I’ve turned to Planned Parenthood twice during my reproductive years. Once was for an annual exam that had been much delayed. As I approached the clinic, a protester among those lining the sidewalk put her face within inches of mine and hollered, “Why do you want to kill your baby!?” The second time was for a pregnancy test to confirm my pregnancy with our first son, who is now 14. All of the staff celebrated the positive result with us. It now horrifies me to think that the mere act of seeking that annual screening or confirming a wanted pregnancy could have led me or my husband into an ambush like the one at the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, ending in the deaths of two fathers—a police officer and an Iraq veteran–and one mother of two young children.
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