1. Also on Thursday, a group of House Democrats urged the Clinton administration to spare no expense in bringing perpetrators of clinic violence to justice. 2. And a host of updates on such boilerplate subjects as abortion clinic violence, sexual harassment in public schools, and the like. 3. As a result, the Justice Department announced Monday it was creating a new task force to coordinate investigations of clinic violence. 4. Benham said his group was conducting its own study of clinic violence and would make a report in February. 5. Besides establishing a national database on clinic violence, the task force will train the police and clinic staffs in response and prevention tactics. 6. Bomb threats, stalkings, arsons and other forms of anti-abortion clinic violence are also on the rise, reports the Arlington, Va.-based Feminist Majority Foundation. 7. Burnett has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating clinic violence. 8. Each suspect is linked to previous acts of abortion clinic violence and bombings. 9. Feldt timed her comments to coincide with a hearing Thursday before a U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee looking at clinic violence. 10. Hutchison angered abortion rights advocates by voting for an amendment that they said would have drastically weakened the proposed crackdown on clinic violence. |