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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmy C. Barrett-affiliated anti-abortion group accused of promoting harassment of doctors
An Indiana group whose anti-abortion campaign was endorsed in a signed advertisement by Amy Coney Barrett before she became a supreme court justice, keeps a published list of abortion providers and their place of work on its website, in what some experts say is an invitation to harass and intimidate the doctors and their staff.
In one case, court records show, a doctor whose name was published by the group, which is called Right to Life Michiana, was warned by the FBI of a kidnapping threat that had been made online against her daughter.
The threat prompted the doctor to temporarily stop providing abortion services at the Whole Womans Health Care clinic in South Bend, which is also named on the Michiana groups website. The doctor said in the court document that the clinic regularly attracts large gatherings of protesters, who she feared could identify her.
During her 2020 confirmation hearing, Barrett said she had signed the advertisement as a private citizen, while she was making her way out of church, and had not recalled signing it until it became public following a report in the Guardian.
In one case, court records show, a doctor whose name was published by the group, which is called Right to Life Michiana, was warned by the FBI of a kidnapping threat that had been made online against her daughter.
The threat prompted the doctor to temporarily stop providing abortion services at the Whole Womans Health Care clinic in South Bend, which is also named on the Michiana groups website. The doctor said in the court document that the clinic regularly attracts large gatherings of protesters, who she feared could identify her.
During her 2020 confirmation hearing, Barrett said she had signed the advertisement as a private citizen, while she was making her way out of church, and had not recalled signing it until it became public following a report in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/14/anti-abortion-group-indiana-amy-coney-barrett
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Amy C. Barrett-affiliated anti-abortion group accused of promoting harassment of doctors (Original Post)
bullwinkle428
Jan 2022
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Hekate
(90,645 posts)1. God hates a liar, Amy
dchill
(38,472 posts)2. Amy Boney Carrot has poison daggers in her eyes.
Perhaps apropos, perhaps not.
onecaliberal
(32,828 posts)3. She has dead eyes to me.
dchill
(38,472 posts)4. Still, the daggers are there.
2naSalit
(86,565 posts)5. You know that saying that says...
"Every time you (do something objectionable to some), gawd kills a kitten." ?
I think she's the one that kills them.