Fight Against Biden’s Plan to Force ERs to Perform Elective Abortions
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The Biden Administration is sneaking through a national abortion mandate that turns every hospital emergency department into an abortion facility.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a coalition of national Catholic organizations have brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Thomas More Society has filed a “friend of the court” brief.
Unborn children are protected under a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or “EMTALA.” This federal law states that both mom and unborn baby must be cared for in emergency medical situations. HHS Secretary Becerra reinterpreted the law, making it something it was never intended to be.
That is typical for Democrats – twist laws to their will.
The Biden Administration is pushing for abortion to be forced on emergency rooms nationwide—even after the U.S. Supreme Court has said there is no “constitutional right” to abortion.
Biden’s HHS wants to force all doctors to provide abortions.
Biden and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra are cherry-picking certain words in the law while ignoring its life-affirming language to push a radical agenda that has already been outlawed with the Dobbs decision.
Tyler Brooks, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel, explained the key problems with Becerra’s guidelines.
“Trying to force a physician to take the life of an unborn child under a law that is expressly designed to save lives is not only contradictory but also ludicrous,” stated Brooks. “An elective abortion is an intentional choice to kill a preborn baby, and emergency medical treatment is intended to preserve life. This act, as interpreted by the Biden Administration, violates the conscience rights of medical personnel who believe that abortion is immoral. It is a blatant violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
If the Biden Administration has its way, every single hospital in the country will be required to provide abortions under the guise of “emergency healthcare.”
Pentagon is panicking over Biden’s proposal that would increase water costs by $10,000 per household
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Without so much as a whisper of pushback from Congress, the White House is bulldozing forward with a regulatory proposal that could cost the average household up to $10,000 extra in water costs. But it’s not only President Joe Biden‘s campaign that is scared of this latest forefront of the president’s green agenda — Biden’s own Pentagon is panicking over the proposal.
The World Health Organization now recommends that governments limit polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever plastics” that are resistant to breaking down in either the environment or the human body, at a level of 100 parts per trillion. This is the same level limited by the European Commission. Japan set a temporary PFAS limit of 50 ppt in 2020, and Sweden limits most PFAS at an average of 90 ppt. As far as more restrictive measures go, Canada is trying to lower its limit to 30 ppt, while Denmark is trying to ban PFAS in specific, isolated sectors such as in paper food packaging.
And then, there is America’s Environmental Protection Agency, which is trying to reduce its advisory limit of 70 ppt to a hard limit of 4 ppt for two prevalent types of PFAS, PFOA and PFOS, for all drinking water.
In other words, Biden would decrease the Obama administration’s suggested PFAS limit to a legal maximum by 94.3%. The new standard would be 4% of the WHO’s recommendation and less than one-tenth of 1% of that of Australia and New Zealand.
According to a Black & Veatch consulting report commissioned by the American Water Works Association, the EPA’s proposed standards would increase water costs by anywhere from $80 to $11,150 per year for each household. Contrary to the EPA’s estimate of $1 billion extra in annual costs added to water utilities, the AWWA argues the new standards would amount to $3.8 billion in new annual costs.
But according to the Pentagon, it’s not just household budgets that are at risk if this proposal succeeds — it’s also our national security.
.....According to the DoD, PFAS are found in its infrastructure related to “information technology, critical manufacturing, health care, renewable energy, and transportation,” including within batteries, semiconductors, and most weaponry. Even before the EPA’s new standards come into effect, the Pentagon estimated it would require $39 billion to clean up PFAS contamination past the Obama-era recommendation. In total, nearly 3,000 private wells by 63 military bases are considered contaminated, with some combined levels of PFOS and PFOA at 10,000 ppt — or 2,500 times higher than what the EPA would allow under these new standards.
For reference regarding how uniquely stringent the proposed PFAS standards are, the EPA limits arsenic in water at 10 parts per billion and cyanide at 200 parts per billion. Thus the EPA is asking that taxpayers pay tens of billions of dollars to bring the prevalence of some plastics to a level less than a fraction of a percent of what we allow for literal poisons.
The White House Office of Regulatory Affairs is now reviewing the final rule. If it pushes the standards through prior to the Congressional Review Act deadline of May 22, this baseless standard will become law without so much as a peep from our so-called lawmakers.
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The EPA one of the worst tyrannical orgs. in the swamp needs to be eliminated permanently.