The Washington Stand has revealed that there have actually been at least 41 different occurrences of violent attacks versus churches, pro-life organizations, and pro-life sites throughout the nation since the May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that suggested the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
These escalating attacks consist of arson, vandalism, home burglary, and residential or commercial property damage.
These occurrences do not even count the minimum of 9 other instances of physical violence against pro-life supporters, threats of violence versus churches, and illegal disruptions of church services that have actually unfolded within the exact same timespan.
In the exact same period, there has been only a single circumstance of violence versus pro-abortion advocacy groups, in which a lady is accused of committing arson at an abortion center under construction on May 25 in Wyoming.
In spite of the large discordance in violent incidents in between the two groups, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided a “Terrorism Threat” advisory on June 7 that appeared to relate to the number of violent occurrences from activists on both sides of the abortion concern. It specified, in part, “…individuals who advocate both for and against abortion have, on public forums, encouraged violence … .”
The current spike in attacks versus churches and pro-life companies becomes part of a larger pattern of violence that has actually seen a significant uptick in the past 2 years. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put out a report in early June that cataloged “at least 139 incidents … across 35 states and the District of Columbia since May 2020 “arson, statues beheaded, limbs cut, smashed, and painted, gravestones defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language and American flags next to them burned, and other destruction and vandalism.”
“For the last 49 years—each time the pro-life movement had encountered an uncertain future, whether it be the future of an unexpectedly pregnant mom or of Supreme Court decisions, the movement has responded with an outpouring of love, resources, and prayer,” said Mary Szoch, director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Human Dignity.
“For the pro-abortion industry, the exact opposite is true. Their solution to uncertainty about a mother’s future has always been violence and destruction in the sacred space of the mother’s womb. It is not surprising that now that the pro-abortion movement is facing uncertainty of the future decision of the Supreme Court, their response is once again violence.”
“The pro-life movement must continue to respond with love, prayer, and support for men, women, and babies in need,” Szoch concluded.
In an indication showing that cooler heads might be dominating among some pro-abortion activist groups, the Washington Examiner reported on June 8th that the pro-abortion extremist group Ruth Sent Us closed down its site that had actually contained the home addresses of several Supreme Court justices. Its removal followed shortly after news broke that an armed assailant was detained outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, who police state had the intent to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.
The notable action stands in plain contrast to those of other progressive organizations that have actually declined to remove online material that assisted violent extremists. Following discoveries that the domestic terrorist who shot and wounded the building manager of the Family Research Council’s headquarters in 2012 had actually used details from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map” to guide his strategy to murder everybody in the building, the center declined to take the info down from its site, where it remains even still to this day.
H/T The Daily Signal
