{"id":317790,"date":"2024-08-26T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=317790"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:07:38","slug":"chicago-pregnancy-center-vandalized-dnc-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chicago-pregnancy-center-vandalized-dnc-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago pregnancy center vandalized as DNC draws to a close"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the topic of abortion took center stage<\/a> at last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, a local pregnancy resource center (PRC) suffered an attack of vandalism similar to the many attacks seen nationwide in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade’s<\/em> reversal.<\/p>\n

Aid for Women, a PRC with multiple locations, was vandalized in the early morning hours of August 23 at its Edgewater neighborhood location in Chicago. Security camera footage captured four vandals in the act. Mary FioRito, a spokeswoman for Aid for Women, told Catholic News Agency<\/a> the vandals splattered red paint and painted the words \u201cfake clinic\u201d and \u201cthe dead babies are in Gaza\u201d on the center\u2019s entrance. The vandals also cemented the facility’s door shut, causing the clinic to have to close, and cancel about a dozen appointments scheduled for Friday. As of Friday afternoon, the doors were still cemented and there was no timeline for reopening.<\/p>\n

The attack happened as the DNC wrapped up its convention, during which multiple speakers<\/a> strongly advocated for abortion<\/a>. Planned Parenthood also set up a mobile facility on the streets outside the gates, offering free vasectomies, emergency contraceptives, and reportedly killing<\/a> multiple preborn children through abortion.<\/p>\n