Yet abortion is a safe procedure and these deaths are a grave reproductive injustice as this mostly affects black pregnant people. The Department of Health developed National Clinical Guidelines on Abortion in 2018, yet it has not passed these nor planned budgetary allocations to implement them.
Springfield, Missouri — December 1991: A masked gunman shot and paralysed a clinic worker A second person was wounded in the attack. No arrests have been made. Mobile, Alabama – August 21, 1993: Dr George Patterson was shot to death in a parking lot; police classified his death as the result of a robbery, though nothing was taken from his car or on his body. Patterson owned the clinic in Pensacola, Florida where Dr Gunn was shot and killed, as well as three other clinics.
St Louis, Missouri – August 16, 1995: FBI arrests Robert Cook, who was threatening to start a war by killing an unnamed abortion doctor on August 22. Cook is later convicted of an armed car robbery and of using some of the funds from the robbery to buy and store an arsenal of weapons to kill abortion providers.
Winnipeg, Canada — November 11, 1997: Dr Jack Fainman was shot by a sniper with a high-powered rifle while in his home. Missing his heart by centimetres, the bullet tore through his shoulder. Army of God member James Charles Kopp remains a primary suspect.
Reproductive justice pro abortion? Why is it that fundamentalist protopopular types always claim the opposite to what they stand for?