“Pregnancy Resource Centers” attempt – and succeed with gratifying regularity – at convincing women and couples considering abortion to carry their children to term. In many/most cases, they offer post-birth financial and emotional support.
It’s in stark contrast to Planned Parenthood, which aborts the fetuses, collects whatever money they can, and sends the patient on their way.
In other words, heretical desecration of the secular religion’s most holy sacrament, abortion.
Erin Maye Quade, DFL Senator from Apple Valley, wants only to feed more flesh into the maw of the One True Faith:
“I would love to eminent domain all 98 of these crisis pregnancy centers and turn them into affordable housing for people who do have children,” said Sen. Maye Quade. “I would love to turn them into food banks and diaper banks and formula banks. Like, these are things that actually support people having children when they decide they would like to have children, and everything that crisis pregnancy centers are doing is not that. None of it is that.”
It’s downright disturbing, the hatred the pro-infanticide mob feels for these centers:
Honestly, Apple Valley – what’s your problem?
Eminent Domain: hah! you little people only think you own your property.
And used as a verb. Is there anything DemoCommies don’t ruin?
It would be an interesting twist on eminent domain law.
The Fifth Amendment says private land shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. The “public use” portion meant “use by the government” as in police stations or schools. That got expanded in Kelo v. New London in which the Liberals on the court decided that taking Ms. Kelo’s house to sell it to a casino developer was a “public purpose” because it served the general welfare, even if the government didn’t actually use it.
Now we’re going to expand eminent domain law to take politically targeted lands, not to enhance the general welfare but to stop our political enemies from thwarting our political goal of killing more babies.
Next stop – seize the lands of counter-revolutionary wreckers, saboteurs, and Kulaks and then send them to a labor camp in the woods outside of Tower where they can spend a few years counting the tamaracks.
If you do a categorical eminent domain, you run afoul of the Constitution’s prohibition of bills of attainder, and you also run afoul of the limitations on eminent domain that our state enacted in the wake of Kelo. But of course, Quade won’t let a little thing like the law stop her.
Big guy, I don’t think there was any casino developer involved; it was at the behest of Pfizer. But wait! They stole our home for economic development,” ousted homeowner Michael Cristofaro told the New York Times. “It was all for Pfizer, and now they get up and walk away.
I apparently set off moderation… it was Pfizer, big guy.
Also let’s not forget the usage of eminent domain to build the Best Buy head office.