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Strange Loner . . . Brings His Own Brand Of Death-Dealing To Abortuary

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

It was to have been a long, relaxing late-November weekend for many Americans. Maybe even newsrooms could bask in a slowed pace. But the day after Thanksgiving took an unexpected dire turn.
True, the days just before and after holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas routinely are disfigured by Planned Parenthood abortuaries conducting their kind of grating business as usual.
That’s part of the grotesquerie of modern life drained of moral values. That’s the result of unaccountable authorities making up their own rules to force onto society that defy the Constitution, custom, and common sense, like mandated, expansive permissive abortion.
Burning down the law by the upper crust can creep down to suggest lawless potentials to the bottom of the crust, too. The low-down dough-brains wonder why just the privileged have this law-trampling prerogative.
On Friday, November 27, in Colorado Springs, while turkey leftovers steamed on many American homes’ tables, strange loner gunman Robert Lewis Dear, 57, who didn’t seem to have much of a home or home life, stormed a Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three people and injuring nine others, none of them PP employees.
The dead were a pro-life policeman who’d rushed to the scene, an Iraq war veteran, and a mother of two youngsters. The two civilians reportedly had been at the clinic to accompany acquaintances.
The Colorado Springs Police Department tweeted that reporting unofficial speculation about the suspect’s motivation may impact the investigation and prosecution, and that the police and Colorado Springs’ El Paso County Sheriff are the only official source. A judge sealed documents on the case.
Even before any information about the attacker was known on November 27, experienced pro-lifers knew he couldn’t have been one of their band — not even according to the routine rhetoric used by pro-abortionists themselves.
Pro-abortionists claim that pro-lifers don’t care about pregnant mothers at all except to value them as “incubators” for the “fetuses.”
So, even according to this scenario, a devoted pro-lifer isn’t going to storm an abortion clinic to shoot the valuable “incubators” with still-living babies inside them.
The fact that women aren’t shot after they exit the clinic with their dead babies left behind them disproves the rest of this scenario. As for the women maimed or even killed by 21st-century abortionists, well, that’s of no interest to pro-abortion media who want only the “good” news of massive continuing abortion.
Also, resentment of the abortion industry could gnaw at some member of a female’s family who hoped she wouldn’t have an abortion but saw her deluded through that door. While disliking abortion is easily understandable, that sentiment doesn’t immediately admit one into the pro-life ranks.
If a woman who had been left in ignorance about the health hazards of permissive abortion is harmed by an abortionist, she may be left weeping, but don’t expect the media propagandists to shed a tear for her. To them, she’s a pebble to kick aside on their march. Don’t let the damage done to her be a warning to the next credulous customer.
And if we’re talking mere efficacy, apart from moral constraints or forgiveness, another reason that devoted pro-lifers simply don’t storm abortuaries with firearms is that they believe in repentance and conversion, in part because some of their number, like the “Silent No More” movement, repented of their own abortions.
If you care about the welfare of a deeply troubled person you want to put on the right path, shooting that person isn’t the answer. This may sound painfully obvious, but it still may be hard to understand for media propagandists who conceive death as the easy answer for numberless preborn babies.
Anyway, understanding pro-lifers is the last thing that many of their strident foes in the media ever try to bother themselves with.
Former Texas Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson, now a leading pro-life activist, points out that a demonstrator who’d show up outside a PP clinic dressed as the Grim Reaper isn’t likely to have any productive contact with people going inside — neither staff nor customers.
However, Johnson recalls in her book, Unplanned, that she and others at her clinic were disturbed when they saw a nun in a full habit outside the building weeping as a woman who’d just had an abortion departed:
“Our eyes were glued to the nun as, her eyes fixed on the client, she moved from the center of the driveway to the side, making room for the client to pull out of the drive. And then she began to weep. She fell to her knees and wept with such grief, such genuine personal pain, that I couldn’t help but think to myself, ‘She feels something far deeper than I ever will. She is honestly pained. This is real for her — this grief at knowing that client had an abortion.’
“A sense of shame washed over me. I tried to shake it off but couldn’t get past the fact that a nun was grieving over what was happening inside my clinic,” Johnson wrote.
Soon after the Colorado shooting, Johnson tweeted, “You can’t call yourself pro-life and then advocate death for abortion providers. Violence begets violence.”
And Gianna Jessen, who survived an attempt to kill her with saline abortion in 1977, tweeted on November 27, “May the Lord rescue and save all the people injured in the Planned Parenthood shooting today.”
Sometimes people end up working at abortion clinics because, like Johnson, they had thought good was being achieved. Sometimes they just needed a job. Others, like Joan Appleton, RN, a member of the National Organization for Women, had an ideological commitment.
Appleton, a Virginia abortion clinic head nurse, nevertheless was befriended by a pro-lifer who’d talk to her at the fence. Appleton later left the abortion industry and, like Johnson, became a pro-life activist. Previously deeply pro-abortion, Appleton suffered deeply over the abortions she facilitated.
Sometimes abortionists shake themselves free because they no longer can quell their consciences over the obvious destruction they do to helpless infants, as well as their mothers. Others, like permissive abortion pioneer Bernard Nathanson, MD, seem to take a more intellectual approach as they grasp that abortion wasn’t the shining solution they thought, and that the abortion procedure is ethically untenable.
A shooting attack at a clinic has the opposite effect, of course, making the abortion staff draw together defensively, whether in fear or defiance.
However, they’ve got to grapple with how they’ve deadened their consciences. The very accurate Center for Medical Progress (CMP) videos this year showed abortion executives frankly talking about crushing babies and cutting out their organs for money, including hearts, livers, kidneys, and gonads. A baby eyeball that pops out is cause for laughter. Lunch whetted their appetite for organ harvesting.
It may sound graphic to make comparisons with National Socialist Angel of Death Dr. Josef Mengele. But the industrialization of medicalized unjust death is a lesson from Germany.

Kindred Spirits

The Colorado Springs shooting was an opportunity for liberal news media to try to win back some of the credibility they’ve deservedly lost with the public, but they chose to lie as fervently as ever.
New York Times writer Jackie Calmes, who snuggles right in PP’s palm like a friendly handshake, mentioned the CMP videos in a November 29 post on Colorado Springs, claiming that GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina “falsely” said “a live fetus’ brain” was harvested.
The falsehood is only Calmes’. Procurement technician Holly O’Donnell explicitly described in one of the videos how she actually harvested an aborted baby boy’s brain.
Meanwhile, CBS falsely claimed the videos are “discredited.” The Washington Examiner pointed out on November 30 that CBS failed to explain how the videos have been “discredited.”
In a familiar and sorry tradition, when the choice is between deserving public trust or serving a rigid ideological agenda, “mainstream” media opt for unbelievable ideology. So the public opts out.
A long legal process awaits Robert Dear. Somehow one is tempted to think the kook is a kindred spirit with brazen media distorters. They apparently each choose to define reality to suit themselves.

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