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Dangerous Pro-Lifers
  7 Mar 2012     12:05 am

On Tuesday, Sarah Kliff of The Washington Post’s Wonk Blog asked whether violence from pro-life activists has deterred abortion doctors from performing abortions and opening new clinics, and in fact has dropped the number of abortion clinics present in America. According to Kliff:
The biggest decline in [abortion provider] ranks was through the 1990s. During a wave of anti-abortion violence then — three doctors killed in five years — the number of providers dropped from 2,680 in 1985 to 1,787 in 2005. The number of abortion providers has held steady in …