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The Sources of Right Wing Terrorism

October 11, 2009 - 10:07pm (Print)

David Neiwert discusses eliminationist right wing rhetoric, domestic violence impacts minors, and the health care reform debate enters its baroque phase.

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Dr. Carhart, Under Threat from "Domestic Terrorist Network," Abandoned by Federal Marshals

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

August 8, 2009 - 6:15pm (Print)

Despite mounting threats to his clinic--and potentially his life--by extremists with links to the murderer of Kansas Dr. George Tiller, the DOJ has removed federal marshals that were protecting Nebraska Dr. Leroy Carhart.

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Should Tiller's Assassin Be Charged As A Domestic Terrorist?

by Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

July 21, 2009 - 10:00am (Print)

The man who shot a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C. was labeled by the FBI as a domestic terrorist, yet Scott Roeder, who assassinated Dr. George Tiller and who has been associated with a range of anti-choice groups that engage in violent rhetoric and clinic blockades has not. Should he be charged as a domestic terrorist? Many in the pro-choice community think the ultimate costs of doing so may outweigh the benefits.

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Prosecution of Clinic Violence Lagged Under Bush

by Daphne Eviatar, New Journalist Fellow

June 15, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

The Bush Administration rarely used the existing law to prevent and combat violence against clinics and providers of abortion and other reproductive health services.

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NPR Tries To Be "The Today Show" And Maddow Pushes Back

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

June 14, 2009 - 10:51pm (Print)

More coverage of the murder of Dr. Tiller. Also: why we should be worried about Alexia Kelly, and NPR jumps in on the hook-up scare story train.

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Weekly Pulse: Will the Feds Dare to Call It Terrorism?

by Lindsay E. Beyerstein, The Media Consortium

June 11, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The feds will probably stop short of investigating Tiller's murder as a terrorist attack. That designation would unleash vast federal powers to investigate large swathes of the radical anti-choice movement.

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Six Ways the Internet Has Shaped the Discourse Around Dr. Tiller's Murder

by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 4, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The last time a doctor was murdered in cold blood for providing abortion care to women, we were not in the digital age. Now, the Internet has allowed women who've had abortions to talk back.

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Attorney General Directs U.S. Marshals to Protect Women's Health Clinics, Providers

by Ernest Luning, New Journalist Fellow

June 2, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder dispatched the U.S. Marshals Service to protect “appropriate people and facilities around the nation” in the wake of the killing Sunday morning of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kan.

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Now We Know: Homeland Security Report on Religious Extremism Prescient

by Kyle Mantyla, People for the American Way

June 1, 2009 - 12:54pm (Print)

The Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism, far from being an offensive attack on Christians and anti-choice activists, was remarkably timely and accurate.

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Tiller's Alleged Murderer Has Decades-Long History of Extremism

by David Holthouse, Southern Poverty Law Center

June 1, 2009 - 12:48pm (Print)

The man suspected of killing women's health provider George Tiller has a long history of involvement with the anti-government "sovereign citizen" movement, as well as anti-abortion radicalism.

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