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Democrats Have Taken The Abortion Debate Into Another Stratosphere
Democrats are amping up their rhetoric on abortion as the fight over Roe heats up. 'Safe, legal and rare' is far-gone slogan.
By Theresa Bonopartis
By Theresa Bonopartis
Abortion ranks right up there as an essential American experience, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and he means to jealously guard the “right” to kill an unborn baby the same way Americans hold their constitutional rights dear. Schumer’s candid admission during a Marist Poll podcast foreshadowed the lengths Democrats would go to block any Supreme Court nominee who does not swear fealty to the cult of death.
Apple pie. Fireworks on the 4th of July. Football on a Sunday afternoon. And abortion?
“We’ve had Roe for so long,” he told the Marist podcasters in August, “and it’s been so much the part and fabric of American life that people think well no matter who’s on the court it’ll pretty much stay where it is. I don’t think that’s accurate.”
It’s hard not to acknowledge the dominating role of abortion in our society, from the way it’s become a litmus test for judicial appointments to billboards straddling highways in the American heartland proudly proclaiming, “People of faith love those who have abortions” and “God loves those who have abortions.”
We have the “Shout Your Abortion” movement, which tells us abortion is normal and beyond reproach: “Our stories are ours to tell. This is not a debate.”
We have countries like Ireland — a long-standing bulwark against unfettered access to abortions at any time and any place — taking their cues from American abortion activists, literally jumping for joy and declaring a “Feminist Christmas” at the repeal of an amendment banning the procedure.
This is not the way abortion was sold to the American public in the wake of Roe v. Wade, and it represents a seismic shift in the way abortion advocates have justified the taking of innocent human life.
Only ten years ago during her first presidential run, Hillary Clinton positioned herself as a moderate on the issue and vowed abortion should be “safe, legal and rare, and by rare, I mean rare.” Extremists on both sides had failed to compromise, Clinton said, drawing rapturous applause from a debate crowd as she lamented “a great failing on all of our parts” to limit abortion.
Eight years later Clinton “recalibrated” her position, dropping the “rare” qualifier and declaring unequivocal support for taxpayer-funded abortions in an effort to appeal to her party’s base during a tougher-than-expected primary run against Sen. Bernie Sanders.
With more than 55 million abortions performed in the U.S. since its legalization with Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion is anything but rare.
Perhaps that explains the shifting rhetoric on the part of abortion supporters like Schumer, who present the killing of the unborn as part of a tapestry, beautifully woven for the health and welfare of women. One need only look closely to see the fabric is frayed and torn almost beyond salvaging as countless lives and families are destroyed as a result of abortion.
It’s not just women either — the issue impacts men, siblings, survivors of botched abortion procedures and the countless relationships torn apart as a result. Yet the public rarely hears about those consequences. We’re led to believe that if we really care for women and their health, we must support abortion. Anything else is deemed unacceptable and opponents are deemed anti-woman, even those of us who have experienced abortion ourselves and suffered because of it.
We’re told we have no right to speak out against it. We’re denied a platform to acknowledge the psychological, spiritual and sometimes physical damage abortion inflicts on women. We’re gaslighted and told other factors are to blame, including religion, and familial and relationship pressure, as if everything but the taking of life itself can inflict trauma.
Men aren’t permitted to grieve for the loss of unborn children, yet countless numbers of them suffer and mourn the children they did not have. Oftentimes the regret surfaces after the birth of subsequent children, leaving the parents to face the reality of what was lost, while society tells them their feelings aren’t real.
Marriages and relationships are destroyed. Women who harbor the secret of a past abortion often have trouble with intimacy and feel they can’t tell their partners why. After all, they’re told, there are no negative consequences from having an abortion.
Surviving siblings come forward as they struggle with feelings of guilt for being alive. They wonder if they were wanted, if they carry the names that would have been given to their aborted siblings, struggling to reconcile how their parents — the people who love and protect them — could have been responsible for the death of a brother or sister. Many suffer silently, feeling there is nowhere to go with their pain.
Finally, we have abortion survivors like the 70-year-old woman who contacted me a few weeks ago after spending her entire life wondering why her mother tried to end her life. Why would a mother do that? There are no easy answers. Decades after she was told, this woman still struggles with the knowledge that she was unwanted.
Try as they might to remove the stigma of abortion, the tattered fabric remains in the lives of millions who have been impacted. Abortion extremists may be successful in shutting down debate in the public arena, but the people whose lives were touched know the truth.
Those who support abortion will say it doesn’t bother them. They may even shout for joy when restrictions on killing their children are rolled back. But those who suffer know the negative impact of abortion, whether the Schumer's of the world choose to acknowledge it or not.
Yes, abortion is part of the fabric of American life, tattered, worn and ripped. Hopefully we will wake up and heal as a nation before we are hanging on by a thread.
Theresa Bonopartis is the director of Lumina, which offers hope and healing to those suffering after abortions, and the co-developer of Entering Canaan, a post-abortion ministry.
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FBI lawyer's testimony at odds with Rosenstein denial on 'wire' report
Catherine Herridge | Fox News
Two senior FBI officials told the bureau’s top lawyer they believed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was “serious” when he discussed secretly recording President Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office last year, according to sources close to a congressional investigation – an account that conflicts with claims from Rosenstein and others that the comments either were inaccurately reported or made in jest.
Former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker told congressional investigators during a closed-door deposition last week that then-FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe and FBI lawyer Lisa Page came to Baker "contemporaneously" after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. Baker said Page and McCabe relayed details of the meeting where Rosenstein made the comments.
Though he wasn't personally in that meeting, Baker told congressional investigators he took McCabe and Page's account “seriously,” the sources said. Further, Baker told congressional investigators he suspected “Rosenstein was coordinating with two people in the administration to invoke the 25th Amendment,” a source said.
Baker, whose testimony was described as deliberate and sober, added he had not done a legal analysis and was unsure whether it was “unethical or illegal,” the source added.
The testimony would appear at odds with other accounts of those explosive discussions.
The New York Times first reported the details of the alleged discussions between Rosenstein and senior FBI officials in May 2017, one day before Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to oversee the Russia investigation. After the allegations surfaced, Fox News reported on Sept. 22, based on a source who was in the meeting, that Rosenstein's "wire" comments were viewed as "sarcastic." Rosenstein also released a statement saying, "I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the President is absolutely false."
The report triggered new tensions between the White House and DOJ, where Rosenstein oversees the Mueller-led probe. Amid speculation that the deputy attorney general might be fired or quit, a meeting between Trump and Rosenstein was pushed off repeatedly -- until Monday, when the two met for 45 minutes aboard Air Force One, en route to a police conference in Florida. Trump said the conversation was "great," and he has no plans to fire Rosenstein.
Fox News has learned that the meeting in question included Rosenstein, McCabe and Page, among others, and took place at the Justice Department.
Asked about Baker’s account, a DOJ spokesperson said the department stood by its previous statements.
A spokesperson for McCabe declined to comment. McCabe’s memos documenting the Rosenstein meeting were turned over to Mueller. The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for the records, but they were not provided by last Thursday’s deadline. A lawyer for Lisa Page did not respond.
As the former FBI general counsel, Baker was a senior figure with a pivotal position who had the ear of the FBI director.
Baker also is at the heart of surveillance abuse accusations, many from congressional Republicans. His deposition lays the groundwork for a planned closed-door House GOP interview with Rosenstein later this week.
Baker, formerly the FBI's top lawyer, helped secure the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, as well as three subsequent renewals. Prior to the deposition, Republican investigators said they believed Baker could explain why information about the British ex-spy behind a salacious Trump-related dossier, Christopher Steele, and Steele’s apparent bias against then-candidate Trump, were withheld from the FISA court, and whether other exculpatory information was known to Rosenstein when he signed the final FISA renewal for Page in June 2017.
Fox News asked Baker after last week’s deposition about the handling of the Trump dossier, what he told Rosenstein about exculpatory evidence and whether he was the subject of an FBI leak investigation. Baker told Fox News he could not answer such questions.
A Justice Department official said Rosenstein agreed to meet with the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., but offered no details on the format of that meeting.
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.
Tucker Carlson’s eye-opening Kavanaugh BOMBSHELL
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation uncovered the dark underbelly of the Democratic Party and just how extremist the left has become.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson dropped a disturbing bombshell on how toxic the political process in Washington, D.C. has become — and it’s something that every American voter should see.
Offering his “takeaways” from the ugly confirmation process, Carlson called Kavanaugh’s formal swearing-in ceremony with President Donald Trump on Monday as “remarkable moment.”
The media’s reaction, however, was evidence on how unhinged the American left has become.
Trump apologized to Kavanaugh for the ugly accusations leveled against him, which seven separate FBI background check investigations found zero evidence to support. It caused the media to respond with angry disapproval.
“You wouldn’t think our leaders would need to publicly defend the presumption of innocence, and that it’d be controversial when they do,” Carlson said. “The lessons of [Democrats’] defeat are pretty clear. ‘Creepy Porn Lawyers’ make bad national spokesmen — and screaming mobs of child activists scare normal people who are watching at home.”
Carlson was referring to attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents Kavanaugh’s most controversial accuser, Julie Swetnick. Avenatti also represents porn star Stormy Daniels.
“It is, in fact, possible to go too far — and [the Democrats] did.”
But the Fox News star warned viewers that Democrats learned the wrong lesson — and their actions are going to grow more and more extreme.
Carlson said Democrats are arguing that “the Supreme Court is a sham. The Constitution is meaningless. And the electoral college must go.”
In a raw, honest segment, Carlson listed the ways Democrats are growing more radicalized.
It’s something every American should hear… before it’s too late —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=rLLmIJgi6ew
Allen West: We Are Now Fully Embroiled in an Uncivil Ideological Civil War
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson dropped a disturbing bombshell on how toxic the political process in Washington, D.C. has become — and it’s something that every American voter should see.
Offering his “takeaways” from the ugly confirmation process, Carlson called Kavanaugh’s formal swearing-in ceremony with President Donald Trump on Monday as “remarkable moment.”
The media’s reaction, however, was evidence on how unhinged the American left has become.
Trump apologized to Kavanaugh for the ugly accusations leveled against him, which seven separate FBI background check investigations found zero evidence to support. It caused the media to respond with angry disapproval.
“You wouldn’t think our leaders would need to publicly defend the presumption of innocence, and that it’d be controversial when they do,” Carlson said. “The lessons of [Democrats’] defeat are pretty clear. ‘Creepy Porn Lawyers’ make bad national spokesmen — and screaming mobs of child activists scare normal people who are watching at home.”
Carlson was referring to attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents Kavanaugh’s most controversial accuser, Julie Swetnick. Avenatti also represents porn star Stormy Daniels.
“It is, in fact, possible to go too far — and [the Democrats] did.”
But the Fox News star warned viewers that Democrats learned the wrong lesson — and their actions are going to grow more and more extreme.
Carlson said Democrats are arguing that “the Supreme Court is a sham. The Constitution is meaningless. And the electoral college must go.”
In a raw, honest segment, Carlson listed the ways Democrats are growing more radicalized.
It’s something every American should hear… before it’s too late —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=rLLmIJgi6ew
Allen West: We Are Now Fully Embroiled in an Uncivil Ideological Civil War
Retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Allen West (Screenshot)
Let me start by cautioning constitutional conservatives on being giddy, gloating, and excessively celebrating over the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. College football head coach emeritus Lou Holtz once admonished his players that when they end up in the end zone and score a touchdown, act like you have been there before. Yes, a good man survived, withstood, the most vile, vicious, and vitriolic of assaults and character assassination from the progressive, socialist left. Already the left has evidenced that they are not done. They now want to investigate and impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The question to be asked: why?
Once upon a time, we taught civics in our schools, and our children were raised to understand the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial. We taught the rule of law, our Constitution, and its enumerated powers given to each respective branch of government. We instructed future generations on how these branches were coequal and that there were checks and balances in place to prevent any certain branch from accumulating power. As a matter of fact, the branch of government that has the most enumerated powers according to our Constitution is the legislative branch. That is because in our constitutional republic we have a representative democracy.
However, the Kavanaugh episode has opened our eyes to a very disconcerting development in America, the rise of a mobocracy. And for those who are observant, and not fearful of saying what needs to be said, we have seen this coming for some time. It has become increasingly apparent ever since Donald Trump won the presidency.
The conflagration in America is no longer about political party, it is about the political philosophy, ideology. It is, for the progressive, socialist left, not about the three branches of government, it is about their three branches of rule – the media, academia, and the courts.
During this Kavanaugh episode, we saw the clear one-sided partisan position of the liberal, progressive media. I am quite sure if the Media Research Center was to do a positive/negative analysis of how the mainstream media covered the Kavanaugh nomination and hearings, along with the allegations and accusations of sexual misconduct it would be no surprise. The left in America must have this very important branch to rule. As it was once said by an infamous propagandist, if you repeat a lie often enough, it will eventually become the truth. To rule, the progressive, socialist left must own the narrative. They must have the capability – and the 24/7 news cycle gives them this – to promulgate and proliferate not objective analysis, but their ideological message and talking points. And it is no coincidence that the media message oft-times is aligned with the message of the progressive socialist elected officials. The media, for the leftists, is not just a fourth estate, it is a very vital branch of their rule.
Pay attention, as you will see the talking points of the Democratic [Socialist] Party being parroted by the leftist media. Namely, the objective is to investigate and impeach Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and that is why the media will advocate political control of the Mobocrat party.
The second branch of rule for the progressive socialists is academia. As previously mentioned, we are not teaching civics. So what is it that we are teaching? Ahh, that is the seminal question, and the answer is that our children are not being taught. They are being indoctrinated. Consider the Georgetown University professor who was censored by Twitter for her rant about Judge Kavanaugh being a serial rapist and suggesting that the entitled white men supporting Kavanaugh deserve miserable deaths. If we do not have the rule of law and due process being taught in our halls of academia, what are we producing on our college and university campuses, our High Schools? There were reports that college professors were giving credits to students going out to protest the Kavanaugh nomination. Should those students have been in class and learning about the three branches of government, the enumerated power of the executive branch to nominate a SCOTUS justice? Should those students not have been in class for earning their degree in their respective majors … not to be indoctrinated into ideological foot soldiers for the mob? Maybe, post-Kavanaugh confirmation, there should be open forums on these campuses to have intellectual discourse, debate, to better educate and enlighten these students on the Supreme Court nomination process and due process. Chances are, that will not happen, since you will only see more mob rule on these campuses and the most abhorrent behavior facing anyone that does not submit and subjugate to the ideological agenda of the progressive, socialist left.
Let’s be honest, the left is not about to cede over any opportunity for constitutional conservatives to impact, or influence, simply to have a voice in their second branch of rule.
Lastly, the most important branch of rule for the progressive, socialist left is our courts. And this is the reason why the left has gone into a catastrophic, apoplectic meltdown over President Donald Trump’s second SCOTUS selection. The progressive, socialist left does not mind losing the legislative and executive branch. They will figure out a way, legal or not, to obtain power in those two branches, but they cannot stomach losing the ability to mandate their ideological agenda via judicial activism. And, since we are not teaching future generations that courts do not make laws – they are supposed to interpret laws – we have come to this place in America.
What has sent the left in America over the edge is that they now realize their three branches of rule is failing. The American people have stood up to them, their threats, intimidations, coercion, and violence, and the left no longer controls any of the three branches of government, including the one that is sacrosanct for them: the Supreme Court.
Ladies and gents, we are now fully embroiled in an uncivil ideological civil war. As I previously wrote in a commentary, it comes down to the rule of law versus the rule of the mob. It comes down to whether or not we have three branches of governance in this republic. Or do we have three branches of rule that influences and uses the culture to achieve its ends – by any means necessary.
Always remember, after you score a touchdown, you kick the ball back to the opposing team. In the military, after a successful attack and achieving your objective, you must prepare for a counterattack. America, the choice is simple, we can choose to have governance that is based upon the fundamentals of this constitutional republic, or we can choose to be ruled based upon the whims of the mob.
Allen West is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Mr. West is a Senior Fellow at the Media Research Center to support its mission to expose and neutralize liberal media bias and is author of the forthcoming book from Brown Books Publishing Group coming this fall, “Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death.”
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