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Politician suggests Planned Parenthood should apologise as their clinic held under siege by shooter
An American congressman has attacked Planned Parenthood on live TV as a gunman engaged in an hour-long standoff with authorities at one of the women's health care clinics in Colorado. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives, criticised Planned Parenthood's statement about the incident as "very premature", while speaking to CNN as the shooting took place.
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"I mean it’s Nazi Germany. You think of the doctors in the concentration camps experimenting on their victims. It’s kind of reminiscent of that"
I wonder if Mr. Kinzinger will apologize for his comments, which stoke the fires of the crazies. He's telling impressionable radicals that Planned Parenthood is the modern equivalent of the horrors committed by Nazis? Is it any wonder, then, that they lash out? He and rhetoric pushing politicians like him are the motivations for these people, and he knew full-well the price when he embraced this fear-based politicking. I don't for a minute believe that he believes his own words. He is simply capitalizing on other people's fear for his own gain.
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