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1985: Violent Attacks Against Family Planning and Abortion Clinics Escalate

Transcript: Alex Sanger: The violence against Planned Parenthood, against abortion providers was, it was a very scary time. I mean, there were shootings and killings within Planned Parenthood clinics, Boston being the most horrible example. But other doctors at private clinics were also shot, wounded, or killed. Gloria Feldt: It felt somewhat like we were under siege, and you develop ways of dealing with that. So first the thing, first thing we had to do was to teach the police force that no, no, no, no, no, we were the people who were the victims. We were not trespassing. We were just doing our, our, our normal legitimate work. And we, we literally had to retrain the police force to understand that. The police chief said to me the first time I visited with him, “Well, if you know there’s going to be a demonstration, why don’t you just close the clinic?” I’m like, “Excuse me? You know, do the planes stop flying because they’re afraid there’s going to be a hijacking? No. You go after the hijacker. May Del Rio: You don’t know where it’s going to hit, and you don’t have a way of knowing how to handle it, except know how to get out of a fire..., What happened though, which happens often in that kind of thing, was that they empowered the women who wanted the clinic. They empowered those women in wonderful ways. The women would research where the next clinic was. They would have clinic helpers taking, or clinic volunteers, taking a woman when she needed to go somewhere which wasn’t very near. That kind of thing. Because to kind of violence, there’s always an answer, as Martin Luther King taught us