He found excuses for his transgressions, she said, in his idiosyncratic views on Christian eschatology and the nature of salvation.
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Heidi Beirich, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Dear “should be charged with crimes that take him away forever” and that the federal government has many tools to do just that. For that reason, Mississippi’s Republican leadership, which has been unnervingly silent about the shootings at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, should disavow that attack and come up with a plan to protect Mississippians from homegrown terrorism.
“Individuals considered to be domestic terrorists by federal law enforcement may be charged under nonterrorism statutes, making it hard to grasp from the public record exactly how extensive this threat is”, the report said. He added that this year there has been a “frontal attack” on Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is taking a vocal stand against the attacks its organization has faced recently. And I grew up in the era of Operation Rescue, where you had these really scary confrontations between anti-abortion activists, in a lot of cases who were threatening violence against clinic workers and somebody who got my basic health care from Planned Parenthood.
The ex-wife of a man accused of killing three people at an abortion clinic has claimed he previously targeted the organisation that ran the centre.
Micheau said Dear had no friends, according to the document. We were back at work Saturday morning seeing patients.
Tabar said the New Haven facility sees roughly 8,000 patients each year across a total of 12,000 visits, making it one of the busier branches in the state. Some have speculated that the gunbattle began in the parking lot outside the clinic and Dear was not motivated by opposition to abortion rights.
Dear’s exact motivations are not important; the fact that we have to wonder is a testament to the power of anti-abortion rhetoric that is not only political fodder but also informs policy.
It’s worth noting that the clinic in question, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is the target of frequent protests and has a restraining order against one regular, Roy McMillan, who once told clinic employees they look like “birds on a wire waiting to be shot”.
“Planned Parenthood has strong security measures in place to ensure that our health centers are safe, supportive, welcoming environments for all people accessing the high-quality health care they need”, Huyck said.
DeLauro sent an October letter to former House Speaker John Boehner calling on him to stop House investigations into alleged illegality at Planned Parenthood after videos surfaced that appeared to show Planned Parenthood representatives discussing the selling of fetal parts.
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Planned Parenthood has 17 locations in CT.
