TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blanchard,Dallas A.
AU  - Prewitt,Terry J.
TI  - Religious violence and abortion: the Gideon Project 
SN  - 0813020654
AV  - HQ767.25 .B53 1993eb
U1  - 363.4/6/0975999 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Abortion
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Pro-life movement
KW  - United States
KW  - Bombings
KW  - Florida
KW  - Pensacola
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Violence
KW  - Mouvement pour le respect de la vie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Attentats à la bombe
KW  - Floride
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Abortion & Birth Control
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-340) and index
N2  - On Christmas Day in 1984 three abortion clinics in Pensacola, Florida, were bombed by four young people who later went to trial and were convicted and sentenced. The authors explore this moral drama as a case study of religiously motivated political action. (The perpetrators identified with Gideon, the Old Testament slayer of those who sacrificed firstborn infants to Baal.) Their analysis sheds light on the violent wing of the anti-abortion movement. Placing anti-abortion violence in the context of social movement theory, the authors conclude that persons who are predisposed toward such behavior are likely to be working-class males under age 35, socially isolated from countervailing attitudes. Religious fundamentalists, they warn, will continue to utilize violence in reaction to such subjects as pornography, homosexuality, sex education, equality for females, and prayer in public schools. For this book the authors conducted interviews with local activists on both sides of the abortion issue. They attended the Pensacola trial and interviewed local religious fundamentalists, personnel of clinics throughout the United States that have been subjected to arson or bombing, and, when possible, persons who have been tried and convicted of those offenses
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