Author: Amanda Robb

Amanda Robb is a writer based in New York. She has been a contributing writer for O magazine and her work has also appeared in such publications as The New York Times, New York magazine, Newsweek, More and Marie Claire. Her article for Ms., “Not a Lone Wolf” (Spring 2010), won top honors from the Western Publishing Association, Planned Parenthood and the National Women's Law Center.

Inside an Abortion Clinic Invasion

At 9:05 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, a group of anti-abortion extremists from at least six states forced their way into the Washington Surgi-Clinic, a facility that provides abortion care in Washington, D.C.

This article reveals, for the first time, how a violent clinic invasion was planned and executed. It is based on testimony by Davis, forensic analysis by FBI agents of the defendants’ social media and cell phone records, footage obtained from the clinic’s security cameras and responding police officers’ body cameras, as well as the extremists’ own Facebook livestream of what they interchangeably called a “lock-and-block” and a “rescue” (a term coined by anti-abortion extremists to mean physically preventing women from obtaining abortion care). (This article originally appears in the Winter 2024 issue of Ms. Join the Ms. community today and you’ll get issues delivered straight to your mailbox!)

Anti-Abortion Extremist Jeff White Sentenced to Prison and $27 Million in Restitution

Anti-abortion extremist Jeff White, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to defrauding health insurance companies through state Affordable Care Act exchanges and a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme involving drug rehabilitation centers, was finally sentenced in February to three years in prison and three years of supervised release.

The Whites sent more than 300 people to rehabilitation facilities that offered them kickbacks for every patient admitted, typically in the thousands of dollars.

Making Change

By Amanda Robb Even though Anika Rahman has lived in the United States more than 20 years, the Bangladeshi native can still be stunned by gender inequities in “the land […]

Not a Lone Wolf

As soon as Scott Roeder was named the sole suspect in the point-blank shooting death of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, ABC, NBC and FOX News all ran stories calling him a “lone wolf” gunman. It is the oldest, possibly most dangerous abortion story out there. But for loners, these guys have a lot of friends. A lot of the same ones, in fact.