Friday, September 1, 2017

Feminist Asks for Donations for Hurricane Harvey Victims to Have Abortions

Feminist Asks for Donations for Hurricane Harvey Victims to Have Abortions

 NATIONAL   KATIE YODER   AUG 31, 2017   |   4:44PM    WASHINGTON, DC
As residents and first responders scramble to save lives in Texas, one feminist is concerned about something entirely different. On Thursday, writer Verónica Bayetti Flores asked Americans to help hurricane victims in Texas – by donating money for abortions.
“May I suggest that, among your donations for #Harvey relief, you consider also donating to a Texas abortion fund?” the former columnist for Feministing tweeted. “This, too, is needed.”
But that was just the beginning of her Twitter plea.
Besides writing for feminists, Bayetti Flores co-hosts a “Latinx music podcast” and serves as managing partner at the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy where she describesherself as a “New York City-based queer, immigrant Latina.” She also (surprise, surprise) is co-president of the Board of Directors at the National Network of Abortion Funds.
On Twitter, Bayetti Flores went to outline why money is needed for abortion at a time when people’s homes are flooded and families are mourning the loss of their loved ones.
“Disasters mean missed appointments,” she worried. “Mass disruptions like this wreak havoc on people’s lives, particularly w this time sensitive care.” (Never mind the havoc abortion wreaks on the unborn.)
Plus, she blamed Harvey for raising the cost of abortion.
“Every week beyond 12 weeks of pregnancy means it gets more expensive,” she complained. “For most people, the cheapest legal & safe options are still too expensive. So a missed appointment can be devastating if you’d just managed.”
And, she added “mass missed appointments” or “disaster situations” also translated to longer waits. And if “any clinics had to close due to flood damage ppl will have to travel to get the care they need” which “adds gas, lodging, lost wages.”
This is why, she next tweeted, “narratives around climate disaster are deeply tied to repro oppression.”
It’s “another arm of the same monster,” she continued, with “WOC [women of color], immigrants, gender nonconforming ppl & ppl w low incomes” affected most.
She went on to list five different groups to donate to that would “help ppl w the cost of procedures, and also lodging, travel, transportation day of” in Texas. “They truly help w ACCESS on all levels,” she hyped.
In the past, Bayetti Flores has written on abortion. In 2016, for Rewire, she even insisted on calling abortion an “social good.”
LifeNews Note: Katie Yoder writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.


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Keith Olbermann Tweets Pro-Life Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos: “Hurricane Will Do Less Damage Than You Mother——“

Keith Olbermann Tweets Pro-Life Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos: “Hurricane Will Do Less Damage Than You Mother——“

 NATIONAL   MICHELLE MALKIN   AUG 31, 2017   |   1:47PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.
Keith Olbermann, the “new” face of the Democratic resistance on Conde Nast’s digital video platform, is the same old foul-mouthed beast he was on cable TV.
Over the weekend, the former MSNBC frother went berserk over Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ anodyne call for prayers “for all those in the path of #HurricaneHarvey” and her promise to “assist impacted schools.”
“The hurricane is going to do less damage to schools than you are, Motherf—er,” Olbermann snarled in response (and no, he did not use dashes in his unfiltered, uncensored tweet).
The Twitter Trust and Safety Council, established with much fanfare last year to promote tolerance, discourage bullies, and ensure “people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter,” was nowhere to be found.
Neither were the rest of the civility police who’ve been lamenting the dangerous climate of hate against all females purportedly fomented by President Donald Trump.
Here’s the thing. There are myriad reasons to criticize DeVos, whatever side of the political spectrum you occupy.
Grassroots education activists on the right, for example, wish the White House had chosen a proven warrior in the fight against Fed Ed instead of a well-heeled, establishment GOP donor who was for the Common Core racket in Michigan before she was against it.
On the left, public education union bosses oppose DeVos’ push for expansion of public charter schools and vouchers.
And at the intersection of left and right, informed parents fear DeVos represents the corporate education cronyism of both the Bush and Obama administrations that drove federal testing, technology, and curriculum programs.
But that’s not Olbermann’s beef. DeVos is a Republican. She’s a woman. Therefore, she’s subhuman and deserves his profane attacks.
History, like a one-trick Neanderthal egotist, repeats itself. Conde Nast-y’s chief Trump-basher is a serial verbal abuser of outspoken conservative women.
What’s remarkable is how easily Olbermann cruised into his new role at Conde Nast as the progressive point person against Trump, whom the resistance rage-bot calls “a man not in his right mind.”
Let’s talk about unhingedness.
Of TV commentator S.E. Cupp, Olbermann sniped: “She’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.”
Of lawyer and author Ann Coulter, he hurled this transphobic insult: “If this guy wants to live his life as a woman, I’m gonna back his choice up 100 percent.”
And of yours truly, he railed against my “total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”
Conde Nast, which has now sponsored two seasons of Olbermann’s internet diatribes, has nothing to say about his lunatic hang-up with conservative women.
Yet, the New York-based publishing conglomerate, which owns left-wing politics, fashion, and culture magazines including GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Allure, Vogue, and Teen Vogue, churns out endless, glossy pages assailing the Trump era’s “manifest misogyny” and “unconscious, unending sexism.”
And the company cashed in on inaugural protests with a “special edition” magazine (retail price: $13.99) titled “Rise Up! The Women’s Marches Around the World.” One-sided narratives on the war on women sell.
So, who will be Olbermann’s next GOP target of sexist slander? What innocent comment from a female Trump supporter or Cabinet member will prompt his next f-bomb-laden tirade?
I know this for sure: Whoever this toddler-brained bully fumes at ad feminam and ad nauseam, smug elites in the New York publishing world will shrug their Burberry scarf-wrapped shoulders and look the other way.
P—–hat hypocrisy means never having to say you’re sorry for lifting up a worse ogre than the one you think you’re bringing down.
LifeNews Note: Michelle Malkin is the senior editor of Conservative Review. She is a New York Times best-selling author and a FOX News Channel contributor. Reprinted with permission from Daily Signal.


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Pro-Abortion “Women’s March” Wants Hurricane Harvey Donations to Go to Non-Whites

Pro-Abortion “Women’s March” Wants Hurricane Harvey Donations to Go to Non-Whites

 NATIONAL   LEAH BARKOUKIS   AUG 31, 2017   |   10:00AM    WASHINGTON, DC
The Women’s March sent out a tweet Wednesday with recommendations for how people can help the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas—but based on their suggestions, they seem to be only interested in helping non-whites.
“Here’s a list of orgs working to keep immigrant, Black, Latinx & other communities safe after Hurricane Harvey,” Women’s March tweeted along with a link to a Color Lines article titled, “How to Donate Money and Other Aid to Communities of Color in Houston.”
The article noted how the Red Cross has a sketchy background in terms of how donations are used after natural disasters.
Per a previous Colorlines article, “an investigation by ProPublica and NPR in 2015 claimed the agency built only six homes with the $500 million it received in donations after the 2010 earthquake which devastated [Haiti].” And last year, after people in Louisiana were displaced by flooding, Colorlines reported that at a Baton Rouge Red Cross shelter, “volunteers had to pay for baby formula out of pocket—even though Red Cross received a truckload of it as a donation that could be distributed to the majority-Black population being housed there.”
Fortunately, there are organizations whose focus is to provide assistance to communities of color and other groups that are disproportionately vulnerable in times of tragedy. (Color Lines)
The article then listed 13 organizations.
Social media users were quick to call out the Women’s March for only wanting to help minorities rather than all Americans.
“Does that mean they are not helping caucasians? How is this not reverse racism?” @kathrynkellyPR tweeted.
“What the literal HELL is wrong with us? We start picking and choosing what ethnic groups we’re going to help in a time of crisis?” another Twitter user, @ii_haymon, commented.
Even liberals weren’t pleased with the Women’s March’s recommendation.
“As a liberal, I’ll just donate to everyone. Thanks. #unfollow” wrote @WMAIndivisible.
As @GaryMorris13 noted, “Can’t we just forget about race and love and help everyone?”
LifeNews Note: Leah Barkoukis writes for TownHall, where this column originally appeared.


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