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Pro-Life Centers Are Being Attacked and It Will Get Worse
Have you noticed the overwhelming number of articles about the attacks on pro-life centers all over the country? Neither have I. Unfortunately, attacks on the pro-life centers are not high on the priority list for protecting pregnant women, and we’ve already seen nearly 50 attacks since the leak of the draft decision written by Justice Samuel Alito. People are also calling for churches and demonstrating groups to be attacked.
Although the Department of Homeland Security is reporting that groups from both sides of the issue are being threatened, clearly the pro-life movement is at greater risk. The CEO of CompassCare, Jim Harden, is closely monitoring the situation:
‘Security is definitely a concern and there has been in the lead up. We heightened our security measures [at existing locations]. We never have anyone alone in the facility. We always walk out to the parking lot in two-by-twos. We’ve increased other types of security measures to our perimeter, etcetera, communicating constantly with law enforcement and things of that nature.’
Harden claims despite Homeland Security’s memo saying there are threats to both sides of the abortion argument, he believes it’s the pro-life clinics taking all the heat.
‘They’re not the ones getting threatened. They’re not the ones burning,’ he says of abortion clinics.
And yet a reporter from a news station tried to show an equivalence:
‘It is fair to say that there have been abortion centers that have been the targets of violence in the past, so what I would like to ask you is, would you be willing to also denounce similar acts of violence against them?” NEWS10’s Mikhaela Singleton asks.
‘CompassCare fully and wholeheartedly, full-throatedly denounces all violence everywhere. We’re open to having civil discourse. We’re open to having conversations about differences of opinion, but there’s no place for violence in civilized order,’ Harden replies.
Many people are calling for the SCOTUS decision to be announced sooner rather than later, as if a decision will temper the violence. I don’t draw that conclusion at all. This is a no-win situation for the pro-life movement, particularly if SCOTUS rules against Roe. Whether the decision is made sooner or later, the pro-life movement will be targeted.
Violence will break out nationwide, and local and state government will watch.
Published in Domestic Policy
Vance Richards,
May I quote the first 3 sentences of this on my Facebook page ? I won’t mention your name.
Wow, this is crazy. We all need to pray for the pro-life centers.
Some abortionist has wishful thinking.
The tragedy of this violence is that it makes compromise more difficult. Abortion policy needs to balance the rights of the mother and developing child when the mother sees them as being in conflict. This means that whatever rules are adopted by a state will satisfy neither those who support abortion till birth (and beyond?) or those who believe a child exists at conception. And getting either group to tolerate anything other than their own beliefs is made more difficult by violence.
And the polarization is intensified and continues, Rodin. I’m hoping (I can dream, can’t I?) that although the violence will probably intensify, that the reality will eventually set in. People will realize that they have done their best to meet their agendas (and I’m sure this could take years, not months), and save lives or get their abortions. Who knows? Maybe women will decide to keep their babies or give them away for adoption? I know, I know, dream on . . .
When we leave it to the states it will sort out. They don’t understand how it works and when they learn that pro abortion states will be able to kill all they want probably even after birth and pro life folks will gradually work out a variety of different approaches. When freedom is protected folks sort matters out and through time get closer to sanity. The key is to win the election and failing that to leave. Folks who don’t understand that, don’t understand our left.
Isn’t it bizarre that so many have no problem supporting a law that allows the murder of an unborn child by it’s own mother, and will threaten to secure the right to have it continue, while at the same time, holler about gun control when there’s another mass shooting?
We can always count on the bizarre with the Left, FSC. They have learned to tolerate cognitive dissonance.
I’m counting on it, IWalton.
The violence will work against them, costing them the sympathetic supporters. Good people don’t want to be associated with violence.
Indeed they don’t.
Which is much of the reason this violence is getting minimal coverage.
The left are a bunch of thugs. Violence has always been a part of leftist means. Does Lenin ring any bells?
That, and most of the people who do “news” are on the same side.
It has worked for them so far. Why should they stop now? The last time the Right was violent we made the Left to stop slavery. And they blamed it on the Right.
A potentially relevant reminder on this Thursday evening:
I don’t know if you’ve been noticing but the mobs are perpetually in readiness and this decision was already expected.
Yeah, how is it possible for the left to whip up a mob at a moment’s notice as they do? Somone ought to look into who organizes and funds that stuff.
People have been suggesting that this should be done for two years now.
Maybe Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff could take some time for that.