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U.S. Capitol grounds. Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom.

Lawmakers debate violence against abortion clinics, anti-abortion pregnancy centers

BY: - May 19, 2023

WASHINGTON — Republicans at a U.S. House hearing aired frustration with the Department of Justice this week for what they contended is a lack of enforcement of a Clinton-era law that protects access to reproductive health care at anti-abortion pregnancy centers and abortion clinics. GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee expressed anger the Federal […]

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Stubborn House leaders refuse to condemn violence against reproductive rights organizations

BY: - January 20, 2023

One of the first stories I covered as a reporter was in Fargo, N.D., in 1996. One of the town’s local well-known zealots, Martin Wishnatsky, had again handcuffed himself to an abortion clinic fence in protest of abortion law. With a certain amount of weariness, editors at The Forum dispatched the greenest reporter they could […]