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Linda Tripp, the woman who exposed former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky, said in an interview this week that Christine Blasey Ford has severely damaged the #MeToo movement.
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There were many people who walked away from watching Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony thinking she was a Democratic operative working to delay the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I was not one of those people. I believed her pain was real. I believed that she was sexually assaulted by someone in her younger years — I just did not believe that it was, in fact, Brett Kavanaugh, for various reasons. But the antics of Ford and her lawyers Wednesday at the 11th hour (sound familiar?) of the FBI investigation have me now convinced I was dead wrong.
In Ford’s opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, she stated:
My motivation in coming forward was to be helpful and to provide facts about how Mr. Kavanaugh’s actions have damaged my life so that you could take into a serious consideration as you make your decision about how to proceed. It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell you the truth.
But on Wednesday, Ford’s attorneys declared they would not comply with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s request to deliver to the FBI documents that would — according to them — only bolster the credibility of Ford’s testimony. Her legal team told Grassley they would withhold Ford’s therapist notes and audio recording of Ford’s lie detector test unless and until the FBI agreed to interview Ford as part of its investigation.
Well, wait a minute. If her motivation in coming forward was purely to "provide facts" and "tell the truth" and the requested documents would help the FBI corroborate her testimony, why would she withhold the information?
She already gave her sworn testimony of the account — under penalty of perjury — in front of Senate members and all of America. To assert that her account to the FBI would be different from her sworn testimony would be asserting she committed perjury. If her testimony was true, the FBI didn’t need to interview her, which her attorneys most certainly knew.
Still, I didn’t want to believe that Ford, a well-respected member of academia, would knowingly destroy a man’s life over false allegations, so my initial reaction was to blame her attorneys. Maybe they were keeping information from her in an attempt to use her as a political pawn. After all, Ford seemed genuinely confused when she was told during the hearing that members of the Senate committee offered to come to her, due to her supposed fear of flying. In the same way, maybe her attorneys didn’t tell her they were attempting to strong-arm and delay the FBI investigation by withholding documents, I thought.
But that can’t possibly be the case in 2018 America. Unless Ford has been locked up in solitary confinement with no access to any media and no contact with the outside world, there’s no way she didn’t know Senate members offered to come to her for testimony, and there’s no way she didn’t know Grassley asked for documents that would corroborate her story to be included in the FBI investigation. So, the only reasonable conclusion is that she was involved in the decision to withhold the documents from the FBI.
If she was, in fact, a survivor of sexual assault at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh, and her true intention was to "provide facts and truth," as she stated in her sworn testimony, she would have delivered to the FBI both the recording of her lie detector test, along with notes from her therapist that would have allegedly corroborated her story.
Either way, Ford’s collusion in this latest political stunt is a disgrace to all sexual assault survivors who do have the courage to come forward and speak out.
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Collins kept her decision a mystery until the last moment. Though she had voted Friday morning for cloture, moving the nomination to a final vote, she had not committed to supporting Kavanaugh, and announced that she would make her choice known in a floor speech at 3:00 p.m. ET. Protesters filled the halls, and occupied her office; they chanted from the gallery as she prepared to speak. Many still held out hope that she would vote no and put the nomination one vote from defeat.
Instead, Collins walked through one argument against Kavanaugh after another. She left the personal accusations against Kavanaugh to the end, and prioritized his views on legal precedent and the political independence of the judiciary. She knocked down the claims that he would cancel Obamacare’s insurance provisions, or that he would repeal Roe v. Wade, or that he would favor President Donald Trump in the event that the president’s own conduct came before the Supreme Court.
She then turned to the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and other accusers, defending the presumption of innocence and laying out the reasons that the charges were not convincing enough to keep Kavanaugh from the highest court — including the fact that none of Ford’s witnesses corroborated her claims. In the only angry portion of her speech, she attacked whoever leaked Ford’s original letter to the media, saying that action “has turned this process into such a dysfunctional Senate.”
Collins did not mention her recent public spats with the president over his comments about Ford’s testimony. She simply focused on the issues, and on the Constitution, concluding: “Mr. President, I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.”
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Since President Trump’s election, we have been bombarded nearly daily by mobs of “Resisters” seeking to overturn the last election through verbal and physical assaults against supporters of President Trump. The assaults have been waged not only against the everyday men and women who voted for our president, but against Republican legislators and conservatives in theaters; in restaurants; at sporting events (where Congressman Steve Scalia nearly lost his life); and, as we recently observed, in the very chambers of government. Taking their cue from “Auntie Maxine” (Maxine Waters), who has urged her supporters to harass, hound, and confront their opponents wherever Republicans can be found, it is time for Republicans and conservatives to address and confront the descent into mob rule.
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Senator Jeff Flake’s confrontation in an elevator by two George Soros-funded hysterical women with cameras set up to film their shameful assault achieved exactly the impact the perpetrators desired. Anna Marie Archilla of the Soros-funded Center for Popular Democracy held the elevator door open while twenty-five-year-old Marie Gallagher hysterically screamed at the senator. Shortly thereafter, Flake returned to the Senate floor and called for the postponement of a vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation on an allegation that had no merit. Triumphant Democratic Senate Judiciary members could be seen gleefully congratulating each other and exchanging high fives. What the left understands and Republicans have not learned is that shame and fear, when employed as tactics, work.
While mob rule and street justice have been evident throughout the Third World, we in America prided ourselves on a judicial system of law and order. We were a country of laws and not of men. As multiculturalism within the last few decades became a celebrated ideology, a demographic shift caused by third-world immigrants and aliens began to uproot our cultural heritage rooted in Western civilization. Saul Alinsky’s Marxist playbook encouraged the left to take to the streets in the name of social justice, and suddenly, the left had new arrivals whose political framework was derived and shaped in countries without the rule of law.
For the last few decades, we have witnessed them taking to the streets to demand equality and racial and social justice throughout cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Baltimore along with violent rallies at Berkeley and dozens of college campuses. Since the election of President Trump, whom they view as illegitimate, they have united together under what they term “The Resistance” to destroy not only the president, but his agenda and all who support him. Whether it be immigration, executive orders, foreign policy, our economy, or judicial nominations, they block his every move to prevent him from governing.
For the first time in history, we have a populace who will not abide by the results of our election process, and its effort to obstruct and destroy is damaging the fabric of our society and the foundation on which this country rests. We have a lawful process in place to address the will of the people, and currently we see the Democrats destroying the institutions we have relied on since our founding to carry out the will of the people. Whether it is the unlawful plots at the FBI and the Justice Department to frame an innocent President Trump, the weaponization of the IRS to silence conservatives, or the theater of the absurd at the confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh, the left’s dirty tactics are now a threat to our liberty and democracy. There is not an institution that has not been impacted. Many of us are asking what institutions we can still trust and rely on.
Since the left has not been able to advance its agenda at the ballot box, its followers rely on activist judges in black robes to advance their radical agenda. It was a process that worked well for them under Clinton and Obama, but now, without Congress or the Executive Branch and with the possible loss of the Supreme Court, they see their grasp on power slipping away, and they have become unhinged. They have openly stated they will stop at nothing in their effort to remove a duly elected president. In an effort to hang on to power, they are now employing mob rule and character assassination in the halls of Congress, as we witnessed during last week’s congressional hearing.
Character assassination is a ploy often used by Democrats in the past, as we saw with the attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Robert Bork. Now that they are desperate to hang on to power, it is being used against a judicial nominee whom they could not discredit in the vetting process and one who claims he has had no contact with the alleged victim. There should be hell to pay for those who destroy a man’s life and family with unsubstantiated, meritless allegations in their quest for political power. Who among good men will want to run for office knowing that a leftist Democratic hit squad is lying in wait? The damage to our judiciary by the Democrats is enormous.
Thus, it is not enough to denounce the thugs. George Soros, the billionaire funding the assaults and attacks, must be brought to justice for not only inciting violence, not to mention investigated for sedition, a crime we need to begin to take seriously. He and his minions are obstructing the agenda we voted on and one we won. It is imperative that Republicans in office begin to use the term “sedition” in public.
Those who plot the overthrow of the United States as a constitutional republic for a one-world order, as Soros has openly advocated, can no longer be ignored. He and his marching minions must be prosecuted for funding a war waged against our republic, and let it be a warning that we will no longer sit idly by as we watch our country destroyed from within.
During November’s midterm elections, we can elect new leaders who will stand up for the rule of law and vote out those whose actions support the left. Let it be a litmus test for those running for office. If they refuse to restore the rule of law, they don’t deserve our vote. It is past high time for conservatives and Republicans to fight back. There was only one valorous senator fighting for Judge Kavanaugh. We need many more Lindsey Grahams if we are to remain a country of laws; otherwise, we will descend into a country of mob rule. The choice is ours!
Shari Goodman is a writer, public speaker, and activist. Her articles have been featured in American Thinker, WND, Israel Today, and other publications.
Since President Trump’s election, we have been bombarded nearly daily by mobs of “Resisters” seeking to overturn the last election through verbal and physical assaults against supporters of President Trump. The assaults have been waged not only against the everyday men and women who voted for our president, but against Republican legislators and conservatives in theaters; in restaurants; at sporting events (where Congressman Steve Scalia nearly lost his life); and, as we recently observed, in the very chambers of government. Taking their cue from “Auntie Maxine” (Maxine Waters), who has urged her supporters to harass, hound, and confront their opponents wherever Republicans can be found, it is time for Republicans and conservatives to address and confront the descent into mob rule.
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Senator Jeff Flake’s confrontation in an elevator by two George Soros-funded hysterical women with cameras set up to film their shameful assault achieved exactly the impact the perpetrators desired. Anna Marie Archilla of the Soros-funded Center for Popular Democracy held the elevator door open while twenty-five-year-old Marie Gallagher hysterically screamed at the senator. Shortly thereafter, Flake returned to the Senate floor and called for the postponement of a vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation on an allegation that had no merit. Triumphant Democratic Senate Judiciary members could be seen gleefully congratulating each other and exchanging high fives. What the left understands and Republicans have not learned is that shame and fear, when employed as tactics, work.
While mob rule and street justice have been evident throughout the Third World, we in America prided ourselves on a judicial system of law and order. We were a country of laws and not of men. As multiculturalism within the last few decades became a celebrated ideology, a demographic shift caused by third-world immigrants and aliens began to uproot our cultural heritage rooted in Western civilization. Saul Alinsky’s Marxist playbook encouraged the left to take to the streets in the name of social justice, and suddenly, the left had new arrivals whose political framework was derived and shaped in countries without the rule of law.
For the last few decades, we have witnessed them taking to the streets to demand equality and racial and social justice throughout cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Baltimore along with violent rallies at Berkeley and dozens of college campuses. Since the election of President Trump, whom they view as illegitimate, they have united together under what they term “The Resistance” to destroy not only the president, but his agenda and all who support him. Whether it be immigration, executive orders, foreign policy, our economy, or judicial nominations, they block his every move to prevent him from governing.
For the first time in history, we have a populace who will not abide by the results of our election process, and its effort to obstruct and destroy is damaging the fabric of our society and the foundation on which this country rests. We have a lawful process in place to address the will of the people, and currently we see the Democrats destroying the institutions we have relied on since our founding to carry out the will of the people. Whether it is the unlawful plots at the FBI and the Justice Department to frame an innocent President Trump, the weaponization of the IRS to silence conservatives, or the theater of the absurd at the confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh, the left’s dirty tactics are now a threat to our liberty and democracy. There is not an institution that has not been impacted. Many of us are asking what institutions we can still trust and rely on.
Since the left has not been able to advance its agenda at the ballot box, its followers rely on activist judges in black robes to advance their radical agenda. It was a process that worked well for them under Clinton and Obama, but now, without Congress or the Executive Branch and with the possible loss of the Supreme Court, they see their grasp on power slipping away, and they have become unhinged. They have openly stated they will stop at nothing in their effort to remove a duly elected president. In an effort to hang on to power, they are now employing mob rule and character assassination in the halls of Congress, as we witnessed during last week’s congressional hearing.
Character assassination is a ploy often used by Democrats in the past, as we saw with the attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Robert Bork. Now that they are desperate to hang on to power, it is being used against a judicial nominee whom they could not discredit in the vetting process and one who claims he has had no contact with the alleged victim. There should be hell to pay for those who destroy a man’s life and family with unsubstantiated, meritless allegations in their quest for political power. Who among good men will want to run for office knowing that a leftist Democratic hit squad is lying in wait? The damage to our judiciary by the Democrats is enormous.
Thus, it is not enough to denounce the thugs. George Soros, the billionaire funding the assaults and attacks, must be brought to justice for not only inciting violence, not to mention investigated for sedition, a crime we need to begin to take seriously. He and his minions are obstructing the agenda we voted on and one we won. It is imperative that Republicans in office begin to use the term “sedition” in public.
Those who plot the overthrow of the United States as a constitutional republic for a one-world order, as Soros has openly advocated, can no longer be ignored. He and his marching minions must be prosecuted for funding a war waged against our republic, and let it be a warning that we will no longer sit idly by as we watch our country destroyed from within.
During November’s midterm elections, we can elect new leaders who will stand up for the rule of law and vote out those whose actions support the left. Let it be a litmus test for those running for office. If they refuse to restore the rule of law, they don’t deserve our vote. It is past high time for conservatives and Republicans to fight back. There was only one valorous senator fighting for Judge Kavanaugh. We need many more Lindsey Grahams if we are to remain a country of laws; otherwise, we will descend into a country of mob rule. The choice is ours!
Shari Goodman is a writer, public speaker, and activist. Her articles have been featured in American Thinker, WND, Israel Today, and other publications.
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Kathy Griffin simply tweeted, “FUCCKKKKK YOUUUUUU” to Susan Collins Friday, following up by tweeting, “Dear SenatorCollins: To quote madeleine: ‘There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’ GO TO HELL.”
D) FUCCKKKKK YOUUUUUU @SenatorCollins
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 5, 2018
Dear @SenatorCollins:
To quote @madeleine: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
GO TO HELL
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 5, 2018
“As a Buddhist it is my practice to have compassion for all people. But @SenatorCollins is really testing my limits right now,” George Takei tweeted.
As a Buddhist it is my practice to have compassion for all people. But @SenatorCollins is really testing my limits right now.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 5, 2018
“Don’t let this performance fool you. If @SenatorCollins believed in #MeToo she would have opened the door when I was in her office to hear stories of constituent survivors,” Alyssa Milano tweeted.
Don’t let this performance fool you. If @SenatorCollins believed in #MeToo she would have opened the door when I was in her office to hear stories of constituent survivors.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) October 5, 2018
“Susan Collins turns her back on women who have been traumatized by sexual assault. Elections have consequences. To start turning the ship of state back towards the rule of law, decency, truth, and the preservation of Democracy, Nov.6 has to be a lot more than a blue wave. VOTE!!!” Rob Reiner tweeted.
Susan Collins turns her back on women who have been traumatized by sexual assault. Elections have consequences. To start turning the ship of state back towards the rule of law, decency, truth, and the preservation of Democracy, Nov.6 has to be a lot more than a blue wave. VOTE!!!
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) October 5, 2018
“So SenatorCollins either thinks that THREE women LIED to their husbands and therapists and children about sexual assault OR she just doesn’t give a fuck,” Sarah Silverman tweeted.
So @SenatorCollins either thinks that THREE women LIED to their husbands and therapists and children about sexual assault OR she just doesn’t give a fuck.
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) October 5, 2018
“If you don’t like Susan Collins and the GOP and your crash course in why the Senate is trash I invite you to join the DemSocialists & work effectively to tear this shit down,” Rob Delaney tweeted.
If you’re physically sickened by Collins’ speech & need to do something you can quickly & easily make a donation to flip the Senate (as a warmup for abolishing it): https://t.co/SimiGeUUEX
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) October 5, 2018
“Susan Collins about to bring out Louis CK for a quick set,” Billy Eichner tweeted.
Susan Collins about to bring out Louis CK for a quick set
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) October 5, 2018
“Susan Collins giving Kavanaugh all the passes. The double standards that conservatives build into their thinking and into our institutions are sickening,” Jeffrey Wright tweeted.
Susan Collins giving Kavanaugh all the passes. The double standards that conservatives build into their thinking and into our institutions are sickening.
— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) October 5, 2018
Check out all of the Hollywood outrage:
Susan Collins says she will vote to confirm Kavanaugh, partially because the man who lied repeatedly in his confirmation hearings told her he considered Roe “settled law.” Senator Collins, there is still time to change your mind and do the right thing.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 5, 2018
I am sick. https://t.co/J8QDi5neqV
— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) October 5, 2018
Dear @SenatorCollins,
At least Trump never pretends he’s anything other than a vile, heartless coward.
Congrats on the legacy. Your opponent has my full support.
— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) October 5, 2018
So, @SenatorCollins is a solid reminder that ALL Republicans are Trump supporters. 31 Days to the Election. Register to vote here. Tell your friends. https://t.co/oX6ktMW1JB
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) October 5, 2018
It all came down to Maine. pic.twitter.com/lMIsTMNgWs
— Zach Braff (@zachbraff) October 5, 2018
Susan Collins will spend the rest of her life getting screamed at every single time she steps foot in public.
But that’s not enough! Reach out to EVERY SINGLE person in your orbit and make sure they are registered to vote and bounce these ancient fuckshttps://t.co/a19VOgFBAO https://t.co/9LFjNOO0O6
— Ike Barinholtz (@ikebarinholtz) October 5, 2018
💔
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) October 5, 2018
“I’m going to keep everyone waiting until 3pm to show you that I’m not just awful, but also the single most boring speech giver in the world”
-Susan Collins
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 5, 2018
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What is with the Senators from Arizona? Since the death of Senator No Name, another NeverTrump, this time The Flake gives us his best Snake-Performance, with his last chance to slither from under another rock in the Arizona desert into the limelight, to prove to the world just how much hatred he has for President Trump and, of course, there was the possibility (wiggle room) for that-one-last-big-payoff before he retired.
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Republicans are now the hip, cool, purveyors of truth, justice, free speech, patriotism, compassion, and racial equality. Imagine that
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Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer – which opens October 12 through GVN Releasing – indicts many more than the man who snipped the spinal cords of babies born alive during abortions.
Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer reveal the full story of the Philadelphia abortionist who was considered a “pillar of his community” and an “advocate for women’s ‘reproductive health.’” The establishment media’s embrace of the narrative that abortion is “women’s health care” kept Gosnell out of the news – even as he stood on trial in 2013.
The film is based on the grand jury report that accused the Philadelphia-area abortionist of killing hundreds of babies born alive in his “house of horrors” clinic over several decades. Kermit Gosnell is now serving a life sentence for the murder of three infants and for the involuntary manslaughter of a woman who died following a botched abortion. Additionally, Gosnell was found guilty on most of the more than 200 counts of violations against Pennsylvania’s informed consent law.
The movie follows along with the grand jury report’s opening paragraph:
This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.
Even after the release of the grand jury report, media ignored the case of Gosnell for fear of being viewed as antagonistic to a “woman’s right to choose.”
“This case is not about abortion,” is heard emphasized many times throughout the film.
Except that some people came to realize it was about abortion, and that abortion actually snuffs out life, and that women can be endangered by it, especially when politicians, government bureaucrats, judges, and journalists turn the other way in order to be viewed in the “correct” political light.
Dean Cain plays James “Woody” Wood, the intense and somewhat impulsive Catholic police detective who thought he was on a routine drug investigation in Gosnell’s clinic. What he finds instead is horrifying, and, despite warnings against accusing community hero Gosnell – who is willing to do abortions past the legal gestational age to help “poor black women” – Woody can’t let it go.
Ultimately, he ends up convincing the district attorney’s office to take up the case. Sarah Jane Morris plays the role of Assistant District Attorney Lexi McGuire, a mother of five – including a new baby. Politically, she has presented herself as “pro-choice,” but she comes to represent those who experience a conversion of sorts when she is faced with what is happening in Gosnell’s clinic.
After Woody shows her the video of the aborted baby feet in jars in the clinic, Lexi is seen poignantly standing over her own baby, playfully taking his little feet in her hands, as she pauses and ponders.
Lexi ultimately brings the case to the grand jury and eventually to trial.
Thinking that the trial will bring out massive numbers of reporters because of its subject of abortion, the district attorneys and the detectives are stunned when the courtroom is bare. Cyrina Fiallo portrays “citizen journalist” Molly Mullaney, who finally calls attention to the case by tweeting out the now-famous image of the empty courtroom in which the “serial killer’s” case is being tried.
As the trial progresses, Gosnell – played by Earl Billings – fully expects to be vindicated because of what he views as the heroic service he is performing for poor women.
Billings captures the abortionist’s devious, eerie smile and his total detachment from the destruction he causes.
Though the filmmakers do not depict actual images of Gosnell snipping babies’ spines, they skillfully convey the action to their audience through haunting scenes. In one such scene, Gosnell’s young staff members hear a baby cry and find the abortionist standing over a woman during the procedure as he grabs his scissors. In another scene, viewers witness only the emotional expressions of members of the jury who are asked to look at a photo of a baby born alive in Gosnell’s clinic, whose neck has been “snipped.”
Images of the filth in the clinic where women are treated are contrasted during another scene in which Gosnell smashes clams he has purchased to feed his precious, endangered pet turtles he keeps in tanks also in the clinic.
The narrative that abortion must be protected as “women’s health care” is again called into question when a state Department of Health (DOH) nurse is clearly peeved that local police detectives and the FBI are traipsing through Gosnell’s abortion clinic. At one point, the nurse warns the men against disturbing Gosnell’s abortion patients, when she clearly is unconcerned about the filth, blood, and cat excrement at every turn.
When the DOH nurse is before the grand jury, she is asked about why her department has not inspected Gosnell’s clinic.
“We had instructions directly from Gov. Ridge’s [Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge] office not to inspect abortion clinics,” she responds.
Gosnell is directed by actor Nick Searcy, who also delivers a powerful performance as Michael Cohan, Gosnell’s defense attorney.
In one courtroom scene, Searcy’s character masterfully cross-examines a well-dressed, white, female abortionist – a witness for the state – who supposedly runs a successful facility and is there to point out how abortion is done right.
However, using the visual aids of the tools of her trade – long needle to inject the unborn baby with the digoxin or potassium chloride that will stop his or her heart, and large forceps to break off the baby’s arms and legs before evacuation from the womb – Cohan ultimately makes the point that all abortion is ugly, no matter who is doing it and how clean the clinic. Gosnell is doing it for the poor women is the defense’s claim. What could be wrong with that?
Abortion rights zealots will likely choose to see Gosnell as another effort to reduce access to abortion on demand. What they will miss through that very narrow lens is that the price paid for abortion on demand – and for its use as a major political bargaining chip – is the destruction of the lives of many infants and their mothers. After viewers see Gosnell, it may be difficult to once again believe the claim abortion is “health care.”
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The Senate voted 98-1 on Wednesday to advance a bill aimed at curbing the drug crisis, sending it to President Donald Trump for a likely signature in the near future.
The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act is the final version of several different proposals which have passed back and forth between the House and Senate in recent months. It passed the House back in June by a vote of 396 to 14.
The bill’s primary Senate co-sponsor, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), on Wednesday touted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R., Ky.) claim that the bill represented “landmark” legislation.
“Last year, more Tennesseans died from opioid overdoses than were killed in car crashes,” Alexander said. “The opioid crisis is hurting Tennessee communities, and I’m proud that Congress has come together to take this big step to help our communities fight back.”
Opioid overdose death—and drug overdose death more generally—is currently America’s greatest public health crisis. Some 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017. At least 42,000 of these deaths involved opioids, either in the form of prescription pills, heroin, or synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. There is little sign that the sharp uptick in deaths will abate any time soon, with recent research indicating that the total number of drug overdoses has grown exponentially for the past 40 years.
The SUPPORT Act is in fact a package of disparate bills, pulling together a bevy of policy approaches to try to combat the overdose death surge. It expands Medicaid coverage for individuals suffering from drug abuse disorders, increasing length of coverage for treatment from 15 to 30 days, ensuring coverage of all substance use disorders, and permitting more medical professionals to treat persons seeking to escape addiction.
One of the bill’s most notable components is Sen. Rob Portman’s (R., Ohio) STOP Act. STOP would require USPS to provide electronic data on its packages from overseas—which it currently does not—as part of an effort to combat the influx of fentanyl from China through the U.S. mail.
“Passing the STOP Act is a victory in our efforts to combat the opioid crisis and stop the influx of cheap, deadly synthetic drugs like fentanyl,” said Portman. “By closing the loophole in our international mail system that drug traffickers have exploited to ship fentanyl into the U.S., we can help law enforcement keep this poison out of our communities and ensure those gripped by addiction the chance to live up to their God-given potential.”
The SUPPORT Act also empowers the FDA to require that prescription opioids be sold in blister packs of three to seven pills, thus reducing the number of pills which can be diverted for abuse; and, according to Alexander, it “will help spur the development of a non-addictive painkiller.”
The bill’s only dissenter, Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah), cited concerns about the bill’s sheer size, much of it thanks to programs unlikely to be held accountable to measures of success.
“The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act has some good provisions in it, like the increased authority given to Customs and Border Protection to discover and destroy packages containing illegal controlled substances,” Lee said in a statement provide to the Washington Free Beacon. “Unfortunately, the bill also contains far too many unaccountable federal grant programs whose effectiveness will not be measured in any substantive way.”
Given his rhetorical focus on the opioid epidemic, Trump is likely to sign the bill—he has even signaled support for key components of it in the past. If signed, the SUPPORT Act will add substantial backing to the billion dollars in federal funding that the White House has already announced to fight the drug crisis.
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This wasn’t supposed to happen.
Not only have Republicans narrowed the enthusiasm gap with Democrats but GOP fundraising is through the roof.
Stuart Varney reported on the numbers on Thursday morning.
** This last week compared to the same week in August – donations up 175%.
** The amount raised is up 194%.
** The average gift given to the Republican party is up 111%.
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