Florida doctor's death resulted from 20 years of inciting violence</= title> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"City"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=3DEN-US vlink=3Dpurple style=3D'tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=3DSection1> <o:= p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <st1:State = w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State> doctor’s death resulted from 20 years of inciting violence<o:p></o:p>= By Dr. Warren Hern<o:p></o:p></spa= n> <o:p> </o:p> The <st1:place w= :st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Denver</st1:City></st1:place> Post = &nb= sp; The Open Forum = &nb= sp; Saturday, March 20, 1993<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p= > The murder of Dr. David Gunn in front of his <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Fl= orida</st1:place></st1:State> abortion clinic was not the isolated act of a deranged loner. It was the inevitable consequence = of 20 years of violent and inflammatory rhetoric from the radical Christian right that paints abortion as a “Holocaust” and doctors who perform a= bortions as “baby killer,” “murderers,” “Nazi doctors,” and other hateful epithets.<o:p></o:p> Dr. Gunn’s assassination culminated 20 years of violent terrorist acts that included stalking and harassment of patients and staff members and the bombing of clinics. The idea that a six-= week embryo is equal to or more important than the life of a cantankerous adult doctor is no longer a sick private delusion. It is a collective psychosis masquerading as religion that has become a political force threatening democratic society.<o:p></o:p> The Republican P= arty, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan all have some of Dr. Gunn’s blood on t= heir hands because they made performing an abortion a political act. Reagan and Bush cynically manipula= ted the abortion issue to gain power, and the radical right of the Republican P= arty threatened to make abortion a political crime against the state. The Republican Party’s 1992 = national convention showed the depth of its capitulation to this totalitarian moveme= nt. <o:p></o:p> Pat Buchanan was right. There is a cultural war. It is a war of those who= hate freedom and individual dignity against the rest of us who believe in democr= acy, enlightened self-determination, and individual freedom. <o:p></o:p><= /p> What did Dr. Gunn represent to the anti-abortion fanatic who killed him? He represented freedom. He represented indiv= idual dignity. He represented oppor= tunity for women to become full citizens and participants in our society. He represented social change. He represented the value of the individual adult human being as opposed to state control of individual lives. He represented a thought. The man who killed D= r. Gunn tried to kill a thought. <o:p></o:p> <div style=3D'mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-right:none; padding:1.0pt 0in 1.0pt 0in'> <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> “= The idea that a six-week embryo is equ= al to or more important than the life of a cantankerous adult doctor is no longer= a sick private delusion. It is a collective psychosis masquerading as religion that has become a political f= orce threatening democratic society.”<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> Dr. Gunn’s crime= was not that he killed children, which he did not, but that he brought liberty = and health to women. He saved their live= s and futures. That’s why eve= ry doctor in <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">America</s= t1:place></st1:country-region> who does abortions lives under a death threat. Those of us who have been eyeball-to-eyeball with the anti-abortion movement and dodging bullets in o= ur clinics for 20 years have known these things for a long time.<o:p></o:p></s= pan> There is no good= in Dr. Gunn’s death, but we can only hope that his tragic and senseless murder will wake up the American people to the radical Christian right̵= 7;s determination to take absolute power in our society and to control its vital institutions. The main differ= ence between the American anti-abortion movement and the Islamic Jihad is about 8,000 miles. The main differe= nce between the American anti-abortion movement and the Salem Witch hunts is 30= 0 years. The similarity between the American anti-abortion movement and these other social convulsions is that they are = all about power.<o:p></o:p> Fanatical opposi= tion to abortion – and now, homosexuality – are simply tools of gain= ing power for this movement. Terr= orism against abortion clinics has been one of their tools for nearly 20 years, a= nd now political assassination is also a tool.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Warren M. Hern, a physician, is director of the Boulder Abortion Cli= nic <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Key words: abortion; anti-abortion violence; Florida; Dr. Gunn; Republican Part= y<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_01C8AAFC.3F828CE0 Content-Location: file:///C:/51C412B3/Floridadoctor'sdeath20years_files/header.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"> <meta name=3DProgId content=3DWord.Document> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name=3DOriginator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11"> <link id=3DMain-File rel=3DMain-File href=3D"../Floridadoctor'sdeath20years= .htm"> <![if IE]> <base href=3D"file:///C:\51C412B3\Floridadoctor'sdeath20years_files\header.= htm" id=3D"webarch_temp_base_tag"> <![endif]><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"countr= y-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"City"/> </head> <body lang=3DEN-US vlink=3Dpurple> <div style=3D'mso-element:footnote-separator' id=3Dfs> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1 width=3D"33%"> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:footnote-continuation-separator' id=3Dfcs> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote-separator' id=3Des> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1 width=3D"33%"> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote-continuation-separator' id=3Decs> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:header' id=3Deh1> <div style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-= vertical: paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margin;mso-element-left:center; mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'> <table cellspacing=3D0 cellpadding=3D0 hspace=3D0 vspace=3D0 align=3Dcenter> <tr> <td valign=3Dtop align=3Dleft style=3D'padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'> <p class=3DMsoHeader style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around; mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margi= n; mso-element-left:center;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!= --[if supportFields]>PAGE= <![endif]--><o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:header' id=3Dh1> <div style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-= vertical: paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margin;mso-element-left:center; mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'> <table cellspacing=3D0 cellpadding=3D0 hspace=3D0 vspace=3D0 align=3Dcenter> <tr> <td valign=3Dtop align=3Dleft style=3D'padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'> <p class=3DMsoHeader style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around; mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margi= n; mso-element-left:center;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!= --[if supportFields]>PAGE= <![endif]-->2<!-= -[if supportFields]></span= ><![endif]--><o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_01C8AAFC.3F828CE0 Content-Location: file:///C:/51C412B3/Floridadoctor'sdeath20years_files/filelist.xml Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" <xml xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> <o:MainFile HRef=3D"../Floridadoctor'sdeath20years.htm"/> <o:File HRef=3D"header.htm"/> <o:File HRef=3D"filelist.xml"/> </xml> ------=_NextPart

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Please download a browser that supports Web Archive, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. ------=_NextPart_01C8AAFC.3F828CE0 Content-Location: file:///C:/51C412B3/Floridadoctor'sdeath20years.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Florida doctor's death resulted from 20 years of inciting violence</= title> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"City"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=3DEN-US vlink=3Dpurple style=3D'tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=3DSection1> <o:= p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <st1:State = w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State> doctor’s death resulted from 20 years of inciting violence<o:p></o:p>= By Dr. Warren Hern<o:p></o:p></spa= n> <o:p> </o:p> The <st1:place w= :st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Denver</st1:City></st1:place> Post = &nb= sp; The Open Forum = &nb= sp; Saturday, March 20, 1993<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p= > The murder of Dr. David Gunn in front of his <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Fl= orida</st1:place></st1:State> abortion clinic was not the isolated act of a deranged loner. It was the inevitable consequence = of 20 years of violent and inflammatory rhetoric from the radical Christian right that paints abortion as a “Holocaust” and doctors who perform a= bortions as “baby killer,” “murderers,” “Nazi doctors,” and other hateful epithets.<o:p></o:p> Dr. Gunn’s assassination culminated 20 years of violent terrorist acts that included stalking and harassment of patients and staff members and the bombing of clinics. The idea that a six-= week embryo is equal to or more important than the life of a cantankerous adult doctor is no longer a sick private delusion. It is a collective psychosis masquerading as religion that has become a political force threatening democratic society.<o:p></o:p> The Republican P= arty, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan all have some of Dr. Gunn’s blood on t= heir hands because they made performing an abortion a political act. Reagan and Bush cynically manipula= ted the abortion issue to gain power, and the radical right of the Republican P= arty threatened to make abortion a political crime against the state. The Republican Party’s 1992 = national convention showed the depth of its capitulation to this totalitarian moveme= nt. <o:p></o:p> Pat Buchanan was right. There is a cultural war. It is a war of those who= hate freedom and individual dignity against the rest of us who believe in democr= acy, enlightened self-determination, and individual freedom. <o:p></o:p><= /p> What did Dr. Gunn represent to the anti-abortion fanatic who killed him? He represented freedom. He represented indiv= idual dignity. He represented oppor= tunity for women to become full citizens and participants in our society. He represented social change. He represented the value of the individual adult human being as opposed to state control of individual lives. He represented a thought. The man who killed D= r. Gunn tried to kill a thought. <o:p></o:p> <div style=3D'mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-right:none; padding:1.0pt 0in 1.0pt 0in'> <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> “= The idea that a six-week embryo is equ= al to or more important than the life of a cantankerous adult doctor is no longer= a sick private delusion. It is a collective psychosis masquerading as religion that has become a political f= orce threatening democratic society.”<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> Dr. Gunn’s crime= was not that he killed children, which he did not, but that he brought liberty = and health to women. He saved their live= s and futures. That’s why eve= ry doctor in <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">America</s= t1:place></st1:country-region> who does abortions lives under a death threat. Those of us who have been eyeball-to-eyeball with the anti-abortion movement and dodging bullets in o= ur clinics for 20 years have known these things for a long time.<o:p></o:p></s= pan> There is no good= in Dr. Gunn’s death, but we can only hope that his tragic and senseless murder will wake up the American people to the radical Christian right̵= 7;s determination to take absolute power in our society and to control its vital institutions. The main differ= ence between the American anti-abortion movement and the Islamic Jihad is about 8,000 miles. The main differe= nce between the American anti-abortion movement and the Salem Witch hunts is 30= 0 years. The similarity between the American anti-abortion movement and these other social convulsions is that they are = all about power.<o:p></o:p> Fanatical opposi= tion to abortion – and now, homosexuality – are simply tools of gain= ing power for this movement. Terr= orism against abortion clinics has been one of their tools for nearly 20 years, a= nd now political assassination is also a tool.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Warren M. Hern, a physician, is director of the Boulder Abortion Cli= nic <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Key words: abortion; anti-abortion violence; Florida; Dr. Gunn; Republican Part= y<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_01C8AAFC.3F828CE0 Content-Location: file:///C:/51C412B3/Floridadoctor'sdeath20years_files/header.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"> <meta name=3DProgId content=3DWord.Document> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name=3DOriginator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11"> <link id=3DMain-File rel=3DMain-File href=3D"../Floridadoctor'sdeath20years= .htm"> <![if IE]> <base href=3D"file:///C:\51C412B3\Floridadoctor'sdeath20years_files\header.= htm" id=3D"webarch_temp_base_tag"> <![endif]><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"countr= y-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"City"/> </head> <body lang=3DEN-US vlink=3Dpurple> <div style=3D'mso-element:footnote-separator' id=3Dfs> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1 width=3D"33%"> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:footnote-continuation-separator' id=3Dfcs> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote-separator' id=3Des> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1 width=3D"33%"> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote-continuation-separator' id=3Decs> <![if !supportFootnotes]> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1> <![endif]> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:header' id=3Deh1> <div style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-= vertical: paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margin;mso-element-left:center; mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'> <table cellspacing=3D0 cellpadding=3D0 hspace=3D0 vspace=3D0 align=3Dcenter> <tr> <td valign=3Dtop align=3Dleft style=3D'padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'> <p class=3DMsoHeader style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around; mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margi= n; mso-element-left:center;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!= --[if supportFields]>PAGE= <![endif]--><o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:header' id=3Dh1> <div style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-= vertical: paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margin;mso-element-left:center; mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'> <table cellspacing=3D0 cellpadding=3D0 hspace=3D0 vspace=3D0 align=3Dcenter> <tr> <td valign=3Dtop align=3Dleft style=3D'padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'> <p class=3DMsoHeader style=3D'mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around; mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:margi= n; mso-element-left:center;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!= --[if supportFields]>PAGE= <![endif]-->2<!-= -[if supportFields]></span= ><![endif]--><o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_01C8AAFC.3F828CE0 Content-Location: file:///C:/51C412B3/Floridadoctor'sdeath20years_files/filelist.xml Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" <xml xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> <o:MainFile HRef=3D"../Floridadoctor'sdeath20years.htm"/> <o:File HRef=3D"header.htm"/> <o:File HRef=3D"filelist.xml"/> </xml> ------=_NextPart_01C8AAFC.3F828CE0--