Maybe I'm not getting the point here. We all know that anthrax warnings are now the "threat du jour". Every institution and then some has been sent warnings, most of which are hoaxes. In Britain, there's been several hundred of these hoaxes, delivered to anyone who could be a target of some group. Global companies, banks, biological research centres, etc, etc.

So there's nutters out there sending these warnings - right? So how is this especially a women's rights issue? It's just the same militant anti-abortion campaigners as always, with a new method. And letters are cheap - any asshole can fire off a letter or phone in a bomb threat. Difference is that where there was some limits in what you believed from the crank calls and letters, everyone's on a hair-trigger with the anthrax scares, so the sensitivity to these has peaked. I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that the _overall_ number of crank calls/letters hasn't increased, it's just that they mention anthrax instead of the Book of Revelations, bombs or shotguns.

Note that I'm not saying these anti-abortion campaigners aren't raging loonies. I'm pro-abortion personally, and I think that not forcing women to bear unwanted children is an essential right. But the anthrax threats don't make this a new issue.

I also think that dragging religion in is a mistake. It says "these ppl believe they have a good reason for attacking abortion providers", and excess of religious zeal makes them more misguided than evil. Stick to the base fact of "these ppl insist that we must do what they say or they will kill us", and you've defined them as terrorists without publicising their cause.

Graham.