Big Feminism – in this case, the always-puerile Jessica Valenti – is going after Idaho with the same nuanced grace as a Rashida Tlaib press conference.
They’re attacking over Idaho’s first prosecution in an “abortion trafficking” case:
Unmentioned (but for community notes) – the woman was impregnated by a rapist. The accused rapist and his mother allegedly kidnapped the pregnant woman and drove her to Idaho to destroy the evidence.
If they’d only driven to Minnesota…
Dobbs finally arrived:
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito for the majority. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
He was joined in the majority opinion by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Justice Roberts filed a separate opinion concurring with the majority.
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,” wrote Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan in a joint dissent.
The issue of abortion will now be returned to the individual states to regulate as each sees fit. Dark blue states are expected to impose the most radical pro-abortion policies while dark red states may ban all abortion. Many states may choose to allow abortion only under certain circumstances.
A few thoughts:
The real danger to our society is “right wing terror”.
As the gone-but-not-forgotten, perma-blocked Dog Gone used to say, the danger is a wave or conservative violence that will “dwarf 9/11”.
While we wait,and wait, and wait, we saw this from a “journalist” for “Rewire News Group” re the firebombing in Madison we talked about earlier this week:
I’ve heard people on both sides of this issue say that abortion would be the spark for the next hot civil war in this country.
I disagree. The left’s response to being forced to share power, via shared powers, checks and balances and due process, with those they hate is going to be what the civil war is about.
Abortion will be one of the issues that will exercise the shared powers, checks, balances and process against which Big Left will revolt.
So we have a leak and it appears the Supremos are sending Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood to the dustbin of history. A few very brief thoughts:
The usual caveats about interesting times are in full effect.
I’ve got a lot of Catholic friends who are also conservatives.
I keep asking them – “when is your bureaucracy going to start enforcing the church’s supposed beliefs, like publicly supporting the right to life, or at least not being pro-infanticide, on “Catholic” politicians?
“We will. We will”.
But they don’t. Never.
But is the specter of Joe Biden, a publicly practicing Catholic, being called “the most faithful President in recent history” (by a chattering class that generally regards Christianity as a den of know-nothjing ignorance) and a representative face for Christianity and Catholicism in public, finally goading the Bishops into action?
Maybe, but don’t bet your mortgage payment on it:
But we now hear from a few murmuring bishops that the Church must address Biden’s unworthy reception of Communion. “US Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking Communion,” reads a recent AP headline. Nothing concrete, however, is likely to come from these complaints. The U.S. bishops, as a whole, lack the will to withhold Communion from Biden, even though canon law says that they not only have the right but the duty to do so. Canon 915 “obliges the minister of Holy Communion to refuse the Sacrament” to those in “manifest grave sin.” If Biden’s direct facilitation of the killing of unborn children doesn’t fall into that category, what does?
Not being Catholic, I’m not hip to the vagaries of intra-curial politics, but the American bishops strike this Orthodox Presbyterian as not a whole lot more concerned about such things than the ELCA.
…you might note that I’m wearing my shocked face as I read this.
Remember when people called Sarah Palin vapid and dim?
But Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez and the ever-more-vacuous Chelsea Clinton…
“Whether you fundamentally care about reproductive rights and access right, because these are not the same thing, if you care about social justice or economic justice, agency – you have to care about this.
It is not a disconnected fact – to address this t-shirt of 1973 – that American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. Right?”
Huh.
And if we had a few million more people with active minds, in a society that hadn’t come to accept infanticide and with a family structure that hadn’t broken down, imagine what would have happened then?
The whole left owes Palin an apology.
Also, everyone else.
LIBERAL: “Why do you conservatives argue about ‘slippery slopes’ so much?”
CONSERVATIVE: “Because some issues are, indeed, slippery slopes:
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued
The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born.
If you’re starting to wonder if every American life spent saving Europe from totalitarianism was wasted, I really don’t have the energy to argue the point.
If there’s a part of this country in as dire a need of judicial reform as Wisconsin (with its Soviet-style “John Doe” laws), it’s Texas, where District Attorneys can go “DA shopping” to pin a defamatory criminal charge on people who say inconvenient truths.
Of course, so far – as with Tom DeLay, among others – it’s not working; the charges against the Planned Parenthood filmmakers have been dropped:
David Daleiden and his associate Sandra Merritt were indicted for their roles in the release of the videos in January. Misdemeanor charges against Daleiden were dismissed last month.
But Texas District Judge Brock Thomas dismissed the last charge — tampering with government records, a felony — Fox News reported. Prosecutors alleged Daleiden and Merritt used fake driver’s licenses while dealing with Planned Parenthood, the network said, adding that if they had been convicted of the felony charge, each could have been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
The controversial videos released last summer depicted Planned Parenthood employees appearing to negotiate the price of aborted fetal body parts “per specimen.” Profiting from the sale of human body parts — including those of the unborn — is a felony in the United States. Spokespersons for Planned Parenthood have denied illegal conduct.
The propensity of Democrats to abuse the judicial and government systems to stifle free speech should make any real American’s blood boil .
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Hillary Clinton clarifies that children have no Constitutionally protected rights until the moment of birth.
This is a critical point. Roe v. Wade turns on a woman’s right to privacy, to be free from government snooping in her personal life. The unborn child’s right to liberty and pursuit of happiness never appear in that case because the law assumes that unborn child doesn’t even have the first right – a right to life – without which, none of the other rights matter.
It’s exactly the same legal analysis that applied to Negros in the Old South, or to Jews in Nazi Germany: they were technically homo sapiens but they were not “persons” in the eyes of the law. They had no rights. They could be murdered with impunity. Nowadays, Democrats have taken us one step further – we fund the murder with taxpayer dollars to supplement the profits from sale of infant body parts.
Abortion-for-convenience is the most sacred plank in the DFL party platform and it’s unconscionably evil. Never stop reminding them of it.
Joe Doakes
It almost make slaveholders look rational in comparison.
The Obama Department of “Justice” – part of an administration utterly beholden to Big Left, including Big Infanticide – is trashing the Constitution…
…again. As usual:
Agents seized all video footage from his apartment, along with his personal information, David Daleiden said in a Facebook post. Daleiden, the founder of a group called the Center for Medical Progress, said agents left behind documents that he contends implicate Planned Parenthood in illegal behavior related to the handling of fetal tissue.
Center for Medical Progress spokesman Peter Robbio confirmed the social media posting is authentic, but he declined further comment. He said Daleiden lives in Orange County.
Harris said in July that she planned to review the undercover videos to see if center violated any state charity registration or reporting requirements. She said that could include whether Daleiden and a colleague impersonated representatives of a fake biomedical company or filmed the videos without Planned Parenthood’s consent.
Since when does “journalism” require the subject’s consent? (Yes, I know – some states require consent for recordings. Generally, “Journalists” get a pass on that, when reporting stories in the public interest).
This is Big Infanticide (and Big Media) calling in its markers with the Administration.
Western Civilization. It was a fun run. Adios, Representative Constitutional Republic. Welcome to the dawn of Authoritarian Bureaucracy.
NARAL objected to a Super Bowl commercial because it “humanized” a fetus.
Let me respond:
It’s an ultrasound. But take note, NARAL and other infanticide supporters; I don’t need to “humanize” it, any more than someone needs to “conservatise” me – because it is human. Left alone without any medical intervention (or, likely, help), the odds are overwhelming that in about 31 weeks it’ll be born as a human being, not a cat or a goat or a Prius or a producer of NPR’s “On the Media”.
It is a human, you joyless babbling harpies.
Go suck an exhaust pipe.
UPDATE: Anything that gets Darth LateTerm and the Infanticide Sith this exercised deserves some product-placement love:
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Planned Parenthood gives awards to journalists who promote abortion – who knew? Apparently, 16 journalists accepted Maggie Awards despite the recent chop-shop videos.
I wonder who got the coveted “Intact Calvarium” award and who had to settle for the “Uncrushed Spleen”?
Joe doakes
Those are the awards that are presented at the theater before the real award show, right?
Say what you will about the Center for Medical Progress’ video stings of Planned Parenthood; they’ve done one thing masterfully; they’ve taken abortion out of abstract realm that many conservatives who focus on other issues, and even many liberals with consciences, had shunted it into, and made the issue very, very sickeningly real.
David French at NRO in re the latest round of videos:
Federal law defines “born alive” as “the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother of that member, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean s
ection, or induced abortion.” So, yes, “technically” that child was alive. California law is also clear: “The rights to medical treatment of an infant prematurely born alive in the course of an abortion shall be the same as the rights of an infant of similar medical status prematurely born spontaneously.” But that’s not what happened. StemExpress wanted to “procure a brain,” so the baby had to die in gruesome fashion…
And there’s nothing “abstract” about it:
It had a face. It wasn’t completely torn up. It’s nose was very pronounced. It had eyelids. And its mouth was pronounced. And then since the fetus was so intact, she said, “Okay, this is a really good fetus, and it looks like we can procure a lot from it. We’re going to procure a brain. So . . . the moment I hear it . . . that means we’re going to have to cut its head open. We’re going to have to cut its head open.
It gets much worse.
I’m sorely tempted to print the whole article up and leave it on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood.
SCENE: Mitch BERG is having a shish kebab at a Turkish restaurant. Avery LIBRELLE walks in, starts to order, and then notices BERG.
LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! It’s time for Minnesota to legalize marijuana.
BERG: There’s a case to be made. But there’s the little matter of the federal law involved.
LIBRELLE: Screw federal law!
BERG: Right. Sort of how Saint Paul says “screw federal law” by being a sanctuary city?
LIBRELLE: Exactly. What do the feds know that the states, the laboratories of government, don’t?
BERG: Well, yeah. You’re a real paragon of federalism.
LIBRELLE: Them founders knew they’re stuff.
BERG: You realize you misspelled “their”, even in your speaking voice?
LIBRELLE: Huh?
BERG: Never mind. So – the states that are cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, because every single one of their non-abortion services is provided by other sources,a nd for cheaper…
LIBRELLE: AAAAAAAAAAH! (Jumps up from table in a position to repel an attack)
BERG: What?
LIBRELLE: You can’t!
BERG: Why?
LIBRELLE: Federal law is sacrosanct!
(And SCENE)
I went – very, very briefly – to the rally at the Planned Parenthood in Saint Paul over the lunch hour yesterday. It was hot and clammy – so humid the air seemed to congeal into little clumps of atmospheric sweat.
I didn’t even try to count the crowd; it was in the hundreds:
More below the jump.
Planned Parenthood of North Dakota tries to intimidate the local media over the “Body Chop Shop” videos.
Because freedom of choice is not for the peasants.
June, 2015: the American left reveres “transparency” above all things, and demands it of pretty much absolutely every institution in society.
July, 2015: privacy – of personal conversations, and of institutional emails, anyway – is the most sacred right in our society.
Sick of your tax dollars going to fund late term abortions, and Lamborghinis for ghouls selling baby parts on your dime?
There’s a protest scheduled over at the big box Abortion Hut – AKA “The Abattoir on Vandalia” – today over the noon hour.
Details? Right here:
Invitation: Please Join Us at a Rally to Defund Planned Parenthood!
Where: St. Paul’s Mega Planned Parenthood, 671 Vandalia Street, St. Paul MN 55105When: July 28th
Time: 12:00pm—1:00pm
Minnesota Family Council’s Director of Policy & Communications, Autumn Leva, will be speaking at the rally! We hope to see you there!
Right in the middle of the work day, unfortunately – but I’ll be there in spirit.
I have a hunch these video stings are making a lot of people who were soft-core on abortion quite a big harder-core.
It’s certainly working for me.
I got this email last week from MoveOn.org.
Interesting thing about it? There’s an odd…synchronicity in the chanting points that pop up in this email, the entire leftymedia’s coverage of the subject of last weeks bombshell videos of the Planned Parenthood ghouls selling baby parts.
Why, it’s almost as if the entire left, from Scott Pelley down to the lowliest, loneliest liberal blogger, is reading off the same script:
Dear MoveOn member,
Two weeks ago, a heavily edited, blatantly misleading video was released attacking Planned Parenthood.
Let’s stop right there.
The lefty chantingpointbots seem to think that “heavy editing” is unique to sting videos that gore their sacred cows.
News coverage generally shoots between 6 to 10 minutes of footage for every minute that appears on the air. With documentaries – think Michael Moore, who made hundreds of millions of dollars producing exactly the sort of footage that liberals love unless it’s James O’Keefe and the Center for Medical Progress – and “reality” shows it’s much, much much more; documentaries often shoot 30-60 minutes of footage for every minute of the final product.
Now be honest – do you think that those damning, eight minute videos of the Planned Parenthood ghouls talking about their Lamborghinis and the “crunchy” methods they use to kill prenatal children started out as 50-minute-to-eight-hour long conversations?
In the great scheme of video production, I’m going to suggest to you that these Planned Parenthood stings were edited vastly more lightly than most of what you see on television.
And this week, another deceiving, doctored video was released, continuing the smear campaign against the largest reproductive health care provider in America.
Did the ghouls actually say they were selling infant body parts? Then the “doctoring” was irrelevant.
It’s clear we’re facing a highly coordinated attack on reproductive rights.
No. You’re facing an attack on late-term abortion – the killing of “fetuses” that are in many cases perfectly viable.
“Highly Coordinated?”
Well, that’d be about time. There’s no reason only “progressives” can be “highly coordinated.”
…of speaking for every conservative.
But yes. Yes, I am.
Dog licks dog.
Donald Trump makes a huge, vainglorous declaration he’s never going to have to convince a legislature to support.
Facebook is full of cat videos.
Cheap hotels are often sketchy.
The Vikings don’t look very good this year.
And Minnesota’s real Governor, Tina Flint-Smith, former director of Planned Parenthood Infanticide Hut, pulled the wires and worked the remote control so as to make “Governor” Mark Dayton mumble words that sounded like the state won’t be investigating the goings-on at the non-profit, and there’s no way, nosirreebob that the Abattoir on Vandalia has ever trafficked in baby parts, no way no how, how about those Saints?
And it sure is humid out there. Also big news.
Another day? Another, even more cynical, Planned Parenthood executive caught on video haggling over prices for “not yet human” organs, presumably for actual humans:
A second undercover video shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Medical Directors’ Council President, Dr. Mary Gatter, haggling over payments for intact fetal specimens and offering to use a “less crunchy technique” to get more intact body parts.
It is similar to last week’s viral video showing PPFA Senior Director of Medical Services Dr. Deborah Nucatola admitting to using partial-birth abortions to get intact parts and suggesting a price range of $30 to $100 per specimen.
I can imagine Josef Mengele having a conversation like this:
Gatter twice recites Planned Parenthood messaging on fetal tissue collection, “We’re not in it for the money,” and “The money is not the important thing,” but she immediately qualifies each statement with, respectively, “But what were you thinking of?” and, “But it has to be big enough that it’s worthwhile for me.”…By the lunch’s end, Gatter suggests $100 per specimen is not enough and concludes, “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.”
I’m sure she’ll get one, too.
…that if we voted Republican in 2014, greedy bloodthirsty soulless profiteers would enrich themselves and their organizations by selling children’s body parts.
And they were…
…well, no. There’s nothing ironically funny, here. Planned Parenthood is, in fact, harvesting body parts from pre-natal children killed in late-term abortions, and selling them for, er, non-profit:
This is a bombshell – but I’m under no illusions that Big Left, and their minions in Big Media, will allow this story to get to a wider audience (and when they do, they’ll blame Republicans, somehow).
Planned Parenthood responds:
Planned Parenthood, which in addition to abortions provides healthcare and information regarding birth control and other reproductive issues, explained in its statement, “Patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases.
“At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.
“There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or for Planned Parenthood.”
Let’s forget for a moment that we’re talking about “tissue” from pre-natal children aborted at around 24 weeks’ gestation – inside the envelope where 25% of children, if delivered alive, can survive and live normal lives.
If there’s “no financial benefit”, then why aren’t the “tissues” donated? What’s with the price list that Doctor Spumoni rattles off?
We’re supposed to think that Planned Parenthood’s activities, and “after-market parts” service, is intended to save lives.
We can do that; we can also acknowledge that some of the Nazi’s medical “research” at concentration and extermination camps was intended to save lives, too.
Of course, if you are a functioning human being, you can not “forget for a moment that we’re talking about tissue from pre-natal children aborted at 24 weeks”.