Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Wisconsin Gov: It’s “Blasphemy” to Say Babies are Dying in Infanticide, Will Veto Anti-Infanticide Bill

 STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   APR 30, 2019   |   5:41PM    MADISON, WI
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers slammed President Donald Trump as blasphemous on Tuesday after the president called out Democrats for refusing to protect newborns from infanticide.
Evers, a pro-abortion Democrat, said he will veto a bill to require doctors to provide medical care to infants who survive abortions. He claims the bill is unnecessary.
“To say that doctors in the state of Wisconsin are executing babies is just a blasphemy,” Evers said, according to the AP.
He also described Trump’s comments as “horrific.”
Over the weekend, Trump criticized Evers and other Democrats for refusing to support the legislation during a speech in Wisconsin.
“Your Democrat governor here in Wisconsin, shockingly, stated that he will veto legislation that protects Wisconsin babies born alive,” Trump said Saturday.
“The baby is born, the mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby, they wrap the baby beautifully, and then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby,” he continued.
Currently, 19 states do not have laws requiring medical care for babies born alive after botched abortions, according to research by Americans United for Life.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, as well as the personal testimonies of nurses and abortion survivors themselves, indicate that babies do sometimes survive abortions. According to the CDC, at least 143 babies were born alive after botched abortions between 2003 and 2014 in the U.S., though there may be more.
However, research by the American Center for Law and Justice estimated the number is much higher, at least 362 between 2001 and 2010.
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Our analysis is further supported by data from Canada that shows in the last reported ten years, “491 babies were left to die after they were born alive during abortions.”  A look at how these statistics are recorded by Canada’s official recording agency (also using ICD-10 code P96.4), explained here and here, further confirms the data recorded by the CDC.  In Britain it is reported that 50 babies are born alive as the result of botched abortions each year.  Additionally, an “estimated 44,000 abortion survivors” are living in the United States today.
Interestingly, one of Planned Parenthood’s own leaders once unintentionally admitted the need for such legislation. In 2013, during a hearing in the Florida legislature, Planned Parenthood lobbyist Alisa LaPolt Snow said the mother and doctor should be allowed to decide if a born-alive infant receives medical care. In other words, the baby could be denied medical care and left to die.
As the Weekly Standard reported:
“[I]t is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief,” said Rep. Jim Boyd. “If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”
“We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician,” said Planned Parenthood lobbyist Snow. . . .
Rep. Jose Oliva followed up, asking the Planned Parenthood official, “You stated that a baby born alive on a table as a result of a botched abortion that that decision should be left to the doctor and the family. Is that what you’re saying?”
Again, Snow replied, “That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.”
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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Iowa Legislature Passes Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood Sex-Ed Classes Targeting Kids

 STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   APR 30, 2019   |   3:55PM    DES MOINES, IA
Iowa lawmakers moved a bill to Gov. Kim Reynold’s desk this week that would stop Planned Parenthood from receiving sex education grants in the state.
WHO TV 13 reports the state Health and Human Services Budget Bill includes a measure that makes abortion providers ineligible for sex education grants through the state. The bill recently passed the state House and Senate, and the governor is pro-life.
It is not clear how much taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood used to receive through the grants, but the abortion chain boasts of being one of the largest sex education providers in Iowa.
State Rep. Joel Fry, a pro-life Republican, said Iowa residents have been urging him to defund abortion groups from the sex education program.
“The HHS budget will continue to provide grants to organizations that provide Iowa students with sex education,” Fry told the news station. “We are continuing to provide the same level of funding as we have in the past; however, abortion providers will no longer be eligible for grants.
“We have consistently heard from Iowans that they do not want their hard-earned tax dollars used by organizations whose primary business model is providing abortions,” he continued.
However, Erin Davison-Rippey, public affairs director for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, argued that the change will hurt communities where they teach sex education.
“They’re going to have to try to find new providers to compete for these grants, and it really could put a wrench in the entire system. So we could see impacts to sex education across the board beyond even those folks that are getting services from us,” Davison-Rippey said.
But state Sen. Jake Chapman addressed those concerns in a comment to the local news. He said the new grant requirements will not reduce or eliminate sex education; it just limits who can provide it.
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Parents across the country have expressed serious concerns and even outrage at the largest abortion provider in America teaching sex education to their children.
Planned Parenthood teaches sex education to at least 221,000 students in 31 states, according to CBS News. Its president, Leana Wen, has been clear that abortion is Planned Parenthood’s “core mission,” not sex education or even real pregnancy choices that include adoption and parenting.
Parents often are shocked to find out that Planned Parenthood teaches sex education to young children. In November, upset parents flooded a Florida school district with complaints after one of Planned Parenthood’s graphic sex education videos was shown to students without parents’ knowledge or consent.
Among its worst teaching points, Planned Parenthood tells children that promiscuity is not unhealthy. “There’s nothing bad or unhealthy about having a big number of sexual partners,” it tells students on its Tumbler page. Planned Parenthood’s booklet for HIV-positive youth, “Healthy, Happy and Hot,” also tells young people that it is their “human right” to not tell their partner that they have HIV.
Numerous communities have rejected Planned Parenthood as a sex education teacher. The whole Massachusetts legislature rejected a bill in 2017 that recommended Planned Parenthood’s middle school sex education curriculum. The program teaches children as young as 12 “how to perform oral and anal sex.”
Concerned parents in Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Washington state, New York, North Carolina and other parts of the country also have protested Planned Parenthood’s involvement in their students’ education in the past several years.
In one recent case, parents at a Pennsylvania school said a Planned Parenthood partner group taught seventh-grade students graphic details about oral sex during a science class.
In another case reported by CBS News, North Carolina parents petitioned for Planned Parenthood to stop teaching their middle school students. They said Planned Parenthood’s “Get Real” curriculum “encourages sixth graders to feel ‘comfortable and ready’ for sex. The petition says the curriculum provides flash cards outlining proper condom usage, for ‘vaginal, oral or anal sex’ and recommends the usage of ‘non-microwavable saran wrap’ as a prophylactic for certain non-reproductive sex acts.”

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Alabama House Passes Bill Banning Abortion, Would Make Killing Unborn Babies a Felony

 STATE   STEVEN ERTELT, MICAIAH BILGER   APR 30, 2019   |   7:54PM    MONTGOMERY, AL
An Alabama bill that would make aborting unborn babies a felony passed in the state House on Tuesday.
State House Bill 314, sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, would make an abortion and attempted abortion a felony. Exceptions would be allowed if the mother’s life is at risk. Mothers would not be punished for having an abortion under the legislation, which would make killing a baby in an abortion a Class A felony — punishable by life or 10 to 99 years in prison for abortionists who kill them.
‘The Republican-dominated House of Representatives voted 74-3 in favor of the proposal, which would make performing an abortion a felony,” according to a report. Nearly every Democrat walked out of the legislature rather than vote for aborting babies.
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The bill drew support from legislators like Rep. Rich Wingo, R-Tuscaloosa.
“It’s time for the state of Alabama to lead for once,” he said.  “Let’s lead and do the right thing.”
The bill drew strong opposition from Democrats in the House, who raised several objections, including the lack of exceptions for victims of sexual assault. House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, offered an amendment to provide exceptions for rape and incest. Collins, saying the exceptions would dilute her planned challenge to Roe v. Wade, moved to table the amendment. The House voted 72 to 26 to table the proposal, which brought criticism from Daniels.
“The heart of this bill is to confront a decision that was made by the courts in 1973 that said the baby in the womb is not a person,” Collins said. “This bill addresses that one issue. Is that baby in the womb a person? I believe our law says it is. I believe our people say it is. And I believe technology shows it is.”
Collins said the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong in Roe v. Wade, and unborn babies deserve a right to life.
“Just last year, roughly 60 percent of voters across the state ratified a constitutional amendment declaring Alabama as a pro-life state, and this legislation is the next logical step in the fight to protect unborn life,” she said, WDHN 18 reports.
Earlier, she told the Times Daily that she expects a legal challenge, and hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold protections for the unborn.
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“With liberal states like New York rushing to approve radical late-term and post-birth abortions, [the] passage of this bill will reflect the conservative beliefs, principles, and desires of the citizens of Alabama while, at the same time, providing a vehicle to revisit the constitutionally-flawed Roe v. Wade decision,” Collins said.
If approved and enforced, the legislation could save thousands of unborn babies’ lives every year. The Alabama Department of Public Health reported 6,768 abortions in 2017.
However, the abortion industry is expected to sue to block the law in court.
“They are trying to tee this up as an opportunity for the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade and its progeny. There are already cases in the pipeline that will get to the Supreme Court long before this does,” said Randall Marshall, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama.
Marshall said the case could cost state taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees, and he cited another case where Alabama taxpayers were forced to pay Planned Parenthood and the ACLU $1.7 million after a court struck down another pro-life state law.
That is a concern for a number of pro-life leaders. Even some pro-life advocates express concerns about the strategy of such legislation, because when states lose these battles, taxpayers often are forced to pay pro-abortion groups’ legal fees.
The abortion industry has succeeded in overturning similar laws in court. In 2012, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a personhood bill as unconstitutional because it recognized unborn babies as human beings who deserve the right to life.
When considering a similar Missouri statute in 1989, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist ruled that the statute was nothing more than a statement of position that had no bearing on banning abortions or even limiting them in any way.
Missouri had approved a statute saying, “the life of each human being begins at conception” and “unborn children have protectable interests in life, health, and well-being.” The statute required that all Missouri state laws be interpreted to provide unborn children with rights equal to those enjoyed by other persons.
There is more hope that the new conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court may consider an abortion ban, but it is difficult to say if it would for certain – especially after Chief Justice John Roberts recently sided with the liberal justices on an abortion case.

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Late-Term Abortions Outnumber Homicides in New York City 1,485 to 352

 STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   APR 30, 2019   |   12:32PM    NEW YORK, NY
Shocking new government statistics show that there are more than four times as many late-term unborn victims of abortion in New York City as victims of homicide.
CNS News reported on the comparison earlier this week in response to mainstream news outlets’ claims that late-term abortions are “rare.”
The comparison is based on statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and the New York Police Department.
The latest CDC report on abortion provides the numbers for 2015. In New York City, there were 1,485 abortions at or after 21 weeks gestation that year. In contrast, the NYPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 352 victims of “murder and non-negligent manslaughter” in New York City in 2015.
That equates to 4.1 late-term unborn victims of abortion and .96 victims of homicide per day in the city, according to the report.
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In the U.S. as a whole, there are thousands of unborn babies aborted at or after 21 weeks annually. In 2015, the total was 5,597, according to the CDC; however, the number actually is much higher. The CDC total includes only 39 states that reported gestational ages.
States that do not report gestational ages to the CDC are: California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York State, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
While New York state does not, New York City does.
The city saw 63,610 abortions in 2015, according to the report.
Abortion statistics from New York City demonstrate the rampant destruction of abortion on unborn babies’ lives. Pro-lifers have pointed out for years that more unborn African American babies are aborted than are born in the city.
In the future, New York could see even more late-term abortions after the state passed a law expanding late-term abortions in January.
The so-called Reproductive Health Act goes beyond Roe v. Wade, allowing unborn babies to be aborted after viability for any loosely defined “health” reason. Abortions after 24 weeks now are allowed, and non-doctors are allowed to perform them. What’s more, if viable unborn babies survive the abortion, the state no longer requires that they be protected.
Nearly 1 million unborn babies are aborted every year in America. Since Roe v. Wade, more than 61 million abortions have been performed in the U.S.

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