Abortion Violence - The Differences Between `Pro-Life' and Pro-Abortion Violence.

The numbers below are a comparison of the list of documented pro-abortion violence (on this Web site) to alleged "pro-life" violence (on the National Abortion Federation Web site).

Figure V-1 Comparison Between Violent and Illegal Activities Committed by Pro-Abortionists and Pro-Lifers
	Documented Crimes by Pro-Aborts (HLI)	Alleged Crimes by Pro-Lifers (NAF)
Deadly and extreme crimes against persons (murder, manslaughter, infanticide, attempted murder and manslaughter, kidnapping, torture, rape, incest, sexual crimes against children, mayhem and malicious wounding [marked `[***]' in the detailed table of pro-abortion violence]):	469	27
Less serious crimes against persons resulting in actual injury (assault, sex crimes, hate crimes, recklessen dangerment, violation of civil rights, medical malpractice, incompetence, and misconduct, botched abortions, extortion and child abuse [**]):	2,326	125
Property crimes (arson, bombing, burglary, vandalism, destruction of property, theft, larceny and butyric acid attacks [*]):	294	1,424

These statistics highlight three vivid contrasts between the pro-life and pro-abortion movements;

(1): Deadly pro-abortion violence has been reported at least since 1965, and is escalating rapidly, with 142 homicides committed in just the last decade (since 1995). 1999 was the bloodiest year, with pro-abortionists murdering 31 people, including 12 pregnant women, two other women, four of their girlfriend's children, and 13 preborn children. Both 2002 and 2003 were close behind, with 28 pro-abortion killings each. In fact, pro-abortionists have averaged more murders per year since 1980 (that's 24 years in a row) than so-called `pro-lifers' have in the history of the entire conflict over abortion..[41] Deadly "pro-life" violence only began when the pro-abortion movement started to choke off peaceful means of protest through Congress and the courts (Michael Griffin committed the first murder by a "pro-lifer" in March 1993, just a couple of weeks after Congress began to selectively crack down on peaceful protest with the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Bill.
(2): "Pro-life" violence is almost always directed at the burning and destruction of abortion mills. In fact, clinic bombers have explicitly testified that they carried out their activities in the middle of the night to avoid hurting anyone. As shown in the comparison above, the vast majority of pro-abortion violence is directed against human beings. This is logical. If a movement can advocate the killing of millions of inconvenient or unwanted preborn people, its members will naturally extend this killing to born people.
(3): As the state-by-state documentation list shows, many instances of pro-abortion assault are extremely cowardly. Pro-abortion men prefer to kick, punch, slap and spit on small children, women and elderly adults. They only attack young adult pro-lifers when they are in mobs. Pro-abortionists always like their victims -- born or preborn -- to be helpless.

Hundreds of Attacks. Abortionists and pro-abortion activists have violently attacked those who oppose them in literally hundreds of incidents. They have attacked pro-lifers with guns, cars, acid, hypodermic syringes, and baseball bats, and other pro-abortionists have applauded and supported these actions.
They have raped, forcibly aborted and killed their patients. They have gleefully tortured and murdered their girlfriends and wives. They have botched third-trimester abortions and callously walked away to leave their victims to die -- and then have tried to justify their actions with whining and empty excuses.
And then, when an abortion mill burns, they loudly demand with one voice that all pro-lifers condemn the violence.
For example, Planned Parenthood distributes a document entitled "10 Things You Can Do To Stop Clinic Violence." Item number 8 reads:

"Demand of anti-choice leaders that they condemn the murders of reproductive health care providers and disavow those who advocate and justify violence, bombing, stalking, and murder. Let them know their statements must be clear and unequivocal."[42]

Pro-lifers must demand that these hypocritical pro-abortionists apologize for and condemn the many acts of murderous violence committed by the members of their movement!
The map and documentation list give you the tools you need to back up this demand with plenty of hard evidence.

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This document was updated on April 5, 2004.