LRPD, Ambulance Respond to Altercation Outside Little Rock Abortion Facility

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At 9:00 AM on Friday, June 10, police and first responders were called as the result of an altercation outside Little Rock Family Planning Services — Arkansas’ only surgical abortion facility.

According to the incident report from the Little Rock Police Department, a clinic escort — one of the volunteers for the abortion facility — made physical contact with an 83-year-old pro-life woman on the public sidewalk.

In response, the pro-lifer struck the clinic escort with an umbrella.

The clinic escort responded by striking the pro-lifer with an umbrella.

The incident report goes on to say that after that, “both subjects [started] swinging their umbrellas at each other.”

The pro-life volunteer suffered a cut on her hand apparently as a result of the altercation. The police report indicates no arrests were made.

Below is surveillance video footage of the fight. In the video, the abortion escort appears to block the pro-life volunteer’s path on the sidewalk before bumping the pro-lifer as she passed.

The surveillance video later shows police and ambulance services arrive at the facility. Documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the ambulance did not transport anyone from the location.

Unfortunately, the altercation is the latest in a growing number of incidents that have occurred outside the surgical abortion facility.

As we have written before, one of the owners of the abortion facility currently faces criminal charges for allegedly trying to strike pro-lifers with her vehicle while they prayed on the public easement outside the facility.

Little Rock police have documented multiple close calls that pro-lifers have had with vehicles at the location.

This spring, pro-abortion volunteers have used increasingly aggressive methods to prevent pro-lifers from communicating with women about options besides abortion.

And in May, LRPD placed a mobile surveillance tower in view of the abortion facility and the pro-life pregnancy resource center next door.

LRPD personnel told Family Council the department placed the tower there to deter criminal behavior in light of “national events involving abortion and in particular this topic being propelled to the spotlight regarding the leaked document from the United State Supreme Court.”

Every day that Little Rock Family Planning Services performs abortions, pro-lifers gather for peaceful prayer and to talk with women about pro-life alternatives to abortion. Multiple unborn children have been saved from abortion because of their ministry.

Some pro-life groups estimate the “no-show” rate for abortion appointments can go to as high as 75% when people pray in front of an abortion facility.

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Advertising Company Asks Court to Dismiss Satanic Temple’s Lawsuit in Arkansas

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Lamar Advertising has asked the federal court for Arkansas’ Western District to dismiss a lawsuit the Satanic Temple filed against the company in February.

The Satanic Temple sued Lamar over a set of pro-abortion billboards that Lamar rejected in 2020.

Lamar’s attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the Western District of Arkansas is not the proper venue for the court case and that the Satanic Temple has not suffered enough damages to warrant the lawsuit.

The rejected billboard designs claimed the Satanic Temple’s “religious abortion ritual averts many state restrictions” on abortion. 

As we have written before, the Satanic Temple is a prominent atheist organization. The group has tried to persuade federal courts to recognize abortion as a religious ritual. So far courts have not done so.

According to court documents, the Satanic Temple wanted to place pro-abortion billboards near pregnancy resource centers in Fayetteville, Springdale, and Little Rock.

Unfortunately, the Satanic Temple has a history of stirring up controversy in Arkansas.

Besides working to place pro-abortion billboards in Arkansas, the group is part of a lawsuit to have the Ten Commandments monument removed from the Arkansas State Capitol Grounds.

In August of 2018 the Satanic Temple held a small protest in front of the State Capitol, and parked a flatbed trailer holding a 7½-foot statue of baphomet — a satanic figure — in front of the Capitol Building.

The Satanic Temple had previously threatened to put the baphomet monument on the capitol grounds itself. However, nothing ever came of the threat, because monuments require legislative approval.

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Abortion Volunteers Prevent Women From Receiving Pro-Life Material Outside Little Rock Facility

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Surveillance video footage seems to show pro-abortion volunteers blocking pro-lifers from sharing information with women outside Little Rock Family Planning Services — Arkansas’ only surgical abortion facility.

The video footage was obtained from the Little Rock Police Department via the state’s Freedom of Information Act.

In one clip from Thursday, June 2, a pro-life volunteer can be seen handing material to a passenger inside a vehicle at the facility.

A few seconds later, the video appears to show a pro-abortion volunteer taking the material away from the passenger before directing the vehicle into the abortion facility’s parking lot.

Family Council staff spoke with a source familiar with the situation who said the material contained information about options besides abortion.

You can watch that video clip below.

In other surveillance video footage from Friday, June 3, 2022, a pro-abortion volunteer can be seen hurrying to direct vehicles past pro-lifers outside the facility before walking back onto the abortion facility’s property.

These efforts appear to be intended to prevent pro-lifers from communicating with women at the abortion facility.

You can see some of those video clips below.

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Arkansas’ informed-consent laws require that women be given all the facts about abortion — including its risks, consequences, and alternatives — and pro-lifers work very hard to let women know that they have options besides abortion.

Unfortunately, these surveillance videos seem to indicate that volunteers for the abortion facility in Little Rock don’t want women to know about those options.

In May, Family Council received video of pro-abortion volunteers using loud music and umbrellas to block pro-lifers from engaging in outreach outside Little Rock Family Planning Services.

Additionally, Little Rock Police have documented multiple incidents outside the surgical abortion facility in over the years, and recently placed a mobile surveillance tower near the facility to deter criminal behavior.

Every day that Little Rock Family Planning Services is open for business, pro-lifers gather for peaceful prayer and to talk with women about pro-life alternatives to abortion. Multiple unborn children have been saved from abortion because of their ministry.

Some pro-life groups estimate the “no-show” rate for abortion appointments can go to as high as 75% when people pray in front of an abortion facility.

The fact that pro-abortion volunteers would want stop pro-lifers from making contact with women at the abortion facility speaks volumes about how effective this pro-life ministry is.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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