Oregon governor proclaims ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day’
On Monday, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek proclaimed March 10th Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.
“Here in Oregon, we understand that abortion is health care, and providers are appreciated and can continue to provide care without interference and intimidation,” Governor Kotek said in a statement. “To our providers and to the patients who live in Oregon or have been forced to retreat to our state for care, know that I continue to have your back.”
While Kotek was dragged online for celebrating feticide, she found support from the Left. Confection giant Ben & Jerry’s issued a lengthy statement celebrating “heroic abortion providers” and attacking pro-life views as “white supremacy.”
“Black women are three times more likely to die during pregnancy than white women, and are more likely to seek an abortion. Threatening people of color’s right to reproductive care through legal and physical intimidation is white supremacy in action. And it has to stop,” the company said, even though all 50 states allow abortion to save the mother’s life.
Abortion Provider Appreciation Day was first introduced in 1996 to try to paint people who commit abortion as victims, particularly victims of pro-life Christians. Abortion activists say Abortion Provider Appreciation Day is in memory of Dr. David Gunn, an abortionist who was killed in 1993 by Michael Griffin.
The FACE Act
The killing of Dr. Gunn also provided the justification for the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a law the Biden Department of Justice used repeatedly to persecute pro-life Christians.
The FACE Act makes it a federal crime “to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate and interfere with anyone” who provides abortion services. Federal prosecutors have often stretched the Clinton-era law to cover Americans who protest abortion, even when they do so peacefully. Taxpayers charged with the FACE Act have been subjected to violent raids by the FBI, similar to those visited on the January 6th hostages. Meanwhile, the DOJ turned a blind eye to a string of violent domestic terror attacks on Christian pro-life pregnancy centers.
Last month, President Trump signed an executive order creating a task force to stop the persecution of pro-life Christians by government activists. The Task Force to End the War on Christians will be headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The EO noted that after these attacks numbered over 100, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the violence and demanding action from the Biden administration.
“[T]he previous Administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” read the order. “The Biden Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing Federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities.”
