A standard tactic of anti-choice harassers is to stalk and otherwise violate the privacy of people holding opinions contrary to theirs. Healthcare givers who provide abortions are routinely picketed outside their homes, their neighborhoods are blanketed with anonymous libelous flyers, and in many cases they are anonymously threatened. Many have given up women’s care in direct response to anonymous threats to their lives or their families (and in face of the extensive history of violence of the anti-choice movement). Another infamous tactic is to post photos and identifying information of abortion providers on Web sites threatening or implicitly encouraging their deaths.

Now an anonymous group of Christian loons is posting - in addition to the usual dense Biblical rants and “judgment day” doomsaying - telephoto shots of people entering women’s clinics throughout Ohio, including their license plate #s and names when available. They have also posted photos, maps, and detailed driving directions to the clinics, and names and photos of clinic staff, with home addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases birth dates. Just in case anyone should be looking to identify or locate any of the clinic staff or their patients . . . for any reason.

But don’t worry. They have a disclaimer. It’s right at the bottom of their multi-screen rant about God’s judgment, the “higher law”, and the need for the death penalty for “murderers”.

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