Arkansas’ Congressmen Sign Letter Demanding DOJ Investigate Domestic Terrorist Attacks Against Pro-Life Organizations

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Arsonists firebombed the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison on Mother’s Day. The pro-abortion domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge later took credit for the attack. Jane’s Revenge has called for an “open season” on pro-life organizations.

On Wednesday Arkansas’ four congressmen joined more than 100 of their colleagues in asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate domestic terror attacks committed against pro-life organizations.

The letter addressed to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says,

We write to express serious concerns over recent attacks targeting religious organizations and crisis pregnancy centers and request the Department of Justice respond with how its National Security Division plans to investigate these acts of domestic terrorism.

Since the draft Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health U.S. Supreme Court opinion was leaked on May 2, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court Justices and pro-life advocates have experienced heightened threats and violence. In the past month, terrorists have targeted numerous pro-life crisis pregnancy centers — two of which culminated in the firebombing and destruction of property by the terrorist group Jane’s Revenge in Buffalo, NY, and Madison, WI. During the Madison attack, the group directly threatened life and spray painted “if abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either” on the building’s façade.

The letter goes on to list examples of recent domestic terror attacks against pro-life organizations, including,

  • June 7, 2022: CompassCare Pregnancy Services firebombed (Buffalo, NY)
  • June 6, 2022: Mountain Area Pregnancy Services vandalized (Asheville, NC)
  • June 3, 2022: Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center vandalized (Washington, DC)
  • May 25, 2022: Four Step Pregnancy Center vandalized (Lynwood, WA)
  • May 22, 2022: Four churches vandalized (Olympia, WA)
  • May 14, 2022: Alpha Pregnancy Center vandalized (Reisterstown, MD)
  • May 10, 2022: Concerned Women for America’s office damaged (Alexandria, VA)
  • May 8 or 9, 2022: First Care Women’s Health is vandalized (Manassas, VA)
  • May 8, 2022: Oregon Right to Life office set on fire (Keizer, OR)
  • May 8, 2022: Wisconsin Family Action office set on fire (Madison, WI)
  • May 7, 2022: The Loreto House Pregnancy Resource Center vandalized (Denton, TX)
  • May 3, 2022: Trotter House vandalized (Austin, TX)
  • May 3, 2022: Care Net Pregnancy Center vandalized (Frederick, MD)
  • May 3, 2022: A Catholic parish is vandalized (Boulder, CO)

Violence against pro-lifers has escalated since the leak of a draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health abortion case indicating that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Antifa Sacramento recently posted a photo and video celebrating the damage to CompassCare pregnancy resource center in Buffalo, NY.

You can see that below.

If the U.S. Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade in the coming days, states will be free to enact their own abortion laws.

Roe v. Wade put unelected judges in charge of abortion legislation in America. Overturning Roe means voters and lawmakers would be free to set their own abortion policies.

In 2019 the Arkansas Legislature passed Act 180 prohibiting abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. The law contains exceptions for abortions performed to save the life of the mother.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has indicated her office will enforce Act 180 of 2019 if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses Roe this summer.

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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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