Trump
administration: 'Life begins at conception'
Bold new strategic
plan declares personhood of unborn
President Trump (Courtesy Marc Nozell)
The Department of Health and Human Services has published
a draft of a new strategic plan that states in its introduction that life
begins at conception.
The personhood of the unborn child is central to the
abortion debate — as even the justice who wrote the landmark Roe v. Wade
opinion has acknowledged — because, if established in law, it would nullify a
“right” to abortion.
The largely overlooked HHS strategic plan for 2018-22
states the agency “accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives
that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at
every stage of life, beginning at conception.”
Bioethics specialist Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at
the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, wrote at National Review’s The
Corner blog that while life “beginning at conception” is a “fact of
basic biological science,” expect “the usual suspects to be furious about the
proposal.”
A columnist for the
Gawker Media website Jezebel who said the Trump administration “is
following the standard, discriminatory conservative orthodoxy on women’s
health” and blogger Dr. Jen Gunter
were two examples of harsh critics of the new HHS language.
The draft strategic plan is open for public comment
through Oct. 27.
Smith noted the proposed mission statement
also indicates HHS is against assisted suicide.
The draft plan states a “core component of the HHS
mission is our dedication to serve all Americans from conception to natural
death, but especially those individuals and populations facing or at high risk
for economic and social well-being challenges, through effective human
services.”
WND columnist Michael Brown
recalled that during the 2016 presidential campaign, Democratic
nominee Hillary
Clinton upset both sides of the
abortion debate by declaring “the unborn person does not have constitutional
rights” while acknowledging the personhood of the unborn.
Diana Arellano, community engagement manager for Planned
Parenthood of Illinois, charged Clinton “stigmatizes abortion.”
“She calls a fetus an ‘unborn child’ and calls for
later-term restrictions,” Arellano said.
Guidelines issued by the International Planned
Parenthood Federation, Brown pointed out, “discourage the use of
terms such as ‘baby,’ ‘dead fetus,’ ‘unborn baby’ and ‘unborn child’ when
discussing abortion, instead recommending ’embryo,’ ‘fetus’ and ‘the
pregnancy.'”
Pro-life advocates, on the other hand, criticized Clinton
for insisting that while a fetus is an unborn child, it doesn’t have any
rights.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a strong pro-life
advocate who chairs the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, said: “The
analytical coldness with which [Clinton] dismissed rights of unborn children
reveals a type of hardened core that shocks the conscience.”
The nationwide effort to
establish state constitutional rights for unborn babies targets the
foundation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. It’s based on Associate Justice
Harry Blackmun’s acknowledgment in his majority opinion that the
landmark case would collapse if “the fetus is a person,” because the unborn’s
“right to life would then be guaranteed” by the Constitution.
Let’s connect the dots:
Planned Parenthood
Planned
Parenthood Votes was a contributor for the Priorities USA Action.
Note: Priorities
USA Action was a super PAC supporting the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, supporting the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign, and is a national partner with America Votes.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was the candidate for the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Ready
PAC supported the 2016 Hillary
Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), a
friend of Michael Douglas, was a contributor
Priorities USA Action, the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a contributor for MoveOn.org.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Michael Douglas
is a friend of George Soros, and a
director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for “population
control” by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, and the chairman for the Turner
Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, the founder & president of America Votes, is married to Kirk
Adams, the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and Lily Adams’s mother.
Planned
Parenthood Federation of America was a sponsor for the Women's March on Washington (January 2017).
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
AFL-CIO
is a national partner with America Votes.
Kirk
Adams is married to Cecile Richards,
was an organizing director for the AFL-CIO,
and was the international EVP for the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU).
Service
Employees International Union (SEIU)
is a national partner with America Votes,
and was a sponsor for the Women's March
on Washington (January 2017).
Anna Burger was a secretary-treasurer
for the Service Employees International
Union (SEIU), and is a director at the NARAL
Pro-Choice America.
NARAL
Pro-Choice America is a national partner with America Votes, and was a sponsor for the Women's March on Washington (January 2017).
American
Federation of Teachers is a
national partner with America Votes,
and was a sponsor for the Women's March
on Washington (January 2017).
EMILY's List is a
national partner with America Votes,
and was a sponsor for the Women's March
on Washington (January 2017).
Human
Rights Campaign is a
national partner with America Votes,
and was a sponsor for the Women's March
on Washington (January 2017).
MoveOn.org was a sponsor for the Women's March on Washington (January 2017).
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was a sponsor for the Women's
March on Washington (January 2017).
Priorities
USA Action is a national partner with America
Votes, was a super PAC supporting the 2012
Barack Obama presidential campaign, and supporting the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
Planned
Parenthood Votes was a contributor for the Priorities USA Action.
Lily
Adams was the Iowa communications director for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and is Cecile Richards’s daughter.
Cecile Richards
is Lily Adams’s mother, married to Kirk Adams, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
the president of the Planned Parenthood
Action Fund, was a grant overseer for the Turner Foundation, the founder & president of America Votes.
Priorities
USA Action is a national partner with America
Votes, was a super PAC supporting the 2012
Barack Obama presidential campaign, and supporting the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
Planned
Parenthood Votes was a contributor for the Priorities USA Action.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was the candidate for the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Ready
PAC supported the 2016 Hillary
Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
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