Posted on 12/06/2010 4:11:16 PM PST by wagglebee
ROCKFORD, Illinois, December 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A man accompanying a woman into the notorious Rockford abortion mill on December 3 threatened to shoot pro-life sidewalk counselors, according to witnesses.
Rockford pro-life veteran Kevin Rilott told LifeSiteNews that the incident happened on Friday, when a group of five abortion supporters from the Chicago area showed up at the Northern Illinois Women’s Center. They stood at the driveway to the abortion facility shouting at mothers not to talk with pro-life sidewalk counselors.
Pro-lifers had parked a free mobile ultrasound motor home near the facility. Rilott said it appeared that the abortion supporters had come to Rockford with the sole purpose of trying to block mothers from using the free ultrasounds. In an attempt to confuse and turn away mothers, the abortion mill security guard had even placed a sign near the ultrasound motor home that said, “Free Abortions In Motor-home.”
At one point during the morning the pro-life counselors were confronted by a man who was bringing a young lady into the clinic for an abortion. Rilott said that the man appeared to be “emboldened” by the shouting of the pro-abortion protesters.
According to multiple witnesses, the man reached into his pocket and pretended that he had a gun. He then pulled his hand out of his pocket in the shape of a handgun and looked directly at the pro-lifers and said, “What would you do if I pulled out my .45 and put a bullet in your head?”
The pro-lifers called the police and filed a police report. A representative from the police department told LifeSiteNews that it would take up to five days to obtain a copy of the report, but said that no arrest was made at the time.
Donna Modica, among many of the pro-lifers who witnessed the incident, said, “It’s clear these abortion supporters think that because they can kill a baby in the womb, they can do whatever they want to anyone. The violence of abortion breeds more violence.”
A witness at the Rockford abortuary said that later on the morning of December 3, the owner of the facility, Wayne Webster, came out and taunted one of the pro-lifers saying, “Maybe he should have shot you.”
There have been a number of serious cases of pro-abortion violence in recent months. Last week LifeSiteNews reported on the attack on the home of pro-life leaders Joseph and Ann Scheidler, who live close to Rockford.
The Scheidler’s front windows were smashed in with bricks of asphalt. One of the bricks contained a note that said, “We are crazy feminist bi***es who will destroy your sexist ideas.”
She is exactly right.
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Yeah, but sadly, there are bad apples in both barrels....
Chicago style politics?
“Yeah, but sadly, there are bad apples in both barrels....”
Yeah, but the baby killer has a 45 bullet in his barrel, the pro-lifers come armed with bibles...I choose the pro-lifers.
You truly have no idea who I am or what I believe in....
I was just sayin’....
Democrats obsessed with killing babies, children and adults. The party of death...
Even in Illinois, my response would have been, "You would never have gotten it out of your pocket before getting dropped, @$$hole!"
Not a long step from killing babies to killing adults.
Bring it.
“Yeah, but the baby killer has a 45 bullet in his barrel”
Really?
I actually read the article.
Did you?
There was no gun, as far as I can tell.
Both sides have their nutjobs.
Again, just sayin’.....
That's easy to say, and comforting to some, but the statistics just don't pan out that way. There have been one or two bona fide attacks on abortionists, and that's all. It's regrettable, hurts the movement, and they have been universally condemned. Yet the anti-abortion movement has been utterly peaceful by comparison to the left and their pro-abortion opponents.
>> Just like 99.999998%...
Well stated, brent13a.
The threat to murder, ButThreeLeftsDo, is the problem, especially when demonstrated how. The actual weapon is irrelevant.
You obviously do not discern what you read do you? You are equivocating someone who threatens to shoot someone with those who are trying to protect life. I was just using a twist on your poor metaphor to make the comment more interesting. I think it got lost in the translation. So, how does someone who is protesting to protect life equate with someone who threatens to kill...while escorting a gal in to kill her baby? Have anymore metaphors for us?
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