I also asked the library to look at the history of what I want to term "condoned violence against women". It was very interesting, because they provided me with quite a few quotes from a woman called Alison McCulloch, who wrote a book called Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand. In the 1980s, McCulloch notes, "Although in the early 1970s there had been harassment of doctors, arson attacks, threats and pickets, particularly around the Auckland Medical Aid Centre in Auckland and often by unknown perpetrators, it wasn't until the late 80s that direct action to shut clinics and physically prevent women from accessing them moved to the forefront." And during the 1980s and 1990s, she noted that the Women's National Abortion Action Campaign wrote of patients being photographed as they went into clinics, having their number plates taken down, and subsequently seeing placards bearing their names. The Sunday Star-Times reported several cases of harassment, including that of a 26-year-old patient who was recognised by a protester and who returned from the clinic to find her mother waiting with a Catholic priest. Some women were subjected to phone calls, visits to their homes by anti-abortion activists, and threats that their families would be told.