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The sentencing trial of Whitney Durant, who goes by Soren Monroe, took place today, and I’d like to say this is a win for the pro-life movement and scream from the rooftops, “Justice served!” But I can’t. The blatant hypocrisy regarding how the Department of Justice treats pro-life “crimes” and crimes from pro-abortion zealots is an unignorable blot in the justice system. Let me explain. Durant, a former Bowling Green State University (BGSU) student, vandalized the Bowling Green Pregnancy Center last year. SFLA wrote two articles on this case last year. See the damage for yourself: ***IMAGE ON LINK*** Durant...

Chapel Hill, NC — Violent abortion supporters have been dangerously harassing peaceful, pro-life advocates on the sidewalk of Planned Parenthood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Love Life, along with several other groups and churches, are on the sidewalk almost daily to offer women compassionate support and life-affirming options as they hurry from their cars, scared and often alone, to the doors of Planned Parenthood Chapel Hill. In 2023, this dangerous clinic sent four women to the hospital in just five months – all for severe hemorrhaging. Operation Rescue, along with other national groups like CEC For Life and Life Legal...

On Tuesday, a guilty verdict was announced for six pro-life activists for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act at an abortion facility near Nashville, Tenn. The Biden administration’s Justice Department brought the charges, which stemmed from a peaceful protest on March 5, 2021, in which a group of pro-lifers prayed and sang hymns at the entrance to the Carafem Health Center Clinic. Video of the protest shows a group of approximately 20-30 pro-life activists peacefully praying and singing hymns while standing and sitting along the walls of a hallway leading to the door of the abortion...

After the draft leak of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, violence, threats, and attacks against the pro-life movement skyrocketed. Yet this went largely unnoticed, while the abortion industry continued to claim that pro-life advocates are the real danger. Now, a new study is setting the record straight. According to the study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), there were 135 attacks against pro-life groups between May and September of 2022. During that same four-month period, there were just six attacks against abortion groups or supporters. “The bottom line is that after the Dobbs...

A bullet almost hit the children of a North Carolina pro-life candidate while they were sleeping last month in what many believe was an act of political violence. The Post Millennial reports the FBI is investigating the shot that was fired into the home of U.S. Congressional candidate Pat Harrigan’s parents in October. Harrigan, a pro-life Republican, is running against pro-abortion Democrat Jeff Jackson. According to WBT News, someone shot a bullet into Harrigan’s parents’ home late in the evening Oct. 18, and the bullet lodged into a wall about 20 feet from where his 3- and 5-year-old daughters were...

EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (CNS) — Police are investigating vandalism at a western Massachusetts pregnancy center that provides women facing a crisis pregnancy with free diapers, wipes, baby clothes, strollers and car seats. Police said vandals early Aug. 18 spray-painted “Jane’s Revenge” on benches located outside of Bethlehem House in Easthampton, near Springfield, along with the message, “If abortion isn’t safe, neither are you.” Jane’s Revenge is a an organization that supports keeping abortion legal. It has claimed responsibility for similar actions at churches and pro-life pregnancy centers across the country since May, when a draft opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court...

On every first Saturday of every month, anti-abortion protesters gather to harass patients at the SoHo Planned Parenthood in the heart of New York City, supposedly a “safe city” for abortion rights. In response, local activist group NYC for Abortion Rights organizes a monthly clinic defense and counter-protest. The NYPD always go out of their way to protect the anti-choice crowd, enabling them to harass patients trying to enter the clinic, as well as physically assault abortion rights activists. In that regard, today was no different. But today, the end of the morning, five clinic defenders were in handcuffs. The...

Activists in support of access to abortion covered the front of the Riverside Historic Courthouse with handprints and slogans on Saturday evening, July 30, resulting in eight arrests, authorities said. About 19 people took part in a demonstration about 6:30 p.m. at 4050 Main St., said Olivia Dunston, an organizer for Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights. Many wore green bandanas, marking their affiliation with the group. Signs calling for the nationwide legalization of abortion and handprints made with what the group described as removable paint were seen near the front entrance of the 119-year-old building. Riverside police were summoned, and...

The abortion lobby, as promised in their summer of rage, has stooped to a new low with a wrongful attack of a Students for Life Action (SFLAction) volunteer this past weekend in Kansas. Between church defamations, firebombed pregnancy resource centers, and the attempted assassination of a Supreme Court Justice, the violence of abortion is spreading like a wildfire through supporters who have resorted to abuse against those who support life. On Sunday, July 30, an 18-year-old SFLAction volunteer named Grace Hartsock took to the neighborhoods of Overland Park, Kansas to canvass in support of the Value Them Both amendment. Hartsock...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Lynchburg City Council voted to not go forward with a resolution condemning the recent vandalism at the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center. The center was vandalized last month, following the Supreme Court's Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade. The resolution was proposed by Councilman Chris Faraldi. The motion to approve the resolution failed 2-5. Faraldi said he is disheartened by the vote, and that he saw this as an opportunity for the council to call out evil for what it is. "I truly saw it as an opportunity for the seven of us to join hands, stand together...

LONGMONT, Colo. (KDVR) — Life Choices was vandalized and sustained fire and smoke damage on June 25, and now officials are offering up to $10,000 in reward money. Longmont Public Safety responded to Life Choices at 3:17 a.m. on the morning of June 25 after dispatch received reports of a fire breaking out at the business. The business at 20 Mountain View Ave. had “bans off our bodies” and other vandalism written in black paint on the property. Life Choices does not provide abortions but it does offer post-abortion support, according to its website. In addition to the vandalism, LPS...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The FBI is asking for the public’s help in searching for the suspect, or suspects, who threw an unignited Molotov cocktail into the Hope Clinic for Women, a ‘pro-life organization’, in Nashville nearly a month ago. The FBI released pictures of the believed suspect as they continue to take any leads. The grainy pictures show the suspect wearing a backpack. The car is also a key piece in the investigation. Business owners told News 2 it is concerning the person behind this still hasn’t been caught after the clinic was vandalized on June 30. Around 1:30...

According to tweets from pro-lifer Stephen Horn, the Raleigh Police Department is declining to charge the driver of a Ford truck who drove off the road toward pro-life activists who were volunteering as sidewalk counselors outside an abortion business last month. Horn is a relative and fellow church member of the alleged victims. The group of pro-lifers had gathered outside A Preferred Women’s Health Center abortion facility. A Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center, operating as Your Choice Pregnancy Clinic, is adjacent to the abortion facility. The pro-lifers were in front of the abortion facility when the Ford Escape veered...

RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed a historic West Virginia church, according to court records. Braxton Allan Miller, 18, of Charleston, and James Dean Elmore, 19, of Beckley were charged for their alleged roles in an arson that leveled the Saint Colman Roman Catholic Church near Shady Spring on June 25, a criminal complaint filed in Raleigh County Magistrate Court notes. Miller was accused of lighting a fire in the church after a group of people had been partying on the premises overnight, court records said. He is charged...

An arrest has been made in connection with the arson and vandalism of both a Catholic church and a Methodist church in Bethesda, Maryland, that occurred on July 9 and July 10. Peter Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County fire department, said that charges have been filed against a juvenile and will be handled in juvenile court, the Washington Post reported. Father Samuel Giese, pastor of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church, told his parishioners the day after the vandalism at Sunday Mass, that he believed the attack was aimed at the church because of its pro-life views....

At least 76 churches and pro-life organizations have been targets of arson and vandalism since May when news leaked that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. The latest count comes from the Catholic News Agency, which has been keeping track of the incidents targeting pro-life advocates. The crime wave has many churches and pro-life organizations increasing security and Republican lawmakers demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the growing domestic terrorism. According to CNA, there have been 76 attacks and counting since early May when someone leaked a draft ruling of the Dobbs v....

Pro-life activist assaulted for urging Louisiana facility to stop committing abortions A Louisiana pro-life activist has been assaulted after attempting to warn staff at an abortion facility that, following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, their involvement with abortion could see them criminally prosecuted.

At least ten more churches and pro-life organizations were vandalized since last weekend as violence targeting people who work to protect unborn babies continues across America. They include Birthright pregnancy center in St. Paul, Minnesota; Care Net of Puget Sound Pregnancy Clinic in Kenmore, Washington state; and Problem Pregnancy and Clearway Clinic, both in Worcester, Massachusetts. The churches were Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Notre Dame Catholic Church and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, all in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomer, Wisconsin; and the Bible Missionary Church and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, both...

The FBI is launching an investigation with Nashville police after a pregnancy center was targeted with a Molotov cocktail-type device and "Jane’s Revenge" graffiti in an incident the state’s governor is calling an act of "terrorism." The Hope Clinic for Women, which the Metro Nashville Police Department describes as a "pro-life resource center," was hit early Thursday in the "first act of vandalism in Nashville seen as related to the recent U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision," investigators say. "Midtown Hills Precinct officers responded to a burglar alarm at the facility at 1:38 a.m. Upon arrival, they discovered that a front...

As pro-abortion radicals rioted and attacked pro-lifers in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade, the network newscasts mostly looked the other way. They offered scant coverage and repeatedly insisted that the last several days have been “mostly” or “largely” peaceful. MRC analysts looked at every morning and evening newscast on ABC, CBS and NBC, from Friday night (the day of the Supreme Court ruling) through Wednesday morning. In all that time, they allowed 120 seconds to discussing the numerous examples of attacks against pro-life individuals and organizations. Here are just some of the violence that has...