Radical Democrat lets truth slip about abortion in effort to protect illegal alien accused of homicide



A radical Democrat congresswoman who staunchly advocates for so-called "abortion rights" may have accidentally undermined them when she attempted to run interference for a recently deported immigrant accused of heinous crimes.

There seems to be no form of abortion Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) doesn't like. She has called abortion "health care" and a "human right," vowed "to protect and expand" so-called "reproductive care" under Trump's second term, and even admitted that she has had at least one abortion herself.

'Interesting that it's a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it's just a clump of cells when you want to kill it.'

Because of her long-standing history of defending abortion, Jayapal surprised many when she lamented the recent loss of another woman's unborn "baby."

"A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care," Jayapal wrote on social media on Tuesday, perhaps not realizing that babies are persons who cannot legally be killed.

"If true, this is very sad. Tragic even. And the fact that it’s sad is clear evidence that your position on abortion is both inhumane and barbaric," Not the Bee shot back in the comments.

"Interesting that it's a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it's just a clump of cells when you want to kill it," added Kangmin Lee, a popular Christian influencer with nearly 160,000 followers.

"Baby. Thanks for admitting it," quipped LifeNews.com.

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In her social media post, Jayapal also shared an article from the Nashville Banner about the apparent stillborn child and his mother, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a native of Guatemala who reportedly stole into the U.S. in 2018.

In the article, Monterroso-Lemus painted such a harrowing tale of her experiences in ICE custody that independent journalist Andy Ngo characterized her allegations as "cinematic."

Monterroso-Lemus claimed she was:

  • forced to sleep on the floor in an Alabama facility;
  • offered food infested with cockroaches;
  • repeatedly denied medical care after she expressed concerns about her unborn child and instead had only her blood pressure and urine sample tested; and
  • ignored for three days after the child died in her womb.

"I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead," she said, according to the Banner.

"I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and wasn’t getting the medical attention I needed," she added.

"There’s so much pressure in jail. I started suffering from insomnia, from anxiety. Then I felt like I was having a stroke, and they still didn’t give me a medical exam," she continued.

Monterroso-Lemus also claimed that overly vigilant guards kept her "shackled" to a bed while she delivered the stillborn baby boy. "When I was delivering my baby, they didn’t even give me a little privacy," she said. "One time, they even shackled my feet because they thought I might escape. Like I was some kind of criminal. I told them, 'What you’re doing to me isn’t right.'"

According to the report, Monterroso-Lemus gave birth at Ochsner LSU Health – Monroe Medical Center in Louisiana on April 29. She was then deported back to Guatemala on May 9.

"This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged," Jayapal fumed in her social media post on Tuesday.

Monterroso-Lemus 'has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.'

Because Jayapal's tweet drew such attention to Monterroso-Lemus' case, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release directly disputing most, if not all, of Monterroso-Lemus' claims.

According to DHS, Monterroso-Lemus:

  • "had a bed in her cell" and was never forced to sleep on the floor;
  • received "appropriate dietician cleared menus" every day in keeping with the standards of all ICE detainees in New Orleans;
  • received extensive prenatal and other medical care, including a fetal doppler ultrasound, an "OB-GYN visit, dental care, and medication." She was also taken to a hospital and seen by "multiple nurses"; and
  • was given "immediate medical assistance" on April 29, when she reported distress and was taken to the hospital.

DHS also insists it has no record that Monterroso-Lemus ever filed a grievance about alleged "mistreatment and mocking from guards."

In a statement to Blaze News, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed: "This reporting is absolutely FALSE. Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it."

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What's more, Monterroso-Lemus has been accused of mistreating others — severely.

In her statement to Blaze News, McLaughlin claimed that "Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide."

The DHS press release clarified that Monterroso-Lemus was "arrested twice for child abuse/neglect with the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office" and that she is wanted for homicide in Guatemala.

"FACT CHECK: ICE Provided Full Medical Care to Guatemalan Illegal Alien with History of Child Abuse and Wanted for Homicide," the press release headline reiterated.

Monterroso-Lemus has six other children.

The father of her stillborn child, Gary Bivens, still appears to stand by his fiancée. He has pledged to relocate to Guatemala and initiated a GoFundMe account to help with "funds for medical treatment and transportation expenses."

"It's unbelievable. It's disgusting. I'm beside myself, I really am," he said, according to the Banner. "I'm ashamed to even call myself an American citizen. With what is going on in these facilities? ... It's costing people’s lives. It's breaking families apart. It's so inhumane. ... It's un-American."

"I'll sell the house and everything I got, and I'm coming down to Guatemala," Bivens added. "That's my intention ... because I don't even want to be here anymore. ... I lost all respect for every bit and piece of this country.”

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New York Times waits until Christmas to drop profile of Baptist minister who conducts pro-abortion rituals



The Satanic Temple offers an "abortion ritual" for the purpose of "cast[ing] off notions of guilt, shame and mental discomfort" associated with the extermination of an unborn baby. The devil-branded anti-Christian group is not, however, the only game in town when it comes to normalizing and ritualizing the wholesale slaughter of the innocent.

Two days after Christmas, the New York Times detailed the work of certain supposed clerics to "show that religion could be a source of support for abortion rights."

The Times noted that Katey Zeh, the CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice who performs her activism in the guise of an ordained Baptist minister, was joined this past fall by a Jewish cantor and a Presbyterian minister, both women, for her "ritual blessing" of an abortion clinic in rural Maryland.

"You all are blessings to those who come to you for care during some of their most vulnerable and sometimes painful moments," Zeh stated in the waiting room for the abattoir.

According to the RCRC, their abortion rituals often involve prayer, the burning of sage, "abortion storytelling," music, poetry, singing, and dancing. The Times indicated that Zeh's organization has held 10 blessings at abortion clinics since 2017.

Zeh stated in January, "It has been my sacred call to share in as many places as possible the truth that abortion is a blessing — it has the power to save lives and bless them, too."

'Christians know that Satan cannot create life — he only destroys.'

The RCRC website links to the "Abortions Welcome" page, which contains a hodgepodge of "meditations, rituals, stories, and scripture curated for different parts of the abortion process," along with witches' spells. Like the Satanic Temple, there is also an abortion ritual; however, it is not characterized as a "destruction ritual" but instead wears the skin of a Jewish ceremony and is aligned with the new moon holiday Rosh Chodesh.

The RCRC — which claims to be rooted in an "antiracist movement" despite the disproportionate extermination of black babies by the abortion regime — also provides a pamphlet containing alleged prayers of blessings from various clerics, including a self-identified Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, a Unitarian Universalist minister, a rabbi, and others.

The supposed Catholic blessing, which asks God to bless the woman getting the abortion but not her child, comes from Chris Tessone, who is not recognized as a priest in the Catholic Church, which has from the first century affirmed "the moral evil of every procured abortion."

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explicitly states, "Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life."

Despite the Catholic Church's clear moral teaching on abortion, the RCRC claims that "Catholic teachings on reproductive health topics are both more complex and simpler than the ones commonly thought of as the singular Catholic worldview."

The Protestant prayer, from Marvin Marsh, a retired Baptist pastor who served as board chair of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, asks that the Holy Spirit seize upon the abortion as an opportunity to confer new gifts upon the mother. The RCRC notes on its website that "views on abortion vary widely among the 30,000+ Protestant Christian denominations," but only provides two examples defending abortion.

The activist group, which affirms the personhood of the pregnant woman but not the child growing within her, has repeatedly emphasized that it regards abortion as "sacred."

"I don't think Jesus would join the protesters outside the abortion clinic," Zeh told Newsweek in 2022. "I think that he would be accompanying patients inside, caring for them and holding their hands. That is the Jesus that I know."

"The Satanic Temple and other movements that promote abortion rights in the name of autonomy are in fact beholden to an anti-freedom," Blaze News' Kevin Ryan noted in a recent op-ed. "Christians know that Satan cannot create life — he only destroys. He may offer seductive ideas cloaked in equality or liberty, but his goal is always to eradicate the value of human life, which stands at the core of God's creation."

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Horrific crash in LA: Cars burst into flames, killing 6, including infant, pregnant woman, and unborn baby
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Horrific crash in LA: Cars burst into flames, killing 6, including infant, pregnant woman, and unborn baby



A horrific car crash in Los Angeles, California, left six people dead and sent eight people, including the driver, to the hospital.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, a black Mercedes-Benz speeding down South La Brea Avenue, going at least 50 mph, ran a red light at Slauson Avenue and crashed into several cars. Some of the cars burst into flames and slammed into a gas station sign on the corner.

The crash was caught on a CCTV camera. WARNING: The video is graphic.



Witnesses at the gas station reported a terrifying scene of fire and debris. Even some of the victims of the crash were ejected from their vehicle. Veronica Esquivel was trying to pump gas when the crash occurred.

"I was about to pump gas and all of a sudden, I hear all of the noises from all of the collisions, and then the fire explosion, and I saw things, metal and things flying in the air. So, I just covered myself behind the pump," Esquivel told reporters.

What Esquivel described next is heartbreaking.

"All of the sudden, a baby literally flew from the middle of the intersection to the middle of the gas station and landed right on the floor in front of me," Esquival said. "One of the workers came and saw me with the baby and took the baby out of my hands. … Somebody tried to resuscitate the baby, but the baby was gone."

Another witness, Alphonso Word, said, "I think the devastating part was you heard the scream. I don’t know if it was one of the victims that was in the car burning, or what."

Police initially reported that five had died in the crash, but during their investigations later that evening, they discovered yet another body in one of the charred vehicles.

Eight other people were taken to the hospital, most with minor injuries. Two of them are adults, and six are children, ranging in age from 13 months to 15 years old. Their names and their conditions remain unknown.

One woman who was taken to the hospital with serious injuries is the driver of the Mercedes-Benz. Police have spoken with her to try to understand what happened. The driver has not been named, but reports say that she is in her 40s. She has been charged with vehicular homicide and gross negligence.

“Just unknown reasons for the high speed at this time,” California Highway Patrol spokesman Franco Pepi said.

“Everyone needs to drive with more due regard because a lot of collisions happen, and this just happens to be at the top of the list of how bad they can get.”

The intersection of La Brea and Slauson is located in Windsor Hills, approximately ten miles from downtown Los Angeles.

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Abortion clinic threw dismembered baby remains in a dumpster, Ohio pro-life groups allege, showing horrifying photos



Three pro-life groups are accusing a northeast Ohio abortion clinic of discarding the dismembered fetal remains of an unborn baby in a dumpster behind the facility.

Ohio Right to Life announced in a press release this week that the body parts reportedly discovered outside the Northeast Ohio Women's Center by inspectors last month were from an unborn child approximately 17 weeks old.

In a press conference Wednesday, the pro-life groups — Ohio Right to Life, Right to Life of Northeast Ohio, and Michigan-based Citizens for a Pro-Life Society — alleged that two volunteers from the Michigan group found the remains on June 7, along with other medical waste such as bloody sheets and urine samples. Personal information of patients was also allegedly discovered.

"Ohio Right to Life is heartbroken and appalled by the abortion industry's utter disregard for human life," the group's president, Mike Gonidakis, said in a statement. "This child suffered doubly at the hands of the abortion industry: first, by being subjected to a brutal death by dismemberment and second by the degradation of his or her broken body being dumped into the trash like garbage."

Ohio-based pro-life group Created Equal shared photos of the alleged remains on its Facebook page Wednesday that clearly show fully formed baby legs, feet, and a hand. TheBlaze is not publishing the photos due to the graphic nature of the content.

But an operator for the women's center has flatly denied the allegations, saying the disposal of body parts and patient information could not have taken place.

"Absolutely not — absolutely not," Sheri Lynn Grossman told the Akron Beacon Journal. "We have very strict policies and procedures in place," she said, adding that any attempt by the groups to retrieve items discarded at the site may constitute criminal trespassing. She declined to comment further, adding the facility is conducting an investigation.

After viewing the photographs, Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks told the Daily Caller the news is "a wake-up call for anyone who suggests that a 17-week-old fetus is 'a clump of cells.'"

"Thanks to breakthroughs in science, we know that babies at this age feel pain and have a beating heart, just like anyone outside the womb," he added.

Last December, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) passed the Unborn Child Dignity Act, requiring the Ohio Department of Health to establish rules for the humane burial or cremation of children who are killed during an abortion procedure.

The pro-life groups allege that the abortion clinic's actions constitute an obvious violation of state law. On the other hand, the women's center is fighting back threatening charges of its own, stating that the dumpster inspection may have been criminal trespassing.