There have never been such times as these in the United States of America. We the People are facing not only the growing insanity of a, seemingly, never ending search by the Socialist Democrat Party for even more deliberately inane items of political correctness but, now they are besieging us with new attempts to weaken and destroy the US presidency and the Constitution itself.
The greatest existential threat to our nation is coming not from China or Russia…but from the Democrat Party which has now turned blatantly, irrevocably and in-our-faces tyrannically Socialist.
FIREWORKS!
The House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jerry Nadler met on Monday morning to continue their sham impeachment hearing.
Before the two lawyers and “witnesses” were able to deliver their testimony several Republican committee members interrupted the proceedings to question Chairman Nadler about the minority day to call witnesses.
On Friday GOP Ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA) sent off a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) demanding the Republican minority hearing day before the committee decides on articles of impeachment. This is their right!
Republicans are owed a day to call in their own witnesses.
Rep. Collins called on Nadler to contact his office immediately to schedule the GOP day to call witnesses.
Of course, Democrats fear a day of minority witnesses will destroy their complete sham of an impeachment process based on lies and hearsay.
Chairman Nadler refuses to schedule this day of hearings. He continues to ignore this request.
On Monday before the statements by the assembled lawyers Republicans interrupted the proceedings to request their minority hearing day.
Nadler ignored their request.
This is a lawless Democrat coup to remove President Trump.
Since the election of Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live has discarded any attempt to present itself as at all politically balanced, so much so that a sketch that even hints at actually mocking a political figure on the Left in a way that aligns with a Trumpian complaint is notable.
In a sketch Saturday (video below), SNL’s Kate McKinnon presents a wide-eyed and condescending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a bit that mocks her recent meltdown at a press conference over *n0t* “hating” Trump and supposedly “praying” for him “all the time.” But since SNL is SNL, the sketch ultimately takes biggest aim at Trump and throws in a line smearing a key Republican senator as a supposed racist homophobe.
Following a press conference Thursday in which she declared that the Democrats have “no choice” but to impeach President Trump, Pelosisnappedat a reporter from Sinclair for asking if she hated Trump.
“Don’t mess with me. I don’t hate anybody,” Pelosi told the reporter, pointing her finger. She then returned to the mic to put it on the record that she doesn’t “hate” anyone, even Trump. “[A]s a Catholic, I resent your using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone. I pray for the president all the time. So don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.”
Even Trump-hating SNL couldn’t resist taking some jabs at Pelosi over the meltdown. McKinnon, who also frequently portrays the woman whose terrible campaign helped Trump get elected, appeared on the “Weekend Update” to make clear that it’s not her fault that the Democrats are ramming through the increasingly unpopular impeachment.
Asked about another reporter asking if she felt bad for putting the country through the impeachment process, McKinnon’s Pelosi says, “No everybody needs to understand, I am not impeaching Trump because I hate him. I am impeaching him because rules.”
“Look, I didn’t want any of this,” she insists. “Remember, it’s not my fault that we’re in this position. It’s Trump’s fault. It’s not the lifeguard’s fault for evacuating the pool. It’s the rich kid who took a dook in the deep-end.”
Asked about her claim that she “prays” for Trump, McKinnon’s spot-on, self-interrupting Pelosi responds: “Yes, absolu — I pray for him all the time. In fact, I’ll do it right now.”
McKinnon then puts her hands together prayerfully as angelic music begins.
“Lord, please help Donald Trump,” she mock-prays. “If he has to be president, please make him a little better at any of it. And please take him. Not to heaven or anything, just somewhere else. Just for a little while, mama needs a break.”
“Dear lord, teach Donald Trump your values and to understand the Golden Rule, what it means and that it is not a sex thing,” she continues.
The audience liked that one.
“Help him with his cares and concerns, like help him to have those — about anyone or anything,” she suggests. “Here’s an idea, maybe place a curse on him like the movie ‘Liar, Liar,’ where he’s forced to tell the truth for just one week. Come on, lord, even you know that’d be funny.”
When it’s pointed out by her co-star that her prayers are “a little passive-aggressive,” McKinnon’s Pelosi counters, “No, no, some of them are aggressive-aggressive.”
“Lord, please watch over the Trump organization, which is being run by Eric. Yikes,” she prays.
She concludes by taking shots at the Republicans, particularly South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who she suggests is racist and homophobic.
“Please heal the Republicans in the Senate who tragically lost their balls,” she concludes. “And finally, please bless Lindsey Graham with a baby that’s black and gay.”
The SNL audience applauded heartily after the final line. Video below via SNL:
After Pelosi’s Thursday presser, Trump explained what he thinks is really behind the speaker’s “nervous fit.”
“Nancy Pelosi just had a nervous fit,” Trump tweeted. “She hates that we will soon have 182 great new judges and sooo much more. Stock Market and employment records. She says she ‘prays for the President.’ I don’t believe her, not even close. Help the homeless in your district Nancy. USMCA?
Nancy Pelosi just had a nervous fit. She hates that we will soon have 182 great new judges and sooo much more. Stock Market and employment records. She says she “prays for the President.” I don’t believe her, not even close. Help the homeless in your district Nancy. USMCA?
A new poll out from Axios of all places finds that in swing states, the Democrats’ impeachment bid is … helping Trump.
Quarterly polling by the Republican firm Firehouse Strategies, with Optimus, had President Trump struggling in the mega-battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — but in the newest edition, he beats every Democrat.
The big picture: Trump won by an average of six percentage points in hypothetical match-ups against all current Democratic candidates, including Joe Biden, who was performing well in head-to-head contests against Trump in polling conducted earlier in the year.
The poll found that a majority of likely 2020 voters surveyed do not support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
What they’re saying: Firehouse partner Alex Conant tells Axios: “Democrats racing towards impeachment are at serious risk of leaving behind the voters they need to retake the White House next year.”
Which highlights what a bad idea impeachment as an idea was, particularly on grounds this flimsy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi no doubt must be reading this, maybe right now, and kicking herself.
Picture as Oliver Hardy and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Stan Laurel and all the talk about what a fine mess she’s gotten them into.
A new poll out from Axios of all places finds that in swing states, the Democrats’ impeachment bid is … helping Trump.
Quarterly polling by the Republican firm Firehouse Strategies, with Optimus, had President Trump struggling in the mega-battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — but in the newest edition, he beats every Democrat.
The big picture: Trump won by an average of six percentage points in hypothetical match-ups against all current Democratic candidates, including Joe Biden, who was performing well in head-to-head contests against Trump in polling conducted earlier in the year.
The poll found that a majority of likely 2020 voters surveyed do not support impeaching and removing Trump from office.
What they’re saying: Firehouse partner Alex Conant tells Axios: “Democrats racing towards impeachment are at serious risk of leaving behind the voters they need to retake the White House next year.”
Which highlights what a bad idea impeachment as an idea was, particularly on grounds this flimsy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi no doubt must be reading this, maybe right now, and kicking herself.
Picture as Oliver Hardy and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Stan Laurel and all the talk about what a fine mess she’s gotten them into.
Ratings for NBA games are down across the three major networks that show the games – ESPN, TNT, and NBA TV, and the National Basketball Association isn’t totally sure why. Here’s a theory: China.
Variety reported that viewership for basketball is “down 15% year-to-year overall, according to Nielsen figures.”
“TNT’s coverage is averaging 1.3 million viewers through 14 telecasts, down 21% versus last year’s comparable coverage, while on ESPN the picture isn’t much prettier. The Disney-owned network is down 19%, averaging 1.5 million viewers versus just under 1.9 million viewers at the same stage last year,” the outlet added.
As to why viewership is down, the outlet reported what “sources at all three organizations” told them: It’s because of the injuries.
“So far this season, 63% of games on ESPN and TNT (or 22 games out of 35) were missing one or more stars missing due to injury. Eleven of the 14 games broadcast on TNT have had one or more stars missing due to injury, and 11 of the 21 ESPN games have had the same problem, per the league,” the outlet reported.
Nowhere in its article does Variety mention another possibility; that people are sick of getting a dose of politics with their sports and may have been turned off this season by the NBA’s kowtowing to China.
In early October, just weeks before the 2019-2020 NBA season began, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for Hong Kong protesters. He was swiftly rebuked by the Association and deleted the tweet with an apology. The Chinese government and the Chinese Basketball Association threatened to cut ties with the Rockets, which would have been a huge monetary loss for the team and the NBA. Fears that China would pull funding and support for the NBA led the Association’s chief communications officer Mike Bass to release a statement on the issue:
We recognize that the views expressed by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable. While Daryl has made it clear that his tweet does not represent the Rockets or the NBA, the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them. We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.
Soon after, while NBA stars were in China to drum up support, the Association grabbed the microphone from a CNN reporter who was asking about Chinese censorship of the league.
The NBA then banned media access to its players while they were in China because it put them in a “complicated” and “unfair” position.
Basketball megastar LeBron James received more criticism for other players because, though he regularly espouses liberal political positions, he declined to talk about the China-censorship issue and instead tried to claim he and his teammates were the real victims in the scandal.
There are probably many reasons why NBA viewership is down. Injuries are probably part of that, so is the ability for viewers to watch the games in ways other than the three networks mentioned above. But just as ESPN and the NFL had to grapple with politics affecting viewership (though they refused to admit that was the case), one can’t ignore the idea that politics may be hurting the NBA as well.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging a Kentucky abortion regulation, leaving the law intact.
Without issuing an opinion, the Court summarily denied a hearing to EMW Women’s Surgical Center v. Meier. The plaintiffs—an abortion clinic and its operators in Louisville—sought to strike down a Kentucky law which requires doctors to display and describe an ultrasound of the child to his or her mother before conducting an abortion. The law violates doctors’ First Amendment right to free speech, plaintiffs argued.
The Supreme Court’s decision not to take the case leaves the ultrasound law in place, as a federal appeals court ruled in June that the law did not violate the First Amendment.
The Court did not provide further context for its decision to take the case, such as whether it would have considered a challenge to the law on the basis of the previously recognized constitutional right to an abortion. In the past, SCOTUS has been quick to strike down regulations perceived as an "undue burden" on abortion access, including in 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey and 2016’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
But since those decisions, the Court has swung to the right, and the choice not to take up EMW may signal that its liberal wing is concerned that taking abortion cases will lead to a rolling back of rulings like Hellerstedt.
SCOTUS is expected to hear one major abortion case, June Medical Services v. Gee, in the coming months. That case, which concerns a Louisiana state law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, may serve as an opportunity for the Court’s conservatives to begin rolling back the "undue burden" standard imposed nearly three decades ago.
President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani traveled to Hungary and Ukraine last week and met with officials in Kiev in his ongoing efforts to expose corruption and pay-to-play schemes involving the Biden crime family and other Democrats.
Mr. Giuliani revealed Monday morning on Steve Bannon’s radio show “The War Room: Impeachment” that he is working to release a report on his findings from his latest trip to Europe to Attorney General Bill Barr and GOP lawmakers in Congress this week.
OAN reporter Chanel Rion has been traveling with Rudy Giuliani and reporting on his investigations in Hungary and Kiev, Ukraine.
“I was going to do an outline of it and try to present it at the convenience of the Republicans in Congress and the attorney general at the end of this week,” Rudy said on a podcast interview with Steve Bannon Monday.
EXCLUSIVE: Mayor @RudyGiuliani to release report on Ukraine findings this Wednesday
We know so far that Joe Biden’s drug addict son Hunter was sitting on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company and being paid by some accounts over $200,000 a month even though he had zero experience in the field.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden, who was tasked to oversee US dealings with Ukraine, threatened to withhold over $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine unless they fired Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma and Hunter.
Biden bragged about shaking down Ukraine and getting Mr. Shokin fired during a 2018 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.
First, a work of “art” — a banana duct-taped to a wall — sold for $120,000. Then, a guy ate it right off the wall.
And then, another guy scrawled a message in lipstick where the banana had once hung — “Epstien [sic] didn’t kill himself.”
That’s a crazy week.
The banana piece, crafted by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and titled “Comedian,” drew headlines when it was sold to a French collector for $120,000. Cattelan made news earlier this year when another artwork, an 18-karat solid gold working toilet titled “America,” was stolen by burglars from its exhibit in Britain’s Blenheim Palace.
Over the weekend, artist David Datuna walked up to the exhibit, pulled the banana off the wall, and ate it. He said he was doing an “art performance” and called himself a “hungry artist.” Of course it was all caught on video.
“I love Maurizio Cattelan artwork and I really love this installation,” he later captioned a post on his Instagram page. “It’s very delicious.”
In the video, gallery Director Peggy Leboeuf can be heard asking, “Are you kidding? This is so stupid.”
Leboeuf told the BBC that Datuna was asked to leave the exhibit but not arrested. “We can go further, but I don’t think we will,” she said.
Then Roderick Webber, 46, from Massachusetts, used the empty wall space for his own work of art, writing in red lipstick: ‘”Epstien [sic] didn’t kill himself.”
Webber was quickly arrested. As he was escorted out of the Miami Beach gallery, he shouted: “If someone can eat the $120,000 banana and not get arrested, why can’t I write on the wall?” the Daily Mail reported.
The “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme has been sweeping the country ever since the convicted pedophile was found dead in his prison cell on Aug. 10. Epstein had been facing charges of trafficking and sexually abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14, for more than a decade. Some high-level politicians, including Bill Clinton, and prominent individuals, including the UK’s Prince Andrew, had ties with Epstein.
For instance, rapper Suffa declared “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” during an acceptance speech at an awards ceremony in Australia last month.
“I’m going to get out a few thank yous because I think this is the last time you’re going to see us. To our road crew Mugga, Pauly, Snebs, everyone, you’re all legends and we love you. Thanks to our wives, our children. And Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. Thank you,” Suffa said at the ARIA Music Awards in Sydney.
Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar once shared the meme in a series of 23 tweets in which the first letter of each tweet spelled out the phrase.
But wait. The art house made even more headlines when Madonna’s daughter Lourdes “Lola” Leon stripped off her clothes and, wearing just a nude thong and pasties, joined about 30 other people who were modeling clothing in a simulated orgy.
As far-left Democrats yell about bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors, let’s turn to their own side of the aisle, starting with the once-penniless President Obama who left public office a very, very rich man.
He just bought a Martha’s Vineyard mansion for a cool $11.75 million, which is in addition to his Kalorama lookout post, his Chicago home, and possibly a Hawaii spread. At some point you’ve made enough…but not him.
Ostensibly, it’s mainly the work of his book deals. No bribery there, right?
Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create Commoncore text and Pearson gave Obama a $65 million dollar book deal in return.
…and…
Pearson Publishing was paid for Commoncore but Penguin Random House Publishing did the Obama book deal. But there is commonality with the two:
From Wiki:
Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of a £2.4 billion transaction between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin Group. Bertelsmann and Pearson, the parent companies, owning 53% and 47%, respectively.
In July 2017, Pearson agreed to sell a 22% stake in the business to Bertelsmann, thereby retaining a 25% holding.
That sounds like a classic bribe. You give me this big contract and I’ll kick back some to you at a later date. Chicago Way. The book cash flowed to Obama in 2017. Pearson incidentally, seemed to lose money anyway, given the public distaste for Obama’s federal takeover of education via Common Core, which extended to states cutting the program.
President Trump complained about the apparent quid pro quo last summer.
It’s not the first time Obama has done things like this either. IWB notes that Obama’s net neutrality stance benefited Netflix, and surprise, surprise, he got a lucrative deal wtih them, too.
One hand washes the other.
Book deals, incidentally, have been some pretty spectacular avenues for bribery based on their apparent deniability. Here’s a famous one from Russia in 1997 that rocked the Russian political landscape:
Ethical questions were raised this week when a Russian reporter revealed that Mr. Chubais and his collaborators had accepted $90,000 each for writing a monograph on the history of privatization. The publisher, Segodnya Press, is owned by Oneksimbank, a powerful financial institution that recently won a series of coveted auctions of state property.
Chubais is Anatoly Chubais, former Russian finance minister and famed Russian ‘reformer,’ who apparently reformed his bankbook, too. He was in tight with Democrats, particularly John Podesta, and might have been the role model or maybe the guy who gave Democrats the ideas about how useful the publishers could be.
In the middle of these seven circles of hell stood Anatoly Chubais. He was in the middle of Russia’s privatization effort which saw huge state assets sold for pennies on the dollar to oligarchs while Russian citizens were completely cheated of the shares they were promised, either through devaluation, fire-sale desperate unloading to raise cash (remember, many were starving), intransparent transactions, and sometimes disinformation and thuggery: False dates and places for sales were announced to conceal real ones. Thug vehicles sometimes blocked roads so no one could line up to buy the shares they were entitled to. It was that bad. Once again, Chubais was in the middle of it.
Chubais got snared in a bribery scandal of Clintonian character – he was given a $90,000 book advance (huge sum in Russia at the time) paid for by a murkily backed publisher (sound familiar?) which looked a lot like a disguised bribe or payoff. That caused a scandal and got him booted from his position as finance minister. He continued to tool around in cronyish business deals and retained the good opinion of Harvard as a ‘reformer,’ which was quite a node of Clinton loyalists – Larry Summers, being one, John Podesta being on friendly terms with the crowd, too, by making speeches there.
Book deals. The way to get rich upon leaving public office, just as congressional insiders make themselves rich in public office by trading on insider information, as described by Peter Schweizer in “Throw Them All Out.“
There are a hundred ways to Sunday for politicians to get rich both in and out of public office. As the Democrat House now focuses on impeaching President Trump, their hypocrisy is pretty glaring. Obama’s book deals are what need investigating, not President Trump’s bid to halt corruption in Ukraine.
As far-left Democrats yell about bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors, let’s turn to their own side of the aisle, starting with the once-penniless President Obama who left public office a very, very rich man.
He just bought a Martha’s Vineyard mansion for a cool $11.75 million, which is in addition to his Kalorama lookout post, his Chicago home, and possibly a Hawaii spread. At some point you’ve made enough…but not him.
Ostensibly, it’s mainly the work of his book deals. No bribery there, right?
Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create Commoncore text and Pearson gave Obama a $65 million dollar book deal in return.
…and…
Pearson Publishing was paid for Commoncore but Penguin Random House Publishing did the Obama book deal. But there is commonality with the two:
From Wiki:
Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of a £2.4 billion transaction between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin Group. Bertelsmann and Pearson, the parent companies, owning 53% and 47%, respectively.
In July 2017, Pearson agreed to sell a 22% stake in the business to Bertelsmann, thereby retaining a 25% holding.
That sounds like a classic bribe. You give me this big contract and I’ll kick back some to you at a later date. Chicago Way. The book cash flowed to Obama in 2017. Pearson incidentally, seemed to lose money anyway, given the public distaste for Obama’s federal takeover of education via Common Core, which extended to states cutting the program.
President Trump complained about the apparent quid pro quo last summer.
It’s not the first time Obama has done things like this either. IWB notes that Obama’s net neutrality stance benefited Netflix, and surprise, surprise, he got a lucrative deal wtih them, too.
One hand washes the other.
Book deals, incidentally, have been some pretty spectacular avenues for bribery based on their apparent deniability. Here’s a famous one from Russia in 1997 that rocked the Russian political landscape:
Ethical questions were raised this week when a Russian reporter revealed that Mr. Chubais and his collaborators had accepted $90,000 each for writing a monograph on the history of privatization. The publisher, Segodnya Press, is owned by Oneksimbank, a powerful financial institution that recently won a series of coveted auctions of state property.
Chubais is Anatoly Chubais, former Russian finance minister and famed Russian ‘reformer,’ who apparently reformed his bankbook, too. He was in tight with Democrats, particularly John Podesta, and might have been the role model or maybe the guy who gave Democrats the ideas about how useful the publishers could be.
In the middle of these seven circles of hell stood Anatoly Chubais. He was in the middle of Russia’s privatization effort which saw huge state assets sold for pennies on the dollar to oligarchs while Russian citizens were completely cheated of the shares they were promised, either through devaluation, fire-sale desperate unloading to raise cash (remember, many were starving), intransparent transactions, and sometimes disinformation and thuggery: False dates and places for sales were announced to conceal real ones. Thug vehicles sometimes blocked roads so no one could line up to buy the shares they were entitled to. It was that bad. Once again, Chubais was in the middle of it.
Chubais got snared in a bribery scandal of Clintonian character – he was given a $90,000 book advance (huge sum in Russia at the time) paid for by a murkily backed publisher (sound familiar?) which looked a lot like a disguised bribe or payoff. That caused a scandal and got him booted from his position as finance minister. He continued to tool around in cronyish business deals and retained the good opinion of Harvard as a ‘reformer,’ which was quite a node of Clinton loyalists – Larry Summers, being one, John Podesta being on friendly terms with the crowd, too, by making speeches there.
Book deals. The way to get rich upon leaving public office, just as congressional insiders make themselves rich in public office by trading on insider information, as described by Peter Schweizer in “Throw Them All Out.“
There are a hundred ways to Sunday for politicians to get rich both in and out of public office. As the Democrat House now focuses on impeaching President Trump, their hypocrisy is pretty glaring. Obama’s book deals are what need investigating, not President Trump’s bid to halt corruption in Ukraine.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a 2017 pro-life law in the Kentucky requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and play the sound of the baby’s heartbeat to women seeking abortion.
“The Supreme Court has allowed Kentucky’s ultrasound requirement law to go into effect!” posted Live Action founder and prominent pro-life advocate Lila Rose. “When women have the chance to see the humanity of their child & hear their heartbeat, many reject the violence of abortion.”
“This is a great win for Kentucky & our nation,” she added.
BREAKING:
The Supreme Court has allowed Kentucky’s ultrasound requirement law to go into effect!
When women have the chance to see the humanity of their child & hear their heartbeat, many reject the violence of abortion.
“Kentucky argued the law is ‘simple and straightforward,’ calling it part of an ‘informed-consent process.’ The law, Kentucky said, ‘does nothing more than require that women who are considering an abortion be provided with information that is truthful, non-misleading and relevant to their decision of whether to have an abortion,’” CNN reported.
CNN noted that the court “rejected the case without comment or noted dissent by any of the justices.”
Pro-life advocates praised the Supreme Court for their decision to uphold the Kentucky law.
“March for Life applauds the U.S. Supreme Court decision today upholding a Kentucky ultrasound law,” March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. “Women facing an unexpected pregnancy deserve to have as much medically and technically accurate information as possible when they are making what could be the most important decision of their life.”
President and CEO of American United for Life (AUL) Catherine Glenn Foster said the decision “confirms that women deserve the truth.”
“Americans United for Life hails the final legal victory today of Kentucky’s common-sense informed consent provision simply ensuring that abortion facilities offer women who are thinking about abortion visual, ultrasound confirmation of the humanity of the life in their womb,” Glenn Foster said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire.
“Consistent with the Supreme Court’s direction that mothers considering abortion may be given accurate, nonmisleading information about abortion and the nature of human life, today’s decision confirms that women deserve the truth, and cannot give real informed consent to an abortion unless facilities are transparent and honest about what abortion really is,” the AUL president added. “That’s a right that was denied to me when I was 19 years old and making a difficult, life-changing decision, and I am so relieved that going forward, the women of Kentucky will have the opportunity I never did.”
“The fact that there were no recorded dissents from any of the justices is notable,” added Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, a former federal law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. “That ought to help demonstrate the common-sense, straightforward nature of Kentucky’s law.”
Pro-abortion advocates had claimed Kentucky’s pro-life law violates the First Amendment by mandating abortion-seeking women see their child and hear their heartbeat before going through with the life-ending procedure.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that this was nonsense.
“As a First Amendment matter, there is nothing suspect with a State’s requiring a doctor, before performing an abortion, to make truthful, non-misleading factual disclosures, relevant to informed consent, even if those disclosures relate to unborn life and have the effect of persuading the patient not to have an abortion,” the three-judge Sixth Circuit panel said in its ruling, CNN noted.