Anti-abortion terrorism

Anti-abortion terrorism is any act of terrorism inspired by anti-abortion sentiments or targeting or facilities that offer abortion services, usually motivated by religious reasons. Almost all anti-abortion terrorism is perpetrated by Christians, due to their belief that all life begins at conception. One of the most notorious, and by far the most well-known, acts of anti-abortion terrorism was by Eric Rudolph, a Christian fundamentalist from the United States who unleashed several bombings there throughout the 1990s. The most infamous of these was at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia in 1998. Rudolph was convicted with terrorism and sent to a maximum security prison in Colorado, the same prison that Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to serve in. Anti-abortion terrorism peaked in the United States in the 1990s with the rise of the militia movement, Christian fundamentalism and racist groups. During this time, multiple individuals and groups began to launch attacks on abortion clinics, many involving assassinations, acid attacks and bombs. The murders of abortion doctors, among the most famous being George Tiller and David Gunn, are also common among abortion-related terrorism. Another frequent target of anti-abortion religious terrorist attacks is the group Planned Parenthood, which offers abortion services.

Though the mainstream media in the USA tends to give the image that all terrorism is perpetrated by Muslims against governments, Christian anti-abortion terrorism proves that this is not the case.