{"id":1552059,"date":"2022-07-13T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552059"},"modified":"2022-07-13T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:19:47","slug":"man-with-machete-shows-up-at-crisis-pregnancy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-with-machete-shows-up-at-crisis-pregnancy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Man With Machete Shows Up at Crisis Pregnancy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-with-machete-shows-up-at-crisis-pregnancy-center%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>A California-based crisis pregnancy center hired security after a man showed up at its doors armed with a machete, the center\u2019s president revealed in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatives Pregnancy Center has taken increased safety measures to respond to this and other threats of violence the clinic has received, including arming staff members and shutting down its mobile clinic, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=veDrsG8qesM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testimony<\/a> from the center\u2019s president, Heidi Matzke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust last week \u2026 a man approached our care center with an armed machete. We have been forced to hire 24-7 on-site security. We\u2019ve had to reinforce doors and bulletproof our walls,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve added cameras, armed our staff with pepper spray and stopped running our mobile clinic because of threats of violence. We have been forced to expend valuable resources, resources for women, of up to $150,000 just to protect ourselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her testimony was part of a hearing on the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which ended a 50-year precedent that had blocked abortion restrictions throughout the first six months of pregnancy. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/29\/nbc-news-fight-against-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: NBC News Joins The Fight Against Crisis Pregnancy Centers)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crisis pregnancy centers have been targeted for threats and violent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/22\/karine-jean-pierre-violence-intimidation-threats-pro-abortion-activists-janes-revenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attacks<\/a> as well as threats from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/14\/bill-pro-abortion-activists-investigate-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elected<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/29\/letitia-james-crisis-pregnancy-centers-google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officials<\/a> who view the centers as promoting misinformation about pregnancy and abortion.<\/p>\n<p>A crisis pregnancy center was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/08\/abortion-firebomb-pro-life-attacks-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">firebombed<\/a> June 7, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/the-attacks-on-crisis-pregnancy-centers-janes-revenge-abortion-roe-v-wade-violence-destroyed-11655653644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numerous<\/a> other clinics have been spray-painted with threats and had their windows shattered.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatives Pregnancy Center did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California-based crisis pregnancy center hired security after a man showed up at its doors armed with a machete, the center\u2019s president revealed in testimony to the Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}