Anti-abortion violence
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Anti-abortion violence is violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion. Incidents of violence have included destruction of property, in the form of vandalism; crimes against people, including kidnapping, stalking, assault, attempted murder, and murder; and crimes affecting both people and property, including arson and bombings.
Anti-abortion extremists are considered a current domestic terrorist threat by the United States Department of Justice. Most documented incidents have occurred in the United States, though they have also occurred in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. G. Davidson Smith of Canadian Security Intelligence Service defined anti-abortion violence as single-issue terrorism. A study of 1982 - 87 violence considered the incidents "limited political" or "sub-revolutionary" terrorism.
See also
- Abortion debate
- Abortion law
- Domestic terrorism in the United States
- Legal protection of access to abortion
- Political terrorism
- Religious terrorism
- Right-wing terrorism
