The Rescue movement took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Large crowds of people would block abortion clinic entrances and try to prevent women from going in. Pro-abortion rhetoric at the time claimed that pro-lifers were men threatened by women who wanted to deny women their rights. However:
“Significant numbers of women participated in mass demonstrations… In Operation Rescue’s “Siege on Atlanta” campaign during the 1988 National Democratic Convention, women comprised 40.7% of the pro-life activists who were arrested, which was typical during the 1980s and 1990s.”
Karissa Haugeberg Women against Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 2017) 70
Today, most pro-lifers use less confrontational tactics.
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