Friday, May 7, 2021

JOE BIDEN - POSTER SAINT OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S BABY BUTCHERIES

 

Does Planned Parenthood Want Justice?

Planned Parenthood leadership is trying to rebrand their organization because they know they can no longer hide what their eugenicist founder, Margaret Sanger, stood for. The trouble for Planned Parenthood is that the abortion behemoth hasn’t adjusted course or reckoned with Sanger’s legacy, because it carries on her dream today. And, as the nation’s largest abortion enterprise, Planned Parenthood today eliminates far more of the so-called “unfit” than Sanger could have ever imagined possible.   

Margaret Sanger’s legacy cannot be hidden or covered up by mere words of apologies, or simply by acknowledging her racist roots. But this is how Planned Parenthood’s president, Alexis McGill Johnson, seems to think she will deal with the eugenic legacy of her organization’s founder -- and that’s what she tried to do in a recent New York Times op-ed that missed the mark.  

In the piece, McGill Johnson dismisses Planned Parenthood’s evildoing as a remnant of the past, stating that, “We don’t know what was in Sanger’s heart.”  While it’s true that we cannot determine what is in Sanger’s heart, we do know what actions Sanger took and what words she said. And we know who her friends were -- very dangerous, racist friends like Lothrop StoddardClarence Gamble, and Harry Laughlin. Sanger’s views on the value (or lack thereof) of human life were no mystery when she was alive, and they have been carried on long past her death by the organization she founded.  

When asked by CBS if there was a scenario where Planned Parenthood would “discontinue abortion services in order to makes everything else that they do easier, better funded, and easier for their patients,” Alexis McGill Johnson responded without hesitation: “NO.” She explain that when she was on the abortion business’s national board that she “voted to ensure that abortion was one of their core services. That every center affiliated with Planned Parenthood would provide…”    

The Planned Parenthood boss wants to have her discriminatory abortion cake and eat it, too. She tells us via her Times op-ed that Planned Parenthood renounces the discrimination of Margaret Sanger, while she promises via CBS to continue carrying out everything Sanger could have ever wished for by suggesting the organization will continue operating killing facilities at the heart of the nation’s low-income, heavily-minority communities, where Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are disproportionately located.     

These communities need help -- and that’s not what Planned Parenthood is there to offer. Instead, the abortion goliath profits off of the despair of Black mothers and the fact that young people are alarmingly uninformed about the actual resources that can help them through pregnancy and parenting.  

In a Washington Times op-ed this week, Dr. Ben Carson quoted abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass, who said, “What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.” And today, we know that justice for the Black community is incompatible with the targeted destruction of Black children in the womb.  

Carson also acknowledged that, “when we focus on equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome, everyone wins.” And equality of opportunity begins with the equal right to life for all children, regardless of their race or ability. Planned Parenthood currently stands athwart that equality.     

For years it has been my goal to wake up the black community on the genocide that we are facing. I can personally say that the conversation on how abortion is affecting the Black community is the most difficult conversation for me to have.    

The number one killer in the Black community is not black on black crime, police brutality, guns, drugs, heart disease, or even cancer. It is the direct and intentional killing of a human life in the black woman’s womb.    

This is exactly what Sanger wanted. To control and eliminate populations she and her white supremacist friends considered “unfit” to live. And we are still seeing the results of her choices.     

I often quote the powerful words of Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr. who said, “The most dangerous place for an unarmed black person to be is in the womb of their black mother.”     

If Planned Parenthood really wants to move away from Sanger’s agenda, it wouldn’t just take Sanger’s name off of buildings (though that is an effort Students for Life -- not Planned Parenthood -- is spearheading). Rather, Planned Parenthood would assess the damage it has done to America, particularly its minority populations, and correct course so that the unspeakable harm of abortion violence does not continue into the future. If Planned Parenthood wanted to reckon with its immoral past, it would cease committing abortion violence immediately. Taking Sanger’s name off a building doesn’t help the child Planned Parenthood is dismembering as you read this. Putting down the forceps and repenting of its brutal injustice is the only path forward if Planned Parenthood wants to do justice and promote peace.   

Toni McFadden serves as Minority Outreach and Healthy Relationships Director with Students for Life of America and is an international speaker and founder of the programs Pro-Life speaker and Relationships Matter.  

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City in Texas Declares Itself a Sanctuary for the Unborn After Ballot Initiative

Lubbock law will outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned

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Voters have made one of the largest cities in Texas a "sanctuary city for the unborn," passing an ordinance to automatically outlaw abortion in the event Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Lubbock, a city in northwest Texas with a population of more than 250,000 people, became the 25th city to declare that abortion will be outlawed in the city in a post-Roe, post-Planned Parenthood v. Casey world. The ban passed with 63 percent of votes cast. The vote comes after contentious legal battles between the Trump administration and Democrat-run cities that declared themselves sanctuaries over disagreements with former president Trump's immigration policies.

"The State's temporary inability to prosecute or punish those who violate its abortion statutes on account of Roe v. Wade does not change the fact that abortion is still defined as a criminal act under Texas law," the ordinance states. "It shall be unlawful for any person to procure or perform an abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy in the City of Lubbock, Texas."

Lubbock is the largest city to adopt such a ban. The ban would most significantly impact a Planned Parenthood clinic that opened in June 2020.  The state of Texas accounted for about 6 percent of U.S. abortions performed in 2017, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. The institute reports that 55,440 abortions were performed in the state in 2017, a decrease of 3 percent from 2014.

"Voters made it clear that Lubbock will become the next sanctuary city for the unborn," Lubbock mayor Dan Pope (R.) said in a statement.

The ordinance takes direct aim at Planned Parenthood. It would allow citizens to take legal action against "any personnel from Planned Parenthood or other pro-abortion organizations who perform abortions of any kind." It does exempt procedures in the case of threats to the health of the mother or child.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas did not respond to a request for comment. The organization said in a statement that it is "carefully reviewing" the impacts of the ordinance before determining its next steps.

"The Lubbock ordinance approved on May 1, 2021 establishes an abortion ban for Lubbock residents, creating significant barriers and the need to travel a minimum 600 mile round trip or out of state to obtain an abortion," the statement said.

Pro-life and religious organizations praised the ordinance for setting the stage for a future in which abortion law is entirely up to states.

"Babies' lives will be saved as a result of this ordinance," Jim Baxa, president of West Texas for Life, said. "States should be asserting their authority to ban abortion regardless of what tyrants in the federal court think.  Until States have the courage to ban abortion statewide, cities have a right and a duty to outlaw abortion within their city limits."

Robert M. Coerver, the bishop of the Catholic diocese of Lubbock, said he hopes the ordinance "will be successful in bringing about an end to the killing of voiceless innocents through the act of abortion."

"I hope that this moment in the city of Lubbock will be an occasion for all residents to grow in their respect for all human life, from the moment of conception to natural death," he said.

The city will likely adopt the ordinance on June 1.


How Pro-Lifers Can Fight Back After Biden's 100 Days of Abortion Extremism

 By Marjorie Dannenfelser | May 5, 2021 | 2:48pm EDT

 
Pro-life protesters demonstrate in front of the Capitol. (Photo credit: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
Pro-life protesters demonstrate in front of the Capitol. (Photo credit: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration have brought an unprecedented tsunami of anti-life extremism. Almost daily, there are fresh assaults not only on the unborn and their mothers, but on the foundations of America itself as pro-abortion Democrats hurry to push through their agenda before the 2022 midterm elections.

Even before his inauguration, President Joe Biden was working to fill his Cabinet with pro-abortion radicals such as Xavier Becerra and Shalanda Young. Becerra is known for suing pro-life nuns and pregnancy centers during his time as the attorney general of California, as well as prosecuting journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s role in trafficking baby body parts. As a congressman, he even voted against banning partial-birth abortion. Young, meanwhile, has characterized taxpayer-funded abortion as “economic and racial justice” — a fringe view in the United States, including among women and low-income voters.

From the start, the Biden-Harris administration has sought to pay back the abortion lobby that spent millions to elect it.

Two of Biden’s early executive orders force American taxpayers to bankroll the abortion industry — domestically and overseas. One repealed the Global Protect Life Rule (formerly the Mexico City policy, which had been expanded under Trump), while the other initiated the rollback of the domestic Protect Life Rule, which stopped tax dollars from being funneled to abortion businesses via the Title X program. The administration could barely contain its glee in undoing the pro-life work of the Trump-Pence administration, with Biden’s Health and Human Services announcing plans to cancel the Protect Life Rule on the same day HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra was confirmed.

In March, Biden signed the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded abortion since Obamacare. Unlike prior COVID-19 relief bills, the so-called “American Rescue Plan” broke with more than four decades of bipartisan consensus by failing to include Hyde Amendment protections. The Hyde family of pro-life policies (which includes the Weldon, Dornan, and Helms amendments, to name a few) has saved the lives of more than 2.1 million children in the U.S. Biden was once an ardent supporter of the Hyde Amendment himself, but today he has fully caved to extremists in his party.

A single week in April brought two more anti-life decrees. First, the Food and Drug Administration decided not to enforce safety regulations on mail-order abortion drugs. The abortion industry has long sought essentially to convert every post office into an abortion center — lowering overhead and increasing profits. Abortion drugs pose even greater risks to women than surgical abortion, including infection, severe bleeding, incomplete abortion, or even death.

Next, HHS announced it will resume funding for experiments using the bodies of abortion victims without limits. Trump-Pence administration policies had stopped National Institutes of Health intramural grants and required an ethics review for other proposals. These experiments are barbaric in themselves, but they also do a profound disservice to patients — diverting resources from superior, uncontroversial alternatives and holding out grandiose promises of cures that don’t pan out.

Pro-abortion Democrats can’t abide losing and don’t want a fair fight. There is no rule they won’t violate or rewrite in their desperation to hold onto power.

Biden’s commission to “study” ways to alter the Supreme Court is a prime example. Make no mistake: Court-packing is court-destroying. Within days, House and Senate Democrats gave away the endgame with their own legislation to stack the court with pro-abortion justices. Biden opened the door; Congress stampeded through it.

Similarly emboldened, congressional Democrats continue looking for ways to erode the legislative filibuster, create new states, remove the deadline to insert the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution, and more. Worst is their push for a sweeping federal takeover of elections in H.R. 1/S. 1, defeating efforts nationwide to prevent election fraud.

Defenders of life have this advantage: the Biden-Harris abortion agenda is deeply unpopular.

In 2019, after Democrats in New York expanded late-term abortion and Virginia’s governor endorsed infanticide, state lawmakers responded with their own tidal wave of pro-life laws. This year, the number of bills introduced since Jan. 1 is about 500. We gain ground under hostile conditions by going on offense in the states while educating voters and ensuring that extreme pro-abortion candidates pay a political price in 2022 and beyond.

There is no room for defeatism; we must engage. As difficult as it may be right now to envision, the standard set over the past four years can be our future once again.

Marjorie Dannenfelser is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List.

Editor's Note: This piece first appeared in The Washington Examiner.

Biden's Dehumanizing of the Unborn for Fetal 'Material' Has Historical Precedent

 By Bill Donohue | May 4, 2021 | 11:08am EDT

 

Joe Biden gives a speech. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Biden gives a speech. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Two years ago, a jury awarded $58 million in damages to ten plaintiffs after finding that the Phoenix-based Biological Resource Center had deceived families into donating the body of a deceased family member. The families thought the body would be used for medical research. Instead, the bodies were dismembered and sold for profit.

FBI agents raided the facility in 2014 and found chopped up bodies in buckets, including feet, shoulders, legs, and spines. Freezers were packed with penises. They even found a torso with a different head sewn on, reminiscent of "Frankenstein." The owner of the human chop shop, Stephen Gore, was convicted of deceiving the families who donated the body; he also broke the law by deceiving the buyers who were sold body parts with infectious diseases.

How could something like this happen? It's actually not hard to understand. When we objectify human beings, treating them as inanimate objects, such practices logically follow. 

The Catholic Church has a long and proud record of opposing attempts to dehumanize men, women, and children, ranging from denouncing pagan practices such as infanticide to Nazi eugenics. Its latest salvo is a shot at the Biden administration for lifting limits on human fetal research that were placed by the Trump administration. 

Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chairman of the bishops' conference on Pro-Life Activities, released a statement on April 21 that was superb.

The bodies of children killed by abortion deserve the same respect as that of any other person. Our government has no right to treat innocent abortion victims as a commodity that can be scavenged for body parts to be used for research. It is unethical to promote and subsidize research that can lead to legitimizing the violence of abortion.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about this statement on April 27. She said the White House "respectfully disagrees," explaining  that "it's important to invest in science and look for opportunities to cure diseases." 

As expected, Psaki never acknowledged the humanity of the unborn child. She can't. If she did, the Biden administration's extreme pro-abortion agenda would implode. 

It's easy to ignore the humanity of the unborn if we call fetal tissue "material." That was the choice of words selected by Planned Parenthood in the 1970s. In the 1980s, Newsweek described the dismembered body of an unborn baby extracted in a D&E abortion as "fetal material being pulled from a woman's vagina." In the same decade, Rachel Conrad Wahlberg, an abortion-rights advocate, contended that the unborn do not have an independent existence. Referring to the pregnant woman, she said, "It is hers. It is her possession (italic in the original)." 

The same mindset marked the Dred Scott decision that legalized slavery. In the Supreme Court decision of 1857, the court affirmed public opinion by noting that black people were "articles of property and merchandise." Nearly 400 blacks were used as guinea pigs in the infamous Tuskegee experiment that began in 1932. For 40 years, rural sharecroppers who took part in the experiment never knew they had syphilis, nor were treated for it. They were not seen as human beings with rights equal to that of others.

After World War I, prisoners in San Quentin received transplanted sex organs from rams, goats, and boars. Tuberculosis treatments were tested on other prisoners. Inmates of Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois were exposed to malaria in the hope that a cure could be found. The drug companies had a field day experimenting on the incarcerated, and did so without controversy right up until the 1970s.

Not only were prisoners seen as subhuman, so were mentally retarded children. From the mid-1950s to 1970, those housed at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York were infected with hepatitis so that doctors could track the spread of the viral infection. More than 700 children were infected to see how they responded to a drug treatment. 

After what Jews went through at the hands of Nazi physician Josef Mengele—he performed painful and often deadly experiments on twins—it led to the establishment of the Nuremberg Code, a guideline for conducting research on humans. The first stricture insists that the subject must provide consent before the research can begin.

A child in his mother's womb can never give consent. 

Archbishop Naumann got it right when he said "it is deeply offensive to millions of Americans for our tax dollars to be used for research that collaborates with an industry built on the taking of innocent lives." Worse, this morally indefensible decision was rendered by our "devout Catholic" president.

Bill Donohue is president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is the author of eight books and many articles.


 As President Joe Biden marks his first 100 days in office Planned Parenthood, both the largest provider of abortions in the nation and now the second largest provider of transgender hormone treatments, said in a press announcement “there are increasing signs that the country is on the right track.”

SF Archbishop to Pro-Abortion Politicians: ‘Please, Stop the Killing’

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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said Saturday that politicians who advance pro-abortion legislation cooperate in the “grave moral evil” of killing an unborn child and should not receive Holy Communion.

In his pastoral letter titled “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You,” Archbishop Cordileone writes that “abortion is not a ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic’ issue: the dignity of the human person is a value that is, or should be, affirmed by us all.”

“Abortion is the axe laid to the roots of the tree of human rights,” he states, “when our culture encourages the violation of life at its youngest and most vulnerable condition, other ethical norms cannot stand for long.”

In his four-part letter, the archbishop declares that as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which has brought about “over 60,000,000 deaths, and many more millions of scarred lives,” it is time for “a frank and honest reassessment.”

The publication of the letter follows news this past week of a forthcoming document from the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) on the reception of Holy Communion by pro-abortion Catholics in public office, occasioned by the election of President Joe Biden, a Catholic who has actively worked to expand abortion rights.

The archbishop highlights the importance of formal cooperation in evil, when a person wills the evil that is being done by another person and cooperates to help bring it about, something that is never morally justified.

“This applies clearly to those who willingly kill or assist in killing the child, but also to others who pressure or encourage the mother to have an abortion, pay for it, provide financial assistance to organizations to provide abortions, or support candidates or legislation to make abortion more readily available,” Cordileone writes.

With regard to the reception of Holy Communion, the archbishop notes that there are circumstances where this is morally impermissible, since receiving the Eucharist “is to espouse publicly the faith and moral teachings of the Catholic Church, and to desire to live accordingly.”

While according to Catholic teaching any serious sin, even a private one, is enough to deter a person from receiving Communion, sometimes there is ongoing sin that is not private but public.

There are occasions when those in public life violate the boundaries of justifiable cooperation, the archbishop observes, which adds “an even greater responsibility to the role of the Church’s pastors in caring for the salvation of souls.”

“In the case of public figures who profess to be Catholic and promote abortion, we are not dealing with a sin committed in human weakness or a moral lapse: this is a matter of persistent, obdurate, and public rejection of Catholic teaching,” he writes.

Moreover, Catholics in public life “who participate in abortion or seek to advance it through legislation or advocacy” cause scandal, he adds, “precisely because these are actions of which many people are aware.”

For Catholics, scandal has a precise meaning, he states: “an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil.”

Prominent public figures help shape the culture and their advocacy of abortion definitely leads others to do evil, the archbishop declares.

“This must be stated with clarity: anyone who actively works to promote abortion shares some of the guilt for the abortions performed because of their actions,” he adds.

Such a state of affairs has two consequences, he notes, first that a Catholic in this situation should voluntarily not present himself to receive Communion, and second, that if this is not the case, the Church’s pastors should make sure he does not receive Communion.

“Because we are dealing with public figures and public examples of cooperation in moral evil, this correction can also take the public form of exclusion from the reception of Holy Communion,” he writes.

In the end, people have become to accustomed to the horrific evil of abortion, Cordileone writes, and no longer feel the outrage that such a tragedy should provoke.

“Indeed, when one looks directly at what actually happens in an abortion, it is hard to imagine anything more heinously evil,” he states.

And with “almost one out of five pregnancies in the United States ending in abortion, what we are witnessing before our very eyes is, effectively, a genocide against the unborn,” he writes.

In his letter, Cordileone also makes a direct appeal to prominent Catholics who promote abortion, among whom is the current U.S. president.

“To Catholics in public life who practice abortion or advocate for it: the killing must stop,” the archbishop writes. “Please, please, please: the killing must stop.”

“God has entrusted you with a prestigious position in society,” he continues. “You have the power to affect societal practices and attitudes. Always remember that you will one day have to render an account to God for your stewardship of this trust.”

“Please stop the killing. And please stop pretending that advocating for or practicing a grave moral evil — one that snuffs out an innocent human life, one that denies a fundamental human right — is somehow compatible with the Catholic faith,” he adds. “It is not.”

“Please return home to the fullness of your Catholic faith. We await you with open arms to welcome you back,” he writes.

Lubbock, Texas, Becomes 26th and Largest City to Become ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’

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Lubbock, Texas, became the largest city in the United States to declare itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn,” the 26th in the nation to outlaw abortion.

Mark Lee Dickson, director of Right to Life of East Texas and founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, wrote at Live Action News Sunday that the citizens of Lubbock voted to pass an ordinance Saturday, making abortion illegal within the city’s limits.

According to Dickson, the vote was 62.64 percent (21,400 votes) in favor of the ordinance and 37.54 percent (12,860 votes) opposed.

The ordinance states:

It shall be unlawful for any person to procure or perform an abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy in the City of Lubbock, Texas … It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly aid or abet an abortion that occurs in the City of Lubbock, Texas.

“The victory is significant to many as the City of Lubbock is the 11th most populated city in the State of Texas and the 83rd most populated city in the United States,” Dickson wrote. “Lubbock is also home to Texas Tech University, the seventh largest university by enrollment in the State of Texas.”

As Breitbart News reported in September, Lubbock’s mayor and city council considered the ordinance after sufficient signatures were gathered from Lubbock citizens to allow for a city council vote. The council ultimately voted 7-0 against the ordinance, reasoning that the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade is considered by many to be the “law of the land.”

However, since the vote of the council, as Dickson wrote, was “forced by the Initiative and Referendum process, this allowed for Lubbock residents to take the opportunity to get the ordinance on the ballot and to vote on the ordinance themselves on May 1, 2021.”

Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope said in a statement that “voters made it clear that Lubbock will become the next sanctuary city for the unborn.”

“I am encouraged by the significant voter turnout,” he added, elaborating:

On behalf of the City Council, our duty as elected officials is to begin the process in adding the approved ordinance to the City of Lubbock Code of Ordinances, as directed by the Lubbock City Charter. The Lubbock City Council, per state law, will canvass the votes from this election on Tuesday, May 11, with a likely ordinance effective date as early as June 1.

In a separate statement to Breitbart News, Dickson said:

We are grateful that the voters of Lubbock voted so overwhelmingly to outlaw abortion and affirm the sanctity of human life. We congratulate everyone who worked so hard to pass this ordinance and produce such a strong turnout for this historic election. Planned Parenthood and its supporters also worked hard to get their supporters to the polls, and we congratulate them on their efforts. Now that the voters have spoken, we expect Planned Parenthood to respect the outcome of this election and cease providing abortions at its Lubbock clinic.

Planned Parenthood began performing abortions at its Lubbock facility on April 15.

“Because the Lubbock Ordinance that outlaws abortion was passed after abortions were offered in Lubbock, this makes Lubbock the first city in the nation to pass an ordinance outlawing abortion in a city where abortions are already being committed,” Dickson wrote, noting:

If the City of Lubbock faces a lawsuit as a result of the ordinance, Attorney Jonathan F. Mitchell, the former Solicitor General of Texas, has offered to represent the city at no cost to the city or taxpayers. In May 2020, when seven cities in East Texas that had passed the ordinance were sued by the ACLU, Mitchell represented the cities, and after three months, the ACLU withdrew its lawsuit. The lawsuit cost the cities and taxpayers nothing — and abortion remans outlawed in every city that was sued.

As Dickson explains, the ordinance contains two “enforcement mechanisms,” one public and one private.

“While the public enforcement mechanism is dependent upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the private enforcement mechanism is immediately enforceable,” he states. “It is not reliant on the overturning of Roe v. Wade.”

The ordinance provides the private enforcement mechanism by stating:

Any person, corporation, or entity that commits an unlawful act … other than the mother of the unborn child that has been aborted, shall be liable in tort to the unborn child’s mother, father, grandparents, siblings and half-siblings. The person or entity that committed the unlawful act shall be liable to each surviving relative of the aborted unborn child for: (a) Compensatory damages, including damages for emotional distress; (b) Punitive damages; and (c) Costs and attorneys’ fees.

In June 2019, Waskom, Texas, became the first city in the nation to ban abortion, declaring itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

Outside of Texas, two towns in Nebraska — Hayes Center and Blue Hill — have also passed ordinances to become “sanctuary cities for the unborn.”

Hayes Center became the 24th sanctuary city and the first outside of Texas to outlaw abortion, followed by Blue Hill.

KSNBLocal4 News reported that, while Blue Hill has no abortion clinic, its mayor, Keri Schunk, said the ordinance is preventative.

“It’s a lot easier now to take action than when it becomes a problem at our forefront, and then we don’t have the means or any of that to take action, and by that point lives have been lost and we can hopefully be pro-active, not re-active,” she said.

The ordinance carries a $500 fine for violators.

“If someone violates, it will be brought to the attention of obviously the council and then we will proceed with our attorneys,” Schunk said.

Scout Richters of American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Nebraska Legal and Policy Counsel stated that “cities and villages cannot outlaw or criminalize abortion.”

“It is a fundamental right protected by the Constitution,” Richters said. “We are monitoring suspect local ordinances and exploring our options, including litigation if necessary.”

“The facts are clear, these restrictions fall hardest on women of color, poor women and women living in rural communities,” the statement continued. “These community leaders should be focused on the health of their community, not taking away people’s freedom to make the best decision for themselves and their families.”

Nevertheless, Dickson wrote, “The Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative continues at a rapid pace, as petitions to outlaw abortion are coming in from residents of more cities across the U.S.”

It's Sunday, and pro-abortion President Biden will take Communion again

As a Catholic, let me deliver this message to all of those fellow Catholics who are disappointed with President Biden: what were you thinking?

Suddenly, there are pro-life Democrats disappointed with their party.  Again, didn't you know that your party is committed to a pro-abortion message?  I may be wrong, but wasn't Governor Casey the last pro-life prime-time speaker at a party convention?  That was in 1992, and a fellow named Perot was running for president.

Once again, we hear that bishops are talking about the Catholic who has never heard of an abortion he'd disapprove of.

This is from National Catholic Register:

In his first weeks in office, he issued an executive order to cancel the Mexico City Policy that prohibited U.S. taxpayer funding of abortion and advocacy for abortion abroad. The move flouted repeated reminders from the U.S. bishops about how his pro-abortion commitments conflict with the Church's clear teaching about this preeminent moral issue of our time, as well as Pope Francis' repeated warnings about "modern forms of ideological colonization," including the exportation of a progressive agenda against the unborn. 

With the stroke of a pen, our nation's Catholic president forced his fellow Catholics, and other Americans who abhor abortion on the grounds of their faith-based belief in the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, to violate their consciences by making them complicit in funding the international abortion lobby.

Biden's executive action, undertaken with the deliberate intent to convey his complete conformity with the Democratic Party's allegiances to Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, was followed by the confirmation of a succession of stridently pro-abortion appointees to senior administration posts. Most notably, Biden installed Xavier Becerra as secretary of Health and Human Services. Becerra, a Catholic politician who dissents on abortion even more flagrantly than the president, began his campaign to integrate pro-abortion priorities into the framework of the federal government in April by overturning the HHS' prohibition on Title X health-care funding being directed to organizations that are involved with abortion. 

Planned Parenthood will be by far the biggest beneficiary of the Title X money that is now poised to flood into the abortion industry. 

Sorry, but it's time end the charade.  President Biden may think that he is a Catholic, but his actions say otherwise.

The bishops need to call him out on it and include Speaker Pelosi in the announcement.  Abortion is a major issue for the Catholic faith, and President Biden, and Speaker Pelosi, can't continue with their games.

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Planned Parenthood Seeks Even ‘Bolder’ Policies from Biden-Harris

UNSPECIFIED - SEPTEMBER 26: In this screengrab President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Alexis McGill Johnson participates in Supercharge: Women All In, a virtual day of action hosted by Supermajority, on September 26, 2020 in United States. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for Supermajority)
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Planned Parenthood stated Friday that, while

 the Biden-Harris administration is “on the right

 track” in making policy it considers essential,

 the organization is looking for even “bolder”

 moves in the days ahead.

As President Joe Biden marks his first 100 days in office, Planned Parenthood, both the largest provider of abortions in the nation and now the second largest provider of transgender hormone treatments, said in a press announcement “there are increasing signs that the country is on the right track.”

“Planned Parenthood and our supporters have been paying close attention to the Biden-Harris administration’s actions in its first 100 days, and we’re encouraged by what we’ve seen so far,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood CEO, lamenting further about the policies put in place by the pro-life Trump administration:

The administration’s steps to undo the harm of the past four years and support sexual and reproductive health care are a promising start — but the work has only just begun. Planned Parenthood is ready to work with both the administration and Congress, and push for bolder policies every step of the way.

In its statement, Planned Parenthood alleged that “people of color, those with low incomes, and the LGBTQ+ community” are still requiring “access to health care, sexual and reproductive care, and other basic human rights” that “remain out of reach.”

All of those identified groups are a primary source of clients for Planned Parenthood. The organization is especially pushing the Biden-Harris administration and Democrats in Congress to assure taxpayer Medicaid funds may now be used to pay for abortions and transgender hormone treatments at its clinics.

“Medicaid is the largest payer of reproductive health care in the country,” Jacqueline Ayers, Planned Parenthood vice president of government relations and public policy, said, according to Ms. magazine.

“And black, Latino, LGBTQ, low-income folks are disproportionately enrolled in the program and rely on this program,” she added.

Planned Parenthood lists the following as “accomplishments” of the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration:

  1. Move to reverse the Trump administration’s Protect Life Rule that created a clear boundary between abortion and family planning.
  2. Passage of the American Rescue Plan Act which, Ayers said, “does incentivize states to expand Medicaid coverage by allowing increased federal funds.”

The legislation did not include the Hyde and Helms Amendments, which have traditionally prohibited taxpayer monies from funding abortions in the United States and overseas, respectively. Pro-life leaders consider the measure a bail-out for the abortion industry.

  1. The FDA’s announcement it will be lifting restrictions on the health and safety standards applied to abortion-inducing drugs, allowing for their dispensation via telemedicine and through the mail.
  2. Biden’s executive order revoking the pro-life policy known as the Mexico City Policy, which bans foreign organizations that receive U.S. financial aid from promoting or performing abortions as a method of family planning.

Planned Parenthood referred to the Mexico City Policy as “neocolonialist.”

  1. Prioritizing black maternal health care.
  2. Appointing abortion “champions” such as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, assistant HHS secretary Rachel Levine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
  3. Establishment of a Gender Policy Council.

Planned Parenthood said it will push in the days to come for budgets that “eliminate[s] the Hyde and Helms amendments and related restrictions on abortion,” and ones that also increase “funding for sexual and reproductive health care programs at home and abroad.”

Additionally, the abortion and transgender industry giant said it will seek an immediate end to “policies that target immigrant communities, their health care, and families,” and to bolster efforts to ensure Medicaid patients are able to obtain their services at Planned Parenthood facilities, a goal that would allow Planned Parenthood even greater access to taxpayer funding.


Biden Threw Open Door to Abortion Funding in First 100 Days, Report Says

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Russia in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
 • April 29, 2021 6:15 pm

President Joe Biden's first 100 days in office saw his administration free up billions of dollars in taxpayer money to subsidize abortion providers, according to a report published Thursday.

The religious Family Research Council released a report detailing Biden's executive actions and congressional Democrats' legislative pushes to allow taxpayer money to go to abortion providers. The report estimates that Biden has allowed far more taxpayer dollars to go to abortion providers than former president Barack Obama did.

The funding primarily came from the American Rescue Plan, the massive aid package passed by Congress along party lines and signed by Biden in March. The bill was passed without Hyde Amendment protections, which allowed a portion of the funds to go to health plans and family planning programs without restrictions on those funds going toward abortions. The Family Research Council's report estimates that up to half-a-trillion dollars could be used to pay for abortions through Democratic state funding for health plans, while National Right to Life president Carol Tobias said $414 billion "potentially could be used to pay for elective abortions or insurance plans that cover elective abortions."

Other policies Biden has instituted include a reversal on the prohibition of federal funding for foreign organizations that provide abortion services, the repeal of restrictions on the mailing of abortion-inducing drugs, and a change to the Title X program to allow Planned Parenthood to reenroll to obtain taxpayer family planning funding.

Other parts of government have also loosened restrictions on abortion funding. The National Institutes of Health announced it will repeal Trump administration policies restricting the use of aborted fetal tissue in scientific research.

"As Senator Tim Scott noted in his remarks last night after the Biden address, this is a president who has failed to find the common ground he promised," said Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. "Instead, President Biden has prioritized spending taxpayer dollars on abortion, making Obama look moderate by comparison."

The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment.



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