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Kathleen O'Nan/Socialist Action Parenthood clinics in Orange County, Calif.; Olympia, Wash.; and Kansas City, Kan., as well as bomb threats at other Northern California Planned Parenthood centers.
The Concord clinic was the second Northern California clinic to be bombed in six months. Last May, a family-planning clinic in Redding suffered extensive damage to its surgery facility.
Almost in inverse proportion to the number of clinic bombings, the other efforts of anti-choice groups in Northern California have dwindled. Operation Rescue (OR) seems to be suffering a major crisis. Insiders estimate that OR's membership has dropped in half, despite active recruiting among churches in California's Central Valley.
Moreover, "turf battles" between local chapters have kept OR from staging either a blockade or a picket in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than two months. Their members continue to picket regularly at clinics in more rural, isolated areas, but this has meant a considerable loss of publicity for OR's campaign against abortion rights.
New challenges in the courts Hand in hand with the extra-legal attacks on abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to render decisions this fall which will further restrict access to abortion. The Court will decide the constitutionality of federal laws prohibiting Title X funding to family-planning agencies that counsel women about the option of abortion, regardless of whether they perform abortion services directly.
The restrictive laws passed last fall in
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