Remember when we learned that Amy Coney Barrett signed a 2006 ad calling Roe v. Wade barbaric when she was walking out of church and got confirmed for a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court anyway?
The group behind that ad, Right to Life Michiana, publishes a list of abortion providers and where they work on its web site—a move that invites threats and harassment. In one instance, a doctor was alerted by the FBI of a threat to kidnap her daughter, The Guardian reports.
The RTLM site lists the names and educational backgrounds of abortion providers in South Bend, Indiana, under its “Take Action” section and a subsection called “Local Abortion Threat.” RTLM told The Guardian that the group published “publicly available information” and that it “does not condone or encourage harm, threats or harassment towards anyone.”
A doctor whose name was published on the RTLM site testified in an unrelated case about Indiana abortion restrictions last year that she traveled to the Whole Woman’s Health clinic in South Bend once a month to provide abortions. (The Guardian is not naming the doctor.) She said that Planned Parenthood told her the FBI had alerted them of a kidnapping threat made against her daughter online. The doctor said she temporarily stopped providing abortions at the clinic out of fear that the regular swarm of anti-abortion protestors might identify her.
FBI Warns Abortion Provider of Threat to Kidnap Her Daughter
An anti-abortion group supported by Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is inviting threats to health providers.
jezebel.com