NARAL Urges Gov. Charlie Baker to Call Anti-Abortion Violence ‘Domestic Terrorism’
A pro-abortion rights group in Massachusetts is asking Gov. Charlie Baker to urge the U.S. Department of Justice to call attacks on abortion clinics “domestic terrorism.”
“By asking the Department of Justice to investigate clinic violence as domestic terrorism, Governor Baker is ensuring that he has endeavored to bring every available federal resource to Massachusetts in the event clinic violence occurs,” Megan Amundson, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, said in a call with reporters on Tuesday.
Wednesday marks the anniversary of a 1994 shooting at an abortion clinic in Brookline that killed two women. Amundson said she is unaware of any violence against Massachusetts clinics in the last year.
A Planned Parenthood clinic in New Hampshire was vandalized by a man with a hatchet in October. Abortion rights groups nationally have renewed their push to call anti-abortion violence “domestic terrorism” in the wake of a November attack in which a man killed three people, including a police officer originally from Melrose, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.
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