LYING LAWYER ELIZABETH WARREN COMES OUT FOR DEMS AND ABORTION

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY: FREE ABORTION, OPEN BORDERS, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY AND BOTTOMLESS BANKSTER BAILOUTS.... THEY CAN'T DESTROY THIS COUNTRY FAST ENOUGH

Warren: SCOTUS ‘an Extremist’ Court Willing to ‘Take a Shot at Roe v. Wade’

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This week on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed the U.S. Supreme Court as an “extremist court” that was “out of step with the American people.”

Host Jonathan Capehart aired a clip of a Democratic Texas state representative lamenting that the Supreme Court was acting like abortion was “an issue that we need to vacillate over.”

Warren agreed and argued that “70% of Americans” want Roe v. Wade to “remain the law of the land.”

“Look, the court has signaled 40 different ways that it is an extremist court, out of step with the American people, and that it’s willing to line up and take a shot at Roe v. Wade,” Warren outlined. “Now, whether they’ll get rid of it entirely or just let the states continue to chip at it, come on. They’ve given us every possible signal. But for me, what that means is it’s time for Congress to step up.”

She continued, “The American people strongly support Roe v. Wade. About 70% of Americans say they want that to remain the law of the land. We don’t need the Supreme Court to do that. The United States Congress could do that. When 70% of the people support something, by golly, I think we ought to get out there and get it done.”

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DC Cops Say Department Pressured Them To Have Abortions

Police under Dem mayor Marion Barry allegedly ordered women to end pregnancies

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Two Washington, D.C., police officers said the police department made them abort their pregnancies to keep their jobs.

Assistant Police Chief Chanel Dickerson, the highest-ranking black woman in the department, said Tuesday that when she was a cadet in 1988 she was told to end her pregnancy or be fired.

"I was told I had to have an abortion or be fired from the [Metropolitan Police Department] cadet program," Dickerson said. "My choice to have a baby was personal and it should've been mine alone and not for an employer ultimatum."

The next day, another officer came forward, telling Fox 5 that while she was in the police academy in 1997 she too was pressured to get an abortion.

"If we were pregnant we needed to get an abortion or we would be fired," Karen Arikpo said. "So later that day, I went and told my class sergeant that I was pregnant. And she said I needed to have an abortion and she referred me to a doctor in D.C. to get it done."

Both alleged incidents took place under the administration of notorious Democratic mayor Marion Barry. Barry was mayor of D.C. from 1979 to 1991, when he went to prison for using crack cocaine during a sting operation. After his release, he was reelected as mayor and served again from 1995 to 1999.

Dickerson is participating in a $100 million lawsuit against the department, joining former cadets who accuse it of abuse and retaliation.

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HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S OBESSION WITH MURDERIN THE UNBORN?

Evil is real, and we're seeing more than than usual from our own government

By Mark Landsbaum

It’s astonishing that this must even be said. We are deeply immersed in a monumental battle of good versus evil.

God warns people about evil. It is real, He says. It is not just a difference of opinion. It is the opposite of good. It is harmful, destructive and merciless.

But people are naïve. They prefer to believe people are basically good. Because of that erroneous assumption, they refuse to see evil intent. They want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. They don’t want to believe that people are motivated by evil. When there are differences of opinion, they attribute the differences to benevolent disagreement.

But God says otherwise. Evil exists. People are not basically good, He says. People are basically evil. They are born in sin, naturally preferring sin over what is good. People instinctively lie, cheat, steal. They murder. They call evil good and good evil. And they do all that to advance evil. As Jesus said, these evildoers act out the will of their father, the Devil.

This is the fundamental difference between people. Some are children of the Devil, doing his will, committing evil acts, destroying, oppressing, killing, and compliantly supporting such vile behavior as if it is a good thing. Others are children of God, adopted by Him to learn and to do His will, which is to oppose evil in all things, to resist the Devil, not to obey him.

God warns that evildoers are deceived by Satan, whom God identifies as “The Deceiver.”

As has often been written, the Devil’s best trick is to make people believe he does not exist.

But once people accept that Satan is real, that evil exists, that people are inherently sinful, not good, then the battle between good and evil comes into focus. Suddenly, people see evil acts as evil acts, not as innocent differences of opinion. The murder of babies in the womb is seen as murder, not a beneficent “choice.” Sexual depravity is seen as a blatant offense to God’s natural order, not an artificial “right” bestowed by manmade laws. Oppression, tyranny, slavery, mass murder, denial of the natural right to worship God, all these forms of evil are seen as what they are: the tools and outcome of following the will of Satan.

How is it possible for people to turn blind eyes to such evil as practiced today by governments of the world, such as in North Korea, communist China, false-god worshipping Iran? It is possible because people refuse to see the evil being done by governments that enslave, torture and murder their own people. But these evildoers can be known by their fruits.

In the 20th century, dictatorial socialist-communist countries murdered 100 million people. Not enemies in war. Their own people, their own citizens. And the world largely looked on, often even applauding the tyranny. A New York Times reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about the intentional mass starvations of millions in the USSR, explaining that to make an omelet some eggs must be broken.

Men inspired by evil have followed suit, committing such evil acts in supposedly free nations that also supposedly honor God-given rights.

When many Americans see their own government committing similar evil acts, their inclination is to deny that they are evil acts. They refuse to identify their rulers by their wicked fruits. “Our people wouldn’t do something that’s evil,” they tell each other. “Our people are basically good. What they do is for our benefit.”

“Our scientists wouldn’t invent medical means to inflict evil on our own people,” they tell each other. “They only do what they do to help us, not to hurt us.”

The devil’s greatest trick is to make people believe he doesn’t exist.

Here’s a tip: if it looks like evil, it probably is. If it results in evil being done, it isn’t good. If those doing it demand that people must conform to their diktats, it isn’t voluntary free will. It is tyranny. If it’s tyranny, it isn’t godly. It is the work of Satan and evil people.

Finally, when people inspired to do evil gain control over other people you can be certain of two things: they won’t relinquish control once they’ve obtained it, and once they get it, their number one motivation is to increase their control. History is replete with examples, from ancient despots to today’s political Utopia-seekers.

You may be familiar with Lord Acton’s words describing it: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

It starts with the power to lockdown everything for only 15 days to “flatten the curve.” It quickly escalates to injecting everyone with unproven, unprecedented “vaccines” that are actually RNA-modifying drugs, even children and even those who don’t want the vaccination. And it quickly ratchets up to government-required approval to leave your home, to work, to buy food, to worship God, and ultimately to being segregated in concentration camps to corral dissenters, just as done by Nazis, Soviets and Chinese communists.

“It can’t happen here,” you protest? That’s what Germans, Russians and Chinese thought too.

If it looks like evil, it’s not good. And God has warned us. Flee from the Devil. Resist him. “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” (Ephesians 5:11)

God has explained the way Satan tricks vulnerable, gullible people who prefer to believe that people are basically good and that people who take control must be benevolent. God says you are being deceived.

“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:14-16)

Because the Devil’s greatest trick is to make you think he doesn’t exist.

And, as has been suggested, “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy.

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 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.

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 KAMALA 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.

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.

Becerra has also zealously defended a California law requiring abortion coverage in insurance plans offered by churches — yes, churches. In January, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services ruled that California’s abortion mandate violated a federal law known as the Weldon amendment, which prohibits federal funding of states and localities that force health providers and insurers to participate in or cover abortion. Becerra announced California would not comply.

ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!

PLANNED PARENTHOOD:

America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work

 

“I Cut the Vocal Cord So The Baby Can't

Scream.”

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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.

Pro-Life Democrat: ‘I Grieve for the Disastrously Wrong Turn of My Party’

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The former Associate Director of the U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Office, a self-described “pro-life Democrat,” said Saturday he grieves “for the disastrously wrong turn of my party.”

Richard M. Doerflinger, who worked for the Catholic bishops’ conference for 36 years, said that the Democrats’ stand on human life is the most obvious but not the only issue in which the party has gone radically wrong.

“The growing hostility of many Democratic leaders to religious freedom and rights of conscience is equally appalling,” Doerflinger told Crux, an online Catholic news outlet.

The “courageous few who remain active in politics as pro-life Democrats” are “more likely to be found at the state and local than at the national level,” Doerflinger noted. “But it’s been a long time since I saw a national Democratic ticket I would feel happy to vote for.”

“A landmark moment for the debate whether abortion is protected by the Constitution, a divisive issue in itself, is happening at a time when our politics is more polarized and divisive than I have ever seen,” Doerflinger said.

“If Roe v. Wade is reversed, abortion will not end but become an issue of political debate in every state and locality as well as in Congress,” he noted.

He went on to note that the pro-abortion movement has become more and more radicalized, abandoning “its old emphasis on ‘freedom of choice’ and now fixates on maximum ‘access’ to abortion – which means an insistence on public funding, a campaign against conscience rights for health care professionals, and even an attack on clinic regulations trying to protect the life and health of women.”

“The movement’s flagship legislation, the ‘Women’s Health Protection Act,’ is promoted as ‘codifying Roe’ but would attack hundreds of modest laws that are valid under Roe,” he added.

“This new extremism may attract public opinion or, as I hope, it may backfire and turn off many Americans, just as the movement’s fervent defense of the grotesque partial-birth abortion procedure did over a decade ago. It’s too soon to tell,” he said.

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.”

Petition Calls on Pope Francis to Formally Discipline Joe Biden at Oct. 29 Meeting in Rome

By Michael W. Chapman | October 22, 2021 | 12:27pm EDT

 

 

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(CNS News) -- Because President Joe Biden, a Catholic, supports abortion and yet still presents himself for Holy Communion at Sunday Mass -- in defiance of Church teaching -- the Catholic-based Life Site News has launched a petition calling on Pope Francis to formally discipline Biden when they meet in Rome on Oct. 29.

The petition urges the Pope "to tell Biden that he will face formal excommunication because of his public and obstinate promotion of abortion, and that if he wishes to return to communion with the Church he must immediately and publicly stop and repent from his active support of the culture of death."

"This is the prime opportunity for the Pope to make it crystal clear to Biden: Promoting abortion is absolutely and utterly incompatible with being in communion with the Church, and that those politicians who publicly and obstinately support abortion effectively put themselves outside communion with the Church, but also merit formal excommunication," reads the petition. 

Pro-abortion Catholic politicians Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. (Getty Images)

"Joe Biden's active and concentrated promotion of abortion since he took office only 9 months ago is a grave scandal to the faithful of the United States, and to Catholics everywhere," reads the document.

The petition also notes that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has done nothing "to directly and publicly address how Biden's radical, public promotion of abortion affects his standing in the Church."

"The silence from our American shepherds is deafening," states the petition. "Therefore, Pope Francis must now intervene to protect our preborn brothers and sisters from death, to protect authentic Church teaching from deceitful 'Catholics' like Joe Biden, and to protect the faithful from the grievous scandal caused by Biden's action and the intolerable dithering and 'dialoging' engaged in by the USCCB."

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As president, vice president under Barack Obama, and as a U.S. senator for 36 years, Joe Biden has promoted, implemented, and voted for pro-abortion policies.

He supports Roe v. Wade and wants to see it codified into federal law. In his budget proposals, Biden has removed the Hyde Amendment, which prevents using tax dollars to pay for abortion, except in the cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is at risk.

In a Sept. 5 commentary in the Washington Post, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, citing Biden and pro-abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), wrote, "Since the Roe decision, more than 60 million lives have been lost to abortion. ... You cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings. ... This is hardly inappropriate for a pastor to say."

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law."

In an address to the Ponticial Academy for Life at the Vatican on Sept. 27, Pope Francis said abortion "is truly murder."

In his 1995 encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), Pope St. John Paul II wrote, "In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to 'take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.'"

In 2002, the future Pope Benedict XVI wrote in The Participation of Catholics in Political Life, "those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a grave and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them."

According to news reports, President Biden and Pope Francis are expected to discuss the COVID pandemic and climate change. 

As this story was posted, nearly 13,000 people had signed the petition. 

Is an Infanticide Defender the Best Biden Can Do for Health Post Nominee?

 By Bill Donohue | October 22, 2021 | 4:03pm EDT

 

 

Atul Gawande discusses his book "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End." (Photo credit: YouTube/Talks at Google)

If credentials were sufficient grounds for holding a position in the Biden Administration, Atul Gawande would merit a unanimous vote. He is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, a Rhodes Scholar, a distinguished author, and the former CEO of a healthcare organization. This is surely why President Biden has nominated him to be assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development. 

There are very good reasons, however, why Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sounded the alarm on Gawande. He is a defender of infanticide, a reflection, no doubt, of his crass utilitarian philosophy. In short, credentials, no matter how stellar, tell us nothing about the ethics of the person.  

Rubio, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, centers his objection to Gawande on a 1998 essay he wrote for Slate, the left-wing media outlet. It was a full-throated defense of partial-birth abortion.

Gawande casually describes what partial-birth abortion entails:

"The fetus is delivered feet first. To get the large head out, the doctor cuts open a hole at the base of the fetus's skull and inserts tubing to suck out the brain, which collapses the skull. Often, but not always, the fetus is injected lethally beforehand."

Gawande knows how normal people react to this monstrous procedure, and he has a ready answer for them:

"If partial-birth abortion is too gruesome to allow, however, it is hard to see how other late abortions, especially D and Es [dilatation and evacuation], are any different."

He's right about that. 

"About 80 percent of late-term abortions are done by D and E. A couple of days ahead, small, absorbent rods are put in the pregnant woman's cervical opening to expand it gradually. Then, for the actual procedure, she—and the fetus—are given heavy sedation or general anesthesia. The doctor breaks her bag of water and drains out the fluid. The opening won't let the fetus out whole. So the doctor uses metal tongs, physically crushes the head, and dismembers the fetus. The pieces are pulled out and counted to confirm that nothing was missed."

Not even a toe.

Gawande speaks with clinical detachment about the most Nazi-like practices.

"What makes abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now—like a fully formed child. Two of my obstetrician friends, both strongly pro-choice, told me that, even when it is a mother's life at stake and abortion is absolutely necessary, doing the D and E feels 'horrible.' We imagine, as we look in the fetus's eyes, that there is someone in there." 

Imagine that. A big unborn child, who `miraculously resembles a "fully formed child," inspires those who look into his eyes that there really is someone there! 

Hooman Noorchashm is an M.D. who also holds a Ph.D. He worked with Gawande at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a Harvard-affiliated entity, in Boston. On Dec. 11, 2018, he wrote a letter to Gawande commenting on his appointment as the new CEO of Haven Healthcare. 

Noorchashm raked Gawande over the coals for going mute on a serious scandal that took place at the hospital when they worked there. A surgical tool was used during hysterectomies that spread a dangerous cancer in some of the hospital's patients. 

The device is called a morcellator. It is used to cut up and remove tissue to treat fibroids. While these growths are usually benign, they sometimes cannot be detected before surgery. As described by the Wall Street Journal, which covered the scandal, "Morcellation can send pieces of malignant tissue into other parts of the abdomen, significantly reducing a woman's chance of long-term survival, the FDA said." One of the women treated at BWH died after a hysterectomy with morcellation in 2012. She was 52.

When Noorchashm spoke to Gawande about this issue, he was struck by his cowardly silence. What makes this so disturbing is that Gawande has a reputation as the guardian of public safety. Moreover, he was fully aware of a critical analysis of what was going on at BWH.

Noorchashm said in his letter to him that "you failed to rise up, at all, to defend a surgical and ethical critique and position [of this dangerous operation] you knew was absolutely correct—I know that your silence was for the sake of internal politics, or perhaps it was because of the ethically imbalanced utilitarian philosophy your writings seem to promote."

Noorshashm didn't mince words. "Maybe you too believe that the majority benefit and cost/revenue advantages somehow justified the minority subset of women whose cancers were being spread and upstaged by GYNs using their 'meat-grinders' through small holes." 

He called Gawande's selection as CEO of Haven Healthcare "monumentally frightening."  

Surely the Biden Administration can find someone who has a more humane record than Gawande. It does not exaggerate to say that he is a direct threat to public safety. 

Bill Donohue is president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is the author of nine books and many articles.

SF Archbishop Calls for Prayers to Convert Pelosi on Abortion, 13,000 People Respond

By Michael W. Chapman | October 18, 2021 | 1:24pm EDT

 

 

 

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(CNS News) -- San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who has repeatedly implored pro-abortion Catholic politicians, especially House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to accept the pro-life teaching of the Church, recently called on all Catholics to say some special prayers (and fast) every Friday for Pelosi to have a conversion of heart. 

So far, some 12,987 people have responded to the archbishop's request.

"Witness the House of Representatives’ passage of HR 3755, which would impose abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy," said the archbishop. "A conversion of heart of the majority of our congressional representatives is needed on this issue, beginning with the leader of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi." 

“I am therefore inviting all Catholics to join in a massive and visible campaign of prayer and fasting for Speaker Pelosi: commit to praying one rosary a week and fasting on Fridays for her conversion of heart," said Cordileone.  "Please sign up for the ‘Rose and Rosary for Nancy’ campaign at BenedictInstitute.org, and a rose will be sent to her as a symbol of your prayer and fasting for her.”

“Speaker Pelosi speaks fondly of her children," he added. "She clearly has a maternal heart.  Pope Francis has called abortion murder, the equivalent of hiring a hitman to solve a problem.  The solution to a woman in a crisis pregnancy is not violence but love."

"Please join me in praying the rosary and fasting for a conversion of Speaker Pelosi’s maternal heart to embracing the goodness and dignity of human life not only after birth, but in the womb as well," said the archbishop. 

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HR 3755, called the "Women's Healh Protection Act of 2021," is co-sponsored by Pelosi, and it passed in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Sept. 24, 2021.

As explained by Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, the legislation pushed by Pelosi is a "“deceptively-named, extreme bill [that] would impose abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy [and] … eliminate modest and widely supported pro-life laws at every level of government."

Archbishop Cordileone said, "Any reasonable person with a basic sense of morality and inkling of decency cannot but shudder in horror at such a heinous evil being codified in law."

"It is especially shameful that any self-professed Catholic would be implicated in such an evil, let alone advocate for it.  To Catholic politicians in particular, I implore you to listen to the words of Pope Francis who just last weekend, during his flight back to Rome from Slovakia, said: 'Abortion is more than a problem.  Abortion is homicide….  It is a human life, period.  And this human life must be respected.  This principle is so clear, and to those who cannot understand, I would ask two questions: is it right to kill a human life to solve a problem?  Scientifically, it is a human life.  The second question: is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem?'"

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"This proposed legislation is nothing short of child sacrifice," said Cordileone. 

To learn more about the prayer and fasting campaign for Speaker Pelosi's conversion, visit the Benedictinstitute.org. 

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S BRIBES SUCKING KLEPTOCRACY

Watters' World' investigates Nancy Pelosi's financial dealings

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Pope Francis: Abortion ‘is Truly Murder’

By CNSNews.com Staff | October 20, 2021 | 11:44am EDT

 

 

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(CNSNews.com) - Pope Francis said in an address given to the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican on Sept. 27 that abortions “is truly murder.”

An English translation of the pope’s address has been posted on the Vatican’s website.

In the same speech, Pope Francis also condemned euthanasia.

“Here too, I would like to mention that we are victims of the throwaway culture,” the pope said in his address.

“In his presentation, Msgr Paglia [Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life] referred to something: but there is the throwing away of children that we do not want to welcome, with that abortion law that sends them back to their sender and kills them.

“Today this has become a ‘normal’ thing, a habit that is very bad; it is truly murder,” said the pope.

“In order to truly grasp this, perhaps asking ourselves two questions may help: is it right to eliminate, to end a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem? Abortion is this,” said Pope Francis.

“And then on the other side, are the elderly: the elderly who are also a bit of ‘throwaway material’ because they are not needed.... But they are the wisdom, they are the roots of the wisdom of our civilization, and this civilization discards them!

“Yes, in many places there is a ‘hidden’ law on euthanasia, as I call it. It is the one that makes us say: ‘medicines are expensive, only half should be given,’”  said the pope. “This means shortening the lives of the elderly. In so doing, we deny hope, the hope of the children who bring us the life that makes us go forward, and the hope that is in the roots that the elderly give us. Instead, we discard both.

And then the everyday throwing away, that life is thrown away,” said  the pope. “Let us be careful about this throwaway culture. It is not a problem of one law or another. It is a problem of throwing away. And on this point, you academics, the Catholic universities and also Catholic hospitals cannot allow themselves to go this way. This is a path which we cannot take: the throw away path.”

At a press conference he held on his flight back to Rome from Slovakia on Sept. 15, Pope Francis also referred to abortion as murder.

The Vatican News ran a transcript of that press conference under the headline: “Pope: Abortion is murder, the Church must be close and compassionate, not political.”

“The second problem, that of abortion: it's more than a problem, it's homicide, whoever has an abortion, kills,” the pope said in that press conference. “No mincing words. Take any book on embryology for medical students. The third week after conception, all the organs are already there, even the DNA... it is a human life, this human life must be respected, this principle is so clear!

“To those who cannot understand, I would ask this question: Is it right to kill a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to kill a human life? Scientifically, it is a human life,” said the pope. Is it right to take it out to solve a problem?

“That is why the Church is so harsh on this issue, because if it accepts this, it is as if it accepts daily murder,” said Pope Francis.

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Texas Pro-Life Law In Expedited Decision

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KATHERINE HAMILTON

22 Oct 20210

3:47

The Supreme Court announced in a surprising order on Friday that it will decide whether the Texas Heartbeat Act – including the law’s provision allowing private citizens to bring suit against abortion providers – is permitted by the U.S. Constitution.

The legislation, which was signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in May and went into effect on September 1, bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually around six weeks gestation.  Since women do not often detect pregnancy prior to the sixth week, the law effectively bans abortions in the state.

The law is different from other pro-life legislation tried in the past, in that the general public — instead of the government — can enforce it. Any private citizen may file a civil lawsuit against an abortion provider or any other individual who “aids or abets” a “criminal abortion.” Abortionists and those who “aid or abet” an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected must pay damages of at least $10,000 for each abortion performed or assisted.

The Supreme Court granted review – called a writ of certiorari – sought by several abortion clinics, including Whole Women’s Health and various Planned Parenthoods, and will hear oral arguments on November 1. The Court has been asked to decide whether a state can keep federal courts from reviewing a law that prohibits the “exercise of a constitutional right” by giving the general public authority to enforce a law through civil actions. The Court will also decide whether the Department of Justice has the right to sue the state in order to block the law.

Petitioners are also arguing that the Texas Heartbeat Act, formally known as S.B. 8, is in violation of Supreme Court precedents holding that a state cannot prohibit abortion at a point before viability. The cert petition contends:

To try to insulate this unconstitutional prohibition from a federal challenge, the legislature crafted the law to prohibit government officials from directly enforcing it and instead delegated enforcement to the general public via civil actions that ‘any person’ can file in Texas state court.

Although the Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari several times during the Trump administration, typically multiple years pass without the justices short-circuiting the normal process of appellate review.

On October 15, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 2-1 to temporarily reinstate the law while appeals are ongoing, reversing a lower court’s ruling that had blocked enforcement of the pro-life law. The federal appeals court ruled that the Texas Heartbeat Act can remain in effect while litigation continues over whether the law is constitutional.

The Supreme Court previously ruled 5-4 in September not to block the law while legal challenges proceeded in lower courts. Abortion providers have claimed the law heavily reduced abortion access and goes against Supreme Court precedent set by Roe v. Wade in 1973. Woke companies, celebrities and leftist politicians alike have expressed outrage at Texas’s pro-life law as an attempt by Republicans to control women’s bodies. Pro-life organizations, in contrast, have celebrated the Texas Heartbeat Act for recognizing and protecting the personhood of unborn children.

The State of Texas has asked the Supreme Court, “if it reaches merits,” to consider overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, both decisions which declared abortion to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The case is Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, No. 21-463 in the Supreme Court of the United States.

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.

Planned Parenthood’s $80 Million Payday Sparks Call for Probe

Lawmakers accuse abortion giant of inappropriately taking small-business relief

ST LOUIS, MO - MAY 28: The exterior of a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center is seen on May 28, 2019 in St Louis, Missouri. In the wake of Missouri recent controversial abortion legislation, the states' last abortion clinic is being forced to close by the end of the week. Planned Parenthood is expected to go to court to try and stop the closing. (Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)Graham Piro • April 20, 2021 11:15 am

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Planned Parenthood improperly took tens of millions of dollars' worth of government loans intended to help businesses during the coronavirus, according to a group of Republicans who want to see the organization investigated.

House lawmakers accused Planned Parenthood of unlawfully using the Small Business Administration's COVID-response program, the Paycheck Protection Program, to obtain millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Reps. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R., Mo.) and Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) wrote that the Committee on Small Business is calling for the Department of the Treasury and the Small Business Administration to investigate the organization's actions.

"We insist that the SBA and the Department of the Treasury investigate 1.) the distribution of these loans in violation of the relevant affiliation rules and 2.) whether Planned Parenthood violated the law," the lawmakers wrote in a Friday letter.

In May 2020, the multibillion-dollar organization came under fire for taking $80 million in small-business assistance loans. Planned Parenthood said that its local affiliates qualified for the assistance. The Small Business Administration, however, demanded the money be returned, saying local branches were too closely associated with the national organization to be considered independent. Now, GOP lawmakers are looking for answers as to whether or not the organization broke the law.

"At a time where small-business owners are working tirelessly to open their doors and contribute to their communities again, we must ensure the SBA is using relief funding for its intended purpose—assisting our nation’s hardest hit small businesses, not America’s most tragic abortion provider," Luetkemeyer told the Free Beacon. "The SBA must immediately investigate Planned Parenthood’s blatant violation of the rules to ensure guidelines are followed and American taxpayer dollars are protected."

The letter comes as President Joe Biden's Department of Health and Human Services threw open the door for taxpayer-funded abortion. The department unveiled new rules concerning Title X family planning funding that reversed Trump administration policies limiting taxpayer funding for abortion providers. Donalds said taxpayer dollars should not be used to subsidize abortion providers.

"Planned Parenthood—the nation's most notorious abortion provider that has an estimated $2 billion in assets and over 16,000 employees—receiving taxpayer dollars through the Paycheck Protection Program is extremely concerning," he said.

Planned Parenthood defended the loans and accused congressional Republicans of focusing on "baseless political attacks" and targeting centers that "provide essential health care."

"Like many other local nonprofits and health care providers, the independent Planned Parenthood 501(c)(3) organizations who were awarded PPP loans met the eligibility requirements established by both Congress and the Small Business Administration," said Jacqueline Ayers, vice president of government relations and public policy for Planned Parenthood for America.

The Trump administration made changes to the Title X family planning program designed to limit the amount of taxpayer funding for abortion providers. Planned Parenthood withdrew from the program rather than comply with limitations on abortion referrals, forgoing approximately $60 million in annual federal funding.

The HHS rules are expected to take months to implement but will effectively return Title X funding policy to its pre-Trump status. Senate Republicans ripped Biden for allowing the abortion industry to profit from his presidency.

"President Biden took millions from the abortion industry during his campaign," Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.) said. "Now, Planned Parenthood is cashing in."

 

we know what the bankster regime of lawyer barack obama, lawyer joe biden and lawyer eric holder did for black america. nada! they were to busy sabotaging america's borders with narcomex and knew blacks would  always  vote black no  matter what obomb's record really was.

BLM conspicuously quiet about massive numbers of Black deaths

By Andrea Widburg

Blacks make up slightly less than 13% of the American population – a percentage that’s diminishing daily as the Biden administration floods the country with illegal aliens from Latin America. However, Blacks are also doing their bit to keep their presence in American relatively small: They’re aborting their babies in extraordinary numbers. CNS News caught up with CDC statistics for 2018, based on data from only 31 reporting areas. They show that 117,626 Black children were aborted – or 33.6% of all reported 2018 abortions.

According to CNS News:

In the CDC report Abortion Surveillance -- United States, 2018, released in November 2020, Table 5 shows, “Reported abortions, by known race/ethnicity and reporting area of occurrence — selected reporting areas,* United States, 2018.”

As the Table explains, “* Data from 31 reporting areas; excludes 21 reporting areas (California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) that did not report, did not report by race/ethnicity, or did not meet reporting standards.”

Nonetheless, the data show that from the 31 reporting areas, 117,626 of the surgical abortions in 2018 were of black children, which equals 33.6% of the total abortions. 

For white children, 135,328 were killed by abortion (38.7% of total); Hispanics, 70,195 (20% of total); and Other, 26,975 abortions (7.7% of total).

In other words, it’s a virtual certainty that more than 117,626 Black children were aborted, although it’s uncertain if they continued to represent a disproportionate number of total abortions. Nevertheless, it’s numbers such as these, combined with seeing my children’s ultrasounds, that turned me from being pro-Choice (I was raised a Democrat in the San Francisco Bay Area) to pro-Life. The Democrats’ relentless obsession with abortion has turned the Democrat party into a death cult and I want no part of it.

While Democrats once spoke about making abortion “safe, rare, and legal,” in the past two decades they’ve elevated abortion to a sort of Holy Grail status within the party. For most of the Democrat women I’ve known, abortion is the one issue on which they have no flexibility. They’re blind to the hypocrisy of weeping over illegal alien children in Trump’s cages (Biden’s cages don’t trouble them) while encouraging the annual death of hundreds of thousands of human lives.

Although the CDC information was released in November, CNS News only reported it now, which is why I’m getting to it now. Still, I think the timing is actually excellent. With the Derek Chauvin trial wrapping up in Minneapolis, BLM is again gearing up to use Black deaths as the cudgel by which they’ll beat American Blacks into a riotous, often murderous, frenzy that leftists hope will finally, once and for all, bring our country to its knees.

Even as leftists beat that drum, though, they’re unperturbed by the annual deaths of over a hundred thousand Black infants and are doing nothing to stop the slaughter of Black children in Democrat-run, gun-controlled, urban neighborhoods. Abortion on that scale has turned entire Black communities into self-perpetuating death cults.

The people who should care most about the welfare of children in the Black community are the mothers. Instead, though, the Democrat obsession with abortion encourages Black women to think nothing about disposing of their pregnancies. The message is clear to the children who manage to survive to birth: Whether they’re killed in utero or out of it, Black lives are indeed disposable.

No wonder 13-year-old boys run around Chicago with guns. If life has no value, what does it matter if you kill someone and it seemingly didn’t matter to those raising “Lil Homicide” that he might be killed.

The cleverest thing the Democrat party ever did was to convince Blacks to engage in what I call “auto-genocide.” Despite all the “Black Lives Matter” protests, the reality is that the very core of the Democrat party values holds that Black lives don’t matter at all.

 

10 Lowlights of Maxine Waters’ Political Career

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WENDELL HUSEBO

20 Apr 202174

5:08

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is one of the most controversial members of Congress, with a history of scandalous and bizarre statements and stories throughout her thirty years as a representative.

Below are ten lowlights in Waters’ political career:

1. Waters is reprimanded by a judge for inciting unrest during an ongoing criminal trial

Waters has recently been in the news for encouraging protesters in Minnesota to “get more confrontational” if Derek Chauvin is acquitted of murder charges for the death of George Floyd.

Judge Peter Cahill, who is presiding over the trial, said on the day of counsel’s closing arguments that her remarks were “abhorrent” and “may result in the whole trial being overturned”:

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I’m aware that Congresswoman Waters was talking specifically about this trial and about the unacceptability of anything less than a murder conviction, talked about being confrontational… I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law, and to the judicial branch and our function. I think if they want to give their opinions, they should do so in a respectful, and in a manner that is respectful to the Constitution, to respect the co-equal branch of government. Their failure to do so, I think, is abhorrent.

In addition, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News Monday he will formally move to censure Waters “over her call to violence in Minnesota,” Breitbart News’ Matt Boyle reported. If just a handful of Democrats cross the aisle and the censure resolution passes, she will be stripped of her duties as the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee.

2. Waters lives outside her congressional district

Republican Joe Collins campaigned against Waters during the 2020 cycle and highlighted that Waters does not even live in the district she represents.

“Do you know where I am right now? Maxine Waters’ six million-dollar mansion,” Collins says in an ad. “Do you know where I’m not right now? Maxine Waters’ district.”

“She has a very nice community, she has a really big house – and that’s just one of three or four house that she has,” he also told Fox News. “And meanwhile, she comes to the inner city and preaches the message of hatred, and a message of us vs. them.”

Do you know where I am?
Maxine Waters’ $6 Million Mansion.

Do you know where I’m NOT?
Her District.

Mansion Maxine Waters doesn’t live in her District — I do.

My name is Joe Collins and I’m running for Congress against Maxine Waters.

Help Me WIN: https://t.co/K4OcfhUR0Epic.twitter.com/GgnmvSWSq9

— Joe E. Collins III (@joeecollins3) October 10, 2020

Waters’ home once was counted as part of her own district (CA-43), but it now lands in CA-37, represented by fellow Democrat Karen Bass.

3. Waters calls for public harassment of White House officials

In 2018, Waters suggested people should be harassing and protesting then-president Donald Trump’s Cabinet officials at stores, restaurants, and gas stations.

“I have no sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it’s wrong for what they’re doing on so many fronts. They tend to not want to confront this president or even leave, but they know what they’re doing is wrong,” Waters said.

“I want to tell you, these members of his cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store,” she continued.

“The people are going to turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.’ This is wrong. This is unconscionable. We can’t keep doing this to children,” she concluded.

 

4. Waters claims God sent her to stop Donald Trump

Later that same year, Waters addressed the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, claiming she was sent to Washington by God to obstruct Trump.

“You’ve gotta know that I’m here to do the work that I was sent to do, and as pastor said to me when I came in this morning, when God sends you to do something, you just do it!” she said.

“So I have a message: I’m going back to Washington tomorrow morning, I’m going to tell them pastor told me to come here and just do it!” she proclaimed.

“I’m not about to sit quietly and allow the President of the United States, or anybody else, to undo all that has been done to make this a great country,” she concluded.

 

5. Waters gets pranked by Russian trolls posing as Greta Thunberg

Waters presumably spoke with two Russians impersonating Greta Thunberg and her father after her staff believed they have connected with the Swedish climate change activist, Breitbart News’ Kristina Wong reported.

A woman who identifies herself as Congresswoman Waters tells “Greta”: “Of course, I know all about you. You have made quite a big, big, big thunder on this issue. I am really, really very proud of you and the work that you’re doing.”

The prank callers trick Waters into making a statement in defense of the environment of an imaginary island named “Chunga Changa.”

The call gets more farcical when “Greta” tells Waters that she met Trump at the United Nations, where he privately insulted her and confessed to threatening Ukraine’s president.

“He came over, he leaned towards me, and said softly, ‘Listen to me very carefully, little girl, you will never achieve your goals,’” “Greta” says.

“He said you will never achieve your goals? Oh my goodness!” Waters exclaims, stunned. “Greta” then says that she cried. “Oh my God did you cry?” Waters exclaims.

 

6. Waters compares Trump to “Kim Jong-Oom” and “Validimore Putin”

Waters spoke in San Diego in February 2018 and compared Trump to North Korea and Russia’s dictators, botching the heads of state’s names along the way.

 

.@MaxineWaters to President Trump: “Why are you so compromised?” #CADEM18 pic.twitter.com/eU3XtT2JEb

— Javier Panzar (@jpanzar) February 24, 2018

7. Waters propagated “BlueAnon” conspiracy theories about Trump and Russia

In the clip immediately above, the congresswoman insinuated that Trump is “compromised” by Putin — a far-left conspiracy theory that has since been proven false. In January 2019, Waters speculated about a Trump-Russia scheme during the 2016 election, even admitting “I don’t have the proof” to substantiate any portion of the claims.

8. Waters says she has never seen police brutality against white Americans

During a new conference in 2002, Waters said of her social justice cause that there is a disparity between the policing of white and back people.

“I don’t see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars,” Waters said.

“I haven’t seen them abusing white males. What I see is white police officers abusing black males, and young black males particularly. Yes, I believe it’s racially motivated,” she added.

9. Waters laments that her mother could not abort any of her 12 siblings

Waters, speaking of civil rights marches, alluded her mother could not have any of her children aborted. Waters is the fifth of 13 children.

“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion,” she said.

10. Waters takes cheap shots at Melania Trump

Typically, a U.S. president’s family members are considered off-limits in political battles, but Waters did not let that stop her from making some low blows against First Lady Melania Trump, without any particular political angle. On one occasion in 2018, she made the non-sequitur remark: “[Trump] doesn’t even know how to spell his own wife’s name.” The year before, she wrote on social media: “Melania can’t trust Trump,” with no further context or explanation of what prompted the statement.

 

 

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. 

 

 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

Democrats Make Abortion a Top Foreign Policy Priority

Dems seek to enshrine abortion as global right

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) / edited from Getty ImagesGraham Piro • June 10, 2021 4:10 pm

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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.

 

The question of the day is, why have any Republicans voted to confirm any of Biden's Cabinet appointees?  Every one of them has been chosen not for his expertise in any sphere of influence, but for his radicalism; the farther left these people are, the better in Biden's (?) view.  Xavier Beccara probably belongs in prison. PATRICIA McCARTHY

 

 

No To Xavier Becerra At HHS

What California’s top lawyer does have is plenty of experience marshalling the forces of the state to crush religious dissenters, pro-life pregnancy counselors, and independent journalists.

Becerra has waged a legal crusade against each of these groups as attorney general. In 2017, Becerra filed felony charges against the pro-life activists and citizen journalists who had gone undercover to expose Planned Parenthood’s gruesome practice of selling the body parts of aborted babies to biotech companies. California is a “two-party consent” state for audio recordings, but the progressive L.A. Times editorial board called Becerra’s decision to file criminal charges a “disturbing overreach.” The law had not been similarly enforced against animal-rights activists who recorded undercover videos. One writer at Mother Jones called the Planned Parenthood videos “a legitimate investigation, and no level of government should be in the business of chilling it.”

Becerra has also zealously defended a California law requiring abortion coverage in insurance plans offered by churches — yes, churches. In January, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services ruled that California’s abortion mandate violated a federal law known as the Weldon amendment, which prohibits federal funding of states and localities that force health providers and insurers to participate in or cover abortion. Becerra announced California would not comply.