CNN Reporter Links Colorado Shooting to ‘String’ of Violence at PP Clinics

‘It would be the latest in a string of attacks on abortion providing facilities or doctors who work with them’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
"Brianna, we know this planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, we know it does perform abortions according to the website but at this hour as we've been stressing all afternoon, we do not know if this was a targeted shooting, a targeting of the planned Parenthood office there in Colorado Springs or not. What we did get a short time ago was a statement from the president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains this is partially what the statement says. We do not know if planned Parenthood was the target. Extreists are feeding an environment that feeds terrorism and we'll not back out of care that millions of people rely on and trust. Again, this is where the police say the initial call kale in and this is the address given at this Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs where we're told the active shooting situation is going on inside. Also, this tweet issued a short time ago by Cecil Richards says quote, the staff at planned Parenthood rocky mountain provide care every day in matter what. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Now, if this was a targeting of Planned Parenthood, it would be the latest in a string of attacks on abortion providing facilities or doctors who work with them. The most recent fatal attack was six and a half years ago, Dr. George 'tiller shot and killed inside his church in Wichita, Kansas on may 31st, 2009. He was a director of a women services clinic that performed late-term abortions and Scott Roder was convicted and he's serving a life sentence. In October of 1998, Dr. Barnett slepin who worked at an abortion clinic in Buffalo, New York was shot through the window of his kitchen with a high-powered rifle and the killer is in prison. There are also been bombings of abortion clinics in the united States. In January 1998 an off-duty police officer working as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama was killed when that clinic was bombed. Eric Rudolph, the man that bombed the Olympic park in 1996 was convicted. Brianna, we have to stress at this hour, we do not know if this was a targeting of the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs. We don't know that it was not a domestic situation there. So waiting to find out some of the key details, Brianna."

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