“I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here,” said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. “Well, fuck that. I don’t need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being.”

Writer Tom Junod wrote an amazing piece about abortion and one doctor that traveled extensively to perform them, John Baynard Britton. He took the place of Dr. David Gunn who was killed in 1993. What’s really startling about this article is that Dr. Britton was killed the following year, aged 69, months after the article was published. In it, Junod writes about the escort that would be killed with him as well, James Herman Barrett a 74 year old veteran:

I didn’t go to Korea and serve my country for twenty-five years in the service so that these peckerheads can shoot doctors. It won’t happen as long as I’m around.

And he profiles one of the protesters, Paul Hill, as a man who would likely encourage the next killer:

He would not kill anyone, he says; that’s not his calling. He is simply an advocate, someone who “advocates the advocacy of force.” Why wouldn’t Hill kill, if he thinks killing is just? “You don’t put Robert E. Lee on the front lines,” he told his former pastor. Killing doctors, he says, is “an individual thing. If an individual feels called to do something like that, it is entirely up to the individual. We’re just saying that force is just. It’s up to each individual to make his own contribution.”

It turned out that Hill himself decided to be the one to use force not long after this, killing both Britton and Barrett as they pulled up to the clinic.