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Posted on 11/11/2017 7:49:12 AM PST by Morgana
Last week, I testified before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on HR 490, also known as the Heartbeat Bill.
The bill, introduced by Iowa Republican congressman Steve King, prohibits abortion of an unborn child once the child’s heartbeat is detectable.
I have been fighting for the last 30 years to protect the unborn, and I wholeheartedly gave my endorsement to this bill.
In follow-up questioning, I responded to allegations, often made, that abortion essentially is a health and welfare program, categorizing it like major government spending programs that target the poor, such as Medicaid and food stamps.
I shared my view that thinking about abortion in this way is “disingenuous.”
It represents the very sick view that killing children in the womb is a way to fight poverty.
One member of the committee, Steve Cohen, a Democrat representing the 9th District of Tennessee, has a lifetime record, both in the U.S. Congress and as a state legislator, advocating this distortion that somehow abortion is a remedial measure for low-income black women.
Confused liberals similar to Cohen think the problem is pregnancy rather than sexual activity taking place outside of where it belongs — in marriage. So, they encourage the very behavior that leads to poverty — promiscuity and abortion.
We can see the results in Cohen’s own district. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in Cohen’s 9th District in Tennessee, 8.7 percent of households headed by a married couple with children younger than 5 are poor. However, 59.5 percent of households headed by a single woman with children younger than 5 are poor.
Cohen attacked me in the hearing, calling me “ignorant” and suggesting my telling the truth somehow showed disrespect to him. After the hearing, he approached me, put his finger in my face and told me to come to his office and personally apologize to him.
In 1997, Cohen opposed legislation that banned partial-birth abortion in Tennessee. This procedure was banned in federal law in 2003.
Because of the unique brutality of partial-birth abortion, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy included in his opinion, in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of banning this procedure, testimony of a nurse who witnessed it.
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She described the baby moving its fingers and toes as the doctor jammed scissors into the back of its head.
Cohen’s district in Tennessee is a picture of the kind of distressed communities that my organization CURE targets to help recover. It is two-thirds black, has eight ZIP codes with infant mortality rates triple the national average, has a median household income two-thirds the national average and poverty 10 points higher than the national average.
It is indeed a challenge to get truth into poor black communities that have suffered for years from liberal leaders similar to Cohen telling them what they need is more government and abortion. My work in Washington, D.C., focuses on getting public policy that will allow more flexibility for people such as those in Cohen’s district to self-govern.
In 1996, a year before Cohen voted to oppose banning partial-birth abortion in Tennessee, I worked in Washington to pass welfare reform.
The only apology I have to make is that I do not have more opportunities to testify against the distortions and damage caused by liberals similar to Cohen.
He extols his affection for Planned Parenthood, which annually aborts more black babies than any organization in the country: “For me, Planned Parenthood is part of my DNA. It is one of the finest organizations in this country.” And he equates black fertility to slavery: “women since the days of slavery were … encouraged to have children because … you needed … more property to bring the crops to make the money.”
Work needs to continue to help poor blacks in Cohen’s district understand that he is the last person they should have representing them.
LifeNews.com Note: Star Parker is the founder and president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and is a leading pro-life advocate within the African-American community. She is also a former candidate for Congress in California.
She shoulda broke his finger.
Sounds to me like a threat . . .
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I’m sorry that you’re ignorant congressman.
Two excellent Bill Whittle video presentations detailing how we got into this mess and some equally excellent proposals for getting out of it.
Bill Whittle: 5 STEPS to Take the Country Back from the Left (15 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lH9_ArUZ8
How to Stop the Civilizational Collapse (26 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYoAmvxyh1M
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A good response would have been “Sir, if I’m ignorant, then you are the village idiot’s thicker brother.
I would engage you in a battle of whits, but I don’t like to fight unarmed opponents.
Tell me Senator, What’s on your mind? If you’ll forgive the exaggeration.
You Sir, don’t even have enough wit to be a proper half-wit.
Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you’d had enough oxygen at birth?
Congratulations Sir; you’re a perfect argument against brother-sister marriages.
When you get to the men`s room, you will see a sign that says, “Gentlemen.” Pay no heed to it. Go right on in.
Have a nice day.”
i half expected him to say ‘You’re an ignorant negro” when he started his tirade- He looked that angry/demonic
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