{"id":86932,"date":"2016-02-04T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=86932"},"modified":"2016-02-04T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:23:58","slug":"silence-spin-pro-abortion-response-brick-attacks-pro-lifers-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/silence-spin-pro-abortion-response-brick-attacks-pro-lifers-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence and spin: the pro-abortion response to brick attacks on pro-lifers’ homes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the more than two months since Robert Lewis Dear\u2019s killing spree<\/a> at a Colorado Planned Parenthood, the barrage of pro-abortion attempts to connect pro-lifers with the crime was virtually nonstop, and continues to this day\u2014just last week, Media Matters complained<\/a> that our accurately describing abortion \u201ccreates space for anti-choice activists and extremists to justify violence,\u201d while radical mayors are devoting entire panels<\/a> to \u201canti-abortion terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we were to take these as good-faith stands for a more peaceful discourse, then it stands to reason they would have also condemned the recent bricks thrown into the windows of Jill Stanek<\/a> and John Jansen’s<\/a> homes.<\/p>\n

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If overheated pro-life rhetoric has indirect responsibility for the violent actions against abortion providers, then surely the overheated<\/a>, uncivil<\/a> rhetoric<\/a> that pro-choice leaders routinely level against pro-lifers\u2014not just that they think we\u2019re wrong, but that we hate women, want to control women, want to subject women to disease, poverty, and death, and even that we resemble ISIS and the Taliban<\/a>\u2014would be similarly culpable, right? They have the same \u201cobligation to denounce these attacks and clearly say that violence and intimidation in the pursuit of ideology are not acceptable in America,\u201d as Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said of pro-lifers<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

Apparently not. While pro-life leaders uniformly condemned<\/a> Dear\u2019s murders (before Schultz or anyone else asked them to), our counterparts have suddenly lost their voice. No mention of the attack against Stanek (the earlier one, which they\u2019ve had more time to learn about and react to) from Hillary Clinton<\/a> or Bernie Sanders<\/a> (Schultz\u2019s declaration included \u201cthose running for president\u201d). No words of denunciation from the leading activists, NARAL<\/a>, Planned Parenthood<\/a>, Planned Parenthood Action Fund<\/a>, or the National Abortion Federation<\/a>. Not a scrap of coverage, let alone disavowal, from Media Matters<\/a>, Jezebel<\/a>, Slate<\/a>, Salon<\/a>, ThinkProgress<\/a>, Raw Story<\/a>, RH Reality Check<\/a>, Talking Points Memo<\/a>, Care2<\/a>, Cosmopolitan<\/a>, Ms. Magazine<\/a>, xoJane<\/a>, or Vanity Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, pretty much the only pro-abortion acknowledgement of the incidents so far come from internet commenters on the coverage, where there have been a few willing to simply condemn it, but seem to be outweighed by those who\u2019d rather minimize the crime with false equivalencies, outright justify it, or conspiracy-monger that maybe Stanek made the whole thing up. Like here<\/a>:<\/p>\n