Posted on 07/24/2023 6:11:57 AM PDT by Twotone
Despite the promise of Dobbs to free the states from federal court interference with abortion policy, Idaho now faces its third federal lawsuit. This last suit is challenging the new law passed this last session which makes it a felony to transport girls out of state to get an abortion without parental consent.
During the legislative session, Planned Parenthood threatened numerous times to file a lawsuit. But they are not an official part of this case. Instead, we have three new plaintiffs: a private attorney named Lourdes Matsumoto, the Northwest Abortion Access Fund and the Indigenous Idaho Alliance. They allege that their “constitutional right” to “help” minor children is threatened by Idaho’s abortion trafficking law.
In the course of their complaint, these folks make it clear that they have long been providing counseling, money, lodging and transportation to girls seeking abortions out of state. They also make clear that they have provided these children with the money to pay for their abortion. All without the slightest regard for the rights of parents to direct the health care decisions of their daughters.
The Northwest Abortion Access Fund actually tells the court, “When transporting or facilitating transportation for minors, NWAAF does not seek or obtain parental consent. Parents and guardians may or may not know about or approve of NWAAF’s support of these minors”. Wow.
The parties are represented by a number of lawyers, led by Wendy Olson, a partner at Stoel Rives and a former U.S. Attorney during the Obama Administration. She also represents St. Luke’s Hospital in its bid to gain Judge Winmill’s protection for their practice of referring patients out-of-state for abortions that are illegal in Idaho. She is joined by a pair of lawyers who work for an outfit called “Legal Voice”. It turns out that this group is self-described as an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
One wonders: Why would advocates for transgenders and homosexuals care about a law dealing specifically with abortion and unplanned pregnancy? The answer may be buried in the 35-page complaint. At various points, these activists assert that:
“[Children] are the ones in the best position to decide whom they trust to involve in their healthcare.” (p. 12). Under the new law, “minors will lose their right to make critical decisions about their health, bodies and lives”. (p. 12).
We can see then that this lawsuit is about more than abortion. If they can get the federal courts to fundamentally alter the legal status of minor children in our society – they can begin transporting boys and girls across state lines for gender-altering treatment and surgery. That also would be a violation of current Idaho law and an egregious assault on core parental rights.
The hubris and arrogance of the plaintiffs in this case are truly amazing. For example, Ms. Lourdes Matsumoto, the lead plaintiff, describes herself as a private attorney who regularly works with child victims of abuse. She claims that she offers counseling and help to children – despite not being a trained therapist. And despite having no legal authority or responsibility to insert herself into a child’s life. In the legal filing she claims that she is
“driven by her belief in bodily autonomy for every citizen, including minors ….” (p. 17).
This lawsuit turns out to be quite the revelation. We learn a great deal about the existing web of nefarious organizations and individuals long involved in undermining parental authority and seducing children into making life-altering decisions without the protection of parental supervision. No doubt such networks exist in every part of America, actively working to destroy our children and grandchildren.
We must be in earnest prayer for AG Labrador and his team of attorneys as they prepare to confront this deadly lawsuit. Should these actors succeed in gaining judicial protection, one can easily see that a vastly expanded playground will have been created for sexual predators and criminal trafficking rings. If the federal judiciary upholds notions of “bodily autonomy” and freedom of choice for children in making lifestyle and healthcare decisions, they will have laid the foundations for pedophilia as well.
Years ago, Hillary Clinton made the claim that it “takes a village to raise a child.” A fairly innocuous slogan, suggesting that we all have a responsibility to ensure that children in our midst are properly educated and cared for. But we now realize that the radicals behind this bumper sticker really mean something quite different: They believe that the Village owns the children … and that parents are merely their surrogates. My gosh. What deadly evil.
The case is now known as Matsumoto v. Labrador, and is pending before Federal Magistrate Judge
Great post on FR, and timely. Thanks.
The demonic influence is obvious for those with eyes to see.
2nd amendment ping article.
The people filing these lawsuits need to start vanishing.
Forever.
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I thought it was "Birthing People."
They cannot wait to get the court’s sanction to take your kid across state lines for medical procedures and Lord knows what else.
The move to strip parents of dominion over their children’s lives is moving at a frantic pace.
As I have posted more than once, nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled.
It doesn't matter how many states pass abortion-limiting legislation, it doesn't matter how many lawsuits are judged in favor of limiting abortion, it doesn't matter how many Congresses defund abortion, the left will NEVER EVER EVER STOP until abortion at any point in the nine months of gestation or the first five years afterward is the completely legal right for everyone all over this land. That is why we must NEVER EVER EVER STOP until the nation is rid of leftists.
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Unless one of the plaintiffs has been, at least, charged with the felony they have no standing.
That’s what the courts tell us when the pols are trampling on my rights.
Stupid question here: Wouldn’t the Mann Act apply? If it is against the law to transport a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. Couldn’t abortion be considered an ‘immoral purpose’?
Yes, I know that that wasn’t the purpose behind the passage of the.law, but that hasn’t stopped courts from saying the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens or that ‘interstate commerce’ applies to commerce within a state or that a pond in my back yard is ‘waters of the United States.
You are correct. This is not about surgery. It's about establishing in law the fantasy that children have "autonomy." They don't. Their knowledge and capacity for judgment are developing, and incomplete. So, way more than adults, children follow the initiative and opinions of adults who act as if they are in authority.
Child-kidnapping perverts know this, and want to be legally free to steal children and claim any sex crimes or murder were "consensual."
I can't believe I'm not kidding. But it's their goal, and Leftists--even those who have kids and sense the ghastly evil involved--lack the moral vocabulary to see the problem plainly and take action.
What you say is shocking. But really, where is the middle ground with people who are that evil in their thinking? These people want to take underage girls, and without the knowledge of their parents fun with them and sneak them to another state to kill the grand children of that parent. I’m afraid what you say is correct. There is no other possibility for rapprochement with those people.
Agreed. 2024 may well usher in the Time of Weapons Free and the Settling of Accounts.
“ There is no other possibility for rapprochement with those people.”
See my tag line.
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Anyone else notice
the legal term
inalienable ( rights)
was replaced by the word weasel Marxist with the term
Human ( secularist ) rights ?
The con is that inalienable rights
come from God and can’t be taken away
but human rights
given by ( secular humanist) humans
can be taken away.
It’s the Marxist bait and switch con job .
These creatures have long since passed the slippery slope and have careened into the depths of Hades.
Well there you go....
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