I didn't know

I recently came upon an article on abortion clinic violence in North Carolina. Though it's out of date (published in 1998) it details violence toward abortion clinics over the past twenty years.
http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/may98/abortion.html

Here are few paragraphs I found interesting and surprising:

"Statistics from the National Abortion Federation report that there were 166 incidents of violence against clinics, abortion providers and staff in 1997—the most since 1993, when there were 437 reported attacks. The most recent publicized attack occurred in Birmingham, where a bomb explosion killed an off-duty police officer working as a clinic security guard and permanently maimed a clinic nurse.

Since the early 1980s, trends point toward a growing militancy among the anti-abortion movement. But while a strong pro-choice movement has mobilized in cities where clinics and abortion-providing physicians have been attacked, Greensboro has yet to see a consistent presence of pro-choice supporters."

"More often than not, though, restrictions against abortion disproportionately affect the poor. The current cost for an abortion can run to almost $400; since the Hyde Amendment in 1977, federal money cannot be used to obtain an abortion by women on Medicaid. "