DeSantis praises bill banning "mutilation" of children
"When we're standing up against that, we're protecting these kids.”
The Florida state House passed a bill last week that would ban so-called “gender-affirming” surgery for minors in the state.
Such legislation had been requested by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who has championed efforts to restrict radical transgender and sexuality ideology in the state.
DeSantis, who is likely to announce a primary challenge against former President Donald Trump in the next few weeks as The Blaze noted, praised the move in a press conference Friday.
"If you have a minor child, you should not be doing sex-change operations. You should not be doing puberty blockers. That is wrong, and we’re glad that we put a stop to that in the state of Florida," he told reporters.
"It's wrong to be sexualizing these kids. It's wrong to have gender ideology and telling kids that they may have been born in the wrong body. So we're on the right side of that," he also said.
DeSantis also mobilized and signed a bill last year restricting sexuality education for younger grades in the state that the media and Democrats framed as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
He took direct aim at the press as he defended this latest bill, which would restrict the use of hormone drugs, puberty blockers, and surgery for minors.
"People in your industry will dress it up with a euphemism and say that it's health care to cut off the private parts of a 14- or 15-year-old," he told a reporter.
"That is not health care. That is mutilation," he declared.
"When we're standing up against that, we're protecting these kids," he added, to applause.
Link: Florida’s DeSantis Praises Bill Banning Trans “Mutilation” of Children
An abortionist whose late-term abortion patient died following a botched procedure in 2017 recently testified before the Maine state legislature that abortion is “life-saving.”
Dr. Shannon L. Carr spoke as an expert witness in support of a radical full-term abortion bill backed by Democratic Governor Janet Mills last week.
However, it did not escape the notice of The Maine Wire that Carr, who told lawmakers that abortion is “life-saving health care,” settled for over $1.2 million last year with the family of a woman who died after undergoing a late-term abortion performed by Dr. Carr.
In 2013, Keisha M. Atkins died after the staff at Southwest Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico poisoned her 24-week-old baby to death inside her womb, sending her home where she later died.
Carr, who was employed by SWO at the time and named individually in the lawsuit, admitted in court documents to agreeing to perform the abortion on 23-year-old Atkins in 2017 after a short 20-minute consultation.
According to attorneys representing Atkins’ family, staff at the University of New Mexico Medical Group had turned down the six-month-pregnant woman for an abortion. However, they referred her to SWO.
Atkins’ family later filed the suit against SWO, UNM Medical Group, and other doctors involved in the abortion for medical malpractice, negligence, wrongful death, and civil conspiracy, the Wire notes.
“When I’ve met with patients before, during, and after their later abortion processes, we’ve cried together, and shared in the profound sadness and confusion that can follow,” Carr told lawmakers this week as she argued in support of abortion up to any age at the discretion of doctors like herself.
“And rather than regret, my patients express heartfelt gratitude about having been able to get the care that they and their family so desperately need.”
Mourn with us for the loss of Atkins and her beautiful little baby, pray with us for her bereaved family, and praise God with us that one day He will bring perfect justice for all of those involved with the systematic slaughter of the unborn and exploitation of women in our present day.
May we also pray for the souls of abortionists, that they would repent and seek the forgiveness of God for what they’ve done.
Link: Abortionist Whose Patient Died After Botched Procedure Calls Abortion “Life-Saving”
The Biden administration’s Office of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) has been effectively funding abortions up to birth for any reason since September 2022, something which Senate Republicans recently sought to change but to no avail.
LifeSite explains that thanks to an interim rule issued by the Biden administration, the VA may now use a problematically vague definition of “health” to determine when abortions may be provided by the taxpayer-funded agency.
The definition is based on the Supreme Court Ruling Doe v Balton, which was a companion case to the now-overturned Roe v Wade, that defined “health” as “medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors—physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age—relevant to the wellbeing of the patient. All these factors may relate to health.”
As the VA is using this definition to determine when it may perform abortions, this virtually means abortions may be performed on-demand, for any reason at the discretion of a doctor.
Terrifying.
What’s more, taxpayer-funded abortions have long been illegal in the United States in most cases (something which Biden-era Democrats have pointedly sought to change) thanks to the Hyde Amendment, so as LifeSite notes, the practice also appears to be illegal.
Senate Republican Tommy Tuberville recently championed efforts to change the dubious legal rule, using the Congressional Review Act to bring the issue to a vote without needing the approval of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
His resolution, however, failed narrowly 48-51, with pro-abortion Republican Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) joining nearly every Democrat to vote against, with Joe Manchin (WV) making the lone exception to vote with the GOP.