This news piece discusses the pardoning of 23 individuals convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by President Donald Trump. It highlights the history of violence and intimidation against abortion providers and clinics, including the targeting of Dr. George Tiller. The article further examines Trump's Justice Department order curtailing prosecutions under the FACE Act, raising concerns about the implications for abortion access and the safety of healthcare providers.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Jan. 26 episode of Velshi. In 1970, Dr. George Tiller took over his father’s family practice in Wichita, Kansas, after his dad passed away. When his dad’s old patients started rolling in, Tiller learned a secret: His father had been providing safe, but illegal, abortions to his patients for decades.
And in 1993, the same year Tiller walked away from that attempted assassination, an OB-GYN in Pensacola, Florida, named Dr. David Gunn was shot dead outside the abortion clinic where he worked. Gunn was the first known targeted killing of an abortion provider in America. The following year two receptionists were shot and killed and five others wounded at a pair of Boston area clinics. In all, at least 11 people have been killed in attacks on abortion clinics since 1993.
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