Following an attack on a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado, authorities are still investigating a motive for a shooting that left a police officer and two others dead. Whatever the motive, the attack should and will be uniformly condemned by the pro-life community. While we would do virtually anything to protect the most innocent among us from murder at the hands of Planned Parenthood medical staff, that does not include attempts at vigilante justice or homicide.
Despite the work of Planned Parenthood in killing more than 300,000 babies each year, the proper response from the pro-life community is continued education of the public by exposing the brutality of the procedure known as abortion. Forceful attacks on abortion providers and clinics do not further a cause based on protecting innocent life. Pro-lifers must be unrelenting in our efforts to protect the lives of children, but we must do so lawfully and in a manner that is worthy of the cause we are supporting. Combating violence with violence in a domestic setting will never accomplish the goal of protecting the sanctity of life.
The Rule of Law must mean something to maintain a moral society, and we must work within that system to change hearts and minds to ultimately end the human rights atrocity of abortion. It is important that we pray for the families of the victims, while also remembering and lifting up the nearly 900 babies that are killed each day at Planned Parenthood offices across the country. The condemnation from the pro-life community should be swift and unwavering; we do not stand for murder and we will fight for the justice of those harmed in these attacks as well as justice for those unborn children being murdered every day.
Zack Pruitt
Zack Pruitt holds a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law and is the Founder and General Editor of www.politicalbeacon.com.
