Friday, July 6, 2018
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Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC),
appeared Tuesday on the Bill Press Show and, when asked about the
party’s future, he replied:I have three kids. Two of them are daughters — one just graduated college, one who is in college. And they were both texting me about their excitement over Alexandria (Ocasio-Cortez) because she really — she represents the future of our party.If a self-declared socialist represents the party’s future, Democrats may find themselves becoming more and more irrelevant. Is that what all Democrats really aspire to? Do 31% of citizens from the land of the free and the home of the brave really hope to live in a socialist nation?
Let’s take a look at Ocasio-Cortez’s platform:
Read entire article here; https://gellerreport.com/2018/07/democratic-embracing-socialism.html/
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Developing now, Friday, July 6, 2018
- A group tied to Hillary Clinton and other advocacy organizations launch a multi-million campaigns to pressure GOP lawmakers into opposing President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, days before his expected announcement Monday
- President Trump slams 'low-IQ' Maxine Waters, 'fake Pocahontas' Elizabeth Warren in Montana rally to unseat bitter political foe, Democratic Sen. Jon Tester
- Scott Pruitt stepped down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday after a string of controversies and some lawmakers call his resignation 'long overdue'
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in North Korea in a follow-up trip to last month's historic summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un
- Trump tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese products went into effect early Friday morning, and the president indicated he's ready to further escalate trade war between the U.S. and China
- A former navy SEAL assisting in the rescue efforts for a soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand has died due to lack of oxygen, authorities said
Today, Friday, July 6th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'On Abortion'; 'A Constitutional Legacy for Decades to Come'; and important news of the day.
Hope you can tune in at: http://listen.samcloud.com/w/73891/American-Political-Radio#history
Op-ed:
On Abortion
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Author's note: this article contains graphic images of aborted babies because only by seeing this nightmare can one truly understand the horror that is abortion.
Author's note: this article contains graphic images of aborted babies because only by seeing this nightmare can one truly understand the horror that is abortion.
By now we all know that Supreme Court
Justice Anthony McLeod Kennedy will officially retire at the end of
July bringing his thirty years on the bench to an end. Nominated to
the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, Kennedy was
sworn in on February 18, 1988.
And while Justice Kennedy has been a staunch conservative on our all
important Second Amendment rights, he has shown himself to be more
socially liberal regarding gay rights, gay marriage, and abortion
rights as he voted with the left side of the High Court on these
issues...issues that really belonged solely with the states, should have stayed with the states or been relegated back to the states.
In other words, Justice Kennedy has
been the “swing vote” with us never really knowing on
whose side of an issue his vote would be cast. And this uncertainty
made Kennedy the most important justice on the bench.
And while Kennedy's pro-gay votes
brought consternation from some mainstream conservatives as well as
expected from the uber religious far right, Kennedy's decisions were
grounded in constitutional law alone...meaning his vote was cast as
it should be whether some liked it or not.
But as much of a hot-button issue as
gay rights and gay marriage was then, it will be seen as a cake-walk
compared to the brouhaha we will now find ourselves embroiled in as
overturning Roe v. Wade has become the calling card of the
pro-life movement being fuel on with the announcing of Justice
Kennedy's retirement. An ongoing issue always hovering in the
background, the right to abortion has divided this country since 1973
when Roe v. Wade* became the law of our land after the High
Court ruled that the constitutional rights to “privacy and
liberty” protected a woman’s right to terminate her
pregnancy, and that access to abortion is a “fundamental right”
that states could only regulate (before fetal viability) if there was
a “compelling state interest.”
And while Roe v. Wade was long
the law by the very time Justice Kennedy took his place on the bench, he
showed himself to play both sides of the proverbial coin, if you
will, when it came to the issue of abortion. Voting with the left
side of the court to uphold abortion rights in several later day key
cases including the landmark 1992 ruling Planned Parenthood v.
Casey (a decision which changed the legal standard by which
restrictions on abortion are evaluated), Kennedy stated in his
decision that while abortion does fall within the “liberty”
protected by the Constitution, he also found at the same time that
states may “enact persuasive measures which favor childbirth
over abortion, even if those measures do not further a health
interest.” This meant that a state could limit women’s access
to abortion, as long as it did not place an “undue burden” on
her ability to “terminate a pregnancy.”
And Kennedy also sided with the left
side of the High Court in the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v.
Hellerstedt, which overturned a Texas law that placed additional
health regulations on clinics that perform abortions.
But then, just a few short weeks ago,
Justice Kennedy proved the power of his swing vote when this time he
sided with the conservative majority in NIFLA v. Becerra. In
his opinion that compared California’s requirements for
crisis-pregnancy centers to the free-speech restrictions imposed by
authoritarian regimes. And Kennedy rightfully based this decision upon
his interpreting the words of the Constitution...as it should
be...instead of advocating his personal Roman Catholic anti-abortion
beliefs from the bench.
And while his first two decisions made
Kennedy at least somewhat palatable to both the left and the
pro-abortion sorts, his third decision was a harbinger of doom for
the left...for the Democrats...were now forced to face the harsh
reality that elections do indeed have consequences and that Kennedy's
retirement affords his replacement being the choice of President
Donald Trump and not the choice of the woman they still to this day
believe was denied the presidency she claimed she was entitled to.
In other words 'We the People' and
America win yet again and we ain't tired of winning yet.
And besides, any challenge to Roe v.
Wade would need to work its way through the lower courts first,
which could take years before the Supreme Court would even get the
chance to decide whether to revisit the case...if they even decided
to do so...or they could simply send it back to the states for them
to preserve abortion at the state level with a termination of
pregnancy date being written into their state's individual laws or do away with abortions being allowed in their given state altogether.
And then there's the fact that as per a
recent poll by the highly respected Kaiser Family Foundation a full
67 percent of all registered voters do not want Roe v.
Wade overturned, and surprisingly 43 percent of registered
Republican voters also want Roe v. Wade upheld,
and that's something Republican congresspersons dare not espouse in public for
fear of heavy backlash by the uber religious far-right. But most
importantly these numbers mean that it's not only Democrats that
still want the right to abortion but that almost half of Republicans
do as well although their voices are continuously drowned out by the
said uber religious far-right.
Now when you add in that there is no
state in the entire country where support for banning all
abortions reaches even 25 percent, as per a fairly recent Data for
Progress analysis of Cooperative Congressional Election Studies, one
can see that except for the uber religious far-right raising their
voices against all abortions, abortion must remain an option
for women but...and this is critical...but with certain caveats put
into place.
And so with numbers proving the case
for Roe v. Wade not being overturned but amended...and I
personally believe it does need amending...said amending must not be
based upon religious beliefs...as religious beliefs are a dime a
dozen...but on medical ethics and true biological science alone. How
so...let's start with a few key facts... proven indisputable scientific facts that I
personally have been espousing for years.
Fact one: a human being cannot live
without a heartbeat whether it exists as a fetus inside the womb or
as a baby independent of the womb. A fetus whose heart does not start
to beat will be miscarried...natures way of 'correcting itself' if
you will. And with a fetus' heart not starting to beat until day 18**
of a pregnancy this means that before then what is growing inside the
mother is parasitic in nature and not capable of independent life.
And so technically day 18 is when life begins with the critical start
of a beating heart and not at the time of conception. On day 18 the
fetus becomes a soon to be viable baby...with survival actually being
possible at 22 weeks gestation with medical intervention...and
therefore should no longer to be aborted past day 18 except, I believe, in four
instances, which I will soon tell you.
And while I have been saying for years
that the heartbeat is one of the best ways to amend Roe v. Wade,
only fairly recently have others jumped on board with this. In fact,
on May 8th of this year, Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill
that would prohibit abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected but
with a six week time frame for said detection to take place, which is
weeks after the baby's heart has actually started beating. And while
it is still one of the most restrictive laws of its kind in the U.S.,
Iowa's state supreme court
determined that the then in place 72-hour waiting period to
reconsider an abortion was a violation of the “right
to equal protection and due process”
under the Iowa Constitution with it now being removed from the bill
Governor Reynolds signed.
Also, back in January of 2017, Iowa
Rep. Steve King introduced the Heartbeat
Protection Act of 2017, which would have amended the federal
criminal code to make it a crime for a physician to knowingly perform
an abortion without determining whether the fetus had a detectable
heartbeat and without informing the mother of the results. And while
said bill provided an exception for an abortion that is necessary to
save the life of the mother, it also stated that any physician who
performs a prohibited abortion be subject to criminal penalties.
However, this bill to date has gone nowhere.
Fact two: once day 18 is reached and
the baby's heart starts to beat, I believe abortion should no longer
be an option except in these critical four instances: rape, incest,
if the pregnancy means the life of the mother, or if the baby is so
medically “abnormal” that it stands little to no chance of surviving once born or if its life would be so seriously medically compromised
that said life would be one of sheer agony and pain. A life
consisting of what amounts to never ending torture is really no life
at all.
Fact three: Late term abortions of
healthy viable babies must never be performed as that is murder...chargeable murder...I cannot say it any plainer than that.
Fact four: the so-called 'morning
after' pill must be sold over the counter in all 50 states for those
stupid...yes stupid...enough to have unprotected sex in this day of
almost unlimited contraceptive choices. And with the fact that said
'morning-after' pill only works within a small 72-hour time frame after
having unprotected sex...as in the conception stage...it does not
abort a further along pregnancy. And isn't it better to lose a mass
of cells than a baby whose heart has started to beat...I would
certainly think so.
But if applied in amending Roe v. Wade, the above stated four simple facts could make this law a bit more acceptable while at the same time
still being protective of a women's constitutionally legal right to choose. Yet women should choose wisely for there are serious caveats and consequences attached...which should be okay for some...after all
nothing in life is without caveats or consequences...a truth we should all know.
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* As of January 2018, as per the National Right to Life Committee, there have been an estimated 60,069,971 abortions since the Supreme Court made Roe v. Wade the law of the land in 1973.
** Day 18 after unprotected sex allows for a leeway of up to five days to take a pregnancy test if a woman's period is late. Today's pregnancy tests are sensitive enough to confirm a pregnancy as early as one day late allowing time to abort before the fetus' heart starts to beat (and life begins) if that's what the woman wants.
Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article A Constitutional Legacy for Decades to Come.
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RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!
Today, Friday, July 6th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'On Abortion'; 'A Constitutional Legacy for Decades to Come'; and important news of the day.
Hope you can tune in at: http://listen.samcloud.com/w/73891/American-Political-Radio#history
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* As of January 2018, as per the National Right to Life Committee, there have been an estimated 60,069,971 abortions since the Supreme Court made Roe v. Wade the law of the land in 1973.
** Day 18 after unprotected sex allows for a leeway of up to five days to take a pregnancy test if a woman's period is late. Today's pregnancy tests are sensitive enough to confirm a pregnancy as early as one day late allowing time to abort before the fetus' heart starts to beat (and life begins) if that's what the woman wants.
Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article A Constitutional Legacy for Decades to Come.
******************************************************************************************************
RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!Today, Friday, July 6th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'On Abortion'; 'A Constitutional Legacy for Decades to Come'; and important news of the day.
Hope you can tune in at: http://listen.samcloud.com/w/73891/American-Political-Radio#history
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