The New York Times released this story recently, explaining the genesis of Trump’s inhumane policies at the southern border:
WASHINGTON — The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare.
But the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general into Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
“We need to take away children,” Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes. One added in shorthand: “If care about kids, don’t bring them in. Won’t give amnesty to people with kids.”
Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did not matter how young the children were. He said that government lawyers should not have refused to prosecute two cases simply because the children were barely more than infants.
“Those two cases should not have been declined,” John Bash, the departing U.S. attorney in western Texas, wrote to his staff immediately after the call. Mr. Rosenstein “instructed that, per the A.G.’s policy, we should NOT be categorically declining immigration prosecutions of adults in family units because of the age of a child.”
The Justice Department’s top officials were “a driving force” behind the policy that spurred the separation of thousands of families, many of them fleeing violence in Central America and seeking asylum in the United States, before Mr. Trump abandoned it amid global outrage, according to a draft report of the results of the investigation by Michael E. Horowitz, the department’s inspector general.
The separation of migrant children from their parents, sometimes for months, was at the heart of the Trump administration’s assault on immigration. But the fierce backlash when the administration struggled to reunite the children turned it into one of the biggest policy debacles of the president’s term…
Gene Hamilton, a top lawyer and ally of Stephen Miller, the architect of the president’s assault on immigration, argued in a 32-page response that Justice Department officials merely took direction from the president. Mr. Hamilton cited an April 3, 2018, meeting with Mr. Sessions; the homeland security secretary at the time, Kirstjen Nielsen; and others in which the president “ranted” and was on “a tirade,” demanding as many prosecutions as possible.
After the election, the International Court of Criminal Justice should bring charges against these men for state-run, institutional-scale kidnapping and torture and assault and homicide (yes, children were sexually assaulted and died while being held under horrific, on their orders, against the will of the parents and of the children). If taking a baby away from a mother who is still breast feeding does not constitute torture, then what does?
These are clearly crimes against humanity. The U.S. should arrest these vile criminals and extradite them to stand trial.
If there is justice and decency in the world, this will happen. The Biden administration has a moral obligation to make certain that it does.
cx: under horrific conditions
For this to happen, the Biden administration will have to reaffirm the recognition of the ICC by the United States, something long overdue.
Fact check: Did the Obama administration do the same? The answer varies according to source.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/08/falsehoods-about-family-separations-linger-online/
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wrongly-states-obama-administration-had-child-separation-policy
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/615211215/fact-check-are-democrats-responsible-for-dhs-separating-children-from-their-pare
Did these sad, horrific conditions exist under Obama too? 😮☹️
from factcheckdotorg: In defending its “zero tolerance” border policy that has caused the separation of families, the Trump administration has argued that the Obama and Bush administrations did this too. That’s misleading. Experts say there were some separations under previous administrations, but no blanket policy to prosecute parents and, therefore, separate them from their children.
“Bush and Obama did not have policies that resulted in the mass separation of parents and children like we’re seeing under the current administration,” Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, told us. [snip]
Jeh Johnson, DHS secretary under the Obama administration, told NPR earlier this month that he couldn’t say that family separations “never happened” during his tenure. “There may have been some exigent situation, some emergency. There may have been some doubt about whether the adult accompanying the child was in fact the parent of the child. I can’t say it never happened but not as a matter of policy or practice. It’s not something that I could ask our Border Patrol or our immigration enforcement personnel to do,” Johnson said.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/did-the-obama-administration-separate-families/
Thank you for the reply, Joe Jersey. 😐
“Bush and Obama did not have policies that resulted in the mass separation of parents and children like we’re seeing under the current administration,” Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, ”
“No policies that resulted in the MASS separation of parents and children”?
Is that the standard of excellence?
We’re doomed.
Trump and those who follow him are criminals against humanity. Trump is also a criminal of the $$$$ type. Apparently, the NYT has a copy of his tax returns.
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The Swamp That Trump Built
Oct. 10, 2020
A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration.
The tax records — along with membership rosters for Mar-a-Lago and the president’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., as well as other sources — reveal how much money this new line of business was worth.
Federal tax-return data for Mr. Trump and his business empire, which was disclosed by The New York Times last month, showed that even as he leveraged his image as a successful businessman to win the presidency, large swaths of his real estate holdings were under financial stress, racking up losses over the preceding decades.
…It has long been known that Mr. Trump conducted official business at his properties, and those seeking help from his administration were not shy about advertising their access to the president’s realm. The Times’s compilation reflects a review of hundreds of social media posts by his patrons, many of whom enthusiastically documented their visits to Mr. Trump’s properties, as well as an array of published news articles.
But interviews with nearly 250 business executives, club members, lobbyists, Trump property employees and current or former administration officials provide a comprehensive account of how well Mr. Trump’s customers fared with his government — and how the president profited from his reinvented swamp…
Patrons at the properties ranged widely: foreign politicians and Florida sugar barons, a Chinese billionaire and a Serbian prince, clean-energy enthusiasts and their adversaries in the petroleum industry, avowed small-government activists and contractors seeking billions from ever-fattening federal budgets. Mr. Trump’s administration delivered them funding and laws and land. He handed them appointments to task forces and ambassadorships, victories as weighty as a presidential directive and as ephemeral as a presidential tweet…
But whether they won or lost, Mr. Trump benefited financially. They paid his family business for golf outings and steak dinners, for huge corporate retreats and black-tie galas..
Donors even paid for the privilege of giving money to his campaign and super PAC. Mr. Trump attended 34 fund-raisers held at his hotels and resorts, events that brought his properties another $3 million in revenue. Sometimes, he lined up his donors to ask what they needed from the government…
There were financial institutions like Morgan Stanley, which paid at least $156,882 to hold a conference at the Washington hotel in 2017, the tax records show, and large government contractors like Deloitte, which spent at least $347,529 for a conference there that June. A Washington trade group, the Food Marketing Institute, paid Doral $1.2 million for conferences in 2018 and 2019. All three organizations told The Times that the events had been booked long in advance.
Mr. Trump benefited even when events fell through. In 2017, when the American Association of Nurse Practitioners backed out of a planned conference at Doral — a spokesman cited budgetary reasons — it owed a cancellation fee of nearly $100,000…
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
Trump says he’ll skip debate, calls Kamala Harris a ‘monster’ in wide-ranging interview
President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview on Fox Business Network on Oct. 8. Here are some key moments from those remarks.
https://wapo.st/36MzwMj
In two weeks we’ve seen, heard, and learned of dozens more heinous, devious, and deadly actions and witnessed complete silence and compliance of those responsible to Constitutionally “check” or at least morally expect to confront him.
He intentionally decided to separate kids as a tactic – and covered it up
He was such a miserable man and business man and lost millions and millions that he was able to use loopholes to not pay taxes and bragged about being so shrewd to have pulled it off.
As one of the wealthiest in US, he paid $750.00 in taxes
He used his personal business millions weeks before the 2016 election to illegally support his campaign.
His campaign donors benefitted in the billions for their quid pro quo contributions.
One (of many to follow) donors was indicted
He berated his cabinet members (his selections who have survived) for not enabling his obsession with Obama an Biden’s and indicting them.
He literally weaponized his obese, 74 year old body as a deadly virus carrier and mingled unprotected with hundreds of people, most of whose jobs gave them no choice being near him.
He infected key administrative (inept, but still administrative) and security risk persons.
He put hundreds of elected officials, military leaders, security personnel and others in breaths-reach of his contagious body.
He said G-d’s plan was for him to get sick to prove a point he got sick, got world class care, and didn’t die?
He blamed China for the virus including the six months of deaths on his watch that were totally unrelated to anyone’s international travel.
It is OCTOBER and there are still lines for Covid testing and days for results
He dog whistled American white terrorists to “be ready and stand by”
He blasted, berated, and blamed a female Democratic Governor targeted for a death threat.
“His” FBI did their job and busted 13 American white terrorists plotting the kidnap of the Governor and start a civil war and he took credit for that.
The terrorists were publicly encouraged by him to attend a “reopen rally” armed in Michigan which is where American terrorists were recruited.
He not once denounce the American terrorists.
He took drugs using fetal tissues violating laws he changed and defending that the tissues were gotten prior to the law change.
He claimed Minnesotans have good and superior (white) genes.
He ended diversity training in any government department and threated to take back federal grants and funding from corporations that did diversity training and hiring.
He threatened taking funding from schools that did not teach his white-washed version of history.
HOW IS ONE if not all of these heinous actions “OK” IN ANYONE’S MORAL, ETHICAL, and LEGAL CODE?
HOW DOES ANYONE VOTE FOR HIM?
WORSE (well, almost), HOW DOES ANYONE VOTE FOR A SENATOR, REPRESENTATIVE, or GOVERNOR WHO DOES NOT CONTEST and DENOUNCE ANY ONE OF HIS ACTIONS?
How do any of them justify their silence and support of him to their wives and daughters, to their ministers and rabbis, an to constituents who are elderly, blue collar, people of color, LGBTQ, Christian, out of work,
And, of course, there is the whole cover-up of when his diagnosis occurred. Surely knowing that one is infected with a highly contagious disease and then intentionally interacting with others is a criminal offense.
He originally announced that he was going to hold his Florida rally on Saturday. That was clearly the plan because his “doctor,” who evidently will say anything Trump tells him to say, announced a week ago that Trump might be able to resume his campaigning on Saturday.
But critics soon pointed out that for him to have had enough time to clear the virus by Saturday, he would have had to have been diagnosed before he went to the Bedminster fundraiser. So, while still refusing to say whether he has tested negative, they moved the Florida rally to Monday and held, instead, the Mussolini-style balcony speech today.
And it could very well be the case that he did the first presidential debate already knowing that he was infected.
A Trump lie is a moveable feast
He might not have been infected at the debate but he was most certainly affected (but luckily, it probably wasn’t contagious)
I and several of my friends thought he looked in really bad shape that night and commented that he looked as though he were drugged.
Separating very young children from parents is one of the worst policy blunders in the Trump administration. Not only did they not have a clue, they had no coherent plan for reuniting parents with children. Trump and his deplorables have been needlessly cruel and inhumane. As of August and despite the Covid pandemic there are still some children that remain in for profit detention centers, and there are some serious allegations that migrants have made particularly about the treatment of women in some of the detention camps. It is estimated that these camps cost the tax payers over $33 million dollars. The Trump administration is guilty of human rights violations. They treated these poor people like they didn’t matter at all while cronies and donors made a fortune from the detention camps.https://time.com/5878909/children-ice-covid-19-detention-court-order/
ICE did not have trustworthy documents of which children belonged to which parents. Parents lost their infants and will never see them again.
The Plan not to plan
They lacked a plot
For children’s plight
Cuz plan was not
To reunite
Re: your final two paragraphs,
Hating people in this video more than Trump . . . or as much. Or maybe I should pity them. SO tragic and sad. So unaware and ignorant. SO spellbound or drunk from the Koolaid . . . VERY sobering.
SOMEONE please give me direction on this.
Robert, this is the ear worm that invades my brain when I see $#/T like this:
Wait, what
“ministers and rabbis”- the reasoning for your omission of priests from your listing?
Trump’s miracle cure wouldn’t exist if the current SCOTUS (especially if Catholic cultist Barrett was on it) had been rendering verdicts when stem cells from aborted fetuses were used to develop Regeneron.
Sorry – not intentional – I should have said “faith leaders” as there are many, many more I did not cite.
As for fetal tissue – he could care less. All he knows is when they banned the research which could potentially save lives, he knew he’d get votes.
Now it’s a miracle cure – and “gee anyway – these tissues were from before the ban.”
Maybe that’s his excuse for how he treats African-Americans and perpetuates fear despicably barks about keeping suburbs safe, law and order, and violence whenever anyone brings up African-Americans, race, and civil protest. In his mind slavery, although outlawed, is just like using those tissues – “well, it was legal back then!”
May we expand from your discussion of race, adding religion’s role in women’s rights?
Amy Barrett like William Barr, likely won’t be asked about her faith.
The public won’t learn that men are 5 times more likely to be Catholic saints than women. Nor, will they learn that men are 17 times more likely to be saints than women who have borne and raised children. (4-19-2014, Questions from a Ewe)
Maybe Amy’s canonization (following her confirmation), similar to the Catholic awards given to Leonard Leo and William Barr, will tweak the numbers a bit.
Off topic
Currently in the queue for sainthood is a male, 15 year old (computer whiz). Evidently the required miracle was a cure, delivered via the internet, to a Brazilian with a rare illness.
btw- Statistically, and I would guess, influenced by culture- living in an impoverished area means a much lesser chance of becoming a Catholic saint.
This is nation-destroying levels of corruption:
The United States needs a reform government. We need someone to serve for one term presidential and clean the place up, top to bottom. It will be unpopular because a lot of people are making a lot of money off this corruption, hence the reform President will serve only one term.
Inextricably linked- the political, religious right e.g. the agenda of the Koch’s Paul Weyrich
Media reported that pundit Harlan Hill has been banned from Fox for calling Kamala Harris a bitch. Hill co-authored a book with a frequent article writer for the Washington Examiner. The latter’s tweet account self describes, a “Native New Yorker, Roman Catholic”. A tweet response of thanks to that co-author was from Annette who self-described as, “Fisher of Men- Matthew 4:19, Patriot, Slayer of Toxic Feminism, Be feminine not a feminist”.
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The Washington Examiner is owned by school privatizer,
Philip Anschutz.
The employees of the “newspaper” the (w)ashington (e)aminer are analogous to those of charter schools that are also funded by billionaires. They are tools and know it really doesn’t matter what they do, they’ll still get paid and the higher ones on the food chain will do exceptionally well. Literally no one in DC reads this tripe. If you go into conservative Republican offices, a copy will always be on the table in the waiting room. But I’ve noticed it’s truly a prop. Not a wrinkle in the pages, the dust pattern on the table at the end of the day forms a nice right angle. Literally no one, even the expedient true believers, read it or, if they do, take it seriously. It’s the print version of FOX Spews.
Greg-
You’ve got to be the most knowledgeable commenter at this blog. Thanks for providing the clarity.
In case you missed it, Linda. Sen. Whitehouse is one of the good ones. This is worth 10 minutes of your time if you did not see it (the reference to VP David Koch is too good). Only wish we had Sen. Franken back on the committee–please, someone primary Gillibrand!
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/10/sen-whitehouse-wipes-floor-sen-cornyn-over
The family separation policy is unequivocally, purely, completely evil. If this goes unpunished in criminal courts, that in itself is criminal.
Re the idea of separating babies from parents at the border: Sure, round up these squalling little illegals…do evangelical believers who support Trump not remember their Bible lessons? There’s an interesting little passage about King Herod and the slaughter of the innocents.
Yeah, I kind of figured this. At first the scene on the border just looked like a bureaucratic clusterf, but then I realized: what better way to discourage families from migrating, than learning their kids would be held in custody— (in cages?!), perhaps sent into the foster system, never to meet up w/relatives, lost forever—while parents would most likely be deported. It was really no less risky than the longtime practice of sending unaccompanied older teens up in the hopes they’d eventually get through & get work & send some $ back home. Except it was different: the phenomenon of whole families trying to get out together in the last 15 yrs is not so much about jobs/ survival, it’s about escaping N Triangle drug-mob violence that threatens the entire unit. What makes our restrictive ICE policies so reprehensible is that the violence in the N Triangle is a direct & inevitable consequence of our ‘80’s foreign policy. We chased the drug trade out of Columbia and North up Central America, while supporting anti-democratic corrupt totalitarian regimes in Central America.
Then there’s this: “Border Patrol officers missed serious felony cases because they were stretched too thin by the zero-tolerance policy requiring them to detain and prosecute all of the misdemeanor illegal entry cases.” And so it goes.
Cruelty as public policy. Ain’t it grand?
And at the behest of Stephen Miller, the architect of the president’s assault on immigration who claimed that the Justice Department officials merely took direction from the president. Yes the “JUSTICE” department is totally under the thumb of Trump, the master of cruelty.
Truth Converter:
When Donald Trump speaks, in his toddler English, with his 600-word vocabulary, listen for the words “incredible,” “unbelievable,” and “tremendous.” Then simply substitute the root sense of the words.
Incredible: not credible
Unbelievable: not believable
Tremendous: dreadful or horrendous enough to cause people to experience tremors
“We’ve done an incredible job on the Covid, which I call the China virus.”
Note also his toddlerlike substitution of “the Covid,” “the medical,” and “the cyber,” as in
“Nobody knows the cyber like Donald Trump.” and
“I’ve got the medical like you wouldn’t believe.”
Spot on, Donald. I don’t believe a thing that your doctors say about your condition.
“The White House had not made public the results of President Trump’s latest coronavirus test, which he claims he took on Friday.”
IF Trump had tested negative, he’d be screaming it to the whole world. Since it hasn’t been made public he is just putting people’s lives in danger.
Mary Trump, his niece said, “worst-case scenario” would be if her uncle Donald Trump “emerges relatively unscathed” from COVID-19. “He’s not going to take it seriously.”
Only a hundred or so followers came to hear Trump’s speech from the WH. [Why does he never have to follow any laws. The WH is not a backdrop for campaign speeches.] He actually thought about playing Superman. I think having a large fly land on his head would be much better. I won’t say what the fly should do once it gets there.
Neither Trump nor his doctor is telling the public that he tested negative on test taken Friday. Trump, therefore, is still positive and is killing people OR he would be screaming to the whole world about how easy it is to overcome COVID…just don’t be concerned about this at all. He doesn’t care that 211,000 or more Americans have died due to his lack of leadership.
As of October 8, 2020, the number of both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of the COVID-19 disease reported in the United States had reached over 7.5 million with over 211 thousand deaths.
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Trump Makes First Public Appearance Since Leaving Walter Reed
The president continued to play down the threat of the virus, but the event that the White House had previewed as a huge “peaceful protest for law and order” was uncharacteristically brief…
In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt…
It’s easy to forget the vapid rationale for this entire debacle – that a “tough on immigrants” policy would make the prospect of risking a journey to the U.S. unappealing to those so inclined. This displays one of the more egregious and consistent failures of the Trump administration: the inability (or unwillingness) to grasp the complexities involved in issues like immigration. The motivations in coming to America are multifarious and inextricably tied to economic and political conditions in one’s home country, for example trying to raise your kids in unending violence with constant gang turf wars in a lawless narco-state. Trump’s approach to such matters – indeed to all matters can be tidily summed up in Upton Sinclair’s sardonic observation: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Mikey Dense: Fly Lord
Exodus 8:21-31
For if you do not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they dwell
The Dictionnaire Infernal describes Beelzebub as a being capable of flying and known as the “Lord of the Flies”.
Bob Shepherd: I AM that fly. I was circling his head and I knew full well that he was the Vice President of the United States. I circled and then finally decided to land on his head. I listened to him speak and knew that the media would notice me.
Now I am just an ordinary fly but now I am famous. I didn’t like the messages that Pence was sending out to the world. He is almost as big a liar as is Trump. Trump brags about having been cured from COVID-19 and thinks that catching it was a blessing sent from God. I am but a fly but that is pure nonsense. EVEN I KNOW THAT.
Trump is not well. He put on too much makeup and looked sort of freaky. His makeup artist must have done a terrible job because Twitter is alive with comments about how horrible he was made up. Deep dark orange makeup cannot hide Trump’s illness anymore than it can hide his tremendous amount of lies that spew forth with unending, non-stop regularity… I’m a fly but look at how fantastic I looked on Pence’s head. I am the dark black spot and I am intelligent, even if nobody who was viewing this debate would ever guess.
FLY: I mpved on him like a b___ch. When you’re famous, they let you do that.
The close-ups show what I long figured was the case. Mikey Dense, the whitest man in America, uses white pancake makup on his hair. Perhaps the fly got stuck in this or found it yummy.
More brains in the fly than in the head he sat upon
CBS reported that three groups are pushing Amy Barrett’s nomination- Judicial Crisis Network, Heritage Action and Concerned Women for America. Sourcewatch has listings for each. What is found in the entries is a conservative political web – the Koch’s, Catholic Association Foundation, Catholic Voice, Jay Sekulow, Foster Freiss, Russian and Eastern European anti-LBGTQ laws, …
Catholic Association Foundation- “…responding to the call of the Catholic Church for members of the lay faithful…religious freedom …your conscience dictate….” a Catholic voice in the public square….”practice your faith free of government control…”
But don’t ask Amy Barrett religious questions like her opinion about the right of men to have multiple wives (Jonathan Turley, a lawyer and legal scholar who argued the Republican/Trump side in Congressional hearings, believes it is Constitutional). Don’t ask her what safeguards women and children deserve when their Bibles call for their abuse. The groups who are spending big to get Barrett appointed admit their agenda publicly- “practice religion free of government control” (and, they plot to get government dollars to do it.).
RSN: As Trump Descends Into Dictatorial Madness, He Escalates the Fascist Terror
By Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
12 October 20
…Like his racist, anti-semitic, Klan-supporting father, The Donald openly touts the “good genes” of his white followers. He attacks African-American, Mexican-American, and other citizens and immigrants of color as “murderers” and “rapists.”
Trump openly lauds Hitler’s “racehorse theory,” arguing that human beings can be selectively bred like animals to produce a Master Race.
Here’s what Trump told a virtually all-white crowd in Bemidji, Minnesota, on September 18:
“You have good genes, you know that, right? ou have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it? Don’t you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.”
Says Rabbi Mark Diamond, a senior lecturer on Jewish studies at Loyola Marymount University: “To hear these remarks said at a rally in an election campaign for the presidency is beyond reprehensible.”
Diamond, the former executive vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, adds, “This is at the heart of Nazi ideology. This has brought so much tragedy and destruction to the Jewish people and to others. It’s actually hard to believe in 2020 we have to revisit these very dangerous theories.”
Steve Silberman, a best-selling New York Times author, adds:
“As a historian who has written about the Holocaust, I’ll say bluntly: This is indistinguishable from the Nazi rhetoric that led to Jews, disabled people, LGBTQ, Romani and others being exterminated. This is America 2020. This is where the GOP has taken us.”…
https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/65633-rsn-as-trump-descends-into-dictatorial-madness-he-escalates-the-fascist-terror
The Catholic Bishop of St. Paul Minnesota announced earlier this year that he had been advised by the Minnesota Catholic Conference that it was legal for him to prohibit the diocese priests from voting in the Democratic Primary.
What action was taken by the listeners at Loyola Marymount University?
Did they praise Trump’s leadership like the head of the USCCB did?
Did a tweet like that of Bishop Tobin (Providence) follow the referenced Rabbi’s speech? Did the tweet say Trump’s opponent was not Catholic, despite the fact that he is a practicing Catholic, just not the kind who are racist, who think women’s lives have no value, who thinks the government should fund religion,….?
The Michigan senate race –
Democrat Gary Peters “became the first sitting senator in history to tell his abortion story.” Mrs. Peters’ life was in jeopardy from anticipated toxic shock syndrome resulting from a natural death of a fetus in her womb. Her doctor told her that politics prevented him from performing the necessary life saving procedure and he directed her to find another doctor. Peters’ opponent attended an all boys Catholic high school, He opposes abortion. A woman’s life means nothing to the religious like John James.
No surprise- John James supports DeVos’ education plans. Gary Peters doesn’t.
Good grief. Indiana is at the bottom of the pit. I guess doing abortions in back alleys with coat hangers is much safer. With Amy Barrett on board, just wait and see that happening again.
Wealthy people can travel to other countries so they are never affected. Republicans hate minority women having children but letting them get an abortion is murdering sweet babies. They also don’t want women having access to cheap birth control.
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[NWI Times] Federal judge upholds several Indiana abortion restrictions
…U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued the ruling Friday, upholding several state law provisions, including the requirement that all abortion clinics obtain a state license; that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital; that doctors must perform an ultrasound on the pregnant woman at least 18 hours before an abortion procedure, and requirements of parental consent for abortions involving those younger than 18.
Barker allowed court action to continue on the group’s lawsuit against other provisions. Those include laws allowing second-trimester abortions only at hospitals and surgery centers, a requirement that doctors tell patients that fetuses can feel pain and another that women must be told that human physical life begins at conception…
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-judge-upholds-several-indiana-abortion-restrictions/article_fe239752-c48d-5ba1-bfbd-a2586e620b0d.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
Those who don’t want to talk about coercive religion that is planted “in the public square”, are dead wrong. They put the nation in danger. They put women’s lives in danger. They put the LBGTQ community in danger. They put people of color in danger. They put Jewish people in danger.