The pro-life activist sucker punched during an interview on a Harlem street is struggling after the shocking violence — which she said was emblematic of the entire pro-choice movement.
“A lot of the pro-abortion movement is violence and abortion is violence, therefore it breeds violence,” Savannah Craven Antao, a 23-year-old reporter for advocacy group Live Action, fumed in a Saturday interview with The Post.
The woman who socked Craven Antao during the on-camera interview about Planned Parenthood is still on the loose, and the NYPD couldn’t say whether there were any leads in the case.
Craven Antao is nursing a swollen black left eye, two stitches below her eyebrow, significant pain in her nasal area and a heavy psychological burden after the Thursday incident.
“Mentally, I’m kind of struggling. I am having a lot of stress — just flashbacks about what happened to me,” she explained.
“Every time I go on my phone and I 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.”
Craven Antao claims the mystery assailant had approached her with an interest in being featured during her man-on-the-street interviews.
The woman, who wore a brown shirt, beige jacket and Louis Vuitton bag, initially complimented Craven Antao’s dress and her cameraman husband’s “skin tone,” the interviewer told The Post.
The conversation soured, however, as the two butted heads over abortion.
The assailant made it clear she was pro-choice and the two agreed there were options other than abortion for women who don’t want to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term, including adoption and practicing safe sex, video of the six-minute encounter showed.
Things took a turn for the weird when Craven Antao asked whether foster kids should be killed because “they’re not wanted,” and the assailant said, “Why not?”
“Who’s going to take care of them? I need to know the percentage of people who take children from foster care and abuse them and molest them, who make them personal slaves. I need specifics before you come to talk to me about pro-life,” the assailant said.
“If I don’t want to have a baby I should have the choice to have the baby or not,” she continued before calling Craven Antao “dumb as f–k” for suggesting women simply refrain from having sex. “That’s not logical.”
Craven Antao fired back, saying: “I’m not the one who admitted they would be OK with killing babies in foster care and killing children that have been abused.”
“That’s not the point. What I’m saying is …” the interviewee began before Craven Antao snatched the mic away while her subject was talking, according to the footage.
That’s when the woman unleashed a combo of punches directly to Craven Antao’s face and quickly stalked away.
“She decked me right in the face absolutely out of nowhere. Totally came out of left field, would never have expected it,” Craven Antao told The Post.
It was the most violent encounter Craven Antao has experienced on the job, noting she’s been spit on in the past, yelled at, and told by some she should be raped, get pregnant and forced to give birth.
“There’s probably a lot of people that want to hit me, but it takes a lot for you to just assault someone for different opinions. I mean, apparently not for somebody like her. If she was going to do this on camera and didn’t care that there was a camera recording her, then you can imagine what she does off camera,” Craven Antao said.
The Live Action reporter — who can be seen in video of the incident repeatedly cutting off her assailant as the woman spoke — insisted she “didn’t do anything that provoked” her attacker.
“I believe that this woman was hurt,” Craven Antao said.
“We want justice, but we also want to pray for this woman because she is obviously going through something a lot deeper. I have no words.”
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