<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) set up votes on a trio of key <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-military-branches-lose-confirmed-leaders-amid-senate-impasse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military nominations</a> after Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tommy-tuberville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tommy Tuberville</a> (R-AL) threatened to force action that would begin to crack the months-long standoff over a Pentagon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> policy.
In a post to X that followed an announcement on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Schumer claimed &#8220;Democrats are taking action&#8221; with his move to advance the nominations for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Army chief of staff.
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Majority Leader Schumer (D) says the Senate will vote on stalled military promotions individually:
“The Senate will overwhelmingly vote to confirm them &#8230; and the abortion policy that Sen. Tuberville abhors will remain in place. Sen. Tuberville will have accomplished nothing.” <a href="https://t.co/zBxzcJrGkZ">pic.twitter.com/zBxzcJrGkZ</a>
&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1704560253826695173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We cannot allow Senator Tuberville to decide which of our brave service members get promoted and which languish,&#8221; Schumer added.
Schumer chose to file cloture on three of President Joe Biden&#8217;s military nominees after Tuberville made headlines on Tuesday for <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/19/congress/tuberville-plans-to-force-marine-corps-vote-holds-promotion-military-00116880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly gathering enough support</a> from GOP colleagues to force a procedural vote on Gen. Eric Smith’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senator-holds-firm-in-stand-against-pentagon-abortion-policy-as-marines-lose-confirmed-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nomination</a> to become commandant of the Marine Corps, which has lacked a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/10/top-marine-david-berger-retires-00105449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed leader</a> since July.
Tuberville, a former college football coach, took a victory lap after Schumer announced the votes on Wednesday.
&#8220;One of us was bluffing. It wasn&#8217;t me,&#8221; Tuberville <a href="https://twitter.com/TTuberville/status/1704573360523346108" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on his personal account. &#8220;Democrats are taking the same action they could&#8217;ve taken months ago. As long as the Pentagon keeps the unlawful elective abortion policy in place, my holds will remain.&#8221;
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One of us was bluffing. It wasn&#39;t me. 
Democrats are taking the same action they could&#39;ve taken months ago. As long as the Pentagon keeps the unlawful elective abortion policy in place, my holds will remain. <a href="https://t.co/f497iygBDd">https://t.co/f497iygBDd</a>
&mdash; Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) <a href="https://twitter.com/TTuberville/status/1704573360523346108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Senate began voting on the nominations later in the evening on Wednesday, confirming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joint-chiefs-nominee-knocks-tubervilles-hold-on-military-promotions">Gen. Charles &#8220;CQ&#8221; Brown Jr.</a> of the Air Force as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1704653601690304625">setting up confirmation votes</a> for the other two nominees on Thursday.
Tuberville first placed <a href="https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-demands-answers-from-the-pentagon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a &#8220;hold&#8221;</a> on general and flag officer nominations in February to protest a Pentagon policy allowing female service members <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/16/military-cover-travel-costs-and-offer-leave-troops-seeking-abortions-fertility-treatment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expense-paid travel and up to three weeks&#8217; leave</a> for an elective abortion that he claims is illegal. The Department of Defense has <a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dod_briefing_on_non-covered_reproductive_healthcare_policies.pdf">referred</a> to a Department of Justice <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/defense-department-travel-allowance-abortion/">opinion</a> to justify the policy.
In upholding his stance, Tuberville has objected to allowing the Democrat-controlled Senate from quickly approving the nominations in batches through a &#8220;<a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/research-tools/glossary.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unanimous consent</a>&#8221; agreement.
Despite pushback from the Biden administration <a href="https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-hirono-and-colleagues-call-on-mcconnell-to-help-end-reckless-hold-on-military-promotions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and other lawmakers</a>, Tuberville denied that his endeavor was hurting military readiness and he insisted that the Senate could still hold votes through regular order to approve individual nominations if necessary.
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🚨Senator Schumer just proved he could have moved these military promotions months ago.   He held our servicemembers hostage for purely political reasons. <a href="https://t.co/xJPpDr5P3h">pic.twitter.com/xJPpDr5P3h</a>
&mdash; Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJoniErnst/status/1704565839276454384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Hundreds of military confirmations have been held up so far, <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3492554/austin-praises-outgoing-chief-of-naval-operations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Department of Defense.</a> A recent Congressional Research Service report estimated it would take more than <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/tuberville-hold-700-hours/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">700 hours</a> of work to get through 273 confirmations on an individual basis.
&#8220;Senator Schumer just proved he could have moved these military promotions months ago,&#8221; Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJoniErnst/status/1704565839276454384" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Wednesday. &#8220;He held our servicemembers hostage for purely political reasons.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenTuberville?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTuberville</a> addresses Schumer folding on military promotions: &quot;My hold is still in place. The hold will remain in place as long as the Pentagon&#39;s illegal abortion policy remains in place. If the Pentagon lifts the policy, then I will lift my hold. It&#39;s as easy as that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PorzPFztXU">pic.twitter.com/PorzPFztXU</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1704601152002671074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Tuberville delivered remarks in which he said the Senate is dealing with a &#8220;lack of leadership,&#8221; arguing that the upper chamber could have been confirming one or two nominees each week over the last 200 days. He also said his &#8220;hold&#8221; remains in place until the Pentagon lifts its abortion policy.

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California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> refused this week to name a single limit that should be placed on abortion and instead claimed that Republicans were making up false claims about what the Democratic Party believes on the issue.
Newsom made the remarks during a Monday interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash when he was asked to &#8220;be clear about what limits on abortion should be.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a political thing,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;People are not seeking abortion at the end of the cycle.&#8221;
When asked what the policy should be regarding limits on abortion, Newsom responded: &#8220;The policy, it&#8217;s not up to Donald Trump or me. It&#8217;s up to you, to women, that have to bear that responsibility uniquely and distinctly.&#8221;
&#8220;And the reality is, it&#8217;s a canard,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s a political frame. It&#8217;s total BS. And it&#8217;s exactly where they need to go because they know they&#8217;ve gone too far on the other side.&#8221;
A short time later, Bash, noting that Newsom said it was not the government&#8217;s role to be involved on the issue, asked: &#8220;So there should be nothing on the books?&#8221;
&#8220;This is a canard. This is a false flag,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;This is where they need to go in order to get out of the mess they&#8217;ve created because they don&#8217;t believe in fundamental choice and freedom for women. They don&#8217;t. Period, full stop.&#8221;
Bash again asked Newsom if his official stance was that governments should not &#8220;have any limits on the books legally.&#8221;
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Newsom said that he believes in viability and claimed that &#8220;no one wants to see late-term abortions.&#8221;
&#8220;No one&#8217;s out there promoting that. That&#8217;s not what the Democratic Party&#8217;s position is. It&#8217;s not where my personal position is,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;In those rare and extremely rare and personal circumstances, one thing I absolutely believe, Donald Trump shouldn&#8217;t be making that decision. I sure as hell should not be making that decision.&#8221;
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WATCH: Despite being pressed multiple times by CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/danabash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBash</a>, California Governor Gavin Newsom refuses to endorse any limit whatsoever on abortion up until birth, calling any protections for the unborn “a political canard.”
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&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1703950913344340228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Florida Governor responded to criticism over the weekend from former President Donald Trump, who slammed DeSantis for signing a pro-life heartbeat bill into law that bans abortion at 6 weeks.
Trump made the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hits-desantis-for-signing-heartbeat-law-a-terrible-thing-and-a-terrible-mistake">remarks</a> during a Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet The Press” in which she pressed to get specifics on where Trump stood on the issue, telling him that her goal was to “give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election a very clear sense of where you stand.”
“I mean, DeSanctus is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban,” Trump said.
“Would you support that?” Welker asked. “You think that goes too far?”
“I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,” Trump answered.
DeSantis responded to the remarks during an interview with O. Kay Henderson on Radio Iowa, saying: &#8220;Protecting babies with heartbeats is not terrible.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump may think it&#8217;s terrible, but I think protecting babies with heartbeats is noble and just, and I&#8217;m proud to have signed the heartbeat bill in Florida,&#8221; he said in a clip tweeted out by the DeSantis War Room. &#8220;And I know Iowa has similar legislation.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you can even make the claim that you&#8217;re somehow pro-life if you&#8217;re criticizing states for enacting pro-life protections for babies that have heartbeats,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And so I thought him saying that those bills were terrible, I think, was a terrible statement, and I think it&#8217;s a window into how he&#8217;s changing as he&#8217;s running this campaign. I think he&#8217;s changing in a way that is not consistent with the values of the people in Iowa.&#8221;
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DeSantis said that people needed to stand up for what they believe in and fight for it.
&#8220;I think that there are issues that come from your beliefs, and I think that you advance those because you think they&#8217;re right,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s true for me in terms of the heartbeat bill. It&#8217;s also true for me in other stands I&#8217;ve taken as governor. I mean we leaned in against Fauci, against the COVID lockdowns, we made sure kids were in school just like your governor in Iowa did. We fought for businesses and individuals. And that was probably very unpopular. Certainly in the media, I got attacked relentlessly. And I didn&#8217;t know how it worked out politically. But you know, I&#8217;m a leader. I’ve got to do what&#8217;s right, and we can let the chips fall where they may.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbcs-moderator-told-trump-no-one-is-calling-for-late-term-abortions-heres-why-shes-wrong">RELATED: &#8220;NBC’s Moderator Told Trump ‘No One’ Is Calling For Late-Term Abortions. Here’s Why She’s Wrong.&#8221;</a>

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NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker claimed &#8220;no one&#8221; is arguing for legal abortion up to birth in her new interview with former President Donald Trump, but that claim is demonstrably false.
The new &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator sparred with Trump for over an hour on abortion and other issues in an interview released Sunday.
&#8220;The radical people on this are really the Democrats that say after five months, six months, seven months, eight months, nine months, and even after birth, you’re allowed to terminate the baby,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/09/17/nbcs-welker-attempts-fact-check-trump-live-fails-miserably" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Welker during the interview.
&#8220;Mr. President, Democrats aren&#8217;t saying that,&#8221; Welker responded.
Moments later Trump said, &#8220;I said with Hillary Clinton when we had the debate, I made a statement, &#8216;rip the baby out of the womb&#8217; in the ninth month. You&#8217;re allowed to do that, and you shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to do that.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, no one is arguing for that. That&#8217;s not a part of anyone&#8217;s platform, Mr. President,&#8221; Welker said.
Besides the <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/many-abortion-advocates-back-abortions-up-until-birth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">untold number</a> of abortion activists who advocate for abortion on demand up to birth, a slew of states currently allow abortion at any point in the pregnancy.
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Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. all <a href="https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/dc/abortion-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> abortion with no gestational limits.
While high-profile Democrats often hedge on whether they support any gestational limits on abortion, some have come right out and admitted they support abortion up to the moment of birth.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) was direct about his stance during a Fox News segment in June.
&#8220;Is there a cutoff for you before [the due date]?&#8221; host Shannon Bream <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democratic-senator-admits-he-opposes-any-legal-limit-on-abortion-before-a-babys-due-date/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Cardin.
&#8220;No, to me, it&#8217;s a reproductive, it&#8217;s a health care decision. It&#8217;s up to women to make that decision,&#8221; Cardin responded.
Dozens of House and Senate Democrats <a href="https://johnfetterman.com/issue/protecting-womens-reproductive-freedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also</a> <a href="https://democraticwomenscaucus-frankel.house.gov/media/press-releases/democratic-womens-caucus-joins-house-democrats-introduce-womens-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support</a> the Women&#8217;s Health Protection <a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/whpa_of_2023_bill_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Act</a>, which would legalize abortions after fetal viability, usually around 23 weeks, if in the abortionist&#8217;s &#8220;good faith medical judgment&#8221; the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother&#8217;s health. Mental health is not excluded in the bill&#8217;s language.
The Biden administration supports the Act as well, and President Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/11/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-senate-vote-on-the-womens-health-protection-act/#:~:text=The%20protections%20that%20the%20Women%27s,access%20to%20women%27s%20reproductive%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">lamented</a> Senate Republicans blocking the bill last year.
&#8220;The protections that the Women’s Health Protection Act would ensure are essential to the health, safety, and progress of our nation,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/11/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-senate-vote-on-the-womens-health-protection-act/#:~:text=The%20protections%20that%20the%20Women%27s,access%20to%20women%27s%20reproductive%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.
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In Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; interview Trump also said, &#8220;the Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth. Nobody wants that.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats don&#8217;t want that either,&#8221; Welker responded.
No Democrat lists infanticide on their platform, but some have appeared to support it, most infamously former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
Northam, a physician, was asked in 2019 whether he would support abortion occurring when the mother is already in labor.
&#8220;In this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,&#8221; Northam <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democratic-va-governor-endorses-murder-born-ben-shapiro">told</a> WTOP. &#8220;The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that&#8217;s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.&#8221;
The same year, all but three Senate Democrats <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-blocks-bill-on-medical-care-for-children-born-alive-after-attempted-abortion/2019/02/25/e5d3d4d8-3924-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> a bill that would have protected babies born alive after a failed abortion, requiring doctors to “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child” as they would to “any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”
At least 10,000 late-term abortions <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/abortion-democratic-position-rfk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are performed</a> every year. Democrats like to claim most late-term abortions happen because of a fetal abnormality or to save the life of the mother, but there is data to the contrary.
&#8220;Data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment,&#8221; reads 2013 <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1363/4521013/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> published by Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a journal</a> of the Guttmacher Institute.
As far as the American public goes, NBC&#8217;s Welker is correct in downplaying the popularity of legal late-term abortion — a recent Associated Press poll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-americans-dont-support-unrestricted-abortion-even-though-most-dont-want-total-bans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> only half of Americans want abortion to be legal after 15 weeks, which is still just the beginning of the second trimester.
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Three pro-life advocates face more than a decade in prison after a federal jury convicted them on Friday for conspiring to barricade themselves in a Washington, D.C.-based abortion clinic in 2020.
The defendants – Jonathan Darnel, 41, of Arlington, Va.; Jean Marshall, 73, of Kingston, Mass.; and Joan Bell, 74, of Montague, NJ – were each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense for &#8220;forcefully&#8221; entering and &#8220;blockading two clinic doors&#8221; at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C. on October 22, 2020, according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/three-defendants-convicted-federal-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-freedom-access-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
The defendants were part of a group of ten pro-life advocates who were arrested and indicted for allegedly violating the FACE Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force, the threat of force, or physical obstruction to prevent individuals from obtaining or providing an abortion and other reproductive services.
&#8220;I am definitely not guilty of the charges leveled against me, which is rather ironic that I should find myself in this position,&#8221; Darnel <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-life-protesters-could-face-10-years-prison-political-witch-hunt?intcmp=tw_pols" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this month. &#8220;Nevertheless, if a jury finds me guilty of FACE even erroneously, it would be an honor because the kids are worthy of protection.&#8221;
The Department of Justice said trial evidence showed the defendants conspired to create a blockage at the clinic to prevent &#8220;patients from receiving reproductive health services.&#8221;
Authorities said Marshall and Bell had traveled to the Washington, D.C. area to meet with Darnel to form the barricade and had broadcast the demonstration on Facebook at the direction of a co-conspirator.
&#8220;Marshall and Bell were among a group that forcefully entered the clinic and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains and ropes,&#8221; authorities said. &#8220;Once the blockade was established, Darnel – who remained outside the clinic &#8212; live-streamed their activities on social media.&#8221;
In a published <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=420631786000084" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of the demonstration, the pro-life advocates can be seen praying and singing inside the abortion clinic and refusing to leave.
U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who presided over the trial, reportedly refused to allow the video as evidence and argued their actions were not protected under the First Amendment.
Kollar-Kotelly, who President Bill Clinton appointed in 1997, ordered the defendants immediately into custody.
A sentencing date is yet to be scheduled.
Each faces up to a maximum of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $350,000.
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Caroline Taylor Smith, executive director of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2023/09/15/three-pro-life-advocates-found-guilty-of-rescuing-babies-from-abortion-face-11-years-in-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> LifeNews that the charges against the advocates were excessive because the demonstrations were nonviolent.
&#8220;This overreaching of power and authority by Biden&#8217;s DOJ is egregious and must be stopped. Nonviolent prolife actions should not be a federal crime, and peaceful people with a desire to save lives should not be jailed for over a decade. Some of these Rescuers could be facing death by incarceration. We must repeal the FACE Act now!&#8221; Smith said.
Five other pro-life advocates involved in the demonstration were found guilty in August on the same counts. Another co-defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten months of incarceration, followed by three years of supervised release, according to authorities.
The clinic has been embroiled in controversy. Posing as a woman who wished to obtain a late-term abortion, a Live Action investigator visited Washington Surgi-Clinic in January 2022 and reported concerning comments and practices. In late March 2022, authorities were called to the home of a pro-life activist — Lauren Handy of PAAU — to recover the bodies of five premie-sized aborted babies. PAAU activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-went-to-the-clinic-of-the-dc-abortionist-accused-of-gruesome-crimes-heres-what-i-saw">told The Daily Wire at the time</a> that they had intercepted a box of aborted babies that was on its way from Washington Surgi Clinic to Curtis Bay Medical Waste Facility to be incinerated.
A Curtis Bay spokesman has insisted to The Daily Wire that this never happened and that the waste facility does not dispose of fetal remains.
Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

March for Life in Washington D.C.

3 Pro-Life Advocates Involved In Abortion Clinic Barricade Convicted On FACE Act Charges

3 Pro-Life Advocates In Abortion Clinic Barricade Convicted On FACE Act Charges 

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Former President Donald Trump criticized Republican governors who have signed pro-life laws — also known as &#8220;heartbeat laws&#8221; — that ban abortion after six weeks, calling the bill signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis &#8220;a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.&#8221;
Trump made the remarks during a Sunday <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bring-country-together-abortion-meet-the-press-rcna105311">interview</a> with Kristen Welker on NBC News&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; in which she pressed to get specifics on where Trump stood on the issue, telling him that her goal was to &#8220;give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election a very clear sense of where you stand.&#8221;
Asked initially by Welker if he would &#8220;sign federal legislation that banned abortion at 15 weeks,&#8221; Trump replied, &#8220;No, no, let me tell you what I&#8217;d do: I&#8217;m going to come together with all groups, and we&#8217;re going to have something that&#8217;s acceptable.&#8221;
&#8220;Right now, to my thinking, the Democrats are the radicals&#8221; on the issue, he added, citing Democrats&#8217; support of abortion without limits and New York&#8217;s abortion laws.
&#8220;I think they’re all going to like me, I think both sides are going to like me,&#8221; Trump told Welker when pressed for more details. &#8220;What&#8217;s going to happen is you&#8217;re going to come up with a number of weeks or months, you&#8217;re going to come up with a number that&#8217;s going to make people happy.&#8221;
He went on to add that the vast majority of Democrats &#8220;don&#8217;t want to see abortion after a certain period of time.&#8221;
Welker eventually pressed Trump again about a 15-week abortion ban, asking, &#8220;If a federal ban landed on your desk if you were re-elected, would you sign it at 15 weeks?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks, that seems to be a number that people are talking about right now,&#8221; he replied.
&#8220;Would you sign that?&#8221; she interjected.
&#8220;I would sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I’m not going to say I would or I wouldn’t.&#8221;
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Asked if this action would be on the federal level, Trump said, &#8220;It could be state or it could be federal. I don’t, frankly, care.&#8221;
Trump continued by taking aim at his top opponent in the Republican Party primary race.
&#8220;I mean, DeSanctus is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;Would you support that?&#8221; Welker asked. &#8220;You think that goes too far?&#8221;
&#8220;I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,&#8221; Trump answered.
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TRUMP: “DeSanctus is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban.”
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&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1703508648713216474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s remarks disavowing heartbeat laws come as numerous Republican states have implemented the policies or even more restrictive measures. The Florida Supreme Court is currently hearing challenges to the state&#8217;s 15-week abortion ban and, if the Court upholds the law, the new heartbeat law will go into effect 30 days later.
States with <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10779">heartbeat laws</a> include Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

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After doctors found an aggressive malignant tumor in Tasha Kann&#8217;s brain, the medical team advised the young mother to abort her unborn child and immediately start cancer treatments. Kann, leaning on her faith in God, told the doctors no.
The Michigan woman suffered a debilitating migraine while she was pregnant with her second baby back in 2022, she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/pregnant-woman-brain-cancer-refuses-abortion-killing-baby-wouldnt-have-saved-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. Soon after, a medical team diagnosed Kann, then 20-weeks pregnant, with anaplastic astrocytoma grade III.
&#8220;We recommend that you get an abortion,&#8221; Kann recalled doctors telling her. &#8220;They all looked at me and told me my best chances of survival would be to get an abortion and start treatment immediately — which might give me five to eight years of survival.&#8221;
But for the faithful Christian woman, abortion was not an option.
&#8220;I told them absolutely not,&#8221; Kann said, adding that she felt &#8220;disgusted&#8221; that this was something she&#8217;d be recommended to do. &#8220;If the cancer was already as bad as they said, killing my baby wouldn’t have saved me anyway.&#8221;
Kann recalled having &#8220;deep conversations with Jesus,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I knew that if I held onto the Lord and his promises, He would keep my baby safe.&#8221;
Indeed, Kann gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Gracey in October. &#8220;Every single day, I look at my beautiful baby and think about how easy it was for them to tell me to abort — like she was nothing,&#8221; she told Fox.
Kann is still struggling with her cancer, but is continuing to fight with the support of her family.
In another instance of a mother sacrificing for her child, a woman named Ellie Whittaker was similarly <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/pregnant-mom-cancer-free-refused-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advised</a> to abort her child after doctors diagnosed her with cancer. In Whittaker&#8217;s case, she had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, stage two.
“The doctor advised I have an abortion because cancer treatment could cause problems for the baby,” Whittaker <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8926313/Mother-21-stopped-chemo-nine-months-birth-daughter.html?fbclid=IwAR10obBJZxPstbI6aYEujNkPRhmN2o7gzh-h82HYI2mmr0S2onUT1gVJhI8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Mail. “There was no way I was going to give her up so I chose to delay it.”
<a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/pregnant-mom-cancer-free-refused-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to LiveAction, Whittaker was possibly going to have cancer treatments at around 27 weeks, when it would be less likely to cause harm to her child. But Whittaker&#8217;s scans showed that she could push off treatment until after she gave birth.
Whittaker gave birth to a healthy baby in March of 2020, and underwent aggressive cancer treatment. After 20 rounds of Chemo, she learned she was cancer-free.
“I lived with it for so long it’s weird that it’s finally gone — I can’t believe it,” she said. “Everyone’s supported me in many ways. I had to wait two weeks for the results from my final scan which was agony. I’m so pleased it’s gone and I can focus on being a mum.”

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CNN anchor Poppy Harlow forced Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) into a corner over her recent order calling gun violence a &#8220;public health&#8221; crisis and effectively suspending 2nd Amendment rights in Albuquerque and the surrounding county.
Grisham has taken lot of backlash over her order — even from the left — with many saying that there is no &#8220;public health&#8221; exception to the rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. Harlow took a different tack, however, pressing Grisham on how she might respond if someone might use the same tactics to push an agenda that she did not agree with.
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&quot;What if a Republican governor of a state declares a health emergency and unilaterally outlaws abortion in that state, where the legislature has not done so by statute — following your logic, would that also be sound?&quot;
New Mexico Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham: No
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&#8220;Are you overreaching?&#8221; Harlow asked, going on to pose a &#8220;hypothetical&#8221; situation in which the roles might be reversed.
&#8220;You&#8217;re a Democratic governor who&#8217;s doing this. What if a Republican governor of a state declares a health emergency and unilaterally outlaws abortion in that state, where the legislature has not done so by statute,&#8221; Harlow posited. &#8220;Following your logic, would that also be sound?&#8221;
&#8220;Ah – in this situation, honestly, I don&#8217;t think so, but that is what&#8217;s happening in this country,&#8221; Grisham replied.
During the same interview, Grisham <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-not-for-the-police-to-tell-me-whats-constitutional-nm-gov-defiantly-defends-suspending-gun-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on critics who called her order unconstitutional, saying, &#8220;It’s not for police to tell me what’s constitutional or not. They haven’t supported one, not one gun violence effort in the State of New Mexico including domestic violence protections, universal background checks.&#8221;
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Grisham further defended her action by saying that her order was a &#8220;suspension&#8221; rather than an outright ban.
Despite the fact that many on the left would like to see much tighter gun control regulations, many — including Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and March for Our Lives activist David Hogg — have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-mexico-governor-faces-widespread-backlash-over-ban-on-carrying-guns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come out in opposition</a> to Grisham&#8217;s order.
&#8220;I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution,&#8221; Hogg said.
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I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. <a href="https://t.co/6GfbOZLc7g">https://t.co/6GfbOZLc7g</a>
&mdash; David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1700601787605266779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Lieu&#8217;s response was almost identical: &#8220;I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution. No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.&#8221;
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I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution. No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. <a href="https://t.co/kOhLMtaOl2">https://t.co/kOhLMtaOl2</a>
&mdash; Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1700589909390835901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Permian Boom Collides With a Governor’s Climate-Change Push

CNN Anchor Forces NM Governor Into A Corner Over Order Suspending Gun Rights

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Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly refused to say whether there should be any limits surrounding abortions during an interview over the weekend.
She discussed the issue with Margaret Brennan in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation.&#8221;
&#8220;What is it that you believe?&#8221; Brennan asked. &#8220;I mean, what week of pregnancy should abortion access be cut off?&#8221;
&#8220;We need to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade,&#8221; Harris responded. &#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to do something new&#8211;&#8221;
&#8220;Let me be very clear. From day one, the president has been clear, I have been clear,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We need to put back the protections that are in Roe v. Wade into law. Since the Supreme Court took it, Congress has the power and ability to pass legislation to put those protections back in law and Joe Biden will sign that bill. So, that is what we want.&#8221;
Brennan again pressed Harris on the matter, asking if there needed to be specific &#8220;terms of defining where that guarantee goes up to and where it does not, at which week of pregnancy.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade,&#8221; Harris responded. &#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to-, we&#8217;re not trying to do anything that did not exist before June of last year. We are saying&#8211;&#8221;
Brennan then noted that Republicans have pointed out that Democrat policies allow for abortions up until the moment of birth.
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&#8220;Which is ridiculous&#8211;,&#8221; Harris claimed. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a mischaracterization of the point.&#8221;
&#8220;I am being precise,&#8221; Harris later added. &#8220;We need to put into law the protections of Roe v. Wade.&#8221;
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&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1700899202082214127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Kamala Harris Repeatedly Refuses To Say Whether There Should Be Any Limits On Abortion

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> has petitioned for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> to intervene against restrictions imposed on the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, claiming that limits on the drug are &#8220;damaging for women and healthcare providers around the Nation.”
In a legal filing on Friday, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-administration-supreme-court-take-major-abortion-pill-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the high court should not uphold limits placed on mifepristone that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-appeals-court-makes-decision-on-the-mailing-of-abortion-pills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were set forth</a> by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that would prohibit the distribution of the pills through the mail or prescribed via telemedicine. The limits placed on the drug cannot be implemented until the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the decision. 
&#8220;The effect of the lower court&#8217;s decisions would be to compel FDA to return to a pre-2016 regulatory regime that imposes restrictions on distribution that FDA has found to be unnecessary and unjustified,&#8221; the DOJ said in a cert petition. 
The DOJ said that mifepristone, used in up to half of all abortions, was &#8220;best method&#8221; to end the life of an unborn child early in development. 
Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill, also <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/drugmaker-brings-abortion-pill-fight-to-supreme-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Friday legal filing that the Supreme Court should throw out the Fifth Circuit’s limits on the drug. 
“For the women and teenage girls, health care providers, and States that depend on FDA’s actions to ensure safe and effective reproductive health care is available, this case matters tremendously,” wrote Jessica Ellsworth, a lawyer representing Danco. “And for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, permitting judicial second-guessing of FDA’s scientific evaluations of data will have a wildly destabilizing effect.”
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom sued to stop the distribution and approval of the drug by the FDA. ADF lawyers have said that agency’s decision to approve mifepristone was political. 
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“The FDA’s unprecedented and unlawful actions did not reflect scientific judgment but rather revealed politically driven decisions to push a dangerous drug regimen without regard to women’s health or the rule of law. This is a significant victory for the doctors and medical associations we represent and, more importantly, the health and safety of women,” ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley said after the Fifth Circuit upheld restrictions of the drug last month. 
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case in its coming fall session after previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-releases-decision-on-abortion-pill-mifepristone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">putting a stay</a> on a broader federal judge order to fully suspend approval for the pill.

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Biden Admin, Pharma Company Ask SCOTUS To Scrap Restrictions On Widely Used Abortion Pill

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In the midst of the #MeToo hysteria, when everyone was fixating on Aziz Ansari&#8217;s bad date and Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s phantom gang rape trains, researchers at Morgan Stanley had a very different focus. They were concerned, as you might imagine, about the financial ramifications of the modern feminist movement. So they sent an analysis to their corporate clients looking into the economic impact of this new wave of feminism that was overtaking the country. Here was their top-line conclusion: &#8220;By 2030,&#8221; Morgan Stanley wrote, &#8220;more than 45 percent of working women aged 25 to 44 in the United States will be single.&#8221; If that prediction holds, it would be the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/economy/single-women-economy/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest percentage</a> of single working-age women in this country&#8217;s history.
The economic impacts, Morgan Stanley predicted, would be significant. Morgan Stanley <a href="https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/womens-impact-on-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted</a> one researcher as saying: &#8220;We find that single women outspend the average household, shifting spending profiles toward categories most poised to benefit from the demographic growth in single women with rising incomes.&#8221; Those categories include apparel, automotive, entertainment, and dining.
Like most research that consultants charge millions of dollars to produce, none of that&#8217;s terribly surprising. When women don&#8217;t get married, they tend to climb the corporate ladder, where they earn money that they don&#8217;t have to spend on kids. But there is one line of the Morgan Stanley report that stands out. It&#8217;s the part where Morgan Stanley specifically urges its corporate clients to encourage women to pursue this unmarried lifestyle because it will make the corporations a lot of money. &#8220;For corporates and investors that embrace these trends, there are numerous benefits, from more nuanced corporate governance and performance to bottom-line growth.&#8221;
The Morgan Stanley report, and several others like it, put all the big brands on notice that they should take a proactive role in ensuring that more women become career-driven, instead of getting married and having kids. And predictably, over the past few years, we&#8217;ve seen various initiatives along these lines. Facebook, Apple and other big tech companies began <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/15/apple-facebook-offer-freeze-eggs-female-employees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering</a> to freeze the eggs of female employees. That&#8217;s not for any medical reason; they&#8217;re offering it purely so that women don&#8217;t get pregnant and take maternity leave. Many companies have also started <a href="https://katiecouric.com/news/major-u-s-companies-covering-abortion-travel-costs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paying</a> for out-of-state abortions. That&#8217;s all been widely reported.
What hasn&#8217;t been covered is the extent to which influencers and celebrities — most of them beholden to large corporations — are now openly campaigning, all at once, for women to remain single, or to become single again if they made the mistake of getting married. You can choose to believe this is all an accident, or maybe you think it&#8217;s coordinated. Whatever the case, it&#8217;s clearly happening. There have never been more famous people telling young women to stop making commitments to men. You may have seen this recent video from the actress and model Emily Ratajkowski, for example. She has around 2.6 million followers on TikTok, where she posts videos <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7199679187463032107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> random couples that their relationships won&#8217;t last, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7160115132058602798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encouraging</a> women to dress like prostitutes on Halloween. In her <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7275780895607491882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest video</a>, Ratajkowski extols the benefits of getting divorced by the age of 30, so that women can party and have fun while they&#8217;re still young and beautiful:
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Emily Ratajkowski (who has a personal net worth of at least 8 million dollars) is glamorizing divorce and says marriage is a &quot;fantasy&quot;
Completely out of touch and delusional 
Sadly, women look up to her <a href="https://t.co/4OaYQLYar2">pic.twitter.com/4OaYQLYar2</a>
&mdash; 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshLekach/status/1699510925030490564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The caption on that video reads, &#8220;personally i find it chic to be divorced by the age of 30.&#8221; It&#8217;s extremely popular on the platform; more than 130,000 people have liked it. This video appears to be a message of support for Sophie Turner, who I didn&#8217;t know existed, but apparently is a famous actress who is now getting divorced from one of the Jonas brothers because she felt &#8220;trapped&#8221; by marriage and motherhood and wanted to go party instead.
What Emily and Sophie are doing — getting divorced in a very public fashion, for avowedly selfish reasons — follows a pattern recently of famous women advising other women to either stay single and childless or get divorced, tear their families apart, and act like they’re childless even if they have children.
Mia Khalifa was another one, as shocking as it was to hear bad relationship advice from a porn star. Here&#8217;s how Mia spoke to her <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@miakhalifa/video/7262135829320125742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37 million followers</a> about the importance of getting divorced — multiple times, if possible:
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Mia Khalifa is back in the news. This time for giving women marriage advice. 
As a quick track record, Mia Khalifa was married at 18 years old, divorced at 21 years old. Then married again at 25 years old, divorced at 28 years old. <a href="https://t.co/2NgHMQZh67">pic.twitter.com/2NgHMQZh67</a>
&mdash; Colourful trending visual 🦋🐦🦜 (@colourfultrend) <a href="https://twitter.com/colourfultrend/status/1697090616382144839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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At this point you&#8217;re probably noticing a theme, which is that none of these women display even a modicum of interest in sacrificing anything to make their relationships — their marriages, in many cases — work out. Instead they&#8217;re adopting, without exception, what psychologists call an external &#8220;locus of control.&#8221; Everything that happens to their relationship is someone else&#8217;s fault. It can&#8217;t possibly be related to them. They can&#8217;t conceivably do anything that might salvage their marriage. So they move on. Not to belabor the point, but this is the message that young people are seeing all over the place. 
To give one more example, there was also the country star Kelsea Ballerini who talked about leaving her marriage because the &#8220;glitter wore off&#8221; and it would be a &#8220;disservice to herself&#8221; to stay in the marriage. Here it is:
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If there&#8217;s not enough &#8220;glitter,&#8221; just bail, go party. Whatever you do, don&#8217;t think about putting in any kind of effort. Hollywood and the media have been pushing this message for a long time. They&#8217;re doing it with maximum intensity. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been talking about the insane levels of backlash I&#8217;ve received for criticizing an influencer who promoted the &#8220;childfree&#8221; lifestyle as a path to happiness. It was a relentless barrage of media coverage, all over one tweet I made on the subject. That’s because they’re very invested in promoting this lifestyle, which means that anyone who criticizes it must be furiously dogpiled and shut down. 
The point is that there&#8217;s a large-scale effort underway to convince young people — especially young women, but not just young women — to be as shallow and selfish as possible, even if it means abandoning their marriages and wrecking their families. Lots of wealthy people and powerful forces are invested in pushing this message. 
In fact, the government is pursuing it as well. The National Bureau of Economic Research <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30159/w30159.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crunched</a> the numbers on this last year. They looked at federal and state taxes, along with benefit programs. And found that, in effect, there&#8217;s a massive &#8220;marriage tax&#8221; in this country. People who decide to get married, especially low-income people, end up sacrificing roughly two years of income to the government simply because they got married. The researchers found that, &#8220;Absent the tax, 13.7 percent more low-income, single females with children would marry annually and 7.5 percent more would be married by age 35.&#8221; The researchers also found that the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — imposes a &#8220;substantial marriage tax,&#8221; because people who get married stand to lose a lot of subsidies under that law. 
You never hear anyone talk about that, but it&#8217;s true. The government is punishing people who want to get married, especially low-income people. That&#8217;s a legacy of Barack Obama that&#8217;s never mentioned. And of course the current administration is continuing what Obama started. Last year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, testified that abortion is good for the economy, because it means more women are working for large corporations, instead of getting married and raising kids:
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Abortion leads to &#8220;increased labor force participation,&#8221; therefore it&#8217;s good. Put aside the fact that aborting tens of millions of children certainly shrinks the labor force over time — not to mention amounts to a holocaust of human beings on a scale previously unknown to mankind. Still, that’s the treasury secretary of the United States saying that women should kill their children and pursue a career at some soulless Fortune 500 company because, in her estimation, it will boost the GDP.
There&#8217;s no doubt that some of the videos we began the show with are just women who are rationalizing their own self-destructive choices. But it&#8217;s a mistake to dismiss what we&#8217;re seeing as the idle narcissism of a few famous ditzy women on TikTok. There are forces that profit immensely by creating a society full of self-centered automatons who seek connection and fulfillment from pop culture and social media rather than family life. These forces include Morgan Stanley&#8217;s clients as well as the federal government.
What are the consequences for regular Americans? For women, it&#8217;s not great. And it used to be that you could say this publicly. It used to be conventional wisdom that it&#8217;s bad to encourage most women to be single. This is a Harvard Business Review <a href="https://hbr.org/2002/04/executive-women-and-the-myth-of-having-it-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from 2002: &#8220;At midlife, between a third and a half of all successful career women in the United States do not have children. In fact, 33% of such women &#8230; in the 41-to-55 age bracket are childless—and that figure rises to 42% in corporate America. These women have not chosen to remain childless. The vast majority, in fact, yearn for children. Indeed, some have gone to extraordinary lengths to bring a baby into their lives. They subject themselves to complex medical procedures, shell out tens of thousands of dollars, and derail their careers—mostly to no avail, because these efforts come too late. In the words of one senior manager, the typical high-achieving woman childless at midlife has not made a choice but a &#8216;creeping non-choice.'&#8221;
Two decades later, that &#8220;creeping non-choice&#8221; has been rebranded as a positive. You could never get any article remotely like that one published in the Harvard Business Review today. As disastrous as this transformation has been for women&#8217;s happiness and fulfillment, it&#8217;s probably even worse for men. As we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/traditional-masculinity-is-the-solution-to-the-male-loneliness-epidemic-not-the-cause" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> on this show, men are now using more drugs, and killing themselves, more than they ever have in recorded history — and at rates that far exceed women. We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised by that. When all of society reorients to promote girl bosses and to demean the institution of marriage, yes, women make more money in the short-term. Men also have fewer opportunities to start families, and have fewer opportunities to make a living.
In polite company you&#8217;re not supposed to say any of that. You&#8217;re not supposed to think about the ramifications of the social engineering that&#8217;s underway in this country. But whether it&#8217;s acceptable or not to point it out, none of this is an accident. From every angle, women are being told that the key to happiness is being narcissistic and abandoning marriage. At the same time, men are being told that, simply by virtue of their gender, they&#8217;re members of a patriarchy that needs to be destroyed. That is a destructive combination if there ever was one.
In both cases — for men and women — the power centers are saying, essentially, &#8220;you&#8217;re just a passive observer.&#8221; Women are being told that, if their marriage isn&#8217;t appealing, then they don&#8217;t have to do anything about it. They should just leave. Men are being told that, no matter what they do, they&#8217;re sexist bigots. This passive approach, this total denial of personal responsibility, is unsustainable. As we&#8217;re seeing, again and again, no marriage can survive it. That&#8217;s now abundantly clear.
 What we&#8217;ll soon find out, if this continues, is that no society can survive it either.
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Ever since the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Dobbs, America&#8217;s longstanding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">abortion</a> debate has taken on a new tone.
The battle has moved to the states and in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, voters are no longer asking whether there&#8217;s a right to abortion in the Constitution — the court has made it quite clear that there isn&#8217;t — but rather if their state should allow women to abort their children. 
The Left, of course, is fighting harder than ever. Planned Parenthood has even launched an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/08/22/1195142490/planned-parenthood-abortion-wisconsin-campaign-2024-gop-republican-trump-pence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad campaign</a> aimed at fighting abortion limits on the ballot in the 2024 elections. Another tactic the Left has employed is to pair racial justice with abortion access, suggesting in <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/14/1098306203/abortion-is-also-about-racial-justice-experts-and-advocates-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popular articles</a> and even <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scientific studies</a> that those who care about the wellbeing of racial minorities should vote for pro-abortion measures.
Mildred Jefferson, the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, would beg to differ. As she put in a 1977 debate with Nicki Nichols Gamble, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts: 
<blockquote>“The abortionists have accomplished what perhaps 200 years of lynchings did not do; destroying an entire generation and crippling another.” </blockquote>
The truth that Dr. Jefferson understood and that younger generations need to know is that the abortion movement was founded as a eugenics project. Eugenics is the “science” behind the idea that there is a hierarchical ordering of the races, and it goes hand-in-hand with some of the most unethical medical practices that are part of American history.
Take the case of J. Marion Sims. He has been called the father of modern gynecology. In recent years, however, he has been rightly called out because <a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his research</a> was conducted on enslaved black women without anesthesia. It took decades, but the truth finally came out.
Today, in the midst of our abortion debates, Gen Z also needs to know the truth about Planned Parenthood. 
Despite being presented as a compassionate progressive leader, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was also a vicious racist. Although pro-abortion advocates have defended her for years as a product of her time (the same defense used with Sims), the truth is that Sanger was a radical, even for 1930s America. Indeed, her purpose in founding Planned Parenthood and her mission in life was to destroy the black race. As she wrote in a <a href="https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1939 letter to Clarence Gamble</a>: 
<blockquote>“We don’t want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the [African American] minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”</blockquote>
Clarence Gamble spent his life and family fortune promoting eugenics. He passed his beliefs on to his son Richard Gamble, as well as his son’s wife, the aforementioned Nicki Nichols Gamble who debated Dr. Jefferson in 1977 and was even so bold as to suggest on air that abortion helps low-income women.
Then, and for the rest of her life, Dr. Jefferson stood up to the racist abortionists targeting her community and fought tenaciously for the lives of black babies. She went on to help form and lead Massachusetts Citizens for Life and found the Right to Life Crusade, Inc. She is a hero, deserves her place in history, and most importantly, needs to be remembered today.
Public pressure for change can make a difference. In 2018, for instance, the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to remove Sims’ statue from its prominent location in Central Park. Likewise, in 2020 Planned Parenthood of Greater New York removed Margaret Sanger’s name from its building.
And yet, the business of Sanger’s Planned Parenthood — “exterminate[ing] the Negro population”— continues. In 2016, more black babies were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/lets-talk-about-the-black-abortion-rate-1531263697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed by abortion</a> than were born in New York City. This is no accident, of course. 
Ramona Treviño, a former manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic, <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249604/reversing-roe-hispanic-pro-life-leader-ramona-trevino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021 that her former employer targets Hispanics and African Americans. Indeed, at a director’s meeting, she even discovered Planned Parenthood has abortion quotas.
So, simply removing Sanger’s name from the building is insufficient. Dr. Jefferson wouldn’t have been satisfied by the Left’s attempts to erase history. And we shouldn’t be either.
Listen to her words from 2003: 
<blockquote>“I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live.”</blockquote>
It is time for America to put an end to Sanger’s institution of eugenics. It won’t be easy — Planned Parenthood is a well-funded force. But it wasn’t easy for Mildred Jefferson either.
As legislation on abortion continues to be on the ballot in statehouses across the counties, those who fight for life would do well to remember her example. Although the Left may label standing up for life as racist, fascist, right-wing extremism, the truth is that it’s simply the right thing to do.
Raychel Namiotka is a Digital Workplace Analyst for Information Technology at The Heritage Foundation.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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