It's a common tactic for anti-abortion groups to publicize not only the names and addresses of doctors but of the landlords of the clinics, along with the names of their children and the schools they go to. Pickets will then show up at the school with signs with pictures of fetuses and such on them.
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The tactical decision to focus on a clinic’s landlord was a clever move, although Stave could handle it. He’s pretty tough after all the years in this fight.
But his tormentors crossed the line last fall when a big group showed up at his daughter’s middle school on the first day of classes and again at back-to-school night. They had signs displaying his name and contact information as well as those gory images of the fetuses.
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While he was in California, his neighborhood was canvassed with fliers depicting Stave in a Nazi uniform, with graphic photos of Holocaust victims and bloody fetuses. And it had all of his contact information as well as phone numbers and addresses for other family members.
“It wasn’t random,†he said. “They knew I’d be gone, and they wanted my daughter and neighbors to find them.â€
On Monday, a protester showed up outside of his brother-in-law’s Rockville dental office to protest abortion where molars were being extracted.
“How was your trip to San Francisco?†the protester asked Stave, when he arrived at the dental office to confront him.
Of course the media only covers this kind of tactic when it is liberal celebrities that call for it.
The landlord is not just accepting the tactics, though...
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Soon after that, the harassing calls started coming to his home. By the dozens, at all hours. Friends asked him how they could help. He began to take down the names and phone numbers of people who made unwanted calls. And he gave the information to his friends and asked them to call these folks back.
“In a very calm, very respectful voice, they said that the Stave family thanks you for your prayers,†he said. “They cannot terminate the lease, and they do not want to. They support women’s rights.â€
This started with a dozen or so friends, and then it grew. Soon, more than a thousand volunteers were dialing.
If they could find the information, Stave’s supporters would ask during the callbacks how the children in the family were doing and mention their names and the names of their schools. “And then,†Stave said, “we’d tell them that we bless their home on such and such street,†giving the address.
The family of a protester who called Stave’s home could get up to 5,000 calls in return.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-clinics-landlord-turns-the-tables-on-anti-abortion-protesters/2012/03/29/gIQAThgwiS_story.html
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