The Associated Press yesterday inappropriately associated pro-life activists with animal rights vandals and arsonists, demonstrating yet again MSM doesn’t have an inkling who we are.
Pro-life picketers do not hide themselves, destroy property, threaten or hurt people, and certainly are not filled with “rage.” On the contrary, we pray. Nor are most animal rights groups violent, although the AP implicates them as well:
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In the hills above the University of CA’s Berkeley campus, 9 protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather.
One scrawled “killer” in chalk on the scientist’s doorstep, while another hurled insults through a bullhorn and announced, “Your neighbor kills animals!” Someone shattered a window.
Borrowing the kind of tactics used by anti-abortion demonstrators, animal rights activists are increasingly taking their rage straight to scientists’ front doors….

Over the past couple of years, more and more researchers who experiment on animals have been harassed and terrorized in their own homes, with weapons that include firebombs, flooding and acid….

Nor do we condone killing. Sheesh:

Accompanying the attacks is increasingly tough talk from activists such as Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front …. In an interview with The AP, he said he is not encouraging anyone to commit murder, but “if you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.”

Here would be the only place we agree, if “preborn baby” were substituted for “animal”:

“An animal has as much of a right to life as we do. To take a life without provocation is immoral, it’s violent, there’s no excuse for it,” said Jacob Black, 23, an organizer of demonstrations at the homes of UC Berkeley researchers. “To name and shame these people as morally bankrupt individuals in our society is key.”

But we’re not about violence, as attributed in the article to animal rights zealots:

[A] protest in the Berkeley hills left a window of the toxicology professor’s home shattered along with the window of a neighbor, who sprayed demonstrators with a garden hose to drive them away….

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Masked protesters converged on [UCLA] scientists’ homes late at night, banging on doors, throwing firecrackers and chanting, “We know where you sleep,” according to court documents.
Threatening calls and e-mails followed. Firebombs were left near homes 3 times; 2 failed to go off, while the third charred a front door. One professor’s home was flooded when a garden hose was shoved through a broken window….
Recently, federal investigators joined a probe into an alleged February assault against the husband of a University of CA, Santa Cruz breast-cancer researcher who experiments on mice. Police said masked activists pounded on the family’s front door during a birthday party for their young daughter, and one threw a punch when the husband tried to force them to leave.
The ALF claimed responsibility for dousing a home… with glass-eating acid and covering it with animal rights slogans. Leventhal estimated the damage at $20,000. At another home, the group claimed responsibility for putting glue in the house’s locks and pouring salt to destroy the front lawn….

prayer 7.jpgOn the contrary, the pro-life movement is the most peaceful social justice movement in American history. Every day there are hundreds of prayer vigils or protests held in every part of the country without incident… unless a pro-abort starts something.
The abortion industry has to some extent waged a successful campaign to malign the pro-life movement as violent. I only mind when pro-lifers worry too much about it and bend too far backwards to try to prove we’re not, or disdain involvement in activism for fear of the label.
[Vandalism photos courtesy of the AP; photo of pro-lifers courtesy of The Madison Catholic Herald]

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