She said she believed anti-abortion violence has had a major impact on the reproductive rights of women.
"Between 1982 and 1992 we lost one third of the facilities that provide abortions" because of harassment and violence towards abortion doctors, Paul said.
Norsigien, a representative of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, said that she knew a family doctor in New Mexico who had to wear a bulletproof vest to work every day because he performed abortions and feared for his life.
"There has to be a another way for people against abortion to express themselves," she said.
Candelario argued that pro-abortion beliefs are compatible with religion.
"For so many people...[pro-life ideology] is associated with being religious," Candelario said, but "being pro-choice and being religious isn't contradictory."
Candelario said Protestantism, Unitarianism and Judaism are not incompatible with pro-abortion beliefs.
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