{"id":210115,"date":"2019-09-06T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=210115"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:54:48","slug":"pro-life-billboard-vandalized-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-billboard-vandalized-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life billboard vandalized in Chicago in latest attack against pro-life message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A pro-life billboard in Chicago was vandalized recently, including with the words &#8220;My Body My Choice&#8221; ironically spraypainted over the face of a newborn.<\/p>\n<p>Eric J. Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League shared a photo of the defaced billboard on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EricScheidlerProLife\/posts\/538564803386312\">Facebook<\/a>, saying that when his organization recently stopped in the city for their &#8220;Face the Truth&#8221; tour they &#8220;were delighted to discover a beautiful pro-life billboard looking down&#8221; on them. However, sometime after their visit, the billboard was vandalized and Mary Hallan FioRito, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, alerted Scheidler to the pro-life attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEricScheidlerProLife%2Fposts%2F538564803386312&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"554\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The vandals crossed out the word &#8220;unborn&#8221; on the portion of the billboard that read &#8220;A baby is a baby! born and unborn,&#8221; spraypainted over the telephone number and altered the sign to read &#8220;Prolife ruins lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the face of the newborn featured on the billboard are the words &#8220;My Body My Choice,&#8221; which begs the question: what about the baby&#8217;s body? What human being would agree to be dismembered just so another human being could go about their life?<\/p>\n<p>This latest vandalism is just one of many recent attacks against the pro-life message. A pro-life pregnancy center in Austin, Texas was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vandals-pregnancy-center-texas\/\">vandalized<\/a> in August with the words &#8220;liars&#8221; and &#8220;fake clinic&#8221; spraypainted on the building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprolifeaction%2Fposts%2F10162277796965008&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"572\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In May, the Right to Life of Michigan Wayne County Educational Resource Center was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/right-life-michigan-building-vandalized\/\">vandalized<\/a> with the words &#8220;hands off&#8221; spray-painted on the front of the building and additional spray paint on the back of the building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-210116\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pro-life-vandalism.png\" alt=\"pro-life vandalism\" width=\"461\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pro-life-vandalism.png 461w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pro-life-vandalism-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attacks against pro-lifers through acts of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/assault-pro-lifer-vandalizes-signs-laughs-police\/\">vandalism<\/a> have also occurred this year at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/disturbing-trend-vandalizing-pro-life-displays\/\">College of New Jersey<\/a> with pro-abortion students removing pro-life signs and dumping coffee on them. At <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-protesters-fetuses-ground\/\">Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville<\/a>, a pro-life display was painted over and a sign was stolen. At a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-protesters-fetuses-ground\/\">University of Texas Austin<\/a> event, Students for Life materials were stolen and thrown in a gutter. Pro-life students at <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vandalism-censorship-pro-life-south-dakota\/\">Augustana University in South Dakota<\/a> faced an act of vandalism when the crosses from their &#8220;Cemetery of the Innocents&#8221; dedicated to the preborn killed by abortion were thrown into the streets and their signs were stolen. And in July, a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-mobile-care-clinic-vandalized-trickery\/\">Human Coalition mobile care clinic<\/a> which offers free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to women was vandalized with the words &#8220;pro lies to women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-fund-abortion-poor-countries\/\"><em>Bernie Sanders: To save planet, America must fund abortion in poor countries<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physical attacks against pro-life individuals are also on the rise. This week a top Google employee was caught on camera allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/google-employee-assaults-prolifers\/\">assaulting<\/a> a pro-life activist. In May, Created Equal released a video showing a pro-abortion student at the University of North Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-student-faces-charges-for-assaulting-peaceful-pro-lifer\/\">assaulting<\/a> one of the pro-life team members. The pro-abortion student kicked and punched him, calling him &#8220;a f***ing terrible person!&#8221; An 82-year-old pro-life activist was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/grand-jury-woman-charge-assault-pro-lifer\/\">pushed<\/a> by a woman leaving an abortion facility in April. The elderly woman was hospitalized with a broken femur and a cut to her head requiring surgery and physical rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-life billboard in Chicago was vandalized recently, including with the words &#8220;My Body My Choice&#8221; ironically spraypainted over the face of a newborn. Eric J. 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