Multiple windows appear to have been smashed last month at the offices of Love Life, a Christian anti-abortion ministry based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Daniel Parks, the executive director of Love Life, said in a social media video that his team arrived at the facility on the morning of December 23 and realized that ten of their windows had been broken. He noted that “just around the corner” is located one of the busiest abortion centers in the southeastern United States, which murders between seventy and ninety babies every day.
“The enemy doesn’t like what we’re doing,” Parks commented in the video. “We’re not downcast by this. We’re encouraged. We want to ask you guys to join in praying for these pro-abortion people, that they come to the Lord. They need Jesus just as much as the moms that we minister to, so join us in prayer as we continue to reach out here.”
Brian Ottinger, the director of expansion for Love Life, confirmed to The Sentinel that police have not yet found the apparent vandals. He added that the perpetrators appeared to have destroyed a number of lights and tried to break into a storage unit.
“They used a grinding wheel to bust through a big lock we had on our storage,” he said. “But something or someone must have spooked them as they didn’t touch anything.”
The incident is one of several acts of violence against crisis pregnancy centers and anti-abortion ministry offices in the months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees the right to obtain abortions. One analysis from the Crime Prevention Research Center found there have been more than twenty-two times more attacks on pro-life entities than pro-choice entities since the decision.
Love Life, which mobilizes local churches to engage the issue of abortion in their cities, currently has branches in twelve states. Staff members and volunteers pass out literature and share the gospel outside of abortion centers to persuade mothers away from murdering their babies, as well as network with churches to provide comprehensive support for mothers who choose life.
Love Life has seen nearly 5,400 babies saved over the past eight years through their ministry activities. “Each life can now fulfill their God-given calling, all because of the faithfulness of the church of Jesus Christ,” noted one ministry update shared on social media.
Abortion remains legal in all fifty states even after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Progressive states have further deregulated the lethal procedure, while conservative states more heavily regulate surgical abortion facilities but forbid officials from prosecuting mothers for the murder of their preborn children, even if the mothers willfully choose to order abortion pills without assistance or coercion from any other party. Activists are meanwhile moving to enshrine abortion through ballot measures into state constitutions.
