83-Year-Old Woman Beaten While Praying Outside Maryland Abortion Facility

Doug Mainwaring : Jul 13, 2023
LifeSiteNews.com

"For fifty years I've been in this war. Before this war is over, we ourselves will see our blood spilled on the sidewalk. It's a war: God against satan, good against evil." -Longtime pro-life warrior Olga Fairfax

(Takoma Park, MD) — [LifeSiteNews.com] An 83-year-old pro-life woman was physically attacked by a much younger woman as she prayerfully protested outside an abortion facility in a suburb of Washington, DC. (Screengrab image: via LSN)

The unprovoked, brutal assault on Olga Fairfax occurred at a busy intersection on Saturday morning, July 8, in front of a Takoma Park office building housing the Silver Spring Gynecology and Family Planning. This business offers medical and surgical abortions. 

Longtime pro-life warrior Olga Fairfax had stationed herself and her 4' x 6' sign depicting an aborted child when, despite heavy traffic, a woman stopped her car in the road, jumped out, and proceeded to land one blow after another relentlessly on Fairfax's body.

Wielding a can of black enamel spray paint, the woman then tussled with Fairfax in an attempt to obscure the aborted child's image, managing to spray the octogenarian's clothing and skin in the process.

Fairfax screamed, "Save me, Save me! Stop, Stop!" and "Call the police!" but passersby continued on their way to shops and a Starbucks next door.

The woman then wrenched the sign out of Fairfax's hand and tossed it into the street at the crossroads of New Hampshire Avenue and University Boulevard.

A man driving by stopped to assist Fairfax and eventually calmed her attacker.

Fairfax told LifeSiteNews that she's still sore four days later after having been beaten on her upper body, arms, and hands.

"This was elder abuse," said Fairfax... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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