Six Months After Abortion Activist Firebombed Pro-Life Group’s Office, No One Has Been Arrested

State | Micaiah Bilger | Nov 28, 2022 | 11:40AM | Madison, Wisconsin

Leaders of Wisconsin Family Action are beginning to suspect political motivations may be the reason why authorities still have not arrested anyone for firebombing its building more than six months ago.

Julaine Appling, president of the pro-life organization, told the Wisconsin State Journal that they have not received much information from Madison police or the FBI about the investigation in recent months.

“All of this is beginning to look as if, well, because of your position, because you’re pro-life, we’re just not going to push as hard,” Appling told the newspaper. “It may be ongoing, but the degree to where it is being aggressively investigated is at least becoming suspect.”

Her frustration echoes that of numerous other pro-life leaders whose organizations also were hit by arson, vandalism and threats since May. LifeNews has counted at least 10 arson or attempted arson attacks directly targeting pro-lifers and more than 150 other attacks since May when someone leaked a draft of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

On May 8, unknown actors threw a Molotov cocktail and lit a fire at Wisconsin Family Action in Madison. They also vandalized the building with pro-abortion graffiti, including the threat “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.”

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Madison police and the FBI both launched investigations into the politically-targeted violence, but, six months later, no one has been arrested.

Here’s more from the report:

Wisconsin Family Action has had limited updates from Madison police since the arson in May, one of those the denial of a records request and another a phone call from a detective earlier this month, said

Police also took DNA evidence from staff shortly after the attack, Appling said. …

To support her claim of potential political bias against Wisconsin Family Action, Appling cited a July arson at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The assailant was arrested and charged within days.

In response, police spokesperson Hunter Lisko said investigations often take time, and they still are working on the case with federal authorities.

Only about 38 percent of the 40 arsons reported to Madison police from 2019 to 2021 were referred for criminal charges, the newspaper reported.

Pro-life leaders and Republican lawmakers have expressed growing frustration with the FBI for its apparent inaction in the more than 160 attacks on pro-life organizations and churches since May. The agency has not announced any arrests.

Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that most of the abortion-related attacks this year have targeted pro-life organizations. “Since the Dobbs decision, probably in the neighborhood of 70 percent of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against … pro-life organizations,” he told a U.S. Senate committee.

Pro-life advocates have suffered a wave of politically-motivated violence this year in response to Roe v. Wade being overturned. According to The Daily Signal, at least 86 Catholic churches and 74 pro-life organizations have been victims of firebombs, vandalism and other attacks.

Additionally, an elderly pro-life woman was shot while canvassing in September in Michigan, and a California man was hospitalized this fall after being attacked outside a Planned Parenthood.

Many pro-life organizations are increasing security and Republican lawmakers are demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the pro-abortion domestic terrorism. But, while the Biden administration has been aggressively working to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions, it has done seemingly little to stop the violence and hostilities directed at pro-life advocates and churches.

In September, U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Washington, and Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, introduced the Protect Pregnancy Care Centers Act to require the Biden administration to publicly disclose how it is handling the investigation and prosecution of pro-abortion activists who attack pro-life organizations and churches.

Notably, U.S. House Democrats blocked a resolution in July condemning the violence against pro-life organizations and churches.

LifeNews has been keeping track of reports of arson, vandalism, pro-abortion violence and other incidents targeting pro-life advocates since May. They include:

Alaska – St. Andrew Catholic Church in Eagle River Vandalized Twice Since Supreme Court Abortion Leak (Alaska Watchman)

New York – Ulster County Sheriff’s Office Investigates Vandalism of Pro-Life Billboard in Esopus, Third Time This Year (Daily Freeman)

North Carolina – Campbell University Pro-Life Student Leader Receives Violent Threats, Display Vandalized (Campus Reform)

Michigan – Prayer rally to defeat Michigan abortion amendment is victim of ‘pro-choice cyber attack’ (Catholic News Agency)

Kentucky – Numerous Pro-Life Signs Supporting Amendment 2 Vandalized, Stolen at Homes and Churches (WDRB)

North Carolina – Attacker Shoots Up Home of Pro-Life Candidate, Bullet Barely Misses His Children

Washington state – St. Pius X Church Vandalized with Satanic Symbols, Window Smashed (Lynnwood Times)

Idaho – Police Investigating Death Threat, Vandalism of Pro-Life Republican Rep’s Billboard (Idaho State Journal)

USA – National Pro-Life Chalk Day Results in More Campus Vandalism (Campus Reform)

Washington, D.C. – Three Abortion Activists Arrested for Disrupting U.S. Supreme Court

California – Elderly Pro-Lifer Attacked Outside Planned Parenthood (Life Legal Defense Foundation)

Florida – Four Attackers Brutally Assault Marco Rubio Supporter (police report)