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National Right to Life Convention: 40 Years of Roe is 40 Too Many
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/5/11 5:05 PM
Human Life International has revised and updated its ProChoiceViolence.com web site that chronicles violent, illegal and harassing actions by abortion practitioners and abortion supporters.
HLI staffer Dr. Brian Clowes, director of research for the pro-life group and the lead researcher for HLI’s “Pro-Choice Violence” project, says the web site provides extensive research on the surprising amount of violence perpetrated by abortion practitioners and the proponents of “choice,” compared to the relatively few violent crimes committed by “pro-life” advocates.
“If people truly understood how backwards the media narrative is regarding the supposed intolerance and violence of pro-lifers, compared to that of ‘pro-choicers,’ we would be having a very different conversation about abortion in our nation today,” he explained. “Pro-lifers should learn the truth about how peaceful their movement really is, although most know by experience; and by comparison, how many crimes are committed by abortionists and those who defend their ability to destroy innocent human life.”
Clowes hopes the web site changes the national narrative and the stereotype of pro-life advocates as the people who engage in abortion-related violence.
“The point of this project is not to demonize any person who defends the false ‘right’ to choose abortion, it is to set the story straight,” Clowes added. “Countless television shows hold up an archetype of the loud, abusive, or even violent pro-lifer attacking the well-intentioned, heroic abortionist who is supposedly just trying to help women. News reports dwell on the real and sometimes fabricated crimes against abortionists, and routinely refuse to cover real crimes committed by those who either perform abortions or use violence to intimidate pro-lifers.”
Clowes is also quick to not castigate all abortion supporters as people who engage in violence and harassment or illegal activities.
“While most pro-choice activists would not participate in such attacks, the fact that they go ignored by the media actually encourages those whose support for the violence of abortion translates into violence against those who would defend an unborn child’s right to life,” he says.
The web site www.prochoiceviolence.com has several sharable documents, each focusing on a different aspect of the phenomenon of pro-choice violence. It also features a growing collection of videos in which pro-lifers are abused or attacked for their views. Some of the information is graphic in nature because of the severity of the actions.
The main body of the site consists of a state-by-state and city-by-city listing of more than eleven thousand documented incidents of “pro-choice” violence and lawbreaking, from mass murder, rape, arson, cannibalism, kidnapping and maiming to cheating in sports events, animal neglect and cruelty, indecent exposure, child sexual molestation and bank robbery. Each incident is backed up by references so that “pro-choice” people cannot claim the site is mere “anti-choice propaganda.”
Clowes goes on to describe the web site further:
In addition to more than 1,200 pages of descriptions and documentation, the site includes:
This is the largest compendium of “pro-choice” violence ever assembled. Even pro-lifers are astonished when they see hard evidence that “pro choicers” have committed more than 300 murders since Roe v. Wade and an incredible 192 murders just since the year 2000, most of these against women who refuse their demands to have abortions. Add to this the at least 550 fatal botched abortions committed by abortionists, and we can see that the “pro-choice” movement is responsible for more than 850 deaths since Roe v. Wade. In fact, “pro choicers” have averaged more murders per year since 1985 than supposed “pro lifers” have in the history of the entire conflict over abortion.
But, of course, all we hear about in the press is the people killed by allegedly “pro-life” people. Not surprisingly, abortionists, whose entire business is killing, are the most violent members of the “pro-choice” movement. They have murdered their wives, butchered women during abortions and walked away to let them die; some have even committed such hideous crimes as cannibalism and the production of child pornography. This database provides detailed information on the crimes committed by more than 350 abortionists, from Mehrdad Aalai to Theresa Zumwalt.
The site comes with a warning, as it relates often gruesome details of crimes that might not be suitable for young or sensitive readers. It thoroughly investigates and presents many aspects of the abortion mentality that most pro-lifers are not even aware of: