by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer According to Father Frank Pavone, National Director of the pro-life organization, Priests for Life, law enforcement has been called in to investigate threats made against his life and the lives of other pro-life leaders that they began receiving the morning after the election. The following message appeared on Fr. Pavone’s blog the day after the election: “IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FATHER FRANK PAVONE “I am predicting that there will be more anti-abortion terror because of this election. I AM ALSO PREDICTING THAT THIS TIME IT WILL BE ANSWERED IN KIND BY PRO-CHOICE COUNTERTERRORISTS, who will mount similar terrorist attacks against well-known right-to-lifers. FATHER FRANK will be a natural target for pro-choice counterterrorists. “I therefore advise you, Fr Frank, if you read that there has been another abortion-clinic shooting or bombing, get out of town immediately. Take a vacation abroad. Go visit the Vatican. If there is another act of anti-abortion terror, your life will not be safe in the USA. “Good luck.” Fr. Pavone confirmed that other pro-life leaders received a similar message, and that it has been reported to law enforcement. “Pro-abortion extremists call the pro-life movement ‘violent,’” Fr. Pavone said. “Yet it's the most peaceful movement of social reform in our nation's history. In fact, the most confrontational aspect of our movement, Operation Rescue, brought about over 70,000 arrests from 1987 to 1994, yet not a single one of them was for violent activity.” However, he does acknowledge that in a movement as large as the pro-life movement in the U.S., there will always be someone who embraces violence as a tactic. “The same was true of the civil rights movement and the abolitionist movement,” he said. Because it is largely ignored by the media, the public is virtually unaware of the fact that violence is much more common in the pro-abortion movement than it is in the ranks of pro-lifers. A special website www.prochoiceviolence.com documents 8,519 acts of violence by pro-abortion fanatics against pro-life demonstrators, including incidents of kidnapping women and forcing them to have abortions. “So for the visitor to my blog to send that message just reinforces the truth about the ‘abortion-rights’ fanatics. Violence is their way of life.” © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly/Women of Grace. http://www.womenofgrace.com