This is excerpted from an address delivered to the
New York Planned Parenthood on October 2, 1995 by Susan Hill, executive director of the
National Women's Health Organization.
In the course of 23 years, our organization has been a plaintiff in 28 federal or state lawsuits. We have been the targets of arson or firebombs 14 times. We have been vandalized hundreds of times. We have been the targets of thousands of "rescuers." We have had more than 1,000 arrests in front of our clinics. We have had our homes picketed. Our doctors and staff members have been stalked. One of our doctors, David Gunn, was murdered. We, like you, have endured more opposition and harassment than most Americans can imagine or believe.
