Between 1993 and 2015 , 11 people were killed at American abortion clinics . The Army of God claimed responsibility for Eric Robert Rudolph 's 1997 shrapnel bombing of abortion clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham . The organization embraces its description as terrorist . On January 29 , 1998 , Robert Sanderson , an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham , Alabama , was killed when his workplace was bombed . Eric Rudolph admitted responsibility ; he was also charged with three Atlanta bombings : the 1997 bombing of an abortion center , the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing , and another of a lesbian nightclub . He was charged with the crimes and received two life sentences as a result . Nurse Emily Lyons was permanently injured as a result of it
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
Abortion in Alabama