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Abortion: An American Institution Built on Lies
Laura Hollis
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com.
The new head of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen, stated in a recent interview that she intends to expand the organization's services and reach. If by "expand" she means services other than abortion, then more power to her. But that is hard to square with Planned Parenthood's status as the single largest provider of abortion in the United States. It performed nearly 330,000 abortions in 2016. Abortion is also its biggest moneymaker.
It is ironic but telling that the new head of Planned Parenthood is a physician. Abortion is one of the rare exceptions in the medical field where advancements in scientific knowledge have done little to change the debate. When Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, there was no ultrasound technology to reveal the essential humanity of the child in utero. There was no fetal surgery to correct physical defects like spina bifida while a baby is still in the womb. And yet despite what we have learned in the past four and a half decades, abortion remains, in large part, an American institution built on a foundation of lies and promoted with a web of euphemisms.
A complete list would fill a book of substantial size. But some of the most common include:
1. "It isn't really a human being."
This is the most fundamental lie, and the one that underpins abortion generally. It is usually commingled with other misstatements or grievous misunderstandings, like "It's just a fetus"; "It cannot live on its own"; "The Supreme Court already decided this."
"Fetus" is simply Latin for "offspring." It designates a human being at a particular developmental stage, like "infant" or "teenager." The fact that a child not yet born cannot survive on its own makes it no different from a newborn -- or, for that matter, an even older child. Many adults -- ill, suffering with disabilities or elderly -- similarly cannot live on their own. They are undeniably human, nevertheless. And in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court never said that an unborn child is not a human being; it decided that it is not a "person" with legal rights under the Fifth and 14th Amendments.
2. "Abortion is health care."
Health care is about saving lives, not ending them. Abortion is a medical procedure that takes another human being's life. Among the concerns expressed by many women who have had abortions is the inability to afford a(nother) child. But financial concerns could not be used as a justification for killing a 2-year-old -- nor would we call it "health care," even if the family's financial woes would be alleviated thereby.
3. "Sexual consent is not consent to pregnancy."
A woman (or her partner) might truthfully say, "Just because I am having sex doesn't mean that I want to have a child." But sexual intercourse is the way the human species reproduces. In other words, it is therefore a known risk that you take when you decide to have sex. To use an analogy, just because you engage in a sport like BASE jumping doesn't mean you're consenting to serious bodily injury or death. But those are risks you know you're taking. (And, sadly, they happen all too often.) The difference with abortion is the another human being is paying the ultimate price for the risks knowingly taken.
4. "Children should be wanted."
A recent Planned Parenthood ad features a slo-mo video of a beautiful baby girl. The baby's adorable giggles are heard as she smiles at the camera and a music box lullaby plays in the background. Interspersed with the video are three written taglines: "She deserves to be loved"; "She deserves to be wanted"; "She deserves to be ... a choice."
The message generated outrage: This beautiful child should be able to be killed unless she was planned. But all human beings have inherent worth, whether their parents "planned" them or not. And even if birth parents do not want their child, millions of Americans desperately want to adopt -- yes, even children with disabilities. There are dozens of families seeking to adopt for every one child who is able to be adopted. Every child is "wanted" by someone.
5. "Pro-lifers only care about babies until they are born."
This trope gets trotted out when abortion advocates want to attack the motives or draw attention away from the concern of pro-life activists. But it is untrue. Pro-life pregnancy centers -- and those who support them -- provide resources for women and their babies both before and after the children are born.
6. "Making abortion illegal will only lead to back-alley abortions."
It is not widely known -- although it should be -- that the numbers of illegal abortions cited by NARAL Pro-Choice America and other abortion advocacy groups were inflated. Dr. Bernard Nathanson was one of the founders of NARAL who performed over 60,000 abortions before seeing ultrasound. Nathanson later admitted that the oft-cited "5,000 to 10,000 deaths from illegal abortions annually" statistic is a complete fabrication.
There is no doubt that women did die from illegal abortions. But they die today from legal abortions -- another inconvenient fact that the pro-choice crowd glosses over.
There is talk that the current 5-4 majority in the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. But even if that occurs, states will be able to pass laws permitting abortions.
Ultimately, the problem is not a lack of laws but a lack of love. No law can make a woman love her child. No law removes the fear so many pregnant women feel with the prospect of an unplanned pregnancy, and what that may entail. The resolution of those issues rests with us, not our legislators or judges.
Anonymous Do-Gooder Pays for All Layaway Items at Vermont Walmart
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An unidentified gentleman strode into a Walmart in Derby, Vermont, on November 15 and offered to pay for all outstanding layaway items.
Customer Julie Ann Gates was at the store with her son when she heard the stranger make his offer. She was in line to pay for her items when the man — who introduced himself as “Kris Kringle” — gave her some stunning instructions.
“Listen, I can either have you put it on a layaway, and I’m going to pay for it when you leave. You’ll just have to come right back and pick it up, or you could follow me over to the cash register, and I pay for it now,” she said he told her. “Why don’t you run and get what you were going to get and come back, and I pay for it. I have a few minutes before I go to the doctor.”
When she asked her mysterious benefactor how anyone could afford to do that, he said, “Santa Claus can.”
“I know personally he is my Santa Claus. He is my Kris Kringle. I’ll forever have his face embedded in my mind,” Gates told ABC News. “He’s given so many people the opportunity not worrying about Christmas, to just be with their families and not stress that maybe they can’t afford it.”
Later, a spokesperson for Walmart said “when customers quietly pay off others’ layaway items, we’re reminded how good people can be. We’re honored to be a small part of these random acts of kindness.”
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts REBUKES Trump over judicial criticism…
Yesterday Trump blasted the 9th circuit after Judge Jon S. Tigar, nominated by Obama, blocked his migrant mob proclamation that said people illegally crossing the border wouldn’t be able to apply for asylum.
Trump was furious:
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Pres. Trump angrily criticizes federal judge's ruling blocking new restrictions on asylum, calling the court "not fair" and predicting he would win in the Supreme Court. https://abcn.ws/2DNTcSp
6:01 AM - Nov 21, 2018
Well today Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, the judge who gave us Obamacare, rebuffed Trump’s criticism of the judiciary:
Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump for his description of a judge who ruled against Trump’s migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.”
It’s the first time the Republican-appointed leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of Trump, who has previously blasted federal judges who ruled against him.
Roberts said Wednesday the U.S. doesn’t have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” He commented in a statement released by the Supreme Court after a query by The Associated Press.
Roberts said on the day before Thanksgiving that an “independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
I appreciate the fact that Roberts wants to protect the view of the court in the eyes of the American public, but he’s wrong and everyone who pays attention to these judicial rulings knows it. Sure, some of the judiciary is independent. But there are plenty of activist judges who ignore the Constitution when making their rulings and are therefore NOT independent.
Justice is supposed to be blind. But when a judge ignores the very law that they are supposed to be upholding, justice is no longer blind and becomes based on agendas and beliefs. And while these activist judges aren’t exclusive to Democrats, a whole heck of a lot of them are nominated by people like Obama and Clinton.
Trump isn’t politically correct in the way he speaks and isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Sometimes that’s not good, but in this case I think he’s far more right than he is wrong when it comes to these activist judges.
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Chuck Grassley to Chief Justice John Roberts: You Rebuked Trump — but Sat Silent Through Obama’s Abuse
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts offered rare public criticism of the President of the United States on Wednesday when he pushed back against President Trump’s claim Tuesday that an “Obama judge” had blocked his effort to deny asylum to those entering the country illegally.
But as outgoing Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) later noted, Roberts was silent when President Barack Obama attacked the Court during the State of the Union address in 2010:
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Chief Justice Roberts rebuked Trump for a comment he made abt judge’s decision on asylum I don’t recall the Chief attacking Obama when that Prez rebuked Alito during a State of the Union
6:07 PM - Nov 21, 2018
Likewise, Roberts said nothing when Obama bullied the Supreme Court on numerous occasions — and even appeared to yield to Obama’s pressure.
In 2010, President Obama used his first State of the Union address to denounce the Court’s January 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case, which struck down restrictions on corporate political speech under the First Amendment.
With six of the nine justices sitting silently in the House of Representatives, Obama told the nation their ruling “will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”
Democrats leapt to their feet in applause. Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words, “Not true” — and never attended another State of the Union address.
But Roberts said and did nothing to defend the Court from Obama’s unprecedented assault on its independence.
In April 2012, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case (NFIB v. Sebelius) appeared to go against the administration, Obama warned the Supreme Court against overturning the law, attacking the very idea that “an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.” His aides later scrambled to explain that the president — once a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago — certainly accepted the idea of judicial review.
But Roberts did not defend the court’s prerogatives. In fact, Roberts buckled, effectively rewriting the law to save Obamacare — perhaps even reversing his original vote.
On Monday evening, Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, an Obama appointee, issued a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from implementing President Trump’s November 9 proclamation that asylum requests would no longer be granted to those arriving in the U.S. illegally. In speaking to reporters, Trump criticized the decision of the “Obama judge,” adding that he considered it a “disgrace.”
On Tuesday, in response to queries from the Associated Press, Chief Justice Roberts saidin a statement: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.” His views were widely reported as a rebuke to the president himself.
In response, Trump tweeted — with unusually restrained language — that Roberts was wrong, and that President Obama’s appointees, along with the courts of the Ninth Circuit more generally, were reliably opposed to all of his immigration policies. That made those courts the forums of choice for radical left-wing groups favoring amnesty — and they were frequently wrong, he implied, as judged by how frequently they were reversed.
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have “Obama judges,” and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an “independent judiciary,” but if it is why......
3:51 PM - Nov 21, 2018
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
.....are so many opposing view (on Border and Safety) cases filed there, and why are a vast number of those cases overturned. Please study the numbers, they are shocking. We need protection and security - these rulings are making our country unsafe! Very dangerous and unwise!
4:09 PM - Nov 21, 2018
Trump later added:
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
“79% of these decisions have been overturned in the 9th Circuit.” @FoxNews A terrible, costly and dangerous disgrace. It has become a dumping ground for certain lawyers looking for easy wins and delays. Much talk over dividing up the 9th Circuit into 2 or 3 Circuits. Too big!
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Though Trump has often criticized judges, raising concerns during the election about his commitment to judicial independence, in practice he has arguably shown greater deference to the courts than Obama, even earning praise from the judge who stopped the family separation policy at the border.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.
(From our friend George C.)
Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course.
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow.”
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running!! Make the most of today.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present
DOJ releases staggering stats on amount of illegal immigrants who skip hearings and ‘disappear’
Frieda Powers
tNew Justice Department statistics reveal that half of the young illegal immigrants who are caught crossing the border do not follow through by appearing in deportation courts.
About 25,000 mostly young, single Latin American males end up hiding out in the US for the rest of their lives as they refuse to comply with orders to appear in court, according to a disturbing analysis of the Department of Justice statistics conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies, the Washington Examiner reported.
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Nearly 60,000 “unaccompanied alien children” are projected to cross the border in 2018 with most of given temporary entry with directions to appear at immigration court.
According to the report by former immigration official Andrew Arthur:
The number of UACs who were ordered removed in absentia, that is, after failing to appear for immigration court, has skyrocketed from 450 in FY 2010 to 6,662 in FY 2018, an almost 1,500 percent increase during a period of time when the number of UACs apprehended increased about 272 percent (from 18,411 in FY 2010 to 50,036 in FY 2018). In fact, in FY 2018, half of all case completions involving UACs were in absentia orders, according to [Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review] compared to an overall in absentia average of 25 percent of all case completions.
An unbelievable number of these illegal immigrants are released instead of being held.
“Thus far in FY18, 13,186 UACs were released into the interior of the United States — that’s in addition to the 42,146 UACs and 52,147 UACs who were released in FY17 and FY16 respectively, bringing the total number of UACs released from FY16 to date in excess of 107,000,” a Homeland Security Department report, which was referred to by Arthur, read.
Any court system in which half of the parties required to appear fail to do so is in crisis.https://www.cis.org/Arthur/Disturbing-Statistics-EOIR-UACs …
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is faced with the daunting and expensive prospect of finding the illegal immigrants , many of whom are sheltered by organizations and in sanctuary cities, the Washington Examiner reported.
“The huge percentage of UACs in absentia orders suggests that those individuals simply entered the United States to remain in this country illegally, and are not seeking protection from some danger that would entitle them to humanitarian relief, or to some other immigration benefit,” Arthur wrote.
There are an estimated 2,300 “unaccompanied alien children” in the Central American migrant caravan headed to the US border, according to a UNICEF report.
“Any court system in which half of the parties required to appear fail to do so is in crisis,” Arthur wrote, adding “Respectfully, Congress and the courts created this mess.”
Arthur concluded the analysis with a scathing commentary on the staggering statistics.
“The reasons that those parents are subjecting their children to such hardships and abuse is as clear as the facts set forth above: Bring a child to the United States, and the child will likely be released, as will you. If I were to attempt such a journey with my son, however, I doubtless would be arrested by the authorities and charged with child abuse and child endangerment,” he said.
“I am personally acquainted with many of the people who have made these decisions, and I have no doubt that they had only the best interests of both the UACs and the nation at heart,” Arthur added. “As the facts above, and the EOIR statistics reveal, however, those decisions are having deleterious consequences, both for the children involved and for our system of justice as a whole.”
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