{"id":82345,"date":"2015-12-12T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82345"},"modified":"2015-12-12T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T20:20:11","slug":"planned-parenthood-shooter-not-prolife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-shooter-not-prolife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Planned Parenthood shooter is not pro-life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Last month, Robert Lewis Dear, a man with no known\u00a0connections to the pro-life movement,\u00a0opened fire at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Colorado Springs. The result was three dead, nine wounded, and a debate about what cause\u200bd this man to commit such a horrendous act,\u200b as information from authorities emerged very slowly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u200bDear\u00a0was in court\u00a0Wednesday\u200b,\u00a0where he faced 179 felony charges against him. The hearing was filled by nearly 20 interruptions by Dear as he proclaimed things like, \u201cI am guilty,\u201d \u201cI am a warrior for the babies,&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;You are not my lawyer&#8221; when his lawyer raised questions about his competence. Dear\u2019s bizarre statements and actions paint the picture of a deeply disturbed individual who has grown\u00a0disconnected from society.<\/p>\n<p>Dear\u2019s history shows a man who lived a solitude life in a hermit shanty in North Carolina before moving in an RV to a vacant rural plot of land in Colorado. He has had numerous past run-ins with the law that span from domestic assault accusations to peeping Tom and animal cruelty charges that did not result in convictions.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the\u00a0tragic\u00a0attack at\u00a0Planned Parenthood, pro-life groups from across the country issued statements denouncing Dear\u2019s actions and affirming that violence against abortion providers was\u00a0in\u200bconsistent with pro-life ethics.<\/p>\n<p>The abortion industry and\u00a0\u200bits\u00a0\u200bbackers have blamed\u00a0\u200bpro-lifers\u00a0\u200bfor spurring the attack. These accusations\u00a0are an attempt to silence\u200b peaceful pro-life\u00a0advocates from\u00a0speaking out against the violence and inhumanity of abortion\u200b. Abortion activists have also used the attack to\u00a0\u200bshamelessly fund-raise\u00a0\u200band push for more taxpayer funding of abortion groups.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion advocates have tried to blame the violent actions of an unstable man on the millions of pro-life Americans.\u00a0Those who speak out about protecting human life didn\u2019t fuel the actions of a killer.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life advocates should continue to speak out for the rights of all humans. It is these values that equally condemn not only the violence of abortion but the violence committed by Dear. The pro-life movement has a message that all life is valuable and the law should equally protect both babies yet to be born and the victims of Dear\u2019s vile shooting. \u00a0Live Action President Lila Rose has said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Pro-life advocates should\u00a0\u200balso \u200bcontinue to speak powerfully.\u00a0Abortion is an act of violence that kills a defenseless preborn child.\u00a0 We are not going to use euphemisms &#8212; terms that abortion advocates prefer, like &#8220;terminate a pregnancy&#8221; &#8212; to try to cover up that fact.\u00a0 We are educating people, and that involves telling the truth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The way forward for our country isn\u2019t silence about abortion, but rather, to firmly condemn the killings at Planned Parenthood that are carried out both by gun and scalpel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Robert Lewis Dear, a man with no known\u00a0connections to the pro-life movement,\u00a0opened fire at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Colorado Springs. 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