In Colorado, the man who was accused of shooting 15 people in a Planned Parenthood facility was taken to court last Monday. During the court trial, he exclaimed, “I’m a warrior for the babies” and admitted to being the shooter.

Robert Lewis Dear is a self-proclaimed hero to the babies, who entered a Planned Parenthood building and shot at police officers from inside. The police were eventually able to get into the building and corner Dear. At that point, he surrendered and was arrested. When prosecutors questioned Dear on his actions, he made several anti-abortion and anti-government remarks. In court, Dear plead guilty to the shooting and interrupted his attorney and judge several times during the trial claiming that he was “protecting the babies” and that the babies who were supposed to be born that day should be added to the list of victims. Dear is no stranger to law enforcement. He has been accused of being a domestic abuser, peeping tom and an animal abuser, all of which he was not found guilty. Dear had lived in solitude in North Carolina and moved to Colorado a year ago. He was living in an RV on a vacant property.  

The shooting has been labeled an act of terrorism by both the pro and anti abortion movements. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the shooting a “crime against women receiving health care services.”  during an an interview with CNN News. Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and anti abortion advocate, says “What he did is domestic terrorism, and what he did is absolutely abominable — especially to us in the pro-life movement, because there’s nothing about any of us that would condone or in any way look the other way on something like this.” “It is terrifying to think that there are people in america who feel that other people shouldn’t have the right to control their own bodies. If someone feels abortion is wrong, how can they possibly justify taking the lives of others?” says Sophomore Melissa Lehman.