Video: Liberal Student Makes The Case For Killing Two-Year-Old Kids As Pro-Choice Extremism Exposed

A December encounter between Students for Life’s Appalachian Regional Coordinator Brenna Lewis and a pro-choice liberal student at the University of Knoxville, Tennessee is going viral after a video of the discussion showed the student advocating for killing two-year-old kids.

The unnamed student openly makes his case for infanticide for children up to two years old during an unhinged rant that clearly shows that at least some on the pro-choice left are hardcore extremists who most Americans would never support if they actually knew what they stood for.

“Without communication, we have no way of knowing if you’re sentient or not,” claimed the student. “It’s no different than this tree. It’s alive. But is it sentient?”

“Can the two year old talk to me?” he continued. “Generally speaking, the child still has the inability to communicate.”

The president of Students for Life of America noted that this shocking belief system actually represents mainstream opinion within the pro-choice movement.

“The shocking video sadly represents the mainstream of the pro-choice movement. When Planned Parenthood consistently opposes even common-sense regulations, such as prohibiting Down syndrome abortions, we should not be surprised that people are increasingly joining the pro-life movement. Young people continue to move more and more away from the pro-choice movement because of their extreme positions, justifying even infanticide” wrote Kristan Hawkins.

As a post on the Students for Life of America website also noted, “This is hardly the first time pro-choice activists have sought to justify infanticide. We know, for example, that Princeton professor Peter Singer has long championed killing babies born with disabilities, and has also justified killing babies up to two years of age. He said, for example, “Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons.”

One has to wonder how long it will take for Americans across the country to actually realize how extreme some on the left have gone in their abortion beliefs?

For if this example doesn’t change minds, nothing will.

WATCH: Pastor Owns Cops Who Try to Illegally Shut Down His Free Speech

An anti-abortion group protesting outside of an abortion clinic schooled local police on their rights, after they were harassed with the threat of arrest.

Schools Caught Using Top US Abortion Chain to ‘Educate’ Kids on Sex Without Parents’ Permission

Parents are outraged after finding out public schools are using Planned Parenthood to teach their children about abortion and sex.

The Feds Are Investigating Allegations That Planned Parenthood Has Been Selling Baby Body Parts For Profit

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Is Planned Parenthood finally going to be held accountable for their crimes against humanity?  Pro-life activists all over the nation are absolutely thrilled by reports about a potential FBI investigation of Planned Parenthood.  For the past several years, undercover video after undercover video has exposed what is going on deep inside Planned Parenthood clinics, but federal law enforcement authorities never took any action.  Of course we probably should not have expected any justice during the Obama years, but many were hoping that things would change under Trump, and that now appears to be happening.

For years, those of us in the pro-life community have been complaining that nobody from Planned Parenthood ever seems to get into trouble for anything even though they are committing some of the most heinous crimes imaginable.  Are we about to get the breakthrough that we have been hoping for?  The following comes from the Hill…

The FBI has asked the Senate for unredacted documents it obtained from abortion providers, signaling agents may be investigating whether Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers illegally sold fetal tissue and body parts, according to sources familiar with the document request.

The request was made in recent days, the sources said, to the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), last December referred Planned Parenthood and several other abortion providers to the FBI for investigation after a lengthy probe into the transfers of fetal tissue.

If the FBI truly is looking into these things, it should be a slam dunk.

As Lila Rose has said, the only thing that would keep top executives from Planned Parenthood from going to prison “is politics”…

Lila Rose, a prominent anti-abortion activist, praised the FBI’s document request.

“We, of course, applaud any action taken to follow the evidence to where it leads and to hold Planned Parenthood accountable,” she said. “The only thing that could hinder this investigation from leading to indictments of Planned Parenthood and the companies involved in the sale of fetal body parts is politics.”

This very exciting news comes at a time when we are learning even more about what is really going on inside Planned Parenthood clinics.  According to someone that actually participated in the practice of organ harvesting, Planned Parenthood used incentives such as bonuses to make sure that as many usable organs were harvested as possible…

A technician who participated in harvesting organs from aborted babies provided by Planned Parenthood says her company encouraged workers to obtain as many high-value samples as possible with incentives such as bonuses.

In the latest exposé from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), former StemExpress procurement technician Holly O’Donnell admits bonuses varied according to body parts, with high-demand organs such as brains, hearts, lungs and eyes fetching top dollar.

In fact, Holly O’Donnell says that Planned Parenthood supervisors applied “maximum pressure” on the organ harvesters because this practice was so highly profitable…

O’Donnell also claimed there was always “maximum pressure” to procure as many samples as possible and that supervisors routinely expressed “It’s not an option, it’s a demand.”

StemExpress employees worked alongside abortionists in Planned Parenthood clinics in Northern California to extract body parts which were shipped via FedEx to researchers throughout the country. Planned Parenthood received compensation for “specimens” and gestated fetuses “determined in the clinic to be usable.”

Crimes against humanity such as this are taking place in Planned Parenthood clinics all around the country on a daily basis.  When I am elected to Congress, I will be leading the charge to hold Planned Parenthood executives accountable for what they have done.  And I am taking the “no money for Planned Parenthood ever” pledge.  I am promising that I will never, ever vote for any bill that contains any funding for Planned Parenthood, and I am calling on every other Republican to make the same pledge.

You cannot be pro-life and vote to fund Planned Parenthood, and it is time to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for the crimes that they have committed.

That is where I stand, and I am not moving.

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Law Now Forces Women to Ask Men for Permission to Get an Abortion, Including Rapists

Arkansas — Aransas legislators recently passed an abortion bill that is set to come into force at the end of the month. It will require women to obtain permission from men before they can have an abortion. The law, rightfully so, has the ACLU and civil rights activists up in arms as it also applies in instances of abuse and even rape.

The bill, H.B. 1566, was passed in March and is a provision under the Arkansas Final Disposition Rights Act of 2009. Under this act, in the matter of someone’s death, family members have to come to an agreement on how to handle the bodies of their dead relatives.

H.B. 1566 adds fetuses to the Act. As HuffPost notes, it means that both the mother and the father of the fetus will have to agree on what to do with fetal remains, thus requiring a woman to tell whoever impregnated her that she’s planning on having an abortion. Both parties will have to agree on what to do with the remains.

While it may sound reasonable on the surface, the bill also applies to abusive partners and rapists who impregnated their victim.

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Citing the damning nature of the bill, the ACLU has launched a legal challenge against the bill which will be heard on Thursday.

“Every day, women in Arkansas and across the United States struggle to get the care they need as lawmakers impose new ways to shut down clinics and make abortion unavailable,” said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a blog post announcing its legal challenge.

Arkansas has enacted a slew of new restrictions that practically prohibit access to abortion. We’re fighting back. https://t.co/FKcBZn8Jk1

— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 28, 2017

“Arkansas women cannot afford to lose further access. They cannot afford to travel hundreds of miles to get to the nearest clinic. And they should not have to endure invasions of privacy and violations of their autonomy.”

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A representative for NARAL Pro-Choice told HuffPost on Monday that H.B. 1566 is essentially a way to “make it harder” to access abortion.

“While proponents of this plan claim it’s about embryonic-tissue requirements, the plain intention and unavoidable outcome of this scheme is to make it harder for a woman to access basic health care by placing more barriers between a woman and her doctor,” he said.

“Some politicians have begun trying to make abortion functionally unavailable through insidious restrictions like this one,” the NARAL representative said. “Their intention is, of course, to make abortion unavailable by any means necessary.”

Arkansas, whose population is nearly three million, has just four clinics that provide abortions. Prior to this draconian bill, it was already very difficult for women to have an abortion as women were forced to have state-directed counseling and then wait 48 hours before having the procedure.

The fact that abortion is an issue of the state at all, no matter which ‘side you are on,’ is Orwellian. Government has no more business paying for abortions than they do stopping them.

Unfortunately, many people allow emotion to rule their logic and end up holding beliefs which are entirely contradictory. For example, one cannot be ‘Pro-life’ while at the same time being Pro-war. Conversely, one cannot advocate for the state to “get out of their uterus” while at the same time demanding state money to pay for abortions.

Abortion is a reality, and society is slowly figuring out how to deal with it. But, the more the state attempts to interject their bias into this reality, the more skewed the situation becomes. Case in point: asking your rapist for permission to not have his baby.

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A society that treats the potential for life as disposable is a society in a crisis of conscience, and in need of self-reflection. That being said, however, a society will not be magically repaired by creating insidious laws that punish victims of abuse and rape.

New Walvax 2 Aborted Fetal Cell Vaccine Created in China (VIDEO)

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WI-38 and MRC-5 have a new addition to the aborted fetal cell line used in vaccine production. The Walvax-2 cell line.

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Guess What Else Is Put In Vaccines?

The use of Human Diploid Cells (aborted fetal tissue) is common in vaccines, with grave health and ethical ramifications, from autism to cannibalism.

Aborted fetal tissue, believe it or not, is another one of the horrendous ingredients found in the vaccines of modern Western Medicine and its drug-pushing chemical arm, Big Pharma. I say “modern” Western Medicine yet it is difficult in this case to see how Allopathy lives up to that, given that it engages in a practice of inserting the body tissue of dead babies into the bloodstreams of patients, most of whom have no idea they are being subjected to it. Given the long list of dubious, harmful or outright cancerous adjuvants already used in vaccines, the inclusion of aborted fetal tissue is another reason, an ethical one in addition to all the health ones, why vaccines need to be avoided at all costs.

Aborted Fetal Tissue Called “Human Diploid Cells” on Vaccine Packaging

Big Pharma isn’t going to just come right out and admit it uses dead baby DNA. That would be a disastrous marketing choice. Instead, another Orwellian and euphemistic phrase is adopted: “human diploid cells“. Diploid cells are cells with a double set of chromosomes, meaning from a fetus that already got one set of chromosomes from an egg and one set from a sperm. As I wrote in a previous article “Toxic Vaccine Adjuvants: The Top 10“, these human cells are fetal cells taken from the tissue of babies or fetuses, some of which are definitely aborted! This has being going on for over 50 years. The article Human Fetal Links with Some Vaccines admits that “Two different strains of human diploid cell cultures made from fetuses have been used extensively for vaccine production for decades. One was developed in the United States in 1961 (called WI-38) and the other in the United Kingdom in 1966 (called MRC-5).”

Clint Richardson’s excellent documentary Lethal Injection delves into the issue of aborted diploid cells and offers further research and analysis.

The Connection Between Aborted Fetal Tissue and Autism

Strong and copious evidence is coming to the surface that vaccines are responsible for the rising tide of autism in America (and globally); even judges in Italy have ruled so in their law courts. Dr. Deisher of Sound Choice has studied the subject considerably, and released a study which found a connection between the injection of human diploid cells / aborted fetal tissue and autism. The connection is that when you inject something foreign into your body, your cells will either assimilate it (whereby the foreign human DNA will be transported into nuclei and be integrated into host genome, causing phenotype change) or attack it (meaning you develop an auto-immune response, leading to the auto-immune diseases of the ASD [Autism Spectrum Disorder]). Either way, residual human DNA fragments (aborted fetal tissue) in vaccines can be one of causes of autism. Dr. Deisher’s study concluded:

“Autistic disorder change points years are coincident with introduction of vaccines manufactured using human fetal cell lines, containing fetal and retroviral contaminants, into childhood vaccine regimens. This pattern was repeated in the US, UK, Western Australia and Denmark. Thus, rising autistic disorder prevalence is directly related to vaccines manufactured utilizing human fetal cells.”

It also states on the SoundChoice.org website:

“Autism and other childhood neurodevelopmental diseases such as childhood onset schizophrenia, childhood bipolar disorder and intellectual disability have been associated with hundreds of de novo (new) mutations, most likely caused by the presence of these fragments of fetal DNA and retrovirus in our children’s vaccines.”

Aborted Fetal Tissue and Recombinant Human Albumin

The idea of the human body attacking itself due to autoimmunity is also mentioned in a recent article by S. D. Wells of NaturalNews.com, where she talks about recombinant human albumin. Recombinant means it is has been genetically engineered, i.e. the cells of a host organism have been spliced with other genes. Wells discusses how cows contract mad cow disease: by eating other cows, after which their central nervous system gets compromised. The situation is very analogous to when your blood, via a toxic vaccine, is fed some human albumin (i.e. aborted fetal tissue).

Mad cow disease, more correctly known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a transmittable disease that affects the nervous systems of cows. The human version of this disease, known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), is thought to be contracted by consuming beef products that contain parts of an affected animal’s nervous system, such as the spinal cord and brain.” Did you pick up on the word bovine there? Here’s more: “In many cases, the early symptoms of mad cow disease mimic other, more common ailments, making diagnosis difficult. In fact, according to web resources, it is only in the latter stages of the disease that diagnostic testing can accurately pinpoint the abnormalities which positively identify the disease.” Sounds familiar, maybe like ASD — autism spectrum disorder — with some ADHD mixed in, some nervous twitches and chronic care for life.

Aborted Fetal Tissue Also Found in Big Pharma Drugs and Cosmetics

It doesn’t stop at vaccines, however. As it turns out, aborted fetal tissue is also found in Big Pharma drugs and cosmetics, all approved by the FDA. As Sound Choice argues, “Animal cell lines produce vaccines and biologics as economically and effectively as the aborted fetal cell lines.” If that is the case, why is aborted fetal DNA even being used at all?

Is Aborted Fetal Tissue in Vaccines Akin to Cannibalism?

Some may scoff at this question and regard it as absurd, but think about it: isn’t the definition of cannibalism the intake of the flesh, blood or some body part of your own species? How much of a difference is there between eating human tissue or allowing it to be injected straight into your bloodstream? Of course, there are medical emergencies where people need blood or organ transplants and adopt another person’s blood or tissue to survive, but vaccines do not fall into this category.

One entry at Dictionary.com defines cannibalism as “the ceremonial eating of human flesh or parts of the human body for magical or religious purposes, as to acquire the power or skill of a person recently killed” – which is an interesting definition, given the Satanic, black magic background of the New World Order families. Western Medicine is essentially a Rockefeller creation and the Rockefellers are key players, no doubt, in the dark rituals that go on at Bohemian Grove and other sites of the Secret Societies. When you go beyond the medical cover story that it is needed to make an effective vaccine, is the inclusion of aborted fetal tissue in vaccines really an attempt to get the population accustomed to eating its own? Is it just a coincidence that cannibalism has been a beloved practice of the ruling bloodline families for hundreds (if not thousands) of years? Is this really a result of dark forces (i.e. the Archons) trying to form the world in their image and trying to entrain the world into their frequency – one of domination, destruction and death, where might is right and it is acceptable for the strong to exploit the weak, and literally eat them?

It is truly astonishing to think that the use of aborted fetal tissue is a standard practice in Western Medicine; but it’s better to face the truth than live in denial about it.

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There Are Population Control Centers All Over America – They Are Called ‘Planned Parenthood Clinics’

The phrase “family planning” is just a more palatable way of saying “population control”. In the United States today, Planned Parenthood operates 650 “health centers” that work tirelessly to promote abortion and other “family planning measures”. Planned Parenthood says that approximately 2.5 million people visit their “health centers” each year, and somewhere around 60 million people visit their website. If you are pregnant and you visit one of their clinics, abortion will be pushed very hard. In fact, former Planned Parenthood workers have told us that they actually have abortion sales quotas, and workers that meet those quotas are rewarded with pizza parties and other incentives. Of course making money is one of the primary goals, but Planned Parenthood has also always had a very deep connection to eugenics and population control.

Planned Parenthood was founded by a very strong proponent of eugenics named Margaret Sanger. In her writings she strongly denounced the “human weeds” and “reckless breeders” that she felt were bringing unfit children into this world that society would have to care for. And in a 1932 Senate hearing, she advocated a “rigid policy of sterilization and segregation” for those that were not of the right genetic stock…

“The main objectives of the[proposed] Population Congress is to…apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”

In other words, Sanger believed that some humans are far superior to others, and that everything possible should be done to keep the inferior humans from breeding. In fact, even NPR has admitted that Sanger strongly believed in the eugenics movement…

In reading her papers, it is clear Sanger had bought into the movement. She once wrote that “consequences of breeding from stock lacking human vitality always will give us social problems and perpetuate institutions of charity and crime.”

Of course Planned Parenthood continued to have strong ties to the eugenics movement long after Sanger died. In 1969, a plan to “reduce U.S. fertility” was outlined in a memo that was authored by Planned Parenthood Vice President Frederick Jaffe. The following comes from an article by Ann Olson…

In 1969, then Vice President of Planned Parenthood, Frederick Jaffe, sent a memo to the head of the Population Council, Bernard Berelson. It included a table of “Proposed Measures to Reduce U.S. Fertility.” The Jaffe/Berelson Memo was drawn up by Jaffe as a companion piece to Berelson’s paper, “Beyond Family Planning” published in the Population Council’s February 1969 issue of Studies in Family Planning.

This shocking memo makes suggestions for policy changes to be implemented in order to achieve population control:

• Restructure family

• Postpone or avoid marriage

• Alter image of ideal family size

• Compulsory education of children

• Encourage increased homosexuality

• Educate for family limitation

• Fertility control agents in water supply

• Encourage women to work and provide few child care facilities

• Compulsory abortion of out-of-wedlock pregnancies

• Compulsory sterilization of all who have two children except for a few who would be allowed three

• Confine childbearing to a limited number of adults

• Payments to encourage sterilization

• Payments to encourage contraception

• Payments to encourage abortion

• Abortion and sterilization on demand

Of course many of the things on that list have actually been implemented since that time.

The dramatic changes that we have seen in America regarding marriage, family and sexuality over the past several decades have not happened by accident. The enemies of our way of life have an agenda, and they have been working tirelessly to carry it out.

Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, close to 60 million Americans have been murdered in our country’s abortion mills, and Planned Parenthood has been the biggest offender by far.

According to Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report, they performed 328,348 abortions during the year that concluded on September 30th, 2015.

During that same year, Planned Parenthood got 554.6 million dollars from the federal government. That accounts for more than 40 percent of their budget, and it is questionable if Planned Parenthood would be able to continue to exist without all of that funding.

By giving Planned Parenthood more than half a billion dollars a year, the U.S. government is placing a giant stamp of approval on what they are doing. This is a national disgrace, and it must end.

And just like their founder Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood seems to place a special emphasis on promoting “family planning” among minorities. In the United States today, African-American women are more than 5 times as likely to get an abortion as white women are. In 2010, African-American women accounted for approximately 6.6 percent of the U.S. population, but they got 35.7 percent of the abortions.

Planned Parenthood workers commonly stress what a financial burden a new baby will be to poor and minority women, and they are able to convince many of them that murdering their own children is the right thing to do.

When you go to a Planned Parenthood clinic, you are not going to get an objective viewpoint. They are in business to do abortions, and that is what is going to get pushed. According to Planned Parenthood’s latest report, Planned Parenthood does 1 adoption referral for every 114 abortions that it performs.

And most women that get abortions don’t even realize that the body parts of their babies are being harvested and sold off to the highest bidder.

Planned Parenthood is committing crimes against humanity on a daily basis, and our national leaders are doing nothing to stop this.

They should be deeply, deeply ashamed of themselves.

If I run for Congress in 2018, and I am very, very strongly considering that, I would promise to always vote against any bill that includes even a single penny of funding for Planned Parenthood.

And if we could get every Republican in the House of Representatives to pledge to never vote for funding for Planned Parenthood under any circumstances, we could finally ensure that Planned Parenthood would be defunded once and for all.

I am so sick and tired of these politicians that use the Pro-Life label to get our votes but then they continue to vote to fund Planned Parenthood time after time.

You cannot be Pro-Life and vote to fund Planned Parenthood, and any politician that wants to try to continue to play this game is not going to get our votes.

Nearly 60 million children have already died, and if we are not going to take a stand now when will we ever be ready to do it?

It is time to defund Planned Parenthood, and it is time to end abortion in America.

If we want to have any sort of a future as a nation, there are no other alternatives.

New Undercover Video Shows An Abortionist Joking About An Eyeball Rolling Down Into Her Lap

An incredibly shocking new undercover video that was recently released by the Center For Medical Progress shows various abortionists joking about the gruesome realities of performing abortions. This undercover footage was taken during the annual conventions of the National Abortion Federation in 2014 and 2015, and perhaps the most disturbing moment is when one abortionist jokes about an eyeball rolling into her lap. All of the undercover videos that have been released by the Center For Medical Progress are very startling and very graphic, but it is absolutely imperative that the American people be told the truth about what is actually happening in these abortion clinics. If these crimes against humanity do not stop, there is no hope and no future for our nation.

Defunding Planned Parenthood is “not just another political issue”, and we can no longer afford to elect politicians that use the “Pro-Life” label to get votes but then continue to vote to fund Planned Parenthood once they take office.

Every single day precious little babies are being ripped limb from limb and their body parts are being sold off for profit.

And the new undercover video that was recently released shows some of these abortionists actually making jokes about what they are doing…

The Center For Medical Progress released a new undercover video showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing gruesome abortion procedures and the sale of fetal body parts for profit. The video was filmed at the 2014 and 2015 annual meetings of the National Abortion Federation.

The new undercover video appears to be a preview of a longer project, and is a compilation of comments made by Planned Parenthood executives and other abortion supporters at the NAF conventions. During conversations and panel discussions, the PP executives make stunning comments about abortion procedures.

Several attendees made jokes about eyeballs and other fetal body parts “rolling down into their laps.” Others laughed as they discussed how hard it is to remove the unborn baby’s head from the womb.

You can view the entire video from the Center For Medical Progress on YouTube right here.

It is time for the Pro-Life community to stand up and tell our politicians that defunding Planned Parenthood is no longer optional.

If they will not pledge to vote against every single bill that includes even a single penny of funding for Planned Parenthood, they will not get our votes.

How much more do we have to see before we are willing to take a stand? The following summary of the undercover videos that the Center For Medical Progress has released so far comes from LifeNews.com…

• In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”


• In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.


• In the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.


• In the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to go.”


• In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States.”


• In the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”


• In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.”


• In the eighth video: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies.


• The ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who “just fell out” of the womb.


• The 10th video: catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling specific body parts — including the heart, eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies. The video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials admit that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body parts for profit.


• Unreleased Videos: Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliates may “want to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but we can’t stop them…” Another video has a woman talking about the “financial incentives” of selling aborted baby body parts.


• The 11th video: catches a Texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning to sell the intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught on tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.


• The 12th video in the series shows new footage of Jennefer Russo, medical director at Planned Parenthood in Orange County, California, describing to undercover investigators how her abortion business tries to harvest intact aborted babies’ bodies for a local for-profit biotech company and changes the abortion procedure to do so.


• The 13th video: exposes a Planned Parenthood medical director admitting that babies born alive after abortion are sometimes killed.

As I stated yesterday, I greatly applaud President Trump for proposing a budget that would completely defund Planned Parenthood.

Unfortunately, his budget is not going to get through Congress.

There are several Republican senators that are against defunding Planned Parenthood, and we need to make it clear to them that such a stance is no longer acceptable.

In particular, senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are threatening to hold up the effort to repeal Obamacare over this issue. The following comes from the Hill…

And with majorities in the House and Senate and control of the White House, the goal seems within reach after years of the party being thwarted by Senate Democrats and former President Barack Obama.

The problem is that Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) both may oppose a healthcare bill that cuts off funding to Planned Parenthood.

Collins is not up for re-election until 2020, and Murkowski is not up for re-election until 2022. But one pro-Planned Parenthood senator that we can remove from Congress in 2018 is Dean Heller of Nevada…

Forcing a fight over Planned Parenthood would also put a focus on Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), who is up for reelection in 2018 in a state won by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Heller sparked criticism from both conservatives and liberals after he said at a recent town hall that he has “no problem” with federal funding for Planned Parenthood and would “protect” it.

Because he is in favor of funding Planned Parenthood, Heller has forfeited any future support from Pro-Life conservatives.

So we need a Senate candidate in Nevada for 2018. I know that there are a lot of good Pro-Life people that live in the state, and if you are thinking of running for that seat please feel free to reach out to me.

For decades Pro-Life activists have been writing letters, holding marches and trying to make our voices heard, but the politicians have been ignoring us.

Now it is time for us to rise up and demand that they listen to us by denying our votes to any politician that will not vote to defund Planned Parenthood every single time.

Nearly 60 million children have already died, and many more will die this year.

If we are not willing to take action now, when will we ever be?

The Pledge For Republican Candidates In 2018: ‘No Money For Planned Parenthood Under Any Circumstances’

It is time for conservative voters to draw a line in the sand when it comes to Planned Parenthood. For decades, Republican politicians have been winning conservative votes by labeling themselves Pro-Life, but once they take office many of them don’t do anything to advance the cause. In fact, many “Pro-Life” members of Congress have been voting to fund Planned Parenthood year after year after year without any consequences. In 2018, we aren’t going to put up with this any longer. The following is an extended free preview of a book that I am working on about how to turn America in a positive direction…

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It is no longer okay for Republican politicians to claim that they are Pro-Life during their campaigns but then vote to fund Planned Parenthood while they are in office. As a conservative voter, I have been extremely frustrated by supposedly “conservative” politicians that think that it is okay to betray the Pro-Life movement over and over again. More specifically, I cannot understand how any “Pro-Life” politician could possibly vote to give Planned Parenthood approximately 500 million dollars in federal funding year after year.

It is time for conservative voters to take matters into their own hands. In 2018, conservatives will be the deciding factor in Republican primaries all over the nation. If we worked together and stood strong, we could ensure that the vast majority of Republican candidates for office in 2018 are truly Pro-Life.

So what I am suggesting is that we require all Republican candidates for office to take a pledge to vote against any bill that gives even one penny of funding to Planned Parenthood. This would apply on the federal, state and local levels. We would let them know that if they are not willing to pledge that there will be no money for Planned Parenthood under any circumstances that we will not vote for them under any circumstances.

And just because someone is running as an incumbent does not mean that they would get a pass. If a Republican incumbent will not take the pledge, we will find someone to run against that incumbent who will.

If we actually did this, we could virtually assure that Planned Parenthood would be defunded. The Republicans are very likely to remain in control of the House of Representatives again in 2018, and any bill to fund Planned Parenthood has to get the approval of the House. If we were to pack the House with conservatives that would never vote for any bill that funds Planned Parenthood, there is nothing that the Senate or the White House could do to override that.

This can actually happen, but we have to be united. And all that we would require would be one simple pledge:

“I will not vote in favor of funding for Planned Parenthood under any circumstances.”

This is my stand, and I am not moving from it. Any candidate that does not make this pledge will not get my support of my vote.

Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, close to 60 million babies have been slaughtered in America’s abortion mills. We are killing children on an industrial scale, and yet most Americans have accepted this as “normal”.

And Planned Parenthood is the biggest offender by far. Planned Parenthood performs more than 300,000 abortions every year, and they get more funding from the federal government than any other source by a very wide margin.

By giving Planned Parenthood about half a billion dollars a year, the United States government is putting a giant stamp of approval on what Planned Parenthood is doing. Of course none of that money is actually supposed to go for providing abortions, but everyone knows what the real deal is.

Planned Parenthood is in business to provide abortions. In fact, former Planned Parenthood workers have revealed that they actually had to try to meet “abortion sales quota goals” each month. If the quotas were met, workers were rewarded with pizza parties and other incentives. The following testimony comes from former Planned Parenthood center manager Sue Thayer…

“It was on this big grid, and if we hit our goal, our line was green. If we were 5 percent under it was yellow, if we were 10 percent under it was red. That’s when we needed to have a corrective action plan – why we didn’t hit the goal, what we’re going to do differently next time,” she said.

“So we were really very goal-oriented. I trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion, to have it at Planned Parenthood, because that counts toward our goal.”

(http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/video-planned-parenthood-insiders-confirm-abortion-quotas/)

Yes, this is really taking place. Workers are actually being given incentives to convince women to kill their own babies.

Even more alarming is the harvesting of body parts that is going on at Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide.

Even though it is against the law, aborted babies are being chopped up and their organs are being sold off to the highest bidder. This is the kind of thing that you would have expected to happen in Nazi Germany, but instead it is actually happening in the United States of America in our day and time.

The Center for Medical Progress has released undercover video after undercover video documenting that this is being done, and yet only a small segment of the population has expressed outrage.

In one of the most recent videos, a Planned Parenthood executive is shown “haggling over per-specimen pricing for livers, lungs, and brains”…

New undercover video shows Dr. Mary Gatter, the Planned Parenthood senior executive who infamously laughed “I want a Lamborghini” about payments for aborted fetal parts, again haggling over per-specimen pricing for livers, lungs, and brains, even while insisting the purchaser must do all the work to harvest.

(http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2017/04/2027/)

In another undercover video, a Planned Parenthood doctor in Texas discussed what she would do to babies in their second trimester so that their heads would come out “pretty intact” for harvesting…

The eleventh video release from The Center for Medical Progress in the ongoing Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal shows the abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood in Austin, TX, Dr. Amna Dermish, describing a partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate living, late-term fetuses which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.

Dr. Dermish admits she was trained by the Senior Director of Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr. Deborah Nucatola. Nucatola described a partial-birth abortion technique to harvest fetal organs in the first Planned Parenthood video released July 14 by CMP.

“My aim is usually to get the specimens out pretty intact,” says Dermish, speaking to actors posing as a fetal tissue procurement company. Dermish admits that she will sometimes use ultrasound guidance to convert a 2nd-trimester fetus to a feet-first breech presentation: “Especially the 20-weekers are a lot harder versus the 18-weekers, so at that point I’ll switch to breech.”

(http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/10/planned-parenthood-tx-doc-harvesting-intact-fetal-heads-will-give-me-something-to-strive-for/)

How can the federal government possibly fund this kind of evil?

When is enough going to be enough? How far do things have to go before we say “NO MORE”?

This isn’t just another political issue. This is a battle for the soul of our nation. If we continue to allow this to go on, and the federal government continues to give hundreds of millions of dollars to the organization that is doing this, there is no future for our country.

I am not exaggerating one bit when I say that.

When you include all forms of abortion, including abortion drugs such as RU 486, more than a million abortions are performed in the U.S. every single year.

To put that in perspective, the number of American children killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in the entire history of our nation.

Or let’s look at this another way. The number of Americans being aborted each day is roughly equal to the number of victims that died during the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11.

In other words, it is like a new 9/11 each and every single day of the year.

If we are truly Pro-Life, we have got to do something to stop this. Many have pinned their hopes on overturning Roe v. Wade, but even if that happened tomorrow that would not outlaw abortion. Instead, each state would be able to make their own laws about abortion, and most of the larger states such as California and New York would continue to keep it legal.

Yes, let us try very hard to continue to get more Pro-Life justices on to the Supreme Court, but we can make much more of an immediate impact by going after Planned Parenthood. If we can get Planned Parenthood defunded on the federal level, it would be absolutely devastating for them, and it is likely that many clinics around the country would have to start closing down.

By the age of 45, approximately one out of every three women in the United States will have had an abortion, and close to half of all women that get an abortion each year have had one before.

We have created a culture of death, and in some areas of the country abortion rates are so high that it is hard to believe that the numbers are actually true.

For example, it has been reported that 41 percent of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion, and according to Pastor Clenard Childress approximately 52 percent of all African-American pregnancies in the entire nation now end in abortion.

And most of the women that are getting abortions in the United States claim to be Christian.

Yes, this is actually true. According to Operation Rescue, Protestant women get 42 percent of all abortions and Catholic women get 27 percent of all abortions.

We are a “Christian nation” that has murdered nearly 60 million of our own children, and close to 90 percent of those murders were performed “for the sake of convenience”.

Either abortion is murder or it isn’t.

If it is murder, how can any self-respecting “Pro-Life” politician ever vote to give federal funding to an organization that is murdering more than 300,000 babies a year?

And there is really good money in murdering children these days. In fact, 30 Planned Parenthood executives make more than $200,000 a year, and a few of them actually make more than $300,0000 a year.

The blood of tens of millions of precious little children is crying out from the ground against us, and yet most politicians just continue with business as usual as if nothing is happening.

And of course the United States is far from alone. Since 1980, more than a billion children around the world have been aborted.

Just think about that for a moment.

What do you think God thinks about a billion dead babies?

There are some people out there that are suggesting that the United States is heading for a period of great blessing despite the fact that we have killed close to 60 million children and we continue to kill them on an industrial scale every single day.

It doesn’t work that way.

If we want to have any hope of turning this nation around, we have got to quit slaughtering children.

So I don’t have any more patience for politicians that want to use the Pro-Life label to get votes but then are willing to hand Planned Parenthood hundreds of millions of dollars every year once they get into office.

If you vote to fund Planned Parenthood, you are not Pro-Life.

It really is that simple.

In 2018, let us choose not to compromise any longer. If a candidate will not promise to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, we will deny them our votes.

Personally, this is my line in the sand, and I am not moving.

Planned Parenthood uses “political cronies” in California to get charges filed against activists who exposed them

Longtime Congressional Democrat targets Center for Medical Progress

(INTELLIHUB) — Liberal prosecutors in California have charged two anti-abortion activists who exposed Planned Parenthood in a series of undercover videos with 15 felonies in what appears to be a politically motivated attack carried out by allies of the massive abortion provider.

The charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress come just eight months after a failed attempt at prosecution in Texas and despite the fact that a company implicated in the undercover videos is actually under indictment for illegally selling hundreds of fetal tissue products for profit and “treating human parts as commodities.”

Amazingly, an Associated Press report on the charges confirms that a literal ally of Planned Parenthood is leading the investigation.

“State Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a longtime Congressional Democrat who took over the investigation in January, said in a statement that the state “will not tolerate the criminal recording of conversations.”

“Prosecutors say Daleiden, of Davis, California, and Merritt, of San Jose, filmed 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties. One felony count was filed for each person. The 15th was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy,” wrote the AP.

For their part, The Center For Medical Progress is already fighting back, releasing a statement late Tuesday that not only calls the charges politically motivated and bogus but also links to a news report showing that one of the connected companies is actually facing criminal charges. The group also warned that they plan to soon release even more footage to the entire world.

The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood’s political cronies are fake news. They tried the same collusion with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and failed: both the charges and the DA were thrown out.

The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics—currently being prosecuted in California—who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law.

We look forward to showing the entire world what is on our yet-unreleased video tapes of Planned Parenthood’s criminal baby body parts enterprise, in vindication of the First Amendment rights of all.

The statement links to an article in the OC Weekly that reveals that DaVinci Biosciences is actually under indictment for selling off fetal tissue for profit, the exact thing that Daleiden went undercover to expose.

“A father, son and their two Yorba Linda companies suffered some recent setbacks in Orange County Superior Court, where they are fighting charges of illegally selling hundreds of fetal tissue products for profit and treating human parts as commodities,” reported Matt Coker.

“David Daleiden, founder of the Irvine-based anti-abortion group Center of Medical Progress, created controversial undercover videos that connected DaVinci Biosciences, DV Biologics and Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties in March 2016. At the press conference that following October, Rackauckas said there was no evidence to support Daleiden’s claim that the companies exchanged money with Planned Parenthood or that Planned Parenthood did anything unlawful.”

Amazingly, Coker also reveals that the owners of the company under indictment have direct connections to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“The Orange County case against the two companies became a presidential campaign issue when political conservatives and anti-abortion activists connected the Isaías family to Hillary Clinton, who is, of course, a staunch supporter of a woman’s right to choose. Various members of the family—which is based mostly in Miami, Florida, but originally hails from Ecuador—have lavished Clinton with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions,” continued Coker.

At this point we have all the makings of an obvious politically motivated attack using the full power of the state of California to attack conservative activists who exposed practices that the left had desperately wanted to keep the public from knowing.

You can view all the undercover videos taken by The Center for Medical Progress here.

Alex Thomas is an opinion journalist and editor for Intellihub News. He was a founding member of what later became Intellihub.com and an integral part of the team that destroyed the mainstream media blockade on Bilderberg in 2012. You can contact him here.

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Bill to Allow Drs to Lie to Women About Fetal Birth Defects to Prevent Abortions

Lawmakers appear to know no bounds when it comes to implementing their moral views on society. Senate bill 25, titled Relating to eliminating the wrongful birth cause of action, which passed the Texas Senate Monday, and is up for final vote this week, will allow doctors to intentionally deceive patients about fetal abnormalities to prevent them from having abortions.

The bill grants immunity to care providers, meaning parents cannot sue if their baby is born with a severe, painful, debilitating, or fatal birth defect, even if the doctor deliberately failed to inform them of the discovery prior to the baby being born. 

Those pushing the bill claim it would protect children with disabilities, and of course, this seems righteous enough. However, intentional deception and breakdown of doctor-patient trust to push through a political agenda is by no means a moral crusade.

What this bill does is essentially legalizes medical malpractice as a doctor withholding medical information from a patient is nothing less.

El Paso Democrat Sen. José Rodríguez said SB 25 “seems to be about restricting and further limiting a woman’s right to exercise her choice about what she’s going to do in the case of serious defects to the fetus.”

The woman and family’s decision about how and what they can handle in terms of having an infant that could be born with severe abnormalities is no matter of the state.

“It shouldn’t be the policy for the state of Texas to excuse doctors from lying to their patients,” Blake Rocap, policy advisor for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, told the committee, according to the San Antonio Current. “That’s what this bill does.” Margaret Johnson, who testified on behalf of the Texas League of Women Voters, told lawmakers, “SB 25 is a not-so-subtle way to give medical personnel the opportunity to impose religious beliefs on women.”

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In spite of heavy backlash against the bill, it appears to have enough momentum to maintain a decent chance at passing.

Sadly, Texas is known for their cruel anti-abortion bills that cause unnecessary suffering for families. Last year, Daniel and Taylor Mahaffey found out just how cruel the law can be as they waited for their little boy, who they named Fox, to arrive. Only 20 weeks along in the pregnancy, the couple was devasted after hearing that he had no chance of survival.

Due to a complication, the fetus was going to come out at 20 weeks and was not going to live. After hearing the news, the Mahaffeys just wanted to end their baby’s suffering. However, because of Texas law HB2, the state’s “fetal pain” law, the couple was forced to endure an agonizing fate — they would have to wait and watch as their baby suffered and died slowly in utero.

Receiving no help from doctors afraid to break this Draconian law, the Mahaffeys were sent home to wait for their baby to die.

SB 25 wouldn’t have allowed the Mahaffeys to even know about their child’s birth defect. And, according to lawmakers, that is just fine and dandy.

The fact that abortion is an issue of the state at all, no matter which ‘side you are on,’ is insanity. Government has no more business paying for abortions than they do stopping them.

Unfortunately, many people allow emotion to rule their logic and end up holding beliefs which are entirely contradictory. For example, one cannot be ‘Pro-life’ while at the same time being Pro-war. Conversely, one cannot advocate for the state to “get out of their uterus” while at the same time demanding state money to pay for abortions.

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Abortion is a reality, and society is slowly figuring out how to deal with it. But, the more the state attempts to interject their bias into this reality, the more skewed the situation becomes.

A society that treats the potential for life as disposable is a society in a crisis of conscience, and in need of self-reflection. That being said, however, a society will not be magically repaired by criminalizing cultural norms or, in the case of SB 25, normalizing criminal culture. Destroying the ethical responsibilities of doctors to potentially save life is as hypocritical as it is ineffective.

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Facebook.

8 Things Congress Has Done While Everyone was Distracted by Trump

(ANTIMEDIA) — While we were distracted by the onslaught of executive orders President Trump pushed through during his first two weeks in office, legislators in Congress were busy quietly introducing legislation to bolster his top-down moves.

Here’s what you missed:

• A House Panel Voted to Terminate the Election Assistance Commission

The House Administration Committee voted 6-3 in favor Republican Congressman Gregg Harper’s bill to terminate the Election Assistance Commission. The EAC, which was created in response to the contentious 2000 Florida election results as part of the Help America Vote Act, is a bipartisan commission that certifies voting machines and is responsible for making sure they cannot be hacked.

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While this marks the fifth time Harper has presented the EAC termination bill, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today point to the suspect timing of the bill’s reintroduction — just days after Trump announced his intention to open an investigation into his own claims of voter fraud. Democrats have also raised concerns that the EAC is needed more than ever before given the highly publicized, albeit still unproven Russian hacking scare in December. Thirty-eight organizations, including the NAACP, League of Women Voters, and Common Cause signed a letter denouncing the panel’s vote. The bill is set to go to a full committee report, a stage only one in four bills succeeds in reaching, according to govtrack.us.

•    Legislation introduced to terminate the Environmental Protection Agency (or at least severely limit it)

This one-sentence bill introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R- FL) is the most direct attack on the EPA amid recent attempts to limit its scope and influence, including legislation presented by Rep. Gary Palmer in January that aims to ‘clarify’ and redirect the EPA’s authority over greenhouse gases by literally striking the phrase from legislation and replacing it with the neutralized term ‘air pollutant.’ The bills are consistent with the anti-climate change sentiment expressed in Republican Congressman Luetkemeyer’s bill from January, which would prohibit the contribution of any U.S. tax dollars to fund the U.N. Climate Change Act.

• On the day of DeVos’ confirmation hearing, Rep. Massie introduced legislation to terminate the Department of Education altogether

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a one-sentence bill calling for the termination of the Department of Education on the same day controversial Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos was confirmed by an unprecedented tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence. In a press release, Massie explained his intention behind the bill, stating:

“Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development.”

While the bill brings to mind President Ronald Reagan’s efforts to abolish the Department of Education in 1985 — which failed amid a lack of Congressional support — the high levels of discontent following DeVos’ controversial appointment as Secretary of Education could translate into bipartisan support from Democrats and Republicans alike who feel their schools would be better off without federal oversight. The bill currently has seven co-sponsors and has been referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

• Roe v. Wade’s protections threatened under Congressional avalanche of anti-abortion legislation

The Life at Conception Act, S. 231, and its companion House bill, H.R. 681, were reintroduced by Senator Rand Paul days after Trump’s Inauguration. The bills are being hailed by the Pro-Life Alliance as a “frontal attack” on Roe v. Wade. The legislation aims to establish that a fetus, or ‘pre-born person,’ is guaranteed equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the constitution. While there is debate about the extent to which the act could nullify the privacy protections afforded by Roe v. Wade, it would present additional considerations for any future court decisions related to abortion laws. If passed, the Life at Conception Act, combined with Trump’s nomination of reputedly pro-life Justice Neil Gorsuch, could provide the conditions needed for a successful Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade.

The reintroduction of The Life at Conception Act is in alignment with several other pieces of legislation proposed in January that would indirectly limit access to legal abortions. Chief among these is S. Res.15, in which Senator Mike Lee recommended the permanent establishment of Reagan’s ‘Mexico City Policy,’ a block on federal funding for non-governmental organizations that provide abortion counseling or referrals. President Trump reinstated the policy by executive order just days later.

Additional pending legislative efforts include H.R. 692, a bill that would prohibit minors from crossing state lines to access abortions, H.R. 718, a bill that would criminalize “reckless disposal” of fetal remains, H.R. 354, a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, and H.R. 7, a bill to limit taxpayer funding for abortion providers, which has already passed in the House and is heading towards a vote in the Senate.

• More stringent legislation on immigration and refugee resettlement

While attention focused on Trump’s travel ban, Republican lawmakers introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act that would result in more stringent visa and refugee vetting policies. S.180, introduced by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, would change the eligibility criteria for certain H1b and L1 work visas, making them no longer obtainable without a U.S. degree or equivalent.

S.211, or the “State Refugee Security Act,” introduced by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, would allow the governor of a state the ability to reject the settlement of any refugee in that state by default “unless there is adequate assurance that the alien does not present a security risk.”

H.R. 643, known as the Visa Overstay Enforcement Act, was introduced by Republican Representative Lou Barletta and would increase penalizations for overstaying visa terms. Under the proposed legislation, those who overstay their visas would face a fine and up to six months in jail with up to two years in jail for any subsequent offense.

There are additional efforts to mandate E-verify, the computerized government record system that confirms employees’ authorizations to work in the U.S. The bill, introduced by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, would also require that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) report anyone who receives a final “nonconfirmation” message — signifying that the employee is not authorized to work in the United States — to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

E-Verify has been criticized in the past as a faulty computerized mechanism for mass deportation. Still, it could be broadly mandated as the electronic iteration of Trump’s ‘build a wall’ immigration policy.

HOMELAND SECURITY & INCREASED VIGILANCE OVER “INSIDER THREATS”

• The House approves nearly 20 Department of Homeland Security bills

Bills that passed include H.R. 505 to “strengthen accountability or deployment of border security technology,” and H.R. 612, which would establish a grant program to promote cooperative research between the U.S. and Israel on cybersecurity.

Among the bills that passed is also H.R. 666, which would establish an Insider Threat Program to identify “the threat that an insider will use his or her authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly, to do harm to the security of the United States, including damage to the United States through espionage, terrorism, the unauthorized disclosure of classified national security information, or through the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities.”

The ‘insider threat’ description offered in H.R. 666 draws to mind cases of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who previously released sensitive information about the government. The act, which never mentions the word “whistleblower,” was passed along with two explicit whistleblower protective bills —  H.R.914 and H.R. 67, a.k.a. the “Thoroughly Investigating Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Act.” The contradictory legislation suggests the DHS has a vested interest in maintaining the outside appearance of a pro-whistleblower stance, even as they devote more resources to identifying whistleblowers within the department.

The Legislative Battle to Expand vs. Limit President Trump’s access to Nuclear Weapons

• The House passed H.R. 590, a bill to foster civilian research and development of advanced nuclear energy technologies in an apparent fulfillment of the president’s previously expressed desire to “greatly strengthen and expand” U.S. nuclear capability.

• Alarmed, Democratic Senator Edward Markey and Congressman Ted W. Lieu quickly countered by introducing legislation to prohibit President Trump from launching a “first-use nuclear strike” without a declaration of war by Congress.

“It is a frightening reality that the U.S. now has a Commander-in-Chief who has demonstrated ignorance of the nuclear triad, stated his desire to be ‘unpredictable’ with nuclear weapons, and as President-elect was making sweeping statements about U.S. nuclear policy over Twitter,” Rep. Lieu said in a statement.

• New bills on marijuana legalization, re-scheduling, and protection from seizure

Given that marijuana was joked to be ‘real winner’ of the 2016 Election, it seems only fitting that two marijuana bills would appear in the House on Inauguration Day. Republican Congressman Griffith Morgan introduced the two bills in succession. The first, H.R. 714, or “LUMMA,” would “provide for the legitimate use of medicinal marihuana in accordance with the laws of the various States.” LUMMA was followed by H.R. 715, or the “Compassionate Access Act,” which would amend the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and formally recommend to the DEA a rescheduling of marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to another category. A key provision of H.R. 715 would exclude “cannabidiol” from the definition of “marijuana” and remove it from the CSA.

California Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Dana Rohrabacher also proposed separate bills that would protect residents in states where marijuana is legal from civil forfeiture of property and punishment for use and distribution, respectively. As Anti-Media reported, the legislation comes at a crucial moment of uncertainty regarding the future of federal drug policy and enforcement under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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While Trump has been busy eagerly flexing his executive power, a quiet power struggle has begun in Congress between legislators who aim to pass bills that reinforce the efforts of Trump’s administration and legislators frantically introducing bills in attempts to block the administration’s impact. As we head into month two of Trump’s presidency — and as some of these bills head into the next phase of debate — these power struggles will continue playing out, both on Twitter and in Congress.

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