After receiving an angry fax from Operation Rescue activist Terry Randall, the New England Journal of Medicine has tightened security at its Boston-based offices. Randall sent the fax in response to a study published in the Journal and written by Dr. Richard Hausknecht which found that a combination of two commonly available medicines can induce abortions. In the fax, Randall claimed that the study was “Nazi-like” and warned the doctors involved that, “when abortion is made illegal again, you will be hunted down and tried for genocide” (Reuter 9/1). The Massachusetts Medical Society, which owns the journal, and Hausknecht have also hired more security.
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