Post by Logan on Feb 16, 2016 6:55:15 GMT -6
Colorado Planned Parenthood Clinic Reopens After Deadly Attack
COLORADO SPRINGS — The Planned Parenthood clinic attacked in November by a gunman professing anti-abortion views reopened on Monday with a packed schedule of patients and no end to the pressures on it: Two protesters stood nearby, holding signs and accusing the organization of harming women and killing babies.
Three people died on Nov. 27 when an assailant opened fire at the clinic here, a tan building at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, turning a sprawling, busy shopping center into a scene of carnage. The police identified the attacker as Robert L. Dear Jr., who lived in a remote mountain town called Hartsel, and arrested him at the scene; the clinic had been closed since then.
At a news conference Monday morning, Vicki Cowart, the president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said her group was fulfilling its commitment to serve the people of Colorado and would resume offering a full spectrum of services, including abortion.
“We have to be really honest about the fact that there are a lot of people in this country that bully women and bully health care providers,” Ms. Cowart said. “Planned Parenthood is on the side of resiliency, on the side of believing that women and families should have access to reproductive health care.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-clinic-reopens-after-deadly-attack.html
COLORADO SPRINGS — The Planned Parenthood clinic attacked in November by a gunman professing anti-abortion views reopened on Monday with a packed schedule of patients and no end to the pressures on it: Two protesters stood nearby, holding signs and accusing the organization of harming women and killing babies.
Three people died on Nov. 27 when an assailant opened fire at the clinic here, a tan building at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, turning a sprawling, busy shopping center into a scene of carnage. The police identified the attacker as Robert L. Dear Jr., who lived in a remote mountain town called Hartsel, and arrested him at the scene; the clinic had been closed since then.
At a news conference Monday morning, Vicki Cowart, the president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said her group was fulfilling its commitment to serve the people of Colorado and would resume offering a full spectrum of services, including abortion.
“We have to be really honest about the fact that there are a lot of people in this country that bully women and bully health care providers,” Ms. Cowart said. “Planned Parenthood is on the side of resiliency, on the side of believing that women and families should have access to reproductive health care.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-clinic-reopens-after-deadly-attack.html