Between 1995 and 2014,a total of 5147 violent incidents were recorded
Figure has dropped since 2005, and picketing has decreased since 2008Anti-abortion incidents as violent as Friday’s shooting which left three people dead at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs are scarce – more often, and activists choose “disruption” tactics,according to figures from the National Abortion Federation (NAF). whether the shooting proves to have been motivated by abortion, it will be the ninth murder by anti-abortion activists since 1977. NAF has also recorded 17 attempted murders between 1977 and 2014.
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Source: theguardian.com