Pro-Life Issues
It no longer takes a generation to change a nation's morality!
From the President; Rev. Dr. Brad Klostreich
I’m often asked, “What is the difference between morality and ethics?” My great hero, R.C. Sproul once put it this way: “Morality is a description of ‘is-ness’ where ethics is a description of ‘ought-ness.’”
A recent study has shown a complete flip-flop of the American populace on issues such as same-sex marriage, marijuana, and abortion. In 2017, 70% of Americans were against all three. Today, in 2024, it’s almost an exact inversion on all three issues. The wonder is not in the change, it’s in how quickly it took place. It’s not the difference between one generation and another. In reality, it’s the same people. How did that happen? It shows the impact of media. For 7 years we had a full-court press by Hollywood, news outlets, political decisions, and the public education system. All of it was calculated to bring about an emotional change.
With Abortion at the center of her agenda: Kamala Harris will be the most radical abortion advocate in American political history
By Al Mohler
The nation is still working through the massive political events of the last 48 hours or so, but it has become increasingly clear that the Democratic Party is coalescing around Vice President Kamala Harris as its 2024 presidential nominee. The entire effort looks remarkably orchestrated, and there are clear signs that the Harris campaign was ready to move as soon as President Joe Biden finally withdrew from the race. It all took place as an American version of a palace coup. Democratic leaders and their funders decided that the gig was up with Biden. The conspiracy to deny his loss of mental acuity was failing. It was time to pull the emergency switch and, as quick as two tweets, the Biden campaign was over and the Harris campaign was underway.
There will surely be some unexpected developments along the way, but the closing of the Democratic ranks around Harris has to be one of the most interesting political moves of our times. The Democrats have coalesced around a candidate who has giant liabilities and who, you may remember, started her campaign for the 2020 nomination only to exit the race without earning a single delegate. But, with the Democrats facing reality, they must have realized that there was no way around anointing Harris, given the fact that they have continuously bragged that she is the first African American and Asian American woman to serve as vice president. Once Biden endorsed her, the ball started rolling quickly. It would take something huge to deny her the 2024 nomination of the Democratic Party.
But there are massive questions that remain. Are the other major Democrats, mostly governors, who see themselves as future presidents, willing to see Harris lose the 2024 election and thus leave an open field for 2028? Time may tell.
In the meantime, Americans have to face the reality that Vice President Harris is the likely nominee. The Democrats will be led by a candidate considerably to the left of President Biden and one who will be the most pro-abortion presidential nominee in American history.
Shortly after the Dobbs decision reversing Roe was handed down by the Supreme Court, Biden appointed Harris to run point on the abortion issue for his administration. As the attorney general of California and as a U.S. senator, Harris was a stalwart defender of abortion. In the Senate, she pushed an abortion bill that was modeled after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and would allow federal courts to review any state restrictions on abortion, a process known as preclearance. Harris went straight after the ability of the states to protect unborn life.
In July 2019, she went after Biden in a Democratic debate, accusing him of harming poor women through his historic support for the Hyde Amendment, which prevents most taxpayer monies from paying for abortions, asking, “Do you now say that you have evolved and regret that?” Faced with an ultimatum and determined to gain the nomination, Biden obediently evolved and repented of ever supporting the Hyde Amendment. Usually, that kind of confrontation (not to mention her own disastrous campaign) would have doomed Harris’ chance to be Biden’s running mate—but Biden asked her anyway.
As a senator, Harris had gone after Brett Kavanaugh on abortion rights in his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, all orchestrated for the television cameras. As Biden’s vice president, she affirmed the administration line that their goal, after Dobbs, was to codify Roe v. Wade by federal legislation. But that was never honest. There is no way that the Biden administration, now driven by abortion rights defenders, would ever stop at Roe. The current push is for legislating abortion rights without any restrictions at all. Any argument to the contrary is dishonest.
When it comes to Harris, the proof is the fact that when Margaret Brennan of CBS News’ Face the Nation asked her to offer any abortion restriction she would support, Harris had no answer. None. She didn’t even answer the question.
In March, the vice president made a major statement by touring a Planned Parenthood facility that performs abortions in Minnesota. That state, we should note, offers no real restrictions on abortion through all three trimesters. At the Planned Parenthood site, Harris said, “Right now, in our country, we are facing a very serious health crisis.” In her Orwellian doublespeak, she dared to speak of a death clinic for the unborn as an answer to “a very serious health crisis.” As the media celebrated, this was the first-ever visit of a president or a vice president to an abortion center. Harris is the most eager advocate of the killing of the unborn to run on a national ticket. Now, she intends to top the Democratic ticket.
The media are falling all over themselves to anoint Kamala Harris the next president of the United States. There are countless reasons to see a Harris presidency as a real threat. But the greatest threat of Kamala Harris and her candidacy may be a threat to future Americans in the womb. That needs to be understood quickly and urgently.
This article originally appeared at WORLD Opinions on July 23, 2024.
Tim Walz defends signing bill for abortions up to birth
During last night’s debate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz defended signing a bill in his state to allow killing babies in abortions up to birth.
When it comes to abortion, Walz claimed: “This issue is on everyone’s mind.”
Yet polling data shows fewer voters said abortion was an important issue to them than those who named the economy and immigration as key issues for the presidential election.
Asked about the radical bill to allow killing babies for any reason any time, Walz falsely claimed “In Minnesota what we did was restore Roe v. Wade.”
Then Walz falsely claimed Donald Trump wants to create a “registry of pregnancies,” to keep track of pregnant women – an absurd idea no one is suggesting.
Vance corrected Walz, confirming that he and Trump would never create such a registry.
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Walz signed into law the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act to enshrine in state statute a “fundamental right” to abortion without limits or safeguards. The bill had passed the House and Senate by narrow margins after Democrat leaders quickly pushed it through the legislature in the opening weeks of the session.
Authored by Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn, D-Eden Prairie, the bill would allow abortion on demand even late in pregnancy when unborn babies are viable and can feel excruciating pain. The law Walz signed also would also deny parents the right to know if their minor daughter is seeking an abortion.
“The PRO Act means a right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth. It means that the elective killing of a human being in utero is perfectly legal even in the third trimester of pregnancy, when the child can feel excruciating pain and could live outside the womb. It means that parents have no right to know when their teenage daughter has been taken to undergo an abortion,” said MCCL Co-Executive Director Cathy Blaeser. “Gov. Walz’s absolutist abortion policy puts Minnesota in the company of just a small handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China. It is extreme, inhumane, and harmful to women and children who deserve so much better.”
Walz signed the bill despite polls showing Minnesota did not want unlimited abortions.
Polls showed that most Minnesotans and most Americans disagree with the no-limits policy enshrined by the PRO Act. A 2022 KSTP/SurveyUSA poll found that only 30 percent of Minnesotans think abortion should always be legal.
But that coincides with Kamala Harris’ views of abortions up to birth.
Harris refuses to name any limits on abortion that she supports.
Harris continues to gaslight the American people by saying all she wants to do is “bring Roe v. Wade back” but, when asked repeatedly what that means to her and what, if any, protections should be there for babies in the womb … she can’t list a single one. Listen to her dodge this question for four minutes on CBS, when the reporter hounds her to pick a single week where babies are allowed the right to live. Even when a reporter asked if she’d support a 20 to 24-week limit. Kamala shook her head and said, “No, no, no.“ She wouldn’t even commit to a seven- or either-month limit.
Harris co-sponsored legislation that federally forces all-trimester bortions on all 50 states.
The so-called Women’s Health Protection Act is so radical, even members of the Democrat party said it would go much further than Roe. And then they opposed it. This is the legislation that Democrats continue to try and shove through Congress to make the law of the land. And Mrs. Harris was an early sponsor and originator of it. It would not only bypass the will of the voters in each state and strip all pro-life states of their protections for babies in the womb but it would mandate all-trimester abortion laws in each state. It would take away informed consent laws for people seeking abortions and would get rid of parental consent for parents of minors seeking abortions. These are just a few of the shocking laws Mrs. Harris’ WHPA would federally force all states to do. And speaking of laws…
While in Congress, she repeatedly voted against protecting babies when they can feel pain AND babies born alive after failed abortions.