The Florida Family Policy Council, an Orlando pro-life organization, has chosen to suspend its December 7 rally against Planned Parenthood at the State Capitol Complex in Tallahassee in the wake of the shooting in Colorado that resulted in three dead and nine wounded. Victims’ relatives watched from a courtroom. He is now being held without bond, facing a first-degree murder charge. There have also been 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings and 186 arsons and thousands of other incidents, including vandalism, according to the foundation, a trade group for abortion providers.
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Robert Lewis Dear, 57, appearing by video link from jail, spoke only to tell a judge he understood and had no questions.
Colorado Springs Police Dept. Barbara Mescher Michaux, Dear’s ex-wife, said the suspected gunman’s hatred for Planned Parenthood spanned the last 30 years. They say the boy used a hatchet to destroy computers, plumbing fixtures, phones and medical equipment inside the clinic.
Rocky Mountains Planned Parenthood president Vicki Cowart said she strongly believed Dear “was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion”. But Dear has been described by acquaintances as a loner who once gave neighbors anti-Obama literature but never any indication he would target a clinic.
During Monday’s 12 minute hearing, Presiding judge Gilbert Martinez advised Dear of his rights, and notified him of his initial charge.
Senior officials in the Justice Department have said they are considering whether to bring a case.
One possible avenue could be the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a crime to injure or intimidate clinic patients and employees. The true instigator of this violence and all violence at any Planned Parenthood facility is Planned Parenthood themselves.
The Republican state Rep. for Colorado also made references to the notoriously altered videos that tried to indicate Planned Parenthood was making profits off the body parts of discarded fetuses.
Planned Parenthood clinics in California, Washington, Louisiana and IL have reported arson attacks since July, and a clinic in New Hampshire was vandalized with a hatchet.
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The outrage may have hit close to home after someone set fire to a Planned Parenthood in Thousand Oaks a few months ago. Investigators have not released an official motive for the shooting.
