Trump administration: 'Life begins at conception' Bold new strategic plan declares personhood of unborn

Trump administration: 'Life begins at conception'

Bold new strategic plan declares personhood of unborn

President Trump (Courtesy Marc Nozell)

http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/trump-administration-life-begins-at-conception/ 

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)

http://www.illuminati-news.com/110106a.htm

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.