87 Children Among Arrestees at Clinic
Hundreds of people, including 87 children, were arrested Saturday as thousands of abortion opponents converged on a women’s clinic in the eighth week of an anti-abortion campaign.
Most of those arrested were abortion opponents who were charged with disorderly conduct or trespassing, police said.
Police said 50 people were charged with violating a Milwaukee County judge’s injunction that prohibited certain forms of protest at abortion clinics.
Police estimated more than 3,000 people, most of them abortion opponents, gathered at the clinic. Police had arrested 545 people by Saturday afternoon.
It was the most arrests during a single day in a summer of anti-abortion activity at the city’s six abortion clinics, police said.
The protests, which began in June, are being organized by Missionaries to the Preborn, a Christian fundamentalist group.
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