In 1973’s landmark abortion case, <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/#tab-opinion-1950137">Roe v. Wade</a>, the United States Supreme Court suggested that fetuses do not have constitutional rights because there was no consensus on when a human&#8217;s life begins and fetuses were not recognized as persons under the law. In 2019, neither proposition is true.
According to a recent <a href="https://www.kofc.org/un/en/resources/communications/abortion-limits-favored.pdf">Marist Poll</a>, only 46% of Americans believe &#8220;life begins at conception&#8221; is a biological and scientific fact, and less than one-third of Democrats reported that they believe life begins at conception. If you read Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-world-renowned-university-suppressed-josh-hammer">piece</a> this past summer on my academic research, then you might be aware of <a href="https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1883">the recent international survey</a> that found 96% of 5,577 biologists affirmed the view that a huma&#8217;s life begins at fertilization. The biologists represented over one thousand academic institutions from around the world, and most identified as liberal (89%), pro-choice (85%), non-religious (63%) Democrats (92%).
The Supreme Court considered the question of when life begins because the motivations behind abortion laws can hinge upon it.
If a human&#8217;s life begins at birth, a fetus is not a human that is presumptively legally protectable; an abortion restriction would be a bald-faced attempt to control women&#8217;s bodies. However, if a human&#8217;s life begins at fertilization, a fetus is a human who might be a legally protectable person; such an abortion restriction is then an attempt to protect the life of a human person.
Since we know that fetuses are humans, the question is whether they are legally protectable persons.
Ninety-three percent of Americans <a href="https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1883">believe</a> a human is worthy of legal protection once its life begins. <a href="https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/">Article 6</a> of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that all humans deserve &#8220;the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.&#8221; After the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, U.S. Senators <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24596/24596.txt">Lyman Trumbull</a> and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NU9hwULq9BUC&amp;pg=PA1794">Allen Thurman</a> stated that the amendment protected every human in the nation. These legislators&#8217; understanding of the amendment has been repeatedly echoed by the judiciary.
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/303/77/">held</a> that all weak and helpless human beings are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Roe v. Wade itself, the Court noted that there could be no opposition to abortion restrictions if the &#8220;suggestion of [fetal] personhood is established.&#8221; In 1986, Justice John Paul Stevens went a step further and <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/476/747/">ruled</a> that, if recognized as humans, fetuses&#8217; protection from abortion would be guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Justices Blackmun, Brennan, and Marshall, who were all part of the Roe Court, <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/492/490/#tab-opinion-1958093">repeated</a> Justice Stevens’ argument in 1989.
However, back in 1973, the Court felt it could not recognize the rights of fetuses based on two facts that are demonstrably false in 2019:
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<li>The Court could not &#8220;resolve the difficult question of when life begins&#8221; because they could not find a consensus of experts that agreed on a certain view. Today, a consensus of biologists affirm the view that a human’s life begins at fertilization, which is consistent with testimony given by experts at the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/158">1981 U.S. Senate Committee on a Human Life Amendment</a> and the <a href="https://www.dakotavoice.com/Docs/South%20Dakota%20Abortion%20Task%20Force%20Report.pdf">2005 South Dakota Abortion Task Force</a>.</li>
<li>The Court found fetuses had &#8220;never been recognized in the law as persons.&#8221; Today, most states <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx">recognize</a> fetuses as human persons and human victims under the law; 38 states have fetal homicide laws and 29 states protect humans beginning at fertilization.</li>
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Put plainly, the Roe Court could not establish fetal rights because it could not be certain that fetuses were humans and states did not recognize fetuses as persons outside of the abortion context. Today, the Court can be certain that life begins at fertilization and that most states treat the non-abortive killing of a fetus as homicide or murder. Indeed, these changes to the factual underpinnings of Roe were precisely what the Court contemplated as possible grounds for re-examining Roe in 1992&#8217;s <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/">Planned Parenthood v. Casey</a>.
The Casey Court established that a change in Roe&#8216;s underlying facts could support an argument for overruling it. While legal precedent is important, there is nothing more important than progressing the law to reflect the development of legal concepts and scientific knowledge to ensure that all humans are equally protected.
As it stands today, a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/728118503/saybie-born-at-8-6-ounces-in-san-diego-is-now-the-worlds-tiniest-surviving-baby">nine-ounce premature infant</a> has constitutional rights, but a nine-pound fetus does not; a fetus is recognized as a human and a homicide victim when its <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/doctor-slipped-abortion-drug-girlfriends-tea-sentenced-years/story?id=55280357">father drugs its mother</a>, yet <a href="https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1883">my research found</a> that only 12% of pro-choice Americans recognize an abortion as a homicide. These Americans are inclined to recognize deaths of fetuses as unjustifiable homicides in various non-abortive contexts: A physical attack of a pregnant person (86%), drugging of a pregnant person (87%), and medical malpractice (80%). However, when it comes to abortion, most opponents to fetal rights refuse to recognize fetuses&#8217; humanity.
When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/763863712/supreme-court-revisits-abortion-with-louisiana-case">next challenge</a> to Roe, the Court should re-examine that precedent in light of these changes to the ruling&#8217;s underlying facts. The Court should recognize fetuses as human persons whose rights are guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, regardless of the impact it could have on abortion rights.
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RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-world-renowned-university-suppressed-josh-hammer">A World-Renowned University Suppressed Important Abortion Research. Here&#8217;s the Full Story.</a>

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JACOBS: Why The U.S. Supreme Court Needs To Recognize Fetal Rights

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Constitution

Tinseltown&#8217;s abortion propaganda machine continued with the latest episode of &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; about a pregnant mother who ingests herbs in order to self-induce an abortion.
According to <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2019/11/08/greys-anatomy-dont-force-poor-mom-against-her-will-continue">Newsbusters</a>, the November 7 episode featured a 25-year-old woman named Cassidy who is brought to the emergency room after a fall down her basement steps. The woman, who is 8-10 weeks pregnant, is disappointed to learn that the baby survived, and admits she ingested herbs to induce an abortion since she could not afford to visit a clinic.
&#8220;Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) volunteers to talk to Cassidy, though Amelia doesn’t practice at the hospital,&#8221; reports Newsbusters. &#8220;Upon finding out that Cassidy wanted an abortion, Amelia said that Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) can ask an OB-GYN to do abortion during her spleen surgery. Owen contradicts Amelia’s offer, though, and tells Cassidy he just wants to take care of the bleeding spleen and then the pregnancy can be dealt with later.&#8221;
In a conversation outside the room, Amelia questions Owen for not ordering the OBGYN to perform an abortion during the spleen operation. Though not entirely on the nose, the dialogue flows rather predictably:
<blockquote>Amelia: What are you doing?
Owen: You really overstepped in there. I’m a trauma surgeon. I don’t order abortions.
Amelia: You would have if the fetus hadn’t survived.
Owen: But it did.
Amelia: Owen, she’s eight weeks. She doesn’t need a full d&amp;c.
Owen: Exactly. It’s not emergent, but her internal injuries are. So I’m gonna deal with those, and then she can go see an ob.
Amelia: She seems pretty clear in her thinking and committed to her plan. Why not just give her the help she’s asking for?</blockquote>
Though Owen conducts the surgery without scheduling the OBGYN for the abortion, Amelia orders a nurse to give the woman two pills that induce abortion. When Owen confronts Amelia for her actions, she slaps him with talking-points that could have been lifted directly out of a Planned Parenthood pamplet.
&#8220;Owen, did you really want to force that poor mom to bring another human being onto the planet against her will, or did you refuse her an abortion because I wanted to help her have one?&#8221; Amelia tells Owen.
&#8220;You don’t get to come to my place of work and order me around, ok?&#8221; he responds.
The &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; episode comes amid reports about Tinseltown pushing the most pro-abortion propaganda in its history.
“So far, halfway through the year, nearly two dozen characters in streaming shows, movies and television have had or talked about having abortions, many unapologetically, a development that would have been unthinkable a decade ago – and one that has angered some abortion foes,” reported <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/arts/abortion-hollywood.html">The New York Times </a>earlier this year.
Last month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/law-order-svu-episode-pushes-cringe-worthy-abortion-propaganda">an episode</a> of &#8220;Law &amp; Order: SVU&#8221; featured a plot that focused on a 13-year-old girl from an evangelical Christian family in Ohio who escaped to New York in order to obtain an abortion after her stepfather raped her. The episode ended with her receiving the abortion, but only after the characters routinely spouted dialogue about the backward thinking of pro-life conservatives.

ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; &#8211; Season Sixteen

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Pushes Abortion Propaganda

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Last week, the <a href="https://prochoice.org/reverend-katherine-hancock-ragsdale-named-president-ceo-naf/">National Abortion Federation</a> (NAF) tapped Katherine Ragsdale, a lesbian Episcopal priest, as the international abortion organization&#8217;s new president and CEO.
&#8220;Today, the National Abortion Federation Board of Directors announced that The Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale has been named President and CEO,&#8221; NAF announced in a <a href="https://prochoice.org/reverend-katherine-hancock-ragsdale-named-president-ceo-naf/">press release</a> published on their website last Wednesday. 
Ragsdale, who has been serving as the group&#8217;s interim president and CEO since September, gushed over the announcement, calling abortionists &#8220;heroes&#8221; and &#8220;modern-day saints.&#8221;
&#8220;It has been a great privilege to lead this organization for the last year and work alongside the incredible and dedicated NAF Board, staff, and membership,&#8221; the Christian leader said. &#8220;Abortion providers are some of my personal heroes and modern-day saints. It is an honor to be able to serve and support NAF members as they provide compassionate health care amid increasing attacks and challenges.&#8221;
&#8220;In her short time at NAF, Katherine has demonstrated her unwavering commitment to serving our members and her great vision for the future of NAF, the NAF Hotline Fund, and NAF Canada,&#8221; said NAF Board Chair Sue Carlisle. &#8220;After working with her for the last year, it was clear to the Board that the best person for the job was already leading the organization.&#8221;
The press release described Ragsdale as &#8220;an Episcopal priest who has been outspoken about abortion rights, LGBTQ equality, and public policy issues affecting women and families throughout her career.&#8221;
As noted by NAF, Ragsdale, who married fellow Episcopal priest Mally Lloyd in 2011, has previously advocated before the United States Congress for the murder of the unborn. The 60-year-old was also a featured speaker at the 2004 pro-abortion March for Women’s Lives demonstration in Washington, D.C., and has served on the national board of the &#8220;Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice&#8221; for 17 years.
According to the NAF press release, Ragsdale &#8220;has preached about how abortion is a blessing.&#8221;
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life and president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, blasted Ragsdale as a &#8220;false prophet&#8221; following the NAF announcement.
&#8220;For decades, Katherine Ragsdale, a false prophet, has been trying to put religious vestments on child-killing,&#8221; Father Pavone told <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lesbian-episcopal-priest-named-new-head-of-national-abortion-federation">LifeSiteNews</a>. &#8220;She led the ‘Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights&#8217; (now the &#8216;Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice&#8217;), which actually provides rites of blessing for parents about to kill their children, and for the facilities in which the blood is shed.&#8221;
Pavone noted that NAF provides &#8220;Scripture studies that attempt to say exactly the opposite of what Scripture says about what God thinks of the shedding of innocent blood.&#8221;
&#8220;It actually reveals one of the greatest weaknesses of the abortion industry: Science is not on their side, logic is not on their side, and history is not on their side,&#8221; Pavone said of NAF&#8217;s decision on Ragsdale. &#8220;They ran out of arguments a long time ago to try to justify abortion. So now, all they have left is to disguise it in ‘spirituality.&#8221;
&#8220;They try in vain to take the stigma out of abortion — but that effort continues, and that is what this new development represents,&#8221; he added.
According to LifeSiteNews, Vicki Saporta, NAF’s last CEO and president, took in a salary of $392,018 in 2017. It&#8217;s unclear how much Ragsdale will be compensated.

Katherine Ragsdale

Lesbian Priest Tapped To Head Major Abortion Group, Calls Abortionists &#8216;Modern-Day Saints&#8217;

Christianity

As Live Action <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionist-desk-placard-birthday-killing-it/">reports</a>, prominent abortionist/serial killer Leroy Carhart, who has committed countless late-term abortions in his long and blood-drenched career, recently celebrated (somewhat ironically) his birthday. It was the decoration in his birthday photo that caught people&#8217;s attention. Carhart is seen posing next to his cake with a little placard that read: &#8220;Even on my worst days, I&#8217;m killing it.&#8221;
We can be certain that this quip is meant to imply exactly what it seems to imply. Indeed, Carhart does quite a bit of killing every day. And abortionists are not above joking about the slaughter they carry out. Recall, for example, the Planned Parenthood executive who joked that she might be able to buy a Lamborghini from all the money she makes on selling baby parts. When you have forfeited your soul, even dead babies are funny.
But the phrase &#8220;I&#8217;m killing it&#8221; is significant in Carhart&#8217;s case for another reason. It didn&#8217;t get any attention when it first aired, but the <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1191703330507984898?s=20">BBC did an interview</a> with the abortionist a few months ago in which he admitted that he kills babies. That is, he didn&#8217;t bother with the usual euphemisms about &#8220;fetuses&#8221; and &#8220;terminations.&#8221; He called his victims &#8220;babies,&#8221; and said he even uses the term with the women who come to him. When asked if he &#8220;has a problem with killing babies,&#8221; he responded &#8220;absolutely not.&#8221;
In that same interview — this is all in the span of just one minute — Carhart also admits that women who have a &#8220;medical need&#8221; for abortion may simply suffer from depression. When pro-aborts claim that late-term abortions are only done in cases where it&#8217;s necessary to protect the health of the mother, they neglect to mention that this may be emotional health we&#8217;re talking about. The guy who actually carries out these crimes against humanity admits as much.
When pushed about the ethics of killing fully developed and viable infants, Carhart explained that &#8220;the baby has no input in this&#8221; as far as he&#8217;s concerned. From the baby&#8217;s perspective, says Carhart, &#8220;it makes no difference whether it&#8217;s born or not born.&#8221;
Carhart knows that &#8220;fetus&#8221; is just another word for baby. That&#8217;s why he uses the terms interchangeably. He knows that the women who seek his services are already mothers before they walk through the door. He knows that he is killing a human child. He knows that this act of killing is not medically necessary for the mother. Pro-abortion propagandists carry on with their talking points and sanitized language, but the guy who actually wields the scalpel knows better. He knows what he is doing and what — or I should say who — he is doing it to. His justification is cruelly simple: The baby doesn&#8217;t get a say. The baby&#8217;s life just doesn&#8217;t matter.
This one-minute confession from one of our nation&#8217;s most prolific killers of the unborn should be played again and again, and referred back to constantly, by pro-lifers. In less than 60 seconds, Carhart utterly dismantled some of the most common and (somehow) most persuasive pro-abortion arguments. He has no use for debates over when life begins. He knows that it begins well before he puts those forceps inside the mother&#8217;s birth canal. He just doesn&#8217;t care. That&#8217;s his only argument. And, in the end, that&#8217;s the only honest or coherent argument a pro-abortion person can make.

Dr. LeRoy Carhart travels between Nebraska and Germantown, MD, where he performs late-term abortions.

WALSH: Prominent Abortionist Accidentally Demolishes Nearly Every Pro-Abortion Argument In Less Than One Minute

On Friday, Pennsylvania state legislator Rep. Wendy Ullman (D-Bucks) attempted an &#8220;apology&#8221; for calling a woman&#8217;s miscarriage of a child &#8220;just some mess on a napkin&#8221; while opposing a pro-life law earlier in the week.
In a series of tweets, the Democrat apologized for choosing her &#8220;words poorly&#8221; and underscored her opposition to the a Republican-backed bill that seeks to have medical facilities and abortion clinics dispose of baby remains with dignity.
<a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&amp;sInd=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=1890">Pennsylvania House Bill 1890</a> would require abortion clinics and health care facilities to bury or cremate such lost unborn children, as opposed to tossing out the children like routine medical waste.
&#8220;In a discussion in the committee meeting earlier this week, I chose my words poorly and for that I apologize. Many women and families find tremendous comfort and solace in ritual burial or cremation in the case of early miscarriages, but others do not,&#8221; posted Rep. Ullman. &#8220;Some would choose donation for medical research, like my family friend, who I quoted in a committee meeting, saying, &#8216;So my loss can have meaning.'&#8221;
&#8220;In the discussion, which was on a bill that would require ritual burial or cremation following any miscarriage, I was in near-tears relaying a story of my family friend,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This issue is intensely important to me, and that’s why I struggled for words. My words were poorly chosen, and I apologize. I remain steadfast that every single step of a medical process, including the handling of remains, should be decided by a patient and her doctor.&#8221;
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Some would choose donation for medical research, like my family friend, who I quoted in a committee meeting, saying, “So my loss can have meaning.” 2/4
&mdash; Rep. Wendy Ullman (@RepUllman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepUllman/status/1190360405824147460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This issue is intensely important to me, and that’s why I struggled for words. My words were poorly chosen, and I apologize. I remain steadfast that every single step of a medical process, including the handling of remains, should be decided by a patient and her doctor. 4/4
&mdash; Rep. Wendy Ullman (@RepUllman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepUllman/status/1190360407325773826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ullman&#8217;s &#8220;apology&#8221; tweets were not well received, racking up only a few dozen &#8220;likes&#8221; and thousands of replies — most all of which were in outraged opposition with the lawmaker, including some detailing personal stories of miscarriage.
&#8220;This issue is also intensely important to me. Let me try to be clear so that you can understand,&#8221; one Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaJochim/status/1190627800459489280">replied</a> to Ullman. &#8220;That &#8216;mess&#8217; is a baby, a child, a human being. You callously disregarded human life in all its glory and the beautiful process we all go through till the end of our lives.&#8221;
Another woman <a href="https://twitter.com/HollyKurzman/status/1190685698954842120">wrote</a>, &#8220;Poorly chosen is a gross understatement. It was cruel.&#8221;
&#8220;Tell my mother, aunt, sister and sister-in-law that their miscarriages were nothing. Resign and disappear,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/chrisbg99/status/1190665297478459397">read</a> another comment.
&#8220;Your words weren&#8217;t chosen poorly,&#8221; one woman <a href="https://twitter.com/StartlingtheDay/status/1190682444002930689">said</a>. &#8220;It was your principles that you chose poorly. Keep searching for the Truth. It&#8217;s there waiting for you.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1190668908954603522">pointed out</a> that her tweet-storm wasn&#8217;t an &#8220;apology.&#8221; &#8220;If it was,&#8221; she said, &#8220;it would have stopped after the first sentence.&#8221;
&#8220;Do I seem angry to you, [Rep. Ullman]? Good. Because women who have had miscarriages deserve respect and if I need to stand up to garbage like you, who seek to deny the humanity of our children in pursuit of your ghoulish agenda, so be it,&#8221; Zanotti <a href="https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1190672062991478786">added</a>. &#8220;Women deserve better than you.&#8221;
Ullman <a href="https://twitter.com/molratty/status/1190390548915478528">sparked</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1189940159443169280">backlash</a> last week after the Democrat&#8217;s remarks, which were first highlighted by <a href="https://pafamily.org">Pennsylvania Family Council</a>, received (limited) media coverage.
&#8220;[House Bill 1890] refers specifically to the product of conception after fertilization, which covers an awful lot of territory,&#8221; the Democrat said on Tuesday during the House Health Committee meeting. &#8220;I think we all understand the concept of the loss of a fetus, but we’re also talking about a woman who comes into a facility and is having cramps and — not to be, not to be, concrete — an early miscarriage is just some mess on a napkin.&#8221;
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Dem Lawmaker&#8217;s ‘Apology’ For Calling Miscarriage ‘Just Some Mess On A Napkin’ Doesn&#8217;t Go Over Well

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Even though the President of the United States is supposed to appoint Supreme Court Justices based on their judicial philosophy and not their politics, President Bill Clinton admitted this past week that he chose Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg due to her steadfast commitment to upholding abortion.
Speaking at Georgetown University Law School on Wednesday, the president said that protecting Roe v. Wade played a significant role in his selection of Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.
“There is one thing that we did discuss, and I feel I should tell you, because it will illustrate why I thought I should appoint her,” Clinton said, as reported by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-bill-clinton-reveals-abortion-conversation-ruth-bader/story?id=66633389" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-bill-clinton-reveals-abortion-conversation-ruth-bader/story?id%3D66633389&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572659356526000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHbfjKDGG8AXX0CsQVdzJJFRzGfHw">ABC News</a>. &#8220;Abortion was a big issue in 1992 — the right to choose, I was one of the first pro-choice Democrats to run since Roe v. Wade, who actually benefited from Roe v. Wade. Now, she didn&#8217;t have to say anything about this. She knew this perfectly well that I was under a lot of pressure to make sure I appointed someone who is Simon-pure, which I had said was important.&#8221;
As noted by ABC News, almost no president has ever admitted to asking a potential Supreme Court nominee on how they would rule on an issue like abortion. In fact, when Justice Gorsuch was asked about such a meeting during his confirmation process, he said that would have &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/politics/scotus-hearing-neil-gorsuch-roe-v-wade/index.html">walked out the door</a>&#8221; if President Trump pressed him to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Former President Clinton said he inquired with Ginsburg about the issue of abortion and admitted that his pick was &#8220;clearly pro-choice&#8221; after nominating her.
&#8220;I asked her the question and she talked about it just as if it was any other issue, no effect, this is what I think, this is why I think it. And she made a heck of a case,&#8221; Clinton said.
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/is-bill-clinton-saying-that-justice-ginsburg-lied-to-the-senate/">National Review</a> noted that Bill Clinton’s frank admission about how he selected Ginsburg suggests she may have lied during the U.S. Senate confirmation hearing when she said it was inappropriate for anyone to ask how a judicial nominee would rule on a specific case.
&#8220;It is inappropriate, in my judgment, to seek from any nominee for judicial office assurance on how that individual would rule in a future case,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That judgment was shared by those involved in the process of selecting me. No such person discussed with me any specific case, legal issue or question in a manner that could reasonably be interpreted as seeking any express or implied assurances concerning my position on such case, issue, or question.&#8221;
Ginsburg&#8217;s pro-abortion record on the Supreme Court is well-documented and often goes beyond legal jurisprudence and into ideological statements about sexism and gender politics, such as when <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2014/07/31/ruth-bader-ginsburg-accuses-pro-hobby-lobby-scotus-judges-of-being-sexist/">she accused her male peers</a> of sexism in the Hobby Lobby ruling.
&#8220;Do you believe that the five male justices truly understood the ramifications of their decision?&#8221; Katie Couric asked Ginsburg in light of the ruling.
&#8220;I would have to say no,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;But justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.&#8221;

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Delivers Remarks At Georgetown Law

Bill Clinton Admits He Chose Ruth Bader Ginsburg Due To Her Abortion Stance

Bill Clinton

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Despite being a pro-abortion Democrat who now wishes to fund the practice with taxpayer dollars, former Vice President Joe Biden said that Pope Francis has given him Holy Communion, and that he had never encountered a priest or bishop who would refuse him.
Speaking with PBS News Hour, Joe Biden said that the issue of receiving Holy Communion as a pro-abortion politician has never come up in his life until just recently.
“It’s not a position that I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father, who gives me Communion,&#8221; Biden said, as reported by <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-abortion-joe-biden-the-holy-father...gives-me-communion">LifeSiteNews</a>.
Last week, a Catholic priest in South Carolina <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-joe-biden-denied-holy-communion-at-catholic-church-over-abortion-support">reportedly enforced</a> the church’s code of canon law by denying former Vice President Joe Biden the sacrament of Holy Communion due to his stance on abortion.
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“Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden,” Father Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church told reporters. “Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other, and the Church. Our actions should reflect that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”
Biden told PBS that the Communion denial was &#8220;the only time it’s ever happened,” adding the situation was a &#8220;private matter,&#8221; while accusing the priest of bringing it to the press. While it is true that Father Morey told reporters about the encounter, it is possible that he told them of it only after they reached out, being that people in attendance or those close with Joe Biden might have spread word of it.
During every Mass, Catholic doctrine states that the wafer and wine become the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ when a priest consecrates it. In order for a Catholic to receive Communion, they must be in a state of grace after having attended the Sacrament of Confession. If a Catholic, usually by way of conscience, determines that they are not in a state of grace, they must refrain from receiving Holy Communion. When it comes to individuals who publicly oppose Catholic teaching (such as politicians who support abortion), bishops and priests are given full license under Canon Law to deny the person Holy Communion until they repent, lest they commit the sin of sacrilege if they receive what Catholics believe to be the body and blood of Christ unworthily.
As the abortion argument in the United States has escalated during the Trump era, certain Catholic bishops have taken extra steps to warn pro-abortion politicians to refrain from Holy Communion. Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, for instance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48112/illinois-catholic-bishop-bars-pro-abortion-paul-bois">expressly forbid </a>all priests under his governance to give Holy Communion to politicians that supported the “Reproductive Health Act” in Illinois.
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In an appearance on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; late last week, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-cardinal-dolan-supports-priest-not-giving-pro-abortion-joe-biden-holy-communion">said that he supports Father Morey&#8217;s decision</a> even though he himself would give Joe Biden Holy Communion.
“I think that priest had a good point,” Dolan said. “You are publicly at odds with an issue of substance – critical substance. We’re talking about life and death in the church. You personally, out of integrity, should not approach Holy Communion – because that implies that you’re in union with all the church beliefs. I never have [denied someone Holy Communion]. I’ve never had, what you might call the opportunity, or never said, ‘uh-oh. Should I give him or her Holy Communion?’ It’s never come up. [It] sure could.”

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Actress Elizabeth Banks, the director of the upcoming &#8220;Charlies Angels&#8221; reboot, will take her much-ballyhooed abortion enthusiasm to new heights by leading the new Creative Council at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
&#8220;The initiative, chaired by Banks, will use stars&#8217; platforms to educate about and advocate for the Center&#8217;s issues,&#8221; reported <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/elizabeth-banks-lead-center-reproductive-rights-creative-council-1250709">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR). &#8220;The creative council&#8217;s advocacy will focus in part on the Supreme Court case June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee, which challenges a Louisiana law designed to shut down abortion clinics.&#8221;
Speaking with THR, Banks said that reproductive rights are a &#8220;baseline&#8221; for female equality.
&#8220;I believe that women&#8217;s equality begins with our fundamental human rights over bodily autonomy. So I feel like this is baseline for female equality in the world, deciding when and with whom to have children,&#8221; she said.
Banks also extolled the many Hollywood women with platforms who helped found the council, including Busy Philipps, Aja Naomi King, and Amy Brenneman.
&#8220;We looked for women who were already sympathetic to the cause or who had already participated in some way in a campaign for the Center,&#8221; Banks said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real power to having people who have platforms be able to elevate the critical role that the Center is playing in protecting our freedoms. My hope is that all of the members of the Council take seriously this responsibility to mention the Center&#8217;s work, to advocate for the Center whenever they can &#8230; and add reproductive rights stories to the work that they&#8217;re already doing.&#8221;
Banks also stresses other issues related to reproduction, such as embryos and other fertility issues.
&#8220;Reproductive rights in media is a really important tool for keeping the issues that we are all facing at the forefront,&#8221; Banks said. &#8220;As someone who struggled with fertility issues and made embryos, I think there&#8217;s such an interesting dialogue to be had about how abortion care is part of a larger package of reproductive care that is also about creating wonderful families and access to family care. It&#8217;s all very slippery slope and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re trying to get across.&#8221;
Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, told THR in a statement that Banks and the female artists working with her will be instrumental in expanding &#8220;reproductive rights&#8221; across the globe.
&#8220;The Center for Reproductive Rights is proud to partner with these powerful artists to protect and expand reproductive rights access across the globe through our work in the courts, in public policy and before human rights bodies,&#8221; said Northup. &#8220;We know the impact these artists can have in advocating for change and reaching new audiences to raise awareness about reproductive rights issues, including maternal health, abortion care, contraception and assisted reproduction.&#8221;
The announcement of the Creative Council comes amid Tinseltown pushing the most pro-abortion propaganda in its history.
“So far, halfway through the year, nearly two dozen characters in streaming shows, movies and television have had or talked about having abortions, many unapologetically, a development that would have been unthinkable a decade ago — and one that has angered some abortion foes,” reported <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/arts/abortion-hollywood.html">The New York Times </a>earlier this year.

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A sex-trafficked 15-year-old girl told police that she was taken to get an abortion by 30-year-old Christopher Johnson, the man charged with &#8220;lewd or lascivious battery&#8221; against the minor.
Despite the age discrepancy between the two and the victim&#8217;s exceptionally young age, (the <a href="https://www.ageofconsent.net/states/florida">age of consent</a> in Florida is 18), it appears the abortion clinic went through with the abortion and never so much as notified authorities.
“The victim stated that she got pregnant from the defendant and he took her to the clinic to have an abortion,” wrote Detective Adam Granit in Johnson’s arrest report, according to the <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/davie/fl-ne-davie-man-arrest-teen-porn-20191023-cpv5yq7dmjh7dd4cuunuqq7wmi-story.html">South Florida Sun Sentinel</a>.
The outlet noted that authorities found paperwork from an abortion clinic inside Johnson&#8217;s apartment after executing a search warrant.
Nearly a year after she went missing, the 15-year-old, whose name is being withheld due to her young age, was spotted by her mother online in numerous pornographic photos.
&#8220;Police investigated and discovered nearly 60 pornographic videos of the Sunrise girl posted on Periscope, Pornhub, Modelhub, Snapchat and other websites, according to an arrest report,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/davie/fl-ne-davie-man-arrest-teen-porn-20191023-cpv5yq7dmjh7dd4cuunuqq7wmi-story.html">South Florida Sun Sentinel</a>.
Police recognized a &#8220;bald man&#8221; in some of the pornographic videos as one of the men, later identified as Johnson, spotted with the girl in February at a 7-11. Surveillance video from the 7-11 &#8220;shows the girl trying to shield her face so the clerk at the store &#8230; couldn’t see her,&#8221; the Sentinel reported.
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Johnson, who denies having sex with the teen, is being held on $75,000 bond at a Broward Country jail. The 30-year-old was charged with felony lewd or lascivious battery on a victim between 12 and 16.
Abortion facilities have a history of allegedly protecting predators. For example, reporting from 2014 revealed that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia was reportedly caught covering up child rape.
&#8220;Pennsylvania Department of Health inspectors found that in six out of six medical records reviewed of girls under age 16, there was no documentation that Planned Parenthood employees sought to ascertain the age of the individual who had sexual intercourse with the child,&#8221; <a href="https://prolifeaction.org/2014/phillypredators/">Pro-Life Action League</a> reported after reviewing inspection reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
&#8220;Planned Parenthood employees did not report these incidents to child protection authorities,&#8221; the report continued, noting that two of the girls were 14, and four were 13 years old.
&#8220;Two of the 13-year old girls were known to have had sex before the age of 13,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;One reported her first sexual intercourse at age 11. Another reported her first sexual intercourse at age 12. It was in their medical records. Even Planned Parenthood’s own policy acknowledged that sex with a child under age 13 is always, by definition, rape. Under Pennsylvania law, a child under 13 cannot give consent.&#8221;
&#8220;These incidents of child sexual abuse should have been reported by Planned Parenthood employees, but they were not,&#8221; Pro-Life Action League reported. &#8220;Let the record also show that an inspection of Planned Parenthood’s Far Northeast Health Center on September 19, 2013 also revealed that Planned Parenthood’s Northeast Health Center likewise &#8216;failed to develop a policy that met the reporting requirements for statutory sexual assault victims&#8217; as defined by Pennsylvania law. What’s more, inspectors found two instances of possible child sexual abuse that went unreported by employees at Planned Parenthood’s Far Northeast Health Center.&#8221;

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On Tuesday, Pennsylvania state legislator Rep. Wendy Ullman (D-Bucks) said a miscarriage is &#8220;just a mess on a napkin.&#8221;
Rep. Ullman made the shocking statement while expressing her opposition to a Republican-sponsored bill seeking to handle the remains of the aborted and miscarried with dignity. <a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&amp;sInd=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=1890">House Bill 1890</a> would require abortion clinics and healthcare facilities to bury or cremate such lost unborn children, as opposed to tossing out the children like medical waste.
&#8220;[House Bill 1890] refers specifically to the product of conception after fertilization, which covers an awful lot of territory,&#8221; said the Democratic lawmaker during a House Health Committee meeting. &#8220;I think we all understand the concept of the loss of a fetus, but we&#8217;re also talking about a woman who comes into a facility and is having cramps and — not to be, not to be, concrete — an early miscarriage is just some mess on a napkin.&#8221;
<a href="https://pafamily.org/2019/10/napkin/">Tom Shaheen</a>, Vice President for Policy for Pennsylvania Family Institute, quickly condemned Ullman&#8217;s insensitive statement. “A miscarriage, no matter how early, does not result in a ‘mess on a napkin’ but the loss of a child,” Mr. Shaheen rebuked the Democrat. “Each human life deserves respect, even when lost at an early stage in development.”
“The remains of human beings should be treated better than medical waste,&#8221; continued Shaheen. &#8220;Rep. Frank Ryan’s bill is a compassionate effort to help offer some closure to many mothers and families in Pennsylvania.&#8221;
&#8220;Every Pennsylvanian should be appalled at such a heartless comment, which devalues life and ignores the pain experienced by so many women and families in Pennsylvania,&#8221; a statement from the <a href="https://pafamily.org/2019/10/napkin/">Pennsylvania Family Institute</a> added.
Abortion radicalism and callous comments concerning the loss of the unborn have become commonplace in the Democratic Party. In January, for example, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat later embroiled in a blackface scandal, publicly defended a form of infanticide on a radio program.
&#8220;When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of the mother, with the consent of physicians, more than one physician by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus which is non-viable,&#8221; Northam said, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-virginia-governor-doubles-down-infanticide-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a>. &#8220;So in this particular example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.&#8221;
At the time, the Virginia Democrat was offering support for proposed legislation by Kathy Tran, a Democrat, allowing abortions to be performed up to the moment of birth.
Every Republican members of the House Health committee voted to pass Pennsylvania&#8217;s HB 1890, while every Democrat in the committee voted against it.
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/05/28/indiana-abortion-law-supreme-court-rules-fetal-remains-law/1256953001/">upheld</a> the portion of a Republican-backed Indiana law that requires burial or cremation of unborn children lost in abortion or miscarriage, just as HB 1890 is seeking.
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Trevor Noah has some serious problems with Kanye West&#8217;s cultural crusade to challenge the prevailing narrative that black Americans have no other choice than to vote Democratic if they want to have a chance in America.
Speaking on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; Tuesday night, Trevor Noah first took issue with Kanye West&#8217;s attack on rap culture by referencing several of his past lyrics that do not jive with Kanye&#8217;s new “Jesus is King” musical style.
“I was watching that, and I was like, are you s****ing me?” asked Noah, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/trevor-noah-criticizes-kanye-wests-comments-on-abortion-black-women-in-america-have-the-least-leeway">Fox News</a>. “Like, of all people. I’m not saying everything he’s saying is wrong, but you are going to say it? You, as Kanye West, are going to talk s*** about other rappers talking about buying ‘foreign?’”
“You, as Kanye West? I know <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-attacks-spike-lee-over-racist-hit-during-oscars-acceptance-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spike Lee’s</a> gonna kill me, but let me finish. I’d rather buy 80 gold chains and go [ignorant],” Noah continued. “That Kanye West? Like, are you serious? ‘You’re such a f****** ho, I love it?’ That Kanye West is going to talk s*** about rappers f****** b****es?’”
However, Trevor Noah took the most issue with Kanye West&#8217;s assertion that black Americans have simply been brainwashed into voting for the Democratic Party.
“OK, let me get this straight. So you’re saying that every black person in America is brainwashed? You’re saying that 70, 80, 90 percent of black people who are voting Democrat, they’re brainwashed?” Noah said. “So you’re saying you’re the only person who’s enlightened and all these black people are stupidly following this Democratic-victim [narrative]?”
Noah went on to claim that blacks overwhelmingly vote for the Democratic Party because it is the “best choice” they have in a two-party system.
“What is more likely? The fact that these people are brainwashed, or the fact that, in America, you have to vote for the system that gives you the best chance?” asked Noah. “You only have two choices … if you are a black person you go, ‘Well, I’m going to vote for the choice that gives me the best chance of success.’”
“You know who doesn’t mess around with their votes in America? Black women,” he continued. “They don’t. They do not. And I refuse to live in a world where I go, ‘Black women have been brainwashed.’ No, I don’t think black women in America have been — or can be — brainwashed. I think, if anything, black women in America have the least leeway when it comes to messing around with their vote.”
During his interview with radio personality Big Boy last week, Kanye <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kanye-west-trashes-cancel-culture-racial-politics-abortion-in-lengthy-interview">discussed a range of topics</a>, including both cancel culture and abortion. The star rapper’s recent album “Jesus is King” represented Kanye’s debut on the global stage as a Christian.
“We’re brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking,” said West. “Democrats had us voting for Democrats with food stamps for years. What are you talking about guns in the 80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort children.”
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On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked Alabama’s abortion ban, which was scheduled to be implemented on November 15 and would make Alabama the first state in the United States to make abortion illegal. The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates had filed suit claiming the legislation, which was signed into law last May, was unconstitutional.
As <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/10/federal-judge-blocks-alabama-abortion-ban.html">AL.com</a> reports, Judge Myron Thompson of the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama stated of Alabama&#8217;s Human Life Protection Act, which would charge doctors with a felony for performing abortions unless the mother’s life was in danger or the baby was still born or likely to die just after its birth: “&#8217;The court is persuaded that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in showing that the Act violates an individual’s constitutional right to obtain a pre-viability abortion, and thus that it violates her constitutional rights.” He concluded:
<blockquote>Alabama’s abortion ban contravenes clear Supreme Court precedent. It violates the right of an individual to privacy, to make “choices central to personal dignity and autonomy&#8221;(Casey, 505 U.S. at 851) … It diminishes “the capacity of women to act in society, and to make reproductive decisions.” (Id. at 860). It defies the United States Constitution. The court will, therefore, enter an appropriate order preliminarily enjoining enforcement of the Act as applied to pre-viability abortion.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7626635/Federal-judge-blocks-Alabamas-abortion-ban-ACLU-lawsuit.html">The Daily Mail</a> noted, “Tuesday&#8217;s injunction will ensure that the suit can move forward and upward through the court system &#8211; including, quite possibly, the Supreme Court &#8211; before coming into effect. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has long been prepared for that possibility. In no uncertain terms, he responded in August to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood suit, announcing that he had every intention of challenging Roe v Wade.”
Marshall issued a statement saying, “The district court’s decision to grant the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction of Alabama’s 2019 abortion law as to pre-viability abortions was not unexpected. As we have stated before, the State’s objective is to advance our case to the U.S. Supreme Court where we intend to submit evidence that supports our argument that Roe and Casey were wrongly decided and that the Constitution does not prohibit states from protecting unborn children from abortion.”
Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, echoed, “Today’s ruling is both expected and welcomed. Our law was designed to overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court level, and today’s ruling is merely the first of many steps on that legal journey. I remain confident that our mission will be successful and appreciate the support of millions of citizens who support our effort to preserve unborn life.”
AL.com noted, “Alabama is one of at least six other states attempting to challenge the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe V. Wade, including Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, North Dakota, Kentucky and Mississippi.”
When Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed the bill into law, she tweeted, &#8220;Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious &amp; that every life is a sacred gift from God.&#8221;
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A Catholic priest in South Carolina reportedly enforced the church&#8217;s code of canon law by denying former Vice President Joe Biden the sacrament of Holy Communion due to his stance on abortion.
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“Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden,” Father Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church <a href="https://www.scnow.com/news/local/joe-biden-denied-holy-communion-at-florence-church/article_4dfe451b-e181-5cdb-9da1-feae72795f0c.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share">told SCNOW</a>. “Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”
“I will keep Mr. Biden in my prayers,” Morey added.
Biden attended a town hall meeting at Wilson High School in Florence over the weekend. His campaign did not confirm to the news outlet if he had attended the church, saying that he did so in a private capacity.
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During every Mass, Catholic doctrine states that the wafer and wine become the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ when a priest consecrates it while still retaining its original form &#8212; a process known as transubstantiation. In order for a Catholic to receive Communion, they must be in a state of grace after having attended the Sacrament of Confession. If a Catholic, usually by way of conscience, determines that they are not in a state of grace, they must refrain from receiving Holy Communion. When it comes to individuals who publicly oppose Catholic teaching (such as politicians who support abortion) bishops and priests are given full license under Canon Law to deny the person Holy Communion until they repent, lest they commit the sin of sacrilege if they receive what Catholics believe to be the body and blood of Christ unworthily.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood and has continued to maintain the &#8220;personally opposed but &#8230;&#8221; line regarding abortion. As his campaign kicked off this year, amid pressure from hardcore abortion rights advocates, he reversed his multi-year stance in support of the Hyde amendment by vowing to seek its undoing should he become president, thereby making it a taxpayer-funded institution.
“The problem is, when in fact there is this enormous pressure and even threat to close down clinics that were available in the past, for women who do not have the funds or are able to have them paid for privately, like they’ve been able to do. That was one thing,” Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-flips-using-taxpayer-money-fund-james-barrett">said in June</a>. He explained:
<blockquote>But we now see so many Republican governors denying healthcare for millions of the most poorest [sic] and most vulnerable Americans by refusing even Medicaid expansion, I can’t justify leaving millions of women out of access to care they need and the ability to 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>
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As the abortion argument in the United States has escalated during the Trump era, certain Catholic bishops have taken extra steps to warn pro-abortion politicians to refrain from Holy Communion. Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, for instance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48112/illinois-catholic-bishop-bars-pro-abortion-paul-bois">expressly forbid </a>all priests under his governance to give Holy Communion to politicians that supported the “Reproductive Health Act” in Illinois.
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On Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, Maher delivered a monologue criticizing the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates for their most extreme progressive positions.
<blockquote>MAHER: New rule. Someone must explain to Democrats what “binary” means. In America, we&#8217;ve got dozens of flavors of pretty much everything – Doritos and Gatorade, Oreos, Pepsi, Triscuits, Pop-Tarts – but we only have two political parties. Most democracies have a parliamentary system with many parties; we don&#8217;t. We don&#8217;t. With us, it&#8217;s always plain or peanut, cream or suppository. That is what “binary” means. Trump gets it.</blockquote>
Maher then played two clips from Trump rallies where the President says: “If you really like Donald Trump, that&#8217;s great, but if you don&#8217;t, you have to vote for me anyway,” and “Whether you love me or hate me, you gotta vote for me.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>The question Democrats must ask themselves is, “What would make a voter say, ‘Trump&#8217;s right. I don&#8217;t like him, but I have no choice?’” Well, let&#8217;s go down the list. Bernie Sanders says we should let the Boston Marathon bomber vote. Why? Is there a great clamoring to give deranged serial killers more of a voice in civil society? Is Hannibal Lecter thinking, “I love Trump for his narcissistic personality disorder, but Sanders really gets voters like me.” Now, I&#8217;m sure you can make an argument for this, but we&#8217;re trying to win an election here, and this just feeds into what Trump is selling.</blockquote>
Maher then played multiple clips in which the president call Democrats “crazy.”
During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-let-terrorists-sex-predators-ryan-saavedra">CNN town hall</a> in April, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was asked: “Would [you] support enfranchising people like the Boston Marathon bomber, a convicted terrorist and murderer?”
He replied: “If somebody commits a serious crime – sexual assault, murder – they’re going to be punished. They may be in jail 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives. That’s what happens when you commit a serious crime. But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away … you’re running down a slippery slope … I do believe that even if they are in jail, they’re paying their price to society, that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>Hey Democrats, don&#8217;t make him [Trump] believable on that, and you win. Elizabeth Warren has not come out in favor of imprisoned serial killers voting, but she does want taxpayers to cover their sex change operations in prison, which brings up the question, “If you tried, could you come up with a policy with more third-rail buzzwords in it?”
&#8230;where are the votes in this? You know how many transgender people there are in federal prison in America? 473 – and they can&#8217;t vote. So, we&#8217;re taking this position because it makes a great campaign slogan? “Commit a crime [and] get a free d***!” “Commit a crime and your new vagina is free!” So, let&#8217;s imagine a slightly different scenario. You’re a progressive voter who likes Elizabeth Warren, you drive a Prius, hate guns, and buy kale in bulk, but you find out that Warren does not support taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery for convicts, so that&#8217;s it? Deal-breaker? You’re voting for Trump now? Of course not! This is the binary thing Democrats don&#8217;t get because apparently they never saw the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman,” where a drill sergeant forces Richard Gere to admit the same truth the Democratic voters need to face.</blockquote>
“I got nowhere else to go!” screams Gear in a clip from the film.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “LGBTQ+ Rights and Equality” plan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-inmates-are-entitled-to-taxpayer-funded-transgender-surgery">reads in part</a>: “I will direct the Bureau of Prisons to end the Trump Administration’s dangerous policy of imprisoning transgender people in facilities based on their sex assigned at birth.”
During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-inmates-are-entitled-to-taxpayer-funded-transgender-surgery">recent town hall</a>, Warren was questioned by CNN’s Chris Cuomo about her previous position that taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund transition surgery for trans inmates. The senator apologized for her prior stance and walked it back.
Maher continued:
<blockquote>You hear that, Bernie and Elizabeth and Beto and the rest of them? They got nowhere else to go. So, you can stop wearing your most divisive issues on your sleeve. Target sells condoms and lube, but they don&#8217;t call it “the condom and lube store,” they hide that s*** in the back in a locked case and they call themselves Target&#8230;
Point is, instead of trying to make the people on the far-left double-dog like you, make some good people in the middle not hate you. People talk a lot in this country about identity politics. Here’s some identity for you. Only 46% of Democrats identify as liberals. Yeah. Life doesn&#8217;t end east of La Brea.
Beto O’Rourke wants to tax churches. So do I, but I&#8217;m not running for president. Beto wants to take away the tax-exempt status of any church that opposes gay marriage, a position I doubt goes down well among black churchgoers – and try winning as a Democrat without them. I&#8217;m sure Tyler Perry would vote for Beto. I&#8217;m not so sure about Madea.</blockquote>
During a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-francis-orourke-punish-churches-that-do-not-support-gay-marriage">LGBTQ town hall</a> on CNN, candidate Beto O’Rourke was asked if “religious institutions like colleges, churches, [and] charities should &#8230; lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage,” and he replied in the affirmative.
“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone or any institution, any organization in America, that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us,” O’Rourke stated. “So as president, we’re going to make that a priority, and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>I&#8217;m not sure why Kamala Harris felt the need to start off a recent town hall by saying, “My pronouns are she, her, and hers” &#8230; for some, I guess that makes her the Rosa Parks of pronouns, but there&#8217;s a much larger group thinking, “Why is this important?” Why in the first debate did Julián Castro feel the need to take a brave stand in favor of trans-female abortion rights. Trans-females can&#8217;t even get pregnant; they don&#8217;t have a uterus – unless they&#8217;re in prison and Elizabeth Warren buys them one.</blockquote>
During the first Democratic primary debate in June, Julian Castro was asked if his health care plan would cover “abortion.”
Castro infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pc-insanity-julian-castros-transgender-abortion-hank-berrien">replied</a>: “Yes, it would. I don’t believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice. And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman – or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female – is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.”
Maher concluded:
<blockquote>This should be easy. Just be less crazy than Donald Trump. Are you guys seriously struggling with this? 69% of voters say they dislike Trump personally, and there&#8217;s no sign anything can change their minds, but Democrats reaction to that is, “Okay, but let&#8217;s try.” Let me help you. You don&#8217;t need to be 100% Twitter approved on every issue. Twitter is not America. Most of America, all they want is to vote for someone who&#8217;s not weird. Play to them, and stop worrying that you&#8217;re gonna lose social justice warriors to Donald Trump.</blockquote>
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Music icon Kanye West is making quite the splash this week with the release of his newest album &#8220;Jesus is King.&#8221; In an <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2019/10/kanye-west-big-boy-interview">interview</a> with radio host Big Boy on Friday, West slammed “cancel culture” as well as the notion that a black man in America must vote based solely on their race.
“I’ve been canceled before. That was canceled culture. Who told you that my career would be over? The same people that are telling you that you can’t have a right to say who you will vote for,” West said.
The &#8220;Jesus Walks&#8221; singer then denounced the prospect of those same cancel culture people taking Jesus out of school.
“Those people will be soon to take Jesus out of school,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those people will be soon to remove Jesus, period, from America, which is the Bible Belt. Those people will be so mad. Come on, man.”
In terms of his friendship with President Trump, Kanye West recalled his time at the Met Gala when &#8220;white people&#8221; suggested he make a voting decision based on his skin color.
“I can’t tell y’all how to feel, but what I can tell you honestly is how I feel,” West said. “And when I sat there seven years and six years into the Obama administration, when I was sitting out there at the Met Ball, when I was sitting in front of white people and they thought ‘I wouldn’t have thought you’d like Trump because of the racism.&#8217;”
“So you mean to tell me I make every decision based off my color?” he continued. “The most racist thing a person could tell me is that I’m supposed to choose something based on my race.”
Kanye West went on to lament how Democrats have essentially brainwashed black Americans into voting for them with promises of food stamps and kicking fathers out of the home.
“We’re brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking,&#8221; said West. &#8220;Democrats had us voting for Democrats with food stamps for years. What are you talking about guns in the 80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort children.&#8221;
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this past week has been one of Kanye West&#8217;s most explosive yet, as reports surfaced on just how deep his Christianity penetrates his life. Speaking with Billboard on Thursday, the 42-year-old rapper admitted to telling his staff working on the &#8220;Jesus is King&#8221; album to avoid premarital sex and to fast regularly.
“There were times where I was asking people not to have premarital sex while they were working on the album,” West said. “When people pray together and fast together, the power is increased.”
Kanye West also described himself as an instrument of God to help &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-says-he-asked-jesus-is-king-employees-not-to-have-premarital-sex-hits-porn">spread the gospel</a>&#8221; of Jesus Christ.
“Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me,” said West. “I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessey had done for me, but now I’m letting you know what Jesus has done for me, and in that I’m no longer a slave, I’m a son now, a son of God. I’m free.”

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This week, 2020 presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg released an action plan for women that includes the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which would force Americans to fund abortions with taxpayer dollars.
&#8220;His proposal to secure &#8216;power for women in the 21st century&#8217; is centered on a repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which protects Americans from directly funding abortions via their tax dollars,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/25/pete-buttigieg-says-americans-should-be-forced-to-fund-abortions/">LifeNews</a>.
“Progress for women has come despite systemic sexism and racism, and persistent gender bias,” Mayor Buttigieg said of his proposal. “And now, with women’s rights under assault, we can’t wait any longer to ensure women have the power they deserve.”
In the same proposal, Buttigieg also promised a number of radical feminist solutions to supposed problems, such as closing the gender pay gap.
Here&#8217;s what <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/24/20928483/pete-buttigieg-womens-agenda">Vox</a> had to say of it:
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He wants to double funding for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, for example, which enforces anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. Right now, the EEOC is severely underfunded, which has caused a backlog of cases for staff lawyers to investigate.
His plan also shows a deep understanding of the barriers working women face. He wants to ban companies from asking new hires about their salary history, as basing salary offers on past compensation perpetuates discrimination that keeps women’s salaries lower then men’s. Some cities and states have already banned the question.
Buttigieg also supports legislation that would require companies to publish the median pay gap within its workforce, specifically the difference in earnings between women and men, and between white employees and workers of color.
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Buttigieg characterizes himself as a moderate even though he has adopted some of his party’s most extreme views on abortion. When defending his stance on the practice of late-term abortion, Buttigieg chalked the moral argument down to it all being a woman’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-georgia-abortion-law-cruel-attack-paul-bois">personal decision</a>.”
“The way I explain this, and it’s something that I think any pro-choice candidate from a conservative state faces, and that is I respect and understand where others are coming from. Many of my supporters, many of my friends view this issue differently,” the mayor said on MSNBC. “But we’re talking about who gets to make that decision. And the way this has been characterized, especially lately, is asking questions that almost in themselves are misleading about the medical situations that women face – not to mention the personal decisions that they are confronted with.”
“To me, it’s a very complex issue that should be guided by a very simple principle: which is that having these things dictated by the government does not make that decision any easier,” he continued. “Some of these questions are religious or meta-physical, they’re not things that are knowable in a traditional sense, not questions you can get the answer.”
Buttigieg also referred to the Georgia heartbeat law that protected unborn babies from abortion after doctors detect a heartbeat in the mother&#8217;s womb as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-georgia-abortion-law-cruel-attack-paul-bois">cruel attack</a>&#8221; on women.
“A woman has enough to deal with when it comes to her health care without also having to worry about male politicians telling her what she ought to do with her body,” Buttigieg tweeted at the time. “Georgia’s abortion ban is a cruel attack on women’s autonomy and freedom – one that we must continue to resist.”

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Abortion propaganda has become so pervasive in the entertainment industry that the dialogue on TV shows is now starting to sound like &#8220;Fireproof&#8221; for abortion enthusiasts. Take the latest episode of NBC’s &#8220;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&#8221; for example – an episode that almost literally treats its characters like puppets to spout talking points that could have come from a Planned Parenthood pamphlet.
As reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2019/10/18/law-order-svu-upholds-13-year-olds-right-abortion">Newsbusters</a>, the October 17 episode “The Burden of Our Choices” focuses on a 13-year-old girl from an evangelical Christian family in Ohio who escaped to New York in order to obtain an abortion after her stepfather rapes her. Since Ohio requires minors to have permission from family members in order to obtain an abortion, the girl&#8217;s case becomes a major court battle. At one point in the episode, members of the SVU debate the case and it&#8217;s hard not to see a Planned Parenthood executive writing the script where the showrunners left off.
From the transcript provided by Newsbusters:
<blockquote>Carisi: Appeals court just refused to hear Ohio’s case. Even some pro-life groups thought the charges were ridiculous.
Olivia: Well, they are.
Tamin: So you guys aren’t under arrest? What about the stay on the abortion?
Carisi: Family court didn’t want to make a ruling until Ohio’s arrest warrants have been dismissed. They’re still deliberating.
Tamin: For how long? She’s 12 weeks pregnant. Any day after the first trimester, it gets more complicated.
Olivia: And that’s part of Ohio’s plan, is to run out the clock.
Tamin: I’m sorry, what century is this? All these old white men trying to control women’s bodies? I mean, how far off are we from “The Handmaid’s Tale”?
Olivia: You grew up taking these rights for granted. My mother, there was a time when she considered abortion, and her only option was – was back-alley. The bottom line is, if you have enough money, there’s always a way. But it’s these poor women, these girls – in some states, they’re gonna see deaths. That’s where this is going.
Tamin: They think that’s what we’re going back to.
Carisi: Fundamentalists, Catholics – they see abortion as deaths.
Tamin: You’re Catholic, right? Is that what you think?
Carisi: What I think is what I think. But if a woman is the victim of rape or incest –
Tamin: I hear that, and it sounds like you’re saying that a woman has to be a victim in order to have control over her own body.
Olivia: That’s not what he’s saying.
Tamin: Good. Because it’s not a decision that should ever be made by a group of men or a prosecutor who’s never had to make that choice.
Olivia: Guys, guys, guys.
Carisi: J-just so we’re clear. My job is to uphold that girl’s rights, and that’s what I’m doing. But I’m sorry, I don’t see this as black-and-white. In my experience, no woman wants to have an abortion.
Olivia: Okay.
Tamin: Fair enough. But these laws that are getting passed, they are not the answer.
Olivia: No, they’re not.</blockquote>
Spoilers: The episode ends with the 13-year-old girl receiving the abortion.

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In a time when children with Down syndrome are literally being exterminated in parts of the world, actor Shia LaBeouf is now crediting one individual with Down syndrome with saving his life.
Speaking with the United Kingdom&#8217;s <a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/actor-shia-labeouf-credits-co-star-with-downs-syndrome-with-saving-his-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cathy Newman of Channel 4</a>, Shia LaBeouf expounded on how his relationship with Zack Gottsagen – an actor with Down syndrome who starred alongside the former &#8220;Transformers&#8221; actor in the critically-acclaimed &#8220;The Peanut Butter Falcon&#8221; – literally altered his destructive habits.
“I had never worked with an actor like him,” said LaBeouf, as reported by <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/shia-labeouf-costar-down-syndrome-saved-life/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook">Live Action</a>. “I’d never been involved in a project like this. It felt like it was going to be a really freeing experience, and to be quite frank, I was terrified. I knew that he’d be playing lead guitar, you know, and I’d be playing bass to him. If he went left, I’d have to go left. I’d never been in a situation where so much is dependent on staying open, and reacting, and listening to another performer. I’ve been quite selfish in my choices and my way of working before.”
&#8220;The kid in me died and I just got over all this,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This roller coaster wasn’t fun after a while. You ride the same roller coaster, it just loses its appeal. Then you go on it with someone who hasn’t been on it before, and somehow, it sparks back up.”
LaBeouf recalled being arrested during filming for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct and how Gottsagen&#8217;s compassion and chastisement shook him out of his behavior.
“To hear him say that he was disappointed in me probably changed the course of my life,” LaBeouf said. “Cause I was still fighting. &#8230; Just on my defense-mechanism-fear garbage. And you can’t do that to him. He keeps it one thousand with you. &#8230; Zack can’t not shoot straight, and bless him for it ’cause in that moment, I needed a straight shooter who I couldn’t argue with.”
“The day after I got arrested, we were on a boat. I couldn’t really look at anybody in the eye,” he continued. “I was sitting next to him, and he put his hand on my shoulder, and like, nursed me back on a boat during the scene where we’re talking about the painful past. That stuff hurts; that stuff hurt to go through and to feel.”
Gottsagen recalled crying in the moment while resolving to give Shia a chance to recover. “I was sad. I cried,” he said. “But I’m still gonna take that chance for myself, to give Shia one chance to prove to himself never, never, never do this kind of stuff again.”
Europe has been leading the charge against babies with Down syndrome this past decade, signaling what the United States could possibly become if the abortion of such children becomes even more commonplace. In 2006, Denmark had just four babies born with Down syndrome. In Iceland, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19726/speaking-nazis-iceland-disappearing-down-syndrome-john-nolte">abortion of babies with Down syndrome has reached near 100%</a>. France has gotten in on the race, too. Most recently, the country <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11074/france-bans-ad-featuring-kids-down-syndrome-frank-camp">banned a television commercial</a> featuring children with Down syndrome because it upset mothers who previously aborted their own children with Down syndrome.
As unborn children with Down syndrome are quickly being exterminated across the globe, some states have stepped up efforts to protect them – such as Ohio, which passed the Ohio Right to Life’s Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act in 2017.

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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) slammed the city of San Francisco on Friday for blacklisting nearly two dozen states over pro-life legislation that those states have enacted.
&#8220;Progressive cancel culture is dumb,&#8221; Sasse said in a <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/10/sasse-statement-on-san-francisco-s-nebraska-ban">press release</a>. &#8220;Most Nebraskans, like a whole bunch of Californians, are pro-life and want to reflect our pro-science, pro-woman, pro-baby beliefs with common-sense laws. Folks in San Francisco are free to disagree, but it&#8217;s childish to try to shut down a big cultural debate.&#8221;
&#8220;Pro-lifers aren&#8217;t out to silence the other side – we believe in persuasion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;San Francisco progressives can throw a tantrum – Nebraskans will continue to act like grownups.&#8221;
Sasse&#8217;s remarks were in reference to an announcement by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Vallie Brown, who authored <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3975467&amp;GUID=43DE4694-F5B2-4D0E-8AED-9D97BB52F794">the ordinance</a>, which not only restricts travel to the U.S. states that prohibit abortion prior to the viability of a fetus, but also declares the city&#8217;s decision to refrain from entering into any new contracts with companies that are headquartered in any of the blacklisted states, reported <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-16/san-francisco-blacklists-22-states-for-restrictive-abortion-laws">The Los Angeles Times</a>. Accordingly, nearly half the states in America are included on the blacklist.
&#8220;Every day in this country, women&#8217;s reproductive rights are threatened, and we have to fight back. Just as we restricted spending with states that have laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people, we are standing up against states that put women&#8217;s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms,&#8221; Breed said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;By limiting travel and contracting with certain states, we are sending a clear message to states that disregard the right to abortion.&#8221;
The aforementioned states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. However, California has already blacklisted nine of those same states over their LGBTQ stance, according to The Times.
All of these 22 states have prohibited abortions after at least 24 weeks. Five of them have proposed or enacted legislation to ban abortion based on the presence of a heartbeat, which occurs at approximately six weeks.
&#8220;Although tax revenue from San Francisco alone may not be sufficient to encourage states to rethink their laws, if other cities and states follow San Francisco&#8217;s lead, the financial pressure might be enough to prompt policy changes,&#8221; Breed&#8217;s office continued in a statement.
Sasse has been a staunch defender of the sanctity of life. In February, the Nebraska senator introduced legislation that, if enacted, would require medical care and legal protections to infants who survived attempted abortions. Sasse&#8217;s bill failed largely along party lines, with only three Democrats – Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Doug Jones (D-AL) – <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00027">voting for</a> the anti-infanticide legislation.
&#8220;The Democrats are also out of step with our fundamental American conviction that all men are created equal – all men and women and babies,&#8221; Sasse said while on the Senate floor in June. &#8220;Instead, they are increasingly committed to the proposition that some people are less than human, and are therefore disposable.&#8221;

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A Planned Parenthood doctor who was secretly recorded stating she changed abortion techniques to get intact hearts, lungs and livers to sell has defended her comments in a San Francisco courtroom.
Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the former Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told the court this week that she believed the comments she made to David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt in an undercover video were, “no big deal.”
Dr. Nucatola was giving evidence in a lawsuit taken by Planned Parenthood against Daleiden, a journalist and activist who secretly recorded the organization haggling over the price of body parts from abortions.
Despite detailing the harvesting of baby organs, skulls and other body parts, and changing procedures without patient permission to make them more intact and valuable, the court heard that Dr. Nucatola “didn&#8217;t get the big deal and didn&#8217;t think there was anything wrong in the video with what I said.&#8221;
Daleiden set up a fake company and posed as a buyer looking to buy baby organs and limbs for research and commercial use and recorded Nucatola saying &#8220;a lot of people want liver &#8230; a lot of people want intact hearts these days.” She also said she had just been asked to provide lungs from an abortion.
The secret recording also revealed Dr. Nucatola boasting about how she would change abortion techniques to acquire more intact and therefore more valuable samples.
“I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps. The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is the calvarium, the head is basically the biggest part. Most of the other stuff can come out intact. It’s very rare to have a patient that doesn’t have enough dilation to evacuate all the other parts intact,” according to videos shown yesterday in the San Francisco courtroom.
Dr. Nucatola was recorded detailing exactly how she would ensure a more valuable specimen for sale.
“So then you’re just kind of cognizant of where you put your graspers, you try to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you know, we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact,&#8221; she told the undercover journalists.
The jury heard how Dr. Nucatola was recorded stating that the position of the baby would be changed during the abortion to ensure a more intact skull could be harvested.
“And with the calvarium [skull], in general, some people will actually try to change the presentation so that it’s not vertex, because when it’s vertex presentation, you never have enough dilation at the beginning of the case, unless you have real, huge amount of dilation to deliver an intact calvarium [skull]. So if you do it starting from the breech presentation, there’s dilation that happens as the case goes on, and often, the last, you can evacuate an intact calvarium at the end. So I mean there are certainly steps that can be taken to try to ensure…. Exactly, exactly. Under ultrasound guidance, they can just change the presentation.”
Dr. Nucatola declined to defend her comments when approached by a Daily Wire correspondent outside the courtroom.
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Planned Parenthood is seeking damages from Daleiden and his co-defendants for damages they say were caused by the videos. They are also seeking damages for breach of contract and fraud for misrepresentations made to infiltrate the organisation and for breach of privacy for filming the executives during negotiations.
Planned Parenthood had originally sought $20 million in damages for fraud and trespass against Daleiden and his colleagues. However, Judge William Orrick reduced potential damages to $600,000. Daleiden and his colleagues are denying liability. In situations where he broke the law regarding recording people without their permission Daleiden is claiming he was a journalist and that it is allowed under California law where it can be utilized to prevent a felony assault on a person.
Daleiden recorded Planned Parenthood executives stating they changed abortion techniques to ensure better and more profitable body parts were retrieved for sale. He also claims that the recordings took place in public places, such as restaurants and hotels, where participants have no expectation of privacy.
Planned Parenthood is not suing Daleiden for defamation or slander and in an opening argument the Planned Parent lawyers did not state that the videos were inaccurate or exaggerated. They instead claimed they were filmed through illegal methods. The organization is also claiming Daleiden and his colleagues are guilty of fraud for setting up a fake company and identifications to start the business conversations with the Planned Parenthood executives.
Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “Gosnell &#8211; The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”

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Mayor Pete Endorses Taxpayer Funded Abortions

‘Law & Order: SVU’ Episode Pushes Cringe-Worthy Abortion Propaganda

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