Man Accused Of Threatening Anti-Abortion Workers Indicted

Wed., April 12, 1995

From Staff And Wire Reports

A Wenatchee man accused of threatening antiabortion workers was indicted Tuesday under a federal law typically used to protect abortion clinics and staff.

Daniel Adam Mathison, whose age was not available, is charged with one count of violating the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and one count of making an unlawful interstate communication.

The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Yakima, is the 13th case brought by the U.S. Justice Department under the clinic access act.

It is the first action brought under the access act that involves a facility that does not provide abortions.

Mathison is accused of calling First Way, which

identifies itself as a pregnancy-support service, in Wenatchee on Jan. 2 and threatening to kill workers at the office.

He also is accused of calling the National Life Center hotline in New Jersey on the same day and telling an operator that he had a gun and was going to shoot abortion protesters outside abortion clinics.

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