Ted Cruz gives clean water to pregnant moms in Flint, and the pro-abort media is seething

FLINT, Michigan, January 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The mainstream media is once again showing its pro-abortion bias, going so far as to blatantly lie in its reporting.

The city of Flint is in the middle of a water disaster, causing lead poisoning and other health problems. Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized "every level of government" for the crisis, said officials should be held accountable for exposing residents to "poisoned water," and called the impact on Flint residents "heartbreaking."

Cruz made good on his rhetoric, as his campaign gave out bottled water to Flint women in crisis pregnancy centers, homeless shelters, and low-income high-rise apartment buildings. The campaign also plans to give out bottled water at housing projects and to off-campus college students.

The liberal Huffington Post headline on the story read, "Ted Cruz Singles Out Anti-Abortion Groups In Flint For Water Donations." Care2.com put it as follows: "Ted Cruz Spends His Week Lying and Performing Anti-Abortion Media Stunts." Bustle's article was titled "Ted Cruz's Water Donations To Flint, Michigan, Aren't Nearly As Benevolent As They Seem." Reproductive Health and Sexuality's "Reality Check" headlined, "Cruz Campaign Uses Flint Water Crisis to Bolster Anti-Choice Credentials." Salon's headline proved disingenuous: "Ted Cruz's campaign is handing out bottled water in Flint – but only to anti-abortion groups." Carbonated.tv wrote, "Cruz's Campaign Donated Water To Flint, But With A 'Pro-Life' Catch." The Dallas Observer led with "Ted Cruz Campaign Mixes Abortion Politics and Water in Flint." (The Observer has since retitled its article.)

Think Progress's article falsely reported, "Cruz's presidential campaign began distributing bottled water not to every Flint resident, but only to those who visited the city's four crisis pregnancy centers." The Think Progress article continued with the left's typically false information: "These centers ... often provide pregnant women with misleading or incorrect information about their options. Pamphlets handed out at such centers have claimed, falsely, that an abortion poses a grave threat to a woman's life and increases her risk of breast cancer."

Cruz has been the most outspoken of all GOP candidates about the Flint water crisis – not only criticizing, but also stating as a matter of policy, "Every American is entitled to have access to clean water." His campaign noted that, along with homeless shelters and low-income apartment buildings, pregnant mothers and their babies need water, too.

"Everyone knows that pregnant women are especially vulnerable in this Flint water crisis and are easily overlooked in terms of their special needs to keep themselves and their unborn children healthy," Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, told LifeSiteNews. "Presidential candidate Ted Cruz should be lauded for his sensitivity to the needs of pregnant women and the needs of crisis pregnancy centers as they serve these needy women who have chosen to give life to their babies."

"Hilary Clinton, as a woman, should have been first in line to help out in this situation," Miller continued. "Those who criticize Cruz and the good people trying to help women at these crisis pregnancy centers are the ones who are really waging a war on women – and it only shows how petty and narrow-minded they are!"

"Since when are we criticized for where our help begins? Ted Cruz also helped the homeless and other people," Patricia Korte, chairman of Grand Rapids Right to Life, told LifeSiteNews. "I always thought that in case of emergency, women and children are saved first. This is the case in Flint at the pregnancy resource centers. You are essentially getting to help two for one by giving water to the mother and indirectly to her baby."

"Help is charity and love to those in need," Korte concluded. "Whether it's in Haiti; inner cities; or Flint, Michigan, any help is appreciated and should not be criticized."

"I think that anything positive people do for pregnant women in need is helpful," Chris Gast, Michigan Right to Life's director of communications, told LifeSiteNews. "Pro-life pregnancy centers and their supporters provide a lot of direct support to lower-income women, men, and children, and they deserve congratulations, not condemnations."

Think Progress is a liberal online news outlet that belongs to the Center for American Progress (CAP). Politico called CAP one of "the Democratic Party's core institutions" and criticized Think Progress for not "keep[ing] its distance from liberal groups organizing advocacy campaigns targeting conservatives." A Washington Post article quoted a former Think Progress reporter who admitted being pressured by his employer to support President Obama and "toe the White House line."

In 2011, Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder ordered a state takeover of Flint because the city was in danger of bankruptcy. Snyder appointees served as "emergency managers," overseeing Flint's government functions and finding ways to cut spending. One "emergency manager" found that one way to cut spending would be to switch Flint's water supply, saving the city $6 million or more.

In March 2013, the Flint city council voted to switch their water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) to the to be constructed Lake Huron-sourced Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA). (Since 1965, Flint had been purchasing water from the DWSD.) The DWSD opposed this, as Flint's water contract paid 6% ($22 million) of the department's budget.

After Flint turned down a final DWSD conditional offer, the DWSD inexplicably made the move that sealed the fate of Flint's water disaster. The DWSD gave Flint a one-year notice that their 50-year water contract would terminate in April 2014. This meant that there would be a period of at least a year and a half before the KWA would be completed, and Flint would have to find water elsewhere. So in April 2014, Flint switched their water supply from the DWSD to their backup supply, the Flint River.

All of the service lines from the cast iron water mains to homes were made of lead. Lead pipes leach lead into the water, but as they age, they grow a crust of phosphates and oxides that "seal" the lead and prevent leaching. The problem is, the Flint River is lower pH and high-saline, eroding the protective oxide and phosphate coatings.

Lead leaching into Flint's water has caused an estimated 12,000 residents to have high levels of lead in their blood, which can lead to serious health problems. Mayor Karen Weaver explained, "Damage to children is irreversible, and can cause effects to a child's IQ, which will result in learning disabilities." Lead poisoning causes mental retardation, shortened attention spans, and other behavioral disorders in children. It specifically damages the section of the brain that manages impulses and emotions.

Some say an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in the Flint area that has killed 10 people and affected another 77 may be caused by lead in the water.

At one point, one of the state's "emergency managers" defended the water supply, falsely saying Flint's water is safe and within EPA-acceptable levels. Flint residents have sued Gov. Snyder for not providing drinkable water and for violating Michigan's Consumer Protection Act by saying Flint's water was safe. State Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) announced an "independent" investigation, even though his office is also defending Gov. Snyder in the lawsuit.

I talked to a Flint resident today.

She said she’s not a republican but says it isn’t going unnoticed and she really does appreciate it. She said one of the campaign volunteers even gave his personal number in case she needs anything else.

I appreciate that information. I know there are many sensible people still left out there.

Tell me, did CRUZ need to make a big show of this, or was it just a happening that the Press saw and reported on. A serendipity...

Compassion is one of the core principles of conservatism that many seem to have lost.

Some call this a publicity stunt but the campaign has been doing this since early on with no real attention given.

Flint should have replaced all their lead service pipes many years ago, but it would taken time and big bucks. Instead they tasked those bucks to big union salaries and pensions for city employees and free stuff for the GibMeDat crowd, and continued that until near municipal bankruptcy. And Flint’s voters supported them on that.

That is more GODLY good news......HE tells us not to go bragging about our good works, lest we lose our rewards in heaven. If you brag and boast and receive praise, you already have your reward there is no more.

Being the Godly man that Ted Cruz is, he know this.

Last night at the pro life/Cruz rally in Iowa they asked that people read 2 Chronicles 7:14. Ted Cruz asked that he not be seen as a savior or the nation and that he only seeks to lead he also spoke about Reagan being sworn in with his had deliberately on it.

2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Story about Reagan and 2 Chronicles from a few years back.

Ronald Reagan, a born-again president

During one of the several occasions on which I met with him, I was deeply moved to see President Reagan's Bible opened to 2 Chronicles 7:14. This is the scripture under which he was sworn into office. A note from his mother was in the margin of his Bible. It said: "Son, this scripture is for the healing of the nation." I was also deeply moved to see a sign on his desk that said, "A man can become too great in his own eyes to be used by God, but never too small."

That is very telling and inspirational, thanks for sharing. I love Two Chronicles 7:14, it is what we are called to do. I know many Christians we are doing just that.

Just kidding 2 Chronicles 7:14......just had to make the rub.

Yep, run by progressive Democrats for decades....same as Detroit, same as Saginaw, same as Benton Harbor....and on and on. Crooks and criminals all. Kwame Kilpatrick even waded in from prison, I hear! Precious.

Also, can anyone here honestly tell me if any Non-profit Pro-Life organization gets $500M/year from the feds like PP gets????? if not, why not???????

>>How DARE he do that?!
>>My vote is now for Hillary! < sarcasmtagneeded?>

Vaajayjays vote and don’t even know why!

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