Abortion is ‘Sacred’ Says PA Senate Candidate John Fetterman

PA Lt. Governor John Fetterman then called for the filibuster to be thrown out

Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and current U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman, a Democrat, said abortion is “sacred” after Politico reported that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade. He then called for the filibuster to be thrown out in order to codify abortion rights into law.

“Let’s be clear: The right to an abortion is sacred,” Fetterman wrote in a tweet. “Democrats have to act quickly – get rid of the filibuster to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act + finally codify Roe into law. We cannot afford to wait.”

This sentiment is not new for the Senate hopeful. When asked if there should be “any restrictions” placed on abortion at a campaign event last week, Fetterman said no.

He later implored his followers to donate to an abortion fund.

In response to his tweet, critics asked Fetterman to list the religions in which abortion is “sacred.” Others pointed out that abortion was indeed sacred to the pagan “gods” Moloch and Baal.

https://nationalfile.com/abortion-is-sacred-according-to-pa-senate-candidate-john-fetterman/

Zelensky Claims Ukraine Doesn't Attack Russian Settlements as Border Regions Come Under Fire

Over the past month, Russian authorities in the regions bordering Ukraine have regularly reported shelling with rockets and artillery, and even air raids on border settlements and infrastructure, in particular bridges, by the Ukrainian military. Kiev usually refuses to comment on its involvement in the attacks.

The Ukrainian army does not conduct operations on Russian territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Arab TV channels Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath, despite numerous cases of shelling of Russian border regions by Ukraine.

According to Zelensky, the conflict is confined to Ukrainian territory and has not spread to Russia, stressing that the Ukrainian military does not conduct combat operations on Russian soil.

He further stated that the military is defending their homeland and has no intention of occupying Russian territory.

In mid-April, following reports by Russian authorities of Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters firing at an oil base in Belgorod, Russia, Zelensky declined to directly answer the question of whether the pilots had an airstrike order, thus neither confirming nor denying Kiev's involvement.

Shelling of Russian Territory by Ukraine

Meanwhile, on April 29, in the Bryansk region, located north of Ukraine's Chernigov and Sumy regions, the Belaya Berezka border checkpoint was subjected to mortar fire from Ukraine; there were no casualties, as the governor of the region reported. The next day, the governor said that the air defense system of the region prevented Ukrainian Air Force aircraft from entering Russia. In addition, on April 25, the Ukrainian military reportedly fired more than 50 mines at the Troebortnoe checkpoint in Bryansk.

https://sputniknews.com/20220503/zelensky-claims-ukraine-doesnt-attack-russian-settlements-as-border-regions-come-under-fire-1095215096.html

What’s Really Going On In Ukrainian Biolabs Supported By The Pentagon?

“Rather than explain that complex reality to the American people, the administration just wanted to have a fight in the media about it. They wanted to make it a talking point, instead of leveling with the American people.”

That’s how one academic specializing in Russia policy and defense technology — who asked to remain anonymous due to concerns about professional ramifications for speaking candidly — summarized the Biden administration’s handling of Ukrainian biolab conspiracy theories, which began to spread last month after Russia accused the U.S. of developing biological weapons in Ukrainian facilities.

Members of the Biden administration, from White House press secretary Jen Psaki to State Department spokesman Ned Price, flatly denied the accusation, but made no effort to explain to confused or skeptical Americans what these facilities were actually being used for. The result was a vacuum of information, quickly filled by claims that the U.S. was developing bioweapons in these labs, or that Ukraine had a biological weapons program, or that the U.S. was conducting research on old Soviet weapons there.

The man who heads up the Pentagon’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR), Dr. Robert Pope, told the Daily Caller none of that is the case.

“We did not find biological weapons when we first started our work with Ukraine, and have not found any since then,” he said.

CTR falls under the umbrella of the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). This is the government agency responsible for coordinating with researchers and laboratories in foreign countries, including some ex-Soviet republics, to eliminate the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), including those left behind by the Soviet Union.

What CTR also does, but does not publicize as well, is monitor virus reservoirs, research labs and other potential sources of a pandemic outbreak and work with countries to safely study and dispose of dangerous pathogens. That, Pope said, is what the agency is actually doing in Ukraine.

“As CTR completed the projects addressing the immediate danger of these Soviet bioweapons facilities, the program shifted to helping these newly-independent countries to develop the laboratories and trained personnel needed to detect and report disease outbreaks before they became a threat to the partner nation or the world,” he explained. “American health security depends on the ability of countries around the world to detect and report disease outbreaks before they reach our homeland.”

This aspect of the DTRA’s mission is not well-advertised. CTR’s own mission statement on state.gov makes no mention of it, focusing only on WMDs: “The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) seeks to prevent proliferator states and terrorist groups from developing or acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and delivery systems that could threaten the U.S. homeland and U.S. interests abroad.”

Instead of clarifying, the messaging has been muddled from the start. Many of the false conspiracy theories about the labs stemmed from a Biden administration official’s own words. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland did not deny that there are Ukrainian or American biological weapons in Ukraine when asked during a Senate hearing about the issue, and instead offered a vague explanation about biological research.

“Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of,” she said.

Nobody, from Nuland to Psaki to Price to Biden, ever elaborated on the work DTRA and CTR were doing in Ukraine, how it was beneficial to Americans and that it had nothing to do at this point with biological weapons. When asked directly about the messaging failure from the federal government, even DTRA itself admitted that a better job could have been done.

“You are absolutely correct, explaining more in depth what the CTR program does would help lessen the disinformation confusion that has elevated over the past few weeks,” the agency told the Daily Caller.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/02/ukraine-biolabs-bioweapons-russia-pentagon-conspiracy-theory/

Vermont legalizes remote prescription of assisted suicide drugs

'Strict guidelines protect against abuse! Except they were never strict, and those that do exist are not intended to stick,' wrote attorney Wesley Smith.

The liberal Republican governor of Vermont, Phil Scott, has signed an assisted suicide law that will allow telemedicine killings by physicians.

Signed on April 27, the new assisted suicide legislation will allow physicians to prescribe remotely “medication to be self-administered for the purpose of hastening the patient’s death.”

Patients can make requests “in the physician’s physical presence or by telemedicine, if the physician determines the use of telemedicine to be clinically appropriate, for medication to be self-administered for the purpose of hastening the patient’s death.”

A physician must still physically examine the patient, but it does not have to be the same one prescribing the life-ending drugs.

The doctor must affirm the patient “was suffering a terminal condition” and this must be “based on the physician’s review of the patient’s relevant medical records and a physician’s physical examination of the patient.”

The new legislation removes the restriction from the previous so-called “patient choice at end of life” laws that patients had to make their requests for noxious drugs in person.

Attorney and bioethics commentator Wesley Smith commented on the legislation for National Review and said it is another example of how guidelines to protect against the abuse of terminally ill patients are being eroded.

“Strict guidelines protect against abuse! Except they were never strict, and those that do exist are not intended to stick,” Smith wrote. “As soon as people become comfortable with doctors participating in their patients’ suicides, the ‘protections’ touted so loudly are suddenly redefined as ‘obstacles,’ and ‘access’ to facilitated death ‘is improved’ by making it easier to be made dead.”

“And cold cynics that assisted-suicide advocates are, they know that by the time their ruse becomes apparent, people won’t care anymore,” Smith wrote.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vermont-legalizes-telemedicine-assisted-suicide/?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=usa

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Hillary Alum Lauds Leaker: ‘Brave Clerk’ May Be Warning America of Roe Overturn in ‘Last-Ditch Hail Mary Attempt’ to Stop It

As news of the possibility of infamous Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade being overturned is breaking, pro-abortion Democrats appear to be defending the possibility of a leak from the nation’s High Court.

Lauding the potential “brave clerk” who may have leaked what appears to be a preliminary decision by Justice Samuel Alito to overturn Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, former national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign Brian Fallon said the apparent leaker took the “unpredecented [sic] step of leaking a draft opinion to warn the country what’s coming in a last-ditch Hail Mary attempt to see if the public response might cause the Court to reconsider.”

Fallon was the press secretary during a campaign that saw the death of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — at the time one of the Court’s most conservative members — where Democrats attempted to capitalize on the vacancy largely by arguing thar Roe‘s precedent hung in the balance.

The plan backfired, however, and former President Donald Trump secured the victory, enabling him to pick three justices and change the balance of the Court with the passing of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg — one of the Court’s most liberal justices.

Many who are both pro-life and pro-abortion saw Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the subject of the possible leak — as having the most potential for overturning Roe in decades.

Roe has been responsible for the deaths of millions of babies since it was decided in 1973. Many conservatives view it as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time, both because of its federal abortion access guarantee and its shoddy legal reasoning.

The leak, if legitimate, likely spells significant issues for the Supreme Court, as it would signal a massive breach of trust among the justices and staff.

National March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said the pro-life group would wait until an official decision is handed down before making comment.

Mancini did add, however, that her organization believes the Court should issue a ruling “as soon as possible,” adding that “this leak was meant to corrupt the process. It is heartbreaking that some abortion advocates will stoop to any level to intimidate the court no matter what the consequences.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/02/hillary-alum-lauds-leaker-brave-clerk-may-be-warning-america-of-roe-overturn-in-last-ditch-hail-mary-attempt-to-stop-it/

Not surprising. But still outrageous.

This decision is a direct assault on the dignity, rights, & lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law. It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. What an utter disgrace.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1521313156685090817