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Abortion: Violence against pro-life activists goes unreported by the mainstream media | Lynn Vincent

Photo by The Harrisburg Patriot News

On Dec. 22, pro-life clinic counselor Ed Snell, standing on a platform on top of his car, which was parked, with permission, on private property adjacent to a seven-foot fence surrounding the Hillcrest Abortion Center in Harrisburg, Pa., tried to persuade a young woman to keep her baby instead of aborting.

The woman's male companion charged the fence, clambered up and over, landed on Snell's car, and sent the 69-year-old Snell flying backwards. Snell landed on his head and back, fracturing four vertebrae and sustaining a bleeding brain injury that soon had doctors fighting for his life. No major media covered the story.

The attack on Snell was the second in less than four months on a pro-life sidewalk counselor—both of which resulted in criminal charges—and it has pro-life activists raising an interesting question: Had the pro-lifers in both cases been the attackers instead of the victims, would mainstream media have picked up the stories?