Duluth Minneapolis Austin

Austin -- Sexual Misconduct (6 incidents)

       The Minnesota Board of Medical Examiners suspended the medical license of abortionist Hideo D. Mori, a past volunteer at Planned Parenthood in Austin, Minnesota. Mori was found to have engaged in sexual misconduct with several of his female patients. The charges against Mori included massaging the clitoris and vagina of a patient during pelvic exams, kissing the faces, necks and breasts of patients during exams, and embracing a patient. Mori allegedly told one of his patients that she should have sex with her husband in front of him so he could observe and determine why the patient was not climaxing.
       Minnesota Board of Medical Examiners vs. Hideo Mori.
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Duluth -- Threat of Violence and Attempted Forced Abortion

       Nicole Bergstrom Ek of Minnesota won an out-of-court settlement of an undisclosed amount from her employer, Duluth Little Stores, after her supervisor tried to pressure her to abort. Ek said her boss mistreated her while she was pregnant and threatened to push her down the stairs during her sixth month of pregnancy.
       Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, August 2, 1999; Post-Abortion Review, January-March 2000.
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Minneapolis/St. Paul Area [Brooklyn Center] -- Stalking (4 incidents) and Vandalism (6 incidents)

       On July 9, 1993, midway through Operation Rescue's "Cities of Refuge" campaign, thirty pro-abortionists from the groups Refuse and Resist!, Women's Action Coalition, Militant Action Caucus and the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition (NWROC) blocked access to the Brooklyn Park Evangelical Free Church. They also damaged several cars. Seven were arrested, four for systematically stalking Operation Rescue members. The following Saturday, police arrested a man who was vandalizing pro-lifers' cars. Incredibly, Jeri Rasmussen, executive director of the Midwest Health Center for Women abortion mill in Minneapolis, told the media that the pro-abort protestors were pawns of the FBI and Operation Rescue!
       Peggy Moen. "In The Twin Cities ... Pro-Abortion Radicals Arrested as Operation Rescue Prays." The Wanderer, July 22, 1993, pages 1 and 10.

Minneapolis/St. Paul Area [College of St. Catherine] -- Assault (5 incidents), Harrassment, Breaking and Entering, Vandalism and Death Threats (4 incidents)

       On October 13, 1993, Anne Malonoy, a vice president of Feminists for Life and philosophy professor at the College of St. Catherine in Minnesota, found her office covered with ketchup (apparently to simulate blood). The vandal(s) wrote the words "Woman Killer" in the ketchup spread across her desk. The next day, she found 20 coat hangers. A picture of her four-year-old son was smeared with ketchup both times, as were her chairs, carpet, bookcases and class notes.
       Anne, a pro-life delegate to the 1992 Democratic Convention, received a "death threat and other harassment" after declining to vote for Bill Clinton at the Convention. Anne said "I thought this was a party where everybody could have a voice. Instead, however, I was screamed at, shoved, pushed, and verbally harassed. I have 21 black-and-blue marks on my legs from the shoving. One large heavyset man attempted to rip my sign from my hand, wrenching my shoulder in the process. In the row in front of us while all of this was going on, there was Walter Mondale. He didn't say or do anything." Pro-life observer Angel Bennett said, "I was told to get out of the Democratic Party. ... I watched, horrified, as a gentle woman was hit in the face with signs, kicked and shoved without any security bothering to remove the perpetrators. ..." Another Minnesota pro-life delegate, Grant Colstrom, of the United Auto Workers, said: "A pro-abortion Minnesota delegate pushed and shoved me until he succeeded in getting me partially out of the spot I had been in for seven hours -- in order to keep me from holding any "STOP ABORTION NOW" signs before the cameras. He threatened to punch me if I attempted to regain my prime spot. He bragged to his cohorts that they did not have to worry -- that he had me `under control.'" Another woman pro-life delegate, only a few feet away, was being continually body-pressed by a woman trying to force her out of her chair for almost one-half hour. Later, a large aggressive male delegate karate chopped at her arms about six times.
       Issues Update. ""Pro-Choice" Violence Against Women." ALL About Issues, November-December 1993, page 9; Liz Townsend. "Pro-Abortion Vandals Target Pro-Life Professor." National Right to Life News, November 5, 1993, page 12; Abortion Report, October 19, 1993, quoted in All About Issues, November-December 1993, page 9; Nat Hentoff. "Freedom of Speech Under President Clinton," Village Voice.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Assault (6 incidents) and Resisting Arrest

       In July 1993, pro-abortionists harassed churchgoers at Calvary Temple Church in St. Louis Park, Minneapolis. They screamed at churchgoers and shoved and pushed them, and played bongos and made other noise to try to drown out the church service. Six of the pro-abortionists were arrested and charged by police.
       "Abortion Protestors Low-Key; Pro-Choice Activists Get Bolder." Minneapolis Sun-Sentinel, July 12, 1993, page 3A.

Minneapolis/St. Paul Area [Robbinsdale] -- Assault (3 incidents)

       Sidewalk counselor Debra Braun is another pro-life woman who has suffered repeated physical attacks at the hands of so-called "pro-woman" pro-abortionists. On November 23, 1987, she was offering literature from a public sidewalk to an occupant of a car when a Robbinsdale Clinic abortion mill security guard assaulted her. On September 19, 1992, she was discussing abortion with a man whose female companion was in the same abortion mill. Clinic security guards Shawn Fahrmunn and Michael Carlson asked the man if he wanted Debra to leave. He answered that he did. At this time, all were on a public sidewalk away from the clinic. Then Fahrmunn grabbed Debra and threatened a citizen's arrest. On September 17, 1994, she was offering literature from a public sidewalk to an occupant of a car when the Robbinsdale Clinic patient maced her in the face. The patient boasted that she had already had five abortions.
       Pro-Life Action Ministries, Violence and Disruption Log Form, December 10, 1994.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Assault (2 incidents), Criminal Abortion

       Donald Wickstrom did not want the baby his 8-1/2-month pregnant girlfriend was carrying. So, on August 26, 1985, he savagely assaulted her, punching and slapping her over a long period of time, and then, when she was on the floor, kicked her repeatedly in the abdomen with his steel-toed boots. His girlfriend, Cynthia Hall, then gave birth, but her child had died from the assault. Wickstrom also assaulted his own mother, who tried to stop him, and his girlfriend had been trying to shield her 3-year-old son from his attacks. He was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison.
       Leslie Bond. "Minnesota Man Convicted Of Assault And Criminal Abortion Gets Nine-Year Sentence." National Right to Life News, August 21, 1986, page 6.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Assault and Sexual Harassment (6 incidents)

       Robert McCoy directed the Midwest Health Center abortion mill. Renee Ward, a leading pro-abort, alleged in a human rights complaint that she was fired August 21, 1981, "because she objected to sexual harassment of female employees by her co-director, Robert McCoy." McCoy admitted to doing "foolish" things and telling "dirty jokes," but said the complaint was "to discredit us" because Ward wanted the clinic to be entirely run by women. Another former employee said that McCoy repeatedly intimidated some younger staff members with his jokes and questions about their sex lives, and he told them that he dreamed or fantasized how they would look without clothes. This employee said that McCoy pinched a female staffer hard on the arm when she tried to ignore one of his stories. She also reported that McCoy asked a female staff member, who was to undergo an abortion at the clinic, if he could be in the room during the procedure. She reported that "He said he had a fantasy about having sexual intercourse with a woman on an examining table during an abortion."
       McCoy also put his arm around another female staffer, told her she was frigid and "needed a good man." Some female abortion mill staff members met at one of their homes to discuss the situation, and decided to have someone speak to Ward about it. Another female employee who quit her job because Ward was fired reported that McCoy had made inappropriate comments about dreams and fantasies about seeing female employees nude. McCoy countered that employees often "told me some raunchy stories I could never tell my wife, even. It gets that way when you have worked with women for years and they see people who have problems." McCoy admitted to pinching the employee on the arm but that it was because of her "childish" behavior, and that pinching her was like "spanking a child," and said that the remarks about having intercourse on the exam table were just his retelling a "fantasy" expressed by a former female staffer.
       Minneapolis Star and Tribune, May 28, 1982.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Vehicular Assault (2 incidents)

       On March 1, 1985, Planned Parenthood employee Victoria L. Long hit two pro-lifers with her car. At Planned Parenthood on Ford Parkway, four men, twelve women, and two small children were legally picketing. Paul O'Donnell and Barbara Juba were struck by a Planned Parenthood employee's car. They were on the public sidewalk when struck. Long had often been observed speeding into the parking lot and intimidating picketers with her car. When the car stopped and O'Donnell confronted the employee saying "You hit me," she smiled and replied "Good."
       Barb Juba said to Long "You hit us deliberately and you could have killed us." Long replied "Since you believe in God, your God will protect you."
       At this time a Planned Parenthood security guard yelled at O'Donnell to get off the property. O'Donnell's foot was caught by the right rear wheel of the car and was injured. His picket sign fell from his hands and hit him on the head. After the police investigated the incident, O'Donnell returned to the Planned Parenthood parking lot to assess the condition of the car so that future allegations wouldn't be made that he had deliberately damaged it. The security guard cursed him very vulgarly while he did this. O'Donnell suffered severe foot pain, severe leg pain, severe migraine, torn ligaments, multiple sprains and multiple contusions. The treatment involved crutches, cold and hot packs, and pain medication. Juba was not injured.
       Although a police officer was called to the scene of the accident, he did not even bother to take a report. He spent a lot of time inside the clinic, then came outside and tole O'Donnell to contact his insurance company. No charges were ever filed in this serious case of vehicular assault.
       Paul O'Donnell's undated letter to Lynn K. Murphy; PEACE [People Expressing a Concern for Everyone] news release entitled "Pro-Life Activist Struck by Clinic Employee's Car," written by Michael A. Gaworski; "Paul O'Donnell's Account of Incident at Planned Parenthood on March 1, 1995."

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Stalking (4 incidents)

       In July 1993, a St. Paul assistant attorney general and three other pro-abortionists were arrested for stalking pro-lifers on their way to a picket.
       Glenn Ellen Duncan, "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers." Catholic Twin Circle, September 11, 1994, page 11.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Mass Murder Threats (2 incidents)

       The cover of the Summer 1993 issue of Profane Existence portrays a masked woman stabbing Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, in the throat with a knife that has a 12-inch blade. Words surrounding the picture say "(Retroactive) abortion (for anti-choice operation rescue scum) without apology" [see Figure V-4]. The centerfold of this magazine showed St. Paul Church in the background, with a hand lighting a Molotov cocktail in the foreground. The caption, in inch-high letters, read "OPERATION RESCUE/COME TO OUR TOWN/WE'LL LOCK YOU IN A CHURCH/AND BURN THE F---ER DOWN!" [see Figure V-5]. In the same magazine, in an article entitled "Making Punk a Threat Again," said that "Their [pro-life] cars, property, billboards, and especially anti-choice offices, churches, and `crisis pregnancy' fake counseling clinics are all fair targets. They need to be shown that we are seriously f---ing pissed off that they think they can harass wimmin [sic] in our town or anywhere. We need to be creative and pick our targets carefully, and then we need can send them away wishing they had never tried to show their pathetic faces here." This screed was signed "Sister Immaculate Conception." Predictably, despite all of these direct and vivid threats of pro-abortion mass murder, local authorities took no interest.



Figure V-4

Pro-Abortion Poster Advocating the
Murder of Rescue Leader Randy Terry



Figure V-5

Pro-Abortion Poster Advocating Burning a Church Full of Pro-Lifers



Minneapolis/St. Paul Area [Robbinsdale] -- Bomb Threat

       On September 7, 1987, a man phoned the offices of Pro-Life Action Ministries and said that, if another arson attempt occurred at a local abortion mill, the office and the homes of staff members of Pro-Life Action Ministries would be bombed.
       Pro-Life Action Ministries, "Violence and Disruption Log Form," December 10, 1994.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Vandalism and Destruction of Property

       The parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Silvis spend many hours fashioning 1,500 crosses and setting them up on church property over the weekend of September 13-14, 2003. The crosses were meant to symbolize the number of preborn babies who suffer brutal and unnecessary deaths every ten hours in the United States.
       But pro-abortionists would like to stamp out even this gentle form of objection to their ceaseless slaughter, and so some of them drove a car back and forth across the display, mowing down most of the crosses. The clumsy pro-aborts even hit a tree in their rage.
       "Abortion Memorial Vandalized." WQAD Newschannel 8 [Minneapolis, Minnesota], September 16, 2003.

Minneapolis/St. Paul -- Vandalism

       A pro-abortionist used blood to write the word "helter" [the first word of Charles Manson's book Helter Skelter], on an outside wall of the office of the University Life Care Center, a Minnesota pro-life group.
       Christopher Gustafson, director of the group, said he was shaken by the vandalism, which took place sometime ***Thursday night.
       Joanna Donohue, education chair for Prolife Across America, said vandalism against pro-lifers is more common than many think. "I'm not surprised by the vandalism," she said. "This is something we typically see from the pro-abortion side."
       "Minnesota Pro-Life Office Damaged by Vandalism." Steven Ertelt's LifeNews at http://www.lifenews.com, October 31, 2003.
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