“It shouldn’t take someone being murdered for a law to be enforced.”
Laura C. Morel, Mother Jones
May 20, 2025
In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open.
That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A few months after that, someone left a one-star Google review for a Florida clinic that read, “I have a bomb waiting to go off.” The clinic was evacuated and the FBI was called to investigate.
These incidents, highlighted in a recent report from the National Abortion Federation, are among hundreds of threats and attacks experienced by abortion providers across the US in the nearly three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned.