Posted on 10/29/2003 12:24:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
Peaceful pro-life prayer vigils are increasingly the targets of violent attacks by pro-aborts Two Catholic men praying the Rosary were attacked with pepper spray as they knelt in prayer outside the Albany Center abortion clinic on north Elston Ave. in Chicago on Saturday (10/25/03). Police reports were filed, but the assailant disappeared. It is suspected that he fled into the abortion clinic, and was hidden from police, even as they searched premises. Sidewalk counselor Robert Rudny was temporarily blinded, treated at a nearby hospital and later released. His assailant escaped.
Robert Rudny and Michael Walsh were kneeling in prayer next to a fence bordering the Albany Center, one of dozens of abortion mills owned by Edward Allred’s the Family Planning Associates Medical Group.
According to Michael Busse and Kathy Mieding, who were sidewalk counseling as the incident took place, the assailant was a Hispanic man on crutches who had been verbally assaulting them for 30 minutes as they prayed. His taunts included mocking the Virgin Mary and blaming ‘the white man’ for exploiting Native American Indians. Due to a large sheet of canvas stretched across the eight foot fence, neither man saw their assailant, who sprayed them from the other side of the fence.
“He was a rabid, crazy man,” said Rudny, “who was screaming obscenities while we were praying the Rosary. I was looking down, praying my Rosary, and suddenly I felt this liquid on my face, and then my eyes and face were burning.” Walsh was also sprayed but not in the eyes.
Three other sidewalk counselors - Kathy Mieding, Brian Pabich and Michael Busse - heard Rudny screaming and went to his aid. Blinded and burned, Rudny staggered across the street to the Women’s Center, a pro-life shelter and service, where he doused his eyes and face with water in the bathroom.
At the same time, at least three calls were placed to 911 to report the incident. Micheal Busse said, “We called the police, and then turned our attention to the attacker, but he was gone. He was handicapped and used some kind of brace, so he couldn’t have gotten far. No cars left the parking lot. He just disappeared.”
Thomas More Law Center volunteer Tim Murphy, who was not at the event but has expressed interest in Rudny’s legal case, surmised that “they (the abortion clinic) hid him. The same thing happened to me years ago when I was attacked (outside an abortion clinic.) We went inside and pointed the guy out.”
At least six squad cars responded to 911 calls within a few minutes. According to Busse, the police entered the abortion clinic and remained there for over 30 minutes. When they emerged, the suspected assailant was not with them. “I got a good look at him,” said Busse, “I would recognize him again if I saw him again.”
Sidewalk counselor Kathy Mieding said that prior to the attack, she saw that the man’s rantings were growing more hostile and tried to diffuse the situation. “He was saying the most awful things to these poor men as they prayed. When he began spitting on them, I tried to get his attention to get him away from them. It all happened so fast. I was attacked by a pro-abort at a prayer service before myself, and the man escaped in the confusion. But I got a good look at this one.”
Mieding noted that there were several young men loitering outside the Albany clinic front doors as the altercation occurred. She also suggested that that it was most likely that the attacker was there with a woman inside having an abortion, possibly a late term abortion because the man claimed during his rants that he had been there for a few days.
Rudny was treated on the scene, but taken to a local emergency room for further treatment. Walsh was also treated on the scene, but because his injuries were on the skin, he was not sent to the hospital.
Abortion clinics have long employed goon squads to harass and intimidate peaceful protestors. The Albany clinic has been the site of several incidents over the past years, but few as brazen as this attack in broad daylight.
“Imagine the headlines that would have been generated if it was a pro-abortion protestor that was attacked by someone who was pro-life,” speculated Jim Finnegan, and pro-life sidewalk counselor and director of Vote Life America. “It would have been splashed across the front pages of newspapers across the Midwest. But because a pro-lifer got attacked, to our biased and anti-life media it’s a non-event. It’s sickening.”
Micheal Busse noted that there are two outside video cameras maintained by the abortion clinic, one of which had a clear view of the attacker. But when police inquired about obtaining the tape, the clinic workers said the video cameras were turned off. During the assailant’s tirade against the praying men, a side door from the clinic was used several times by customers and employees.
“That (thirty minutes of) screaming was definitely heard by the people inside the clinic,” said Michael Busse. “And they didn’t turn on the cameras? They didn’t come out to investigate what was going on?” Busse concluded that this could only be possible if the man was with a woman who was inside having an abortion or recovering from one. The man’s sudden disappearance is also suspicious. “He was on crutches of some kind,” said Busse. “How could he just disappear like that?”
The Albany Clinic is owned by Edward Allred, who operates the Family Planning Associates Medical Group. Pro-life movement veteran Tim Murphy of the Pro-Life Action League estimated that Allred operates or controls as many as 30 abortion mills across the country, making him one of the largest abortion businessmen in the country.
Murphy noted, “Allred is known for his racist statements against blacks and Hispanic.” In the October 12, 1980 issue of the San Diego Union, Allred is quoted as saying, “Population control is too important to be stopped by some right wing pro-life types. Their lack of respect for Democracy and society is frightening. I hope I can do something to turn the tide.” Allred’s comments are consistent with the racist views of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who was an early proponent of using abortion as a form of genocide against non-Aryans.
Detectives from Jefferson Park District 16 in Chicago would not comment other than to confirm that they had sent officers to the Albany Clinic and that an investigation into the attack is underway.
Though shaken up by the attack, Rudny is undaunted and not intimidated. “We’ll be back next Saturday, he said. “We’re there every Saturday praying the Rosary.”
owns 30 of those murder mills.
KA-ching!! Ka-ching! Ka-ching....
Praise God! He's one of us! If they hustle they can next make a mint murdering the old folks and the invalids--saving tons of tax dollars for us!
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These guys need to receive this story.
Lovely.
Shame on them for accepting blood money.
Why? Because each life is a new beginning. Each life erases the totalitarian state they long for.
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