Pro-life pregnancy center in Chicago vandalized hours after DNC

Aid for Women (AFW) helps pregnant women in compliance with the Catholic faith and does not abort babies or refer mothers to get abortions. Leftist activists, including Antifa, have regularly targeted these crisis pregnancy centers. One of AFW's clinics was vandalized in Chicago within hours after the DNC.

Those that vandalized the clinic wrote, “Fake clinic, the dead babies are in Gaza,” on the window as well as blocked off the lock to the door. According to The Washington Examiner, the Party for Socialism and Liberation allied with an anti-pregnancy-center group called Reproductive Transparency Now to protest at AFW’s fundraiser two years ago. Earlier this year, that same group protested in front of the clinic entrance, and news outlets covering the protest included the location’s address.

Last summer, Reproductive Transparency Now held a protest against pro-life clinics and used the slogan “We won’t go back,” which has been adopted by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. The group added, “We will fight back.” It appears someone decided to take the slogan as a physical call to action.

On the issue of abortion, backlash ensued when it was reported that there was a mobile abortion clinic from Planned Parenthood parked near the premises of the event offering free medication abortions as well as free vasectomies.

Since the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that returned the abortion debate back to the states, pro-life clinics have been targeted with protests and vandalism. Some Democratic politicians, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), have voiced their desire for the abolition of pro-life clinics.