'Fundamental right': Vermont leaves New York in dust with 'most radical, pro-abortion legislation'

Planned Parenthood official calls Vermont 'shining example for all other states

On its way to Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s desk is an abortion rights bill that makes late-term legislation in New York and Virginia look conservative by comparison.

The Democrat-controlled state legislature gave final approval Friday to H. 57, which would create a “fundamental right” to abortion and prohibit government entities from interfering with or restricting access to abortion, ensuring that any pregnancy may be terminated for any reason at any time.

Democrats have said the legislation merely enshrines into law the no-limits status quo, but pro-life advocates say the result is the same.

“They can say they’re codifying current practice if they want to all day long, but we now have the most radical, pro-abortion legislation in the country,” said Vermont Right to Life Executive Director Mary Beerworth. “This will codify in statute unlimited, unregulated elective abortions.”

Three days earlier, the legislature passed Proposal 5, an amendment that would make Vermont the first state to enshrine the right to “personal reproductive liberty” in its constitution.

Proposal 5 would need to be approved again by the 2021-22 Vermont General Assembly and go before voters in November 2022 before it is added to the state constitution. H. 57 would take effect immediately upon the governor’s signature.

Planned Parenthood officials cheered the two-prong approach as a much-needed win for pro-choice advocates in a legislative year marked by a slew of pro-life victories and backlash from late-term abortion bills in New York and Virginia.

“Vermont has established itself as the shining example for all other states by acknowledging that every person is capable of — and must be trusted to — make their own health care decisions without government interference,” Meagan Gallagher, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, said Friday in a statement.

The effort to protect no-limits abortion in Vermont’s legal code and its constitution goes beyond what any other state has enacted, including New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, cleared the path for abortion until birth by signing the Reproductive Health Act in January

The New York law allows abortion without restrictions up to 24 weeks of gestation and until birth under certain conditions, including “absence of fetal viability” or “to protect the patient’s life or health,” which includes mental health. Vermont’s H. 57 and Proposal 5 have no such qualifiers

Vermont [legislators] wanted to go further than New York, and they have,” said Ms. Beerworth. “New York has a health exception, and it’s probably going to be abused, but Vermont has nothing. Nothing.”

Republicans in the Virginia legislature killed a similar late-term measure in January after the bill’s Democratic sponsor acknowledged that it would allow abortion until birth.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/12/vermont-make-abortion-fundamental-right/

Taxpayers fund research for world's richest, most powerful companies, watchdog finds

By James Varney - The Washington Times - Mond

Fortune 100 companies are among the most aggressive at lobbying Washington — and collect nearly $100 billion a year in federal contracts and grants, according to a watchdog report that suggests taxpayers are feeding the bottom line.

Most of the $399 billion collected from 2014 to 2017 went to buy goods or services, especially the complex and expensive weaponry upon which a modern military relies, OpenTheBoooks found.

But the watchdog’s report did find billions in grant money, too.

IBM components in New York and California, for instance, got more than $103 million for “using high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy to explore the use of atomic spins on surfaces as quantum bits.”

Meanwhile, between FY 2014 and 2017 the Energy Department gave more than $63 million to General Electric divisions in New York and Texas for, among other things, “model-based extracted water desalination system for carbon sequestration,” and “cyberattack detection and accommodation for the energy delivery system.”

In other words, U.S. taxpayers were subsidizing the research of the richest and most powerful companies on Earth

“A lot of this stuff has a legitimate public purpose, that’s true, because if you need a fighter jet or a nuclear submarine you have to buy them from the people who make those things,” said Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/6/fortune-100-companies-research-funded-taxpayers-op/

Castro prodigy at it again

Canada Moves to Ban Christians From Demonstrating in Public Under New Anti-Hate Proposal

The Canadian province of Ontario is considering legislation that would officially criminalize Christianity.

Legislation proposed in the Canadian province of Ontario would criminalize public displays by Christians deemed hateful to Muslims, the LGBT community and other victim groups designated by the left.

The bill, “Prohibiting Hate-Promoting Demonstrations at Queen’s Park Act, 2019,” bans any demonstration, rally or other activity that is deemed hateful by the Speaker from being permissible on legislative grounds – effectively insulating the government from Christian speech.

Life Site News explains that the nebulous nature of Canada’s anti-hate laws essentially give leftist legislators carte blanche to ban all Christian protest:

The problem with this bill, however, lies in the fact that the definition of “hate” is uncertain under Canadian law. As a result, unfortunately, the use of the word “hate” can be a useful tool for some to prevent differing views from being expressed. That is, the word “hate” can be used to silence opposing views expressed when, in fact, the views are simply a reasonable expression of belief.

This concern is based on actual experience. Canadians have already experienced the contempt shown by the Supreme Court of Canada towards Section 2 of the Charter of Rights which provides for freedom of opinion, expression and religion. In the Trinity Western Christian University case (2018), a private Christian university’s moral covenant was deemed hateful and discriminating. In the Bill Whatcott case (2013), the Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the effects of an expression used, not the communicator’s intent, are what is relevant. The court went on to conclude that “truthful statements and sincerely held beliefs do not affect the finding of “hate”. Mr. Whatcott merely expressed in his pamphlet the well-established facts about homosexuality which the court held to be “hateful”. It is worth noting that the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, presumably consisting of equally learned judges, had previously concluded that the pamphlet was not hateful. The Supreme Court of Canada prides itself on being a “progressive” court and has an established bias as evidenced in a series of decisions that have struck down laws based on traditional values. There is little likelihood that the court will protect tradition-based groups if they are denied the right to demonstrate at the provincial legislature.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/canada-moves-to-ban-christians-from-demonstrating-in-public-under-new-anti-hate-proposal/

President Trump Calls Out FBI Director Christopher Wray: “the director is protecting the coup gang”

Posted on May 12, 2019 by sundance

This is good to see. Finally President Trump indicates he is well aware of the intents and motives of FBI Director Christopher Wray covering for the illegal coup effort:

President Trump may have been aware of Chris Wray’s corrupt disposition prior to today; however, this is the first visible indication he understands the internecine organization of it. Hopefully we can start the countdown clock to Wray’s exit.

Next up, Chris Wray’s #1 strategic hire, current FBI Legal Counsel Dana Boente.

In 2015 the DOJ-OIG (office of inspector general) requested oversight of the DOJ National Security Division. It was Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates who responded with a lengthy 58 page legal explanation saying, essentially, ‘nope – not allowed.’ (PDF HERE) All of the DOJ is subject to oversight, except the DOJ-NSD.

When John Carlin resigned as Asst. Attorney General in charge of the DOJ National Security Division in October 2016 he was replaced by Principal Deputy Asst. Attorney General and Chief of Staff, Mary McCord. After President Trump took office on January 20th, 2017, Sally Yates was Acting AG and Mary McCord was in charge of the DOJ-NSD.

Yates and McCord were the two Main Justice officials who then engaged with White House Counsel Don McGahn on January 26th, 2017, regarding the General Flynn FBI interview conducted on January 24th. The Trump-Russia Collusion Conspiracy was the headline.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/12/president-trump-calls-out-fbi-director-christopher-wray-the-director-is-protecting-the-coup-gang/

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Reminder who was on the Board of Theranos with Elizabeth Holmes

From its incorporation in 2003 until 2018, Holmes was the company's chief executive officer.

She recruited Channing Robertson, a chemical-engineering professor at Stanford, to be a technical advisor and the company's first board member during its early years.

Holmes' then-boyfriend Sunny Balwani, a software engineer whom Holmes had met during high school, joined the company as its president and chief operating officer in 2009.[109]

In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who joined the Theranos board of directors that month.[110]

Over the next three years, Shultz helped to introduce almost all the outside directors on the "all-star board,

" which included William Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense),

Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State),

Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator),

Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator and heart-transplant surgeon),

Gary Roughead(Admiral, USN, retired)

=James Mattis (General, USMC)==

Richard Kovacevich (former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO) and

Riley Bechtel(chairman of the board and former CEO at Bechtel Group).[110][111][112] The board was criticized for consisting "mainly of directors with diplomatic or military backgrounds."[24]

In April 2016, Theranos announced its medical advisory board which included past presidents or board members of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.[113] Members were invited to review the company's proprietary technologies and advise on the integration into clinical practice.[113] The board included past presidents or board members of

the American Association for Clinical Chemistry such as Susan A. Evans,

William Foege, former director U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

David Helfet, director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery and professors,

Ann M. Gronowski, Larry J. Kricka, Jack Ladenson, Andy O. Miller and Steven Spitalnik.[114][115]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

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Sick isn’t it!