The abortion lobby’s depiction of besieged clinic workers having to dodge a hail of automatic weapon fire just to get from their car to the clinic door is pure fiction. 

In more than 30 years, three abortionists and four other abortion clinic employees have been killed.  When the Department of Justice or the FBI publish studies on workplace violence, the rate of violence at abortion clinics is so statistically insignificant that it doesn’t even make it into the final reports.  In fact, even if the statistics are limited to only include health care professionals, abortionists are still not on the radar screen.   

Even if you just focus on the time period during which the most pro-life violence occurred, it is clear how overblown this issue has been.  Of the seven total murders that have occurred at America’s abortion mills, five occurred in 1993 and 1994 alone.  According to government statistics from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, during those two years there were 2,154 other people killed in work-related homicides in the United States including seven school teachers, four members of the clergy, 10 lawyers, nine newspaper vendors, seven writers, six realtors, 22 waiters or waitresses, four groundskeepers, five architects, 40 garage or service station attendants, 23 auto mechanics, 21 janitors, 10 hairdressers, four carpenters, and six farmers. 

In other words, during the worst period of pro-life violence in American history, more farmers and twice as many hairdressers were murdered on the job than abortion clinic workers and abortionists combined. 

And remember, the five abortion clinic killings during 1993 and 1994 account for all but two of the killings that have happened in the entire history of the pro-life movement.  During the other 30-plus years, only two abortion workers were murdered. 

Compared to the thousands of taxi drivers, convenience store employees, police officers, firefighters, and other workers who were killed during that time, it is obvious that all of this arm-flapping and hand-wringing about pro-life violence against abortionists is complete nonsense.    

Of course, when some convenience store employee is gunned down, the story gets buried in the Metro section of the paper.  But when an abortionist gets shot, it is the lead story on every national and local newscast in America.  Then, at least one of the national “news magazine” shows will rush out a Special Report cataloguing pro-life violence.  That will be soon followed by several Justice Department news conferences, a roundup of pro-lifers, Congressional hearings, some new legislation, and hundreds of federal marshals stationed at the nation’s death camps.  

Then, the abortion industry’s legion of media stooges will make sure the issue stays in front of the public for years.  Every article about abortion will mention this shooting and every report on terrorism anywhere in the world will include references to “domestic terrorists like those who target legal abortion clinics.”  That is a tactic which has been used extensively since the 9/11 attacks.  When the media is forced to report that an act of terrorism is linked to Muslims, they seldom pass up the opportunity to draw comparisons to “pro-life Christians who shoot doctors for providing legal abortions.”

The scenario describe here is precisely how the pro-life movement’s reputation for violence was manufactured.  Overlooked in all this, is the fact that the media is only able to make such a big deal about pro-life violence because it is so rare.  If it were even remotely common, they could not give it so much press.  Also lost in this discussion is the fact that if abortion clinic shootings, assaults, bombings, arson, and other acts of violence were anywhere near as common as the abortion lobby claims, there would not be an insurance company in America that would sell them coverage. 

Any objective analysis of this issue will show that the level of violence committed by people opposed to abortion has been grossly exaggerated, and that the pro-life movement is the most peaceful socio-political movement of its size and tenure in American history.  To see the truth of that, study the other causes which are most similar: the anti-slavery, civil rights, and labor struggles.  The cumulative total of the violence which has occurred in the more than 30 year history of the pro-life movement, does not compare to many single instances of violence occurring in those movements.

It is also interesting to note that not one of the murders of abortionists or abortion clinic employees occurred prior to the inauguration of Bill Clinton.  Immediately after taking office, Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, began paying off their campaign debts to the abortion lobby.  While Clinton got legislation passed to sweep the streets clean of peaceful non-violent picketers, Reno literally turned the Attorney General’s office and the FBI into a private police force for the abortion industry.  When rumors about Reno’s witch-hunts first surfaced, she denied their existence.  But documents were eventually discovered that proved she had been lying.  The project even had a name: VAAPCON.

Given this environment, it is hardly surprising that less than three months after Clinton and Reno began cracking skulls, the first shooting occurred.  This is not to suggest that this atmosphere justified the violence.  However, we cannot pretend that it occurred in a vacuum.  If a woman kills her abusive husband, even those who would argue that the abuse did not justify the killing, would at least recognize that it may have been a motivating factor.  In this case, it would be illogical to ignore the fact that no shootings occurred until after the Clinton/Reno inquisition began.