Lawsuit charges Biden is depriving women of required health insurance coverage

The Biden administration is trying to push its abortion-based family planning agenda by depriving women of needed health insurance coverage for fertility awareness-based methods, according to a new lawsuit.

That leaves coverage of "only contraceptive and abortifacient drugs and devices," according to the claim in a federal lawsuit in federal court that charges Biden's appointees with violating regulatory laws.

According to the ADF, which is handling the case, "Dr. Cami Jo Tice-Harouff, who is a licensed family nurse practitioner in Longview, Texas, with a doctorate in nursing practice, and is also licensed in several states, provides patients with instruction in several different evidence-based fertility awareness methods of family planning. Those methods provide family planning options by carefully tracking a woman’s individual fertility."

She assists her patients by billing insurance providers, and then donating the proceeds to a non-profit clinic that provides health care to the needy, the ADF said.

The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, does not allow insurance plans from imposing cost-sharing requirements on women seeking "preventative care and screenings," and in 2016 the Department of Health and Human Services specifically added coverage of "instruction in fertility awareness-based methods."

However, under the Biden administration, and the HHS chief, the radically pro-abortion Xavier Becerra, theHHS last December excluded "fertility awareness-based methods" from coverage.

It provided no notice or comment period "nor any rationale," the ADF explained, even though those are required by the federal Administrative Procedure Act.

Biden actually allowed only one outside group – the pro-abortion activists at the Women's Preventive Services Initiative – to comment.

"Women shouldn’t have to fear losing their doctor and insurance coverage for fertility awareness instruction as a result of back-room government decisions," said ADF Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake. "Countless women rely on Dr. Tice-Harouff’s expertise to help them raise families in a manner consistent with their medical needs. It is wrong and unlawful for the Biden administration to push its own, preferred method of family planning on all women."

Blake added, "Women who practice fertility awareness-based methods make serious personal and financial decisions to do what’s best for their family and their conscience. Removing insurance coverage could devastate these families. The government should not be forcing this choice upon America’s women."

TheBiden administration has been more aggressive in promoting abortion for all, at any time, that probably any other administration before.

Franklin Graham, the chief of the worldwide Christian ministry Samaritan's Purse, explained, "Yesterday President Joe Biden said that the right to an abortion comes from being a 'child of God.' Mr. President, that is just not true."

He continued, "Being a child of God does not give you the right to take the lives of the innocent. Abortion is a sin – simply put, it‘s murder."

Biden, who says he is a Catholic despite his violent conflict with the church's teachings about life, had said, in context, according to a Daily Caller report, "This is about a lot more than abortion … this reminds me of the debate with Robert Bork … [who] believed the only reason you had any inherent rights was because the government gave them to you.

"I believe I have the rights that I have, not because the government gave them to me … but because I am just a child of God, I exist. I delegated by joining this union here to delegate some rights I have to the government for social good."

His comments were prompted by the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court suggesting the justices are prepared to overturn the abortion-protecting Roe v. Wade and allow state legislatures to take over regulation of the nation's booming and lucrative abortion industry.

Biden had described himself as a "strong supporter of Roe v. Wade" just a few months ago, but then also claimed to respect those with a different opinion.

In light of the release of the draft opinion, he's essentially abandoned any middle ground, demanding abortion rights for women through whatever means.

https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/lawsuit-charges-biden-depriving-women-required-health-insurance-coverage/

Rubio calls out Air Force for 'drag' event, gets it canceled

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., says he called out the Air Force for planning a "Drag Queen Story Time" on one of its bases, and got the event canceled.

"The last thing parents serving their nation overseas should be worried about, particularly in a theater with heightened geopolitical tensions, is whether their children are being exposed to sexually charged content simply because they visited their local library," Rubio said.

Rubio had written to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall after learning that the air base in Ramstein, Germany, was planning the kinky event for young children of service members.

Rubio requested that the proposed program be canceled and staff involved in it be disciplined.

The Air Force then dropped plans for the event.

Rubio had pointed out that the program for children was planned "to celebrate Pride Month."

But he explained, "U.S. military installations exist to serve the needs of the warfighter for training, logistics, storage, testing, and deployment. Simultaneously, the installation must also support the needs of servicemembers and their families, including creating a safe, healthy environment for parents raising children. This is why installations often include commissaries, pharmacies, schools, and libraries. On installations outside the continental United States (OCONUS), these amenities play an even more central role in the life of our servicemembers and their families. Frequently, servicemembers do not have options available outside OCONUS installations due to language and logistical barriers."

Rubio continued, "In light of this, it is completely insane for Ramstein AFB to use on-installation resources for rituals like 'Drag Queen Story Time.' These inappropriate events are extremely divisive at home for good reason; in all cases, they place young children in close proximity with adults who are intentionally and explicitly sexualized.

Should the Air Force be hosting drag queen events?

"A flyer for the similar event last year highlighted the apparent inclusion of a controversial book, 'The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.' The author of the book said they wrote it so that children could 'experience the magic of drag and to get a little practice shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders to know how [they] can feel fabulous inside of [their] own bodies.' As I hope you can agree, decisions over children and their bodies should be left to moms and dads serving our nation, not mediated through publicly funded propaganda on U.S. Air Force bases."

The senator charged that the library had done similar events in the past, and he demanded to know, "How many instances of events involving drag queens spending time around children have occurred at government sponsored events on U.S. military installations both OCONUS and in the United States?"

Further, how much have those events cost U.S. taxpayers, he asked.

Specifically, he wanted to know, "Do you and President Biden believe the proper role of the U.S. Department of Defense is to facilitate extraordinarily divisive events involving the children of U.S. servicemembers?"

https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/rubio-calls-air-force-drag-event-gets-canceled/

Arresting the 'dangerous,' censoring news authorized by secret directives

There have been secret presidential directives in the past in the United States that, if activated, would have authorized the detention of those considered "dangerous."

They also would have allowed the suspension of habeas corpus. And provided for martial law.

They also would have allowed for the searches and seizures of people and property, and the declaration of war.

And authorized censorship of news reports.

These actions all have been confirmed by a report from the leftist Brennan Center,which said they come from Presidential Emergency Action Documents.

They are executive orders, proclamations and more that are prepared for use during emergency scenarios.

"First created during the Eisenhower administration as part of continuity-of-government plans in case of a nuclear attack, PEADs have since been expanded for use in other emergency situations where the normal operation of government is impaired. As one recent government document describes them, they are designed 'to implement extraordinary presidential authority in response to extraordinary situations,'" the report said.

Do secret government directives exist that suspend the Constitution?

They are classified secret and the report said no PEAD ever has been declassified or leaked. But there have been, "over the years," multiple unclassified documents that have been made available that talk about them, the center reported.

"Through these documents, we know that there were 56 PEADs in effect as of 2017, up from 48 a couple of decades earlier. PEADs undergo periodic revision; although we do not know what PEADs contain today…"

The center has posted online links to multiple references to the various orders from presidents since Eisenhower.

The New York Times said the documents about the secret orders "shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios."

"Until now, public knowledge of what the government put into those classified directives, which invoke emergency and wartime powers granted by Congress or otherwise claimed by presidents, has been limited to declassified descriptions of those developed in the early Cold War. In that era, they included steps like imposing martial law, rounding up people deemed dangerous and censoring news from abroad," the report said.

The Times explained, "Newly disclosed documents, which relate to the George W. Bush administration’s efforts to revise the draft orders after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, offer clues. Several of the files, provided to The New York Times by the Brennan Center for Justice, show that the Bush-era effort partly focused on a law that permits the president to take over or shut down communications networks in wartime. That suggests the government may have developed or revised such an order in light of the explosive growth in the 1990s of the consumer internet."

The Times worried, "Underscoring how little lawmakers and the public can infer, another file, from the summer of 2008, mentioned that Justice Department lawyers were revising an unidentified draft order in light of a recent Supreme Court opinion. The memo does not specify the ruling, but the court had just issued landmark decisions on topics that could relate to government actions in an emergency — one about gun rights in the United States and another about the rights of Guantánamo detainees to court hearings."

"The bottom line is that these documents leave no doubt that the post-9/11 emergency actions documents have direct and significant implications for Americans' civil liberties," the Brennan Center's Elizabeth Goitein said. "And yet, there is no oversight by Congress. And that’s unacceptable."

The Brennan Center got its details aboutBush-era orders from the Bush presidential library under a Freedom of Information Act process….

While past orders have included martial law, censorship and detaining people, the Times reported, "It is unclear whether the current set includes similar actions."..

The DOJ recommended after the fact that plan be dropped, because, "It is open to serious question whether any similar program should be authorized which would permit the removal or detention of American citizens as a group based solely on their race, religion or national origin."

Under both Barack Obama and President Donald Trump there were budget requests to review the legality of the documents.

https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/arresting-dangerous-censoring-news-authorized-secret-directives/

Judge told to answer challenge to her ban on enforcement of abortion law

The Court of Appeals in Michigan has told a lower court judge who banned enforcement of an abortion law that has been on the state's books for decades to respond to a challenge to that decision.

It was Court of Claims trial judge Elizabeth Gleicher who recently issued an injunction against Attorney General Dana Nessel that prevents her from enforcing Michigan's abortion statute, a ban that has been on the books since 1931.

The pro-abortion Nessel already had said she would not enforce it, but the pro-abortion Gleicher made that an order.

But the agenda of the two public officials was challenged in court by the Great Lakes Justice Center, along with the Alliance Defending Freedom, and now the Court of Appeals has accepted that complaint, and has issued an order allowing for immediate consideration of the case.

The court further set a briefing schedule for Gleicher to respond to the complaint, the GLJC explained. Great Lakes said it represents two prosecutors, Jerry Jarzynka from Jackson County and Christopher Becker from Kent County, and ADF represents Michigan Right to Life and the Michigan Catholic Conference.

The fight is part of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's pro-abortion "assault on the rule of law," which includes her executive order demanding that allstate agencies refuse to cooperate with, or help with, law enforcement investigations of possible violations of the state's criminal abortion law.

"Apparently, the governor believes she can order those under her charge to refuse to cooperate with law enforcement or prosecutors seeking to carry out their constitutional duties. This arguably violates her constitutional duty to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed,'" the GLJC reported.

Should a judge answer challenges to judicial decisions?

"We are pleased that the Court of Appeals has accepted our complaint against Judge Gleicher and granted our Motion for Immediate Consideration," said David Kallman, senior legal counsel for GLJC. "However, Governor Whitmer continues to abuse her power. A governor should never be ordering government officials to refuse to cooperate with law enforcement."

The fight erupted over the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, that 1973 decision that created out of the implications of the Constitution a "right" to abortion.

A leaked draft opinion suggests that the majority of the court will do that, although that opinion has not been released officially.

That would not ban abortion, but simply would return regulation of the industry that kills the unborn to the states.

Various states are frantically trying to embed in their own laws, or state constitutions, advocacy for abortion. For example, Colorado's Democrat-majority legislature adopted a law that says the unborn have absolutely no "rights" in the state. California is another state that is setting itself up as an "abortion destination" location.

The GLJC earlier explained that it was a sham lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood against Nessel through which Gleicher ordered that the state's existing ban on abortion, which would become effective when Roe is canceled, could not be enforced.

The alleged predicate for the case was because the U.S. Supreme Court "might" overturn Roe v Wade. No one has been prosecuted under the law in decades. AG Nessel publicly stated she had no intent to prosecute anyone under the law, so the lawsuit was not necessary, the GLJC explained.

Further, Gleicher had a conflict in the case, as she previously had represented Planned Parenthood in the Mahaffey case, in 1997, attempting to find a right to abortion in Michigan’s Constitution.

She lost at the Court of Appeals, which ruled the constitution doesn't endow that "right."

Further, she is an admitted annual financial contributor to Planned Parenthood, the center reported.

"Judge Gleicher’s decision seriously undermines the public’s confidence in, and reliance on, a fair and impartial judiciary. She has failed to avoid all appearance of impropriety, and she has shown utter disregard for the law," explained William Wagner, president of the Great Lakes Justice Center.

https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/judge-told-answer-challenge-ban-enforcement-abortion-law/

How (and Why) theMedia Deliberately Inflates the Numbers on School Shootings. Chris Queen

It’s already no secret that the left and their partners in the mainstream media want to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. The lengths that they’ll go to in order to argue for gun control are amazing, including inflating — or at least confusing — school shooting statistics.

On Monday, NPR claimed that the terrible shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, was the 27th school shooting of 2022 (this report insults the intelligence of listeners like you). But Robby Soave reports that the statistic doesn’t exactly tell the truth.

“For many people, the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting—which claimed the lives of at least 19 children and two adults—seemed all the more horrible after they learned it was the 27th school shooting so far this year,” Soave writes at Reason. “That fact makes it harder to view Uvalde as any kind of isolated incident.”

He points out that the reason for hyping such big numbers and making it sound like the loss of life in South Texas is the norm is mixing up three terms that the media conflates: school shooting, mass shooting, and mass school shooting. They do all sound similar, but there are distinctions.

Soave explains:

The difference is significant. Education Week, which tracks all school shootings, defines them as incidents in which a person other than the suspect suffers a bullet wound on school property. Many of the26 previous shootings involved disputes between students in parking lots, or after athletic events, and all of them resulted in one or zero deaths. These deaths are still incredibly tragic, of course. But they are fundamentally unlike what happened in Uvalde.

Uvalde is a mass school shooting. This is defined in different ways too: an incident in which at least four people (some counters make it three) are shot and/or killed. The Gun Violence Archive counts incidents in which at least four people were shot. Under this definition, many incidents of street crime and domestic violence count as mass shootings, even if no deaths result. A stricter tally of mass school shootings, conducted by criminologists for Scientific American, only includes incidents where the shootings resulted in at least four deaths. Using their criteria, the number of mass school shootings in the U.S. since the year 1966 is 13. These crimes claimed the lives of 146 people in total.

There are a number of smaller-scale shootings on school properties every year, but in the vast majority of them, one person is injured or killed. Mass school shootings like Uvalde are far less common. Soave points out that “Mass casualty events, on the other hand, constitute less than 1 percent of all gun deaths,” while “Suicides and non–mass-casualty murders—usually carried out with handguns rather than assault rifles—constitute the overwhelming majority of gun crimes.”

Of course, making these distinctions doesn’t diminish the heartbreak and horror that took place in Uvalde. What it does depreciate is the narrative that mass shootings with endless carnage are the norm and gun control is the answer.

“Given the sheer horror of the violence in Uvalde this week, it’s understandable that the public is interested in ensuring that such a thing never happens again,” Soave reminds us. “But for the policy debate to be fruitful, people need to understand the actual contours of the problem.”

The left and its willing accomplices in the media refuse to approach the issue of school shootings and mass shootings with any sort of nuance. Why would they, when doing so would take away the justification for the gun-control narrative?

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/05/28/how-the-media-deliberately-inflates-the-numbers-on-school-shootings-n1601741

Red Tsunami Watch: Cook Political Report Shifts 10 Races Toward the GOP

As the 2020 midterm elections get closer, we continue to look for signs of the red wave that’s about the hit the country. Like forecasters watching for waves to turn to tsunamis after earthquakes, we’re watching the political waves for indications that the GOP is in for a strong performance in November.

The Biden administration’s combination of incompetence and arrogance makes a red tsunami ever more likely. Inflation is spiraling out of control and the baby formula crisis has shone a light on the administration’s failures. Yet Biden and his team are banking on the reversal of Roe v. Wade, “assaults on our democracy” (which are actually assaults on the Democrats’ ability to cling to power), and accusations of racism to gin up the far-left base.

None of these issues is going to make people forget that their paychecks aren’t going as far as they used to, that they have to shell out more every time they fill up their gas tank, and that parents are scrambling to find ways to feed their babies. To turn the tables on the Democrats by way of quoting James Carville, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

It’s not just hopeful conservatives who are watching for the red tsunami warnings to emerge. The Cook Political Report has shifted some of its ratings of key races, and 10 of 12 of those shifts favor the GOP.

“As the parties navigate primaries and begin polling and placing fall ad buys, Republicans’ House advantage looks as robust as ever,” writes David Wasserman. For independent voters, inflation has become such a dominant concern that neither a Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade nor January 6 hearings are likely to drastically alter the midterms’ trajectory, and multiple district-level surveys show Democratic incumbents in perilous shape against unknown GOP challengers.”

The only changes in those races that don’t favor the GOP are Young Kim’s race in California — Cook only downgraded that contest from “Likely R” to “Lean R,” which means she can still pull off the win — and Lauren Underwood’s race in Illinois, which Cook shifted from “Lean D” to “Likely D.”

What’s more, Wasserman points out thatDemocrats are going to have to pull out all the stops to win in some districts.

“Given that President Biden’s job approval is underwater in dozens of districts he carried in 2020, any Democrat sitting in a single-digit Biden seat (or a Trump seat) is at severe risk and even a few in seats Biden carried by 10 to 15 points could lose — particularly in ‘orphan’ states without competitive statewide races driving turnout,” he notes. “For many Democrats, going ‘scorched earth’ against still-undefined GOP nominees looks like the only path to survival.”

On top of those rating shifts, the Cook Political Report now predictsa gain of 25-30 House seats for the Republicans.

Take a closer look at the second chart. Every one of the 13 “likely Democratic” seats are already safely in Democrat hands. The 11 “likely Republican” seats include the GOP taking three from the Democrats.

It’s a similar scenario for the seats that aren’t such sure things. Twelve “lean Democratic” seats include one steal from the Republicans, while of the nine seats that the Cook Political Report has labeled “leans Republican,” six are currently Democrat-held seats.

I don’t know if it’s time to issue the tsunami warnings just yet, but the signs are looking good for a significant red wave. Let’s hope and pray that these trends keep up.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/05/27/red-tsunami-watch-cook-political-report-shifts-10-races-toward-the-gop-n1601521

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>>16362094

I wonder if these politicians announce they are catholic to destroy faith

>>16362052

Is this their attempt to deny the jab is killing people

>>16362019

Cool, they should just have criminals there, when they all kill each other off, NY can then be reinhabited

>>16361845

Whoa did he do a full interview, where can I find it. Everything we found on voter fraud is going to be exposed. So federal agencies are involved with True the Vote?

>>16361845

Here’s he link to the full 47 minute interview with Gregg Phillips

https://world-wire.com/watch-patel-patriot-interviews-gregg-phillips-full-interview/

Gregg Phillips said there are over 40 million illegal immigrants in the US, its total bullshit that there is only 11 -13 million in the US. And the US government has all that info but they keep on saying 11–13 million. Its all political. In 2016 he knew there were 33 million illegals in the country. So we have 7 million more + now

He said they were in regular contact on the info of 2,000 mules (for a couple of years) but they haven’t told Trump and team the info on the multinational conspiracy to steal our vote, to protect him from more attacks. He said in six weeks they will be ready to release the data and info, when it gets closer they will inform Trump.

Gregg also said their lives are in danger and all working with them also.Say prayers for them daily. He said some government agencies they are working with the higher they go gets more political. They ate being sued all the time, but theres real danger to this group.

Can we make this a pinned request to daily pray for the protection of True the Vote and all working with them?

Full interview here

https://world-wire.com/watch-patel-patriot-interviews-gregg-phillips-full-interview/