Rob Reiner Twists Jesus’s Teachings on Christmas: ‘Nothing Less Moral than Taking Babies from Their Mothers’
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Left-wing Hollywood actor-director Rob Reiner spent Christmas morning chiding Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, conflating that world-changing event with the Trump administration’s border enforcement policies.
“I’m not a Christian. But I try to live by the teachings of Jesus,” Rob Reiner began. “There is nothing more morally profound than treating people as you would like to be treated. There is nothing less moral than taking babies from their mothers. As the birth of Jesus is celebrated, consider.”
To be sure, the Hollywood left has spent years — along with establishment media members, former Obama officials, Bush family members (Jeb!), left-wing activists, even Chelsea Clinton — deriding Trump’s administration for implementing the same border policies that Obama’s did: separating minor illegals from adults and holding them in detention centers until they can be deported or returned to their family.
In June 2018, Reiner was leading the Hollywood virtue signaling campaign, comparing President Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions of instituting U.S.-Mexico border enforcement tantamount to Nazi-like tactics of “torture” and “kidnapping.”
“What a surprise. The President is lying his ass off once again,” Reiner said at the the time. “Those who back this sick immoral criminal are not only aiding and abetting this inhumanity, but are are allowing fascism to take root in America. Ripping children away from their parents is fascism pure and simple.”
Jerome Hudson is Breitbart News Entertainment Editor and author of the bestselling book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know. Order your copy today. Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter and Instagram @jeromeehudson.
Pro-Abortion Pelosi's Convenient Catholicism
Pro-Abortion Pelosi's Convenient Catholicism
If
House speaker Nancy Pelosi is a "practicing Catholic," then Sen.
Elizabeth Warren is an American Indian. If she is a practicing
Catholic, then one hopes that one day, she gets it right. You cannot
be in fundamental disagreement with a fundamental doctrine of the Catholic
Church and then wrap yourself in its vestments to proclaim you don't hate
anybody.
Funny:
Cafeteria Catholic Pelosi doesn't invoke her Christian conscience when she
supports her caucus's abortion-until-birth infanticide policy, the ultimate
separation of mother from child. There is no worse brutality than
what an unborn child feels at the hands of a surgeon's tools. It is
a fact that forceps kill more children than guns. A detention
center on the border or the deportation of those who have had their due process
and have a deportation order lawfully issued by a judge doesn't even come
close.
Pelosi
did not respect faith-based communities and other organizations, such as her
Catholic Church, when it came to Obamacare's attempt to force them and the
institutions they administer to provide insurance that pays for abortions and
contraceptives. When it comes to Catholics and pro-life people
acting on their religious conscience, she fights them quicker than you can say
"Hobby Lobby." As LifeSiteNews
reported during a recent abortion funding battle:
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted
Catholics for fighting for the right not to perform or fund abortions,
describing their abhorrence for supporting abortions as "this conscience
thing," in remarks to the Washington Post.
Last month, during a debate in the House over a
bill to stop abortion funding in the health care bill and to strengthen
conscience rights on abortion, Pelosi had described the bill as
"savage," claiming that it would allow doctors to let women "die
on the floor" because they could refuse to perform an abortion.
In her remarks to the Post, Pelosi, who says she
is Catholic, defended her statements against the Protect Life Act. While some
"may not like the language,'' she said, "the truth is what I
said."
"They would" let women die on the
floor, she said. "They would! Again, whatever their
intention is, this is the effect.''
"I'm a devout Catholic and I honor my faith
and love it ... but they have this conscience thing [about abortion],"
added Pelosi.
Apparently,
this "conscience thing" may be invoked in the name of open borders,
sanctuary cities and states coddling murderers of American citizens, and
enforcing lawful deportation orders, but not when you are someone who believes
life begins at conception and ends at natural death and not at the end of an
abortionist's forceps.
Heaven,
as some have suggested, is a place with high walls and extreme
vetting. And, we are told, once you have been judged, you are cast
out — uh, deported. There is a big gate, which could be called a
"port of entry," but you do not get to climb over it or sneak around
it.
Yes,
Nancy Pelosi has children, but according to her, she had the right to snuff out
every one of their lives right up to the moment of birth, perhaps even after,
as the Democrat governor of Virginia said he is fine with. You cannot serve the Catholic Church and
Planned Parenthood:
Speaker Pelosi's attempt at claiming the moral
high ground here is the peak of hypocrisy from a career
politician. Our individual faith and beliefs are our own forces to
reckon with, but Speaker Pelosi is far from a shining example of a strict
follower of the church's teachings, especially given her spineless rhetoric on
abortion as the issue moves to the center of the ideological divide.
As her party moves further to the left each day,
especially on the issue of abortion, Speaker Pelosi has simultaneously remained
silent while still claiming to be a moderate and a faithful
Catholic. The mainstream Democratic Party, fueled by young
progressives and far-left interest groups, has embraced unlimited, late-term
abortion with open arms. The Speaker refuses to condemn the
abhorrent abortion laws implemented in New York and Virginia [Virginia's proposed radical
abortion law was not in fact implemented —ed.], which both go even
further than third trimester abortions. She also turns a blind eye
to the harmful rhetoric pushed by groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL,
both of which provide substantial monetary donations to the Democratic Party,
as they encourage American women to
"shout their abortions."
After
her announcement that a vote on President Trump's impeachment will proceed,
Pelosi melted down, saying, "I don't hate anybody" when asked by
Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter James Rosen if she hates President Trump:
"That has nothing to do with
it. I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our
kids who are afraid of gun violence," she continued. "I
think he is cruel when he doesn't deal with helping our DREAMers, of which
we're very proud. I think he is in denial about the climate
crisis. However, that is about the election."
"This is about the Constitution of the
United States and the facts that lead to the president's violation of his oath
of office and as a Catholic I resent your using the word 'hate' in the sentence
that addresses me. I don't hate anyone. I was raised in a
way that is a heart full of love and always pray for the
president. And I still pray for the president. I pray for
the president all the time. So don't mess with me when it comes to
words like that," she said.
Pelosi
doesn't hate Trump, which is why she continues to bear false witness against
him, participating in a kangaroo court proceeding based on hearsay and
presumption. Why is it that you care about children killed by a gun
and not for an unborn child killed by forceps or a suction machine or a shot of
poison to the heart? Why do you care about children said to be
seeking a better life in America when you want to deny American children the
right to life, that unalienable right the Founders you so dearly love wrote
about in the Declaration of Independence? The unborn have dreams,
too, before they are ripped from their mother's wombs.
Ironically,
Pelosi is planning her impeachment vote virtually on Christmas Eve, when
Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ — the baby King Herod, who had
his own version of Planned Parenthood, hoped to exterminate. Perhaps
practicing Catholic Pelosi can explain why she has so often been rebuked by her
own church:
Pelosi has been repeatedly rebuked by bishops,
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic groups like the
Catholic League for her pro-abortion stance. She has returned fire,
calling bishops "lobbyists" — because they opposed an Obamacare
mandate that violates Catholic teaching — and she has taken on nuns (The Little
Sisters of the Poor) who sued to protect their religious freedom[.]
A
few years ago, when asked about legislation limiting abortions after 20 weeks,
Pelosi refused to say when she thinks human life begins and is worthy of both
legal and moral protection. She was roundly rebuked by the bishop of
her diocese:
In an interview with CNS News, Archbishop
Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco responded to Pelosi and rebuked her:
"It is a scientific fact that human life
begins at conception," the archbishop said in a written statement to
CNSNews.com. "This has been established in medical science for
over 100 years. Catholic moral teaching acknowledges this scientific
fact, and has always affirmed the grave moral evil of taking an innocent human
life.
"This has been the consistent teaching of
the Church from the very beginning, a teaching already discernible in the
natural moral law, and so a teaching from which no Catholic can dissent in good
conscience," he said.
Ah,
there's that conscience thing Pelosi finds annoying. Pelosi is so
out of step with Catholic teaching and doctrine that it would be proper to deny
her the Sacrament of Holy Communion, as was done recently to Joe Biden. As the Christian Post reported:
[Fr. Robert] Morey confirmed with
SC Now that Biden was denied the sacrament because of his advocacy
for abortion rights [sic]. ...
"Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse
Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden," Morey told the
publication Monday. "Holy Communion signifies we are one with
God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect
that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or
herself outside of Church teaching."
The rebuke from Morey comes after Biden publicly objected last
Wednesday to a proposal to
outlaw abortions in South Carolina after about six weeks of
pregnancy, including in cases of rape or incest[.]
... He also noted that even though he personally
opposes abortion, "I don't think I have the right to impose my view — on
something I accept as a matter of faith — on the rest of society."
You
cannot be only "personally opposed" to a moral evil as defined by
Catholic Church doctrine. Biden can't, and Pelosi
can't. Faith without works is dead, and Catholics like Pelosi are obligated to render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. Pelosi
cannot serve both her God and Mammon.
Nor
can she use her Catholic faith as a political weapon when it is convenient to d
so.
Daniel John Sobieski is a former editorial
writer for Investor's Business Daily and freelance writer whose pieces have
appeared in Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among
other publications.
Catholic Bishops Have Said These Politicians
Should Not Receive Communion Because Of Their Abortion Stances
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
October 29, 20198:05 PM ET
- A Catholic priest refused to give
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden communion, citing Biden’s
pro-abortion stances.
- Catholic bishops have a history of
refusing to give communion to pro-abortion politicians or warning these
politicians not to receive.
- “To be publicly endorsing and
privately opposed to abortion is an evil charade,” one bishop said.
Catholic bishops
have a history of telling politicians who support abortion, like Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden, that they should not receive communion at
Catholic masses.
A Catholic
priest denied communion to Biden
in South Carolina on Sunday, a move that prompted Biden to
defend himself Tuesday, saying, “I am a practicing Catholic, I practice my
faith.” This is not the first time Biden has been censured for his
abortion stances and prevented from receiving communion. Bishop Joseph Francis
Martino of Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, told the pro-abortion
former vice president in 2008 he could not receive communion.
The practice of
refusing communion to pro-abortion politicians is not an uncommon one. Many
politicians who profess themselves to be Catholic, such as former presidential
candidate John Kerry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and former New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani have all expressed public support of abortion and been told by
Catholic bishops not to receive communion for this.
Abortion surfaced as a
conflicting issue for Catholic politicians after the Supreme Court passed Roe
v. Wade in 1973, pronouncing a constitutional right to abortion. About 10 years
later at a 1984 press conference, New York Archbishop John Joseph
O’Connor spoke out against
pro-abortion politicians.
“I do not see how a
Catholic, in good conscience, can vote for an individual expressing himself or
herself as favoring abortion,” he said.
Then-New York Gov.
Mario Cuomo responded to the remarks by criticizing the archbishop for
correlating politics and religion. (RELATED: The Clintons
Coined The Phrase ‘Safe, Legal And Rare,’ But Abortion Activists Say This Is
Stigmatizing)
“So I’m a Catholic
governor,” Cuomo said. “I’m going to make you all Catholics — no birth control,
you have to go to church on Sunday, no abortion.”
As he delivered
a 1984 speech at the
University of Notre Dame later that year, Cuomo added, “I accept the church’s
teaching on abortion. Must I insist you do?”
Cardinal Timothy
Dolan similarly censured Cuomo’s son,
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a January op-ed to the New York Post.
The op-ed came after Andrew Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act into law —
a bill that removed abortion from New York’s criminal code and allows abortions
after 24 weeks.
Though Dolan said
on Fox News that excommunicating Andrew Cuomo from the Catholic Church for this
move was “not the appropriate response,” he also said Cuomo “likes being the …
bad boy when it comes to the Catholic Church,” according to the New York
Post.
San Diego Bishop
Leo T. Maher banned former Democratic California state Sen. Lucy Killea from
receiving communion over her pro-abortion stances in 1989, a move The New York
Times reported helped Killea
win a California Senate seat in a heavily Republican district.
Killea, though she
said she was personally opposed to abortion, said she would not oppose a
woman’s decision to obtain one. Maher told Killea that she could no
longer receive communion because her abortion stances were ”a grave scandal
against the Church.”
The bishop also
issued a statement at the time, saying, ”to be publicly endorsing and privately
opposed to abortion is an evil charade.”
Jenni Logan holds up a sign urging
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to be denied Holy Communion
in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral June16, 2004 in New York City. (Photo by
Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Cardinal Raymond
Burke called for both Kerry and Pelosi to be prohibited from receiving
communion due to their stances on abortion. As the former Archbishop of St.
Louis, Burke warned presidential
candidate Kerry before the Missouri primary in February 2004 that Burke would
not give him communion.
Burke later referred to Pelosi in
2013 as a perfect example of “Catholics who have divorced their faith from
their public life and therefore are not serving their brothers and sisters in
the way that they must — in safeguarding and promoting the life of the innocent
and defenseless unborn, in safeguarding and promoting the integrity of marriage
and the family.”
Burke added that under
no circumstances should Pelosi should be given communion until she changed her
abortion stances. He also said in 2007 that he would not give communion to
former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or any other
candidate who supports abortion rights.
Nigerian Cardinal
Francis Arinze spoke out after Planned
Parenthood endorsed Kerry for president in 2004, saying a Roman Catholic
politician who supports abortion “is not fit” to receive communion.
Arinze did not
specifically name Kerry, but his statement came mere hours after Kerry said,
“‘Abortion should be rare, but it should be safe and legal, and the government
should stay out of the bedrooms. We are going to have a change in leadership in
this country to protect the right of choice.”
”Objectively, the
answer is clear,” Arinze said, when questioned as to whether Catholic
politicians who support abortion should receive communion. “The person is not
fit” to do so. If they should not receive, then they should not be given.”
Boston Archbishop
Sean P. O’Malley warned at the time that politicians who oppose church teaching
“shouldn’t dare come to communion,” though he did not explicitly say Kerry
could not receive communion.
Forbidding
politicians who support abortion from receiving communion “makes perfect
sense,” Burke said in a 2013
interview with EWTN, according to the Global Dispatch. The cardinal warned that
priests must protect the Holy Eucharist from “being profaned, being violated by
someone receiving unworthily,” or someone “who knows that he or she is unworthy
and yet presumes to come forward and to take the Holy Eucharist.”
Burke was later
demoted to a “largely ceremonial” role by Pope Francis in 2014 as patron of the
charity, the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta.
“One gets the
impression, or it’s interpreted this way in the media, that he thinks we’re
talking too much about abortion, too much about the integrity of marriage as
between one man and one woman,” Burke said at the time. “But we can never
talk enough about that.”
Conversely,
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick discouraged preventing
Catholic politicians from receiving communion. His comments on the matter
prompted then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI, to cite
the Catholic Church’s Canon Law, number 915, saying that those “obstinately
persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.”
McCarrick has since been found to
have used his status, his contacts, flattery and familial language to make
young seminarians and young men feel special before allegedly harassing or
sexually abusing them. He was defrocked in disgrace.
Father Thomas Petri
similarly cited Canon 915 when he banned former presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton’s pick for vice president Tim Kaine from receiving communion in his
parish, saying in a 2016 tweet, “Do us both a
favor. Don’t show up in my communion line. I take Canon 915 seriously. It’d be
embarrassing for you & for me.”
The active
politicians mentioned in this article did not immediately respond to the Daily
Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Joe
Biden pulls rank on little priest who denied him Communion
Joe Biden is out
pulling rank.
In response to a
little priest in South Carolina denying him Holy Communion for advocating
pro-abortion positions inconsistent with Church teaching, the former vice
president and Democratic Party presidential frontrunner made it
clear he didn't deal with pipsqueaks.
“It’s not a
position that I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father, who
gives me Communion.”
So instead of
thinking about the priest's position and offering some kind of contemplative
thought, Biden declared it was all O.K. to be advocating for abortion from
his position, complete with public funding, because the pope gave him
Communion. Despite the fact that even the pope is a priest and Communion is
dispensed by priests with equal weight, even if a priest is tainted, Biden
seems to be saying that because the pope gave him Communion instead of the
priest, that proves the righteousness of his position.
In other words,
he's got connections.
He completely
sidestepped the issue the priest as concerned about, which was Biden's abortion
advocacy under color of Catholicism. Instead of address that, he pulled
rank, reminding everyone that he used to be vice president and he's still got
connections.
Biden's response
was roughly parallel to that of a Mafia don justifying himself after killing
rivals on weekdays that he too deserves Communion on Sunday, (something
the Church opposes) so he'll get it, too.
But it also had an
elitist element. Who is this troublesome little priest to bother him when he's
got the pope in his tree? As Joe Biden's trough-feeding through his son Hunter
Biden has demonstrated, Joe's in good with the elites.
It's a risky move
because it's something the pope might not appreciate, given the criticism
he takes for his leftist ideas inside the Church. The pope actually has a
pretty good pro-life record with his condemnation of "throwaway
culture" including throwaway babies, as one of the few things he's
been steadfast on. Now lefty pols like Biden are using him as their
justification. Biden got communion from him? It's possible the pope didn't want
to make a scene with the cameras on for a visiting dignitary, or that he didn't
even know what Biden's positions were. Out on the Pontifex Twitter
feed, the pope has so far kept quiet, but the odds are good he won't
appreciate being used as a political shield, and Biden's arrogant rank-pulling
might just force his hand.
Even if it doesn't,
the message from Biden is clear: He's got connections, so to heck with any
truth a little priest speaking truth to power might say.
Pope Francis
Laments Aborted Babies, ‘Who Never See the Light of Day’
24 May 2019492
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Pope Francis pushed for a “culture of life” Friday, noting that among
the most fragile people on earth are the many rejected children “who never see
the light of day.”
In an address in the Vatican to the Hospital of the
Innocents Institute of Florence, the pope told his audience we must promote a
“culture of the child” and learn to be like little children because Jesus said, ‘If you do not become like children, you
will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.’”
“How badly we need a culture that recognizes the value of
life, especially of the weak, threatened, and offended,” Francis said, “a
culture that recognizes in every face, even the smallest, the face of Jesus:
‘Whoever welcomes one child like this in my name, welcomes me’ (Mt 18.5).”
Many mothers abort their children because they “suffer
economic, social, cultural conditioning that pushes them to give up that
wonderful gift that is the birth of a child,” he stressed. And many other
children are “robbed of their childhood and their future” oftentimes facing
desperate journeys to escape hunger or war.
“Today the goal we must set for ourselves,” he said, “is
that no mother find herself in a position to have to abandon her child.”
The solution to helping so many unwanted children, the
pope said, is to promote a “culture of adoption.”
“So often there are people who want to adopt children,
but there is such a big bureaucracy, not to mention when there is corruption at
play,” he said.
“There are many, many families who do not have children
and would certainly want to have one through adoption,” he continued, adding
that what is needed is to “create a culture of adoption because there are so
many abandoned children, lonely children, victims of war and other things.”
With its six centuries of history, the pope said, the
Institute of the Innocents “speaks to us of a city that has put the best of
itself in welcoming children, so that they should no longer be called
‘abandoned’ but welcomed, entrusted to the love and care of the community.”
We must ensure that in the face of any event or tragedy
that could separate a child from his parents, “there be structures and paths of
welcome in which childhood is always protected and cared for, in the only
worthy way: by giving children the best we can offer them,” he said.
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah,
said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the
baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream.
A Desensitized America Ignoring Ulrich Klopfer
It is a human tendency not to value something until it is under assault
or lost, but in the case of abortion, there is little evidence to suggest that
the American public, or mainstream media, is concerned with a blatant assault
on the right to life of 2,246 children.
When reports surfaced that the remains of 2,246 aborted children were
found in the garage and later
the vehicle of former
abortionist Ulrich Klopfer, Americans were horrified. But not for the reason
one might think. As the news cycle passed by it was seen that Americans were
not horrified by the fact that innocent children had been killed, but by the
fact that the remains had been unknowingly kept by an abortionist.
The gruesome discovery in Klopfer’s garage, and the national response,
is a glaring reflection that society has chosen to hide its eyes from such
crimes. Rather than directly confronting the fact that thousands of lives had
been lost through the practice of abortion, Americans chose to look the other
way and ask why Indiana’s most prolific
abortionist would not dispose of the remains.
That realization should cause people to shudder. But the lack of media
attention the story has received makes it feel as though no one noticed any
injustice in the legalized active killing of 2,246 children.
A quick google search will show that the story surrounding Klopfer has
thus far received little attention on national
television news broadcasts, with the large majority of coverage coming from
local news outlets. One would think that an acceptable approach to finding
the remains of 2,246 aborted children would be holding the nationwide abortion
industry accountable for their business practices and nationally illustrating
the reality of what abortion is, the active practice of ending indefensible
human life, but that has yet to be seen.
This is not the first time that fetal remains have been discovered to be
kept after being aborted. Last year in Detroit multiple funeral homes were found to
have over 60 fetal remains and the clinic of former abortionist Kermit Gosnell
was described by Philadelphia
District Attorney Seth Williams as filled with “rotting bodies, fetal remains,
the smell of urine throughout, blood-stained.”
Without implementing policies and guidelines which will restrict the
inhumane treatment of fetal remains after an abortion nothing will stop
abortionists inhumanely treating preborn infants in the future. A simple truth
must be accepted, abortionists should not be allowed to hide infant bodies in
their garages, throw them into landfills, or burn them for fuel.
A Gallup poll in 2013 found that American’s consider individual
freedoms the nation’s top virtue. Such knowledge could lead one to assume
that a people who consider individual freedoms as the nation’s top virtue would
seek to respect and enhance the freedom of others. Yet, while such sentiments
might be held by many, the lack of interest in the murderous actions of Klopfer
have shown that Americans are desensitized to violence against the preborn,
exposing a incomprehension of the most basic individual freedom, the right to
life.
Too much media exposure to violence through television, movies, and video games, has been linked to
desensitization to real-life violence. Such findings could be correlated to a
lack of an emotional and rational response to the issue of abortion and stories
like that of Klopfer as a study conducted by
the University of Michigan, the University of Amsterdam, and Iowa State
University, has found that "people exposed to media violence become
‘comfortably numb’ to the pain and suffering of others and are consequently
less helpful" in dangerous situations.
As society continually becomes more desensitized to violence, the
threshold for potential shock value will continually escalate, leading some to
question at what point will society stop and recognize the amount of widespread
desensitization occurring.
Until then pro-life Americans will continually ask themselves:
Only after confronting the devastating truth’s hidden behind false
narratives surrounding abortion can society begin to reverse the real-life
damages that have been seemingly tolerated.
Viktor Fankl, a renowned Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who
survived Auschwitz, suggested in his book Man’s Search for
Meaning that “the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a
Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.” While it is unlikely a Statue of
Responsibility will ever be constructed on the West Coast, an important lesson
can be learned.
Liberty cannot be sustained without responsibility. If the American
public desires to enjoy the blessings of liberty, and pass liberty on to
following generations, it must first recognize and embrace the responsibility
of protecting all human life from its earliest stages, to the final stages, of
development.
Unfortunately, observing the current news cycle one can see that
Americans are more concerned with their illiterate historical
representation of Christopher Columbus, or the idea that climate change is the “battle of
our time,” rather than accepting responsibility for the fact
that Americans have allowed over 60 million children to be killed since 1973.
Ryan Neuhaus is a Regional Coordinator with Students for Life of America
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