There are those who think their religious beliefs trump the law and the rights of others. The anti-abortionist are quick to lay the blame on the doings of a lone madman. But when unhinged people hear all the toxic vitriol put out there by pro-life leaders, some look at it as a validation of irrational hatred and a call to violence.
Did they not think that all this anti abortion rhetoric would not incite violence of an assailant? The pro-life movement has a long history of violence going back decades. In the seven years leading up to 2014, there were close to 7,000 attacks on abortion providers: 182 acts of arson, 42 bombings, 18 murders, and 17 attempted murders.
When Carly Fiorina states it's "state-sanctioned mass murder" and compares it to the horrors of slavery and the Holocaust, when Ted Cruz calls it a criminal enterprise, and when Mike Huckabee says they "rip up body parts and sell them like they're part of a Buick," they can't be shocked when people take up arms so there are "no more baby parts."