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Women will now have more time to abort their children, and everyone will finally have a say in how and when they die.Women will now have more time to abort their children, and everyone will finally have a say in how and when they die.Justice for elderly pro-lifer beaten to a pulp outside Planned Parenthood takes brutal turn
On May 26, 2023, pro-life advocates Mark Crosby, then 73 years old, and Dick Schaefer, then 84 years old, were praying, holding pro-life signs, and offering pro-life materials to people entering a Baltimore Planned Parenthood, Catholic Review said.
Outside the abortion facility, a male by the name of Patrick Brice reportedly was arguing with Schaefer about abortion.
'I was shocked.'
Brice — a decades-younger male whom Crosby estimates stands well over 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds — then is seen on surveillance video actually charging at Schaefer and tackling the 84-year-old backward into a large flower pot.
According to WBAL-TV, a witness said Schaefer was out cold "for several minutes."
As you might expect, Crosby — dressed in a blue and white "pro-life" T-shirt — comes over to help his friend.
But Brice is in Crosby's path.
And Brice easily knocks the 73-year-old down to the sidewalk.
One might be inclined to assume Brice by this point would make his exit — but alas, no. Instead he proceeds to pulverize his next victim.
First he punches Crosby in the head.
Then Brice rears back his right foot and kicks Crosby in the face before finally walking away.
It should be noted that YouTube age-restricted the Baltimore Police video of the attack on Schaefer and Crosby, so you can only view it there.
Here's a local video report, though.
Local pro-life advocate John Roswell told LifeSiteNews at the time of the attack 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" as a result of the brutal beatdown.
Crosby told Blaze News that he was blind in his right eye "for nine days" after the attack, that he spent three days at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, that he was "spitting blood," and that a piece of his iris is missing.
He also told Blaze News he still experiences foreign body sensation, which is a "feeling that something's in your eye and you can't get it out. But I can live with that. Babies are being murdered. I give it up for them."
A few weeks after the attack, police released surveillance images of the culprit. However, for the next year, nothing but crickets.
Brice arrested
Police finally arrested Brice on July 1, 2024, and he 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. He was released on his own recognizance, Catholic Review said.
The criminal trial for Brice took place in early February 2025 in Baltimore Circuit Court. The Baltimore Banner reported that Brice, 28, exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and did not testify.
But Brice's attorney — Assistant Public Defender Matthew Connell — argued that his client didn't intend to cause serious physical injury, which is needed to support a conviction for first-degree assault, the Banner said.
Connell also called Schaefer and Crosby “old white men” who say “the most vile things” to women and see themselves as “religious martyrs," Catholic Review reported.
“Somebody snapped on them,” Connell argued, according to the Banner.
The attacker's attorney added that his client “didn’t mean to hurt them that bad" and “made a mistake," the Banner reported.
Crosby told Blaze News that video of Brice's beatdown of him and Schaefer was shown in court and that one juror was "crying," while "others were looking away" from the violence onscreen.
Assistant State’s Attorney Ashley Sudberry in her opening remarks called Brice's attack “brazen, callous, barbaric behavior," Catholic Review said. She concluded that "Mr. Brice is a grown man. He’s not a child. He knew what he was doing," the Banner said.
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Hung jury on most serious charge for attack on Crosby
The jury deliberated for about two hours and convicted Brice on two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment for his attacks on Schaefer and Crosby, the Banner said.
However, jurors acquitted Brice on one count of first-degree assault against Schaefer, the paper said.
As for the first-degree assault charge against Brice for attacking Crosby — knocking him to the ground, punching him in his head, and kicking him in his face while he was on his back on the sidewalk — the Banner said the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Crosby was then left waiting for justice.
Attorney Terrell Roberts — retained by the Thomas More Society to assist Crosby amid deliberations — told Blaze News that Brice's misdemeanor convictions for second-degree assault and reckless endangerment don't include jail time in sentencing guidelines. The Banner also reported that Brice had no previous criminal record.
Roberts told Blaze News that while Brice's attack on Crosby was a "pretty egregious act," there's a "good chance" a judge might not sentence Brice to any jail time.
But soon there was some good news for Crosby. The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office in March said it would retry Brice on the first-degree assault charge, the Baltimore Banner reported.
Roberts told Blaze News that part of getting a first-degree assault conviction on Brice — which could result in a jail sentence of 25 years — would be showing how badly impaired Crosby's vision became after his attack. Roberts said the damage to Crosby's right eye — specifically the iris — is "permanent" and Crosby suffers from "extreme photosensitivity," meaning that he essentially has the use of only one eye, which is a "serious disability."
He also told Blaze News that the prosecution would be able to present other documentation, such as the CT scan of Crosby's head, which showed that the "floor of the orbital bone was fractured so badly" that fat actually was seeping through it.
"We have to win this," Crosby told Blaze News in the aftermath of the new trial announcement, adding that he believes Brice has "got to go to jail, or the pro-aborts will think they can get away with this."
New trial, old story
Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant — who presided over February's jury trial for Brice — also presided over Wednesday's retrial of Brice's first-degree assault charge, the Baltimore Banner reported.
At the conclusion of the bench trial — there was no jury this time — Bryant acquitted Brice of first-degree assault, the Banner said.
Her reason? The paper said the judge concluded that it was all about Crosby's intent. Does video of the attack show him rushing over to help his friend? Or does it show 73-year-old Crosby running over to fight Brice — a bigger, taller 20-something who just knocked Schaefer out cold?
The Banner said Bryant agreed that Brice's attack against Crosby was unjustified — but disagreed with the prosecution's contention that it was unprovoked.
Gavel down. Case closed. Brice is scheduled for an Aug. 7 sentencing, the paper said, adding that he’s free on his own recognizance. Roberts noted to Blaze News that Brice's acquittal means he can't be tried again on the same charge.
'This decision is one for the ages'
A flabbergasted Roberts in the aftermath of Bryant's decision told Blaze News that "this decision is one for the ages," adding that it was a "miscarriage of justice."
"I was shocked," he noted to Blaze News.
"The judge misapplied Maryland law," Roberts added to Blaze News. "She regarded Crosby's conduct as a provocation which lessened Brice's culpability. But it's clear from the evidence that Crosby's conduct was not a legal provocation. Crosby had a right to come and aid his friend, who had just been knocked unconscious. That cannot in any way legally be a provocation."
He added to Blaze News that it was the "most ridiculous decision I've seen in a long while."
"How can you claim a 73-year-old man provoked a man who just knocked out an 84-year-old man? It's legally absurd," Roberts remarked to Blaze News, adding that "any judge would have to find him guilty based on the video."
The Banner also reported that the judge read portions of Crosby's medical records in court, saying that he ignored directives from nurses and other hospital staff. In the end, Bryant deemed Crosby's testimony unreliable, the paper added.
Roberts told Blaze News he found it odd that Bryant focused so much of her attention on Crosby's interactions with nurses and hospital staff, as recorded in his medical records, instead of "what really mattered" in those records — namely, the severity of his injuries due to Brice's actions.
What's more, Crosby told Blaze News that Bryant stated in court that he could have "gone around Brice to help Dick Schaefer" rather than taking a path directly to his friend to give him aid. "So she's blaming me. ... I'm the bad guy."
A frustrated Crosby added to Blaze News that "now the pro-abort movement will know this, and violence will continue against us."
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MASSIVE WIN: Planned Parenthood takes major hit to abortion 'care'
The Supreme Court has ruled that South Carolina has the power to block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood clinics — and liberals have once again taken an opportunity to fire off pro-abortion messages as if their lives depend on it.
“I’m happy to have a conversation, a back-and-forth, a civil discussion about the merit of the pro-life argument, but when the other side is literally screaming, screaming, literally screaming, and having an epic meltdown over less babies being killed in the womb,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments, “we’re past reason.”
The case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centered on whether low-income Medicaid patients can sue under Section 1983 in order to choose their own qualified health care provider.
South Carolina had blocked Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which the organization argued violated a federal law. However, in a 6-3 decision, the Court did not side with Planned Parenthood — and now all states can block Medicaid from funding Planned Parenthood clinics.
While federal law already prevented Medicaid from funding abortions, Planned Parenthood had a loophole.
“Planned Parenthood will tell you they just offer health care, they’re just here for women’s reproductive health, it’s all health care,” Gonzales says.
“And so, the way that this defunds Planned Parenthood, this law, is that Planned Parenthood receives 33% to 43% of its total revenue, that’s $2.03 billion dollars, from the government each year,” she explains, “Medicaid reimbursements account for about 75% of that funding. So if you do the math, that’s like $600 [or] $700 mil.”
“But about 50% of Planned Parenthood’s patient visits are covered by Medicaid. That’s 5 million annual visits,” she continues, noting that the left is now acting as if their access to health care has been cut.
“There are federally qualified health centers that are nationwide. There’s, I think, like, 1,300 centers that serve 13 million-plus patients. You’ve got county and city public health clinics that accept Medicaid, and I mean, they do all this while not killing babies,” she says, adding, “It’s almost like the left’s argument on killing babies is entirely disingenuous and evil.”
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Former first lady Michelle Obama appealed to pro-abortion Americans by claiming a woman's reproductive system is not primarily intended for bearing children.
On her podcast, "IMO," Mrs. Obama and her guests discussed an alleged bias against women among lawmakers and the pharmaceutical industry, leading to a discussion in support of abortion on demand.
'So many men have no idea about what women go through. Right? We haven't been researched. We haven't been considered.'
Co-host Craig Robinson kicked off the festivities by asking guest Dr. Sharon Malone, an ob-gyn, where women should go to get "proper information" regarding reproductive care, in vitro fertilization, menopause, and more. This related to Obama, as she suffered a miscarriage in the late 1990s and later used IVF to conceive her daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Without answering the question, the doctor immediately shifted to accusing the pharmaceutical industry of not advancing products for women out of bias, "because there's no money to be made" there.
This set Obama off on a tangent about abortions, during which she claimed a lack of investment has led to difficult decisions for pregnant women.
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"So many men have no idea about what women go through. Right? We haven't been researched," Obama claimed.
"We haven't been considered, and it still affects the way a lot of male lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice, as if it's just about the fetus, the baby. But women's reproductive health is about our life."
The explanation fell short of a compelling argument, however, with Obama saying that producing children is actually the "least" important function of a woman's reproductive system.
"It's about this whole complicated reproductive system that does — the least of what it does is produce life. It's a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that's producing it — if you wanna, you know, whittle us down to a machine — is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way."
She added, "But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two."
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Blaze News spoke to Emily Erin Davis, VP of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, who said hearing Obama's comments was "heartbreaking."
"It's sad to see someone who once represented our country speak about women and children this way," Davis said. "Comments like these don't just devalue motherhood — they devalue womanhood itself."
Similarly, Blaze News' Rebeka Zeljko described Obama's remarks as "absurd" and "damaging to women."
"Many women regard motherhood as their greatest, most fulfilling accomplishment. The only people who 'whittle us down to a machine' are those who dehumanize unborn children and equate an abortion with taking a Tylenol."
After Obama's obscure explanation about women's bodies, Dr. Malone asserted that a woman must "have control over her body, when and if to have a baby, and to decide how that pregnancy should continue."
The doctor insisted she was not referring to abortion, however, and said she was referring only to a miscarriage or when the mother's life is in danger.
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