Wisconsin pro-life group's HQ was set ablaze, a pro-life pregnancy center defaced and Holy Mass services at Churches were disrupted by Pro-abortion activists on Sunday who followed on a threat to disrupt Holy Masses on Mother’s Day.
In Madison, Wisconsin, the headquarters of a pro-life organization — Wisconsin Family Action — was set ablaze in an apparent arson attack, police said Sunday. No one was hurt. Graffiti left outside the building said, "If abortions aren't safe you aren't either."
"Please keep our friends at Wisconsin Family Action/Wisconsin Family Council in your prayers," Wisconsin Right to Life said in a Facebook post Sunday. "Thankfully, no one was hurt in the attack on their Madison office this morning.
Wisconsin politicians from both parties, including Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, swiftly criticized the vandalism Sunday.
In Denton, Texas, a pro-life pregnancy center called Loreto House was defaced with graffiti that read, "Not a clinic," and "Forced pregnancy is murder."
In a tweet, Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth said, "Please pray for the person who perpetrated this, for their interior healing and moral conversion."
In Los Angeles, the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels was disrupted just before Communion by female protesters dressed in "huge hats" and "red, hooded gowns," parishioner Bradford Adkins, 35, of Los Angeles, told CNA. Adkins said the women were shouting and unfurled a large green banner but were escorted away, allowing the Mass to resume.
The description of the protesters‘ attire provided by the parishioner, Bradford Adkins, resembles costumes worn by members of the pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us, which threatened to disrupt Catholic Masses on Sunday, Mother’s Day.
In New York City on Saturday, pro-abortion demonstrators rallied in front of the entrance to Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in Lower Manhattan. For safety reasons, police at the scene halted plans for a pro-life procession to a nearby Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, as happens at the church on the first Saturday of the month. Protestors chanted “Thank God for abortion.”
The call to protest at Catholic churches came in reaction to last week’s leaked draft opinion suggesting a conservative majority on the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn the landmark abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade.
-AP/CNA/NCR