Abortion Clinic Violence

Essay by xsunkisseddreamxHigh School, 12th gradeA+, April 2006

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Speaking to the National Abortion Rights Action League, Hillary Clinton tallied up all the violence done by some off-balanced persons against abortion clinics and their employees. We agree that these actions are without justification: In ten years, seven lives have been taken. There have also been 38 bombings, 146 cases of arson, and 733 acts of vandalism. These total 924 incidents of abortion clinic violence, many tragic and all uncalled for.

In those same ten years at the rate of one million, four hundred thousand annually, there have been fourteen million abortions in the United States. There have been fourteen million lives taken and nearly as many women and young girls deceived, wounded, and physically or emotionally scarred for the rest of their lives. Mrs. Clinton and others not only support this evil, but desire to export abortion to other nations, and are even willing to cooperate with a nation like Communist China, that uses compulsory abortion to enforce a one-child-per-couple policy of population control.

Mrs. Clinton should not refer to legal abortion industry we have it in our country as "health care," for it exists not to benefit the "patient," but works instead to the financial benefit of the individuals and companies who operate the abortion clinics, and the organizations that support abortion rights. The abortion industry is hugely profitable and unlike real heath care, almost completely unregulated.

Unlike the millions of defenseless children whose lives have taken in the womb, and the vulnerable women and young girls caught in crisis pregnancy, the abortion industry has obviously been able to protect itself fairly well from the few crackpots involved in abortion clinic violence. In addition, the abortion industry is coming more and more under the special favor and protection of federal and state courts, courts which are...