Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Pro Life, Pro Liberty
Aired: 2021-10-22
Duration: 04:16


=== State Laws Restricting Abortion (03:25) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, Pro-Life, Pro-Liberty.
[00:00:11]  Abortion has returned to the headlines thanks to Texas's heartbeat law.
[00:00:17]  As the name suggests, this law outlaws abortions performed after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat.
[00:00:25]  This is one of the several recently passed state laws restricting abortion.
[00:00:30]  The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider a challenge to a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:00:52]  All who support limited constitutional government should support overturning Roe.
[00:00:58]  The Constitution does not give any branch of the federal government authority to decide what the penalty should be for performing an abortion.
[00:01:08]  Therefore, federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have no jurisdiction over abortion.
[00:01:14]  Overturning Roe would not create a nationwide abortion ban.
[00:01:18]  Instead, it would return to the individual states responsibility for deciding what, if any, restrictions to place on abortion.
[00:01:27]  If supporters of abortion followed the science, they would have to admit that abortion is the taking of a human life.
[00:01:35]  A fetus with a heartbeat is developing, but it is also still a human with a right to life.
[00:01:40]  The Biden Justice Department is supporting efforts to overturn the Texas heartbeat law in federal court.
[00:01:47]  President Biden is also supporting the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of federal funds for abortions.
[00:01:56]  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.
[00:02:12]  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.
[00:02:26]  The Hyde Amendment does not completely protect pro-life taxpayers from subsidizing abortion.
[00:02:32]  The amendment does not forbid organizations and promote or perform abortions from receiving federal money.
[00:02:40]  It just forbids them from using it for abortions, the funds received from the federal government.
[00:02:46]  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.
[00:03:00]  To censor pro-life Americans are not forced to subsidize abortion, either directly or indirectly.
[00:03:07]  It would be forbidden for organizations that promote or perform abortions to receive any federal funds.
[00:03:16]  Denying federal funds to international organizations that promote or perform abortions might help reduce resentment of the U.S. and other countries.

=== Decline Of Natural Rights (00:48) ===

[00:03:28]  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.
[00:03:38]  Roe contributed to the decline in respect for rights and the rise in public and private immorality.
[00:03:45]  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.
[00:03:59]  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.
[00:04:11]  The cause of life is inseparable from the cause of liberty.