Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Democrat Leader Defends Infanticide: It’s “Selfish” to Let a Disabled Baby Live “Just for the Sake of Living”

Democrat Leader Defends Infanticide: It’s “Selfish” to Let a Disabled Baby Live “Just for the Sake of Living”

 STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   APR 30, 2019   |   9:51AM    MADISON, WI
A Wisconsin Democratic leader slammed a bill to protect newborns from infanticide this week, arguing that it is “selfish” to provide medical care to a disabled baby who survives an abortion.
Nancy Stencil, chair of the Democratic Party of Marathon County, told WSAV News that she opposes a state bill that would require doctors to provide basic medical care to an infant who survives an abortion. She also defended discriminating against newborns with disabilities.
“Late term abortion is a hard enough decision for parents,” Stencil said. “If something is drastically wrong with their child, it’s selfish to have it live just for the sake of living.”
She criticized President Donald Trump for bringing up the legislation when he visited Wisconsin last week.
“I could not believe what I was hearing coming out of his mouth. I really couldn’t,” Stencil said.
Pro-abortion Democrats have argued that the bill is not necessary because babies do not survive abortions. Others said it will wrongly punish doctors by forcing them to provide medical care for newborns.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said he will veto the legislation.
The state Department of Health Services doesn’t track [abortion survivor] births because Wisconsin bans non-emergency abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and any baby born before then would be too young to survive outside of the womb, agency spokeswoman Jennifer Miller said.
The agency does report that in 2017, the latest year for which data is available, 1% of abortions were performed after 20 weeks. Miller explained it was difficult to determine the fetus’ age in those instances. The data did not indicate if any of them survived the abortion attempt.
Pro-life state Assemblyman Jim Steineke, the lead sponsor of the legislation, defended the measure. He told the AP that modern medical advances are saving babies earlier and earlier, and babies someday may be able to survive outside the womb before 20 weeks. The earliest known premature infant to survive was born at 21 weeks and four days of pregnancy.
“We have no way of knowing in the future how early we’ll be able to save these kids,” he said.
Evers said he will veto the bill anyway.
“I think those protections already exist,” Evers said last week. “We have all sorts of issues to deal with in the state of Wisconsin and to pass a bill that is redundant seems to be not a productive use of time. And clearly I ran on the belief — and I still believe — that women should be able to make choices about their health care. But this deals with a specific issue that’s already been resolved.”
Wisconsin Right to Life told LifeNews that the new legislation provides better protections for babies who survive abortions than the current law.
“This recently introduced bill will help health care providers understand the degree of care they must offer a baby born alive during a failed abortion. It will also give guidance to those who are an employee of a hospital, physician’s office or a clinic where abortions are performed who know that a baby born alive from a failed abortion and didn’t receive the proper care report this failure to the appropriate law enforcement agency,” said Heather Weininger, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life.
Weininger said Evers’ extreme position on abortion is becoming clear.
“We knew Governor Evers was extreme when it came to abortion, but now we understand how far he is willing to go to protect the abortion industry in Wisconsin. He refuses to give babies who have already survived death from abortion the same care as a baby born at the same gestational age,” she said.
Democratic political leaders across the country have been vehemently opposing similar legislation in their states and in U.S. Congress. Pro-abortion Democrats repeatedly blocked the a Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the U.S. House and Senate this spring. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed similar legislation in his state in April.
Currently, 19 states do not require any protection for babies born alive after botched abortions. The Wisconsin bill will make it clear that infanticide is not tolerated under law.
Centers for Disease Control statistics indicate that at least 143 babies were born alive after botched abortions between 2003 and 2014 in the U.S., though there may be more.
Pro-life lawmakers are working to crack down on infanticide across the nation. States including, Kentucky and Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Alabama are moving forward with legislation to require basic medical care for newborns. Some states never have passed laws to protect abortion survivors, while at least one other, New York, recently repealed its law requiring medical care for infants who survive abortions.

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Democrats File Bill to Overturn Trump’s Pro-Life Rule, Force Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   APR 30, 2019   |   11:42AM    WASHINGTON, DC
Americans do not want their tax dollars to fund abortions, but Democratic leaders in Congress do not seem to care.
On Monday, House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, introduced a bill to block the Trump administration’s new “Protect Life” rule, which would strip away taxpayer funding from Planned Parenthood, the Washington Post reports.
The measure is part of a larger spending bill for the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor and Education. It appears unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate.
U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, of Florida, said the bill will be life-saving because it will send tax dollars to the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“It’s going to save lives, it’s going to keep the Trump administration from shutting the doors of Planned Parenthood, which they have been trying to do from day one,” the pro-abortion Democrat said, according to the Washington Examiner.
Planned Parenthood aborts more unborn babies than any other group in the United States, and its CEO Leana Wen recently admitted that abortion is their “core mission.” It performed more than 330,000 abortions in 2017, according to its most recent annual report.
The new “Protect Life” rule prohibits Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses from receiving Title X tax dollars unless they completely separate their abortion practices from their taxpayer-funded services. Planned Parenthood already has said it will not comply.
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Title X funds help low-income women and men receive birth control, cancer screenings, STD testing and other health care services. While the tax money cannot be used to pay for abortions, it indirectly funds Planned Parenthood’s vast abortion business by about $60 million a year.
Two judges appointed by pro-abortion President Barack Obama recently blocked the administration from enforcing the rule, but pro-abortion Democrats want it gone completely.
The pro-abortion effort is coming from Democrats on the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, according to Bustle.
According to the report: “Democratic lawmakers on the committee, including Reps. Lois Frankel, Rosa DeLauro, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, said they will only back federal family planning initiatives that pay for Title X the same way that the program has always been run, per the Beast.”
Pro-abortion Democrats apparently are worried that the Title X rule eventually may be upheld in court. In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar rule from President Ronald Reagan’s administration in Rust v. Sullivan. However, because of the lengthy legal challenge, the rule never went into effect; pro-abortion President Bill Clinton eliminated the rule when he took office soon after the Supreme Court decision.
A recent Marist poll found that, by a double-digit margin, a majority of all Americans oppose any taxpayer funding of abortion (54 percent to 39 percent).
In late March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its first Title X grant awards under the new policy, and Planned Parenthood received about $44 million less than it had in previous years.
Meanwhile, the pro-life Obria Group will receive $1.7 million a year in Title X grants to provide comprehensive family planning services to low-income individuals in California. Its services include pregnancy testing and counseling, prenatal care, HIV/AIDS testing, ultrasounds, cancer testing, well-woman care, pap smears, STD testing and treatment, adoption referral and post-abortion support, according to Townhall.

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Nancy Pelosi and Democrats Block Bill to Stop Infanticide For 34th Time, Refuse Care for Babies Born Alive (Beware, If Democrats Win in 2020 America will be Lost to everything Good & Great, From Life to The Death of The Innocent UN-Born. America will Never be Great Again if The Democrats Win in 2020. They have become unstable killers and a Disgrace to The American Way of Life.)

Nancy Pelosi and Democrats Block Bill to Stop Infanticide For 34th Time, Refuse Care for Babies Born Alive (Beware, If Democrats Win in 2020 America will be Lost to everything Good & Great, From Life to The Death of The Innocent UN-Born. America will Never be Great Again if The Democrats Win in 2020. They have become unstable killers and a Disgrace to The American Way of Life.) 

 NATIONAL   STEVEN ERTELT   APR 30, 2019   |   4:56PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats continue to refuse a request to allow a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would stop infanticide and provide medical care and treatment for babies who survive abortions.
Today, House Democrats refused a vote on the bill for the 34th time — reading the same statement they have read the previous 33 occasions that claims there is no bipartisan agreement to bring the bill up for a vote. Despite the claim, Republican leaders have repeatedly asked Pelosi and top Democrats to reach an agreement for the bill to receive a vote.
This is the 36th time in total that Congressional Democrats thwarted an attempt by Republicans to vote on a bill that would provide medical care and treatment for babies who provide survived failed abortions — 34 times in the House and twice in the Senate.
Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Minnesota Republican, offered the unanimous consent request to allow a vote on the anti-infanticide bill but Democrats, as shown below, ruled it out of order. As they have done numerous times, after Democrats denied his request to vote on the bill, they cut off Congressman Hagedorn’s microphone so he could not object to their denying a vote.
Earlier this month, Republican Whip Steve Scalise and Representative Ann Wagner moved forward with a discharge petition to force Speaker Pelosi to schedule a vote. That’s a petition any member of Congress can sign to allow legislation to move out of committee and to the House floor when the party controlling Congress refuses to allow a vote on it.
So far, 199 members have signed on, including three Democrats — short of the majority necessary to get the bill to the floor for a vote.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a leading House member, discussed the discharge petition in a recent interview with the Daily Signal.
“It’s just heartbreaking. I was disheartened by the vote, 44 senators that voted against legislation that would protect babies who were born alive, babies that had survived an abortion, were outside the womb, and yet they were not willing to bring in the insurer under law that they would bring in the doctor’s care,” she said. “In years past, this is passed with unanimous consent in the Senate. So it really exposed the extreme position that the left is taking right now, that Democrats are saying they reject legislation to protect babies born alive.”
“In the House, we are moving forward with a discharge petition. As you know, the Democrats have the majority in the House. One way that we can bring a bill to the floor is to demand a discharge petition,” she added. “You have to get 218 people to sign a discharge petition, and then you can bypass Speaker Nancy Pelosi and bring the bill directly to the floor. We’re working actively on that right now.”
Republicans would need all GOP members to sign the petition, along with 21 Democrats. Rodgers said she hoped polling data showing Americans strongly oppose infanticide would help change members’ minds.
And a new poll finds a massive 17 percent shift in the pro-life direction after Democrats have pushed abortions up to birth and infanticide nationally.
H.R. 962, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), ensures that a baby born alive after a failed or attempted abortion receives the same medical care as any other newborn. It would also penalize doctors who allow such infants to die or who intentionally kill a newborn following a failed abortion.
Every single Democrat in the Senate who is running for president voted against a bill that would stop infanticide and provide medical care and treatment for babies who are born alive after botched abortions. That includes Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar.
While they all voted to support infanticide, President Trump spoke out against infanticide in two tweets saying that it’s nothing short of “executing” babies to let them die after failed abortions.
ACTION: Contact members of Congress and urge them to sign the Discharge Petition to bring the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the House floor for a vote.

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Joe Biden Wants to “Make America Moral Again,” But He Supports Abortions Up to Birth

Joe Biden Wants to “Make America Moral Again,” But He Supports Abortions Up to Birth

 NATIONAL   STEVEN ERTELT   APR 30, 2019   |   11:19AM    WASHINGTON, DC
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he has his own slogan that is comparable to President Donald Trump’s. Biden told Good Morning America today that he wants to quote make America a moral again.
“Make America moral again. Make America return to the essence of who we are, the dignity of the country, the dignity of people,” Biden said.
“Make America return to the essence of who we are, the dignity of the country, the dignity and treating our people with dignity and this God-awful deliberate division that’s being taken in order to separate people to aggrandize his own power,” the Delaware Democrat added in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
The only problem is Biden strongly supports abortion and backs abortions up to birth. There’s no way he can make the country moral by supporting the destruction of 1 million unborn children each and every year.
Biden has a strong pro-abortion voting record that goes back for many years, and he supported President Barack Obama’s leadership as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history. What’s more, pro-abortion movement leaders say they “trust” Biden to protect abortion on demand. As the vice president, he supported the administration’s pro-abortion policies, including Obamacare, which forced religious employers to pay for drugs that may cause abortions.
From 2001 to 2008, Biden’s voting record on pro-life issues was close to zero, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In 2005, for example, he voted against the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits funding to overseas groups that promote and/or perform abortions. He also voted repeatedly to require that military service members’ abortions be covered by taxpayer dollars.
Even the New York Times admitted that Biden has evolved from a Catholic who had at least a modicum of common sense on abortion to a full-fledged abortion activist:
Mr. Biden entered the Senate in 1973 as a 30-year-old practicing Catholic who soon concluded that the Supreme Court went “too far” on abortion rights in the Roe case. He told an interviewer the following year that a woman shouldn’t have the “sole right to say what should happen to her body.” By the time he left the vice president’s mansion in early 2017, he was a 74-year-old who argued a far different view: that government doesn’t have “a right to tell other people that women, they can’t control their body,” as he put it in 2012.
Kate Michelman, a former leader of NARAL, is not worried.
“Joe Biden continued his evolution on the issue under Obama. He got there,” she told the newspaper. “I can’t say for absolute, 100 percent, but I would trust him as president to protect and defend a women’s right to choose.”
To show how far Biden has come toward the pro-abortion view, he once likened an abortion to an operation — as if taking the life of a baby before birth is somehow beneficial in the same manner as a patient’s operation.
Biden said: “Maybe where Romney is most sketchy is on women’s rights. I got a daughter and lost a daughter. I’ve got four granddaughters and Barack has two daughters. And this is to our core. Our daughters and our granddaughters are entitled to every single solitary operation, every single solitary opportunity!”
And Biden, as president, would promote unlimited abortions up to birth financed with our taxpayer dollars at “every single solitary opportunity.”

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