Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The book contains interviews with abortion providers and their personal accounts of the constant harassment and threats they experienced from anti-abortion activists, including protests at their homes and workplaces, arson, and death threats.
The protesters stand at the entrance to the clinic's parking lot and badger the patients when they come in. They get screamed at. The protesters write down their license plates. They send them cards....
— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 36
Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 36
The book contains interviews with abortion providers and their personal accounts of the constant harassment and threats they experienced from anti-abortion activists, including protests at their homes and workplaces, arson, and death threats.
The protesters stand at the entrance to the clinic's parking lot and badger the patients when they come in. They get screamed at. The protesters write down their license plates. They send them cards. They make phone calls to their homes.
Someone mailed a letter postmarked the morning of the fire justifying killing the animals on Rodney's farm because Rodney "murdered little children."
Rodney is used to this type of verbal abuse and sometimes react in kind when a priest called him a murderer. Rodney responded by calling the priest a child molester. When the protesters told Rodney they were praying for him, he responded. "No, you're praying upon us. There's a difference."
Rodney is used to this type of verbal abuse and sometimes react in kind when a priest called him a murderer. Rodney responded by calling the priest a child molester.
These tactics include bombings arson anthrax scares and mass blockades extremists have also thrown butyric acid into clinics glued clinic lock shut locked themselves to clinic property using items such as bicycle locks or chains drilled holes into clinic roof. So that clinics flood invaded invaded clinics vandalized clinics made threatening phone calls tried to persuade patients to go to fake clinics, which we've talked about that in our episode on crisis pregnancy centers. But those that is also like part of the systemic campaign of terror is deceiving and humiliating people into not getting abortions.
Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 36
The book was used to illustrate the tactics used against abortion providers and clinics, including harassing patients, stalking doctors, and making threats against their families. It described how protesters would write down license plates, send cards, make phone calls, and even follow doctors' children to school.
The protesters stand at the entrance to the clinic's parking lot and badger the patients when they come in. They get screamed at. The protesters write down their license plates. They send them cards. They make phone calls to their homes.
Those window blinds, Christina, who works at a clinic, explained while pointing at the huge windows that surround the conference table in one of her clients. You pull them down, you can look through them and you could find the protesters at the windows looking in.
Someone mailed a letter postmarked the morning of the fire justifying killing the animals on Rodney's farm because Rodney quote murdered little children. However, the letter was untraceable.
Rodney is used to this type of verbal abuse and sometimes react in kind when a priest called him a murderer. Rodney responded by calling the priest a child molester. When the protesters told Rodney they were praying for him, he responded. No, you're praying upon us. There's a difference.
These tactics include bombings arson anthrax scares and mass blockades extremists have also thrown butyric acid into clinics glued clinic lock shut locked themselves to clinic property using items such as bicycle locks or chains drilled holes into clinic roof.