Salon: Anti-abortion zealots target Sotomayor aide as source of leak: Their threats are no joke - May 4, 2022

“”The vilification of abortion rights supporters generally and even the Supreme Court has contributed to a one-way history of harassment, violence and threats of violence over time,” said Frederick Clarkson, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates as well as author of ‘Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy,’ which focuses extensively on anti-abortion violence. In 1985, Clarkson pointed out, someone shot out a window in the home of Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the 1973 majority opinion in Roe v. Wade. Before the attack, Blackmun had received numerous violent and graphic threats from anti-abortion activists, and over the previous year, seven abortion clinics and related facilities in and around Washington, D.C., had been bombed.”

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