Study weighs threats' effects on abortion providers - not good news

[proud2BlibKansan]

WASHINGTON — An abortion rights group has found that doctors and clinics in six states, including Missouri, that perform abortions "are routinely targeted" for legal and physical harassment, including death threats.

The result, according to a study by the Center for Reproductive Rights — an international legal advocacy group — is that women seeking to terminate pregnancies face a dwindling supply of providers as threats and intimidation take their toll.

Nancy Northup, the center's president, said physicians and clinics providing abortions have fallen by 25 percent since the 1990s.

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[dgibby]

1. This is terrorism and should be treated as such by the government.

I'm sick of hate crimes being given a pass. People who commit hate crimes should be treated like exactly what they are, enemy combatants.

[dembotoz]

2. and this surprises anyone how?????????????????

my hats is off to providers and their families

they got more guts than i do.