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- NATION, Page 29American NotesABORTIONRescue Bails Out
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- "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.
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- Lawyers for NOW dismiss the assertion as a foe's ploy to
- "lose its creditors." Antiabortion activists privately concede
- that Terry's move is tactical and say Operation Rescue
- activities will be shouldered by the group's 110 local, legally
- autonomous chapters around the nation.
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