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Rep. Johnson: The Women’s Health Protection Act is an ‘Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act’
(CNS News) – During a House Judiciary Committee Hearing on abortion, Representative Mike Johnson (R-La.) criticized the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), sponsored by Democrats, calling it the “Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act.”
The July 14 hearing was entitled, “What’s Next: The Threat to Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World,” and was held to discuss/debate the effects of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade on June 24.
In his remarks, Rep. Johnson said, “The first inalienable, individual freedom, is the right to be born. It’s the right to life. We’ve only declared that in our nation’s birth certificate. America should continue to uphold the sanctity of human life, and state and local and federal government officials have a duty, a constitutional responsibility, to protect that fundamental right.”
“All life is precious,” he said. “And there is an inherent, compelling interest in protecting unborn children because they are unable to protect themselves.”
In the video below, Rep. Johnson talks about the hearing on the House floor:
Johnson continued by criticizing the group ShutDown DC, for its support of public harassment of pro-life Supreme Court justices, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for calling to close all crisis centers.
According to Johnson, these occurrences came about because “their extreme agenda demands it.”
On July 6, ShutDownDC took to Twitter to publicize the whereabouts of Justice Brett Kavanaugh after he was spotted at Morton’s Steakhouse:
“While the badasses @OurRightsDC and his own neighbors are gathered outside #Kavanaugh’s home, the justice seems to have snuck out for a swanky DC dinner. We got a tip from someone who spotted him around 7:40 DM us if you want to join him…we’re sure he can pull up a seat!”
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Senator Warren has introduced legislation to “crack down” on crisis pregnancy centers:
“With Roe gone, it’s more important than ever to crack down on so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ that mislead and deceive patients seeking abortion care. My bill with @SenatorMenendez would stop these harmful practices.”
“And speaking of extreme agendas,” Johnson continued:
“They filed H.R. 8296 in this Congress. They call it the ‘Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022.’ We call it the ‘Abortion On Demand Until Birth Act.’ You want to know why? Because it’s extreme. It would create a national standard to allow for abortions for unborn children for any reason at any stage of pregnancy up until birth. Read the bill, that’s not a talking point.”
As Johnson explains, H.R. 8296 “allows for discriminatory abortions on the basis of sex, race, and disability.”
The bill also removes what Johnson calls “common sense protections for women and children.”
“The Democrats’ bill would not allow states to enact laws to ensure parental involvement for minors, laws to protect women from coercion -- they don’t care, the agenda demands,” said Johnson.
The congressman also knocked the bill’s “vague language that could also weaken conscious protection for medical professionals and limit their right to refuse to participate in an abortion.”
The WHPA passed the House (219-210) on July 15. Not one Republican voted for the measure. The legislation is unlikely to pass in the Senate because it will be filibustered by Republicans. To overcome the filibuster, Democrats would need to pick up at least 10 GOP senators to get to 60 votes.
Witnesses called to testify at the July 14 hearing were NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray; Human Rights Campaign Legal Director Sarah Warbelow; the president and CEO of Americans United for Life, Catherine Glenn Foster; and the plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, Jim Obergefell, which legalized homosexual marriage.
Texas Sues HHS, Says Biden Admin. Trying to ‘Transform Every Emergency Room in the Country into Walk-In Abortion Clinic’
The State of Texas, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its attempt to “transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.”
The lawsuit, filed on July 14th, claims that “the Biden Administration’s response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), which ended the terrible regime of Roe v. Wade, is to attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.”
The administration’s directive, released on July 11th, is a clarification of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), a law that forces hospitals to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay and protects doctors from being prosecuted under state laws if they perform a procedure that they deem necessary to save a patient from death or serious injury in an emergency situation.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra’s letter says that “emergency medical conditions involving pregnant patients may include, but are not limited to, ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features.”
Becerra’s letter goes on to state that an abortion may be an appropriate stabilizing treatment for pregnant patients with an emergency medical condition:
“When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life and health of the pregnant person - or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition - that state law is preempted.”
Paxton’s lawsuit disagrees with this assertion: “To the contrary, EMTALA ‘do[es] not preempt any State or local law requirement, except to the extent that the requirement directly conflicts with a requirement of EMTALA.’”
EMTALA does not codify any right or access to abortion, so there is no direct conflict between EMTALA and a state law banning abortion, the suit alleges. Furthermore, the text of EMTALA specifically defines “emergency medical condition” to include threats to the health of a woman’s unborn child. Abortion threatens the health of unborn children.
Texas’ complaint against HHS continues by citing court precedents, such as Eberhardt v. City of Los Angeles, that establish that EMTALA does not force hospitals to provide specific procedures, but simply prevents them from refusing “emergency medical care because of a patient’s inability to pay.”
The HHS directive comes as a response to last month’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned the constitutional protection for abortion established by the 1973 case Roe v. Wade.
In 2021, Texas passed a law that “prohibits abortions in most circumstances and takes effect on the 30th day after ‘issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. Wade.’” That law has yet to take effect, but will, barring the passage of a law that repeals the ban.
Rubio Introduces Bill Allowing Mothers to Collect Child Support Payments From Moment of Conception
A pregnant woman lies on her bed with monitoring devices placed on her belly as she gets ready before delivering her child at the maternity ward of a hospital in Paris on June 29, 2022. (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has introduced a bill that would allow child support payments to begin at the time of conception, instead of after a child’s birth.
“We should do everything we can to support American mothers and their children. This bill would allow expecting mothers to prepare and support their babies before they are born,” Rubio said.
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), the bill’s co-author, stated, “Caring for the well-being of our children begins long before a baby is born. It begins at the first moment of life – conception – and fathers have obligations, financial and otherwise, during pregnancy. Mothers should be able to access child support payments as soon as she is supporting a child. Our bill makes this possible.”
The bill, known as the “Unborn Child Support Act,” amends the Social Security Act to allow mothers to begin collecting child support payments from their child’s father during the first month of pregnancy. The new text also allows payments during the pregnancy to be collected after the baby is born when a paternity test is used to establish the identity of the father.
In addition to the two authors, the bill currently has nine co-sponsors. The act will need 60 yes votes in order to pass the Senate, which is divided evenly between the chamber’s 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats.
A similar bill was introduced in the Oklahoma State Legislature in January by a Democratic lawmaker. That bill, which also allowed child support payments to begin at conception, was criticized for implicitly recognizing that life begins at conception, a position held by many Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature.
The author, Forrest Bennet, defended his legislation, saying: “*IF* this state [Oklahoma] outlaws abortion and *IF* it tries to define life as beginning at conception, it owes its people the kind of policy that supports & helps babies & parents, not just policies that force birth.”
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In 2021, Utah became the first state to require biological fathers to pay half of a woman’s pregnancy-related medical costs. That law makes an exception for the cost of having an abortion, which the father would only be required to help pay for if it is necessary to save the mother’s life or if the pregnancy was the result of rape.
Certain states have laws that allow mothers to collect payments for pregnancy-related expenses from fathers in limited circumstances. Wisconsin, for example, allows courts to order fathers to pay for part or all of the cost of birth.
A survey from the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy found that 47% or nearly half of Americans favored proposals to begin child support at conception while 28% were opposed and 25% were unsure.
Chris Ellis, co-director of the institute and political science professor at Bucknell University, said this finding extended across political and ideological lines, including those who described themselves as “pro life,” “pro choice,” Republican and Democrat.
However, women were more likely than men to favor the idea, the survey found.
Mississippi Leads Pro-Life Effort to Support Moms, Babies After End of Roe v. Wade
Mississippi is setting an example for post-Roe v. Wade law by passing legislation to help women deal with unplanned pregnancies and their born children.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the Pregnancy Resource Act, which will provide a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for businesses that donate to pregnancy resource centers (PRC). The credit is set at 50 percent of the taxpayer’s state tax burden, with an annual cap of $3.5 million.
The law, HB 1685, is the first of its kind in the U.S., according to Reeves.
“Mississippi will continue to take all available avenues to build and promote a culture of life,” Reeves said at the time. “This means supporting mothers, passing pro-family laws, and strengthening community support systems.”
“We know that to be truly pro-life, we cannot only be anti-abortion,” Reeves stated via his official Facebook page upon signing the Pregnancy Resource Act. “This bill will help expecting mothers get the resources they need in a safe, well-equipped environment.”
“Every life is precious,” Reeves wrote.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves sign into law HB 1685 (the first of its kind) which authorizes $3.5 million in tax credits for making donations to pregnancy resource centers and crisis pregnancy centers around the state. (Facebook/Gov. Tate Reeves)
And as these laws begin to take hold, pro-life advocates are expressing their support for continuing their ongoing efforts to make sure women and their babies have the help they need.
An anti-abortion supporter sits behind a sign that advises the Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic is still open in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, July 6, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
“Just as the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision couldn’t resolve the complex issue of abortion, government alone cannot address all the reasons that lead a woman to have an abortion,” Jameson Taylor, director of policy and legislation affairs for the American Family Association, said in a statement.
Abortion rights supporters protest in front of Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi on July 7, 2022, the last day it was open to patients. (AFP)
“The nonprofit sector — and the relationships and community support that nonprofits and churches provide — must be part of the answer. Pregnancy resource centers are on the front lines helping women facing an unexpected pregnancy,” said Taylor, who helped craft the legislation. “By supporting the efforts of PRCs to provide concrete and compassionate assistance to women in need, the state of Mississippi is investing in private sector solutions that can complement what the state is already doing to assist these women.”
Reeves also issued a statement about the work PRCs do.
“Pregnancy resource centers and crisis pregnancy centers do a tremendous job of helping primarily low-income women who are facing incredible challenges,” the statement said. “These non-profits offer free sonograms, pregnancy tests, counseling on options, and more.”
“These centers receive no government funding and are non-profits that are fully reliant on donations from individuals and business owners,” the statement continued.
The Pregnancy Help News website reported on the work that PRCs do:
Mississippi has more than 30 pregnancy centers that provide pregnancy help to women and families, a report from local outlet The Daily Leader said. In 2019 alone, these organizations provided $1.9 million in services and materials to more than 12,000 people.
“Data from that same year compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the then roughly 2,700 pregnancy centers nationwide served almost two million people, at an estimated total value of services and material assistance of nearly $270 million. Estimates sincehave the number of pregnancy help centers in the U.S. approaching 3,000,” the website said.
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