In the wake of the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs last Friday, a weary-sounding President Obama voiced Tuesday his hope – yet again – that a mass shooting in America might actually inspire action on gun control.
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“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.
The Benham brothers, the sons of an evangelical pastor, said they grew up in a “pro-life family”.
Federal authorities have the option of filing charges but haven’t said whether they will do so, though a coalition of advocacy groups is calling on the Justice Department – which is reviewing the case – to investigate violence against abortion clinics as domestic terrorism.
Planned Parenthood said any payments were legally permitted reimbursements for the costs of donating organs to researchers, and has since stopped accepting even that money.
Speaking in a raspy voice, Robert Lewis Dear appeared via a video hookup from the El Paso County Jail, where he has been held since surrendering after Friday’s five-hour siege.
“I wouldn’t have married him if I had known he was the way he was”, she said firmly. Still, taking a look at a couple will illustrate the entrenched views on the issue of abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood. The remark was an apparent allusion to heavily edited, deceptive and dishonest videos about Planned Parenthood created to generate public outrage and political support for a campaign to defund the organization.
The shooting has led to a debate over whether the anti-abortion movement’s rhetoric might have played a role in inspiring the attack.
Since the attack, in which Robert Lewis Dear has been charged with murder, Republicans in Congress have had notably less to say about the women’s health group.
27, a man opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The gunman in the Colorado shooting mentioned “no more baby parts” in a statement taken by law enforcement after he was taken into custody, a possible reference to the Center for Medical Progress’ series of videos released earlier this year that show Planned Parenthood staff supposedly discussing the sale of fetal-tissue parts.
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Prosecutors have not yet disclosed a motive behind Friday’s attack. The women’s health organization said that it showed nothing illegal, and investigations in multiple states, most recently Florida, have shown that. This helps people “encounter the God who is love, who is mercy, the God who helps them to come to understand their own dignity as human persons”. And recent reports suggest that Dear may have a history of anti-abortion ideology; several of his ex-wives told reporters that he has praised people who commit violence against abortion doctors and once vandalized a Planned Parenthood location.
