UPDATE: Michelle Wilkins’ family refunds donation from Klingenschmitt
UPDATE:
On Friday, Michelle Wilkins’ family posted the following message on a GoFundMe page they set up to raise money for her recovery:
“Just wanted everyone to know:
Payment Refunded.
A refund of $1,000.00 has been issued for a payment made by Gordon Klingenschmitt for “Michelle Wilkins Fund (Longmont CO)”. The money has been removed from your account: “Michelle Wilkins Trust Fund (Longmont CO).”
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Original story
The Boulder County District Attorney’s office will not file murder charges against Dynel Lane.
Lane is accused of using an ad on Craigslist to lure a pregnant woman to her home and then cutting out her fetus.
The victim, Michelle Wilkins, survived but the fetus did not.
Lane will likely be charged with unlawful termination of a pregnancy when formal charges are announced Friday.
Meanwhile, a state lawmaker from Colorado Springs is under fire for comments he made about the incident.
Rep. Klingenschmitt is calling the death of Wilkins’ fetus an “act of God,” and punishment for America’s abortion laws.
And he’s not backing down from those statements.
“I believe the Bible and I quoted the Bible and I applied it to current events. And if other people are offended by the Bible, that’s okay, they don’t have to agree with me or come to my church or watch my TV show. It’s a free country,” Klingenschmitt said Thursday.
Klingenschmitt is standing his ground over the latest subject of his YouTube show, “Pray in Jesus’ Name.”
“This is the curse of God for our sin of not protecting innocent children in the womb and part of that curse for our rebellion against God as a nation is that our pregnant women are ripped open,” he said in the YouTube clip.
The comments sparked a firestorm online. Constituents and others are calling for his resignation.
But Klingenschmitt doesn’t think he did anything insensitive or wrong.
“I’ve said many times that I wear two hats; and on Sundays, I’m an ordained minister and I preach the gospel and I quote the Bible.”
It’s not the first time Klingenschmitt has made a controversial comment.
He once referenced homosexuality: “We gotta put the people back in the closet. Especially if they’re so flagrant they want to violate one another.”
He once even compared Planned Parenthood to ISIS: “Are these people in Planned Parenthood, who according to the South Dakota state government website are cutting the heads off of unborn children… innocent American unborn children,” he said.
In this latest incident, he’s standing strongly behind his statements.
“I didn’t come here to be a career politician. I came here to speak the truth,” he said.
Both Democrats and Republicans say his newest statements are unimaginably insensitive.
