SCARY STUFF: ATLANTA ANTI-CHOICE FIRES, POSSIBLE DOMESTIC TERROR (UPDATE: ANOTHER IN N.O.?)

Atlanta area fires and burglaries are hitting pro-choice advocates, and seem to target speech as well as clinics:

Federal agents are investigating two fires in the past week at women's clinics in metro Atlanta, authorities said. ...

The two fires, along with several burglaries that struck women's clinics in recent months, have raised concerns that the clinics are being targeted by vigilantes.

The physicians who were victims of the burglaries and Sunday's fire did not perform abortions but they had all visited the statehouse this session to discuss the impact of abortion-related legislation, said Dr. David Byck, president of the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.

"We are concerned that each of these physicians spoke with lawmakers during the session and that each then became targets of felony crimes," Byck said in a statement.

This looks like either one person or a group at work to silence these doctors. That does constitute terrorism, by definition, no?

UPDATE: Here's another case of arson at a Women's education, advocacy, and community center in New Orleans. Again, this one is deliberate, going after the information materials (speech). I am not saying they are directly connected, but it's worth exploring the angle, while the feds are at it. This group seems to have overturned a law that made prostitutes subject to sex-offender registry, somehow based on a 205-year-old statute. FBI, please get on this.

Related: TN'S ANTI-CHOICE SCARLET LETTER BILL
CHICAGO CLUB 'VELVET ROPE' FIRE IS ARSON

Tennessee's Anti-abortion Scarlet Letter Bill ... Is It Real?

Maybe, maybe not.

The Life Defense Act of 2012 ... would direct the state Health Department to post on its website a report on every abortion, to be filled out by the facility where the procedure takes place.

The reports must include the "identification of the physician who performed the abortion and the physician's office, clinic, hospital or other facility where the abortion was performed," according to the official summary of the bill.

Then the L.A. Times explains that the reporting will include a woman's age, county, marital status, and so on, making it much easier to identify the person, especially in less populated areas.

So, I'd say, yeah, you can call it the Scarlet Letter Bill of 2012.

Please note, every title of everything this year must be appended with the numeral year date, 2012, in case anyone might forget what year it is. Thank you.

Related: ATLANTA, ANTI-CHOICE POSSIBLE DOMESTIC TERRORISM FIRES