Introduction. We can't deny that some so-called `pro-lifers' have committed murder, have bombed and burned abortion mills, and are guilty of physical assault. This behavior is inexcusable but inevitable when you consider the vast size of the pro-life movement. With more than a million active members, there is absolutely no practical way to screen out every person with violent thoughts or inclinations.
Yet history shows us that the pro-life movement is by far the most peaceful social movement in the history of the world. Every other social movement is guilty of far greater death and destruction, including the civil rights movement, the unionization movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the `gay rights' movement, and, of course, the pro-abortion movement.

Violence by the Homosexuals. Anyone who has dealt with homosexual activists knows that they are extremely violent and uncontrolled by nature. The Bible correctly labels them "vicious men, great sinners against Yahweh" (Genesis 13:13). Homosexual activists routinely use violence and threats of violence to accomplish their objectives. Even the `birth' of the modern `gay-rights' movement happened during a riot.
Some of these incidents of violence are described below.

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Homosexuals and pro-abortionists belonging to the groups ACT-UP and WHAM (Women's Health Action Mobilization) stormed New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral on December 10, 1989, assaulting parishioners, disrupting Cardinal John O'Connor's Mass by screaming and shoving people, and desecrating the consecrated Host by throwing It on the ground and stamping on It. Outside, hundreds of screaming homosexuals burned Cardinal O'Connor in effigy and attacked passersby, all because the Cardinal had refused to toe their immoral "safe sex" line. Some of the placards the homosexuals carried displayed slogans such as; "MARY SHOULD HAVE HAD AN ABORTION; "CHRIST WAS A HOMOSEXUAL;" and "DEATH TO THE CHURCH!" After the invasion of St. Patrick's cathedral, ACT-UP issued a press statement saying that its cause is "... important enough [to allow us] to invade any space, to disrupt any speech."[46] In December of 1990, in defiance of a court order resulting from the attack one year earlier, homosexuals broke into the Mass once again and made off with consecrated Hosts, which they gleefully displayed outside.[47]
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In 1989 and 1990, homosexuals waged a continuing war of vandalism and outright destruction against Catholic churches in Los Angeles. Homosexual attackers calling themselves "Greater Religious Responsibility" claimed responsibility for vicious attacks against Cardinal Roger Mahony, calling him a "murderer" for opposing their "safe sex" programs and for labeling the use of condoms "immoral." They attacked the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Los Angeles, desecrating it with bloody-red hand prints and pornographic photographs of perverted sex acts plastered on the windows. ACT-UP posters were pasted everywhere. At St. Catherine's, they nailed a ten-foot cross festooned with plastic penises and used condoms to the church door. They smeared the chancery with animal blood and entrails that appeared to be the products of Satanic sacrifices.[48]
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Dr. Chuck McIlhenny was pastor of San Francisco's First Orthodox Presbyterian Church for many years. In 1989, he exercised his Constitutional rights of free speech and assembly and helped engineer the defeat of a domestic partnership law that would have forced the public to accept homosexual immorality by compelling everyone to treat two homosexuals as a family. Anyone who did not willingly comply would be heavily fined or jailed. As one of the city's few politically active pastors, McIlhenny and his family became the focus of intense and vicious homosexual hate. For three years, they received thousands of threatening and harassing phone calls 24 hours a day, and many callers swore to sodomize and kill the McIlhenny's three young daughters. McIlhenny's home and church were firebombed. The arsons culminated in their home being firebombed while they were sleeping inside. In 1990, homosexual groups repeatedly vandalized the church and home with graffiti like "Dykes for Choice," and attacked the crisis pregnancy center housed in the church. Cowardly, skulking homosexuals broke the church's windows so many times the parishioners boarded them up permanently.[49]
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When California Governor Pete Wilson vetoed the "gay rights" legislation sent to his desk in 1991, hundreds of screaming homosexuals rioted and overpowered police. They grabbed wooden police barriers and used them to smash the heavy plate glass in several office buildings, and then used the broken glass like Frisbees, pitching them at the knees of police. At least one policeman had his kneecaps shattered by this technique. The rioting homosexuals set fire to one building, causing $250,000 in damages. In keeping with a policy of greater police department "sensitivity" towards "gays," there were no arrests.[50]
Homosexual activists have become so bold that they know that they can get away with just about anything. Even the secular press reports on their vows of violence, but this reporting has little effect. The average person couldn't care less about homosexual violence until it is directed at him - and, even then, he may be afraid to react for fear of being labeled a "homophobe."
Some homosexual threats of violence are shown below.

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"I can, in the privacy of my own skull, douse [Senator] Helms with a bucket of gasoline and set his putrid ass on fire or throw [Congressman] William Dannemeyer off the Empire State Building ... [Cardinal John O'Connor] is the world's most active liar about condoms and safer-sex ... This fat cannibal from that house of walking swastikas up on Fifth Avenue should lose his church tax-exempt status and pay retroactive taxes from the last couple centuries. Shut down our clinics and we will shut down your church" -- Homosexual activist David Wojnarowicz.[51]
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"It's hard to refrain from taking this man [Pat Buchanan] by the throat and squeezing as hard as you can while you look into his ugly, disgusting face and watch the eyeballs burst and pop out of their sockets. Or maybe you feel like stepping on his face and squishing his demented brain until the rot oozes out of it and onto the pavement. I have no problem with imagining violence against this wacko ..." -- Michelangelo Signorile, editor-at-large of the homosexual magazine Outweek.[52]
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"... I think the time for violence has now arrived. I don't personally think I'm the guy with the guts to do it, but I'd like to see an AIDS terrorist army, like the Irgun which led to the state of Israel" -- Homosexual playwright Larry Kramer, founder of ACT-UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power).[53]
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"I think we should blow up Gracie Mansion [the New York governor's residence] ... One of my favorite notions is that we make fake blood and throw bottles of it in public places, and shout, "This is AIDS blood!" Let them think that it is. We have to scare people. We have to make their lives uncomfortable. I think we should be tying up whole cities. We should cripple this country. We should throw bombs. We should set fires. We should stop traffic. We should surround the White House" -- Larry Kramer.[54]
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"We should have shut down the subway and burned down city hall. I think rioting is a valid tactic and should be tried ... If someone took out [killed] Jesse Helms or William Dannemeyer of California, I would be the first to stand up and applaud" -- ACT-UP member Michael Petrelis.[55]
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"If [AIDS] research money is not forthcoming at a certain level by a certain date, all gay males should give blood. Whatever action is required to get national attention is valid. If that includes blood terrorism, so be it" -- Homosexual activist Robert Schwab.[56]
Animal Rights and Environmental Activists. Perhaps the closest parallel to the pro-life movement is the animal rights/environmental movement, in that both fight for the rights of other beings instead of for their own rights. Yet even activists in the animal/earth rights movements not only resort to violence much more frequently than pro-lifers, they maintain Web sites boasting about the damage they cause.
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) maintains a Web site that lists more than a thousand violent "actions" it has taken, along with its sister organization, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), during the time period 1984-1999 and 2001.
The groups boast of more than 100 acts of arson. Total damages caused by ALF/ELF arsons, window-smashing, tire-slashing, and paintbombing, in addition to all their other actions, total in excess of $65 million as of 2001.
The arsons claimed by the ALF/ELF include many that dwarf those committed by any `pro-life' arsonist:

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arson of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, which burned down on May 21, 2001, inflicting $5.6 million in damages;
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arson of the Coulston Foundation's White Sands Research Center building ($1 million in damages);
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burning down the offices of United Feeds in Greenbush, Wisconsin, on August 8, 1999 ($1.5 million in damages);
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total destruction of five buildings and four ski lifts in Vail, Colorado on October 18, 1998 ($14 million in damages);
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total destruction of the main offices and four trucks owned by the Agricultural Fur Breeders Co-Op in Sandy, Utah, on March 11, 1997 ($1 million in damages);
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arson of the Alaskan Fur Company in Bloomington, Minnesota on November 12, 1996, causing $2.25 million in damage;
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destruction of the University of California at Davis animal diagnostics laboratory and twenty vehicles on April 6, 1987, causing $5.1 million in damage and destroying years of critical research that would have benefitted many people;
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the June 2, 1987 firebombing of Hallmark Furs in St. Louis, Missouri, causing $1 million in damages;
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the April 3, 1989 "action" at the University of Arizona in Tucson, during which ALF activists smashed medical equipment, spray-painted graffiti like "Nazi" and "Scum," and stole or released 1,231 animals. The raiders then torched two of the research buildings, causing $200,000 in damage. One of the 15 projects halted involved research on creating an effective disinfectant for Cryptosporidium-contaminated water that would save thousands of lives in developing countries. The ALF `commandos' also unwittingly released 30 mice infected with the Cryptosporidium virus, an incurable strain of diarrhea that is invariably fatal to AIDS patients and malnourished children.[57]
The Animal/Earth Liberation Front has also engaged in other extreme violence that includes attempted mass murder. In October 1996, the ELF attempted to burn the Detroit Ranger District office while it was occupied by a number of people.[57]
In September 1984, several California vivisectors receive letters postmarked Lehigh Valley, PA stating that they are on an "A.L.F. Hit List." There was no interest shown by the government or by the media, but a "wanted" poster put out by pro-lifers is subject to a $107 million judgment. These extreme animal-rights and environmental groups also routinely use death and bomb threats to attain their goals.
The widespread violence in the animal/earth rights movement is not confined to the ALF and the ELF.
Several other major radical environmental organizations endorse and employ `ecotage' to disable and destroy land-clearing and logging equipment. Such vandalism has caused tens of millions of dollars worth of damage.
Earth First! has even published books entitled Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching and How to Sink Whalers, Driftnetters, and Other Environmentally Destructive Ships.[58] Environmentalist groups defend the publishing of such volumes under the banner of free speech. Now try to imagine the uproar the same people would raise if a pro-lifer published a book entitled How to Trash Abortion Clinics!
One of the favorite tricks of the `ecoteurs' involves `spiking' trees by hammering railroad spikes randomly into trees `threatened' with cutting. When a logger hits one of these spikes with his chain saw, the saw will `kick back' and frequently endanger his life. If the tree is felled and transported to a lumber mill without incident, the large, high-speed bandsaw blades used to cut the logs will explode into shrapnel if they encounter a spike. This tactic has severely injured several mill workers, including one whose carotid artery was severed.
Environmentalist terrorist Rodney Coronado served time in prison for his eco-terrorist activities. He proudly boasts about his bombings (research laboratories and offices dealing with animal research), vandalism (smashing and spray painting fur dealerships), theft ("releasing" animals from farms), sabotage (sinking whaling ships), and attempts to kill human beings by spiking trees. Despite such a violent legacy, environmental journals such as the Earth First! Journal, No Compromise, and Live Wild or Die have hailed Coronado as a hero.[59]
We must ask an obvious question: Why doesn't anyone demand that the leadership of the Sierra Club or the organizers of Earth Day apologize every time a major arson or other violent action is carried out by radical environmentalists or animal-rights activists?

Violence By Anti-Apartheid Activists. One of the most politically correct social movements of all time is the anti-apartheid movement. Its goals were noble, but it seemed to be insulated against all criticism, even when its leaders resorted to a widespread campaign of torture and murder to achieve their goals.
Members of the [South] African National Congress (ANC), also known as the South African Communist Party, murdered hundreds of people during its campaign, most of whom were innocent bystanders. Nelson and Winnie Mandela endorsed this violence, and applauded the use of `necklaces' to keep opponents, critics and dissenters in line.
This hideous practice consisted of hacking a victim's arms off, placing a car tire around his neck, dousing him with gasoline, and setting him on fire. Between March 1 and June 5 of 1986 alone, a period of only 14 weeks, the ANC and its friends necklaced and burned to death 172 Blacks they saw as not cooperating with them enthusiastically enough.[60]
Winnie Mandela boasted in 1986 that "Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country."[61] She also alleged that Moscow was the "torchbearer for all our hopes."[62] Many pro-abortionists, including the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, officially proclaimed their support of Winnie Mandela, despite her grisly record.[60]
During his 1962 trial for terrorism, Nelson Mandela stated that "We Communist Party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history ... The Communist movement still faces powerful enemies which must be completely crushed and wiped out from the face of the earth before a Communist world can be realized ... The people of South Africa, led by the SACP [South African Communist Party], will destroy capitalism and build in its place socialism."[63]
To those familiar with Mandela's long record of violence, the spectacle of the American press slobbering over the convicted terrorist during his stay in the United States was deeply sickening -- but came as no surprise. Tom Brokaw of NBC called him "a kind of philosopher-king;" to Carole Simpson of ABC, he was "an almost God-like father figure;" and Garry Smith of CBS referred to "the Second Coming" when Mandela hit the beaches. Time Magazine featured him on its cover under the banner "AN AMERICAN HERO."
At the climax of his visit, Mandela shared his New York City celebrity's podium with the three Puerto Rican nationalists who burst into the House of Representatives in 1954 and sprayed the chambers with bullets. Mandela had also invited the gunman who tried to assassinate President Harry S Truman in 1950, but the would-be assassin couldn't make it to the event.[64]
Even anti-apartheid clergymen preach extreme violence. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has said; "I am a Socialist. I hate Capitalism ... One young man with a stone in his hand can achieve far more than I can with a dozen sermons ... the only way to overthrow the government is with force ... Imagine what would happen if only 30 percent of domestic servants would poison their employer's food ... Is it not surprising that Black resistance has not yet blown up a school bus with White children? They are the softest targets!"[65]

Violence By the Communists. American Communists denounce as the worst kind of terrorists people who bomb a deserted abortion clinic, and have even called them "agents of genocide," a strange charge considering that Black women abort more than two and a half times more frequently than White women.
Naturally, they conveniently ignore the glaring fact that the greatest genocides in history have all been committed by Communists, who have, by conservative estimate, killed more than 100 million individuals in undeclared wars on their own people -- Mao (50 million), Pol Pot (12 million), Lenin (6 million), Stalin (25 million), and uncounted millions of others whose names we will never know.
American Communists love to chant "No forced birth control, no forced sterilization of poor women!" Yet they fully support the population control program in Communist China, which includes widespread forced contraception, forced sterilization, and forced abortion.
In fact, the only countries in the world that force women to have abortions and force them to be sterilized are Communist. The only countries in the world that have unleashed the dreaded "Uterus Police" are Communist. And, of course, the only countries in the world that can force women to have babies for the good of the almighty State have had Communist governments (one example is the situation in Romania before the dictator Caucesescu was overthrown in 1989).
Not only have American Communists not learned their lesson, they continue to support the violent and murderous Communist regimes that still exist.
For example, the Communist Party of Peru -- the Sendero Luminoso, or "Shining Path," has fielded death squads that have slaughtered thousands of innocent villagers. Sendero believes that the Khmer Rouge were on the right track as they slaughtered millions of Cambodians in their drive to "create a more perfect society." They rail against public elections, labeling them "parliamentary cretinism," and consider themselves to be the only fit rulers of the nation.[66]
One of the Sendero's most pitiful victims was Maria Elena Moyano Delgado (known as Madre Coraje, or "Mother Courage"), who had worked among the poor for years in Villa el Salvador, one of the shantytowns surrounding Lima. She was conducting a children's fundraiser on February 15, 1992, when a Shining Path death squad broke into the building. In front of a hundred screaming children, they shot her in the back, and then destroyed her body via their usual method; by stuffing dynamite sticks into the mouth, anus, and vagina, and then blowing up the corpse, scattering blood and body organs all over the children.[67]
Not a word of protest against this horror was uttered by any Leftist publication in the United States. The only reporting on Delgado's death was done in America's conservative and religious press.
In another incident of extreme violence, Shining Path terrorists were imprisoned in a maximum-security facility, where they rioted. Troops and guards put down the violent uprising, killing many of the terrorists in the process. American Communist organizations, who have ardently supported the Maoists all along, immediately condemned this attack. In fact, they commemorate an earlier murderous uprising of the Maoists as the "Day of Heroism."[68]
Presumably the Communists also believe that it is "heroism" to slaughter helpless children and unresisting women and priests.
After the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, was captured, American Communists went ballistic. They created an "international committee" to free the mass murderer, and open letters were splashed on full-page ads on the major American Communist propaganda newspapers.
One example was the full-page demand on the back page of the January 31, 1993 Revolutionary Worker ("Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA"). The obligatory slogan-filled tirade was signed by more than a hundred radicals, including former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark; the "Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru," from (where else?) Berkeley; Jan Kirsch, board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer William Kunstler, and, inevitably, everyone's favorite baldheaded female trash artist, Sinead O'Connor.
This is entirely typical. The Shining Path can slaughter thousands of innocent unarmed people, and there is silence on behalf of the victims; but when an abortionist is killed, American Communists devote entire issues of their trashy magazines to condemning the entire pro-life movement.

Violence By the Unions. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) keeps a detailed Violent Event Data File, which includes media reporting on incidents of union violence.
The NILRR has compiled more than 10,000 documented incidents of union violence committed since 1975. This includes at least 203 murders, 5,869 incidents of personal injury, and 6,435 incidents of vandalism and other property damage amounting to tens of millions of dollars of damage.[69]
Union organizers routinely employ coercion, assault, and murder to enforce their will. During Teamster strikes and other actions such as those carried out against Pittston and Hormel, pro-union snipers routinely kill and wound opponents and innocent bystanders. When truckers strike, union members often stand on overpasses and shoot at any truck they suspect is driven by a `scab.' A person bold enough to disagree with the unions and exercise his `free choice' to cross picket lines in many cases risks his life for the privilege of working for a living.
Columnist Jack Anderson also tied mobsters and unions to abortion clinics when he stated that "A Federal grand jury testified that some mobsters have used fraud, extortion, arson, assault, and other strong-arm tactics against [abortion] Medicaid practitioners in order to collect kickbacks and for protection against competition."[70] Anderson said that some abortion mills had been paying several thousand dollars per month under threats of mob reprisal.
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