ROCKVILLE, Maryland - Five Alabama anti-abortion leaders - including three from the Huntsville area - have been labeled "bullies" by Voice of Choice, a group that supports abortion rights.

The organization's national on-line "bullies" database includes the Rev. James Henderson and his wife, Carol, of Somerville in Morgan County, Huntsville resident Joyce Fecteau, Father Ed Markley of Florence and Mary Ann Vann of Trussville.

Henderson, executive director of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, organizes regular sidewalk protests outside Huntsville's lone abortion clinic on Madison Street. Earlier this week, he called on Crestwood Medical Center to sever its ties to two physicians who perform abortions.

In a Wednesday email to supporters, Henderson said he and his wife are proud to be singled out by the "radical left" Voice of Choice.

"We are honored to be in the company of the other Alabamians on the list," Henderson wrote. "There are certainly more deserving pro-life people in the state who have accomplished so much more than we have for the sanctify (sic) of life.

"We certainly don't feet (sic) deserving, but we accept this as a measure of effectiveness for the work of all our friends who along with us continue to stand for life," he said.

Joyce Fecteau. (File photo)

Fecteau was arrested after spraying an unknown liquid - which she later identified as holy water - on pro-abortion rights demonstrators outside the Huntsville clinic on Dec. 22, 2012. She was found not guilty of harassment following a two-day trial in April.

Voice of Choice says the "bullies" on its list "have been known to picket clinics and harass clinic workers, doctors and patients.

"They have no regard for the privacy or safety of those who are making legal medical decisions, or the workers who are helping them exercise that right."