by Ashley Sadler, LifeSite News:
‘This attack was intended to intimidate and incapacitate, and it will be costly to recover, but we will not be intimidated by these illegal bullying tactics that amount to a hate crime.’
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), a national non-profit organization that opposes transgender ideology and abortion, said last week it has been subjected to “an ongoing, coordinated, malicious cyberattack” meant “to intimidate and incapacitate.” The attack began just weeks after a federal judge agreed to halt the FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone following a lawsuit by ACPeds and other pro-life doctors and groups.
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“Since April 24, the American College of Pediatricians has been facing an ongoing, coordinated, malicious cyberattack by hackers on our key technology structures, databases, and our financial accounts,” said ACPeds executive director Dr. Jill Simons, a board-certified pediatrician, in a May 5 statement.
“This attack was intended to intimidate and incapacitate, and it will be costly to recover, but we will not be intimidated by these illegal bullying tactics that amount to a hate crime,” she continued.
“We will continue to promote the health and well-being of children by protecting the rights of born and preborn children, promoting biological integrity, and defending conscience rights for healthcare professionals,” Dr. Simons said.
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Founded in 2002 in response to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) increasing adoption of left-wing social positions, ACPeds actively opposes prominent harmful leftist ideologies including transgenderism and abortion.
According to ACPeds, “there are absolutes and scientific truths that transcend relative social considerations of the day,” and “good medical science cannot exist in a moral vacuum.” The group is committed to defending the “sanctity of human life from conception to natural death,” supporting sexual abstinence for adolescents, and promoting “the basic father-mother family unit as the optimal setting for childhood development.”
In 2021, ACPeds President Dr. Quentin Van Meter told LifeSiteNews the prescription of puberty blockers for gender-confused children was tantamount to “child abuse.”
ACPeds’ conservative stance has put it in the crosshairs of its ideological opponents, even earning it a “hate group” label from the radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which says the group “opposes adoption by LGBTQ couples, links homosexuality to pedophilia, endorses so-called reparative or sexual orientation conversion therapy for homosexual youth, believes transgender people have a mental illness and has called transgender health care for youth child abuse.”
The latest attack, however, didn’t come from the SPLC but from hackers, who accessed a trove of confidential files after breaching an archived webpage.
