“One time he beat my head on the concrete floor about ten times over something that made no sense at all”, she said.
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One of those took place Sunday at the Planned Parenthood in Nashville where the vigil wrapped up shortly after 5 p.m. “Planned Parenthood clinics, where many millions of babies die, or whether it’s people attacking Planned Parenthood”, he told CNN Nov. 29.
If you were paying attention to the news like I was, it was hard to miss the active shooter outside of a Planned Parenthood in Colorado over the Thanksgiving recess.
In Washington, hundreds of Planned Parenthood supporters and staff members gathered at All Souls Church in Columbia Heights. Boulevard to show support for access to safe reproductive health care that’s free from violence, threats and intimidation.
“It is very important that we as a community that works for reproductive justice and reproductive rights come together in this moment”, Mills said. Police say Robert Lewis Dear, 57, terrorized dozens when he opened fire at the clinic, which had 45 people inside but no security guard. She also met with those workers privately after the event to thank them again.
Last week, Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said the receptionist at the Colorado Springs clinic heard shots being fired outside the building and warned those inside to get away from the entrance.
NARAL Pro Choice America and other abortion rights groups reportedly delivered a petition with more than 300,000 signatures calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to classify clinic attacks as domestic terrorism.
Police still have no motive and don’t know why the clinic was targeted.
A sea of police vehicles follows as the hearse carrying the body of slain University of Colorado-Colorado Springs police officer Garrett Swasey on Friday. The other two victims Ke’Arre Stewart, an Army veteran who served in Iraq, and Jennifer Markovsky, 36, a mother of two originally from Hawaii were both accompanying friends to the clinic and it’s not clear where they were when they were killed.
She said clinics across the state remain open and are seeing patients under normal operating hours.
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She also told the crowd that some anti-abortion protesters taunted staffers in Denver about the shooting when they went to work the following day. Ms. Fiorina claimed to have seen a video of “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain”.
