Tailoring anti-abortion messages to blacks

Anti-abortion activists are aggressively recruiting African Americans into their movement, targeting urban communities that they have long considered hostile turf. Framing their cause as the new frontier in civil rights — an effort to stop "black genocide" - these activists have turned to revered names in black history. A niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. tours the nation, speaking out against "the war on the womb." The great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott recently compared Roe vs. Wade to the 1857 Supreme Court decision declaring blacks so far inferior that they had no rights. Los Angeles Times reports

Kopp explains to jury why he killed abortion provider

In his trial on federal charges for the 1998 slaying of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian, the Buffalo ob/gyn who provided abortions, James C. Kopp claimed he just wanted to injure him. The prosecutor responded, "If you want to injure a person, you don't shoot them with a high-powered rifle." Associated Press reports