When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Saturday, February 9, 2019
WILL AMERICA EVER VALUE THE LIFE OF A CHILD? - ARKANSAS SENATE PASSES ABORTION BAN IF DECISION IS LEFT TO STATES!
Arkansas Senate Passes Abortion Ban if Decision Is Left to States
The Arkansas Senate passed legislation Thursday that would ban abortions in the state in the event the states are once again permitted to decide whether to prohibit the procedure.
“It’s time for the United States to redress and correct what many believe is a grave injustice and a crime against humanity which is being perpetuated by the decisions of Roe v. Wade,” said state Sen. Jason Rapert, reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Rapert sponsored Senate Bill 149 — the Human Life Protection Act — which would prohibit abortions in Arkansas in the event Roe v. Wade is reversed or the U.S. Constitution is amended to permit states to ban the procedure.
State senators approved the bill, 29-6, with 26 Republicans and three Democrats voting in favor. The measure now heads to the state House.
“New scientific advances have demonstrated since 1973 that life begins at the moment of conception and the child in a woman’s womb is a human being,” the bill states. “Scientific evidence and personal testimonies document the massive harm that abortion causes to women.”
The legislation goes on to say that prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, “Arkansas had already enacted prohibitions on abortions.”
The state also passed the Heartbeat Protection Act in 2013 and additional pro-life legislation in 2015 and 2017 “that further shows the will of the Arkansas people to save the lives of unborn children,” the bill says and adds:
The State of Arkansas urgently pleads with the United States Supreme Court to do the right thing, as they did in one of their greatest cases, Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned a fifty-eight- year-old precedent of the United States, and reverse, cancel, overturn, and annul Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
(b) It is the intent of this subchapter to ensure that abortion in Arkansas is abolished and protect the lives of unborn children.
If the conditions of the bill come to pass, abortion would be abolished in Arkansas, except to save a woman’s life from a “physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury.”
The Associated Press reports that Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, and South Dakota have already passed legislation that would put an abortion prohibition into action if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
According to the Gazette, following an intense debate in the state Senate, Rapert ended by observing that the late Norma McCorvey — who was known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark Supreme Court case — never actually had an abortion but placed her baby for adoption prior to the high court’s ruling. McCorvey later became a pro-life activist.
“Some people don’t know that Norma McCorvey never had an abortion. Ever,” Rapert said. “And here we are using her name and her story to continue a culture of death.”
Infanticidal Democrats Took Their Cues from Barack Obama
When it comes to the most significant moral issues of our time, no one should be surprised by immoral actions of modern liberals. You can be saddened, shocked, angry, disgusted, and the like, but you should not be surprised. This is certainly true when it comes to the issue of even infanticide.
For decades, Democrats have dehumanized the unborn and argued against protecting the most innocent and helpless among us, even when they escaped death in their mothers' wombs. In order to further their wicked sexual agenda, Democrats at the highest levels have taken some of the most radically gruesome views of life in the womb. No less than Barack Obama took a position on children who survived abortion that can be described only as infanticide.
Obama, while a member of the Illinois state Senate, opposed multiple versions of an Illinois bill that mirrored the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA). According to National Right to Life, BAIPA was essentially "a simple two-paragraph proposal – [that] established ... for all federal law purposes, any baby who was entirely expelled from his or her mother, and who showed any of the specified signs of life, was to be regarded as a legal person for however long he or she lived, and that this applied whether or not the birth was the result of an abortion or of spontaneous premature labor."
In 2000, the original BAIPA was passed by the U.S. House by a vote of 380 to 15. This occurred in spite of opposition by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL). Even staunch pro-abortion leaders, such as Jerrold Nadler, ignored the NARAL position and supported BAIPA. This version of BAIPA was later killed in the Senate by an objection to unanimous consent.
In 2001, the Illinois Legislature took up a bill patterned after the federal BAIPA. Obama voted against this bill in committee. On the floor of the Illinois Senate, he later gave the only speech against the bill, saying, "I mean, it – it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute." Because, of course, we need the "equal protection clause" to tell us we shouldn't kill our children.
Obama finally, and "boldly," voted "present" on the bill, which had the same effect as voting "no." The bill passed the Illinois Senate but died in a House committee. The scene pretty much repeated itself in 2002, this time with Obama voting "no."
In 2002, a "neutrality clause" was added to the federal BAIPA. This clause basically said that, as far as federal law was concerned, legal protection could not be conferred upon a human being prior to being "born alive." This effectively protected Roe. The bill unanimously passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Bush in 2002.
Obama is on the record saying he would have supported the Illinois bill had it contained the neutrality clause. In October of 2004, the Chicago Tribunereported, "Obama said that had he been in the U.S. Senate two years ago, he would have voted for the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act[.]" However, in 2003, the exact language of the federal neutrality clause was added to the Illinois bill, making it virtually identical to the federal BAIPA. In March of 2003, Obama chaired an Illinois Senate committee and led the Democrats on that committee to kill the amended bill.
In attempting to blunt the extremism of his abortion record, Obama stated time and again that the lack of a neutrality clause was all that was preventing him from supporting the Illinois bill. When he was called out on the matter, Obama accused individuals and institutions of lying about his record. His campaign later had to admit that his critics were correct about his voting record.
Obama's radical – evil – position on infants born alive was widely reported on in the pro-life media. There was even audio of him making his case! Obama's position was described as infanticide prior to his presidential re-election bid in 2012. He not only won two presidential elections with such evil positions on life, but was so emboldened that once Obamacare became the law of the land, then President Obama instructed his Department of Health and Human Services to issue its notorious contraception and abortifacient mandate.
As David French noted at the time, "[t]his is who Barack Obama is. There is no reason to be surprised by this. He is not being pulled to extremes by his base – he is the one doing the pulling." Obama pulled, and along came New York governor Mario Cuomo, Virginia governor Ralph Northam, and Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo. On infanticide, each of these Democrat governors has picked up where Obama left off.
It seems clear that what immoral Democrats in New York passed and what immoral democrats in Virginia and Rhode Island are proposing all violate the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act. However, as Operation Rescue points out:
Some have postulated that with New York's new abortion law, crimes committed by late-term abortionist and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell will now be legal in New York. He was convicted of first-degree murder on three counts of snipping the spinal cords of living newborns who survived abortions at his Philadelphia "House of Horrors" clinic.
That may well be the case.
The Federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act of 2002 mandates that babies born alive during abortions must be cared for as patients. Unfortunately, that act has no enforcement clause, meaning there is no criminal or civil penalty for violating it. Even Kermit Gosnell could not be charged with breaking that law.
The proposed Rhode Island bill, co-sponsored by state senator Gayle L. Goldin and Rep. Edith H. Ajello, would, as LifeNews notes, "strip away even minor, common-sense abortion regulations." LifeNews continues:
The bill appears to allow restrictions for late-term abortions, but it adds a broad "health" exception for abortions after viability. The exception would allow women to abort unborn babies up to nine months of pregnancy for basically any "health" reason, including "age, economic, social and emotional factors," a definition given by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Doe v. Bolton.
Ajello described protections for unborn babies as "insidiously restrictive, harmful and patriarchal reproductive laws." Her bill would even repeal the state partial-birth abortion ban and fetal homicide law, which provides justice to pregnant mothers whose unborn babies are killed by abusive partners, drunken drivers or others whose illegal actions cause the death of the unborn baby.
Do you remember our partial-birth abortion debate? With 281 House votes (65%), including 63 Democrats, and 64 Senate votes, including 17 Democrats, and President Bush's signature, in 2003, the federal partial-birth abortion ban became law. Twice Bill Clinton vetoed similar bills, and while a partial-birth abortion ban was finally being passed at the federal level, state senator Barack Obama was opposing the Illinois version.
When he arrived in the U.S. Senate, Obama denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to uphold the ban. In the months prior to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama said, "The first thing I'll do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)." FOCA, as co-sponsor Barbara Boxer described it, "supersedes any law, regulation or local ordinance that impinges on a woman's right to choose."
The act would enshrine in federal law a right to abortion more far-reaching than in Roe v. Wade and eliminate basically all federal and state-level restrictions on abortion. This isn't a point its supporters contest; it's one they brag about. The National Organization for Women says it would "sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies."
Look for the next Democrat nominee for POTUS to make a pledge similar to Obama's. Whether Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Andrew Cuomo, or another, it seems that all of the candidates seeking to replace Barack Obama at the head of the Democratic Party will continue his wicked war on the unborn.
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.”BETH BAUMANN
ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!
PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a "uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR TAX-PAYER ABORTION AND YET INVITES HORDES OF PREGNANT MEXICAN WOMEN TO JUMP OUR BORDERS AND BREED ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE???
CALIFORNIA HANDS BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO INVADE AND BREED ANCHOR BABIES… LA RAZA WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION…. and yet…..
Planned Parenthood executives and supporters were on Capitol Hill this week lobbying lawmakers to protect the millions of dollars the nation’s largest abortion provider gets from taxpayers every year and to announce nationwide “speak-outs” during the upcoming congressional recesses.
(CNSNews.com) -- On Friday, as tens of
thousands of Americans participated in the March for Life in Washington, D.C.,
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reintroduced his legislation to ensure that unborn
children are protected under law from the moment of conception -- the Life at Conception Act-- and his
bill to prohibit all federal funding of Planned Parenthood, the largest
abortion provider in the United States.
"Each year, the March for Life calls on the powerful to
protect life at its most helpless," said Sen. Paul, an M.D. in
ophthalmology, in a statement. "What we say about the value of human
life fundamentally impacts who and what we will be as a nation."
"In recognition of this," he said, "I have
reintroduced the Life at Conception Act to ensure the unborn receive equal
protection under the law, along with legislation to end forced taxpayer support of Planned Parenthood."
"May the message heard today and the marchers’ passionate
dedication inspire change to reaffirm this most basic of rights,” said the
senator, whose father Ron Paul was a strong defender of life when he served in
the House of Representatives.
The Life at Conception Act (S.159)
does not amend the Constitution but relies on the 14th Amendment to
"implement equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States for the right to life of each born and preborn
person." The bill currently has 12 co-sponsors.
The legislation defines "human person" and "human
being" as "each member of the species homo sapiens at all stages
of life, including the moment of fertilization or cloning, or other moment at
which an individual member of the human species comes into being"
Through the bill, under the 14th Amendment, Congress would
declare "that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested
in each human being."
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"Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the
prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child, a prohibition on in
vitro fertilization, or a prohibition on use of birth control or another means
of preventing fertilization," reads the legislation.
The other bill (S.158) states,
"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be made
available to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or to any of its
affiliates."
Editor's note: The
following are excerpts from the remarks Congressman Smith delivered at the 46th
annual March for Life.
Thank you, President Trump, for making it absolutely clear today
that you will veto any piece of legislation that undermines or nullifies any
pro-life policy, regulation, or rule.
Your extraordinary announcement—your bold solidarity with the
weakest and most vulnerable—couldn’t come at a better time.
The new Democratic majority in the House has made it clear that
they want to eviscerate all pro-life protections including the Hyde taxpayer
abortion funding ban which alone has saved over 2 million people from
death by abortion.
Mr. President, be assured that 169 House Members and 49 Senators—well
in excess of the requisite number required to prevail—have pledged in writing
to sustain your veto.
Why is this so important? Because women and children deserve
better than the violence of abortion.
Just ask the brave and amazing women who are silent no more, who
sacrifice everything to warn other women—and society—about the tragic
consequences of their abortions.
The shocking number of unborn children killed in America is
unconscionable: 2,500 each day, approximately 61 million dead babies since
1973—a death toll that equates with the entire population of Italy.
All this as our knowledge concerning the breathtaking miracle of
life before birth is unparalleled and when science had made it absolutely clear
that birth is an important event in the life of a child – but only an event not
its beginning.
Doctors today routinely diagnose and treat a myriad of
conditions, illnesses, and diseases suffered by society’s littlest
patients—unborn babies—significantly enhancing their health and chances to
survive and thrive.
Even first baby pictures proudly shared and displayed are most
often ultrasound photos showing the baby alive and maturing in the womb.
The humanity of the unborn child is beyond doubt.
Yet, the pro-abortion movement, like some kind of modern-day
flat earth society, continues to cling to outdated indefensible arguments
cloaked in euphemism.
Even the seemingly benign word “choice” withers under scrutiny.
Choice to do what? Dismember a baby? Starve a child to death and then forcibly
expel her or him from the womb?
In order to facilitate the baby’s extermination,
pro-abortionists aggressively deny and disrespect the unborn child, and loudly
mock and belittle those like each of you who defend a child’s right to life.
I say, let their harsh criticism cause us to work even harder
and more effectively—and as our Lord admonished, all the while loving even
those spew hatred at you and me.
I believe that your presence here today— your prayers, fasting,
and commitment throughout the year –will help ensure that one day soon
protection of the weakest and most vulnerable from abortion violence will be
restored.
Poll: 75% of Americans Say Abortion Should Be Restricted
A poll released Tuesday finds 75 percent of Americans want substantial
restrictions on abortion, including 60 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of
those who identify as “pro-choice.”
According to
the Marist poll and its partner, the Knights of Columbus, the survey
demonstrates that the label “pro-choice” can be deceptive when it is
interpreted to mean supportive of abortion at any point in pregnancy.
A new KofC/Marist poll on American attitudes toward
abortion finds that overwhelming majorities support substantial restrictions on
abortion, and would like to see Roe v. Wade reinterpreted to allow
restrictions. https://bit.ly/2FrVAPH
“As in past
years, this poll shows that the pro-choice label on the abortion issue is
simply insufficient,” said Knights of Columbus CEO Carl Anderson. “The majority
of Americans – in both parties – support legal restrictions on abortion.
Two-thirds of Americans want Roe revisited
to allow for state regulation of abortion or to ban it altogether. The majority
of the American people deserve to have their opinions heard.”
According to
the poll, 75 percent of Americans say abortion should be limited to — at most —
the first three months of pregnancy. Among those who identify as Republicans,
92 percent want that restriction, as do 78 percent of independents and 60
percent of Democrats. Perhaps most significantly, that view is shared by 61
percent of those who identify as “pro-choice.”
In addition,
the survey finds 65 percent of Americans say if the Supreme Court
revisits Roe v. Wade, the
high court should either return the issue of the legality of abortion to the
states (49 percent) or outlaw the procedure altogether (16 percent). Only
30 percent of those surveyed would prefer that the Supreme Court rule in favor
of unrestricted abortion.
Regarding
taxpayer funding of the procedure, 54 percent oppose any taxpayer funding of
abortion, while 39 percent support it.
On the issue
of taxpayer funding of the procedure overseas, the poll finds 75 percent of
Americans oppose taxpayer funding abroad, through non-governmental
organizations such as International Planned Parenthood, with only 19 percent in
favor of such funding. When political affiliation is a factor, 94 percent of
Republicans, 80 percent of independents, and 56 percent of Democrats oppose
taxpayer funding of abortion overseas.
When asked if
medical professionals with moral objections to abortion should be permitted to
opt out of performing them, 55 percent of those surveyed agreed, while 35
percent did not agree.
The majority
of Americans (62 percent) oppose abortions for unborn babies with Down
Syndrome. Additionally, 59 percent are in favor of banning the procedure after
20 weeks of pregnancy, except to save the life of the mother.
When
questions regarding the nature of the unborn are asked, 56 percent of Americans
say, “scientifically,” a fetus is “a unique life,” while 35 percent say it is
“part of a woman’s body.” Additionally, 42 percent say life begins at
conception while 13 percent say life begins at birth.
“Most
Americans also believe that laws can protect both the mother and her unborn
child (83 percent to 10 percent).”
The survey of
1,066 adults was conducted January 8-10 using landline or mobile phone numbers.
Results are statistically significant within plus or minus 3.7 percentage
points.
A poll released Monday by Students for Life of America
also found that labels such as “pro-life” and “pro-choice” can hide what
Millennials actually prefer in terms of policy on abortion.
That poll
revealed that 70 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 support
limits on abortion, with 42 percent opposing the procedure broadly.
Despite the
image portrayed of popular culture in the media, of those Millennials surveyed,
only seven percent supported abortion without any exceptions and funded by
taxpayer dollars — the position embraced by the Democrat Party.
On January 7, Hillary Clinton and New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo
announced their satanic bill to allow abortions through all nine months up to
birth. The intensely jubilant faces of these two Democrats while
launching their baby-killing campaign was bone-chillingly evil. Clinton and Cuomo held their joined hands high in the air like an enthusiastic
victorious battle-cry as they grinned ear to ear. Why were they so
happy? Why are these leftist politicians barely able to contain
their excitement over the thought of killing more babies?
During her presidential campaign, Hillary vowed to protect
animals from cruelty and
abuse. And yet, Hillary is elated over her bill to allow abortion
doctors to deliver a nine-month-old baby except for the head, then shove
scissors into his brain to kill him. This barbaric, shameful, and
evil procedure is called partial-birth abortion.
In 2011, Hillary cosponsored the American Horse
Slaughter Prevention Act to
end the slaughter of horses for their meat. Meanwhile, Hillary
passionately defends Planned Parenthood, which kills babies for their meat,
selling dead baby body parts – intact heads sell for premium
prices. Planned Parenthood has made over $100 million
selling aborted baby parts.
Abortion zealots fear that a
conservative majority on the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the
unconstitutional ruling that made abortion legal. Here's how abortion activist
Sarah Silverman expressed the
urgency of keeping Judge Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court: "This is a
position for life, y'all." In her sad, perverted thinking,
Silverman infers that women will die if they cannot for whatever reason kill
the horrible thing growing inside them even on the birth date.
Eighty-five-year-old pro-abortion Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg's health is failing. If she dies or retires, leftists fear
that Trump's replacement will be a conservative. Panicked female
abortion zealots are offering their body parts to keep Ginsburg
alive. Abortion zealot Alyssa Milano offered her ribs, kidneys, and a lung to Justice
Ginsburg. Notice the intense passion to do whatever necessary to
freely kill babies in the womb.
"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you..."
(Jeremiah 1:5)
Alyssa Milano through the Fuzzy Pet Foundation compassionately
rescued a dog in South Korea being raised for slaughter. It appears
that Milano has zero compassion for innocent babies. She is insanely committed to murdering them before
birth. Also, Milano has not complained about Planned Parenthood
profiting from the sales of slaughtered baby body parts.
In 2018, abortion was the number-one cause of death worldwide;
over 41 million children were killed before birth. Again I ask, why is
this horrifying stat cause for leftists to celebrate?
In a landslide, Irish voters repealed their anti-abortion
laws. Many observers were uncomfortable with the eerie jubilation of
thousands of women in the streets hugging while crying tears of
sheer joy.
Co-director of the abortion campaign Orla O'Connor said,
"This is a monumental day for women in Ireland. This is about
women taking their rightful place in Irish society, finally."
Another Irish woman thrilled about killing babies said, "It's
such a great victory for women, for men, for our future
generation. It's just – I'm so emotional."
"And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth..." (Genesis 1:28)
Despite God's command to "be fruitful and multiply,"
many youths vow not to have children because leftists have convinced them that
childbirth is extremely destructive to the environment. Leftists foolishly believe they are smarter than God.
Unquestionably, abortion is the holy sacrament of the demonic
religion of liberalism. Shockingly, over 20 religious leaders
gathered to bless the opening of a new Planned Parenthood abortion facility in
Washington, D.C. President and CEO Dr. Laura Meyers
said, "In almost every
message to our staff, I talk about our doing sacred work." What
is wrong with these people? How can they claim moral and spiritual
high ground killing babies and selling their body parts?
Insanely, a majority of the religious leaders who blessed the new
dead baby chop shop are black. A disproportionately high number of
aborted babies are blacks. Right-thinking black ministers have been
sounding the alarm for years how blacks are aborting themselves
to extinction.
Leftists are in constant rebellion against God's natural order. Leftist
women act as if pregnancy were God's cursed disease, as devastating as cancer,
and abortion is the life-saving cure.
Abortion zealots do not view abortion as a necessary
evil. They are actually thrilled when a mother murders her
baby. There is something strange and disturbingly evil about
leftists having all the sympathy in the world for animals and not an ounce of
sympathy (even disdain) for innocent unborn babies.
Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Exclusive — House GOP Plans Sustained Effort to Expose Leftist Democrats on Abortion
House Republicans are gearing up for a sustained push to expose leftist Democrats in the House Democrat majority on their increasingly extreme views on abortion, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Specifically, Republicans–as they have demonstrated for three consecutive legislative days–intend to push for a floor vote against Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s wishes on a piece of legislation from Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) that would ensure babies who are born alive following an abortion attempt are given the same medical treatment and care any other newborn baby would receive.
“Protecting innocent life shouldn’t be a partisan issue and it shouldn’t be difficult. Infanticide is barbaric and the growing trend of Democrats advocating it is frightening,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, told Breitbart News. “Republicans are united in seeing that a bill protecting babies who survived an attempted abortion urgently receives a vote on the House Floor. It already passed the House with Democratic support last Congress. But so far the new Democrat majority refuse to even consider the bill. But we will ask again. And again. And again, until this body speaks up for life.”
The House Minority Whip, Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, added in an emailed statement to Breitbart News that the Democrats’ extremism has been exposed and will continue to be shown to the public by the GOP’s sustained effort. Scalise said:
It’s absolutely barbaric that in this country it would be allowed to kill a baby after it’s born alive during an abortion, but that’s exactly what some elected Democrat leaders have advocated in recent weeks. Yesterday, the moral indifference of the House Democrat majority was on full display when they refused my motion to even give the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act a vote on the House Floor. Every American deserves to know if their representative stands against infanticide or not, and that’s why this week I began the discharge petition process that would force a vote on our bill. Now Democrats will have to make a choice: stand with the most radical elements of their base, or with the vast majority of Americans who are appalled at the murder of innocent life.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, added in an emailed statement to Breitbart News that Republicans are fighting “pure evil” on the part of those who would kill babies after being born.
Cheney told Breitbart News:
This is about killing babies after they are born and it is the face of pure evil. We’ve seen the leadership of the Democrat Party on the Hill remain silent while elected leaders, including the Governor of Virginia, describe in very cold, clinical terms how he would facilitate the murder of a baby that has already been born. I want to say personally, as a mother of five kids, the idea that we have to describe what the Democrats are doing, is really horrific. I want to ask mothers across this country to join with us to make sure that we don’t see our maternity wards turn into killing fields, which is what the Democrats would do if we don’t stop this. House Republicans are absolutely dedicated to stopping this, and dedicated to protecting the most vulnerable among us, which is the unborn. The notion that we’re having the debate about whether or not you should be able to kill babies is absolutely horrific and evil, and we will stand up against that.
Earlier this week, at a press conference, McCarthy and GOP leaders rolled out their push on the anti-infanticide bill from Wagner, recommitting their efforts to it. Last Congress, the bill was pushed in the House of Representatives by then-Congresswoman and now Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and it passed with bipartisan support. Six Democrats crossed the aisle to join all the Republicans in the then-GOP-led-majority in January 2018 to pass the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill did not make it in the Senate.
Now, with Democrats in control of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections, and with states like New York and Virginia among others pushing boundaries on abortion to extremes, the Republicans in Congress is rolling out a long-term push to force the Democrats to hold a vote on the bill. Wagner, the Congresswoman from Missouri who has taken up the Blackburn bill mantle in the House, told Breitbart News that she is “proud” to push for a vote on this critical legislation protecting babies who are born alive surviving abortions.
“I was proud to introduce the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and help lead the discharge petition process to force a vote on this critical piece of legislation,” Wagner told Breitbart News. “Babies born alive deserve our protection and the proper medical care that any newborn would receive. I called for unanimous consent on the House Floor to bring this commonsense legislation up for a vote so we can protect these babies, but we were denied that vote. My colleagues and I will keep fighting for the precious life of these babies and we will keep calling for this vote so born-alive babies can receive lifesaving medical care when they are at their most vulnerable.”
The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, among other things, requires by law that healthcare professionals present at a live birth use their skills to preserve the life and health of a child at the same degree of care that would be offered to any child born prematurely at the same gestational age–and that after these efforts conclude, those healthcare professionals are legally responsible for the transportation and admission to a hospital. It also requires health officials to report any violations to law enforcement and penalizes intentional killing of born-alive children with various fines and up to five years in prison.
Leadership officials in the House GOP conference told Breitbart News that until the Democrats schedule a floor vote on this, on every legislative day when the House is in session, a different House Republican will go to the floor and ask for unanimous consent to have a vote on the bill.
Democrats have already blocked Republicans’ efforts three times. McCarthy tried on Wednesday, Scalise tried on Thursday, and Wagner tried on Friday. Cheney is expected to go to the floor next week, and many other members will get in the fight. There will be a different member each day pushing for unanimous consent on Wagner’s bill until Pelosi’s Democrat leadership team, which remains steadfastly in favor of not protecting babies born alive, cracks and allows a vote.
“This will force Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrat Majority to either go on record in blocking that request, or immediately proceed to passage of this important legislation,” a GOP leadership aide told Breitbart News.
Republicans say they will not be deterred and are ready for the long haul if necessary, because they believe that when the House votes on this bill protecting babies, many Democrats will be forced to–as six of them did in early 2018 when the Blackburn version of the bill passed the House on a bipartisan vote under Republican control–vote against their party leadership’s increasingly more extreme position on abortion.
Republicans are ready to take this request for unanimous consent on this bill to the floor, leadership aides say, every day that the House is in session for months and months–even more than a hundred days–if necessary.
The effort began on Wednesday, the day after President Donald Trump’s State of the Union addres in the very same chamber, where the president asked Congress to pass legislation protecting the most innocent lives–newborn babies and the unborn. Trump also criticized recent developments in New York, which made late-term abortions legal, and in Virginia, where the Democrat Governor Ralph Northam has come under serious fire for comments supporting abortion of a child during the birth of that child.
President Trump said:
Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and their dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the Governor of Virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth. To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb. Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: All children — born and unborn — are made in the holy image of God.
On Wednesday afternoon, after Wagner reintroduced the bill Wednesday morning and leadership touted it at a press conference, McCarthy went to the floor to push for a vote via unanimous consent. Pelosi’s designate in the Speaker’s chair that day, Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL), blocked the bill, saying Pelosi’s leadership team had not agreed to it.
Here’s video of the exchange between McCarthy and Pelosi’s designate:
Then, the next day, Scalise went to the floor and tried again. Pelosi’s designate, a different Democrat this time, blocked the GOP:
And Wagner tried again on Friday:
As each of these battles happens, McCarthy’s team and the rest of the GOP leadership are blasting out press releases to the national media highlighting the Democrat opposition to protecting babies from being killed during or after being born. Republicans also intend to push the message hard on social media, ripping Democrats for supporting what amounts to murder of babies already born:
Today, I will ask for a vote on @RepAnnWagner's Born-Alive Protection Act, which would outlaw and penalize infanticide in the United States. If Democrats object, we will ask again. And again. And again, until the House of Representatives speaks up for life.
Today, I will ask for a vote on @RepAnnWagner's Born-Alive Protection Act, which would outlaw and penalize infanticide in the United States. If Democrats object, we will ask again. And again. And again, until the House of Representatives speaks up for life.
Democrats just rejected mandatory medical care for every baby born. They’ll have an opportunity to do the right thing tomorrow when Republicans ask for a vote again.
According to a report in the Washington Post on Thursday, the GOP clearly views this as a winning issue politically–as it hands the Republicans the moral high ground on abortion, as the extremely radical view of killing a baby after he or she has been born–not when a baby is still in the womb–is so out there most of the country is aligned against it, even supporters of abortion.
Scalise is quoted in that Post story as saying the New York and Virginia developments on the life issue seem to have “woke a sleeping giant”– the movement of people across the country disgusted, outraged, and driven to action to protect human life from Democrats who could care less about it or would go so far as to pass laws stretching abortion to radical extremes.
The Northam comments hit America hard. He was making the case in favor of Virginia statehouse Delegate Kathy Tran’s bill that would allow abortion when a woman is going into labor–meaning as a baby is being born–and took it much, much further.
This is why decisions such as this should be made by providers, physicians, and the mothers and fathers that are involved. When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physician—more than one physician, by the way—and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s non-viable.
Northam, who was a doctor before he got into politics, then said that the child would be “kept comfortable” while doctors and parents made a decision whether or not to kill him or her. Northam said:
If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. So I think this was really blown out of proportion. We want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.
Northam’s comments reportedly so outraged his medical colleagues that they leaked to the media photographs from his yearbook page in medical school that show two men in racially offensive garb–one in blackface, the other in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Northan originally admitted one of the men was him but would not specify which, then walked back his admission and is now denying either of the men are him and refuses to resign despite nearly all of the Democrat Party nationally pushing for his resignation.
The scandal has rocked the Democrat Party nationally and reverberated heavily throughout Virginia, as not just Northam but both his presumed successors–next in line Democrat Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and the number three in line to the governor’s mansion, Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring–have been consumed by scandals of their own.
Fairfax has been hit with a pair of sexual assault allegations, including one woman who accused him of raping her. He denies the allegations despite calls from national Democrats for him to resign as well. Herring has admitted he too donned blackface in his college days. Herring had previously called on Northam to resign over Northam’s admission at a press conference that he wore blackface at a different time than the photo that appeared in his yearbook.
Republicans’ renewed focus on abortion in the wake of both the New York and Virginia developments–among others nationwide–has widespread public support. Recent polling shows that the public wants restrictions on abortion, and wants Roe v. Wade reinterpreted so as to allow for restrictions:
A new KofC/Marist poll on American attitudes toward abortion finds that overwhelming majorities support substantial restrictions on abortion, and would like to see Roe v. Wade reinterpreted to allow restrictions. https://bit.ly/2FrVAPH
What’s more, Democrats who have embraced radical and extreme late-term abortion policy views in recent weeks–not just Northam–have come under fire. New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, another Democrat who is reportedly considering running for president in 2020, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times defending his state’s radical new law by saying: “I am a former altar boy.”
“My Roman Catholic values are my personal values. The decisions I choose to make in my life, or in counseling my daughters, are based on my personal moral and religious beliefs,” Cuomo wrote, backing the law by saying his oath is not to his personal beliefs but to the law and the Constitution.
ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!
PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a "uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR TAX-PAYER ABORTION AND YET INVITES HORDES OF PREGNANT MEXICAN WOMEN TO JUMP OUR BORDERS AND BREED ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE???
CALIFORNIA HANDS BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO INVADE AND BREED ANCHOR BABIES… LA RAZA WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION…. and yet…..
Planned Parenthood executives and supporters were on Capitol Hill this week lobbying lawmakers to protect the millions of dollars the nation’s largest abortion provider gets from taxpayers every year and to announce nationwide “speak-outs” during the upcoming congressional recesses.
Senate Democrats – led by Washington Sen. Patty Murray – blocked a bill that would require babies born alive during abortion to receive reasonable medical care and transport to a hospital.
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130) to protect babies who have survived failed abortions. Sasse went to the floor of the Senate Monday to ask his colleagues to pass the bill by unanimous consent, but Democrats objected.
Referencing the recent firestorm created by the Virginia bill known as the Repeal Act, introduced by Democrat Delegate Kathy Tran and supported by Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, Sasse said:
This place fancies itself the world’s greatest deliberative body, but we would be deceiving ourselves if we ignored the biggest debate that’s been happening in America over the last 36 hours. A public elected official — the Governor of one of the 50 states — has been defending a practice that is morally repugnant. The Governor of Virginia has been defending a practice that is repugnant to civilized people across the entire world.
“Senate Democrats had the chance today to prove they are not the party of infanticide, and instead they doubled down on extremism,” said Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) President Marjorie Dannenfelser after Democrats blocked the bill. “The Democratic Party’s agenda of abortion on demand through birth and even beyond is radically out of step with the standards of decency the overwhelming majority of Americans expect from their leaders.”
“We urge the Senate to bring the bill to the floor for a recorded vote so Americans can know where each senator stands, and we urge its passage,” Dannenfelser added. “It’s time to get this bill swiftly to the President’s desk for his signature.”
Proud to co-sponsor @SenSasse’s bill to protect precious newborn lives. I urge my Senate colleagues to take a stand for the sanctity of life & to take swift action to pass this bill. --> http://bit.ly/2D2nttQ
The Born-Alive Act states that Congress acknowledges an “infant” born alive during a failed abortion “is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws.”
“Any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn, or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care,” the legislation continues.
Under the bill, health care providers who fail to provide medical care to an infant born alive after abortion can be fined or imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
According to the Born-Alive Act, the intentional killing of an infant born alive after abortion “shall be punished as … intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.”
Jill Stanek, a former nurse who witnessed late-term babies born alive during abortion procedures and left to die, said, “It is appalling to watch Democrat senators argue against this compassionate bill.”
“Pleading ignorance is not an option especially in the wake of efforts in New York and Virginia to legalize infanticide,” she said. “Everyone should be able to agree on equal protection under the law for these children.”
Just prior to the controversy over the Virginia bill – which would allow abortion even moments before birth – New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law that denies “personhood” to unborn babies. Under the law, violence against an unborn child during a homicide is no longer criminally punishable.
Now, Democrats in Rhode Island and Vermont have also proposed bills that would strip most restrictions on abortion and declare the procedure a “fundamental right.”
Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, said that in Sasse’s appeal for unanimous consent for the Born-Alive Act, Murray, representing Senate Democrats, “chose to stand up in favor of infanticide and the abortion lobby.”
“This pro-death mentality is the same one that has recently moved some lawmakers to propose extremely permissive late term abortion bills in states like New York and Virginia,” he said.
A recent Marist poll found 75 percent of Americans want substantial restrictions on abortion, including 60 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of those who identify as “pro-choice.”
“We call on Senate Majority Leader McConnell to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to a floor vote so that constituents know exactly where their elected officials stand on protecting the fundamental right to life,” McClusky added.
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