Posted on 05/20/2019 3:45:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
The timing of the Alabama state legislature’s abortion bill that makes it the most restrictive in the nation is perfect. It is perfect because as we enter a national election in 2020, it will be a front and center issue before the electorate—a better platform than before the Supreme Court. I don’t want the fate of an unborn child to be a judicial decision instead of a legislative one. Since the Supreme Court has determined that an unborn child has no constitutional protection to life until the third trimester, this decision should be returned to the states to decide under the Tenth Amendment.
Here are a few observations.
It is interesting that Governor Kay Ivey and the legislature indicated that they already know that this will end up in the federal courts, while Virginia and New York are considering aborting a child up to delivery and have no such reservations about those laws ending up in federal court.
The Alabama law allows for an abortion only if it is necessary to save the life of the woman. The current U.S. Supreme Court standard under Roe v. Wade holds in part that states may prohibit abortion after fetal viability so long as there are exceptions for the life and health (both physical and mental) of the woman.
Here is the elephant in the room that gets ignored in abortion discussions. The elephant is that abortion and race merits a discussion. We usually hear from white advocates for murdering babies, but they are never asked about its disparate impact on people of color as they like to call us. According to Right to Life of Michigan statistics, “More than crime. More than accidents. More than cancer, heart disease, and AIDS. Abortion has taken more Black American lives than every other cause of death combined since 1973. In the United States, the abortion rate for Black women is almost four times that of White women. In 2014 36% of all abortions were performed on black women. On average, 900 Black babies are aborted every day in the United States. This tragedy continues to impact the population levels of African Americans in the United States.” It goes on to say that since the 1973 landmark decision, 19 million black babies have been aborted. Let that statistic sink in for a moment. For those who think that my comparison of black baby abortion with the holocaust is over the top; the definition of holocaust is the mass slaughter and reckless destruction of life.
Another interesting observation is how Republican politicians handle an interview on the Alabama abortion law. They still stammer, stumble, and talk all around the issue trying to get to a non-answer. It is embarrassing. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that he believes the Alabama law goes too far because it doesn’t allow abortion in the case of rape and incest. Why did he allow himself to be dragged down that rabbit hole? Rape and incest account for 1.5% of abortions. That means 98.5% of abortions do not involve rape or incest, so what is he talking about? That excuse allowed him an escape. McCarthy said that he believes that the most precious gift God gives is the gift of life. Really, Kevin? The Alabama law proves how precious life is. Your dribble does not.
McCarthy, like many GOP politicians, would rather not have to talk about it and that is why the timing of the Alabama law is perfect. Don’t you hate politicians who have no stable, clear core political beliefs, things they won’t waffle on no matter what, even if it means election defeat? They talk the talk on abortion but won’t walk the full walk. They take positions publicly, yet everything has a qualifying “but”. They are pro-life, but... They support the Second Amendment, but... They support religious freedom, but... We need to find out what GOP politicians are genuinely pro-life and which ones use it to virtue signal in front of GOP audiences to get a good score from pro-life organizations they can flaunt at election time.
Therefore what is it that makes McCarthy think that the Alabama law goes too far if he believes that life is God’s most precious gift to us? Keep in mind that McCarthy is a House member representing California. Perhaps that influences his answer when talking about abortion. In the 2018 midterm elections Democrats won 8 congressional House seats that had been held by Republicans for several decades in the GOP stronghold of Orange County, California. Only 7 GOP members are left out of 53. They no doubt have McCarthy in their crosshairs.
Why can’t Republican politicians handle this question with authority and without ambiguity? I think they are afraid of losing female voters even though polling shows opinions are shifting back toward the protection of the unborn. That was an ambush question, and as could be predicted, the liberal media used a Republican answer in headlines to slam Alabama’s law as extreme. No such headline appeared containing a high profile Democrat supporting New York and Virginia’s savage law allowing the killing of viable children in the third trimester.
The American people have long demonstrated a moral and constitutional obligation to protect vulnerable and defenseless persons. A growing number of states are stretching the limits on the killing of babies through the third trimester and including post delivery with few legal challenges. The Alabama law isn’t extreme. It protects the life of the unborn. Killing viable babies in the third trimester is extreme. It’s time to push back. There is no time like the present.
Candace Owens focuses on this a lot and is spreading it throughout the black community. She is phenomenal, the way she thinks is brilliant. Like the other day she said “If a stranger offers you free stuff you should assume the worst. So why are people trusting democrats for the same type of predatory promises?”
BTW her last Twitter post on the black abortion Holocaust got her banned from Facebook.........
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1129421201988882432
JMHo
Imagine how large a mountain you’d have if you piled up baby bottles for each Abortion.now imagine if each bottle was color coded by race.
“Black Lives Sometimes Matter”
or maybe
“Black Thug Lives matter, but not Black Babies’ Lives”
Either way, the leftists are really screwed up in the head.
Abortion has killed more than all American wars and disasters combined.
A hacker should hack pp’s website, and rename it crime busters, and have a nice picture of all the dems meeting with them
Sad thing is that they just don’t care.
.... I was really hoping that this election was going to be about the Economy and Immigration. Unfortunately it’s shaping up to be only about Women’s Rights which now gives the Left a great issue to rally their frustrated base and raise funds around.
Unless U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (a Bush-League GOPer) steps up his game (since no other worthy GOP candidates have thrown their hats into the ring for 2020 so far), I am sensing a DemonRat backlash against the abortion bill resulting in the re-election of U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL). That, and a GOP thrashing in the AL statehouse.
This younger voting-age generation of AL voters do not share the values of their ancestors. The public school institution has been subverted by the progressives.
I wonder about Roy Moore’s lawsuit about election fraud that was thrown out by the liberal judge.
Don’t worry - for every American unborn the democrats slaughter, there are 5 illegal immigrants crossing the border!
Don’t worry - for every American unborn the democrats slaughter, there are 5 illegal immigrants crossing the border!
The Left blames old white guys for limiting abortion.
Ironic.
Yup. Trading illegals for abortion. Thoroughly obscene.
I agree that this is now a rallying issue for Democrats and independents and liberal Republicans—those suburban women who are turned off by Trump’s crude behavior and insulting Tweets.
I agree with everything Trump stands for. I support him on all the issues he is emphasizing. It is vitally important that he wins in 2020 and that the Senate remains in Republican control. Everything hangs on that—the economy, immigration, free-market capitalism, national defense, individual liberty, gun rights, Supreme Court nominees, federal judgeships, and, yes, pro-life issues.
The states that have passed these restrictive abortion laws are now guaranteeing that Trump will lose and that Democrats will control the Senate. These will be THE issues Democrats run on—they’ll say if re-elected Trump and the Republicans will force poor women into back alley abortions once again; women who’ve been raped will be forced to carry the rapist’s baby; a young woman who’s been impregnated by her father will be forced to have his baby. Every imaginable horror will be exploited to get donations and Democratic votes. And there will be enough dumb people out there who will buy it and will vote for Democrats. Trump needs independents and squishy Republicans to vote for him. Turn them off and he loses the election.
The Democrats with the help of the media will make all of this stick. Why can’t the pro-life crusaders think strategically for once? Get Trump re-elected, hold the Senate, back Trump to appoint a conservative judge when Ginsburg croaks. In the meantime, use every tool at your disposal to change public opinion to make abortion so abhorrent that only barbarians and misfits would find it acceptable. Shame them. Encourage clergy to pound it from the pulpit, make movies, and tv documentaries, and public service announcements that graphically portray the horror of dismembered babies being ripped from the womb.
Now, all they’ve done is ginned up the left-wing and RINOs to vote Democrat. This isn’t the time to move the issue. Dumb, dumb, dumb!
Black lives don’t matter to blacks.
I like to send this letter around annually for MLK’s birthday and Black History Month.
Roe v. Wade and Black History Month
Black History Month should remind people Democrats professed an apparent contradiction as they seceded to begin the Civil War.
They demanded protection where slavery existed, and the right to take their “peculiar property” into the territories. They demanded trading their property across state lines and states enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law. Yet during final debates and for years prior, these same people joined the near universal condemnation of the international slave trade.
This contradiction vanishes when understanding the South was being overrun with their property. Democratic Senator Alfred Iverson of Georgia said before Congress in 1861, “We know well that we never can enjoy equal possession of the territories without protection of our property….. They increase, according to the last census bill, at the rate of 32% every ten years.” Meaning the South needed new slave states and plantations to absorb the increasing population.
Over one hundred fifty years later the Black Community provides voting plurality to the Democrat Party and adopts their Pro-Choice sacrament of abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control, black women account for about 36% of abortions, though blacks constitute about 14% of total population. Applying antebellum population growth to the period after the Roe v. Wade decision (1/22/73) would mean 77 million blacks instead of the 46 million currently living.
So what benefits accrue for blacks providing the Democrat Party 90% voting support, compared to a mandate for contributing 60% of their humanity to enrich the Democrat slave master’s political status?
The History Civil, Political, & Military of the Southern Rebellion: Volume 1, Page 75
Constitution of the Confederate States of America (Article 1, Section 9 (1)
http://www.usconstitution.net/csa.html
Roe v. Wade January 22, 1973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
CDC Abortion Surveillance 2011 (Table 12)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6311a1.htm?s_cid=ss6311a1_w
Black Demographics.com
http://blackdemographics.com/
http://blackdemographics.com/population/
Population in 1973 estimate 22,580,289+((26,495,025-22,580,289)x3)=23,754,710
23,754,709x1.32=31,356,2170; 31,356,217x1.32=41,390,206; 41,390,206x1.32=54,635,072;
54,635072x1.32=72,118,296; 72,118,295x1.07=77,166,576
Abortion and Race
http://www.abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/
Is Abortion Overused in the Black Community?
http://www.theroot.com/views/blacks-and-roe-v-wade
Why Are Black Women Three Times More Likely to Have an Abortion?
http://www.all.org/article/index/id/MTExNzU
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