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GOP Candidates: It's Wrong to Blame Pro-lifers for Planned Parenthood Shooting
Townhall.com ^ | November 30, 2015 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 11/30/2015 9:51:04 AM PST by Kaslin

No one would argue that Friday's shooting near the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood is anything other than a tragedy. Another mass shooting has resulted in the loss of innocent lives. The suspect, Richard Lewis Dear, killed three people and injured 11 others after a standoff with police. An additional tragedy, however, is the liberal media's notion that the pro-life movement is to blame for the carnage.

According to The Guardian's Jessica Valenti, this incident demands that "the violent radical language and lies about abortion stop."Believing she now has a justification for her pro-abortion agenda, she launched into a lecture about pro-lifers' role in the violence:

The attack in Colorado, which left three people dead and nine wounded, was shocking, but it was also the predictable result of a culture that demonizes abortion, uses fantastical and false rhetoric about Planned Parenthood and allows politicians and activists to make false representations about women's reproductive health.

Media pundit Sally Kohn offered a predictably similar analysis:

Right is desperate for any other motive/explanation that eliminates their moral culpability. https://t.co/4GbH1qPHTu— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) November 29, 2015

Vicki Cowart, president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, insists the attack on her clinic "was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion." 

Even the Obama administration is blaming the shooting on anti-abortion rhetoric. Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement declaring the shooting a crime against women's health care.

Republican presidential candidates are not letting liberals get away with their political agenda. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was one of the first conservative leaders to shame pro-abortion liberals for using this tragedy to demonize pro-lifers:

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, chafing at the suggestion that conservative criticisms of Planned Parenthood might have played a role in the attack at a Colorado clinic on Friday, lashed out on Sunday at the "vicious rhetoric on the left, blaming those who are pro-life."

Authorities have yet to determine the shooter's motive, he added.

Carly Fiorina, the only female GOP candidate, said liberals are using "typical left-wing tactics" in trying to use this tragedy to smear pro-lifers.  

Whatever his motive, Robert Dear does not represent the pro-life movement. Pro-lifers are dedicated to protecting and preserving life, not senselessly killing. We still don't have all the answers, but the media is quick to jump to conclusions to protect abortion clinics. 

The suspect will appear in court for the first time Monday.


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: California; US: Florida; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; abortion; bencarson; california; carlyfiorina; deathpanels; election2016; florida; jebbush; marcorubio; newyork; obamacare; plannedbutcherhood; plannedparenthood; prolife; robertdear; stemexpress; tedcruz; texas; trump; zerocare

1 posted on 11/30/2015 9:51:04 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

She’s right. Trying to blame this on the pro-life movement is like blaming Harriet Beecher Stowe for John Brown’s massacre at Harper’s Ferry.


2 posted on 11/30/2015 9:53:50 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Kaslin

Carley is getting slaughtered over it. The rest of the candidates aren’t getting much. Fiorina is being beaten back and forth.


3 posted on 11/30/2015 9:57:08 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Kaslin

The title said : Republican Candidates (plural).

Yet, the article only mentions Carly Fiorina. Where are the rest?


4 posted on 11/30/2015 10:10:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Kaslin

About a month ago in St Petersburg a White woman was pushed off a sidewalk into traffic by a Black guy, almost killing her. Witnesses said he shouted “I HATE WHITES!” Maybe Sharpton, Jackson the BLM and the rest of the racial racketeers need to be taken to task for their incendiary rhetoric? Not to mention the shootings at Ft Hood and Chattanooga, let’s scrutinize the incendiary rhetoric that fills the Koran.


5 posted on 11/30/2015 10:11:08 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I find some irony that one of those killed was stationed at Ft. Hood. Where “Work Place” violence occurred


6 posted on 11/30/2015 10:36:03 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t blame pro lifers, I blame liberals- and just like liberals claim I don’t need no steenkin reason for blaming liberals, I just do, and I do not apologize for it, and that is the end of it


7 posted on 11/30/2015 10:54:46 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Kaslin

When some demented imam stands up in his mosque and exhorts his followers to butcher “infidels,” the muslime apologists wave it off as the act of a few “extremists,” in no way representative of the mainstream slimes.

But if one fruitbat with a gossamer connection to Christianity goes berserk and shoots up the place, every gun-owner and every Christian on earth is to blame.


8 posted on 11/30/2015 11:22:36 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

You said it.


9 posted on 11/30/2015 11:25:11 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Bob434
I dont blame pro lifers, I blame liberals- and just like liberals claim I dont need no steenkin reason for blaming liberals, I just do, and I do not apologize for it, and that is the end of it

That's EXACTLY what our side should start doing. Our side's tactics are either twisting ourselves into pretzels trying to make sense of Liberal madness or attempting to justify and apologize for our philosophy.

Neither works.

ATTACK! Simply attack. All the time.

10 posted on 11/30/2015 12:41:55 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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I wish any one of the GOP canidates had the backbone to say the next time a cop is shot that the hateful inflammatory rhetoric of BLM, and the rest of the Leftist wing of the Democrat party, is the root cause.


11 posted on 11/30/2015 2:10:45 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Kaslin

This should not need defending.....my response would be a stiff middle finger. Good thing I’m not running for prez, I guess.


12 posted on 11/30/2015 8:04:12 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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