This is, alas, not new, though your friends may not have been aware of it: but at least in the U.S., the press doesn't report anti-choice terrorism as terrorism, because it's being done by, not against, white Christian men. This means the patterns aren't pointed out in the ordinary news stories. The papers quote the anti-choice people as saying they are "worried about a backlash" after this, but don't mention the years of right-wing incitement to murder, against which a backlash is long overdue.
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Date: 2009-06-01 05:07 pm (UTC)