There is someone obviously grotesque about making a pro-life statement by shooting three people dead, as a gunman appears to have done at a Colorado abortion clinic. The policeman he shot was a family man, with two children, a former iceskating champion.
The clinic is run by Planned Parenthood Federation; it says it has no idea whether it was deliberately targeted for its provision of abortion services, but it would be very odd if it were a purely random attack. But there’s a context for all this. A few months ago, pro-life activists released footage of the way PPF harvests aborted foetuses for their body parts which were then sold. The videos, I gather, are gruesome; it’s difficult to look at them and to avoid the very patent humanity of those foetuses. I didn’t watch them, though they’re online, for the same reason I don’t watch Islamic State decapitation videos, but I understand the callousness of the PPF people involved was quite something.
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