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Operation Rescue president: FACE Act enforcement is political move to silence abortion protests

By | 09.01.11 | 2:35 pm | More from The Florida Independent

In a recent story on NPR about the  Obama administration’s ramped-up enforcement of the FACE Act, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman says the enforcement is really just a “political tool” to shut down abortion protesters. #

DOJ Abortion Violence Suits Cratered Under Bush

By | 06.12.09 | 6:00 am

The fatal shooting allegedly by a known white supremacist at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday in Washington is the second murder apparently motivated by a hateful ideology that’s come to national attention in the last two weeks. James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old suspect and More…

Little-Enforced Law Opens Window for Suits Against Extremist Groups

By | 06.03.09 | 6:00 am

The threats started in 1995. It was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the American Coalition of Life Activists decided to create a poster for their annual meeting listing the names and address of a group of doctors who performed abortions. They called them “the Deadly Dozen,” and declared More…