Texas Planned Parenthood Clinic Attacked With Molotov Cocktail

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

A McKinney, Texas, Planned Parenthood clinic that does not provide abortions was attacked with a Molotov cocktail late Tuesday night, causing a small fire at the entrance of the building. The device, consisting of diesel fuel in a glass bottle with a lit rag fuse, did not cause any injuries, but a Planned Parenthood official said it did cause "serious damage" to the facility.

"It didn't penetrate the health center office and none of the staff or patients were there, which is great," Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications for Planned Parenthood in Dallas, told Star Local News. "It scorched the outside of the door and I believe there was a little scorching to the retail locations on either side of it."

Tait Sye, spokesperson for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America told HuffPost that, while this incident marks the first attack on the McKinney clinic, Planned Parenthood locations around the country have experienced similar attacks over the years because of the organization's association with abortion. A 37-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Madera, Cali., in September 2010 that shut the clinic down for two days, and another clinic in Raleigh, N.C., was vandalized earlier this month with the spray-painted message, "you shall not murder."

According to the most recent statistics from the National Abortion Federation, there were a total of 96 incidences of violence -- including murder, death threats, vandalism, arson and bombing -- against U.S. and Canadian abortion clinics in 2010.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/texas-planned-parenthood-_n_912710.html

[sakabatou]

1. They're only pro-life if you're unborn

After you're born, "you're fucked."

[freshwest]

13. It's doublespeak for their pro-death all-the-time agenda.

[freshwest]

14. BTW, they support China's forced abortions. 'That's their business,' they say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Was it a Muslim? Then it was terrorism. otherwise

nope, we are not going to use that word,

Kindly your US Media

[louslobbs]

5. Well, according to Media Terrorist etiquette, the word terrorist can not be used for blond blue eyed

............ahhh, terrorists.
Lou

[Horse with no Name]

3. Posted this yesterday...but very little response

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1591323

Someone needs to remind me why the DOJ isn't getting involved in this all out attack on abortion rights across the country.

[louslobbs]

6. Attacks on those who are pro-choice are ok since most who are not pro-choice are Rabid Republicans

who we all know can get away with things because they are Republican that others cannot. It's the old IOKIYAR: It's Ok If You Are a Republican. And thank you for that post horse with no name, I missed it yesterday.
Lou

[Webster Green]

12. Because Obama's Attorney General is a fascist piece of shit.

He has his thugs busy investigating Raging Grannies and Code Pink, and busting medical pot dispensaries.

[Doctor_J]

15. DoJ is completely tied up rounding up pot smokers

they're too busy to look into Christian terrorism and voter suppression.

[okasha]

23. And defending DOMA.

n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

4. A little Norwegian inspiration is all it took.

These right wing terrorists are a bunch of sick fucks.

[louslobbs]

7. You said it Lucky

Lou

[Incitatus]

8. Another terrorist act from the American Taliban. nt

[sarcasmo]

9. Christian Terrorists.

[rainbow4321]

10. Just took my daughter to one in the same county

Geez...I mentioned this to her just now and she said that she read about it yesterday but was hoping I didn't find about it til after her appointment today! Yeah, I would have let her still go but I sure as hell would not have gone off and hung out at the local coffee shop and bookstore while I waited!

[Horse with no Name]

16. If you guys are in need of a "safe" clinic

where there aren't any protestors, let me know and I can give you one.
It's scary.
My daughter is going to be taking one of her friends to Greenville Ave. in the next couple of weeks--I've volunteered to go with her. She has no idea what she is getting into.:(

[PatrynXX]

11. well thats what the tea party is playing with

on the debt ceiling. cept they haven't remembered to toss it out of the group yet when it's on fire.

Postal 2 in real life??

[Downwinder]

17. Is there a burn ban in effect in Collin County?

With the drought, a fire bomb is a threat to the entire community.

[krispos42]

18. Was it terrorism?

Lemme check the skin color of the suspect...

[BNJMN]

20. +1

[BNJMN]

21. Abortion is a personal choice, and this is domestic terrorism and should be treated as such. [nt]

[Ian David]

19. More TeaTerror.

http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror
http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror2

[Morizovich]

22. The clinic doesn't even provide abortion services?

I find hope for the future in the fact the wingnuts can't even identify their targets.

Recommended.

[Cal Carpenter]

26. Yeah, it's so warped

Planned Parenthood provides a lot of services - including a ton of low-cost birth control, which would LOWER the need for abortion.

Geez.

[UTUSN]

24. K&R #16, they're only pro-life until the fetuses grow up and need social services. n/t

[w8liftinglady]

25. I just got back to DFW. This REALLY bothers me.

My partner and I both live in Texas counties with no Planned parenthood or family planning services of any kind.

We keep hearing the same double-speak--no birth control, no support of the babies or their moms after birth, cutting school funding, increased teen pregnancy rates, increased Chlamidia rates, increased STD rates,increased breast cancer rates,increased infant deaths,...But by god- we support the "fetus".
I am so sad for these women...and men(men can get assistance from Planned parenthood,too).