Frozen Embryos Are Now Children Under Alabama Law
“State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.”
This twitter feed is horrific!
Anti-Abortion Wisconsin Republicans Have Some Thoughts About Women
“Legislators cited biblical pregnancies and veterinary expertise, and said pregnant people—not bans—were the problem.”
Did you ever think you would see this headline?
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 18, 2023 in an interview:
“In some liberal states, you actually have post-birth abortions.”
“Our ruling
DeSantis claimed that “some liberal states” have post-birth abortions.
There is no evidence to support this.
Killing an infant after birth is infanticide and is illegal in all 50 states. Situations resulting in a fetal death in the third trimester are exceedingly rare, and involve emergencies such as fetal anomalies or life-threatening medical emergencies affecting the mother.
Sometimes, labor is induced, followed by palliative care, for babies with very short life expectancies. Some families choose this option when faced with life-threatening diagnoses that often limit their babies’ post-birth survival to just minutes or days after delivery, experts said.
We rate DeSantis’ claim False.“
Ted Cruz
stated on February 24, 2020 in a speech:
Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”
“PolitiFact has rated multiple statements making similar claims about Democrats supporting the execution of children False. We rate this claim False.“
There’s No Such Thing as ‘Late-Term Abortion’—Here Are the Facts
Pro-Life?
21 South Carolina GOP Lawmakers Propose Death Penalty for Women Who Have Abortions
Remind me again who is “Pro-Life”?
Alaska House censures Rep. Eastman for asking about the economic benefits of deaths of abused children
“The Wasilla Republican asked a series of questions to the Alaska Children’s Trust whether there could be economic benefits to a society with the death of an abused child.”
Food?
DUH!
Greg Abbott’s Promise to Eliminate Rape Is Holding Up About as Well as You’d Expect
“Greg Abbott said his abortion ban didn’t need an exemption for rape victims because he was going to eliminate rape from Texas. He hasn’t.”
GOP and Situational Ethics
These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time
West Virginia:
WV State Rep. Pritt (R) attempts to argue that making absent fathers pay child support will encourage more abortions.
WV State Rep. Kessinger (R) argues against stripping a father of parental rights if baby is the product of rape/incest.
Pro-Birth <> Pro-Life
Southern Baptists used to be Pro-Choice
When Southern Baptists Were Pro-Choice
“When Roe was first decided, most of the Southern evangelicals who today make up the backbone of the anti-abortion movement believed that abortion was a deeply personal issue in which government shouldn’t play a role. Some were hesitant to take a position on abortion because they saw it as a “Catholic issue,” and worried about the influence of Catholic teachings on American religious observance.
Shortly after the decision was handed down, The Baptist Press, a wire service run by the Southern Baptist Convention — the biggest Evangelical organization in the US — ran an op-ed praising the ruling. “Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision,” read the January 31, 1973, piece by W. Barry Garrett, The Baptist Press’s Washington bureau chief.”
The history of Southern Baptists shows they have not always opposed abortion
How Southern Baptists became pro-life
“Support for abortion rights was not limited to theological moderates and liberals. At New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in the early 1970s, some conservative students who went on to become state convention presidents and pastors of prominent churches supported abortion for reasons other than to save the life of the mother, Richard Land, former president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told BP.
“They pretty much bought into the idea that life begins when breath begins, and they just thought of [abortion] as a Catholic issue,” Land, who attended New Orleans Seminary between 1969-72, said of his fellow students.”
June 23, 2022:
June 24, 2022:
June 26, 2022:
Congress made school meals free for 2 years. Now, Republicans don’t want to extend the program.
- “At the start of the pandemic, Congress made school lunches free and universal. That’ll end June 30.
- The House has pushed to extend the waivers, but Senate Republicans are holding them back.
- School lunch workers worry about the impact on kids if the waivers end.”
GOP is Pro-Birth, NOT Pro-Life
Gov. DeSantis vetoes $2M funding for low-income birth control program
“This is the second year in a row the program failed to make the multi-billion dollar budget.”
Did You Know?
The House Passes A Bill Meant To Counter Texas-Style Abortion Bans
“The U.S. House on Friday approved a bill that Democrats say will protect a person’s access to abortion.
Passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act is a response to a Texas law that essentially bans abortion after six weeks, before most people realize they are pregnant. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the law from taking effect, although the decision leaves the door open for future challenges.
The bill passed the House mainly along party lines, 218-211, with one Democrat voting with Republicans. The vote was largely symbolic as the bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate, where 10 Republicans and all Democrats would need to back the bill in order to meet the 60-vote threshold to beat a filibuster.
The Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, has 47 co-sponsors, although it’s unlikely to garner the support of Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey, who has previously voted for abortion restrictions, and West Virginia moderate Joe Manchin.”
This might make some people mad?
GOP lawmaker says she trusts Utah women to control their ‘intake of semen’ as abortion trigger law goes into effect (see video)
They Lied:
Did Supreme Court justices mislead on Roe during their confirmation hearings?
“Pro-choice Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) also suggested that some of the justices had been less than truthful. The draft decision, she said in a statement, “rocks my confidence in the court” and was “completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh” — both of whom she voted to confirm — “said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office.””
What next, Comstock Acts?
Supreme Court should rethink precedents on contraception access and LGBTQ+ rights, says Justice Thomas
“In a concurring opinion delivered Friday, Thomas suggested that the logic used by the court’s conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey could signal similar outcomes for cases that recognized other personal rights: Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges. In the Griswold case, in 1965, the court threw out a state law banning the use of contraception. Lawrence v. Texas, in 2003, established that states cannot criminalize private sex acts between consenting adults. And in Obergefell, in 2015, the court ruled same-sex couples have an equal right to marry.”
The History of the Comstock Law
“The Comstock Law was widely used to prosecute those who distributed information or devices for birth control. In 1938, in a case involving Margaret Sanger, Judge August Hand lifted the federal ban on birth control, effectively ending the use of the Comstock Law to target birth control information and devices.”
Where abortion stands in your state: A state-by-state breakdown of abortion laws
A great twitter thread:
Great questions:
Alabama:
United Nations Poverty Investigation Finds Shocking Conditions in Alabama
60 Minutes investigates: Americans fighting for access to sewage disposal
Florida:
Foster kids starved, beaten and molested, reports show. Few caregivers are punished.
Texas:
Texas Foster Care in crisis after a decade in litigation and 5 years under federal oversight
Texas foster care crisis worsens, with fast-growing numbers of children sleeping in offices, hotels, churches
Tennessee:
TN DCS: ‘The need for foster homes is critical’; DCS and Isaiah 1:17 at capacity
Nationwide:
Broken adoptions, buried records: How states are failing adoptees
Teen Pregnancy Rate
Infant Mortality Rate
Maternal Mortality Rate
Children in Poverty
Food Stamps
Dependent on Federal Funds
This:
My stance on Abortion?
Years ago, when I was on the ballot for State Senate in the GOP Primary, I was asked about my stance on abortion. I was consistent in my response, regardless of the audience or person asking. I told them as a State Senator, I had no say in the matter as lone as Roe v Wade was the law of the land. I also told them I know it is a divisive issue and I understand both sides of the argument and my personal view is life is precious, for both Mom and baby, and there are no absolutes in this debate.
I lost a friend because she was pro-life and refused to have an abortion. Her doctor told her she had a high-risk pregnancy and needed to abort the baby because her life was at risk. She passed away giving birth.
I DO KNOW Evangelicals and GOP profess to be Pro-Life to pander to voters but they care less about babies after they are born. They do not care about their healthcare, nutrition, housing, safety and freedom.
Healthcare?
Congress let CHIP’s funding expire 110 days ago, and it’s a national disgrace
“Democrats and Republicans agreed last year, in principle, on a plan to reauthorize CHIP’s funding for five years. But Republicans proposed a series of deeply partisan spending cuts to cover the costs of extending CHIP — such as slashing Obamacare programs and Medicare — that have stalled negotiations.”
Pro-Life? Who needs dialysis the most?
Nutrition?
President’s Budget Slashes School Meals, National Service, and Food Benefits
“Last week, President Trump released his proposed budget for the 2020 federal fiscal year, brashly titled “A Budget for a Better America.” But a quick glance at the ideas in the budget begs the question: better for whom? As expected, this budget reprises the short-sighted cuts in his past budget proposals while introducing new slashes that would harm communities, increase inequality, and heighten disparities. Fortunately, the president’s budget proposal is just a proposal and Congress ultimately makes the final decision. However, as we’ve seen over the past two-plus years, the Trump administration can still try to pursue these policy changes on their own through executive actions and regulatory changes.
Here’s a rundown on some of the policies FoodCorps tracks closely and how they fared in the budget:
- It eliminates AmeriCorps and all federal national service programs
- It takes billions of dollars away from school meals
- It deletes enormous funding for food benefits“
Housing?
THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING
“Republicans have lost on Obamacare, gay marriage and immigrant rights, but every night millions of ill-housed Americans can attest to the GOP’s successes at worsening the nation’s affordable housing crisis. Republicans have opposed affordable to housing funding as relentlessly as health care, but with far less publicity and far more success.”
Safety?
Reality Check: Guns are now the leading cause of death for US kids
“CNN’s John Avlon examines possible gun safety legislation that is broadly popular with the American public and could prevent future killings.”
Freedom?
68% of white evangelicals think America shouldn’t house refugees
“White evangelical Protestants are the most likely religious group to say that the United States has no responsibility to open its borders to refugees, according to a recent poll.
The study, which was conducted by Pew, found that 68 percent of white evangelicals believed that the United States “does not have a responsibility” to house refugees, while just 25 percent believes that it does. This is higher than the American national average: 51 percent of Americans overall believe the United States does have a responsibility to allow in refugees, while just 43 percent believe it does not.”
The Study: Republicans turn more negative toward refugees as number admitted to U.S. plummets
Local Opinion: Evangelicals should consult scripture on refugees
Refugees:
Missouri Senate candidate Mark McCloskey says teen incest victims should be denied abortions
“Republican Missouri Senate candidate Mark McCloskey told an audience last week he believes 13-year-old rape and incest victims should not be allowed to have abortions, stating he had a client who was raped at 13 but who gave birth to a child who now has a master’s degree.”
A great read:
The Real Origins of the Religious Right
“They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.”
2021:
The Texas abortion law is the latest example of the GOP’s creativity
What The Texas Abortion Ban Does — And What It Means For Other States
Texas loves babies from -0.9 years to 0 years old, but once they are born,
Texas foster care children exposed to sexual abuse, given wrong medication and neglected in unlicensed placements, new report says
John Oliver Shames AT&T for Staying Silent on Texas Abortion Ban
This did not age well (February 12, 2019)
Susan Collins Says Roe v Wade Is Safe, Despite Kavanaugh’s Recent Dissent
What The Texas Abortion Ban Does — And What It Means For Other States
Here’s How You Can Help Shut Down the Vile Website for Snitching on People Who Get Abortions in Texas
2001:
Why Pro-Stem-Cell Research Is Not Prolife
2020:
Antiabortion groups say they stand behind Trump’s use of a drug tested on cells derived from an aborted fetus because the president ‘was not involved with that abortion’
Sadly, the GOP and Evangelists profess to love babies BEFORE they are born, but once they ARE born, they could care less about their healthcare, nutrition, housing, safety or freedom.
If White Conservatives Loved All People The Way They Do Embryos
What frustrates me is how the GOP says they are pro-life but once a baby is born they seem determined to cut any benefits to them, including healthcare, nutrition, housing and education.
America doesn’t care about its kids. The evidence is all around us.
Healthcare?
Number of uninsured children rises for second year, tops 4 million
400,000 more children are uninsured since Trump took office
Trump Adds ‘Cutting Children’s Health Care’ to GOP’s 2018 Platform
4 Takeaways From Trump’s Plan To Rescind CHIP Funding
Nutrition?
House Dem says 500,000 children could lose free school lunch under a new Trump administration proposal
The Cruel Farce of Cutting Food Stamps
70 US mayors urge Trump administration to ‘abandon’ proposed changes to federal food stamp program
Housing?
HUD proposes rule that would make housing discrimination lawsuits ‘impossible’
President Trump Proposes Drastic Cuts to Affordable Housing Programs
Trump Seeks Billions in Cuts
Trump administration proposes dramatic cuts to public housing—again
Education?
Baltimore City students have missed almost 1.5 million hours of class time because of inadequate school facilities
Conservatives lament how 638,169 abortions took place in 2015 (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm but then say we don’t have any room for refugees in our country. LOVE THY NEIGHBOR? Mathew 25:31-46 ?
Supreme Court, in 5-4 ruling, strikes down restrictive Louisiana abortion law
The GOP and Evangelicals complain about local, state and national taxes….
The Law Says She Should Have Been Protected From Birth. Instead, She Was Left in the Care of Her Drug-Addicted Mother, Who Killed Her.
“Countless children live with neglectful or abusive caretakers, which is why federal law requires states to ensure that certain professionals — like doctors and police officers — intercede when they suspect a child is in danger.
But a national survey by The Boston Globe and ProPublica found that not a single state fully complies with the nation’s primary child abuse law for children who are not in state custody. Mississippi is a significant offender. During Jasmine Irwin’s life, the state violated the law in multiple ways. For example, the state did not have procedures in place to protect infants affected by their mother’s drug use when Jasmine Irwin was born on Christmas Eve 2013.”
“Today, the federal government doesn’t even know how many children die from abuse and neglect — or whether the death toll is rising or falling.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-law-says-she-should-have-been-protected-from-birth-instead-she-was-left-in-the-care-of-her-drug-addicted-mother-who-killed-her
But the GOP and Evangelicals LOVE babies BEFORE they are born…
More Than 200 Members of Congress Ask to Overturn Roe v. Wade
The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate
Lawmaker Says He Didn’t Research Ectopic Pregnancy Procedure Before Adding To Bill
Ectopic pregnancy
US abortion rate is lowest in nine years, new data shows
The Fraudulence of ‘Pro-life, Christian’ Bullies
Trump Has a New Go-To Lie About Abortion, and It’s Horrific
Exclusive: U.S. migrant policy sends thousands of children, including babies, back to Mexico
US has sent 13K migrant children back to Mexico this year: report
How Trump’s Plan to Redefine Poverty Would Impact Health Care and Food Stamps
Nearly 1M kids could lose their eligibility for free lunch under Trump administration proposal
Opinion: Trump’s cuts to food stamps are indefensible, economically and morally
Medicaid Covers a Million Fewer Children. Baby Elijah Was One of Them
JESUS IS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT
End child marriage in the U.S.? You might be surprised at who’s opposed
Abortion is the most polarizing issue in our nation. We will never get people to agree on this issue. My views are my views. It is not my place to force my views on you. I will NOT use this issue as a litmus test for any new Supreme Court Justice.