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November 12, 2018 4:30 pm

A new version of a criminal justice reform proposal could grant early release to many fentanyl dealers, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Although the latest version of the FIRST STEP Act does exempt certain fentanyl traffickers from being released early, loopholes evident in a copy of the text obtained by the Free Beacon mean that many distributors of the deadly synthetic opioid could still go free. Such language appearing in the final bill language could spell trouble, as a failure to exempt fentanyl traffickers in a previous version helped cement President Donald Trump’s opposition to it.

FIRST STEP is a bipartisan proposal to reduce the size of the federal prison system and increase exposure to rehabilitative programs. It would use a system of “good time” credits to shorten federal sentences, releasing as many as 4,000 federal prisoners early.

However, after passing the House of Representatives, FIRST STEP stalled out in the Senate. This was thanks to concerns about, among other things, what kind of prisoners were excluded from receiving good time credits. Specifically, drug traffickers were eligible for early release unless “death or serious bodily injury resulted from the use” of the drug they had sold.

The possibility of mass-releasing drug dealers did not fly with Trump, whose opposition sank the bill’s chances of a floor vote before the midterm. In a meeting before he came out against the bill, Trump said he would never support a bill that set fentanyl traffickers free, and agreed with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Congress should toughen fentanyl sentencing guidelines.

Backers, responding to Trump’s concerns, have put together a new version of FIRST STEP, expected sometime early this week. Koch Industries V.P. and general counsel Mark Holden, who has been a key representative for the bill in the media, told the Washington Post that he expects that text to receive an up-or-down vote during the lame duck session.

Whether or not it actually does ultimately depends on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) willingness to bring the bill to the floor, which he has said he will only do if a whip count indicates it will receive 60 votes

The new version of the bill ostensibly excludes fentanyl dealers from receiving the sentencing reductions, a change that was central to it receiving the backing of the Fraternal Order of Police (which did not respond to a request for comment for this article).

“The FOP played a key role in making sure that truly dangerous offenders, like those who commit crimes while armed and those who traffic in deadly narcotics like fentanyl, are ineligible to participate in the First Step program,” said FOP President Chuck Canterbury in a statement on his group’s support of the bill.

But the text of the bill, as seen by the Free Beacon, does not categorically exclude any person convicted of selling fentanyl from early release. Rather, it specifically excludes individuals convicted of manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and its analogs if and only if they are also found to have been an “organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others in the offense.”

This language comes from the “role adjustment” sentencing modification that certain offenders can receive for playing leadership roles in drug trafficking schemes. Data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission indicate that just 7 percent of all drug trafficking offenders received any kind of “aggravating” role adjustment, of which the leader adjustment is just one example.

In other words, the overwhelming proportion of individuals who might be charged for trafficking fentanyl are not organizers, leaders, manager, or supervisors—and all of these people are still included in eligibility for FIRST STEP’s sentence reduction.

Additionally, the new version of the bill adds only fentanyl and its analogs to the list of drugs the trafficking of which would exclude certain people from release.  A person convicted of trafficking other drugs, like heroin and cocaine, can still get out early.

However, fentanyl is rarely, if ever, trafficked by itself. Rather, it is usually mixed with counterfeit prescription pills, heroin, or cocaine, meaning that individuals who traffic in these drugs may very well also be fentanyl distributors.

While heroin or cocaine trafficking is often also fentanyl trafficking, most federal drug trafficking offenders are not convicted of actually trafficking fentanyl. This is because it is much easier to identify heroin or cocaine, as opposed to fentanyl, which requires a lab test to confirm. This helps explain why 93 percent of all federal drug offenders are incarcerated for drugs relating to cocaine, heroin, marijuana, or meth; few if any are actually convicted of fentanyl distribution.

All of this means that the actual language included in the revised version of FIRST STEP is unlikely to do much to forestall the early release of fentanyl dealers—an eventuality that would lead to more deadly fentanyl on America’s streets.

The bill’s specific exclusion of only certain fentanyl dealers—and inclusion of all other drug dealers—is not popular with the public. A survey commissioned by the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys found that 74 percent of respondents would oppose “a proposal to reduce penalties for traffickers in heroin, fentanyl, and similar drugs.”

Normally, there is something honorable and respectable about persistent people living out the adage, “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

But if that person is Hillary Clinton? It’s not so much honorable and respectable as it is pathetic and laughable.

American voters already gave a resounding response to Clinton’s bid for the presidency in 2016, and she has done nothing in the last two years to really change that narrative.

Clinton’s defeat tour since losing the election to Donald Trump has included “painful” appearances on late night television and “horribly unfunny” appearances on underwhelming sitcom reboots. There’s been virtually nothing of substance she has accomplished since losing the election.

It’s been lackluster enough that Clinton has basically become persona non grata within her own party.

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Rumors have been swirling about Clinton’s next potential move for a while, and now some gasoline has been thrown on that fire thanks to two Mark Penn, a senior adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton from 1995 to 2008, and Andrew Stein, a Democrat and former New York City Council president.

In a Wall Street Journal piece titled “Hillary Will Run Again,” Stein and Penn literally start the piece with “Get ready for Hillary Clinton 4.0.”

Stein and Penn go on to explain that “Hillary Clinton 4.0” will be an even more liberal version of herself. In other words, think Bernie Sanders but even more irritating.

“More than 30 years in the making, this new version of Mrs. Clinton, when she runs for president in 2020, will come full circle — back to the universal-health-care-promoting progressive firebrand of 1994,” Stein and Penn claim. “True to her name, Mrs. Clinton will fight this out until the last dog dies. She won’t let a little thing like two stunning defeats stand in the way of her claim to the White House.”

Another adage comes to mind when discussing Clinton’s “two stunning defeats.” Something about “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”

Stunningly, Stein and Penn make the case that Clinton has learned virtually nothing from her resounding defeat in 2016.

“Mrs. Clinton has come unbound. She will not allow this humiliating loss at the hands of an amateur to end the story of her career,” the two wrote.

Dismissing Trump as an “amateur” shows just how little Clinton and her camp has learned from defeat. Yes, in the most literal sense, Trump is a political “amateur” in so far as his lack of political experience before becoming president.

But dismissing him in such a manner undersells all of the many reasons he did win the election.

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Trump is an outsider, a maverick and the literal opposite of a career politician. That’s how he dispatched the likes of Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton en route to winning the presidency. Americans were sick of the elitist “dynasties” that were looking out for themselves before the people of this country.

Trump represented a welcome break in the system. He represented a disruption to the woeful status quo. If Clinton and her camp don’t realize that now, they can expect a 2020 run to go remarkably similar to 2016.

“You can expect her to run for president once again. Maybe not at first, when the legions of Senate Democrats make their announcements, but definitely by the time the primaries are in full swing,” Penn and Stein argue.

That sentence might be the best news Trump has heard in a while.

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BY: Todd Shepherd Follow
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November 12, 2018 1:50 pm

PHOENIX, Ariz.—Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes’s (D.) answers to questions about controversial emergency voting centers opened on the Saturday and Monday before Election Day only inspired more criticism from Republicans, who consider the centers workarounds for voting election deadlines set by law.

The debate over Maricopa County’s logistical decisions comes as ballots continue to slowly be counted in Arizona’s Senate contest.

On the Wednesday following Election Day, Republican congresswoman Martha McSally led Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema by over 17,000 votes. However, there were also about 650,000 votes still to be counted, with the majority of those in Maricopa County.

As of Monday, Sinema has a lead of about 32,900 votes, and the Arizona Republic estimates 215,000 votes remain to be counted across the state.

By law, early voting is supposed to end on the Friday before Election Day, but the law also provides for the emergency voting centers that may be created after. Ambiguities over the “emergency voting” statute—including questions as to what constitutes an emergency and whether or not a voter should have to prove their emergency—are the points of conflict.

During “Sunday Square Off” on local NBC Affiliate 12News, political reporter Brahm Resnik pressed Fontes on the decisions, first by asking about the locations of the emergency voting centers, and whether the locations favored Democrats.

Resnik: How fair is this when vast swaths of the valley [Phoenix metro area] – and maybe some Republican districts, some might argue were left out of these voting centers—while you have two very close to each other in a Democratic area?

Fontes: Here’s what’s interesting about this. On the one hand we have people complaining that I shouldn’t be doing something in the first place. And on the other hand when I do it, they criticize me for the way it happens. And that’s fair. I’m an elected official, and I’ve got big shoulders.

The following image, provided by the Arizona Republican Party, shows precinct-by-precinct results for Maricopa County for this election, and also shows the location of the emergency voting centers.

Fontes then went on to describe the locations of the emergency voting centers, and said he got a request from an elected official for others, with the request he said coming “very close to the last minute.”

The request from the elected official was the mayor of Tolleson, who endorsed Sinema almost a year before the election.

Then Resnick asked about the ambiguities around the emergency voting statutes.

Fontes: Now, here’s the thing. Emergency voting has been in the statutes for decades. And county recorders outside of Maricopa County have been doing this for decades. And so the fact that we just…

Resnik: But this is the first time Maricopa County did it.

Fontes: Yes.

Resnik: And I could have gone, without any illness and – for any reason I could have gone to one of these centers for any reason at all.

Fontes: You would have had to had an emergency.

Resnik: Are you sure about that?

Fontes: Yep.

Resnik: Uh, Democrat candidates were putting this number and address out on door hangers saying, ‘Just show up.'”

Fontes: The law says you can have emergency voting available, if a voter has an emergency.

Resnik: You weren’t checking for emergencies at the door.

Fontes: It’s not my business what your emergency is, Brahm. I’ve got HIPPA [health privacy laws] laws that prevent me from asking. You’ve got your privacy that I have to respect, and by the way, what, pray tell, is the problem with giving voters access to the ballot box? That’s my first question.

Continuing its criticism of the controversy, the Arizona Republican Party Sunday morning tweeted out a Fox News interview with election law attorney and former Maricopa County prosecutor Tim La Sota.

“Tim La Sota: Democrats are not concerned with counting votes, they’re concerned with counting their votes. #AZSEN” the tweet read.

After the emergency voting locations were open on the Saturday before Election Day, Republican officials sent letters to every county recorder in the state about concerns they had over the legality of some processes which were underway, but singled out Maricopa County in particular.

“It has come to our attention that the Maricopa County Recorder’s office may be systematically permitting electors to cast in-person early ballots between Saturday, November 3 and Monday, November 5, irrespective of whether such individuals have cited any articulable ’emergency,'” the letter said. “If true, this practice impermissibly circumvents the statutory deadline and constitutes a de facto extension of general early voting.”

The GOP asked county recorders to segregate all ballots cast in emergency voting centers, in case more legal questions arose.

The Arizona Republic reported on the letter saying that “[Fontes] would not confirm whether the office is complying with the request and separating the ballots.” The same report estimated that about 3,000 ballots were at issue.

After election day, the GOP straightforwardly accused Fontes of destroying evidence by not segregating the ballots as it had requested.

Fontes has maintained that a “plain reading” of the election law and the emergency voting statutes support his decisions.

While “all eyes” are on Florida amidst accusations of potential election fraud, there may have been something fishy going on in St. Clair County, Illinois. According to The Gateway Pundit, this would not be the first time something like this has happened, either.

Peggy A. Hubbard posted a multi-tweet thread explaining what happened in the 2018 midterm elections, noting that she was an election judge. She began describing some of what she witnessed as she watched the polling station.

I witnessed attempted voter fraud on Tuesday.

92 yr old woman with dementia who could not speak

A man with 2 drives licenses and 4 different addresses

A woman that didn’t live in the city she was voting in. And, Democrats were going to let them all VOTE!

I stopped it….

— ❌Peggy A Hubbard❌ 🇺🇸 (@pahubb43) November 10, 2018

But that wasn’t all she saw.

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I even had a man SO drunk he forgot his name. You could smell him from 7 feet away. And, they were going to let him vote.

Unreal what Democrats would allow.

— ❌Peggy A Hubbard❌ 🇺🇸 (@pahubb43) November 10, 2018

Not only is it shocking that anyone would allow this, but it’s also shocking that someone would get in such a state before then going to vote.

Hubbard noted that she also caught a city council member just feet away doing no good. But it was Hubbard taking flack.

The Democrats filed complaints against me. They are asking for my REMOVAL as an election judge in St Clair county IL

This after i caught a city council members less than 10 feet from the polling place passing out fliers and other items. Rules say 100 ft. I called State attorney

— ❌Peggy A Hubbard❌ 🇺🇸 (@pahubb43) November 10, 2018

She also elaborated further on how she put a stop to what she witnessed. It appears that these actions may have led to the complaints filed against her and her removal as an election judge being sought.

I challenged it. Called the county court house, called the states attorney who are on stand by.

And i wasn’t intimidated by the Demcrat poll watchers or election judges. I challenged.

— ❌Peggy A Hubbard❌ 🇺🇸 (@pahubb43) November 10, 2018

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Hubbard has also posted about other problems with the election in her state. These are from 2016.

2016East St Louis, ILPrecinct officials caught buying votes for alcohol and $5 bucks

Alorton, ILMayor and 4 city council members caught stuffing ballot box and absentee ballots from vacant lots

Washington Park, IL75 absentee ballots from same address

ALL DEMOCRATS

— ❌Peggy A Hubbard❌ 🇺🇸 (@pahubb43) November 10, 2018

Hubbard is no stranger to standing up for what she believes in or in being attacked for it. In 2015, she “compared the black community’s reaction to the shooting of Mansur Ball-Bey in North St. Louis outside a crack house with the shooting death of 9 year-old Jamyla Bolden in Ferguson,” according to The Gateway Pundit.

Her video rant went viral. And the typical name-calling ensued, including her being referred to as an “Uncle Tom.”

Service isn’t new to Hubbard, either. She is a veteran who served aboard the USS SAMUEL GOMPERS AD-37.

HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY

It was my honor to have served this great nation 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/NVBDhF9uYm

— ❌Peggy A Hubbard❌ 🇺🇸 (@pahubb43) November 11, 2018

Hubbard’s Twitter feed is filled with hard-hitting posts about the left and Democrat shenanigans. She has no problem speaking out against the “Democrat Plantation” and “Black Lives Matter,” contrary to what blacks in America are expected to do.

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Dr. Matt Naylor, president of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss this year’s centennial commemoration of WWI’s armistice. Sunday will mark 100 years since WWI’s conclusion.

SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour introduced the segment with the first two stanzas of “In Flanders Fields,” written by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Forces in 1915:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Naylor said of WWI, “I think that the world came undone during those years, and after more than four years of conflict, it’s as though the world came to its senses. When it was put back together, it wasn’t quite what it was before.”

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Naylor described America’s geopolitical ascendance via WWI, “For the United States, it was such a profound dramatic transformation, being drawn out from essentially an isolationist country onto the world stage demonstrating its financial power, its economic and industrial might, retreating perhaps a little after the war into its own self for a period, but really set the stage for and birthed the first American century.”

Naylor examined broader impacts of WWI on international affairs, “Empires done away with, new countries formed, experiments in democracy, enormous development in technologies; we can’t underestimate the impact of World War I in really defining for us the last 100 years, and so it’s right that we should commemorate the founding catastrophe of the 20th century.”

Naylor noted how WWI saw 65 to 70 million service men and women — primarily men — mobilized for war, with casualties of more than 30 million. About half of all combatants were killed or wounded. “Seven thousand two hundred deaths a day, 300 an hour, five a minute; for more than four and a half years,” said Naylor. “The scale of this is just difficult to wrap your head around. So it’s right that we commemorate, that we learn lessons, and that we honor those who served, to acknowledge their courage and the sacrifice that they gave, and to reflect on the risk there is, as it were, of sleepwalking into catastrophe.”

Originally from Australia, Naylor reflected on WWI’s impact on Australians, “Forty percent of all males of service age [in Australia] were shipped off to Europe, of those, a 65 percent casualty rate. There wasn’t a household that wasn’t somehow impacted by WWI.”

Naylor added, “For Australia, World War I also begins the 100-year defense relationship with the United States, On July 4th, 1918, the Battle of Hamel, American troops served under Australian command … a 90-minute battle, it was a successful battle and significant in the beginning of the turning of the war, and that began what has been a very successful and important defense relationship. Australia and the United States have fought together in every major war since World War I. July 4th, 1918, marks an important moment for the U.S. and Australia.”

“We’re bathing the memorial in poppies from sunset until the early morning hours for the nine nights leading up to and including November the 11th,” said Naylor of the National World War I Museum and Memorial’s commemoration of WWI’s end. “At the time of the armistice … many church bells began to ring in cities. At 11 o’clock on November 11th, on Sunday, many communities will be ringing or tolling bells to commemorate the fallen and remember the armistice, and that’s what we’ll also be doing at the National World War I Museum and Memorial. There will be a wreath laying and bell tolling ceremony at 11 o’clock, and we’ll be tolling the bell 21 times.”

Naylor continued, “In fact, the bell that we’re tolling was rung each day during the U.S. involvement in World War I by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1917 and 1918, each day, and then in 1926, when President Coolidge came to Kansas City to open the memorial and dedicate it, that bell was rung. The bell was tolled 11 times, its ringing was broadcast by radio together with President Coolidge’s speech, and that very same bell is going to be tolling 21 times at 11 o’clock to honor the Americans. More than 116,000 Americans who lost their lives, approximately 4.7 million Americans who served … and perhaps as many as 65 million others who were involved as combatants in the war.”

The National War War I Museum and Memorial will be livestreaming its centennial ceremony via its Facebook page and website beginning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern (9:30 a.m. Central and 7:30 a.m. Pacific).

Military historian Patrick O’Donnell, author or The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home, also joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight to examine WWI’s significance.

O’Donnell said, “If Germany had been allowed to remain a great power in Europe, it would have changed the entire world. It would have changed the trajectory of the United States, for sure. … I think World War I is the seminal event of the 20th century, and it leads America on a trajectory to lead the American century, too. Everything from the birth of the modern Marine Corps to the modern Army, there’s a rise of international communism, there are so many first-, second-, and third-order effects that come out of the war. It still continues to impact us today.”

O’Donnell noted how hundreds of Americans were killed in the hours before WWI’s armistice, detailing some of the story in his Friday-published article, “Armistice Day, The Last Night of WWI and a Bridge Into Hell.”

President Donald Trump traveled to Paris, France, to mark the centennial of WWI’s armistice.

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Apparently, you can only attack Tucker Carlson’s house so many times before that gets old and/or the police get involved. So, what’s a good antifa to do?

Well, attack something with an American flag on it, of course. After all, the American flag is a political symbol — right?

That’s apparently what happened at a pizzeria in New Paltz, New York, where an American flag mural was vandalized early in the morning on Election Day.

It wasn’t the first time the flag had been targeted, though.

Maria Lisanti, owner of La Bella Pizza Bistro in the Hudson Valley town, said she had initially faced some opposition to the American flag mural when it was proposed because critics said that the flag represented “a symbol of hate and oppression,” according to Fox News.

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In late October, Fox reported, “(Lisanti’s) friend Joey Garcia, a New York state corrections officer and Army National Guard veteran, organized an ‘American flag appreciation walk’ to rally the community together and show their support for the flag, military, law enforcement, and the country.”

However, while most of the people at the flag appreciation walk were there to do just that — appreciate the flag — a group of protesters identified as antifa by Breitbart gathered with signs reading, “Yes, I’m anti-AmeriKKKan” and “Stop Pretending your Racism is Patriotism.” Another sign, according to  IJR, asked, regarding the flag, “What is there to be proud of?”

Charming. Here’s some of the video of the protest, which we must warn you contains some vulgarity. Viewer discretion is advised.

“They didn’t want a flag. They thought that it meant a political position and they were opposed,” Lisanti told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Friday.

Then came the Election Day vandalism, when balloons filled with paint were lobbed at the mural, apparently because, well, oppression ‘n stuff.

Garcia told Ingraham he was called names by the protesters during the October event.

“I tried to explain, ‘Hey, you guys have the right to be out here, so do we. Let’s keep it peaceful.’ They really didn’t want to hear any of that,” he said.

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If there’s a plus side to all of this, it’s the fact that a GoFundMe page for the mural established in late September has raised over $12,000, exceeding an initial goal of $8,000.

The page has a note from Lisanti at its top:

“Due to the overwhelming support and patriotism of our community and country we have decided to increase our target goal to help enhance our vision and maintain its glory for years to come. The increase in donations will help fund paint, materials, future maintenance and display lighting to increase visibility,” Lisanti wrote.

So, yes, antifa can still do wretched things. However, the majority of people in this country are good, patriotic Americans — and they’re more than willing to help other patriots in need.

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She is a news anchor for WISH-TV in Indianapolis and shared her pregnancy news with her viewer “family.” Married with a son already, for Brooke Martin and her husband, the prospect of a little brother or sister for their child was exciting news for her family, co-workers and viewers alike.

But life isn’t always fair and when Martin saw the doctor for a lingering case of bronchitis she found out her baby girl has anencephaly. It is a rare and fatal condition.

Many couples with such a pregnancy are advised to abort. The Martins opted to share the news with Brooke Martin’s viewers, along with the couple’s decision about their baby girl.

While the video, published by WISH on Nov. 1, is approximately 7 minutes long, it is Brooke and her husband, Cole, telling their story in their own words. As strong as both appear to be, there are times when Martin is clearly choking back tears as she shares the heartbreaking news.

But their heartbreak isn’t all that the couple share in their story. Their respect for life and faith in God come shining through, despite the pain they are enduring. They have named their daughter Emma Noelle, a form of the name “Emmanuel,” which means “God is with us.”

Even though they know little Emma may not make it to full term, or if she does, only live a few hours or maybe even days, the couple have opted to keep the pregnancy going and to love the child all they can while they have her.

Martin stated that she believes “God has a plan” for their baby.

“We are heartbroken, you guys. We are so sad. But on the other hand, we are so confident that God has a plan for Emma, that he is going to redeem her story.”

In a WISH interview after the initial video, Martin shared how difficult the situation is for her, along with her faith throughout. ” … (I)t’s the hardest thing I’ve ever been through, but what I can tell you honestly — the overwhelming peace I have felt throughout this entire journey so far, and it’s just begun — has been unbelievable,” she said.

“We have felt such a comfort and peace, and I know that a lot of that is from an outpouring of support we have received from everyone. You never know until you get news like this how you’ll receive it, and we can just say that the Lord has been faithful, and we have been incredibly at peace.”

As rare as the condition is — Martin mentioned a CDC statistic of 3 in 10,000 births — social media has a lot of stories of people who were given the same devastating news Brooke and Cole got. Many opted for abortion, some sharing that they felt it was the least painful choice.

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But there are those who chose as Brooke and Cole did. And in the aftermath, some still believe it was the right call.

“Marley was perfect, and she was compatible with life and love.”

Diagnosed with anencephaly, Marley lived for five hours after birth. Her mom is encouraging women to love them — no matter how long. https://t.co/MGop5Kfa51

— Live Action (@LiveAction) September 17, 2018

In 2015, Live Action News shared the story written by Kari WIlliams about her choice to keep going with her pregnancy with baby Marley. Her daughter only lived five hours after her birth, but to Kari, it was inspiration to reach out to others to share what she learned from her experience.

Williams has started a Facebook page to raise awareness. She wrote, “My hopes are to help other mothers dealing with similar situations. I want people to see that you don’t have to be scared into termination or inducing early because society deems your child imperfect and incompatible with life.”

“Marley was perfect, and she was compatible with life and love. She lived for 5 beautiful hours and I am blessed for that and blessed that I was chosen to be her mommy.”

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