"The rescue mission is not through," declared antiabortion zealot Randall Terry, but the Binghamton, N.Y., headquarters of his Operation Rescue is closing its doors. The three-year-old pro-life group won national notoriety by organizing blockades of abortion clinics around the country. Terry, convicted on misdemeanor charges of trespassing during a 1988 Atlanta-clinic protest, announced the closing last week upon his release from a Georgia prison, where he spent four months on a chain gang. The group buckled, he says, under the weight of a $50,000 lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women.
Lawyers for NOW dismiss the assertion as a foe's...
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