The Nation - News from Dec. 4, 1988

Police arrested about 400 people for blocking entrances to abortion clinics in New York, Ohio and Indiana, and the threat of a sit-in closed a Howell, N.J., clinic, where protesters dispersed without incident. About 225 protesters were arrested in New York, 77 in Cincinnati, 56 in Akron, Ohio, and another 34 in Merrillville, Ind. All of the demonstrations were peaceful and no injuries were reported, police said. “The goal from the beginning was to lock the doors and save babies from abortion,” said Brian Rechten, spokesman for the New Jersey demonstrators. The protests are the latest in a series around the country mostly organized by a group called Operation Rescue and dating from this summer’s Democratic National Convention.