Anti-abortion violence is at a 20-year high

A 2016 National Clinic Violence Survey published last Thursday revealed that 34.2 percent of abortion clinic providers received and reported “severe violence or threats of violence” just in the first six months of last year.

The highest percentage in the last 20 years before 2016 was in 1995, with an average of 24 percent.

This is beyond terrifying.

Anti-abortion terrorism found its way back into the media in 2015 with three people dead, nine attempted murders and a whopping 94 reports of death threats. And let’s not ever forget the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting on November 27 2015.

Trump’s heavily pro-life administration is a factor in this past year’s surge, and we’re not surprised, especially with the swearing in of Jeff Sessions, who will have major influence over the justice department.

Basically, with the new administration and rise in threats, we can’t be sure that anyone who works or visits these centers will ever be protected, and that is outrageously unjust and criminal. But this is just another day in Trump’s America, and just another day we will fight hard for women to have the right to their own bodies and for providers to go to work each day and not fear for their lives.

We can’t afford to go back to a place in which the 2015 shooting was even possible, and we will not stand for it.