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The Democratic Party is the Party of Abortion

7/14/2024

By Patricia Tabone

    The Democratic Party IS the Party of Abortion. The party platform enthusiastically and consistently supports abortion. They really want unlimited abortion. A summary of the Democratic Party’s position on abortion can be found on the NRLC website, The Democratic Party and Its Support for Unlimited Abortion.

    Total contributions for the year 2021-2022 from Planned Parenthood PAC to federal candidates was $676,765; 100% was donated to Democrats and 0% to Republicans. See: Planned Parenthood PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates.

    Planned Parenthood is the organization that performs the most abortions throughout the world. Planned Parenthood does more than abort, it provides transgender surgeries and hides them under “Other Procedures.” The organization is proud to contribute huge amounts of money to pro-choice politicians who vote accordingly.

    Is anyone at Planned Parenthood ashamed of making money from the sorrows of poor women? Many suffer with sorrow and guilt for the rest of their lives. I know of one woman who got off the operating table in an abortion clinic when she realized she was going to allow a “doctor” to kill her own unborn baby.

    The founder of Planned Parenthood, the eugenicist, Margaret Sanger, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control, and sexual immorality. See some of Sanger’s quotes below.

“The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
“Eugenics is . . . the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems.”
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need . . . . We must prevent multiplication of this . . . bad stock.”
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

From: 21 Quotes by Margaret Sanger.

    Planned Parenthood Federation is designated a 501(c)(3) organization. Category: Health - General and Rehabilitative / Family Planning Centers. Donations to this organization are tax deductible.

    Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Federation, received a salary of $583,798 in 2023 She lives in New York City, is married to Robert Johnson, the president of the institute for New Economic Thinking, and they have two daughters.

    Please do your own research. Ask someone who does not believe in the sanctity of human life, you will find that the person is enrolled as a Democrat. That person will give you many reasons why they “could never vote for a Republican.” Remember . . . the Democrats supported slavery, too.

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The Candidates for President of the United States

7/14/2024

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Editor's note: This article was submitted before the tragic events of July 13, with the shooting of former President Donald Trump.

By Patricia Tabone

It is no wonder the recent presidential debate got off to a flying start on the issue of abortion because the election of the next president of the U.S. is about abortion, the killing of the innocent unborn. Everyone who votes should check the facts about the two candidates on this most important subject. It is a matter of life or death.

President Biden’s record leaves no doubt that he is a man who believes in unlimited abortion.

Biden pledged to sign the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” a bill that would legalize unlimited abortion until birth in federal law. It would eliminate virtually all existing protections for unborn children and their mothers on the federal and state levels including parental involvement laws.
Biden said, “I’ll sign a law codifying Roe . . . ,” October 18, 2022.
Biden supports the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions, and has called for the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funds from being used to pay for abortions in many federal programs.
Biden chose Kamala Harris to be his VP. “I will always fight for a woman’s right to make a decision about her own body . . . ,” Kamala Harris, October 7, 2020. Harris visited an abortion clinic, an extraordinary visit meant to signal the importance the Biden campaign is placing on reproductive rights in the 2024 presidential race (reported on March 14, 2024).
President Biden, during the debate, tried to minimize the effects of Roe v. Wade. How do you minimize the death of 65 million unborn babies?

The Biden administration has persecuted pro-lifers, including pro-life charities, that support pregnant mothers in need. Indeed, they have been firebombed, attacked and terrorized.
President Trump, himself, has been attacked by the Biden Administration. No other past president of the United States was put on trial, pursued, and accused and bullied. This is to prevent his reelection.
Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, was incarcerated for six months for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic.
A group of nine pro-lifers were arrested and eight were incarcerated; and a woman of 75 years of age who has a serious medical condition was put under house arrest. The nine participated in a rescue on October 22, 2020, at the Washington Surgi-Center where abortionist Cesare Santangelo kills pre-born children through the 9th month of gestation. Those who did not accept any kind of offer were kept in prison until May of 2023 awaiting trial. What happened to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing a speedy trial? Like Fr. Moscinski, they blocked the entrance to an abortion mill, but why were they not just charged with FACE as Fr. Moscinski was? They face an 11 year prison sentence and a hefty fine! This was unprecedented. More on this in a future article.
Why has Biden or his attorney general not investigated the FBI for entering the homes of law-abiding people in the middle of the night? What was to be gained by arresting them in front of their children? These people were not criminals.

We do not hear much about these extraordinary persecutions in the United States of America! The few I mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg.

President Trump’s record leaves no doubt that he is a man who wants to limit abortion.

Trump is blamed by progressives and pro-aborts for his part in nominating the Supreme Court justices who have helped make legal abortion illegal through the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. Most pro-lifers applaud his pro-life actions because the lives of innocent unborn children continue to be saved. Some put the number at 89,000 lives saved this far. A Forbes article mentions 32,000, “About 32,000 More Babies Being Born Annually In U.S. Since Roe V. Wade Overturned, New Analysis Suggests” (November 22, 2023).
Trump commended the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson which overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
At least 65 million innocent unborn babies’ lives were violently ended. In truth all living people have suffered because the atmosphere in the U.S. has changed. This country’s founders were God-fearing men. Abortion may be legal in some countries, but it can never be morally unobjectionable. According to Dobbs v. Jackson, the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion, and the states have the power to regulate any aspect of abortion not protected by federal statutory law as they did before Roe. Many pro-lifers want a federal ban to make abortion illegal in the U.S., but we know we succeed one step at a time.
Trump is given credit by some and hated by others because, while he was the president, he nominated Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh who concurred with Justice Samuel A. Alito, the author of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, who was nominated by President George W. Bush. Remember him? Bush was also hated by those who call themselves pro-choice.
Trump also nominated Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and Justice Amy Coney Barrett who voted with the majority in the Dobbs decision that supports life. The three justices who were nominated by Democrats wrote the dissent supporting abortion.
Trump has been attacked because he wants some exceptions. He said that a woman who has been a victim of incest or rape should be able to have an abortion as well as a woman who is in danger of losing her life. This is vastly different from Biden’s support for unlimited abortion.
Trump ran as a pro-lifer in 2016 when it was reported that most Americans identified as pro-choice. Candidate Trump now says he will leave the issue to the states, perhaps to avoid Biden’s rallying voters around abortion rights.
Trump has been accused of not being pro-life when he was younger. How I wish that more people would change their stance. Remember, too, that in the days of old Trump was not in a position to affect the law of the land.
The status quo after the Dobbs decision is better than the status quo before it, to say nothing of the lives that have already been saved!

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Debate Post-Mortem on Abortion

7/2/2024

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By Gerald Yeung

A considerable amount of time was spent on the topic of abortion (aka feticide) by Presidents Biden and Trump during the CNN Presidential Debate on June 27, 2024.  From the moment the sparks started flying, many commenters have “fact checked” what was said and alleged regarding abortion.  In this brief article, I will add my personal take and evaluate whether and to what extent abortion policy differs between the two candidates.

The Abortion Pill

Early on, Trump revealed his position on chemical abortions, an announcement that he had teased for weeks prior to the debate.  He said that "the Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill,” that he agreed with the decision and would not block abortion medication.  This statement was disappointing but not surprising, given Trump’s recent role in restoring first trimester abortion in Arizona and his past criticism of the Heartbeat Protection Act in Florida.  Abortion medication is approved for use by the FDA through ten weeks of gestation, and now accounts for the majority of abortions in the US.

Returning Abortion to the States

Trump took credit for the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying that “everybody, without exception,” wanted to return the issue to the states. If that were true, why has there been so much contention over Roe v. Wade in the first instance?  Yes it is true that even the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has offered a scathing critique of Roe.  However, Trump's assertion that everyone wanted its demise is seriously disconnected from reality, and Biden called him out on it.

It is debatable whether the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade actually did return the issue of abortion to the states.  Wrote Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” This does not preclude representatives elected to the fed-eral government.

After all, a fundamental human right, like freedom from slavery, should be respected in all states, not just some.  As Biden put it, "The idea that states are able to do this is a little like saying, we’re going to turn civil rights back to the states, let each state have a different rule.”  But to be fair, there are potentially serious impediments to enacting abortion legislation at the federal level.  Any future federal abortion law would certainly face substantial scrutiny under the Tenth Amendment, which delegates certain enumerated powers to the federal government and leaves the rest to the states.

There are some who point to pre-emption of state law by the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor denied equal protection under the law.  However, it is far from clear whether the Supreme Court will recognize the personhood of the unborn, and thus application of the Fourteenth Amendment, any time soon.  Indeed, shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case out of Rhode Island that was designed to evoke a ruling on the issue of personhood.

Nevertheless, subsequent commentary from some of the Justices during oral arguments on abortion-related cases suggests that they may be positioning themselves to eventually take up personhood.  Further, recent rulings from State Supreme Courts like Alabama’s may provide anti-abortion advocates the ammunition to force the issue at the US Supreme Court.

With all the above being said, Trump appears to have washed his hands of advocating for life protections at the federal level in a potential second term by returning to the issue to the states.

Exceptions

Trump reiterated his support of the “exceptions" - rape, incest, and life of the mother.  From a pro-life perspective, this is deeply problematic.  As a matter of principle, there are no exceptions to the unborn child’s right to life. The innocent child conceived in rape or incest is not the one who should be punished.  Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of the mother.  Preterm deliveries and treatment of medical conditions like ectopic pregnancies, while they may result in the loss of the child, are not abortions.

A human life, no matter how short, should be cherished as a gift.  As a practical matter, a pro-life law that has exceptions is better than no law at all.  However, Trump embraces the exceptions up front, and that is morally unacceptable.

Late-Term Abortion

Despite Biden’s efforts to deny it, Trump rightly pointed out that the Democrats support late-term abortion.  Biden and the Democrats support Roe v. Wade, whose broad health exception, confirmed in Doe v. Bolton, allowed abortion up until the moment of birth for virtually any reason.

Trump also mentioned Virginia Governor Northam’s dismissal of concerns about babies born alive after attempted abortions.  Indeed, Democrats have consistently opposed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, despite ample evidence of babies born alive being killed or left to die.

Conclusion

Biden supports abortion, for virtually any reason, up until the moment of birth.  His Party’s obsession with abortion on demand prevents him from supporting even basic protections for infants who survive failed abortion attempts.

Trump would allow some restrictions on abortion, but they would only save a small percentage of babies from being killed before birth.

Both candidates fully support the morally problematic IVF procedure, which was not mentioned at all during the debate.

Despite rhetoric on both sides that signals stark policy differences on abortion, the truth is that there is not much practical daylight between Trump and Biden on this fundamental issue.

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Gerald Yeung is the former chairman of Westchester-Putnam Right to Life Political Action Committee. Reprinted with permission.

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