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

Abortion

New York Times

Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights have partnered with an abortion rights law firm to sue the state of Texas after Republican governor Greg Abbott declared abortion services &#8220;non-essential&#8221; amid the coronavirus crisis, forcing the nation&#8217;s largest abortion provider to shutter its doors.
Abbott issued the ban, Fox News reports, to protect the state&#8217;s supply of emergency medical equipment and personal protective gear &#8220;after warnings from health care professionals that patients sick with the coronavirus might overwhelm hospital capacity and deplete supplies, such as personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses.&#8221;
The governor implored health care providers like Planned Parenthood to postpone any procedures that are not medically necessary and donate their medical supplies to doctors and hospitals treating an influx of coronavirus patients.
Planned Parenthood, however, does not believe abortions are &#8220;non-essential&#8221; services and, Wednesday night, announced in an email to supporters that it would be suing governor Abbott to continue its practice statewide.
&#8220;Gov. Abbott and anti-abortion activists nationwide are forcing a legal and political fight in the middle of a public health crisis,&#8221; Planned Parenthood&#8217;s acting president said in her letter. &#8220;Elected leaders are expending valuable time and resources exploiting a global pandemic to score political points instead of rallying to respond to this crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;Abortion care is time-sensitive and essential health care that has a profound impact on a person’s health and life, which is why it is protected as a constitutional right. Texas is abusing the state’s emergency powers and we are filing suit today to stop it,&#8221; added the Center for Reproductive Rights&#8217; own president.
The suit demands a restraining order be put in place against Abbott&#8217;s directive, and argues that Planned Parenthood uses only minimal personal protective equipment. The group claims that Abbott is &#8220;singling abortion providers and their patients out for differential treatment from providers of other medical services and their patients,&#8221; even though Abbott&#8217;s ban applies to all ambulatory surgical centers statewide.
Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive rights also claim Texas&#8217;s directive violates the 14th Amendment, because it restricts access to a constitutionally protected activity.
The abortion provider defended its lawsuit in a second fundraising email, suggesting that Planned Parenthood is somehow on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus: “Planned Parenthood doctors, nurses, cleaning staff, counselors, and administrators do so much, from reassuring a scared patient to providing expert care without judgment. And right now, they’re putting their health and lives at risk to ensure patients get the information and care they need.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he finds Planned Parenthood&#8217;s commitment to abortion in the face of a national pandemic &#8220;unconscionable&#8221; and says he will defend the state&#8217;s decision to shut down abortion services.
&#8220;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,'&#8221; Paxton said on social media in response to Planned Parenthood&#8217;s announcement. &#8220;My office will tirelessly defend Governor Abbott’s Order to ensure that necessary supplies reach the medical professionals combating this national health crisis.&#8221;

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Planned Parenthood Sues Texas After Governor Declares Abortion ‘Non-Essential’

Coronavirus

Planned Parenthood

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has said, and repeatedly returned to the theme, that all of the lock downs and quarantines in his state will be worth it even if it saves &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-in-ny-cuomo-orders-lockdown-shuts-down-non-essential-businesses/">just one life</a>.&#8221; Other Democratic governors and mayors have <a href="https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/03/20/l.a.-mayor-says-hell-deputize-city-bureaucrats-to-enforce-stay-at-home-order">made similar statements</a>. Last night Joe Biden tweeted, in an apparent response to Trump&#8217;s desire to re-open the economy sooner rather than later, that &#8220;no one is expendable&#8221; and &#8220;no life is worth losing to add one more point to the Dow.&#8221;
The first problem with these comments is that they are manifestly absurd. Obviously it would not be worth it to collapse the economy and consign millions to destitution just to save one life. And while it&#8217;s true that no one is expendable as an individual, it is not true that &#8220;no life is worth losing&#8221; in order to salvage the economy. Biden is trying to turn the economic concerns of those who want to end the shut downs into a quibble over points on the stock market index, but he knows better. What&#8217;s at stake here is not merely the stock market but the livelihoods of countless Americans. What he has really argued, then, is that it cannot be worth it for any individual life to be lost in order to preserve the livelihoods of many millions. That is simply ridiculous. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-trump-is-attacked-for-comparing-the-coronavirus-to-car-accidents-his-critics-are-completely-missing-his-point">As I wrote yesterday</a>, we all believe that 35,000 dead on our roadways every year is a price worth paying so that we can drive around and get from Point A to Point B quicker. The idea that even one dead person is not worth it to preserve the entire economy is, therefore, nonsensical.
Now, it may be possible to take these statements from Cuomo, Biden, et al, in a more generous light. Perhaps they aren&#8217;t speaking literally and what they really mean is simply that life is enormously precious and great sacrifice is sometimes necessary to preserve it. Well, I&#8217;d suggest that now is not the time for vague hyperbole from our leaders, and if they mean &#8220;life is enormously precious and great sacrifice is sometimes necessary to preserve it&#8221; they should simply say so. More to the point, however, we already know that these people do not actually view human life this way. They do not think human life is, in and of itself, precious.
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Governor Cuomo just last year signed a bill into law that legalizes abortion through every stage of pregnancy. Cuomo believes in, and has helped to facilitate, the murder of fully-developed and viable infants in the womb. This is Biden&#8217;s view, too, though only recently adopted. It is clear that they do not think life is precious, they do not believe that Heaven and Earth should be moved to save one life or even a million lives (the number killed by abortion every year), and they do in fact believe that some life is expendable. To these Democrats, human life prior to birth has less than no value. It has, indeed, negative value. According to their ideology, the destruction of innocent life can sometimes be a positive good and cause for celebration.
I don&#8217;t suggest that Cuomo, Biden, or any of the rest of them are insincere in their concern for the mostly elderly people being killed by the coronavirus. I&#8217;m sure they do find the death toll quite troubling, just as any rational person would. But they are plainly insincere in their concern for human life generally. So, we cannot take their &#8220;destroy the economy to save one life&#8221; arguments literally because the literal interpretation is insane. And we cannot take the arguments broadly and non-literally because the broad and non-literal interpretation conflicts with their platforms and policies. We are left, then, with no way to take them at all. Except as lies, plain and simple.

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WALSH: Governor Cuomo Says Dramatic Measures Are Worth It To Save ‘Just One Life.’ Then Why Did He Legalize Late-Term Abortion?

Andrew Cuomo

COVID-19

On Friday, March 20, the Ohio Attorney General’s office <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/assets/pdf/OH34675321.pdf?vcrmeid=6saFsKqA30uopb10lVbo1w&amp;vcrmiid=KLWddqIr60CjfOaBq0B90Q">issued a letter</a> to Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio’s Cincinnati Surgery Center and <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/assets/pdf/OH34659321.pdf">another</a> to the Women’s Med Center in Dayton that pointed out that the non-essential and or elective surgeries and procedures utilizing personal protective equipment the two organizations were continuing to perform must be canceled.
But as the pro-life organization <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/ohio-ag-facilities-halt-elective-abortions/">Live Action</a> pointed out, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio’s Cincinnati Surgery Center thumbed its nose at the state, writing on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ppswo/photos/rpp.45323637297/10158108317382298/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook page</a> the very next day that it was “complying” with the order, but added, “Under that order, Planned Parenthood can still continue providing essential procedures, including surgical abortion … Our doors remain open.”
In the letter to Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio, Attorney General Dave Yost’s office had written:
<blockquote>On March 17, 2020, the Ohio Department of Health issued an order pursuant to the Department’s powers under R.C. 3701.13. That order (attached) cancelled all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures utilizing personal protective equipment (“PPE”) as of 5:00 p.m. on March 18, 2020. The order was issued, in part, to preserve PPE for health care providers who are battling the COVID-19 pandemic that is spreading in our state and also to preserve critical hospital capacity and resources.
The Ohio Department of Health has received a complaint that your facility has been performing or continues to offer to perform surgical abortions, which necessarily involve the use of PPE. On behalf of the Department, you and your facility are ordered to immediately stop performing non-essential and elective surgical abortions. Non-essential surgical abortions are those that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient. The Department of Health has outlined criteria to consider when determining whether a procedure is essential (see attached order). If you or your facility do not immediately stop performing non-essential or elective surgical abortions in compliance with the attached order, the Department of Health will take all appropriate measures.
This is an unprecedented time in the state’s history and everyone must do their part to help stop the spread of this disease.</blockquote>
LiveAction noted, “According to <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/03/21/ohio-abortion-clinics-ordered-closed-yost-under-health-directors-order/2891100001/">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, one abortion facility spokeswoman whom the news outlet contacted &#8216;pointed to a statement from a consortium of gynecological groups saying clinics should remain open,’ disregarding the state of Ohio’s order.”
Ohio Right to Life president Michael Gonidakis wrote to Ohio Planned Parenthood President Iris Harvey, “By performing surgical abortions, your company is putting the health and safety of all Ohioans in danger. Your current noncompliance will undoubtedly contribute to the spread of COVID-19 and put the lives of first responders, nurses and doctors in danger.”
As Live Action noted, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently stated in a <a href="https://aaplog.org/press-release-aaplog-statement-on-acog-abortion-agenda-during-covid-19-pandemic/">press release</a>:
<blockquote>Continuing to perform elective abortions during a pandemic is medically irresponsible. Abortions use up much needed resources such as masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment. The practice also potentially generates more patients to be seen in already overburdened emergency rooms &#8230; Uterine perforation and hemorrhage can occur with surgical abortions. Because most abortion providers do not manage their own complications, instead instructing women to go to an ER if they have problems, emergency rooms who are already struggling to keep up with the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to need to provide care to these women.</blockquote>

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Ohio Planned Parenthood Ignores State Order Banning Elective Surgical Abortions During Coronavirus Crisis

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On Wednesday, a group of major obstetric organizations, concerned that abortion might be limited because of the nation’s focus on the coronavirus, issued a statement insisting that abortion not be considered a procedure that should be delayed because of the coronavirus crisis.
The group included The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Board of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology, the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, the American Gynecological &amp; Obstetrical Society, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Society of Family Planning, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
The <a href="https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2020/03/acog-proudly-observes-international-womens-day">statement</a> they released asserted:
<blockquote>As hospital systems, clinics, and communities prepare to meet anticipated increases in demand for the care of people with COVID-19, strategies to mitigate spread of the virus and to maximize health care resources are evolving. Some health systems, at the guidance of the CDC, are implementing plans to cancel elective and non-urgent procedures to expand hospitals’ capacity to provide critical care.
While most abortion care is delivered in outpatient settings, in some cases care may be delivered in hospital-based settings or surgical facilities. To the extent that hospital systems or ambulatory surgical facilities are categorizing procedures that can be delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion should not be categorized as such a procedure. 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>
The group asserted that they “do not support COVID-19 responses that cancel or delay abortion procedures. Community-based and hospital-based clinicians should consider collaboration to ensure abortion access is not compromised during this time.”
On March 8, observing International Women’s Day,the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists <a href="https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2020/03/acog-proudly-observes-international-womens-day">stated</a> its opposition to pro-life laws implemented across the country, writing:
<blockquote>Every woman deserves to be a partner in shared decision-making with her clinician about the medical decisions that affect her health and well-being. Every woman deserves to live in a society where she is free of penalty or punishment when making choices regarding her health and her body that are best for her. And every woman deserves to receive respectful care.
Our journey here in the United States and around the world to uphold these principles through our medical care and advocacy efforts is a distinct honor. ACOG is committed to upholding #EachforEqual by continuing to oppose laws or policies that intend to strip women of their reproductive rights and access to safe care and by improving the delivery of maternal and women’s health care for women everywhere.</blockquote>
On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/case-for-abortion-telemedicine/">Mother Jones</a> published an article suggesting that telemedicine, where physicians “administer medication via webcam and a remotely-controlled drawer” should be utilized for abortions during the coronavirus crisis. Mother Jones opined:
<blockquote>There’s the obvious social distancing it allows (though states have different regulations regarding where telemedicine appointments can take place and who must be present to preside over them). But Dr. Daniel Grossman, the director of the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, points out another key, though less readily apparent benefit: In a pandemic, hospitals in particular are forced to prioritize infected patients, which may mean abortion care gets de-prioritized, despite the time-sensitive nature of the procedure. Telemedicine allows abortion providers to bridge the gap.</blockquote>

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PRIORITIES: Obstetric Organizations Worried About Access To Abortion During Coronavirus Crisis

Abortion advocates and pro-choice progressives, hellbent on clearing Congress of any remaining pro-life Democrats, scored a major victory in Illinois Tuesday night, ousting one of the last remaining Democratic abortion opponents, Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL).
Lipinski lost to Marie Newman, a former &#8220;marketing consultant&#8221; backed and a dedicated abortion proponent, who was backed by all major abortion advocacy groups, and who attacked Lipinski over his record on &#8220;reproductive rights&#8221; in a well-funded advertising blitz aimed at turning out a progressive voter coalition in Illinois&#8217; typically moderate 3rd Congressional district.
&#8220;With 494 of 500 precincts reporting Wednesday morning,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-life-dem-dan-lipinksi-loses-primary-to-progressive-challenger/">National Review reports</a>, &#8220;Newman led the incumbent Lipinski by less than 3,000 votes. Polling experts suggested the coronavirus outbreak could have played a decisive factor, with Lipinski’s strong support among older voters likely waning as seniors elected to stay home.&#8221;
Lipinski has not yet conceded to Newman, telling local media in Chicago Wednesday morning that he&#8217;s waiting for all absentee and write-in ballots to be counted, but it will be difficult for Lipinski to overcome the difference in votes.
Newman, however, claimed victory Wednesay night, trumpeting the &#8220;progressive coalition&#8221; that propelled her to victory.
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I am bursting with pride and gratitude for the amazing coalition that helped bring about much needed change in our district. We are going to work together to lower health care costs, to fight climate change, and to build an economy that works for everyone. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewDayInIL03?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NewDayInIL03</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IL03?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IL03</a>
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&#8220;I am bursting with pride and gratitude for the amazing coalition that helped bring about much needed change in our district,” she wrote on social media.
This is the second time Newman challenged Lipinski; she lost narrowly to the pro-life Democrat in 2018. In 2018, however, the Democratic party was still reticent about enshrining abortion rights in the group&#8217;s official platform. That&#8217;s changed, though, with nearly all of the contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination acknowledging that support for abortion rights is critical to membership in the modern Democratic party.
In some cases, as with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), candidates for the presidential nomination have even supported an unofficial abortion rights &#8220;litmus test,&#8221; suggesting that any opposition to the practice of abortion, from conception until nearly the moment of birth, is unacceptable.
Abortion rights advocates even forced the Democratic party to drop support for Lipinski, drumming Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL), the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, until she abandoned plans to host a fundraiser for Lipinski. Bustos tried to head off the progressive surge, telling Illinois Democrats that “every dollar spent trying to defeat one of our Democratic incumbents is a dollar that we cannot spend defeating Republicans,” but it was of no use.
Lipinski, the last remaining pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives (the only others, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Bob Casey and West Virginia&#8217;s Joe Manchin, are in the Senate), became a prime target for ouster largely because of his outspoken opposition to abortion, as well as his opposition to Obamacare and same-sex marriage. Newman&#8217;s victory, although couched in progressive terms, was almost entirely about the practice of abortion.
Newman earned the support of NARAL, Emily&#8217;s List, Planned Parenthood, and other major abortion rights groups, as well as the Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fronted Justice Democrats, and she focused her campaign ads on Lipinski&#8217;s opposition to abortion, even going so far as to claim Lipinski &#8220;marched with the opposition&#8221; when he took part in the March for Life.
“He is no better than many of the Republicans out there,” Newman said in one of her speeches. “He is so one-issue focused, it affects all of his decision-making. He’s preoccupied night and day by [abortion].&#8221;
After Tuesday, it is clear that Democrats see anyone who opposed abortion as an opponent, regardless of party affiliation.

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Progressives, Pro-Choicers Oust One Of The Last Remaining Pro-Life Democrats In Congress

2020 Election

Speaking with Jonathan Swan of <a href="https://www.axios.com/dnc-tom-perez-donald-trump-abortion-religion-bf7f1f64-4242-4c34-b6e1-b7d2d283c4f2.html">Axios,</a> Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez took the step of quoting Scripture to  lecture a Catholic cardinal for criticizing him on his unflinching support for abortion. Swan asked Perez about Cardinal Timothy Dolan criticizing Perez after Perez said in 2017 that every Democrat should view a woman’s right to choose abortion as “non-negotiable.”
Dolan had said, &#8220;It saddens me and weakens the democracy millions of Americans cherish when the party that once embraced Catholics now slams the door on us.”
Perez, cherry-picking from Matthew 25, responded, &#8220;Well, actually the majority of Catholics voted for Democrats in 2016. So apparently the cardinal may not understand that Matthew 25 is a pretty important teaching. And Matthew 25 says, you know, when you are hungry, I fed you. When you were naked, I provided you with clothing. When you were an immigrant, I welcomed you. I think one of the reasons why so many people are moving away from Donald Trump is that he&#8217;s abandoned all of those values.”
Swan notes, &#8220;Fact check: The Catholic vote was closely split between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016.”
Additionally, the complete parable in Matthew 25 ends with Jesus saying, “‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” As John Hirschauer of <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democratic-national-committee-chairman-tom-perez-catholic-vote/">National Review</a> notes, “As for Perez’s concern for the ‘least of these’– I can hardly think of a more vulnerable human being in our society than the unborn child that his party supports killing up until the moment of birth. Something Perez might contemplate if he reads the Last Judgment parable <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A41&amp;version=DRA">through to its end</a>.”
The complete parable reads:
<blockquote>When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”
Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?”
The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink;  I was a stranger and you did not invite me in; I needed clothes and you did not clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.”
They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?”
He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.</blockquote>
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DNC Chair Quotes Scripture — To Lecture Catholic Cardinal For Criticizing Him On Abortion

Catholicism

Tom Perez

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allegedly tried to sneak a provision in the coronavirus economic stimulus plan that would circumvent the Hyde Amendment and allow abortion clinics to receive taxpayer funding, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NB) blasted her for her actions in an interview with <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sasse-rips-pelosi-for-trying-to-smuggle-hyde-amendment-loophole-into-coronavirus-package/">National Review</a>.
Sasse said, “While schools are closing and hospitals are gearing up, Speaker Pelosi is waging unnecessary culture wars. Speaker Pelosi should be fighting the coronavirus pandemic, not politicizing emergency funding by fighting against the bipartisan Hyde Amendment. We need to be ramping up our diagnostic testing, not waging culture wars at the behest of Planned Parenthood. Good grief.”
National Review noted:
<blockquote>Pelosi attempted to secure a funding stream of up to $1 billion for reimbursing laboratory claims. According to White House officials <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/12/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-coronavirus-stimulus-hyde-amendment-abortion-funding-white-house-allegations/">who spoke with the Daily Caller</a>, that provision would establish a precedent under which health claims for all procedures, including abortion, could be reimbursed with federal funds. That precedent would render the Hyde Amendment, which blocks taxpayer funding for abortion clinics, obsolete.</blockquote>
Speaking on Fox News Thursday night, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) admitted “right now we are hearing that some of the fights and some of the gridlock is because people are trying to put pro-life provisions into this.”
Many Democrats support eliminating the Hyde Amendment; last June former Vice President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-says-times-have-changed-in-reversing-support-for-ban-on-public-money-for-abortions">stated</a>:
<blockquote>I’ve supported the Hyde Amendment like many, many others have because there was sufficient monies and circumstances where women were able to exercise that right. But circumstances have changed. I’ve been working through the final details of my healthcare plan like others in this race and I’ve been struggling with the problems that Hyde now presents. I can’t justify leaving millions of women without access to care they need and the ability to constitute, exercise their constitutionally protected right. If I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone’s ZIP code.</blockquote>
Pelosi’s move is in contrast to her behavior last summer; <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/democrats-hyde-amendment-history/591646/">The Atlantic</a> reported last June:
<blockquote>This week, amid spending negotiations in the House, a freshman representative from Massachusetts, Ayanna Pressley, pushed a proposal <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/447894-democrats-scuttle-attempt-to-strike-hyde-amendment-from-spending-bill" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'0',r'None'">to eliminate the Hyde Amendment</a>, which bans reimbursement for most abortions through programs such as Medicaid, from the Health and Human Services budget. Democratic leaders quickly shut Pressley down, refusing to even bring her amendment to the House floor for a vote. Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/447894-democrats-scuttle-attempt-to-strike-hyde-amendment-from-spending-bill" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'1',r'None'">said</a> she doesn’t “see an opportunity to get rid of [Hyde]” given Republican control of the White House and Senate.</blockquote>
Pressley’s <a href="https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/govdoc20190607-200982.pdf">amendment</a>, which was <a href="https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/11/pro-choice-house-lawmakers-strike-discriminatory-hyde-amendment-from-budget/">also introduced</a> by U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), stated:
<blockquote>The Federal Government shall—
(1) ensure coverage for abortion care in public health insurance programs (including Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program);
(2) in its role as an employer or health plan sponsor, ensure coverage for abortion care for participants and beneficiaries; and
(3) in its role as a provider of health services, ensure abortion care is made available to individuals who are eligible to receive services in its own facilities or in facilities with which it contracts to provide medical care.
(b) The Federal Government may not prohibit, restrict, or otherwise inhibit insurance coverage of abortion care by State or local government or by private health plans.</blockquote>

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford And Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Testify To Senate Judiciary Committee

Pelosi Allegedly Tried Sneaking Pro-Abortion Language Into Coronavirus Bill. Ben Sasse Blasts Her.

Ben Sasse

Nancy Pelosi

A registered nurse who works at Planned Parenthood in New York boasts in a published article that she is “proud to be an abortion provider” and works “with a smile.”
Sunoz Soroosh, who noted her article was published on National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers, writes in <a href="https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/10/im-a-proud-abortion-provider-heres-why/">Rewire</a>, “Every day, I walk through the doors of the Planned Parenthood health center where I work with a smile, often singing along to a song playing on my headphones. Many find this surprising considering there are usually anti-abortion protesters outside the health center taunting me and my patients or trying to convince me to ‘find a better job.’ They fail to realize I’m proud to be an abortion provider who puts patients first.”
Soroosh posits that her work has given her “clinical skills to pursue a higher education” as well as “the confidence to support patients during a deeply personal experience.”
After opining, “Abortion is health care, and health care is a fundamental human right that needs to be accessible for everyone,” Soroosh segues to claiming racism and economic inequalities “block people from getting vital health care—including safe, legal abortion care.”
She continues, “Women, especially women of color, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people, suffer the most from these systemic injustices that are exacerbated by lawmakers who oppose abortion rights.”
Then she launches into an attack on the Trump administration:
<blockquote>Unfortunately, the Trump administration, through its domestic &#8220;gag rule,&#8221; has forced health-care providers to stop offering a full range of reproductive health options if they are to continue receiving Title X family planning funding. That means Title X recipients can’t refer patients for abortion care even if that’s the option they want.</blockquote>
Soroosh writes, “People must have the freedom to decide on their own if, when, and with whom to have a family, without interference from politicians or anti-abortion extremists fixated on stripping people of their bodily autonomy. I trust my patients to make their own sexual and reproductive health-care decisions, and in return, they trust me to be honest and deliver care with dignity and respect. I will never cower from my vow to my patients or my community.”
She concludes, “Being an abortion provider is more than a job for me. It’s a deeply personal commitment to helping people prioritize their health care needs and determine the future they want. Providers are here, protecting the lives and health of millions of people and their families—and we will be here for generations to come.”
As <a href="https://www.heritage.org/life/commentary/planned-parenthoods-annual-report-out-heres-what-you-need-know">The Heritage Foundation</a> noted in January 2019 following Planned Parenthood&#8217;s annual <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/80/d7/80d7d7c7-977c-4036-9c61-b3801741b441/190118-annualreport18-p01.pdf" data-external="yes">report</a> covering 2017-2018:
<blockquote>Planned Parenthood performed 332,757 abortions during the reported year, the most the abortion giant has reported since 2011-2012. In contrast, non-abortion services have declined significantly. Planned Parenthood reported a decrease in the provision of various services in 2017-2018, including:</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>570,444 breast exams and pap tests, down from 617,677 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>614,361 cancer screenings and prevention procedures, down from 660,777 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>216,722 well-woman exams, down from 235,355 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>2,620,867 provisions of birth control information and services, down from 2,701,866 in 2016-2017.</li>
<li>2,831 adoption referrals, down from 3,889 in 2016-2017.</li>
</ul>

Man Holding 12 Week Model Fetus

Nurse Who Works At Planned Parenthood: I ‘Work With A Smile’

On Tuesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey <a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/03/10/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-proclaims-march-10-abortion-provider-appreciation-day/">proclaimed</a> March 10 as Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. Frey stated that his action was taken to honor the local abortion provider, Whole Woman’s Health, saying, “Every day, abortion providers like Whole Woman’s Health deliver high quality care in the face of harassment and threats to abortion access at the federal and local levels. I’m proud to recognize today as Abortion Provider Appreciation Day to celebrate Whole Woman’s Health as an essential part of our community.”
Frey tweeted, “The professionals who ensure women can access safe reproductive healthcare do so despite threats of violence &amp; the persistent push to undermine Roe v. Wade. That’s why today is Abortion Provider Appreciation Day in Minneapolis.” March 10 was chosen because on March 10, 1993, Dr. David Gunn, an abortionist in Pensacola, Florida, was shot and killed.
<a href="http://thecatholicspirit.com/news/local-news/archbishop-instead-of-abortion-providers-twin-cities-should-honor-people-who-create-a-culture-of-life/?fbclid=IwAR0Q-gdTZNddjwTtF9Sb3e2gNcFXq_NR6gQlbqLvtsLJG9OPXTJ0YBgVm6E">Responding</a> to Frey’s announcement, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said he was “profoundly saddened,” asserting:
<blockquote>Given that each human life is created in the image and likeness of God and has value, to honor those who purposefully end such life is an affront not only to our Creator but to the foundational values of civil society. There is no way around it — abortion kills children. What gives me hope, however, are the countless women and men of goodwill who tirelessly give of themselves to accompany women in crisis pregnancies, love and assist moms and babies, and work to create a culture of life in our communities and in our world. It is those people we should be honoring.”</blockquote>
Frey’s announcement followed the St. Paul City Council unanimously <a href="https://stpaul.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4344161&amp;GUID=D5740140-A6C0-4027-869B-9A3BD238EC33&amp;Options=&amp;Search=&amp;FullText=1">passing a resolution</a> to recognize Abortion Providers Appreciation Day in St. Paul on March 4.  The <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2020/03/04/st-paul-city-council-approves-abortion-providers-appreciation-day/">Twin Cities Pioneer Press</a> reported, “The timing of the resolution — which drew no public discussion — was no accident. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday took a case involving a Louisiana law that requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals no more than 30 miles away.”
The resolution stated, “The Supreme Court of the United States now contains a majority of Justices who may not interpret the Constitution to provide protection for the right to end a pregnancy and may overturn or severely limit Roe v. Wade, which includes the threat of women patients and abortion providers being arrested and sent to jail.”
The case in question, June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo, was explained by <a href="https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/june-medical-services-l-l-c-v-gee/">The Constitutional Accountability Center</a> this way: “In June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo, the Supreme Court is considering whether the Fifth Circuit’s decision to uphold Louisiana’s Act 620, a law which requires physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, is in conflict with the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.”
Whole Woman’s Health’s background was this, as explained by <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/15-274">oyez.org</a>:
<blockquote>In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2 (H.B. 2), which contained several provisions related to abortions. One such provision required that any physician performing an abortion have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion was performed, and another provision required that all abortion clinics comply with standards for ambulatory surgical centers.</blockquote>
Between February 26 and April 5, Catholics in St. Paul and Minneapolis mark the <a href="https://plam.org/call-to-action/40-days-for-life-twincities/">40 Days for Life Twin Cities</a>, an annual Lenten prayer campaign to end abortion.
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Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis spoke during a press conference at  Amazon  North Loop tech office Wednesday May 2, 2018. ] JERRY HOLT ‚Ä¢ jerry.holt@startribune.com

Minneapolis Mayor Proclaimed March 10 ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day’

Minnesota

The team behind 2019’s “Unplanned” missed awards season by a country mile.
The indie film over-performed at the box office but critics savaged the drama, in part, for its pro-life messaging.
So Team “Unplanned” savored its three nominations from the Movieguide Awards, a Christian-themed ceremony self-described as “Recognizing the Good in Hollywood.”
Only those watching this year’s gala on Hallmark Drama didn’t realize “Unplanned” earned any nominations at all. The channel’s broadcast edited the movie’s name out of the list of nominees.
Three times.
Imagine an Oscars ceremony, or any awards event, doing the same.
Compare this to the media reception actress and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-actress-shouts-abortion-at-rally-boasts-of-beautiful-fing-home-hybrid-car">pro-abortion activist Busy Philipps</a> earned this week. The “Cougar Town” alum told a pro-choice throng that she credited her show business success to the abortion she had at the age of 15.
“And I have all of this, all of it, because, because, because, I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15!” the actress said.
“I will not be shamed into being quiet,” the 40-year-old continued. “We will not be shamed into being quiet. Never again! I will never stop talking about my abortion, or my periods, or my experiences in childbirth, my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up with the moon!”
Will Phillips lose any jobs for her pro-abortion rant? Did major media outlets refuse to cover her comments?
No, and no, and that’s a good thing, of course. She should say whatever she wants to say, and people can consider her comments accordingly.
Still, the double standards regarding abortion in the culture can be sizable – consider how little interest the media shows in the annual March for Life compared to far smaller protests.
This week showcased how it’s even more apparent in pop culture.
The story behind the “Unplanned” debacle didn’t start with the recent Movieguide Awards broadcast, though.
The film <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/left-pop-culture-unplanned/">faced obstacles few movies do prior to its release</a>. TV channels turned down its commercial. Music publishers refused to allow their songs to be heard in the film. The MPAA slapped the film with an “R” rating despite content that hardly merited that warning. Google briefly dubbed the film “propaganda.” Twitter yanked the film’s official account for several hours during the film’s all-important opening weekend.
Now this.
LifeSiteNews.com reports both Movieguide and Hallmark Drama <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-hallmark-to-reissue-award-show-after-christian-org-cut-unplanned-from-nominee-announcements">might deserve blame</a> for editing the movie out of the broadcast, which “Unplanned” star Ashley Bratcher sounded the alarm about on Twitter.
Ted Baehr, the founder and publisher of Movieguide, told the site his company turned the three and a half hour gala into a 42-minute long show for Hallmark Drama. Baehr added Movieguide, not Hallmark Drama, decided to remove any mention of “Unplanned” during that shortened version.
“We made some decisions. We may have made some wrong decisions, but we’ve made decisions,” Baehr told the site.
Yet Movieguide President and COO Robby Baehr told LifeSiteNews his team’s editor simply followed orders from Hallmark.
“[The editor] would never have had any power to do anything without their direction,” Robby Baehr said. “All final creative approval was done by Hallmark and not Movieguide or its editor Jeremy Carroll.”
Thanks, in part, to Bratcher bringing attention to the matter, Hallmark Drama will re-air the ceremony at 10 p.m. EST March 9 with “Unplanned” inserted back into the nominees.
Both Hallmark and Ted Baehr apologized to the filmmakers and Bratcher. The actress took the high road following the drama, sharing a statement on the matter with this reporter.
“I believe that when apologies are made and mistakes are corrected, it&#8217;s best to extend grace and move forward. I&#8217;m grateful to the people who helped our voice be heard, and I hope everyone will show their support by tuning in to watch the show on Monday or stream it on the app.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the very same week of both the Movieguide debacle and Philipps’ rant, a new abortion-themed movie trailer dropped. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” hitting select theaters March 13, also tackles the abortion issue.
Here’s the official description from Focus Features:
<blockquote>The film is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery and compassion.</blockquote>
The film’s festival run earned the movie a <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/never_rarely_sometimes_always">100 percent “fresh” rating</a> at RottenTomatoes.com. Indiewire.com cheered the fact that the MPAA gave the movie a <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2020/03/never-rarely-sometimes-always-pg-13-rating-1202215667/">less restrictive PG-13 rating</a>.
Entertainment Weekly called the movie an “urgent, extraordinary film for this very moment.”
Should “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” generate awards season love come December, chances are every awards show will say its name sans hesitation.

Ashley Bratcher

Busy Philipps vs. ‘Unplanned’ – How Pop Culture Treats Pro-Life Messages

Busy Phillips

Hollywood

pro-life

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has unveiled a <a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/reproductive-justice-all/">comprehensive abortion agenda</a> that would require states to receive approval before fully enacting new pro-life laws. 
The idea, which is outlined in the candidate’s Reproductive Health Care and Justice For All proposal, would “ban” state laws that “put undue and unnecessary burdens and regulations” on abortion providers. 
Specifics for the “preclearance” process have not yet been outlined, nor is it clear what government body would be approving these laws. 
In different portion of the proposal, Sanders also indicates that he wants to see Roe v Wade used as a litmus test for future Supreme Court nominees, and have the landmark abortion decision enshrined into law. 
The comprehensive abortion plan has been unveiled as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this week in the first abortion legislation case since the senate approved Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the court in 2018.
As the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-rallies-abortion-activists-they-shouldnt-even-want-to-have-sex-with-me">Daily Wire</a> previously reported, the plaintiffs in the case have challenged a Louisiana law that requires clinics to obtain hospital admitting privileges in case of a botched abortion. 
While the case is not expected to be decided soon, it attracted both pro-life protesters and pro-abortion protesters to demonstrate outside the courthouse, with some of the pro-abortion activists making some astounding remarks. 
During the demonstration, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) recalled her time serving as a Michigan lawmaker, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-calls-for-serious-action-to-be-taken-against-schumer-for-threatening-justices">proudly recalled</a> a particularly long one-liner. 
“You know I, in the legislature, in the Michigan legislature for six years, used to say to people, ‘Yo yo, you know what? You’re so freakin obsessed with what I decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn’t even want to have sex with me,’ or with you, or with any woman,” declared Tlaib. 
Renee Brecey Sherman, who embraces the nickname “The Beyonce of Abortion Story-Telling,” remarked during the demonstration that having an abortion was “honestly one of the best decisions of my life.”
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also drew <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-chief-justice-roberts-blasts-schumer-for-threatening-gorsuch-kavanaugh">condemnation</a> for making the following alleged threat to two conservative justices while speaking at the rally: “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
In response to the remarks, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement condemning Schumer’s words as “dangerous.”
“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” said Roberts. “All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”
According to The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-calls-for-serious-action-to-be-taken-against-schumer-for-threatening-justices">Daily Wire</a>, a spokesperson for Schumer said that the remarks had been mischaracterized, and suggested that by saying “you will pay the price,” he was actually referring to a political price. 
“It was a reference to the political price Rs will pay for putting them on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision,” the spokesperson continued.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Speaks Against GOP&#8217;s Plan For Social Security And Medicare

Abortion Czar? Sanders Administration Would ‘Require Preclearance’ For Pro-Life State Laws

Bernie Sanders

Much has been made of Chuck Schumer’s gangsterish threats against Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — and much should be made of it. The Supreme Court’s seizure of legislative power in such decisions as Roe and Obergefell — along with the explosive intrusiveness of the Administrative State — are at the heart of our current divisions. When the people are stripped of power by courts creating make-believe rights or by unelected bureaucracies churning out unappealable regulations, the people have no peaceful means of self-governance and are bound to resort to rage, threats and finally violence. Chuck Schumer is only an example of what is happening to us all.
But some attention should also be paid to the rest of the pro-abortion rally at which Schumer spoke.
When he stepped down, he was followed to the podium by an activist, who shouted, “Let’s hear it for Senator Schumer! Let’s hear it for all the people who have abortions! Let’s hear it for our trans folks who have abortions!” With each shout, the crowd cheered.
This was a concise and perfect little representation of leftism’s underlying philosophy: materialism, the idea that there is nothing to life but matter.
In a materialist world, the new life growing inside a mother is just a “clump of cells.” Let’s hear it for anyone who clears that clump away. A person’s body can be refashioned to look like a different sex, and if it looks like a different sex, well then, that must be what it is. Let’s hear it for a girl who’s a guy who clears away a clump of cells. Hurrah. So much for safe, legal and rare.
It’s a monstrous worldview that breeds a world of monsters.
At the same rally, an actress named Busy Philipps spoke — or shrieked, I should say, in the sort of voice a person uses when she is trying to drown out the voice of her own conscience.
“There I was,” she said with defiant anger, “sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office! Of my own late night talk show! Soon, I would be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful f&#8212;in’ home! To kiss my two beautiful and healthy children and my husband who has taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career! And I…” And here she really started screaming. “…I have all of this — all of it! — because — because — because — I was allowed bodily autonomy at fifteen!”
Or, translated out of materialism into the language of real life: “I killed my baby and look how rich I got!”
Ms. Philipps is physically a pretty woman, but it would be hard to describe how ugly she was during this screed. Find the video and see for yourself. One can only wonder if somewhere under all that self-hating rage, some still-human part of her understands that, under her own materialist rules, she too is just a clump of cells, her fate contingent on the desires of people more powerful than herself just as her baby’s fate was contingent on hers.
If you doubt anyone could treat a grown woman as Ms. Philipps treated her unborn child, take a look at a piece that appeared in the New York Times a few days ago, an article that declared “If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.”
By “unpaid work” they meant “routine housework, shopping for necessary household goods, child care, tending to the elderly and other household or non-household members.”
But, of course, this is absurd. The people who do this sort of work for money do, in fact, get paid. The waitress, the baby sitter, the at-home nurse. They all get their money. But the mother who makes a home, whose interplay with her child makes him human and gives him the ability to negotiate the world, whose love for her parents eases their decline — there’s no money for that because it’s priceless.
The left is so infected with materialism it has become like Oscar Wilde’s cynic who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
So enjoy your life, Ms. Philips. I just hope that you don’t one day find yourself standing in the way of, say, your husband’s career and hybrid car and beautiful f&#8212;in’ home.
Because if you do, you’re f&#8212;ed.

Abortion Rally

KLAVAN: The Unbearable Stupidity Of Materialism

Charles Schumer

In response to Sen. Chuck Schumer&#8217;s (D-NY) threatening message directed at two pro-life Supreme Court Justices, over a dozen Republican senators introduced a resolution Thursday to censure their Democratic colleague. But one Republican senator has gone on the record to explain why he would vote against the measure — and it has to do with making life a little easier for President Trump.
The comments that inspired the Republicans&#8217; resolution came during an event hosted by abortion activists outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday. &#8220;Over the last three years, women’s reproductive rights have come under attack in a way we haven’t seen in modern history,&#8221; Schumer told the radical abortion activists. &#8220;Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they’re taking away fundamental rights.&#8221;
After leveling the usual dire accusations against Republicans, Schumer directed his statement to Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. &#8220;I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,&#8221; Schumer declared.
In response, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sponsored a motion Thursday to censure Schumer for undermining the independence of the judiciary. Fourteen other Republican senators signed on: Ted Cruz (TX), Mike Braun (IN), Joni Ernst (IA), Ben Sasse (NE), Mike Lee (UT), Rick Scott (FL), Steve Daines (MT), Thom Tillis (NC), Kevin Cramer (ND), Kelly Loeffler (GA), David Perdue (GA), Jim Inhofe (OK), Tim Scott (SC), and Martha McSally (AZ).
The motion, Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD) said, first has to move through committee, as reported by the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/5/more-dozen-republican-senators-move-censure-schume/">Washington Times</a>.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), meanwhile, says he&#8217;s against the resolution, but not why one might think. The problem with censuring Schumer over his comments, the senator suggested, is that it opens up a can of worms, particularly for Trump.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to start censuring everybody,&#8221; said Graham, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/politics/graham-schumer-scotus-controversy-censure/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;If we start censuring him, they&#8217;re going to want to censure Trump, and this stuff never ends,&#8221; he added.
Another reason he&#8217;s not enthused about the resolution, Graham said, is that Schumer has since walked back, at least partially, his incendiary statement.
&#8220;Now, I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They didn&#8217;t come out the way I intended to,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/politics/senate-republicans-chuck-schumer/index.html">said</a> Thursday after significant backlash. &#8220;My point was that there would be political consequences, political consequences for President Trump and Senate Republicans if the Supreme Court, with the newly confirmed justices, stripped away a woman&#8217;s right to choose.&#8221;
Schumer did not explain how there could be &#8220;political consequences&#8221; for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
Among those who called out the Democratic senator for his comments was Chief Justice John Roberts, who issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-chief-justice-roberts-blasts-schumer-for-threatening-gorsuch-kavanaugh">rare rebuke</a> Wednesday condemning Schumer&#8217;s threat as &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; and &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
“This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside,” said the Chief Justice in a statement Wednesday. “Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that ‘You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.’ Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumers-recent-tweet-about-supreme-court-comes-back-to-bite-him-after-threat-against-justices">Schumer’s Recent Tweet About Trump Comes Back To Bite Him After Threat Against Justices</a>

Donald Trump Lindsey Graham

Graham Opposes Censuring Schumer For Threat, Says It’s Better For Trump

Brett Kavanaugh

Donald Trump

John Roberts

Lindsey Graham

Neil Gorsuch

Supreme Court

Yesterday at the pro-abortion rally outside of the Supreme Court, somewhere in the middle of a United States senator <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chuck-schumer-supreme-court-justices-threat">threatening</a> two justices by name and a congresswoman <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/05/rashida-tlaib-sex-abortion-louisiana-supreme-court/">warning</a> pro-lifers that they if they keep it up they won&#8217;t be able to have sex with her, an actress named Busy Philipps took the stage to <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1235646791271378944">brag</a> that her abortion enabled her to have a career in Hollywood. She also screamed about her yeast infections and periods, but we&#8217;ll not dwell on that part of the speech.
Her exact words are instructive:
<blockquote>There I was sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office of my own late night talk show. Soon I would be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful f**king home to kiss my two beautiful and healthy children, and my husband who had taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career. And I have all of this, all of it, because, because, because, I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15&#8230; I will never stop talking about my abortion, or my periods&#8230;or my yeast infections!</blockquote>
Philipps believes — or pretends to believe — that killing her baby was a sacrifice worth making because it resulted in luxury and success. This kind of reasoning is repulsive on its face and impossible to defend from a moral or ethical perspective. But I think it&#8217;s worth noting just how Philipps&#8217; literal deal with the Devil actually worked out for her.
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That late night talk show? Canceled after one low rated season. That devoted husband who took the year off to support her? He did that because she threatened to <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/busy-philipps-reveals-divorce-talk-husband-t163919">divorce him</a> if he didn&#8217;t. That career? She did three big TV shows and was still, by her own admission, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/21/busy-philipps-ive-been-on-three-big-tv-shows-but-was-broke-by-the-age-of-28-">broke</a> by the end of it. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005311/#actress">Since then</a> she&#8217;s had bit roles on various mediocre TV shows, a skit on Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;Drunk History,&#8221; some cartoon voice over work, and she was in one episode of a now defunct Lena Dunham series. I&#8217;m not trying to insult the woman. I just believe it is important to notice what people actually gain when they sacrifice their children on the altar of &#8220;success.&#8221; In every case the answer is the same: nothing that has any value in comparison to what they lost.
Of course, I would be saying this even if Busy Philipps had cinematic classics on her resume rather than &#8220;White Chicks&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust The Bitch In Apartment 23.&#8221; But the fact that her payoff was so pathetically meager and embarrassing only makes the point clearer. She might have money and a nice house, but she obviously is not happy (happy people don&#8217;t say things like &#8220;I will never stop talking about my yeast infections&#8221;), and we can bet that she doesn&#8217;t have the kind of professional success she thought she was buying with the blood of her offspring.
I&#8217;m reminded of Thomas More&#8217;s ironic words in &#8220;A Man For All Seasons&#8221; after he finds out that his friend Richard Rich betrayed him for a bureaucratic post in Wales. &#8220;Why Richard,&#8221; More says, &#8220;it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for Wales?&#8221; One might look to Busy Philipps and say something similar. It profit a woman nothing to give her soul and her child for the whole world. But for the D-List?

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WALSH: Actress Brags That Her Abortion Led To Career Success. But Her ‘Success’ Shows Why That Trade Off Is Never Worth It.

Journalist Gayle King delivered a rather surprising presentation of the pro-life argument during a segment on &#8220;CBS This Morning&#8221; in which she grilled Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson about abortion, arguing that some people would consider the practice murder.
Speaking about the current case before the Supreme Court regarding the state of Louisiana requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges to nearby hospitals, ensuring patient safety, Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil not only noted that pro-lifers consider abortion murder but also noted that the general public largely agrees with the Louisiana law. Opponents of the law say it will put numerous abortion providers out of business, forcing women to go to just a few select clinics.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a recent poll by Kaiser that found the majority of Americans, 69% support the idea of doctors having admitting privileges if they&#8217;re going to be doing abortions. So is this a case where public opinion is out of line with the law or are you guys out of line with public opinion?&#8221; asked Dokoupil.
&#8220;[Abortion] is one of the safest medical procedures there is,&#8221; responded Johnson.
&#8220;You would call it safe. Some people would call it murder,&#8221; Gayle King fired back.
Johnson corrected herself to say that &#8220;safe&#8221; meant only for the woman getting the procedure.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about. There are &#8212; and this was brought up yesterday. There are moral arguments with respect to accessing abortion. But it is the law of the land that a woman seeking an abortion has the right to have access to one,&#8221; said Johnson.
As noted by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/03/06/cbss-king-shocks-some-would-call-abortion-murder">Newsbusters</a>, the conversation shifted into safer territory for Johnson after that.
Alexis McGill Johnson&#8217;s passionate defense of abortion <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/business-is-booming-planned-parenthood-reports-record-high-abortions">comes as Planned Parenthood has reported</a> record-high profits from the practice.
“Planned Parenthood reported a record-high number of abortions and government funding for 2018-2019, despite encountering a wave of Republican-led measures designed to restrict resources and access to the controversial procedure,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/planned-parenthood-record-abortions-government-funding">Fox News </a>reported in January.
The organization’s <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/2e/da/2eda3f50-82aa-4ddb-acce-c2854c4ea80b/2018-2019_annual_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">annual report</a> released in January showed that Planned Parenthood received a whopping $617 million in taxpayer funds for the fiscal year ending in June 2018 — a full 9% increase from the previous year and representing 37% of its overall organizational funding. Those funds could decline with the next fiscal year, given the Trump administration’s efforts to strip Planned Parenthood with “executive-level funding for clinics that refer clients for abortion.”
Alexis McGill Johnson said that the organization has been forced out of government-funded programs due to “unethical” gag rules on referring women for abortions.
“We stand at an inflection point for reproductive health and rights,” Johnson said. “Our opponents moved to dismantle our nation’s program for affordable birth control this year, forcing providers like Planned Parenthood out of the program with an unethical gag rule.”
Planned Parenthood has always maintained that abortion constitutes just 4% of the organization’s services. Pro-life advocates have countered that assertion, arguing that Planned Parenthood manipulates the statistics to conceal its profitability.
&#8220;Let’s say a woman comes into Planned Parenthood for one service—an abortion,&#8221; pro-life Lila Rose argued in a <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/what-you-need-to-know-about-planned-parenthood/">Prager U video</a>. &#8220;Before providing an abortion, Planned Parenthood has to confirm that the woman is pregnant, right? So, they administer another service—a pregnancy test. That’s two services! Then, after the abortion, on your way out the door, they hand you a prescription. That’s three services!&#8221;

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Gayle King On CBS: ‘Some Would Call Abortion Murder’

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On Monday, the city council of Spokane, Washington, passed an ordinance permitting police to cite pro-life protesters who have been singing and praying outside a Spokane Planned Parenthood for violating noise restrictions.
Prompted by the council’s 6-1 vote in favor the the ordinance, which was introduced by the council’s Lori Kinnear, Students For Life in America (SFLA) issued a <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/03/04/spokane-city-council-passes-ordinance-to-silence-pro-life-christians/">furious statement</a> reading in part:
<blockquote>Kinnear previously had asked <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/02/18/city-councilwoman-tries-to-get-police-to-shut-up-pro-lifers/">the police to intervene</a> to stop the pro-lifers, but also bizarrely claimed the ordinance had nothing to do with abortion, but was about <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/02/14/pro-choice-councilwoman-wants-to-stop-pro-lifers-from-publicly-praying-outside-abortion-facilities/">protecting access to all healthcare facilities</a> (again we ask, were a lot of people protesting outside a dental surgeon’s office? We think not). <a href="https://www.khq.com/news/spokane-city-council-votes-yes-on-noise-ordinance-that-aims/article_99e5e8aa-5d08-11ea-88a1-93acbf43764e.html">Councilwoman Karen Stratton</a> said that “noise is a weapon, words is a weapon,” in case you still had any doubts that the Spokane City Council missed their First Amendment lessons in grade school.</blockquote>
Karlie Lodjic, the Washington Regional Coordinator for SFLA, said bitingly, “This ordinance directly targets pro-lifers in Spokane. We know that this is about one thing; making it harder for people to hear the truth about abortion and what happens inside abortion facilities every day. As Millennials and Gen Z continue to be more pro-life than generations before them, pro-choice politicians are looking to weaponize the law against pro-lifers. This is a clear and direct assault on the First Amendment.”
Protest Planned Parenthood Spokane <a href="https://www.facebook.com/protestppspokane/">added</a>, “This is how we fight our battles outside of Planned Parenthood and in Spokane City Council Chambers. The City Council has labeled us Christians as violent terrorists and our speech as violent hate speech. The City Council sides with Planned Parenthood as they murder 1,000,000 babies a year but those of us standing for the babies and the moms who are hurt are the terrorists.”
<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/mar/02/city-adopts-law-to-keep-the-noise-down-during-plan/">The Spokesman-Review</a> reported that Stratton stated, “All we’re asking is that you keep the noise down to a reasonable level. Councilwoman Kate Burke added, “It’s not about religion, it’s not about freedom of speech, it’s about health care and access to the clinic.”
The Spokesman-Review continued, “Planned Parenthood has said the demonstrations can be heard through its walls and interfere with the services it provides to patients, which include abortion but also STD and cancer screening, pregnancy testing and birth control. Members of the Church of Planned Parenthood believe their activities are protected by freedom of speech. They claimed that their amplified gatherings are not intended to disrupt the health clinic’s operations.”
The Spokesman-Review noted, “The Church at Planned Parenthood (TCAPP) is the most visible of the groups that regularly protest the Indiana Avenue clinic, but representatives for the nonprofit note that various anti-abortion activists demonstrate at different times.”
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office said that to violate Washington state law, the noise must “be unreasonable to an ordinary person seeking health services.”
The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=41873275045&amp;story_fbid=10163153088695046">Center for Justice</a> claimed on Facebook that the Spokane Police Department was indifferent to the needs of clients visiting Planned Parenthood, writing, “To date, the Spokane Police have demonstrated through its officers’ actions that SPD has no desire to hold TCAPP and its members accountable for violations of the noise ordinance … At the core of the current controversy, however, is SPD’s apparent indifference to the disruption inside a health clinic and its deliberate non-enforcement of the noise ordinance.”
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Spokane, WA Passes Ordinance Letting Police Cite Pro-Life Protesters Who Are Too Loud

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On Thursday, actress and former talkshow host Busy Philipps &#8220;shouted&#8221; her abortion to a rally full of abortion activists gathered outside the Supreme Court.
Philipps, who had an abortion at age 15, said the procedure enabled her to have nice things in life, including her &#8220;two healthy children,&#8221; a hybrid car, and her &#8220;beautiful f***ing home.&#8221;
&#8220;There I was, sitting in Los Angeles, in my beautiful office of my own late-night talk show,&#8221; Philipps told the crowd, as first reported by <a href="https://grabien.com/profile.php?id=89821">Grabien</a>.
&#8220;Soon I would be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful f***ing home to kiss my two beautiful and healthy children and my husband who had taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career,&#8221; the actress continued.
Philipps paused before belting out: &#8220;And I have all of this, all of it! Because, because, because, I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15!&#8221;
&#8220;I will not be shamed into being quiet,&#8221; the 40-year-old continued. &#8220;We will not be shamed into being quiet. Never again!&#8221;
&#8220;I will never stop talking about my abortion, or my periods, or my experiences in childbirth, my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up with the moon!&#8221; the celebrity closed.
Philipps has publicly detailed her own abortion in the past. In 2019, the feminist <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/style/busy-philipps-abortion-youknowme.html">told</a> her talkshow audience that she had an abortion at age 15.
“The statistic is one in four women will have an abortion before age 45. That statistic sometimes surprises people, and maybe you’re sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t know a woman who would have an abortion.’ Well, you know me,&#8221; she said on-air.
In 2018, Philipps revealed in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPDmUYB1XE/?utm_source=ig_embed">Instagram</a> post that she was raped at age 14. In her memoir, the actress said the rape happened at the hands of her then-boyfriend, whose identity she did not reveal.
&#8220;This is me at 14. The age I was raped. It&#8217;s taken me 25 years to say those words. I wrote about it in my book. I finally told my parents and sister about it 4 months ago. Today is the day we are silent no more,&#8221; she captioned an Instagram post.
Philipps was joined by elected Democrats and fellow celebrities on Thursday to rally outside the courthouse while the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for June Medical Services v. Russo, a case surrounding pro-life legislation in Louisiana.
Pro-lifers, while lacking famed celebrities, also gathered outside the courthouse, voicing their support for the pro-life legislation.
June Medical Services v. Russo &#8220;was brought by abortion providers against the state of Louisiana, challenging a law that requires them to maintain admitting privileges at a local hospital so women can get emergency care if necessary after a failed abortion procedure,&#8221; National Review outlined. &#8220;Louisiana law currently requires the same of all other ambulatory surgical centers in the state; the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act aims to hold abortionists to the same standard.&#8221;
As noted by The Daily Wire, far-left Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) delivered a similarly aggressive sermon to fellow pro-aborts on Wednesday, explaining that pro-life advocates are &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with her body and suggesting they not want to have sex with her at all.
“This past year, I realized — my, my, my are they obsessed with our bodies, how we talk, how we look, what we stand for — I mean this type of policing of our bodies is so interconnected to all the social justice movements all around the country,” said Tlaib.
“You know I, in the legislature, in the Michigan legislature for six year, used to say to people, ‘Yo yo, you know what? You’re so freakin obsessed with what I decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn’t even want to have sex with me,’ or with you, or with any woman,” added the elected Democrat.
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Actress <a href="https://twitter.com/BusyPhilipps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BusyPhilipps</a> said she owes all of her success to having an abortion at 15, continues: &quot;I will never stop talking about my abortion or my periods or my experiences in childbirth, my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up w/ the moon!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ZoW6CM1HfD">pic.twitter.com/ZoW6CM1HfD</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-rallies-abortion-activists-they-shouldnt-even-want-to-have-sex-with-me">Rashida Tlaib Rallies Abortion Activists: They ‘Shouldn’t Even Want To Have Sex With Me!’</a>

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WATCH: Actress ‘Shouts’ Abortion At Rally, Boasts Of ‘Beautiful F***ing Home,’ Hybrid Car

Senator Chuck Schumer&#8217;s threats against Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday were clearly meant to be physical intimidation. His spokesman now claims Schumer&#8217;s warning that the named justices would &#8220;pay a price,&#8221; &#8220;reap the whirlwind,&#8221; and &#8220;not know what hit them,&#8221; was referring to political backlash. But members of the nation&#8217;s highest court are, by design, insulated from political backlash. They aren&#8217;t elected. They can&#8217;t be kicked out of office for issuing an unpopular opinion. So if he wasn&#8217;t referring to a political price – and he couldn&#8217;t have been – then we must ask ourselves: what other sort of price can a public figure be made to pay by an enraged mob? It&#8217;s not hard to connect the dots. Schumer was attempting to intimidate sitting Supreme Court justices, to make them feel physically unsafe, so that they would decide a case how he prefers. That is not only disgraceful but illegal, and he should be arrested and charged.
The rest of the abortion enthusiasts rallying in D.C. have not behaved much better. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1235377676371845123?s=20">launched</a> into one of her patented spittle-flecked rants, shouting that pro-lifers &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t want to have sex&#8221; with her. On that point, I expect broad bipartisan support. A woman who calls herself &#8220;the Beyonce of abortion storytelling&#8221; (which presumably means she lip-syncs her speeches) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1235313000162217987?s=20">bragged</a> about having killed her child, and encouraged the crowd to applaud all women who&#8217;ve had abortions. She was rather explicitly celebrating abortion, even as pro-aborts claim that nobody celebrates abortion. This is what we&#8217;ve come to expect from that side. They do and say things while insisting that nobody does or says the very things they are currently doing and saying.
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The actress Busy Phillips <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1235642093713924098">vowed</a> to never stop talking about her abortion, of which she is very proud because it helped further her D-list career. Is there anything sadder than someone who trades in their soul and their child for bit parts on &#8220;Drunk History&#8221; and &#8220;Cougar Town&#8221;? Bizarrely, she also promised to continue shouting from the rooftops about her &#8220;periods&#8221; and her &#8220;yeast infections.&#8221; It is not clear what yeast infections have to do with anything or why any sane person would bring them up, unsolicited, in front of an audience. But this is likewise to be expected. The mark of a modern feminist is that she loves to speak in graphic terms about her body and its functions, and she also wants you to know that all of the things she&#8217;s telling you, which you didn&#8217;t ask or want to hear about, are none of your business.
But we can&#8217;t allow the reason for these hysterics to get lost in the mayhem. The pro-abortion rage mob and its ringleaders weren&#8217;t mobilized by a case that threatens to overturn Roe v. Wade. In fact, the case at issue does not have any direct bearing on abortion rights at all. June Medical Services v. Russo stems from a lawsuit brought by abortionists against the state of Louisiana over a law that would require abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The point is to protect women who <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430793/">suffer serious complications</a> during an abortion procedure. The law would ensure that the abortion-injured patient can be admitted directly to a hospital and receive the potentially life-saving treatment she needs. In Louisiana, all ambulatory surgical centers are required to have admitting privileges. This is a very normal regulation that many types of medical clinics all over the country must comply with. If abortion is health care, and abortion clinics are health care facilities, there should be no objection to state laws that treat them accordingly.
Of course, in keeping with the theme, abortion proponents want to have their <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/06/04/miley-cyrus-thinks-licking-a-cake-will-make-you-support-abortion/">abortion cake</a>, and eat it too. They want to present child murder as a legitimate medical procedure while reserving the right to go into spasms of fury if anyone proposes a law that treats abortion as a legitimate medical procedure. That&#8217;s because abortion, for them, isn&#8217;t so much medicinal as it is sacramental. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was telling the truth when she <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1232363356213981184?s=20">linked</a> abortion with &#8220;religious freedom.&#8221; No law, policy, regulation, or limitation may get within a thousand miles of the sacred ritual. They will defend unlimited abortions with the same satanic enthusiasm that the Aztecs defended their temples of human sacrifice from the Spanish invaders. All decency and dignity goes out the window. The idol must be protected at all costs. That is what we are witnessing in D.C. this week.

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WALSH: With Their Freak Out In D.C. This Week, Abortion Proponents Have Admitted That Abortion Isn’t Health Care 

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Netflix reality dating show contestant Amber Pike flipped the Left&#8217;s &#8220;shout your abortion&#8221; narrative on its head when she opened up about her abortion regret, detailed post-abortive emotional trauma, and made it clear that going through that experience again would &#8220;destroy her.&#8221;
Speaking to male contestant Matt Barnett during an episode of &#8220;Love is Blind,&#8221; Pike revealed that an ex-boyfriend pressured her to abort their child when he found out she was pregnant.
Tears in her eyes, Pike told Barnett that she she did not &#8220;follow through&#8221; with the pregnancy, revealing the abortion. “It was really the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through in my life,” the contestant said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/netflixs-love-is-blind-offers-an-honest-abortion-moment">The Washington Examiner</a>. “It’s not exactly something that’s like — I’m proud of.”
After the abortion, her boyfriend didn&#8217;t understand why she couldn&#8217;t just &#8220;move on&#8221; from their baby being killed, Pike explained.
“After the fact, we were just talking. I’m telling him, like, I’m trying to explain what I’m going through, like, I’m having a really hard time getting out of bed in the morning,” she told Barrnett. “I don’t eat. I’m not really sleeping. I just — this was supposed to be my other half.&#8221;
&#8220;And his reaction, he goes, ‘Why don’t you just get over it? You just need to get over it already. Like, move on,'&#8221; the 25-year-old recalled. &#8220;That is the last thing in the world you want to hear.&#8221;
“I can’t survive that again,&#8221; an emotional Pike told Barrnett. &#8220;It would destroy me.”
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Pike&#8217;s abortion story comes in stark contrast with Democrats&#8217; push to normalize and celebrate abortion.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-rallies-abortion-activists-they-shouldnt-even-want-to-have-sex-with-me">The Daily Wire</a> on Wednesday, Renee Brecey Sherman, an abortion activist who fancies herself the &#8220;Beyonce of abortion storytelling,&#8221; wildly celebrated abortions and &#8220;future abortion providers&#8221; to a hyped crowd of activists gathered outside the Supreme Court.
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“A special shout-out to — Where my people who’ve had abortions? Where y’all at?,” said Sherman. “Nothing about this work is going to be without us! Woo!”
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Sherman also celebrated her own abortion, calling it &#8220;one of the best decisions of my life.&#8221;
“So as I said, I had an abortion when I was 19. It was honestly one of the best decisions of my life. I was simply not ready to become a parent, and that’s really all you need to know,” the activist shouted.
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Far-left Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was in attendance at the rally, as well. “This past year, I realized — my, my, my are they obsessed with our bodies, how we talk, how we look, what we stand for — I mean this type of policing of our bodies is so interconnected to all the social justice movements all around the country,” the elected Democrat told fellow abortion activists.
“You know I, in the legislature, in the Michigan legislature for six years, used to say to people, ‘Yo yo, you know what? You’re so freakin obsessed with what I decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn’t even want to have sex with me,’ or with you, or with any woman,” Tlaib added.
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As noted by <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/what-a-flawed-study-ignores-about-abortion-regrets">The Washington Examiner</a>, research shows that post-abortive women &#8220;are 34% more likely to develop an anxiety disorder and 37% more likely to experience depression.&#8221;
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