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MI SR0118
Resolution
AI Summary
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Requests the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress to fully investigate violence against reproductive health clinics and classify such acts as domestic terrorism.
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Documents nearly 7,000 acts of violence against reproductive health care clinics since Roe v. Wade (1973), including 8 murders, 17 attempted murders, hundreds of arsons and bombings, and nearly 200,000 acts of disruption such as bomb threats and harassing communications.
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Cites the November 27, 2015 shooting at a Planned Parenthood Center in Colorado Springs that killed three people and wounded nine as a catalyst for the resolution.
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Calls for federal investment in security upgrades and safeguards to protect reproductive health clinic staff and patients from domestic terrorism.
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Directs transmission of the resolution to the U.S. Attorney General, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and Michigan's congressional delegation.
Legislative Description
A resolution to request that the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Congress fully investigate the unrelenting acts of violence against reproductive health clinics and invest federal resources towards security upgrades and heightened safeguards to protect innocent civilians from acts of domestic terrorism.
Reproductive Health Clinics
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Government Operations
12/2/2015