[ZERO] If successful, the attorneys and activists behind the case told The Epoch Times that it might ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court opinion that struck down state laws against abortion.
Even if the case does not succeed in court, legal analysts and experts in the field say the implications for the court of public opinion are hard to overstate.
The lawsuit was filed by pro-life leader Amie Beth Shaver, named Miss Alabama in 1994, on behalf of "Baby Q," an African American baby in Alabama who was unborn when the case began. Baby Q represents all other similarly situated black babies in the womb across the state.
According to the complaint, Baby Q and other members of the "class" are being unlawfully discriminated against and targeted for abortion by the industry. Abortion giant Planned Parenthood acknowledges its roots in the eugenics movement, but says it is working to rectify that legacy.
"About 80 members of Baby Q’s class, which is African American babies in the womb, lose their lives in abortion every week in Alabama," Sam McClure, the lead lawyer representing the babies, told The Epoch Times in a phone interview. "Enough is enough. This has to stop."
Several leaders involved in the case told The Epoch Times that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry more broadly have a long history of racism and support for eugenics, the highly controversial idea that humanity should be "improved" by weeding out allegedly inferior genes from the population.
"This case really boils down to the question of whether states have the right to prohibit eugenics abortion," added McClure.
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I own and have read an original printing of Margaret Sanger's Women and The New Race. It makes for some eye popping reading - and her disciples have been trying to clean it up ever since. But, basically, this lady has a point. Sanger *did* intend to use abortion to cut down on the number of African Americans (among others). She spent a lot of time in her writings talking about racial hygiene, the “unfit,” the “garden weeds,” and the “human beings who should never have been born at all.”
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^I'm not African American. But I can tell you from personal experience that it's hard to be dispassionate about Sanger when you realize that the "unfit" children she's talking about are specifically your children.
#11
Why do pro-lifers want to save the lives of future yoot that will be raised dysfunctional and will then target the law abiding? This is the sort of suicidally stupid self-righteousness the Right has been indulging in since the goddamn fifties.
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Likely, Planned Parenthood bases its locations on statistical data of where are most abortions going to be needed. And likely, the black community just goes for more abortions, because they need them. There is adamant rejection of judeochristian values, common sense, and sexual discipline. Because it's sold to them by their icons day and night. And everybody who criticizes that will be 'forcing your whitey cracker mentality on us!'
So why bother? Let PP do their thing. Just keep your own kids from fucking up.
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the lives of future yoot that will be raised dysfunctional and will then target the law abiding
Literally the main selling point for the pro-abortionists: crime fell in America’s cities in the 1990s because that was the first post-Roe v. Wade generation, and as a result there were fewer inner city kids in the prime criminality age range.
#1
We know he's and idiot. Go back to the view where only pilled up and drunk housewives listen to you and whoopi. Your dad fucked you from having anyone really listen to you.
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[France24] Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev gave an interview to FRANCE 24 from Kyiv. The former Russian lawmaker was the only member of the Douma to vote against the annexation of Crimea back in 2014 and now lives in Ukraine. He predicted that "Putin will be gone soon", arguing that the Russian president has "definitely lost the war" in Ukraine and that "no dictator who has lost a war can stay in power". Asked about the suspected war crimes in Bucha that have shocked the world, Ponomarev claimed that the killings were most likely the results of "panic" by retreating Russian forces, rather than carefully planned.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian lawmaker-turned-opponent of Vladimir Putin, who has lived in Ukraine since 2016, told FRANCE 24 that Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine and that his days in power are numbered.
Ponomarev, who was the only member of the Russian Douma to vote against the annexation of Crimea back in 2014 and who joined the Ukrainian territorial defence forces at the onset of the war, warned that the Russian president will attempt to obtain a military victory by trying to carve out a Russian-controlled area from Kharkiv to Odesa, which would include the Donbas region.
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Rinaldeddu, what a great way to win friends and influence people! You Ruskies are such a pleasant bunch of folks that it's no wonder none of the other folks in Europe want anything to do with you. They ran, they did not walk, away from the Soviet Union as fast as they could because guys like you are such jerks. And now you've pissed off the Ukrainians so very badly that they are humiliating the hell out of your precious Vladimir.
There are people who frequent Rantburg who might tend toward being somewhat sympathetic. And, if you could observe, you might find articles here that actually support your cause. The beauty of Rantburg is that you can find all kinds of different points of view. Then you get to make up your own mind. Can you do that in Russia?
But when you insult Fred, the Rantburg mods and the rest of us it makes us think you're getting exactly what you deserve. C'mon. Give us some civil, well-reasoned discourse.
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I doubt civil well reasoned discourse translates into Russian.
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[RUSI] The only option to end the war and to prevent Russia from coming under greater control by China is the removal of Putin’s regime.
By deciding to attack Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has destroyed the Russian Federation as it existed before. Obviously, Moscow has no chance of winning this war. The consequences could be either the transformation of Russia into an isolated police-counterintelligence dictatorship completely dependent on Chinese support, or the removal of Putin and his inner circle from power, with further democratisation and growing cooperation with Ukraine and the West based on the strict observance of international law. It is worth noting that only the second option would allow Russia to retain its sovereignty and avoid becoming a resource colony of China. Hence, regime change is a task not only for the West, but also for those Russian elites who still retain some vestiges of patriotism.
The boosting of Chinese influence in Russia — made even clearer by the recent Russian appeals to China for help with munitions, food rations for Russian troops and broader financial support — is not an accident, but a conscious step that Putin logically chose before the invasion. Putin's rapprochement with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, one of China's main lobbyists in the Kremlin; the use of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin's network (including the Wagner Group and political technologists) in China's interests in Africa; and Rosneft and Gazprom’s reorientation to China clearly indicated this. The disclosure that Russia was the largest consumer of Chinese ’secret loans’ in 2010—2017 suggests that the foundations of this influence began to be laid immediately after Putin came to power.
Putin — who just a year ago conducted a brilliant operation to sever Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's ties with the West, effectively ending Belarus' state sovereignty and bringing it under Russian external control — must surely have realised that the war in Ukraine would put Russia in the same position. Putin, Shoigu, Nikolai Patrushev and other hawks not only accepted, but actively sought such consequences. Just as Lukashenko did with Moscow, Putin and his entourage signed an agreement with Beijing to surrender Russia’s national sovereignty in exchange for maintaining their regime. This agreement is already being implemented, with China buying stakes in Russian state-owned corporations. At the same time, Russia is clearly taking on the role of a raw material appendage, as Chinese support is limited and does not apply, for example, to the supply of spare parts for Russian aircraft.
A quick end to the war in Ukraine is not likely in this scenario. Putin needs the war to justify the final curtailment of all freedoms in Russia, the establishment of total censorship, and the expulsion of all dissenters. The war consolidates society around the regime and explains the difficult socio-economic situation. The Kremlin has already begun to position the war in Ukraine as one of self-defence against NATO. In the military dimension, this will mean a gradual curtailment of ground operations and a focus on missile and air strikes against civilian infrastructure, similar in nature to Bashar al-Assad's actions in Syria.
The only alternative to end the war is to remove Putin and his inner circle from power. Undoubtedly, this must be done by Russians themselves, because otherwise, such a change of regime will not be recognised by Russian society and may lead to undesirable consequences. Due to the authoritarian nature of the Russian regime, there are only two ways to remove it: revolution or coup. Given Putin's willingness to use weapons against his own people, and the need for public support for regime change, a combination of mass protests and a military coup would be the best option.
One of the threats to this option is an imitation — possibly carried out by the FSB — which, despite removing Putin and his entourage personally, would still allow the system to survive, much as it did after 1991. Given the fact that regime change in Russia must be carried out by Russian citizens and perceived as an internal cleansing, Ukraine and the West should focus on creating the public sentiment conducive to such a change, informing both the general public and elites about the establishment of de facto Chinese external control over Russia.
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All I see in this is a propaganda piece. China is kept at arms length. Putin knows not to trust China. Only Russian Elites retain patriotism is way off the mark. How patriot are our elites?. I don't see that at all these days.
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#1 All I see in this is a propaganda piece. China is kept at arms length. Putin knows not to trust China. Only Russian Elites retain patriotism is way off the mark. How patriot are our elites?. I don't see that at all these days.
Posted by: Dale 2022-04-07 04:03
Dale,
Let me respectfully disagree with you. Putin would be far from the first despot to think he could save his own hide by inviting in somebody to help him.
The Chinese know how to play a long game, and they have incredible amounts of money to play it with, a good chunk of which we give them. When the truth about the Special Operation finally sinks into the Russians as their economy crashes around their ears, Putin's going to need - to paraphrase an old saying - money, guns, and goons. The Chinese have all three, and I firmly believe Putin's capable of taking the bait.
I hope I'm wrong; I hope he slips in the shower and falls on several 9mm rounds. But I fear he will try every trick in the book so long as he can keep that corner office in the Spassky Tower.
Mike
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#4
The only alternative to end the war is to remove Putin and his inner circle from power.
#6
Rantburg it’s starting to smell like Europa
This rag smell like fake nationalist and fake American patriotism
Fuck you fake news rantburg
Hey link more British tabloid trash for your readers……
Pathetic….
#7
This isn't from a British tabloid. Do you want to talk about the article or just leave turds all over the place?
Also, what were yoou expecting American nationalism to look like? "Yay! Let's help the Superior Russians massacre more untermenchen!"?
Y'all have been using the global left to make war against us for the past thirty years (and still counting) but you want to be able to cosplay fighting the people who would rather buy natural gas from Russia than drill for it here.
If I wanted to be watching the World Wrestling Federation I'd be watching the World Wresstling Federation.
Let me respectfully disagree with you. Putin would be far from the first despot to think he could save his own hide by inviting in somebody to help him.
One example from classical antiquity: Vortigern inviting in Hengist and Horsa. How did that work out?
(And don't even get started with Constantinople and the Normans. Or how they used the Venetians to help defend against the Normans when their relationship went bad. Or what the Venetians ultimately did once they were betrayed in kind.)
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All I see in this is a propaganda piece. China is kept at arms length. Putin knows not to trust China. Only Russian Elites retain patriotism is way off the mark. How patriot are our elites?. I don't see that at all these days.
Putin was apparently anxious enough about China's support to delay the invasion until the Olympics was done. Then their offensive in the North got completely stalled because the frozen ground thawed for a while in the beginning of March.
Of course now they're saying "Oh, that was a _feint_ we threw thousands of soldiers and a 40 mile long convoy away on..."
Which brings up another thing.... if I had 200 billion dollars in the bank, _personally_, I'd buy much better tires for my Army. I'd splurge on Michelins.
#12
The Chinee stole Russian jet engine designs and have almost gotten them to last about 1/10 as long as ours do. So, when Xi says "what have you done for us lately?" he's being very trenchant.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Chervonec] Ukrainian TG channels say that the surrender of the remnants of the 503rd Marine Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for Zelenskiy
His administration demanded to urgently start an information campaign that this was stuffing and no one surrendered, and the video of the Russians was staged.
The purpose of such "refutations" is to bring down the negative. The scheme is identical to the one that was with the prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Zmeiny Island, when the Russians showed that all the border guards were captured and alive, and our General Staff accused the Russians of lying and talked about the "heroic defense" of the island, as a result of which all its defenders allegedly died . However, after weeks, when the information space became clogged with new events, the three "quietly" acknowledged the fact that the soldiers were alive and exchanged them.
Denying reality with the help of lies traditional for the Ukrainian side, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to prevent the domino principle with surrender, because all Ukrainian media show and convince the public that terrible torture and bullying is in Russian captivity (there is no video of the facts, except for the statement of the UkroGeneral Staff), but this mass surrender of soldiers undermines the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and can drag other Ukrainian soldiers into captivity in other directions.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
Fights for "Azovstal" and "Azovmash", promotion to the seaport of Mariupol. Clashes also continue in the northern part of the Eastern Region. In the port of Mariupol, the control ship "Donbass" of the Ukrainian Navy was damaged.
2. Kherson-Nikolaev.
The RF Armed Forces control Snegirevka, as well as the Aleksandrovka area. The enemy cannot lead a serious attack on Kherson from the side of Nikolaev. In Nikolaev itself, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have serious losses due to strikes. From the side of Nikopol, the enemy is trying to crush in the Novovorontsovka area.
3. Odessa.
Almost daily attacks on fuel storage facilities continue. The city continues to the best of its ability to prepare for defense. The potential for provocation with chemical weapons is also high. In the Ochakov area, according to a number of unconfirmed reports, foreign mercenaries and NATO officers were killed.
4. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes. There is very little information on the situation east of Gulyai-Polye. It is difficult to determine the zones of control of the parties and the settlements occupied.
5. Ugledar—Great Novoselka.
There is no significant progress in this direction. Heavy fighting continues.
6. Marinka.
Positional battles continue in the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Troops cannot advance beyond the slag heap line.
7. Avdievka.
Avdievka itself is unchanged. To the north, after the capture of Novobakhmutovka, troops are fixed there and preparing for further advance near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway. The advance to New York has not yet brought great results.
8. LNR.
Advance in Popasna, where heavy street fighting continues. Also, fighting continues on the southern outskirts of Rubizhne, for which the enemy continues to cling. There are also fighting on the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
9. Izyum.
Fighting is going south and southeast of Kamenka in the direction of Barvenkovo and Slavyansk. The enemy puts up serious resistance. Izyum itself is under fire from artillery and MLRS. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to prevent the accumulation of forces on the expanding bridgehead on the southern bank of the Seversky Donets. The enemy stepped up the evacuation of the local population in the western regions of the DPR and in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
10. Kharkov - Sumy.
No significant changes. The enemy expects in the near future to intensify operations in the Kharkov area. Evacuation is being carried out from some districts of the Kharkiv region.
[American Thinker] Pope Francis, despite being the head of worldwide Catholicism, always seems to be apologizing for the faith. In Malta, that apology extended to hiding the cross from illegal Muslim immigrants. This act of Christian cowardice was more poignant than usual, given that Malta, in the mid-16th century, was the site of one of the Catholic world’s bravest and most successful stands against Islam’s push to take over Europe.
The Republic of Malta is a tiny island located southwest of both the toe of the Italian boot and the island of Sicily. Travel further west from Malta and you will find yourself heading to Tunisia, in North Africa. Alternatively, if you head east from Malta, after passing from the Mediterranean Sea into the Aegean Sea, you will find yourself at the Bosporus, and the country known as Turkey today, but that was once home to the powerful Ottoman Empire.
In the mid-15th century, the Ottoman Turks emerged from the east to conquer Constantinople, the last remnant of the great Roman empire. They converted the magnificent Church of the Hagia Sophia into the Grand Mosque of the Hagia Sophia, renamed the city Istanbul. From Istanbul, they continued their conquests.
The Ottoman Empire didn’t stop there. It gradually conquered most of the Balkans (and helped give rise to the story of Dracula, since Vlad the Impaler fought against the Turks), and acquired large swaths of the Middle East, including Egypt and other parts of North Africa, the Holy Land, Baghdad, Mesopotamia, parts of the Caucasus region (which eventually were incorporated into the Soviet Union), some of the former Venetian empire, and more. The Ottomans seemed unstoppable.
However, by the mid-16th century, Europeans began to fight back. One of the most famous battles between Catholic Europe and the Muslim Ottomans occurred at the Great Siege of Malta. The Knights Hospitaller, whom the Ottomans had driven from Rhodes, had their headquarters there and, when the Ottomans attacked, they refused to yield. Instead, they and the citizens of Malta withstood a devastating siege that lasted nearly four months.
#4
The church just needs to finally admit it is nearly dead. Attending numbers are in free fall and sliding up next to wokism where all the cool kids on Twitter where have only accelerated the issue.
Declare victory, disband the Vatican and fade into history.
#5
I understand the Orthodox church in Russia is undergoing a resurgence. One might even call it a resurrection, he said putting on his Putinist vestments.
#6
The Papacy may be moribund, but The Faith springs anew in fertile ground. We buried my mom last weekend. Her last months were spent in the care of Marta Lovejoy's Greenhouse RCFE. Martha hails from Zimbabwe, and hers is an amazing story. For those interested, Martha's book, My Mother's Daughter is a brief yet fortifying read.
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Historical correction: Martha Lovejoy was actually born in Rhodesia. Important as this is why she was able to 1st escape to UK. My bad.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZERO] If successful, the attorneys and activists behind the case told The Epoch Times that it might ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court opinion that struck down state laws against abortion.
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