Posted on 03/03/2006 5:29:31 PM PST by Coleus
Abortion Ban Supporters Hit by Vandalism
by Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor
South Dakota pro-lifers are targets of eggs and threatening calls.
Pro-abortion activists in South Dakota have apparently begun punishing supporters of an abortion ban. The bill to ban abortion sailed through both houses of the state Legislature last month and is now at the governor's desk awaiting his signature. Leslee Unruh, founder of the Alpha Center, a pregnancy-resource agency, fought hard to get the message to lawmakers that abortion kills innocent babies and hurts women.
She said she and her family have now become targets.
Her house has been splattered with eggs. She's had coat hangers arrive in her mailbox. Someone placed dead animals on the property of her husband's chiropractic clinic, leading some employees to fear coming to work. She's received extremely threatening calls in the middle of the night, a ton of hate mail, and her favorite coffee shop told her not to come back. "They said, 'We have a choice as to who we serve, and we choose not to serve you,' " she said. "They were careful to emphasize the word 'choice.' " Unruh said she knew some people would be upset by the ban, but she's shocked at the level of the anger.
"I am sad for all the people that send the hangers and have all this anger because of being connected to the abortion issue in their own lives," she said. "I'm concerned about my whole country now. I thought you were at least free to say what you thought, but they do not want me to speak. Not only do they want to hush unborn children, they don't want me to talk about it, either." Unruh said her opponents especially don't want to hear how abortion affects women. "It seems to make them the most angry," she said, "when I talk about post-abortive women."
Unruh is trying to make the best of the situation. She said she plans to use the coat hangers to hang up baby clothes at the pregnancy-resource center. Carrie Gordon Earll, director of issue analysis at Focus on the Family Action, said the events in South Dakota are a reminder that taking a stand for life can come at a cost. "The more restrictive the pro-life legislation being considered, the more likely we are to see attacks against those supporting it," she said. "It would be naive on our part to assume that positive movement by lawmakers toward the pro-life position will be greeted with neutrality by abortion advocates."
Earll said as pro-lifers win more battles, they should be ready for a backlash.
"Threatened people sometimes respond in threatening ways," she said. "We would hope that cooler heads would prevail, but, at the same time, pro-lifers should be prepared for extreme responses from the pro-abortion side as some may have no qualms about turning verbal threats into action."
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Amen to that. Also they don't get their way and they turn to violence. It's so typical of who they are.
Leftist violence is on the upswing.
They need to cool their jets -- for those who would sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.
We need FACE laws to protect workers at pro-life groups.
I'm anti-abortion which is to say I'm pro-innocent-life and I am always armed. I hope Ms. Unruh avails herself of the "choice" to arm herself because she is most likely going to find it necessary to defend herself against these lovers of "the barbaric sacrament".
Blessed are you when me shall revile you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my name sake.
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Suffer the little children to come unto me
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Whoever harms one of these children it would be better for him to be thrown in the lake with a millstone around his neck.
If I was this family I'd be right proud and sure of my reward. God's smiling on this woman and her household even if the devil's a wee bit riled up at her.
The Left gets angry when their "right" to murder is threatened. If they lack the morality to see murdering babies as bad, it shouldn't be a shock if they threaten adult humans.
I'm afraid that as us pro-lifers make inroads and progress at saving the unborn this violence problem will escalate.
We won't see the evil one rest - souls are his game and if he can't get the innocent soul he'll settle for more of the adult souls.
There will become "life" states and "pro-death" states...which one will you live in?
I don't just think their violence will escalate. I'm absolutely certain it will happen. Of course, I believe it's not unlikely that they killed off some of their own so-called "doctors" just to cause problems for anti-abortion groups, so I may have a more cynical attitude than most.
Pro-abortionists are killers. They will do it again.
Let's face it most leftists, including the nutty Colorado geography teacher, would have no problem with a government run by Adolph Hitler (if Hitler was politically correct).
Prayer BUMP for Leslee Unruh's safety and the safety of her family and her husband's practice. These people are trying to drive them out of town.
Ah yes, those oh so tolerant liberals.
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These people kill babies. Nothing is below them!
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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)
The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.
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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)
· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing
· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby
· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child
· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)
· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career
· 7.9% of women want no (more) children
· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health
2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health
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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?
Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.
Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.
Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today)
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