Senators Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) introduced an act to require the State Department to include abortion access in its annual reports on international human rights.
BOB MENENDEZ AND HIS WHORES:
CORRUPT BRIBES SUCKING DEMOCRAT PARTY POLITICIANS-LAWYERS - IS THERE A GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN THESE PIG LAWYERS?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/05/corrupt-bribes-sucking-democrat-party.html
KAMALA HARRIS, THE GODLESS.
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/kamala-harris-godless-just-follow-money.html
Harris is no friend of religious liberty. Her recent decision to exclaim in the year of our Lord, which has been conveniently picked up by her staff, is a ploy designed to appeal to unassuming Christian voters impressed by "God talk." As the old adage says, actions speak louder than words, and on this score, Harris fails to convince.
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.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE WAS VERY GENEROUS AFTER KAMAL HARRIS LET THEM AVOID PRISON…. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
As most people know, prior to her being a Senator, she served as the chief prosecutor for the city of San Francisco. Now, complaints are coming forward that she flat out refused to pursue criminal cases against Catholic priests who allegedly sexually battered children.
People who say they were victims of childhood sexual abuse call out Harris for not doing all that she could to prosecute their cases.
Democrats Make Abortion a Top Foreign Policy Priority
Dems seek to enshrine abortion as global right
President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to make abortion a foreign policy priority for the United States.
Following the Biden administration's decision to lift the ban on foreign aid for abortion providers, congressional Democrats are calling for the State Department to consider abortion in its assessment of global human rights. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) introduced an act to require the State Department to include abortion access in its annual reports on international human rights.
The bill identifies a lack of access to abortion as a human rights violation. "Reproductive coercion, which is any behavior that interferes with autonomous decision making about reproductive health outcomes, is a violation of human rights," the resolution says.
"The bill would require the U.S. State Department to include reproductive rights in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – including reports on the adoption of national policies to promote access to contraception, maternal health care and family planning services – to help ensure accountability around abuses on these rights," the lawmakers said in a statement.
Biden drew objections from Republicans when
he removed domestic protections
against taxpayer funding for abortions from his
$6 trillion budget proposal. The administration
has also pursued policies that could pump
millions of dollars into pro-abortion
organizations operating overseas.
The State Department requested a 12 percent increase for its 2022 fiscal budget, with the most significant increase going to spending on global health initiatives. The budget request includes the Helms Amendment, a provision that is supposed to limit foreign aid funding for abortion. In reality, international abortion organizations have been able to collect tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for decades through family planning programs. The agency's budget includes initiatives designed to increase that funding.
Congressional Republicans have raised concerns about the use of taxpayer money to fund international organizations that provide abortion services or referrals. Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.) clashed with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a hearing Tuesday, saying the State Department's budget proposal would devote millions of taxpayer dollars to funding abortions overseas.
"Your budget would funnel even more taxpayer dollars to these organizations by increasing the slush fund for international family planning reproductive health by $8.7 million," she said. "Promoting abortion in poor, developing nations, especially when those nations have pro-life laws in place right now, harms the most vulnerable and undermines the goodwill we seek to do with global health assistance."
Blinken denied that the budget request would fund abortions. "We take very seriously the proposition that … the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls are key to their health and well-being," he said. "We also take very seriously the proposition that we are not in the business of funding internationally abortion."
A State Department spokeswoman said the agency said "reproductive health" abroad is a matter of national security.
"The empowerment and protection of women and girls, including promoting their sexual and reproductive health and rights, is a central part of U.S. foreign policy and national security," the agency said in a statement. "The Administration takes [the Helms Amendment] and other related legislative restrictions very seriously and will work with partners to ensure compliance."
The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the role abortion would play in U.S. foreign policy.
The move to prioritize abortion echoes the Obama administration's policies, under which abortion providers successfully lobbied the State Department and received millions of dollars in funding. Biden's decision to repeal the Mexico City Policy, which bans giving taxpayer aid to international abortion providers, reversed the Trump administration's decision to cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, which has funneled millions to abortion groups worldwide. In 2017, the State Department cut off funding for the population fund because of its involvement with the Chinese government's genocide against the Muslim Uyghur minority. Congressional Democrats introduced legislation in 2019 to permanently repeal the Mexico City Policy.
Here's the Details of if the Catholic Bishops Will Decide Whether to Deny Pro-Abortion Joe Biden Communion
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As Townhall has covered, that President Joe Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi both portend to be devout Catholics while still publicly advocating for abortion has created something of a situation for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Next week, the Catholic bishops will meet virtually for their twice-annual gathering to discuss a number of action items, though the one gaining the most attention has to do with clarifying the Church's stance on abortion.
As Michael J. O'Loughlin with America magazine reported:
Earlier this year, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, the chair of the doctrine committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, took the first steps in a process that could result in the bishops adopting a formal statement pertaining to “Eucharistic consistency.” According to a draft of the proposal, which was distributed to U.S. bishops along with a memo from the conference’s president, Archbishop José Gomez, on May 22, the proposed statement is a response to both a strategic plan that focuses on catechism about Communion as well as recommendations from a working group Archbishop Gomez created following President Joe Biden’s election last November. Mr. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, supports access to abortion, which the church condemns.
“The statement will be addressed to all Catholics,” the proposal reads, though it notes it would also “include the theological foundation for the Church’s discipline concerning the reception of Holy Communion and a special call for those Catholics who are cultural, political, or parochial leaders to witness the faith.”
Such a statement will not mention President Biden or Speaker Pelosi or any other figure by name. A pastoral letter from Nancy Pelosi's hometown archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone, as Townhall reported, stressed the importance of a pro-life stance for public figures, without referring to the speaker by name. Such a public rebuke would not be appropriate.
The statement will not merely apply to Biden or Pelosi, but to all Catholics. One could argue that by making themselves such high profile Catholics while still actively advocating for pro-abortion policies, Biden and Pelosi are the ones making it about themselves.
Missing from Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal is Hyde amendment language, which protects Americans from having to fund elective abortions with their taxpayers. The Hyde amendment has passed every years since 1976 with bipartisan support, including under the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president.
O'Loughlin also reported:
Nearly 70 bishops signed a letter dated May 13 asking Archbishop Gomez to delay the discussion about the document until bishops are able to meet in person.
“The serious nature of these issues—especially the imperative to forge substantive unity—makes it impossible to address them productively in the fractured and isolated setting of a distance meeting,” reads the one-page letter urging a delay on the vote, which was signed initially by four U.S. cardinals, including Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory.
But on May 22, Archbishop Gomez distributed a memo to all U.S. bishops informing them that the vote would take place in June. His memo noted that the proposal followed established protocols, which have been in place for decades.
This is the part which has gotten considerable attention, specifically those who claim it is the Catholic bishops who are weaponizing the faith.
As Olafimihan Oshin recently reported for The Hill, "21,000 sign petition protesting US Catholic bishops vote on Biden, abortion," which focused on letters organized by Faithful America calling out the Catholic bishops.
That same group had issued yet another campaign against Archbishop Joseph Naumann, the Chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities, a position he was elected to by his fellow bishops. The campaign was in reaction to an interview Naumann gave to the Atlantic in March where he said Biden should not call himself "devout" and should not present himself for communion because of his pro-abortion stance.
As the Cardinal of Washington D.C., Wilton Gregory is Biden's bishop when the president is in the district. Cardinal Gregory has signaled he will not deny Joe Biden communion over his stance on abortion and also took part in aspects of Biden's inaugural events. Speaker Pelosi has also done readings at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, which is in Washington, D.C.
What really matters to the conversation, including and especially what the Vatican wants, is that the bishops take their time and have a sense of unity and consensus.
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