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Abortion Activists Vandalize Churches After Texas Bans Abortion, Smashing Windows and Slashing Tires Home Posts | Micaiah Bilger | Oct 1, 2021 | 12:43PM | Denver, Colorado

Abortion Activists Vandalize Churches After Texas Bans Abortion, Smashing Windows and Slashing Tires

Home Posts | Micaiah Bilger | Oct 1, 2021 | 12:43PM | Denver, Colorado

Pro-life advocates are being targeted in a string of threats, vandalism and other attacks after Texas enacted its life-saving new heartbeat law in September.

The latest crime occurred early Wednesday morning at a Catholic church in Boulder, Colorado, that had a pro-life display set up on its lawn for Respect Life month, according to the Denver Gazette. It is the second church in Colorado to be vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti in less than a month.

Local news reports and photos show extensive damage to Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church, including smashed stained-glass windows, slashed tires and graffiti on the church maintenance truck, broken crosses, eggs smashed onto walls and spray-paint on signs, church walls, a vehicle and a statue.

Pro-abortion graffiti that reads “Jesus [heart]s abortion,” “hands off my uterus,” “my body my choice” and “no wire hangers ever” was spray-painted on the church walls, vehicles and signs, according to the reports.

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CBS 4 Denver reports vandals also ripped up and broke hundreds of crosses that church members set up on the lawn to remember babies who have been killed in abortions, and spray-painted a bronze statue of Mother Teresa holding a child.

Mark Evevard, the youth director at the church, said this is not the first time the church has been vandalized, but this incident is worse than anything in the past.

“As I drove up, I saw the front signs and I saw the crosses, and as I got closer, I go ‘this is way worse than I had envisioned,’” Evevard told the local news.

He said many people have stopped by to support the church, and he hurts for the people who committed the crime.

“My heart kind of went out for them as far as you’ve gotta be really hurting to do this kind of destruction,” Evevard said.

The church is designated a historic building, so a specialty cleaning crew has to be hired to clean up the damage; there is no estimate on the cost to repair the damage yet, according to CBS 4.

Church leaders said their security cameras did capture images of the vandals.

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it is investigating the crime, and it appears that several people were involved.

Another Catholic church in Louisville, Colorado also was vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti in September.

Threats, vandalism, violence and other incidents targeting pro-lifers have been growing in recent years. Catholic Churches especially have reported an increase in vandalism and other crimes.

LifeNews has been keeping track of these reports. Incidents this year include:

Texas – Young Pro-Life Advocate Assaulted at Houston Pro-Life Event (TFP Student Action)

Ohio – Police Remove Screaming Pro-Abortion Protesters from State Senate Chamber (FOX 55/AP)

Switzerland – Three Pro-Life Organizations Vandalized with Pro-Abortion Graffiti ahead of National Pro-Life March (Evangelical Focus Europe)

Mexico – Radical Feminists Injure 37 People in Violent Pro-Abortion Protest

Texas – Abortion Activist Threatens to Kill Pro-Life Lawmakers who Voted for Texas Abortion Ban

Texas – Pro-Life Leader Gets Death Threat after Planned Parenthood Doxxing

Texas – Texas Right to Life Evacuated due to Bomb Threat, Terrorist Threat

California – Eggs Thrown at Pro-Life Candidate Larry Elder, Staffer Hit in Face (Fox News)

Oregon – Antifa Activist Charged After Assaulting Female Officer Protecting Pro-Life People

Colorado – Vandals Deface Boulder County Catholic Church with Pro-Abortion Graffiti (Washington Times)

Texas – Abortion Activists Spam Pro-Life Group’s Website with Porn (Mic)

New York – Police Arrest Two Abortion Activists for Allegedly Blocking Pro-Life Prayer Rally (National Review)

Connecticut – Pro-Life Billboard in Barkhamsted Vandalized with “Get an Abortion” and Coat Hangers (ProLife Across America)

Poland – Pro-Life Billboard Showing Abortion Victims Gets Vandalized about Once a Week (The Calvert Journal)

Arizona – Students for Life: Planned Parenthood Volunteers Steal Pro-Life Students’ Bags (Students for Life blog)

Oregon – Antifa Tries to Disrupt Pro-Life Prayer Group with Violence outside Planned Parenthood (Citizen Stringer), Andy Ngo (video, video, video)

Oregon – Antifa Terrorists Attack Christians Who Were Praying in a Public Park

Texas – Pro-Life Billboard Removed After One Day Because of Death Threats From Abortion Activists (FaithWire)

Ohio – Campus Police Shut Down Mason City Council Meeting after Abortion Activists Heckle, Try to Silence Pro-Lifers (video)

Wyoming – Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized with “F— the Babies,” Devil Horns

Arkansas – Abortion Activists Desecrate Statue of Jesus, Hang “God Bless Abortions” Banner

Canada – Pro-Life Memorial Broken in Spate of Vandalism Targeting Catholic Churches (Catholic News Agency)

New York – Police Protect Peaceful Pro-Life Advocates after Pro-Abortion Protesters Block Prayer Walk, Abortion Activists Surround, Intimidate Priest Praying the Rosary (National Review)

Maine – Driver Crashes Her Car into Pro-Lifer’s Van After Yelling at Pro-Life Protesters, Flipping Them Off

Northern Ireland – Abortion Activist Assaults Pro-Life Christian Helping Women Outside Abortion Clinic

South Carolina – Antifa Radicals Vandalize Pro-Life Congresswoman Nancy Mace’s Home

Kentucky – Liberal Media Ignores Death Threat against Pro-Life U.S. Sen. Rand Paul

Indiana – Abortion Activist Almost Runs Over Pro-Life Congresswoman Praying Outside Abortion Center

Illinois – Authorities: Fire at Peoria Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Was Intentionally Set (NPR Illinois State University)

Colombia – Moms Slam Abortion Activists who Vandalized Pregnancy Center: My Child’s Life is a Blessing

Texas – Pro-Life Aggies’ Sign Ripped Down, Replaced with Signs Advertising Planned Parenthood (National Right to Life News)

Canada – Church Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized Twice near Vancouver (The B.C. Catholic)

Texas – Conservative Student Group’s Pro-Life Display Vandalized with Pro-Abortion Slogans (KVUE)

Mississippi – Abortion Activists Vandalize Christian Billboard to Promote Abortions

Colombia – Feminists Attack Church to Protest for Abortion, Spray-paint “Rapists” on Church Walls

Mexico – Violent Feminists in Mexico Terrorize Legislators, Threaten Them if They Don’t Vote to Legalize Abortions

Washington, D.C. – Man Threatens to Shoot Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselors (Students for Life)

Argentina – Female Judge Receives Multiple Death Threats after Blocking Pro-Abortion Law (Crux)

Poland – Abortion Activists Arrested during Protest against Ban on Aborting Unborn Babies with Disabilities (The Guardian)

Ohio – Abortion Activists Attack a Church, Disrupt Its Pro-Life Service to Mourn Babies Killed in Abortions

Missouri – Antifa Radicals Attack Pro-Life Senator Josh Hawley’s Home, Threaten His Wife, Newborn Baby

The Women’s March Ignores the Truth That Women Don’t Need Abortion Opinion | Olivia Gans Turner | Oct 1, 2021 | 6:40PM | Washington, DC

The Women’s March Ignores the Truth That Women Don’t Need Abortion

Opinion | Olivia Gans Turner | Oct 1, 2021 | 6:40PM | Washington, DC

This weekend, another so-called Women’s March is scheduled to take place.

It already is proving to get more attention than the hundreds of thousands who come to Washington for the March for Life—an event that has taken place every year since 1974. The “Women’s March” will be loud, angry, and it will be touted as representing the voices of American women who supposedly are demanding that abortion be kept legal under any circumstance and at any time. It will ignore the baby in the womb.

It will also ignore the sad truth that many of those in attendance will very probably have had abortions themselves or assisted others to get them. Abortion has wounded every family in America. It is the reason the shouting is so loud about new pro-life laws passed across America that are now winding their way up to the Supreme Court. The sad reality is that for far too many, the idea that there may come a day when Roe v. Wade falls in the trash can of history—like Dred Scott and Brown v. Board of Education—is terrifying. But one day, injustices will begin to be recognized and remedied, but not without a reckoning for the dreadful damage that has been done.

It has been argued by abortion advocates these past four decades that abortion is a sad but necessary evil. More recently, it has been promoted as “health care” for women and a part of learning to make “mature” decisions for oneself. All part of the cruel mythology that surrounds the tragedy of every abortion.

Every abortion does, in fact, stop the beating heart of a helpless unborn child.

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It also requires that the women who have had abortions spend countless years of their lives expending mental energy rationalizing the decision that they will never forget, that changed who they are forever. Most will remain silent because the secret is their own and is too hard to reflect on. For others, such as this new wave of demonstrating mothers of children lost to the violence and lies, the shouting is an attempt to voice the pain and demand understanding of the why they did it. Abortion was the answer to the “problem” they had. Told that being pregnant was the problem and only offered abortion as the answer, these mourning mothers are still demanding that someone understand them and the fears they still carry from that time in their lives. What often follows is years of rationalization and justification for an act that never solved our problems, but we were told it was the smart thing to do.

Now, generations of women have been raised to believe pregnancy is the problem and abortion is the answer. So, the idea that abortion might be illegal fills so many with dread. They have no idea of how fabulously pro-life pregnancy centers have stepped up to offer better answers. They/we have just continued to drink the Kool-Aid sold by the abortion industry.

When I see these marches, I see decades of pain and injury still bleeding and crying out. Our best response to these dramatic activities is to pray or hold a hopeful thought that these damaged women will encounter help to confront painful hurts and realize that our babies’ deaths did nothing but continue the oppression of women.

It will be frustrating for some pro-life people to see coverage of this March, but I urge everyone to see it from a different angle. Rather than being angry at these hardened hearts and wounded lives, waving angry signs and shouting out their pain, stop and pray or think for a moment of the way the abortion industry has betrayed women as well as their children.

My hope is that more pro-life people come to realize that abortion alters the thinking of those of us who’ve had them. Every mother who has had an abortion has a story, though some sound more distressing to us than others. Poor women who are told the best answer our society has for them is to pay someone to kill their baby in the womb, teenagers who face embarrassed parents who want to believe abortion is easy to forget, a young woman living in this open society that encourages sex with no consequences and unsupportive men who don’t want the responsibility of fatherhood, and mothers told that their baby is the one who will be born with major health problems and they are fed fear about that baby’s life. After we convince ourselves that the abortion is the answer, it hurts too much to face the facts—that our lives remain the same afterwards.

Recently, I read the comments of actress Uma Thurman about the Texas law. It was more painful than angry. My heart broke as every word of her own story unfolded in the article. Pregnant as a young woman by an older man while working abroad, she turned to her parents who decided not to support her to have the baby but instead urged her to abort their grandchild. To this day, she acknowledges the pain she carries from that experience and her loss but her experience sounds like that of a million other women in America who are still trying to make it all make sense—despite the harsh reality that those who were supposed to love or support them pushed them towards abortion, that “doctors” and their staffs lied to them about the pain or future problems, and that abortion was supposed to be easy to forget.

We must change our entire culture if we are ever to stop seeing marches or protests in the streets every time a new pro-life law is passed that saves lives. We must do a better job of addressing the needs that pregnant women can face every day that makes it possible for them to believe that abortions are essential to their survival. A huge thank you, to the entire pro-life pregnancy network all over America, but we need more action in laws, in churches, in medical circles, and in the media. Abortion always has two victims: the mother who has been told the lies of the abortion industry and her unborn baby who dies at the hands of the abortionist. The pro-life movement needs to see both victims and recognize who causes the problem. The abortion industry is the only winner every time an abortion occurs, not the mothers and definitely not their innocent children.

I weep for the generations of women in America who now think that we can’t survive or follow our dreams if we get pregnant unexpectedly. The great open wound that abortion has caused in our society will be on display this weekend. How we respond will determine when the healing can begin.

The words of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in her moving poem, “The Mother” captures what so many women who march and those who mourn all feel:

“Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get.”

LifeNews Note: Olivia Gans Turner is the founder and director of American Victims of Abortion. She had an abortion herself in 1981.

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