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Man Rams Car Into Abortion Clinic, Swings Ax
Saturday, September 30, 2000
ROCKFORD, Ill. — A man drove his car into the city's only abortion clinic Saturday, then damaged the facility with an ax before the clinic's owner confronted him with a shotgun, authorities said.
The clinic was not open and nobody was injured.
WROK radio reported the man drove through an overhead door at the Abortion Access Northern Illinois Women's Center around 8:15 a.m. He was swinging an ax around the office when the clinic's owner fired a 12-gauge shotgun twice. He did not hit the man.
Police said the man was arrested and was being questioned. They would not give his identity or comment further.
The owner also was not immediately identified. The clinic houses the office of Dr. Richard Ragsdale. He has no home telephone listing and an answering service for his office would not comment.
Ragsdale filed a landmark 1983 lawsuit challenging Illinois abortion restrictions, contending that they required doctors performing abortions to conduct their practices in buildings that in effect are hospitals. Under a settlement that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990, women fewer than 18 weeks pregnant may undergo abortions in clinics, while those beyond that term require full-service surgical facilities.
Rockford is located about 85 miles northwest of Chicago
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Man Rams Car Into Abortion Clinic, Swings Ax
Saturday, September 30, 2000
ROCKFORD, Ill. — A man drove his car into the city's only abortion clinic Saturday, then damaged the facility with an ax before the clinic's owner confronted him with a shotgun, authorities said.
The clinic was not open and nobody was injured.
WROK radio reported the man drove through an overhead door at the Abortion Access Northern Illinois Women's Center around 8:15 a.m. He was swinging an ax around the office when the clinic's owner fired a 12-gauge shotgun twice. He did not hit the man.
Police said the man was arrested and was being questioned. They would not give his identity or comment further.
The owner also was not immediately identified. The clinic houses the office of Dr. Richard Ragsdale. He has no home telephone listing and an answering service for his office would not comment.
Ragsdale filed a landmark 1983 lawsuit challenging Illinois abortion restrictions, contending that they required doctors performing abortions to conduct their practices in buildings that in effect are hospitals. Under a settlement that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990, women fewer than 18 weeks pregnant may undergo abortions in clinics, while those beyond that term require full-service surgical facilities.
Rockford is located about 85 miles northwest of Chicago
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