets from Human Life International,[6] 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 at his home in Amherst, New York. 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 Dr. Slepian's murder after finally being apprehended in France in 2001.
- May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed as he served as an usher at his church in Wichita, Kansas.[7]
- Another doctor, George Patterson, was shot and killed in Mobile, Alabama on August 21, 1993, but it is uncertain whether his death was the direct result of his profession or rather a robbery.[8] [9
so you think religions, mainly christians are as dangerous as bloods? crips? mexican mafia?
10 incidents in the last 17 years? thats like saying people who eat fast food love to shoot up the place. after all, somebody shoots one up about once a week.
there is only one religion that activley seeks to kill people, muslim jihadists.
how bout we focus on a religion that is currently trying to promote killing and stop bashing an entire religious population because you hate them. its your right to hate them. its not your right to discriminate against them.
and even though you say that they believe in fantasy, you have no proof either way and are only stating your opinion. their opinion is different than yours. maybe just a little tolerance instead of preaching your beliefs as gospel?....pun intended. it takes as much a leap of faith on your part to think this planet is just a mere stroke of physical luck, than to think there may be something greater than yourself.
most religious people from all major religions are just trying to live an honest life and treat people with respect...you know, the golden rule.
with all of her military might. They have to blow up innocent civilians, women and children. It's the only way anybody pays attention to their wittle plight.
I think video games and television are to blame. j/k.
