The United States of Planned Parenthood?: The Violence at the Capitol Was Wrong. So Is Abortion

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President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., January 8, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

You can sponsor a flag on the National Mall for Joe Biden’s inauguration. If you do, you will be subscribed to Planned Parenthood’s mailing list. Donald Trump wasn’t a healing presence in Washington. Joe Biden says he wants to be one. He says he’s a Catholic who is personally opposed to abortion, but will advocate its expansion in public life. Expansion? More violence. Is that what America really needs right now? We’ve spent a year hiding from COVID-19, only to embrace more death on another front?

During the Obama administration, it was reported that Biden had the right instinct on the Department of Health and Human Services abortion-drug, contraception mandate: Why would we pick a fight with nuns? But he was shut down by Cecile Richards from Planned Parenthood. And it looks like they are still solidly in charge. Here, via NBC on all the abortion to come:

“We have a ton of work to do to undo the harm over the last four years, but knowing we have champions there who understand what needs to happen in the first 100 days is tremendously exciting,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood.

We’re never going to get better this way. More abortion is exciting?

Who knew a Catholic president would make me long for Bill Clinton. He vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortion twice, but he knew there were people who did not wake up in the morning thinking about expanding abortion, as some leading Democrats seem to do.

Having calm conversations about abortion became harder when Donald Trump became attached to the pro-life movement. But he is not the pro-life movement. And the pro-life movement isn’t merely for the pious. As Pope Francis has said, it’s about human rights. We must do better.

If Joe Biden really wants to be healing, he will recognize that there are people who are relieved to be done with Donald Trump as president but also saddened — and even terrified — by what his own ideology and incoming administration is going to inflict on the country.

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  1. The America we wake up to today, is one of discontent and disillusion, but our spirit still burns strong within all True Patriots!

    We will never back down nor cower in the face of adversity!

    We will always stand up for the truth and fight the good fight!

    Our time to rise is at hand and our Nation is calling up us to lead them out of this misery!

    The greatest President in the history of our nation since Abraham Lincoln, President Donald J. Trump has said, “We will never concede, especially when theft is involved…,” and that, “This is only the beginning of our Incredible Journey to Make America Great Again.”

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    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”—Abraham Lincoln

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