Six Protesters Storm Abortion Clinic; Two Hurt

Six protesters stormed into an abortion clinic Wednesday, damaging equipment and injuring two women at the center that was bombed twice in 1984, police said.

Police arrested the intruders, half of whom witnesses said had to be carried out of The Ladies Center.

“It looked like a hurricane had gone through that building,” police Lt. A. O. Godwin said.

“They threw some equipment around and upended drawers,” said Pat Jones, president of the Escambia County chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Local anti-abortion activist John Burt knocked down the center’s manager and a clinic volunteer when they tried to block his path into the building, police said.

Burt, who was convicted of trespassing in a doctor’s office last year, was charged with resisting arrest without violence, burglary and two counts of battery.

The center was bombed at a prior location in June, 1984, and at its present site on Dec. 25 of that year.