Study: More Young People Are Choosing Permanent Sterilization
Researchers found an “abrupt increase” in the number of young people undergoing permanent sterilization procedures following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June of 2022.
The University of Pittsburgh-led study published last week in JAMA Health Forum analyzed medical records data for 18- to 30-year-olds from Jan. 1, 2019, though May 31, 2022 — before the Dobbs decision — and from June 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023 — after Dobbs. They ultimately found that there were 58 more tubal ligations per 100,000 outpatient visits after Dobbs and 5.31 procedures per month, and 27 more vasectomies per 100,000 visits with no significant change in the number of procedures per month.
Before Dobbs, the monthly permanent contraception rate increased by 2.84 and 1.03 procedures per 100,000 person-months among female and male patients, respectively, according to the study.
“We observed an abrupt increase in permanent contraception procedures among adults aged 18 to 30 years following Dobbs. The increase in procedures for female patients was double that for male patients,” researchers wrote.
A tubal ligation is a procedure in which a woman’s fallopian tubes are cut, blocked, or sealed off to prevent pregnancy, and a vasectomy is a procedure that closes off the ends of the vas deferens, which are the tubes that carry sperm, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Co-author Jacqueline Ellison, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, said researchers wanted to study this age group because they are “much more likely to have an abortion and … to experience sterilization regret relative to their older counterparts,” according to NBC News.
The NBC report stated:
It’s difficult to prove the Dobbs decision caused a rise in women and men undergoing permanent birth control. But the new study used a particular statistical approach that, Ellison said, strongly suggested the increase in sterilization procedures flowed from the Supreme Court’s decision and the subsequent actions in 21 states to ban or further restrict access to abortion.
One of the study’s limitations is that data was not broken down state by state, which would show more of a correlation between procedures and individual policies, researchers noted.
Researchers ultimately suggested that the end of the constitutional “right” to abortion via the Dobbs decision “may have also increased a sense of urgency among individuals who were interested in permanent contraception before the decision.”
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X @thekat_hamilton.
ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!
PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work
“I Cut the Vocal Cord So The Baby Can't Scream.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/baby-butcher-dr-leah-torres-in-salt.html
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a "uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
It turns out that pre-birth ‘clumps of cells’ are already learning how to speak
Some leftists honestly acknowledge that a fetus is a human being but argue that the mother’s needs trump that baby’s life. Most, though, insist that the “miracle of birth” is just that—a miraculous moment when an inanimate, insensate lump of cells that has value only if the mother wants it magically converts into a human being, complete with rights. Science, however, again reveals that the real magic happens in the womb. This time, the magic is that babies are already learning language before they’re born.
I’ve always known about the connection between a verbal mother and a child who learns to speak well and quickly. Indeed, Gerry Charlotte Phelps, one of my early blog friends and a fascinating woman, made that point vividly when she wrote about working with women in terrible urban slums. On her now-defunct website, she said that these women never talked to their children except to threaten them with punishment. In this, they starkly contrasted with middle- and upper-middle-class mommies who never stopped talking to their children. The chatty mommies do so because they know it’s good for their child’s intellectual development.
Of course, all of that occurs after the baby is born. But what about before it’s born? Well, experiments are showing that, even in the womb, babies are developing language skills:
If you're an expectant mother, chatting as much as possible could give your baby a headstart when it comes to learning to talk.
That's because new research has found your unborn son or daughter will start learning the language you speak before they're even born.
In experiments, researchers discovered heightened activity in the brains of newborns when they heard the language they were exposed to most often in utero.
The study didn't look at exactly when babies become receptive to spoken language while they are still in the womb, although it's well known that a foetus starts hearing sounds in the later stages of the second trimester and the start of the third.
Therefore, expectant mothers – and fathers too – should not be afraid to chat away, and even talk directly to their baby bump.
Babies in utero are not mere disposable clumps of cells unless you acknowledge that all humans are nothing more than clumps of cells. They are fully realized people, albeit at an early stage of development, and they have human brains that do human things, such as hearing words and learning language. Regardless of where you want to come down on the abortion issue, you would do well to remember that, when leftists tell you there is no life before birth, they are lying.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF ABORTION
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-democrat-party-of-abortion-terry.html
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.
KAMALA HARRIS, THE GODLESS.
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/kamala-harris-godless-just-follow-money.html
Harris is no friend of religious liberty. Her recent decision to exclaim in the year of our Lord, which has been conveniently picked up by her staff, is a ploy designed to appeal to unassuming Christian voters impressed by "God talk." As the old adage says, actions speak louder than words, and on this score, Harris fails to convince.
It is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal, after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE WAS VERY GENEROUS AFTER KAMALA HARRIS LET THEM AVOID PRISON…. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
As most people know, prior to her being a Senator, she served as the chief prosecutor for the city of San Francisco. Now, complaints are coming forward that she flat out refused to pursue criminal cases against Catholic priests who allegedly sexually battered children.
People who say they were victims of childhood sexual abuse call out Harris for not doing all that she could to prosecute their cases.
WHY DO DEM POLS ALWAYS APPEAR TO BE ETHICALLY DEPRAVED BRIBES SUCKERS?
Virginia Democrats already pushing abortion-on-demand amendment
If anybody has any doubt about abortionists’ priorities — or Democrats’ dedication to them — one need only read Virginia House Joint Resolution 1.
Having taken control of the Virginia House of Delegates and kept control of its Senate, Virginia Democrats signaled their commitment to abortion by prefiling in symbolic first place a bill to write abortion on demand into the Old Dominion’s state constitution.
The proposed amendment guarantees abortion on demand for any reason throughout pregnancy. Unlike Ohio’s recently adopted Issue One, it does not even feign the pretense of a post-viability limit on abortion. Instead, any restriction by Virginia would be subject to a test that identifies a “compelling state interest” and is the “least restrictive means” to achieve that interest.
Clearly, under this amendment, the state has no interest in the life of the unborn. In that sense, it’s even more radical than Roe v. Wade, which paid lip service to the state’s “interest” in “potential life” (though, in practice, the Court never found any instance in which that “interest” stood in the way of an abortion).
What is clearly behind this language (and its references to “accepted clinical standards” and “evidence-based medicine”) is the exclusion of any sort of legislation attendant to abortion that might conceivably discourage a woman from having one. From 2012 through 2020, for example, Virginia required women to be shown an ultrasound of their unborn child and had a 24-hour waiting period prior to obtaining an abortion. Ultrasound imagery did cause some women to change their minds.
When Democrats took control of the Legislature in 2020, they immediately repealed those requirements, which abortionists pejoratively brand as “TRAP” (Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers) laws. Given the absolute commitment of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to abortion on demand without restrictions, litigants will always be able to find ACOG “clinical standards” argument to nullify the least restriction on abortion.
If, as H.J. Res. 1 states, “every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” the amendment will also preclude any possibility in Virginia of a parental consent or notification law with regard to a minor daughter. That language is a backdoor slap at the parental rights movement in the state, thanks to which Republicans in 2021 won the governorship and lower house of the General Assembly. While those wins were attributable to resistance to gender ideology in public schools, the stealth language of the proposed amendment bars parental consent or notification laws on abortion without explicitly coming out and admitting that.
Speaking of stealth language, the very phraseology of the amendment imports gender ideology into the state constitution without admitting it. No “women” get pregnant under H.J. Res. 1: only “individuals” do. The use of that term and the indefinite adjective “one” is clearly intended to disconnect sex (as opposed to gender) from pregnancy.
The second paragraph of the proposed amendment will undoubtedly be used as a major talking point: “the Commonwealth shall not penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against an individual [or “an individual who aids or assists another individual” regarding] “such individual’s pregnancy.” Like the slapdash HB1786 rammed through Pennsylvania’s lower house November 15, just 22 days after its introduction, abortionists want to create hysteria about pro-life states supposedly champing at the bit to prosecute women and abortionists.
The truth is that a close reading of HB1786 shows that the bill actually gives immunity to abortionists who commit abortions in states where they are illegal at that gestational age and/or botch their provision of “reproductive health care services” but manage to get back to Pennsylvania, which will render them immune from account for their malpractice. What’s operative here is not real care for women’s (or children’s) health, but furthering the mantra that “abortion is health care.”
As with similar abortion on demand amendments being pushed in other states, the ambiguities of the text are deliberate, left that way so that — under the guiding standard that there be no interference with “the fundamental right to reproductive freedom” — courts in the future will swat down any restrictions abortionists don’t like. The almost fifty years of Roe’s jurisprudence makes that trajectory clear.
Consider, for example, the amendment’s stipulation that “effectuat[ing] one’s own decisions about all matters related to one’s pregnancy shall not be ... burdened.” That language can, and likely will, lead state courts to say Virginia must pay for abortions under Medicaid and Obamacare state health exchanges, something the state currently does not do. Of course, by writing such requirements into a constitutional amendment, Virginia Democrats want to straitjacket the question: not only would such taxpayer subsidy of abortion not be a policy question, but it could never be answered any other way except “yes.”
Under Virginia’s system, a state constitutional amendment must pass each house by a simple majority, a state election (in 2025) intervene, the amendment be adopted a second time, and then sent to the voters in referendum within 90 days of final passage. Democrats are hoping to ride the abortion issue to state control by keeping the Legislature and flipping the governorship in 2025, when term-limited Glenn Youngkin must leave. Already, pro-abortion Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger has announced her candidacy, likely to play the “suburban soccer mom” image who wants to ensure that Virginia remains at least “the only pro-choice Southern state.”
No one should be surprised at the expedited pace with which the new Richmond majority dropped this bill. Campaigning on H.J. Res. 1 is a political design to turn Virginia blue...and red, with the blood of its unborn.
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Her (KAMALA HARRIS) more radical positions, such as support for the Obama administration’s Iran deal, prosecuting a journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s collection and sale of aborted babies’ body parts (while receiving campaign donations from them), and defending Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism, may indeed sit well with a great many leftists, but her actions as Attorney General of California may not. While in that position, Harris jailed hundreds on marijuana charges and authorized anti-prostitution sting operations which, according to SF Weekly, disproportionately targeted Latino men (a crucial Democrat demographic). In addition to this -- though she later admitted it was a mistake -- she prosecuted and jailed the parents of truant teens. She even refused to release the names of Catholic priests accused of sexually molesting children, abnegating law enforcement’s most basic and humane duty -- regardless of anyone’s opinion of the Catholic Church.
David Daleiden: Kamala Harris Prostituted Her Law Enforcement Powers to Planned Parenthood
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18 Aug 202017
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David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) prostituted her powers in her former role as California’s attorney general for the benefit of Planned Parenthood in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.
Daleiden noted the partisan and political dimensions of California’s prosecution of him and his CMP colleague Sandra Merritt. Both he and Merritt were charged with 14 cases of illegal recording of confidential conversations and one count of conspiracy.
“Kamala Harris is the biggest threat to First Amendment civil liberties and First Amendment civil rights that our country has ever seen, in my opinion,” said Daleiden. “While she was the attorney General of the State of California, Kamala Harris, at the behest of her political patron — Planned Parenthood — targeted me for criminal punishment solely because of the content of the message that I was publishing and speaking at the time as you mentioned the undercover video series showing top-level Planned Parenthood officials callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of tiny aborted baby hearts and lungs and livers and brains.”
Daleiden continued, “In the State of California, when Kamala Harris was the attorney general, you could do undercover investigations of factory farming, corrupt chiropractors, [and] fraudulent air conditioning repairmen. Local TV news journalists in California [were] filming and publishing undercover video with conversations — sometimes even in private office spaces — and publishing these videos in on a daily weekly basis. Not a single one of those journalists ever had their home raided or were prosecuted by Kamala Harris’s attorney general’s office.”
LISTEN:
“But if you did the exact same kind of undercover filming and publishing, and your message was something that questioned Planned Parenthood or questioned the abortion industry — the sacred cows of Kamala Harris and the San Francisco political establishment in California — then in that case, I became the first and only person involved in news gathering, the first and only citizen journalist in the state of California to ever have the California video recording law enforced against me, criminally,” Daleiden added.
Daleiden went on, “It was launched under Kamala Harris. She targeted our message, specifically. She sent 11 California DOJ agents in April of 2016 to raid my one-bedroom apartment in Orange County with explicit instructions from Planned Parenthood to seize the means of publication, to seize the computers and the video equipment that I was using to publish the videos.”
“Kamala Harris’ deputy prosecutor, Johnette Jauron, who was in charge of the case, she admitted a few years later in 2018 in a filing in court that the reason that I alone have become the first citizen journalist in California to be prosecuted under the California video recording law — to have that law criminally enforced against me when it was enforced against against nobody else for news gathering in California — is because of the content of the videos themselves,” recalled Daleiden.
“It is blatant, unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and invidious targeting of Americans whose message Kamala Harris disagrees with. So, she is a huge threat to our First Amendment civil liberties in this country.”
Pollak said, “It almost looks as if [Harris] initiated her prosecution of you at the instigation of Planned Parenthood to please Planned Parenthood, to help this politically-connected organization, which is so important for donations in the Democratic Party and for the future of anyone in Democratic politics. She basically acted at their behest. Is that true?”
Daleiden replied, “Yes, absolutely. Like I said, undercover video recording and reporting has never been criminally prosecuted in California in the history of the state until now, until this case, where the entity whose ox is being gored was Planned Parenthood, the political patrons of Kamala Harris and so many others in the California political establishment.”
He further noted how Harris coordinated her prosecution of him and his CMP colleague with Planned Parenthood.
“Just two weeks before she ordered the raid on my home, Kamala Harris had a secret in-person meeting in Los Angeles with several top-level Planned Parenthood of California officials,” stated Daleiden. “We have the action items from that meeting in an email that was produced to us in discovering the case, and those action items show that the meeting was primarily to discuss Planned Parenthood’s political agenda in the state of California, but included within their political agenda were the issues involved in Kamala Harris’s investigation of me.”
Daleiden concluded, “[Harris] was blatantly mixing her political constituent services functions with her law enforcement powers and basically prostituting her law enforcement powers to the service of her political campaign donors. She was running for United States Senate at that exact same time in March and April in 2016. She had petitions urging political support for Planned Parenthood on her campaign website.
He recalled that Harris’s executive office assistant while she was attorney general of California — who was ‘liaising with Planned Parenthood” while “working on this investigation” — later became Harris’s campaign manager during her first run for the U.S. Senate.
“It is a blatant use and abuse of law enforcement power solely to serve private partisan political interests, and that is why she is such a dangerous candidate,” concluded Daleiden.
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Kamala's Threat to American Democracy
Who, exactly, is a vice-president supposed to be?
Tue Aug 18, 2020
The arrival of Joe Biden’s decision on a running mate is a true turning point in the history of American politics.
There has never before been a presidential candidate who, prior to entering the White House, has shown such undeniable signs of age-related neurological decay. All political disagreements disregarded, the sight of an elderly person succumbing to the demons of those dreaded cognitive ailments -- which all too often rob us of the older people we love -- is truly excruciating to behold.
The political outcome of Biden's mental state is, if possible, even more unsettling. The role of the president is meant to be powerful. All constitutional checks and balances considered, the sheer power of the chief executive, in that one single person invested with authority to counter-balance the power of the legislative and judicial branches, is truly awesome.
In our situation today, we see a man who is clearly not in full command of his mental faculties, who is allowing himself to be considered for that office of chief executive; an office which, unlike a prime minister in a parliamentary system, is intended to be stable and not prone to regular changes in leadership.
The expectation of a normal four-year presidential tenure on Biden’s part if he is elected must, at the very least, be subjected to serious doubt. If pronouncing basic words -- let alone quoting the most famous phrase of our Declaration of Independence -- is such a confusing ordeal for him, then it is our urgent duty to question whether this individual is fit to be the man who must accept the ultimate responsibility for this country’s national security and well-being.
These facts squarely cast the Democrat side of the current election as not a presidential election at all, but a vice-presidential election.
Should Biden win, the chances are very probable that his vice president will become the 47th president to finish out his first four-year term. As the vice president automatically succeeds to the Oval Office if the president dies or is rendered permanently incapacitated, the profoundly anti-democratic repercussions of this situation is worsened by whom Biden has actually chosen.
The traditional custom for presidential hopefuls is to either choose the second-highest-polling candidate in a primary race, as Ronald Reagan did with George H. W. Bush in 1980, or to choose a highly capable politician who is well-respected by most of the party, as Donald Trump did with Governor Mike Pence in 2016. In both of those cases, the aforementioned running mates reflected the Republican Party and its voters quite respectably while promoting unity.
It is highly questionable, meanwhile, whether Kamala Harris -- aside from all of the establishment media’s expected giddy cheerleading -- really represents her party all that well. She was polling at 2% nationally by the time she ended her own presidential bid on December 3, 2019. Her more radical positions, such as support for the Obama administration’s Iran deal, prosecuting a journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s collection and sale of aborted babies’ body parts (while receiving campaign donations from them), and defending Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism, may indeed sit well with a great many leftists, but her actions as Attorney General of California may not. While in that position, Harris jailed hundreds on marijuana charges and authorized anti-prostitution sting operations which, according to SF Weekly, disproportionately targeted Latino men (a crucial Democrat demographic). In addition to this -- though she later admitted it was a mistake -- she prosecuted and jailed the parents of truant teens. She even refused to release the names of Catholic priests accused of sexually molesting children, abnegating law enforcement’s most basic and humane duty -- regardless of anyone’s opinion of the Catholic Church.
it is highly debatable if these are positions that a high number of progressives who voted for the Democrat primary runner-up, Bernie Sanders, would approve of. Especially today, being tough on minority and drug crime -- to the exclusion of “white patriarchal” clergy sex abuse -- is not en vogue among the Democratic Party’s truly energized base, which is largely college-educated millennials taught to have contempt for not only aggressive inner city policing, but inner city policing overall.
It also remains a question as to how many black American voters Kamala really represents. Without doubt, she completely failed to gain these voters' support during the primary. Many black Americans responded to Barack and Michelle Obama due to their image as people who empathized authentically with the black experience of living in inner city America. Harris’s flip-flopping on criminal justice issues has clearly deprived her of the Obama touch.
What should highly concern all Americans of whatever political persuasion is the fact that, given Joe Biden’s medical condition, a Democrat victory in 2020 could very likely result in a person for whom only 2% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents supported to become president.
The reasons for Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate are as yet not entirely clear. What is very clear, however, is that a new president of the United States in the near future could be a person whom a weak and faltering man chose by fiat, and not someone whom the majority of the country elected by the ballot.
That's a problem.
It's a problem for America -- and it's a serious and profound problem for American democracy.
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During the presidential campaign season of 2008, Warnock, who was slated to deliver a speech honoring Barack Obama’s controversial longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright, was asked by Fox News reporter Greta van Susteren: “Do you embrace the Reverend Wright, and let me focus on the soundbites, for lack of better words, but certainly he has said things like ‘GD [God Damn] America’ and the things he has said … Do you embrace that? Is that something you would do, sir, in your church?” Warnock replied: “We celebrate Reverend Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the black church, which, when preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable. And I think the country has been done a disservice by this constant playing over and over again the same soundbites outside of context.” Warnock also described Wright as “a prophet.”
THE OBAMA - SOROS PART NEEDS SOCIOPATH RACIST LIKE RAPHAEL WARNOCK TO KEEP PLOTTING THEIR RETURN (THROUGH MICHELLE?) THE WHITE HOUSE.
TAKE SOME TIME AND GOOGLE ALL OF WARNOCK THAT MIRRORS THE OBOMB.
* Was arrested for obstructing an investigation of child abuse at a church camp in 2002
* Hosted and praised Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Warnock’s own church
* Has defended socialism and Marxism
* Has praised the Nation of Islam (OBAMA’S PAL RACIST LOUIS FARRAKHAN)
* Praised James Cone, the father of Black Liberation Theology
* Compared police to “Gangstas” and “Thugs” in 2015
* Despised President Trump and called his supporters “racist” in 2016
* Detests Israel (OBAMA IS A CLOSET MUSLIM - HE WORKED HARDS TO PUT MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS. HIS EDUCATION AT HARVARD WAS PAID FOR BY A SAUDI BILLIONAIRES. DO A SEARCH FOR WHAT OBAMA DID FOR THE 9-11-2001 SAUDIS INVADERS)
* Supports taxpayer-funded abortion on demand (BLACKS ARE THE MOST ABORTED GROUP IN AMERICA. REMEMBER: BLACK LIVES MATTER NOT!
* Likens cash bail to a “poll tax” and “voter suppression”
* Supported the “defund the police” movement in 2021
* Was elected to the United States Senate in 2021
Background
Born to two Pentecostal-Holiness ministers in Savannah, Georgia on July 23, 1969, Raphael Gamaliel Warnock was the 11th of 12 children in his family. After receiving a B.A. degree in psychology from Morehouse College in 1991, he later attended Union Theological Seminary where he earned a Master of Divinity, a Master of Philosophy, and a Doctor of Philosophy (specializing in systematic theology). From 1991 through early 2001, Warnock served at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York – six years as a youth pastor and four years as an assistant pastor. He was then employed as senior pastor of the Douglas Memorial Community Church (DMCC) in Carroll County, Maryland, from early 2001 through mid-2005. At that point, Warnock became senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was co-pastor from 1959-68. Warnock continues to serve as senior pastor at that church.
In 2020, Warnock, a Democrat, decided to run for a U.S. Senate seat representing Georgia. As of October 14, 2020, his campaign had raised approximately $21.73 million, of which nearly 80% came from out-of-state donors. Neither Warnock nor the Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, received more than 50% of the vote in the ten-candidate field, thereby setting the stage for a January 5, 2021 special runoff election between Warnock and Loeffler. Warnock won that runoff by a margin of approximately 50.5% to 49.5%.
Ties to the Rev. Calvin Butts
From 1991 through early 2001, Warnock served six years as a youth pastor and four years as an assistant pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York – where the lead pastor at that time was the Rev. Calvin Butts. On at least three occasions during those years – October 1991, February 1992, and July 1998 — this church hosted the infamous Jew-hater Leonard Jeffries as a guest speaker. In his 1992 address at Abyssinian, Jeffries lamented what he described as the prevalence of systemic racism and white-on-black crime in America, claiming that “black people are under siege.” (CRIME IN AMERICA IS BLACK. BLACK ON WHITES, BLACK ON BLACKS, BLACK ON JEWS, BLACK ON ASIANS)
Warnock was a great admirer of the aforementioned Calvin Butts. After Butts’ death in October 2022, Warnock said: “Calvin Butts taught me so many things. Calvin Butts taught me how to take my ministry to the streets. The work of the Lord doesn’t stop at the church door. That’s where it starts. His pulpit was the public square.” (IN WARNOCK’S CHRISTIANITY, THERE IS VAST ROOM FOR SLUMLORDS)
Warnock’s Church Honors Fidel Castro (1995)
While Warnock was a youth pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1995, the church — on October 22 of that year — held a special event hosting and celebrating the longtime Communist dictator of Cuba, Fidel Castro. The nearly 1,300 frenzied Castro supporters who were packed into the church that night gave the guest-of-honor a ten-minute standing ovation, chanting “Fidel! Fidel! Fidel!” Senior pastor Calvin Butts announced, “We have one of the great leaders of the world [Castro] with us today.” And according to a Miami Herald report about the event, Castro “blast[ed] the United States with … vigor,” and the festivities ended “with a rousing rendition of the socialist hymn Internationale.” Among the high-profile figures in attendance were Charles Rangel, Nydia Velazquez, Jose Serrano, and Angela Davis, the latter of whom smiled broadly at Castro and, according to a New York Times report, “gave him a fisted salute.” (For a video of Castro’s appearance, click here.)
Obstructing Investigation of Child Abuse at Church Camp (2002)
After working ten years at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Warnock spent four-and-a-half years as senior pastor of the Douglas Memorial Community Church (DMCC) in Carroll County, Maryland. In 2002, he and fellow DMCC minister Mark Wainwright were both arrested for obstructing a police investigation into child abuse that allegedly had taken place at Camp Farthest Out, a facility run by DMCC. Specifically, Warnock and Wainwright interrupted a police interview of a camp counselor, and they attempted to prevent one camper from directing police to other potential witnesses. Though neither Warnock nor Wainwright were suspects in the investigation, State Trooper Diane Barry of Maryland’s Child and Sexual Assault Unit said, “I’ve never encountered resistance like that at all.” When Warnock was released following his arraignment, he told reporters that he merely had sought to ensure that lawyers could be present during counselor interviews with police.
But 18 years later, in December 2020, Washington Free Beacon reporter Alana Goodman interviewed Anthony Washington, the “boy” at the center of the Warnock abuse investigation. Goodman’s report showed that Warnock’s account of why he had interfered with the investigation, was a lie. Wrote Goodman:
Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock: counselors who tossed urine on him and locked him outside his cabin overnight. Washington, now 30, recounted the events in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon and said his experience at the camp resulted in a 2003 lawsuit that ended two years later, when Washington says he and his family received a large financial settlement.
Washington’s account of the 2002 events provides the first direct insight into the alleged abuse and neglect that transpired at Camp Farthest Out, which Warnock oversaw as senior pastor of Maryland’s Douglas Memorial Community church, and raises new questions for the Democrat, who is currently vying for a Senate seat in Georgia.
Washington expressed surprise when he was told Warnock is currently running for U.S. Senate in Georgia. “I don’t think nobody like [Warnock] should be running for damn Senate nowhere, running a camp like that,” he told the Free Beacon. “He should not be running for government.” […] Washington’s account is buttressed by records from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, obtained by the Free Beacon earlier this month, which indicated that campers were routinely left unsupervised; staffers were not subject to required criminal background check; and at least five cases of child abuse or neglect were brought against the camp’s director, who was ultimately forced to resign.
Warnock served as senior pastor at Baltimore’s Douglas Memorial Community Church from 2001 until around 2005. His job included overseeing the expansion of the church’s sleepaway camp, Camp Farthest Out, which served inner city children….
The Free Beacon reached out to Washington and members of his family because his name appears on a lawsuit filed against Warnock, the camp, and several of the counselors.
“I just wanted to get the hell away from that camp,” Washington said in an interview. “I didn’t want to spend another day there. … That camp was real messed up.”
A court docket from the case shows that lawyers from both sides moved to dismiss the case “with prejudice” in May 2005, a resolution that frequently occurs when lawsuits are settled out of court. Officials from the courthouse and the Maryland state archives told the Free Beacon that they are unable to locate any records from the case. The lawyer who represented Washington’s family said he was unable to discuss the matter on the record.
Washington’s sister, Dominique, who also attended Camp Farthest Out the summer her brother says he was abused, corroborated the family’s involvement in the lawsuit when contacted by the Free Beacon. Another source close to the Washington family told the Free Beacon that the lawsuit was related to an incident when counselors “poured urine on [Anthony], at the camp.”
Washington said the camp was his first extended trip away from his parents as a child, and his first time in such a rural environment. His mother sent the two children because they had recently moved from California to Baltimore and she hoped they would make friends in the area, according to Washington.
Counselors were young, in their late teens or early 20s, and showed little interest in taking care of the campers, Washington said. As a punishment for wetting his bed, he said a counselor forced him to spend the next night sleeping outside by himself on the basketball court. “I’m like, ‘Hell no I’m not, it’s cold out there,’” he said. “[The counselors] wouldn’t let me in the house, not at all. … Shut the door to the cabin, locked it,” he said. “It was dark. There wasn’t nothing out there but the basketball court. I ain’t never experienced nothing like that. Like, you’re not in a tent, you’re not in nothing. You’re just out, God knows where.”
Counselors also threw urine on him from a bucket they used when there wasn’t a bathroom nearby, he added. “I went through that experience myself. I don’t even like talking about this shit. That shit happened. … It was like in a bucket. They would keep that shit in a bucket,” he said.
Washington said he saw counselors “grab kids,” but didn’t know the extent of abuse at the camp or whether others had experiences similar to his. “I just knew that shit happened to me, and that’s what I was worried about, me and my sister,” he said.
Campers were prohibited from calling their parents, he said. When he was finally able to tell his mother what happened, she was furious at the camp. “I can hear her in there, screaming at them,” Washington said. “Next thing I knew, my mother was going to court. … I thank my mother for doing what she did. She is a life saver.”
The family eventually received a financial settlement in the case, said Washington.
At least three state agencies—the Maryland State Police, the Department of Social Services, and the Department of Health—looked into allegations of child abuse at the camp between 2002 and 2003, according to government records obtained by the Free Beacon.
Warnock was arrested at Camp Farthest Out on July 31, 2002, after a Maryland state trooper said he repeatedly disrupted her interviews with counselors while she was investigating allegations of child abuse. Warnock and another reverend were charged with “hindering and obstructing” police, but the charges were later dropped by the state prosecutor.
When inspectors from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene visited Camp Farthest Out in 2002, they also found multiple health and safety violations. “Staff are not supervising campers,” wrote a health inspector in a July 31, 2002, report. “Conversations w/ medical staff & pool staff indicate that this is routine among the counselors. It was observed during inspection today.”
In June 2003, the Department of Health denied Camp Farthest Out’s certificate to operate a youth camp. One reason for the denial, according to the records, was that the camp failed to report at least five findings of child abuse levied against its director, Brian Carter, by the Department of Social Services.
Praising & Hosting Jeremiah Wright (2008-14)
During the presidential campaign season of 2008, Warnock, who was slated to deliver a speech honoring Barack Obama’s controversial longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright, was asked by Fox News reporter Greta van Susteren: “Do you embrace the Reverend Wright, and let me focus on the soundbites, for lack of better words, but certainly he has said things like ‘GD [God Damn] America’ and the things he has said … Do you embrace that? Is that something you would do, sir, in your church?” Warnock replied: “We celebrate Reverend Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the black church, which, when preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable. And I think the country has been done a disservice by this constant playing over and over again the same soundbites outside of context.” Warnock also described Wright as “a prophet.”
In a similar spirit, Warnock, in his 2013 book The Divided Mind of the Black Church, compared Wright’s message to that of the biblical prophet Jeremiah. Moreover:
· In a February 2013 speech, Warnock described Wright’s infamous “God Damn America” sermon of 2003 — which likened U.S. leaders to al Qaeda, claimed that HIV was a U.S. government invention designed to exterminate black people, and asserted that the 9/11 attacks were an act of retribution for evil U.S. foreign policies — as a “very fine homily” about the dangers of “confusing God and government.” Asserting further that Wright’s sermon was “consistent with black prophetic preaching,” Warnock lamented that the black church was “barely understood by mainstream America.”
· In a 2014 speech in Atlanta, Warnock again lauded Wright’s 2003 sermon: “You ought to go back and see if you can find and read, as I have, the entire sermon. It was a very fine sermon. And Jeremiah Wright was right when he said the attack on him was in a real sense an attack on the black church. The message of Jeremiah Wright was that public policy has consequences.”
In 2014 as well, Warnock demonstrated his high regard for Wright by hosting him as a guest preacher at Warnock’s church in Atlanta.
Defending Socialism & Marxism (2009-13, +)
In a 2009 sermon, Warnock, claiming that socialism was consistent with the tenets of Christian Scripture, drew a parallel between socialized health care and other government services like police protection, fire protection, and trash removal. “You don’t solve the problem simply by calling something ‘socialism,’” he said. “There are some things that we have in common. We don’t ask people to buy their own police protection, their own fire protection. We decided long ago that we ought to pool our resources and pick up everybody’s garbage so that free enterprise can take place. There are some things we have in common.” “I’m so sick and tired of all of these folk talking about ‘socialistic medicine,’” Warnock added. “And I really get upset when I hear Christians in the midst of this debate, talking about socialism. They ought to go back and read Acts Chapter Two, where the Bible says that the church had all things in common.”
In another sermon, Warnock said the following about Pope Francis: “And, I love this Pope. He [Francis] said, ‘Well, I’m not a Marxist, but I know a few Marxists and they’re pretty good people.” Warnock then proceeded to cast Marxism as a political and economic system whose values were akin to those of Christianity: “So hard to discover, and to hear an authentic vision and voice, of authentic spirituality that gives voice to the least of these and when it shows up people describe it as some strange ideology rather than the vision of that poor Palestinian prophet [Jesus] who said that the spirit of the Lord is on me because God has anointed me to preach good news to the poor…”
In his 2013 book, The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Warnock wrote: “To be sure, the Marxist critique has much to teach the Black church. Indeed, it has played an important role in the maturation of black theology as an intellectual discipline, deepened black theology’s apprehension of the interconnectivity of racial and class oppression, and provided critical tools for a black church that has yet to awaken to a substantive third world consciousness.”
Anti-Military (2011)
In a 2011 sermon which he delivered at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Warnock suggested that the actions and objectives of the U.S. military were inherently evil and ungodly: “America, nobody can serve God and the military. You can’t serve God and money. You cannot serve God and mammon [riches] at the same time. America, choose ye this day who you will serve. Choose ye this day.”
Benediction for President Obama’s Second Inauguration (2013)
In January 2013, Warnock delivered the benediction at the public prayer service for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
Praising the Nation of Islam (2013) (OPERATED BY RACIST LOUIS FARRAKHAN, A PAL OF BARACK OBAMA’S)
In 2013, Warnock said that the Nation of Islam’s “voice has been important … for the development of Black theology,” because: “It was the Black Muslims who challenged Black preachers and said, ‘you’re promulgating … the White man’s religion. And that’s a slave religion. You’re telling people to focus on heaven, meanwhile, they’re catching hell.’” “And so,” he continued, “we’ve needed the witness of the Nation of Islam in a very real sense to put a fire under us [black preachers] and keep us honest.”
Praising His “Mentor,” James Cone, the Father of Black Liberation Theology (2013-18)
The man whom Warnock identifies as his religious “mentor” was the late James Cone, who served as Warnock’s academic adviser at Union Theological Seminary. Widely regarded as the founder of Black Liberation Theology — a doctrine of Marxism dressed up as Christianity — Cone famously stated that “the goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white,” and that “Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’” Warnock cited Cone’s landmark 1970 book, A Black Theology of Liberation, more than a dozen times in the chapters and footnotes of his own 2013 book, The Divided Mind of the Black Church. After Cone died in 2018, Warnock eulogized him at the funeral and said: “How blessed we are that someone of the spiritual magnitude and power and commitment of Dr. James Hal Cone passed our way.”
Calling for Empty Prisons & a “Militant Church” (2013-19)
At a “Rights and Religions” symposium held at the Union Theological Institute in November 2013, Warnock delivered the keynote speech, titled “Black Theology, the Black Church and America’s Prison Industrial Complex.” In the course of his remarks, he stated that if “black theology and the black church” failed to support “dismantling the prison industrial complex,” then “both deserve to die.” He also called for the creation of a “new and militant church, preaching deliverance to the captives” — i.e., black prison inmates.
Reasoning from the premise that the American criminal-justice system is thoroughly infested with racism, Warnock in early 2019 joined a number of other black religious leaders in signing his name to a statement condemning “the new Jim Crow of mass incarceration.”
During a “Let My People Go: Ending Mass Incarceration” conference at Ebenezer Baptist Church in June 2019, Warnock called for the mass release of prisoners, saying, “It’s not enough to decriminalize marijuana. Somebody’s got to open up the jail cells and let our children go.” Describing incarceration as an immoral form of “human bondage,” he added: “Every form of human bondage injures the soul of the oppressed. Inflates the self-understanding of the oppressor. And insults the Sovereignty of God.”
Describing Jesus As “a Palestinian” (2014+)
In a February 2014 sermon, Warnock described Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian peasant,” a label that contradicts biblical and scholarly descriptions of Jesus as a Jew hailing from Judea. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an official at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, explains that Warnock’s allegation has commonly been used as a means of denying the Jewish people’s historical connection to Israel as their homeland: “For people who have no theological or historical rooting, the idea that Jesus was a Palestinian creates a new narrative for Palestinian history, which otherwise does not date back very far. If one can say that Jesus was Palestinian 2,000 years ago, then that means the Jews are occupying Palestinian land.”
On another occasion, Warnock referred to Jesus as “that poor Palestinian prophet.”
Opposing the Second Amendment & “Stand-Your-Ground” Laws (2014)
In a February 2014 sermon, Warnock derided his state’s laws regarding gun ownership, saying: “Georgia has some of the most lax gun laws in the country. Georgia’s idea of gun control is whether you can hold your rifle straight. With all of the lax gun laws in Georgia, they’ve decided that they aren’t lax enough. We’ve got the fifth-highest population of uninsured individuals, and with all of the issues, we’re almost last in education, we haven’t figured out how to provide healthcare to all of these uninsured people, [the] Governor will not expand Medicaid, and in the midst of all that’s going on I had to go to the capital yesterday because they’ve decided that what we really need is more guns, and more access to guns by more people in more places….”
In another sermon that same month, Warnock criticized Georgia Republican politicians “who go to church every Sunday morning, and then walk into that capitol, stand under that gold dome, and come up with the dumbest [gun] legislation you can ever imagine.” Added Warnock: “‘What we need [the Republicans say] is more guns, in more places, by more people.’ Think about all the crazy people you bump into just on the routine, every week. On your job, on the street, some of them in church – don’t look at ’em. Imagine all them people with guns.”
In 2014 as well, Warnock opposed legislation that would have allowed Georgia residents to carry firearms in church for self-defense. “The answer to America’s gun violence isn’t to encourage masses of people to carry guns,” he said.
Also in 2014, Warnock condemned Georgia’s “stand-your-ground” laws, which permit people to use firearms or other means of deadly force when they reasonably believe such force to be necessary to defend against a criminal threat of death or serious bodily harm. Said Warnock: “Then they come up with all of these clever names, ‘Stand Your Ground.’ No it’s not a stand-your-ground law, it’s a shoot-first law. Shoot first, ask questions later.”
Comparing Police to “Gangstas” and “Thugs” (2015)
Warnock condemned the police response to the violent riots that swept through the city of Ferguson, Missouri after the August 9, 2014 police shooting (in Ferguson) of an 18-year-old black male named Michael Brown. Said Warnock in a March 2015 sermon: “So, in Ferguson, police power, showing up in a kind of gangsta and thug mentality. You now, you can wear all kinds of colors and be a thug; you can sometimes wear the colors of the state and behave like a thug.”
In another sermon three months later, Warnock remarked: ““Our children are in trouble, and it’s often those who are sworn to protect, who cause more trouble.”
And in November 2015, Warnock said: “When you think about the fact that America still warehouses 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, we shouldn’t be surprised when we see police officers act like bullies on the street…. You don’t get to be the incarceration capital of the world by playing nice on the streets, you have to work for that distinction.”
Hating Trump & America’s “Worship of Whiteness” (2016)
In an October 2016 speech at Atlanta’s Candler School of Theology, Warnock excoriated then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his political supporters as racists: “If it is true that a man [Trump] who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, then it is doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral needs to repent. No matter what happens next month [in the presidential election], more than a third of the nation that would go along with this [Trump campaign], is reason to be afraid. America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness, on full display this [election] season.”
Warnock Says Fidel Castro Had a “Complex” Legacy, & Claims That U.S. Has “Political Prisoners” (2016)
Two days after Cuba’s longtime former dictator Fidel Castro died in November 2016, Warnock said in a sermon: “We pray for the people of Cuba in this moment. We remember Fidel Castro, whose legacy is complex. Don’t let anyone tell you a simple story; life usually isn’t very simple. His legacy is complex, kind of like America’s legacy is complex.” Warnock also alleged similarities between the United States and Castro’s rule over Cuba, claiming that America also has its own political prisoners: “While we focus on political prisoners in Cuba, you saw the folks standing here this morning. If some people get slapped on the hand for the same crime and others go to federal prison, then we too have our own political prisoners, because politics [is] more than the crime – politics of race and class, and in that sense many of us have sisters and brothers who are political prisoners.”
“America’s Preexisting Condition” Is “Racism” (2017)
At a New Baptist Covenant event on June 29, 2017, Warnock said:
“We are in a special moment. We are in an evil moment. We are in a tragic moment, and I suggest to you that our politics is symptomatic of our sickness. We’ve got a lot of problems, but I would not be a prophet if I did not tell you that racism is America’s preexisting condition. Like the insurance companies, nobody wants to go there. Nobody wants to cover it because we wonder what it would cost. We, the land of the free, and the incarceration capital of the world. In this land where we warehouse 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although we are only five percent of the world, we are to ask ourselves what has it cost us not to cover it, not to face up to it, not to confront it, not to deal with it. Racism is America’s preexisting condition.”
On another occasion in 2017, Warnock sounded a similar refrain: “America has a preexisting condition. It’s called racism. It’s called classism. It’s called bigotry. It’s called xenophobia. And we need God to heal us of our preexisting condition.”
Warnock Condemns “the Evils and the Excesses” of the American “Empire” (2017)
In a November 2017 sermon, Warnock criticized other Christians for not focusing enough on poverty, and he likened the United States to the Roman Empire of King Herod’s era:
“I want you to hear me now, because most of Christian America is focused on two or three issues. Meanwhile, the Bible spends most of its time talking about how to treat the poor, the struggling, and the stranger. And so, don’t misinterpret what Jesus is saying. Jesus is saying you will always have the poor with you, not because God ordained it; not because it is what it is, and that’s the way it has to be; the poor are with you because of the evils and the excesses of the empire. And I came to dismantle the value system of the empire. I already told you that I came to preach good news to the poor, to open the eyes of the blind, and to set the captives free, and to preach the year of the Lord’s freedom. In other words, I came to dismantle the value system of the empire. But here’s the problem: the religious folk who should be fighting with me against the empire are in cahoots with the empire.”
Depicting Republicans Who Voted for Tax Cuts As “Gangsters and Thugs”(2017)
In a December 2017 sermon which he delivered the day after Senate Republicans had passed a version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Warnock, turning a blind eye to the fact that the bill significantly reduced tax liability for low- and middle-income Americans, accused those Republicans of seeking to “kill children.” Said Warnock:
“While others were sleeping, members of the United States Senate declared war, launched a vicious and evil attack on the most vulnerable people in America. Herod [the Judean king who ordered the mass slaughter of Jewish babies in Bethlehem] is on the loose. Herod is a cynical politician, who’s willing to kill children and kill the children’s health program in order to preserve his own wealth and his own power. On Friday night, the United States Senate decided by a slim majority to pick the pockets of the poor, the sick, the old, and the yet unborn in order to line the pockets of the ultra-rich. Don’t tell me about gangsters and thugs on the streets, there are more gangsters and thugs in Washington, D.C., in the Capitol than there are—a bunch of them.”
CEO of the New Georgia Project (2017-20)
From 2017 through February 21, 2020, Warnock served as CEO of the New Georgia Project, a partisan voter-registration organization co-founded by Stacey Abrams in 2013. According to the Washington Free Beacon: “He has been identified as the New Georgia Project’s chairman and spokesman in media reports and has said he organized voter mobilization drives for the group, including a push to register 80,000 new minority voters in 2014.”
Hating Israel (2018-19)
Soon after President Trump opened the newly relocated U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in May 2018, Warnock said in a sermon : “It’s been a tough week. The administration opened up the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Standing there [were] the president’s family and a few mealy-mouthed evangelical preachers who are responsible for the mess that we found ourselves in, both there and here — misquoting and misinterpreting the Scripture, talking about peace.”
Warnock then proceeded to draw a comparison between the struggle for Palestinian rights in the Middle East, and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States: “Meanwhile, young Palestinian sisters and brothers, who are struggling for their very lives, struggling for water and struggling for their human dignity stood up in a non-violent protest, saying, ‘If we’re going to die, we’re going to die struggling.’ And yes, there may have been some folk who were violent, but we oughta know how that works out. We know what it’s like to stand up and have a peaceful demonstration and have the media focus on a few violent uprisings. But you have to look at those Palestinian sisters and brothers, who are struggling for their human dignity and they have a right to self-determination, they have a right to breathe free.”
In 2018 as well, Warnock proclaimed: “We saw the government of Israel shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey. And I don’t care who does it, it is wrong. It is wrong to shoot down God’s children like they don’t matter at all. And it’s no more anti-Semitic for me to say that than it is anti-white for me to say that Black lives matter. Palestinian lives matter.” An American Thinker analysis subsequently pointed out the fallacies undergirding Warnock’s condemnations of Israel: “In fact, Israel, more than any other country in the world, will do anything, including putting its troops in danger, to avoid harming innocents. The Palestinians, therefore, deliberately place their weapons and fighters in schools and hospitals in order to parade dead children before the West’s cameras.”
In early 2019, Warnock joined a number of fellow black religious leaders in signing an open statement that denounced Israel for oppressing Palestinians with “patterns” of treatment “that seem to have been borrowed and perfected from other previous oppressive regimes.” By contrast, the statement lauded “the leaders of the Palestinian Authority” for their supposedly longstanding efforts to promote peace by making a “conscious decision to forgo armed solutions to the conflict.” Moreover, the statement lamented:
· “Palestinian communities and homes where people are not allowed to have freedom of movement or self-determination”
· “state-sanctioned [Israeli] violence in the form of detention, interrogation, teargassed, beatings, forced confessions and death”
· “the excessive use of force by Israel to subjugate the people in collective punishment of [the] whole population, and the debilitating confinement that renders Gaza as one big densely populated prison”
· “the ever-present physical walls that wall in Palestinians in a political wall reminiscent of the Berlin Wall”
· “the heavy [Israeli] militarization of the West Bank, reminiscent of the military occupation of Namibia by apartheid South Africa”
· “[Israel’s] unstoppable gobbling up of Palestinian lands to almost render the proposed two-state solution unworkable”
· “the misery in which poor families in Palestine have to survive, especially those holed up in refugee camps”
In addition, the statement that Warnock signed: (a) falsely described Gaza, which was controlled entirely by Hamas, as an “occupied” territory oppressed by Israel; (b) falsely claimed that “Jewish” people engage in “segregation”; (c) demanded an end to all U.S. weapons sales to Israel; and (d) called for “the return of [Palestinian] refugees and exiles.” (To learn more about this so-called “Right of Return,” click here.)
Blaming White Racism & “Environmental Hazards” for Black Crime (2019)
In an October 2019 panel discussion at the Memorial Church of Harvard University, the moderator asked Warnock to speak about the “overlap” between crime and climate change. In his response, Warnock stated that the climate movement had “for too long been suburban and white and middle class.” Asserting also that civil rights leaders should remain ever-mindful of the “intersectionality” of race and climate change, he turned his attention to the case of Freddie Gray, a longtime Baltimore criminal who in April 2015 had died as a result of spinal-cord injuries that he suffered while in custody, unstrapped by any seat belt, inside the cargo area of a moving police van. Attributing Gray’s criminal history to impaired brain function caused by environmental factors that disproportionately affect poor people, Warnock said:
“Freddie Gray in Baltimore. You remember that case? Freddie Gray who died in the custody of the police and became one of those flashpoints for this issue about encounters between the police and ordinary citizens, his story didn’t begin there. Freddie Gray grew up in Baltimore, where I was a pastor for almost five years. He was a victim of environmental hazards in the built environment. Lead poisoning.In substandard housing. In a country where we have known for decades what lead poisoning does and how it leads to behavioral issues in the classroom and learning difficulties. And then, so he becomes part of the prison pipeline. So these civil rights issues, human rights issues, climate change both in the natural world and built environment, are all part of this larger issue that speaks to the soul of America.”
Accused of Running Over His Wife’s Foot with a Car (2020)
In early March 2020, Warnock’s estranged wife told a police officer that Mr. Warnock, during a dispute with her, had deliberately run over her foot with his car. In video footage of a police interview with Mr. Warnock, the officer asked him: “Did you run over her foot?” “I don’t think so,” Warnock replied. “I do not think so…. I don’t want to get into a shoving match with her. So I go back around, get back in the car, and I slowly start to move, like I’m gonna move forward. Then she claims I ran over her foot.”
The officer then went to Warnock’s wife to hear her version of the story. She tearfully told him that she had been trying to get her husband’s signature for a passport, so she could take the couple’s children to see her family in West Africa after the death of her grandfather, and that Warnock refused to talk to her as he was getting in his automobile. “He’s like, ‘Ouleye, close the door. I’m leaving.’ And I was like, ‘just hear me out. If your mom died, and I had the kids. Wouldn’t you want me to let them go with you to the funeral?’ And he just starts backing the car up. He wasn’t going fast, I’m not bleeding. But I just can’t believe he’d run me over.” Asked whether she thought Mr. Warnock’s act was intentional, she said: “Obviously. I was standing here. The door was open and I’m leaning into the car. How can you drive the car when I’m leaning into it?”
Still crying, Mrs. Warnock then told the officer: “This man’s running for United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation. I’ve been very quiet about the way that he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation. I’ve tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line. So that is what is going on here. And he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show.”
When the local Atlanta television station WGCL asked Warner on December 24, 2020 to respond to what his wife had said in the video, he stated: “I’m going to stay focused on my family, which includes their mother, and I’m going to stay focused on the people of Georgia who during a pandemic are still waiting on relief all these months later while politicians including Kelly Loeffler [Warnock’s opponent in the upcoming Senate runoff election] are busy playing games.”
Ties to Rep. John Lewis
The late Democrat congressman John Lewis, who died in July 2021, was a parishioner in Warnock’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and Warnock viewed him as a mentor.
Supporting Taxpayer-Funded Abortion-on-Demand (2020)
In an August 2020 interview with WGAU radio host Tim Bryant, Warnock said that taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand is “consistent with my view as a Christian minister, and I will fight for it.” Characterizing abortion as a form of “healthcare,” Warnock stated: “I believe that healthcare is a human right. And I believe that it is something that the richest nation in the world provides for its citizens, and for me reproductive justice is consistent with my commitment to that.” Added Warnock: “I believe unequivocally in a woman’s right to choose, and that the decision is something that we don’t want government engaged in – that’s between her and her doctor and her minister.”
Because of Warnock’s stance on abortion, Planned Parenthood, America’s leading provider of abortions, endorsed him in May 2020 as a “health care champion” and supported his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Warner’s campaign was also endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Characterizing Cash Bail As a “Poll Tax” and “Voter Suppression” (2020)
Warnock is an outspoken opponent of “cash bail” requirements that enable certain accused criminals to stay out of jail while awaiting trial. His opposition is based on the premise that such requirements discriminate against poor people who cannot afford to post bail. During a November 2019 symposium on criminal justice at Harvard University, for instance, a member of the audience asked Warnock for his opinion about states where formerly imprisoned felons were barred from voting in political elections until after they had paid off all the fines and fees associated with their incarceration. “What we’ve witnessed over the last few years is an attack on democracy itself,” Warnock said. “And the carceral system is a tool in that arsenal.” Suggesting that “churches and mosques and temples” should consider paying such fees on behalf of formerly incarcerated felons who may now wish to cast ballots in elections, he added: “Us simply paying the beast for what shouldn’t be the case in the first place is not the answer. We ought to push back, and if we did some payment, it would be to draw attention to the issue.” “Sort of like we’re bailing people out of jail,” Warnock continued, “but our ultimate goal is to get rid of cash bail. It’s a poll tax; it’s voter suppression. Our democracy is being hijacked and we have to take it back.”
Warnock’s 2020 Senate campaign platform lamented “the thousands of Georgians who are in jail, not because they have been convicted of a crime or are a danger to society, but because they can’t afford bail.”
For a discussion of the negative consequences of a no-bail policies, see Footnote #1 below.[1]
Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Asserting that “it is a scandal and a scar on the soul of America to imprison more people at a higher rate than any other country in the world,” Warnock’s 2020 Senate campaign platform condemned the American criminal-justice system as one that “criminalizes poverty” and “incarcerates people of color at disproportionate levels.” The campaign also warned of “the dangers of mandatory [prison-sentence] minimums,” and called it “morally wrong … to close the doors of social re-entry on the formerly incarcerated.” Thus, Warnock supports the restoration of voting rights, as well as the right to access all manner of social welfare benefits, for former prison inmates.
Refusal to Give His Opinion Regarding the Packing of the Supreme Court & the U.S. Senate (2020)
During a November 2020 interview with GrayDC.com, Warnock was asked to comment on reports that Democrats, if they were to succeed in taking control of the U.S. Senate, would move to “pack” the Supreme Court – i.e., increase the number of Justices from 9 to perhaps 13 or 15 — with all the additions being activists who could be counted upon to rule in favor of Democrat agenda items. He was also asked if he would be in favor of Democrats similarly packing the Senate by creating two new U.S. states — Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico — so as to add four additional, guaranteed Democrat seats to the Senate.
These questions were particularly pertinent in light of the fact that the 2020 Democratic Party Platform openly declared that one of its objectives was: “making Washington, D.C. the 51st State.” Moreover, Senator Charles Schumer was on record as having declared that “everything is on the table” if Democrats were to win a majority in the Senate. Said Schumer: “I would … love to make [D.C. and Puerto Rico] states…. I’m not busting my chops to become majority leader to do very little or nothing. We are going to get a whole lot done, and as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table.”
In response to the questions by GrayDC.com, Warnock was evasive, saying, “I think that they’re [Republicans] trying to divide us, again. And it’s really sad, because, at the end of the day, E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one — that’s the covenant that we have with one another, as an American people. I support that. I believe in that with all of my heart. And I’m going to stand up and defend it.”
After being asked once more if he supported the expansion of the Supreme Court, Warnock again refused to address the question, saying: “I’m really focused on representing the concerns of ordinary people here in Georgia. I think it’s presumptuous for me to go further down that path, talking about what ought to happen with the courts. I’m hopeful that the people of Georgia will look at my life, look at my record, and give me the great honor of representing them in the United States Senate.”
“Voter Suppression” (2020)
Warnock’s 2020 Senate campaign claimed that “voter purges” — i.e., the removal of invalid names from official voter rolls — are acts of “voter suppression” that place “the right to vote … at risk for millions of Georgians.”
The Warnock campaign also pledged to “get busy restoring the Voting Rights Act [of 1965] that was gutted by the Supreme Court.”
· NOTE: Warnock’s characterization of the Court’s ruling was highly deceptive. He was referring to a June 2013 decision that struck down only one part of the Voting Rights Act — specifically, Section 4, which explicitly named the states that would be required to receive clearance from the Justice Department or a federal court before they could make any changes at all — major or minor — to their voting procedures. The Supreme Court in 2013 found that the notion that certain states — mostly in the South — needed to be restrained from enacting racist voting laws, was highly anachronistic and no longer necessary. As Chief Justice John Roberts explained, the Court’s ruling was founded upon the fact that Section 4 was “based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day.” “Congress — if it is to divide the states — must identify those jurisdictions to be singled out on a basis that makes sense in light of current conditions,” Roberts wrote. “It cannot simply rely on the past.” Warnock and most of his fellow Democrats, however, have portrayed the termination of Section 4 as a brutal assault on the voting rights of African Americans.
Moreover, Warnock’s 2020 campaign pushed for an expansion of Vote-By-Mail, Early Vote, and No-Fault Absentee Ballot options. All of these options are much more likely than In-Person Voting, to be breeding grounds for voter fraud.
Health Care Policy (2020)
Warnock’s 2020 Senate campaign pledged to “protect, improve and build upon the Affordable Care Act,” as a path toward the establishment of a single-payer, government-run healthcare system. Rooted in a belief in “the fundamental right to health care,” Warnock called for “Medicaid expansion,” opportunities for “early Medicare buy-in,” and “access to a public option.” A public option is a government insurance agency set up to “compete” with private insurers. Because such an agency would not need to show a profit in order to remain in business, and because it could tax and regulate its private competitors in whatever fashion it pleased, this “public option” would soon force private insurers out of the industry. That is the unspoken objective of the policy.
Climate Policy (2020)
Depicting “the flooding and extreme weather we have seen in coastal Georgia and across the South” as “sobering reminders of how devastating climate change can be in our daily lives, especially in underserved and rural communities,” Warnock’s 2020 Senate campaign said that Georgia “urgently needs leaders who will accept the science, invest in infrastructure, and combat the climate crisis that is already at our door.”
Warnock also vowed to fight “environmental racism,” the notion that “the disproportionate impacts of climate change” fall on “marginalized communities.”
He further stated that new “green economy” jobs based on “alternative energy sources” would “ensure that those that overwhelmingly bear the brunt of intensifying climate change” — i.e., poor minorities — “are prioritized in access to training and education to partake in profits.” In other words, Democrat environmental agendas are to be used as pretexts for wealth redistribution.
Moreover, Warnock pledged to support America “rejoining the Paris Climate Accords.” (For an overview of the tenets of the Paris Climate Accords, see Footnote #2, below.[2]
Campaigning with Strong Supporter of Louis Farrakhan (2020)
On December 21, 2020, Warnock appeared at a get-out-the-vote event in Georgia with Dr. David E. Marion, the chairman of Howard University’s National Pan-Hellenic Council of Presidents. In February 2019, Marion had presented Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with an honorary membership into his (Marion’s) Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Support for the “Defund the Police” Movement (2021)
On January 4, 2021, Project Veritas (PV) released a new undercover video in which Sasha Williams, Warnock’s director of small business engagement, told a PV journalist: “You know police officers are not all good, you know what I am saying? Most of them are bad, we know that. Conservative white Republicans who basically have no value for black lives.” In that same conversation, Williams affirmed that Warnock favors the defunding of police departments:
Journalist: “But he [Warnock] is on our side for defunding these suckers in blue, these police? He’s on our side on that?”
Williams: “Absolutely! Absolutely!”
Warnock Wins Senate Runoff Election in Georgia (2021)
On January 5, 2021, Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler in the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia by a margin of approximately 50.5% to 49.5%. Warnock received huge majority support from Georgia’s two largest immigrant populations — winning 64 percent of the Hispanic vote and 60 percent of the Asian-American vote.
Investigation of Warnock for Voter Registration Misconduct (2021)
On February 11, 2021, the Post Millennial reported the following:
“Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) is now under an investigation for voter registration misconduct for his involvement with an organization founded by Georgia Democratic operative Stacey Abrams. In a 3-0 vote on Wednesday, the Georgia State Election Board decided to go ahead with an investigation into the New Georgia Project, of which Warnock was chair in 2019. The New Georgia Project, founded by Abrams, is alleged to have not followed specific guidelines as regards deadlines, Forbesreports.
“’Warnock, a Democrat elected last month to the U.S. Senate, is named as a respondent in the case because he was listed as the CEO for the New Georgia Project at the time,’ The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The AJC noted that ‘Representatives of the New Georgia Project hand-delivered 1,268 voter registration applications to the Gwinnett County elections office beyond the time allowed. State election rules require voter registration organizations to submit completed applications within 10 days after they were received from the voter.’”
Ethics Charge Against Warnock
On August 3, 2021, Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), sent a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics calling for an immediate investigation regarding Warnock’s alleged violation of a “Senate ethics prohibition on soliciting campaign contributions linked to official Senate action.” The letter claimed that on July 24, Warnock had sent out a mass email that: (a) had a subject line that read, “I just testified at a special Senate hearing in Georgia on voting rights”; (b) expressed “urgency” and “importance” vis-a-vis what Warnock wanted recipients of the letter to do; and (c) included a “direct solicitation for campaign donations” that Warnock was “personally” requesting.
Said Arnold in a press release: “The Senate Ethics rules hold members to a high standard to maintain the public trust in our elected officials. One rule specifically bars Senators from combining official actions with solicitations for campaign donations–which Senator Warnock’s email clearly did. This ethics rule is designed to avoid even the appearance that donating to a Senator could result in a certain vote being cast.”
Ex-Wife Accuses Warnock of Neglecting His Children & Failing To Pay Childcare Expenses
In a February 2022 court filing, Warnock’s ex-wife, Oulèye Ndoye: (a) accused him of leaving her “financially strapped” by refusing to reimburse her for expenses related to the care of the couple’s children; (b) claimed that Warnock “routinely neglect[ed]” to give her advance notice prior to his out-of-town trips that coincided with his scheduled visitation days, and instead had the children “picked up from school by friends and [left] them with various babysitters overnight” during his absence; (c) asked the court to hold Warnock in contempt for violating the couple’s custody order; and (d) charged that Warnock was refusing to return personal items that had been awarded to her in the divorce agreement. In early April 2022, Fulton County Superior Court judge Shermela J. Williams ordered the couple to attend mediation for their custody dispute, and to try to resolve their differences by May 7.
Report Claims That Warnock Improperly Used Campaign Funds to Fight a Personal Lawsuit
On July 6, 2022, Politico.com reported:
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) used campaign money to cover legal expenses for a lawsuit relating to his time as a church minister — transactions that raise questions about whether the spending runs afoul of federal rules governing personal use of campaign funds.
The case, first filed in 2019 by Atlanta resident Melvin Robertson, involved … allegations against Warnock that date back to 2005 when he was a pastor. It was dismissed by a federal district court judge in Georgia without any of the defendants being served.
But Robertson refiled a similar lawsuit in April 2021, outlining the same allegations against Warnock while also suing Ebenezer Baptist Church, where [Warnock] has long served as senior pastor, and other public figures. This time, Warnock was serving in the Senate. And he enlisted his campaign attorneys from Elias Law Group [ELG] to represent him in the case, along with an Atlanta firm, Krevolin & Horst, which assisted ELG.
The issue for Warnock is whether this was a proper use of campaign funds.
Federal Election Commission guidance states that campaign money can be used on “litigation expenses where the candidate/officeholder was the defendant and the litigation arose directly from campaign activity or the candidate’s status as a candidate.” […]
Experts in federal campaign finance law point to the FEC’s so-called “irrespective test” — or, in the words of Caleb Burns, a Wiley Rein attorney specializing in election law, “expenses that would exist irrespective of a candidate’s status as a candidate or officeholder.” “The rationale for this prohibition is to honor the campaign contributors’ intent that their contributions be used for political purposes and not, for example, to relieve the candidate of a personal obligation,” Burns said.
Warnock’s campaign maintains that the use of campaign funds was permissible because the second lawsuit, despite making the same allegations as in 2019, was filed while Warnock was in office. […]
Warnock’s unique situation presents a gray area, because the allegations dating back 17 years do not involve him being a member of Congress or a candidate for office. His campaign argues, however, that Robertson’s invocation of the First, Fourth and 14th amendments made Warnock’s 2021 status as a federal office holder relevant. […] However, the examples cited by Warnock’s campaign of instances where the FEC ruled that it was permissible for officeholders to use campaign funds on legal expenses all pertained to events that took place while the person was a member of Congress. For example, the campaign pointed to former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) paying for litigation related to the secret taping of a House Republican Conference call in 1996.
And when Warnock’s attorneys last year were seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed, they specifically noted that Robertson’s claims against Warnock “relate to actions purportedly taken in 2005 and 2008, when he was not a federal employee.”
Yet they now argue that, because the suit was filed while Warnock was in the Senate, it was appropriate to use his campaign money to cover his defense.
The Robertson lawsuit likely amounts to a small fraction of the work Elias Law Group has done for Warnock’s campaign. The campaign has paid Elias Law Group $66,000 since October, according to FEC disclosures. Before that, Warnock for Georgia paid Perkins Coie, the firm from which Mark Elias and other attorneys split, $210,000 between July 2020 and December 2021. […]
Among other things, Robertson accuses Warnock of somehow conspiring with the city of Atlanta to entrap him and participating in schemes involving a business where Robertson once worked. He also complains about his personal belongings being lost in a storage locker and about his discomfort while attending one of Warnock’s church services long ago.
[The main issue is] how Warnock paid to defend himself against [the lawsuit]. Charlie Spies, a Republican attorney specializing in political law, said the bottom line is whether Warnock would have incurred the expense as a private citizen. And in this case, Spies said, the answer is yes. “If Warnock is using campaign money to pay for a lawsuit that predates his running for office, then by definition it existed irrespective of his candidacy and would be impermissible to use campaign funds on,” said Spies, who previously served as counsel to Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign and to the Republican National Committee. “Personal use” of campaign funds, Spies said, is “something the FEC is particularly focused on.” “The seriousness of the violation will depend on whether the FEC considers it to be knowing and willful,” he said.
If the FEC determines it was a violation, but not willful, such a case would likely be resolved by the candidate paying a fraction of the amount that was illegally spent, according to Spies. “I don’t think his donors are giving,” Spies said, “for him to fund personal lawsuits.”
An Affluent Man
In 2021, Warnock receivied an annual Senate salary of $164,816, plus a pastor’s salary of $120,965, plus an advance of $243,750 for the publication of his forthcoming memoir, A Way Out of No Way. Moreover, the Ebenezer Baptidt Church gave him a housing allowance of $7,417 per month.
Warnock Used Loophole to Bypass Outside Income Limit by $125K
On August 22, 2023, The Washington Free Beacon reported:
“Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) used a sketchy accounting loophole to rake in more than four times the allowable outside income allowance for senators in 2022, a move experts say doesn’t pass legal muster.
“Warnock made $155,000 in 2022 serving as a part-time pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, according to his latest financial disclosure. That far exceeds the $30,000 outside income limit for lawmakers in the upper chamber, but the Democratic senator claimed $125,000 of his pastor pay for the year was actually ‘deferred compensation’ for services he rendered to the church before he was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021.
“There’s just one problem: The ‘deferred compensation’ arrangement seems entirely fabricated. If Warnock’s church truly owed the Democrat $125,000 in unpaid wages earned before he joined the Senate, he should have reported it as an asset in his 2021 financial disclosure, experts say. But Warnock made no mention of any such arrangement in his disclosure that year. Nor is there any reference to any ‘deferred compensation’ arrangement for Warnock or any other employee in Ebenezer Baptist Church’s financial records, according to the church’s audited financial statements for the years ending 2020 and 2021 obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. […]
“Warnock’s pastoral pay made up a small portion of the $996,000 the Democratic senator made across all sources in 2022, according to his financial disclosure. Warnock’s Senate salary of $174,000 made up less than one-fifth of his total income. Most of his income came in the form of book royalties, which clocked in at $656,000 in 2022, on top of $11,500 in speaking fees. Senators have no income restrictions for book royalties, and Warnock donated his speaking fees to undesignated charities.”
Additional Information
Warnock is a member of the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc., and a Lifetime Member of the NAACP.
In 2016, Warnock’s footprints were placed on the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.
Warnock once received the Reverend Dr. William A. Jones Justice Award from Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
Warnock has been recognized as one of “Atlanta’s 55 Most Powerful” by Atlanta magazine; one of the “New Kingdom Voices” by Gospel Today magazine; one of “God’s Trombones” by the Rainbow Push Coalition; a “Good Shepherd” by Associated Black Charities; one of the “Chosen Pastors” by The Gospel Choice Awards; “A Man of Influence” by the Atlanta Business League; one of “The Root 100” in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 by TheRoot.com (a division of the Washington Post); one of the “20 Top African American Church Leaders” by TheRoot.com; and one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Black Ministers” by Loop 21.m/photos/190241126@N08/50335629636/
Raphael Warnock
: Photo from Wikimedia Commons / Author of Photo: Raphael Warnock / Source of Photo: https://www.flickr.co* Is an ordained Baptist minister
Biden’s EEOC Says Employers Must Accommodate Workers’ Abortions
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a final rule on Monday including abortion in the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
The final rule dictates that, under the PWFA, employers with 15 or more employees must provide the same accommodations to workers who have abortions as those who have “limitations related to…pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.”
The PWFA passed with bipartisan support in 2022, and did not include language about abortion. Instead, the law was created to allow reasonable workplace accommodations for pregnant and postpartum mothers such as time off and flexible breaks, unless the accommodation would result in an undue hardship for the employer.
PWFA’s leading Republican cosponsor, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), said in a statement on Monday:
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act aims to assist pregnant mothers who remain in the workforce by choice or necessity as they bring their child to term and recover after childbirth. It defies common sense, and Congress’ intent, that EEOC continues to inject abortion into a law specifically aimed at promoting healthy childbirth.
“The Biden administration must enforce the law as passed by Congress, not how they wish it were passed. The decision to disregard the legislative process to promote a political agenda is shocking and illegal,” Cassidy added.
The EEOC explained in the rule that law “does not require any employee to have — or not to have — an abortion, does not require taxpayers to pay for any abortions, and does not compel health care providers to provide any abortions. The PWFA also cannot be used to require an employer-sponsored health plan to pay for or cover any particular item, procedure, or treatment, including an abortion.”
“Given these limitations, the type of accommodation that most likely will be sought under the PWFA regarding an abortion is time off to attend a medical appointment or for recovery. The PWFA, like the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), does not require that leave as an accommodation be paid leave, so leave will be unpaid unless the employer’s policies provide otherwise,” the agency clarified.
The EEOC said it received roughly 100,000 public comments on the rule. Approximately 54,000 comments express that the commission should exclude abortion from its definition of a medical condition related to pregnancy, while 40,000 comments were in support of its inclusion, the agency said.
“As shown in the public comments, beliefs about when an abortion may be morally or religiously permissible, even within religious traditions, are not monolithic,” the agency wrote.
“Many of the comments urging the Commission to exclude abortion from the definition of ‘pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions’ expressed the view that abortion is the destruction of a human life, that it is objectionable for moral or religious reasons, and that it is not health care,” the agency added.
“The Commission recognizes these are sincere, deeply held convictions and are often part of an individual’s religious beliefs. The Commission also received many comments that expressed deeply held beliefs, including religious beliefs, that abortion is a necessary part of health care and that an employer’s religious beliefs should not dictate an employee’s ability to receive a reasonable accommodation under the PWFA.”
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) released a statement saying the EEOC “correctly takes a comprehensive view of pregnancy and related medical conditions—ensuring the law will provide protections to more women who need them.”
In contrast, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) called the updated rule “controversial,” and accused the Biden administration of “using the regulatory process to advance radical policy goals.”
“Adding this controversial provision into the PWFA is wrong. Period. Abortion is not a medical condition related to pregnancy; it is the opposite. Leave it to the Biden administration to think terminating a pregnancy and ending the life of an unborn child addresses the needs of pregnant workers,” Foxx said.
She added:
This rule also goes well beyond EEOC’s authority. The PWFA was intended to ensure employers provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees. The PWFA does not apply to abortions. The term ‘abortion’ is not once mentioned in the law. Instead of following congressional intent, the Biden administration is using the regulatory process to advance radical policy goals. This isn’t surprising given the administration’s predilection for abusing the Constitution.
The cherry on top, it is overly broad and unreasonable, causing chaos and confusion for workers and employers. Job creators who are already struggling under Bidenomics could be forced to provide years of federally mandated leave under this rule. It’s nonsensical.
“Bottom line, this is a classic example of government bureaucrats royally mucking it up,” she said.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X @thekat_hamilton.
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