Global Courant 2023-05-14 21:42:47
The director of a North Carolina crisis pregnancy center that was vandalized last year said city and county leaders have kept quiet about the crime, but noted that local police continue to do their utmost to protect its faith-based organization.
“From the day of the attack to today, I haven’t had anyone (in leadership) call me and say, ‘I’m sorry, we hate that this happened in our town,'” said Kristi Brown, Mountain’s executive director. area. Maternity Services (MAPS) in Asheville, Fox News Digital told .
“Our support after the attack came from several people in the US who saw it on places like Fox News, as well as from local churches and supporters of local ministries,” she said.
MAPS was one of several crisis maternity centers across the country damaged last summer by arson or vandalism claimed by the radical pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge. The group declared “open season” for such pro-life establishments after the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked.
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Graffiti reads, “If abortions aren’t safe, neither are you!” for the destroyed Mountain Area Pregnancy Services facility in Asheville, North Carolina. (Maternity services in the mountains)
Local police said they found broken windows and red paint splatters at the Department’s West Asheville facility, along with an anarchist symbol and graffiti demanding “no forced births.” A red scribbled notice on the sidewalk in front of the entrance read: “If abortions aren’t safe, neither are you!”
Our support after the attack came from several people in the US who saw it on places like Fox News.
Brown said that in the year since the incident, strangers attending her speaking engagements at doctor’s offices and community events have come to her to offer their condolences, but she has yet to hear from Asheville or Buncombe County political leaders.
Neither the Asheville City Council nor the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners have responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment as of press time.
“No Forced Births!” scrawled on the side of the destroyed MAPS building in Asheville, North Carolina. (Maternity services in the mountains)
“I don’t want to say they don’t care, but there was no expression of concern at the time it happened,” she said. “We’re a fairly liberal city, and many of our policies and laws are fairly liberal in nature. We’re sometimes seen as the enemy in this area because of our beliefs, and sometimes people don’t want to go on the record because maybe they like what we do.”
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“Ultimately it wasn’t a concern,” she continued. “No one reached out to even say anything. I wasn’t expecting anything from the city or county other than the deployment of law enforcement; it wasn’t like I was trying to get something I couldn’t get through all that process. But hush, in my opinion speaks volumes.”
Red paint splashed across the broken windows of the Mountain Pregnancy Services facility in Asheville, North Carolina. (Maternity services in the mountains)
Brown said MAPS spent about six months cleaning up their facility and installing more security features, but noted that the investigation into the June attack was technically closed last fall. “Unfortunately, we haven’t had any new threads,” she said, adding that investigators at the scene have collected a sample of blood that could one day lead to an arrest.
MAPS paid the Asheville Police Department to patrol their parking lot 24 hours a day about a month after the attack, but Brown said officers still drop by for free.
“To this day, they come into our parking lot,” she said. “When we see them, we offer them a bottle of water to come in and use the bathroom, whatever.”
Asheville Police Department officers continue to “visit our parking lot,” MAPS Director Kristi Brown told Fox News Digital. (Fox News digital)
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Asheville, which has the only abortion clinic in western North Carolina, is becoming a “destination city” for abortions in the region, especially given the abortion ban in neighboring Tennessee, Brown said. She claimed MAPS’s two branches in Asheville and nearby Waynesville have seen a 16% increase in customers since the same time last year.
Jon Brown is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to jon.brown@fox.com.
