WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — A pro-life pregnancy center subjected to threats and vandalism in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s fall just received a $15,496.32 contribution by a conservative credit card company that says it wants to be a positive counterweight in the liberal-dominated corporate world.
In June 2022, shortly after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe, a pro-abortion group called Jane’s Revenge claimed credit for acts of vandalism against churches and pregnancy centers across the country. Among its targets was Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center, whose front door was smeared with red paint representing blood and its exterior was defaced with the message “Jane Says Revenge.”
Several months later, pro-abortion activists crashed the center’s December banquet to scream obscenity-laden taunts and condemnations. Police had to remove disruptors from the event at multiple points; outside, activists from the groups OurRightsDC and ShutDownDC gathered to protest with signs and chants.
This month, however, the center experienced the opposite kind of luck when presented with a generous donation from Coign to “allow them to dedicate more resources to mom and dads navigating unplanned pregnancies,” The Daily Wire reported. Coign cardholders choose a different conservative organization each quarter to receive a portion of its transaction fees.
“While liberals try to literally tear down and desecrate businesses and organizations, conservatives lift them up,” Coign vice president Cassie Smedile said. “Coign is harnessing the power of raw American commerce to not only force corporations to respect conservatives’ views and values but to also be a force for good in the process.”
Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center director Janet Durig spoke about how the pro-abortion attacks on her mission really threatened those the center serves, such as a pregnant 12-year-old abuse survivor.
“Where else would she have gone?” Durig asked. “Where did her mother feel safe to bring her? And so I felt violated for all the people that we’ve helped and we continue to help. And the fact that when the public was hating us and misjudging us they’re also hating a woman who chooses to keep her baby and that makes no sense to me.”
Crisis pregnancy centers have long provided low-income women with a wide variety of services, including ultrasounds, basic medical care, adoption referrals, parenting classes, and children’s supplies that help mitigate the fears and burdens that lead some to choose abortion – which has made them recurring targets of left-wing rage.
Despite labeling itself “pro-choice,” the abortion movement is notoriously hostile to any and all types of alternatives to abortion, from publicity campaigns to malign crisis pregnancy centers as “deceptive,” to attempt to strip medical licenses from pro-life doctors, to violence and threats against pregnancy centers that are less likely to be prosecuted than purported cases of anti-abortion violence.