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.
Biden Justifies Abortion by Invoking Rights of ‘a Child of God,’ Then Declares National Day of Prayer
KAMALA HARRIS, THE GODLESS.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday released a statement in
reaction to the Texas abortion law that went into effect, asserting it
will “dramatically reduce access to reproductive care” for “women of
color.” She ultimately joined President Biden and other left-wing
politicians in promising to fight for every woman’s ability to abort
her child.
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.
Pro-Abortion Dems Disrespect the Democratic Process
What the "leak" is really about.
Politico set off a firestorm on the Left after it published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade if it ends up as the Court’s final ruling. Roe v. Wade was the highly controversial 1973 Supreme Court decision that created out of whole cloth a constitutional right for women to have an abortion within certain parameters. Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaffirmed the Roe v. Wade decision in 1992.
The draft opinion, which was written by Justice Samuel Alito Jr. in February, is far from representing the Court’s final word or even the final positions of the justices who supported what Justice Alito wrote. Nevertheless, pro-abortion demagogues are exploiting the outrageous leak of a preliminary draft opinion to stir up anger in the streets against the Supreme Court with outright lies.
The draft decision would not ban all abortions, contrary to the false narrative of pro-abortion activists. It would return the Supreme Court to a neutral position on the contentious issue of abortion, leaving it up to the voters in state and federal elections to sort it out through the democratic electoral process. The elected branches of government would then be able to make policy decisions on all aspects of the abortion issue with their constituents’ views in mind. These policy decisions may vary state by state unless Roe v. Wade is codified into federal law.
“Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito wrote, “and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.”
Leftists do not trust the democratic process. Indeed, they want to perpetuate a manufactured judicially legislated “right” that appears nowhere in the Constitution, as Justice Alito pointed out, rather than let the people resolve the complex policy issue of abortion through their elected representatives. At the same time, leftists are doing their best to strip away the enumerated constitutional right of free speech set forth in the First Amendment.
The Left is also using the draft opinion in a campaign to delegitimize the Supreme Court because leftists detest the checks and balances of an independent judiciary whenever a court decision interferes with their progressive agenda.
“The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy, and is now one of the chief architects of America’s democratic decline,” the radical group known as Demand Justice tweeted. Demand Justice was quoting from Vox, which AllSides rates as having a “Left bias.”
Evidently, the leftists running Demand Justice and Vox have forgotten a couple of key historical facts. It was the Republican Party which fought to bring an end to slavery and the Confederacy, and it was the Democratic Party which served historically as the “midwife of Jim Crow.” But that is a history discussion for another time.
What is important today is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with their Democrat caucuses, are participating in their radical base’s strategy to intimidate certain Supreme Court justices and undermine judicial independence.
Senator Schumer is no stranger when it comes to threatening Supreme Court justices by name. In March 2020, Schumer spoke at an abortion rights rally in front of the Supreme Court, warning Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh of dire consequences if they vote what Schumer considered to be the wrong way on abortion cases before the Court.
“I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” Schumer said that day.
Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Senator Schumer for making a “threatening” and “dangerous” statement from the highest level of government.
But Senator Schumer remains unrepentant.
This time, Schumer joined Pelosi in issuing a statement maligning conservative justices who are fulfilling their constitutional duty to interpret the Constitution as they see it. These Democrat congressional leaders charged that the justices who reportedly supported overturning Roe v. Wade during the Supreme Court’s early deliberations “ripped up the Constitution.” If Schumer, Pelosi, and their pro-abortion activist friends do not get their way with their desired judicial outcome, they accuse justices on the other side who won't do their bidding of ripping up the Constitution.
Pelosi and Schumer should look in the mirror. They have ripped up the Constitution by launching an ad hominem attack out of spite against members of the third branch of the federal government, an independent judiciary, because they do not agree with the justices’ constitutional interpretations.
Pro-abortion demagogues are spreading lies about what the draft opinion would mean if it were to end up reflecting the final ruling of the Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden is no exception today, as he embraces the pro-abortion activist agenda. However, back in 2006 then-Senator Biden was singing a different tune, saying at that time that he did not view abortion as “a choice and a right.” In 1982, then-Senator Biden voted for a constitutional amendment that would have allowed individual states to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Now President Biden has declared in his remarks to the press on May 3rd that the draft opinion by Justice Alito, which would return the regulation of abortion to the states if it becomes the final ruling, is a “radical decision.” Biden claimed that “every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question.” In addition to the right to abortion itself, the president warned that “who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not” and “how you raise your child” could also be on the chopping block.
As an aside, it is rather ironic that the president is worried about what could happen to parents’ right to decide how they raise their child when he so vehemently opposed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation.
But more to the point here, President Biden is spreading disinformation about the reach of Justice Alito’s draft opinion.
“To ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized,” Justice Alito wrote, “we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
Justice Alito could not be clearer on the limited scope of his draft majority opinion, which was confined solely to adjudicating whether there is a constitutional right to abortion. That is because abortion, unlike gay marriage, for example, involves the life of a third party.
President Biden and his fellow Democrats are misleading the American people by stoking fears with their blatant misrepresentation of what Justice Alito actually wrote.
Where is the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board when we need it to correct the president’s and his administration’s own disinformation?
President Biden also told reporters that he did not think issues involving privacy like abortion should be left to “the whims” of the public. Whims? The president insulted the American people with that condescending remark.
President Biden did get something right in his remarks to the media, however, even if it was probably unintended. He referred to the “judgment to choose to abort a child.” (Emphasis added) At least, President Biden acknowledged that the life of “a child” is at stake when it comes to abortion, rather than using the dehumanizing language of pro-abortion activists. That is worth noting, even though the president mentioned aborting “a child” in the context of falsely claiming that the draft majority opinion would ban such judgments.
Where do things go from here, given the fact that the Supreme Court has not issued a final ruling on the abortion issue and may not do so until late June or early July?
The House of Representatives voted last year to codify the right to an abortion at the federal level. The Democrat-controlled Senate will try to follow suit shortly, although at least for now a filibuster blocking the legislation from moving forward is expected.
Progressives such as Democratic-Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders are demanding an end to the filibuster. However, that is unlikely to happen with the Democrats’ razor-thin majority since Democrat Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema plan to continue supporting the filibuster.
Expect more street protests, some of which could turn violent like the one in Los Angeles on May 3rd. Abortion rights protesters threw rocks and bottles at police officers, injuring one officer.
Both parties will use the re-ignited abortion issue as red meat to rev up the turn-out of their respective bases in this year’s mid-term elections. But the Democrats may have only a slim chance for the abortion issue to move the dial significantly in their favor this fall. Surging inflation, the open border, and the rising crime wave across the country would have to fall far down the list of issues on voters’ minds from the top positions they occupy now.
Moreover, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, which is by no means certain, women will still be able to obtain legal abortions in many states, which will vary in terms of any restrictions that are involved.
People also move from state to state for a variety of reasons. Some New York and California residents decided to move to other states to get away from high taxes, crime, and over-regulation. Likewise, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, women living in states that ban or severely restrict abortions are free to move to New York, California, and other blue states where legal abortions will be easily accessible.
Democrats like to point to polls showing there is an overwhelming majority of Americans who want Roe v. Wade to remain intact, as opposed to far fewer Americans who want to see the decision completely overruled. But Americans do not view the right to abortion as a black and white issue.
Indeed, most Americans, according to some polls, believe that abortions should be outlawed in most cases during the second and third trimesters. The second trimester begins around week thirteen. This is far earlier than when viability begins somewhere around the 24th week, which the Supreme Court has used to date as its litmus test in determining when the states may start imposing significant restrictions on legal access to abortion.
President Biden does not want to let voters have the opportunity to elect accountable representatives to make policy decisions regarding abortion on their behalf. He is afraid of where the “whims” of the public may lead. Such arrogance demonstrates the elitist attitude of the Left.
Archbishop Chaput: Pro-Abortion Joe Biden ‘Should Not Receive Holy Communion’
Archbishop Charles Chaput has warned of serious scandal if bishops indicate their willingness to give Holy Communion to Joe Biden despite his overt support for abortion.
“Public figures who identify as ‘Catholic’ give scandal to the faithful when receiving Communion by creating the impression that the moral laws of the Church are optional,” Archbishop Chaput wrote in First Things this weekend. “And bishops give similar scandal by not speaking up publicly about the issue and danger of sacrilege.”
In a thinly veiled swipe at the archbishop of Washington D.C. — the newly made Cardinal Wilton Gregory — Archbishop Chaput notes that bishops contribute to the scandal when they act as if supporting abortion does not harm a person’s relationship with the Church.
“Those bishops who publicly indicate in advance that they will undertake their own dialogue with President-elect Joseph Biden and allow him Communion effectively undermine the work of the task force established at the November bishops’ conference meeting to deal precisely with this and related issues,” states Chaput, the former archbishop of Philadelphia.
Joe Biden Denied Communion at South Carolina Church Over Abortion Stance https://t.co/yQ5XDIE1AA
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 29, 2019
“This gives scandal to their brother bishops and priests, and to the many Catholics who struggle to stay faithful to Church teaching,” he adds. “It does damage to the bishops’ conference, to the meaning of collegiality, and to the fruitfulness of the conference’s advocacy work with the incoming administration.”
These strong words followed on a recent public statement by Cardinal Gregory that he will continue to abide by the McCarrick Doctrine, which advocates offering Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who publicly support abortion rights, saying he will not “veer” from prior practice established by McCarrick in the archdiocese.
“The kind of relationship that I hope we will have is a conversational relationship where we can discover areas where we can cooperate that reflect the social teachings of the church, knowing full well that there are some areas where we won’t agree,” Gregory said.
In 2004, then-Bishop Gregory was then president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference and joined McCarrick in resisting Rome’s call for withholding Communion from pro-abortion Catholic politicians in accord with Canon Law no. 915.
That same year, Gregory formed a “Task Force on Catholic Bishops and Catholic Politicians” and named Cardinal McCarrick, who was averse to refusing Communion to pro-abortion politicians, to head up the team.
McCarrick manipulated instructions from the Vatican, which underscored the seriousness of the abortion issue and declared that when a pro-abortion Catholic politician, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, “the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.”
Instead of conveying these indications to the other bishops, McCarrick “summarized” them, stating that Rome had said that each bishop should make up his own mind on how to proceed. The only other person who knew that McCarrick was lying was Bishop Gregory, who had received a copy of the letter from Rome.
Last month, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, the current president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, issued a stern declaration regarding the election of a pro-abortion Catholic president.
Anti-life policies “pose a serious threat to the common good whenever any politician supports them,” Gomez said. “We have long opposed these policies strongly, and we will continue to do so.
“But when politicians who profess the Catholic faith support them, there are additional problems,” he continued. “Among other things, it creates confusion with the faithful about what the Church actually teaches on these questions.”
In his own essay, Archbishop Chaput notes the gravity of the bishops’ responsibility to clearly teach the truth on this matter.
The lengths the Establishment Media has gone to prop up Joe Biden this election is astounding https://t.co/YvTRr3TzMC
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 17, 2020
“When bishops publicly announce their willingness to give Communion to Mr. Biden, without clearly teaching the gravity of his facilitating the evil of abortion (and his approval of same-sex relationships), they do a serious disservice to their brother bishops and their people,” he writes.
“The reason is obvious. By his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,” he adds, and “many of his actions and words have also supported or smoothed the way for grave moral evils in our public life that have resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.”
“Mr. Biden has said that he will continue to advance those same policies as president, and thus should not receive Holy Communion,” Chaput notes. “His stated intention requires a strong and consistent response from Church leaders and faithful.”
J.D. Vance on ‘Kamala Harris Stooge’ Tim Ryan’s Late-Term Abortion Stance: ‘Barbaric
Anywhere in the World’
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio J.D. Vance slammed his Democrat competitor Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) for stating that women should be able to abort their unborn children at any point in pregnancy.
“Here’s Kamala Harris stooge Tim Ryan defending abortion through 40 weeks. This is a barbaric position anywhere in the world (even European nations typically don’t allow abortion after 12 weeks). But it’s an especially radical position in Ohio,” Vance tweeted in response to a clip of Tim Ryan talking to Fox New’s Special Report host Bret Baier on Wednesday.
The segment was about the influence the leak of the Supreme Court’s potential decision to overrule Roe v. Wade could have on midterm elections. On Monday night, Politico released a draft opinion, seemingly written by Justice Samuel Alito, which would overturn the Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision declaring abortion to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Ever since the leak, radical left Democrats have pushed to end the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, legislation which would enshrine abortion on demand and up-to-birth in federal law as well as void all state laws aimed at protecting the lives of the unborn. In the interview, Baier asked Ryan, “As senator, would you have any limits on abortion?”
“Look, you gotta leave it up to the woman, because you and I sitting here are a bunch of — well you and I sitting here can’t account for all of the different scenarios that a woman dealing with the complexities of a pregnancy are going through. How can I figure that out?” Ryan replied.
In the same interview, Ryan called Roe v. Wade “an issue of freedom,” and warned that if the Supreme Court does end up overruling Roe, states like Ohio will roll out “extreme” laws.
“If we move away from that, you’re going to get states like Ohio that have some of the most extreme laws in the whole country, where if you’re a young girl and you’ve been raped or there’s been incest…the state, the government is going to force you to bring that baby to term, and I just don’t think that’s a fundamental value,” he said.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on Twitter.
GO SUCK YOUR BRIBES AND SHUT THE FUK UP, BRANDON!
Catholic Bishop Retweets 'Time for Truth' Post, 'Joe Biden is a Heretic, an Apostate'
(CNS News) -- After a Catholic deacon in Texas tweeted a post stating that "Joe Biden is a heretic" and an "apostate," the Catholic bishop of Tyler, Texas, Joseph Strickland, retweeted the item and entitled it "Time for truth..."
Although Presiden Biden is a Catholic, he supports abortion and Roe v. Wade, as well as "gay marriage" and other practices that violate the teaching of the Catholic Church. By supporting those things and speaking in their defense, Biden is, in the objective order, backing heresy and causing scandal. An apostate is someone who has essentially abandoned their faith.
In a May 4 tweet, Deacon Keith Fournier wrote, "Let's be completely honest. Joe Biden is a heretic. An apostate. Any Bishop who doesn't acknowledge that, call him to repentance, to the Sacrament of Confession, and INSIST he correct his error as a professing public Catholic is wrong. Sorry, this is a time for TRUTH."
Bishop Strickland retweeted that post and wrote, "Time for truth..."
Bishop Strickland has criticized President Biden's support for abortion in the past. In another May 4 tweet linked to an article about Biden's defense of abortion, Bishop Strickland wrote, "Mr President you are wrong, completely wrong, and as you continue to push this agenda you push the division in this nation to the breaking point. I pray that your hardened heart will open to the sanctity of life for the unborn child & for the mother."
In reference to a leaked copy of an opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that calls for overturning Roe v. Wade, President Biden said on Tuesday, "I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental, Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned."
During the 2020 presidential race, Biden's campaign plan stated, "As president, Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate the constitutional right to an abortion, such as so-called TRAP laws, parental notification requirements, mandatory waiting periods, and ultrasound requirements."
Joe Biden: Constitution Gives Right to ‘Abort a Child’ — ‘Mainstream’ Religions Agree with Roe v. Wade
President Joe Biden further reacted to a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, criticizing the “radical” argument against a constitutional right to abortion.
“The idea that we’re gonna make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court I think goes way overboard,” Biden said.
The president spoke to reporters about the draft opinion as he left Washington, DC, for a trip to Alabama to visit a Lockheed Martin manufacturing facility.
During his remarks, Biden falsely claimed that all mainstream religions believe the beginning of human life is open to interpretation.
“Look, think what Roe says. Roe says what all basic mainstream religions have historically concluded — that the right — that the existence of a human life and being is a question. Is it at the moment of conception? Is it six months? Is it six weeks?”
The president failed to mention that the Catholic Church, of which he claims to be a member, teaches that life begins at the moment of conception.
Biden commented on the issue of abortion after a draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the media.
He appeared deeply concerned by the leaked opinion, arguing the Supreme Court was threatening to make a “radical decision” if they did choose to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“If this decision holds, it’s really quite a radical decision… it basically says all the decisions related to your private life — who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not… what does this do?” he asked.
He also warned that the constitutional right to gay marriage would be endangered as well as other Supreme Court cases involving the right to privacy.
“It’s a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence,” he said.
Biden said he supported a congressional effort to codify Roe v. Wade into law but declined to say whether or not he supported breaking the Senate filibuster rules to ensure its passage.
“I’m not prepared to make those decisions now,” he said.
Biden Discussing Abortion: ‘I Believe I Have the Rights That I Have…Because I’m Just a Child of God’
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday, answering a question about the possibility the Supreme Court may overturn Roe vs. Wade and recalling his role as Judiciary Committee chairman during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Robert Bork, stated his belief that his rights come from God.
“‘I believe I have the rights that I have not because the government gave them to me, which you believe, but because I’m just a child of God,’” Biden recalled telling Bork during those hearings.
Biden then seemed to suggest that the “right to privacy,” under which the Supreme Court placed an alleged “right” to abortion, was one of the rights that comes from God.
“So, the idea that somehow there is an inherent right—that there is no right of privacy, that there is no right—and remember the debate we—You don’t remember, but we had a debate about Griswold vs. Connecticut,” said Biden. “There’d been a law saying a married couple could not purchase birth control in the privacy of their own bedroom and use it. Well, that got struck down. Griswold was thought to be a bad decision by Bork and, my guess is, the guys on the Supreme Court now.”
“What happens if you have a state change the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children?” Biden went on to say. “Is that—Is that legit under the way the decision is written?
Here is the exchange between Biden and a reporter about abortion:
President Joe Biden: “Number two—What was the second one? You want—oh, look—”
Reporter: “Oil. And the second one was on abortion.
Biden: “As I said, when I—When this hit, as I was getting on the plane to go down to Alabama, this is about a lot more than abortion. I hadn’t read the whole opinion at that time.
“But this reminds me of the debate with Robert Bork. Bork believed the only reason you had any inherent rights was because the government gave them to you. If you go back and look at the opening comments from the Bork-Biden—when I was questioning him as chairman--I said, ‘I believe I have the rights that I have not because the government gave them to me, which you believe, but because I’m just a child of God; I exist.’ I delegated, by joining this union here, to delegate some obligati—some rights I have to the government for—for social good.
“So, the idea that somehow there is an inherent right—that there is no right of privacy, that there is no right—and remember the debate we—You don’t remember, but we had a debate about Griswold vs. Connecticut. There’d been a law saying a married couple could not purchase birth control in the privacy of their own bedroom and use it. Well, that got struck down. Griswold was thought to be a bad decision by Bork and, my guess is, the guys on the Supreme Court now.
“What happens if you have a state change the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children? Is that—Is that legit under the way the decision is written?
“What are the next things that are going to be attacked? Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history—in recent American history.
“Thank you. Thank you.”
LET US ALL PRAY JESUS DUMPS JOE BIDEN..... RIGHT INTO HELL!!!
Biden: 'So Many Muslims Are Targeted With Violence' and 'Oppressed for Their Religious Beliefs'...
Complaining about fake violence against Muslims while ignoring real violence by Muslims...
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/sociopath-lawyer-joe-biden-up-muslims.html
WHERE DID ALL OF GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN’S BIG BUCKS COME FROM?
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Where did Biden's millions come from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlS88MKI-DA
I’d be inclined to disagree with Don except for one thing: Biden has proven to be a very adept criminal mastermind. For decades, he has funneled millions of dollars to his children and siblings and, especially, to his debauched, deviant son, Hunter. ANDREA WIDBURG
There it is. That's the issue. To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden. They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years. The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars. How is this possible on his salary? It's not. So where did his wealth come from? Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE
It will be interesting to see if the NYT will actually publish a story that reveals Hunter Biden's shady web of international business relationships cultivated when his father was vicepresident RAJAB LAAD
Undeterred, on September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens. Balance sheet be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens. P.F. WHALEN
Biden lied about his undergraduate degree and his majors, lied about his rank in law school, lied aboutscholarships and educational aid he had received, lied about his stance toward the Vietnam war while in college, lied about his plagiarism of other politician's writings andspeeches, lied about the circumstances around his first wife's fatal accident, lied about how he met his second and current wife, and lied about the affair they were having when they were both married. MARK CHRISTIAN
Most recently and dramatically, Biden lied abouthis knowledge of his son's shady dealings, liedabout his own involvement in corruption and bribery,and lied about his current presidential agenda andwhat he wants to implement in regards to energy,fracking, court-packing, health care, education, andCOVID among other issues.
MARK CHRISTIAN
JOE BIDEN: 50 YEARS OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-long-dirty-trails-of-dirty-lives.html’
It was while Joe Biden was vice-president that the flood gates opened and what was a domestic influence-peddling business expanded globally into Ukraine, China, Russia and Kazakhstan, among other nations. The layers of greed and unabashed willingness to sell access to the second-highest office in the country is mind-boggling. The most egregious examples are five deals with the Communist Chinese and the subsequent payments to Hunter Biden and the Biden family valued at $31 million.
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
Biden Justifies Abortion by Invoking Rights of ‘a Child of God,’ Then Declares National Day of Prayer
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday morning explained his position in favor of legalized abortion by recalling that he had once told Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork that he possessed the rights he had because he is a “child of God.”
Later that same day, Biden issued a statement declaring Thursday the National Day of Prayer.”
After giving remarks on the economy in the Roosevelt Room of the White House shortly after 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Biden answered questions from reporters.
One reporter asked him about the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 opinion that declared abortion a right.
“What’s the next step on abortion once this case gets settled?” the reporter asked.
“When this hit, as I was getting on the plane to go down to Alabama, this is about a lot more than abortion. I hadn’t read the whole opinion at that time,” said Biden.
“But this reminds me of the debate with Robert Bork. Bork believed the only reason you had any inherent rights was because the government gave them to you. If you go back and look at the opening comments from the Bork-Biden—when I was questioning him as chairman--I said, ‘I believe I have the rights that I have not because the government gave them to me, which you believe, but because I’m just a child of God; I exist,’” said Biden.
Biden then went on to invoke the “right to privacy”—under which the Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade claimed a right to abortion.
“What are the next things that are going to be attacked?” Biden said at the end of his response to this question. “Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history—in recent American history.
Later on Wednesday, President Biden issued “A Proclamation on National Day of Prayer, 2022.”
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 5, 2022, as a National Day of Prayer,” said Biden’s proclamation.
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
Biden: ‘I Invite All People of Faith to Join Me in Asking for God’s Continued Guidance’
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Wednesday that declared this Thursday the “National Day of Prayer.”
In issuing his proclamation, Biden noted that the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion.
“Prayer is a sacred right protected by free speech and religious liberty enshrined in our Constitution, and it continues to lift our spirits as we navigate the challenges of our time,” said Biden.
Biden also noted that we are now confronting what he called “some of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced.” He included among these “saving our planet from the existential threat of climate change” and “living up to our Nation’s promise of liberty, justice and equality for all.”
“I call upon the citizens of our Nation to give thanks, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences, for our many freedoms and blessings, and I invite all people of faith to join me in asking for God’s continued guidance, mercy, and protection,” Biden proclaimed.
Here is the full text of President Biden’s proclamation declaring Thursday as the National Day of Prayer:
“A Proclamation on National Day of Prayer, 2022
“Throughout our history, prayer has been an anchor for countless Americans searching for strength and wisdom in times of struggle and sharing hope and gratitude in seasons of joy. In public reflections on life’s many blessings and in quiet moments during life’s most difficult trials, Americans of nearly every background and faith have turned to prayer for comfort and inspiration. Prayer is a sacred right protected by free speech and religious liberty enshrined in our Constitution, and it continues to lift our spirits as we navigate the challenges of our time.
“On this day, we recognize the healing power of prayer, especially as we recover from the trauma and loss of the COVID‑19 pandemic. Today we find ourselves in a moment of renewal — of lives saved, of new jobs created, and of new hope for rebuilding America. Today is also a moment of reflection when we are called to address some of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced — saving our planet from the existential threat of climate change; responding to attacks on democracy at home and abroad; and living up to our Nation’s promise of liberty, justice, and equality for all.
“As the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, ‘There is a need we all have in these days and times for some help which comes from outside ourselves.’ Across our diverse and cherished beliefs, on this National Day of Prayer, no matter how or whether we pray, we are all called to look outside ourselves. Let us find in our hearts and prayers the determination to put aside our differences, come together, and truly see one another as fellow Americans.
“The Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, has called on the President to issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a “National Day of Prayer.”
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 5, 2022, as a National Day of Prayer. I call upon the citizens of our Nation to give thanks, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences, for our many freedoms and blessings, and I invite all people of faith to join me in asking for God’s continued guidance, mercy, and protection.
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-sixth.“JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.”
Biden: ‘I Invite All People of Faith to Join Me in Asking for God’s Continued Guidance’
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Wednesday that declared this Thursday the “National Day of Prayer.”
In issuing his proclamation, Biden noted that the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion.
“Prayer is a sacred right protected by free speech and religious liberty enshrined in our Constitution, and it continues to lift our spirits as we navigate the challenges of our time,” said Biden.
Biden also noted that we are now confronting what he called “some of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced.” He included among these “saving our planet from the existential threat of climate change” and “living up to our Nation’s promise of liberty, justice and equality for all.”
“I call upon the citizens of our Nation to give thanks, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences, for our many freedoms and blessings, and I invite all people of faith to join me in asking for God’s continued guidance, mercy, and protection,” Biden proclaimed.
Here is the full text of President Biden’s proclamation declaring Thursday as the National Day of Prayer:
“A Proclamation on National Day of Prayer, 2022
“Throughout our history, prayer has been an anchor for countless Americans searching for strength and wisdom in times of struggle and sharing hope and gratitude in seasons of joy. In public reflections on life’s many blessings and in quiet moments during life’s most difficult trials, Americans of nearly every background and faith have turned to prayer for comfort and inspiration. Prayer is a sacred right protected by free speech and religious liberty enshrined in our Constitution, and it continues to lift our spirits as we navigate the challenges of our time.
“On this day, we recognize the healing power of prayer, especially as we recover from the trauma and loss of the COVID‑19 pandemic. Today we find ourselves in a moment of renewal — of lives saved, of new jobs created, and of new hope for rebuilding America. Today is also a moment of reflection when we are called to address some of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced — saving our planet from the existential threat of climate change; responding to attacks on democracy at home and abroad; and living up to our Nation’s promise of liberty, justice, and equality for all.
“As the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, ‘There is a need we all have in these days and times for some help which comes from outside ourselves.’ Across our diverse and cherished beliefs, on this National Day of Prayer, no matter how or whether we pray, we are all called to look outside ourselves. Let us find in our hearts and prayers the determination to put aside our differences, come together, and truly see one another as fellow Americans.
“The Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, has called on the President to issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a “National Day of Prayer.”
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 5, 2022, as a National Day of Prayer. I call upon the citizens of our Nation to give thanks, in accordance with their own faiths and consciences, for our many freedoms and blessings, and I invite all people of faith to join me in asking for God’s continued guidance, mercy, and protection.
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-sixth.
“JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.”
'Unacceptable': Pro-lifers Sound Off on Biden's Pick for HHS Secretary
Joe Biden has reportedly chosen California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his HHS Secretary. And the news has alarmed the pro-life community.
The Susan B. Anthony List, one of the most notable groups in the fight for life, immediately reacted to the report to warn pro-lifers that Becerra is "aggressively pro-abortion." The California AG has charged David Daleiden, the Center for Medical Progress reporter who exposed the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal a few summers ago, on several counts. Daleiden fired back with a lawsuit alleging that Becerra, and former California AG Kamala Harris, violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
"Far from 'uniting' the country, Biden has proven yet again he is an extremist on abortion," said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "Becerra is aggressively pro-abortion and a foe of free speech. As attorney general of California, he continued what his predecessor Kamala Harris started by persecuting citizen journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s role in baby parts trafficking. Not only that, he went all the way to the Supreme Court to try to force California’s pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise and refer for abortion – a policy the Court rejected as unconstitutional. In Congress, he even voted in favor of partial-birth abortion."
"This pick underscores the importance of winning in Georgia to prevent pro-abortion forces from taking control of the U.S. Senate. Republican senators must stand firm and stop this unacceptable nomination from going forward."
Meanwhile the leaders of pro-abortion organizations like NARAL, who apparently now refer to the procedure as "reproductive freedom," are jubilant.
Huge! @XavierBecerra at HHS will recenter science and facts in guiding public policy. He's compassionate, committed to reproductive freedom and to health care as a human right. Trump's HHS was the home of some of the Administration's worst horrors. A new era has begun indeed. https://t.co/qlfn4E0RE2
— ilyseh (@ilyseh) December 6, 2020
As others have noted, Becerra has also supported the radical Medicare for All measure.
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— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 7, 2020
Pro-life senators have already warned Biden that they'll be voting "no."
Xavier Becerra spent his career attacking pro-life Americans and tried to force crisis pregnancy centers to advertise abortions.
He’s been a disaster in California and he is unqualified to lead HHS.
I’ll be voting no, and Becerra should be rejected by the Senate. https://t.co/mEvpMrqPeH
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) December 7, 2020
FOR SOCIOPATHS THERE IS NO TRUTH. ONLY MORE LIES. FUCKING LIAR IS THE MOST CONSISTENT TERM THAT FOLLOWS BIDEN.
White House Still Cannot Explain Why ‘Devout Catholic’ Joe Biden Supports Abortion
The White House continues struggling with President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, even though he claims to be a practicing Catholic.
The president’s contradictory position will face additional scrutiny as reports say he is eager to attack the new pro-life law in Texas for political gain.
On Thursday, EWTN’s Owen Jensen questioned White House press secretary Jen Psaki about the issue after the president condemned the new pro-life law in Texas.
“Why does the President support abortion when his own Catholic faith teaches abortion is morally wrong?” Jensen asked.
“Well, he believes that it’s a woman’s right, it’s a woman’s body, and it’s her choice,” Psaki replied.
As Jensen continued to press Psaki on the president’s position she said Biden believed it was “up to a woman to make those decisions” about aborting her child.
“I know you’ve never faced those choices, nor have you ever been pregnant,” she continued. “But for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an incredibly difficult thing.”
As Jensen pursued his line of questioning, Psaki dismissed him as a “wise guy” and moved on to other reporters.
Democrat abortion activists cheered on Psaki for calling out Jensen for “being a man” and asking questions about abortions, but her exchange shows the White House still unable to answer the question about Biden’s contradictory position.
The White House either repeats Biden is a practicing Catholic or repeats he is a supporter of abortion rights.
Jensen questioned Psaki about Biden’s position on abortion on Inauguration Day, but Psaki only reiterated the president’s decision to continue attending Mass.
“I will just take the opportunity to remind all of you that he is a devout Catholic and somebody who attends church regularly,” she said.
When asked about Biden’s support for the Equality Act, which would force doctors to perform abortions against their conscience, Psaki only reiterated his support for the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
“The President has been a longtime supporter of Roe v. Wade,” she said. “It has been his consistent belief that should be law, and he will fight to continue to protect that as being law.”
When asked about Biden’s position on abortion in June, Psaki replied the president’s faith was a private matter.
“The President’s faith is personal. It’s something that has helped guide him through some challenging moments in his life,” she said. “And that’s how many Americans see their faith as well, not through a political prism.”
Biden himself struggled with the question after the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to draft a teaching document about whether public figures claiming to be Catholic could receive communion while vocally supporting abortion.
“That’s a private matter,” Biden replied. “And I don’t think that’s going to happen.”
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President Biden Claims Killing an Unborn Baby Who Has a Beating Heart is a ‘Private and Personal’ Decision
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(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden put out a statement today condemning the Supreme Court’s decision not to issue an injunction to immediately stop a Texas law (SB 8) that seeks to prevent the abortion of babies who have a detectable heartbeat--which generally occurs at six weeks into pregnancy.
The Texas law, which took effect Wednesday, allows individuals to sue abortionists and those who aid a woman in obtaining the abortion of an unborn baby with a beating heart.
Texas Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton filed a brief with the Supreme Court that summarized the Texas law as follows: "SB 8 creates a private cause of action that enables Texans to sue those who perform, or aid and abet the performance of, abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected."
President Biden's statement, published Thursday, characterized the abortion of a baby with a beating heart as a "private and personal" health decision.
“Complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women,” Biden said in his statement.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years,” said Biden.
“By allowing a law to go into effect that empowers private citizens in Texas to sue health care providers, family members supporting a woman exercising her right to choose after six weeks, or even a friend who drives her to a hospital or clinic, it unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts,” he said.
“This law is so extreme it does not even allow for exceptions in the case of rape or incest,” said Biden. “And it not only empowers complete strangers to inject themselves into the most private of decisions made by a woman—it actually incentivizes them to do so with the prospect of $10,000 if they win their case.
Biden went on to argue that the majority of the Supreme Court had insulted “the rule of law and the rights of all Americans” by not issuing an injunction to stop the law from going into effect.
“For the majority to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below, and without due consideration of the issues, insults the rule of law and the rights of all Americans to seek redress from our courts,” he said.
“Rather than use its supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought, the highest Court of our land will allow millions of women in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities,” he said.
Biden claimed that the fact that Chief Justice John Roberts and the courts three most liberal justices—Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan—would have issued an injunction, shows that the court’s majority was wrong not to do so.
“The dissents by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan all demonstrate the error of the Court’s action here powerfully,” said Biden.
Here is the full text of Biden’s statement:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Law SB8
September 02, 2021
"The Supreme Court’s ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years. By allowing a law to go into effect that empowers private citizens in Texas to sue health care providers, family members supporting a woman exercising her right to choose after six weeks, or even a friend who drives her to a hospital or clinic, it unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts. Complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women. This law is so extreme it does not even allow for exceptions in the case of rape or incest. And it not only empowers complete strangers to inject themselves into the most private of decisions made by a woman—it actually incentivizes them to do so with the prospect of $10,000 if they win their case. For the majority to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below, and without due consideration of the issues, insults the rule of law and the rights of all Americans to seek redress from our courts. Rather than use its supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought, the highest Court of our land will allow millions of women in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities. The dissents by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan all demonstrate the error of the Court’s action here powerfully.
"While the Chief Justice was clear to stress that the action by the Supreme Court is not a final ruling on the future of Roe, the impact of last night’s decision will be immediate and requires an immediate response. One reason I became the first president in history to create a Gender Policy Council was to be prepared to react to such assaults on women’s rights. Hence, I am directing that Council and the Office of the White House Counsel to launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the Federal Government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe, and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties."
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Biden: ‘Deeply Committed to the Constitutional Right’ to Kill an Unborn Baby With a Heartbeat
President Joe Biden put out a statement on Wednesday stating his opposition to a Texas law—SB8--that bans the abortion of an unborn baby who already has a detectable heartbeat.
The law went into effect today.
“SB8,” explained a brief that Texas Gov. Ken Paxton submitted to the Supreme Court, “creates a private cause of action that enables Texans to sue those who perform, or aid and abet the performance of, abortions, after a fetal heartbeat has been detected.”
The law, according to a suit filed against it, effectively bans abortions at approximately six weeks into pregnancy.
In his statement on Wednesday, President Biden said: “This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.”
“My administration is deeply committed to the constitutional right established in Roe v. Wade nearly five decades ago and will protect and defend that right,” Biden said in his statement.
Here is the full text of Biden's statement:
"Statement by President Joe Biden on Texas Law SB8
"SEPTEMBER 01, 2021
"Today, Texas law SB8 went into effect. This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.
"The Texas law will significantly impair women’s access to the health care they need, particularly for communities of color and individuals with low incomes. And, outrageously, it deputizes private citizens to bring lawsuits against anyone who they believe has helped another person get an abortion, which might even include family members, health care workers, front desk staff at a health care clinic, or strangers with no connection to the individual.
"My administration is deeply committed to the constitutional right established in Roe v. Wade nearly five decades ago and will protect and defend that right."
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US Vice President Kamala
Harris 'is such a hoax'
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How Kamala Harris Made Her Millions
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The Shady Side Of Kamala Harris
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The United States is 'literally leaderless'
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Newt Gingrich calls Joe Biden a 'sickness'
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Kamala Harris: Texas Abortion Law Will Hurt ‘Women of Color’.... SO MAYBE THEY SHOULD USE BIRTH CONTROL!
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday released a statement in
reaction to the Texas abortion law that went into effect, asserting it
will “dramatically reduce access to reproductive care” for “women of
color.” She ultimately joined President Biden and other left-wing
politicians in promising to fight for every woman’s ability to abort
her child.
“Today, a new law takes effect in Texas that directly violates the precedent established in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade. This all-out assault on reproductive health effectively bans abortion for the nearly 7 million Texans of reproductive age,” Harris said in a statement.
“Patients in Texas will now be forced to travel out-of-state or carry their pregnancy to term against their will. This law will dramatically reduce access to reproductive care for women in Texas, particularly for women with low incomes and women of color,” Harris, who reigned as one of the most left-wing Democrats during her time in the U.S. Senate, continued.
US Vice President Kamala Harris holds a press conference. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images).
“It also includes a disturbing provision that incentivizes private citizens to sue anyone who assists another person in receiving an abortion,” she said.
“The Biden-Harris Administration will always fight to protect access to healthcare and defend a woman’s right to make decisions about her body and determine her future,” Harris added.
Texas’s abortion law went into effect Wednesday, banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
As Breitbart News reported:
In a last-minute effort to block the law, abortion providers applied to the U.S. Supreme Court for an injunction, but the Court has not yet ruled on the matter – though could do so at any time – and the law, as passed by the Texas legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott (R), is now in effect.
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However, for major matters like this, standard procedure is for the justice supervising the relevant appeals court – in this case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit – to refer the application to his eight colleagues for the full Supreme Court to vote on the matter.
The abortion providers’ appeal comes after their hopes to block the law were thwarted over the weekend when the Fifth Circuit canceled a hearing initially planned for Monday. The district judge was blocked from granting a preliminary injunction before September 1.
The event also triggered a statement from Biden, who also claimed the law would “significantly impair women’s access to the health care they need, particularly for communities of color and individuals with low incomes.”
Wearing a necktie decorated with donkeys, U.S. President Joe Biden listens to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images).
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also expressed outrage, equating abortion rights to human rights:
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Biden to Launch Federal Response Targeting Texas Abortion Law
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President Joe Biden issued a lengthy statement in response to the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision to allow S.B. 8, a historic “heartbeat bill” signed into law in Texas, to take effect. Predictably, Biden thinks the Court ruling is unconstitutional, and will launch a “whole-of-government” effort to respond to the decision.
By a 5-4 vote, the High Court allowed abortion to be outlawed in the state of Texas once fetal heartbeat is detected. Additionally, the new law allows citizens to pursue legal action against individuals who provide or assist with obtaining an illegal abortion procedure.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years,” Biden’s statement reads. “Rather than use its supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought, the highest Court of our land will allow millions of women in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities.”
Biden, a longtime pro-abortion proponent, described the decision “unleashes unconstitutional chaos” and stated he plans to utilize his self-created White House Gender Policy Council to explore his options at the federal level to ensure that women in Texas have access to abortion, as protected by Roe v. Wade.
“One reason I became the first president in history to create a Gender Policy Council was to be prepared to react to such assaults on women’s rights,” the statement reads. “Hence, I am directing that Council and the Office of the White House Counsel to launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the Federal Government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe, and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties.”
Biden’s pledge to take action against this pro-life legislation further exemplifies his unwavering pro-abortion support. From removing the longstanding Hyde Amendment from the 2022 budget to taking aim at Texas’ new law, this is just another example of hypocrisy from our “devout Catholic” president.
FNC’s Carlson: For Jeffrey Toobin, Abortion ‘a Great Option’ if You’re Married and Don’t Want to Pay for More Kids with Random Women
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Thursday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson took a dig at CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin for his pro-abortion defense in the wake of the Texas legislature’s thus far successful efforts to limit the practice of abortion in the high court.
Carlson reminded viewers of a personal situation Toobin encounter involving a woman he allegedly impregnated during an extramarital affair.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: Here’s an interesting observation/theory: The slogans that yell the loudest are the ones they believe the least. We’ve been noticing that recently. Volume is inversely proportional to sincerity. Maybe you scream it because you don’t really believe it.
Why do we think this? Well, here’s why. The very same people who have told us for decades now that it is my body my choice and seemed to mean it when they said it, those same people abandoned their own argument immediately when COVID arrived.
Suddenly, on a dime, they turned and they were demanding that we wear the mask and get the shot, but these were not optional suggestions, they weren’t deeply personal decisions to be made according to the dictates of individual conscience after consulting with family physicians and clergy, they weren’t between you, your doctor, and God. No, not at all. These were mandates.
Al of a sudden, Democrats were arguing that actually, politicians do get to decide what you do with your body. It’s their choice not yours. Inject these powerful drugs whether you want to or not because we own you.
Now, whatever else that is, that is not a pro-choice position to put it mildly. So, as we watch this happen, we wondered, what are these people going to say the next time so-called abortion rights get challenged in court? And now we know the answer, because last night, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on a new abortion law in the State of Texas. That decision came down by the way five to four, that’s the exact split the decided Roe v. Wade almost 50 years ago. So, it’s good enough to have meaning.
This time, the court upheld a Texas law that effectively bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically that’s about six weeks into a pregnancy. Now, this new law does not allow the government of Texas to enforce the ban, so no one is going to jail over abortion; instead, the new law let citizens sue clinics that commit illegal abortions.
So no matter how you feel about abortion, it is kind of hard to argue this is an especially radical law. Intentionally stopping a person’s heart from beating is the definition of killing. Government has a right to regulate that. In fact, deciding when it’s okay to kill a person is on the most basic level the whole reason to have laws in the first place.
So whether it’s right or wrong or whether you like it or not, it’s not a crazy statute. It did, however, drive the media crazy. Here is CBS quote “news” last night.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
NORAH O’DONNELL, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: It is nearly impossible to get an abortion in Texas. The most restrictive abortion law in the country went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to act on a request to block it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Abortion providers say Texas has essentially outlawed 85 percent of abortion procedures, which will force many clinics to close.
Amy Hagstrom Miller runs four clinics providing abortion services and is one of the plaintiffs asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
AMY HAGSTROM MILLER, FOUNDER, WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH: It is heartbreaking to deny them the care that our staff are fully trained and ready to provide. So really most people are going to be forced to carry a pregnancy against their will.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): The law signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott bans abortion once a so-called fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: How is an abortion service different from abortion? Why not just call it what it is. But here’s the best line from CBS, “a so-called fetal heartbeat.” Imagine saying something like that out loud.
Once they’ve decided you should die, they won’t even admit you have a heartbeat. Do the very worst people in this country go into journalism or does it just seem that way?
Anyway, you’ll notice that CBS does not make a case for abortion. No. They didn’t tell you why it’s so important to stop fetal hearts from beating. They just asserted that it is.
What they didn’t do is say a single word of how this violates your physical autonomy, about how it’s your body your choice. They can’t say that now. They are for mandating vaccines and masks.
So in that way over at CBS, they are still a little bit smarter than the protesters you’re seeing on your screen right now. These are the people who gathered outside the Texas State Capitol in Austin today. You’ll notice that many of them are holding signs affirming their physical autonomy. You can’t tell them what to do with their bodies. Politicians, hands off my body.
But wait a second, at the very same moment they’re declaring their physical autonomy, they are wearing their little obedience masks and you can bet money all of them are vaccinated. Why? Because they were told to get the shot, so of course they obeyed.
They don’t see the irony here. On the other hand, how could they see it?
So few sane people are left with big platforms in this country that you almost never hear a sensible logical rational argument about anything.
Just hours ago, for example, the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union released this statement and we’re quoting, “Far from compromising them, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties.” You have more civil liberties when they control your body. You can just imagine the 1860s version, far from compromising civil liberties, slavery actually enhances personal freedom.
It’s not even Orwellian at this point, it’s post-Orwell. This is uncharted.
Things are changing so fast that a lot of people on the left are having trouble keeping up with the shifting justifications for the policies they want. Poor Jen Psaki. Never a genius to begin with, unintentionally blew herself up today at the White House press briefing. Watch this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
QUESTION: Why does the President support abortion when his own Catholic faith teaches abortion is morally wrong?
JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, he believes that it’s a woman’s right, it’s a woman’s body, and it’s her choice.
QUESTION: Why does the President — who does he believe then should look out for the unborn child?
PSAKI: He believes that it’s up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor. I know you’ve never faced those choices nor have you ever been pregnant, but for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an incredibly difficult thing.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Oh, getting the sophomore year Gender Studies lecture from Jen Saki. Here at Wesleyan, Mr. Man, men don’t get to talk about abortion. Have you ever been pregnant before? I don’t think so. You can’t get pregnant because you’re a man. So, abortion is a women’s issue. Shut up.
They’ve been saying that for so long they forgot to update the talking points. You think Jen Psaki when she does this for a living, she should know that men get pregnant now. The science people tell us that every day. Men get pregnant. It’s on the cover of magazines. I think it’s on the cover of “People” Magazine right now, a dude who is pregnant.
Now, what does that mean? It means that abortion is now a men’s issue. Men are child bearers, so men, dudes, have an equal right to choose to terminate their pregnancies and they have a right to weigh in on the policy itself. It’s not a women’s issue anymore, Jen Psaki.
She may get an outrage call from Congresswoman Cori Bush of St. Louis who was on this early. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. CORI BUSH (D-MO): I sit before you today as a single mom, as a nurse, as an activist, and as a congresswoman and I am committed to doing the absolute most to protect black mothers, to protect black babies, to protect black birthing people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: See, Cori Bush is on this. Maybe she should be White House Press Secretary. She knows it’s not a woman’s choice, it’s a birthing people choice.
So how is it an attack on women to ban abortion in Texas? That’s a tough one. They are not really sure. So in MSNBC, they’re not even trying to explain, they just want you to know that if you’re for this law in Texas, you’re the Taliban.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
FRANK SCHAEFFER, AUTHOR: And we have a situation in Texas right now tonight where the American Taliban — because that’s what it is. This is not an American evangelical right-wing movement, there is an American Taliban is weirdly similar in so many ways to the Middle Eastern Islamist terrorists.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: You just feel so sorry for these people. America is again changing so fast that like people over 16 who are on TikTok half the day just can’t keep up. There was a time like two weeks ago when the Taliban were bad before they were a critical member of the international community who are talking daily with the Secretary of State the National Security adviser and waiting for their American aid.
The American Taliban? No that’s different. Unfortunately, unlike the Pashtun Taliban, no one in Texas is getting tens of billions in free weapons from Joe Biden. The National Rifle Association is getting Blackhawks or 360,000 AR-15s, so it’s a little different actually to be the American Taliban, but the Taliban is still bad? No, they’re good. We need to update our talking points.
But still, this MSNBC anchor, the most fiery in their lineup wants you to know that if you tell people what to do with their bodies, you’re a bad person unless you’re Tony Fauci, in which case you’re America’s doctor and a hero.
The whole thing she said reminds her of that book she once read, maybe the only book she’s read. Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOY REID, MSNBC HOST: By next summer, we could be living in our own version of the Handmaid’s Tale where forced birth is the law in large sections of the country.
You know and Senator Warren, you know people think it’s hyperbolic when I tweet about the Handmaid’s Tale coming to America, but I don’t think it seems hyperbolic now. Does it to you?
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): No.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: It’s like — it’s like the greatest question ever asked, Elizabeth Warren, does this seem hyperbolic to you? Is there anything you can say to Elizabeth Warren where she might reply, “Well, that seems hyperbolic.” You’re going too far there. Slow down a little bit. Reign in your rhetoric.
But when MSNBC trots out Elizabeth Warren, it doesn’t matter what she says. The point is, she is there. This is a serious moment.
CNN had to top it and they did. They went farther even than MSNBC.
To assess yesterday’s court decision on abortion, CNN found a man with personal experience. That would be Jeffrey Toobin. Now, Toobin is most famous for masturbating on Zoom. That will define his obit, unfortunately.
There may not be room for a much more relevant fact which is Jeffrey Toobin once impregnated a co-worker’s daughter and then pressured her to get an abortion. He knows this topic cold. Now, she refused, but in the process of pushing her to get an abortion unsuccessfully, Jeffrey Toobin learned what a lot of crappy men have learned over the years, which is, this is a great option if you’re a married guy who doesn’t want to pay for more kids with random women.
So Jeffrey Toobin means it when he tells you it’s bad to ban it. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST: Today is the first day that a state could legally ban abortion.
And Roe v. Wade essentially does not exist at least in the State of Texas and probably more states to come.
Texas has banned abortion in the state and the Supreme Court has done nothing about it. That is immensely significant, mostly for the women of Texas, 29 million people in total live in Texas.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: What does that mean for Roe v. Wade? I said it could effectively end Roe v. Wade. Was that an overstatement?
TOOBIN: I don’t think so.
The point of Roe v. Wade is that states cannot ban abortion.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: “It’s immensely significant for the women,” he mansplains. They’ve been telling you that for a long time when the truth is every person who lives here knows abortion is the best deal for the men who impregnate say the daughters of their coworkers because it allows them to skate without having to deal with the consequences.
Abortion makes actual women the ones who until recently were having all the babies before dudes could get pregnant, it makes them feel pretty bad about it. If you ask women, how do you feel about the abortion again? Not many feel that great about it, at all.
People like Jeffrey Toobin feel fine, so it’s his prerogative he is defending, but whatever. There he is lecturing us about Roe v. Wade, the sacred five to four ruling that invented the right to abortion. Out of nothing.
Now, here you have a duly elected state legislature right now in 2021 contradicting the five unelected judges who concocted the right to abortion back in 1973 and Jeffrey Toobin is suggesting that’s an attack on democracy. When elected people contravene the judgment of unelected people who died decades ago, 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 et cetera et cetera. 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 are 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.
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Catholic Bishops Have Said These Politicians Should Not Receive Communion Because Of Their Abortion Stances
MARY MARGARET OLOHANSOCIAL ISSUES REPORTER
October 29, 20198:05 PM ET
· A Catholic priest refused to give Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden communion, citing Biden’s pro-abortion stances.
· Catholic bishops have a history of refusing to give communion to pro-abortion politicians or warning these politicians not to receive.
· “To be publicly endorsing and privately opposed to abortion is an evil charade,” one bishop said.
Catholic bishops have a history of telling politicians who support abortion, like Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, that they should not receive communion at Catholic masses.
A Catholic priest denied communion to Biden in South Carolina on Sunday, a move that prompted Biden to defend himself Tuesday, saying, “I am a practicing Catholic, I practice my faith.” This is not the first time Biden has been censured for his abortion stances and prevented from receiving communion. Bishop Joseph Francis Martino of Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, told the pro-abortion former vice president in 2008 he could not receive communion.
The practice of refusing communion to pro-abortion politicians is not an uncommon one. Many politicians who profess themselves to be Catholic, such as former presidential candidate John Kerry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have all expressed public support of abortion and been told by Catholic bishops not to receive communion for this.
Abortion surfaced as a conflicting issue for Catholic politicians after the Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade in 1973, pronouncing a constitutional right to abortion. About 10 years later at a 1984 press conference, New York Archbishop John Joseph O’Connor spoke out against pro-abortion politicians.
“I do not see how a Catholic, in good conscience, can vote for an individual expressing himself or herself as favoring abortion,” he said.
Then-New York Gov. Mario Cuomo responded to the remarks by criticizing the archbishop for correlating politics and religion. (RELATED: The Clintons Coined The Phrase ‘Safe, Legal And Rare,’ But Abortion Activists Say This Is Stigmatizing)
“So I’m a Catholic governor,” Cuomo said. “I’m going to make you all Catholics — no birth control, you have to go to church on Sunday, no abortion.”
As he delivered a 1984 speech at the University of Notre Dame later that year, Cuomo added, “I accept the church’s teaching on abortion. Must I insist you do?”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan similarly censured Cuomo’s son, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a January op-ed to the New York Post. The op-ed came after Andrew Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act into law — a bill that removed abortion from New York’s criminal code and allows abortions after 24 weeks.
Though Dolan said on Fox News that excommunicating Andrew Cuomo from the Catholic Church for this move was “not the appropriate response,” he also said Cuomo “likes being the … bad boy when it comes to the Catholic Church,” according to the New York Post.
San Diego Bishop Leo T. Maher banned former Democratic California state Sen. Lucy Killea from receiving communion over her pro-abortion stances in 1989, a move The New York Times reported helped Killea win a California Senate seat in a heavily Republican district.
Killea, though she said she was personally opposed to abortion, said she would not oppose a woman’s decision to obtain one. Maher told Killea that she could no longer receive communion because her abortion stances were ”a grave scandal against the Church.”
The bishop also issued a statement at the time, saying, ”to be publicly endorsing and privately opposed to abortion is an evil charade.”
Jenni Logan holds up a sign urging presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to be denied Holy Communion in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral June16, 2004 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Cardinal Raymond Burke called for both Kerry and Pelosi to be prohibited from receiving communion due to their stances on abortion. As the former Archbishop of St. Louis, Burke warned presidential candidate Kerry before the Missouri primary in February 2004 that Burke would not give him communion.
Burke later referred to Pelosi in 2013 as a perfect example of “Catholics who have divorced their faith from their public life and therefore are not serving their brothers and sisters in the way that they must — in safeguarding and promoting the life of the innocent and defenseless unborn, in safeguarding and promoting the integrity of marriage and the family.”
Burke added that under no circumstances should Pelosi should be given communion until she changed her abortion stances. He also said in 2007 that he would not give communion to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or any other candidate who supports abortion rights.
Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze spoke out after Planned Parenthood endorsed Kerry for president in 2004, saying a Roman Catholic politician who supports abortion “is not fit” to receive communion.
Arinze did not specifically name Kerry, but his statement came mere hours after Kerry said, “‘Abortion should be rare, but it should be safe and legal, and the government should stay out of the bedrooms. We are going to have a change in leadership in this country to protect the right of choice.”
”Objectively, the answer is clear,” Arinze said, when questioned as to whether Catholic politicians who support abortion should receive communion. “The person is not fit” to do so. If they should not receive, then they should not be given.”
Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley warned at the time that politicians who oppose church teaching “shouldn’t dare come to communion,” though he did not explicitly say Kerry could not receive communion.
Forbidding politicians who support abortion from receiving communion “makes perfect sense,” Burke said in a 2013 interview with EWTN, according to the Global Dispatch. The cardinal warned that priests must protect the Holy Eucharist from “being profaned, being violated by someone receiving unworthily,” or someone “who knows that he or she is unworthy and yet presumes to come forward and to take the Holy Eucharist.”
Burke was later demoted to a “largely ceremonial” role by Pope Francis in 2014 as patron of the charity, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
“One gets the impression, or it’s interpreted this way in the media, that he thinks we’re talking too much about abortion, too much about the integrity of marriage as between one man and one woman,” Burke said at the time. “But we can never talk enough about that.”
Conversely, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick discouraged preventing Catholic politicians from receiving communion. His comments on the matter prompted then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI, to cite the Catholic Church’s Canon Law, number 915, saying that those “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.”
McCarrick has since been found to have used his status, his contacts, flattery and familial language to make young seminarians and young men feel special before allegedly harassing or sexually abusing them. He was defrocked in disgrace.
Father Thomas Petri similarly cited Canon 915 when he banned former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s pick for vice president Tim Kaine from receiving communion in his parish, saying in a 2016 tweet, “Do us both a favor. Don’t show up in my communion line. I take Canon 915 seriously. It’d be embarrassing for you & for me.”
The active politicians mentioned in this article did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Joe Biden pulls rank on little priest who denied him Communion
Joe Biden is out pulling rank.
In response to a little priest in South Carolina denying him Holy Communion for advocating pro-abortion positions inconsistent with Church teaching, the former vice president and Democratic Party presidential frontrunner made it clear he didn't deal with pipsqueaks.
Asked about the incident, Lifesite News reported Biden's response:
“It’s not a position that I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father, who gives me Communion.”
So instead of thinking about the priest's position and offering some kind of contemplative thought, Biden declared it was all O.K. to be advocating for abortion from his position, complete with public funding, because the pope gave him Communion. Despite the fact that even the pope is a priest and Communion is dispensed by priests with equal weight, even if a priest is tainted, Biden seems to be saying that because the pope gave him Communion instead of the priest, that proves the righteousness of his position.
In other words, he's got connections.
He completely sidestepped the issue the priest as concerned about, which was Biden's abortion advocacy under color of Catholicism. Instead of address that, he pulled rank, reminding everyone that he used to be vice president and he's still got connections.
Biden's response was roughly parallel to that of a Mafia don justifying himself after killing rivals on weekdays that he too deserves Communion on Sunday, (something the Church opposes) so he'll get it, too.
But it also had an elitist element. Who is this troublesome little priest to bother him when he's got the pope in his tree? As Joe Biden's trough-feeding through his son Hunter Biden has demonstrated, Joe's in good with the elites.
It's a risky move because it's something the pope might not appreciate, given the criticism he takes for his leftist ideas inside the Church. The pope actually has a pretty good pro-life record with his condemnation of "throwaway culture" including throwaway babies, as one of the few things he's been steadfast on. Now lefty pols like Biden are using him as their justification. Biden got communion from him? It's possible the pope didn't want to make a scene with the cameras on for a visiting dignitary, or that he didn't even know what Biden's positions were. Out on the Pontifex Twitter feed, the pope has so far kept quiet, but the odds are good he won't appreciate being used as a political shield, and Biden's arrogant rank-pulling might just force his hand.
Even if it doesn't, the message from Biden is clear: He's got connections, so to heck with any truth a little priest speaking truth to power might say.
Pope Francis Laments Aborted Babies, ‘Who Never See the Light of Day’
VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images
24 May 2019492
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Pope Francis pushed for a “culture of life” Friday, noting that among the most fragile people on earth are the many rejected children “who never see the light of day.”
In an address in the Vatican to the Hospital of the Innocents Institute of Florence, the pope told his audience we must promote a “culture of the child” and learn to be like little children because Jesus said, ‘If you do not become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.’”
“How badly we need a culture that recognizes the value of life, especially of the weak, threatened, and offended,” Francis said, “a culture that recognizes in every face, even the smallest, the face of Jesus: ‘Whoever welcomes one child like this in my name, welcomes me’ (Mt 18.5).”
Many mothers abort their children because they “suffer economic, social, cultural conditioning that pushes them to give up that wonderful gift that is the birth of a child,” he stressed. And many other children are “robbed of their childhood and their future” oftentimes facing desperate journeys to escape hunger or war.
“Today the goal we must set for ourselves,” he said, “is that no mother find herself in a position to have to abandon her child.”
The solution to helping so many unwanted children, the pope said, is to promote a “culture of adoption.”
“So often there are people who want to adopt children, but there is such a big bureaucracy, not to mention when there is corruption at play,” he said.
“There are many, many families who do not have children and would certainly want to have one through adoption,” he continued, adding that what is needed is to “create a culture of adoption because there are so many abandoned children, lonely children, victims of war and other things.”
With its six centuries of history, the pope said, the Institute of the Innocents “speaks to us of a city that has put the best of itself in welcoming children, so that they should no longer be called ‘abandoned’ but welcomed, entrusted to the love and care of the community.”
We must ensure that in the face of any event or tragedy that could separate a child from his parents, “there be structures and paths of welcome in which childhood is always protected and cared for, in the only worthy way: by giving children the best we can offer them,” he said.
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.
A Desensitized America Ignoring Ulrich Klopfer
By Ryan Neuhaus
It is a human tendency not to value something until it is under assault or lost, but in the case of abortion, there is little evidence to suggest that the American public, or mainstream media, is concerned with a blatant assault on the right to life of 2,246 children.
When reports surfaced that the remains of 2,246 aborted children were found in the garage and later the vehicle of former abortionist Ulrich Klopfer, Americans were horrified. But not for the reason one might think. As the news cycle passed by it was seen that Americans were not horrified by the fact that innocent children had been killed, but by the fact that the remains had been unknowingly kept by an abortionist.
Ulrich Klopfer (YouTube screen grab)
The gruesome discovery in Klopfer’s garage, and the national response, is a glaring reflection that society has chosen to hide its eyes from such crimes. Rather than directly confronting the fact that thousands of lives had been lost through the practice of abortion, Americans chose to look the other way and ask why Indiana’s most prolific abortionist would not dispose of the remains.
That realization should cause people to shudder. But the lack of media attention the story has received makes it feel as though no one noticed any injustice in the legalized active killing of 2,246 children.
A quick google search will show that the story surrounding Klopfer has thus far received little attention on national television news broadcasts, with the large majority of coverage coming from local news outlets. One would think that an acceptable approach to finding the remains of 2,246 aborted children would be holding the nationwide abortion industry accountable for their business practices and nationally illustrating the reality of what abortion is, the active practice of ending indefensible human life, but that has yet to be seen.
This is not the first time that fetal remains have been discovered to be kept after being aborted. Last year in Detroit multiple funeral homes were found to have over 60 fetal remains and the clinic of former abortionist Kermit Gosnell was described by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams as filled with “rotting bodies, fetal remains, the smell of urine throughout, blood-stained.”
Without implementing policies and guidelines which will restrict the inhumane treatment of fetal remains after an abortion nothing will stop abortionists inhumanely treating preborn infants in the future. A simple truth must be accepted, abortionists should not be allowed to hide infant bodies in their garages, throw them into landfills, or burn them for fuel.
A Gallup poll in 2013 found that American’s consider individual freedoms the nation’s top virtue. Such knowledge could lead one to assume that a people who consider individual freedoms as the nation’s top virtue would seek to respect and enhance the freedom of others. Yet, while such sentiments might be held by many, the lack of interest in the murderous actions of Klopfer have shown that Americans are desensitized to violence against the preborn, exposing a incomprehension of the most basic individual freedom, the right to life.
Too much media exposure to violence through television, movies, and video games, has been linked to desensitization to real-life violence. Such findings could be correlated to a lack of an emotional and rational response to the issue of abortion and stories like that of Klopfer as a study conducted by the University of Michigan, the University of Amsterdam, and Iowa State University, has found that "people exposed to media violence become ‘comfortably numb’ to the pain and suffering of others and are consequently less helpful" in dangerous situations.
As society continually becomes more desensitized to violence, the threshold for potential shock value will continually escalate, leading some to question at what point will society stop and recognize the amount of widespread desensitization occurring.
Until then pro-life Americans will continually ask themselves:
How many more women are going to bleed out and die in an abortion facility?
How many more women will have to need a hysterectomy because of a botched abortion?
How many more infants who survived an abortion will be left screaming on a table before they die?
Only after confronting the devastating truth’s hidden behind false narratives surrounding abortion can society begin to reverse the real-life damages that have been seemingly tolerated.
Viktor Fankl, a renowned Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz, suggested in his book Man’s Search for Meaning that “the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.” While it is unlikely a Statue of Responsibility will ever be constructed on the West Coast, an important lesson can be learned.
Liberty cannot be sustained without responsibility. If the American public desires to enjoy the blessings of liberty, and pass liberty on to following generations, it must first recognize and embrace the responsibility of protecting all human life from its earliest stages, to the final stages, of development.
Unfortunately, observing the current news cycle one can see that Americans are more concerned with their illiterate historical representation of Christopher Columbus, or the idea that climate change is the “battle of our time,” rather than accepting responsibility for the fact that Americans have allowed over 60 million children to be killed since 1973.
Ryan Neuhaus is a Regional Coordinator with Students for Life of America
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