As Operation Rescue began to falter, abortion proponents worried about the direction the anti-abortion movement would take. But it hadn’t changed anything,” sociologist Dallas Blanchard, who studied the anti-abortion movement, told a reporter at the time. And the smaller they are, the more likely they are to commit violence.”[26]The increased militancy of the anti-abortion movement mirrored changes in the white power movement, which by the early 1990s had become revolutionary in its aims and embraced paramilitarism. Klansmen and neo-Nazi skinheads appeared at clinic protests, or, in the case of former Klansman John Burt, started their own anti-abortion groups. Never.”[31]The year 1993 marked a dark turning point in the anti-abortion movement.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2024 14:58 UTC