an anti-abortion group new to the knoxville area started protesting outside your clinic and this group held a prayer vigil, for example, where they prayed every fire of heaven would come against this building, given the ultimate fire at the clinic that is, obviously, foreboding and terrible. i don t mean to draw any supposition here, and connect the anti-abortion protests and these violent crimes committed against the clin i wonder if you could talk about the protests around the clinic, whether you have been experiencing threats towards your staff or patients? we have seen an increase in harassment at all of our locations in tennessee the past several years, which is, obviously, very concerning. and i can t help but relate it back to the charged rhetoric and the extreme policies promoted by our tennessee general assembly and our governor. you can t help that. they create an environment where
vigil, for example, where they prayed every fire of heaven would come against this building giving the ultimate fire at the clinic which is all to mislead people and terrible. i don t need to draw any supposition here. and i don t need to connect the antiabortion to the crimes that were committed against the clinic. but i wondered if you could talk to us about the atmosphere, about the protests around the clinic. whether you ve been experiencing threatening rhetoric. we have seen an increase and harassment at all of our locations in tennessee over the past several years. which is obviously very concerning. and i can t help but related back to the charge rhetoric and the extreme policies promoted by our tennessee general assembly and our governor. you cannot help with that. they create an environment where harassment and hate and violence is justifiable. and i want everybody to note that we aren t intimidated by
and they worked hard with the atf to collect all the evidence as quickly as possible and they are working as hard as they can to get to the bottom of it. you know, roughly a month before the shooting at the clinic last year we read in terms of looking at local press an anti-abortion group new to the knoxville area started protesting outside your clinic and this group held a prayer vigil, for example, where they prayed every fire of heaven would come against this building, given the ultimate fire at the clinic that is, obviously, foreboding and terrible. i don t mean to draw any supposition here, and connect the anti-abortion protests and these violent crimes committed against the clinic, but i wonder if you could talk about the protests around the clinic, whether you have been experiencing threats towards your staff or patients? we have seen an increase in harassment at all of our locations in tennessee the past several years, which is, obviously, very concerning.