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"Life begins at conception," Biden said. "That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life."


Pelosi’s Archbishop: ‘No One Can Claim to be a Devout Catholic and Condone the Killing of Innocent Human Life’

By Terence P. Jeffrey | July 23, 2021 | 11:10am EDT

 
 
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(CNSNews.com) - San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, whose archdiocese includes all of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district, issued a statement on Thursday rebuking Pelosi for a statement she made at her press briefing that day explaining why she is pushing for federal funding of abortion.

At her briefing, Pelosi had an exchange with a reporter about the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal 2022 that is moving through the House and that, as the Appropriations Committee puts it, includes "repealing the discriminatory Hyde Amendment."

The Hyde Amendment is language that has long been included in annual federal appropriations laws to prohibited federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at risk.

In explaining why she wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment and, thus, allow federal funding of abortion, Pelosi told the reporter that she is a “devout Catholic.”

“As a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family–five children in six years, almost to the day. But it's not up to me to dictate that that's what other people should do,” Pelosi said. “And it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.”

Later that day, Archbishop Cordileone put out a statement. It was headlined: “Statement of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defending efforts to permit federal funding of elective abortions.”

“Let me repeat: no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it,” said the archbishop.

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“The right to life is a fundamental–the most fundamental–human right, and Catholics do not oppose fundamental human rights,” he said. “To use the smokescreen of abortion as an issue of health and fairness to poor women is the epitome of hypocrisy: what about the health of the baby being killed

“What about giving poor women real choice, so they are supported in choosing life?” said the archbishop. “This would give them fairness and equality to women of means, who can afford to bring a child into the world. 

“It is people of faith who run pro-life crisis pregnancy clinics; they are the only ones who provide poor women life-giving alternatives to having their babies killed in their wombs,” he said. “I cannot be prouder of my fellow Catholics who are so prominent in providing this vital service. To them I say: you are the ones worthy to call yourselves ‘devout Catholics’!”



Mississippi Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

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Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed her opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday defending the constitutionality of her state’s 15-week abortion ban.

In defense of her state law, Fitch is also urging the Court to overrule its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.

The Court announced in May it will decide in the Mississippi case “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional” in the United States.

The question poses the most significant challenge since 1992 to the right to abortion created by the Supreme Court in Roe.

Fitch and Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart stated in the brief:

Under the Constitution, may a State prohibit elective abortions before viability? Yes. Why? Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion. A prohibition on elective abortions is therefore constitutional if it satisfies the rational basis review that applies to all laws.

This case is made hard only because Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), hold that the Constitution protects a right to abortion.

Fitch and Stewart observed that much has changed in the nation since Roe was decided in 1973:

Today, adoption is accessible and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life, contraceptives are more available and effective, and scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability. States should be able to act on those developments. But Roe and Casey shackle States to a view of the facts that is decades out of date.

Asserting that Roe and Casey “have proven hopelessly unworkable,” have “inflicted significant damage,” and are egregiously wrong,” Mississippi’s brief continued by stating that both decisions “are thus at odds with the straightforward, constitutionally grounded answer to the question presented.”

“So the question becomes whether this Court should overrule those decisions,” they continued. “It should. The stare decisis case for overruling Roe and Casey is overwhelming.”

The case will be argued in the fall, with a decision expected by June 2022.

The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, in the Supreme Court of the United States.

‘Epitome of Hypocrisy’: Archbishop Slams ‘Devout Catholic’ Nancy Pelosi For Supporting Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks while holding a bible during an event at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 2, 2020.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks while holding a bible during an event at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 2, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s archbishop slammed her in a statement on Thursday after Pelosi (D-CA) used her Catholic faith to explain why she supports taxpayer-funded abortions.

As a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family — five children in six years almost to the day,” Pelosi said during her weekly press briefing at the Capitol on Thursday. “But… it’s not up to me to dictate that that’s what other people should do. And it’s an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.”

Pelosi, who is a longtime supporter of abortion, said making taxpayer-funded abortion legal has been a longtime “priority” for Democrats. Even though Pelosi does not think she should “dictate” whether women have abortions, she said she supports making taxpayers pay for abortions — even those who do not agree — to help women in “lower income situations” as an “issue of health.”

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who is Pelosi’s local ordinary, said in response on Thursday that for Pelosi “to use the smokescreen of abortion as an issue of health and fairness to poor women is the epitome of hypocrisy.”

“No one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it,” Cordileone said.

He pointed out Pelosi’s warped sense of equity, questioning whether it would be more fair to enable all women to have children, rather than present abortion as the only solution to women in poverty.

“What about the health of the baby being killed? What about giving poor women real choice, so they are supported in choosing life? This would give them fairness and equality to women of means, who can afford to bring a child into the world,” Cordileone said.

He concluded:

It is people of faith who run pro-life crisis pregnancy clinics; they are the only ones who provide poor women life-giving alternatives to having their babies killed in their wombs. I cannot be prouder of my fellow Catholics who are so prominent in providing this vital service. To them I say: you are the ones worthy to call yourselves “devout Catholics!”

Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, delivers a homily at the 2016 Steubenville Conference. (Steubenville Conferences/Wikimedia Commons)

Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, delivers a homily at the 2016 Steubenville Conference. ( Steubenville Conferences/Wikimedia Commons)

Cordileone has previously spoken out against Pelosi for her stance on abortion. In January, Cordileone said “our land is soaked with the blood of the innocent…” and that Pelosi “does not speak for the Catholic Church,” after she said pro-life Americans who voted for Donald Trump over abortion were “willing to sell the whole democracy down the river for that one issue.”

The House Appropriations Committee recently approved the draft of a spending bill that would allow the federal government to pay for elective abortions in Medicaid, effectively overturning the Hyde Amendment.

The Hyde Amendment was first enacted in 1976, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide via Roe v. Wade. Lawmakers later updated the policy to add exceptions for cases involving rape, incest, or maternal mortality risk. The amendment is not permanent, so it must be attached to individual appropriations bills for it to take effect. 

The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) condemned the pro-abortion bills introduced by the House Committee on Appropriations introduced last week.

“[The Hyde Amendment] has saved nearly 2.5 million babies and mothers in difficult circumstances from the tragedy of abortion,” USCCB stated. “Billions of taxpayer dollars could be used to pay for abortion” without these protections, they insisted.

Self-professed Catholic President Joe Biden and his supporters have vowed to eliminate the Hyde Amendment and, consequently, force Americans to fund abortion, even those for whom such an action would violate their faith beliefs and moral standards, Breitbart News previously reported. Biden released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget, which did not include Hyde Amendment, a measure he once reportedly supported.

The White House Attack on Free Speech

What type of speech will Biden ask Facebook to suppress next?

 

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"They're killing people."

That was the simple declarative sentence President Joe Biden uttered in response to a question a reporter asked him as he left the White House on Friday.

"On COVID misinformation, what's your message to platforms like Facebook?" the reporter had shouted as the president was walking toward Marine One.

Biden turned and walked directly toward the reporter.

"They're killing people," he said.

"I mean, it really — look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated," he said. "And they're killing people."

At her regular briefing the day before, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had explained how the administration was working with social media companies, including Facebook, in the hope of getting them to adopt what she called "a robust enforcement strategy" against COVID-19 misinformation.

"Can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in policing misinformation?" a reporter asked Psaki. "Has the administration been in touch with any of these companies? And are there any actions that the federal government can take to ensure their cooperation, because we've seen, from the start, there's not a lot of action on some of these platforms?"

"Sure," Psaki responded. "Well, first, we are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team, given, as (Surgeon General Vivek) Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic."

Then she made a very specific claim which is memorialized at 17 minutes and 30 seconds into C-SPAN's online video of the briefing.

"We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation," Psaki said.

Psaki went on to explain that the administration had "proposed changes" for Facebook and other social media companies.

"There are also proposed changes that we have made to social media platforms, including Facebook, and those specifically are four key steps," Psaki said.

The first one, she said, is "that they measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform. Facebook should provide, publicly and transparently, data on the reach of COVID vaccine misinformation."

The second change the White House proposed for Facebook and other social media companies was what Psaki called "a robust enforcement strategy" against those who engage in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.

"Second, we have recommended — proposed that they create a robust enforcement strategy that bridges their properties and provides transparency about the rules," said Psaki.

"There's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," Psaki said. "All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including ones that Facebook owns."

Psaki did not name these 12 people.

The next thing the White House wanted, Psaki explained, was for Facebook and other social media companies "to move more quickly to remove" posts deemed "harmful."

"Third, it's important to take faster action against harmful posts," said Psaki. "As you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms; sometimes it's not accurate. And Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts. Posts that will be within their policies for removal often remain up for days. That's too long. The information spreads too quickly."

The final thing the White House wants Facebook to do is "promote" what the White House calls "quality information."

"Finally, we have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm," said Psaki. "Facebook has repeatedly shown that they have the leverage to promote quality information. We've seen them effectively do this in their algorithm over low-quality information and they've chosen not to use it in this case. And that's certainly an area that would have an impact.

"So, these are certainly the proposals," Psaki said. "We engage with them regularly and they certainly understand what our asks are."

Obviously, a person can make a true statement about a particular subject or a false one. They can also make a statement that presents a reasonable hypothesis based on facts, or that presents an unreasonable hypothesis based on the same facts.

Or they can make an unreasonable hypothesis based on no facts or on blatant falsehoods.

But whatever the merits or demerits of a person's thoughts and conclusions, when they express those thoughts and conclusions, they are invariably engaging in speech.

What does Biden want Facebook to do with speech related to COVID-19?

As summarized by Psaki last week, the administration is "flagging problematic posts for Facebook" that the administration believes are spreading "disinformation" and that "Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove."

Then, as Psaki put it: "We have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm."

Now, put this in the context of a subject other than COVID-19 where human lives are also at risk.

In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that in fiscal year 2019, its affiliates did 354,871 "abortion procedures."

In a 2012 vice presidential debate with former Rep. Paul Ryan, as this column has noted before, Biden presented a scientific fact as if it were a religious position.

"Life begins at conception," Biden said. "That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life."

On its Facebook page, by contrast, Planned Parenthood presents abortion as a form of "health care" provided by "heroes."

"Abortion is an essential part of health care," Planned Parenthood said on Facebook on July 17.

"Abortion providers are heroes," it said in a March 11 posting.

Does Biden — who said life begins at conception — believe it is misinformation to call the deliberate taking of a human life "health care" and those who do that taking "heroes"?

Does he believe Facebook needs to take action "against harmful posts" that promote the taking of unborn lives?

Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com.

BLACK APE IN S.F. ASSAULTS ASIANS

 


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A woman has been arrested for an allegedly attacking four Asian people over the course of several months in Queens, New York.

Maricia Bell, 25, is charged with hate crimes after allegedly attacking three women aged 75, 63 and 34 along with a 23-year-old man.

The four incidents were all separate and began on March 23 but saw Bell punch her victims or even use a metal tool as part of the alleged attack.

During the first assault, Bell is alleged to have yelled at her victim, 'Why are you talking to me?' before punching the man in a parking lot in Flushing. 

A similar assault was then committed against a 34-year-old woman inside a bodega in Pomonok on June 16.

The following month, on July 11, she is accused of hitting a 63-year-old woman in the face while the victim was walking near 72nd Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, also in in Pomonok. 

The latest incident happened early on Wednesday morning about a block away from where she is alleged to have hit a 75-year-old woman with a hammer.

Bell has been charged with a number of hate crimes together with assault, harassment and robbery, according to police.

Bell has five prior arrests including one from March for which she was charged with assault as a hate crime according to the New York Post.

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The alleged assaults are  just one of many that have targeted Asians citywide, with close to 100 anti-Asian hate crimes being reported to authorities this year, according to the NYPD with at least 260 since the start of the pandemic. 

Activists and police officials say many additional incidents were not classified as hate crimes or went unreported.  

In December 2020 an Asian Hate Crime Task Force was formed within the NYPD, to encourage victims to report the attacks.

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, said last month that the city was working to increase communication with community leaders, creating a website to help people report and respond to attacks, and focusing subway patrols on possible bias crimes.

'If you dare to raise your hand against a member of our Asian communities, you will suffer the consequences,' he said.

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Anti-Asian hate crimes reported to police in 15 of America's largest cities and counties, rose 169%, from 32 to 86, in the first quarter of 2021 in comparison to the first quarter of 2020, according to an analysis of official preliminary data by the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism (CSHE) at California State University, San Bernardino.

For instance, Asians form 35% of San Francisco's population. In the first quarter of 2020, the number of reported hate crimes went from five to 12 which is an increase of 169%.

Similarly, 14.5% of New Yorkers are Asian. The number of filed reports went up from 13 to 42 which leads to a total of 223%.

At least 11.6% Angelenos in Greater Los Angeles Area are Asians. The number of cases has gone up from five to nine which is about 80% increase. In Boston, Asians form about 9.7% of Bostonians. Their number of reported crimes has also gone up from five to eight which is about 60%. 

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly called COVID-19 the 'Chinese virus,' and was accused of stoking hatred towards Asian-American people. 

In March, Vilma Kari was walking to church in midtown Manhattan when Brandon Elliot, 38, approached her, knocked her to the ground and kicked her repeatedly. 

Elliot kicked her to the ground and hit her repeatedly after yelling a racial slur. He was out on parole for murdering his own mother at the time.  

In another incident in the same month in San Francisco, Xiao Zhen Xie said she was standing at a traffic crossing on Market Street on Wednesday when a man punched her in the face. 

The 76-year-old grabbed a stick to defend herself and began beating the man. She then lunged at him again while he was being taken away on a stretcher. 

In May, an Asian dad was punched in the head 14 times in an unprovoked attack while pushing his toddler's stroller through San Francisco in broad daylight.

The 36-year-old father, who identified himself as only 'Bruce', was walking his baby in Mission bay neighborhood of San Francisco on Friday afternoon when a man came up to him and punched him from behind. 

He was seen on surveillance footage getting knocked to the ground and blocking the 14 blows to his head and back as his son's stroller slowly rolls away. When his attacker backs off, the father is seen protectively running to his son's stroller while pedestrians and customers look on in shock.   

Anti-Asian tirade toward couple caught on camera in San Francisco

A couple captured a racist man on video hurling anti-Asian comments at them in San Francisco last weekend.

What happened: Albert Hsieh and Justin Erfort were walking on Market Street on Sunday around 3 p.m. when a man came at them out of nowhere and started spewing anti-Asian sentiments, according to KRON4.



  • “I served this goddamned country. So I'm not racist. I don't like you f*cking Asian motherf*ckers in my country!" the man yelled, according to KTVU.

  • At one point in the confrontation, the unidentified man threatened the couple physically, saying, “I'm gonna whup your f*cking a** and his f*cking worthless a**."

  • Multiple bystanders were able to capture the incident on video.

  • “His comments were pretty low,” Hsieh told KRON4. “He was very racially motivated so he said that Asians don’t belong in this country. He served in the Navy and events like Pearl Harbor are reasons why Asians are not welcome.”

  • When one of the victims called the man “worthless,” the assailant responded with, “No your mother was worthless because she didn't abort your sorry a**."

  • “Your boyfriend, you Asian piece of sh*t!" the man shouted at the victims.

  • The couple, who sought refuge at a hotel, reported the incident to 911. The San Francisco Police are now investigating the case.


The aftermath: San Francisco Police Commissioner Larry Yee said the incident was a “shock” and "disturbing," adding, “It hurts my heart to see it happen in San Francisco.”

  • Michael Nguyen, chair of the LGBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, said that although the incident wasn't surprising, “I'm really saddened. I hope the folks who are, the victims of that attack are getting support where they need."

  • Erfort called for the city to address the root cause of the problem.

  • Hsieh, who is a San Francisco native, said he was angry by what happened. “I’ve been here for over three decades and I love this city a lot but I didn’t expect that. I know that San Francisco is better than that. The attacker honestly, we just didn’t expect it. We were just minding our own business.”