Elderly pro-lifer assaulted while protesting in Arizona
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Flagstaff, Ariz., Sep 21, 2009 / 06:04 pm (CNA).- Pro-life activist Johnny Wallace, 69, was attacked on Friday by two women as he stood holding two signs in front of City Hall in Flagstaff, Arizona.  The women, both 48, yelled profanities at him, attempted to take his signs and wrestled him to the ground.

On the day of the attack, Wallace, who daily protests in front of City Hall, held two text-only signs. According to Operation Rescue, the signs said, “Abortion kills more black Americans in four days than the Klan killed in 150 years,” and the other, “Life begins at conception and ends at Planned Parenthood."

The two women who accosted Wallace were identified as Denise Redsteer and Laura Chapman.  According to Northern Arizona Today, Wallace was knocked to the ground as he attempted to protect his signs from one of the women. The other woman then joined in the struggle.

Wallace was treated for minor injuries after the incident by medics called to the scene.  Redsteer and Chapman were cited and released on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman released a statement on Monday commenting that Wallace was only “exercising his God-given rights as an American citizen when he was brutally assaulted because his attackers disagreed with his beliefs."

“This attack is especially disturbing because the motivation for the attack on Mr. Wallace was the same motivation that caused Harlan Drake to murder Jim Pouillon," Newman added.

Newman said that he believes there is “an increasing attitude that it is okay to hurt pro-life people if one does not agree with them. This disturbing trend must stop.”

"We are thankful that Mr. Wallace was not hurt worse than he was, and pray that the violence against pro-life activists will come to an end," he stated.

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Published by: Elizabeth Semenchuk
North Royalton, OH 09/22/2009 08:05 PM EST
This was assault AND battery, and the women should have been charged accordingly. Allowing this type of criminal behavior makes it much more likely it will happen again. The violence over abortion needs to stop.
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Published by: Gayle Miller
Fredericksburg, VA 09/22/2009 12:57 PM EST
Abortion is the sacred sacrament of the Left and anyone who appears to have it in mind to tamper with that so-called sacrament appears to be inviting scorn and physical assault from people whose regard for the life of the unborn is minimal. They reserve their more positive feelings of concern for the lives of cop killers and terrorists! I have firmly come to believe that we are displaying all the finer instincts of those who inhabited Sodom and Gomorrah!
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Published by: Richard Sullivan
Lillian, AL, USA 09/22/2009 12:00 PM EST
Would you please ask a lawyer the difference between 'assault' and 'battery.' You frequently use the word assault when you mean a battery.
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Published by: Rouxfus
Austin, Texas, USA 09/22/2009 10:41 AM EST
"And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus; and they dismissed them. And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus. And every day they ceased not in the temple, and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus." [Acts of the Apostles, 5:40-42]
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