The church provides many of the volunteer escorts who helped protect the Pensacola Ladies Center and its patients for anti-abortion demonstrators.

A judge today refused to dismiss two prior misdemeanor charges against the man accused of murdering an abortion clinic doctor and his volunteer escort on July 29.

A further 24,000 children had been approved for sailing in that time and over 1,000 volunteer escorts, including doctors and nurses, enrolled.

The Barretts were volunteer escorts at the clinic, the Pensacola Ladies Center.

And it is a reflection of her fear that where she works, the Arab-American Family Support Center in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, has made a list of volunteer escorts for women, like her, who are afraid.

"Botha is certainly fit enough," said Denis Tabakin, the chairman of the Jardine Joggers, an organization of 165 blind South African runners and some 300 volunteer escorts.

Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, of Fernandina Beach, Fla., and James Barrett, 74, a volunteer escort, were both killed in the attack, and the latter's wife, June Barrett, was wounded.

It was a reflex, she said, born of a year and a half as a volunteer escort at the clinic, where a doctor was shot and killed.

Mr. Hill, 40, was convicted of shooting Dr. John B. Britton, 69, who performed abortions at the Pensacola Ladies Center, and James H. Barrett, 74, a volunteer escort at the clinic.

The movie concentrates on escort-patient relationships in which the volunteer escorts interview applicants and help those who are accepted prepare and sign a statement of intent and choose a departure date.