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The only difference between a baby moments before leaving the womb and a baby outside the womb is documentation. A birth certificate and Social Security card are issued to a child within a few weeks of birth. This paperwork is necessary to make the child an official citizen of the United States, but they cannot actually confer biological personhood status. Personhood may be recognized by words on a page, but the words cannot make a person. Besides, I’ve been reliably informed that undocumented people are still people and deserve all of the same rights as those of us with documentation. I’ve also been told many times that undocumented people have the right to cross through barriers and over borders in pursuit of life and liberty. Planned Parenthood even says that the undocumented “have the right to live.” I totally agree with this sentiment. All people have the right to live. And I certainly would not support summary execution of immigrants on the southern border. It’s fortunate that n...

On Thursday, speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NB) threw down the gauntlet to his 99 fellow senators, informing them, “On Monday, I’m going to ask all 100 senators to come to the floor and be against infanticide. This shouldn’t be complicated.” As Alexandra DeSanctis reports at National Review, Sasse “announced that he is starting a dual-track process for the Senate to consider his legislation, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, in light of Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s recent comments about late-term abortion legislation in his state. Sasse is using the Rule 14 process to expedite consideration of the bill, as well as calling for a vote to pass the bill under unanimous consent on the Senate floor next week.” Sasse quoted the incendiary comments made this week by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who intimated that even if a baby is born alive, a mother in his state could still opt to let the baby die. Sasse pointed out that Northam, despite huge ou...

President Donald Trump announced in a Daily Caller interview published Thursday morning that he’s reconsidering offering Democrats an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) Act, in return for funding a portion of the border wall, to the tune of $5 billion. Trump indicated in his interview that he’d prefer to allow current litigation challenging both the constitutionality of the act itself and the constitutionality of his repeal to make its way through the courts before he offers any concessions on the Act, even if it means he may not get the border wall funding he’s looking for in the next round of budget negotiations. “I could see myself doing something for DACA but I want to find out what the Supreme Court is going to do first,” Trump told the Caller, adding that he believes its “highly unlikely” that the issue will come up. This is a significant change from just 10 days ago, when the Trump White House offered a three-year extension on DACA, in order to ...

In yet another show of affinity with his pro-life base, President Trump blasted Virginia Governor Ralph Northam this week for his shameless defense of infanticide under the guise of late-term abortion. On Wednesday, Governor Northam said during a radio interview that a baby born alive should be allowed to die on the table if the mother did not want the child. When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of the mother, with the consent of physicians, more than one physician by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus which is non-viable. So in this particular example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother. According to LifeNews, President Trump unequi...

After co-sponsoring an extreme abortion bill that allows abortion up until a child’s birth, and amid massive backlash to “moderate” Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s defense of letting a born-alive infant die, Virginia Delegate Dawn Adams (Richmond) sent a letter to her constituents Wednesday night apologizing for supporting the bill and explaining that she “did not read” the bill before co-sponsoring it. “I made a mistake, and all I know to do is to admit it, tell the truth, and let the chips fall where they may,” wrote the lawmaker in a newsletter reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “If you follow my newsletter or have written to me to ask about my votes, you know that I do my best to read and research every bill I vote on. But I did not read a bill I agreed to co-patron and that wasn’t smart or typical. I will work harder and be better for it.” Adams then vaguely referenced some of the controversy swirling around the bill she co-sponsored along with fellow Democrat Del. Kathy T...

Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher posted a powerful video on Facebook related to abortion, and it has garnered millions of views. The video was testimony from actor and Special Olympian Frank Stephens before Congress in 2017 where he defeated the notion that babies with Down Syndrome should be aborted by forcing those listening to acknowledge his right to life. “Whatever you learn today, please remember this,” said Stephens in his testimony, “I am a man with Down Syndrome and my life is worth living.” “Sadly, across the world, a notion is being sold that maybe we don’t need research concerning Down Syndrome,” he explained. “Some people say prenatal screens will identify Down Syndrome in the womb and those pregnancies will just be terminated.” “It’s hard for me to sit here and say those words,” he added. Stephens went on to explain how people with Down Syndrome can lead full and satisfying lives. He also argued that the condition helps doctors understand other medical diseases in orde...

The trailer for the highly-anticipated pro-life film “Unplanned: The True Story of Abby Johnson” has finally arrived. The film focuses on former Planned Parenthood executive Abby Johnson, once the youngest clinic director in the nation and the abortion company’s 2008 employee of the year, Johnson had a dramatic change of heart and became one of the most prominent whistleblowers in the abortion giant’s history. The film is set to hit theaters on March 29, distributed by Pure Flix to some 800 screens on opening weekend. “Unplanned” takes an unfiltered, inside look at Johnson’s journey, lifting the veil from the heavily-euphemized reality of abortion and Planned Parenthood, a government-funded organization that aborts some 320,000 babies annually. “Johnson was one of their greatest allies as the youngest director of a clinic in the nation, until she walked out after assisting in an abortion of a 13-week-old fetus,” reads a press release for the film. In her memoir, Johnson recalled t...

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported a meticulous, highly elaborate, years-long immigration enforcement sting operation in suburban Detroit set up and run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Post reports: On its website, the University of Farmington advertised an innovative STEM curriculum that would prepare students to compete in the global economy, and flexible class schedules that would allow them to enroll without disrupting their careers… But there were no classes taking place at the university, which employed no instructors or professors. In court filings that were unsealed Wednesday, federal prosecutors revealed that the school was being run by undercover agents working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The fake university had been set up in 2015 as part of an elaborate sting operation aimed at ensnaring foreign nationals who had initially come to the United States on student visas. Its “campus” consisted of a small office in a corporate park in t...

Democratic Virginia Del. Kathy Tran is the brains behind “Virginia House Bill No. 2491 — Abortion; eliminate certain requirements,” a bill that removes two central requirements to Virginia’s partial birth abortion regulations: that three doctors certify that the fetus in question is non-viable, and that partial birth abortion be allowed for reasons other than physical abnormality. The bill also allows abortionists to perform the procedure during active labor, after the woman has dialated and is in the process of giving birth to a living child. Tran caused a stir when she defended the bill to the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday, confirming to fellow lawmakers that the bill, indeed, allows for an abortion to be performed as a living baby is traversing the birth canal. Virginia House Democrats propose legislation to allow abortions up until the moment of birth Todd Gilbert (R): Where it’s obvious a woman is about to give birth…would that be a point at which she could still requ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced on Thursday that officers made a record-breaking seizure of fentanyl on the U.S.-Mexico border that was enough to kill tens of millions of Americans. http://bit.ly/2Tpv9NI “According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a canine officer alerted other officers to the presence of 254 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside an 18-wheeler carrying cucumbers, during a secondary inspection at the Mariposa port of entry just past noon on Saturday,” The Arizona Republic reported. “This is the largest fentanyl seizure in any port of entry,” CBP official Guadalupe Ramirez said. “In CBP, in the history of CBP, this is the largest fentanyl seizure.” In addition to the record fentanyl seizure, agents also seized 395 pounds of methamphetamine from inside the 18-wheeler. CBP estimated the value of the fentanyl, which came in the form of powder and pills, to be approximately $3.5 million. “Authorities said it was driven by a 26-year-old man who wa...

During an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke out about how her faith affects her view of President Donald Trump. Sanders has been outspoken about her faith in the past, and during the interview was asked to give her opinion on President Trump. “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president,” Sanders said. “And that’s why he’s there, and I think he has done a tremendous job in supporting a lot of the things that people of faith really care about.” Watch: This is not the first time she has gone on record speaking about her Christian beliefs, defending her position as the press secretary and claiming it is important to put herself in positions where people think differently than her. “Frankly, if people of faith don’t get involved in the dirty process, then you’re missing the entire point of what we’re called to do,” Sanders sa...

On Wednesday, Roger Waters, the co-lead vocalist for Pink Floyd of whom Maroon 5’s Adam Levine once wrote, “Listening to Pink Floyd instantly makes me feel like an insecure teenager who no one understands…all over again…”, released a statement on Facebook in which he urged Levines’ Maroon 5, as well as Travis Scott and Big Boi, to take a knee during their Super Bowl halftime performance in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Waters also referenced a Change.org petition that both demanded Maroon 5 either cancel its performance or take a knee during it. Accompanying the statement on Facebook was a video of Pink Floyd taking a knee in September 2017. Waters wrote: There is a petition on Change.org aimed at persuading Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi to take a knee at halftime on Sunday: This is my band taking a knee at the end of a gig in Hartford, Connecticut on Sunday 24th of September 2017. We did it in solidarity with San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s gesture of protest ...

On Tuesday, in an interview with “The Grio,” Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) blamed President Trump for the attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, snapping, “It’s coming from the President of the United States. He’s dog-whistling every day.” Waters began by noting she was friends with Smollett, saying, “I know Jussie. I love him. His family’s a friend of mine. I know his sisters, I’ve met his mom, and I called already to Jazz, one of the sisters, to talk to her about what’s happening, what’s going on. So she said he’s okay, he’s out of the hospital. We didn’t talk about it much more than that, but I was on my way to Chicago to see about him. You know what I’m saying? I love him; he’s a fantastic human being; he’s so giving. He shows up at all the community events; he does a lot working with the community, but he comes from that kind of family. And so, I’m pleased that he’s doing okay.” Then she segued to attacking the president: But we have to understand this is happening for ...

Pennsylvania has finally released the results of an investigation of its voter registration rolls which was concluded last summer. As Jazz Shaw at Hot Air notes, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf had blocked the release of the results using legal maneuvers, but the information is finally out. More than 11,000 non-citizens are on the Keystone State’s voter rolls, according to the Washington Times. This is far less than the estimated 100,000 – a number that could have changed the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. “Pennsylvania officials have admitted to finding names of 11,198 non-citizens registered to vote on the state’s rolls — though top lawmakers suspect the number could still be higher,” the Times reported. “I believe that we need to take action and have those people removed immediately from the tolls. They were never eligible to vote,” Republican state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe told the Times. President Donald Trump won the state of Pennsylvania in 2016 by 44,292 votes, according ...

The Walt Disney Company is embracing LGBT pride month for the first time ever and hosting a gay pride parade in its Disneyland Paris park in France. The massive corporation has been moving toward a more liberal approach to sexual identity over the last decade, but the “Magical Pride” parade, set to take place on June 1, 2019, is the first time the Disney Parks have openly embraced and endorsed the shift. The event will take place right at the beginning of global pride month — June — and will feature a “Magical March of Diversity Parade,” reportedly involving DJs, live music performances, and themed photo opportunities for visitors to the Disneyland Paris park, according to Queerty. Gay pride events in Disney Parks are not new. The “Magical Pride” celebration has been an “unofficial” event at Disneyland Paris since 2014. Disney parks located in the United States — Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California — have both hosted unofficial LGBT events in...

In October, Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence placed on Asia Bibi, a minority Christian woman who was convicted in 2010 of blasphemy under section 295-C of the Pakistani Penal Code. http://bit.ly/2G1jeCJ Led in part by the extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party (TLP), thousands filled the streets in the following days, protesting Bibi’s acquittal. There were calls for Bibi’s death, as well as the deaths of the three judges who acquitted her. In an attempt to appease the TLP and other hardliners who railed against the ruling, the prime minister’s administration reportedly agreed to look into placing Bibi on the “exit control list” while a petition against the acquittal was reviewed. This would prevent her from leaving Pakistan despite the court’s decision in her favor. On Tuesday, however, Asia Bibi’s acquittal was upheld by the Pakistani Supreme Court, and she is now free to leave Pakistan. According to the BBC, she “is being kept by authorities at a secret...

Muslims are demanding Nike recall their AIR MAX 270 shoe over an apparently “offensive” logo displayed on the bottom of the product. http://bit.ly/2CXnJKQ ‘BLASPHEMOUS’: Muslims Furious At Nike Over ‘Offensive’ Logo, Demand Item Recall http://bit.ly/2WxZY4K “Nike needs to recall offensive shoe with Allah’s name from worldwide market,” a Change.org petition created by Saiqa Noreen is titled. The petition has racked up over 15,000 signatures thus far. “Nike has produced the Nike Air Max 270 shoe with the script logo on the sole resembling the word Allah in Arabic, which will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or even filth,” said Noreen. “It is outrageous and appalling of Nike to allow the name of God on a shoe. This is disrespectful and extremely offensive to Muslim’s and insulting to Islam. Islam teaches compassion, kindness and fairness towards all,” the petition continues. “What a shame! @Nike act #blasphemous by writing #Allah on “Air Max 270 Trainers”. You ...

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to a criticism of her from former Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz on Wednesday by portraying herself as a victim of classism and ended up embarrassing herself. Ocasio-Cortez Attacks Howard Schultz, Embarrasses Herself With Major Mistake http://bit.ly/2TnbvCd “I respect the Democratic Party. I no longer feel affiliated because I don’t know their views represent the majority of Americans. I don’t think we want a 70 percent income tax in America,” Schultz said in a CNBC interview on Monday. “The way I’ve come to this decision is, I believe that if I ran as a Democrat, I would have to say things that I know in my heart I do not believe, and I would have to be disingenuous.” “Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to ‘work their way up’ or that ‘maybe they should start with city council first’?” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that t...

The House Committee on Natural Resources voted on Wednesday to reject a controversial proposal that would have removed the phrase “so help you God” from witness oaths before the committee. The proposal, which caught a flurry of media attention, was a “mistake,” according to Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). JUST IN: The House Natural Resources Committee votes to keep "so help you God" in oath before testifying to committee, after a draft would have eliminated it. Chairman @RepRaulGrijalva says draft was a "mistake." pic.twitter.com/4TeemMuqP0 — Jason Calvi (@JasonCalvi) January 30, 2019 As IJR previously noted, Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) derided Democrats in light of the new proposal. “It is incredible, but not surprising, that the Democrats would try to remove God from committee proceedings in one of their first acts in the majority,” she said. “They really have become the party of Karl Marx.” Others blasted the proposal on Twitter: ...

A woman married to a Justice Department official involved with the investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election was asked by her employer, opposition research firm Fusion GPS, to investigate Trump’s children. Nellie Ohr used to work for Fusion GPS. Her husband, Bruce Ohr, works for the Justice Department and is heavily tied to the Russian collusion investigation. While working for Fusion, Nellie was asked to investigate Trump’s children. She also told lawmakers in her October 19, 2018 deposition that ex-British Spy Christopher Steele, who was also a contractor for Fusion and responsible for the infamous Steele Dossier used to accuse Trump of a number of salacious acts, had passed information from his dossier to Bruce in the hopes that he would turn it over to the FBI. Nellie’s testimony has been recently leaked, transcripts of which were confirmed by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (DCNF) Chuck Ross. Ross repor...

Anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) suggested in an interview this week that Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish state, Israel is not a democracy, and compared Israel to Iran — which is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Omar made the shocking remarks during a Tuesday interview on Yahoo News’ “Through Her Eyes” with Zainab Salbi. “I want to talk about Israel because it has been a point of contention,” Salbi said. “How can America work productively towards a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians in your opinion?” “Most of the things that have always been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior to the other and we mask it with a conversation that’s about justice and a two-state solution when you have policies that clearly prioritize one over the other,” Omar responded. When pressed for examples, Omar responded: “Our relationship, really with the Israeli government and the Israeli state.” “And so when I see ...

As I wrote earlier today, Democrats across the country are in the middle of a mad dash to legalize late-term abortion. Already legal in six states plus Washington, D.C., New York was added to the list last week, and now Rhode Island and Virginia may be next. In fact, the governor of Virginia thinks the law should go even further. He appeared on a local radio station this morning and advocated for killing babies after birth. Keep in mind: Governor Northam is supposed to be a moderate Democrat. We are apparently reaching the point where the moderate squishes of the Democrat Party endorse the summary execution of newborns. What will the radicals support? Carpet bombing daycare centers? But the Left is not quite ready, as a whole, to openly jump on Northam’s infanticide bandwagon. That day will come, probably soon, but not yet. In the meantime, they will simply lie and claim that Northam didn’t say what he clearly said. They’ll say that his words were misconstrued and he was really just ...

The public has been outraged by a recent slew of state legislatures and Democrat politicians looking to legalize the murder of the unborn up to the moment of birth or, astonishingly, even after birth. Earlier this month, pro-lifers and even many who consider themselves “pro-choice” were horrified to see New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Catholic Democrat, sign and celebrate the passing of the euphemistically-named Reproductive Health Act. Aside from legalizing abortion up to the moment of birth, the legislation loosens restrictions on who can perform abortions, and strips the murder of the unborn (including the murder of wanted babies) from the state’s criminal code. But, unfortunately, such barbaric legislation is nothing new. As noted by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh on Wednesday morning, there are a total of eight states (plus the District of Columbia) which allow the murder of the unborn up to birth. The following states have no gestational limits on abortion, thanks to Democratic l...