Ryan Fatica, February 26, 2023
Miami, FL – On May 8, 2022, as the world waited anxiously for the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade to drop, anonymous vandals smashed in the window of the Wisconsin Family Action building in Madison, Wisconsin and set the building ablaze. On the wall of the building, they scrawled the message, “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.”
“This was only a warning,” wrote the attackers in an anonymous communique sent to journalist Robert Evans. “We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days.”
The arson and communique sent shock waves through the country and inspired a coast-to-coast campaign of more than 20 acts of sabotage and vandalism on the infrastructure of the anti-abortion movement — mostly against so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) and churches involved in anti-abortion activism.
