Democrats fail to kill House bill that would require doctors to provide babies who survive abortions with proper medical care



A Republican bill ensuring that human beings born after failed abortion attempts receive the same protection of law and care as other newborns passed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

While possibly good news for those children whom abortionists are otherwise unable to slaughter, Democrats in the Senate are poised to make sure this bill does not become law.

The bill

Reps. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) and Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 26) on Jan. 9, 2023.

There have been multiple efforts in recent years to pass some version of the same act in both the House and the Senate.

The act would "prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion."

The New York Times reported that while federal law already requires that a baby who survives an abortion receive emergency medical care, this bill seeks to clarify the standard of care doctors are to provide as well as what the penalties are for failing to extend them to those they proved incapable of slaughtering.

"If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws," says the bill.

Accordingly, an infant who survived the attempted homicide "becomes a patient" within whatever hospital, clinic, or other health care facility it finds itself in.

Any health care provider present at the time of the child's birth must "exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age."

Were the bill to become law, doctors and other health care professionals who failed to administer treatment to the abortion survivor as they would any other patient could face a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

While the bill bars the criminal prosecution of the mother who sought to have her baby killed, the mother could herself bring civil action against the offending practitioners.

Partial victory and the challenge ahead

The bill passed in the House on Jan. 11 with the support of 219 Republicans and one Democrat.

The lone Democrat who supported the rights of abortion survivors was Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas); 210 Democrats voted against the bill.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) voiced opposition to the bill, claiming, "It directs and mandates a certain medical care which may not be appropriate, which may endanger the life of an infant in certain circumstances."

\u201cNadler on the bill to ban killing babies born alive: "The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants [born alive] by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital."\u201d
— Greg Price (@Greg Price) 1673465664

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said, "As our chairman said, not only is it illegal to not care for a born infant, but the law that you have provided on the Republican side actually could create more harm. It requires immediately taking a struggling baby to a hospital. That hospital could be hours away and could be detrimental to the life of that baby."

Schakowsky added, "This is nothing more than the part of the effort to make abortion illegal nationally in this county."

Washington Examiner writer Kimberly Ross noted on Twitter that inside the span of just a few minutes, Schakowsky had indicated that the hypothetical child she doesn't believe should be recognized under the law as a person might be harmed by the bill.

\u201cAmazingly, the vagina doesn\u2019t confer personhood. Jan supports killing a baby a few minutes before she argues for saving the same baby by giving it medical care. This is the deeply hypocritical depravity of pro-aborts.\u201d
— Kimberly Ross (@Kimberly Ross) 1673474186

Vice President Kamala Harris bemoaned the possibility that America would respect the personhood of abortion survivors, tweeting, "House Republicans passed an extreme bill today that will further jeopardize the right to reproductive health care in our country. This is yet another attempt by Republican legislators to control women's bodies."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who recently lost her speakership, similarly lost her cool on Twitter, denouncing Republicans for pushing "their extreme anti-choice agenda."

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert (Co.) called Democrats' opposition to the bill "sick" and "radical."

"For the last several years under Democrat control, the House failed to vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. This changed during the first week of the Republican majority," Cammack, one of four co-chairs of the House Pro-Life Caucus, said in a statement. "It's an honor to not only see this bill pass the House, but to receive overwhelming support from my colleagues. Upholding the value and sanctity of life has been a personal mission for me, and this bill plays a key role in affirming what the American people have always known: life is sacred."

Ahead of the vote in the House, Cammack suggested that "a child who survives an abortion attempt — who is outside the womb, breathing and struggling for life despite all attempts to end it" deserves equal protection under the law.

"Murder is illegal," she added. "That shouldn't be a controversial position."

Rep. Cammack Introduces Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act With GOP Reps. Scalise & Wagner youtu.be

Just as "murder" proved a partisan issue in the House, it is projected to split the Senate along party lines. However, with a slight majority in the Senate, Democrats have a good shot at killing the bill.

When an earlier iteration of this bill was voted on in the Senate in 2019, it fell seven votes short of the 60 it needed to advance.

At the time, former President Donald Trump said, "The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don't mind executing babies AFTER birth."

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'Pathetic reporting': 'Defund NPR' trends after conservatives blast National Public Radio for 'shameful smear' of assassinated Shinzo Abe



There was a flood of calls to "defund NPR" in Twitter reactions to a now-deleted tweet from National Public Radio that demeaned former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the day that he was assassinated.

In the wake of the assassination of Abe, NPR smeared the close ally of the United States as a "divisive arch-conservative."

On Friday morning, the official Twitter account for NPR tweeted, "Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday, in western Japan, hospital officials said."

There was a major backlash to the tweet – which caused NPR to delete the post.

\u201cA now-deleted tweet from NPR\u2026\u201d
— Kimberly Ross (@Kimberly Ross) 1657284787

However, NPR followed the controversial tweet with another post on Twitter that painted the assassinated former prime minister as an "ultranationalist."

"Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister and ultranationalist, was killed at a campaign rally on Friday. Police tackled and arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of an attack that shocked many in Japan.”

\u201cShinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister and ultranationalist, was killed at a campaign rally on Friday.\n\nPolice tackled and arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of an attack that shocked many in Japan. https://t.co/YpyEIM2Cim\u201d
— NPR (@NPR) 1657281144

There was a barrage of Twitter reactions calling to defund NPR – which is partially funded by U.S. taxpayers. "Defund NPR" was a trending Twitter topic on Friday.

Conservative advocacy organization ForAmerica: "This is disgusting. Defund NPR."

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas): "It's ENRAGING that taxpayer funded @npr would say such TERRIBLE things about Shinzo Abe. He was one of America’s STRONGEST defenders, so it’s not surprising that liberal NPR would post this. NPR is government-funded anti-American propaganda. Time to end this garbage & DEFUND NPR!"

Former president of Radio Free Asia Steve Yates: "Absolutely shameful smear of a positively transformational leader and one of America's best friends and allies. Such a long-tenured PM certainly united more than he divided. He was a reformer and defender of democratic Japan, and of the free world."

Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind: "Shinzo Abe won his elections by large margins. But NPR calls him an 'ultranationalist' and divisive! That’s some pathetic reporting, even for NPR."

Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party David Shafer: "NPR deleted its first tweet calling Shinzo Abe a 'divisive arch conservative' and then posted this tweet calling him an 'ultranationalist.' As if he were Tojo or Itagaki and not the four-time elected leader of a modern democracy. May he rest in peace."

Journalist Erielle Davidson: "NPR referring to Japan’s most popular PM, who won his elections by large margins, as 'divisive' indicates the inability of media outlets to genuinely report any longer. Everything is a mural for their projection. So pathetic and so sad."

Conservative commentator Steve Cortes: "We taxpayers fund this propaganda. Time to defund NPR & PBS."

AI expert Dr. Eli David said in a now-deleted tweet: "What a disgusting eulogy by NPR. Abe was the greatest postwar prime minister of Japan."

Editor Brandon Morse: "Time to defund @NPR. Tired of taxpayer dollars going to a communist propaganda playground."

Journalist Hank Campbell: "To the far left the middle always looks like the far right so this @NPR tweet is on brand. But should all Americans be paying taxes so NPR can make everything about their hatred? Including the assassination of Japan's longest-serving prime minister?"

National security adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Omri Ceren: "The people who write words at America's elite media institutions can't hear how abnormal and inappropriate they sound, because everyone they know talks like they do."

Communications professional Natalie Johnson pointed out that NPR eulogized Fidel Castro with a far more glowing account than the one written for Abe.

"One of the most prominent international figures in the last half of the 20th century, Castro inspired both passionate love and hate. Many who later lost faith in him can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban Revolution," NPR complimented Castro following his death in November 2016.

\u201cNPR describing Fidel Castro vs. NPR describing Shinzo Abe posthumously.\u201d
— Natalie Johnson (@Natalie Johnson) 1657284871

NPR also had a much more adulatory description of Qasem Soleimani – commander of the Quds Force, a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that the Pentagon has designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

"Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated Friday in Baghdad in a U.S. airstrike, was at once both the shadowy commander of covert Iranian forces and a revered celebrity in an anti-American alliance that crosses sectarian lines across the Middle East," NPR wrote in January 2020.

"Known for his quiet demeanor and short stature, Soleimani exuded charisma and an intelligence that even his enemies came to respect," the left-leaning outlet gushed of the Iranian military leader "responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,” according to the Pentagon.

It wasn't only NPR to disparage Abe on the day he was murdered.

The Associated Press claimed that Abe left a "divided legacy."

The AP previously praised socialist leaders after their deaths. The AP described Hugo Chavez as a "fiery Venezuelan leader" and said Fidel Castro "defied the US for 50 years."

\u201cSpot the difference\u201d
— Eric Cunningham (@Eric Cunningham) 1657282247

CBS Mornings called Abe a "polarizing figure," a "right-wing nationalist," and "conservative" whose "political opinions were controversial."

\u201c.@CBSMornings trashes Shinzo Abe hours after his assassination, calling him "a polarizing figure," "right-wing nationalist, and conservative" whose "political opinions were controversial"\u201d
— Curtis Houck (@Curtis Houck) 1657284834

People push back after Jill Filipovic claims that 'Men with stay-at-home wives are more sexist than men with working wives'



Jill Filipovic asserted in a tweet on Tuesday that men who have stay-at-home wives are more sexist compared to husbands whose wives work a job.

"More mothers at home makes for worse, more sexist men who see women as mommies and helpmeets. Men with stay-at-home wives are more sexist than men with working wives; they don’t assess women’s workplace contributions fairy; and they are less likely to hire and promote women," tweeted Filipovic, who says in her Twitter biography that she is a writer, lawyer, and author.

Many women find fulfillment by choosing to be a stay-at-home mom. Unsurprisingly, Filipovic's comments lead to pushback from people on Twitter.

Kimberly Ross tweeted, "…And here I was, excited to leave FT employment outside the home to become a SAHM (by choice!) who also writes on the side. It was and continues to be a great decision for me and my family. I absolutely do not regret it."

\u2026And here I was, excited to leave FT employment outside the home to become a SAHM (by choice!) who also writes on the side. It was and continues to be a great decision for me and my family. I absolutely do not regret it.https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/1513862962297163781\u00a0\u2026
— Kimberly Ross \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Kimberly Ross \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1649779900

"I see my wife as a mother (among other things.) I think that job is a thousand times more difficult and more important than writing a substack. But apparently that makes me sexist," National Review senior writer David Harsanyi tweeted.

"My husband is a VP at a bank and hires and promotes women all the time. I have been a SAHM for 31 years and none of what you say is true," another person tweeted.

"My husband is far from sexist and I am joyed with this life the Lord has given me. Women are *nothing more* than an easy to replace number in the working world. At home, they are someone's world. They are irreplaceable. More moms at home creates a healthier & stronger society," someone else tweeted.

"She got all wrong. It's a JOY to be a homemaker & serve my husband, but again these people don't know the Lord. God created women to be a helpmate and it says in Titus 2 that women are the keeper of the home. Culture does not rewrite the bible. And my husband is far from sexist," another individual tweeted.

Filipovic also said that moms who have jobs fare better emotionally and psychologically than women who opt to stay at home.

"Stay-at-home mothers are psychologically and emotionally worse off than working mothers by just about every measure, from depression to anxiety to anger; they are much more likely than working mothers to say that they are struggling, and less likely to say that they are thriving," she tweeted.

Stay-at-home mothers are psychologically and emotionally worse off than working mothers by just about every measure, from depression to anxiety to anger; they are much more likely than working mothers to say that they are struggling, and less likely to say that they are thriving.
— Jill Filipovic (@Jill Filipovic) 1649768072

Kim Klacik drops a sequel: 'Baltimore doesn't have to vote Democrat'

Republican congressional nominee for Maryland's 7th district Kimberly Klacik exposed a "broken Baltimore" that's been abandoned by Democratic leadership and unveiled her vision in a follow-up video.

BREAKING: Republican congressional candidate Kim Klacik DESTROYS Joy Behar over blackface on The View

"Excuse me! Excuse me! The black community has my back... that was an homage!" Joy interrupted.

GOP House candidate Kimberly Klacik fires back at critics who claim she only got Trump nod because she's black



Maryland Republican congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik delivered a scorching response Thursday to the abuse she has received online since President Donald Trump endorsed her last month, and she did not hold back.

What are the details?

"My favorite part about getting Trump's endorsement is reading the comments claiming Trump only did it because I am black.." Klacik tweeted, adding, "...as if we didn't spend 3 weeks watching modern day overseer @JoeBiden play Duck Duck Goose w/three black women to pick a VP solely based on complexion."

My favorite part about getting Trump’s endorsement is reading the comments claiming Trump only did it because I am… https://t.co/pTR9ilUIyM
— Kimberly Klacik (@Kimberly Klacik)1599127688.0

On Aug. 31, President Trump tweeted, "Kimberly Klacik is really working hard to help the people of Baltimore. She is running for Congress as a Republican, & if she wins she will be an inspiration to all. She is strong on inner city rebuilding, healthcare, our Military & Vets. She has my Complete & Total Endorsement!"

Kimberly Klacik is really working hard to help the people of Baltimore. She is running for Congress as a Republican… https://t.co/PGvRDrU6EX
— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1598931554.0

Twitchy.com compiled examples of some of the racist messages Klacik received in the aftermath.

One person wrote in reaction to one of Klacik's tweets, "stop being used as the black pawn for this weak little man. You're ruining your chances at having any kind of life of dignity and respect by enabling this fat ass moron. Well, perhaps you deserve that, eh?!"

Another wrote, "Lol your a joke Tap dancing for the Republicans Turn in your black card," while yet another added, "She is a black person that thinks she's white that can only find the time to put other black people down. @kimKBaltimore will always present as #black cause she is black and that's what people see first. Many proud black people died so she can have her freedom to stand on them."

Somebody tweeted of Klacik, "'She is running for Congress as a Republican.' How Trump describes a black congressional candidate. He can't believe a black person would be a Republican because he knows what being a Republican means, i.e. being white. He just can't hide his racism and bias."

One sicko reacted, "coons 4 trump."

Anything else?

Klacik has seen her profile rise nationally after receiving millions of views for her campaign ad calling out decades of failed Democratic leadership in the city of Baltimore, which she would represent if she wins in November. She also spoke at the Republican National Convention last month.

But she has, sadly, received plenty of abuse long before even launching her campaign. In July of last year, she was attacked online, in the media, and targeted by hackers after she dared to appear on Fox News to expose footage exposing the dilapidated conditions in many parts of Baltimore.