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Democrats Stop Bill to Help Human Trafficking Victims Because it Won't Fund Their Abortions
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Steven Ertelt Mar 17, 2015
Proving once again that, for Democrats, abortion trumps everything else in politics, Senate Democrats voted today to stop a bill to help human trafficking victims because the measure won't pay for their abortions.
The legislation passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee without any problems but, now, pro-abortion activists are raising a stink about how funds for restitution for human trafficking victims won't pay for abortions. The objection is offensive to victims of human trafficking and millions of girls and young women around the world who are victimized by it, putting abortion ahead of meeting their needs.
Senate Democrats voted against a cloture motion to end the Democratic filibuster and to allow a vote on the sex trafficking bill - with every Republican in the Senate supporting the measure and favoring an end to the filibuster preventing it from moving forward. The final vote was 55-43 against ending the filibuster and the cloture motion needed 60 votes to move the bill ahead to a vote. Only Democratic Senators Donnelly, Casey, Manchin, and Heitkamp voted with Republicans to end debate.
After the first cloture vote, Republicans held a second cloture vote to end debate and Senate Democrats voted a second time to block the bill to help human trafficking victims on a similar 55-43 vote.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a pro-life Republican, said on the floor of the Senate this morning that he is shocked and dismayed that Democrats would put abortion funding ahead of helping women.
"Children are being abused and literally sexually assaulted while, apparently, some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have decided to try to make a political point," he said. "To our colleagues who are filibustering this legislation, are you prepared to turn your back on the thousands of people living every day in bondage and who are desperately clinging to the hope that someone, someone will lend them a helping hand? Are you prepared to abandon these children and these other victims of human trafficking who deserve a roof over their head, someone to lean on, and somehow, some way to get a fresh start in life?"
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that, as a result of their vote holding up the bill, Republicans will not allow a vote on pro-abortion Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch. McConnell indicated his intention to keep the Senate focused on this human trafficking legislation until its successful completion. Further cloture votes to break the filibuster are expected throughout this week.
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Leading pro-life groups hammered Democrats for their misplaced priorities.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said "this bill was created to rescue victims - not create more. If Planned Parenthood and other groups are so determined to give women access to abortion, why don't they donate the funds to pay for the abortions?"
"In a stunning display of protecting abortion at all costs, the US Senate failed to defend victims - women and little girls - of sex trafficking," said Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins. "The abortion lobby and their allies in the Senate should be ashamed of themselves. How dare they call themselves 'pro-woman' when they epically failed to help sex trafficking victims because they would rather force taxpayers to fund abortion. Today's vote shows that like Planned Parenthood, Senate Democrats are for 'Abortion. No Matter What'."
"Young girls and women shouldn't be sentenced to the horrors of human trafficking and sex slavery," added Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Casey Mattox. "Withholding help for these girls and women in desperate need for any reason is tragic, but holding that help hostage because it doesn't include abortion funding is downright wicked."
Leading pro-life advocates heaped strong criticism on Senate Democrats for their steadfast loyalty to abortion above the interests of young women who become victims of the sex trade.
This isn't the first time Democrats have put abortion ahead of helping human trafficking victims. The Obama Administration put abortion ahead of human trafficking twice - by denying a grant to the Catholic bishops to help victims because they wouldn't promote abortion and by refusing to investigate how the Planned Parenthood abortion business covered up potential cases of sex trafficking.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had previously received a five-year $19 million grant to help victims of sex trafficking during the administration of pro-life President George W. Bush. Sensitive to how women are exploited in the sex industry, the Catholic bishops prohibit any subcontractors from using the funds to pay for or promote abortions. Instead, the Catholic bishops provide comprehensive case management services to survivors including medical and mental health services.
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Planned Parenthood and NARAL Claim Pro-Life Women Don't Exist
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Kristi Burton Brown Mar 17, 2015 | 10:26AM
As usual, Planned Parenthood and NARAL close their eyes to pro-life women. So much so, this time, that they pretend these women don't even exist.
The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act has been debated all over the media these last few days. And not because Americans actually debate whether we ought to help trafficked women and girls. No, the Trafficking Act has been debated because Democrats decided to oppose it late in the game because the Hyde Amendment - which prohibits federal funds from being used for abortions - was included.
The Hyde Amendment was included from the very beginning, but perhaps Democrats failed to read the actual wording of the legislation. Or, maybe they decided to change course when Planned Parenthood and their cronies started yelling about the proposed law.
Adam Peters wrote for Live Action yesterday about exactly how Planned Parenthood handles victims of human trafficking. (Note: It doesn't help them with "legal" abortions, despite its claims to the contrary. Instead the abortion giant is content to help pimps secure forced abortions for the women they victimize.)
So instead of looking past a pro-life provision that is a normal part of federal legislation, Planned Parenthood and NARAL decided to come against a law that would help trafficking victims. And, in the process, they are blaming pro-life men and pretending pro-life women don't even exist.
On March 12, Planned Parenthood retweeted a NARAL tweet, claiming that "only men are supporting #antichoice restrictions in a #humantrafficking bill."
Wait a second, here. Only men?
Are Planned Parenthood and NARAL really claiming that Senator Joni Ernst - who spoke out in support of the pro-life provision in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act that same day at a press conference - is a man?
Are they so desperate to pretend there is no such thing as a pro-life woman? Or even a woman who could support basic, popular pro-life legislation like this? So desperate, in fact, that they hide their eyes from Senators Amy Klobuchar, Dianne Feinstein, Deb Fischer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Heidi Heitkamp, Susan Collins, Kelly Ayotte, Shelley Moore Capito - all women who cosponsored this bill?
According to Congress.gov - an official government website - only one woman took her name off the bill as cosponsor: Senator Barbara Boxer.
So despite Planned Parenthood and NARAL's insistence that "only men" support the pro-life provision in the Act, basic facts prove them wrong. Of course, when you're in the business of killing, what's a little lie? And while some of the Democrats are claiming they weren't aware the Hyde Amendment was included, Senator John Cornyn - head sponsor of the Act - explains it well:
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It Was a Mass Murder in America the Media Didn't Report. Now There's a Director to Tell the Story
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"Gosnell," the movie about mass murderer and abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, will be directed by international film and television star Nick Searcy.
The announcement was made Wednesday on the documentary film's Indiegogo site. Last year, the project set a movie crowd-funding record. Searcy is the latest in a line of well-known individuals involved in the movie.
John Sullivan, the co-director of Dinesh D'Souza's two documentaries, "2016: Obama's America" and "America: Imagine the World Without Her," has signed on as executive producer. The script is being written by Andrew Klavan, who best known as the author of the novel True Crime, which was turned into a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
"Gosnell" is being produced by Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magdalena Segieda, who also created the documentary "FrackNation," in response to the anti-hydraulic drilling film "Gasland."
Searcy, well known for his role as Art Mullen on the recently-concluded FX show "Justified," as well as his roles in movies such as "Moneyball," "Castaway," and "Fried Green Tomatoes," is also a very outspoken political conservative.
Rare in the Hollywood world he inhabits, Searcy is vocal about his politics on Twitter. He has also appeared on "Red Eye," "The Dana Loesch Show," and Rush Limbaugh's syndicated radio program.
Searcy has been involved with the Gosnell project early on. He created a promotional video for the movie's Indiegogo campaign, as can be viewed above.
He appeared on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" last April, to discuss the Indiegogo campaign and the film's importance, as well:
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Court Rules Obama Admin Can't Make Family-Run Business Obey Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate
Steven Ertelt Mar 17, 2015 | 3:33PM
The family-run business that was the very first company to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration HHS mandate, that forced companies to pay for abortion-causing drugs for their employees, won its legal challenge.
A federal district court issued a permanent injunction Monday in favor of Hercules Industries and its owners, who are represented by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys. The decision follows a victory for Notre Dame against the HHS mandate and the biggest case most people know of is the Hobby Lobby victory against the Obama administration.
The mandate forces employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception under threat of heavy financial penalties through the Internal Revenue Service.
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"Americans should be free to live and work according to their faith without fear of punishment by the government," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. "In this country, citizens have always had the freedom to believe, the freedom to express those beliefs, and the freedom to operate their businesses in accord with those beliefs. The Supreme Court upheld that time-honored principle in its Conestoga/Hobby Lobby decision just last year, and the district court has rightly done the same."
ADF attorneys and allied attorneys represented Conestoga Wood Specialties in its victory at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The opinion issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in Newland v. Burwell rejected the Obama administration's argument that the administration must sign off on the injunction before the court can issue it.
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Is China Going to Abandon the One Child, Forced-Abortion Policy?
Reggie Littlejohn Mar 17, 2015
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has recently stated that China is considering a further reform of the hated One Child Policy, giving rise - yet again - to news reports with titles such as, "Is China Going to Abandon the One Child Policy?" My answer to that question is emphatic: No.
The Chinese government sees the two-fold demographic disaster caused by the One Child Policy.
First, the policy has caused a dangerously skewed gender imbalance in which there are 37 million more men living in China today than women.
Second, China does not have enough young people to support its quickly aging population. In addition, the recent tweak to let couples have a second child where either parent is an only child did not produce the number of new babies expected by the Chinese Communist Party. They seek to revise the policy for demographic reasons alone. Noticeably absent from the Chinese Communist party's announcement is any mention of human rights. There has been no official mention of human rights abuses such as forced abortion and sterilization as reasons for "reforming" the Policy.
In my opinion, the Chinese Communist Party will likely announce that within the next several years, all couples will be allowed a second child. Instituting a two-child policy, however, will not end forced abortion or forced sterilization. The problem with the one-child policy is not the number of children "allowed."
Rather, it is the fact that the CCP is telling women how many children they can have and then enforcing that limit through forced abortion and forced sterilization. Even if all couples were allowed two children, there is no guarantee that the CCP will cease their appalling methods of enforcement. Regardless of the number of children allowed, women who get pregnant without permission will still be dragged out of their homes, strapped down to tables, and forced to abort babies that they want, even up to the ninth month of pregnancy. Pro-choice and pro-life advocates can agree: No one should support forced abortion, because it is not a choice. Forced abortion is official government rape.
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