{"id":82377,"date":"2015-12-14T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82377"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:09:53","slug":"colorados-governor-isnt-sure-state-taking-life-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colorados-governor-isnt-sure-state-taking-life-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s governor isn\u2019t sure \u201cthe state should be taking life.\u201d What about Planned Parenthood?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On December 13, 1993, five people went to work at a Chuck E. Cheese’s in Aurora, Colorado. Four of them didn\u2019t come home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sylvia Crowell was the first to go down. Ben Grant was next. 17 year-old Colleen O’Connor dropped to her knees and begged for mercy; she got a bullet instead. So did mother of two Marge Kohlberg, who kept moving until another round finished her off. Bobby Stephens only survived by playing dead after being shot in the face. The perpetrator, one Nathan J. Dunlap, would later say<\/a> that his victims meant \u201cnothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dunlap received the death penalty and was scheduled to die in August of 2013. That didn\u2019t happen<\/a>, however, as Colorado governor John Hickenlooper was reportedly anguished at the prospect of putting someone to death. In May, his chief of staff tweeted<\/a> that \u201cthere has to be a more humane path\u201d than execution. Five months later, Hickenlooper granted Dunlap a reprieve, declaring, \u201cIt is a legitimate question whether we as a state should be taking lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

As you can see, Gov. Hickenlooper has shown some serious concern for Mr. Dunlap\u2019s life. Others haven\u2019t gotten as much attention.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is America\u2019s largest abortion chain<\/a>, performing over three hundred thousand abortions annually. Second trimester abortions (13 weeks to approximately 26 weeks) use a technique known as Dilation & Evacuation (D&E). It involves pulling a fetus apart one piece at a time, despite evidence that a preborn child can experience pain<\/a> by 20 weeks. Some scientific research even suggests the potential for suffering could begin as early as 5.5 weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"D&E\"<\/p>\n

Or at least that\u2019s how it\u2019s supposed to happen, anyway; a series of videos released this year by the Center for Medical Progress<\/a> (CMP) indicates that things don\u2019t always go according to plan. Shot on hidden cameras, most of them show people claiming to be fetal tissue buyers meeting with Planned Parenthood officials. One of these officials was Dr. Savita Ginde, Vice President and Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n