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Abortion Clinic Pleader Pleads Guilty, Offers No Apology

HeadlineApr 14, 2005

Abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to a series of attacks that killed two and injured more than 120 people. During a span of two years beginning in 1996 he bombed two abortion clinics, a gay nightclub and the Olympic Park in Atlanta. Rudolph was sentenced to four life sentences without parole. But he escaped the possibility of the death penalty by pleading guilty and telling authorities where he had stored hundreds of pounds of unused explosives. He said Wednesday that he had no apologies for his actions. In an 11-page letter Rudolph wrote, “Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified … in an attempt to stop it.” He went on to say “Whether these agents of the government are armed or otherwise they are legitimate targets in the war to end this holocaust.”

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