Medicare for All Act would fund abortion

Pro-life and pro-abortion advocates have responded to a bill introduced Thursday which would radically transform health care in the United States and provide government funding for abortion services through Medicare expansion.

If the bill were to become law, the federal government would effectively remake the healthcare system, banning private insurance plans. Under its provisions, all citizens would be covered and would receive most primary care free at the point of use, not paying costs out-of-pocket for care including vision, dental, and long-term care.

The bill also aims to introduce universal “comprehensive reproductive health" coverage for women, including abortions. It is unclear what the scope of abortion provisions would be, or if doctors would be able to refuse to participate in abortions if they are morally opposed to the procedure.

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Trump joins pro-life activists to address CPAC

President Donald Trump has accused Democratic politicians of pursuing a “extreme” abortion agenda that would lead to the “execution” of newly born children. The president joined prominent pro-life activists Saturday to address the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

In a nearly two-hour long speech, Trump accused the Democratic party of taking a “radical” position on life issues.

"Democrats are embracing open borders, socialism, and extreme late-term abortion,” said Trump, to a chorus of boos from the reported crowd of more than 9,000.

Referencing the recent failure by the Senate to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Trump said the pro-abortion agenda had become “extreme.”

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‘Terrifying’: Illinois abortion bills said to be more extreme than New York’s

Pro-abortion lawmakers in Illinois introduced legislation that would remove all protections for the preborn, allow infanticide following an attempted abortion, and potentially remove all conscience protections for pro-life healthcare workers, among other proposals in this sweeping set of pro-abortion bills.

House Bill 2495 states “Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right.” It also states “A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this State.” The bill also includes multiple means of encouraging abortion for minors, undermining the parental notification law (which companion bill HB 2467 would repeal) and allowing the Department of Children and Family Services to use public funds to pay for abortions.

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VIDEO: Dr. Ben Carson speaks of fetal pain, describes abortion as ‘barbaric’ and ‘murder’

At a meeting held in the shadow of the nation’s capital, famed pediatric neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson explained that babies being aborted do feel pain.

Carson said the act of aborting a child is “barbaric,” and that for late-term abortions, where the baby could live outside the womb, he used the term, “murder.”  “The level of barbarism that (late-term abortion) requires … I quite frankly don’t know how people can do it,” said Carson.

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Pro-Life News from Around the Web

How the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act differs from previous laws, and why we need it

‘Medicare for All’ would mean federal taxpayer-funded abortion on demand

Virginia passes bill allowing surrogacy contracts to include forced abortion

Texas lawmakers seek to do opposite of NY, end late-term abortions

Born less than 10 ounces, ‘world’s smallest baby’ goes home from hospital

New Wisconsin gov says he wants to help babies… by funding Planned Parenthood

Kentucky House passes bill to ban abortion for gender, disabilities

WATCH: Pro-life hero Mary Wagner says no life is safe because of abortion

Louisiana suspends medical license of abortionist with history of violations

World’s smallest baby survives and thrives after premature birth at an age when others are aborted

Missouri House passes ‘strongest pro-life bill in the country’

Famed feminist Gloria Steinem compares pro-life movement to Nazi eugenicists

La. takes action against disciplined abortionist

Planned Parenthood president falsely claims abortion survivors aren’t left to die

Kentucky House passes bill to ban abortions on babies with Down syndrome

Abortion survivor: ‘Unfathomable’ that Democrats voted against bill to protect babies like me

End Birth Day Abortions

Babies have accidentally survived abortions for decades. Here’s proof.

Federal judge rules Missouri Planned Parenthood cannot offer abortions

Radical abortion laws cause ‘dramatic’ spike in Americans identifying as pro-life

VICTORY in a major battle for LIFE IN MARYLAND!

Federal Judge denies preliminary injunction, upholds Missouri’s Pro-Life Regulations

New poll shows more Democrats, younger Americans identify as pro-life

Thousands of pro-lifers pack New York convention center for Day of Mourning against abortion law

Obama appointee refuses Planned Parenthood’s third request for injunction against Missouri law requiring admitting privileges

Former clinic worker describes aborting baby at 20-22 weeks

The Dangers of Removing the Safeguards of Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law

Couple sues Planned Parenthood for $765,000 after botched abortion: report

'Protect Life Rule' to strip Planned Parenthood of some federal funds

Maryland has radical abortion and assisted suicide bills on the way

Supreme Court rejects abortion facility’s ‘fishing expedition’ against Texas bishops

Trump’s new attorney general must prosecute Planned Parenthood for its crimes against humanity

Pro-lifers to hold national Day of Mourning over New York’s radical abortion law

Resignations at Planned Parenthood prove baby body parts investigation is heating up

Couple sues Planned Parenthood for $765,000 after botched abortion: report

Ca. Judge refuses A.G. request to seal Planned Parenthood baby parts video during preliminary hearing

By 106-36, Vermont House adopts radically pro-abortion measure, including protection for partial-birth abortions

Pro-abortion ERA promoters fail to force a vote in the Virginia House of Delegates

Vermont bishop: Abortion bill tests limits of human brokenness

Louisiana pro-lifers want abortionist prosecuted

Arkansas passes law banning abortion if Roe v. Wade overturned

Vermont House votes to advance radical pro-abortion bill, rejects GOP amendments

Planned Parenthood CEO: We do abortions because ‘it’s being pro-life’

Az. House Judiciary Committee rejects bill to authorize infanticide

New legislation would end Minnesota’s abortion-until-birth policy

Illinois Planned Parenthood announces new program to replace Title X funds

Ahead of a loss in federal funding, Planned Parenthood of Illinois have said they have no plans to drop any of its services in the state. The funding loss is expected to follow the Trump administration’s Protect Life Rule, which places new restrictions on the use of Title X funds.

Nine Democratic governors, including Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, co-signed a letter addressed to the Department of Health and Human Services demanding that the rule be rescinded. The letter also threatened legal action if the rule remained in place.

Six days after the Protect Life Rule was finalized, Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced a new initiative, dubbed “Access Birth Control” (ABC), that would distribute contraception pills or devices, including IUDs, condoms, and Depo-Provera shots, free of charge to eligible persons.  - It was not immediately clear as to how the new initiative is to be funded.

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VIDEO: Fox host cries as former abortionist describes late-term abortion

With the extremes of abortion-on-demand back in the national spotlight, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino appeared on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning to offer a firsthand view of the subject, with a retelling that left a deep impact on interviewer Ainsley Earhardt.

Levatino is a board-certified OB/GYN who performed more than 1,200 abortions over the course of his 40-year career, but left the industry following the death of his daughter and rose to prominence in recent years as a pro-life advocate. He has offered his expertise to a series of Live Action videos detailing what abortion procedures actually entail, and congressional testimony against the claim that abortion is medically necessary.


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Photo shows little girl crushing baby doll at pro-abortion rally

A disturbing photo has surfaced showing a little girl crushing a baby doll with her foot at an abortion rally in Argentina.

The photo was taken in Buenos Aires at one of the many Feb. 19 abortion rallies in the South American country. The rallies were organized by the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion. Women and girls at the rallies wore green kerchiefs as a unifying symbol of their support for the killing of preborn children.

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CALL FOR ACTION: HB 2495 and HB2467

The Illinois abortion bills HB2467 and HB2495 which would have enshrined abortion in Illinois were not called in the Human Services Committee on March 6th.  Instead they were placed in a sub-committee.

Reasons why they were not called are speculative but it should be known the amount of witness slips that were submitted as opponents surely had some influence in the decision not to call the bill.

Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Personal PAC have joined forces, with Governor JB Pritzker and several lawmakers once again, to eradicate any and all limits on killing babies in Illinois in the form of two bills; HB 2495 and HB 2467.  Both are in the Human Services Committee  These bills need to be stopped!

In fear of Roe v. Wade being overturned, they will do everything in their power to preserve the non-existent moral “right” to slaughter inconvenient and imperfect humans in Illinois. In a press conference on February 12th, they made their intentions clear - their bills will do the following:

- Repeal the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 including criminal penalties on doctors who commit abortion

- Repeal the Partial Birth Abortion ban, which allows babies to be killed up to the time of birth

- Remove any and all regulations on clinics that commit abortion

- Repeal the Parental Notification Act of 1995

State Representative Emanuel Chris Welch (D-Westchester) is the chief sponsor of the HB 2467, a proposal to repeal the Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995. This law only requires notification—not consent. But pro-abortion advocates don’t want anything—not even parents—to hinder a child’s ability to have her baby killed. Liz Higgins, Planned Parenthood Associate Medical Director, stated, “Planned Parenthood and our partners are not going to let this become a country where people can no longer access abortion.” This includes our daughters. The government is once again interfering in familial relationships in order to advance Leftist “values.”

This must be stopped. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU will stop at nothing to achieve their body-and soul-destroying goals. If we fail to do everything in our power to block the passage of these bills, we become complicit in the destruction of countless more innocent lives.

This abortion extremism must be stopped!

Ask your state legislators to vote against HB 2495 and HB 2467.

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According to Sen. Duckworth, Newborn Protection is "Heartless and Extremist" and calls bill to Protect Babies Born Alive a "Political Stunt"

Mother of a two year old and 10 month old, Illinois' US Senator Tammy Duckworth attacked a proposal to protect babies born alive as a "political stunt"... "steeped in ignorance and misogyny."

The measure is part of the Right's "long march to strip women of their rights," Duckworth said. "Heartless, extremist policies ..."

Yet her most notable achievements as a U.S. Senator is that she's the first U.S. senator to have a baby while in office and has promoted required breastfeeding locations in airports and other public locations. Still, she's a favorite of abortion extremists:

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2020 Democrat Presidential Candidates from the Senate ALL voted for infanticide

All six Democratic U.S. senators running for president in 2020 voted Monday against requiring medical professionals to save a child born alive after a failed abortion.

Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts each voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

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Republican Senator pleads with his Democrat colleagues to support the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act

In an impassioned speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate Chamber, a Republican senator pleaded with his Democrat colleagues to support the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act, designed to protect children born alive during botched abortions from being left to die.

“It’s absolutely absurd that we’re having to decide whether to give human babies the level of protection under federal law that we give to animals,” said U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana in the closing moments before the vote was taken.

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US House again tries to force a vote on H.R. 962

Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) (pictured) furthered Republican efforts to force a vote on H.R. 962, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which protects babies born alive after failed abortions. This marks the seventh time Democrats have said no to protecting these children and stopping infanticide.

H.R. 962, introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), ensures that a baby born alive after a failed or attempted abortion receives the same medical care as any other newborn. It would also penalize doctors who allow such infants to die or who intentionally kill a newborn following a failed abortion. Reschenthaler is a cosponsor of this critical legislation.

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Press Conference Held Condemning Senate Dems for killing the Born-Alive Legislation

Jennifer Popik, J.D., director of federal legislation 

for National Right to Life

Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) and five of her pro-life House colleagues held a press conference to condemn Senate Democrats for failing to Advance the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 311), sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). The final vote was 53-44 with all but three Democrats voting to block the bill from receiving the 60 votes necessary to move S.311 forward (“invoke cloture”). The bill would extend federal legal protection to babies who are born alive during an abortion.

In the House, Democrats have erected a procedural hurtle which prevents a similar bill from being heard. Along with her colleagues, Wagner urged House members to sign onto a “discharge petition” to force the same legislation to a vote on the floor of the House.
A discharge petition is a procedural tactic to circumvent the Speaker of the House when the Speaker opposes a measure. It allows an absolute majority of the House (218 lawmakers) to force a floor vote on a bill, even if pro-abortion leaders oppose the measure.

Rep. Wagner was joined by Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Tx.), and several prolife organizations who all made remarks. The message was united in expressing shock over the 44 members of the United States Senate who voted to protect what amounts to infanticide: willfully withholding life-saving care from a born-alive infant.

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Born-Alive Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130) fails in the Senate

The U.S. Senate today voted 53-44 to advance the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130) sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), but pro-abortion Democrats, in a near-party-line-vote, blocked the bill from receiving the 60 votes necessary to move forward (“invoke cloture”). The bill would extend federal legal protection to babies who are born alive during an abortion.

“Today we saw the extremism of the abortion industry’s agenda on full display,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “The 44 members of the United States Senate who voted against this bill now need to explain to their constituents why they believe abortion is such an absolute ‘right’ that it protects what amounts to infanticide: willfully withholding life-saving care from a born-alive infant.”

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New York-style abortion-till-birth legislation proposed by Illinois Democrats

The Thomas More Society has released a startling analysis of the Democrat-sponsored House Bill 2495 and Senate Bill 1942, labeled by abortion promoters as the "Reproductive Health Act." The proposed bill, along with a partner component, House Bill 2467 and Senate Bill 1594, would comprise "the most radical piece of abortion legislation that has ever been introduced in Illinois, and...the most radical proposed in any state to date," according to the Thomas More Society's detailed analysis, by constitutional law expert Paul Benjamin Linton.

"The Democratic supermajority's proposals now pending in the Illinois General Assembly are the most pro-abortion legislative measures of their type in the country," said Peter Breen, Vice President and Senior Counsel for the Thomas More Society, and former Illinois House Minority Floor Leader. "The barbaric procedures promoted by this legislation are nothing short of infanticide. These bills go well beyond the recent New York law and would turn Illinois into a third-trimester abortion destination and an underage abortion haven. Governor J.B. Pritzker promised that his Illinois Democrats would turn the state into the most 'progressive' in the country on abortion, and these bills deliver on that violent promise: Pritzker and his Democratic supermajorities would convert the 'Land of Lincoln' into the 'Abortion Capital of America'."

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Trump Administration’s rule on the Title X Family Planning Program protects the program from funding abortions

Trump Administration’s final rule finalized on Friday, February 22, 2019, prohibits Title X projects from referring for abortions or funding aboriton and requires Title X recipients to maintain physical and financial separation from abortion clinics—in other words, no co-location of Title X family planning clinics with abortion clinics—and better enforces compliance with abuse reporting requirements protects the program from funding abortions.

Prior to the finalized rule, the Title X Program operated under Clinton-era regulations that actively supported abortion by requiring grantees to make abortion referrals and by funding clinics that provide abortions.

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