Two anti-abortion protesters beaten outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore
Gabrielle M. Etzel
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Two senior citizen anti-abortion protesters were attacked outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in North Baltimore on Friday morning, sending one to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
“Please pray for my dear friend, Mark Crosby,” President of the Baltimore County Right to Life organization Jay Walton said on Facebook Friday. “He was viciously attacked yesterday, May 26, 2023 while he was praying in front of Planned Parenthood in Baltimore City. He and another prolifer were attacked from behind and the thug ran away.”
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Mark Crosby and Dick Shafer have been confirmed as the victims in Friday’s attack. Both men are over the age of 70, according to police reports.
WMAR reported that surveillance video shows the suspect tackling Shafer, disturbing a large flower planter outside of the abortion facility. When Crosby came to Shafer’s aid, the assailant shoved Crosby to the ground, and the person was seen punching and kicking him in the face.
Baltimore anti-abortion advocate John Roswell told LifeSiteNews that while Shafer is recovering well, Crosby “is bleeding from some unidentified area behind his eye and the bone eye orbit is completely shattered.”
Walton said on Monday morning that Crosby, who had been released from the hospital, had to be transported back to the emergency room due to further complications.
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Roswell told LifeSiteNews that a Planned Parenthood escort, who guides abortion patients into the organization’s facilities, was present at the scene and engaged with the assailant prior to the attack. In his experience, Roswell said that escorts are usually present in the rare cases that pro-abortion rights activists engage in violent altercations with anti-abortion advocates.
Investigators told local news outlets WBAL and WMAR that they are searching for the suspect.