A hoax anthrax letter caused a scare at a Planned Parenthood in Mount Auburn. A bomb outside a clinic in Asheville, N.C., exploded, but caused no injuries. Mr. Mattes said. Whether it's chemical or surgical, the person doing it is still an abortionist. A recent national study by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicates that about one-third of family physicians and gynecologists who don't already do surgical abortion would consider prescribing the abortion pill.
Some doctors say their own moral beliefs preclude participating in abortion.
Unlike Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics with years of experience dealing with protesters, the average family doctor or gynecologist is not prepared to deal with pickets, suspicious packages and anonymous threats. Nor is the average physician's office equipped with security features that abortion clinics consider standard. The threat is real. Last year, local abortion clinics called in bomb squads to deal with hoax letters alleged to contain deadly anthrax. Arsons and bombings have been reported in recent years at clinics in the South and on the East Coast.