{"id":272140,"date":"2022-07-11T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=272140"},"modified":"2022-07-08T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T02:51:53","slug":"washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/state-experienced-pro-abortion-violence\/\">violence and vandalism sweep the nation<\/a> in the wake of <em>Roe v. Wade&#8217;s<\/em> reversal, there has been little condemnation of these acts from the abortion industry and its defenders. In fact, it is often downplayed, if not outright denied \u2014 but for one Washington Democrat, it wasn&#8217;t ignored. It was celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Washington State Senator Emily Randall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/washington-state-democrat-celebrates-vandalism-of-pro-life-billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a video<\/a> on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0&#8220;Had to pull over on my drive through Gorst when I saw the decorated\/corrected billboard,&#8221; she wrote over a video of herself. &#8220;Abortion is healthcare,&#8221; she wrote in her Instagram caption. &#8220;Fight for your rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJasonRantzShow%2Fvideos%2F3261384277442306%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The billboard had been posted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antichoiceproject.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-Choice Project<\/a>\u00a0and originally read, &#8220;Some choices are wrong&#8230; end abortion!&#8221; next to an image of a preborn baby. Vandals crossed out &#8220;wrong&#8221; and replaced it with &#8220;health care,&#8221; and crossed out &#8220;end abortion&#8221; entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Randall&#8217;s video is concerning not just because she refused to condemn a crime committed in her district, but\u00a0because she outright <em>encouraged<\/em> more criminal activity with her video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/janes-revenge-violence-pro-lifers-terrorism\/\">Expert: Jane\u2019s Revenge violence against pro-lifers should be \u2018viewed through the lens of terrorism\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Constant <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/state-experienced-pro-abortion-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violent attacks<\/a>\u00a0have been committed against the pro-life movement within the last month by pro-abortion activists. These crimes \u2014 directed mainly at pregnancy resource centers and churches \u2014\u00a0have included arson, property damage, fire bombings, anti-Catholic hate crimes, and much more. A common refrain has been the ominous warning from Jane&#8217;s Revenge: \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe then neither are you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Communiques from Jane&#8217;s Revenge have grown increasingly violent and threatening, and have warned that it won&#8217;t just be churches, political offices, and pregnancy centers targeted in the future. \u201cSo far it&#8217;s just been pregnancy crisis centers, but tomorrow it might be your cars, your homes, or even your lives,\u201d the group recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/janes-revenge-violence-pro-lifers-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a>. Other groups, like <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doxxed-scotus-justices-denies-blame-assassination\/\">Ruth Sent Us<\/a>, doxxed pro-life Supreme Court justices by posting their home addresses online; initially, this led to protests outside the justices&#8217; homes. But the threat soon grew much more serious when an armed abortion supporter was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/armed-abortion-supporter-plotting-kill-kavanaugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> following an assassination plot against Justice Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>With her video, Randall encourages this kind of terrorist activity to continue. As a state senator, she is supposed to represent <em>all<\/em> the people in her district, not just the ones who support abortion. And violent, criminal, terrorist activity to intimidate others into changing their political actions or views is never acceptable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As violence and vandalism sweep the nation in the wake of Roe v. Wade&#8217;s reversal, there has been little condemnation of these acts from the abortion industry and its defenders. In fact, it is often downplayed, if not outright denied \u2014 but for one Washington Democrat, it wasn&#8217;t ignored. It was celebrated. Washington State Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":272164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473,11],"tags":[18060,18043,18061,18062,5531,889],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Washington State Senator Emily Randall posted a video on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington State Senator Emily Randall posted a video on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-11T17:46:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-09T02:51:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-Facebook-video-Jason-Rantz.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"754\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\"},\"headline\":\"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-11T17:46:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-09T02:51:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\"},\"wordCount\":426,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Anti-Choice Project\",\"Jason Rantz\",\"pro-life billboard\",\"Senator Emily Randall\",\"vandalism\",\"Washington\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Activism\",\"Newsbreak\",\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\",\"name\":\"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-11T17:46:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-09T02:51:53+00:00\",\"description\":\"Washington State Senator Emily Randall posted a video on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\",\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Cassy Cooke\"},\"description\":\"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard","description":"Washington State Senator Emily Randall posted a video on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard","og_description":"Washington State Senator Emily Randall posted a video on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2022-07-11T17:46:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-07-09T02:51:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1570,"height":754,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-Facebook-video-Jason-Rantz.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cassy Cooke","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cassy Cooke","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/"},"author":{"name":"Cassy Cooke","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392"},"headline":"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard","datePublished":"2022-07-11T17:46:29+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-09T02:51:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/"},"wordCount":426,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Anti-Choice Project","Jason Rantz","pro-life billboard","Senator Emily Randall","vandalism","Washington"],"articleSection":["Activism","Newsbreak","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/","name":"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-07-11T17:46:29+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-09T02:51:53+00:00","description":"Washington State Senator Emily Randall posted a video on Instagram expressing her pleasure about a pro-life billboard that had been vandalized.\u00a0","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-politician-celebrates-vandalism-pro-life-billboard\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Washington politician celebrates vandalism of pro-life billboard"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392","name":"Cassy Cooke","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Cassy Cooke"},"description":"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272165,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272140\/revisions\/272165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}