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The risks pro-life advocates take these days when they head to the streets and tell others that abortion is wrong are numerous and dire.
In this roundup, we'll be taking a look at how some of them were physically attacked over their convictions.
'She just absolutely glared at me. She grabbed me by both of my shoulders and ... pitched me across the sidewalk. I landed on my left side and my left arm and my head.'
But physical attacks are only a part of what pro-life advocates face. Leftists who bully, intimidate, and harass them can make the prospect of protesting on behalf of the unborn downright scary, too.
Readers of Blaze News likely haven't forgotten the outrageous behavior of then-Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims, a leftist who posted video of himself harassing an "old white lady" saying the rosary near a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood in 2019.
That ain't the half of it. Sims also offered $100 for the identities of young women praying in front of the same abortion facility. The mother of the teen girls soon told Tucker Carlson that Sims "came in hot ... yelling" at them and that she had to intervene. In the end, Sims' bullying sparked a pro-life rally in front of the Planned Parenthood featuring speakers such as Matt Walsh, Live Action president and founder Lila Rose, and iconic pro-life leader Abby Johnson.
Oh, and does anyone remember the assistant principal from a Pennsylvania high school who resigned after he was caught on video in April 2017 screaming and cursing at teenage pro-life advocates on a public sidewalk in front of the school? Check out the still-startling video here.
Zach Ruff, then dean of academics and student life at the STEM Academy in Downingtown, pointed at a sign one of the teen activists was holding that showed a photo of an aborted fetus and told the teen, “You can go to hell, where they are, too.”
When the teen suggested that Ruff turn to Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of his sins, Ruff stood inches from the teen's face and issued a scorching rebuttal: “Listen here, son, all right? I’m as gay as the day is long and twice as sunny. I don’t give a f**k what you think Jesus tells me and what I should and should not be doing.”
The teens received a settlement that summer acknowledging that they had every right to be on that sidewalk. In a December 2017 article by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Ruff told the paper he takes several medications, sees a therapist twice weekly, and rarely leaves the house without his husband.
Then you have alleged intimidation courtesy of the FBI and by the likes of Jane's Revenge. How about an outspoken Democrat elected official who issued "literally a call to arms" against the pro-life movement?
If that isn't enough to contend with, let's now take a look at some of what has happened when leftists got physical with pro-lifers.
Elderly pro-lifer beaten to a pulp in vicious, unprovoked attack outside Planned Parenthood; another elderly pro-lifer knocked out cold in same attack, witness says
Pro-life advocate Mark Crosby, 73, was severely beaten in a vicious, unprovoked attack outside a Planned Parenthood in Baltimore in May 2023, and a witness said a second pro-lifer, Dick Schafer, 80, was knocked out cold in the same attack.
Local pro-life advocate John Roswell told LifeSiteNews at the time that Crosby’s “plate bone in his upper right cheek is completely fractured” and that he “is bleeding from some unidentified area behind his eye, and the bone eye orbit is completely shattered and will have to be replaced with metal.”
Police told WJZ-TV that video of attack on Crosby "shows the suspect strike [the victim] in the face with a closed fist as [the victim] is on his back on the ground. The suspect is then observed standing up and with extreme force, kicks [the victim] directly in the face." You can view a video report here about the attack.
Soon police released surveillance images of the suspect as well as surveillance video of the brutal assault. In the summer of 2024, police arrested 27-year-old Patrick Brice in connection with the attack, WBAL-AM reported. The 6'5" Brice was indicted on charges of first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and assault on an elderly person 65 and over, according to the American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing the attack victims. ACLJ told Blaze News that the trial begins Wednesday.
65-year-old pro-life advocate saying rosary outside Planned Parenthood gets decked with punch to the face — by a male support person for abortion provider, who wallops elderly pro-lifer a second time
A 65-year-old pro-life advocate who was saying the rosary in October 2018 outside a Planned Parenthood in Florida was hospitalized after a man who had apparently accompanied a patient to the clinic came outside and decked him with a punch before delivering another blow.
A male exited the Planned Parenthood building and crossed the street to take photos of the group of about 10 protesters, Carol Gentile, one of the regular protesters, told the Naples News.
The male then approached Joe Alger — who was saying the rosary — and got close to the 65-year-old's face and knocked him to the ground with a punch, Gentile added to the News, noting that the attacker followed that with a second punch.
Other witnesses corroborated Gentile's account, the paper said, and noted that the attacker used obscene language and gestures. A sheriff's deputy later escorted a man fitting witnesses’ description of the attacker from the North Naples clinic into the back seat of a patrol car, the News reported, adding that he wasn't in handcuffs and there were no arrests.
Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Sarah Scully told the News that "a fight broke out between a trespassed protester and a patient’s support person." Paul Van Valkenburg, a volunteer escort with Planned Parenthood, added to the paper that the punching victim earlier had trespassed on Planned Parenthood property and the sheriff’s office was initially called — and then called a second time in response to the attack.
Grand jury refuses to indict 32-year-old female charged with assaulting 82-year-old pro-life woman outside abortion clinic; Black Lives Matter accuses victim — whose leg was broken and required surgery — of 'violence ... in the name of Christianity'
A grand jury refused to indict a female charged with assaulting an 82-year-old pro-life woman outside Kentucky's only remaining abortion clinic, the Courier Journal said in a June 2019 report.
Janaya Alyce Gregory, 32, was charged with second-degree felony assault after surveillance video showed her approaching Donna Durning outside EMW Women's Surgical Center on April 12 and allegedly pushing her to the sidewalk. Durning was hospitalized with a broken leg that required surgery and rehabilitation. You can view surveillance video here of the incident.
Durning told the paper that "she just absolutely glared at me. She grabbed me by both of my shoulders and ... pitched me across the sidewalk. I landed on my left side and my left arm and my head."
Gregory pleaded not guilty and was released on her own recognizance, the Courier Journal said. Following the grand jury's decision, Black Lives Matter Louisville issued a Facebook post accusing During of "violence ... in the name of Christianity" toward those "seeking services for their reproductive health."
Pierced-out shaggy creep actually kicks pro-life woman recording video of him at silent protest
A pierced-out, shaggy male was caught on video kicking a pro-life woman during a silent protest on a Toronto street corner on Sept. 30, 2018, before running away when authorities were contacted, the victim wrote in an account for LifeSite.
Marie-Claire Bissonnette, a youth coordinator for Campaign Life Coalition in Toronto, said she began recording her attacker on her cell phone after he committed acts of vandalism against other pro-life advocates. You can view video here of the incident.
Jordan Hunt, 26, soon surrendered to police. He faced eight counts of assault and seven counts of mischief under $5,000, the Toronto Sun reported. Hunt also was charged with one count of assault in connection with an incident that occurred a month earlier, the paper said, but Constable David Hopkinson couldn't confirm whether it was related to a second video that surfaced showing a shirtless male harassing anti-abortion protesters. The male in that second video said, “Yeah, I tried to knock your stupid billboard to the side" and “if you don’t want me to f**k with your stuff, why are you trying to f**k with other people’s choices?"
Also, a Toronto hair salon fired Hunt and identified him as the attacker in the Sept. 30 video. “It has been brought to our attention that Jordan Hunt has been caught on camera assaulting an innocent bystander at a pro-life rally. We don’t condone his actions, and he has been let go,” Noble Studio 101 noted in an Instagram post. “We believe that everyone has a right to an opinion and the right to voice their opinion without fear of physical violence.”
Hunt was given eight months’ probation and a conditional discharge ordering him to stay 100 meters from any pro-life demonstration, not contact his victims, and attend counseling, according to a June 2019 Live Action report.
'Oh, are you crying, little girl?' Thuggish female physically attacks pro-life advocate — and the ill-advised outburst comes back to haunt suspect
Just one day after a shaggy male kicked a pro-life woman at a silent protest in Toronto — as described in the above story — another pro-life woman was physically attacked in the city.
Those who recorded video of the attack told Global News that it occurred near Ryerson University on Oct. 1, 2018. The attacker first knocked down signs, then shoved pro-life activist Katie Somers, Global News said, before apparently reaching into Somers’ backpack, pulling out an object, and smashing it on the ground.
The shoving continued, with the attacker doing a threatening "chest pound" as a crying Somers tried to get away. "C'mon, let's do it!" the attacker was heard saying. No one appeared to make any meaningful attempt to intervene, but a presumably pro-abortion woman could be heard on video mocking Somers: "Oh, are you crying, little girl? Did we hurt your feelings? I think we hurt her feelings."
The following year, Gabriela Skwarko, 23, admitted she was responsible for the attack and pleaded guilty, Global News reported in a separate story. The Crown and defense counsel recommended that Skwarko receive a conditional discharge and 18 months’ probation, and the judge said he would accept the recommendation, the outlet said, adding that Skwarko was suspended from Ryerson for one year and lost her job with the university.
'Burn, little Jesus freaks! Burn, burn, burn!' Anti-abortion group gets chilling death threats on voicemail after Molotov cocktail attack
A Wisconsin anti-abortion group received a series of chilling death threats on voicemail after a Molotov cocktail attack damaged its headquarters in May 2022. One of the messages came from a sinister character who sang "Burn, little Jesus freaks! Burn, burn, burn!"
Wisconsin Family Action was targeted after a Supreme Court decision draft overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked May 2. First came the Molotov cocktail attack, which resulted in fire damage; also a spray-painted message outside the offices read, “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t, either."
Later death threats and other vile messages were left on WFA voicemail, CBN News reported. One male left a message saying that "you’re all going to burn … you’re following the f**king devil" and that “I hope you all burn ... that’s what you deserve.” Another male declared that “whoever set that fire is a true American patriot. You people are just utter filth of the planet. And it’s too bad your whore mothers didn’t abort each and every last one of you. Hopefully, you all get cancer ...”
Another guy sadistically sang, “Burn, little Jesus freaks! Burn, burn, burn!”
'Hail Satan!' Spitting, twerking, violent pro-abortion mob descends upon pro-life group at college
In late September 2019, TFP Student Action set up a small demonstration with brochures and bagpipes at George Washington University in the nation's capital, and things soon got dicey.
TFP Student Action said pro-abortion advocates soon employed social media to organize like-minded folks to gather and confront its members, who were quickly and vastly outnumbered.
"Hail Satan!" one counter-demonstrator yelled, the pro-life group said, while a male student offered, "I eat baby lungs for breakfast!" Perhaps the most disturbing moment took place when an angry woman spit on a pro-lifer. What's more, one TFP volunteer said he was kicked in the back of the leg, while another said students repeatedly hit his arm cast. At one point, the crowd converged around TFP Student Action, dancing and singing and flipping off the pro-life group.
You can see all the action on this video.
Muscular activist waving transgender flag slams into pro-life student marchers in front of cops; fails to get away unscathed
A noticeably muscular individual was caught on video waving a large transgender flag while running into students participating in the Virginia March for Life in February 2024. What's more, video of the violent act shows police officers observing the whole thing.
The culprit — who wore a maroon camisole along with a light red bandana that covered the individual's dark hair pulled back into a bun — was seen on the clip bounding through the middle of the march and purposely running into students, knocking them off balance, and ripping at one of their flags.
A later video shows authorities walking the march disrupter down a sidewalk in handcuffs. The New York Post reported that a 42-year-old transgender activist was arrested. The paper, citing Capitol Police, said Noah Cleveland was charged with one count of disorderly conduct.
Female who freaked out at pro-life advocates — and allegedly punched one who was recording video — is charged with assault
A female who freaked out at pro-life activists in front of an Alabama abortion clinic in May 2019 and allegedly punched one of them who was recording her was soon arrested.
Huntsville Police told Blaze News that Elizabeth Underwood, 28, turned herself in and was charged with third-degree assault. She was released on $1,000 bond, police said.
Mary Baggett, a sidewalk counselor, told Live Action she was recording video May 3 as she spoke to other pro-life activists in front of the Alabama Women's Center in Huntsville. Soon motorists appeared to argue with the pro-life activists, and one driver — a woman — emerged from her vehicle and began walking toward the pro-life activists.
"The woman who came up to me punched my hands. I must have been holding the camera with both hands, 'cause one is bruised pretty bad, but the one hand I hold the phone with is hurting, too," Baggett told Live Action. "Then she grabbed my phone and ran to her car. I went after her and demanded she give me the phone back, [and she] finally threw it in the grass."
Pro-life advocates physically attacked outside yet another Planned Parenthood; police allegedly refused to press charges
According to the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, two Washington, D.C.-area pro-life advocates — Terrisa Bukovinac, founder and executive director of PAAU, and Michael Gribbin — were assaulted in July 2023 outside the D.C. Planned Parenthood.
Bukovinac said the incident began when a female approached her and threw coffee in her face and hair, adding that when Gribbin tried to grab the female's coffee cup, her male partner assaulted him. Video shows the male throwing Gribbin to the street surface and repeatedly punching him; it also shows the female slapping Bukovinac in the face.
The PAAU said that despite video of the assault, D.C. police have refused to press charges.
"Even as a progressive anti-abortion atheist, I understand that the abortion industrial complex is responsible for a mass genocide which will require immense bravery to dismantle," Bukovinac said. "Pro-lifers must be committed to total nonviolence to effectively challenge the institution of legal child-killing around the globe."
The Daily Caller News Foundation, as part of its report, said D.C. police didn't immediately respond to its request for comment on the matter.
Female assaults pro-lifer, vandalizes anti-abortion displays — then later laughs, brags to police while holding infant on her lap that she was called a 'hero'
A female was caught on video in April 2019 assaulting a pro-life activist and vandalizing anti-abortion displays on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — and then later sat in an interview with police with a baby on her lap and bragged that others "said that I'm a hero" for her premeditated actions.
Campus police told Blaze News that Sasha Timofeeva was cited for vandalism and disorderly conduct stemming from the incident. Pro-life group Created Equal said the attack was against one of their members.
"You just tried to grab my f**king spray-paint," Timofeeva tells the pro-life activist in the video. "Are you going to tell the police that?"
"Because you're spray-painting our property," the activist replies. "Yeah, I'm going to tell them."
Timofeeva was seen in another clip later that day with police while holding a baby in her lap and laughing and bragging that someone called her a "hero" during the incident. The officer, while noting that he "could take [her] to jail for this," tells Timofeeva he's issuing misdemeanor charges against her and that she'll need to appear in court. Court records show Timofeeva was found guilty of assaultive behavior stemming from the incident.
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Blaze News original: Pro-lifers dunk on New York Times for falsely accusing Trump of lying about Dems' abortion ambitions
The New York Times has demonstrated on numerous occasions a willingness to bend or abandon the truth, especially when doing so might further leftists' political agendas.
The paper rushed, for instance, to print Hamas propaganda in October 2023, falsely suggesting that the Islamic Jihad rocket misfire that blew up a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds, was actually an Israeli airstrike. The paper also did its apparent best last year to furnish Democrats with the misleading narrative they needed to launch attacks on conservative Supreme Court justices — reliant upon claims that even the Washington Post knew weren't worth a jot of ink. When President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20, setting the stage for mass-murdering Mexican cartels to be designated foreign terrorist organizations, the Times undermined its credibility again, suggesting that identifying and holding terrorists responsible for their actions might hurt the economy.
This is far from an exhaustive list. In fact, the Times — a paper compromised by the CIA during the Cold War — recently misled readers on another issue, claiming that President Donald Trump had misrepresented Democrats' aims regarding abortion.
Pro-life groups were quick to hammer the Times over its latest publication of fake news and its corresponding attempt to obfuscate a damning truth.
'The Times has an obligation to report this evidence.'
In a letter shared with Blaze News, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told the executive and political editors of the New York Times that "while abortion remains an issue that evokes strong opinions, feelings, and reactions, such personal perceptions cannot overtake journalists' obligation to report fairly, accurately, and impartially."
Highlighting information the Times apparently decided to gloss over, Dannenfelser noted that "the Times has an obligation to report this evidence, cite the facts, and allow readers to come to their own conclusion without the interference of bias, omission, or misinformation that has often characterized your coverage of the issue."
'Debating any limitations around a federal right to abortion does not sit well with some key members of the Democratic Party.'
Among the articles Dannenfelser raised concern about was Times health policy writer Sheryl Gay Stolberg's Jan. 24 article, in which Stolberg stated that Trump "repeated false claims about abortion rights" in his video address to pro-life advocates at the 52nd March for Life, singling out his suggestion that Democrats are pushing "for a federal right to unlimited abortion on demand up to the moment of birth and even after birth."
Of course, to accept that Trump's assertion is false would mean discounting what Democrats have said and how they have voted in recent days and years.
NBC News, which Stolberg would apparently have readers believe was dealing in Trumpian falsehoods, noted in 2023 that some Democrats "insist on a sweeping national standard that goes beyond the one set by Roe v. Wade, which gave women the right to have an abortion before a fetus is considered viable and allowed states to set limitations for abortions after that time frame."
The same report noted that the "notion of debating any limitations around a federal right to abortion does not sit well with some key members of the Democratic Party, particularly reproductive rights advocates."
Multiple Democratic lawmakers have voted repeatedly to advance the so-called Women's Health Protection Act, which would codify a federal right to abortion with virtually no limitations or requirements, enabling health care providers, including incentivized abortionists, to end a child's life after fetal viability on the basis of a "good-faith medical judgment" that the continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the mother's health.
National Review previously noted that the WHPA's chief sponsor in the Senate admitted that the bill "doesn't distinguish" between physical and mental health and that the legislation advises courts to "liberally construe" the provisions of the act. A risk to a mother's emotional state of mind could, therefore, potentially qualify as a risk to the mother's "health."
When asked whether he supports any limits on abortion, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of the many Democratic lawmakers who championed the WHPA, responded, "I don't believe so, no."
Such legislation would put the nation on a path to emulating at least eight Democratic states plus Washington, D.C., where there are no restrictions on third-trimester abortions.
Per Trump's suggestion, Democrats similarly want to minimize protections for babies who initially survive abortionists' attempted executions.
'Double standards and a slant that consistently favors one political party erode whatever remains of the public's confidence.'
When the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act went to a vote on Jan. 23, a total of 210 House Democrats voted against requiring health care practitioners to save babies who survive attempted abortions. Senate Democrats kept the sister bill from advancing a day earlier.
This is how the New York Times characterized the Democrat lawmakers' efforts to deprive abortion survivors of protection: "Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-written bill on Wednesday that could subject some doctors who perform abortions to criminal penalties, thwarting the G.O.P.'s first attempt to restrict reproductive rights since the party has secured its governing trifecta."
"The facts are in President Trump's favor," Dannenfelser said in her letter. "Democrats have not been shy about also publicly stating their support for abortion at any stage and without limits. A long list of Democrats, ranging from Senators John Fetterman, Mark Kelly, and Patty Murray, to Governor Katie Hobbs and former Governor Ralph Northam have refused to name a point before birth at which they think abortion should be limited."
"It's clear to us and to many other readers that the Times isn't just reporting on a debate but taking a side, placing its thumb on the scale in favor of the pro-abortion argument," continued the pro-life advocate. "As editors, you know well that these intentional word choices matter. The facts matter. Truth matters. Double standards and a slant that consistently favors one political party erode whatever remains of the public's confidence in legacy news publications."
Blaze News reached out to Stolberg, asking her to clarify what precisely Trump had said in the above quote that was false. The Times reporter did not respond by deadline.
The conservative nonprofit CatholicVote was among the other groups and pro-life advocates that blasted the Times for its "false reporting," stating, "Uh, @nytimes, Democrats literally just voted against giving medical care to babies who survive botched abortions and can't name a single abortion limit they support."
Tim Graham, executive editor of MRC's NewsBusters, stated, "America's most prestigious newspapers routinely paint pro-lifers as extreme. They can't seem to locate themselves on the opposite extreme. Is it because they consider themselves the moral center? Extending the 'right to choose' to terminate babies ... born alive may seem logical to them. But it defines a radical fringe."
The apparent eagerness on the part of fellow travelers to mislead on Democrats' real objectives regarding abortion might be informed by polling showing that only a minority of Americans think abortion should be legal in all cases.
A 2024 Pew Research poll found that only 25% of Americans support the legality of abortion in all cases. A May 2024 Gallup poll found that 50% of respondents supported legal abortion, but only under certain circumstances. A previous Gallup poll found that only 22% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in the third trimester.
A Knights of Columbus-Marist poll revealed on Jan. 23 that 67% of Americans — including 55% of respondents who identified as "pro-choice" — said that limits should be placed on when abortion is allowed.
Emma Camp, an assistant editor at Reason, recently noted in the Atlantic, "The grim reality of later abortion is simply too much for most Americans to countenance — and reasonable policymakers should listen to them."
"Most Americans believe that third-trimester abortions should be restricted. If Democrats want a platform that truly reflects majority opinion, they should address the question of what to do about later abortions and adopt a position that protects abortions in the first trimester while limiting second- and third-trimester abortions to pregnancies with fetal abnormalities or maternal health crises," added Camp.
Democrats don't, however, appear keen to heed the concerns of Americans. Unwilling to abandon the promise of limitless abortion, they must rely on the media to gaslight the public about what they are really up to. Stolberg appeared more than willing to do her part.
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With most ballots tabulated in each state, the outcome of these referendums produced some wins and losses for America's pro-life movement.Heartland states reject left's culture of death by voting down abortion
Voters in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Florida decisively chose to protect the lives of the unborn, voting against abortion measures, according to the latest election results.
This election cycle, so-called abortion "rights" were on the ballot in seven other states, including Maryland, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and New York.
'Being pro-life is NOT a losing issue.'
South Dakota voters defeated Amendment G, which, if passed, would have legalized abortions in all situations in the first trimester of pregnancy. It, too, would have allowed the state to determine when to permit abortions during the second trimester but "only in ways that are reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant woman." Abortions in the third trimester could have been legalized as well when "necessary, in the medical judgment of the woman's physician, to preserve the life and health of the pregnant woman."
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, South Dakota banned abortion except in situations in which it is necessary to preserve the mother's life.
Pro-life voters won in a landslide, rejecting Amendment G with a 19-point margin. All but four South Dakota counties voted against the measure.
This election cycle, Nebraska had two abortion-related measures on the ballot, including the "Right to Abortion Initiative" and the "Protect Women and Children" initiative.
The first measure, Measure 439, aimed to amend the state's constitution, enshrining the right to infanticide until viability or when deemed necessary to protect the mother's health. The second measure intended to amend the state's constitution to ban abortions after the first trimester, with exceptions for medical emergencies, sexual assault, and incest.
Nebraska voters rejected Measure 439, which sought to expand the legalization of abortion, and instead supported Measure 434, an initiative that enshrines the state's existing 12-week abortion ban.
According to the Associated Press' election results reporting, just over 51% of voters cast their ballots against the measure.
In Florida, voters defeated Amendment 4, which would have effectively legalized late-term abortions by amending the state's constitution, Blaze News previously reported. The measure required 60% approval to pass but received just 57.1% of the vote.
BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler stated, “Amendment 4 in Florida which would’ve legalized abortion til the moment of birth has FAILED.”
“Praise the Lord,” she continued. “This is in [sic] incredible victory ... and also an incredible lesson for Republicans. Being pro-life is NOT a losing issue.”
President-elect Donald Trump secured victories in all three states where abortion measures were shot down.
While the pro-life movement had a few wins on Election Day, abortion amendments passed in several other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and Nevada.
In Missouri, voters passed Amendment 3, which will create a constitutional right to abortion. However, it also will allow the legislature to regulate access to abortion past the first trimester.
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Want abortion up until birth? Kamala Harris is your candidate
Two years after the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, the fight to protect the unborn rages on.
And there is no bigger threat to life than a Kamala Harris victory this Tuesday.
Even without a Harris victory, this election's state ballot initiatives could advance a similarly radical pro-abortion agenda across the country.
"If we have a Harris presidency, if the Democrats take control of Congress, we know that they're going to pass the [Women's Health Protection Act], which is going to ban states from having pro-life laws," Kelsey Pritchard of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America told Align in an interview Thursday.
More radical than Roe
While the repeal of Roe v. Wade returned decisions on abortion policy to state and local government, the WHPA would prevent states from imposing any restriction or limitation on abortion.
In writing the Roe ruling, the Supreme Court took care to acknowledge the moral issue inherent to abortion, explicitly defining it as a procedure ending "prenatal life." It forbade states to regulate abortion only up until the viability of the fetus, which generally occurs between 24 and 28 weeks.
Tellingly, the WHPA dispenses with any references to human life, employing the euphemisms "abortion services" and "essential health care." Rather than representing a "restoration" of Roe, it is far more radical.
"It's essentially going to allow abortion until birth in every state," Pritchard said.
While the WHPA has previously failed to garner the 61 votes needed to pass in the Senate, Harris has vowed to eliminate the filibuster, lowering the necessary number of votes to a simple majority of 51.
Abortion until birth
Even without a Harris victory, this election's state ballot initiatives could advance a similarly radical pro-abortion agenda across the country, said Pritchard.
New York, Florida, Nevada, and Maryland are among the states asking voters to enshrine abortion in their constitutions this Tuesday. Like the WHPA, these initiatives are open-ended enough that activists could use "lawfare" in order to force taxpayers to fund abortion up to birth.
As an example of this, look no farther than the abortion policy of Harris' running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
Thanks to Walz, said Pritchard, Minnesota has "no limits whatsoever" on abortion. "And that's as extreme as China."
"We are one of only eight countries that allow abortion in all nine months," she continued. "Almost all of Europe has a limit after the first trimester or 15 weeks. But we are out of step with the modern developed world."
Calculated deception
Such radical abortion policy is also out of step with most Americans, 73% of whom oppose abortion after 15 weeks.
Why the discrepancy?
In a memo, SBA Pro-Life America has likened these vaguely worded "reproductive rights" initiatives to "Trojan horses."
"Even when so many of the American people still aren't comfortable with abortion after a certain point, the way the abortion industry has been able to spin the issue has deceived people into going along with their agenda time and time again," Pritchard told Align.
Much of it comes down to who has deeper pockets. With the help of George Soros and other donors, noted Pritchard, the pro-abortion side outspends the pro-life side seven to one. So far, pro-life advocates have failed to win a single ballot measure fight.
Cause for optimism
Still, Pritchard sees cause for optimism this year.
"The good news is that we've got some measures that are in very red states this year, like South Dakota, Nebraska, Florida, and Missouri," said Pritchard.
"Particularly with GOP leaders like [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis, who are standing strong and exposing what these ballot measures will actually do ... we think we have a real shot at winning some of these this year."
Whatever partial victories it seeks today, SBA Pro-Life America's overarching fight is against what it calls the abortion industry's "culture of death," which Pritchard noted "has a hold on all of our major institutions ... higher ed, the mainstream media, Hollywood, and many C-suites."
She singles out journalists in particular for abdicating their traditional role. "The media need to wake up and realize that their job is not to be the abortion industry's PR department."
Fighting the lie
Such powerful backing, continues Pritchard, has allowed "this lie that an unborn child isn't a child but is a clump of cells ... [that] they're not human until they're born" to take root in America.
"This lie has legitimized the taking of more than 60 million lives since Roe [was ratified in 1973]," she said.
While SBA Pro-Life America advocates "compassion" for women dealing with unexpected pregnancies — devoting much of its work to defending pro-life pregnancy centers from Democrat attacks — the group's consistent message is the nonnegotiable "humanity of the unborn child" and the moral wrongness of abortion in any circumstance.
"We will never relent on that point," said Pritchard. "The more [the American people] have to confront that, I think the more people we'll eventually win over."
In the meantime, Pritchard urges pro-life Americans to make their voices heard on Tuesday.
"Life is literally on the ballot and lives are on the line this election," said Pritchard. "We have to show up to vote, and we have to vote our values and vote for life."
The way she sees it, the stakes are higher than any immediate outcome. "Our future generations are really depending upon us."
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