Pro-life students in the United States were recently subjected to racist and misogynistic insults while they protested a pro-abortion rally in St Paul, Minnesota.
At the pro-abortion “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally in St Paul, pro-life students stood up for the right to life of unborn children in the face of extreme verbal abuse, including racism.
Ellisha Olson, a black community organiser for Campaign for Abortion Free Cities St. Paul, who attended the rally, stated that “a handful of Caucasian girls immediately began to single out, jeer, and scream racist insults at my South-Asian friend Maya and me… Despite both of us being women of colour, we were called ‘white trash’, ‘white supremacists’, and told that we were ‘ugly and useless’…
“Our amazing bodyguards, who were both African American, were also verbally attacked as one Caucasian man yelled at them, ‘Black men don’t matter.’”
She also recalled that none of the other pro-abortion activists condemned the abuse.
Olson, a survivor of sexual abuse, and other pro-life students also received misogynistic slanders from male pro-abortion activists. Olson was also belittled by a woman because she was adopted. “Your mom obviously didn’t think you were worth it”, she was told.
“The circumstances of how you’re conceived don’t determine your worth as a human being”, Olson told her.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “Pro-abortion ideology and its advocates are becoming increasingly hateful and extreme, especially as the US Supreme Court appears to be on the brink of repealing Roe vs Wade.
“What pro-life students in the US and the UK are up against is a violent ideology that pretends to be loving, righteous and right. But when that ideology is threatened, most of all by the truth, we see it for what it really is – an ugly, anti-woman, ultimately life-denying doctrine.
“SPUC commends brave pro-life students who peacefully and lovingly stand their ground against such reckless hate. Love will triumph in the end.”
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