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Pelosi’s Archbishop: ‘You Cannot Be a Good Catholic and Support Expanding a…Right to Kill Innocent Human Beings’

 By CNSNews.com Staff | September 6, 2021 | 9:45am EDT

 

 

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Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, the diocese where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) resides, published a commentary in the Washington Post on Sunday stating that you cannot be a good Catholic and support the killing of unborn children through abortion.

“You cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings,” said Cordileone. “The answer to crisis pregnancies is not violence but love, for both mother and child.”

Cordileone specifically addressed the response of both Pelosi and President Biden—both of who profess to be Catholics—to Supreme Court’s refusal to issue an injunction against a Texas law that bans the abortion of babies who have a detectable heartbeat.

“Prominent politicians lost no time in reacting hyperbolically to the Supreme Court’s decision refusing to enjoin Texas’s new law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat,” said Cordileone. “President Biden announced a “whole-of-government effort” to find ways to overcome the Texas measure. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) denounced the Supreme Court’s refusal as a ‘cowardly, dark-of-night decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health,’ and promised new legal action: ‘This ban necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade’ in federal law.

“As a faith leader in the Catholic community, I find it especially disturbing that so many of the politicians on the wrong side of the preeminent human rights issue of our time are self-professed Catholics,” said Cordileone.

You can read his full commentary for the Washington Post—which is headlined “Our duty to challenge Catholic politicians who support abortion rights”--by clicking here.

The Satanic Temple Rallies Against Texas Abortion Law

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PAUL BOIS

5 Sep 20210

2:54

Pro-choicers can now count The Satanic Temple among their list of allies in the fight against the recent anti-abortion law in Texas.

Two years after challenging a pro-life law in Missouri, the satanic group that claims to be little more than a collection of theatrical atheists have now “filed a letter with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arguing that its Texas members should have legal access to abortion pills,” according to the San Antonio Current.

In the letter addressed to the FDA, Lucien Greaves, the Temple’s spokesman and cofounder, argued that the abortion drugs Misoprostol and Mifepristone should be allowed under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) so as to be used in what the Temple referred to as their “Abortion Rituals.”

I am sure Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — who famously spends a good deal of his time composing press releases about Religious Liberty issues in other states — will be proud to see that Texas’s robust Religious Liberty laws, which he so vociferously champions, will prevent future Abortion Rituals from being interrupted by superfluous government restrictions meant only to shame and harass those seeking an abortion.

The battle for abortion rights is largely a battle of competing religious viewpoints, and our viewpoint that the nonviable fetus is part of the impregnated host is fortunately protected under Religous Liberty laws.

The Satanic Temple previously cited the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to overturn a set of pro-life laws in Missouri, but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear it.

The cast members of the Hell House Mercy Maelica, Cameron Willson (L) and Joy Davenport (C) pose for a photo at the Satanic Temple where a “Hell House” is being held in Salem, Massachusetts on October 8, 2019. – The Hell House was a parody on a Christian Conversion centre meant to scare atheist and other Satanic Church members. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

The Satanic Temple bills itself as a non-theistic organization dedicated to reason and uses Satanic imagery as little more than a tool to troll Christians. Its website states:

The mission of The Satanic Temple is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits. The Satanic Temple has publicly confronted hate groups, fought for the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools, applied for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property, provided religious exemption and legal protection against laws that unscientifically restrict women’s reproductive autonomy, exposed harmful pseudo-scientific practitioners in mental health care, organized clubs alongside other religious after-school clubs in schools besieged by proselytizing organizations, and engaged in other advocacy in accordance with our tenets.

Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 not to block the Lone Star State’s new law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, while allowing citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone who aids in abortion for up to $10,000 in damages.

Report: Texas Abortionists Ended 67 Pregnancies in 17 Hours to Beat Heartbeat Ban Deadline

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DR. SUSAN BERRY

6 Sep 20210

3:38

An abortion clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, “raced” to terminate as many pregnancies as possible before midnight Tuesday, when the state’s heartbeat abortion ban took effect, The 19th reported in a dramatic piece last week.

According to the gender and politics independent outlet founded by two former editors of the Texas Tribune, abortionist Marva Sadler of Whole Woman’s Health, one of the largest abortion clinics in Texas, said four hours before the deadline, two dozen women were still packing the waiting room hoping to end their pregnancies before the law took effect.

The abortionists terminated 67 pregnancies in 17 hours, racing to beat the heartbeat ban, said the report.

“We are not the bad guys here,” Sadler told her staff. “We are doing everything right and we’re going to help everybody that we can. If there’s someone that we can’t help, it’s not our fault.”

According to the report:

The staff worked without stopping to eat, shifting patients in and out of rooms. In the lobby, people who had been waiting five hours or more asked when they would be called. They had to pick up other kids. Their ride was leaving. Their family members, who were outside because of coronavirus regulations, knocked on the front door to see what was happening. Would they be seen or turned away?

When Sadler returned to her abortion clinic the next day, the law was in effect, and she knew she would have to turn women away.

“How unfair,” she kept thinking, “that those women yesterday were helped, and the women today don’t have any help.”

The U.S. Supreme Court decided, 5-4, not to block the heartbeat ban, which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, at generally six weeks’ gestation.

The new law also contains a unique enforcement mechanism whereby any private citizen may file a civil lawsuit against an abortion provider or any other individual who “aids or abets” a “criminal abortion.”

However, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of the District Court in Travis County, Texas, granted Planned Parenthood’s application for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Texas Right to Life, which spearheaded the new law, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision.

As Breitbart News reported:

The TRO blocks not only Texas Right to Life but up to 100 private individuals. The judge announced her intention to block the law entirely, but the order itself covers only those 100 individuals. For lawsuits being brought under the new law, the question will be if any of them are “persons in active concert and participation with” Texas Right to Life. If so, up to 100 of them would be blocked. But private citizens who are not actively working with the pro-life organization are still free to bring private lawsuits.

Gamble said the Texas law “creates a probable, irreparable, and imminent injury in the interim for which Plaintiffs and their physicians, staff, and patients throughout Texas have no adequate remedy at law if Plaintiffs, their physicians, and staff are subjected to private enforcement lawsuits against them under S.B. 8.”

The TRO is in effect until September 17. A hearing for a preliminary injunction has been set for September 13.

The case is Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Texas Right to Life No. D-1-GN-21-004632, in District Court of Travis County, Texas.

Pelosi: It’s ‘Cowardly’ for Supreme Court Not to Uphold the Right to Kill an Unborn Baby With a Heartbeat

By CNSNews.com Staff | September 3, 2021 | 4:05pm EDT

 

 

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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) on Thursday put out a statement calling the Supreme Court “cowardly” for not issuing an injunction to stop enforcement of a Texas law, which went into effect on Wednesday, that prohibits aborting babies who have a detectable heartbeat.

“The Supreme Court’s cowardly, dark-of-night decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health is staggering,” said Pelosi. “That this radically partisan Court chose to do so without a full briefing, oral arguments or providing a full, signed opinion is shameful.

Here is the full text of Pelosi’s statement:

“Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Shadow Ruling on Texas Reproductive Rights Case

“September 2, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Supreme Court ruled in the middle of the night to leave SB8, the most restrictive abortion ban in fifty years, in place:

“‘The Supreme Court’s cowardly, dark-of-night decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health is staggering.  That this radically partisan Court chose to do so without a full briefing, oral arguments or providing a full, signed opinion is shameful.

“‘SB8 delivers catastrophe to women in Texas, particularly women of color and women from low-income communities.  Every woman, everywhere has the constitutional right to basic health care.  SB8 is the most extreme, dangerous abortion ban in half a century, and its purpose is to destroy Roe v. Wade, and even refuses to make exceptions for cases of rape and incest.  This ban necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade.

“‘Upon our return, the House will bring up Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America. 

“‘SB8 unleashes one of the most disturbing, unprecedented and far-reaching assaults on health care providers – and on anyone who helps a woman, in any way, access an abortion – by creating a vigilante bounty system that will have a chilling effect on the provision of any reproductive health care services.  This provision is a cynical, backdoor attempt by partisan lawmakers to evade the Constitution and the law to destroy not only a woman’s right to health care but potentially any right or protection that partisan lawmakers target.

“‘When the Supreme Court takes up its reproductive rights case this year, we urge it to uphold, as Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, ‘its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and of the rule of law.’”

Tucker: In the Age of 'Not Your Body, Not Your Choice' Vaccines, What's Dems' Argument Against Texas Abortion Law?

 By Megan Williams | September 3, 2021 | 5:21pm EDT

 

 

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Democrats who have argued "my body, my choice" when it comes to abortion do not have much ground to stand on with Texas' abortion law after pushing vaccine mandates that violate bodily autonomy during the past few months, Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued Thursday.

Carlson and radio host Dana Loesch discussed how the left’s actions and demands during the pandemic have contradicted their previous arguments in support of abortion.

“Everyone who has been screaming, “My body, my choice” all of these years, who has been speaking out for, in favor of government-mandated vaccines, can all have a million seats right now because this has all been a giant grift,” Loesch said. 

"Maybe the only justification for abortion now is abortion itself; maybe they just like abortion, maybe it’s that simple," Carlson stated.

Below is a transcript of the “Tucker Carlson Show”:

Tucker Carlson: That's what they're telling you. These people can't even hear themselves. But millions of normal Americans do recognize this moment for what it is: it’s proof that democracy does still exist, voters can decide what they want for their communities, their states, their towns, and that courts will at least potentially respect that right. It's called self-government.

The legislature in Texas has realized this for months now; they’ve passed laws banning vaccine passports, homeless encampments, racist struggle sessions in schools, laws that block protests that prevent emergency vehicles from riding down the road, etcetera, etcetera; laws specific to Texas that the people of Texas want and a lot of those laws are still on the books. So that’s not a bad thing; how is that a bad thing? Why should Texas have to be exactly like California? 

The problem is, if that kind of thinking goes national, it gravely disempowers the people at CNN and the so-called civil rights organizations that think they’re in control of everything. On the other hand, it might actually save civil rights for the rest of us and that might be a good thing. 

Dana Loesch is a nationally syndicated radio host who we think lives in Texas; she joins us tonight. Thanks so much for coming on.

Dana Loesch: Thanks, Tucker.

Carlson: The response to this, you’ve got to kind of wonder, now that we’ve decided that it’s not your body and you don’t get to choose what to do with it, politicians get to make that choice, what is the argument against this Texas law? It’s a sincere question. 

Loesch: That’s a great question. All I’ve heard is that I’m the American Taliban. And what I want to know is if I’m the American Taliban -- we know that’s not true because I don’t have a Blackhawk, Tucker and I think that I need to have that first in order to have that classification. 

Carlson: I totally agree.

Loesch: It doesn't count. Six weeks, up to the heartbeat, and I love how all of the people who for so long have said that "abortion is a sacred healthcare treatment,” because healthcare treatment, I don’t know what that phrase to describe abortion means either. “But it’s a sacred healthcare treatment between a woman and her doctor.”

However, Tucker, as you know, vaccines should be mandated to everybody by the government and the government's going to stand between you and your doctor. Everyone who has been screaming, “My body, my choice” all of these years, who has been speaking out for, in favor of government-mandated vaccines, can all have a million seats right now because this has all been a giant grift. 

These people don’t care, it’s a great day for babies in Texas; I’ll just put it like that. This is a great day for babies in Texas and I don’t understand what all of these birthing persons were complaining about in Austin because remember like gender's a social construct, right? So, they opened the door wide to this, Tucker, as you said: birthing persons. 

Carlson: They can’t think clearly because they gave up all of their arguments: it’s a woman’s choice, your body is autonomous, politicians don’t have a right to make healthcare decisions. 

Across the country, politicians are punishing doctors, physicians, licensed physicians for not taking medicine that licensed physicians don’t want to take. I mean, that’s happening everywhere. 

So maybe the only justification for abortion now is abortion itself; maybe they just like abortion, maybe it’s that simple. 

Loesch: Well, at least that's what they’re trying to argue it. I mean, it’s evil, it ends a life, I don’t know anything that ends a life that is called healthcare; that’s death, that’s murder, that’s killing.

Megan Williams is a CNSNews intern and junior at Hillsdale College. She is majoring in Rhetoric and Public Address with a Journalism minor. She is the assistant opinions editor for the Hillsdale Collegian and enjoys covering local events, from concerts to conventions. Born and raised in Southern California, Megan is excited to experience D.C. and grow as a journalist with CNSNews.