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In July, shortly after an anti-abortion group aired an undercover video of a top Planned Parenthood doctor discussing the donation of fetal tissue after abortions, an individual using the name "Joseywhales" posted an ominous warning on Fox Nation.
"I'll pay ten large to whomever kills Dr. Deborah Nucatola," the person wrote, referring to the senior director of Planned Parenthood who was filmed in the video. "Anyone. Go for it."
The same person went on to threaten Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress, a biomedicine company that procures fetal tissue for medical research.
"The CEO of StemExpress should be hung by the neck using piano wire and propped up on the lawn in front of the building with a note attached," Joseywhales wrote, according to a legal complaint filed by the National Abortion Federation in a California district court.
The person then posted Dyer's home address and offered "ten grand to whomever beats me" to her house, warning that Dyer "must die to save the innocents."
According to abortion rights advocates, Joseywhales' post is just one example of an alarming spike in death threats and violent acts against abortion providers, clinics and companies that work with them since the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood were released. Two Planned Parenthood clinics have reported arsons, anti-abortion protesters are showing up in large numbers at doctors' homes, and commenters on conservative websites and online forums are calling for the bombings of abortion clinics across the country, according to Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation. Saporta is so alarmed by the escalation of threats against providers that she asked the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigations to intervene.
If history is any indication, death threats against abortion providers should be taken seriously. Two abortion doctors have been murdered during Saporta's tenure at NAF: Dr. George Tiller in 2009 and Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998. Slepian was shot in his home after returning from synagogue, and Tiller was shot in the head while attending church services on a Sunday morning.
Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a letter to the Republican chairmen of those committees that the undercover videos that sparked the investigations are unreliable and may have been obtained by illegal means, calling on them to "halt these one-sided investigations immediately."
originally posted by: IShotMyLastMuse
it's scary that in so many topics people reach a point of "if you don't agree with me, i will have you killed"
you are 100% right in saying this is a form of terrorism.
They all seem to think abortions are something women get just to fill up a lazy afternoon.
it's the kind of thing that will stay with you for most of you life if not all of it, and a decision that is never easy to make.
Some woman gets pregnant after a rape and wants to get an abortion and ALSO has to deal with a bunch of idiots attacking her.
What a bunch of small, pathetic people
originally posted by: johnwick
a reply to: Krazysh0t
You can't lay this at the feet of Christians that is a copout.
I'm not religious at all, and think these people should be charged with capital murder.
That is what they are doing, murdering humans, is it not?
it's scary that in so many topics people reach a point of "if you don't agree with me, i will have you killed"
originally posted by: boymonkey74
originally posted by: johnwick
a reply to: Krazysh0t
You can't lay this at the feet of Christians that is a copout.
I'm not religious at all, and think these people should be charged with capital murder.
That is what they are doing, murdering humans, is it not?
Not religious at all? but you quote the bible as it is the truth?.
originally posted by: Ozsheeple
a reply to: Krazysh0t
the death threats is going to far but their anger is certainly not unwarrented, abortion however you want to dress it up is still baby murder
originally posted by: Ozsheeple
a reply to: Krazysh0t
the death threats is going to far but their anger is certainly not unwarrented, abortion however you want to dress it up is still baby murder