Dozens of pro-life centers have been targeted across the country since a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion signaled Roe V. Wade would be overturned in May, followed by the nation’s highest court ultimately ruling as such in June.
For one pro-life organization in Ohio, it has been targeted twice since last month.
“As pro-lifers, we know that our work might cost us something and that very well could be our physical safety,” the executive director of the Right to Life of Northeast Ohio Allie Frazier told Fox News Digital. “I think that it’s important in moments like this for the pro-life movement to be really clear that we’re not going to be intimidated. We will save babies. We will protect women. And we’re not going to let threats of violence stop us from doing that.”
Offices for the Right to Life of Northeast Ohio were most recently targeted on July 8, Frazier said, when at least one suspect was caught on camera lobbing rocks at the building, breaking windows and spray-painting menacing messages.
“If abortion isn’t safe, neither are you,” the suspect, who was seen wearing a face mask, scrawled on the sidewalk of the offices. The phrase has been spray-painted at similar offices across the country, often by members of pro-abortion extremist group Jane’s Revenge.
Frazier said it’s likely that Jane’s Revenge is behind this attack, noting that among other spray-painted messages, the name “Jane” was written on the ground.
“I think it would be easy for a situation like this to be a copycat scenario. But as far as I’m concerned, if any pro-abortion individual decides to take that next step, to take that bad step, and use violence against pro-lifers, that is something that I am going to work hard to protect my staff against,” she said.
Frazier said that the damage caused by the vandalism was “significant,” but “undoable,” noting that repairs were being made to the broken windows as she spoke to Fox News Digital.
“I know that the intention of this attack was to stop us. It was to stop our peaceful activism. It was to stop the ways that we are impacting women and babies in this community for a positive. And they didn’t even stop that. I was already back to work in my office within a few hours,” she said.
It was the second time the offices were targeted, Frazier said. Activists posted pro-abortion posters at the office on June 24, the day Roe was officially overturned, hung a coat hanger on an office door knob, and rang a Ring security camera before flashing a middle finger to the camera, according to Frazier.
She said that the attacks pro-life centers have recently faced should “100%” be investigated as hate crimes.
This is an excerpt from Fox News.
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