Planned Parenthood is vowing to reopen its Colorado Springs clinic soon

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last updated 29 November 2015

Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains President Vicki Cowart vowed Saturday to reopen the Colorado Springs, Colorado, clinic soon, The Guardian reports. None of the clinic's 15 employees in the building at the time were wounded in Friday's attack, when a gunman fatally shot three people and injured nine others.

"We will adapt," Cowart said. "We will square our shoulders and we will go on."

The clinic went under lockdown as the gunman reportedly entered the building, but wasn't able to make it past a locked door leading to the main part of the facility. During the five-hour standoff between the gunman — allegedly 57-year-old Robert Dear — and police officers, about 300 people sheltered in place at a nearby shopping center, The Associated Press reports. Dear has been held without Bond since Friday, and is due to appear in court Monday.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.

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