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