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Earlier this month, Planned Parenthood-supporting students at the University of Texas-San Antonio giddily mocked a pro-life group’s display known as the “Cemetery of the Innocents,” which is a dedication to the unborn killed by abortion.

The Students for Life chapter that created the display caught the vulgar mockery from members of the school’s Students United for Planned Parenthood group on video.

“Stop, hey, hey, what’s that sound, all the fetuses are in the ground!” sang one female student, dancing in the mock cemetery. She also led chants with the other pro-abortion protesters in support for Planned Parenthood and bragged about getting an abortion herself. “Look, there’s mine right there!” she said, pointing to one of the crosses representing a killed unborn child. Another female student joked that they should “kiss in the fetus graveyard” and said getting an abortion is her biggest “kink,” according to StudentsForLife.org.

In a report posted to the pro-life group’s website, Sarah Zarr, the Texas Regional Coordinator for Students for Life, said the protesters took to their display immediately after it was set up. “Some of the members came to talk to us but would not have dialogue they just wanted to shout their points at us. One girl told me I was using my white privilege and ‘wasn’t allowed to be out there talking about this issue when it affect black women,’” Zarr recalled.

The group also had a table with pro-life literature set up. A male protester picked up three stacks of literature from the table and ran off, said Zarr. A pro-life student at the table named Mica chased after him and asked for their materials back, but he “threw it all in the gutter,” she claimed.

“We then went and filed a police report and the police said they couldn’t do anything because we were handing out the info he didn’t technically steal even though we said not all of it was to take,” Zarr said. “He finally let us a file a police report but said charges can’t be made until they investigate.”

Last month, a Cemetery for the Innocents set up by the University of Michigan Ann Arbor’s Students for Life chapter was desecrated by pro-abortion activists. In video captured by the pro-life group, a female abortion activist is seen picking up pink crosses from the display and placing them in a black trash bag.

“Is there a reason why you’re doing this?” Kaylena Wiederhold, Students for Life’s Michigan regional coordinator, confronted the activist.

“We disagree with it,” responded the pro-abort.

Wiederhold contended, “Okay, but this isn’t your property,”

“We know that having a conversation isn’t going to work,” the vandal said in response.

But when an officer approached the activist, she changed her tune, telling authorities she was merely “cleaning up” “garbage” on campus.

“We were just cleaning up this garbage on the school campus, but we’ve realized that apparently this is someone’s property. And you’re telling us to leave it, I’m assuming?” she said.

“Correct. And they do have a permit, like she explained to you,” the officer answered.

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday that the Democrats and other anti-Trump adversaries exploited special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe to undermine President Donald Trump.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Attorney General William Barr’s testimony on the Mueller report, Lee said Democrats and other anti-Trump political operatives exploited the Mueller report to undermine Trump’s administration.

He quoted the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, saying:

Nothing is so politically effective as the ability to charge that one’s opponent and his associates are not merely wrongheaded, naive and ineffective, but, in all probability, crooks. And nothing so effectively gives an appearance of validity to such charges as a Justice Department investigation.

During the Senate hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the Mueller report has concluded that President Trump did not collude with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election and that he did not obstruct justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey.

“So the bottom line is we’re here for Mr. Barr, the results of a two-year investigation into the Trump campaign, all things Russia, the actions the president took before and after the campaign, $25 million, 40 FBI agents,” Graham said.

“I appreciate very much what Mr. Mueller did for the country. I have read most of the report. For me, it is over,” Graham concluded in his opening statement.

“That observation, I think has been borne out, time and time again, over the past two years,” Lee added. “Time and time again, the president’s political adversaries have exploited the Mueller probe, its mere existence, to spread baseless innuendo in an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 election and the effectiveness of this administration.”

Leftist Facebook Page “Occupy Democrats” recently shared a meme celebrating the hypothetical death of President Trump without any repercussions from Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe at Facebook.

The conservative group For America recently highlighted a post by Occupy Democrats, a leftist Facebook page which shares left-wing content and anti-conservative memes and news stories. One of the most recent memes shared by Occupy Democrats depicts White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaking with President Trump; accompanying the image is a paragraph of text emulating a fake conversation between the two which reads: “Sir, I had a dream that you finally got the parade you’ve wanted. There were millions of people lining the streets waving and cheering as you passed by in a large, black limo. Was I smiling, Sarah? I don’t know, sir, the lid on the casket was closed.”

For America shared a screenshot of the Occupy Democrats post to Twitter, adding: “Occupy Democrats is a filth based leftist propaganda site that Facebook rewards with tens of millions of engagements. Here is one of their top posts of the week where they celebrate the hypothetical death of President Trump. Why are conservatives being banned for far less?”

Occupy Democrats is a filth based leftist propaganda site that @facebook rewards with tens of millions of engagements.

Here is one of their top posts of the week where they celebrate the hypothetical death of President Trump.

Why are conservatives being banned for far less? pic.twitter.com/QcQPgPHlC3

— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) April 30, 2019

Donald Trump Jr. shared For America’s post, calling Occupy Democrats “Truly sick people.”

Truly sick people. https://t.co/WL91AgQlwO

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 30, 2019

In a stark comparison, Facebook-owned image sharing website Instagram recently removed a post featuring Donald Trump Jr. from its platform for seemingly no reason. In a post to his own Instagram page, Donald Trump Jr. claimed that Instagram removed a post by his friend Omar Avila, an Army veteran who lost his right leg and suffered third and fourth-degree burns across 75 percent of his body. Avila is now an avid hunter and second amendment advocate who met Trump Jr. at an NRA show where they took a photo together. Shortly after Avila posted this photo, it was allegedly removed by Instagram for violating the site’s terms of service.

Breitbart News spoke with Omar Avila, known as “Crispy,” and asked Avila about the removal of his photo. Avila stated that he met Trump Jr. at the NRA event and took the photo, posting it to his profile where he rarely discusses politics outside of second amendment issues; Avila then traveled home: “and when I got off the airplane, y’know it’s like everybody, I opened up my stuff, I was looking at my account and I noticed it had been taken down and I got that little screenshot you get that says that your post violated Instagram guidelines. Again, I don’t know why, it had nothing on it that was political or that said anything derogatory.”

Read Breitbart News full reporting of the issue here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com

On Wednesday, attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was targeted by the media after his encounter with Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, announced they are filing a $275 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal, alleging “NBCUniversal created a false narrative by portraying the ‘confrontation’ as a ‘hate crime’ committed by Nicholas.”

According to The Washington Times, the suit states that NBCUniversal was motivated by its “anti-Trump agenda,” adding that Sandmann was “an easy target for NBCUniversal to advance its anti-Trump agenda because he was a 16-year-old white, Catholic student who had attended the Right to Life March that day and was wearing a MAGA cap at the time of the incident which he had purchased earlier in the day as a souvenir.” The suit also states that NBCUniversal, by means of NBC and MSNBC, “unleashed its vast corporate wealth, influence, and power against Nicholas to falsely attack him despite the fact that at the time, he was a 16-year-old high school student.”

The lawsuit asserts, “Headlines run online by NBCUniversal outlets about the incident included, ‘Nathan Phillips, Native American man harassed by high schoolers, tells his story,’ and ‘Video of teens taunting man at Indigenous Peoples March sparks outrage.’”

Sandmann’s attorneys have already filed a $250 million suit against the Washington Post and another suit against CNN for $275 million. As The Daily Wire reported in mid-February, Sandmann’s lawyers warned when they sued The Washington Post that more suits would be forthcoming. They said in a statement:

Today, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed their first lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post. The lawsuit filed is included below. The suit seeks $250 million in both compensatory and punitive damages. Lin and Todd will continue to bring wrongdoers before the court to seek damages in compensation for the harm so many have done to the Sandmann family. This is only the beginning.

The lawsuit against the Post stated: “In targeting and bullying Nicholas by falsely accusing him of instigating the January 18 incident, the Post conveyed that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by “swarming” Phillips, “blocking” his exit away from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct. The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump (‘the President’) by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.”

The Daily Wire reported in mid-March that Sandmann’s attorneys announced they were suing CNN, with one saying, “Well, what CNN’s tagline is facts first. And what we believe their reporting was in this circumstance was lies first; cover up second, and facts not yet determined by that organization. So the difference between this lawsuit and the other lawsuit that we have filed is that CNN is a very significant media organization with a much broader reach than say The Washington Post. It has a Twitter followers of 41 million people. It published four videos. Nine online articles that were tweeted out. So that’s millions and millions and millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread.”

Liberals in Washington and in the media are insisting up and down that there’s no crisis at the nation’s southern border and that President Donald Trump has manufactured the issue out of thin air.

But while they sit in their ivory towers, people who deal with the border on a daily basis are saying something very different.

On Tuesday, a veteran Arizona sheriff pushed back against the narrative that the president invented this crisis during testimony at the Capitol.

“I have been in Pima County for 32 years,” Sheriff Mark Napier said. “We have had a border crisis for all 32 years that I have been in Pima County.”

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The sheriff said details of law enforcement in his county — which includes Tucson and covers a large stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border — have changed over the years but the fundamental problems are not new.

“The nuances and the elements of that crisis have evolved over time, but nonetheless, we have had a crisis all this while,” Napier said.

The sheriff, who has been involved in Arizona law enforcement since the 1980s, scolded liberals such as House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who have suggested that Trump fabricated the border issue as nothing but a political talking point.

“To promulgate the idea that this is a crisis created or manufactured by the current administration is simply false,” Napier said, according to the Washington Examiner.

“No reasonable, thinking person could assume the current administration has sought to entice families with children and unaccompanied minors to come in caravans to our border, or in some manner, sought an escalation of the trafficking of hard narcotics into our country,” the sheriff said.

That was a reference to the many groups that have set off from Central America in recent months, pushing north and often clashing with border agents in Mexico and the United States.

There is strong evidence that those caravans are being organized by radical leftists, certainly not by Trump.

Democratic lawmakers aren’t the only ones who have tried to downplay the situation at the border. Numerous left-leaning media outlets have scoffed at the idea of a crisis and openly mocked Trump for taking the problem seriously.

Last year, for example, MSNBC ran a story that declared the border crisis “doesn’t exist.”

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“Trump is scrambling to respond to an emergency that exists only in conservatives’ imaginations,” Steve Benen wrote on the official blog page for “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

But the expert responsible for keeping a large portion of Arizona safe has a very different take.

“To suggest that there does not exist a crisis on our southern border is intellectually dishonest. To be steadfast to that assertion despite clear evidence to the contrary is to be intellectually dishonest with malice,” Napier testified.

He isn’t alone. Even former President Barack Obama’s homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, admitted just days ago — on MSNBC, no less — that “we are truly in a crisis” at the border.

When you boil it down, there are really only two possibilities: Either sheriffs and law enforcement experts across the country are all lying about what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border, or liberals are playing dishonest political games to spite Trump.

We’ll let you decide for yourself which one is more likely.

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The Alabama House of Representatives is standing up against the barbaric practice of abortion by passing a bill that would send abortionists to prison for life.

The bill, which passed the House Tuesday, would make it a Class A felony, punishable by life or 10 to 99 years in prison, for doctors to perform an abortion, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

Mothers would not be punished for seeking an abortion.

Of course, the bill still needs to pass in the Senate and receive the signature of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, before it can become law. But this is a huge first step.

It would also face a court fight, of course. But according to the Advertiser, the bill’s sponsor, Republican state Rep. Terri Collins, said the measure is intended to force a direct judicial challenge to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling from 1973, which legalized abortion.

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“The heart of this bill is to confront a decision that was made by the courts in 1973 that said the baby in the womb is not a person,” Collins said, according to the Advertiser.

“This bill addresses that one issue. Is that baby in the womb a person? I believe our law says it is. I believe our people say it is. And I believe technology shows it is.”

The bill provides exceptions, according to the Advertiser, “if the life of the mother was threatened, or if a mental illness meant giving birth would lead to the woman’s death or that of her child. The bill would also provide an exception for a ‘lethal anomaly,’ where the child would die shortly after birth or be stillborn.”

Naturally, the bill drew criticism from Democrats, who utilized the left’s typical talking points on abortion.

“Nobody knows what a woman goes through,” Democratic Rep. Louise Alexander said, according to the Advertiser. “You don’t know why I may want to have an abortion. It could be because of my health. It could be many reasons.”

After two hours of debate, Democrats walked off the floor before the vote on Tuesday, making the final tally 73-4, according to Fox News.

And while Democrats were disgruntled, the vote resulted in enthusiastic applause from Republican lawmakers.

Applause in Alabama House after abortion bill passes 73-4. Most Democrats walked off the floor before the vote. Bill advances to the Senate. Makes abortion providers felons. Doctors convicted would face 10 plus years in prison for performing abortions. ⁦@WVTM13⁩ pic.twitter.com/KmeQX3dyGO

— Jeff Eliasoph (@JeffWVTM13) May 1, 2019

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The bill isn’t law yet, but it’s a huge step for the pro-life movement, especially as far-left states like New York move in a radical direction.

Of course, we’re a long way from the point where abortionists nationally are treated the way Kermit Gosnell was. Gosnell was found guilty in 2013 of first-degree murder for killing three babies in his West Philadelphia abortion clinic after they had survived his attempts at aborting them. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Gosnell’s story was told in several places including the 2018 movie “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer,” and the documentary “3801 Lancaster: An American Tragedy.”

Scenes from “3801 Lancaster” are below.

Some states, tragically, are actually expanding — or considering expanding — abortion’s reach.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam infamously considered post-birth abortion earlier this year as Virginia Democrats planned to pass a bill legalizing late-term abortion after New York lawmakers passed a similar bill legalizing late-term abortions.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in states like Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama are taking a stand against American infanticide.

The liberal Supreme Court majority of 1973 might have thought it was settling the abortion debate forever, but the pro-life movement is never going away.

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