Pete Buttigieg: ‘Unknowable’ When Human Life Begins
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed Thursday that it was unknowable when human life begins, making the issue of abortion too complicated to regulate.
“For those who have a strong view about some of these almost unknowable questions around life, the best answer I can give, is that because we will never be able to settle those questions, in a consensus fashion,” he said in response to a question about abortion limits.
Buttigieg commented on the issue of abortion during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.
When asked to clarify his claim that it was “unknowable” when life began, he continued: “It’s certainly unknowable in the way that scientific questions are answered, it’s a moral question.”
He argued that government should not draw any legal limits on abortion, leaving the choice solely to pregnant women.
“It’s not how we politically decide where the line ought to be drawn, the question is who gets to draw the line,” he said, calling the idea part of the framework of Roe vs. Wade.
“Roe vs. Wade is widely popular in this country because it has allowed to us to negotiate that,” he said.
He warned that attempts to overturn Roe vs. Wade would inevitably lead to more unsafe illegal abortions that would harm more women.
In a Wednesday conversation with Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, Buttigieg rejected the concerns of pro-life Americans.
“We’re not going come to the same place on the choice issue, we’re just not,” he said, responding to a question Capehart posed from a pro-life Republican moderate who hated Donald Trump.
Buttigieg followed his rejection of life in the womb by urging Christians to join him on the principle of helping “the least among us.”
“If by chance, your view on that issue is motivated by faith, I would point out that this is also a moment for people of faith to think about what it means to support policies and politicians who care about lifting up the least among us,” he said.
Buttigieg’s approach is sharply different from former President Barack Obama who supported limits on late-term abortions when he ran for office and the concept of reducing unwanted pregnancies.
Buttigieg, who attends an Episcopalian church, urged Christians to see him as a “person of faith” despite their political disagreements about marriage and life in the womb.
“At least I can show you that I’m motivated by values and that the positions I’ve arrived at, are ones that I’ve come by honestly,” he said.
Pete
Buttigieg Unveils 2020 Agenda: Amnesty, Legal Pot, and Abortion
Mayor Pete Buttigieg released a series of policy proposals on his
website after campaigning on vague campaign themes so far in his 2020
presidential race.
For example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion, more than the border wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens.
Buttigieg: 'Undocumented
Immigrants Are Taxpayers' Who 'Are Subsidizing the Rest of Us'
Exclusive–Steve
Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime,
costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director
of Research Steve Camarota says.
Pete
Buttigieg Unveils 2020 Agenda: Amnesty, Legal Pot, and Abortion
CHARLIE SPIERING
17 May 2019618
1:33
Mayor Pete Buttigieg released a series of policy proposals on his
website after campaigning on vague campaign themes so far in his 2020
presidential race.
The
new policy proposals published
on his website include a plan for amnesty for illegal immigrants, the
legalization of marijuana nationwide, and the unfettered right to abortion.
“Comprehensive
immigration reform must include a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living,
working, paying taxes, and contributing to our American story, including
DREAMers,” Buttigieg wrote on his website under his immigration proposals.
Buttigieg
also called for marijuana legalization as part of his agenda for criminal
justice reform.
“For
many Black and Brown communities, the criminal legal system has threatened,
rather than promoted, safety and security,” he wrote. “Security is not
accomplished by racially discriminatory policing.”
He
described abortion as a woman’s right to freedom in America.
“The
government’s role should be to make sure all women have access to comprehensive
affordable care, and that includes preventive care, contraceptive services,
prenatal and postpartum care, and safe and legal abortion,” he wrote on his
website.
Buttigieg
also proposed a military-style “assault weapons” ban and a “nationwide gun
licensing system.”
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by native-born Americans.
Simultaneously,
illegal immigration next year is on track to soar to the
highest level in a decade, with a potential 600,000 border crossers expected.
“More than
750 million people want to migrate to another country permanently, according to
Gallup research published Monday, as 150 world leaders sign up to the
controversial UN global compact which critics say makes migration a human
right.” VIRGINIA HALE
For example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion, more than the border wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens.
Buttigieg: 'Undocumented
Immigrants Are Taxpayers' Who 'Are Subsidizing the Rest of Us'
Mayor of South Bend, Indiana,
Pete Buttigeig is now running for the Democrat presidential nomination. (Photo
by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg told a
CNN town hall Monday night he doesn't know how the federal government defines
"sanctuary city," but he said the South Bend police force does not
enforce federal immigration law, "so you can call it whatever you
like."
"We're a welcoming city," Buttigieg said, explaining
that South Bend has a "population growth strategy."
While President Trump has tweeted that the United States is
"full," Buttigieg said his city is not:
"I would be delighted to have more people. We only have
100,000 because so many people left after the auto factories collapsed in the
60s. We've got plenty of room for more residents and taxpayers who want to help
fund the snowplowing and firefighters that I've got to have for 130,000
people...with only 100,000 people to pay for it.
"And let us not forget that in many respects, from property
taxes to sales taxes, undocumented immigrants are taxpayers, and the truth is,
in many respects, because they are not eligible for a lot of benefits, they are
subsidizing the rest of us. Which is just one more reason we've got to get this
sorted out."
Buttigieg advocates comprehensive immigration reform with a
pathway to citizenship, not only for Dreamers, but for the millions of other
people who are living here illegally.
"The thing that's incredibly frustrating about this to me
is that there's actually, broadly, an American consensus on what we're supposed
to do about this. You know, leadership is supposed to be about taking issues
that are very divisive and somehow finding a way to unify Americans around
that. That's how a good president earns her or his paycheck.
"But right now we have an issue where there's a pretty broad
consensus, and it's been used to divide us. It's actually a remarkable feat of
whatever the opposite of leadership is. And you can see it because there have
been healthy compromises, bipartisan immigration reforms that have passed in
one chamber --the House or the Senate in Washington -- only to go die in the
other."
Buttigieg noted that the last time the nation passed
"meaningful" comprehensive immigration reform was in 1984:
"So we know the outlines of a comprehensive immigration
reform. A pathway to citizenship for undocumented people in this country. A
level of protection for Dreamers. A set of reforms to clear up the bureaucracy
and the backlogs in the lawful immigration system, which is how my father as an
immigrant came to this country and became a U.S. citizen. And reasonable
measures on border security.
"We know what to do," Buttigieg said. "It's just
that we don't have the leadership in Washington to do it. And I'm afraid one of
the reasons is, we’ve got a White House that has actually computed that it is
better off politically if this problem goes unsolved so that Americans continue
to be divided around it for short-term political gain, and that has got to end
with a new president."
Buttigieg is one of 20 people running for the Democrat presidential
nomination.
Exclusive–Steve
Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
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JOHN
BINDER
11 Apr 20191,671
3:39
Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime,
costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director
of Research Steve Camarota says.
During an interview with
SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Camarota said his research has revealed the enormous
financial burden that illegal immigration has on America’s working and middle
class taxpayers in terms of public services, depressed wages, and welfare.
“In a person’s lifetime,
I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost taxpayers … maybe over
$70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that excludes the cost of
their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you add that in.”
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“Once [an illegal alien]
has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of their U.S.-born
children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they can live in public
housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food stamps on behalf of that
child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota said the
education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal immigrants are
largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the f0reign-born
population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete for jobs
against America’s poor and working class communities.
In past waves of mass
immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an expansive welfare system.
Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with mass illegal and legal
immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,” according to Camarota, for
American taxpayers.
The RAISE Act — reintroduced in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR),
David Perdue (R-GA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration
levels in half and convert the immigration system to favor well-educated
foreign nationals, thus relieving American workers and taxpayers of the nearly
five-decade-long wave of booming immigration. Currently, mass legal
immigration redistributes the wealth of working and middle class
Americans to the country’s top earners.
“Virtually none of that
existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we also took in
a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare state,”
Camarota continued:
We’re not going to stop
[the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context, bringing in less
educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for public coffers, for
taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads weren’t even paved
between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally different world. And that’s
the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of bring in line immigration policy with
the reality say of a large government … and a welfare state. [Emphasis
added]
The immigrants are not
all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign up, but over
time, an enormous fraction sign their children up. It’s likely the case
that of the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, more than half
are signed up for Medicaid — which is our most expensive program.
[Emphasis added]
As Breitbart
News has reported, U.S. households headed by foreign-born
residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by native-born
Americans.
Every year the U.S.
admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the vast majority
deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the
Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant
population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S.
population.
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