Suspected anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins may have had "pro-life" motives, according to the lead story in today's Los Angeles Times.
Irvins, a Catholic whose two children attended parochial school in Frederick [Md.], described himself in a 2002 e-mail to a colleague as "pro-life... consistent with a Christian."
Two of the intended recipients of anthrax-tainted letters--then Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)--are Catholics who favor abortion rights.
~~"FBI says evidence points uniquely to Bruce Ivins in anthrax case," http://www.latimes.com/, Aug. 7, 2008 by David Willman and David G. Savage,
If harm to those who protect women's legal access to abortion was indeed a motive, it was not the first time the "pro-life" stance has been used to deliver death.
The major previous murders in the cause of life include:
1998 -- 2 deaths: Robert Sanderson, a clinic security guard killed in a bombing in Birmingham, Al., and Dr. Barnett Slepian, shot in his home in Amherst, N.Y.
1994 -- 4 deaths: 1) Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, shot in Pensacola, Fl., and 2) Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols, receptionists shot at two clinics in Brookline, Mass.
1993 -- 1 death: Dr. David Gunn, shot in Pensacola, Fl.
For further details on abortion-related violence, see the National Abortion Federation http://www.prochoice.org/ and the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance http://www.religioustolerance.org/.
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