“He says that as long as he believes he will be saved, he can do whatever he pleases”, Micheau said in court documents.
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The attack thrust the clinic to the center of the debate over Planned Parenthood, which was reignited in July when anti-abortion activists released undercover video they said showed the group’s personnel negotiating the sale of fetal organs. “And what we know about him from his ex-wife and other sources, is that there’s a history of domestic violence, a lot of anger, a lot of belligerence toward others”.
The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic left a decadeslong trail of broken marriages, scant social connections and a reputation for religious zealotry that didn’t match his yen for gambling and affairs.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters that a special committee GOP leaders created to investigate Planned Parenthood includes Democratic members and is “where all pieces of information can come forward”. Dear is expected to be formally charged on December 9.
Speaking about Dear, Micheau said that he was “always plotting revenge” against people who he felt had wronged him, adding “it didn’t take much for him to feel like somebody did him wrong”.
The shooting was the second in weeks in Colorado Springs to leave several victims.
This is not the first time, of course, that Planned Parenthood or another abortion clinic has been shot up with a loss of innocent lives. Gilbert Martinez, chief judge for Colorado’s 4th Judicial District, will preside over the hearing.
Court records in SC show a Peeping Tom charge against the suspect in Colorado’s Planned Parenthood shooting was dismissed in 2002 on the same day the woman who made the accusation filed a restraining order against him. Authorities arrested Robert Lewis Dear, 57, a former resident of Black Mountain, N.C.
There have been eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings and 186 arsons against abortion clinics and providers in the past 38 years, according to a November 30 Vox Media report.
Officials said almost 2,000 individuals are newly diagnosed with HIV each year in Los Angeles County, calling the epidemic one of the county’s most pressing public health issues.
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The shooting resulted in the death of three people, including a University of Colorado police officer, and nine others were injured.
