Clinic escort

A clinic escort is a person who volunteers at an abortion clinic to help guide women into and out of the building. They serve to shield clients from pro-life demonstrators at the site. Escorts in the United States sometimes wear orange vests labelled "clinic escort".

One clinic escort has died as a result of abortion-related violence. On June 29, 1994, James Barrett was shot dead, along with Dr. John Britton, outside of a clinic in Pensacola, Florida by Rev. Paul Jennings Hill. Hill was sentenced to death for this crime.

Another clinic escort, Marie Bains of Sacramento, California, was fired from her job as a drama teacher at the Catholic Loretto High School in October 2005 after a student's parent sent photographs of Bains volunteering at a local Planned Parenthood to Bishop William K. Weigand of the Diocese of Sacramento. Weigand stated that Bain's "active and public participation in the procurement of abortions is morally inappropriate and unacceptable with regard to her work as a teacher at Loretto".