Pro-abortion Activists Scapegoat Catholic Church

This past weekend was ugly in America. Protests erupted outside Catholic churches as pro-abortion hordes swarmed their precincts, angered by the leaked draft Dobbs decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Sunday services were drowned out by sloganeering, while those who couldn’t get inside chuntered around with even more extremity. “God killed his son, why can’t I kill mine,” screamed a protester outside a church in New York, as NR’s Kathryn Jean Lopez reported. Another accused Catholics of “2,000-year enslavement of women.” Stained glass was smashed, walls were tarred and graffitied — “F the Church” being the common line — and property was destroyed. Summing it up, one pro-life center with religious connections in Madison, Wis., had scrawled across its wall the ominous message: “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t, either.”

This was not entirely spontaneous. Over the past week, pro-abortion groups have been directing protesters to Catholic churches across the country. They’ve been singled out by the Left for backlash. As the leading group Ruth Sent Us wrote on Twitter: “Whether you’re a ‘Catholic for Choice,’ ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe.” Rise Up 4 Abortion, meanwhile, called for nonstop, weeklong protests at churches — against what it calls “Christian fascism” in the draft Dobbs decision.

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This past weekend was ugly in America. Protests erupted outside Catholic churches as pro-abortion hordes swarmed their precincts, angered by the leaked draft Dobbs decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Sunday services were drowned out by sloganeering, while those who couldn’t get inside chuntered around with even more extremity. “God killed his son, why can’t I kill mine,” screamed a protester outside a church in New York, as NR’s Kathryn Jean Lopez reported. Another accused Catholics of “2,000-year enslavement of women.” Stained glass was smashed, walls were tarred and graffitied — “F the Church” being the common line — and property was destroyed. Summing it up, one pro-life center with religious connections in Madison, Wis., had scrawled across its wall the ominous message: “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t, either.”

This was not entirely spontaneous. Over the past week, pro-abortion groups have been directing protesters to Catholic churches across the country. They’ve been singled out by the Left for backlash. As the leading group Ruth Sent Us wrote on Twitter: “Whether you’re a ‘Catholic for Choice,’ ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe.” Rise Up 4 Abortion, meanwhile, called for nonstop, weeklong protests at churches — against what it calls “Christian fascism” in the draft Dobbs decision.