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Mexico Rejects Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:52:18 GMT

Recently, Mexico’s Supreme Court refused a sweeping Roe v. Wade kind of ruling on abortion. This ruling was in response to another by a lower court judge which ordered the state legislature of Vera Cruz to amend its penal code and allow abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. In a 4-1 decision, the Court ruled that the Vera Cruz judge exceeded his authority.

According to Justice Norma Piña, allowing courts to dictate the meaning of laws written by state legislators would be “to fall into judicial activism.” The ruling was an unpleasant surprise for many Westerners (especially Americans) who believe judicial activism is what courts are supposed to do. And of course, progressives expect that as nations such as Mexico develop, they will expand so-called abortion rights and reject what the left-leaning Guardian newspaper called Mexico’s “strong traditions of Catholicism and machismo.”

Over the last decade or so, Mexican states have repeatedly voted to maintain abortion restrictions. Western promoters of abortion, however, simply cannot imagine a society knowingly and willingly rejecting their ideas. Anyone who disagrees must be either brainwashed, backward, or both.

Obianuju Ekeocha, the founder of Culture of Life Africa, has appropriately labeled this attitude “ideological colonialism” and “cultural imperialism.” Ekeocha, a featured speaker for our recent Truth. Love. Together virtual event, has spoken out repeatedly against Western attempts to export a “culture of abortion” to developing countries.

“The issue of abortion,” says Ekeocha, “has already been decided by many African countries (who) have decided that abortion is an attack on human life at its earliest stages.” On top of that, African culture includes a strong preference for large families.

Rejecting African values and culture, Western abortion advocates instead parallel the worst colonialists of the 19th-century who claimed to bring “Civilization, Christianity, and Commerce” to unenlightened natives.

The same dynamic can be seen in a bill currently being debated in the Kenyan Senate. The “Reproductive Health Care Act” is intended to reduce the number of women who die during pregnancy or childbirth and addresses issues such as family planning, “free [pre]natal care, delivery care and postnatal care,” as well as “assisted reproduction services.” But the bill also permits abortion in cases where “in the opinion of the trained health professional … the pregnancy would endanger the life or health of the mother.”

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While this might seem like a narrowly tailored provision, pro-abortion Western groups who support the bill reject any narrow interpretation of the phrase “the life or health of the mother” as a violation of a Western woman’s “reproductive rights.” Their intent is not to reduce the number of Kenyan women who die during pregnancy. Rather, it’s to increase the number of abortions in Kenya and other developing countries.

After all, loosely interpreted phrases such as “the life and health of the mother” have created a highly lucrative regime of abortion-on-demand in the West. The goal is to reproduce — pun not intended — that same outcome in places like Kenya.

The average Kenyan, like many non-Westerners around the world, understand phrases like “the life and health of the mother” very differently, but a few activist judges are all that’s required to export what Ekeocha calls the “culture of abortion” to the rest of the world. Though the plan in Mexico was to ignore the expressed political choices of the Mexican people and enlist local elites, thank God that, at least in this case, the Court refused to impose the culture of death on the locals.

Perhaps we can learn a thing or two from our southern neighbors, that an advanced culture need not kill its children or compromise its integrity through judicial malpractice. With our own election looming, we should at least pray to such ends. That’s why we are hosting a weekly prayer time, beginning August 12th and continuing each Wednesday until November 4th, the day after the U.S. elections. You can join us via Zoom or Facebook Live each week. Just come to breakpoint.org for details.

And to watch Obianuju Ekeocha’s describe the West’s abortion imperialism, come to Conference.colsoncenter.org.

Chris Cuomo Makes Fun of Christians: You Stupidly Think We Want to "Kill All the Babies”

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:43:54 GMT

After President Trump claimed Joe Biden was “against God” during a speech to his supporters yesterday, the media pounced. Over and over again journalists on the big three networks and cable news insisted Biden was a “devout Catholic.”

This is the same media who feigned righteous anger at Trump standing in front of a church, yet demand you chuck the Bible out the window when it comes to Democrats’ antithetical beliefs on abortion and marriage.

Thursday night, self-proclaimed Catholic host Chris Cuomo opened his show by bashing Trump as a fake Christian before going on to defend Biden’s religiosity, with former Michigan governor and Hillary Clinton ally Jennifer Granholm (D).

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Cuomo scoffed Trump was “delusional” for “thinking he [was] religious,” compared to Biden: “This man wants to talk about ‘hurting God’ when he gassed Americans exercising their First Amendment rights to protest in justice in America….he wants to talk about being a good Christian? A man who puts kids in cages because he likes the message it sends?”

Granholm agreed Trump had “mental problems” before gushing about Biden’s devout faith:

I mean, anybody who knows [Biden] knows that he is a lifelong practicing Catholic, and that he is deeply faithful. In many ways he reminds me of your father and the ability to pull faith into policy and caring for the least of these. Joe Biden walks the talk. He carries a rosary with him every day. It’s just part of his DNA….

Cuomo then sneered at conservative Christians who wouldn’t vote for Biden because they take abortion seriously:

I think your problem for Joe Biden is not, I don’t think he is faithful. It’s that you lefties, this will be the argument, you have turned — I don’t care what his faith is — you guys want to kill all the babies. I don’t care what his faith is. You guys want people to be able to marry anything they whenever they want and decide their gender whenever they want. And that’s not what God wants. Those are the Christians that Trump is going for.

It seems questioning Democrats’ religious beliefs is off-limits for the media but with Republicans or conservatives, it’s fair game.

Before gushing about Biden’s “authentic faith” some more, Granholm gave this goofy response: “ How many times did Jesus say the word gay and how many times did Jesus say the word abortion? Zero. Zero on both.” This was a pretty ignorant thing to say when the Bible has plenty to say about sexual sin and the sanctity of life, even in the womb.

Cuomo has displayed a pattern of bullying conservative Christians and the pro-life movement on his show, from saying we don’t need God’s help, to mocking pro-life believers to comparing baby-protecting laws to Jim Crow and calling anti-infanticide bills, “BS.”

CNN’s hostility towards conservative Christians was sponsored by T-Mobile and Sandals Hotels & Resorts.

LifeNews Note: Kristine Marsh is Staff Writer for MRC Culture at the Media Research Center where this originally appeared.

Democrat Says Trump Hates Women Because He Opposes Killing Babies in Abortion

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:26:03 GMT

Sen. Tammy Duckworth slammed President Donald Trump as anti-woman Friday because of his actions to protect unborn babies and mothers from abortion.

In a column at Elle magazine, Duckworth, a pro-abortion Democrat from Illinois and a top contender for Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate, urged Americans to vote against Trump in November.

By opposing a “woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions,” meaning abortion, she claimed Trump is threatening American values.

“The day after President Trump’s inauguration, when millions of women took to the streets in protest, I was right beside them, holding my two-year-old daughter’s hand,” she wrote. “I believed the values of our nation—values that service members like me have always been willing to sacrifice to protect—were under threat.”

In the past four years, she said Trump has treated women as badly as she thought he would.

“From defunding Planned Parenthood to appointing judges who don’t believe in a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions, Trump has spent his administration working to undermine the progress generations of American women have made to build a more equitable society,” Duckworth wrote.

In other words, Trump has worked to stop the killing of unborn babies in abortions as well as taxpayer funding to the billion-dollar abortion industry. For those actions, Duckworth said voters should reject him and embrace Joe Biden.

“… in November, we have a chance to vote him out and elect a president who will make sure that systemic changes to improve the lives of women are part of our pandemic response and long-term recovery plans,” she said.

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Duckworth claimed that Biden, who supports abortion on demand and wants to force taxpayers to fund it, will be an “advocate for women.” She highlighted his recent plan to expand “access to reproductive healthcare,” including abortions.

Abortion is not pro-woman, though pro-abortion Democrats often try to portray it that way. Abortions kill unique, living human beings, a woman’s own child, and often leave mothers suffering physically and psychologically.

Most Americans do not want more abortions, and they do not want taxpayer-funded abortions. In the past four decades, more than 62 million unborn babies have been aborted. Yet, Biden, Duckworth and other Democrats support policies that would expand abortions – leading to more deaths of unborn babies and more suffering mothers. Women and their children deserve better.

30% Fewer People With Down Syndrome Born in UK as More Babies Killed in Abortions

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:53:58 GMT

Warnings have been issued indicating that the number of children aborted for having Down’s syndrome is expected to soar due to the rollout of a new pre-natal testing programme from the Department of Health and Social Care.

Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications said: “This programme which is designed to weed out and kill unborn children for having a disability is a barbaric form of discrimination which has no place in a civilized society. Each human deserves the basic right to life regardless of ability.”

The warnings from disability right groups followed a Government announcement which detailed plans to roll-out the Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) technique called ‘cell-free DNA’ (cfDNA) to all health boards in England.

Figures published in The Times covering the period from 2013 (before the NITP was introduced in some hospitals) to 2017, show that more women who have undergone the new testing go on to have abortions.

The 26 hospital trusts that provided Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) saw a change in the birthrate for babies with Down’s syndrome from 1 in 956 births (0.11%) in 2013 to 1 in 1,368 (0.07%) in 2017, which is 30% drop in birth rate.

The abortion rate for unborn children diagnosed with Down’s syndrome is now expected to soar following the roll out of the new Government programme.

“The fears of the Down’s syndrome community are not unfounded”

Lynn Murray, spokesperson for disability right campaign, Don’t Screen Us Out said: “As a mother of a daughter who has Down’s syndrome, I see every day the unique value she brings to our family and the positive impact she has on others around her. Figures released earlier this year show that the fears of the Down’s syndrome community that rolling out these tests would lead to a large drop in the number of babies with Down’s syndrome were not unfounded.

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“We are calling on the Government to halt the further roll-out of the tests on the NHS immediately and to undertake an urgent inquiry into the impact that these tests are having on birth numbers of babies with Down’s syndrome. There also needs to be greater support for parents who are expecting a child with Down’s syndrome.”

Screening people out

During 2019 In England and Wales, 3,863 unborn children were killed by abortion following a disability diagnosis. 656 of these unborn children were killed after being diagnosed with Down’s syndrome.

The 1967 Abortion Act permits abortion until birth if a baby is suspected of having a foetal anomaly. Earlier this year, SPUC reported on how the number of late term abortions carried out past 24 week’s gestation on UK children with Down’s syndrome have doubled in the past 10 years.

SPUC’s Michael Robinson said: “The UK’s current law allows unborn children who are suspected of possessing a foetal anomaly such as Down’s syndrome to be aborted until birth. As a result, the vast majority of children with Down’s syndrome are killed in the womb and never allowed their shot at life.

“The nationwide roll-out of a new NITP programme sends a strong message that those with disability are to be weeded out and exterminated. It is hardly surprising that many in the Down’s syndrome community feel as though the UK’s current laws make them feel as though they shouldn’t exist.

“We urge the government to halt this new programme and re-evaluate the impact the such tests could have upon the Down’s syndrome community.”

LifeNews Note: Courtesy of SPUC. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is a leading pro-life organization in the United Kingdom.

"You Guys Changed Our Mind.” Couple Rejects Abortion After Talk With Sidewalk Counselor

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:47:31 GMT

A couple have rejected abortion and chosen life for their child, after speaking with a pro-life advocate outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications said: “Heartwarming stories such as these prove just how vital a pro-life presence outside abortion clinics is.

This couple were empowered by pro-life advocates which enabled them to choose life for their child. It is devastating to consider those who are blocked from receiving support due to buffer zones which ban pro-lifers from standing outside abortion clinics and offer support. This story also exemplifies the power of conversation we as pro-lifers have at our disposal to open people’s hearts and minds to the wonder and beauty of the unborn child”.

The father has explained how he and his wife had arrived at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Illinois after deciding to abort their unborn child. However, upon arrival the couple had a conversation with pro-life advocates outside the clinic who were offering support to those experiencing a crisis pregnancy.

The father said the conversation with pro-life advocates highlighted just how much pro-lifers care about the unborn and led them to cancel their abortion appointment, and choose life for their unborn child.

We couldn’t go through with that

The father said: “A week ago, we were thinking about coming here and, you know, getting an abortion and everything but… then we saw how many people out here… actually kinda care—and we were right across the street over there—and… me and my wife were just looking and we were just saying, like, ‘Man, a lot of people do care about this.’”

He also described how following the lifesaving conversation, the couple conducted their own research into the development of their unborn child and the facts surrounding an abortion procedure.

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He continued: “Then we read that you actually see the baby when you take the [abortion] pill…like I think it’s like two pills in there. And … that would traumatize me. I think that would just literally traumatize me. I just couldn’t go through that and my wife, she can’t go through that.”

“There are children alive today because of pro-life vigils”

SPUC members – and pro-life supporters stand up for unborn children in many ways. One of the great successes in recent years has been the witness given by pro-life groups across the country through peaceful vigil outside abortion clinics. Pro-life vigils allow those entering an abortion clinic the chance to receive the support, information and resources which would help them choose life for their child.

However, in recent years, the pro-life presence outside abortion facilities in the UK have become increasingly under attack from the pro-abortion lobby who seek to silence the pro-life voice by enforcing buffer zones around abortion clinics.

SPUC’s Michael Robinson said: “Every year hundreds of women decide not to have an abortion because they encounter a pro-life counsellor outside an abortion facility. This vital pro-life work usually involves a small number of courageous people who pray quietly and offer a lifeline to vulnerable women.

“The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) – the abortion chain responsible for 65,000 abortions each year in the UK – lobbied for the introduction of “buffer zones” to ban pro-lifers from standing outside their premises. BPAS stands to lose out financially every time a woman is helped to choose life for her baby. On average, each time a woman decides not to proceed with an abortion the clinic in question stands to lose more than £500 in revenue.

“There are children today who owe their very lives to the courage of these volunteers, standing out in all weathers and sometimes facing abuse from members of the public or even from officials. It is vital that women are granted access to all information that they are entitled to and for the pro-life presence outside abortion clinics to be protected.”

LifeNews Note: Courtesy of SPUC. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is a leading pro-life organization in the United Kingdom. File photo.

Court Allows Four Arkansas Pro-Life Laws to Go Into Effect Saving Babies From Abortion

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:33:52 GMT

Arkansas soon may be allowed to enforce a law to protect unborn babies from brutal dismemberment abortions after a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the state Friday.

The AP reports the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously vacated a lower federal court injunction blocking the dismemberment abortion ban and three other pro-life state laws.

“Arkansas has taken a strong stance to protect the unborn from inhumane treatment,” state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said in a statement celebrating the victory. “As Arkansas’s chief legal officer, I have always advocated for the lives of unborn children and will continue to defend our state’s legal right to protect the unborn.”

The 2017 laws include the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act, which protects nearly fully formed unborn babies from being brutally dismembered alive in the womb. These abortions typically are referred to as dilation and evacuation, or D&E, and are common in the second trimester when unborn babies are nearly fully developed.

A second law, the Sex Discrimination by Abortion Prohibition Act, protects unborn babies from discriminatory sex-selection abortions. The other two laws involve requiring the remains of aborted babies to be buried or cremated and reporting evidence of the sexual abuse of young girls under 14 to authorities.

The Eighth Circuit judges cited a recent opinion by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as the reason for their decision. Oddly, in the decision, Roberts joined the four liberal justices in ruling against a Louisiana abortion law that required abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges to treat patient emergencies.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports:

The 8th Circuit said that according to Roberts, the appropriate method of analyzing a challenged law is whether the law poses a “substantial obstacle” or a substantial burden, not whether benefits outweighed burdens.

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In light of that, the 8th Circuit panel dissolved the injunction [ U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker] issued and returned the case to her court to reconsider her ruling using the “substantial obstacle” inquiry advocated by Roberts.

The ruling will not take effect for 21 days, meaning the laws will remain blocked until Aug. 28, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit in 2017.

Arkansas ACLU leader Holly Dickson said they are trying to decide what to do next to “fight against these extreme abortion restrictions.”

If allowed to go into effect, the laws could save hundreds of babies’ lives each year. According to the Arkansas Department of Health, 683 of the 3,771 abortions performed in 2015 were D&E, or dismemberment abortions.

The dismemberment abortion ban embodies model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee that would prohibit “dismemberment abortion,” using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a living unborn baby to remove him or her from the womb in pieces. Such instruments are used in dilation and evacuation procedures.

Eleven states have passed laws to ban dismemberment abortions: Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Kentucky and North Dakota. However, the abortion industry is challenging many of them in court.

Judge Orders Church to Stop Worship Services, Says It Violated Governor’s Lockdown

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:57:24 GMT

Today, a Ventura County state judge issued a temporary restraining order to Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel Church prohibiting the church from meeting under Governor Newsom’s unconstitutional COVID-19 no singing and no worship orders. Liberty Counsel does not represent the church but is working with the pastor and his legal counsel.

The state court order also names Does 1 – 1000, meaning the injunction includes every person who attends the church or who will attend the church. Anyone who dares visit the church to worship could be held in contempt of court.

However, Gov. Newsom’s orders allow the church to feed, shelter, and provide social services, but the same people in the same building cannot worship. In order words, non-religious services are acceptable but religious services are banned. People can receive food, but not take communion. People can be housed overnight, but cannot hold a short worship service, Bible study, or meet for prayer. People can receive counseling to find work but cannot be counseled on finding eternal life.

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This case is the first in the country where church members and all future attendees are now considered defendants subject to contempt of court for entering a church to WORSHIP.

An evidentiary hearing is now set for the end of the month.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The same governor who encourages mass protests, bans all worship. The same governor who says the church can meet for secular services, bans the church from having religious worship. If people cannot see this obvious unconstitutional violation, they are blind. This unconstitutional hostility against religious worship must end. Enough is enough!”

Satanic Temple Raffles Off Free Abortion to Promote Killing Babies as Religious Rituals

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:28:36 GMT

As if slaughtering an unborn baby is some sort of coveted prize, the Satanic Temple is raffling off a free abortion to raise money for its new pro-abortion campaign.

CBN News reports the Satanic Temple (TST) launched a campaign to promote its “religious abortion ritual,” which it compares to baptism or communion for Christians.

The “ritual” celebrates the killing of an innocent unborn child by abortion. TST claims the deadly practice follows two of its tenets: bodily autonomy and adherence to best scientific practices.

On Wednesday, the TST announced plans to challenge state abortion laws based on the claim that they violate its members’ religious liberty. To fund its pro-abortion efforts, it is raising money through a raffle. The “grand prize” for those who donate at least $200 is an abortion.

“Win a free abortion. The Satanic Temple will cover the medical expenses for your pregnancy termination up to $2,500,” the fundraiser states.

Other prizes include a “religious abortion kit consisting of a TST compact mirror and a ritual instruction sheet” and a “Thyself is Thy Master” bracelet.

“The Satanic Temple is proud to announce its Religious Abortion Ritual, a ceremony rooted in our deeply-held beliefs,” the group said in a video announcement on YouTube. “Thyself is thy master. Hail Satan!”

It claims its abortion ritual is a “spiritual experience designed to instill confidence and self-worth in accordance to TST’s religious beliefs,” and it compared the “ritual” of killing unborn babies to a baptism or communion for Christians.

According to the Friendly Atheist blog, the Satanic Temple described its “ritual” for abortions this way:

Prior to receiving any anesthetic or sedation, look at your reflection to be reminded of your personhood and your responsibility to yourself. Focus on your intent. Take deep breaths, and make yourself comfortable. When you are ready, say the Third Tenet and Fifth Tenet aloud. You may now undergo the surgery. After the surgery is completed and any anesthetic has worn off, return to your reflection and recite your personal affirmation. Feel doubts dissipating and your confidence growing as you have just undertaken a decision that affirms your autonomy and free will. The religious abortion ritual is now complete.

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The satanists said they believe in “abortion on demand” in the first trimester – meaning without regulations, restrictions or informed consent.

They oppose laws that require abortion facilities to show mothers the ultrasounds of their unborn babies or allow them to listen to their unborn baby’s heartbeat. They oppose waiting periods that ensure mothers have time to consider informed consent information prior to going through with the abortion. And they want to be exempted from laws that require abortion facilities to bury or cremate the remains of aborted babies.

Their plan is to challenge the laws based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which ensures the government does not unnecessarily interfere with people’s religious freedom.

According to the Friendly Atheist, “By saying abortions in the first trimester are a religious ritual for their members, any states that have their own RFRA laws — and most anti-abortion states have them — would theoretically have to show why their … restrictions should override the Satanists’ religious freedom.”

So far, all of the Satanic Temple’s lawsuits against pro-life laws have failed. In June, a federal appeals court rejected their latest attempt at challenging Missouri’s informed consent law. In 2019, the Missouri Supreme Court dismissed another one of the Satanic Temple’s lawsuits. But every time they lose, they try again with a new approach.

The Satanic Temple is heavily involved in abortion activism in the U.S. Breitbart once described its work as a “pro-abortion crusade to come to the aid of America’s largest abortion provider,” Planned Parenthood.

Some of its members also attempt to intimidate peaceful pro-life sidewalk counselors through gruesome protests. In 2016, pro-life advocates outside of a Detroit, Michigan Planned Parenthood faced a disturbing scene when a group from the Satanic Temple arrived to counter-protest wearing baby masks and carrying whips. They held a similar protest on Good Friday in 2017.

Years ago, former satanist Zachary King told the Lepanto Institute that the cult performs satanic rituals inside abortion facilities. King said participating in abortions is particularly important for satanists because it is considered the best way to give an offering to Satan.

He explained: “In Satanism, killing something or the death of something is the most effective way of getting your spell accomplished. As far as trying to get Satan’s approval, to give you something that you want, killing something is the best way to go. Killing something is the ultimate offering to Satan, and if you can kill an unborn, that is his ultimate goal.”

Biden Hails New Jersey as COVID Example, But More People Died There Per Capita Than Any Nation

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:08:53 GMT

Former CNN digital producer Steve Krakauer unloaded on Politico in his “Fourth Watch” newsletter last night for a story hailing New Jersey as some sort of model for flattening the coronavirus curve. His headline asked “How did this get published?”

“New Jersey went from being one of the country’s worst Covid-19 hot spots to a model of how to flatten the curve,” began Politico’s August 5 piece, and the tweet carried that same sense of celebration:

Krakauer lowered the boom:

Look, I grew up in New Jersey, have a lot of family there – I’ve got love for New Jersey. So no shots at Jersey and the GTL lifestyle.

But New Jersey should never be considered the COVID-19 “model” for anything.

It’s great news that New Jersey has seen far fewer cases and deaths than they had during the most tragic part of the pandemic. But let’s have some perspective. New Jersey didn’t flatten the curve – New Jersey was literally the curve.

If New Jersey was a country, it would have the most coronavirus deaths of any country in the world per capita – by more than double.

So yes, as states like Texas, my home state now, and Florida, and California, see cases on the rise (but deaths nowhere near the level as the East Coast spikes), it’s great that New Jersey has not seen that. But 44,000 more Texans would have to die to reach the comparable per capita figure as New Jersey – a tradeoff for some yacht cruising now no thinking person would make.

New Jersey is not the “model,” Politico. And how did this get published?!

Phil Kerpen offered a graphic illustration of how New Jersey compares.

It’s not all celebration. Sam Sutton and Brianna Ehley noted the case count is climbing again, but don’t blame the politicians, blame the reckless vacationers: “If fresh scars of the pandemic’s darkest days and strict orders from the governor weren’t enough to keep tourists and residents from pretending 2020 was simply another raucous summer down the Jersey Shore, the future will be grim for other states that have been less aggressive.”

Gov. Phil Murphy is brought in for lecturing, not for how he failed this year:

“Frankly, if you see a little bit of slackening of behavior, particularly among young people, it’s really hard to keep using that bullhorn. And with the same level of effectiveness,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said in an interview, speaking shortly before announcing new capacity limits for indoor venues. “The economic consequences will be around us for years. And keeping people’s confidence, keeping their sort of habits in the right place as the clock continues to go on? I think that becomes harder and harder.”

…New Jersey’s been forced back into the ring with Covid-19 because of something that’s even harder to contain than the virus.

“It’s human nature,” Murphy said at a recent press conference. After spending the better part of four months under lock-and-key, too many young people are “mad as hell [and] not going to take it anymore.”

PS: This is NOT the first time Politico has polished Murphy’s apple. Back in April, Politico suggested protesters in Trenton against Gov. Murphy’s lockdown were a “vocal small minority” that aren’t that newsworthy, since they don’t represent the massive majority in favor of Murphy’s stewardship.

LifeNews.com Note: Tim Graham is the director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a media watchdog group. He was a White House correspondent for World magazine in 2001 and 2002. This originally appeared on the NewsBusters web site.

Sarah Sanders: Feminists are Wrong, You Don’t Have to Abort Your Baby to Have a Career

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:43:46 GMT

Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the abortion movement tells women “they have to choose between their dreams and their children” in a book introduction exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Sanders’s foreword is included in “Life Is Winning,” an examination of the pro-life movement to be published Aug. 25. The book was written by Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, who launched campaigns to help elect President Donald Trump in 2016 and continues to lead the pro-life organization in its support of Trump’s 2020 election.

“It makes no sense that in the most prosperous and free country in the history of the world, anyone would still be telling women they have to choose between their dreams and their children—but that’s precisely what the abortion movement does,” Sanders wrote. “When we reject this demeaning double standard, life wins.”

Sanders noted that the book said in a “compelling and winsome way” that “the pro-life movement in America has persisted in the face of adversity for nearly half a century” and has “never been stronger than right now.”

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“I’m beyond proud of all we have accomplished together with President Trump in the White House,” Sanders said, noting that one of the proudest moments during her time in the Trump administration was when Trump became the first president to attend the March for Life.

“It was the greatest honor and adventure to go to work every day serving in the administration of a true patriot who knows that for America to be great, we must stand up for the equal value of each human being,” she added. Sanders left the White House at the end of June 2019.

The former press secretary said that recent wins for the pro-life movement are inciting the resentment of the “powerful elites who want to impose their radical abortion agenda by fiat.”

“Ever since this president took office they have been fighting to undermine and override the will of the people,” Sanders said. “They slandered and tried to destroy Justice Kavanaugh, and they attempted to impeach President Trump and remove him from office.”

Sanders also said that the “extremism of pro-abortion Democrats” as well as “the constant negativity of the media” has united the Republican Party “like never before.”

LifeNews Note: Mary Margaret Olohan writes for Daily Caller. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience.

Kanye West Condemns Abortion, Thanks God and His Parents for "Letting Me Live”

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:32:04 GMT

Kanye West published another pro-life message on his Twitter page Thursday, this time thanking his parents for choosing life for him before he was born.

The celebrity rapper has been talking about abortion a lot this summer. It began after he launched his presidential campaign in July. During a campaign rally last month, he burst into tears when he shared how his parents had almost aborted him.

This week, he shared photos of his parents holding him as an infant and thanked them for giving him life.

“Thank you God and mum and dad for letting me live,” West wrote.

Some of West’s abortion comments have been bizarre. But many people identified with his emotional, unscripted speech about his parents’ decision to choose life for him.

“My mom saved my life. My dad wanted to abort me,” West said during a campaign rally in July. “My mom saved my life. There would have been no Kanye West because my dad was too busy.”

Then, he started crying.

“I almost killed my daughter!” he screamed. “I almost killed my daughter!”

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“[Kim] called me screaming and crying … she said, ‘I’m pregnant’ … She said she was pregnant and for one month, and two months, and three months we talked about her not having this child. She had the pills in her hand,” West continued. “The screen went black and white and God said, ‘If you f— with my vision, I’m gonna f— with yours.’ And I called my wife, and she said, ‘We’re gonna have this baby.’ I said, ‘We’re gonna have this child.’”

Later in the speech, he said he does not think abortions should be illegal, but society should provide more support to help mothers choose life for their unborn babies.

Several weeks ago, West also blasted the Planned Parenthood abortion chain as a “white supremacists’” organization. Then, earlier this month, he wrote a series of posts on Twitter mourning how the abortion industry targets unborn black babies and mothers for abortions.

“Over 22,500,000 black babies have been aborted over the past 50 years,” West wrote.

CNN Calls Joe Biden a "Practicing Catholic,” But He Would Force Christians to Fund Abortions

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:10:55 GMT

The Daily Caller is questioning CNN after one of its fact checkers called Joe Biden a “practicing Catholic” despite his anti-Catholic pro-abortion stance.

The Democratic presidential candidate supports abortions without restriction and wants to force taxpayers to pay for them. Though Biden often touts his Catholic faith, he also opposes religious freedom for the Little Sisters of the Poor and other faith-based charities.

Biden’s pro-abortion politics prompted a Catholic priest to deny him communion last year, and Catholic and pro-life leaders have been calling out the hypocrisy of his claims of faith. But much of the liberal media has allowed Biden to make the claim freely without question.

Earlier this week, a reporter with the conservative Daily Caller News Foundation emailed CNN to ask why one of its fact checkers called Biden a “practicing Catholic” without question, PJ Media reports.

According to the report:

Matt Dornic, the CNN communications head, tweeted a screenshot of the email with the statement, “This is really gross.”

The Daily Caller reporter had sent Dornic an email with the subject line “Press Inquiry.”

“Reaching out to see if CNN could comment on a CNN fact checker calling Joe Biden a ‘practicing Catholic,’ though Biden is pro-abortion, supports expansion of abortion access, and has been denied Holy Communion by a Catholic priest,” the Daily Caller reporter wrote.

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Dornic appears to consider it “really gross” to question the sincerity of Biden’s professed Catholic faith, even though there are good reasons to do so.

One of the most egregious is Biden’s willingness to bow to the billion-dollar abortion industry’s demands. Last year, he announced that he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer-funded abortions. Popular among Americans, the amendment has saved more than 2.4 million unborn babies from abortions, according to research by Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Biden supports the killing of unborn babies in abortions in direct opposition to his faith. And unlike past Democrats, Biden does not talk about wanting to reduce abortions or make them rare. In April, he went so far as to call the aborting of unborn babies an “essential medical service” during the coronavirus pandemic.

He said one of his first acts as president would be to restore funding to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in America.

Biden also said he is committed to “the constitutional right to an abortion” and to reversing “the Trump administration and states’ all-out assault on women’s right to choose.” He promised to “work to codify Roe v. Wade.” The infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision made the United States one of only seven countries in the world that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Biden claims to be a “very devout Catholic and a person of deep faith,” but he also opposes religious freedom for Catholic organizations like the Little Sisters of the Poor, a nuns’ charity that serves the poor and elderly. The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted the Little Sisters relief from an Obama-era mandate that would have forced them to fund contraception, including forms that may cause abortions, in their employee health plans.

Biden’s pro-abortion radicalism is a major concern for voters of faith. It prompted a South Carolina priest to deny him communion last October.

American Catholic bishops have been urging voters to make the abortion issue a “preeminent priority” at the polls in November. The Catholic Church teaches that every human life has value, from conception to natural death. And nothing destroys more human beings than abortion.

President Trump Cuts Joe Biden’s Lead to 3%, Which Means He’s Probably Winning

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:13:26 GMT

If you are a supporter of pro-abortion former Vice President Joe Biden, you are perpetually walking on eggshells. You never, ever know what he will say next.

Since it’s not our issue, suffice it to say that Joe did it again today during an interview that aired at the convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Every couple of days we do a countdown post: where we are (in this case) 89 days until the November 3 General Elections. Four thoughts.

#1. Never, ever get caught up in the “Joe’s measuring the White House for curtains” meme. He has not debated pro-life President Donald Trump and there are 88 more days for him to say something puzzling, hugely off-putting, or painfully stupid.

#2. Polls come, and polls go…and then another one comes along. The Hill today tells us []

If the 2020 Presidential election were held today, 43 percent of voters would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden while 40 percent would chose President Trump, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s lead fell from a 7 percentage points in a July 17-20 survey to 3 percentage points in this August 2-5 poll.

And that

The survey found Trump made gains among voters in two key demographics.

Support among Midwestern voters rose from 38 percent two weeks ago to 42 percent in this most recent poll. Support for Biden among the same group fell from 45 percent to 39 percent.

The president also edges out Biden among independents in the latest poll, with 35 percent support, a 4 percentage point increase from last survey.

By contrast, 33 percent of independents prefer Joe Biden as their candidate for president.

Another recent poll of Likely Voters conducted by Emerson had Biden up by 4 points (50% to 46%).

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#3. In one of the few articles you’ll read with something genuinely new to tell us, POLITICO (a hotbed of Democrats) writes

The Republican and Democratic parties — from the presidential candidates on down — are taking polar opposite approaches to door-to-door canvassing this fall. The competing bets on the value of face-to-face campaigning during a pandemic has no modern precedent, making it a potential wild card in November, especially in close races.

Biden and the Democratic National Committee aren’t sending volunteers or staffers to talk with voters at home, and don’t anticipate doing anything more than dropping off literature unless the crisis abates. The campaign and the Democratic National Committee think they can compensate for the lack of in-person canvassing with phone calls, texts, new forms of digital organizing, and virtual meet-ups with voters.

“At first I was nervous, but our response rates on phone calls and texts are much higher and people are not necessarily wanting someone to go up to their door right now,” said Jenn Ridder, Biden’s national states director. “You get to throw a lot of the rule book out the window and try out new things.”

The headline? “Trump’s campaign knocks on a million doors a week. Biden’s knocks on zero.” To state what you would think is obvious, this is a huge gamble for the Biden campaign.

They offer all kind of excuses why this makes sense (see the one above), none of which are particularly persuasive. Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey may have the best explanation:

The DNC [Democratic National Committee] simply doesn’t have the resources to compete, and Biden’s general-election campaign barely had any money before the summer. They don’t have the resources either, nor apparently the urgency needed to raise them. Their centralized national-messaging strategy is a cheesier, 30,000-foot approach to GOTV that might pay off if people resent porch visits in the age of COVID-19.

Talk about irony. Who is the Trump campaign mimicking? Morrissey again [underlining mine]:

The RNC [Republican National Committee] has been building a candidate-independent GOTV arm originally called the Republican Leadership Initiative (now called the Trump Victory Leadership Initiative), based on the model used by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. The RNC has heavily invested in that infrastructure, helped by its massive fundraising edge over the DNC the last several years, and this is precisely the task for which it was designed — having local supporters stoke enthusiasm in their own communities with personal connections.

And there have been stories going back to January about Democrats “freaking out” over Trump’s “massive digital operation.” That could easily prove to be his ace in the hole.

And lastly

#4. The real unknown for 2020—besides turnout and how in the heck votes will be tabulated—is to what extent each candidate makes inroads into the other candidate’s base. Biden is making gestures to the wider faith community that many media outlets tell us could cause President Trump to lose voters, in either the White Evangelical community and/or the Catholic community.

Perhaps, but I seriously doubt it. His constituency—not to mention various platform planks the party will adopt—will send the message Joe Biden is not your friend.

And while I can’t prove it (although there is anecdotal and harder data as well), I strongly suspect President Trump will do far better in the Latino community than we are told he will– and marginally better in the Black community.

Like everything else, numbers move around. At the end of May, for example, Trump’s approval rating among Hispanic-Americans stood at 44 percent, according to a Hill/HarrisX poll. “That’s a notable jump over the 28 percent of Latinos who voted for him in the 2016 presidential contest,” Mary Kay Linge reports.

An NPR/PBS/Marist poll conducted between June 22-24 found that 59% of Hispanic voters said they would vote for Biden, while 39% said they’d vote for Trump. Other polls are more favorable for Biden.

Stay tuned. And be sure not to be snookered by the Trump-hating major media.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.

President Trump: Joe Biden and Democrats are "Against the Bible” Because They Support ...

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:57:06 GMT

President Donald Trump criticized Joe Biden and Democrat leaders for being “against the Bible” on Thursday as they push to force taxpayers to fund the killing of unborn babies in abortions.

Trump compared his positions on a number of issues with Biden’s during an interview with Fox correspondent Geraldo Rivera, the Daily Wire reports.

“I’m in favor of oil and gas. I’m in favor of the Bible. I’m in favor of the Second Amendment. Right,” Trump said. “Biden is against all of those things. He’s against oil. He’s against the Bible, essentially against religion. But against the Bible and he’s against the Second Amendment.”

Rivera responded that the anti-Bible description was “a little harsh,” but Trump insisted that it was accurate.

“Well, the people that control him totally are. I mean, it may be a little harsh for him, but he’s going to have no control,” Trump said.

Democrats like Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi often claim to be devout Catholics, but their actions demonstrate that they do not practice their faith.

Rather than listen to voters or follow the faith that he claims to be a part of, Biden has shown a willingness to bow to the billion-dollar abortion industry’s demands. Last year, he announced that he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer-funded abortions. Popular among Americans, the amendment has saved more than 2.4 million unborn babies from abortions, according to new research by Charlotte Lozier Institute.

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Unlike past Democrats, Biden does not talk about wanting to reduce abortions or make them rare either. In April, he went so far as to call the aborting of unborn babies an “essential medical service” during the coronavirus pandemic.

And Democrat leaders recently introduced a bill to eliminate a rule that protects pro-life medical workers from discrimination.

Religious freedom and abortion are important issues to voters of faith, especially Christians, and Biden’s positions on both will cancel him out as an option for a lot of Americans.

Stop Apologizing for America, We are the Greatest Nation in the World for a Reason

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:42:06 GMT

Dividing people is always easy. All it takes is a lie dressed up in a hashtag. Uniting people is never easy. It takes a lot of work, a lot of listening, and a lot of learning. It takes humility and honesty. It requires context that brings clarity. And it’s worth every effort.

We live in the United States of America. From sea to shining sea we are the most diverse, most charitable, most unique nation in the world. In America passion and perseverance transform poverty into Oprahs, refugees into Albert Einsteins, and Holocaust survivors into Nobel Laureates like Elie Wiesel. It’s why more flock to this great country from around the globe than any other country on earth.

Stop apologizing for America. This is the place where justice rolls down like a mighty river, where impossible dreams do come true, and blood-bought freedom is as precious as the air we breathe. This is the place where we can put our faith into action and speak freely because we have a Constitution like none other. Even former slaves such as Frederick Douglass, once shackled by the Law, praised our founding document saying: “…the Constitution is a glorious liberty document.”

It’s the place where even “biracial” adoptees like Colin Kaepernick–adopted and loved by white parents—can become a multimillion dollar athlete and activist.

I was adopted and loved into a multiethnic tribe of fifteen. Ten of us were rescued, chosen and cherished by two parents who should never—for a moment—feel any collective (fake) guilt. Their selfless love changed our individual fragility into family.

We are the United States of America. And we can’t breathe in the smoldering ruins of anarchy and violence. Too many have sacrificed their very lives to free us from the chains of injustice for anyone to be forced to or willingly wear those shackles. We thrive when we embrace the truths that are self-evident: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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This Land of Opportunity makes people like Dr. Ben Carson possible, once a young child who grew up in poverty with his single mom. She was determined that her sons would not be victims, but victors. He became a world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon who has given millions in scholarships to students across the country. (His brother, Curtis, became a mechanical engineer in the aerospace industry.)

It makes success stories like Cathy Hughes, possible. She’s an African-American woman who, despite an unplanned pregnancy as a teen, founded the hugely successful Urban One media network. She rejected aborting her son and chose to be stronger than her circumstances, saying: “I became an entrepreneur because of him”.

Or, how about Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born immigrant who became an American citizen and the first woman of Indian ethnicity in space?

It’s the triumph of David Green, who grew up in poverty but understood the power of giving. Through lots of hard work, grit and a passionate Christian faith he turned a craft business that began in his kitchen into a multi-billion business that enables his vast philanthropy—Hobby Lobby.

We have so much to celebrate in these United States of America where our national creed is centered on the truth that we’re all created equal. The strength of our humanity is revealed in how we care for the weakest among us, in and out of the womb. It shines when we see each other as humans with the same inherent and irrevocable worth.

Red. Yellow. Black. Brown. And White. Left. Middle. And Right. We rise together. Or we fall together.

Let’s rise. Let’s stand for the country that is still the beacon of hope to the world. Let’s feed ourselves, daily, not with the bitter division dished out by our news media but with the nourishing work of our churches, our community organizations, and the joy that comes from loving our neighbors as ourselves. Our solutions are not political. They’re deeply personal…moral…spiritual. When we truly are one nation under God, we can be indivisible.

America. We haven’t even seen our best days yet.

So, stop apologizing. And start uniting.

Feminist Writer: It’s "Perfectly Valid” to Kill Babies in Abortions if Women ...

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:39:52 GMT

Abortion activists are growing bold in their demands for unrestricted abortions up to birth.

Rebecca Reid, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph in England, recently wrote a piece arguing that it would be “perfectly valid” for a mother to abort her unborn baby because she wants a “beach body,” The Christian Institute reports.

“If you do not want to be pregnant, you do not have to be pregnant, and you can choose not to be,” Reid wrote last week. “Abortions happen for a litany of reasons, and all of them, whatever they are, are valid.”

She responded to a recent undercover investigation that exposed an abortion facility’s willingness to send abortion drugs to a woman who said she did not want to look pregnant for her beach vacation. The woman was an undercover investigator and not actually pregnant, but the abortion facility gave her the drugs.

Reid said women should not have to give a reason for an abortion and criticized the “pervasive idea that there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ reasons to have an abortion.”

Then, she shared the stories of several women she met who aborted their unborn babies for selfish, superficial reasons.

One woman, “Rachel,” said she had an abortion at age 26 when she was married, financially stable and enjoying a flourishing career. Though fear of hurting her career was part of her motivation, Rachel admitted that “the main reason I had an abortion was that I wanted more time to live my life – to drink and smoke, and stay up until 4 a.m. with my friends.”

A second woman, “Nadia,” aborted her unborn child in her early 30s without much thought. She said she just “wasn’t ready to be a mum.”

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“I didn’t want a baby. My life was about having fun, going out and putting myself first. So I booked an abortion,” she told Reid.

Reid also brought up the model who, in 2014, admitted publicly that she wanted an abortion so she could be on “Big Brother.”

“Whether you have an abortion at 15 for your education, at 20 because you’ve got the chance to go on a reality TV show, or at 35 for medical reasons, there is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ reason to terminate a pregnancy,” Reid wrote. “If you do not want to be pregnant, you do not have to be pregnant, and you can choose not to be.”

As shocking as her comments are, they are not outside the mainstream among abortion activists. Last year, Planned Parenthood of St. Louis chief medical officer Colleen McNicholas told the AP that “EVERY reason to have an abortion is a valid reason,” including for sex-selection and disabilities like Down syndrome. Other pro-abortion leaders have made similar comments.

Their extremism is shocking – including to many people who call themselves pro-choice. Polls consistently show that most people oppose unrestricted abortion on demand. And that is telling. Most people – including those who believe some abortions should be legal – seem to realize that there is something more going on than medical care or “choice.” There is another human life, one that should not be selfishly or callously destroyed, and they are correct.

An abortion destroys the life of a unique, living human being, the woman’s own child, and there is no good reason for it. Yet, in the UK and many parts of the U.S., unborn babies may be aborted for any reason up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. In some states, abortions are legal for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy — including if a woman simply does not want to look pregnant at the beach.

VP Mike Pence Calls President Trump "The Most Pro-Life President in History”

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:28:05 GMT

Vice President Mike Pence highlighted President Donald Trump’s accomplishments as the “most pro-life president in American history” on Wednesday in Florida.

Speaking at a rally on the “Life Wins” tour with the Susan B. Anthony List, Pence promised that he and the president will always stand up for the rights of unborn babies, according to Christian Headlines.

“From the first day he took office, President Trump has been standing without apology for the sanctity of human life,” Pence said.

One of Trump’s first actions as president was to restore the Mexico City policy, “making sure no taxpayer dollars would ever go to promote or provide abortion around the world,” the vice president said. Trump later expanded the policy. The Trump administration also has been a strong opponent of abortion the United Nations.

Pence said Trump appointed 200 conservative judges to the federal courts, more than any other president in American history.

He also highlighted the president’s work for religious freedom on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious organizations, as well as pro-life doctors and nurses who face discrimination on the job.

Pence said Trump signed a law making it easier for states to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion chain, and was the first president to speak at the national March for Life in person.

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He warned that Joe Biden and Democrat leaders would undue all the life-saving progress of the past four years.

“Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have literally abandoned their support for the Hyde Amendment and have pledged to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion at home and abroad,” Pence said.

Democrats also promised to increase taxpayer funding to the billion-dollar abortion industry, he continued.

“And Joe Biden and the Democratic Party support late-term abortion. His party, in the Senate, actually blocked a bill that would protect children that were born after failed abortions. They blocked the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act,” he said.

“The choice could not be more clear,” Pence concluded. “And I want to make you a promise: This president, this vice president and this administration will always stand up for the freedom of speech of every American, and we will always stand for life. As the Bible admonishes us, we are to, and I quote, ‘speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.’ And so the people in this movement have done every day since that day 47 years ago.”

Just prior to the speech, the vice president and his daughter Charlotte visited A Woman’s Place, a pro-life pregnancy center that helps hundreds of babies and mothers annually in Pinellas Park, Florida. Pence praised pregnancy resource centers for their life-saving work, saying, “The pro-life movement is defined by generosity, compassion, and love for women and unborn children.”

Craigslist Founder Spending $200 Million to Defeat President Trump

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:21:44 GMT

The liberal billionaire founder of Craigslist and left-wing journalism funder Craig Newmark is again spending loads of cash on journalism — this time in an effort to defeat President Donald Trump in November.

In an interview with Forbes Magazine, staff writer Angel Au-Yeung wrote that Newmark “is spending nearly $200 Million to save journalism, beat President Trump and end information warfare.”

Specifically, Newmark had “given $170 million to journalism” since 2016, allegedly for the purposes of “countering harassment against journalists, cybersecurity and election integrity.” According to Au-Yeung, “These areas, he believes, are the ‘battle spaces’ of information warfare. The enemy, according to Newmark, are not just foreign adversaries like the Kremlin—it includes the adversaries’ domestic allies,” in a veiled usage of the Russia collusion hoax to swipe at Trump. [Emphasis added.]

In fact, when Newmark was “[a]sked if he views President Donald Trump as one of those domestic allies, Newmark demurs.” But, Newmark “suggested Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace’s July 19 interview with Trump [w]as educational material,” Au-Yeung said.

As Forbes described it, “2020 will be a decisive year for Newmark, as it will indicate whether his money has been well spent—or not.” When asked how Newmark would know if his cash dump had gone to waste, Newmark responded with another veiled swipe at the president:

‘The people who are in control of this country will be subject to some control by our foreign adversaries and will continue to dismantle our democracy,’ [emphasis added]

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A money-well-spent scenario for Newmark would be if “‘we elect a whole bunch of people who want to defend the country, who are honest and who want to fight corruption.’” The Forbes piece noted that he has supported liberal Democrats like Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Au-Yeung noted that Newmark was particularly concerned about “what was happening in Portland.” Au-Yeung noted that the violence had caused federal officers to be deployed there and that Trump defended the move. Newmark then made the outrageous claim that these tactics were similar to those used in Nazi Germany:

‘The current episode in Portland . . . seems to reflect really bad episodes in world history,’ Newmark says. ‘This has happened in Russia, and it’s part of how Putin got to power. It happened in 1930s Germany,’ [emphasis added].

Newmark’s foundation and his Craigslist Charitable Fund have previously given millions to liberal journalism groups including ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, Center for Investigative Reporting, Alternet and Mother Jones. Craig Newmark Foundation money also helped finance FactStream — a two-year fact-checking project used to check Trump’s State of the Union address in real time in 2018.

No matter what happens in November, Au-Yeung said, “one thing is certain: Newmark will continue doing what he’s been doing for years.” This, of course, means we can expect him to keep dumping millions into leftist projects and media organizations.

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Doctors Said Kaison Would Never Walk and Suggested Abortion, He Started Walking Last Year

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:14:36 GMT

Every child’s life is valuable, no matter what their abilities. Every child’s life also is valuable, no matter how old they are, but society often does not recognize it.

Fortunately, Kaison Garza’s parents did when they rejected their doctors’ advice to have an abortion.

KTXS News 12 reports the Snyder, Texas boy was diagnosed with spina bifida while he was still in the womb.

His mother, Traci Garza, said doctors told her to have an abortion after her 20 week ultrasound because of her unborn son’s disabilities. The doctors predicted that Kaison would never walk or talk, but none of that mattered to the Garza family.

“I said no way. I was not going to do that regardless the way he looked or whatever was wrong with him. I wanted to be there with him,” she said.

Kaison was born on Aug. 31, 2015. Immediately afterward, he underwent the first of many surgeries on his spine, according to the report.

“His spine was sticking out at the bottom of his back and fluid was shooting out,” his father, Robert Garza, said.

After nearly five years and more than a dozen surgeries, Kaison is walking and talking. Later this month, he will celebrate his fifth birthday, according to the report.

His parents recently asked him what he wants for his birthday, and Kaison told them he wants birthday cards. Anyone who wants to mail a card may send it to: Kaison Garza, 3718 Austin Avenue, Snyder, Texas 79549. The family also has a GoFundMe page to pay for his on-going medical expenses.

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Before babies like Kaison are born, some people in society dismiss their value. Somehow they believe that it is ok to kill a baby with disabilities as long as that baby has not been born yet. It is a messed up thought that promotes discrimination and destruction for the most vulnerable members of society.

Kaison’s story and many others demonstrate that unborn babies’ lives are valuable, no matter what their abilities, and they deserve a right to life.

Trump Beats Biden in July Fundraising, Raises $165 Million to His $140 Million

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:19:38 GMT

President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) out-raised Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden in July, according to Thursday reports.

The Trump campaign and the RNC raised $165 million last month compared to Biden’s $140 million, according to The Washington Post.

This is a change from recent months, as Biden outpaced Trump in both May and June, the WaPo reported. In June, the former vice president’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised $141 million, while Trump and the RNC raised $131 million, according to The New York Times.

Biden campaign manager Jennifer O’Malley said the team had $294 million in the bank at the beginning of August, the NYT reported.

“The Biden campaign is on the march, building off the incredible momentum from this summer with another lights-out fund-raising month, banking another $50 million for the final stretch to Election Day,” Dillon said, according to the NYT.

The Trump campaign has more than $300 million in cash, according to an Aug. 5 press release. The RNC and the Trump campaign together have raised $1.1 billion total in the 2020 election cycle.

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“The enthusiasm behind President Trump’s re-election continues to grow as July’s massive fundraising totals prove,” Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien said, according to the press release.

The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.