Category: Violence from pro-choicers

Statement of Reverend Joseph Foreman, president, Missionaries to the Preborn:

“In Milwaukee, we have 49 documented incidents – in other words videotaped footage of police bringing assault and battery charges only to be forced to drop them when the videotaped footage clearly demonstrated either there was no assault at all, or that it was the pro-abortion person who did the assaulting.

By the way, they never bring reverse charges even when the videotape demonstrates it. The police have been documented as lying 49 times. They are not called to account by the courts. This is typical of all the escalating violence type of lies. I am talking now about street activity.”

Opening statements, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, April 1, 1993, serial no. 39 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1994)

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A pro-life activist is suing Planned Parenthood and a Planned Parenthood security guard employed by the abortion facility for wrongful imprisonment, battery, and inflicting emotional distress after he allegedly handcuffed her without cause and detained her for roughly an hour.

The pro-life activist, Dora Montoya, was praying outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on November 26 of this year. She was approached by a woman identified in the lawsuit as Sarah Rival.

Rival, a pro-abortion activist, was demonstrating outside the facility. According to witnesses, Rival approached Montoya while Montoya was praying the rosary on a public sidewalk.

Rival allegedly began to scream and yell at Montoya, who, according to witnesses, responded by raising her rosary and telling Rival she was praying.

Rival then began to yell that Montoya had assaulted her. Later, when questioned by police, Rival would admit that at no time did she feel Montoya intended to harm her. She did, however, claim that Montoya had touched her. Montoya and other pro-lifers present dispute this claim.

Planned Parenthood security guard Ricky Vigil handcuffed Montoya. In the video of the incident, he is seen repeatedly pushing away an 85-year-old man standing next to Montoya, at one point pushing him to the ground.

According to the video, neither Montoya nor the elderly bystander was resisting in any way.

Vigil has a history of threatening pro-lifers. According to pro-lifers who have been outside the facility, he has threatened to pepper spray, handcuff, and assault them in the past. Vigil kept Montoya in handcuffs for roughly an hour before police arrived and told him to release her. No charges were filed by police.

The pro-life organization Abortion on Trial has released both the police report and documentation of the lawsuit.

This is not the first time Abortion on Trial has had to act against a dangerous and abusive security guard. In another incident, a security guard sexually harassed pro-life activists. That guard had a legal history of sexual misconduct.

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In May of this year, an arsonist set a pregnancy resource center on fire. Live Action News covered the story:

“In the early morning hours of May 3, the Women’s Care Center of Peoria, Illinois, part of a national chain of pregnancy care centers based out of South Bend, Indiana, was targeted by an arsonist who set fire to the locked building…

The Women’s Care Center provides free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds to over 500 women in the local community each year, with 13 women served per day, 1,000 ultrasounds performed annually, and 596 babies saved in the last year, according to the center’s website…

While the fire was contained largely to one main room, heat and smoke damage throughout the building rendered the property a total loss, estimated at $250,000.”

The article referred to director of client care Connie McClure:

“McClure told the Post that counselors were already on the phone Monday morning speaking to some of the center’s 500 current clients expecting babies in the coming days and months, promising that their care would continue. “It may look a little different, but we’ve made a promise we will be there to support them.”

Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN “Illinois pregnancy center set ablaze by arsonist, but knows ‘good will come’” Live Action News May 6, 2021

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Kristina is the director of a chain of abortion facilities. After Dr. George Tiller’s murder, other abortion workers urged her to get a gun. In an interview for a pro-abortion book, she said:

“They wanted me to get a gun, but I would probably shoot one of the protesters, and I’d be in jail. So I don’t want to have a gun.”

David S Cohen and Krysten Connon Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Antiabortion Terrorism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 26

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Pro-Abortion activist Meredith Talusan writes:

“We must take to the streets not merely to chant and make ourselves feel better, but to risk and anticipate confrontation.

We should not be afraid to throw a brick if a brick needs to be thrown. There are times when a single instance of violence is a justifiable response to pervasive and encompassing oppression by the state.”

Meredith Talusan “We’ve Always Been Nasty” in Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America (New York: Picador, 2017) 205

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A pro-life student group at SUNY-Buffalo set up a “cemetery of the innocents” — 4,000 wooden crosses symbolizing the number of unborn children aborted in one day.

Pro-choicers stormed the exhibit and kicked the crosses down.

Michelle Goldberg, then a writer for a campus paper, urged readers to “do your part and spit at [the pro-lifers]. Kick them in the head.”

Goldberg now writes for the New York Times.

Rod Dreher “RIGHT-THINKER’S WRONG TO TAKE PAGE FROM THE LEFT” New York Post December 19, 1999

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Shawn Carney wrote that after 40 days for Life got favorable coverage on TV, pro-choice activists in Santa Cruz began harassing the pro-lifers:

“Volunteers were spat upon and had water bottles thrown at them and signs ripped out of their hands. One day a young woman drove by the vigil site, honked her horn to get the volunteers’ attention, and then began a profanity laced tirade. She lifted an expressive finger through her sunroof. As she drove off, the 40 Days for Life volunteers couldn’t help but notice the bumper sticker on her car: “Tolerance.”

Shawn Carney The Beginning of the End of Abortion: 40 Inspiring Stories of God Changing Hearts and Saving Lives (Cappella Books, 2018) Kindle Edition

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Shortly after the local news in Santa Cruz covered the city’s 40 Days for Life campaign, pro-choicers came out in force to harass the demonstrators:

“For the next week, several [pro-choice] protesters showed up in the afternoons wearing ghoul costumes and shouting at prayer volunteers. Throughout the vigil, volunteers were spat upon and had water bottles thrown at them and signs ripped out of their hands.”

Shawn Carney The Beginning of the End of Abortion: 40 Inspiring Stories of God Changing Hearts and Saving Lives (Cappella Books, 2018) Kindle Edition

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