--- title: Huckabee: Planned Parenthood Shootings Are 'Terrorism' description: "What he did is absolutely abominable, especially to us in the pro-life movement," Huckabee told CNN canonical: https://time.com/4128664/mike-huckabee-planned-parenthood-shootings-domestic-terrorism/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-29T18:40:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:56:44.122Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mike Huckabee: Planned Parenthood Shootings Are 'Domestic Terrorism' og:description: Huckabee said the killings were "absolutely abominable" og:url: https://time.com/4128664/mike-huckabee-planned-parenthood-shootings-domestic-terrorism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46ac3cf6c432705c/698872f4428a9e0897cd04fa/huckabee-colorado-springs-planned-parenthood-shooting1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3098 og:image:height: 1743 og:image:alt: Mike Huckabee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mike Huckabee: Planned Parenthood Shootings Are 'Domestic Terrorism' twitter:description: Huckabee said the killings were "absolutely abominable" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46ac3cf6c432705c/698872f4428a9e0897cd04fa/huckabee-colorado-springs-planned-parenthood-shooting1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mike Huckabee: Planned Parenthood Shootings Are 'Domestic Terrorism' > Sponsored content. 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Mike Huckabee addresses the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, Fla., Friday Nov. 13, 2015. John Raoux—AP  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Nov 29, 2015 6:40 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called Friday’s shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs an “act of terrorism” [on CNN’s “State of the Union](http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/politics/mike-huckabee-planned-parenthood-domestic-terrorism/index.html)“. “What he did is domestic terrorism, and what he did is absolutely abominable, especially to us in the pro-life movement, because there’s nothing about any of us that would condone or in any way look the other way on something like this,” Huckabee said to interviewer Brianna Keilar. Police [identified the attacker](http://time.com/4128379/planned-parenthood-shooting-colorado-springs-3-dead/) as 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear. The former Arkansas governor is one of the few GOP candidates to make a statement about the shootings, which left at least [nine injured and three dead](http://time.com/4128390/planned-parenthood-shooting-colorado-springs/), including a police officer. Huckabee is a devout Evangelical Christian minister who has made his opposition to abortion a large part of his campaign. Huckabee said pro-life advocates would not condone the killings no matter the motivation. “There’s no legitimizing, there’s no rationalizing,” Huckabee [said](http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/politics/mike-huckabee-planned-parenthood-domestic-terrorism/index.html). “It was mass murder. It was absolutely unfathomable. 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