{"id":290348,"date":"2023-05-02T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290348"},"modified":"2023-05-02T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:31:00","slug":"one-year-supreme-court-leak-rage-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/one-year-supreme-court-leak-rage-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"One year ago, a Supreme Court decision leak led to an avalanche of pro-abortion rage and misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was one year ago that POLITICO published<\/a> the leaked draft majority opinion of the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Heath Organization<\/em>. That draft opinion indicated that the court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em>, which had forced legalized abortion upon every state in the nation 49 years earlier. The result of that leak was a fury of hostility and violence unleashed on pro-life organizations and churches around the nation.<\/p>\n

Rise in violence<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a study<\/a> from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), 135 attacks were perpetrated against pro-life groups between May 2022 and September 2022. During that same time period, just six<\/em> attacks were perpetrated against pro-abortion groups, but the media failed to expose this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is that after the Dobbs decision was leaked, there was over 22 times more violence directed against pro-life groups than pro-choice organizations,\u201d the CPRC noted<\/a>. \u201cHowever, if the media is less likely to cover violence [against] pro-life organizations, the 22 times estimate will underestimate the relative violence against these groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pro-abortion violence<\/a> against pro-lifers has always existed<\/a>, but the leaked opinion worked to escalate it.<\/p>\n

Becky Sheetz, CEO of Life First Pregnancy Center in Virginia, went to work on the morning of May 9, 2022, to learn that her center had been vandalized with graffiti that read “Abortion is a right” and “fake clinic.” According to the Washington Examiner<\/a>, there has yet to be an arrest in relation to the crime.<\/p>\n

Janet Durig<\/a> of Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center discovered on the morning of June 3, 2022, that someone had thrown red paint on the front door of her center. Jane’s Revenge, a pro-abortion domestic terrorist group, took credit, but an arrest has yet to be made.<\/p>\n

“All we’re doing is helping someone who wants to have a child, and we also help people who have already had children,” she told the Washington Examiner. “We’re helping them because they need a car seat or they need a bed for their baby to sleep in or they need baby clothes.”<\/p>\n

It turned out that those initial attacks were only the beginning.<\/p>\n

\"Walgreens<\/a><\/p>\n

On June 24, the final decision was handed down from the Supreme Court \u2014 Roe<\/em> had officially been overturned. By November, FBI Director Christopher Wray would testify<\/a> before the Senate Homeland Security Committee that about 70% of abortion-related violence and threats since the fall of Roe<\/em> were perpetrated against pro-life groups by pro-abortion individuals.<\/p>\n

Jane’s Revenge said it planned to make pro-lifers’ lives “a living hell” and announced that the night of June 24 \u2014 the day Roe<\/em> was overturned \u2014 would be a “Night of Rage.” The group wrote:<\/p>\n

We decided to attack a crisis pregnancy center in Glendale, California with spray paint. The phrases written were \u2018Jane was here\u2019, \u2018abort the court,\u2019\u00a0 and \u2018If abortions aren\u2019t safe neither are you\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0All across the country people protested and revolted against this attack on bodily autonomy.<\/em><\/p>\n

The group even threatened bodily harm against those who support life for preborn human beings (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

To all the conservatives, Fox News anchors, judges, cops, Christian extremists, or federal agents reading this:<\/em><\/p>\n

This attack is nothing in comparison to what is in store for you. Some spray paint will be the least of your worries.<\/em><\/p>\n

… We will hunt you down and make your lives a living hell. You started this war but we will win it. So far its just been pregnancy crisis centers, but tomorrow it might be your cars, your homes, or even your lives<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the “Night of Rage,” attacks continued<\/a>.\u00a0CatholicVote, a political advocacy organization, tracked the attacks over the last year and recorded at least\u00a0151 attacks on churches<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a084 on PRCs and other pro-life groups<\/a>\u00a0since the SCOTUS leak.<\/p>\n

Spreading misconceptions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of Roe<\/em>\u00a0meant one thing to abortion businesses \u2014 in many states, their work killing preborn human beings would be illegal and impossible. It meant shutting down abortion facilities and losing money. Immediately, the media began to publish heart-wrenching stories from women who allegedly needed an abortion to survive but were denied it. The problem is that intentionally and directly killing a preborn human being is not standardized care; it is not medically necessary to deliberately kill a human being to protect his mother’s life or health. (Here’s why<\/a>.)<\/p>\n