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A radical leftist who is a former University of Wisconsin researcher has plead guilty to firebombing a pro-life group’s office. Earlier this year, a grand jury indicted Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, formerly of Madison, after authorities arrested him March 28. Police said he was involved in the firebombing of the pro-life Wisconsin Family Action office last year. Prosecutors said he was trying to “terrorize” and “intimidate” pro-life advocates by vandalizing and setting the offices of Wisconsin Family Action on fire and a grand jury in the Western District Court of Wisconsin indicted him. On May 8, 2022, the pro-life organization’s...

TAKOMA PARK, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) — An 83-year-old pro-life woman was physically attacked by a much younger woman as she prayerfully protested outside an abortion facility in a suburb of Washington, D.C. The unprovoked, brutal assault on Olga Fairfax occurred at a busy intersection on Saturday morning, July 8, in front of a Takoma Park office building housing the Silver Spring Gynecology and Family Planning. This business offers medical and surgical abortions. Longtime pro-life warrior Olga Fairfax had stationed herself and her 4’ x 6’ sign depicting an aborted child when, despite heavy traffic, a woman stopped her car in the...

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...

Violent clashes in Los Angeles between police and abortion rights activists Content Warning: The following video contains material that may be harmful or traumatizing to some audiences. *but entertaining to most FReepers so watch and enjoy* video only on link You are welcome

Pro-life activist Christina Garza has been sidewalk counseling for seven years at both Planned Parenthood and Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) late-term abortion facility. On Wednesday, Garza reported that she was assaulted outside of SWO in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when a person driving a Jeep threw rocks at her, injuring her knee. At just after 8:00 a.m. on May 21, Garza and other pro-lifers were outside of SWO reaching out to the women arriving for abortions. Garza was standing with two nuns praying the rosary and holding a hope bag to hand out to any of the moms entering or leaving...

A group of sidewalk counselors says a man taking his girlfriend to a Detroit abortion facility pulled a gun on them. A Facebook post shared by the abortion abolitionist group Free the States showed a man holding a gun, claiming he was angry that sidewalk counselors pleaded for him to save his baby. “This young man brandished a firearm and pointed it at the sidewalk counselors/evangelists gathered outside of the abortion mill where he recently took his child to be murdered,” the post read. “He threatened to shoot them if they kept on preaching the Gospel.” While the photo does...

Erika Schanzenbach, a pro-life sidewalk counselor, is fighting back after facing repeated assaults and harassment from abortion activists and escorts in Tennessee. Numerous videos filmed outside of Bristol Regional Women’s Center show Schanzenbach being threatened, harassed, and assaulted, some of which Live Action News has previously reported. Now, the Thomas More Society has stepped in, seeking orders of protection that would allow Schanzenbach and other pro-lifers to peacefully protest without having to face this kind of behavior. One video provided by the Thomas More Society showed Schanzenbach warning two abortion escorts not to touch her or her sign; the escorts,...

A German conservative writer who promotes pro-life causes was the victim of arson on New Year’s Eve. Gunnar Schupelius, a conservative blogger and columnist for the Berlin newspaper BZ, is well-known for his pro-life views. He frequently promotes the German March for Life through his writing. Recently, in the German blog Chronik, radical pro-abortion feminists took credit for setting Schupelius’s vehicle on fire on Dec. 31 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. The blog also identified where Schupelius lives with his children, potentially a means of further intimidating him. “We torched his SUV today. The BMW SUV parked in front of his apartment on...

The Office of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins has dropped the larceny charge against Zachary Pelletier, the masked, Antifa style militant who stole a four sided pro-life display from the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The sign was recovered when Pelletier was arrested shortly after the incident, which occurred on June 18th. By his brazen, daylight robbery, Pelletier sought to impede the exercise of the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and freedom of speech, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution and by the Declaration of...

LifeNews.com recorded more than 100 reports of assault, vandalism, harassment and other incidents targeting pro-life advocates in 2019. Our news outlet began tracking these reports after pro-life organizations expressed alarm about an uptick in violence in recent years as they work to protect the rights of unborn babies. The list identifies 99 separate reports, though several include multiple incidents, such as Prolife Across America’s report of more than a dozen pro-life billboards being vandalized between January and August. That equates to almost 10 incidents each month or about one every four days in 2019. The reports come from local and...

An Ontario pro-life organization became another victim of vandalism in early November when someone spray-painted pro-abortion slogans across its office window. The Standard reports the vandalism took place early in the first week of November at the St. Catharines Right to Life office in St. Catharines, north of Niagara Falls. Marlene Tersigni, executive director of the pro-life nonprofit, said the crime made volunteers and staff feel less safe, but they will not give up their mission to protect life. “To be honest, it galvanizes us,” Tersigni told the newspaper. “I can tell you, whenever something like this happens our donations...

A Massachusetts man is facing assault charges after he allegedly shoved an older pro-life woman to the ground outside a Planned Parenthood in April. A witness said the 76-year-old woman’s head bounced off the pavement when she was pushed on April 20 outside the Boston abortion facility, the Boston Herald reports. The woman said she suffered a concussion and other injuries as a result. Hartman Deetz, 42, of Brighton, later was charged with battery and assault on a person 60 years or older, according to the report. He was scheduled to appear in court this week. Police said Deetz escorted...

PHOENIX — A Phoenix doctor is accused of pointing a gun at a small group of protesters outside Acacia Women's Center on Thursday, October 10, according to Phoenix police. Doctor Ronald Yunis was arrested by Phoenix police on Friday, October 18, on charges of aggravated assault, according to the Phoenix Police Department. A YouTube video posted by Apologia Studios depicts a group of anti-abortion protesters outside the Acacia Women's Center on October 10. As Dr. Yunis pulls out of the women's center parking lot, he appears to brandish a weapon, briefly pointing it at the protesters. ABC15 reached out to...

In footage released Friday afternoon, it appears an abortion doctor pointed a firearm toward a pro-life demonstrator from inside his vehicle as he left a clinic in Phoenix earlier this month. Apologia Church, the group behind the pro-life demonstration at the Acacia Women’s Center on Thursday, Oct. 10, posted the video to YouTube, urging viewers to contact the Phoenix Police Department to demand action be taken against Dr. Ronald Yunis, the physician who allegedly pulled a gun on protester Elvis Kesto. The altercation took place around 11 a.m. as Kesto was packing up to leave the clinic. Yunis, who only...

In a moment caught on video Tuesday, a man who appeared to be serving as a security guard for a Planned Parenthood doctor repeatedly pushed a journalist reporting on the abortion giant’s lawsuit against pro-life activist David Daleiden. The journalist, Phelim McAleer, who has been reporting on the trial for The Daily Wire, has filed a police report on the incident. The confrontation took place outside of the San Francisco Court House after Dr. Mary Gatter finished giving evidence in Planned Parenthood’s suit against Dalieden, who famously released a series of undercover videos on the abortion provider’s involvement in the...

On Friday, anti-Trump protesters became violent outside the rally venue for President Donald Trump in Minneapolis , assaulting at least one female Trump supporter walking out of the event. In video captured by Alpha News MN, a young woman walking hand-in-hand with a young man in a pro-Trump “Make America Great Again” hoodie was sucker-punched by a female anti-Trump protester. “After the [Donald Trump] rally in Minneapolis, his supporters were attacked by left-wing extremists. An unprovoked assault on a woman was caught on camera by [Alpha News MN],” reported journalist Andy Ngo. “Mayor [Jacob Frey] defends charging Trump campaign $530k...

A pro-life display memorializing the unborn victims of abortion was destroyed by vandals Saturday outside a Catholic church in Pennsylvania. The report is the latest in a growing string of harassment, assaults, vandalism and other incidents targeting pro-lifers. Earlier this month, volunteers at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Buckingham, Pennsylvania, set up the pro-life display for Respect Life month, according to a news release. The 61 crosses in the display symbolize the 61 million babies who have been aborted since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand in 1973. The pastor Rev. Monsignor Joseph P. Gentili said 40 of...

Abortion advocates attempted to burn down the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral along with a government building on Saturday during a protest organized to push for the legalization of abortion in Mexico. Catholic News Service reported the incident, stating that Catholics stood in front of the doors to the cathedral in order to prevent the arsonists from entering the church and causing more damage. The police and firefighters were quick to help. Capital 21, a Mexican television station, also reported on the incident on Twitter. Mauricio Alfonso Guitar, deputy head of the Cristera National Guard, told ACI Prensa that “thanks to...

Pro-abortion activists — 175 of them — were detained at the Swiss March for Life for attacking police on Saturday, injuring at least two officers and some firefighters. The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reports that the incident occurred during the pro-life March for Life on September 21. The March for Life had received approval from authorities and began with a gathering at Turbinenplatz in Zurich, Switzerland. Within an hour, a peaceful pro-life procession with more than 1,000 participants formed. According to the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, the counterdemonstration by abortion activists was not authorized and began with a gathering of a few...

A series of videos shared with LifeNews.com this week show abortion activists appearing to push, kick, mock and intimidate pro-life sidewalk counselors outside an abortion facility in Bristol, Tennessee. The videos are yet more evidence of increasing harassment, intimidation and other incidents targeting those dedicated to protecting unborn babies and mothers from abortion. Sammi Cooper, who runs the ministry A Cause for Christ, said pro-abortion protesters have become very aggressive toward her and others who stand regularly outside the Bristol Regional Women’s Center, hoping to help women and unborn babies in need. In a video that Cooper shared dated Aug....