We have are also in touch with Joseph Grace, implicated in a case of damage to an abortion clinic in Norfolk, Virginia and have visited with Curtis Beseda, implicated in a clinic fire Everett, Washington. But most pro-lifers would say that all four, if guilty, went too far. Direct action, and even civil disobedience, have an important part to play in winning the pro-life battle. But violence, we believe, does not. We must point out for the sake of proper perspective, however, that no amount of damage to real estate can equal the violence of taking a single human life.
Civilized societies rate the loss of life as far more serious than property damage.
It is a sign of the deterioration of our values that much of the national media concentrates on damaged buildings, with pictures of charred real estate, while refusing to present pictures of the human victims who are heartlessly and systematically dismembered and painfully killed inside that real estate. Yet we have had to watch adnauseam pictures of damaged buildings carefully panned on America's TV screens, while being directly or indirectly accused of causing the damage. But we will not play the abortionists' violent game. We plan to win without resorting to violence.