15 year old Purity was protesting outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic when she got decked in the face.
It was all caught on video:
She spoke to about how it all went down:
“It was really cold out and I had actually just texted my parents to come and pick me up,” Thomas, who was holding a 40 Days for Life sign, told LifeSiteNews. She said a Liberty University student named Serena “called out to this woman.”
Serena said, “‘Good morning, we’re here for you, we’re praying for you. There’s other resources that we have, just wanted to offer them to you,’” Thomas recalled.
The woman was apparently there for an abortion.
I’m sure she was stressed, but if having an abortion was working her up this much… maybe their resources could have actually helped! Maybe she was this upset because she felt confused and conflicted about what she was about to do?
The woman approached Serena and began yelling, “what are you gonna do when I beat you all up, when I f*** you all up?”
“And then she was like, ‘I’m gonna have my girlfriends come and beat you all up,’” said Thomas.
The woman then asked Serena what she was going to do if she took her sign, which said, “All people are made in the image of God.”
“She grabbed that sign and she tried ripping it up but it’s really thick plastic so she ended up folding it up,” Thomas told LifeSiteNews. It was at this point that the teen, who is a high school fellow with Students for Life of America (SFLA), suggested to her fellow activists that they start filming.
When Thomas told the woman, “we’re praying for you,” the woman came over and began threatening to take Thomas’s sign as well.
Good Lord… I was trying to think the best of this woman. Maybe she’s in a really difficult situation and she thinks abortion is her only option and she’s conflicted and angry…
But then she punches a 15-year-old in the face?
Yeah. She’s just a jerk.
Purity, however, seems to be a really lovely young lady:
“I absolutely forgive [the assailant],” said Thomas. “There’s no hard feelings towards her.”
She said she wishes she could “talk with her and be there for her.”
Thomas is also not revealing the identity of the woman because “she’s just suffered from an abortion.” Thomas doesn’t want her to be swamped with angry messages from those upset over that and the assault she committed. She hopes instead that the woman can heal.
“I feel super sorry for her and I want her to know that we’re not violent, we actually care about her,” said Thomas.
“Being punched was nothing compared to what those babies are feeling when they are aborted,” said Thomas. “And honestly, I would take a million punches if it saved one child.”
The teen has no intention of ceasing her pro-life activism.
“I will most definitely be there” again this coming Saturday, she said.
Sweet girl. She’s fighting for what she thinks is right… and truly cares about both the babies killed by abortion and the mothers who suffer through them. Many will be changed forever by it, but they’ve been told repeatedly by our pseudo-feminist society that it’s the only option that makes any sense for them.
She realizes they’re not just baby-murdering monsters. Sometimes, the mothers are victims too. That says a lot about a 15 year old.