Meet the Army Vet Protecting Women From Anti-Abortion Protesters

Dani Cook opened a multicolored umbrella to shield a toddler and his grandmother from the cameras of the right-to-life protesters as the two sat in a car behind Bristol Women’s Health in Virginia just across the border from Tennessee.

But there was nothing Cook could do as a volunteer with Stateline Abortion Access to protect the child from what one of the protesters called out on the sunny morning of Sept. 9.

“Young child, if you can hear me, please know they have brought you to this wicked and evil place where they kill little babies,” the protester was recorded saying on a video taken at 9:17 am. “There’s a baby inside your mommy’s womb today and today they're going to poison your little brother or sister.”

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