Trump did not outlaw emergency abortion: Why abortion activists can put the Handmaid’s Tale cloaks away



The Trump administration’s reversal of a Biden-era policy regarding hospitals being required to perform emergency abortions has abortion activists up in arms — despite there actually being no threat to pregnant women who need emergency care.

“You have probably seen headlines going around, especially on Instagram, saying that Trump is now letting hospitals allow women to die, women who need these life-saving abortions we hear are now going to bleed out and die because of Trump’s draconian and cruel anti-abortion policies,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

“It is almost always the case when it comes to pro-abortion propaganda that the story that you are reading, that those little pro-abortion influencers and accounts are pushing, that it’s just not true,” she continues.


The policy in question is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act that was passed in 1986 and requires hospitals to provide necessary emergency care, including for pregnant women, to stabilize serious medical conditions.

The law’s initial intent was to ensure patient access to emergency medical care and to prevent the practice of “patient dumping,” which is when patients are transferred from private to public hospitals without considering their medical condition or stability for transfers.

The Biden administration issued a guidance on this law in 2022 that interpreted EMTALA as requiring hospitals to perform abortions in emergency rooms, even in states with pro-life laws.

“So you can see, if you’re familiar at all with how the left interprets these kind of health care laws, you can see the problem right away, because how the left interprets the health or life of the mother or the stability of the mother, is not that the woman’s life actually has to be at risk,” Stuckey explains.

“They refer to a Supreme Court case called Doe vs. Bolton, where health and life of the mother is defined as not only the physical health of the mother, but the mental health of the mother, the financial situation of the mother, the familial circumstances of the mother,” she continues.

“So it was actually the Biden administration that was infringing upon people’s rights here, it’s not the Trump administration,” she adds.

The Trump administration rescinded this 2022 guidance in a statement arguing it wrongly turned emergency rooms into abortion clinics by forcing doctors to perform elective abortions.

“Which is true, because a woman could come in and say, ‘I have to have an abortion, I don’t feel stable, or I’m not feeling good or whatever,’ and instead of a doctor saying, ‘We can help you in different ways,’ or ‘Here’s where you need to go, let me give you other resources,’ they would be required by the Biden administration to perform an abortion,” Stuckey explains.

“So the Trump administration’s policy clarifies that EMTALA does not mandate abortions beyond what is necessary for emergency care, aligning with the law’s intent to protect both the mother and the unborn child,” she adds.

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'The Pick-Up Artist': Another Hollywood perv pays the piper



Call him Harvey Junior.

James Toback’s name isn’t familiar to those outside the Hollywood ecosystem. The veteran writer/director still made his presence felt with films like “Bugsy,” “The Pick-Up Artist,” and “Tyson.” Toback got ensnared in the early days of Hollywood’s MeToo movement, established after producer Harvey Weinstein’s precipitous fall from grace.

We’ve spent the better part of a decade hearing liberals cry 'The Handmaid’s Tale' series was coming to life before our eyes (but only during GOP administrations).

Now, six years later, Toback will officially pay the price for his alleged actions. A jury ordered the now 80-year-old filmmaker to pony up $1.68 billion to dozens of women who claim he sexually assaulted them. Forty women testified against him in all.

MeToo’s net spread wide in the late 2010s, snaring some who were later deemed innocent in the court of public opinion (like comic actor Aziz Ansari). Toback’s alleged crime spree spanned four decades.

Justice proved slow but relentless in the end ...

Chocolate reign

The box office has been bittersweet for Hollywood up until “A Minecraft Movie” gave the industry a jolt. Now, just about any IP is fair game, including the popular card game “Magic: The Gathering.”

Yes, that’s just been greenlit. So has a brand known for its sugary sweetness.

We’ll soon see a movie based on the Hershey candy company. Just don’t expect Wonka-esque gags or bratty preteen girls named Veruca.

“Hershey” will tell the story of Milton Hershey, the key player behind the candy company. Finn Wittrock will play Mr. Hershey, while Alexandra Daddario co-stars as his wife, Kitty. Together, they did more than fuel endless dentist vacations. They also created the Hershey Industrial School, a place where underprivileged children could get free education and housing.

The McDonald’s Happy Meal tie-ins, at the very least, should be delicious ...

Joel's off-key endorsement

Who knows New York better than Billy Joel?

The piano man is one of the state’s most famous citizens, and he’s been playing to packed Madison Square Garden shows for years. And yet he just cut a massive check to a man who turned the Empire State into a pandemic house of horrors.

Disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) oversaw a ghastly COVID-19 regime. He steered vulnerable seniors into nursing homes, where the virus caught up with them and doctored critical death numbers.

A report released in March 2022 by the New York state comptroller later found that Cuomo’s New York State Department of Health “was not transparent in its reporting of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes” and it “understated the number of deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%” during some points of the pandemic.

That’s not mentioning the sexual improprieties that led to his 2021 resignation. (He still denies the allegations.)

Now, Cuomo wants to become the next Big Apple mayor. And sadly, Joel just wrote him a $50K check to help make that a reality.

Joel’s “New York State of Mind” includes a heaping helping of amnesia ...

'Handmaid's' fail

We’ve spent the better part of a decade hearing liberals cry “The Handmaid’s Tale” series was coming to life before our eyes (but only during GOP administrations).

Yawn.

That rhetoric helped sell plenty of plain red costumes, but reality never aligned with the fear and loathing. Maybe that explains why the show’s co-star Bradley Whitford made a scene in front of a Variety scribe.

We just aren’t paying attention to Hollywood scare tactics.

Whitford, who previously attacked actress Cheryl Hines for being married to a Trump supporter, raged about you-know-who during an interview tied to the series’ sixth and final Hulu season.

His Variety Q&A took place in a café, but the actor couldn’t stop from yelling while attacking all things Trump.

“Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of these right-wing Christian white nationalists. It’s punitive. And, man, I’m pissed at all the people I work for. Like, f***ing speak up.”

That’s what Whitford did in a crowded café. And then some. The Variety scribe, whose Trump derangement mirrors the unkempt star, shares how his voice rose high above the shop’s usual din.

Pipe down, sir.

Maybe Whitford can share a room with fellow TDS patient Rob Reiner.

Libs accidentally recreate 'Handmaid's Tale' with a more nightmarish twist



"The Handmaid's Tale" is a story of a dystopian future in the United States where women are reduced to property of the state, birth rates plummet, and natural disasters threaten humanity.

"The Handmaid's Tale" and reality converge in the New York State courts, where two homosexual men are suing over the "right" to the female reproductive potential of women. "Steve Deace Show" host Steve Deace offered analysis, pointing out that while some paint heterosexual men as villains on a mission to enslave women, and the left paints conservative ideals as the villians' motivation, the reality could suggest that homosexual men will be the group to ultimately and effectively erase women.

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Inside The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Young Adult Dystopian Genre

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Unhinged Joy Reid says GOP voters are 'pro-rape' and 'pro child marriage' in bonkers Twitter tirade



MSNBC host Joy Reid, in an unhinged rant on social media, asserted without evidence that the long-term goal of Republican voters is to impose "unbreakable rule by far right Christian ideologues" on the country.

In a string of flaming hot takes fired off Tuesday, Reid claimed that Republicans are appealing to pro-rape and pro-child marriage voters to win elections.

"The greatest, and sickest irony of the @GOP's new political strategy is that they are appealing to the most prurient fears of white Christian parents, while passing bills and maintaining alliances that normalize child brides and rape as a legitimate means of procreation," Reid began.

The greatest, and sickest irony of the @GOP's new political strategy is that they are appealing to the most prurient fears of white Christian parents, while passing bills and maintaining alliances that normalize child brides and rape as a legitimate means of procreation.
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1649204626

"If Democrats were anything like Republicans, they'd long ago have begun calling them the pro-rape, pro child marriage party," she continued, accusing Repubicans of "forcing women to be child-birthing slaves of the state" and "banning the teaching of what slavery is to keep the chattel docile."

The MSNBC host did not provide evidence that Republicans have passed bills that "normalize child brides" or make rape "a legitimate means of procreation." These claims are false.

In the past she's attacked abortion restrictions supported by Republicans, such as the Texas fetal heartbeat law that bans abortions after six weeks, as some kind of "American Taliban" and made comparisons between GOP laws and the dystopian Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale." She has also claimed that Republican states attempting to ban critical race theory are teaching students "Confederate race theory" instead, as Fox News has reported.

It is unclear what prompted her latest rant, although she referred to an MSNBC segment with host Chris Hayes that discussed GOP attacks on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's record in child pornography cases. Republicans have accused Jackson of being soft on crime and child predators in particular, and Hayes tied their line of attack to Q-Anon conspiracy theories, accusing Republicans of hypocrisy because in his view they have not adequately condemned child predators in their own party, such as disgraced former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, former Rep. Mark Foley, and former Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Reid insisted she was not "exaggerating" by citing two 2017 articles from the Federalist encouraging Alabama voters to support Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct. During the 2017 special election for Senate in Alabama, a woman came forward with allegations that Moore had pursued a sexual encounter with her four decades earlier, when she was just 14 and he was 32. Moore has denied the allegations.

And here's another, in which the @FDRLST gives away the game: all that matters is the SCOTUS. Because it is through the Supreme Court, that the white Christian right hopes to impose its Taliban code and procreation-centered ideology on us all. #underhiseyehttps://thefederalist.com/2017/11/28/justified-vote-morally-questionable-politician/\u00a0\u2026
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1649206894

The first article she referred to is an op-ed by a philosophy professor at Ouachita Baptist University that downplayed the age difference between Moore and his accuser at the time of the alleged encounter as "not an uncommon occurrence during this time" and "not without some merit if one wants to raise a large family." The second is an op-ed by D.C. McAllister, who argued more broadly that a political candidate's character should not be the only concern for voters.

Armed with the opinions of two people from a single publication with numerous writers and diverse guest columnists, Reid denounced all conservative ideology as "Putinite fascism mixed with Talibanism."

"And it's what they hope to impose on us: unbreakable rule by far right Christian ideologues, coal & oil polluters, heeled corporations & the super rich. With all rights hoarded by white Christian men & everyone else under firm control," Reid tweeted.

Fascist America is not gonna be a great place to live, folks, at least not for women and people of color. It can still be prevented, but y'all have got to wake up. And yeah, Democrats are largely uninspiring and terrible fighters. But they're all that stands between us and them.
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1649206896

"Fascist America is not gonna be a great place to live, folks, at least not for women and people of color. It can still be prevented, but y'all have got to wake up. And yeah, Democrats are largely uninspiring and terrible fighters. But they're all that stands between us and them," she concluded.

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Yes, abortion and transgenderism do have lots in common

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