Conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Erick Erickson wrote that he is surprised “more Planned Parenthood facilities and abortionists are not being targeted,” while pushing the smear against Planned Parenthood that was reportedly mentioned by the alleged shooter of a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado.

Leading up to the fatal November 27 shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, numerous conservative media figures had used deceptively-edited videos from the Center For Medical Progress (CMP) to compare Planned Parenthood to Nazis, including Erickson's RedState blog, which compared the organization to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Following the shooting, right-wing media figures have continued attacking the organization.

In a December 1 blog post, Erickson wrote, “It really is surprising more Planned Parenthood facilities and abortionists are not being targeted,” claiming the organization has “been killing children and harvesting the children's organs,” a false smear similar to comments reportedly made by the alleged shooter. Erickson also misleadingly wrote the Colorado attack was “a rare event,” despite the fact that there have been over 70 successful attacks on abortion clinics since 1997 and the frequency of attacks has increased since the release of the CMP videos. Erickson added that “the left” should “damn well better be glad Christians follow a faith that tells them to honor and pray for their leaders, follow the law, love everyone, and let the state and not the individual act as the sword bearer for God”:

There is one surprising thing about the Colorado Springs shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic. It is that it is a rare event. According to NARAL, there have been eight people killed and seventeen injured in attacks on American abortion providers in twenty-five years. And they have been getting rarer: this is only the second such killing - after the 2009 murder of George Tiller - in this century. In Chicago alone over Thanksgiving weekend, there were eight people killed and twenty wounded. 

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It really is surprising more Planned Parenthood facilities and abortionists are not being targeted. It speaks to the pro-life movement being faith based and turning to their better angels.

Cecile Richards is about the closest we have come in the United States to Joseph Mengele. Under her leadership at Planned Parenthood, doctors have been killing children and harvesting the children's organs. In some cases, the children are born alive. In some case, whole children are born and then carved up.

This has all been caught on tape repeatedly. The media and left would prefer you ignore it. They'd prefer you believe the tapes were altered, edited, or fabricated. But we should not be ashamed of speaking the truth. It is the truth that Planned Parenthood sells baby parts and its employees were caught on tape talking about the value, the sale, and the altering of abortion procedures to preserve organs for sale.

Planned Parenthood butchers millions of children. Three people died at the Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado. Every single one of those millions plus three lives is a tragedy and outrage. 

The left is desperate to compare the American pro-life movement to terrorists. They damn well better be glad Christians follow a faith that tells them to honor and pray for their leaders, follow the law, love everyone, and let the state and not the individual act as the sword bearer for God.

Given the public light shed on the atrocities committed by Planned Parenthood and both the government and media's turning a blind eye to it, dismissing it, laughing it off, or lying about it, it really should be surprising that Americans convicted of the need to stop the murder of children have not taken the law into their own hands.

The pro-life movement is most typically represented by men like Garret Swasey, who though pro-life and Christian, worked as a police officer to save lives in Colorado Springs, CO. We should all be thankful for that. We should all be thankful the pro-life movement respects the rule of law even when the lawmakers and media do not respect them.

Colorado Springs was a terrible tragedy. The shooter was a lunatic, not a pro-life activist. The left can engage in all the moral equivalence it wants comparing Christians to ISIS, but they know it is not true and should ponder what it would look like if it was true. The majority of this country considers itself pro-life and there are at least 90 million self-identified Bible believing pro-life evangelicals in the United States.