Posted on 04/15/2023 10:21:15 AM PDT by Morgana
Angry pro-abortion students at the University of Arizona in Tucson pelted a pro-life organization with eggs Wednesday for exposing the violent reality of abortion.
Abra Singleton, southwest regional director for the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, said three pro-life volunteers were hit with eggs, including her 72-year-old father, and they contacted police about pressing charges.
Singleton told LifeNews that they set up their Genocide Awareness Project display on campus Wednesday to show images of aborted babies and victims of other genocides, such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide.
“Our goals is to show that abortion dismembers and decapitates little human beings, and that it is comparable to what has happened to other people groups when their personhood is stripped from them in order to justify killing them,” Singleton said.
However, the disturbing images quickly attracted hostility, and angry students began throwing eggs at the display and volunteers, prompting the pro-life advocates to call police, she said.
“A large group of students threw dozens of eggs at our signs, and three volunteers, including my 72-year-old father, were hit with eggs. We were informed by a College Republicans United member that the students got the eggs from the campus pantry,” Singleton told LifeNews.
One video shows dozens of smashed eggs on the ground around the display. Several pro-life advocates can be seen sheltering behind the display as sounds of more eggs being thrown are heard. Toward the end of the footage, a police officer escorts a female away from the scene.
Another video from state Rep. Austin Smith shows several different students throwing eggs at the display as people around them cheered.
Other videos and photos from the pro-life organization show more vandalism, including spraypaint over a sign advertising a crisis pregnancy hotline and eggs on three pro-lifers’ clothing, a camera and the display.
On Thursday, Singleton said two uniformed police officers guarded the display all day, and a barricade was erected around their display.
That day, “we saw two eggs on the ground around our display but did not see who threw them, and we later noticed that one of our signs outside the display that has a crisis pregnancy hotline number on it had been spraypainted,” Singleton said.
LifeNews noticed at least four local news outlets reported about the display and a pro-abortion protest organized on campus in response to it, but only one briefly mentioned the violence against the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. Instead, many focused on the alleged trauma that students complained about suffering because they were confronted with how abortion violently kills human beings.
Many pro-abortion students decried the display as “hate speech” and “harassment,” and demanded that the school censor it. The University of Arizona is a public, taxpayer-funded institution, so it cannot censor pro-life advocates.
Despite the hostility, the pro-life organization also witnessed something encouraging. On Thursday, Singleton said many students came up and offered to help them with running and later tearing down the display.
College campuses are growing increasingly hostile toward people who believe babies in the womb should have a right to life.
In another incident at the end of March, students vandalized a pro-life display by the Arctic Students for Life club at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, according to Campus Reform.
That same week on the other side of the country, a pro-abortion mob shut down a pro-life event at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Three pro-life advocates were assaulted and a violent pro-abortion mob stopped Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins from speaking.
Pro-life advocates increasingly have become targets of violence since news leaked last May about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. LifeNews counted about 250 attacks in 2022, including the shooting of an elderly pro-life woman in Michigan and 10 arson/attempted arsons.
In November, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that most of the abortion-related attacks within 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.
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They call pro lifers fascists and nazis?! Very interesting choice of insult, given that the nazis were cold blooded murderers! The only nazis I see are the deranged unhinged lefties!
What's missing from that is what Wray was also thinking. "As well should be!"
Throwing eggs? They must be rich.
And we know they are willing to commit homicide.
If Chris Wray acknowledges “70 percent”, it must be 100 percent.
Pretty simple. Activists are violent. Don’t show up with your guard down.
It is about time that people need to plan ahead for being attacked. Hand it right back to them. Frozen water bottles and all. Make it hurt.
Violence sponsored by and supported by the Universities...
One simple solution...DEFUND them.
Did the eggs have viable chicks in them? Would make sense seeing dead baby chicks on the ground everywhere.
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