The Note: What the Candidates Are Saying After Colorado
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--CLINTON CALLS FOR GUN CONTROL: In her most extensive remarks since the shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado on Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doubled down on her support for the organization, ABC's LIZ KREUTZ notes. "We should be supporting Planned Parenthood, not attacking it. And it is way past time for us to protect women's health and respect women's rights not use them as political footballs," Clinton said in New Hampshire last night during her remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Manchester. "Here in New Hampshire, Republicans on your executive council cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. And in Congress and on the campaign trail, Republicans who claim they just hate big government are only too happy to have government step in when it comes to women's bodies and health. It's wrong and we're not going to stand for it." Clinton described Planned Parenthood as a place where women can get the health care they need, such as "breast exams and STD testing, contraception and yes safe and legal abortions." She also offered her condolences for the victims of the shooting, and called for gun control measures. "How many more Americans need to die before we take action?" Clinton asked.
--MARTIN O'MALLEY WEIGHS IN: Clinton rival, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley also responded to the shooting in New Hampshire last night, according to ABC's MARYALICE PARKS: "This most recent act of terror took place at a Planned Parenthood. Others have taken place in classrooms, in schools, in church basements. We cannot treat these acts of terrible violence as isolated events. We have call them what they are: acts of intolerance, racism, and hate," he said. "They are designed to prey on the vulnerable and the unsuspecting. They are acts of terror."
--PLANNED PARENTHOOD BLAMES GOP RHETORIC FOR 'TOXIC ENVIRONMENT': While many Republican presidential candidates have condemned the shooting at the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, Planned Parenthood yesterday accused some of those same GOP candidates of contributing to the creation of a "toxic environment" that provoked the attack, ABC's JORDYN PHELPS reports. "It is offensive and outrageous that some politicians are now claiming this tragedy has nothing to do with the toxic environment they helped create," Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens said in a statement released Sunday. Laguens singles out Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina by name, accusing them of "using this tragedy to repeat false claims about Planned Parenthood," and says it's not enough to denounce the tragedy without also stopping their rhetoric against the organization. http://abcn.ws/1lSQ7Uc