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The head of a Portland family and pregnancy support center said Monday on "Fox & Friends First" the nonprofit was mistakenly targeted and damaged by protesters angry over the Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. Mother and Child Education Center executive director Maura White told hosts Carley Shimkus and Joey Jones that the organization is not "anti-abortion," as protesters believed. "My organization, we are nonprofit, and we help moms, families, kids in need, babies from zero to 5 years old. We're just there to help people. And so they mistakenly thought that we were out here doing anti-abortion...

A fire which occurred at a Christian pregnancy clinic in Colorado is being treated as arson after chilling messages were spray painted onto the walls and ground outside. 'If abortions aren't safe, neither are you,' read one. 'Bans off our bodies' said another by the entrance at the Life Choices clinic in Longmont, northeast of Boulder. The fire broke out in the middle of the night at 3:17am on Saturday morning. Authorities believe the fire was set deliberately. No abortions are carried out at the center which aims to educate women on pregnancy Life Choices describes itself as a 'Christ-centered...

A group of pro-abortion protesters was filmed apparently chanting, “**** Joe Biden” and “**** Glenn Youngkin,” in Richmond, Virginia, Friday evening. The demonstrators gathered to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade. Despite President Joe Biden’s governing agenda being one of the most progressive in the history of the nation — including supporting pro-abortion policies and calling it a “fundamental right” on Friday — left-wing protesters appear to not be satisfied with the president as Roe was overturned during his administration. Watch: None of the Justices who presided...

Executive Summary The January 21, 1998 version of this Special Report has been updated with additional research and analysis. The MRC re-released the revised copy on July 22, 1998. As the 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade fades and the Congress and President engage in another passage-and-veto cycle on partial-birth abortions, the Media Research Center asked: Do the national media report fairly on abortion? In a broad overview of five years of studies, a team of MRC media analysts has documented five ways in which the media tilt the abortion story: 1. One side is presented as ideological, the other...

The Supreme Court on Friday released a historic abortion ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade. Journalists reacted with shock and horror. As we’ve exposed in a NewsBusters study on Thursday, however, the networks and MSNBC REFUSED to say the name of the radical pro-abortion terrorists Jane’s Revenge. Yet this is part of a long pattern by liberal networks to hide the violence against conservatives. The Media Research Center in 1998 re-released an updated study entitled “Roe’s Warriors: The Media’s Pro-Abortion Bias.” Here’s just a few of the examples of violence against pro-lifers that went ignored in the 1990s. Daniel Adam Mahoney...

Rev. Brian Graebe of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City, said the pro-choice demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court draft are "of an entirely different order" than what he’s encountered in the past. Graebe explained on "America’s Newsroom" Monday that his church has a monthly event called The Witness For Life Mass. After the service, most attendees walk down the street to Planned Parenthood and pray the rosary across the street. Graebe said a handful of demonstrators often voice opposition. The demonstration following the leaked Supreme Court draft, however, drew nearly 100 pro-choice activists. Police advised Graebe not...

The office for Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, was allegedly vandalized Saturday night by a man after a leaked draft opinion that shows the Supreme Court may end federal protections for abortion. In a video, an unidentified man is shown ripping the organization's intercom system from the exterior entrance and making inappropriate gestures to the camera multiple times before unzipping his pants to urinate on the door and windows. The video first aired on Tucker Carlson Tonight. In an interview with Fox News Digital, CWA President and CEO Penny Nance said the man...

According to LifeNews, three acts of vandalism against pro-lifers have been reported in just the past two weeks on college campuses in the United States. About two weeks ago, pro-life posters at Wellesley College advertising an event with Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins were vandalized. On one of the posters, pro-abortion individuals drew devil horns and fangs on Hawkins’s photo and wrote: “transphobic, anti-woman pig.” “[A]head of my visit, Wellesley students provided ample evidence that they hate not what we actually believe, but what they think we believe,” Hawkins wrote for Townhall. “Students prepared for my visit...

Police are investigating an assault on a pro-lifer that occurred outside an abortion business in New Mexico on Thursday. Pro-life organization Abortion on Trial shared a video of the assault, which was filmed by a member of the Southwest Coalition for Life. In the video, an abortion facility worker appears to verbally attack and later slap a pro-life advocate outside the Women’s Reproductive Clinic. The facility’s abortionist, Franz Theard, is currently under investigation for abandoning a patient who suffered two concurrent botched abortions under his care. In the video, a worker from Women’s Reproductive Clinic walked over to pro-lifers and...

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....

Rapid-Fire Compilation of Attacks Shows Insanity of Abortion Advocates This video compilation provides an inside look at what Created Equal experiences on a daily basis. We are one of the most active and effective pro-life groups in the country, and the strong desire to silence us is evidence of it. When preborn children are calmly defended through dialogue paired with images of the victims, it incenses abortion supporters. They cannot bare to see the truth, so they lash out in violence. For abortion activists to promote dismembering young humans through abortion is to celebrate violence. Thus, violence is inherent to...

Toronto police say a woman has been arrested and charged after anti-abortion protesters were attacked on video during a protest near Ryerson University earlier this month. Gabriela Skwarko, 23, turned herself in Friday evening. Skwarko has been charged with assault and assault with a weapon. Skwarko is a member of the Ryerson Reproductive Justice Collective, which is an abortion rights advocacy group. The group’s co-founder, Olson Crow, declined to comment about the arrest when asked about it by Global News. Skwarko is also listed as an assistant at Ryerson’s Social Innovation Office on its website.

Police recently named a Canadian university employee a “person of interest” in an assault against a female pro-life advocate that occurred earlier this month. The College Fix reports Gabby Skwarko, an employee and student at Ryerson University in Toronto, is a “person of interest” in the assault on pro-life advocates Katie Somers and Blaise Alleyne with Toronto Against Abortion. Police said they are continuing their investigation. Fox News also reports Skwarko may not contact Alleyne, also a student at Ryerson, or go within 100 meters of him or any pro-life demonstration that he is involved with. The Oct. 1 incident,...

In the first week of Created Equal’s Road Trip for Life tour to more than 40 schools, our team has already faced increased violence toward property and persons. The most shocking from Week One of the trip came at Indiana University (IU, Bloomington), where a student first stole our signs before returning to vandalize and destroy others showing pictures of aborted babies. Perhaps more disturbing than the student’s actions was the failure of IU administration officials on site to intervene. Watch the shocking footage! IU had assigned officials to the site of Created Equal’s outreach. They were present when the...

Toronto police say they are investigating another violent incident captured on video at an anti-abortion rally. Protesters who recorded the video said the incident occurred on Oct. 1 beside Ryerson University. The incident happened a day after Jordan Hunt allegedly kicked an anti-abortion protester on video at a different rally near Keele Street and Bloor Street West. That video went viral and prompted plenty of reaction on social media. In the video near Ryerson University, protesters on both sides can be seen having a discussion about abortion before a person is seen approaching anti-abortion protester Blaise Alleyne and kicking a...

This is not violence,” an angry abortion advocate screams while physically attacking a Created Equal team member. Last week a Columbus, OH resident roughed up one of our outreach team members even before he had an opportunity to dialogue with his intended audience. It seems increasingly common for abortion advocates not only to dissent to our message but also to resort to violence. In defending the violence of abortion, abortion advocates use violence to intimidate preborn defenders. But this call for protectionism isn’t just for abortion advocates or unbelievers anymore, but we now see it cropping up among Christians, especially...

In a newly released clip from Created Equal Films, on May 10, 2016, a Columbus, OH resident roughed up one of our outreach team members even before he had an opportunity to dialogue with his intended audience. Outraged by even the notion of pictures of aborted babies being shown, he went on a tirade. The video shows the abortion advocate assaulting Ian Spencer, Outreach Director, for Created Equal as he prepared his team to discuss abortion with students at Gahanna Lincoln High School in Columbus, OH. While attacking Ian, he refuses to admit what he is doing is violent. video...

Abortion supporters attacks pro-lifers as abortion patient is loaded into an ambulance Bakersfield, CA – Bedlam broke out at the FPA Women’s Health abortion facility in Bakersfield as an ambulance arrived to transport a patient suffering a medical emergency. During the incident two abortion supporters assaulted pro-life activists trying to document the incident, which took place on February 23, 2016. As the ambulance arrived, several clinic workers wearing red scrubs surrounded the ambulance with white sheets to impede those who were trying to photograph the incident. As a woman was being prepared for emergency transport, a man and woman began...

Though often under-reported in the mainstream media, pro-life advocates who protest outside of abortion centers often are targets of harassment and sometimes violence. On Wednesday in Arizona, pro-life protesters were targeted by a man and his two teenage children in a drive-by incident, according to 12 News in Phoenix. Police arrested 34-year-old David Turner after he allegedly had his 14-year-old daughter use a squirt gun to spray tomato juice from his car onto pro-lifers standing outside a Tempe Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, the report states. According to authorities, the father bought a water gun and tomato juice on Wednesday morning...

PORTLAND, Ore. — At least six Christians were attacked with a cleansing agent on Wednesday while preaching the gospel and standing for life outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in Portland, Oregon, but the man who committed with the act was not arrested and was let go without charges. The pro-life outreach was part of the Biblical Church Evangelism Conference hosted by Beaverton Grace Bible Church and organized by its pastor, Chuck O’Neal. As over 20 Christians stood on the public sidewalk to proclaim the word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ through preaching and the holding of...