"I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy," Kennedy said. "I agree with him that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year. I agree with him that the states should control abortion. President Trump has told me that he wants to end late-term abortions, and he wants to protect conscience exemptions." //

Was there something on Instagram, maybe multiple somethings, that made Planned Parenthood worried about their billions in grants from HHS? Has the advent of Mr. Kennedy, who (perhaps surprisingly for a guy who was a Democrat until about five minutes ago), made them worried about some social media posts, perhaps supporting "any abortion at any time, up through the fetus's high school graduation," endangering the HHS cash flow?

That may be. The sudden deletion of, apparently, every post that an organization made on Instagram, would seem to be the action of an organization with something to hide.

Abortion discourse focuses too often on the existence or limits of a so-called right to “bodily autonomy.” It is seldom framed as it should be: in terms of duty. For any parent, mother or father, in whatever circumstances, the proper response to a pregnancy is the willingness to take any risk, make any sacrifice to protect that little poppy seed-sized life. Those who feel otherwise should seek not to eliminate the unwanted child but to correct the deficiency in their own souls.

Abortion has been a notoriously divisive issue in America, but actually I see an emerging consensus: that abortion should be legal up until a certain number of weeks, and restricted thereafter. Even in the reddest of red states, voters reject total abortion bans. And in blue states, almost no one supports third-trimester abortions except to save the life of the mother. And so I support the emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted up until a certain point. 

But I also believe that we can reduce more abortions in America by choice than by force. This is at the heart of the “More Choices, More Life” policy we’ve developed. Every abortion is a tragedy, and by better supporting mothers, parents, and families, we can dramatically reduce abortions across the board. //

I'm going to support President Trump's policies on Title 10. I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy. I agree with him that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year. I agree with him that the states should control abortion. President Trump has told me he wants to end late-term abortion, he wants to protect conscience exemptions, and that he wants to end federal funding for abortions here and abroad as Title 10 states. I serve at the pleasure of the president, I'm going to implement his policies. //

Lankford asked, "Will you step in and say that healthcare individuals have the right of conscience again as the federal law allows?"

Kennedy responded:

The first thing that occurs to me when you ask that question is what patient would want somebody doing a surgery on them that believes the surgery is against their conscience being forced to perform that. I don't know anybody who would want a doctor to perform a surgery that the doctor is morally opposed to.

Kennedy took his argument further: that recognition of conscience exemptions is a part of the diversity of thought that the country needs to return to. //

LANKFORD: Will FDA move to be able to actually give transparency to the America people and to say, "this drug is no different than any other drug, we're not going to protect it just because it's political to some folks." People should know side effects on this drug and there should be reporting?

KENNEDY: It's against everything we believe in this country that patients or doctors should not be reporting adverse events. We need to know what adverse events are, we need to understand the safety of every drug, Mifepristone and every other drug. And President Trump has made it clear to me, one of the things, he has not taken a position yet on Mifepristone—a detailed position, but he's made it clear to me that he wants me to look at the safety issues, and I will ask NIH/FDA to do that. //

Indylawyer
6 hours ago
Those are the sorts of responses I was hoping to hear. I do not expect the federal government to eliminate abortion by legislative fiat anytime soon, and certainly not by administrative fiat. But the Democrats and RINOs have long been twisting law and policy in all sorts of hideous directions in order to promote and encourage abortion. Our abortion policy at the federal level ought to be similar to what Lincoln sought to do with slavery - recognize that it is immoral and contrary to natural law while acknowledging it that states have certain sovereign powers and we need to temporarily permit them to exercise their discretion not to protect unborn life within their borders until we can build a true national consensus that abortion has to be eliminated. RFK Jr.'s responses sound consistent with that. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
7 hours ago
And so I support the emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted up until a certain point.
There is no “emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted up until a certain point.” As a practicing Catholic, I believe all abortions are immoral, even in the incredibly rare cases of rape or incest. The child is innocent, has an immortal soul, and deserves a chance to live his or her life. Note: Some pregnancies are not viable (e.g., ectopic pregnancies), and in those sad cases, it is permissible for a doctor to terminate the pregnancy to save the mother’s life. //

Citing President Trump's executive order Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government, Donald Trump's Department of Justice ordered all federal prosecution under the Free Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act be dropped immediately. "[F]uture abortion-related FACE Act prosecutions and civil actions will be permitted only in extraordinary circumstances, or in cases presenting significant aggravating factors, such as death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage." In addition to invoking a new set of rules, the memo titled "FACE ACT CHARGING POLICY" orders a moratorium on any future FACE Act prosecutions without the permission of the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

This is an incredible volte-face by a Justice Department that only a month ago was happily slamming pro-life activists with felony convictions and prison time for minor infractions of the FACE Act. According to reports, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged approximately 60 individuals with FACE Act violations, a sharp rise compared to fewer than 100 cases in the law's first 26 years. Only five of these prosecutions were directed against pro-abortion terrorists and groups. As the memo states: "This is not the even-handed administration of justice." //

This follows up on President Trump's pardon of 23 pro-life activists Thursday;

So then we have Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. These two have actively campaigned, promoted, and paved the way for legislation that makes/keeps abortion a legal procedure. But if you're a faithful and practicing Catholic, you don't believe this is morally correct. In fact, you believe it is morally wrong. There are groups like Catholics for Choice who think abortions are ok, but they're really just support groups for people who feel guilty and need others in the pen with them to make them feel less guilty. These people are nominal Catholics who reject one of the core teachings of the Church, and so they should just go join another outfit more aligned with their views. //

What disturbs me, though, is that we have two people who wave their Catholicism in our faces, and yet they still support the act of abortion. This makes them nominal Catholics who use their faith to further their own political careers...in my opinion. And this is bad. //

Biden and Pelosi, though, are a lot worse than these people because they use their positions as legislators to further what their Church calls a moral evil, all the while claiming and touting their Catholicism. How do they square that circle? Well, they simply tell us that while they don't personally believe in abortion, as lawmakers, they cannot force their religious views on their constituents who want abortion to be legal. How virtuous of them. And they promote abortions to make the voters happy so that they won't get kicked out of power by them. This is also known as "Selling Your Soul." You surrender your values on morality to serve another diametrically opposed to your own. //

There's no room to thread the needle here for a practicing Catholic. And what we have in Biden and Pelosi are two individuals who have been, unfortunately, temporally successful in doing just that. And now, each with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, I wonder what goes through their minds. Pelosi is probably thinking that she'll change God's mind by hook, crook, or bribery. And Biden? Well, he's going to visit the pope shortly. Maybe he'll be looking for absolution from Francis.

Pro-life activist Paul Vaughn, the president of Personhood Tennessee tested before the committee about his experience as a defendant changed by Biden's DOJ under the FACE Act.

Vaughn detailed the terrifying events of October 5, 2022 when his home was raided by the FBI for peacefully protesting an abortion facility: //

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Pro-life advocate Paul Vaughn opened his front door to find 3 FBI agents with guns trained on him.

He was arrested without a warrant for his efforts to protect the sanctity of life.

WATCH him recount his story of being victimized by Joe Biden's weaponized DOJ.

2:29 PM · Dec 18, 2024 //

Vaughn, a Chrstian father of eleven children, testified that three of his children were detained and that he was never presented with identification from law enforcement, nor a warrant: //

There is no legitimate reason for it to remain on the books. It is a tool whose sole purpose is to stifle free speech and abuse the rights of Christian conservatives. There is nothing that the FACE Act does that is not already accomplished by state laws across the land.

If abortion is returned to the States, so should the laws governing it. //

veritaseequitas
2 hours ago edited
The agents who did this need to be arrested and prosecuted for infringing upon the rights of these people. I assume they used the same tactics on those who are currently in jail.
Hopefully DJT will pardon these people.

Paxton said that the 20-year-old woman who received the pills ended up in a hospital with complications. It was only after that, the state said in its filing, that the man described as “the biological father of the unborn child” learned of the pregnancy and the abortion. //

Texas laws prohibit a physician or medical supplier from providing any abortion-inducing drugs by courier, delivery, or mail service. Additionally, no physician may treat patients or prescribe Texas residents medicine through telehealth services unless the doctor holds a valid Texas medical license.

Dr. Carpenter knowingly treated Texas residents despite not being a licensed Texas physician and not being authorized to practice telemedicine in Texas. Attorney General Paxton requested the court enjoin Dr. Carpenter from violating Texas law and impose civil penalties of no less than $100,000 for each violation of the law. //

Just Me Here
5 hours ago
If they can mandate on-line sales tax by state they should be able to mandate on-line sales restriction for items based on state laws.
As I type this I remember they do this with many items sold in CA (many restrictions) and for hemp items in various states.
Guess I answered my own question.

One doctor has murdered more than 430 patients — not counting unborn babies. She is still practicing this twisted ‘medicine.’

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Newsweek reports woman are getting sterilized and men are getting vasectomies in response to Trump winning.

The people who oppose putting America first are having less babies and less abortions.

The winning just keeps on winning.

11:46 PM · Nov 30, 2024. //

These five women are a testament to the power of propaganda. They firmly believe that Trump will take away their access to abortion. How will they feel in four years when they realize they’ve been lied to all along?

We as a nation have made great strides in our battle against racism and intolerance, and I would argue that we’ve mostly been successful in that effort. But the “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” movement is not forwarding that goal; in fact, it’s just deepening divisions. //

Anti-woke activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck, who has been leading a campaign exposing major corporations' woke policies, said on X on Monday that he warned Walmart executives last week that he would be doing a story on "wokeness" at the retail giant.

"Instead," Starbuck shared, "we had productive conversations to find solutions."

Starbuck outlined the changes Walmart agreed to make, including working to remove sexual and transgender products inappropriately marketed toward children and reviewing grants to Pride events to avoid funding sexualized content targeting kids. //

anon-tf71
3 hours ago
No, slavery is not the ultimate evil. It is a symptom of the ultimate evil: not recognizing the humanity of another person. Which is the same thing DIE does today. It was also at the root of Nazism.

anon-zr9w anon-tf71
23 minutes ago
God said that the love of money is the root of all evil. Slavery, including Africans selling Africans of other tribes, and the purchasing of those Africans to do agricultural work as slaves was primarily driven by a profit motive. Searing one's conscience to deny the humanity of another is truly an evil fruit of the love of money. //

reddotbluestate 2 hours ago

To quote Candice Owens, "White people didn't invent slavery. They ENDED it."

Or to quote me, "Nobody in my lineage owned slaves. You were never a slave - so get off my back.". //

anon-beag
4 hours ago edited
Agree with almost everything you said. Yes, slavery was, is and will always be horrific and wrong. But the ultimate evil that pervades our society is something, believe it or not, even worse. And that’s the barbaric and heinous act that has butchered tens of millions of babies—abortion. Somehow the Dems have been on the wrong side of these issues throughout history.

Stomach-churning emails show Planned Parenthood negotiating terms regarding the donation of aborted fetuses for medical research.

The emails discuss fetal tissue like any other commodity such as sugar or rice, nonchalantly negotiating for fetuses up to 23 weeks old from elective abortions.

A heavily-redacted so-called “Research Plan” submitted to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institutional Review Board and approved in 2018 states scientists wanted 2,500 fetuses from up to almost the sixth month of gestation for experimentation.

The emails were shared with The Post by controversial pro-life activist David Daleiden and his organization, the Center for Medical Progress, who obtained them through a California state public records request.

The majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.

The youngest surviving premature baby, Curtis Means, was born at 21 weeks and two days in April 2021 in Alabama.

He just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards.

Richards, of course, is the staunch pro-abort who was the longtime president of Planned Parenthood. //

Joe Biden, a supposed devout Catholic, chose Cecile Richards, who is as anti-Catholic as it gets, to receive one of our nation's highest honors. //

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Today, I had the honor of awarding Cecile Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

With absolute courage, she fearlessly leads us forward to be the America we say we are – a nation of freedom.

Through her work to lift up the dignity of workers, defend and advance women’s… Show more
5:16 PM · Nov 20, 2024. //

The wonderful Lila Rose, as always, put things in perspective: Supposed Catholic Joe Biden just awarded a "freedom" medal to a woman whose life's mission was to make sure that nearly four million future Americans were denied the freedom of being born.

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Cecile Richards presided over the abortions of 3.9 million babies as president of Planned Parenthood.

She belongs in jail.

Not in the White House receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons David Raineri
an hour ago
David, I must respectfully disagree.

The Catholic Church excommunicates people to make them aware of how grave their sin is and that they are destined to go to hell unless they repent of that sin.

Not saying anything publicly to Biden or any other politicians involved with grave sin leads them to believe that their actions are acceptable. That isn’t charitable as the greatest act of charity is to get people into Heaven. //

Kieran1974 St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
an hour ago
Precisely. The purpose of church discipline is restorative, not punitive. If lesser methods fail to get the attention of the stubborn wayward soul, an ecclesiastical two-by-four upside the head is necessary. Excommunication is not permanent unless there is no repetance.

I've always thought Harris Faulkner was great. She has the perfect demeanor for what she does; she is brilliant and cultured. She has a pleasant speaking tone, and she seems pretty unflappable. She's a professional by any measure, ... //

Harris just wasn't having any of that. She proceeded to let Aristimuno have it right in his barely-existent logic center.

“But Jose, you know that he has denied that,” Faulkner cut in. “He has denied that over and over and by the way, if he wanted to do that he would have – he would have done it when he was president already.” //

Look, the issue here isn't necessarily abortion, on which topic Donald Trump holds what appear to be fairly moderate views - and which issue former President Trump has also repeatedly said is now, thanks to the Supreme Court, where it belongs, with elected representatives in the various state legislatures. That's the Constitution, that's federalism, that's also the 10th Amendment.

No, the real issue is this: Why do Democrats, from Kamala Harris down to the lowest-ranking intern X-poster and bloviator, keep lying about this?

Ben Shapiro is never one to shy away from a debate, but his latest foray into the arena may take the cake. In a scene that I don't think has ever played out in politics, the podcast host and owner of The Daily Wire faced off against 25 Kamala Harris supporters, and the results were incredible.

If you thought leftists were vapid and unable to articulate basic defenses of their positions before, just wait until you hear some of this. //

tamkae
5 hours ago
i read somewhere that giving birth to a baby ends a pregnancy, but having an abortion ends a life. //

anon-duge
7 hours ago
Medical science has long established that if you are born with "XX" sex chromosomes, you are female and if you are born with "XY" sex chromosomes, you are male. Until you change those sex chromosomes, all you are doing is changing your plumbing.

Slick 312 anon-duge
7 hours ago
Destroying the sexual functionality which you had. //

KNUCKLES
9 hours ago
Ben Shapiro against 25 idiots. Not a fair fight. //

Anonynonsense
6 hours ago
The problem with most of the types who were trying to one up Ben Shapiro is that most of them have never had to defend their positions. They're just used to spouting the liberal talking point du jour.
They, like their nasally pant-suited candidate just verbally malfunction when confronted. //

American by Nature anon-c85i
8 hours ago
All of Ben's opponents did the following:

1. They stated something stupid as if it were fact.
2. They demanded that Ben explain the something stupid.
3. They judged Ben stupid because he could not explain stupid.

Conclusion:

All of Ben's opponents were lunatic asylum inmates. //

anon-diq5 It wasnt me
7 hours ago
1860 Election was about Slavery. Democrats did not see blacks as human (similar to the Nazis) just as they do not see a preborn baby as a human in 2024. Democrats will do anything to justify evil.

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🚨Kamala Harris says that she does not believe in religious exemptions when it comes to abortion.

Christians, remember this when you go to Embedded video

5:45 PM · Oct 22, 2024 //

What is concerning is Harris' comments about not providing any religious exemptions for abortion, which proves that she will place the destruction of human life over the religious freedom protections provided in the Constitution. We've been down this road before, with leftists continuously pushing the boundaries on abortion, taking it from "safe, legal and rare" to murdering full-term babies at will, even if the baby is just days from birth.

Were she to be elected president, Kamala Harris would would take an oath promising to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Based on her own words, she would take that oath knowing that she had no intention of honoring it, and would charge forward with pursuing the most radical pro-abort agenda the United States has ever seen. //

Musicman
2 hours ago
She is so incredibly stupid. Even if abortion was an actual right—let’s assume that it was just added to the Bill of Rights—it would be a lesser right. There is a reason the freedoms of speech and religion come first, followed by the right to bear arms.

Furthermore, she continues to misstate the issue. It’s not about a woman’s body, it’s about her child’s. It just so happens that body happens to be inside hers. You can’t keep slaves in your home and claim the State has no right to tell you what to do in the privacy of your own home, and you can’t morally kill another human being just because it currently resides inside your own body. //

anon-201n
an hour ago
Several points need to be made about abortion and religion.

1. The foetus is not the mother's body. At most it is 1/2 genetically similar to the mother. After 6 weeks, it has a brain, feels pain, and is beginning to look like a little human.
2. The vast majority of abortions are for convenience (don't want another child, financial considerations, etc). Instances of rape or incest are very small (about 1%). Medical difficulties (life of mother, abnormalities of baby) are also very small. Pregnancy is the result of sex, not an additive in the drinking water.
3. Religion is a belief system ascribed to by an individual which governs his/her world view, from private actions to public actions. Everyone has some sort of religion, whether it's mainstream or not. Atheism is a religion in that it is a worldview which negates any god.
4. One could estimate that since Roe v Wade in 1973, some 80 million persons are missing from the U.S. population. A healthy growing young population supports the middle age and seniors, both socially and economically. A country with a declining population will begin to suffer economically.
5. The Dem obsession with abortion reminds me of the party's clinging to slavery in the 1850's. And we know where that went.
6. Choose life!

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Wow.

Kamala Harris says that she does not believe in any religious exemptions for abortion.

5:47 PM · Oct 22, 2024

And there you have it. Kamala Harris would force Christian hospitals to perform abortions. There's no other way to read her answer, which specifically said there will be no concessions made regarding the issue.

the Texas case will now return to the District Court for further proceedings, but for now, the Texas Human Life Protection Act remains in effect. //

Keith
2 hours ago
This frivolous appeal by Biden's admin is indicative of their contempt for legal rulings they don't like and the courts that issue them. They are tyrants just looking for the opportunity to rule us all.

SCOTUS was clear on making abortion a state, not federal issue. //

Largo Patriot
3 hours ago edited
States rights exist for a reason and do not prevail only when the federal government allows them to. That's the whole point of states rights. People in red states shouldn't have to live like the people in blue states and vice versa. Abortion advocates are hyperventilating that the federal government, at Trump's direction, will ban all abortions, but have no problem if the federal government, at a Democrat's direction, bans all restrictions on abortion, including restrictions that prevent born alive babies from being left to die. The best way to resolve this conflict is to allow state voters, not federal voters, to decide the regulation issue. We've been arguing about abortion for more than 50 years despite the fact it's been legal that entire time, but legal is never enough, safe and rare is a joke and "celebrate abortion" is the battle cry of pro-abortion advocates. Why don't they put as much time and effort into preventing unwanted pregnancies as they put into killing unwanted babies? It's cheaper, safer and no human life is lost.

Melania Trump’s unequivocal support for abortion puts pro-life advocates, the Republican Party, and her husband in a rather difficult position. At the very least, it places her at odds with her husband’s conservative base. At most, should Donald Trump prove to be as pro-life during his second term as he was during his first, it will put her at odds with him as well.

Scientists are suing an academic publishing company for retracting three key studies exposing the dangers of the nation’s most popular abortion drug regimen shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court was slated to hear arguments in a landmark mifepristone case.

Ten of the researchers responsible for producing the three scientific papers filed a petition to compel arbitration this week against Sage Publications for issuing what they called “pretextual and discriminatory” retractions of their findings on the abortion pill. One of the studies in question, which the lawsuit notes is “the second most-read article” in the journal’s history, specifically determined mifepristone is responsible for a 500 percent increase in abortion-related emergency room visits.

The 2019, 2021, and 2022 papers originally passed peer review for publication without a hitch. The editor-in-chief of Sage’s Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology (HSRME) journal even emailed Dr. James Studnicki, the lead author of the 2021 and 2022 papers, to commend him for his “fine contribution[s],” according to the petition.

In February 2024, however, Sage’s tune changed over a “reader’s concern” that the authors’ links to pro-life organizations “present conflicts of interest that the authors should have disclosed as such in the article.”

Abortion activist researchers publish plenty of papers on the topic without scrutiny. Yet Sage, after what it called an “independent review,” ultimately followed through with the retractions.

Women who do not receive treatment under the exceptions built into pro-life laws are victims of Democrat and media’s abortion deceptions. //

A closer look at the circumstances that led to the single mother’s passing, however, indicates that she died on the table during a surgery only needed because she suffered severe complications from ingesting abortion pills associated with sometimes fatal complications. Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration admits nearly 1 in 25 women who take it will end up in the emergency room or hospitalized.

At nine weeks pregnant, Thurman traveled across state lines into North Carolina to get her twin babies dismembered. A traffic delay and scheduling conflict with the abortion facility, however, ultimately pushed her to accept a chemical abortion alternative. //

Thurman’s death was surely “preventable.” But the primary reason for it was not Georgia Republicans’ commitment to protecting life in the womb.

Instead, all evidence suggests Thurman’s death was due to medical negligence egged on by leftist fearmongering about lifesaving laws that provably protect women and babies from harm.

If ProPublica happens to be correct in its assumption that the doctors refused to operate on Thurman until it was too late because they didn’t want to lose their licenses, they are not only indicting the doctors, but also themselves, their Democrat accomplices, and the entire corporate media complex. //

“These laws do not restrict qualified, ethical doctors from caring for mothers and their babies. Louisiana laws and regulations ensure, expect, and empower physicians to use reasonable medical judgment to care for pregnant women — including those facing emergencies, miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and fetal abnormalities,” Murril wrote.

Women who do not receive treatment for pregnancy complications under the exceptions built into those laws are not simply victims of medical negligence. Their struggles and sometimes even deaths are directly exacerbated by the radical and deliberately deceptive abortion narratives touted by Democrats and their allies in the press.