The abortion activist group “Ruth Sent Us”—named for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the abortion champion replaced by Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court—previously doxxed the pro-life Supreme Court justices by publishing their home addresses on the social media platform TikTok. It is fair to point out that if the roles had been reversed and the attempted assassin had been anti-abortion and the targeted justice had been, say, Elena Kagan, that there would not be a front page in the country—or, for that matter, the Western world—that would not be screaming the news.
I’ve noted before that while the mainstream media bends over backwards to paint the pro-life movement as a threat, the precise reverse is actually true: Violence against those expressing pro-life views in public is common. Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, for example, has explicitly said that she does not oppose violence against pro-lifers on moral grounds, only for tactical reasons. Violence against peaceful pro-life activists is routinely ignored despite the fact that it happens with shocking regularity—a single instance of this behavior against an abortion supporter would immediately result in breaking news coverage and an insistence that these actions are characteristic of the entire pro-life movement.
We should be taking the threats of groups like Jane’s Revenge very seriously. When radical abortion activists engage in violence they are being consistent with their worldview. A fundamental premise of the pro-abortion view is that inconvenient human beings can be met with violence. Millions of pre-born children have been cruelly killed in the womb; now that some states may soon be able to enact protections for them, the blood-fuelled rage of revolutionaries who have already embraced the idea that some killing is permissible may decide to expand their roster of permissible targets. If an innocent, vulnerable child in the womb at nine months can be killed, why not a Supreme Court justice? Or pro-lifers who lobby for protections for the pre-born?
I fear that the firebombers of Jane’s Revenge are asking themselves precisely those questions.