and religious groups outrages. The upstart of many womens clinics has also fueled this criticism. Fore, it seems like nowadays that every couple miles or so you can find a womens clinic and because of this there has been a growing concern that abortion is just becoming a fundamental part of a womens life. Thus, a larger more violent, more powerful, more determined group was bound to be established. This group is the Army of God. The Army of God is just a North American terrorist group which has a strong religious background and also strongly disagrees with the notion that abortions are a womans right to choose. History on the group is very scattered and also documented very little. At best this is what one can dig up the name the army of god has been used for the last 20 years. In the early 1980s, a women's clinic at Granite City, Ill., was mobbed repeatedly by fundamentalist protesters. Then the clinic operator, Dr. Hector Zevallos, and his wife Rosalee were kidnapped by a gang of men calling themselves the Army of God. The couple was held eight days in an abandoned ammunition bunker. The captors said they'd kill both unless Dr. Zevallos pledged to stop performing abortions. He did, and they were released.Three men later were convicted of the kidnapping. The leader, Don Benny Anderson, said God had told him to wage war against abortion. Anderson got a 30-year prison term. He also was convicted of torching two Florida abortion clinics, and drew a second 30-year term.In 1984, when a Norfolk women's clinic was firebombed, the initials "AOG" were scrawled on a wall. Soon afterward, a clinic outside Washington was firebombed, and a man claiming to represent the Army of God called news media to take credit.In 1993 an Oregon fundamentalist named Rachelle Shannon shot a clinic doctor at Wichita, Kan. She boasted that she was enforcing "God's will." She had written laudatory letters to an imprisoned "pro-life" killer, Michael Griffin, who had...
