As a legislator, Beasley tried to get abortion banned entirely. Anti-choice activists in South Carolina do not have to resort to terrorism when they have the governor, the attorney general and the legislature on their side. But don't think they are quietly praying at the sidelines for the reversal of Roe v. Wade. A toddler darts among the legs of picketers at Charleston Women's Medical Clinic. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Police walk by in the street, nightsticks thumping their thighs.
A small child wriggles in a carrier strapped to a man's back. Another man carries a poster of what he claims is an aborted fetus. His mother killed him when he was just 21 weeks old. L orraine Maguire, director of the clinic where she has worked since 1980, said that the protests, though not violent, have grown progressively worse over the years. Still, Maguire said the clinic is supported by the community.