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Pro-Life People Send Nancy Pelosi Thousands of Roses to Remind Her Abortion Kills Babies National | Mary Margaret Olohan | Oct 1, 2021 | 5:53PM | Washington, DC

 

Pro-Life People Send Nancy Pelosi Thousands of Roses to Remind Her Abortion Kills Babies

National  |  Mary Margaret Olohan  |   Oct 1, 2021   |   5:53PM   |  Washington, DC
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Catholics delivered one thousand roses Friday to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s California office in efforts to move the Democrat’s heart on abortion.

Over 3,550 people signed up to pray and fast for Pelosi through the Benedict XVI Institute’s “Rose and Rosary for Nancy” campaign in the first 24 hours after it was announced, said Maggie Gallagher, executive director of the Benedict XVI Institute, in a press release.

“Literally hundreds of people are still joining each hour,” Gallagher said.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone called on Catholics and “others of goodwill” to join the campaign a few days after The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021 passed in the House, 218 to 211, on Friday.

Should it pass the Senate, the legislation would codify Roe v. Wade and significantly expand the practice of abortions in the United States.

Pelosi, a self-professed Catholic, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The first batch of roses was delivered at noon Friday, the feast day of St. Therese of Lisieux, who is beloved by Catholics for promising that she would “let fall a shower of roses” on her death and spend her time in “heaven doing good upon earth.”

The Benedict XVI Institute pre-ordered 1,000 roses, the group’s executive director said, guessing that they would receive at least 500 responses. But the response “blew up the rose market in San Francisco,” Gallagher said.

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“We couldn’t locate 3500 roses to send today but we will get them to her,” the executive director said in a press release. “Each rose represents more prayers and rosaries for Nancy Pelosi, as well as for babies in the womb and their mothers.”

“Wonderful,” tweeted Cordileone. “Each of these 1000 roses represents one Catholic praying a rosary and fasting on Fridays for Speaker Nancy Pelosi through October. May the Blessed Mother touch her heart. Join me in this Rose and Rosary campaign. Sign up at BenedictInstitute.org.”

Gallagher said she had never seen anything like this “overwhelming response.”

“It’s an entirely organic response to Archbishop Cordileone’s leadership,” she said. “We had planned a digital marketing campaign, but so far Facebook has censored every version of an ad asking folks to pray and fast for Nancy Pelosi. But Catholics are coming anyway to commit to a Rose and Rosary for Nancy.”

Father Moises Agudo, the pastor of the Mission Churches (founded by St. Juniperro Serra along the coast of California beginning in 1769) in San Francisco, California, said a rosary outside Pelosi’s office with his parishioners as the roses were delivered, according to Gallagher.

“The Hispanic community of the archdiocese especially my parishioners in the mission district want to pray the rosary for Nancy’s conversion and that the Virgin Mary can touch her heart so that she can value the lives of children in their mothers’ wombs and the poor on the street,” said Agudo, who is also Vicar for Hispanics for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.


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Biden Admin Claims Constitution Allows Federal Government to Overturn Texas Abortion Ban National | Micaiah Bilger | Oct 1, 2021 | 3:17PM | Austin, Texas

 

Biden Admin Claims Constitution Allows Federal Government to Overturn Texas Abortion Ban

National  |  Micaiah Bilger  |   Oct 1, 2021   |   3:17PM   |  Austin, Texas
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The Biden administration urged a federal judge to block the Texas heartbeat law Friday after its previous attempts to stop the abortion ban have failed.

The hearing before U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman centered around the unique private enforcement mechanism in the law, according to CNN.

Typically, state governments enforce pro-life laws and, when the laws are challenged, judges can block the states from enforcing them in a preliminary injunction. However, the Texas law leaves enforcement up to individual people. So, judges are considering whether they can stop all private citizens from enforcing the law – especially without allowing private citizens the chance to defend themselves in court first.

Attorneys for Texas said Biden’s Department of Justice is being unfair by asking the court to block “absent third parties” from enforcing the law “without letting them be heard.”

The Texas law went into effect Sept. 1, prohibiting abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Thus far, the courts have refused to temporarily block the law, and as many as 3,000 unborn babies already have been spared from abortion.

On Friday, attorneys for the Department of Justice argued that the law is unconstitutional and the federal government has an interest in seeing it blocked.

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“Texas has made clear it does not want to follow the Supreme Court‘s abortion precedents,” federal government attorney Brian Netter said, according to the Washington Times.

He asked the judge to issue an injunction blocking Texas and “all of its officers, employees and agents, including private parties” from suing abortionists who violate the law, CNN reports.

“The state resorted to an unprecedented scheme of vigilante justice that was designed to scare abortion providers and others who might help women exercise their constitutional rights, while skirting judicial review,” Netter said.

However, Will Thompson, an attorney representing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office, told the judge that the federal government is using “inflammatory rhetoric” to attack the law, and the heartbeat law is not the only legislation that allows private enforcement.

“This is not some kind of vigilante scheme. It’s a scheme that uses the normal and lawful process,” Thompson said.

Netter contended that private citizens really are just acting for the state as a proxy to enforce the law. The judge asked Thompson about this claim.

Here’s more from the Washington Times:

Thompson said he disagreed with that characterization.

“We don’t think that the private plaintiffs are put in the shoes of the state,” he said, adding that the law is “not as unusual” as the Biden administration Justice Department claims it to be, noting other areas of law that allow private citizens to bring lawsuits.

Afterward, Texas Right to Life slammed the Biden administration’s arguments as “maniacal” and “entirely unprecedented.”

Kimberlyn Schwartz, director of media and communications, summarized the hearing: “Ultimately, the Justice Department is asking the court to toss out all logic and judicial precedent in order to cater to the abortion industry. The Biden administration’s case is desperate and far-fetched, and we expect an impartial court to declare the lawsuit without merit.”

Judge Pitman is an appointee of pro-abortion President Barack Obama. In September, he did not grant the Biden administration’s request to immediately block enforcement of the law. As a result, the law remains in effect, and pro-life advocates say hundreds of babies have been spared from abortion since then.

It is not clear when Pitman will issue his ruling, but CNN previously pointed out that even if he does issue a preliminary injunction, some abortion facilities may not start aborting unborn babies again right away.

According to the report: “… under the law, a clinic could still be liable if it performed an abortion prohibited by the law while the court’s order was in effect, if that same order was later reversed by a higher court.”

The Biden administration has taken multiple actions to thwart Texas’s efforts to save unborn babies from abortion. Along with the lawsuit, it also set aside $10 million – taxpayers’ money – to provide grants to the abortion industry in Texas and make additional Title X family planning funds available.

In 2020, about 54,000 unborn babies were aborted in Texas, and about 85 percent happened after six weeks of pregnancy, according to state health statistics.

While abortion activists say some women are traveling to other states for abortions, they admit that others are having their babies instead.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are reaching out to pregnant women across Texas with compassion and understanding, offering resources and emotional support to help them and their babies. Earlier this year, state lawmakers increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies.

About a dozen states have passed heartbeat laws to protect unborn babies from abortion, but Texas is the first to be allowed to enforce its law. Whether the law will remain in effect or ultimately be upheld as constitutional in court remains uncertain, but pro-life leaders are hopeful now that the U.S. Supreme Court has a conservative majority.


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Justice Samuel Alito Blasts Media, Defends Supreme Court Upholding Texas Abortion Ban National | Micaiah Bilger | Oct 1, 2021 | 10:23AM | Washington, DC

 

Justice Samuel Alito Blasts Media, Defends Supreme Court Upholding Texas Abortion Ban

National  |  Micaiah Bilger  |   Oct 1, 2021   |   10:23AM   |  Washington, DC
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito slammed the “false and inflammatory” rhetoric that leftists and mainstream media outlets are using to “intimidate” the high court during a speech Thursday at the University of Notre Dame.

Alito and the four other justices who decided not to block the Texas heartbeat law in September have been facing massive criticism, including “sinister” claims about “shadow dockets” and middle-of-the-night rulings – all of which is very misleading, Alito said, according to the Associated Press.

“My complaint concerns all the media and political talk about our sinister shadow docket,” Alito said. “The truth of the matter is that there was nothing new or shadowy about the procedures we followed in those cases. It’s hard to see how we could handle most emergency matters any differently.”

Earlier this week, Senate Democrats criticized the conservative majority on the Supreme Court for using what lawmakers called a “shadow docket,” or an emergency ruling that a court issues before hearing oral arguments about a case.

The Supreme Court did this with the Texas heartbeat law, which prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Texas is the first state to be allowed to enforce a heartbeat law, and pro-life leaders estimate as many as 100 babies are being saved from abortion every day.

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Alito said critics are just angry that the court did not rule the way that they wanted it to, and the picture that they are painting “is very sinister and threatening, but it is also very misleading,” according to the report.

“The catchy and sinister term ‘shadow docket’ has been used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways,” Alito said, according to The Observer.

He pointed out that the parties in these cases are the ones requesting emergency orders, not the court, and these emergency rulings have been a well-accepted practice for many generations of judges.

“The Supreme Court and the lower federal courts have a lot of power, but here’s the power they do not have: they do not have the power to make the world stand still while litigation takes place,” Alito said.

He also slammed critics’ “rank nonsense” for suggesting the justices secretly ruled on the Texas case in the middle of the night, as well as their “false and inflammatory” claim that the court basically already overturned Roe v. Wade, Reuters reports.

When the court ruled on the Texas pro-life law, the majority stated that their ruling was temporary and should not be interpreted as their final say on its constitutionality. They refused an emergency request to temporarily block the law and sent the case back to the lower courts for consideration.

Alito said the criticism is all part of a larger strategy to undermine and intimidate the court.

“This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution,” he said.

Democrat leaders are calling to pack the court with leftist justices. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer even publicly threatened two Supreme Court justices by name if they decided to restrict abortions. Chief Justice John Roberts later condemned the Democrat leader’s “dangerous” and “threatening statements.”

The billion-dollar abortion industry and its supporters in Congress are afraid the high court will end Roe and allow states to protect unborn babies again. On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a major abortion case out of Mississippi that challenges the current precedent that prohibits states from banning abortions before an unborn baby is viable.

Since Roe, nearly 63 million unborn babies have been legally aborted in the U.S. Polls consistently show that a strong majority of Americans oppose abortions in the second and third trimesters and many support heartbeat laws that protect unborn babies at their earliest stage of life.


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