Abortion Clinics Brace For ‘New Chapter Of Violence’ As Extremist Group Plans HHS Protest
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Advocates described what comes next as the “perfect storm” of anti-abortion unrest.
The national network of abortion providers sent a security alert to clinics in the Washington, D.C. area, warning of possible unrest and violence connected to an extremist group’s plans to protest outside the Health and Human Services building on Thursday.
Rescue Resurrection said on its website that the protest will call on the Trump administration “to take decisive action to restrict and ultimately ban the abortion pill.” Mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion, has been at the center of Republican attacks since access to abortion pills by mail increased the number of abortions in the U.S. since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Randall Terry, founder of Rescue Resurrection and a notorious far-right anti-abortion leader, invited followers to get arrested with him on Thursday, which would have been the 53rd anniversary of Roe.
The protest announcement replaced a different plan for action that had been on Rescue Resurrection’s site: a “national day of rescue” around the country, which would have involved coordinated attacks on clinics nationwide. “Missionaries in their respective cities will hold protests and perhaps civil disobedience of some kind in defense of the unborn, with bold new ideas and tactics,” read an event description published on the group’s website, which has since been deleted.
The National Abortion Federation security team has identified at least one planned blockade of a D.C. abortion clinic by anti-choice protesters this week, CEO Brittany Fonteno told HuffPost.
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