Brick through window, threats don’t deter anti-abortion activist Jill Stanek
A popular anti-abortion activist says that she recently came home from vacation to discover that her home had been vandalized, with the perpetrator leaving behind a note imploring her to “Quit the pro-life bulls**t.”
Jill Stanek, a former nurse who is currently the national campaign chair for the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List group, spoke with TheBlaze after finding a concrete thrown through the living room window of their Mokena, Illinois, home.
“The impact must have been quite forceful, because I found glass in the foyer 20 feet away,” she said.
Stanek explained that police are unsure of when the incident took place, but assume that it was at some point over the past few days.
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She also said that she had posted pictures on Facebook during her vacation, likely giving the perpetrator knowledge that the house was empty.
“The officer did not know whether the FBI would be notified of this incident, which he was going to mark as ‘bias related’ and might or might not draw the FBI’s attention,” she said.
Stanek said that she is not frightened, and actually views the incident as a positive sign.
Stanek also claims that police told her that going public might not be the best path forward, as it could “satisfy and encourage the perpetrator,” though she said that she doesn’t want to allow “this pro-abortion violence [to] go unchecked.”
“The other side constantly accuses pro-lifers of being violent, when in actually they are the violent ones, beginning, of course, with murdering innocent babies,” Stanek said.
“Did they really think throwing a cinder block through my window and leaving me a note to stop doing pro-life work would turn on some light bulb in my head to back away from this mission?” she rhetorically asked. “I don’t think so. Either that or they don’t really understand the commitment of pro-life activists to stop this atrocity.”
Stanek continued, “As the saying goes, ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.’ We are at the fight phase.”
