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A timeline of actions taken to stop [abortion](abortion "wikilink").
Usually listed as a form of far-right terrorism.
## 1900s
- 1976: An arson attack against an abortion clinic in Auckland, New
Zealand and causes hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage
(nearly a million in today's money).
- 1990: Two men broke into an abortion clinic in Vancouver, Canada and
destroy tens of thousands of dollars of equipment with crowbars.
- 1994: An unknown sniper attacks prominent abortion doctor Garson
Romalis at his home in British Columbia, Canada, nearly killing him.
## 2000s
- 2001: Peter James Knight, an [Australian](Australia "wikilink")
anti-abortion activist, walks into an abortion clinic in East
Melbourne with a rifle, gags, handcuffs and petrol. He shoots and
kills the security guard and plans to trap everyone in the clinic
and burn it down, killing 41 people. He fails after being
overpowered by staff and other guards.\[1\]
- 2009: Unknown anti-abortion activists graffiti and throw molotov
cocktails at a medical clinic in Mosman Park, Perth, Western
Australia. The medical clinic does not perform abortions, despite
'baby killers\!' being graffiti-ed on the building through an
alleyway.\[2\]
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") - [Peter Knight (anti-abortion
activist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Knight_\(anti-abortion_activist\))
2. ABC News (2009) - [Arsonists attack Mosman Park medical
clinic](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/07/2460486.htm?site=local)