lifesitenews--2020-08-19--Daleiden explains how Biden VP pick Kamala Harris abused police powers for Planned Parenthood

August 19 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Pro-life activist David Daleiden has accused the Democratic nominee for vice president , Senator Kamala Harris ( D-Calif. ) , of acting “ at the behest ” of abortion provider Planned Parenthood , calling her “ a dangerous candidate.
” During an interview with Breitbart News Sunday , a weekly radio show on SiriusXM , Daleiden said , “ Kamala Harris is the biggest threat to First Amendment civil liberties and First Amendment civil rights that our country has ever seen , in my opinion.
” Before becoming a senator and then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mate , Harris worked as attorney general of California .
In that position , she played a key role in defending Planned Parenthood over its sale of aborted baby parts ( which violated multiple federal laws , according to undercover video of abortion industry personnel ) .
Instead of investigating Planned Parenthood for illegal activity , Harris announced she would investigate Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress ( CMP ) .
She subsequently ordered a raid on Daleiden ’ s home while accepting the abortion giant ’ s donations for her Senate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Harris to resign over the apparent conflict of interest , and Daleiden ’ s attorneys cited leaked emails that showed Harris ’ s office coordinating with Planned Parenthood to draft legislation to criminalize undercover investigations like CMP ’ s .
In May , Daleiden filed a lawsuit against Harris ; Planned Parenthood ; and Harris ’ s successor , California attorney general Xavier Becerra , for a “ brazen , unprecedented , and ongoing conspiracy to selectively use California ’ s video recording laws as a political weapon to silence disfavored speech.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Daleiden recounted his experience of Kamala Harris as attorney general .
“ Kamala Harris , at the behest of her political patron — Planned Parenthood — targeted me for criminal punishment solely because of the content of the message that I was publishing and speaking at the time as you mentioned the undercover video series showing top-level Planned Parenthood officials callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of tiny aborted baby hearts and lungs and livers and brains , ” he said .
He also pointed out the hypocrisy of Harris selectively enforcing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in public places like restaurants .
“ In the State of California , when Kamala Harris was the attorney general , you could do undercover investigations of factory farming , corrupt chiropractors , [ and ] fraudulent air conditioning repairmen , ” he explained .
“ Local TV news journalists in California [ were ] filming and publishing undercover video with conversations — sometimes even in private office spaces — and publishing these videos in on [ sic ] a daily [ , ] weekly basis .
Not a single one of those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were prosecuted by Kamala Harris ’ s attorney general ’ s office.
” Meanwhile , “ if you did the exact same kind of undercover filming and publishing , and your message was something that questioned Planned Parenthood or questioned the abortion industry — the sacred cows of Kamala Harris and the San Francisco political establishment in California — then in that case , I became the first and only person involved in news gathering , the first and only citizen journalist in the state of California to ever have the California video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Daleiden explained that “ California has a video recording law that you ’ re not allowed to record private or confidential conversations … If it ’ s a conversation that can be overheard by anybody , if it ’ s out in a public area , if it ’ s at a public restaurant , then that ’ s permitted .
And that ’ s typically what news organizations and what citizen reporters do in California.
” He also emphasized Harris ’ hypocrisy in handling his case , compared to other cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conversations in public places .
“ Kamala Harris ’ deputy prosecutor , ” Daleiden said , “ admitted a few years later in 2018 in a filing in court that the reason that I alone have become the first citizen journalist in California to be prosecuted under the California video recording law — to have that law criminally enforced against me when it was enforced against against nobody else for news gathering in California — is because of the content of the videos themselves.
” “ It is blatant , unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kamala Harris disagrees with , ” Daleiden commented .
“ So , she is a huge threat to our First Amendment civil liberties in this country.
” Regarding the relationship between Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris , he said , “ Just two weeks before she ordered the raid on my home , Kamala Harris had a secret in-person meeting in Los Angeles with several top-level Planned Parenthood of California officials.
” “ We have the action items from that meeting in an email that was produced to us in discovering the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the meeting was primarily to discuss Planned Parenthood ’ s political agenda in the state of California , but included within their political agenda were the issues involved in Kamala Harris ’ s investigation of me , ” he continued .
The current Democratic nominee for vice president was thus “ blatantly mixing her political constituent services functions with her law enforcement powers and basically prostituting her law enforcement powers to the service of her political campaign donors.
” Daleiden said Harris was engaging in her activities despite a conflict of interest .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Senate at that exact same time in March and April in 2016 .
She had petitions urging political support for Planned Parenthood on her campaign website.
” “ It is a blatant use and abuse of law enforcement power solely to serve private partisan political interests , and that is why she is such a dangerous candidate , ” Daleiden emphasized .

The man who exposed Planned Parenthood's sale of babies' body parts called Harris 'the biggest threat to First Amendment civil liberties and First Amendment civil rights that our country has ever seen.'
August 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life activist David Daleiden has accused the Democratic nominee for vice president, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), of acting “at the behest” of abortion provider Planned Parenthood, calling her “a dangerous candidate.”
During an interview with Breitbart News Sunday, a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, Daleiden said, “Kamala Harris is the biggest threat to First Amendment civil liberties and First Amendment civil rights that our country has ever seen, in my opinion.”
Before becoming a senator and then presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate, Harris worked as attorney general of California. In that position, she played a key role in defending Planned Parenthood over its sale of aborted baby parts (which violated multiple federal laws, according to undercover video of abortion industry personnel).
Instead of investigating Planned Parenthood for illegal activity, Harris announced she would investigate Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress (CMP). She subsequently ordered a raid on Daleiden’s home while accepting the abortion giant’s donations for her Senate run.
Numerous pro-life organizations called on Harris to resign over the apparent conflict of interest, and Daleiden’s attorneys cited leaked emails that showed Harris’s office coordinating with Planned Parenthood to draft legislation to criminalize undercover investigations like CMP’s.
In May, Daleiden filed a lawsuit against Harris; Planned Parenthood; and Harris’s successor, California attorney general Xavier Becerra, for a “brazen, unprecedented, and ongoing conspiracy to selectively use California’s video recording laws as a political weapon to silence disfavored speech.”
In his conversation with Breitbart News Sunday, Daleiden recounted his experience of Kamala Harris as attorney general.
“Kamala Harris, at the behest of her political patron — Planned Parenthood — targeted me for criminal punishment solely because of the content of the message that I was publishing and speaking at the time as you mentioned the undercover video series showing top-level Planned Parenthood officials callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of tiny aborted baby hearts and lungs and livers and brains,” he said.
He also pointed out the hypocrisy of Harris selectively enforcing state law on recording conversations taking place in public places like restaurants.
“In the State of California, when Kamala Harris was the attorney general, you could do undercover investigations of factory farming, corrupt chiropractors, [and] fraudulent air conditioning repairmen,” he explained.
“Local TV news journalists in California [were] filming and publishing undercover video with conversations — sometimes even in private office spaces — and publishing these videos in on [sic] a daily[,] weekly basis. Not a single one of those journalists ever had their home raided or were prosecuted by Kamala Harris’s attorney general’s office.”
Meanwhile, “if you did the exact same kind of undercover filming and publishing, and your message was something that questioned Planned Parenthood or questioned the abortion industry — the sacred cows of Kamala Harris and the San Francisco political establishment in California — then in that case, I became the first and only person involved in news gathering, the first and only citizen journalist in the state of California to ever have the California video recording law enforced against me, criminally.”
Daleiden explained that “California has a video recording law that you’re not allowed to record private or confidential conversations … If it’s a conversation that can be overheard by anybody, if it’s out in a public area, if it’s at a public restaurant, then that’s permitted. And that’s typically what news organizations and what citizen reporters do in California.”
He also emphasized Harris’ hypocrisy in handling his case, compared to other cases where her office relied on recordings of conversations in public places.
“Kamala Harris’ deputy prosecutor,” Daleiden said, “admitted a few years later in 2018 in a filing in court that the reason that I alone have become the first citizen journalist in California to be prosecuted under the California video recording law — to have that law criminally enforced against me when it was enforced against against nobody else for news gathering in California — is because of the content of the videos themselves.”
“It is blatant, unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and invidious targeting of Americans whose message Kamala Harris disagrees with,” Daleiden commented. “So, she is a huge threat to our First Amendment civil liberties in this country.”
Regarding the relationship between Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris, he said, “Just two weeks before she ordered the raid on my home, Kamala Harris had a secret in-person meeting in Los Angeles with several top-level Planned Parenthood of California officials.”
“We have the action items from that meeting in an email that was produced to us in discovering the case, and those action items show that the meeting was primarily to discuss Planned Parenthood’s political agenda in the state of California, but included within their political agenda were the issues involved in Kamala Harris’s investigation of me,” he continued.
The current Democratic nominee for vice president was thus “blatantly mixing her political constituent services functions with her law enforcement powers and basically prostituting her law enforcement powers to the service of her political campaign donors.”
Daleiden said Harris was engaging in her activities despite a conflict of interest. “She was running for United States Senate at that exact same time in March and April in 2016. She had petitions urging political support for Planned Parenthood on her campaign website.”
“It is a blatant use and abuse of law enforcement power solely to serve private partisan political interests, and that is why she is such a dangerous candidate,” Daleiden emphasized.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-19--‘No Catholic can vote for Joe Biden’: Pro-life priests explain

August 18 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Top pro-life priests in the United States have said that no Catholic can vote for Joe Biden .
Yet , in campaign videos , Joe Biden is touting his Catholicism over and over again .
Last week , a U.S. bishop tweeted that Biden is not a Catholic , but homosexuality-promoting priest Fr .
James Martin defended him , insisting that he is a Catholic .
No surprise there .
But seriously , with all the gaffes , sex abuse scandal , and lies surrounding Joe Biden , how can it be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic candidate for this all-important election ?
Joe Biden ?
Really ?
Is that the best candidate the Democrats could come up with for this election , which from both sides is being regarded as the most important election perhaps in U.S. history ?
It is so strange that it seems almost like a joke .
His gaffes are remarkable — for someone running for president , surely , but not for someone of his advanced age .
Even the liberal newspapers and commentators are calling him out for his lies .
His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cringeworthy that I feel like running out of the room when they are played .
Even hardcore leftists are saying they believe the horrific sexual abuse testimony of his former aide , Tara Reade , but still are going to vote for Biden — in their minds a sexual abuser — nonetheless .
“ I don ’ t want an investigation .
I want a coronation of Joe Biden , ” declared Martin Tolchin , a former New York Times journalist who helped found The Hill and Politico .
“ I don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be .
I want a win , the removal of Donald Trump from office.
” Tolchin also expressed fear at the possibility of an investigation revealing “ damaging information concerning [ Biden ’ s ] relationship with Tara Reade or something else , ” such that he was forced to drop out in favor of a weaker Democrat .
“ Should we really risk the possibility ?
” Lisa Bloom , a trial lawyer who previously represented women who claimed that President Donald Trump had sexually harassed them , wrote on Twitter that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will support him anyway in order to “ fight Trump.
” Her tweet reads : “ I believe you , Tara Reade .
You have people who remember you told them about this decades ago .
We know he is ‘ handsy.
’ You 're not asking for $ .
You 've obviously struggled mightily with this .
I still have to fight Trump , so I will still support Joe .
But I believe you .
And I ’ m sorry.
” Given all that , you ’ d be forgiven for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this month , Biden released a second campaign video touting his supposed Catholic faith and friendship with Pope Francis .
LifeSite reporter Paul Smeaton reports that the short video shows Biden and Pope Francis smiling and greeting each other , while a voiceover of Biden speaks about an occasion when the two men met at the Vatican .
Back in February , Biden released a similar campaign video featuring Pope Francis in which Biden says he goes to Mass and says the rosary and that faith is what has helped him through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Given Biden ’ s extreme position on abortion — which , according to the faith he claims to profess , is the murder of innocent babies in the womb — his assertion that he is a Catholic is about as authentic as someone with a penchant for killing puppies claiming to be an animal rights activist .
One U.S. bishop took to Twitter to call out Biden for his fake Catholicism .
Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence , Rhode Island tweeted last week , “ Biden-Harris .
First time in awhile that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catholic on it .
Sad.
” Bishop Tobin ’ s tweet garnered many anti-Catholic responses , some even accusing the bishop of pedophilia .
It was also not very surprising that homosexuality-promoting Fr .
James Martin , who has agreed to speak at the Democrat convention , responded to Bishop Tobin with a false “ correction ” of the bishop .
“ Mr .
Biden is a baptized Catholic .
Thus , he is a Catholic , ” Fr .
Martin tweeted .
Well , by definition , Bishop Tobin is correct , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Martin is not .
The 1943 encyclical of Pope Pius XII on the Catholic Church called “ The Mystical Body of Christ ” defines a member of the Catholic Church specifically to exclude those like Biden who claim to be Catholic but separate themselves from the unity of the true faith .
The encyclical reads at paragraph 22 , “ Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith , and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed.
” That is also the sentiment of the top pro-life priests in the country .
Fr .
Frank Pavone , national director of Priests for Life , told LifeSiteNews that Biden ’ s “ failure to protect the unborn puts him not only in conflict with the Catholic faith but with the Founding principles of America , the very meaning of public service , and basic human decency .
You can ’ t kill babies , and you can ’ t authorize anyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pavone told LifeSiteNews that “ Biden is not living as a Catholic [ . ]
… [ A ] s for voting , not only can Catholics not vote for Biden in good conscience , but they can ’ t vote for Democrats , period .
And neither can anyone else.
” “ It ’ s time to stop pretending we can be neutral , ” he continued .
“ The Democrat Party has set itself up against the Church , against the unborn , and against America .
They do not deserve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and anyone who gives it to them shares the guilt of all the evil they do .
And that starts with our religious leaders.
” Fr .
Stephen Imbarrato , an activist pro-life Catholic priest , who is also a regular on EWTN and has particpated in a number of Red Rose Rescues , said , “ Joe Biden has already , rightfully so , been refused communion.
” “ He is a walking and talking scandal to his Catholic faith and has rightly been refused the Eucharist because he persists in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communion with the Church .
He scandalizes the Catholic faith in so many ways that objectively he actually seems ‘ anti Catholic ’ in his beliefs.
” “ I am also begging Catholics to not risk the grave sin of scandal by supporting this man with their vote .
Thus we would be heaping more scandal upon more scandal upon scandal.
” “ Many people respond to my comments with , ‘ what about Trump ?
’ This is not about Trump .
Trump isn ’ t even Catholic .
This is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t vote for Biden whether they feel in good conscience they can or can ’ t vote for Trump , ” he added .
“ Between 45 percent and 48 percent of Catholics voted for Hillary Clinton , ” Fr .
Imbarrato said .
“ Four years later , the situation with Biden as a Catholic is much worse and the choice is much clearer insofar as not who any Catholic can vote for , but who every Catholic can ’ t vote for .
No Catholic can vote for Joe Biden.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden ’ s record on life and family — the two top issues for Catholics in political life , as was explained by Pope Benedict XVI while he was still Cardinal Ratzinger under Pope St. John Paul II .
Biden has been upfront about his agenda to ensure the so-called “ right ” to what he calls women ’ s reproductive health , by which he means permission to kill babies in the womb .
In his Agenda for Women , released in July , Biden promised to restore domestic and overseas funding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Biden said he “ will work to codify Roe v. Wade , and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.
” The largest abortion operation in the USA , Planned Parenthood , has naturally endorsed Biden .
In its statement , PP touted the former vice president ’ s support for expanding access to contraception , increasing legal protections for access to abortion , promoting “ comprehensive sex education , ” and reversing the Trump administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funds from being given to organizations that refer for abortions .
Prior to the announcement being made , Alexis McGill Johnson , acting president of Planned Parenthood , told NPR that November ’ s presidential contest “ is literally a life and death election.
” During the coronavirus crisis — where all sorts of medical procedures were suspended due to the pandemic — Biden wanted to ensure the continuation of abortion .
“ We need to ensure that women have access to all health services during this crisis , ” the Democratic presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an essential health care service.
” Historically , Biden had a slight qualm with forcing Americans to pay for aborting children abroad , but during the campaign , he flip-flopped on the Hyde Amendment .
“ If I believe health care is a right , as I do , I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone ’ s ZIP code , ” Biden declared .
“ I can ’ t justify leaving millions of women without the access to care they need , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” But Biden ’ s abortion-pushing is even more extreme .
When he traveled to Kenya as vice president in 2010 , he urged the then-pro-life government to pass a new constitution that would legalize abortion , bribing them with the promise of funding .
“ We are hopeful , Barack Obama is hopeful , I am hopeful that you will carry out these reforms to allow money to flow , ” Biden told a crowd of Kenyans .
And if that ’ s not bad enough , Biden was even positive on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which , as we all know , included forced abortion and sterilization .
In an August address in China in 2011 , he said he would not “ second-guess ” China ’ s coercive population control policy .
Biden noted that Chinese officials “ share a similar concern ” with American leaders in terms of a shaky economic outlook .
“ You have no safety net .
Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I ’ m not second-guessing — of one child per family , ” said Biden .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the implementation of China ’ s one-child policy was notoriously brutal — with women routinely forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations or handed crippling fines and other punishments for “ illegal pregnancies.
” Human rights activists say as many as 35,000 abortions are performed in China each day , nearly ten times the rate of the United States .
And in case you might think Biden didn ’ t know of the Chinese one-child policy brutality , Biden was informed by the foremost expert on the program , Steven Mosher , who has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has spoken with Biden himself on the issue .
“ I know that Joe Biden ‘ fully understands ’ how women are arrested for the ‘ crime ’ of being pregnant , how they are incarcerated and browbeaten for this ‘ crime , ’ and how they are forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations .
I know because I told him so , ” Mosher said at the time .
“ While serving as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Broadcasting to China , I briefed then-Senator Biden on population control , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ clearly pandering to his Chinese hosts ” in brushing off the policy ’ s moral significance .
“ This wasn ’ t ignorance and it wasn ’ t a gaffe .
Biden wanted China ’ s communist leaders to know that he and the President he serves are more than willing to turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed in the name of the one-child policy , ” he said .
On the family issue , Biden has been just as extreme .
Biden himself boasts of having endorsed homosexual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barack Obama did .
On August 1 , 2016 , Biden actually officiated at a homosexual “ marriage ” ceremony , holding it in the vice president ’ s residence .
He then tweeted out a picture of the two men holding hands as he looked on approvingly .
Commenting in the tweet , he said : “ Proud to marry [ sic ] Brian and Joe at my house .
Couldn ’ t be happier , two longtime White House staffers , two great guys.
” Biden announced in June that his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his so-called “ Equality Act.
” The actual title of the document is “ The Plan to Address LGBTQ Equality in America and Around the World.
” In an incisive analysis of the plan at LIfeSIteNews , Paula Rinehart notes , “ The real rub is that sexual orientation and gender identity are granted special legal status with the power to trump religious convictions .
Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies would not receive federal grants unless they agreed to place children in same-sex homes.
” She explains in Biden ’ s plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bathrooms and locker rooms of their choosing .
Conversion therapy becomes a punishable offense .
Government forms would be required to have a “ third option ” for non-binary individuals .
It would be legal nightmare to terminate a pastor or Christian schoolteacher who decides to present himself as the opposite sex or live a gay lifestyle .
Women ’ s sports would be dominated by men on hormones .
Biden said in January , one day after the March for Life , which he knows pro-lifers call the civil rights issue of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be clear : Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.
” In that tweet , Biden added : “ There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.
” James Shupe , a man who underwent radical surgery to change his sex organs and then regretted his actions and attempted to return to normalcy , warned Americans what Biden ’ s vision for America means .
At LifeSite , you can read that Shupe , who was America ’ s first legally “ non-binary ” person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sex , offered a short litany about the disastrous impact transgenderism has had on society and , in particular , on women and girls .
“ Men in women ’ s bathrooms with little girls .
Males winning 1st place in female sports .
Males in women ’ s homeless shelters .
Male predators being placed in female prisons based on ‘ feelings ’ of being a woman , ” tweeted Shupe .
“ And Biden calls it the civil rights issue of our time .
Women do you agree ?
” There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ let me close by appealing to those Catholics who may disagree with me about the election and feel the need to vote for Biden despite all of that .
At 77 , Biden will soon be meeting his Maker .
Now is the time to be praying for him to convert , not goading him on to a position where he will do untold harm to the nation and his own soul .
And the perspective of those top pro-life priests in the United States shows true Catholic concern for Biden ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bishops who are failing in their duty to discipline Biden .
Fr .
Imbarrato told LifeSiteNews , “ A more concerning potential scandal may be that the U.S. bishops have not forthrightly proclaimed [ Biden ’ s defiance of his Catholic faith ] — what every Catholic knows yet half choose to ignore because the bishops have ignored it and remain silent about it.
” “ The silence of the U.S. bishops about Joe Biden may even a greater scandal than Biden ’ s idolatry ( by which he places his intrinsically evil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a case can be made that he indulges in such scandal and idolatry because of the tacit approval from our shepherds.
” A few bishops have indeed warned Biden , called him out , even , saying he should be denied Holy Communion .
But most have remained silent .
That silence shows a real negligence and lack of concern about Biden ’ s eternal salvation .
St. Paul warns in the Bible about receiving Communion : “ Whoever , therefore , eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profaning the body and blood of the Lord ” ( 1 Cor .
11:27 ) .
Such a person , says St. Paul , “ drinks judgment to himself.
” The head of Human Life International explained in an article posted at LifeSite : There is a petition at LifeSite where over 20,000 people have urged the U.S. bishops to refuse Holy Communion to Biden .
We acknowledge that making a decision to exclude public figures from Holy Communion is not easy .
But sometimes , says the petition , this is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ error of their ways and to preserve the Church from serious scandal .
As one of the petition ’ s signers myself , I say with all the rest , “ We do not hold ourselves up as judges over Joe Biden 's eternal soul , but we encourage you to make known one of the consequences of public and obstinate support of abortion by our ‘ Catholic ’ politicians ... pro-abortion politicians , who also proclaim themselves to be ‘ Catholic , ’ should not think that they can demean the Body @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human beings — with no consequence.
” In the end , we thank the bishops for taking leadership in this matter , and we pledge to pray for the bishops and for Catholic politicians .
Join me in that prayer , and also go over and sign on to that petition by clicking here .
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'Not only can Catholics not vote for Biden in good conscience, but they can’t vote for Democrats, period.'
PETITION: Urge Catholic bishops to refuse Holy Communion to pro-abortion Biden! Sign the petition here.
August 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Top pro-life priests in the United States have said that no Catholic can vote for Joe Biden. Yet, in campaign videos, Joe Biden is touting his Catholicism over and over again. Last week, a U.S. bishop tweeted that Biden is not a Catholic, but homosexuality-promoting priest Fr. James Martin defended him, insisting that he is a Catholic. No surprise there.
But seriously, with all the gaffes, sex abuse scandal, and lies surrounding Joe Biden, how can it be that he was selected to be the Democratic candidate for this all-important election?
Joe Biden? Really? Is that the best candidate the Democrats could come up with for this election, which from both sides is being regarded as the most important election perhaps in U.S. history?
It is so strange that it seems almost like a joke.
But it’s no joke.
His gaffes are remarkable — for someone running for president, surely, but not for someone of his advanced age.
Even the liberal newspapers and commentators are calling him out for his lies.
His creepy touching and kissing videos are so cringeworthy that I feel like running out of the room when they are played.
Even hardcore leftists are saying they believe the horrific sexual abuse testimony of his former aide, Tara Reade, but still are going to vote for Biden — in their minds a sexual abuser — nonetheless.
“I don’t want an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden,” declared Martin Tolchin, a former New York Times journalist who helped found The Hill and Politico. “I don’t want justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from office.”
Tolchin also expressed fear at the possibility of an investigation revealing “damaging information concerning [Biden’s] relationship with Tara Reade or something else,” such that he was forced to drop out in favor of a weaker Democrat. “Should we really risk the possibility?”
Lisa Bloom, a trial lawyer who previously represented women who claimed that President Donald Trump had sexually harassed them, wrote on Twitter that she believes that Biden assaulted Reade but will support him anyway in order to “fight Trump.”
Her tweet reads: “I believe you, Tara Reade. You have people who remember you told them about this decades ago. We know he is ‘handsy.’ You're not asking for $. You've obviously struggled mightily with this. I still have to fight Trump, so I will still support Joe. But I believe you. And I’m sorry.”
Given all that, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s shocking that earlier this month, Biden released a second campaign video touting his supposed Catholic faith and friendship with Pope Francis.
LifeSite reporter Paul Smeaton reports that the short video shows Biden and Pope Francis smiling and greeting each other, while a voiceover of Biden speaks about an occasion when the two men met at the Vatican.
Back in February, Biden released a similar campaign video featuring Pope Francis in which Biden says he goes to Mass and says the rosary and that faith is what has helped him through the most difficult moments in his life.
Given Biden’s extreme position on abortion — which, according to the faith he claims to profess, is the murder of innocent babies in the womb — his assertion that he is a Catholic is about as authentic as someone with a penchant for killing puppies claiming to be an animal rights activist.
One U.S. bishop took to Twitter to call out Biden for his fake Catholicism. Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island tweeted last week, “Biden-Harris. First time in awhile that the Democratic ticket hasn’t had a Catholic on it. Sad.”
Bishop Tobin’s tweet garnered many anti-Catholic responses, some even accusing the bishop of pedophilia.
It was also not very surprising that homosexuality-promoting Fr. James Martin, who has agreed to speak at the Democrat convention, responded to Bishop Tobin with a false “correction” of the bishop.
“Mr. Biden is a baptized Catholic. Thus, he is a Catholic,” Fr. Martin tweeted.
Well, by definition, Bishop Tobin is correct, and surprise, surprise: Fr. Martin is not.
The 1943 encyclical of Pope Pius XII on the Catholic Church called “The Mystical Body of Christ” defines a member of the Catholic Church specifically to exclude those like Biden who claim to be Catholic but separate themselves from the unity of the true faith.
The encyclical reads at paragraph 22, “Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed.”
That is also the sentiment of the top pro-life priests in the country.
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, told LifeSiteNews that Biden’s “failure to protect the unborn puts him not only in conflict with the Catholic faith but with the Founding principles of America, the very meaning of public service, and basic human decency. You can’t kill babies, and you can’t authorize anyone else to do so.”
Fr. Pavone told LifeSiteNews that “Biden is not living as a Catholic[.] … [A]s for voting, not only can Catholics not vote for Biden in good conscience, but they can’t vote for Democrats, period. And neither can anyone else.”
“It’s time to stop pretending we can be neutral,” he continued. “The Democrat Party has set itself up against the Church, against the unborn, and against America. They do not deserve one ounce of power in this country, and anyone who gives it to them shares the guilt of all the evil they do. And that starts with our religious leaders.”
Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, an activist pro-life Catholic priest, who is also a regular on EWTN and has particpated in a number of Red Rose Rescues, said, “Joe Biden has already, rightfully so, been refused communion.” “He is a walking and talking scandal to his Catholic faith and has rightly been refused the Eucharist because he persists in ongoing mortal sin thus separating himself from communion with the Church. He scandalizes the Catholic faith in so many ways that objectively he actually seems ‘anti Catholic’ in his beliefs.”
Fr. Imbarrato declared simply, unequivocally, “No Catholic can vote for Joe Biden.”
“I am also begging Catholics to not risk the grave sin of scandal by supporting this man with their vote. Thus we would be heaping more scandal upon more scandal upon scandal.”
“Many people respond to my comments with, ‘what about Trump?’ This is not about Trump. Trump isn’t even Catholic. This is a Catholic issue. A Catholic can’t vote for Biden whether they feel in good conscience they can or can’t vote for Trump,” he added.
“Between 45 percent and 48 percent of Catholics voted for Hillary Clinton,” Fr. Imbarrato said. “Four years later, the situation with Biden as a Catholic is much worse and the choice is much clearer insofar as not who any Catholic can vote for, but who every Catholic can’t vote for. No Catholic can vote for Joe Biden.”
Joe Biden’s pro-abortion record
Let’s take a look at Biden’s record on life and family — the two top issues for Catholics in political life, as was explained by Pope Benedict XVI while he was still Cardinal Ratzinger under Pope St. John Paul II.
Biden has been upfront about his agenda to ensure the so-called “right” to what he calls women’s reproductive health, by which he means permission to kill babies in the womb. In his Agenda for Women, released in July, Biden promised to restore domestic and overseas funding to the abortion industry cut by Trump.
Biden said he “will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.”
The largest abortion operation in the USA, Planned Parenthood, has naturally endorsed Biden. In its statement, PP touted the former vice president’s support for expanding access to contraception, increasing legal protections for access to abortion, promoting “comprehensive sex education,” and reversing the Trump administration’s rule prohibiting Title X taxpayer funds from being given to organizations that refer for abortions. Prior to the announcement being made, Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood, told NPR that November’s presidential contest “is literally a life and death election.”
During the coronavirus crisis — where all sorts of medical procedures were suspended due to the pandemic — Biden wanted to ensure the continuation of abortion. “We need to ensure that women have access to all health services during this crisis,” the Democratic presidential candidate said, adding that “abortion is an essential health care service.”
Historically, Biden had a slight qualm with forcing Americans to pay for aborting children abroad, but during the campaign, he flip-flopped on the Hyde Amendment. “If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone’s ZIP code,” Biden declared. “I can’t justify leaving millions of women without the access to care they need, and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right.”
But Biden’s abortion-pushing is even more extreme. When he traveled to Kenya as vice president in 2010, he urged the then-pro-life government to pass a new constitution that would legalize abortion, bribing them with the promise of funding. “We are hopeful, Barack Obama is hopeful, I am hopeful that you will carry out these reforms to allow money to flow,” Biden told a crowd of Kenyans.
And if that’s not bad enough, Biden was even positive on China’s brutal one-child policy, which, as we all know, included forced abortion and sterilization. In an August address in China in 2011, he said he would not “second-guess” China’s coercive population control policy.
Biden noted that Chinese officials “share a similar concern” with American leaders in terms of a shaky economic outlook. “You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family,” said Biden.
As LifeSite reported at the time, the implementation of China’s one-child policy was notoriously brutal — with women routinely forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations or handed crippling fines and other punishments for “illegal pregnancies.” Human rights activists say as many as 35,000 abortions are performed in China each day, nearly ten times the rate of the United States.
And in case you might think Biden didn’t know of the Chinese one-child policy brutality, Biden was informed by the foremost expert on the program, Steven Mosher, who has personally witnessed forced abortions in China and has spoken with Biden himself on the issue.
“I know that Joe Biden ‘fully understands’ how women are arrested for the ‘crime’ of being pregnant, how they are incarcerated and browbeaten for this ‘crime,’ and how they are forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations. I know because I told him so,” Mosher said at the time.
“While serving as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Broadcasting to China, I briefed then-Senator Biden on population control, Chinese style.” Mosher also accused Biden of “clearly pandering to his Chinese hosts” in brushing off the policy’s moral significance. “This wasn’t ignorance and it wasn’t a gaffe. Biden wanted China’s communist leaders to know that he and the President he serves are more than willing to turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed in the name of the one-child policy,” he said.
On the family issue, Biden has been just as extreme.
Biden himself boasts of having endorsed homosexual “marriage” in 2012, before Barack Obama did.
On August 1, 2016, Biden actually officiated at a homosexual “marriage” ceremony, holding it in the vice president’s residence. He then tweeted out a picture of the two men holding hands as he looked on approvingly. Commenting in the tweet, he said: “Proud to marry [sic] Brian and Joe at my house. Couldn’t be happier, two longtime White House staffers, two great guys.”
Biden announced in June that his top priority if elected will be imposing his so-called “Equality Act.” The actual title of the document is “The Plan to Address LGBTQ Equality in America and Around the World.”
In an incisive analysis of the plan at LIfeSIteNews, Paula Rinehart notes, “The real rub is that sexual orientation and gender identity are granted special legal status with the power to trump religious convictions. Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies would not receive federal grants unless they agreed to place children in same-sex homes.” She explains in Biden’s plan, students would be guaranteed access to bathrooms and locker rooms of their choosing. Conversion therapy becomes a punishable offense. Government forms would be required to have a “third option” for non-binary individuals. It would be legal nightmare to terminate a pastor or Christian schoolteacher who decides to present himself as the opposite sex or live a gay lifestyle. Women’s sports would be dominated by men on hormones.
Biden said in January, one day after the March for Life, which he knows pro-lifers call the civil rights issue of our time, “Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” In that tweet, Biden added: “There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.”
James Shupe, a man who underwent radical surgery to change his sex organs and then regretted his actions and attempted to return to normalcy, warned Americans what Biden’s vision for America means.
At LifeSite, you can read that Shupe, who was America’s first legally “non-binary” person and has since reclaimed his male birth sex, offered a short litany about the disastrous impact transgenderism has had on society and, in particular, on women and girls.
“Men in women’s bathrooms with little girls. Males winning 1st place in female sports. Males in women’s homeless shelters. Male predators being placed in female prisons based on ‘feelings’ of being a woman,” tweeted Shupe. “And Biden calls it the civil rights issue of our time. Women do you agree?”
There is much more to say, but let me close by appealing to those Catholics who may disagree with me about the election and feel the need to vote for Biden despite all of that.
At 77, Biden will soon be meeting his Maker. Now is the time to be praying for him to convert, not goading him on to a position where he will do untold harm to the nation and his own soul.
And the perspective of those top pro-life priests in the United States shows true Catholic concern for Biden’s soul — and the souls of the bishops who are failing in their duty to discipline Biden.
Fr. Imbarrato told LifeSiteNews, “A more concerning potential scandal may be that the U.S. bishops have not forthrightly proclaimed [Biden’s defiance of his Catholic faith] — what every Catholic knows yet half choose to ignore because the bishops have ignored it and remain silent about it.”
“The silence of the U.S. bishops about Joe Biden may even a greater scandal than Biden’s idolatry (by which he places his intrinsically evil political agenda before his Catholicism) because a case can be made that he indulges in such scandal and idolatry because of the tacit approval from our shepherds.”
A few bishops have indeed warned Biden, called him out, even, saying he should be denied Holy Communion. But most have remained silent. That silence shows a real negligence and lack of concern about Biden’s eternal salvation.
St. Paul warns in the Bible about receiving Communion: “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord” (1 Cor. 11:27). Such a person, says St. Paul, “drinks judgment to himself.”
The head of Human Life International explained in an article posted at LifeSite:
For this reason, the Church urges all Catholics to examine their consciences before receiving the Eucharist, to see if they are guilty of mortal sin. If they are, then the Church teaches they must first go to Confession, and that if they knowingly receive the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin, they commit the further grave sin of sacrilege. In most cases this process of discernment is personal and private. However, the Church also recognizes that there are circumstances in which a minister of the Eucharist must refuse a person Holy Communion, for his own good, and for the good of the whole Church. The circumstances when this is necessary are clearly spelled out in Canon Law. Indeed, Canon 915 could not be any clearer: “Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
There is a petition at LifeSite where over 20,000 people have urged the U.S. bishops to refuse Holy Communion to Biden.
We acknowledge that making a decision to exclude public figures from Holy Communion is not easy. But sometimes, says the petition, this is the only way to make them understand the error of their ways and to preserve the Church from serious scandal.
As one of the petition’s signers myself, I say with all the rest, “We do not hold ourselves up as judges over Joe Biden's eternal soul, but we encourage you to make known one of the consequences of public and obstinate support of abortion by our ‘Catholic’ politicians…pro-abortion politicians, who also proclaim themselves to be ‘Catholic,’ should not think that they can demean the Body of Christ — by promoting killing other human beings — with no consequence.”
In the end, we thank the bishops for taking leadership in this matter, and we pledge to pray for the bishops and for Catholic politicians.
Join me in that prayer, and also go over and sign on to that petition by clicking here.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-20--Trump barring abortion from foreign aid hasn’t hurt women’s health, State Department says

URGENT PETITION : Tell the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade !
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WASHINGTON , D.C. , August 19 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The U.S. State Department has released a report on the impact of President Donald Trump ’ s actions to prevent foreign aid money from supporting abortions abroad , concluding that his restoration and expansion of the Mexico City Policy has not harmed America ’ s support for legitimate women ’ s health services .
Shortly after taking office in 2017 , Trump ’ s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Mexico City Policy , which bars the United States ’ $ 8.8 billion in foreign aid from being distributed to entities that perform abortions , but took the additional step of expanding it to groups that promote or discuss abortion .
The action has been bitterly opposed by Democrats and has resulted in international abortion providers Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes losing millions because they refused to drop abortion in order to qualify for the money .
Marie Stopes also had to close hundreds of operations across Africa .
Nevertheless , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recipients have complied with the new rules without issue .
The department ’ s latest review finds much the same results .
“ In total , only eight out of 1,340 prime awardees with awards in place between May 2017 and September 30 , 2018 , have declined to agree to the Policy , as well as a small portion of sub-awardees , ” it says .
“ In most cases in which a recipient or sub-recipient declined to agree to the terms of PLGHA , USAID and/or the prime partner successfully transitioned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health assistance , ” the report continues .
“ Most declinations connected to USAID did not produce a disruption of health care or significant delays in the provision of services.
” In such cases , the report says , the federal government “ has worked to transition activities to new partners as quickly as possible to prevent or resolve instances in which delays or gaps in service could or have occurred.
” “ When organizations declined the terms of PLGHA , the transitions to alternative health providers have been , for the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explains .
“ In some cases , other donors or the host government have stepped in to fill gaps that occurred because of a declination of PLGHA .
Only in limited instances has the Agency struggled to identify new partners or sub-awardees with comparable skill sets , networks , or capacity for outreach as those who declined the terms of PLGHA.
” “ The U.S. Government is committed to protecting human life before and after birth , ” the report declares .
“ The principles set forth in PLGHA and the significant funding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assistance clearly illustrate these dual priorities.
” House Democrats have recently pushed legislation attempting to get around the policy , which they have derisively dubbed the “ Global Gag Rule , ” though it can not take effect as long as Republicans control the Senate and Trump is in the White House .
However , it offers a preview of things to come next year should former Vice President Joe Biden , who supports codifying a “ right ” to abortion in federal law , defeat Trump for the presidency in November .

'The U.S. Government is committed to protecting human life before and after birth,' the report declares.
URGENT PETITION: Tell the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade! Sign the petition here.
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. State Department has released a report on the impact of President Donald Trump’s actions to prevent foreign aid money from supporting abortions abroad, concluding that his restoration and expansion of the Mexico City Policy has not harmed America’s support for legitimate women’s health services.
Shortly after taking office in 2017, Trump’s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) policy not only reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which bars the United States’ $8.8 billion in foreign aid from being distributed to entities that perform abortions, but took the additional step of expanding it to groups that promote or discuss abortion.
The action has been bitterly opposed by Democrats and has resulted in international abortion providers Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes losing millions because they refused to drop abortion in order to qualify for the money. Marie Stopes also had to close hundreds of operations across Africa. Nevertheless, a 2018 State Department review found that most recipients have complied with the new rules without issue.
The department’s latest review finds much the same results. “In total, only eight out of 1,340 prime awardees with awards in place between May 2017 and September 30, 2018, have declined to agree to the Policy, as well as a small portion of sub-awardees,” it says.
“In most cases in which a recipient or sub-recipient declined to agree to the terms of PLGHA, USAID and/or the prime partner successfully transitioned activities to ensure the continuity of global health assistance,” the report continues. “Most declinations connected to USAID did not produce a disruption of health care or significant delays in the provision of services.”
In such cases, the report says, the federal government “has worked to transition activities to new partners as quickly as possible to prevent or resolve instances in which delays or gaps in service could or have occurred.”
“When organizations declined the terms of PLGHA, the transitions to alternative health providers have been, for the most part, smooth,” the report explains. “In some cases, other donors or the host government have stepped in to fill gaps that occurred because of a declination of PLGHA. Only in limited instances has the Agency struggled to identify new partners or sub-awardees with comparable skill sets, networks, or capacity for outreach as those who declined the terms of PLGHA.”
“The U.S. Government is committed to protecting human life before and after birth,” the report declares. “The principles set forth in PLGHA and the significant funding the U.S. Government devotes to global health assistance clearly illustrate these dual priorities.”
House Democrats have recently pushed legislation attempting to get around the policy, which they have derisively dubbed the “Global Gag Rule,” though it cannot take effect as long as Republicans control the Senate and Trump is in the White House. However, it offers a preview of things to come next year should former Vice President Joe Biden, who supports codifying a “right” to abortion in federal law, defeat Trump for the presidency in November.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-21--Poll shows huge number of Americans ignorant about COVID death rates

August 20 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Franklin Templeton , an investment company , commissioned a Gallup research study to learn about Americans ' perceptions about the Wuhan virus , with an eye to better understanding the recovery .
What the project revealed is that Americans grossly overestimate the risk that the Wuhan virus presents , especially to younger people .
That they 're so worried is n't surprising , considering how the mainstream media have reported on the virus .
For Democrats , hysteria helps .
What struck me was that this deliberate effort to stoke ignorance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did back in the mid-1980s with AIDS .
Then , the press insisted that AIDS was an illness that could attack anyone , no matter his sex , race , or sexual orientation .
This was a lie .
In America , AIDS was always a disease primarily limited to gay men , hemophiliacs , and intravenous drug–users .
Franklin Templeton summed up the findings as follows ( emphasis mine ) : Although Franklin Templeton was surprised by the details , it 's doubtful any Republican is : The following are the specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ By misleading Americans about the risks of the Wuhan virus , the Democrats are advancing several political goals : they destroyed the blazing Trump economy , they 've forced people into government dependence , and they think they 've given the teachers ' union a winning hand in forcing `` social justice '' on America 's public schools .
This video of Martha MacCallum interviewing Becky Pringle , the incoming president of the National Education Association , America 's largest teachers ' union , shows how the left is manipulating virus panic to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I realized I 'd seen this pattern before .
During the 1980s , when AIDS first appeared , the first people presenting with AIDS were gay men .
Later , hemophiliacs and intravenous drug–users joined that tragic group .
The problem for the left was that a disease that was almost entirely limited to people engaging in risky behaviors was not a way to get funding for the disease or sympathy for the sufferers .
That 's how the myth was born that AIDS affects everyone equally .
That 's also how AIDS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funded disease in America despite its relative rarity .
Michael Fumento finally exposed the deception in 1988 with a famous article entitled `` The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS '' : The main problem with using AIDS to terrify heterosexuals into chastity is that it requires gross exaggeration of the risk .
AIDS is a bloodborne disease that , 10 years after the first heterosexual AIDS cases began showing up in New York City , remains confined almost exclusively to homosexuals , intravenous ( IV ) drug abusers , recipients of blood products prior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partners .
Only about two percent of all diagnosed AIDS cases in this country have been attributed to heterosexual transmission in native-born Americans , a figure that has held steady for several years now .
In New York City , the heterosexual AIDS capital of the United States , only eight males have been identified as having gotten AIDS from heterosexual intercourse .
The Wuhan virus is a nasty disease .
However , had we protected the vulnerable ( the old and those with pre-existing conditions ) , and then gone along with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passed through America like nothing more than a terrible flu season .
Instead , though , just as Democrats weaponized AIDS , they also weaponized the Wuhan virus .
That 's their playbook .
As Rahm Emanuel told his fellow Democrats , `` Never let a crisis go to waste . ''
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

'Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts — to a shocking extent.'
August 20, 2020 (American Thinker) — Franklin Templeton, an investment company, commissioned a Gallup research study to learn about Americans' perceptions about the Wuhan virus, with an eye to better understanding the recovery. What the project revealed is that Americans grossly overestimate the risk that the Wuhan virus presents, especially to younger people. That they're so worried isn't surprising, considering how the mainstream media have reported on the virus. For Democrats, hysteria helps.
What struck me was that this deliberate effort to stoke ignorance is a replay of what the media did back in the mid-1980s with AIDS. Then, the press insisted that AIDS was an illness that could attack anyone, no matter his sex, race, or sexual orientation. This was a lie. In America, AIDS was always a disease primarily limited to gay men, hemophiliacs, and intravenous drug–users.
Franklin Templeton summed up the findings as follows (emphasis mine):
Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai unveils the first insights from the new Franklin Templeton–Gallup research project on the behavioral response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the recovery: we find a gross misperception of COVID-19 risk, driven by partisanship and misinformation, and a willingness to pay a significant “safety premium” that could affect future inflation.
Although Franklin Templeton was surprised by the details, it's doubtful any Republican is:
The first round of our Franklin Templeton–Gallup Economics of Recovery Study has already yielded three powerful and surprising insights: Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts — to a shocking extent; The misperception is greater for those who identify as Democrats, and for those who rely more on social media for information; partisanship and misinformation, to misquote Thomas Dolby, are blinding us from science; and We find a sizable “safety premium” that could become a significant driver of inflation as the recovery gets underway.
The following are the specific misperceptions plaguing Americans, especially Democrats:
Six months into this pandemic, Americans still dramatically misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19: On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.
Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.
Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).
By misleading Americans about the risks of the Wuhan virus, the Democrats are advancing several political goals: they destroyed the blazing Trump economy, they've forced people into government dependence, and they think they've given the teachers' union a winning hand in forcing “social justice” on America's public schools.
This video of Martha MacCallum interviewing Becky Pringle, the incoming president of the National Education Association, America's largest teachers' union, shows how the left is manipulating virus panic to its advantage:
Watching the video, I realized I'd seen this pattern before. During the 1980s, when AIDS first appeared, the first people presenting with AIDS were gay men. Later, hemophiliacs and intravenous drug–users joined that tragic group.
The problem for the left was that a disease that was almost entirely limited to people engaging in risky behaviors was not a way to get funding for the disease or sympathy for the sufferers. That's how the myth was born that AIDS affects everyone equally. That's also how AIDS became, after cancer, the best funded disease in America despite its relative rarity.
Michael Fumento finally exposed the deception in 1988 with a famous article entitled “The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS“:
The main problem with using AIDS to terrify heterosexuals into chastity is that it requires gross exaggeration of the risk. AIDS is a bloodborne disease that, 10 years after the first heterosexual AIDS cases began showing up in New York City, remains confined almost exclusively to homosexuals, intravenous (IV) drug abusers, recipients of blood products prior to 1986, and their steady sexual partners. Only about two percent of all diagnosed AIDS cases in this country have been attributed to heterosexual transmission in native-born Americans, a figure that has held steady for several years now. In New York City, the heterosexual AIDS capital of the United States, only eight males have been identified as having gotten AIDS from heterosexual intercourse.
The Wuhan virus is a nasty disease. However, had we protected the vulnerable (the old and those with pre-existing conditions), and then gone along with business as usual, it would have passed through America like nothing more than a terrible flu season. Instead, though, just as Democrats weaponized AIDS, they also weaponized the Wuhan virus.
That's their playbook. As Rahm Emanuel told his fellow Democrats, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-21--Pro-life congressmen ask Trump to crack down on funding UN’s abortion promotion

WASHINGTON , D.C. , August 20 , 2020 ( C-Fam ) — Sixty members from both houses of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the acting head of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) urging the agency not to fund pro-abortion activities at the UN .
The letter , led by Senator James Lankford and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers , directs USAID to enforce the Siljander Amendment , which bans U.S. funding from being used to lobby for or against abortion .
The letter thanks USAID ’ s Acting Director John Barsa for opposing language @ @ @ @ @ @ @ services , which euphemistically includes abortion , in the UN ’ s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan .
Likewise , the members of Congress call on USAID , as well as the U.S .
Departments of State and Health and Human Services to oppose “ reproductive health ” language in UN negotiations and enforce the law governing funding for foreign operations , which includes the Siljander Amendment .
The Trump administration has already taken steps to apply Siljander to international institutions .
Last year , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cut funding to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( OAS ) that were pressuring Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws .
That action was inspired by a similar letter to Pompeo by members of Congress citing examples of the OAS entities ’ abortion lobbying .
Since then , pro-life organizations have called for the law to be applied in the same way to the UN and its agencies .
The new bicameral letter , dated August 13 , gives examples of UN agencies promoting abortion , particularly in its humanitarian work , including a field manual that explicitly includes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full extent of the law ” as a component of “ sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings.
” The Siljander Amendment has been part of U.S. law since 1981 , when it was introduced by Representative Mark Siljander “ to get the U.S. Government out of the business of financing the lobbying , promoting , and recommending of abortion.
” As it is a matter of law , not policy , it remains in effect regardless of which party holds the U.S. presidency , as long as it is not overturned by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump administration to fully enforce the law with regard to the UN ’ s pro-abortion activities , the members of Congress also urged the administration to remove some critical loopholes in one of its major pro-life policies , known as Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance ( PLGHA ) , formerly known as the Mexico City Policy .
They ask that the exception for multilateral organizations be removed from the policy : “ U.S .
tax dollars should not finance UN organizations that perform or promote abortion as a method of family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global health activities.
” As the U.S. election in November nears , pro-abortion activists are taking aim at the laws restricting U.S. funding for abortion .
A group of pro-abortion organizations recently issued their “ first priorities ” if Democrat candidate Joe Biden beats President Donald Trump in the election , including the repeal of the Helms Amendment , which blocks U.S. funding from directly paying for the provision or promotion of abortion .
They also call for the modification of the Siljander Amendment “ to only prohibit the use of U.S. funds @ @ @ @ @ @

The U.N. is exempt from the Mexico City Policy and thus uses U.S. funds to lobby for and promote abortion worldwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2020 (C-Fam) — Sixty members from both houses of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the acting head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) urging the agency not to fund pro-abortion activities at the UN.
The letter, led by Senator James Lankford and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, directs USAID to enforce the Siljander Amendment, which bans U.S. funding from being used to lobby for or against abortion.
The letter thanks USAID’s Acting Director John Barsa for opposing language about “sexual and reproductive health” services, which euphemistically includes abortion, in the UN’s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan. Likewise, the members of Congress call on USAID, as well as the U.S. Departments of State and Health and Human Services to oppose “reproductive health” language in UN negotiations and enforce the law governing funding for foreign operations, which includes the Siljander Amendment.
The Trump administration has already taken steps to apply Siljander to international institutions. Last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cut funding to bodies within the Organization of American States (OAS) that were pressuring Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws.
That action was inspired by a similar letter to Pompeo by members of Congress citing examples of the OAS entities’ abortion lobbying. Since then, pro-life organizations have called for the law to be applied in the same way to the UN and its agencies.
The new bicameral letter, dated August 13, gives examples of UN agencies promoting abortion, particularly in its humanitarian work, including a field manual that explicitly includes “access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law” as a component of “sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings.”
The Siljander Amendment has been part of U.S. law since 1981, when it was introduced by Representative Mark Siljander “to get the U.S. Government out of the business of financing the lobbying, promoting, and recommending of abortion.” As it is a matter of law, not policy, it remains in effect regardless of which party holds the U.S. presidency, as long as it is not overturned by Congress.
In addition to calling on the Trump administration to fully enforce the law with regard to the UN’s pro-abortion activities, the members of Congress also urged the administration to remove some critical loopholes in one of its major pro-life policies, known as Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), formerly known as the Mexico City Policy. They ask that the exception for multilateral organizations be removed from the policy: “U.S. tax dollars should not finance UN organizations that perform or promote abortion as a method of family planning through voluntary contributions, including for global health activities.”
As the U.S. election in November nears, pro-abortion activists are taking aim at the laws restricting U.S. funding for abortion. A group of pro-abortion organizations recently issued their “first priorities” if Democrat candidate Joe Biden beats President Donald Trump in the election, including the repeal of the Helms Amendment, which blocks U.S. funding from directly paying for the provision or promotion of abortion.
They also call for the modification of the Siljander Amendment “to only prohibit the use of U.S. funds to lobby against abortion.”
Published with permission from C-Fam.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-21--Incredible dishonesty in Kamala Harris’s Democrat convention speech

August 20 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Last week when Joe Biden officially announced Kamala Harris as his running mate on August 12 , 2020 , Harris made what amounted to one of the most dishonest speeches by a vice presidential candidate in recent memory .
`` This is a moment of real consequence for America .
Everything we care about , our economy , our health , our children , the kind of country we live in , it 's all on the line , '' she said .
Harris , who appears to have been honing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unleashed a bevy of emotions during her remarks , as she went from `` cheerful '' to `` empathetic '' to `` nostalgic '' to `` indignant '' and finally back to `` cheerful , '' all in a matter of seconds .
In a desperate attempt to portray herself as humanizing , relatable , and down to earth , she instead reminded us all why the robotic Hillary Clinton was seen as untrustworthy and was immensely unpopular .
Duplicity aside , perhaps the only detail of Harris 's speech more cringe-worthy than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the truth about virtually anything .
Harris heavily criticized President Donald Trump 's handling of the coronavirus , blaming him for the death toll , the economic contraction , the high unemployment rate , the closure of schools , homelessness , hunger , and poverty .
`` The case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut .
Just look where they 've gotten us , more than 16 million out of work , millions of kids who can not go back to school , a crisis of poverty , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indigenous people the most , a crisis of hunger afflicting one in five mothers who have children that are hungry and tragically , more than 165,000 lives that have been cut short , many with loved ones who never got the chance to say goodbye . ''
Aside from the fact that Trump has been a huge advocate for the reopening of schools , Harris did not mention that seven of the top ten states with the most COVID deaths are run by Democrats , including New York , which has more deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Arizona combined .
Not only was N.Y. the hardest hit state in the U.S. , but it has far more deaths per million , when compared to any other country , at 1,692 .
By comparison , the country with the next highest death toll per million residents is Peru , at only 796 .
Harris also did not bother to explain how Trump was responsible for the 32,920 deaths in New York State , considering that it was Governor Andrew Cuomo who chose to allow seniors who tested positive for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resulting in thousands of avoidable deaths .
The state 's death toll for nursing home residents is listed as 6,600 , but the official number is likely significantly higher .
The AP reported that the real number may be as high as 11,000 , with some estimates indicating that it could be closer to 14,000 , considering that 21,000 nursing beds are currently vacant , compared to just 13,000 from one year ago .
In addition to ramping up testing , and sending thousands of ventilators to the state of N.Y. , Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Army Corps of Engineers for construction of alternate care facilities in N.Y. , including sending the USNS Comfort ship and turning the Javits Center into a military field hospital .
For what it 's worth , Cuomo praised Trump back in April at the time , when his state was in desperate need of the president 's help , saying , `` He has delivered for New York .
He has . ''
Harris did not bother to ask Cuomo or Mayor Bill de Blasio why they chose not to efficiently use the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with .
None of those facts fits into Harris 's narrative , so instead she moved ahead and blamed Trump for an economy that is recovering quicker than many economists predicted .
`` The president 's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression , '' she said .
The ability to create an alternate reality is nothing new for Harris .
This is the same person who said the Trump economy was failing a year ago , at a Democratic debate on June 28 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this president walks around talking about and flouting his great economy , right ?
My great economy [ . ]
... You ask him , well , how are you measuring this greatness of this economy of yours and they point to the jobless numbers and the unemployment numbers ...
Working families need support and need to be lifted up , and frankly this economy is not working for working people . ''
At the time that Harris made those factually incoherent remarks , the unemployment rate sat at a robust 3.7 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was at or below the 4 percent threshold ) , African-American unemployment stood at a solid 6 percent , Asian-American unemployment was at 2.1 percent , 192,000 new jobs were created each month over a twelve-month period , and average hourly earnings rose by 3 percent from the previous year .
In other words , when the U.S. economy was thriving and perhaps stronger than at any point in our history , Harris wanted Americans to believe that we were still living in the Great Depression .
Harris also bizarrely compared COVID-19 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be this way .
Six years ago , in fact , we had a different health crisis ; it was called Ebola .
We all remember that pandemic , but you know what happened then ?
Barack Obama and Joe Biden did their job . ''
As of this writing , the coronavirus has killed 775,000 people worldwide , and 21,927,114 people have tested positive for the virus .
Ebola , by comparison , killed 11,310 people worldwide , while only 28,616 people tested positive for it .
To put it in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tested positive for the coronavirus as the total number of people residing in Sri Lanka , a country that has the world 's 58th largest population at just over 21 million .
Meanwhile , roughly the same number of people who can attend a football game at Princeton Stadium ( 27,800 ) tested positive for Ebola .
The Democratic vice presidential candidate also professed her supposed patriotism and love for the country by calling the U.S. a country rooted in institutional racism .
She praised the `` Black Lives Matter Movement , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rioting ; the looting ; the burning of businesses , churches , and courthouses ; and the destruction of property that has swept across major cities , including Portland , Seattle , Minnesota , Chicago , New York City , D.C. , and many other places .
`` We 're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country , demanding change , '' she said .
The beneficiaries from this `` moral reckoning , '' or non-social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much less safe was not something Harris was willing to explore .
Harris also claimed that she , along with Joe Biden , would bring the jobs back : `` We 'll create millions of jobs and fight climate change through a clean energy revolution , bring back critical supply chains so the future is made in America , build on the Affordable Care Act . ''
Harris and Biden somehow plan on increasing employment while raising taxes by more than three trillion dollars , including increasing the marginal , federal , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of jobs in the energy sector if the `` Green New Deal '' is implemented .
Harris spoke of implementing many of the things that Trump not only talked about , but already succeeded in accomplishing before the Chinese virus struck the world .
All of these outright lies might explain why Harris was forced to drop out of the presidential race last December , after running her campaign into insolvency coupled with her anemic poll numbers .
Not to worry : The mainstream media continue to tell us Harris is not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and invigorating the second time around .
She is none of those things , but one constant remains : she is as dishonest as ever .
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

August 20, 2020 (American Thinker) — Last week when Joe Biden officially announced Kamala Harris as his running mate on August 12, 2020, Harris made what amounted to one of the most dishonest speeches by a vice presidential candidate in recent memory. “This is a moment of real consequence for America. Everything we care about, our economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in, it's all on the line,” she said. Harris, who appears to have been honing her acting skills during the pandemic, unleashed a bevy of emotions during her remarks, as she went from “cheerful” to “empathetic” to “nostalgic” to “indignant” and finally back to “cheerful,” all in a matter of seconds. In a desperate attempt to portray herself as humanizing, relatable, and down to earth, she instead reminded us all why the robotic Hillary Clinton was seen as untrustworthy and was immensely unpopular. Duplicity aside, perhaps the only detail of Harris's speech more cringe-worthy than her insincerity was her inability to tell the truth about virtually anything.
Harris heavily criticized President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus, blaming him for the death toll, the economic contraction, the high unemployment rate, the closure of schools, homelessness, hunger, and poverty. “The case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut. Just look where they've gotten us, more than 16 million out of work, millions of kids who cannot go back to school, a crisis of poverty, of homelessness afflicting black, brown, and indigenous people the most, a crisis of hunger afflicting one in five mothers who have children that are hungry and tragically, more than 165,000 lives that have been cut short, many with loved ones who never got the chance to say goodbye.”
Aside from the fact that Trump has been a huge advocate for the reopening of schools, Harris did not mention that seven of the top ten states with the most COVID deaths are run by Democrats, including New York, which has more deaths than Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona combined. Not only was N.Y. the hardest hit state in the U.S., but it has far more deaths per million, when compared to any other country, at 1,692. By comparison, the country with the next highest death toll per million residents is Peru, at only 796. Harris also did not bother to explain how Trump was responsible for the 32,920 deaths in New York State, considering that it was Governor Andrew Cuomo who chose to allow seniors who tested positive for the virus to return to nursing homes, resulting in thousands of avoidable deaths. The state's death toll for nursing home residents is listed as 6,600, but the official number is likely significantly higher. The AP reported that the real number may be as high as 11,000, with some estimates indicating that it could be closer to 14,000, considering that 21,000 nursing beds are currently vacant, compared to just 13,000 from one year ago.
In addition to ramping up testing, and sending thousands of ventilators to the state of N.Y., Trump allocated 350 million dollars to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for construction of alternate care facilities in N.Y., including sending the USNS Comfort ship and turning the Javits Center into a military field hospital. For what it's worth, Cuomo praised Trump back in April at the time, when his state was in desperate need of the president's help, saying, “He has delivered for New York. He has.” Harris did not bother to ask Cuomo or Mayor Bill de Blasio why they chose not to efficiently use the resources that the federal government provided them with. None of those facts fits into Harris's narrative, so instead she moved ahead and blamed Trump for an economy that is recovering quicker than many economists predicted.
“The president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” she said. The ability to create an alternate reality is nothing new for Harris. This is the same person who said the Trump economy was failing a year ago, at a Democratic debate on June 28, 2019. “You know, this president walks around talking about and flouting his great economy, right? My great economy[.] … You ask him, well, how are you measuring this greatness of this economy of yours and they point to the jobless numbers and the unemployment numbers… Working families need support and need to be lifted up, and frankly this economy is not working for working people.” At the time that Harris made those factually incoherent remarks, the unemployment rate sat at a robust 3.7 percent (the 16th consecutive month that it was at or below the 4 percent threshold), African-American unemployment stood at a solid 6 percent, Asian-American unemployment was at 2.1 percent, 192,000 new jobs were created each month over a twelve-month period, and average hourly earnings rose by 3 percent from the previous year. In other words, when the U.S. economy was thriving and perhaps stronger than at any point in our history, Harris wanted Americans to believe that we were still living in the Great Depression.
Harris also bizarrely compared COVID-19 to Ebola. “It didn't have to be this way. Six years ago, in fact, we had a different health crisis; it was called Ebola. We all remember that pandemic, but you know what happened then? Barack Obama and Joe Biden did their job.” As of this writing, the coronavirus has killed 775,000 people worldwide, and 21,927,114 people have tested positive for the virus. Ebola, by comparison, killed 11,310 people worldwide, while only 28,616 people tested positive for it. To put it in perspective, nearly as many people have tested positive for the coronavirus as the total number of people residing in Sri Lanka, a country that has the world's 58th largest population at just over 21 million. Meanwhile, roughly the same number of people who can attend a football game at Princeton Stadium (27,800) tested positive for Ebola.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate also professed her supposed patriotism and love for the country by calling the U.S. a country rooted in institutional racism. She praised the “Black Lives Matter Movement,” while failing to condemn violent protests; the rioting; the looting; the burning of businesses, churches, and courthouses; and the destruction of property that has swept across major cities, including Portland, Seattle, Minnesota, Chicago, New York City, D.C., and many other places. “We're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country, demanding change,” she said. The beneficiaries from this “moral reckoning,” or non-social distancing exercise that has made our streets much less safe was not something Harris was willing to explore.
Harris also claimed that she, along with Joe Biden, would bring the jobs back: “We'll create millions of jobs and fight climate change through a clean energy revolution, bring back critical supply chains so the future is made in America, build on the Affordable Care Act.” Harris and Biden somehow plan on increasing employment while raising taxes by more than three trillion dollars, including increasing the marginal, federal, and payroll tax rates, and eliminating thousands of jobs in the energy sector if the “Green New Deal” is implemented. Harris spoke of implementing many of the things that Trump not only talked about, but already succeeded in accomplishing before the Chinese virus struck the world. All of these outright lies might explain why Harris was forced to drop out of the presidential race last December, after running her campaign into insolvency coupled with her anemic poll numbers. Not to worry: The mainstream media continue to tell us Harris is not only a moderate, but much more exciting, and invigorating the second time around. She is none of those things, but one constant remains: she is as dishonest as ever.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-20--DNC drops ‘under God’ from Pledge of Allegiance in Muslim, ‘LGBTQ’ Caucus meetings

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August 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – During the Democratic National Convention this week , at least two meetings omitted the words “ under God ” from the Pledge of Allegiance .
Earlier this month , President Donald Trump was attacked for characterizing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as “ against God.
” The pledge , according to the United States Flag Code , reads , “ I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one Nation under God , indivisible , with liberty and justice for all.
” The Democrats ’ Muslim Caucus began with the God-less pledge recited by one of the delegates .
According to Chris Brody , chief political analyst at the Christian Broadcasting Network , both Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib participated in the meeting .
The Democrats ’ LGBTQ Caucus also began with a God-less pledge .
In this case , the pause was deliberate and pronounced , so viewers and participants would be aware that some words were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ held up several flags , including an American flag and a rainbow flag showing support of homosexuality and gender ideology .
Mere seconds into the pledge , the rainbow flag appears to drop and fall .
While the words “ under God ” were most likely intentionally omitted during the caucus meetings to express disagreement with the fact that the United States , at least historically , is a Christian nation , the pledge itself has changed several times over in its less than 130 years of existence .
The words “ under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the last change to the pledge .
More convincingly than a butchered pledge of allegiance , Joe Biden ’ s Agenda for Women shows that the Democrats are “ against God , ” as President Trump put it , especially by its almost unconditional support for killing unborn babies .
Biden dedicated one section of his Agenda for Women to “ Reproductive Health , ” which is generally a reference to abortion .
The former vice president under President Barack Obama said he “ will work to codify Roe v. Wade , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.
” Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling essentially legalizing abortion across the country under the guise of a woman ’ s right to privacy .
Since then , many states have passed or tried to pass legislation to limit the widespread killing of unborn babies .
One piece of legislation is so-called heartbeat bills , which prohibit abortions as soon as the unborn baby ’ s heartbeat can be detected after roughly six weeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to repeal the Hyde Amendment by reissuing “ guidance specifying that states can not refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers and reverse the Trump administration ’ s rule preventing these organizations from obtaining Title X funds.
” The Hyde Amendment prevents taxpayer funding of most abortions .
Planned Parenthood commits more than 345,000 abortions annually , according to its most recent annual report .
Additionally , the organization handed out more than 593,000 emergency contraception kits , commonly known as the morning-after pill , which can also cause very early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Hyde Amendment for many years before reversing his position early during his campaign for president in 2019 .
Biden had caused some controversy in June 2019 by saying he still supported the annual budget language that forbids taxpayer dollars from funding abortions except for cases of rape or incest , or to save a mother ’ s life .
After a video showed him answering “ yes ” to an activist asking if he would “ commit to abolishing ” Hyde , the Biden campaign claimed he had misheard the question and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right to change his mind , depending on the progress of “ draconian attempts to limit access to abortion.
” Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood pounced on his remarks , leading him to announce just a day later that he was changing his position .
“ If I believe healthcare is a right , as I do , I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone 's ZIP code , ” Biden said at the time .
The Democratic presidential candidate , in his Agenda for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mexico City Policy ( now called Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance ) requiring foreign non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) not to “ perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning ” as a condition for receiving federal money .
First introduced under Republican President Ronald Reagan , it was rescinded by Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama .
Republican Presidents George H.W .
Bush , George W. Bush , and Donald Trump kept it in place or reinstated it .
In Biden ’ s Agenda for Women , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obamacare ’ s contraception mandate “ that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling : providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions .
The accommodation will allow women at these organizations to access contraceptive coverage , not through their employer-provided plan , but instead through their insurance company or a third-party administrator .
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Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib participated in the Muslim Caucus meeting that began with the God-less pledge.
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August 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – During the Democratic National Convention this week, at least two meetings omitted the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump was attacked for characterizing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as “against God.”
The pledge, according to the United States Flag Code, reads, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The Democrats’ Muslim Caucus began with the God-less pledge recited by one of the delegates. According to Chris Brody, chief political analyst at the Christian Broadcasting Network, both Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib participated in the meeting.
NEW! Democrats leave out, “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance at the #DemocraticNationalConvention Muslim Caucus meeting this week. Watch delegate AJ Durrani skip it. Featured speakers at the event were @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib & @TomPerez @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Ra4SX2cqNy — David Brody (@DavidBrodyCBN) August 19, 2020
The Democrats’ LGBTQ Caucus also began with a God-less pledge. In this case, the pause was deliberate and pronounced, so viewers and participants would be aware that some words were omitted.
The person reciting the pledge held up several flags, including an American flag and a rainbow flag showing support of homosexuality and gender ideology. Mere seconds into the pledge, the rainbow flag appears to drop and fall.
NEW VIDEO: At the #DemocraticNationalConvention , LGBT Caucus purposely leaves out the words, “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. Watch. This now makes twice that two key constituencies of the Democratic Party have done this. See my earlier tweet about DNC Muslim Caucus pic.twitter.com/2GIDcCMq1F — David Brody (@DavidBrodyCBN) August 19, 2020
While the words “under God” were most likely intentionally omitted during the caucus meetings to express disagreement with the fact that the United States, at least historically, is a Christian nation, the pledge itself has changed several times over in its less than 130 years of existence.
The words “under God” were added in 1954 – the last change to the pledge.
Biden committed to protecting abortion
More convincingly than a butchered pledge of allegiance, Joe Biden’s Agenda for Women shows that the Democrats are “against God,” as President Trump put it, especially by its almost unconditional support for killing unborn babies.
Biden dedicated one section of his Agenda for Women to “Reproductive Health,” which is generally a reference to abortion. The former vice president under President Barack Obama said he “will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.”
Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling essentially legalizing abortion across the country under the guise of a woman’s right to privacy. Since then, many states have passed or tried to pass legislation to limit the widespread killing of unborn babies. One piece of legislation is so-called heartbeat bills, which prohibit abortions as soon as the unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.
Biden said he wanted to repeal the Hyde Amendment by reissuing “guidance specifying that states cannot refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers and reverse the Trump administration’s rule preventing these organizations from obtaining Title X funds.” The Hyde Amendment prevents taxpayer funding of most abortions.
Planned Parenthood commits more than 345,000 abortions annually, according to its most recent annual report. Additionally, the organization handed out more than 593,000 emergency contraception kits, commonly known as the morning-after pill, which can also cause very early abortions in some cases.
Biden supported the Hyde Amendment for many years before reversing his position early during his campaign for president in 2019.
Biden had caused some controversy in June 2019 by saying he still supported the annual budget language that forbids taxpayer dollars from funding abortions except for cases of rape or incest, or to save a mother’s life.
After a video showed him answering “yes” to an activist asking if he would “commit to abolishing” Hyde, the Biden campaign claimed he had misheard the question and still supported the amendment — while reserving the right to change his mind, depending on the progress of “draconian attempts to limit access to abortion.”
Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood pounced on his remarks, leading him to announce just a day later that he was changing his position. “If I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's ZIP code,” Biden said at the time.
The Democratic presidential candidate, in his Agenda for Women, also vowed to rescind the Mexico City Policy (now called Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance) requiring foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) not to “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” as a condition for receiving federal money.
First introduced under Republican President Ronald Reagan, it was rescinded by Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Republican Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump kept it in place or reinstated it.
In Biden’s Agenda for Women, he also declared his intent to restore Obamacare’s contraception mandate “that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions. The accommodation will allow women at these organizations to access contraceptive coverage, not through their employer-provided plan, but instead through their insurance company or a third-party administrator.”
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