I've been involved in the pro-ife movement, on one level or another, for over 20 years. I've marched, I prayed, I've written letters -- and I have always been scrupulous to stay on the right side of the law. The same is true of 98% of pro-life advocates I've known during that time. That is why I find folks like this guy to be repulsive, and why I condemn such actions as inconsistent with pro-life principles.

A man who once claimed to be on a mission from God to kill abortion providers was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in federal prison for mailing hundreds of letters with fake anthrax to women's clinics.

Clayton Lee Waagner, 48, was convicted in 2003 of mailing the letters and of posting a message on an anti-abortion Web site claiming he'd been following clinic employees and was "going to kill as many of them as I can."

At his trial, Waagner called himself a terrorist and said people who provide abortions deserved to be shot.

It is my profound hope that this individual never sees another day of freedom. He is warped, evil, dangerous -- and has done more harm to the cause of life than all the abortionists he wishes to murder.

And I feel it is fair to say that my view is the mainstream view of the pro-life movement in America.

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