Fox News host Heather Childers led a segment about the politics surrounding last Friday's Planned Parenthood shooting by blaming the organization for "politicizing" the shooting that left three people dead and injured nine.
HEATHER CHILDERS: Politicizing a tragedy, Planned Parenthood blaming GOP rhetoric for the deadly shooting. And now Republican presidential candidates are firing back.
Well, that's rich. Apparently pointing out that there's a link between right wingers repeatedly accusing Planned Parenthood of selling "body parts" and a mad man ranting about "baby parts" after coincidentally carrying a long gun into a Planned Parenthood is just a bridge too far.
In the same segment, presidential candidate and former man of the cloth, Mike Huckabee, rejected the claim that the GOP's heated rhetoric about Planned Parenthood is related to the tragedy by—you guessed it—repeating the false "baby parts" charge.
"To blame people who have a strong philosophical disagreement with the dismembering of human babies and with the selling of body parts, to say that we would like to retaliate by sending some mad man into a clinic to kill people, God knows that's not what anybody would want."
From your lips to God's ears, Huckster. Unfortunately, lots of people—including Planned Parenthood shooter Robert L. Dear—are getting a different message. Perhaps that's because the organization that released the "body parts" video attacking PP—the Center for Medical Progress—has strong ties to the extremist group Operation Save America (OSA, née Operation Rescue), which has declared that abortion, homosexuality, and Islam have all "entered into a pact with death." OSA also happens to be based in North Carolina, one of several places the Planned Parenthood shooter once resided. William Saletan has an interesting piece about the number of religious extremists who hail from the Tar Heel State.
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