Category: Violence from pro-choicers

An article talked about the way clinic escorts at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa dehumanize pro-life sidewalk counselors:

“It tells the escorts to tape the name of a pro-lifer to the bottom of their shoes and then sing to themselves “Every step you take, every move you make, I’ll be squishing you.” Susan Gellinger of Planned Parenthood says that “This is a very empowering yet non-confrontational thing to do. You know you’ll be symbolically stepping on that person all day.”

Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa’s The Source, Fall 1992. Quoted in the Prayer & Action Newsletter, September 12, 1992.

From one pro-abortion blogger:

“March for Life, today, outside my building.

Too bad I forgot my Glock 19 at home…

The other option was to simulate a pregnancy and have Joe do a home-made abortion by punching me in the stomach mid-march, although, i get the feeling that would either result in him being arrested or stoned to death.”

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Lauren Metz, 18, was participating in a counter-protest at a pro-choice march. She describes the way she and other pro-lifers were treated.

“As we were screamed at, called names, spit on, sexually harassed, and censored by the covering of our signs, the fact that the march was for complete and total abortion freedom was indisputable. A male feminist…called me a piece of s*** and worse. He got within an inch or so of my face, continuing his harassment, exclaiming that he did not want to talk to me, only to harass me.”

A police officer at an abortion demonstration in Canada said to the author of a book about pro-lifers:

“It’s always the same with these papist bastards. They want to take over the fucking country. Do these pricks think they can run my life?”

Michael W Cuneo Catholics Against the Church: Antiabortion Protests in Toronto, 1969 – 1985 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989) 65

Rachel Burkey, 21, who was with Created Equal at the Women’s March, says:

“At one point a middle-aged woman walked up to one of our female volunteers, and while reaching towards her groin, aggressively and repeatedly said, ‘Can I grab your p***y?’”

The group was displaying pictures of aborted babies to try and show the marchers how violent and brutal abortion is.

Dorothy Cummings McLean “A ‘male feminist called me a piece of s***’: pro-life youth share horror stories from Women’s March” LifeSiteNews Jan 30, 2018

Late term abortionist Dr. George Tiller, who did abortions through all nine months of pregnancy, once hit a pro-life protester with his car. The protester, Mark Geitzen, was hit in the leg. He believes Tiller ran him down on purpose. Geitzen says:

“I was measuring the driveway to insure that pro- lifers were complying with the law during their prayer times when I heard an engine rev. I turned to see Tiller coming right at me. In that moment I couldn’t decide to jump to the right or to the left. I was kind of like a deer caught in the headlights.”

Tiller immediately sped away from the scene

“Abortionist Commits Hit-and-Run Two Days Before Groups Ask For Grand Jury Investigation says Operation Rescue” Christian Wire Service April 6 2006

Abortion clinic counselor Ida Dupont wrote:

“It was really chaotic sometimes. I felt sorry for the women who had to cross that gauntlet before having their abortions.

One woman was so frustrated by the commotion that she unwittingly punched one of the escorts that was there to help her inside the clinic. She just clocked this poor woman because she thought she was an anti-choice protester. It was pretty insane.”

MINDY BOND & RAPHIE FRANK “Ida Dupont, Professor of Criminal Justice, Women’s Advocate” Gothamist December 1, 2004

Those who have participated in sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinics often tell stories of angry and violent clinic escorts. In this case, a patient mistakenly hit an escort. Other sidewalk counselors have been attacked and run over with cars.