In a modern political landscape that has all but deemed civility irrelevant, online abortion advocates have stooped to a new low. A recent report from Life Site News claims that popular pro-life activists Jennifer Christie of Save the One and Laura Klassen of Choice42 have been victims of grotesque online harassment.
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Writing for Life Site, pro-life activist Jonathon Van Maren notes that Christie, who has gained attention for speaking out about her decision to raise a child she conceived after being raped, has been receiving threatening video messages from abortion apologists. The harassment began shortly after a Live Action News video of Christie’s deeply personal testimony went viral earlier this year.
First, someone sent a video depicting a woman being raped to her personal Facebook account. She contacted the police, who told her it was “probably rape porn,” and not a “real” rape. Real or not, the effect it had on Christie was devastating.
“Jennifer flashbacked to her own trauma, threw up, and couldn’t catch her breath—just as the sender of the video intended,” Van Maren writes.
According to Christie, Facebook did nothing, and the abuse continued.
From Life Site (warning: disturbing content):
That was only the start. Rape videos were sent to her two more times through her professional speaker’s page. She was also sent a video of a man cutting off a woman’s breast, followed by flashing strobe lights. Christie has epilepsy—something she has discussed in articles and public speeches. Whoever sent her the video had combined horrifying sexualized violence with an attempt to trigger an epileptic attack. It worked: She had a tonic-clonic seizure as a result.
Christie told Van Maren she was naive not to expect the level of hateful backlash for taking on a subject as contentious as abortion.
“I mean, I’m not condemning anyone,” she said. “I’m not cruel. I’m loving my son. That’s it. I just don’t think that way. Or didn’t. I guess I do now—which is sad.”
In a separate case, Choice42 founder Laura Klassen, who stars in popular pro-life YouTube sketches like “The Magical Birth Canal,” has received threatening messages from the pro-abortion community.
“Men have sent her photos of their genitals online, GIFs of rape porn, and pictures of violent sex acts,” Van Maren writes. “Some of the material she has been sent is too explicit to describe—all for taking a stand on abortion.”
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Klassen and Christie aren’t exceptional cases. As Van Maren notes, these sorts of threats are par for the course in the pro-life world.
When he asked female friends involved in pro-life activism to provide examples of the sort of opposition they face, they told him about the “explicit pictures,” “demeaning messages” and “threats of violent assault” that are all too common for women in their line of work.
“It is an irony that some of the men claiming to be supportive of ‘women’s rights’ respond to the suggestion by pro-life women that killing pre-born children is wrong by sending them degrading, violent sexual imagery in order to suggest that they should be attacked and demeaned for their stance,” Van Maren writes. “It is awful to think that young women defending the weak and the vulnerable and standing up for their own children would be subjected to sexualized attacks.”
(H/T: Life Site News)