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Four police officers and an unknown number of civilians have been hurt in an "active shooter" incident in the US city of Colorado Springs, police say.
Officers were exchanging fire with a gunman inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, police Lt Catherine Buckley said.
It was unclear if hostages had been taken, she said.
The city's Penrose hospital said it had received six patients, but did not say whether they were civilians or police.
The situation was still active and roads were closed, the city's police said in a tweet.
"We do not have the shooter at this point but we do have all of our resources brought to bear," Lt Buckley told local TV.
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Saturday November 28 2015, @12:38AM
On the other hand, sure, let's defund Planned Parenthood and replace it with single payer healthcare instead of the jigsaw puzzle joke we have for health care delivery in the USA.
Actually, I see a big problem with single-payer, which I hadn't really thought of before, thanks to this comment of yours. I'm a supporter of single-payer healthcare, however it has occurred to me now that by putting it in the hands of the Federal government, it now becomes politicized, so your treatment and what services you have access to could be very much affected by our elected leaders. In a nutshell, good luck funding abortions with it (even for rapes or cases where the mother's life is endangered), because various political leaders will rail against this and throw wrenches into the system over it. This could happen over all kinds of things that various religious people don't like, and it could change every couple years as new leadership gets elected.
Maybe we shouldn't have Federal-level healthcare at all, and should do it at the state level instead. Over in Europe, there's no EU-wide healthcare system; each country has their own separate system.
(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Saturday November 28 2015, @04:09AM
In Canada, health care is indeed primarily a provincial, not federal responsibility [healthycanadians.gc.ca]. Although the provinces do receive a portion of their healthcare funding from the federal level, and the feds set and administer the national healthcare principles that provinces adhere to.
Using this model, this at least allows for the possibility that some states can fund abortion while others choose not to.
In Canada the concept of pro-choice is either sufficiently ingrained, or we have enough disdain for religion telling us what we can and can't do, that even the far-right Conservative government we just voted out didn't dare touch the subject directly (they did have the gall to defund NGOs working with reproductive health abroad if they advocated any contraceptive method other than abstinence, though). We do have our whackos though, including those that dropped pamphlets with graphic abortion imagery into people's mailboxes.