Anti-abortion Violence

In “The Murder of Dr. Tiller, a Foreshadowing”, Cristina Page uses several types of evidence including comparisons, statistics, and quotations.
A comparison she uses effectively is when she links the actions of battered women to that of abortion clinics, noting that it is at the time when battered women are at the strongest, when they attempt to leave, is it most often they are killed. An increase in violence is a classic response to loss of control , which is what pro-lifers must perceive what is happening (although as the article points out abortions actually went up during junior Bush’s presidency, so I don’t know what control they really think they are losing). This is also a way in which she links something horrible, wife beaters, with something she wants the reader to perceive as undesirable, anti-abortion groups.
She provides pertinent statistics about violent crimes which have happened at or around abortion providers with a link to the NAF (National Abortion Federation, a very credible source) highlighting the most important of these statistics. Another statistic from this chart which is also interesting is the 554 anthrax threats in 2001 (ten times as many as every other year combined, apparently committed all by the same guy, Clayton Waagner, but still), which just so happened to be the same year that the only actual anthrax attacks happened; this really proves her point that the pro-life terrorists just do whatever they see in the media.
The main box quote is very revealing, offer some disturbing accounts of what is happening at clinics and hospitals, but Page also uses quotes from the opposition to show what some of this rhetoric she is accusing them of saying. Her use of these quotes is effective in the piece she is writing, however she doesn’t give her opposing side a stance at all; this might be detrimental to her piece if it wasn’t as inflammatory as it was anyways (she refers to pro-lifers as “antis”).