The Planned Parenthood Arson is an Outrage Because We Could Have Seen It Coming
The burning of a Planned Parenthood in Washington has been ruled an arson. It is just the latest in a decades-long string of attacks on abortion clinics.
Around 3:30 AM on Friday morning, the Planned Parenthood health center in Pullman, Washington was set on fire.
As The Spokesman-Review reported, the fire burned for three hours, damaging support beams and compromising the building’s structural integrity. No one was inside at the time. By nightfall, the Pullman Fire Department and the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force determined that the suspicious fire was indeed arson. The task force—which includes the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—will be investigating the crime further.
On Aug. 22, less than two weeks before the clinic was set ablaze, the Idaho-based Selkirk Pro-Life Alliance sponsored a large anti-abortion protest at the clinic. Over 500 protestors gathered in front of the now-charred building, repeating allegations made by David Daleiden’s Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that Planned Parenthood “sells baby parts” and calling for the organization to be defunded.
But at this early stage of the investigation, the most frightening thought about the crime isn’t the possibility that the arson was directly motivated by the anti-abortion protests stirred up by the CMP’s undercover video campaign, it’s the thought that this is simply be business as usual.
According to statistics gathered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), there have been 186 arsons committed against abortion providers since 1976—an average of over 4 per year. There have also been approximately 40 bombings over the same time period. In fact, a Planned Parenthood clinic located an hour and a half north of the Pullman health center was bombed in 1996, leading to the sentencing of four Idaho men who belonged to an antigovernment militia.
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