Biden to Sign Executive Order Directing Medicaid to Pay for Women to Travel Out of State to Get Abortions
(CNSNews.com) - President Biden plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday directing Medicaid to pay for patients’ out-of-state travel who seek abortions in states where it’s legal.
Biden will “kick off” Vice President Kamala Harris’ “first meeting of the Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare."
According to a White House fact sheet, the president will announce actions to support patients traveling out of state for medical care, ensure health care providers comply with federal non-discrimination law and promote research and data collection on maternal health outcomes.
Specifically, the executive order “directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider action to advance access to reproductive healthcare services, including through Medicaid for patients who travel out of state for reproductive healthcare services.”
The White House says “This directive is in line with the President and the Attorney General’s clear statements on the Administration’s commitment to defending the bedrock right to travel across state lines to seek reproductive healthcare in states where those services remain legal.”
The executive order is in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which struck down the 1973 ruling that established a legal right to abortion.
According to the White House, the administration has also taken immediate action to:
- Protect Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services: The President issued an Executive Order outlining actions to safeguard access to reproductive health care services, including abortion and contraception; protect the privacy of patients and their access to accurate information; promote the safety and security of patients, providers, and clinics; and coordinate the implementation of Federal efforts.
- Defend the Right to Travel: On 6/24/22, President Biden reaffirmed the Attorney General’s statement that women must remain free to travel safely to another state to seek the care they need. President Biden committed his administration to defending “that bedrock right.” Today’s actions build upon this commitment and direct HHS to explore supports for women traveling out of state to seek medical care.
- Protect Emergency Medical Care. DOJ filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin Idaho’s abortion prohibition to the extent that it makes abortion a crime even when necessary to prevent serious risks to the health of pregnant patients. The suit asserts that Idaho’s law conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires providers to offer stabilizing treatment, including abortion services if necessary, in emergency situations, and that in those circumstances Idaho’s law is preempted. This litigation follows guidance issued by HHS affirming EMTALA’s requirements, as well as a letter from Secretary Becerra to providers making clear that federal law preempts state law restricting access to abortion in emergency situations.
- Strengthen Nondiscrimination in Healthcare. HHS announced a proposed rule to strengthen nondiscrimination in health care. The proposed rule implements Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and affirms protections consistent with President Biden’s executive orders on nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Issue Guidance to Retail Pharmacies. HHS issued guidance to roughly 60,000 U.S. retail pharmacies to remind them of their obligations under federal civil rights laws to ensure access to comprehensive reproductive health care services. The guidance makes clear that as recipients of federal financial assistance, pharmacies are prohibited under law from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability in their programs and activities. This includes supplying medications; making determinations regarding the suitability of a prescribed medication for a patient; and advising patients about medications and how to take them.
- Take Action Against Illegal Use and Sharing of Sensitive Data. The Federal Trade Commission committed to fully enforcing the law against illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data, including location and health information contained in fertility and period tracking data. The FTC urged companies to consider that sensitive data is protected by numerous state and federal laws, claims that data is “anonymous” are often deceptive, and the FTC has a track record of cracking down on companies that misuse consumer data.
- Protect Patient Privacy under HIPAA. HHS issued guidance to address how the HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of individuals’ protected health information, including information related to reproductive health care. The guidance helps ensure doctors and other medical providers and health plans know that, with limited exceptions, they are not required – and in many cases, are not permitted – to disclose patients’ private information, including to law enforcement. HHS also issued a how-to guide for consumers on steps they can take to make sure they’re protecting their personal data on mobile apps.
- Request Information on Data Privacy from Mobile Providers. The Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman wrote to the top 15 mobile providers requesting information about their data retention and data privacy policies and general practices, consistent with the President’s commitment to protecting Americans’ privacy.
- Launch a DOJ Reproductive Rights Task Force: The DOJ announced a Reproductive Rights Task Force, which will monitor and evaluate state and local actions that infringe on federal protections relating to the provision or pursuit of reproductive care, impair women’s ability to seek reproductive care where it’s legal, impair individuals’ ability to inform and counsel each other about the reproductive care that is available in other states, ban medication abortion, or impose criminal or civil liability on federal employees who provide legal reproductive health services.
- Convene Attorneys to Defend Reproductive Rights. The Department of Justice and the Office of White House Counsel convened more than 200 lawyers and advocates from private firms, bar associations, legal aid organizations, reproductive rights groups, and law schools across the country on Friday, July 29 for the first convening of pro-bono attorneys, as called for in the Executive Order. The convening closed with a call to action from the Second Gentleman, urging firms to commit a minimum of 500 hours to defending reproductive rights and justice.
- Provide Access to Accurate Information and Legal Resources. HHS launched ReproductiveRights.gov, a website on people’s right to access reproductive health care, including birth control, abortion services, other preventive health services, and health insurance coverage. DOJ also launched justice.gov/reproductive-rights, a webpage that provides a centralized online resource of the Department’s work to protect access to reproductive healthcare services.
SOCIOPATH LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS:
(HARRIS AS SUCKED BIG BRIBES FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD)
At NAACP convention, Kamala Harris disavows humans as property – then promotes abortion
Atlanta Will Spend $300k To Dodge Pro-Life Laws, Citing Racism and Bidenflation
The Atlanta City Council on Monday voted unanimously to allocate $300,000 in taxpayer dollars for a local organization to fund abortions for the city's residents, an attempt to get around Georgia's pro-life laws.
Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, which will receive the money, provides "funding and logistical support" to women seeking abortions. Atlanta's city government passed the measure to provide abortion funding in anticipation of Georgia's fetal heartbeat bill, which will ban most abortions after six weeks. Because of the bill, Access Reproductive Care-Southeast will likely use the money to subsidize out-of-state travel for abortions.
The Atlanta measure also handicaps investigations of abortion facilities, saying that "no city funds shall be used to record and/or investigate reports of abortion care" and that police should "place reports of abortion-related care at the lowest possible priority."
Atlanta is one of several blue cities in red states that have tried to evade pro-life state laws. A group of prosecutors funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros in June signed a letter pledging to flout abortion laws.
Councilwoman Liliana Bakhtiari, who sponsored the Atlanta measure, cited racism and inflation as two reasons the city has to subsidize abortions.
"Some of the legislation we see coming down from the states will predominantly impact people of color," Bakhtiari told Fox 5 Atlanta. "Cost of living is at an all-time high, inflation rates are through the roof."
Pro-life advocate Suzanne Guy told CBS46 Atlanta that abortion is not the answer.
"Women deserve real help, real hope, and real resources, and [the Atlanta measure] is not real help for women," Guy said.
Kamala Harris Compares Abortion Bans to Chattel Slavery: ‘Claiming Ownership over Human Bodies’
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday compared the supporters of abortion restrictions to those who enslaved black people.
“We know, NAACP, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies,” Harris said as the audience applauded. “And today, extremists, so-called leaders are criminalizing doctors and punishing women for making healthcare decisions for themselves.”
Harris made her comments during a speech to the annual NAACP convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
She claimed the Supreme Court “took away a constitutional right” from Americans by overturning Roe v. Wade and allowing the states to regulate abortion.
The vice president also claimed that religious Americans could support abortions and that the government should not be involved with the description of innocent life in the womb.
“[I]t’s important to note that to support a woman’s ability — not her government, but her — to make that decision does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs,” she said. “It just requires us to agree the government shouldn’t be making that decision for her.”
Harris warned that Republican states that were limiting abortions were also trying to pass election integrity laws.
“[T]hey’re passing laws, the same people — laws that ban drop boxes and restrict early voting … Undemocratic laws. Un-American laws,” she said.
Harris urged the NAACP to work toward electing two more Democrat senators to the United States Senate so that Biden could move forward on breaking the filibuster to make abortion rights federally legal.
“We will not — and the President has been clear — we will not let the filibuster stand in our way of our most essential rights and freedoms,” she said.
THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
It is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal, after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
Terry McAuliffe Denies Existence of Pro-Life Women CEOs in America
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Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) told the Virginia Chamber of Commerce Wednesday “there’s not a woman CEO in America that wants to go to a state where someone’s banning abortions.”
Abortion has become a central issue in the tight gubernatorial race between McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin.
McAuliffe boasted to the Chamber of Commerce about his entirely pro-abortion stand as governor, one he associated with the position of being pro-women and “welcoming”:
I also made sure that Virginia was an open and welcoming state. We had some, as you all know, the most anti-women, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-environment legislation in America. I ended all that nonsense. I kept all 16 women’s clinics open. They would not be open today had I not got elected.
In July, McAuliffe touted his endorsements by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia and NARAL.
“I’ve always been a brick wall against attacks on reproductive health care and that won’t stop now,” he vowed on Twitter. “As Governor, I’ll fight to enshrine the right to choose into the Virginia constitution.”
Planned Parenthood Action Fund donated $250,000 to McAuliffe’s campaign just between August 31 and September 28.
CNBC reported Friday abortion and education have taken the spotlight in the Virginia gubernatorial race, with the candidates’ most expensive ads focused on both of these issues.
According to the report:
Three of McAuliffe’s most expensive ads, which cost from $510,000 to $922,000 to produce and run, have attacked Youngkin for his abortion stance. They are among the former governor’s most aired ads on broadcast or cable television, with each airing over 1,100 times, according to AdImpact data.
During this week’s 8News/Urban One Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Forum, McAuliffe said abortion is the most important issue in the governor’s race, and repeated he would enshrine Roe V. Wade into Virginia’s constitution.
When asked about what changes he might make to the current abortion laws in Virginia, McAuliffe responded, “I’m glad you asked this … because there probably is not a more important question to ask right now.”
Monmouth University Polling Institute has McAuliffe and Youngkin “locked in a close battle” in the governor’s race, with Youngkin making the most recent gains.
According to Wednesday’s polling report:
Youngkin (46%) and McAuliffe (46%) hold identical levels of support among all registered voters. This marks a shift from prior Monmouth polls where the Democrat held a 5-point lead (48% to 43% in September and 47% to 42% in August). A range of probabilistic likely electorate models* shows a potential outcome – if the election was held today – of anywhere from a 3-point lead for McAuliffe (48% to 45%) to a 3-point lead for Youngkin (48% to 45%). This is the first time the Republican has held a lead in Monmouth polls this cycle.
Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth Polling Institute, especially noted that suburban women in Virginia are not registering as enthusiastic for Democrats as they have in the past.
“Suburban women, especially in Northern Virginia, have been crucial to the sizable victories Democrats have enjoyed in the commonwealth since 2017,” he said.
“However, their support is not registering at the same level this time around,” he observed. “This is due partly to a shift in key issues important to these voters and partly to dampened enthusiasm among the party faithful.”
Biden DOJ Official Smears Pregnancy Centers Amid Wave of Attacks
The Department of Justice's third-ranking official has a history of calling crisis pregnancy centers "fake clinics," a false, inflammatory description employed by terrorist groups that have recently attacked the pro-life organizations.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta deployed the rhetoric in a 2020 letter urging senators to vote against a Trump judicial nominee. Nearly 60 crisis centers, which counsel women on alternatives to abortion, have been firebombed or vandalized over the past two months. An anarchist group that has claimed responsibility for many of the attacks, Jane’s Revenge, has used the same "fake clinic" rhetoric as Gupta.
The Biden administration has repeatedly accused Republicans of causing acts of violence through their rhetoric. The White House baselessly claimed a GOP-backed bill in Florida to restrict teaching about sexual orientation to young children "encourages bullying and threatens students’ mental health, physical safety, and well-being." Democrats tried to link Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) to a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., in May that left 10 people dead. They claimed that Stefanik’s opposition to mass illegal immigration echoed the Buffalo shooter’s writings about "great replacement theory."
Gupta’s remarks carry new significance after she was appointed this month to lead the Justice Department’s reproductive rights task force, formed to protect access to abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Gupta also supervises the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which prosecutes attacks against reproductive health facilities, a classification that includes crisis pregnancy centers.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.), who introduced a bill this month to expand criminal penalties for attacks on the centers, said Gupta’s remarks are "no surprise" given the Justice Department’s "disregard" for the assaults on pro-life organizations.
"It’s shameful that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice—responsible for enforcing our laws—is ignoring the epidemic of violent attacks against organizations that are just trying to provide health care to women in need," Hawley told the Washington Free Beacon.
While it has moved to protect abortion clinics, the Justice Department has largely ignored the violence against pro-life centers. Gupta and other DOJ leaders met with civil rights and pro-abortion groups this week to update them on the task force’s work. The Justice Department does not appear to have met with pro-life groups that have sought meetings with the agency over the firebombing.
Gupta slammed crisis pregnancy centers while opposing the nomination of Judge David Dugan because of his affiliation with a center in Illinois. At the time, Gupta led the civil rights group Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
The head of one pro-life group that has sought a DOJ meeting says Gupta’s remarks make her "unfit" to lead the task force.
"Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta’s attacks on pregnancy resource centers which help pregnant women in need are shameful and utterly irresponsible," said CatholicVote president Brian Burch.
"Ms. Gupta should be investigating and prosecuting the radical criminals who are vandalizing and firebombing pregnancy resource centers nationwide," Burch told the Free Beacon, adding that Attorney General Merrick Garland should "immediately rescind" Gupta’s appointment.
Gupta is not the only high-ranking DOJ official to attack crisis pregnancy centers. Kristen Clarke, the head of the agency’s civil rights division and a task force member, called the centers "harmful" and "predatory" after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling in favor of the facilities in 2018, the Free Beacon reported.
As part of its work, the task force is centralizing information about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a federal statute that makes it a crime to threaten or attack reproductive health centers. The Justice Department has brought multiple cases against activists who blocked the entrances of abortion clinics, but none so far against people who firebombed pro-life organizations.
The Justice Department did not address questions about Gupta’s comments. The agency provided comment from the FBI, which said it is investigating "a series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers, faith-based organizations, and reproductive health clinics across the country, as well as to judicial buildings, including the U.S. Supreme Court."
"The incidents are being investigated as potential acts of domestic violent extremism, FACE Act violations, or violent crime matters, depending on the facts of each case," an FBI representative told the Free Beacon.
ABORTION IN AMERICA IS OVERWHELMINGLY BLACK. PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAND OUT FREE RUBBERS INSTEAD OF MURDERING BABIES!
HARRIS IS A LARGE RECIPIENT OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAMPAIGN DONOR BRIBES
Abortion and the Soul of a Nation
The founder of Planned Parenthood envisioned a world with no “tradition” or “moral taboos.”
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Everyone from Biden to the media seized on the story of a 10-year-old girl's abortion to defend the practice. They didn't want to talk about the ugly details. And with good reason.
The girl, actually only 9, had been raped by an illegal alien. And, on camera, her mother defended the rapist. Rather than a story about abortion, it was another familiar case of children being abused by the men who pass through the lives of their mothers. And a commentary on the social dysfunction created by illegal migration and broken multicultural communities.
Despite the eagerness to make the faceless child into the face of the abortion movement, less than 4% of abortions involve underage girls. Most however involve broken families.
“I do not view abortion as a choice and a right,” Biden had said in 2006. “I think it’s always a tragedy. I think it should be rare and safe.”
Biden was echoing Bill Clinton's statement that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare". It was a position that most Democrats of a certain age had adopted to bridge the gap between the party's pro-life and pro-abortion wings. Biden has since adopted the position that abortion is a feminist sacrament in a party that has jettisoned both women and its pro-life wing.
Bill Clinton, Biden and establishment Democrats of another era understood that abortion was a symptom of broken families and poverty. They still know that, they just won’t say it. It’s why Elizabeth Warren and other Senate Democrats are trying to ban the pregnancy centers that offer assistance to poor mothers. Those same pregnancy centers have faced a campaign of domestic terrorism from pro-abortion extremists which Biden’s DOJ continues to ignore.
Why burn pregnancy centers? Because Planned Parenthood’s clients aren’t feminists, just poor. Warren and her domestic terrorist allies are trying to take away any option other than abortion.
Women who seek out abortions are disproportionately poor and members of minority groups. 75% are low income and half are below the poverty line. 85% are unmarried, among those 61% had been shacking up with the baby's father, and 61% already had one child. Those making over $100,000 a year have the highest rates of support for abortions and the lowest among those who make only $30,000. From Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, on down abortion is how the Elizabeth Warrens manage the social problems of the underclass.
Eugenicists were divided between the more extreme view, that poverty was a symptom of an inheritable genetic defect, and the more liberal view, represented by Sanger, that the poor were a mixture of genetic defects, who needed to be forcibly sterilized, and irresponsible ‘breeders’, especially minorities such as Italians, Jews, and blacks, who were poor because they had too many children. It was this liberal eugenics that is the pragmatic function of Planned Parenthood even as its ideology trumpets abortion as feminist empowerment for upper class women.
There’s little evidence that abortion has fixed social or economic problems. The multigenerational clients of Planned Parenthood continue to be poor minorities.
Sanger’s contempt for religion had misled her about the role of values in social stability. Children were not the cause of poverty. The poverty rate in 1974, a year after Roe v. Wade became law, was 11%. 5 years later, it was up to 15%. In 2020 it was back to 11%. In 1974, there were 24 million poor people in America. In 2020, there are 37 million.
The poverty rate for married couples is under 5%. It's at 23% for female householders.
Rather than solving any of the social problems that Planned Parenthood claimed to be tackling, the annual mass sacrifice of babies only serves as a disposal chute for its victims. And so when a child is raped by her mother’s boyfriend, the answer is a speedy trip to an abortion clinic followed by assertions that this system is a vital civil right rather than a moral nightmare.
Democrats, including even Joe Biden, once understood that abortion was the fallout of a failed social system and its broken families, but now abortion can only be discussed as if it were a thing in and of itself, detached from any causes or consequences except perhaps the academic jargon about “pregnant bodies” and the “heteronormative patriarchy” that now infuses the Left.
Media outlets claim, with a mostly straight face, that abortion bans hit LGBT people the hardest.
Meanwhile, on the ground level, leftist activists are firebombing the pregnancy centers that offer an alternative to the mostly poor minority women who are the ones who actually have abortions.
"To effect the salvation of the generations of the future—nay, of the generations of to-day—our greatest need... is to cooperate in the formation of a code of sexual ethics based upon a thorough biological and psychological understanding of human nature," Margaret Sanger wrote in 1922.
A code of “sexual ethics” based on a raw materialistic understanding of human nature has long since developed by the likes of Alfred Kinsey. The code has brought on an unrivaled hostility between the sexes, hookup culture, the #MeToo movement, STDs, pornography, single parent families, date rape, the sexualization of children and widespread misery and loneliness.
Not to mention abortion.
One wonders what Sanger, who died in 1966, would have made of the wonderful generations of the future she had only begun to witness at the height of Haight-Ashbury. The essence of Sanger’s argument was that nothing more could be expected of people than to live out their drives and society had to protect its own future by eliminating children from the equation.
Women, Sanger had claimed, would be empowered by this exciting new code of sexual ethics.
What that empowerment really adds up to is college students waking up after a drunken encounter wondering if it was rape and single mothers desperately holding on to a man even if he abuses their children, and the problem being “solved” at an abortion clinic.
Abortion has so often been reduced to a debate between the right to life and the autonomy of the mother that we ignore the fact that what we are really seeing is a side-effect of a social breakdown. The larger question is not whether murder is sometimes justified or not, but why do we even live? What is the purpose of our existence and do we even have one?
Sanger began her book with a quote from Walt Whitman that women "are the gates of the body" and the "gates of the soul", before proceeding to reduce women to the body, the "great fundamental instinct of sex", as she put it, "expressing itself in the ever-growing broods" of the working poor. "Prohibition" and "restraint" were futile, she warned, and would only lead to "insanity, hysteria, neuroses, morbid fears and compulsions".
"Remove the moral taboos that now bind the human body and spirit, free the individual from the slavery of tradition," she urged, and "most of the larger evils of society will perish."
How is society doing without those taboos?
"I was thirty-nine and scared by the idea that I would not be reproducing the kind of heteronormative nuclear family I had grown up in," Emily Witt wrote. So the New Yorker writer joined a dating app "for 'open-minded singles and couples who want to explore their sexuality.'”
"Below the photos is a caption that might read, “31, transmasculine, gynesexual, 3 km away.”
After that, Witt turned in a plaintive article about "the only abortion clinic in North Dakota".
This is Sanger’s world without the moral taboos or any prohibition and restraint. It’s also a world in which Witt admits that, “The older I’ve got, the more I’ve understood how often sexual freedom imposes itself on people who don’t seek it out.” The torrent of "insanity, hysteria, neuroses, morbid fears and compulsions" has only increased in this world with its alphabet soup of genders and sexualities with sky-high suicide and sexual assault rates.
Whitman failed to understand that the “gates of the soul” come before the “gates of the body”, but Sanger could not conceive of the soul as anything except psychological “chemistry”. And there's Witt, their spiritual descendant, who browses a world of sexual fetishes and exploitation, along with her "unmarried and childless female friends", "none of us very young" who "had been 'hooking up' with people for large swaths of our adult lives."
Apart from the moral judgements, Sanger's world is a lonely one filled with broken people, men who fear to be fathers and women who no longer believe they are women living in a digital 'Nighthawks'. Abortion is in decline, not because of laws and regulations, but because people are less likely to connect to each other on even on the most casual level that would make a pregnancy possible.
Abortions, childbirths, pregnancies, relationships and marriages are all in a state of decline.
And that is the best of it in the upper tiers. At the bottom is the end of families, homes that aren’t broken, but never even existed, whose children either end up in abortion clinics or prisons.
Breaches of morality are also breaches of our humanity.
Changing all of that requires looking beyond the body and to the soul. According to Sanger, the soul was "nothing but a vague unreality except insofar as it is able to manifest itself in the beauty of the concrete." She envisioned a humanity whose bodies were as perfect as those of "superb ships, motor cars or great buildings". And yet our truths lie in what to Sanger was a mere “vague unreality” but whose absence has made all of the achievements a hollow tragedy.
Our ships and cars are better than ever. And our society is more broken than ever.
Abortion doesn’t only represent the death of a child, but of a family and a future. It isn’t only babies who die in abortion clinics, but the potential of two people and the soul of a nation.
At NAACP convention, Kamala Harris disavows humans as property – then promotes abortion
Four days ago, Kamala Harris spoke before a crowd of delegates and attendees at the annual NAACP conference held in Atlantic City. Emphasizing the need for women to slaughter their unborn without legal ramifications, Harris compared limiting or banning abortion to slavery, stating that these United States “has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies.”
Harris, in particular, lacks the latitude to claim the moral high ground, as she is the progeny of a prolific slave-owner – a fact acknowledged by her own father – and a Democrat. The legacies of both her ancestors and her political party amount to complete contempt for objective truths such as unalienable rights and the sanctity of human life.
Carol Swain, a former professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, addressed this “inconvenient truth” – asserting that the Democrat party is the party of slavery and oppression. In a video with nearly 9 million views, Swain said:
Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of [racial] discrimination. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the Civil Rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
Commodifying humanity is the lifeblood of the Democrat party – an essence at its inception, and present still today. However, the irony is lost on someone like Kamala Harris.
Presumably speaking to a room of Black Americans, Harris exploits the pains caused by the darkest moments in American history. Yet, she incorrectly likens chattel slavery as practiced in these United States to women living in a post-Roe world, all the while missing the correct and undeniable analogy – the “human bodies” treated like property are not mothers without access to state-sanctioned murder, but rather the executed children.
As Harris identified, human beings beneath the yoke of slavery suffered as others claimed ownership over them. But is that different from a woman who lives by an ethos of depravity, declaring “my body, my choice”? After all, from the moment of conception, the unborn person is genetically distinct from the mother. “My body, my choice” could easily be translated as ‘the human being in my womb is my property, and I can do what I want with it’ – or, it could be said, the mother is “claiming ownership” over another person.
Nevertheless, Harris reaffirms that the enduring spirit of the Democrats is entirely defiled and hopelessly cruel.
Olivia Murray holds a BA in History from the University of Arizona, and is the author of Abortion v. Slavery: The Parallels Between Two National Sins.
The Biden administration and the new 'Intolerable Acts'
In 1774, the British imposed the Intolerable Acts on the American colonies. These acts, also called the Coercive Acts, were punishment for the Americans' disobedience to the crown, particularly as symbolized by the Boston Tea Party, a rebellion against a (relatively mild) increase in the tax on tea.
My fellow Americans, we have recently been subjected to a second set of Coercive Acts. Call them the Intolerable Acts 2.0.
These acts have been imposed on American citizens by their own supposedly representative government, the Biden administration, as punishment for disobedience to the Democrat party and the Deep State, as symbolized by the MAGA movement and the election of Donald Trump.
What are the new Intolerable Acts? I will list a number of them here for you now, many of them a result of executive fiat, not unlike those directed at the colonists by King George III.
– Rescinding the Keystone Pipeline permit, depriving his country's citizens of vast quantities of oil and canceling countless well-paying jobs at the same time.
– Withdrawing oil and gas leases across the nation and its coastal waters, depriving his country's citizens of vast quantities of oil and gas and canceling countless well-paying jobs at the same time.
– Dramatically restricting fracking and preventing all new extraction of oil or gas on federal lands, depriving his country's citizens of vast quantities of oil and canceling countless well-paying jobs at the same time.
– Proposing and fostering other policies guaranteed to dramatically worsen inflation, adversely affecting all Americans lives, especially those with lower incomes and less leverage and fewer opportunities.
– Refusing to close or even effectively monitor or police our southern border, condemning Americans to suffer significant increases in violent crime, drug overdoses, sex-trafficking, and the proliferation of diseases like COVID-19.
– Treating illegal aliens far better than citizens in fly-over country, in many cases putting them up in hotels and then granting them sanctuary status, driver's licenses and free education and health care...all paid for by taxpayers, including those dolts in fly-over country.
– Instituting policies guaranteed to worsen crime and supporting groups like Antifa and BLM that routinely burn and loot American cities — and sometimes kill innocent people and police officers.
– Jailing January 6 protesters, nearly all of whom were actually peaceful, in many cases indefinitely and without charging them, because, well, January 6 was, in some ways, the MAGA movement's Tea Party.
– Sending the FBI and/or DOJ after individual political opponents, raiding their houses in the wee hours with preposterously overwhelming force, dragging them out in their underclothes — and making a spectacle of them for the media.
– Targeting legal firearm owners and attempting to repeal the God-given right to self-defense, a right more important now than ever before...due to the very policies of so-called progressives like those in the Biden administration who want to strip you of this inalienable right.
– Attempting to repeal the First Amendment and strip all of us of our right to free speech, religion, and assembly. Labeling speech with which they disagree as "hate speech."
– Telling us that there is no way to definitively ascertain sex at birth...or any other time, for that matter.
– Attempting to force us to take an experimental gene therapy "vaccine" into our bodies, while simultaneously saying everyone should have the right to decide whether or not to kill their unborn babies because it's "your body, and therefore your choice."
There were five original Intolerable Acts. Those acts were the proximate cause of the First Continental Congress...and the American Revolution.
I have listed nearly three times that number of (what should effectively be considered to be) "intolerable Acts" the American government has imposed on its citizens in the past 18 months.
What say you, Americans?
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Black Lives Matter: Black Supremacists
On July 14, Minneapolis police shot and killed twenty-year-old Tekle Sundberg after a six-hour standoff that included multiple shots by the "victim" being fired into the apartment of a young woman and her two small children. This was because Tekle Sundberg was trying to kill her. Yet according to attorney Ben Crump, Tekle was a "smart, loving, and artistic" young man "experiencing a mental health crisis." The photo accompanying Crump's call to action showed Tekle wearing white, the color of innocence, while smiling for the camera. However, a second photo in the Twitter feed displayed another side of Tekle's character as he held two pistols and a bag of contraband while playfully posing for the camera.
Crump demanded ANSWERS (his capitalization, not mine) from the Minneapolis police about how they conducted themselves during the standoff. He also posted videos of the grieving adoptive parents blaming the police for killing their son "unnecessarily" and called for people to protest at the scene of the crime, which they did. Tekle's white parents claimed that the police promised they wouldn't shoot him (a curious claim to make in an active shooter situation, to be sure) and predictably suggested that their son would still be alive if he were white. However, the police reported that whenever they tried to have the father speak to Tekle, the young man turned his music up full blast and screamed at them.
Just how disgusting can Tekle's parents get? Zero sympathy was expressed for their son's intended victim or her children. Their son was actively trying to murder his neighbor when the police finally shot and killed him, more than six hours after the standoff began, and still they blame the police. If Tekle had been white, the only difference in the outcome is that the cops most likely wouldn't have waited six hours before they finally shot and killed him. The man was spraying live rounds into another apartment, trying to kill its inhabitants, which, in my opinion, forfeits his right to continue breathing.
Say the name "George Floyd," and people bow their heads in reverence for the petty criminal, who died while in police custody from an officer "kneeling on his neck" until he suffocated — which didn't happen, but don't tell that to Officer Derek Chauvin, because he's in prison for allegedly killing Floyd. Now say the name "Tony Timpa." Who? Minneapolis police officers went to prison for detaining Floyd with a controversial hold for nine minutes. Dallas police officers held Tony Timpa with the very same hold for almost fourteen minutes, and, like Floyd, Timpa died. Why have there been no media reports of Timpa's death like the reports on George Floyd? Well, Tony Timpa was a white man.
If Timpa's story failed to move you, what about Edward Bronstein? Two months before George Floyd died, the very same thing happened to Bronstein — cops kneeled on him, and he died. What happened to the officers in the Timpa and Bronstein cases? Nothing.
Obviously, police brutality isn't the real issue for Black Lives Matter. Nor does the innocence or guilt of the candidate for martyrdom matter. Skin color is all that matters to Black Lives Matter. It doesn't hurt if you have a criminal record, too.
Seventy-five percent of the people killed by the police each year are white, Asian, or Hispanic. Twenty-five percent of the suspects killed by police are black. If anything, police have become more reluctant to engage with and subdue a violent black offender out of fear that Black Lives Matter and Ben Crump will marshal the forces of evil against them, and that reluctance puts even more lives at risk.
Not only does BLM always side against the police, but the group frequently sides against the black victims of black criminal thugs. Apparently, only black criminals aren't supposed to get shot, no matter what they've done. In stark contrast, innocent black women and children are fair game. If you are a young black criminal, you're untouchable as far as Black Lives Matter is concerned. Black Lives Matter doesn't care about people. It cares only about power. The people behind Black Lives Matter don't care about black lives in general; they care about only the lives of dangerous black criminals and buying expensive real estate in rich white neighborhoods.
George Floyd? He's been elevated to the ranks of a minor deity, although a lightning strike seems to have offered God's final word on the matter. And contrary to what Ben Crump might have you believe, Tekle Sundberg was no angel. He was a thug and a criminal, and he's far from the only example of Black Lives Matter choosing to champion the wrong black lives. Jacob Blake admits that he had a knife when police shot him. Black Lives Matter led a major protest to honor the man that police had been trying to arrest for sexual assault, criminal trespass, and disorderly conduct. The protests in Kenosha led to Kyle Rittenhouse being forced to kill several people in self-defense as the situation grew completely out of control.
Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and broke the orbital bone in the face of police officer Darren Wilson, but BLM lied and claimed that Brown had his hands up. And Ferguson, Missouri was burned to the ground because of another pernicious lie. Rayshard Brooks passed out in the drive-through lane of a Wendy's and eventually managed to get shot and killed while resisting arrest for DUI. For some unknown reason, video of the police having a normal conversation with Brooks aired on television, but video of Brooks resisting arrest and firing a Taser at the cops did not. Naturally, protesters burned the restaurant to the ground.
Much more importantly, little eight-year-old Secoriea Turner was shot and killed when a protester fired a bullet into her mother's car. Two of the protesters were arrested for her murder. Two years after Brooks's death, "mourners" planned a vigil to remember him. Nobody has a vigil planned for Secoriea Turner.
Black Lives Matter protesters immediately dropped to a knee when reports aired that an armed carjacker had been killed by the police. The protesters promised to loot and riot in response, but after they learned that the carjacker was white, the protest suddenly ended, quickly and quietly. They didn't care that the perpetrator had allegedly been waving a gun and shooting at police, but they did care about his skin color, because only the lives of black criminals matter to Black Lives Matter. If you're an innocent bystander, a woman, or a child — even if you're black — well, you're just collateral damage.
The young woman Sundberg had been trying to kill bravely came out of her apartment to confront the angry crowd that came to march in front of her building and shouted at them, "He tried to kill me in front of my kids! There are bullet holes in my kitchen!"
One of the protestors chillingly replied, "Not in you, though!"
What type of a human being would say such a thing to the victim of a violent crime?
John Leonard is a freelance writer. His seventh book, The God Conclusion, is available on Amazon, and his other books can be found at LeonardBooks.net. He may be contacted via his website at southernprose.com.
Image: Johnny Silvercloud via Flickr (cropped), CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biden’s HHS Declares Abortion ‘Emergency Care’ to Undercut State Law, Claims No Religious Exemptions
(CNSNews) – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Secretary Xavier Becerra, has mandated that doctors in publicly-funded hospitals provide abortions to women with emergency medical conditions, if the physician believes “that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition,” even if state law prohibits the procedure.
Pro-life advocates have denounced the policy as another deceitful way the Biden administration is trying to get around the overturning of Roe v. Wade and to undermine state laws against abortion. Biden and company are “determined to put the full weight of the federal government behind promoting abortion,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Democrats will stop at nothing to promote their agenda of abortion on demand, up until the moment of birth….”
The Biden administration’s memo announcing the new policy, entitled “Reinforcement of EMTALA Obligations specific to Patients who are Pregnant or are Experiencing Pregnancy Loss,” was released on July 11, 2022. The memo clarifies the policy, which forbids doctors that work at public hospitals from denying emergency medical treatment to patients based on their ability to pay.
The guidance states that “emergency medical conditions involving pregnant patients may include, but are not limited to, ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergency hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features.”
It goes on to explain that when physicians determine that an abortion is necessary to treat these emergencies, they must be allowed to perform the operation because “state law is preempted [by EMTALA].”
EMTALA’s and HHS’ application of the law apparently make no religious exceptions to their regime of mandated abortions. The guidance reportedly will force hospitals and doctors who oppose abortion on moral grounds, such as the Catholic hospitals that make up 14.5% of acute care hospitals in the United States, to choose between their code of ethics and compliance with federal guidelines.
HHS’ press office quotes Becerra as saying: “Under the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care — including abortion care. Today, in no uncertain terms, we are reinforcing that we expect providers to continue offering these services, and that federal law preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care. Protecting both patients and providers is a top priority, particularly in this moment. Health care must be between a patient and their doctor, not a politician. We will continue to leverage all available resources at HHS to make sure women can access the life-saving care they need.”
The Catholic Medical Association (CMA), the largest body of Catholics in the health industry, condemned the memorandum. Dr. Marie Hilliard, one of the co-chairs of the CMA’s Ethics Committee had this to say: “Catholic health care agencies and providers have managed these same health crises of mother and baby consistent with EMTALA law and best practices over the decades, while respecting the health and dignity of both,” she said. “They consistently ‘provide stabilizing medical treatment’ to their pregnant patients.”
“Abortion, she said, is not necessary.”
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America released the following statement in response to Biden’s executive order directing Becerra to find ways to protect abortion access, which resulted in the new EMTALA guidance:
“Long gone is the Democratic Party of ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ President Biden has once again caved to the extreme abortion lobby, determined to put the full weight of the federal government behind promoting abortion,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Democrats will stop at nothing to promote their agenda of abortion on demand, up until the moment of birth, paid for by the taxpayers – including dangerous mail-order abortion drugs — even if it means gutting the long-standing filibuster, increasing the size of the Supreme Court, or putting abortionists in tents in national parks."
"We are committed to exposing Democrats’ abortion extremism to voters across key battleground states so this extreme agenda can be soundly rejected at the ballot box this November," said Dannenfelser.
The state of Texas has sued HHS over the memo, citing concerns that EMTALA does not preempt state laws concerning abortion, such as Texas’ ban on abortion that will take effect in the near future.
The Texas lawsuit argues that, “ EMTALA ‘do[es] not preempt any State or local law requirement, except to the extent that the requirement directly conflicts with a requirement of EMTALA.’” EMTALA does not codify any right or access to abortion, so there is no direct conflict between EMTALA and a state law banning abortion, the suit alleges.
Furthermore, the text of EMTALA specifically defines “emergency medical condition” to include threats to the health of a woman’s unborn child.
Commenting on the situation, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell told Newsmax, “The Supreme Court is the is the supreme law of the land. And the Supreme Court stated that that Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional. So what do the Biden administration do?”
“Very quietly one week ago, they quietly let everybody know that their regulations in their opinion supersedes state law, and therefore every -- not only does every private hospital, including Catholic hospitals, have to perform abortions if the patient wants one -- but emergency medical teams have to do it as well,” he said.
“So if you're a pro-life doctor, you, according to the administration, you, by law, have to perform an abortion,” said Bozell. “So much for the Supreme Court and its decision now that Biden -- I mean, they are behaving like dictators when they do something like this. It's unbelievable that the media won’t cover this.”
Rubio Introduces Bill Allowing Mothers to Collect Child Support Payments From Moment of Conception
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has introduced a bill that would allow child support payments to begin at the time of conception, instead of after a child’s birth.
“We should do everything we can to support American mothers and their children. This bill would allow expecting mothers to prepare and support their babies before they are born,” Rubio said.
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), the bill’s co-author, stated, “Caring for the well-being of our children begins long before a baby is born. It begins at the first moment of life – conception – and fathers have obligations, financial and otherwise, during pregnancy. Mothers should be able to access child support payments as soon as she is supporting a child. Our bill makes this possible.”
The bill, known as the “Unborn Child Support Act,” amends the Social Security Act to allow mothers to begin collecting child support payments from their child’s father during the first month of pregnancy. The new text also allows payments during the pregnancy to be collected after the baby is born when a paternity test is used to establish the identity of the father.
In addition to the two authors, the bill currently has nine co-sponsors. The act will need 60 yes votes in order to pass the Senate, which is divided evenly between the chamber’s 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats.
A similar bill was introduced in the Oklahoma State Legislature in January by a Democratic lawmaker. That bill, which also allowed child support payments to begin at conception, was criticized for implicitly recognizing that life begins at conception, a position held by many Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature.
The author, Forrest Bennet, defended his legislation, saying: “*IF* this state [Oklahoma] outlaws abortion and *IF* it tries to define life as beginning at conception, it owes its people the kind of policy that supports & helps babies & parents, not just policies that force birth.”
In 2021, Utah became the first state to require biological fathers to pay half of a woman’s pregnancy-related medical costs. That law makes an exception for the cost of having an abortion, which the father would only be required to help pay for if it is necessary to save the mother’s life or if the pregnancy was the result of rape.
Certain states have laws that allow mothers to collect payments for pregnancy-related expenses from fathers in limited circumstances. Wisconsin, for example, allows courts to order fathers to pay for part or all of the cost of birth.
A survey from the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy found that 47% or nearly half of Americans favored proposals to begin child support at conception while 28% were opposed and 25% were unsure.
Chris Ellis, co-director of the institute and political science professor at Bucknell University, said this finding extended across political and ideological lines, including those who described themselves as “pro life,” “pro choice,” Republican and Democrat.
However, women were more likely than men to favor the idea, the survey found.
Mississippi Leads Pro-Life Effort to Support Moms, Babies After End of Roe v. Wade
Mississippi is setting an example for post-Roe v. Wade law by passing legislation to help women deal with unplanned pregnancies and their born children.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the Pregnancy Resource Act, which will provide a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for businesses that donate to pregnancy resource centers (PRC). The credit is set at 50 percent of the taxpayer’s state tax burden, with an annual cap of $3.5 million.
The law, HB 1685, is the first of its kind in the U.S., according to Reeves.
“Mississippi will continue to take all available avenues to build and promote a culture of life,” Reeves said at the time. “This means supporting mothers, passing pro-family laws, and strengthening community support systems.”
“We know that to be truly pro-life, we cannot only be anti-abortion,” Reeves stated via his official Facebook page upon signing the Pregnancy Resource Act. “This bill will help expecting mothers get the resources they need in a safe, well-equipped environment.”
“Every life is precious,” Reeves wrote.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves sign into law HB 1685 (the first of its kind) which authorizes $3.5 million in tax credits for making donations to pregnancy resource centers and crisis pregnancy centers around the state. (Facebook/Gov. Tate Reeves)
And as these laws begin to take hold, pro-life advocates are expressing their support for continuing their ongoing efforts to make sure women and their babies have the help they need.
An anti-abortion supporter sits behind a sign that advises the Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic is still open in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, July 6, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
“Just as the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision couldn’t resolve the complex issue of abortion, government alone cannot address all the reasons that lead a woman to have an abortion,” Jameson Taylor, director of policy and legislation affairs for the American Family Association, said in a statement.
Abortion rights supporters protest in front of Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi on July 7, 2022, the last day it was open to patients. (AFP)
“The nonprofit sector — and the relationships and community support that nonprofits and churches provide — must be part of the answer. Pregnancy resource centers are on the front lines helping women facing an unexpected pregnancy,” said Taylor, who helped craft the legislation. “By supporting the efforts of PRCs to provide concrete and compassionate assistance to women in need, the state of Mississippi is investing in private sector solutions that can complement what the state is already doing to assist these women.”
Reeves also issued a statement about the work PRCs do.
“Pregnancy resource centers and crisis pregnancy centers do a tremendous job of helping primarily low-income women who are facing incredible challenges,” the statement said. “These non-profits offer free sonograms, pregnancy tests, counseling on options, and more.”
“These centers receive no government funding and are non-profits that are fully reliant on donations from individuals and business owners,” the statement continued.
The Pregnancy Help News website reported on the work that PRCs do:
Mississippi has more than 30 pregnancy centers that provide pregnancy help to women and families, a report from local outlet The Daily Leader said. In 2019 alone, these organizations provided $1.9 million in services and materials to more than 12,000 people.
“Data from that same year compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the then roughly 2,700 pregnancy centers nationwide served almost two million people, at an estimated total value of services and material assistance of nearly $270 million. Estimates since have the number of pregnancy help centers in the U.S. approaching 3,000,” the website said.
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