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ATHENS, Ohio (ChurchMilitant.com) - On September 16, a masked abortion supporter attacked a student club's pro-life display and threatened one of the pro-lifers at Ohio University.

The pro-life activist groups, Bobcats for Life and Created Equal, were having a joint outreach display on campus, displaying pictures and talking to passing students, when a masked man with a club came up and started beating the groups' display. Created Equal has a video showing the man attacking the exhibit with what looks like a nightstick.





After tearing up the display, the camera operator tells him, "Sir, you do not have a right to touch our equipment. Please back away from our equipment."

Another member from the pro-life group approached the masked man to say he has no right to mess up the display. The perpetrator raises his club, appearing to be threatening him if he tried to stop him, and then turned and walked away.

The police were called immediately but the criminal fled and has not been found.

Mark Harrington, national director of Created Equal, said,

Preborn defenders have been experiencing an increase in vandalism and violence at campuses across the country. Unfortunately, this attack could signal a new wave of violence towards pro-life advocates. Hooded and masked thugs behaving violently towards a discriminated minority brings back memories of the KKK; in this case, preborn babies are the object of the hatred. Abortion victims are already dead, so this lawbreaker acted out his hatred on the closest representation of the actual abortion victims themselves: the images of those victims. This seems eerily similar to the treatment these babies get from the abortionist. The only difference is this attacker used a club, not a scalpel or suction machine.

Jacob Hoback, the president of Bobcats for Life, commented, "This is the first thing we've done that's pro-life on campus, and it sets the tone now that we have to be scared or intimidated to express our free speech."

He continued, "Will this type of pro-choice violence continue as we do outreach trying to save children? I am not worried about myself, but I am worried about other group members' safety."

"This isn't the first time that OU students have been harassed because of their conservative values," he added. "I hope OU can work on becoming a more open campus to conservative beliefs."

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