On Feb. 3, I requested the Everett City Council to enact a constitutional 75-foot buffer zone around Planned Parenthood to give patients and staff peace of mind and privacy when entering and exiting the building. Since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol activity outside the clinic has become more volatile and aggressive. I feel it is no longer safe. Nationwide publications have linked the white nationalism groups with anti-abortion groups, a Venn Diagram would be a circle with these two.
The threat of these groups and their influence is real. You start calling patients, staff and advocates murders long enough, left unchecked, and someone is bound to act. It’s inevitable, as we saw on the Jan. 6 with the “Stop The Steal.” We also saw it three years ago when an anti-abortion protestor trespassed, went into the building, and tried to get a patient to leave.
To demonstrate the seriousness of this situation, Ken Peters is a co-founder of The Church at Planned Parenthood and was at the Capitol on the Jan. 6. He is affiliated with Matt Shea. The booted out former House Rep Biblical Manifesto author, Shea has since taken over Peters Covenant Church near Spokane. Peters now has a residence in Knoxville, Tenn., and travels for TCAPP demonstrations. Did you know that their first attack ever at the Knoxville Planned Parenhood was within days of TCAPP’s first demonstration? Coincidence? Not likely.
The buffer zone is constitutionally legal. The city can be on the right side of history on this. I encourage the citizens of Everett to encourage them to make that choice.
Janean Desmarais
Everett
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