They called themselves Protectors of the Code and claimed to be devoted to traditions of chivalry. But Matthew Goldsby and James Simmons were sentenced to 60 years in prison last week for the unchivalrous bombings last Christmas morning of three Pensacola, Fla., medical facilities where abortions were performed. Kaye Wiggins, Goldsby's fiancee, who told police that the doctors' offices had been attacked "as a gift to Jesus on his birthday," and Simmons' wife Kathy were given five years' probation and fined $2,000 apiece. The decisions were not as harsh as they seemed. Judge Roger Vinson allowed Goldsby and Simmons, both 21,...
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