Abortion Clinics in the US Face Growing Threat of Violence

That’s according to independent RAND researchers who issued a 2010 report for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Though Trump, who has in the past referred to Planned Parenthood as “an abortion factory”, said he did not understand the killer’s motives, he said he understands that many people have strong feelings of dislike for the women’s health organization.

Though investigators have said little publicly about what motivated Robert Lewis Dear to allegedly storm into a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Friday and kill three people, a law enforcement source told CNN that he mentioned “baby parts” to officials. It said that undue burdens are “unnecessary health regulations that have the objective or effect of presenting a substantial obstacle to a woman seeking an abortion”.

Rather, the issue is the nature of the abortion debate. Whether people choose to accept it or not, Planned Parenthood is a vital, accessible tool for women’s health care at a nationwide level.

Carson said those words on “Face the Nation” when asked whether the pro-life movement was responsible for the deadly shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey’s decision came after Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri filed a lawsuit Monday asking for a TRO that would allow the abortion clinic to keep its license while it searches for an abortionist who can obtain admitting privileges with a local hospital within 30 miles.

For those who haven’t been following along, the videos, produced by the so-called Center For Medical Progress, an anti-abortion organization founded by activist David Daleiden (which now enjoys 501(c) tax-exempt status, ) showed people posing as researchers for a fake biomedical research firm called Biomax Procurement Services attempting to purchase fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood representatives.

A legislative investigation into the disposition of fetal tissue in Missouri also dug into the new license and put a spotlight on the relationship between the university and Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood has been a polarizing organization since its precursor, a clinic in Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1916 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger.

For years, abortion providers have been targeted on a spectrum of aggressiveness. Since 1995, there have been a total of 5,147 violent incidents recorded at USA abortion clinics, not including 2015.

She complained that the “highly edited videos” have contributed to “a lot of hysteria” and “created the kind of climate that we are now seeing that leads to the harassment of doctors and the violence at clinics which really just has to stop”. Since 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision, almost 58 million children have lost their lives.

Mike Huckabee condemned the attack as a “despicable act of murder” and said “what he did is domestic terrorism”, but then equated the killings to the abortions Planned Parenthood provides. The 51-year-old physician had been the target of anti-abortion protesters since the 1980s. Abortion is an extremely emotional topic and there is a history of violence from those who oppose it. And politicians know this all too well.

In 2009, he was shot in the head and killed by anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder in his own church.

Julie A. Burkhart is the founder and CEO of Trust Women Foundation and Trust Women South Wind Women’s Center. In August, she spoke about how his killing prompted the clinic to increase security. “He was carrying knives and explosives”.

“How we talk about abortion matters”, wrote columnist Jessica Valenti at the Guardian on Sunday.

The gunman broke into the clinic after a security guard had finished his shift, but staff followed safety plans perfectly, which probably saved many lives, Cowart said.

A blogger on the Patheos website went as far as stating that “Christian terrorism is a bigger threat to USA freedom than Islamic extremism”. Several such threats were reported in the 1990s.