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Jan 22 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

During the annual anti-choice 'March for Life' event Friday in D.C., neo-Nazi org Patriot Front showed up with about 30 members escorted by police. Earlier this month, we published a story highlighting how right-wing and republican attacks on abortion are escalating.

On October 28, 2021, the exterior electrical box of the sole abortion clinic in Toledo, #Ohio was set on fire. The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department investigation ruled it arson and found traces of an accelerant.
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Also in Ohio, in an attempt to outlaw all abortions, House Bill 480 was introduced on November 2, 2021 to protect “unborn persons,” making it the most extreme bill to move through a state’s legislature in the recent string of bans popping up across the country.

HB 480, also known as The 2363 Act, would adopt the same type of vigilantism as the Texas 6-week abortion ban by authorizing private rights of action against people performing or inducing abortions and people who aid or abet abortions.

Other laws like Ohio’s new “Born-Alive Infant Protection Act” are also on the rise to further restrict reproductive rights and spread “pro-life” ideologies.

We spoke with Kristin Hady who is part of the Toledo Women's Center escort group: “Like any other clinic in the country, it definitely has felt like things have escalated for us in the last couple years."

"We’ve had multiple windows busted out with rocks thrown at our building, and we’ve had somebody kick or smash through some wood paneling in the front of our building.” - Kristin Hady

Hady is unsurprisingly against HB 480 and calls it “an incredibly awful bill.” She continues to say, “we always deserve access to abortion at whatever gestation period we are in and we have the right to an abortion, and so this is just a way for them to try and skirt past Roe."

Kristin Hady believes that the many restrictions and bans on abortion, including Ohio HB 480, will “serve as a way to galvanize so many people, and honestly I hope radicalize a lot of people.”

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