McConnell Declares Iran Failure a Success

McConnellSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would like everyone to know that Obama’s Iran deal has “a great likelihood of success” in Congress.

“He can win by getting one-third plus one of either house. So he’s still got a great likelihood of success.” […]

“I hope we can defeat it, but the procedure is obviously stacked in the president’s favor.”

And one more doozey from the AP report of McConnell’s speech:

McConnell said he hoped to have a “respectful, uplifting debate” when the deal reaches the Senate floor.

“What I’ve asked my colleagues to do is to sit at their desks, listen to each other and treat the consideration of this agreement with the respect that it deserves,” he said. “This is a major, major foreign policy decision.”

Them fightin’ words, Mitch!

Anyone who has followed Mitch McConnell’s career, especially as the sitting GOP leader in the Senate, will notice that instead of sounding like a confident and defiant leader fighting the existential threats of our time, he often sounds like a Fox News commentator prognosticating and pontificating about the political dynamic and the likely outcome of a vote. So Mitch, tell us how you really feel.

These timid statements from McConnell are undoubtedly resonating in the halls of the White House at the same time the AP has publicly confirmed the UN will allow Iran to inspect its nuclear sites with its own nuclear scientists! It is now clear that one of the side agreements Obama cut with Ayatollah Khamenei was to allow their foxes to guard their own nuclear hen house. This comes on the heels of the revelation that the Obama administration promised Iran, as early as 2011, they could continue enriching uranium while enjoying relief from sanctions.

Instead of sounding like a confident and defiant leader fighting the existential threats of our time, he often sounds like a Fox News commentator prognosticating and pontificating about the political dynamic and the likely outcome of a vote.

Couple these acts of treachery with Obama preempting the congressional review period by consummating the deal at the UN Security Council, and it is clear Obama has reneged on every facet of the unconstitutional Corker-Cardin review process. Yet, McConnell is still legitimizing the process that is designed to fail until the bitter end. Why is he not working on defunding implementation of the deal and promising to block State Department nominees until Obama comes clean on his multiple lies and acts of treachery – assuming he really does think the Iran deal is such a calamity? Why is he not bringing the Iran deal up for a vote of approval – now that Obama has nullified Corker-Cardin – and voting it down to help delegitimize the deal?

Instead, McConnell is openly legitimizing the deal by admitting that as long as one-third of one house of Congress supports it, the deal is a success.

And speaking of this absurdly new low threshold of congressional support that can now bestow validity on a deal of such magnitude, why didn’t McConnell divulge this to the American people during the debate over Corker-Cardin? At the time, he offered the vague promise that the Senate would “take a vote to approve or disprove of the agreement before congressional sanctions could be lifted.” Clearly, anyone who doesn’t understand McConnell’s modus operandi would have concluded that Congress must affirmatively approve the deal before sanctions are lifted. Now he lets us know it’s just a show vote.

This show vote in many ways emblematizes Mitch McConnell and the GOP establishment. Far from being disgruntled about the high vote-threshold he accepted as part of this deal, McConnell embraces every opportunity to protest a Democrat policy without using live ammo that will actually hit the target down range.

In 2011, McConnell concocted his infamous debt ceiling plan, which would have allowed Obama to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling but afford Congress the opportunity to overturn it…if they mustered two-thirds support in both houses for the resolution of disapproval. This plan was formally incorporated into the debt ceiling suspension bill (section 1002 (b)) on October 16, 2013. On that day, all but 18 Republicans voted to waive the debt limit, but 13 days later the entire GOP conference, led by McConnell, lodged their show vote of disapproval to the very process they had set into motion.

On that very day, McConnell issued a press release titled,” McConnell Rejects Schumer-Obama Plan for Permanent Debt Ceiling Extension.” He acted as if he had just successfully blocked the permanent debt ceiling increase he just consummated with the October 16 vote and knowingly failed to block during the October 29 vote. He even had the nerve to repudiate his own plan by calling it the “Schumer plan,” even though Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) previously tweaked McConnell by introducing his debt ceiling plan as permanent law.

This duplicitous form of ‘press release conservatism’ is exactly what McConnell has in store for the Iran resolution of disapproval in September. McConnell wants all of the senators to sit at their desks during the debate with the full display of theatrics feigning outrage over the Iran deal that McConnell did nothing to stop over the past two years. Each senator will then issue a press release and breathe a sigh of relief that they can oppose this deal without actually taking the ownership for blowing it up.

Sadly, this insidious display of cowardice and showmanship is not unique to the debt ceiling or Iran alliance. Yesterday, yet another Planned Parenthood video was released – this time showing an organization official discussing harvesting the brains of babies with beating hearts.

I’ve seen many conservative pundits, even those who weren’t with the grassroots on previous budget fights, openly predicting there is no way GOP leadership can shirk their responsibility to defund Planned Parenthood in the September budget bill. One would also think there is no way they can continue funding the DHS without defunding Obama’s amnesty, which has directly led to a trail of blood through releasing violent criminal aliens into the population.

Think again. McConnell would like you to know: “there will be no government shutdown” and they don’t have a “great likelihood of success.”

That September budget bill is one vote you can rest assured will not be cast with all of the senators present at their desks. (Re-posted with permission, “McConnell Declares Iran Failure a Success”, originally appeared HERE)

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What Are Palestinians Doing With U.S. Money?

1213During the past 20 years, the U.S. has invested $4.5 billion in promoting democracy among the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and boosting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

This is what Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah revealed during a meeting in Ramallah this week with Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives . . .

The $4.5 billion that Hamdallah talked about does not include the billions of dollars poured on the Palestinian Authority (PA) since its creation in 1994. Palestinian economic analysts estimate that the PA has received a total of $25 billion in financial aid from the U.S. and other countries during the past two decades.

One does not have to be an expert on Palestinian affairs to see that the billions of dollars have neither created democracy for the Palestinians nor boosted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process . . .

To begin with, the Palestinian Authority, which was born out of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO, was never a democratic regime. On the contrary; what the Palestinians got from the start was a mini-dictatorship run by Yasser Arafat and his PLO and Fatah cronies. It was a corrupt regime, was directly funded and armed by the U.S., Europe and several other countries. (Read more from “What Are Palestinians Doing With U.S. Money?” HERE)

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Pedestrians Now Need Passports to Enter Mexico

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By Elliot Spagat. Walking into Mexico at the nation’s busiest border crossing with the United States is no longer an uninterrupted stroll for foreigners.

Pedestrians and motorists have generally entered Mexico unencumbered along the 1,954-mile border with the United States.

Now, pedestrians going to Tijuana from San Diego at the San Ysidro crossing must choose between a line for Mexicans who walk through unchecked, and a line for foreigners who must show a passport, fill out a form and – if staying more than a week – pay 322 pesos, or roughly $20, for a six-month permit. (Read more from “Pedestrians Now Need Passports to Enter Mexico” HERE)

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Homosexual AZ Sheriff Who Had Illegal Alien Boyfriend Takes Ben Carson on Helicopter Tour of Cartel Sites

By Matthew Boyle. “Nobody does,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Breitbart News when asked who has operational control of this region of the United States of America.

Babeu was on a helicopter tour of Mexican drug cartel scout locations in caves in the side of mountains throughout the desert about 70 miles inside the U.S. border. Essentially, that means U.S. sovereignty is gone for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of square miles throughout the American southwest.

Babeu was leading the helicopter tour with Dr. Ben Carson, a GOP presidential candidate, after briefing Carson on everything happening at the border.

Among other things that Babeu showed Carson and Breitbart News on this helicopter tour were how this far inside the border on high ground there are scores of scout sites where cartel operatives serve as lookouts for smugglers bringing drugs, people and other contraband into the country. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Arkansas, Utah Become the Latest States to Defund Planned Parenthood

150817_UtahPP_Scanlon-1250x650By Kate Scanlon. Arkansas and Utah have become the fourth and fifth states to block or partially block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, following a series of undercover videos depicting senior executives discussing prices for fetal body parts.

Planned Parenthood spokespersons have condemned the Center for Medical Progress, the pro-life organization behind the videos, as “anti-choice extremists” and the videos as “heavily edited” . . .

On Friday, the governor of Arkansas directed the state to end its Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood, and the governor of Utah ordered the state to stop distributing funds to the organization.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said in a statement that he has directed the state’s Department of Human Services to end its contracts with the organization.

“It is apparent that after the recent revelations on the actions of Planned Parenthood, that this organization does not represent the values of the people of our state and Arkansas is better served by terminating any and all existing contracts with them. This includes their affiliated organization, Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma,” Hutchinson said. (Read more from “Arkansas, Utah Become the Latest States to Defund Planned Parenthood” HERE)

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Bobby Jindal Plays Planned Parenthood Videos on Massive Screen Outside Governor’s Mansion

By Austin Ruse. Bobby Jindal is showing once more he’s making the biggest play of any 2016 candidate for the pro-life vote.

This afternoon, while abortion supporters protested outside the Governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge, Jindal set up a huge movie screen and speakers and played on a continuous loop all of the videos released in recent weeks showing the brutality of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts business.

One of the problems faced by the Center for Medical Progress is that many people are refusing the watch the grisly undercover videos where Planned Parenthood personnel discuss dissecting aborted babies in order to sell their eyes, lungs, livers, hearts, and even brains.

Among the handful of states that have either started investigations or defunded Planned Parenthood altogether is Jindal’s Louisiana. Supporters of Planned Parenthood are protesting Jindal’s moves against Planned Parenthood funding. Earlier this month, Jindal ended the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood’s Louisiana state director Melissa Flournoy said today, “Governor Jindal isn’t even in Louisiana today, but he’s made sure to prove that he’s always ready to put politics before Louisianan’s health.” She called his screening of the videos “a stunt”, which is certainly is, and certainly one to get under the skin of the protesters. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Police Announce Bombshell About Bruce Jenner That Could Mean Huge Trouble

caitlyn-jenner-car-crash-videoGiven what the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has just announced, the next phase of Caitlyn Jenner’s new reality show — if there is one — might be shot behind bars.

The Los Angeles Times reports that authorities will soon present to prosecutors evidence that could support charges against Jenner in connection with the deadly crash in which he was involved on Pacific Coast Highway earlier this year. Investigators say that Jenner was “driving at an unsafe speed for the road conditions that day” in February when his vehicle hit a car driven by a woman named Kim Howe. She died in the chain-reaction crash.

“The evidence will be presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office next week. Prosecutors will review the case and decide whether to formally charge Jenner. Typically, a single misdemeanor manslaughter charge could carry a sentence of a year in jail,” according to the Times report.

Because the deadly crash involved a high-profile celebrity — one who has been honored for “courage” by ESPN and now stars in the I Am Cait reality series on E! — the exhaustive sheriff’s investigation has taken some six months to conclude. The Times article on the possible charges against Jenner notes:

At the time of the crash near Corral Canyon Road in Malibu, authorities said Howe’s Lexus rear-ended Steindorff’s Prius when it slowed down or suddenly stopped, and that Jenner’s Escalade then rear-ended Howe’s car, thrusting it into oncoming traffic. A Hummer struck Howe’s Lexus after it was pushed into traffic.

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Planned Parenthood Praises Women Who Support Black Genocide

mqdefaultPlanned Parenthood’s Maggie Awards praises women who its organization believes emulates one of the most influential eugenicists in America, Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger saw Blacks and immigrants as weeds who should be sterilized. In a June 1932 edition of her Birth Control Review, an editorial, “The Negro Number,” said of Blacks:

“Shall they go in for quantity or quality in children? Shall they bring children into the world to enrich the undertakers, the physicians and furnish work for social workers and jailers, or shall they produce children who are going to be an asset to the group and American society?” Most [blacks], especially women, would choose quality … if they only knew how.”

During the Great Depression, bringing a Black child into a hostile world was considered “pathetic.” Sanger’s friend, Walter A. Terpenning, wrote in “God’s Chillun”:

The birth of a colored child, even to parents who can give it adequate support, is pathetic in view of the unchristian and undemocratic treatment likely to be accorded it at the hands of a predominantly white community, and the denial of choice in propagation to this unfortunate class is nothing less than barbarous.

Sanger asked Dr. Gamble of Procter and Gamble to use Southern ministers to teach blacks about the importance of preventing pregnancies under the guise of “family planning.” She wrote in 1939:

“The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Black babies’ bodies are being suctioned apart by Planned Parenthood and sold to companies like Stem Express for “donations.” The only difference between Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan is that the “mastas” are white women earning millions from black women who don’t get paid for their child’s sold body parts.

Courtesy of the Vorthos Forum:

(Re-posted with permission “Planned Parenthood Praises Women Who Support Black Genocide” originally appeared HERE)

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Daily Beast’s Seven Errors (Maybe More) on Fiorina, Blankley and Islam

It’s obvious from a post yesterday by Dean Obeidallah, a Daily Beast blogger, that at least seven errors should be corrected to set the record straight about me, my recent column on (one of many reasons) why I won’t vote for Carly Fiorina, and Islam.

Error #1. No, I’m not in the GOP. I’m neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I’m among many women and Americans who believe neither party represents them.

Error #2. No, I don’t drink coffee. But, if Islamic civilization created coffee, wouldn’t that at least have increased, even ten years ago, the 57 Islamic-controlled countries’ combined contribution of only 5 percent to the world’s GDP?

Error #3. Yes, I’ve been to a hospital, but you’d have to take my parents’ word for it, or my non-forged, authentic birth certificate. And, if the Islamic civilization invented hospitals, who healed the sick and the lame during the first three centuries, or, later in convents, well before 622 AD?

Error #4. No, I’m not interested in running for Congress, but I do admire foster mothers like Michele Bachmann, and many others, who selflessly love and provide for children whose birth mothers could not.

Error #5. Mr. Obeidallah must be aware that news editors choose which hyperlinks to include when publishing columns. For whatever reason, what he cited excluded some hyperlinks viewable on other sites that published the same column.

One links to Carly Fiorina’s speech15 days after 911. Others link to columns and radio shows: Iran’s Heritage; America’s foreign policy towards Iran since 1953; the non-deal with Iran; treason here, here, and here; and Iranian women working (note paragraphs 13-17).

Error #6. If genuinely interested in discussing religious freedom, either in America, or elsewhere, I can easily identify every text in my Qur’an clearly revealing no such freedom exists.

The European Court on Human Rights has repeatedly ruled that Shari’a law is “incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy.”

Yet, Islamic organizations have spent millions to transform American courts to become Shari’a compliant. Even the majority of Muslims polled in America and worldwide prefer Shari’a law, not the Constitution.

Error #7. No one can rationally deny that Islam institutionalizes violence against women and girls.

To be “anti-Islam” is to be for protecting girls’ and woman’s rights — especially those living in Islamic-controlled countries.

To be “anti-Islam” is to advocate for powerless and voiceless women and children.

There is nothing bigoted, racist, “phobic,” or hateful about opposing and seeking to rescue women and children from the very ideology that rejects universally accepted human rights laws designed to protect them.

To defend Islam (and Shari’a law) is to endorse:

Female genital mutilation (genitals being cut and sewn shut),

Honor killings (fathers or brothers kill their daughters/sisters),

Child marriage (girls under age 12 are married to adult men),

Slavery (girls are sold for “protection” by their parents and/or kidnapped and sold at slave bazaars),

Shari’a Councils (Imams marry girls – even for one hour– to men, then divorce them only to marry them to another man and divorce them again),

Wife abuse and domestic violence (husbands are instructed to beat their wives as a form of punishment); husbands are permitted to rape their wives,

Non-legal status for women who are considered property (a wife’s legal rights equate to only half of her husband’s),

Discrimination, punishment, and death for everyone based on sexual and religious orientation, especially if they will not “convert” to Islam.

By defending Islam is Mr. Obeidallah suggesting that women and girls should be legally subjugated to these practices?

If Islamic civilization has contributed so greatly to the world, and to the fictional American “heritage” Carly Fiorina suggests, perhaps she and Mr. Obeidallah can explain why “refugees” and “asylum seekers” are increasingly entering America and Western Europe by the millions, every year— from Islamic-controlled countries.

As a woman, I would never vote for anyone—especially another woman—who believes America’s hope lies in the poorest people in the world of whom the majority is illiterate. I would argue the reverse. Their hope lies in the unalienable rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, and by those willing to defend these rights from threats both foreign and domestic.

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Genocide on Hold: Victims of the Obama Bird Slaughter Score Key Victory in Court

baldeagles-540x399Victims of President Obama’s bird genocide won a crucial victory earlier this month when a federal judge struck down an Obama administration rule that would allow certain green energy producers to murder bald eagles with impunity for up to 30 years:

The express purpose of the 30-Year Rule was to facilitate the development of renewable wind energy, since renewable developers had voiced a need for longer-term permits to provide more certainty for project financing.

The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued the 30-Year Rule without preparing either an Environmental Assessment (EA) or an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); instead, the FWS determined that the 30-Year Rule was categorically exempt. In overturning the rule, the court found that the FWS had not shown an adequate basis in the administrative record for its decision not to prepare an EIS or EA and therefore failed to comply with NEPA’s procedural requirements.

In other words, the administration was trying to save the environment by letting approved energy producers murder birds, but didn’t bother studying whether avian genocide was good for the environment. Like Hillary with her private email server, the agency “didn’t really think it through.” Of course, this shouldn’t take away from the fact that the EPA is valuable federal agency that does a lot of great things. (Read more from “Genocide on Hold: Victims of the Obama Bird Slaughter Score Key Victory in Court” HERE)

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New Jersey Woman’s Obituary Asks Mourners to Not Vote for This Presidential Candidate

gravestoneOne New Jersey woman has a special request from beyond the grave: Stop Hillary Clinton.

“In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton,” Elaine Fydrych asked mourners at the end of her obituary, reports CBS Philly.

The native of Philadelphia, passed away in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, on Aug. 13, aged 63. Her distinctive obituary published in the South Jersey Times exemplified her humor, even in death. According to her biography, Fydrych loved theater, acting and comedy, The Huffington Post reports . . .

In the most recent CNN/ORC national poll, Clinton still took the lead with 47 percent of Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters, while Sanders earned 29 percent. In the same poll last month, Clinton had 56 percent and Sanders 19 percent. Additionally, the poll revealed that 53 percent of Democrats think Vice President Joe Biden should jump into the race, reports Politico.

In a hypothetical matchup against Republican candidate Donald Trump, Clinton still came out on top, but with slightly less of a lead. This month, Clinton earned 51 percent to beat out Trump’s 45 percent, while in July she had a 56 percent advantage to Trump’s 40 percent, Politico documents. (Read more from “New Jersey Woman’s Obituary Asks Mourners to Not Vote for This Presidential Candidate” HERE)

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Michelle Obama’s Trip to Italy, UK Ran Taxpayers More Than $240K on Airfare Alone

Michelle-Obama-CambodiaMichelle Obama’s June trip to Italy and the United Kingdom cost taxpayers more than $200,000 on air transportation alone, according to documents released by a government watchdog group.

The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch after filing a Freedom of Information Act request June 22, found that the First Lady’s international trip in June ran $240,495.67 in airfare costs. Obama, who was accompanied by her mother and daughters, took the six-day trip in late June and made stops in London, Milan, and Vicenza.

“According to the Air Force documents, the flights to London, England and Milan, Venice, and Vicenza, Italy, for the June 15–21, 2015, trip totaled 20:35 hours at the cost of $11,684 per hour, bringing the flight expense total to $240,495.67,” Judicial Watch writes.

The watchdog also notes that despite the White House billing the event as a part of Michelle’s “Let Girls Learn” and “Let’s Move” campaign, Michelle and company did their fair share of sightseeing on the trip and even sat down for tea at Kensington Place with Prince Harry. (Read more from “Michelle Obama’s Trip to Italy, UK Ran Taxpayers More Than $240K on Airfare Alone” HERE)

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The Federal Government Tried Before to Stop the Trafficking of Fetal Remains, and Failed

Doll-heads_compressed“We have gone down the proverbial slope,” said a legislative insider who had been involved in the congressional hearing held after the first baby body part scandal broke in 1999 and 2000. Roe v. Wade was “the first step. Now we have infanticide, and now we’ve rationalized the taking [of fetal tissue] for some other ‘good purpose.’ It’s even been said that these women were making ‘a great contribution to science’ by having their babies torn apart.”

Those scandalized by the new revelations about Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of fetal corpses may not know that the nation has dealt with this issue before. In 1993, Congress passed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act, which allowed federally-funded research using tissue from unborn children. It limited the trade but an industry arose that easily got around those limitations.

In 1999, Life Dynamics, Inc., uncovered the market in the parts taken from aborted children. As World magazine reported at the time, Life Dynamics’ investigation unearthed grim, hard-copy evidence of the cross-country flow of baby body parts, including detailed dissection orders, a brochure touting “the freshest tissue available,” and price lists for whole babies and parts. One 1999 price list from a company called Opening Lines reads like a cannibal’s wish list: Skin $100. Limbs (at least 2) $150. Spinal cord $325. Brain $999 (30% discount if significantly fragmented).

The story flared up briefly in the mainstream media. Then as now, some congressmen responded. In the Senate, Sen. Bob Smith (NH) offered an amendment to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. His amendment called for detailed reporting on the transactions of parts of aborted children. It lost on an almost party-line vote, 51-46, with four Republicans joining every Democrat in voting against it. In the House, Rep. Tom Tancredo offered a resolution calling for hearings on the issue, which passed on a voice vote. Hearings were held the next year.

The night before the hearings, the ABC news show 20/20 ran an exposé revealing the same practices the latest videos have exposed. Profit was being made from the sale of aborted fetuses and the procedures for performing the abortions were changed in order to get more saleable parts. (Here is a picture of the price list.) At the end of the program one co-host asked the other, “Chris, if there are laws on the books on this subject, why is it still going on? Why hasn’t something been done?” Chris Wallace answered, “It’s a question we kept asking in this investigation. We couldn’t find anyone in the federal government enforcing those laws.”

Things, however, didn’t change much. The major media quickly dropped the story. Congress did not move to ban the use of fetal body parts. A bill to increase reporting requirements for those who used fetal remains — including the requirement to state whether the tissue was obtained from an induced abortion — passed in the House but died in the Senate.

Eventually new guidelines slightly tightened those passed in 1993. The new guidelines banned the sale of fetal remains but allowed their use if the mother approved and the company was only reimbursed for the costs. Remains could not be trafficked across state lines.

The Unrecognized Reality

Our insider, whose current political involvements necessitate keeping his identity confidential, closely observed the media coverage and the congressional hearings in 2000. The reality of what was being done was laid out clearly, but many then, as now, didn’t find the news disturbing. ”You are overwhelmed by the fact that people are so out of touch with reality and what is right and what is wrong,” he said. “The amazing thing is that this obviously hasn’t changed.”

The news didn’t get out as far as it has with the current controversy, he continued. “I don’t think the media was nearly as aware. The average individual wasn’t as aware of what was actually going on as they are now. I think back then the penetration of the news on this issue was not to the depth and level that it is today.”

Congress was trying to make the practice illegal, he said, but “the problem is the utilization of that tissue is rationalized for a better purpose,” which meant there were financial and political incentives to preserve the market in fetal remains.

Further, he continued, there is a limit to what Congress can do. The laws that let abortionists traffic in fetal parts “are executive branch decisions and bureaucratic rulings. Congress could reverse them if Congress wanted to do it. But it requires a large, overwhelming vote.” That kind of majority is almost impossible to get, he said.

Part of the answer was in a return to the constitutional principles of federalism, with strict limits on what the federal government can do and most of the authority for decisions on such matters left to the states. “Anything that comes out of a Presidential Executive Order or a bureaucracy, like Health and Human Services or National Institute of Health, should have to be approved by our elected members of Congress, which is not the way it is right now. Congress did not do this — Congress could not do this.”

Defunding Planned Parenthood won’t eradicate the problem, he said, pointing out that it is a billion dollar a year business. (Planned Parenthood took in $1.4 billion last year with a profit of $127 million.) Abortion is such a big part of their business they’re not going to let anyone take it away from them without a bruising fight.

There Is a Solution

The problem, he emphasized several times, is moral and spiritual. “The very fact that we do these things and we consider them normal tells you where our culture is.” That culture determines what a legislature can do, and even if “pro-life legislation is passed, it can’t create the necessary spiritual change.”

“That’s how far we have rationalized this. Cowards rationalize things for expedient purposes all the time. To me it’s pretty black and white. We passed the corner of which morality has an input in the judgment of our nation. And the only way you fix that is with a spiritual renewal.”

“I don’t think we are any different than any other culture that is in decline, because we’ve abandoned the truth that’s set us free and we’ve abandoned the faith that gave us the moral values that allowed us to succeed. I don’t think it’s amazing at all that we have come to this. You see it in other cultures that are in decline. But yes, there is a solution. It’s in a spiritual renewal throughout our country.” (Re-posted with permission, “The Federal Government Tried Before to Stop the Trafficking of Fetal Remains, and Failed” originally appeared HERE)

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