Planned Parenthood Shooting and The end of Anti-choice Rhetorics

An act of domestic terrorism, one in which was committed by 57 year old, Robert Lewis Dear, on November 27th when he opened fire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Center. According to an anonymous source police source, after the attack, the alleged perpetrator made a comment in it's wake about "no more baby parts," specifically targeting the facility. An act perpetuated out of simple public harassment and a need for intimidation that would justify these vicious violent acts of crime against providers and clinics. This shooting may have been known for being the most horrifically violent attack on a clinic in our country's history which left three people dead and nine wounded, was shocking yet seemed to have been predictable result of a culture that demonizes abortion, uses fantastical and false rhetoric about Planned Parenthood and allows politicians and activists to make false representation about a woman's reproductive health. Do we really think that there are no consequences to claiming that abortion is murder, or that planned parenthood is an organization of "money-hungry monsters selling baby parts?" The culture of hate against Planned Parenthood- an organization that serves mostly low income women and provides legal, safe medical services- is so extreme that some felt it entirely appropriate to express their glee over the Colorado shootings, claiming that the people hurt "had it coming for them." From my perspective, enough is enough. We must demand that the violent radical language and lies about abortion come to an end. People disagree about the morality of abortion, yet the doctors who provide them are not evil; they are simply corresponding to their jobs and doing what they think is right and good for their patients. The women who go to planned parenthood are not callous beasts; they are people trying to do the best they can for their lives and families. As we find out more about the shooter, people will claim- as they often do- that he was a "lone wolf," that he was "mentally unstable" and that he is not at all "representative of those who disagree with abortion." Republican politicians will eventually take great pains to condemn the shooter's attack, while ignoring all of the lies, language, and culture of misogyny that contributes to the kind of violence. Up to this date, it has been somewhat confirmed, by president and CEO of Planned Parenthood and following eye-witnesses, that the attacker "was motivated by opposition to safe, legal, and abortion." I firmly believe that this attack was an attack against women receiving care at Planned Parenthood, which leads me to my second topic: YOUR opinion. Do you agree or disagree?