Ohio Pro-Life Group’s Offices Targeted in Second Attack Since Roe Overturn
A pro-life group in Ohio says it was targeted by pro-abortion vandals last week for the second time since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Right to Life of Northeast Ohio was attacked on July 8 by at least one suspect who was seen on camera throwing rocks at the building, breaking windows, and spray-painting messages like, “If abortion isn’t safe, neither are you,” Fox News reported.
The vandalism could have been the work of the pro-abortion extremist group Jane’s Revenge given that “Jane” was spray-painted on the ground, the pro-life group’s executive director Allie Frazier suggested. Jane’s Revenge has been known to spray-paint similar threatening pro-abortion messages at other pro-life offices. The group announced an “open season” on pro-life pregnancy crisis centers last month and has taken responsibility for several attacks.
“I think it would be easy for a situation like this to be a copycat scenario,” Frazier told Fox News. “But as far as I’m concerned, if any pro-abortion individual decides to take that next step, to take that bad step, and use violence against pro-lifers, that is something that I am going to work hard to protect my staff against.”
The July 8 attack comes after pro-abortion activists targeted Right to Life of Northeast Ohio the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe last month, hanging pro-abortion posters at the office and a coat hanger on a door knob. The activists also rang a Ring security camera and showed a middle finger to the camera, Frazier told Fox News.
As vandals have targeted dozens of pro-life centers since a Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe leaked in May, Frazier said such attacks should be investigated as hate crimes.
“[Pro-abortion vandals] are not afraid of using violence to get what they want. This is absolutely a threat against the peaceful pro-life movement. And we do ask that law enforcement and local, state, and federal leaders continue to lead the way and say, ‘Hey, violence is never okay,’” she told the outlet.
