Attacks on clinics practicing abortions call for attribution to terrorism

Two days before attacks on the clinic At Planned Parenthood in Colorado, abortion advocates petitioned President Obama to declare such incidents acts of “domestic terrorism.”

This was reported by the NARAL organization, which belongs to the so-called “pro-choice” activist groups and advocates for a woman’s right to choose, maintain or terminate a pregnancy. Their opponents in the United States are pro-life activist groups fighting against abortion.

Back in October began spread the petition, which calls on the US Department of Justice to classify the recent increase in attacks on abortion clinics as a separate category. Supporters of the pro-choice group collected about 140 signatures from various organizations to submit an appeal to the Ministry of Justice.

“Such despicable attacks on women's health organizations are not just acts of hatred and violence, but acts of domestic terrorism. And we urge the Ministry of Justice to treat them as such,” the petition says.

According to Sasha Bruce, senior vice president of NARAL, the purpose of such attacks is to intimidate women who are planning or are thinking of having an abortion.

“Technically, the term domestic terrorism refers to the use of violence against a specific category of a country's citizens to influence their decisions,” says Bruce. “And we demanded this category even before the terrible incident in Colorado.”

The Colorado Rifleman was 57-year-old Robert Lewis Deere, who last Friday went to the local clinic Planned Parenthood and opened fire on visitors and staff, as well as the policemen who arrived at the scene of the shooting. Three people, including a policeman, died from the hands of Dir, another nine were injured.

Planned Parenthood, which received government funding, was previously at the center scandal, which the Forum spoke about in detail. In a video published by abortion opponents, fund officials in an expensive restaurant discussed with the “customer” the sale of embryo parts.

On Monday, the organization NARAL promises to publish a petition sent to President Barack Obama. According to supporters of innovation, the recognition of attacks as acts of internal terrorism will allow the authorities to allocate more resources to investigate the crimes committed.

NARAL representative Sasha Bruce believes that in this case, the new Internal Terrorism Council created by the Barack Obama administration in 2015 can participate in the investigation. However, the US Department of Justice currently has no specific mechanism of action regarding acts of internal terror.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines "domestic terrorism" as events intended to "intimidate or coerce civilians" or "to influence government policy through intimidation or coercion."

Two months before the shooting in Colorado Springs, the FBI, as it turned out, warned the staff of this center and other similar medical institutions that perform abortions about the possibility of such attacks.

The US Supreme Court overturned most states' abortion bans in 1973. It was from then on that the confrontation between the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” movements began in American society, which eventually spread throughout the world.

“The tragedy in Colorado Springs is an act of domestic terrorism, especially for those of us in the pro-life movement,” he wrote in Twitter former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, one of the Republican candidates to participate in the upcoming US presidential election.