OPINION:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the matter of abortion must be returned to the individual states and their respective legislatures to decide.
And Joe Biden’s response is to lock and load the Justice Department and Health and Human Services and sic them on the states until they comply with the pro-abortion crowd’s radical demands.
Talk about thuggery.
This is not how law-and-order nations conduct government business.
The executive order prompts HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to use his federal position to ensure states provide “the full range of reproductive health services,” including “emergency contraception and long-active reversible contraception.” What’s interesting is the language; “full range” in far-leftist lingo translates into “anything goes.”
It translates into a marching order of using whatever means are available to achieve the end — which is to say, easy-peasy access to abortion-on-demand, nationwide.
Becerra is a terrific tool to carry out this order. He’s schooled in the ways of Marxist-style activism and wields his Hispanic heritage like a knife; one Cal State Northridge professor remarked that the foundation of one of Becerra’s early political campaigns was a “cadre of young Latino political activists” bent on disrupting “the old order.” He’s got zero first-hand medical experience — but lots of legal knowledge — and was brought on HHS board primarily to serve as Biden’s coronavirus wingman, to enforce White House agenda without question.
Speaking of legal guns: “The Attorney General and the White House Counsel will convene private pro bono attorneys, bar associations, and public interest organizations to encourage robust legal representation of patients, providers and third parties lawfully seeking or offering reproductive health care services throughout the country,” a White House fact sheet on Biden’s executive order said.
Go U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
He’s already whet his law enforcement knives on parents who’ve dared to demand control over school boards and their own kids, to the point he was accused of labeling them domestic terrorists. Now he’s got bigger fish to fry — the pro-life people. Moreover, for this, he’s got the full backing of White House counsel to carry out the president’s pro-abortion position.
To “encourage robust legal representation,” as the order states.
That’s nice.
Remember when California hired Barack Obama’s former attorney general, Eric Holder, to take up legal battles against President Donald Trump and a Republican-dominated Congress? That was a time of “robust” legal fighting, too.
So robust that one political analyst, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, predicted to CNBC at the time, back in January 2017, that it was “going to be California versus Donald Trump quite frankly, from the state level on up,” she said.
Yep. That’s a taste of how Biden envisions the abortion battle against Republican-controlled states shaping — with a team of “volunteer lawyers” led by the full force of the federal HHS and DOJ to advise, browbeat, compel and punish into compliance states’ governors, states’ lawmakers, states’ medical professionals, states’ health care providers, states’ insurers, states’ localities to ensure the “full range of reproductive services” are available, easily, freely and, if possible, even for free.
With Garland at the helm and Becerra in the wings, the war is well underway.
But let’s remember the victims of this war: unborn children. How come Democrats always use and exploit the youngest and most vulnerable for political gain?
Never mind. We know the answer. They’re aligned with evil.
Now it’s up to those who aren’t to hold the line on this White House war on innocence. Pro-lifers must not fear the fight from the left.
As the book of Romans reminds, “If God is for us, who is against us?” Certainly, God stands on the side of life.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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