In recent days we have reported on the assault of a pro-life protester (caught on video and followed by arrest) and the vandalization of a pro-life leader’s home.

Here are two more attacks by abortion supporters against pro-lifers to report.

The first occurred June 30 and is in follow-up to my story that pro-life activists planned to distribute flyers outing country singer JoDell Nauert as the owner of three abortion clinics at an Independence Day gig.

This was ironically a charity event for a group supporting handicapped children and adults.

Six pro-lifers paid to enter the event and were in the process of distributing tracts when organizers asked them to leave, which they did.

But one of those pro-lifers, Steve Kinn (above right) is a disabled veteran who walks with a cane due to injuries sustained to both his knees. When he didn’t exit fast enough, the property owner allegedly shoved him, making him fall to the ground and reinjure one of his reconstructed knees to the extent he had to be taken out in an ambulance.

It was of no help that a police officer threatened to arrest Kinn for trespassing both before and after he reached the hospital.

But the officer got a call and suddenly left.

Meanwhile, however, pro-lifers continued to picket outside the Nauert’s event for 90 minutes.

Here’s a great video synopsis, shot and edited by Jay Rogers of the Florida Pro-Life Network…

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In a separate attack, 69-yr-old pro-lifer Everett Stadig was collecting personhood initiative signatures in front of a Denver grocery store on July 1 when he was shoved to the ground by an enraged abortion supporter and fractured his hip. Read details of the story at LifeSiteNews.com.

Supposedly a passerby got the license plate number of the perpetrator, and police took a report, but there has been no word from authorities since.

Nevertheless, Everett is still collecting personhood signatures from his bed, the dear man.

It goes without saying to pro-lifers that a movement grounded on killing babies is inherently violent.

It used to be that they could ignore us. But that is no longer possible.  As the saying goes (attributed to Gandhi but disputed), which describes the phases of nonviolent activism, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

If this is true, the other side is nearing the end of the mocking phase and beginning the fighting phase.  This transition has been ongoing for a few years, as evidenced by the growing intolerance to pro-life displays on college campuses, for one.

Someone recently posted this on Facebook, which I love. Click to enlarge…

As abortion proponents apparently sense defeat at hand, they are beginning to engage in anarchy.

Get ready. As I said, this is only the beginning.

by Hans Johnson

You may remember the post of an MRI of twins in utero. Here is a sequel, of sorts, shown in New Scientist. This one has a new star, shown in the second stage of labor.

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Our Just in Case kit means you have a back-up there when you need it, wherever you happen to be….

If you carry an umbrella in your bag or a spare tyre in your boot no one would suggest you are hoping for rain or planning on a puncture. Having the morning-after-pill to hand is no different. It doesn’t mean you’re planning on taking chances, it means you’re planning on protecting yourself when things don’t go according to plan.

~ British Pregnancy Advisory Service contraception nurse Tracey Forsyth, commenting on a program set to send free morning-after pills by mail to women who request them by phone during the 2012 Olympics in London, as quoted by The Independent, July 3

by Hans Johnson

Financial pressures are causing non-profit hospital mergers. One recent merger in a suburb just north of Philadelphia between  Abington Health and Holy Redeemer Health System will end abortions at Abington Memorial Hospital.

Here is some reaction, as reported by WCAU. What is yours?

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Warning: Vulgarity ahead.

I wrote last week that a Newsweek article favorable to the personhood movement and personhood leaders Keith and Jennifer Mason had “riled abortion proponents.” Little did I know how much.

Someone posted Mason’s home address in a comment to the Newsweek article. Newsweek closed down comments, but it was too late. At 1:30a on June 27, Mason “was in the basement, catching a movie and having a beer, to just chill,” according to a follow-up Newsweek piece, when he heard a loud noise:

“[I] thought one of our kids had fallen down the stairs.” Mason says he ran upstairs from the basement, then “ran through a bunch of glass” and “saw red.” He describes the scene as “surreal – I didn’t know if it was blood on the glass or what. It turned out to be spray paint. There was red paint all over the side of our house. They spray-painted coat-hangers all over my sidewalk and door. We called 911. The police were there within three minutes.”

Mason and his family immediately left their home and are now staying at an undisclosed location. Mason didn’t go public with the attack until July 2, after he had ensured the safety of his family.

Now, according to Mason in an email to me, he has “hired security, been forced to move, and are getting further daily threats.” And not a lot of sympathy. A sample of both in the (now closed) comments section of the follow-up Newsweek post:

Whether this is deemed a terrorist attack or hate crime will be up to the FBI, which is now involved.

I don’t think it’s a hard choice if you’re a woman…. We have to get out there and tell (others) “If you’re a woman, there is no way you can vote Republican.”

~ Actress Eva Longoria at an Obama campaign rally, as quoted by The Denver Post, July 1

[Photo via Denver Post]

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Live Action reports on the temporary injunction that has been issued, keeping Mississippi’s last remaining abortion mill open:
  

  The law requires that abortion doctors be licensed OB/GYN’s with admitting privileges to local hospitals. In Mississippi there is only one abortion clinic, and it did not conform to the law at the time it was passed. But three months after the legislation was passed, the clinic still does not comply with the new requirements.

  The judge granted the injunction to continue abortions without complying with the law while the constitutionality of the law is adjudicated.

• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life has the latest on abortion statistics in the state. The good news: abortion numbers are down 21%. The bad news:
  

  Tax-funded abortions increased to 34.2 percent of all abortions. This is the highest percentage since the 1995 Doe v. Gomez decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court required taxpayers to pay for abortions performed on low-income women. This percentage has increased nearly every year since the court ruling.

• My Drop in the Ocean links to a Washington Post article and photos (see left) of the Catholic Church’s pro-religious liberty Fortnight for Freedom campaign from various locations in the US.
• The Life Training Institute blog discusses Idaho’s fetal pain law and points out that arguments for and against the law “miss the crux of the issue — the humanity and value of the 20-week old fetus, the life of whom was taken because its mother couldn’t afford another child.”
• Secular Pro-Life notes that the merger of secular and Catholic hospitals often results in the cessation of abortions at those hospitals, causing SPL to ask, “What is the difference, if any, between getting social/legal exemptions because of your religious beliefs and getting exemptions because of your personal (but secular) beliefs?”
• Down on the Pharm reports on the vandalism and physical assault suffered by leaders in the Personhood movement since receiving coverage in Newsweek and The Daily Beast. A commenter reportedly posted some of the victims’ home addresses and the attacks followed shortly thereafter:
  

  Pro-lifers assume considerable risk, due to the violent propensities of abortion supporters. However these kinds of attacks are not considered newsworthy to the mainstream media, and therefore must be passed along in the new media.

[Photo via WashPo]

by LauraLoo

Fox News reports Mississippi’s only abortion clinic was open Monday after a federal judge temporarily blocked a law from being enforced that the clinic says could regulate it out of business.

The owner of Jackson Women’s Health Organization said it was “business as usual” and the clinic’s two physicians will continue to see patients and do abortions unless a court orders them to stop.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QvOoId97m4[/youtube]

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