A violent pro-abortion group called “Jane’s Revenge,” which has already claimed responsibility for more than 15 attacks on pro-life centers, threatened more violence in a recent statement, as the Department of Justice and Biden administration remain mostly silent.
Abolition Media posted the group’s statement to Twitter on Tuesday evening, tagging antifa chapters and multiple anarchist groups in a comment.
The group’s threats, Jane’s Revenge says, are “not merely pushing empty words.”
“As we said: we are not one group but many,” the post says. “You have seen us in Madison WI, Ft. Collins CO, Reisertown MA, Olympia WA, Des Moines IA, Lynwood WA, Washington DC, Ashville NC, Buffalo NY, Hollywood FL, Vancouver WA, Frederick MA, Denton TX, Gresham OR, Eugene OR, Portland OR, among others, and we work in countless locations invisibly. You’ve read the communiqués from the various cells, you’ve seen the proliferating messages in graffiti and elsewhere, and you know that we are serious.”
The group went on to promise “increasingly drastic measures” that “may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti” for any anti-abortion group that continues to operate.
“But until you do [close], it’s open season, and we know where your operations are,” the statement continues. “The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat. Through attacking, we find joy, courage, and strip the veneer of impenetrability held by these violent institutions.”
Just this morning, the group claimed responsibility for vandalizing another Minneapolis-based pro-life organization, Minnesota Citizens Concerned For Life, which had already been vandalized a few weeks ago.
“MCCL is the largest anti-abortion organization in so-called Minnesota and responsible for untold amounts of suffering as a result of their anti-science propaganda campaigns, ghoulish legislative attempts at social control and support for hateful bigoted politicians,” the statement says. “So, in a small gesture of defiance and joy, we decided to smash all their windows and leave them a message from our friend Jane.”
A running list compiled by the Family Research Council records over 40 reported attacks on churches and pro-life centers since May 2.
Where are the media? Too busy obsessing over the Jan. 6 committee hearings and publishing articles, I kid you not, on why pro-lifers are dangerous.
A Huffington Post article from Monday briefly mentions Jane’s Revenge but flips the script by arguing that “violence has been an inextricable part” of the pro-life movement.
The Washington Post did publish an excellent piece on Tuesday by Kathleen Parker, who notes that reporting on dozens of attacks has been neglected by most but a few religious news outlets.
“It is a terrible irony that the people who want to protect life must put their own lives at risk,” Parker writes. “Maybe violence is what we should expect when abortion, one of the most-violent acts conceived by humankind, is Ground Zero.”
Where is the Biden administration? Biden released a statement condemning the Wisconsin Family Action office attack in May. Wednesday afternoon, White House assistant press secretary Alexandra LaManna told the Daily Wire, “Violence and destruction of property have no place in our country under any circumstances, and the President denounces this.”
The administration has otherwise been silent. Other priorities appear to be higher. Yesterday, President Joe Biden condemned “the ultra-MAGA agenda attacking families and our freedoms” at the White House Pride Event and signed an executive order addressing “harmful, hateful, and discriminatory” laws targeting LGBT people.
Parker, citing the National Review, points out “that Biden had three opportunities before large audiences to condemn these events.”
Where is the DOJ? Yesterday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, requesting the DOJ “condemn these groups and prosecute the criminal actors who are conspiring and coordinating a violent campaign against pro-life organizations.”
“To date, there has not been a single charge brought against any individual or group despite the countless pro-life centers in America that have been firebombed and vandalized in recent months,” Rubio writes. He has already written two letters on pro-abortion violence.
Over 100 House Republicans also signed a letter calling the DOJ to investigate attacks as domestic terrorism. No statement has been made on if an investigation has started.
The FBI said on Friday that it would protect First Amendment rights to demonstrate at the Supreme Court but would “not tolerate violence, destruction, interference with government functions, or trespassing on government property.”
“We are committed to working closely with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to stop any individuals who intend to commit violence or criminal activity under the guise of carrying out a demonstration,” wrote U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Director Steven M. D’Antuono.
It’s been over a month since the attacks began. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a letter on May 13, requesting actions to be taken after Jane’s Revenge threw Molotov cocktails into the Wisconsin Family Action office.
“I want to reemphasize that your silence on this abhorrent attack against a pro-life organization is deafening and your continued silence could be construed as a tacit endorsement of such attacks against those who hold different or opposing political beliefs from those of this Administration,” Johnson wrote.
By now, something more should have been done. Something more than a couple of vague, generic statements. There have been plenty of opportunities. If Biden can come out strong against the supposedly dangerous right-wing agenda, he can come out strong against real acts of domestic terrorism, with clear and credible threats for continued attacks. Yet the silence remains.
