The United Nations Foundation is bashing American pro-lifers.
The U.N. has a website section called Reality Check, which includes a blog by Jessica Mason Pieklo praising the re-election of President Obama because now Attorney General Eric Holder can continue to prosecute what the author refers to as violent attacks by pro-lifers.
"Holder has been a consistent target of the radical right as DOJ has turned closer attention to domestic terrorism and hate crimes enforcement," writes Pieklo. "And if this last election cycle showed us anything, it's that anti-choice radicals feel both empowered and threatened, which is a dangerous combination for [abortion] providers and women who need reproductive health care."
Dana Cody, head of the Napa, California-based Life Legal Defense Foundation, says Pieklo's statements are far from reality.
"If she would do her homework instead of pandering to the abortion lobby, she'd find out that Eric Holder's record is dismal," Cody tells OneNewsNow. "For practically everybody that he's prosecuted, the evidence shows that they weren't being violent."
Pieklo cites National Abortion Federation statistics to justify prosecution, but if one goes to that organization's training resource guide, it can be seen that the list of alleged "violent activities" is greatly exaggerated.
"It characterizes things like holding signs and handing out leaflets and participating in boycotts and huge posters -- these are their instances of unlawful violent conduct," Cody explains. "I mean, it's ridiculous."
Cody says that means the government would actually like to see the free speech and civil rights of peaceful pro-lifers suppressed.
In one case in Florida, prosecuted by Holder's Department of Justice, the judge scolded federal prosecutors for taking the case to court in the first place and even awarded the pro-life demonstrator damages. There was a similar case in Denver.
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Source: OneNewsNow.com
