'I Have No Pity': An Arson Attack at an Abortion Clinic Predicts Our Future

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmxxw/casper-wyoming-abortion-clinic-arson


CASPER, Wyoming — “The building’s on fire.”

When Julie Burkhart saw that her contractor was calling her before 6 a.m., she braced herself. As a longtime abortion provider, Burkhart was no stranger to setbacks, harassment, even violence. But at the news that the abortion clinic she’d poured two years of her life into creating in Casper was up in flames, Burkhart started to swear, profusely.

“Who’s there?” she demanded.

“The whole damn cavalry,” the contractor told her.

Burkhart leapt out of bed, tossed on some clothes, and raced toward the site of the would-be Wellspring Health Access abortion clinic. On that sunny, late-May morning, members of every possible law enforcement agency seemed to be there. The police. The fire department. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Even the FBI.

This was no accidental fire, authorities later announced. It was arson.

Initially, Burkhart had planned to open the Wellspring Health Access abortion clinic to patients by mid-June, right around the time she—and much of the rest of the United States—expected the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Wellspring could have been a kind of post-Roe abortion clinic, welcoming patients from Wyoming as well as the surrounding states set to ban abortion. To keep her doors open, Burkhart was prepared to fight abortion opponents in the statehouse and in the courts.

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[dalton99a]

1. Liberty

Pyatt is one of the men behind a local group called Liberty's Place 4 U WY. “By ‘liberty,’” he explained, “we mean small government, small taxes—no taxes if we had our way—personal property, and to be left alone as much as possible.”

Pyatt, who said he “came to Christ” in the 1970s, doesn’t believe in mask or vaccine mandates. He’s intrigued by “constitutional sheriffs,” a movement that claims that sheriffs’ authority trumps that of the federal government. And he thinks states should not only be able to deny abortion rights but also be able to ban same-sex marriage and same-sex intimacy.

[dchill]

3. So "coming to Christ" is justification for violence and hatred...

...against other people you choose to disapprove. Seen it before, "Mike."

I'm no Christian, but I'm reasonably sure that's not Christ's thing.

[Aristus]

5. "Liberty".

Liberty for me, but not for thee (same-sex couples).

Typical right-wing hypocrisy...

[SheltieLover]

2. Lock them up. Make examples of every one of them.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. You might as well set up hidden cameras before you break ground.