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Activists renew calls for abortion clinic attacks to be labeled domestic terrorism [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Activists renew calls for abortion clinic attacks to be labeled domestic terrorism
Molly Redden
Thursday 3 December 2015 15.15 GMT
In the wake of Friday’s shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood that left three dead and nine injured, abortion rights groups have renewed their calls for the Department of Justice to investigate attacks on abortion providers and clinics as acts of domestic terrorism.
“This man went into one abortion clinic with the intention of scaring women at abortion clinics all over the nation,” said Ilyse Hogue, the president of the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, referring to the suspect in the attack. “Unfortunately, we could have predicted this. This was not a random shooting. This was a politically motivated attack and it must be called out as such.”
Barack Obama quickly met the assault in Colorado with a strong pronouncement against “demonizing organizations like Planned Parenthood” and gun violence. Lawmakers, he said, are “going to have to act in order to make sure we’re preventing people who are deranged from getting weapons that can magnify the damage they can do”.
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On Wednesday, NARAL and its partners delivered a petition to US attorney general Loretta Lynch demanding a DoJ terrorism investigation – just two days before the shooter in Colorado Springs opened fire, Hogue said.
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Molly Redden
Thursday 3 December 2015 15.15 GMT
In the wake of Friday’s shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood that left three dead and nine injured, abortion rights groups have renewed their calls for the Department of Justice to investigate attacks on abortion providers and clinics as acts of domestic terrorism.
“This man went into one abortion clinic with the intention of scaring women at abortion clinics all over the nation,” said Ilyse Hogue, the president of the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, referring to the suspect in the attack. “Unfortunately, we could have predicted this. This was not a random shooting. This was a politically motivated attack and it must be called out as such.”
Barack Obama quickly met the assault in Colorado with a strong pronouncement against “demonizing organizations like Planned Parenthood” and gun violence. Lawmakers, he said, are “going to have to act in order to make sure we’re preventing people who are deranged from getting weapons that can magnify the damage they can do”.
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On Wednesday, NARAL and its partners delivered a petition to US attorney general Loretta Lynch demanding a DoJ terrorism investigation – just two days before the shooter in Colorado Springs opened fire, Hogue said.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/03/planned-parenthood-shooting-doj-domestic-terrorism-abortion
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