Posted on 02/16/2023 10:58:33 AM PST by Morgana
Priests for Life leader Frank Pavone shared news about another pro-life advocate being assaulted on a city sidewalk recently, the latest in growing reports of violence targeting the pro-life movement.
On Monday, Pavone posted a short video on Twitter showing a man in a Ninja Turtle T-shirt being asked about his pro-abortion views. Pavone said the man later attacked the pro-life advocate who was filming him.
The video begins with the pro-life advocate acknowledging that the man was willing to talk about his abortion views on camera.
“How would you defend the pro-choice side? Why is it good to kill children in the womb?” the pro-lifer asks.
“First, first, they’re not children, and I don’t have to defend them because I’m not having an f—ing abortion,” the man responds.
As the pro-life advocate begins to reply, the man lunges at him and appears to push him twice; then, he sticks out his tongue and makes crying noises at the camera.
A longer video of the incident posted on TikTok shows the man threatening to “knock out” the pro-lifer while shouting profanities and vile insults. As they continue speaking, the man says he supports abortion because the world is better off with fewer children being born.
“So eliminating children is your solution?” the pro-lifer asks.
“Yeah. I mean, if I could, I’d eliminate you,” he says.
“Yeah, I know you would. I know you would, but you can’t,” the pro-lifer responds.
When the pro-lifer asks the man how he would decide which humans to kill, the man replies, “They’re not humans!”
Pavone shared news of the assault just a few days after LifeNews reported about two other attacks on pro-life sidewalk counselors in Illinois. Coalition Life, a pro-life organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, said a Planned Parenthood worker is facing battery charges after he hit and pushed a sidewalk counselor Jan. 19 outside an abortion facility in Flossmore, Illinois.
In a second incident, Coalition Life said another sidewalk counselor was hit by a vehicle driven by a Planned Parenthood employee on Nov. 29 outside the Fairview Heights, Illinois abortion facility. Both incidents were captured on video.
Increasingly, pro-life advocates have become targets of vandalism and violence. LifeNews counted about 250 attacks in 2022, including the shooting of an elderly pro-life woman in Michigan and an abortion activist who allegedly tried to burn a police officer with a makeshift flamethrower during a protest in Los Angeles.
In November, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that most of the abortion-related attacks in the past year have targeted pro-life organizations. “Since the Dobbs decision, probably in the neighborhood of 70 percent of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against … pro-life organizations,” he told a U.S. Senate committee.
Yet, there have been very few arrests. In January, the FBI offered reward money for information leading to arrests in many of the attacks.
Many pro-life organizations are increasing security and Republican lawmakers are demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the growing pro-abortion domestic terrorism. But, while the Biden administration has been aggressively working to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions, it has done little to stop the hostilities directed at pro-life advocates and churches.
That's what people who believe in murder do.
Championing killing babies is one way for you to know who is working for the demons.
Tolerant pro-choicers punch,
intolerant pro-lifers pray.
Ah yes, the party of “peace and love and freedom of speech”
Yeah, right...
Violent killer is violent?
If both of the aggressors here (possibly more) were actually PP Badged employees.
Does that make PP in any way liable for the actions of their own employees?
If there are enough “isolated incidents” does it become a pattern and or something actionable?
grown man in a Teenage Mutant Ninja tee says it all.
That's why I never "carry" when I go there. But it's about the only place where I don't carry.
25 agents in body armor, automatic weapons, yeah./sarc.
“25 agents in body armor, automatic weapons, yeah./sarc.”
The guy that threw the punch is a Lefty so nothing will happen to him. If the pro-lifer threw the punch then the above applies.
Yep.
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