LifeNews.com recorded more than 100 reports of assault, vandalism, harassment and other incidents targeting pro-life advocates in 2019.

Our news outlet began tracking these reports after pro-life organizations expressed alarm about an uptick in violence in recent years as they work to protect the rights of unborn babies.

The list identifies 99 separate reports, though several include multiple incidents, such as Prolife Across America’s report of more than a dozen pro-life billboards being vandalized between January and August. That equates to almost 10 incidents each month or about one every four days in 2019.

The reports come from local and national news outlets, as well as evidence documented through videos, photos, police reports and court records. LifeNews received information about additional alleged incidents that it could not confirm.

Confirmed reports include a Students for Life banner being set on fire at Western Washington University, a bomb threat at a 40 Days for Life event in Minnesota, multiple death threats against pro-life leaders, and video evidence of assaults of pro-life advocates.

Perhaps the biggest story that drew national attention came out of Pennsylvania when a state lawmaker filmed himself bullying an older woman and three young teenage girls. State Rep. Brian Sims also offered money publicly online for the identities of the young girls. Sims never was punished for his actions. He still is in office, and he never publicly apologized to the girls.

Pro-life students continuously have been victims of vandalism on college campuses across the U.S. In the 2018-2019 school year, Students for Life of America reported more than 50 pro-life student displays had been vandalized.The list grew even longer in the fall of 2019, and the student organization began an interactive map to keep track of the vandalism.

Kristan Hawkins, president of the organization, told LifeNews that free speech is under attack, especially on college campuses.

“What happens on campuses today moves into broader society tomorrow,” Hawkins said. “Students for Life fights year after year so that student groups can form and student free speech expressing love for both mother and preborn child as well as sharing the message of how abortion harms women can be heard. But it is a fight, and we have to be diligent or our voices will be silenced.”

Despite the growing hostilities, she said it is encouraging to see the pro-life generation standing strong for free speech as well as the rights of the unborn.

It is not just students who are being targeted. Several older pro-life advocates were victims of assault outside abortion facilities this year as they were sidewalk counseling. In April, a 76-year-old Massachusetts woman suffered a concussion and other injuries after a man allegedly shoved her to the ground outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Boston. That same month, another older pro-life woman allegedly was assaulted outside of a Kentucky abortion facility and was hospitalized. In March, a video documented the brutal attack of an older pro-life man outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in San Francisco.

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Meanwhile, pro-life pregnancy centers that support women and babies, churches and billboards also were vandalized – some multiple times – this year.

These reports indicate that the violence of abortion is not just limited to unborn babies. Those who advocate for their lives and rights also are being targeted.

Here is the list: