Audio recordings taken by an undercover activist reveal that a network of anti-abortion activists in Texas are photographing the license plates of patients who use women's clinics in order to track and monitor them. Furthermore, the group is using tax records to identify and locate physicians and staff of the clinics.
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The Austin Chronicle reported Tuesday that two groups, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and Progress Texas released the tapes, which were recorded at the Capitol in Austin. Multiple anti-choice groups were on hand offering instructions to new recruits on how to more effectively stalk and harass abortion providers and their patients.
The recording features excerpts from "Keeping Abortion Facilities Closed," a seminar held by the anti-choice groups - united under the banner Texas Alliance for Life - on August 4.
Karen Garnett of the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas
instructed her fellow protesters and activists to flood the streets around women's clinics so that "prayer chains" can be on site "in front of every abortion facility during all hours that abortions are being performed."
"Part of that," Garnett said, "is so that we can track. We can track the number of women who choose life and we can also track who works there, who is your abortionist. You can do that, it's totally legal. You can track license plates."
She went on to detail how her group has a "very sophisticated spread sheet" so that they can track and monitor every person who arrives and leaves women's health centers.
"You have license plates, the car make and model and a description of the person," she said.
Comment: In an ideal world every child would be welcomed. But the world as it is is the complete opposite of ideal. The arrogance of these organizations telling a woman they are required (is there no other term for it) to carry every pregnancy to term, regardless of their personal situation, then stalking them to make sure it happens, is breath-taking. Roe v Wade set it out: Whether or not to continue a pregnancy is a personal decision between a woman and her doctor. No one else.