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State Laws Restricting Abortion
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, Pro-Life, Pro-Liberty. | |
| Abortion has returned to the headlines thanks to Texas's heartbeat law. | |
| As the name suggests, this law outlaws abortions performed after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat. | |
| This is one of the several recently passed state laws restricting abortion. | |
| The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider a challenge to a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. | |
| A court majority may use this case as a vehicle to limit or even overturn Roe versus Wade, the 1973 decision in which the court declared a federal abortion right. | |
| All who support limited constitutional government should support overturning Roe. | |
| The Constitution does not give any branch of the federal government authority to decide what the penalty should be for performing an abortion. | |
| Therefore, federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have no jurisdiction over abortion. | |
| Overturning Roe would not create a nationwide abortion ban. | |
| Instead, it would return to the individual states responsibility for deciding what, if any, restrictions to place on abortion. | |
| If supporters of abortion followed the science, they would have to admit that abortion is the taking of a human life. | |
| A fetus with a heartbeat is developing, but it is also still a human with a right to life. | |
| The Biden Justice Department is supporting efforts to overturn the Texas heartbeat law in federal court. | |
| President Biden is also supporting the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of federal funds for abortions. | |
| If Biden and Congress are going to use tax dollars to support abortions, then they should allow anti-abortion taxpayers to withhold the percentage of their taxes that would be used to support abortion. | |
| The same should go for those with moral objection to America's militaristic foreign policy that forces U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the killing of innocent men, women, and even children. | |
| The Hyde Amendment does not completely protect pro-life taxpayers from subsidizing abortion. | |
| The amendment does not forbid organizations and promote or perform abortions from receiving federal money. | |
| It just forbids them from using it for abortions, the funds received from the federal government. | |
| Since money is fungible, a federal dollar going to a group that performs abortion to spend on their non-abortion-related activities frees up another dollar that can be used for abortions. | |
| To censor pro-life Americans are not forced to subsidize abortion, either directly or indirectly. | |
| It would be forbidden for organizations that promote or perform abortions to receive any federal funds. | |
| Denying federal funds to international organizations that promote or perform abortions might help reduce resentment of the U.S. and other countries. | |
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Decline Of Natural Rights
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| It is no coincidence that Roe versus Wade came at a time when respect for natural rights of life, liberty, and property was on the decline. | |
| Roe contributed to the decline in respect for rights and the rise in public and private immorality. | |
| These changes have led to violent crimes, people believing they have a moral claim that must be enforced by the government to the property of their neighbors, and acceptance of torture and preemptive war. | |
| The way to reverse these developments is to restore respect for the inalienable right to life, liberty, and property of all human beings, both born and unborn. | |
| The cause of life is inseparable from the cause of liberty. | |