Pro-abortion advocates in multiple states, industry representatives and state officials alike, have conspired to attack pro-life centers that offer help to expecting mothers and their children, mostly an no charge..
They’ve labeled them “deceptive,” they’ve tried to force them to refer for abortion, a move that the Supreme Court cut short when California tried it, and more.
Accompanying those official acts are actual physical acts of violence against many.
Catholic Vote reports the problem is extensive, and includes incidents of arson, firebombing, vandalism, smashed windows, graffiti, signage, gluing locks, keying staff members’ cars and more.
The organization reports the violence has happened “under the umbrella of two domestic terror groups — Jane’s Revenge and Ruth Sent Us.”
“After an attack in Madison, Wisconsin, Jane’s Revenge claimed credit and said they were at ‘war’ with pro-life groups. They demanded ‘the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments’ and said the first attack was ‘only a warning.’ Since then, several attacks have used the words ‘Jane Was Here’ or ‘REVENGE.’”
Of the estimated 96 attacks that have been documented there have been arrests in only a handful.
Such violence has run rampant in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, California, New York, Washington, Texas, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Alaska.
But now one state is finding itself on defense after its organized war against pro-life centers.
Specifically, it is the American Center for Law and Justice that has brought a complaint against the Massachusetts Department of Public Health over its “coordinated campaign to smear and intimidate faith-based pro-life Pregnancy Resource Centers simply because they refuse to provide or refer for abortions.”
The ACLJ said its complaint with Health and Human Services seeks an immediate investigation and a formal finding that the state’s actions “violate federal conscience laws.” And the state agency needs to be required to end its “targeting, public disparagement, and unequal treatment.”
“This case is about more than one clinic in Massachusetts. It reveals a national pattern: government officials weaponizing regulatory power and public messaging to coerce healthcare providers into abandoning their pro-life convictions. Federal law rejects that approach. Congress enacted protections precisely to prevent the very viewpoint discrimination DPH is practicing,” the ACLJ reported.
The case is about the pro-life A Woman’s Concern, d/b/a Your Options Medical Centers (YOM) and its medical director.
The state faces accusations it is violating the Church Amendments, the Weldon Amendment, and the Coats-Snowe Amendment, which protect healthcare entities and providers from discrimination when they decline to participate in abortion on religious or moral grounds.
YOM has been licensed by the state since 1999 and has offered “free, comprehensive pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, options counseling, and material support to women facing unexpected pregnancies – services rooted in its religious belief in the sanctity of human life.”
There’s never been a patient complaint about its work.
The only complaint is from REN, a pro-abortion organization that has partnered with state officials to attack the center.
The health agency claimed in a press release and guidance memo that pro-life centers are “anti-abortion centers” and calls them “deceptive.”
In 2024 the state ran a campaign to steer patients away from the centers, wildly claiming their existence was a “public health crisis.”
The state further claims the centers offer “unethical” services, the ACLJ said.
The fight already was the subject of a lawsuit, which a leftist judge dismissed, and that dispute now is on appeal.
The ACLJ reported, “The harm is real and ongoing. YOM has endured reputational damage and a loss in patients due to the chilling effect of state-sponsored warnings portraying the center as ‘deceptive.’ Further, the medical director’s ability to practice medicine consistent with his faith is under direct threat. Despite the DPH fully clearing Your Options Medical after an investigation that found no violations, the state escalated the case by continuing a probe into the clinic’s medical director through the Board of Registration in Medicine – triggered by the same complaint. Now, two and a half years later, that investigation into the pro-life doctor remains ongoing – simply because he is helping save lives instead of taking them.”
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