Timothy Lee Haste, who pleaded guilty to criminal mischief after twice breaking the windows at EMW Women's Surgical Center, was arrested again near the clinic on unrelated charges.
Murders by police and violent attacks on peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters snatched national headlines over the Thanksgiving holiday in a media storm that continues this week.
Pro-choice leaders are denouncing an atmosphere of “inflammatory rhetoric” and intimidation in Colorado leading up to Friday’s murders at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Planned Parenthood’s Columbia Health Center in Missouri halted its abortion services last week, as the clinic is set to lose hospital admitting privileges on December 1.
Over and over again we've seen that the GOP and the anti-choice movement writ large blatantly disregard the likely consequences of their own rhetoric, and then cry foul when asked to do some soul-searching.
One of the suspects was charged with one count of rioting while armed with a dangerous weapon and five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. The others each face a riot charge.
Republican presidential candidates dismissed any connection between the anti-choice movement's coordinated smear campaign against Planned Parenthood and the shooting that killed three people on Friday.
The responses of local anti-choice activists to Friday's shooting at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs ran the gamut from support of the gunman to equivocal rejection of violence.
"This has been a tragic day, a very, very tragic day," said Colorado Springs Fire Chief Chris Reilly during a news conference after local law enforcement apprehended the active shooter.
