By Meyer Wolfsheim

A pro-life activist and journalist says she’s struggling physically and emotionally after a shocking sucker punch during a filmed street interview in Harlem — an attack she says embodies the very violence she believes is inherent in the pro-choice movement.

Savannah Craven Antao, a 23-year-old reporter with the anti-abortion group Live Action, was punched in the face during a tense debate with a pro-choice passerby on Thursday.

The encounter was caught on camera and has since gone viral, amassing widespread attention online. As first reported by the New York Post, the NYPD confirmed Saturday that the woman responsible for the attack has not yet been apprehended, and no arrests have been made.

Craven Antao was left with a black eye, two stitches below her eyebrow, and significant nasal pain following the assault. But it’s the psychological toll, she said, that’s been the hardest to bear.

“Mentally, I’m kind of struggling. I am having a lot of stress — just flashbacks about what happened to me,” she told the NY Post. “Every time I go on my phone and open any social media, I see the video of myself being assaulted. And it’s like I go back to the moment. It’s terrifying.”

The altercation began when a woman approached Craven Antao during a man-on-the-street style interview about Planned Parenthood. At first, Craven Antao said, the woman seemed friendly — even complimenting her dress and her cameraman husband’s appearance. But things quickly took a turn once the subject of abortion came up.

According to video footage released by Live Action, the two women debated alternatives to abortion, including adoption and abstinence. The conversation intensified when Craven Antao posed a provocative question about whether children in foster care should be killed because they are “unwanted.” The woman replied, “Why not?”

Craven Antao was visibly taken aback, and the two continued arguing until she pulled the microphone away from the woman mid-sentence. In response, the woman launched a sudden barrage of punches directly to Craven Antao’s face before walking off, leaving the reporter bloodied and stunned.

“She decked me right in the face absolutely out of nowhere,” Craven Antao said. “Totally came out of left field. Would never have expected it.”

While Craven Antao acknowledged the intensity of her views, she said nothing she did justified the violence.

“I didn’t do anything to provoke her,” she said. “There’s probably a lot of people that want to hit me, but it takes a lot for someone to actually assault another person for their opinions.”

Craven Antao said she has faced verbal abuse in the past — including being spat on, threatened, and insulted — but nothing as brutal as this. “It was the most violent encounter I’ve ever experienced on the job,” she said.

She believes the violence wasn’t an isolated act, but a symptom of a broader culture of hostility she attributes to the abortion-rights movement.

“A lot of the pro-abortion movement is violence, and abortion is violence, therefore it breeds violence,” she told the Post.

Despite the attack, Craven Antao said she’s praying for her assailant and hoping she receives the help she clearly needs.

“We want justice, but we also want to pray for this woman,” she said. “Because she is obviously going through something a lot deeper. I have no words.”