PORTLAND — Abortion rights groups from Maine and their foes condemned the shootings Friday at abortion clinics in Brookline, Mass.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England blamed anti-abortion protesters for creating “a climate of violence.”
“Words cannot express our horror,” said Katie Fullam, public affairs director for the agency that operates women’s health facilities in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
The anti-abortion Maine Right to Life Committee said there’s “absolutely no room in the pro-life movement for such actions. … We are praying for the families of those killed, for those injured, and also for quick apprehension of the suspect.”
Two women were killed and at least five other people were wounded in the shootings that began at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Boston suburb.
Fullam said the shootings were not an isolated incident but the outgrowth of “a national network of terrorism” that condones violence against abortion providers and patients.
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