by Miriam Claire

About the author: Miriam Claire is the author of The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue.

Abortion providers in the United States, along with their staff, patients, and volunteer escorts, are being terrorized by people who charge that they are “killing babies.” Although there is opposition to abortion in other countries, protests rarely turn violent. Why are some Americans so passionate in their hatred of abortion and all associated with it that they are willing to murder? Is it because they are more moral than the rest of us? Are they alone privy to God’s will? I doubt it.

Expert “marketing” of the notion that abortion is murder, via the pulpit and media, is responsible for the current hysterical antiabortion crusades in the United States. According to Frances Kissling, president of...