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- Title
Clinic Violence Ebbed in 1996.
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
This article focuses on a survey of 312 facilities offering abortion services, where 30 percent said they had experienced at least one type of serious violence during the first seven months of 1996; the proportion had been 39 percent in 1995 and 51-52 percent in 1993 and 1994, before the U.S. Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and the Supreme Court upheld the creation of buffer zones around women's health facilities. For the second consecutive year, declines were found in the proportion of clinics reporting death threats, stalking and bomb threats (7-9 percent experienced such incidents in 1996, compared with 11-17 percent in 1995), as well as some less-serious types of harassment or intimidation. However, the proportion that had been bombed rose from less than 1 percent to nearly 3 percent; chemical attacks and arson threats also became more common. Investigators attribute the declines in violence and staff resignations to increased security measures at clinics and more vigorous law enforcement.
- Subjects
CLINICS; LAW enforcement; HEALTH facilities; SECURITY systems; ABORTION; VIOLENCE
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article