After bashing Planned Parenthood for allegedly pushing abortion on black communities to &#8220;do the Devil&#8217;s work,&#8221; rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West tweeted a photo of babies in the womb saying, &#8220;these souls deserve to live.&#8221; The tweet was deleted shortly after postage for reasons unexplained.
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The post came after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-praises-trump-hammers-planned-parenthood-likens-covid-vaccine-to-mark-of-the-beast">Forbes released an interview</a> with Kanye West in which he ripped into Planned Parenthood for allegedly being a tool of white supremacists to eliminate black babies.
&#8220;Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,&#8221; he said.
“I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the Bible,&#8221; he later added.
Planned Parenthood then issued a forceful response to Kanye West, accusing him of promoting a &#8220;black genocide&#8221; conspiracy theory that infantilizes blacks.
“Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have the best medical care available,” said Nia Martin-Robinson, the organization’s Director of Black Leadership and Engagement. “Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing.”
“The real threat to Black communities’ safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence, and the criminalization of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition,” she continued. “At Planned Parenthood, we trust and we stand with Black women who have, and continue to lead the charge when it comes to health, rights, and bodily autonomy of those in their communities.”
Kanye West has been outspoken about his pro-life views ever since the release of his unapologetically Christian album &#8220;Jesus is King.&#8221;
“We’re brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-blacks-dont-have-to-vote-for-democrats">he said</a> during an interview at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. “Democrats had us voting for Democrats with food stamps for years. What are you talking about guns in the 80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort children.”
Kanye West also described himself as an instrument of God to help “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-says-he-asked-jesus-is-king-employees-not-to-have-premarital-sex-hits-porn">spread the gospel</a>” of Jesus Christ.
“Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me,” said West. “I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessey had done for me, but now I’m letting you know what Jesus has done for me, and in that I’m no longer a slave, I’m a son now, a son of God. I’m free.”
During his interview with Forbes, West not only ripped into presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for his infamous &#8220;you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; comment but also called for a society centered on God.
“Reinstate in God’s state, in God’s country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else. So that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing God, to have murders in Chicago at an all-time high because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools,” he said. “That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide.”
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‘These Souls Deserve To Live’: Kanye West Tweets Photo Of Babies In The Womb

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After announcing his interest in a 2020 presidential run, rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West came out swinging against abortion, specifically singling out Planned Parenthood, which he suggested was targeting black women and killing black babies.
“Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-praises-trump-hammers-planned-parenthood-likens-covid-vaccine-to-mark-of-the-beast">he said</a>.
In response, Planned Parenthood — whose founder promoted <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-sprinkle-010420-20200104-opc3c76o4na47mtdtun4nvqw3y-story.html">racist ideas</a> and openly <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=238946.xml">described</a> her movement as &#8220;practically identical in ideal, with the final aims of Eugenics&#8221; — tapped Nia Martin-Robinson, the organization&#8217;s Director of Black Leadership and Engagement, to rebuke the rapper&#8217;s forceful statement.
&#8220;Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have the best medical care available,&#8221; Martin-Robinson said. &#8220;Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing.&#8221;
Martin-Robinson went on to say that the greatest threat to the black community is lack of access to quality health care.
&#8220;The real threat to Black communities&#8217; safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence, and the criminalization of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;At Planned Parenthood, we trust and we stand with Black women who have, and continue to lead the charge when it comes to health, rights, and bodily autonomy of those in their communities.&#8221;
Over at <a href="https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/kanye-wests-anti-planned-parenthood-conspiracy-theory">Bustle</a>, Jake Viswanath even went as far as to argue that pro-lifers have been tied to white supremacy, even though leaders of the racist Alt-Right movement <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/alt-right-abortion-richard-spencer-upholds-margaret-sanger-eugenicist-legacy/">have expressed support for abortion</a>, arguing that it rids the country of undesirables.
&#8220;There has been more ties between white supremacy and pro-life activism in recent years, like when anti-abortion group New Wave Feminists was forced to oust their former leader Kristen Walker Hatten in 2018 after she shared white supremacist messages on Twitter and admitted that she was &#8216;racist by today&#8217;s standards.&#8217; Basically, if Planned Parenthood clinics were planted by anyone, it definitely wasn&#8217;t by white supremacists,&#8221; argued Viswanath.
In a 2017 piece for <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/alt-right-abortion-richard-spencer-upholds-margaret-sanger-eugenicist-legacy/">National Review</a> titled &#8220;The Alt-Right Carries On Margaret Sanger&#8217;s Legacy Of Eugenics,&#8221; Elliott Kaufman presents a far different take on the relationship between white supremacists and abortion:
<blockquote>Richard Spencer, the keynote speaker in Charlottesville and the central figure of the alt-right movement, finds abortion useful. He has explained that abortion will help to bring about his vision of an elite, white America: “The people who are having abortions are generally very often Black or Hispanic or from very poor circumstances.” The people whom Spencer wants to reproduce, he says, “are using abortion when you have a situation like Down Syndrome.” It is only “the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics,” he claims, “who use abortion as birth control.”
He has openly mocked conservatives who worry about a “black genocide” or “how [abortion] is destroying black communities.” He knows that an estimated 75 percent of women who have abortions are poor. He knows that black women, receiving an outsize 36 percent of all American abortions, are almost five times as likely to terminate their pregnancies as white women. Nothing could make him happier.</blockquote>
Aylmer Fisher wrote in Spencer&#8217;s Radix Journal: “It is important we not fall prey to the pro-life temptation. The only ones who can’t [avoid an unwanted pregnancy] are the least intelligent and responsible members of society: women who are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, and poor.”
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Planned Parenthood, Feminists Respond To Kanye West

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House Democrats stepped in to save 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden from an embarrassing explanation of his historical support for restricting federal funding for abortions by pulling efforts to undo the Hyde Amendment from all 2020 spending bills according to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/hyde-amendment-abortion-democrats-348272">report in Politico</a> Sunday.
Joe Biden has been struggling to walk the line between his position on abortion while in Congress &#8212; a position that, at one time, amounted to a nearly &#8220;pro-life&#8221; platform and the Democratic Party&#8217;s increasingly extreme position on the issue &#8212; a position that now includes support for abortion up until the moment of birth, as well as full Federal funding for abortion services.
As recently as June of 2019, according <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447023-biden-2020-campaign-confirms-he-supports-controversial-abortion-rule-report">to The Hill</a>, Biden&#8217;s campaign claimed they supported the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer money from going to directly fund abortions &#8212; a provision that prevents many taxpayers from taking an active role in what they view as a morally abhorrent procedure.
Just weeks later, though, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/6/22/18713603/joe-biden-hyde-amendment">Vox News recounts</a>, Joe Biden, under fire from far-left competitors for the 2020 presidential nod, flipped on the issue, declaring his full-throated support for abolishing the Hyde Amendment and claiming that the measure &#8220;was designed to try to split the difference here, to make sure women still had access, you can’t have access if everyone’s covered by federal policy.&#8221;
&#8220;If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone&#8217;s zip code,&#8221; Biden added at a Democratic fundraiser.
More recently, Biden appears to have moved even further left on the issue of abortion, endorsing the brutal procedure &#8220;under any circumstance&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-endorses-abortion-under-any-circumstance-in-statement-after-scotus-ruling">in a statement issued</a> following the Supreme Court ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo, in which the nation&#8217;s highest court struck down a Texas law requiring doctors who work at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
Fortunately for Biden, though, he will be able to dodge questions on the matter at any future debates and will be insulated from progressives&#8217; criticism on the issue, as House Democrats made the decision to pull efforts to abolish the Hyde Amendment from all spending bills presented to the floor during the remainder of the 2020 session.
&#8220;Democratic leaders ultimately decided to keep the language to avoid a brutal fight they were unlikely to win with a GOP-led Senate, according to multiple aides and lawmakers,&#8221; Politico reports. &#8220;Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democrats ultimately agreed it wasn&#8217;t the right time to make the push, with the party potentially just one election away from controlling the House, Senate and White House and able to enact more sweeping policy changes.&#8221;
&#8220;Pelosi held a conference call Wednesday with several leaders of the Pro-Choice Caucus, including Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Diana DeGette (D-CP), to discuss the decision, according to several Democratic aides. A draft of the appropriations bill that includes the Hyde language is expected to be unveiled Monday,&#8221; the outlet continued.
Clearly, the party hopes Biden will succeed in November, making it far easier to strip the Hyde Amendment from future spending bills.
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Democrats Save Joe Biden, Take Federal Abortion Funding Off 2020 Spending Bills

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Officials with the abortion provider Planned Parenthood described cases of infanticide occurring at clinics during abortion procedures, according to Republican Sen. Ben Sasse.
Sasse (R-NE) slammed the abortion franchise on Wednesday after the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an investigative nonprofit that focuses on medical ethics, released edited footage of two top Planned Parenthood officials testifying on practices and incidents inside abortion clinics.
“The truth — as found in these sworn testimonies — is going to catch up to Planned Parenthood and their big business abortion partners. Their admissions have nothing to do with healthcare, but instead are an admission that they’re complicit to the practice of infanticide,” Sasse said in a <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/7/sasse-statement-on-planned-parenthood-infanticide-admission">statement</a>. “This is morally repugnant. It shouldn’t be hard to denounce the practice of infanticide, but Big Abortion practically shouts it from the rooftops. They must held accountable.”
CMP founder David Daleiden <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2020/06/sworn-video-testimony-describes-infanticide-in-fetal-organ-harvesting-and-planned-parenthood-clinics/">released</a> the testimony in question on Tuesday. One clip shows Jon Dunn, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Orange &amp; San Bernardino Counties, testifying that in at least one instance he remembered a fetus born alive during an abortion procedure about two decades ago.
“I know they kept it warm and comfortable for the very brief period that it was alive. I don’t think there was even time to call 911,” Dunn says in the video. “This is something that every obstetrician/gynecologist deals with on rare occasion … It is their medical judgment what to do in that circumstance.”
Dunn’s testimony was taken and unsealed as part of a civil suit filed by Planned Parenthood against CMP over Daleiden’s claim that the abortion network and Advanced Biosciences Resources, which works with Planned Parenthood to procure fetal body parts, profited off infanticide, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/planned-parenthood-tissue-procurer-abortion-clinic-testimony">Fox News</a>.
Daleiden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-unsealed-video-shows-planned-parenthood-execs-under-oath-discussing-baby-body-parts-sales">released</a> a similar video of testimonies at the end of May, saying at the time, “The time has come for federal consequences for Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood lied to the public and to Congress, but now there is no longer any reasonable doubt that Planned Parenthood sold fetal body parts, commodifying living children in the womb and treating pregnant women like a cash crop.”
CMP and Planned Parenthood have been engaged in court battles for several years. In 2016, the abortion clinic network <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/planned-parenthood-lawsuit-secret-videos.html">sued</a> CMP following the release of a series of videos in which Daleiden went undercover to interview a series of Planned Parenthood officials, uncovering what he said is proof that the abortion provider traffics in fetal body parts and sells them to biomedical research facilities for profit. Planned Parenthood denied the charge.
Last year, a jury rejected Daleiden and CMP’s free speech defense, finding them liable for at least $2.2 million in damages to Planned Parenthood. The jury convicted CMP under a 1970 law meant to target organized crime syndicates such as the mafia.
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Ben Sasse: Planned Parenthood Just Admitted To Committing ‘Infanticide’

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In a statement praising the Supreme Court for striking down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced his support for abortion &#8220;under any circumstance,&#8221; staking out an extreme position on the issue.
Biden, once a self-proclaimed &#8220;pro-life Democrat&#8221; stood by his personal opposition to abortion as recently as the 2012 presidential election, when he explained, in a debate against then-Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, that he was &#8220;<a href="https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-abortion-hyde-amendment-497be3ef-bc98-482b-9ed2-28cf10a4f94b.html">personally opposed&#8221; to the procedure</a> but felt he had no reason to prevent women from exercising &#8220;choice.&#8221;
Now, it seems, Biden has undergone a dramatic transformation on the issue, lauding the Supreme Court for its decision in June Medical Services v. Russo.
&#8220;Women&#8217;s health care rights have been under attack as states across the country have passed extreme laws restricting women&#8217;s constitutional right to choice under any circumstance,&#8221; Biden said in a statement. &#8220;Today the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that states cannot put in place laws that unduly burden a women&#8217;s right to make her own health care decision with her doctor.&#8221;
The statement also suggests that Biden now believes in an unrestricted right to abortion up until the moment of birth &#8212; an extreme position slowly becoming the norm among abortion activists.
Biden went on to attack Republican pro-life legislators for limiting abortion without noting that the Louisiana law was written by a pro-life Democrat in Louisiana&#8217;s state legislature and signed by its Democrat governor, John Bel Edwards.
Monday&#8217;s statement is hardly the first evidence of Biden&#8217;s shift on the issue of abortion. In 2019, Biden made a public shift from supporting the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funds from going to directly pay for abortion procedures, to advocating for an end to the policy, claiming that he could “no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone’s ZIP code.&#8221;
“I can’t justify leaving millions of women without the health care they need,” Biden said at a fundraiser in 2019, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-hyde-amendment-abortion_n_5cf9abc6e4b0b08cf7eb6dc4?obc">according to HuffPost</a>.
Repealing the Hyde Amendment is now largely a mainstream Democrat position. During the 2020 Democratic presidential debates, all of the candidates spoke in favor of repealing the restriction on federal funding for abortion services, and both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that no-cost abortions would be a hallmark of a Medicare-for-All healthcare plan.
Support for abortion at any stage of pregnancy is becoming a mainstream Democrat position, with states like New York, Virginia, and Illinois all pursuing extensions to their existing &#8220;reproductive rights&#8221; protections to cover abortions through the third trimester.
Support for abortion at any stage of pregnancy is not, however, a mainstream belief among Americans. According to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx">Gallup</a>, which polled the issue last year, less than a quarter of Americans believe abortion should be legal under any circumstance, as Biden apparently believes, and just over 10% believe abortion should be fully legal in the third trimester.
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Joe Biden Endorses Abortion ‘Under Any Circumstance’ In Statement After SCOTUS Ruling

Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision announced Monday striking down Louisiana&#8217;s abortion clinic restrictions, siding with the court&#8217;s four liberal justices in the landmark case.
The case, June Medical Services LLC v. Russo, centered around whether Louisiana could place &#8220;health and safety&#8221; restrictions on abortion clinics operating within the state, requiring, among other things, that doctors operating at those clinics have admitting privileges at a local hospital so that patients experiencing a medical emergency, above and beyond what an outpatient or ambulatory care clinic could handle, could effectively treat or consult on that patient in a hospital setting.
The majority said the law, similar to a Texas law struck down in 2016, runs afoul of the court&#8217;s standard in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which noted that a government could not place an &#8220;undue burden&#8221; on those seeking an abortion.
&#8220;We have examined the extensive record carefully and conclude that it supports the District Court’s findings of fact,&#8221; Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion. &#8220;Those findings mirror those made in [2016 Texas case] Whole Woman’s Health [ v. Hellerstedt] in every relevant respect and require the same result. We consequently hold that the Louisiana statute is unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;Under the applicable constitutional standards set forth in the Court’s earlier abortion-related cases, particularly Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833, and Whole Woman’s Health, ‘[u]nnecessary health regulations that have the purpose or effect of presenting a substantial obstacle to a woman seeking an abortion impose an undue burden on the right’ and are, therefore &#8216;constitutionally invalid,&#8217;” Breyer argued.
Roberts authored his own opinion, arguing that Whole Woman&#8217;s Health set the standard for how the court treats such restrictions and he was required to follow it.
“The legal doctrine of stare decisis requires us, absent special circumstances, to treat like cases alike,” he wrote. &#8220;The Louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed by the Texas law, for the same reasons. Therefore Louisiana’s law cannot stand under our precedents.&#8221;
Oddly, Roberts was among the dissenters in Whole Women&#8217;s Health.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the dissent issued Monday, maintaining that the majority ignored a number of problems, including whether the clinics themselves even had standing to challenge the Louisiana rule, in its haste to preserve abortion rights.
&#8220;Today a majority of the Court perpetuates its ill-founded abortion jurisprudence by enjoining a perfectly legitimate state law and doing so without jurisdiction,&#8221; Thomas wrote.
&#8220;The plurality and THE CHIEF JUSTICE ultimately cast aside this jurisdictional barrier to conclude that Louisiana’s law is unconstitutional under our precedents,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But those decisions created the right to abortion out of whole cloth, without a shred of support from the Constitution’s text. Our abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should be overruled.&#8221;
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SUPREME COURT ABORITON

John Roberts Casts Deciding Vote As Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Restrictions

John Roberts

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Three feminist groups are <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/12/pro-abortion-feminists-sue-pro-life-group-for-calling-abortion-murder/">suing</a> a Texas pro-life group and its director for describing pro-abortion groups as “criminal” for aiding women to get abortions while calling abortions “murder.”
On Thursday, the Lilith Fund, The Afiya Center and the Texas Equal Access Fund filed suit against Right to Life East Texas and its director, Mark Lee Dickson, accusing them of defamation, as <a href="https://www.news-journal.com/news/local/defamation-lawsuit-filed-against-right-to-life-east-texas-its-director/article_8e100ec6-3a8b-5653-81d5-e92bfbfbccac.html">The Longview News-Journal reports</a>. Lilith Fund executive director Amanda Beatriz Williams stated on Thursday, “Just now, we joined The Afiya Center and (Texas Equal Access) Fund in suing anti-abortion extremist Mark Lee Dickson and Right to Life East Texas for defamation.”
The ACLU of Texas, on behalf of the Texas Equal Access Fund and the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, had sued seven cities in February that said they were sanctuaries for unborn babies but in late May, <a href="https://thetexan.news/aclu-withdraws-lawsuit-against-texas-sanctuary-cities-for-the-unborn/">withdrew the lawsuit</a> after the cities got rid of language describing pro-abortion groups that help women get abortions as “criminal organizations.” The cities’ ordinances barred abortion facilities in city limits.
The ACLU celebrated by <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLUTx/status/1265382860413906944?s=20">tweeting</a>, “Our clients [the Lilith Fund and the TEA Fund], alongside countless other groups, are no longer named ‘criminal organizations’ in these cities. But local community members are the real winners; they won’t have to fear criminal prosecution for advocating for the right to abortion.”
The Lilith Fund echoed, “Y’all remember those towns that tried to ‘band abortion’ and say our work made was ‘criminal organizations?’ Yeah we sued and they backed down real quick. Take note. Abortion funds, providers, and advocates have the constitutional right to perform their work in these communities and everywhere!”as <a href="https://thetexan.news/aclu-withdraws-lawsuit-against-texas-sanctuary-cities-for-the-unborn/">The Texan</a> reported.
Dickson, who had drafted the ordinances, countered that the ACLU’s decision to drop the lawsuit was a “total and complete victory for the cities. We said from the outset that there is no legal basis to challenge these ordinances, and they have been vetted by expert legal counsel. We’re pleased that the ACLU realized this and decided to withdraw its lawsuit.” He added, “This lawsuit was nothing but a publicity stunt to deter other cities from creating sanctuaries for the unborn. But it will end up having the opposite effect. Now even the ACLU acknowledges that there is no basis for challenging these ordinances, and this will embolden other cities and towns to join the sanctuary city for the unborn movement.”
The new lawsuit <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/465270035/Lilith-Fund-Defamation-Petition-FINAL">states</a>, “In Texas, calling a person or business who has committed no crimes ‘criminal’ is per se defamation,” adding that Dickson and Right To Life East Texas &#8216;have repeatedly stated that Lilith Fund and the other organizations are literal criminals when Defendants know that is not true … Abortion is not a crime in Texas. Abortion is not murder under Texas law. Providing information about abortion is not illegal under Texas law and is, in fact, protected activity and speech … As described in detail below, Defendants’ statements were made before and during efforts to get various city councils to pass an ordinance to enshrine the lies into the municipal books …&#8217;”
Dickson fired back, “The comments they asked me to retract were comments which treated abortion as murder and the abortion-aiding organizations as involved in the criminal act of abortion. I have no reason to retract anything that I said. Abortion is the murder of innocent unborn human beings. The Lilith Fund and other abortion-aiding organizations all take part in the murder of innocent unborn human beings. The statements which I have made are rooted not in my own imagination, but in the law written on all of our hearts, in the Constitution of the United States of America, in the Texas Constitution, and in the laws of the great State of Texas.”
Dickson pointed out that Texas still has pre-Roe v. Wade statutes that criminalize abortion which are still existent, noting, “Until these statutes are repealed by the Legislature that enacted them, they are still the law of the State of Texas. When a court declares a statute to be unconstitutional that does not automatically erase that law. All that means is that those particular laws cannot be enforced in such a way that contradicts that court’s interpretation of the Constitution. The Supreme Court is not the supreme law of the land. According to the Constitution, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.”
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Feminist Groups Sue Pro-Life Group For Calling Them ‘Criminal’

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Since we are on the subject of defunding things in order to protect black lives, it seems someone should make the rather obvious and unavoidable point. While defunding the police is sure to kill many more black people than it saves, defunding Planned Parenthood, and then abolishing abortion entirely, is sure to save many millions of lives while costing none.
Abortion has destroyed over 60 million people in this country since Roe v. Wade. A disproportionate number of the victims are black. Indeed, the black abortion rate is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780732/">nearly 4 times higher</a> than the white abortion rate. In some American cities, the situation has gotten so bad that <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/more-black-babies-aborted-born-new-york-city-alec-torres/">more black babies are aborted than born</a>. According to the pro-abortion <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/report_downloads/us-abortion-patients-table1.pdf">Guttmacher Institute</a>, about 30 percent of the women who obtain abortions outside of hospitals are black. And this despite black women accounting for <a href="https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-of-color-in-the-united-states/">only 13 percent</a> of the women in the United States.
Doing the math, and taking into account the 330,000 abortions Planned Parenthood alone performs every year, it is fair to estimate that Planned Parenthood kills close to 100,000 black people annually. For comparison sake, police killed 1,000 people total last year — white, black, armed, and unarmed. Comparing just the number of unarmed black people killed by both groups, the ratio is 100,000 to 9. And yet police are the greatest threat to black lives?
Those who shout &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; must decide what exactly they mean by this slogan, or if they mean anything at all by it. Do black lives matter inherently or conditionally? When you declare that a black man&#8217;s life &#8220;matters,&#8221; do you mean that it matters all the time, in all situations, at all stages, because he possesses within himself, by his very nature as a human being, inherent value? Or do you mean that his life matters subjectively, under particular circumstances, because it has achieved a certain usefulness and desirability to society?
If you mean the latter, then it is perfectly consistent to support abortion. But the problem is that a life that &#8220;matters&#8221; in this way — subjectively and conditionally — doesn&#8217;t really matter at all, and it can never be a true moral outrage when such a life is taken. BLMC (Black Lives Matter Conditionally) would be, perhaps, an honest slogan, but not a very effective, inspiring, or moral one.
But if you mean that black lives matter inherently — that a black life, like any human life, is in principle and by its nature sacred — then you have made a statement that has certain implications. None of the implications should be frightening to a decent person, but they may be politically inconvenient. If black life matters inherently (and it certainly does), then it matters from the first moment that it comes into existence. Any quality or value that is earned or achieved over time is by definition not inherent. So, a black life that really matters, has always mattered. And that means that a black baby in the womb matters. He matters as much as George Floyd, and he has as much value.
There is no such thing as a pro-abortion Black Lives Matter movement. To be pro-abortion is to reject the premise that life inherently matters. It is to see life as a commodity whose value is dependent on various external factors. If this is all you intend to communicate with the slogan &#8220;black lives matter,&#8221; then you shouldn&#8217;t say it, because you don&#8217;t mean it. But if you do mean it, then welcome to the pro-life movement. We&#8217;ve been waiting for you, and we need your help.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-defund-the-police-is-a-stupid-crazy-idea-that-will-make-everything-worse">‘Defund The Police’ Is A Stupid, Crazy Idea That Will Make Everything Worse</a>

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WALSH: If Black Lives Matter, Defund Planned Parenthood, Not The Police

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On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/fetal-trafficking-under-oath/testimony/">Center for Medical Progress</a> (CMP) released an explosive video that appears to show Planned Parenthood executives admitting that they charged a fee to medical companies for aborted baby body parts directly, despite the taxpayer-funded organization claiming their only &#8220;fees&#8221; were for transportation and other legal services.
David Daleiden, project lead for CMP, alleged in a press release that the video (which can be viewed below) is more confirmation that Planned Parenthood lied to the public and Congress about aborted baby trafficking.
“The time has come for federal consequences for Planned Parenthood,” <a href="https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2020/05/planned-parenthood-testimony-on-selling-baby-parts-unsealed-new-videos-released/">Daleiden</a> said in a statement. “Planned Parenthood lied to the public and to Congress, but now there is no longer any reasonable doubt that Planned Parenthood sold fetal body parts, commodifying living children in the womb and treating pregnant women like a cash crop.&#8221;
&#8220;The U.S. Department of Justice must escalate the enforcement of laws against fetal trafficking to the highest level of priority,&#8221; he added.
The video, which is of court records and proceedings, shows emails and contracts, and features testimony from Planned Parenthood executives appearing to discuss the selling of baby body parts at certain corporation affiliates.
Pro-life organization <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/bombshell-planned-parenthood-admits-oath-aborted-parts/">LiveAction</a> argues that the video &#8220;disputes the argument that money received was nothing more than reimbursement for costs sustained by Planned Parenthood. Testimony revealed that payment was only made to Planned Parenthood if StemExpress was able to obtain &#8216;usable&#8217; body parts from one of its abortion centers — meaning Planned Parenthood deceived the public when it claimed it only collected reimbursements for employees’ time and costs.&#8221;
As noted by CMP, &#8220;42 U.S. Code 289g-2 broadly forbids the exchange of valuable consideration for fetal tissue.&#8221;
&#8220;While the law allows for reimbursements of specific costs when donating fetal organs, those reimbursements must meet specific guidelines;&#8221; LiveAction continued, &#8220;they must be fees associated with transportation, processing, and other such costs. Planned Parenthood did none of these things, yet they collected money when they provided StemExpress with marketable body parts.&#8221;
Additionally, while the abortion giant told The New York Times that they &#8220;rebuffed&#8221; a contract to sell aborted baby livers for $750 each and $1600 for liver/thymus pairs, emails and testimony from Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Senior Director of Abortion Access Tram Nguyen appears to reveal that she was looking to &#8220;move forward&#8221; with a deal.
At just one affiliate, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the clinic reportedly took in $25,000 in just three months from deals for aborted baby body parts, invoices showed. Founder and CEO of Planned Parenthood partner Advanced Bioscience Resources, Linda Tracy, was repeatedly told by her lawyer on video not to disclose how much the company was taking in.
Planned Parenthood is currently not charged with any violations of U.S. code and has yet to fall under an investigation over the matter of selling or exchanging fetal tissue.
&#8220;PPMM does over 17,000 abortions a year, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unsealed-invoices-planned-parenthood-daleiden-25k">unsealed invoices</a> show PPMM making $25,000 in just 3 months from StemExpress,&#8221; CMP said. &#8220;When asked how much money an abortion clinic could make per year from selling fetal body parts, the founder and CEO of Planned Parenthood partner Advanced Bioscience Resources, Linda Tracy, was forbidden by her lawyer to answer.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-heres-why-planned-parenthood-booted-lenan-amanda-prestigiacomo">REPORT: Here’s Why Planned Parenthood Booted Leana Wen As President. It’s Unbelievable.</a>
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) called for President Trump to fire the bureaucrats who illegally approved millions of dollars worth of small-business loans for Planned Parenthood clinics.
Sasse issued a strong statement on Wednesday slamming the well-known abortion provider for taking advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans that it is ineligible to receive.
“Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, tried to defraud taxpayers during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,” Sasse said. “The Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to be a lifeline for small businesses, not a slush fund for Big Abortion. The administration needs to reclaim that money and fire the bureaucrats who signed off on this scam.”
Thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received over $80 million dollars in PPP loans. The funds were approved by Congress in March to go to small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, and affiliates of any organization with more than 500 employees are ineligible for such loans. Planned Parenthood has more than 600 employees.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-planned-parenthood-affiliates-improperly-applied-for-80-million-they-got-it-now-the-government-wants-the-money-back">slammed</a> the abortion provider on Tuesday and called for each clinic to immediately return the funds it had received.
“There is no ambiguity in the legislation that passed or public record around its passage that organizations such as Planned Parenthood, whose parent organization has close to half a billion dollars in assets, is not eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program,” Rubio said.
“Those funds must be returned immediately. Furthermore, the SBA should open an investigation into how these loans were made in clear violation of the applicable affiliation rules and if Planned Parenthood, the banks, or staff at the SBA knowingly violated the law, all appropriate legal options should be pursued,” Rubio added.
Officials in the Small Business Administration (SBA), which oversees the PPP, have been reaching out to the funds’ recipients, telling them to return the loan money, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-coronavirus-stimulus-money-ppp-return">Fox News</a>. The SBA is also warning that if any Planned Parenthood employee lied on an application to get approved for the loans, they and their clinic could face criminal and civil penalties.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for a federal investigation into the lending, and for charges to be brought against anyone found to have lied on a PPP loan application.
“The money needs to be recovered and if anybody knowingly falsified applications, they need to be prosecuted,” Hawley said.
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Within the past year, Planned Parenthood has made several decisions that have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthood-commits-45-million-to-democrats-running-in-2020">cost</a> the organization significantly more money than clinics requested in PPP loans. In August, the abortion provider opted to lose more than $60 million in federal funding rather than stop performing abortions.
In January, Planned Parenthood’s political action arm committed $45 million to pro-abortion candidates running for office in 2020, claiming that “the stakes have never been higher” in an election year.
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Sixty million human beings have been slaughtered by abortion since it was legalized in this country. It is no surprise that the supporters of this massacre would lack ethical scruples. Which is why I was disgusted though not surprised by the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right">article</a> in the Daily Beast gloating about a documentary that supposedly shows Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade fame “confessing” on her “deathbed” that her pro-life conversion was all an act that she put on for money. 
Backing up for moment, Norma McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, was the woman at the center of the infamous legal case that resulted in abortion being legalized across the country. It is well known that McCorvey, later in life, had a change of heart and became an outspoken and prominent pro-life activist. This fact has always been a source of heartburn for pro-abortion activists who were quite upset that they couldn’t continue using her to keep abortion legalized after using her to get it legalized in the first place. But it seems that they’ve found a way to manipulate and exploit her again, in death. 
According to The Daily Beast, the upcoming FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe” will show McCorvey shortly before her death in a nursing home in 2017 claiming that her pro-life turn was all an act. Supposedly she “admits” that pro-life operatives paid her to lie and pretend to be pro-life. This supposed revelation has been met with all of the grotesque bragging and football-spiking that you would expect from people who, again, support and applaud the mass butchery of human children. But there is good reason to be extremely skeptical.
McCorvery was an elderly woman hooked up to an oxygen tank in a nursing home when Nick Sweeney, the documentary’s director, showed up to interview her. We should note that Sweeney is a far left radical whose <a href="https://www.nick-sweeney.com/My-Transgender-Kid-Ch-4">previous films</a> include a BBC special celebrating “transgender” children. This is someone with an obvious political agenda talking to an old, dying, and clearly troubled woman. Another figure who apparently features prominently in the film is Reverend Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister who had his own conversion experience several years ago. In his case, he went from being a pro-life activist to a staunch defender of abortion rights. Schenck now says that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to “chaos and pain.” This, to reiterate, is not an objective piece of work dispassionately documenting a woman’s honest confession. This is far left propaganda. The appropriate portions of salt must be taken along with it.
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It is important to realize that McCorvey’s pro-life transition happened over the course of several years. If she was acting, then this was method acting that would put Daniel Day Lewis to shame. Many people who knew McCorvey personally have come forward to say that she spoke passionately about her pro-life convictions even in private. Was that all part of the act? Or are these people in on the conspiracy? Speaking of conspiracies, who are these nefarious pro-lifers who conspired with McCorvey and paid her to pretend to be pro-life for 20 years? I have been in the movement myself for many years and I’m not aware of any smokey backrooms where these kinds of plots are hatched. Maybe I just haven’t been invited. 
In fact, The Daily Beast mentions that McCorvey, as part of her conversion to Catholicism, eventually broke off her romantic relationship with another woman. Her struggle with same sex attraction is something that McCorvey spoke about, as The Daily Beast says, in “anguished interviews.” So was that an act, too? Did this woman dedicate decades of her life to some sort of bizarre conservative satire routine? That’s what you would have to believe in order to take the deathbed confession story at face value. McCorvey would have had to lie about almost everything, to almost everyone, for decades, and all for what? Some money from a non-existent pro-life cabal? I’m sure she could have made much more as a pro-abortion figurehead. Planned Parenthood, Guttmacher Institue, NARAL, NOW — these are organizations with a lot of cash to throw around. Much more than any pro-life organization can offer. If McCorvey was nothing but a mercenary out for a quick buck, she didn’t need to fake a pro-life conversation to earn it. The whole idea is plainly absurd.
So then why did she make this claim? I don’t know. Maybe it’s all true. Maybe Jane Roe was a very dedicated performance artist. Or maybe she was a confused old woman being manipulated by pro-abortion activists. Or maybe some other explanation. Who knows? Of course, in the end, none of this has any effect on the reality of abortion. And that reality is what I said at the top. It is an act of violence against the innocent, and 60 million innocents have died because of it. Whatever Norma McCorvey did or didn’t think, abortion is a hideous evil. And the transparent attempt to exploit an old woman, who is now dead and unavailable for further comment, is also hideously evil. Truly these people will stop at nothing.

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WALSH: Pro-Abortion Doc Claims Prominent Pro-Life Advocate Confessed That She Was ‘Acting.’ There Is Good Reason To Be Skeptical.

According to a report from The Daily Beast, Norma McCorvey, widely known as &#8220;Jane Roe&#8221; from landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, allegedly made a &#8220;deathbed confession&#8221; back in 2017 that she did not actually have a pro-life conversion but lied about being pro-life for monetary gain.
The yet-to-be-released FX documentary titled &#8220;AKA Jane Roe&#8221; reportedly includes video of McCorvey making the stunning claims. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right">The Daily Beast</a> reports on the clipped exchange from the doc as follows:
<blockquote>“This is my deathbed confession,” she chuckles, sitting in a chair in her nursing home room, on oxygen. Sweeney asks McCorvey, “Did [the evangelicals] use you as a trophy?” “Of course,” she replies. “I was the Big Fish.” “Do you think you would say that you used them?” Sweeney responds. “Well,” says McCorvey, “I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they took me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. That’s what I’d say.” She even gives an example of her scripted anti-abortion lines. “I’m a good actress,” she points out. “Of course, I’m not acting now.” </blockquote>
Some in the pro-life community who knew McCorvey personally, however, are already pushing back on the doc.
&#8220;While its clear abortion activists exploited a frail and broken McCorvey with a last-minute interview to further their agenda, what’s also very clear to everyone who personally knew Norma over the years is that she was totally and genuinely pro-life,&#8221; argued LifeNews&#8217; <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/19/pro-abortion-documentary-aka-jane-roe-falsely-claims-norma-mccorvey-wasnt-truly-pro-life/">Steven Ertelt</a>.
&#8220;In private email exchanges to this author over the years prior to her death, she never vacillated from her pro-life views and repeatedly thanked LifeNews for standing up for unborn babies,&#8221; he said.
Father Frank Pavone was also quick to reject the notion that McCorvey was lying about being pro-life.
&#8220;So #abortion supporters are claiming Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v Wade, wasn&#8217;t sincere in her conversion,&#8221; Father Pavone posted to Twitter, Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;She was[.] I was her spiritual guide for 22 years, received her into the #Catholic Church, kept regular contact, spoke w her the day she died, &amp; conducted her funeral.&#8221;
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So <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abortion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#abortion</a> supporters are claiming Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v Wade, wasn&#39;t sincere in her conversion. She was I was her spiritual guide for 22 years, received her into the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Catholic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Catholic</a> Church, kept regular contact, spoke w her the day she died, &amp; conducted her funeral.
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“One would think that any normal or honest person who wants to understand the journey of Norma McCorvey would talk with those who journeyed with her,&#8221; the priest further explained to <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/19/pro-abortion-documentary-aka-jane-roe-falsely-claims-norma-mccorvey-wasnt-truly-pro-life/">LifeNews</a>. &#8220;I knew her and was one of her key spiritual guides for 22 years, starting in 1995 with her baptism, right through the conversation we had on the day she died. Yes, she not only rejected abortion, but she became a new creation in Christ. I received her into the Catholic Church and rejoiced together with her as she discovered day by day the joy of prayer, and in her final years made rosaries by hand to help others experience that same joy. Her desire to protect children in the womb was no act.”
“I was privileged to lead and preach at her funeral. I knew her struggles and her pain. She didn’t just have positions; she had deep wounds because of her involvement with Roe vs. Wade, and I guided her through the healing of those wounds, in the quiet hours of struggle that nobody saw or heard about,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Those are things you don’t fake.&#8221;
&#8220;There have always been people who have tried to re-shape her story, or get her to reshape it,&#8221; Father Pavone added. &#8220;She resented that and would resent it today. Norma was not somebody you could come to know in a snapshot, in an interview, or even in years of interviews. I’ll have a lot more to say about this once I see the documentary.”
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, also pushed back against the FX documentary.
&#8220;Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) always spoke [with] passion about her pro-life convictions, which represented a huge &amp; public shift from how she had been seen for so long,&#8221; wrote Hawkins on social media. &#8220;The woman that I personally knew lived a painful &amp; complicated life, but spoke directly about how she felt about it.&#8221;
&#8220;And I also don&#8217;t believe that [FX Docs] is a good actor,&#8221; she added, &#8220;when you consider that earlier this year, they went after the iconic Phyllis Schlafly. Tearing down pro-life champions won&#8217;t work for those of us who have had the privilege of knowing the real people behind the headlines.&#8221;
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And I also don&#39;t believe that <a href="https://twitter.com/FXDocs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fxdocs</a> is a good actor, when you consider that earlier this year, they went after the iconic Phyllis Schlafly.
Tearing down pro-life champions won&#39;t work for those of us who have had the privilege of knowing the real people behind the headlines.
&mdash; Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristanHawkins/status/1262821298436100097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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CBS News reporter Kate Smith fears of a looming &#8220;health crisis&#8221; due to the abortion restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 lockdowns in some states.
In a<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-ban-roe-v-wade-providers/"> lengthy op-ed</a> for CBS News, Smith takes aim at several conservative states for allegedly using the lockdowns to create a &#8220;preview of a world without the landmark Supreme Court ruling&#8221; Roe v. Wade, a world where women have few or no options to terminate their pregnancy.
&#8220;As the coronavirus&#8217; death toll continues to grow, another public health crisis is emerging,&#8221; Smith alarmingly writes. &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-bans-states-coronavirus-pandemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="">At least eight states</a> have restricted abortion as part of directives banning &#8216;non-essential&#8217; medical procedures. In Texas, all of the state&#8217;s abortion providers were <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-ban-over/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="">forced to stop</a> offering services for more than four weeks. It marked the first time a state has banned legal abortion since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure nearly 50 years ago.&#8221;
Julie Burkhart, the founder of Trust Women, a network of abortion clinics, said neighboring states without abortion restrictions are now overwhelmed, with some clinics facing a 400% increase in patients seeking abortions.
&#8220;One thing is just crystal clear to us, and that&#8217;s that this is a little peek through a &#8216;post-Roe&#8217; window,&#8221; said Burkhart.
Nancy Northup, the chief executive officer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, echoed Burkhart’s sentiments. &#8220;This is exactly what you would see in a post-Roe world,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You&#8217;d see these very same states shut off access. It&#8217;s terrifying.&#8221;
After citing other such examples of overwhelmed clinics and women having to travel long distances to receive their desired abortions, Smith then worries of what the country may look like if the conservative majority on Supreme Court were to strike down Roe and allow other states to impose their own restrictions.
&#8220;Without Roe, states would be able to decide for themselves whether to legalize abortion,&#8221; she worries. &#8220;Abortion-rights group warn the effect would be a patchwork of access and service availability determined by a patient&#8217;s zip code.&#8221;
Smith&#8217;s article <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-for-more-abortions-during-pandemic">nearly echoes an op-ed</a> from The New York Times editorial board in March, which strongly encouraged states to allow more access to abortion during the pandemic.
&#8220;Abortion is an essential component of comprehensive health care. It is also a time-sensitive service for which a delay of several weeks, or in some cases days, may increase the risks or potentially make it completely inaccessible,&#8221; NYT argued. &#8220;The consequences of being unable to obtain an abortion profoundly impact a person’s life, health and well-being.&#8221;
The historic $2 trillion stimulus bill passed by Congress provided no relief funds for abortion providers. At the time, Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, denounced President Trump and the GOP for not allowing abortion clinics to benefit from the package.
“It has become shamefully clear that not even a global pandemic will stop the Trump administration or Republican Congressional leaders from attacking access to reproductive care,” said McGill Johnson in a <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/senate-covid-19-response-package-leaves-much-to-be-done-for-our-families-and-public-health-response">statement</a>. “Our leaders should be working to support the nation’s full network of safety-net health care providers during these uncertain times. Instead, the Senate bill targets Planned Parenthood and expands the harmful and discriminatory Hyde amendment, putting up even more barriers to care for women, people with low incomes, and communities of color.”

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CBS News Op-Ed: COVID-19 Abortion Restrictions Are A ‘Public Health Crisis’

Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer said during an interview on Thursday that abortion services needed to be provided during the COVID-19 pandemic because they are &#8220;life-sustaining.&#8221;
Whitmer made the remarks on David Axelrod’s &#8220;Axe Files&#8221; podcast while discussing other states that have sought to shut down abortions during the shutdown.
&#8220;As we speak, in Texas and a couple of other states, I think Ohio may be another, the state has asked to suspend abortion services as part of this COVID-19 protocol,&#8221; Axelrod said. &#8220;This is probably gonna go to the Supreme Court. What is your reaction to that? You&#8217;re a governor, you have to make these decisions as well, there are other procedures that have been suspended.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, we stopped elective surgeries here in Michigan, and some people have tried to say that that type of a procedure is considered the same, and that&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; Whitmer responded. &#8220;You know, a woman&#8217;s health care, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election, it is a fundamental to her life.&#8221;
Whitmer continued, &#8220;It is life-sustaining, and it&#8217;s something that government should not be getting in the middle of.&#8221;
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Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Abortions Are ‘Life-Sustaining’

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A common retort to conservatives who advocate opening up the economy is that we are betraying our pro-life principles. This charge is clearly absurd for a number of reasons. First of all, one of our primary arguments is that shutting down society is probably not the most effective way of saving lives. Many people are still dying of the virus during the shut down, many will likely die whenever the shut down is lifted (even the most ardent shutdown proponent must admit that it has to be lifted at some point), and on top of that toll we now add the lives destroyed by the collapse of the economy.
All told, it is reasonable to worry that the cost in human death and suffering will be greater because of the shutdown than it would have been had we adopted preventive measures while keeping the economy going. You may disagree with this argument, but it is obviously not an argument that denies the value of human life.
Also, nobody who criticizes the strategy of willfully plunging the nation in to a Great Depression is suggesting that the elderly and others most susceptible to the virus should be directly killed. We are merely suggesting that there are other and better ways of protecting those populations, and that the enormous cost of our current method is far too high and the pay off is far too uncertain. By contrast, advocates of abortion support the direct and purposeful killing of vulnerable people at the earliest stages of life. That is a very different sort of position to take. Even if anti-shutdown people were to argue that the elderly aren&#8217;t worth protecting &#8212; and that is most definitely not what we are arguing &#8212; we&#8217;d be taking a stance that would look positively Ghandian in comparison to those who openly celebrate the medical execution of infant.
That brings us to an important point. The flip side of the erroneous &#8220;you anti-shutdown people are contradicting your pro-life views&#8221; accusation is that a great many of the pro-shutdown people actually are contradicting their pro-abortion views. As I&#8217;ve explained, it is possible for a reasonable person to affirm the inherent value of human life while arguing that the shutdowns are unwise. Indeed, a reasonable person can argue the latter not in spite of the former, but on the basis of it. What I can&#8217;t see, on the other hand, is how a person can argue that it is just and proper to intentionally kill a million humans every year for the sake of preserving the lifestyle of the parents, and then also argue that we must destroy the lifestyles and livelihoods of millions of people in order to preserve human life. There seems to be a logical disconnect here. The latter argument can only potentially make sense if human life has inherent value, while the former can only potentially make sense if human life has subjective and conditional value. So, which is it?
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The pro-shutdown camp declares that every life has value and every life is worth saving. I agree with them, but the odd thing is that so many of them don&#8217;t agree with them. They do not appear to have a coherent perspective on human life and its value. And that is how we end up in this morbidly ironic situation, where a society that kills a million babies a year for convenience has shut itself down to prevent the elderly from dying. If there is any principle to be found here, it would seem to be that adult life is more valuable and worthy of protection than the lives of children. That is, of course, incoherent. Not to mention morally abominable and backwards. All life has value, but a healthy society is far more willing to accept the death of adults than the death of children. Adults must die eventually, after all. Children should not. Least of all should they die by our own hands.
But perhaps I am being too cynical. I must leave open the possibility that all of the pro-abortion people who are now applauding the ruination of our economy &#8212; because even a sacrifice as extraordinary as that is worth it &#8220;just to save one life,&#8221; supposedly &#8212; may have experienced a dramatic change of heart. Maybe this is not hypocrisy or inconsistency but a sign that a new leaf has been turned. Maybe they have discovered within themselves, for the first time, a real passion for defending the worth and dignity of human life. In that case, I welcome them to the pro-life team. And I would like to suggest that if we are pursuing a policy of shutdowns to save lives, we only need to close one type of business. It&#8217;s the one that kills a million babies a year in this country. We can argue about the other shutdowns, but anyone who really wants to protect human life should agree that this is the best place to start.

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On Saturday morning, businessman and non-profit founder David Benham and other members of a pro-life pregnancy counseling group were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-sidewalk-counselors-arrested-in-north-carolina-for-breaking-shelter-in-place-order">arrested</a> in North Carolina while engaging in peaceful &#8220;sidewalk counseling&#8221; outside of an abortion clinic. Officers said the pro-life advocates were violating &#8220;social distancing&#8221; orders because their work is deemed &#8220;non-essential&#8221; by the state, despite abortion being deemed &#8220;essential.&#8221; After Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) called out North Carolina&#8217;s governor over the &#8220;unconstitutional arrest,&#8221; a newspaper blasted the senator as &#8220;shameless.&#8221; Cruz has since issued a scathing response.
When the arrest of Benham was first reported on Saturday, Cruz weighed in, tweeting out video of Benham being arrested and saying that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) &#8220;should be ashamed&#8221; of this &#8220;abuse of power.&#8221; 
&#8220;This is an unconstitutional arrest,&#8221; Cruz wrote (tweets below). &#8220;[Benham Brothers] exercising core First Amendment rights. PEACEFULLY. In a way fully consistent [with] public safety. Because elected Dems are pro-abortion, they are abusing their power—in a one-sided way—to silence pregnancy counselors.&#8221;
&#8220;Elected Dems are abusing their power for political agenda [and] face civil liability under 42 USC 1983,&#8221; Cruz wrote in a follow-up thread, citing a federal statute on the legal defense of constitutional rights. &#8220;42 USC 1983: Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.&#8221;
On Monday, the <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article241791386.html">Charlotte Observer</a> published an editorial declaring that &#8220;Ted Cruz isn’t just wrong about an NC abortion protest and COVID-19 rules. He’s shameless&#8221;:
<blockquote>Apparently, Cruz couldn’t be bothered to do a little homework before popping off his outrage Tweet. Had he done so, he might’ve learned that the Love Life members were in fact violating COVID-19 orders, <a href="https://citycharlottencgov.azureedge.net/Mecklenburg_County_Stay_at_Home_Orders_New_3-24-2020.pdf" target="_self" rel="Follow noopener noreferrer">including Mecklenburg’s very specific restrictions on non-essential travel and activities</a>. Abortion protests – or “public counseling” of this kind – are not among the activities currently allowed in Charlotte.
Let’s be clear: We respect that Love Life and the Benhams believe that abortion should be outlawed and that they believe women who visit clinics should be warned against what they’re about to do. So long as those protesters make their case without violating ordinances and laws, their speech is ordinarily considered protected. Just not right now in Charlotte.</blockquote>
In response, Cruz blasted the paper&#8217;s editorial board, saying in a pair of tweets Monday that they the Charlotte Observers&#8217;s editors just demonstrated the &#8220;dishonesty of today&#8217;s media.&#8221;
&#8220;Charlotte newspaper editorial demonstrates dishonesty of today’s media. They say it’s just neutral &#8216;public health&#8217; concerns that allow Dems to arrest ⁦[the Benham brothers]⁩ for peacefully speaking for life,&#8221; Cruz tweeted Monday, linking to the paper&#8217;s coverage of the story. &#8220;The newspaper says that’s &#8216;not essential.&#8217; BUT they ignore that NC [Democratic Gov. Cooper] has wrongly deemed elective abortion &#8216;essential,&#8217; allowing abortion [doctors and] staff to gather in larger groups. IF providing abortions is essential, then peacefully giving pregnant women counseling on alternatives to abortion is ALSO &#8216;essential.'&#8221;
Cruz&#8217;s tweets below:
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2/x This is an unconstitutional arrest. <a href="https://twitter.com/BenhamBrothers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenhamBrothers</a> exercising core First Amendment rights. PEACEFULLY. In a way fully consistent w/ public safety. Because elected Dems are pro-abortion, they are abusing their power—in a one-sided way—to silence pregnancy counselors.
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1246586514479480832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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2/x BUT they ignore that NC Dem Gov has wrongly deemed elective abortion “essential,” allowing abortion drs &amp; staff to gather in larger groups. IF providing abortions is essential, then peacefully giving pregnant women counseling on alternatives to abortion is ALSO “essential.”
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1247345115376607233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-sidewalk-counselors-arrested-in-north-carolina-for-breaking-shelter-in-place-order">David Benham Arrested For Pro-Life Counseling, Accused Of Breaking ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Order</a>

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The World Health Organization may be struggling to explain its initial response to the coronavirus pandemic &#8212; particularly its deference to Chinese authorities and official Chinese government reports about the spread of the virus &#8212; but they have at least one concrete edict when it comes to COVID-19: the virus should not hinder the availability of abortion services.
According to a statement from the WHO itself (via the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/04/who-abortion-essential-coronavirus-covid-19/">Daily Caller News Foundation</a>), “services related to reproductive health are considered to be part of essential services during the COVID-19 outbreak.”
That means that countries demanding businesses lock down to stop or slow the spread of coronavirus should refrain from locking down abortion providers or forcing them to turn over much-needed personal protection equipment, even though doctors and hospitals are canceling every other form of elective surgery.
The WHO is even demanding abortions be given to those who test positive for coronavirus, even if the procedure might put both patient and caregivers at risk.
“Women’s choices and rights to sexual and reproductive health care should be respected, irrespective of whether or not she has a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection,” the group said.
Just in case the message wasn&#8217;t clear enough, the World Health Organization closed its statement by demanding that countries provide universal health care to all residents, and that those universal health care systems include abortion on demand: &#8220;sexual and reproductive health care is integral to universal health coverage and achieving the right to health.&#8221;
“This includes contraception, quality health care during and after pregnancy and childbirth, and safe abortion to the full extent of the law,&#8221; the group said.
Several states have closed abortion clinics, refusing to label abortion services as &#8220;essential&#8221; during a time of crisis. Planned Parenthood and affiliated abortion rights groups are suing those states, claiming that shutting down clinics, even during a global pandemic, is a violation of constitutional rights.
Of course, its commitment to abortion is the least of the World Health Organization&#8217;s problems. On Monday, members of Congress, including Arizona Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) demanded that the United States investigate the World Health Organization and its ties to the Chinese government &#8212; and, particularly, why the WHO took Chinese information about the virus at face value, even as death rates inside China began to climb.
McSally, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-director-faces-growing-calls-to-resign-over-handling-of-coronavirus-china">Fox News reports</a>, called on the WHO&#8217;s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to resign.
&#8220;Dr. Tedros deceived the world,&#8221; McSally wrote on Twitter. &#8220;At one point, he even praised China’s ‘transparency&#8217; during its coronavirus response efforts despite a mountain of evidence showing the regime concealed the severity of the outbreak. This deception cost lives.&#8221;
&#8220;In early February, days after President Trump put in place a travel ban for foreign nationals who had recently been to China, Tedros panned coronavirus responses that &#8216;unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade,'&#8221; Fox News added. &#8220;He also tweeted praise for China on March 20, saying &#8216;[f]or the first time, #China has reported no domestic #COVID19 cases yesterday. This is an amazing achievement, which gives us all reassurance that the #coronavirus can be beaten.'&#8221;
At one point, in January, the WHO even tweeted that there was &#8220;no clear evidence&#8221; that coronavirus spreads from person to person &#8212; a conclusion quickly revealed to entirely false.

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Pro-life powerhouse David Benham was reportedly arrested Saturday morning while engaging in peaceful &#8220;sidewalk counseling&#8221; outside of a North Carolina abortion clinic, after officers confronted Benham&#8217;s group for breaking &#8220;social distancing&#8221; orders.
Cities For Life, Benham&#8217;s non-profit that connects women who choose life with extensive medical and support services, says they were obeying social distancing orders and, as a charity providing assistance for those in need, Cities for Life is considered an essential service. Indeed, both the state and city stay-at-home orders list federally recognized public charities that offer social services as essential services.
After receiving a call from one of his sidewalk counselors, Benham told The Daily Wire, he drove to the abortion clinic, where he saw his group surrounded by about fifteen individual police officers.
The law enforcement officers told Benham that &#8220;there&#8217;s more than ten people here&#8221; and advised him that if the group did not disperse, they would be arrested.
&#8220;We do care about the health crisis,&#8221; Benham told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We did practice social distancing.&#8221; He added that his group chalked the sidewalk so that they could remain ten feet apart from one another, and had plenty of hand sanitizer available.
When the police refused to back off, Benham realized he was going to be arrested, he says, but felt that it was a &#8220;moment.&#8221;
&#8220;You don&#8217;t even understand what you just woke up,&#8221; Benham says he told the officer, noting that Americans all over the country are concerned about government using the coronavirus crisis to abuse its authority.
The group&#8217;s history with the state and city also gave Benham reason to believe Cities for Life was being unfairly targeted: &#8220;This is selective enforcement of the law. You are coming after us because we&#8217;re standing in front of an abortion clinic.&#8221;
Benham chronicled the incident on his Twitter account, and included a video showing him facing off with North Carolina police officers who accused Benham of engaging in &#8220;non-essential&#8221; activity outside of the abortion clinic, even though the clinic is open and providing abortions.
&#8220;This morning, was unlawfully arrested while supporting sidewalk counselors outside an abortion clinic. Many have labeled David a fake Christian and claimed that he endangered lives by being out. These accusations couldn’t [be] further from the truth,&#8221; Benham&#8217;s account reported Sunday morning.
&#8220;David maintained social distancing while exercising all necessary precautions in light of COVID-19,&#8221; the Benham Brothers account continued. &#8220;This video has the full story. Thank you for your continued support as we fight for life!&#8221;
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This morning, <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidDBenham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@daviddbenham</a> was unlawfully arrested while supporting sidewalk counselors outside an abortion clinic. Many have labeled David a fake Christian and claimed that he endangered lives by being out. These accusations couldn’t further from the truth. <a href="https://t.co/5NB629z3CH">pic.twitter.com/5NB629z3CH</a>
&mdash; Benham Brothers (@BenhamBrothers) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenhamBrothers/status/1246685510308966400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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David maintained social distancing while exercising all necessary precautions in light of COVID-19. This video has the full story. Thank you for your continued support as we fight for life! <a href="https://t.co/QrXbj9k27Z">pic.twitter.com/QrXbj9k27Z</a>
&mdash; Benham Brothers (@BenhamBrothers) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenhamBrothers/status/1246688808357244929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The video shows David interacting with a police officer and explaining that, if abortions are allowed to continue inside the clinic, than the work of pro-lifers, ministering to at-risk women, is also essential. He also explains that the sidewalk counselors are maintaining the recommended six-foot &#8220;social distance&#8221; and washing their hands frequently.
&#8220;(2) The sidewalk counselors stayed over 6’ apart and there were less than five of them. Yet this officer selectively enforced the law, even though Cities4Life had less than 10 people,&#8221; the Benham Brothers reported.
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(2) The sidewalk counselors stayed over 6’ apart and there were less than five of them. Yet this officer selectively enforced the law, even though Cities4Life had less than 10 people <a href="https://t.co/dpBfgCSyQD">pic.twitter.com/dpBfgCSyQD</a>
&mdash; Benham Brothers (@BenhamBrothers) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenhamBrothers/status/1246579594955755521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The group, he says, helps more than 5,000 women a month choose life.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rushed to David&#8217;s defense, posting the video and noting that, as an attorney, he believes David&#8217;s arrest is unconstitutional, given that he was engaging in Constitutionally protected speech and abiding by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
&#8220;WATCH: My friend David Benham was unconstitutionally arrested today in NC for peacefully providing pregnancy counseling outside an abortion clinic. If NC deems abortion &#8216;essential,&#8217; then pregnancy care services are as well. This is WRONG; Governor Cooper should be ashamed,&#8221; Cruz wrote, referencing North Carolina&#8217;s governor, who issued the shelter in place order back on March 27, 2020, but insists that abortion services are &#8220;essential&#8221; and cannot be disrupted.
&#8220;This is an unconstitutional arrest,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;[Benham Brothers] exercising core First Amendment rights. PEACEFULLY. In a way fully consistent [with] public safety. Because elected Dems are pro-abortion, they are abusing their power—in a one-sided way—to silence pregnancy counselors.&#8221;
In a separate thread, Cruz laid out the case against Benham&#8217;s arrest.
&#8220;Take 2 minutes to WATCH the full video. Have you ever seen an arrest like this? Peaceful. Respectful. Thanking the police officers. Elected Dems are abusing their power for political agenda [and] face civil liability under 42 USC 1983,&#8221; Cruz wrote, referencing the Federal statute under which individuals whose Constitutional rights have been violated may bring a case against public servants.
&#8220;42 USC 1983: Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress,&#8221; Cruz wrote, citing the provision.
David wrote his own account on social media Sunday, as well.
&#8220;My boys and I went to support the awesome sidewalk counselors who work with our non- profit, Cities for Life,&#8221; David wrote on Twitter. &#8220;We offer life-affirming services for at-risk mothers. It’s been an absolute privilege serving over 5,000 vulnerable mothers who felt abortion was their only choice!&#8221;
&#8220;We support taking every precaution during COVID-19,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This is why we maintained our social distance and stayed under 10 in number. We were not belligerent… We simply stood our ground. MLK once said, &#8216;A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.'&#8221;
Speaking to The Daily Wire, Benham said he will continue to pursue the case and publicize the incident so that states and cities recognize their power, even in a crisis, cannot be unchecked.
&#8220;I am not going to let the government have unlimited power and use this crisis to their advantage,&#8221; he said.

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Judge Lee Yeakel, who serves on the United States District Court for Western District of Texas, ruled Monday that abortion clinics must temporarily remain open and cannot be prohibited from performing non-medically necessary abortions as a public health measure. 
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/judge-lifts-texas-abortion-ban-pegged-to-coronavirus-pandemic-156210">Politico</a>, Judge Yeakel maintained that the Supreme Court has already ruled against enshrining an “outright ban” on abortions, and equated the state’s desire to limit access to the procedure to an effective ban. 
&#8220;Regarding a woman&#8217;s right to a pre-fetal-viability abortion, the Supreme Court has spoken clearly. There can be no outright ban on such a procedure,” said Judge Yeakel, reports the news agency. 
&#8220;This court will not speculate on whether the Supreme Court included a silent &#8216;except-in-a-national-emergency clause&#8217; in its previous writings on the issue,&#8221; said Judge Yeakel. 
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/abortion-clinics-coronavirus-texas.html">New York Times</a> reports that the procedure has been given temporary amnesty within the state until the courts can fully decide whether temporary abortion bans on non-medically necessary abortions can continue amidst the coronavirus pandemic. 
Last week, Gov. Gregg Abbott (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthood-sues-texas-after-governor-declares-abortion-non-essential">temporarily banned</a> abortion clinics from continuing to perform them, arguing that such procedures were &#8220;non-essential&#8221; and that allowing them to continue would unnecessarily diminish the state’s medical supplies. 
As <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-planned-parenthood-aclu-center-reproductive-rights-sue-states-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic/">NBC News</a> reports, multiple states have enacted emergency policies that prohibit abortion clinics from performing them during the coronavirus pandemic, but the policies have been challenged by abortion advocates. 
&#8220;We cannot let anti-abortion activists dictate public health policy. A global pandemic is not an excuse to attack essential, time-sensitive medical procedures like abortion,&#8221; said Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood, the organization that filed the lawsuit against Texas, reports the news agency. 
&#8220;These political distractions cost valuable time and resources that our state and federal officials cannot afford to waste,” said McGill Johnson. “Abortion is essential and patients who need this care cannot wait. This is what it&#8217;s come down to: court battles just so doctors and nurses can care for patients during a public health crisis. Anti-abortion activists have gone too far.&#8221;
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has pushed back against Planned Parenthood, pointing out that abortion advocates have repeatedly maintained that abortion is a “choice” and should thus be considered an elective procedure, not an essential one. 
“It is unconscionable that abortion providers are fighting against the health of Texans and withholding desperately needed supplies and personal protective equipment in favor of a procedure that they refer to as a ‘choice,&#8217;” said Paxton. 
“My office will tirelessly defend Governor Abbott’s Order to ensure that necessary supplies reach the medical professionals combating this national health crisis,” said the attorney general. 
Politico reports that the abortion ban will be put on hold in Texas until April 13, preventing the state from levying the $1,000 fine or 6 months in jail for providers who continue to perform abortions during the coronavirus pandemic. 
At this time, however, it is currently unclear when the courts will determine whether the temporary abortion ban will be allowed to continue.

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As Americans across the country face health risks and economic fallout due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times editorial board is calling for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/abortion-law-coronavirus.html">even more access to abortions</a>.
The Times editorial board accuses states who have declared abortion clinics a &#8220;non-essential&#8221; business as &#8220;exploit[ing] a pandemic that’s already cost hundreds of American lives&#8221; in order to &#8220;restrict women’s bodily autonomy.&#8221;
Texas, Ohio, and Louisiana have all made that declaration, sparking the ire of abortion advocates. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists even issued a <a href="https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2020/03/joint-statement-on-abortion-access-during-the-covid-19-outbreak">joint statement</a> at the start of the pandemic urging states to treat abortion clinics as essential businesses:
<blockquote>Abortion is an essential component of comprehensive health care. It is also a time-sensitive service for which a delay of several weeks, or in some cases days, may increase the risks or potentially make it completely inaccessible. The consequences of being unable to obtain an abortion profoundly impact a person’s life, health and well-being.</blockquote>
&#8220;The &#8216;nonessential&#8217; bit is obvious nonsense and the delay a transparent attempt to put abortion out of reach for those who need it,&#8221; the editorial reads. &#8220;&#8230;These state leaders know that once an abortion clinic closes for any significant period, it becomes difficult to reopen.&#8221;
According to the Times editorial board, if states restrict abortion access during the pandemic (and other potential crises), certain radical solutions should be adopted: abortion pills in the mail, taxpayer-funded birth control, and taxpayer-funded abortions.
&#8220;Given the coronavirus pandemic, it is incumbent on the F.D.A. to relax its regulation on mifepristone, at least temporarily,&#8221; the Times said of abortion pills by mail. &#8220;Doing so would allow many women to get a prescription for abortion-inducing drugs from a doctor via telemedicine, at which point the medications could be mailed to the patient. Unfortunately, 18 states effectively ban abortion care via telemedicine — measures that also ought to be lifted, at least for the time being.&#8221;
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After advocating that Americans have &#8220;birth control for all,&#8221; the editorial concludes by calling for the abolishment of the Hyde Amendment, allowing the government to fund abortions with taxpayer dollars.
&#8220;It’s long past time to end America’s bans on government funding for abortions, like the federal Hyde Amendment and similar state measures,&#8221; the Times&#8217; editorial board concludes. &#8220;These bans mean that poor women already struggle to afford reproductive health care — an issue that’s sure to be exacerbated during the coronavirus crisis and the economic fallout from it.&#8221;
The historic $2 trillion stimulus bill recently passed by Congress will not be helping abortion providers conduct their business during this unprecedented time. Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, denounced President Trump and the GOP for not allowing abortion clinics to benefit from the package.
“It has become shamefully clear that not even a global pandemic will stop the Trump administration or Republican Congressional leaders from attacking access to reproductive care,” said McGill Johnson in a <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/senate-covid-19-response-package-leaves-much-to-be-done-for-our-families-and-public-health-response">statement</a>. “Our leaders should be working to support the nation’s full network of safety-net health care providers during these uncertain times. Instead, the Senate bill targets Planned Parenthood and expands the harmful and discriminatory Hyde amendment, putting up even more barriers to care for women, people with low incomes, and communities of color.”
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WHO Demands Abortion Be Considered ‘Essential’ Healthcare Services During Coronavirus Pandemic

David Benham Arrested For Pro-Life Counseling, Accused Of Breaking ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Order

Judge Deals Blow To Texas Abortion Policy After Governor Declares It ‘Non-Essential’

New York Times Editorial Board Calls For More Access To Abortions During Pandemic

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‘These Souls Deserve To Live’: Kanye West Tweets Photo Of Babies In The Womb

Planned Parenthood, Feminists Respond To Kanye West

Democrats Save Joe Biden, Take Federal Abortion Funding Off 2020 Spending Bills

Ben Sasse: Planned Parenthood Just Admitted To Committing ‘Infanticide’

Joe Biden Endorses Abortion ‘Under Any Circumstance’ In Statement After SCOTUS Ruling

John Roberts Casts Deciding Vote As Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Restrictions

Feminist Groups Sue Pro-Life Group For Calling Them ‘Criminal’

WALSH: If Black Lives Matter, Defund Planned Parenthood, Not The Police

WATCH: Unsealed Video Shows Planned Parenthood Execs Under Oath Discussing Baby Body Parts Sales

Ben Sasse: Fire Officials Who Approved Pandemic Aid For ‘Big Abortion’ Provider Planned Parenthood

WALSH: Pro-Abortion Doc Claims Prominent Pro-Life Advocate Confessed That She Was ‘Acting.’ There Is Good Reason To Be Skeptical.

‘Jane Roe’ Of ‘Roe V. Wade’ Said She Was Paid To Lie About Being Pro-Life In ‘Deathbed Confession,’ New Doc Claims. Pro-Lifers Who Knew Her Push Back.

CBS News Op-Ed: COVID-19 Abortion Restrictions Are A ‘Public Health Crisis’

Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Abortions Are ‘Life-Sustaining’

WALSH: A Shutdown That Could Save A Million Lives Every Year

Cruz Condemns Arrest Of Pro-Lifer David Benham. Paper Calls Him ‘Shameless.’ Cruz Unloads.

WHO Demands Abortion Be Considered ‘Essential’ Healthcare Services During Coronavirus Pandemic

David Benham Arrested For Pro-Life Counseling, Accused Of Breaking ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Order

Judge Deals Blow To Texas Abortion Policy After Governor Declares It ‘Non-Essential’

New York Times Editorial Board Calls For More Access To Abortions During Pandemic

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