Pro-life victories in Texas cause woke corporations to flip out
Summary
In pro-life news this week, the Supreme Court decision allowing the Texas heartbeat law to stand is creating a stir with some companies like Uber and Lyft trying to undermine the law, and even a bomb threat against the Texas Right to Life group.
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In pro-life news this week, the Supreme Court decision allowing the Texas heartbeat law
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to stand is creating a stir with some companies like Uber and Lyft, the popular taxi alternatives
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trying to undermine the law, and even a bomb threat against the Texas pro-life group.
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But the law is estimated to have already saved the lives of over a thousand babies, and it
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has led to the courts approving other pro-life laws in other states.
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Meanwhile, there are pro-life victories in England and India too.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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The Texas heartbeat abortion law, which basically bans abortion after six weeks' gestation,
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was able to go into effect September 2nd after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled
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5-4 to reject an emergency request to block the law by abortion activists.
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Instead of having the state prosecute violators, it exclusively empowers private citizens to
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bring civil suits against abortionists or those who aid or abet abortions, punishable by a minimum
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Texas Right to Life set up a website called Pro-Life Whistleblower, where concerned Texans can
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anonymously report abortionists who commit abortions after finding a heartbeat or without testing
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for a heartbeat, as well as anyone who would aid or abet such an abortion.
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Now, the web hosting giant GoDaddy, which is of course famous for originally advertising
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with scantily clad women, kicked Texas Right to Life off their platform, off their servers.
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And if you want to make your views about that known to GoDaddy, you can call GoDaddy at their
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24-7 support line, 480-463-8390, and tell them what you think.
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Responding to GoDaddy's nastiness, Seth Dillon, the CEO of the popular Christian satire site,
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the Babylon Bee, said he will be donating $20,000 to Texas Right to Life.
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You know, indeed, abortion activists are not very happy with the heartbeat law.
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So much so that one of them sent in a bomb threat to Texas Right to Life.
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Texas Right to Life was forced to evacuate its Houston headquarters late on Friday over an emailed
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bomb threat. Police were called around 10.15 a.m. September 10th after receiving the bomb threat,
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and while the police were on the scene, a postal worker delivered a suspicious package.
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Officers immediately evacuated the building and called in the Houston Police Department's
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bomb squad. The bomb squad evaluated the package with an x-ray and determined the contents were
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not harmful. Meanwhile, the popular taxi alternatives Uber and Lyft have shown themselves to be
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abortion activists. Both companies have promised to pay the legal fees for drivers who are sued under
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Texas's new law, the new heartbeat law. Lyft CEO Logan Green also said that he'd donate a million
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dollars to Planned Parenthood. Uber CEO Dara Kazawali echoed Green's commitment to paying the fines of
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those Uber and Lyft drivers who aid and abet criminal abortions, by the way, driving people to their
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illegal abortions. Uber has also canceled a driver for refusing to drive a woman to an abortion facility.
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So if you ever wanted a motivation to get back to regular taxi service, you've got it now.
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The CEO and co-owner of a video game development company called Tripwire Interactive has also been
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forced out of his job after he made comments on Twitter in support of the Texas law. John Gibson wrote
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on September 4th on Twitter, quote, proud of U.S. Supreme Court affirming the Texas law banning abortion
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for babies with a heartbeat, end quote. He added that, as an entertainer, I don't get political
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often, yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of the issue, I felt it was important to go on
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the record as a pro-life game developer. Gibson stepped down as CEO of Tripwire Interactive as of
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September 6th, two days after the tweet, according to the company, and he co-founded the Georgia-based
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corporation in January 2005. Not surprisingly, the Biden administration has launched a federal lawsuit
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Thursday against Texas over the law, claiming it violates both federal law and long-standing
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judicial president. I guess he thinks he knows better than the Supreme Court. Well, in a press scrum,
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Biden lambasted the Texas law, suggesting it is un-American. Have a look.
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The most pernicious thing about the Texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system
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where people get rewards to go out to, anyway. And it just seems, I know this sounds ridiculous,
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almost un-American, what we're talking about. But the heartbeat legislation in Texas has also had
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positive feedback around the nation, as several states have already signed similar legislation.
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On Thursday, Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma celebrated nine new pro-life laws, including a
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heartbeat bill, with a ceremonial bill signing. Governor Stitt was unapologetic about the pro-life
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quote, I promised Oklahomans that I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across
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my desk, and I am proud to keep that promise. Governor Stitt added, and I quote again,
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as a father of six, it is an honor to be the most pro-life governor in the country,
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and I will always step up to protect the lives of unborn children, end quote.
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And the Supreme Court win has already led to wins in other courts as well. The Seventh Circuit Court
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of Appeals on September 8th ruled in favor of Indiana's bid to enforce several pro-life laws,
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including a prohibition on chemical abortion, that's chemical abortion drugs being dispensed
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through telemedicine, as well as establishing health and safety standards for abortion facilities.
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Two of the three federal judges on the panel ruled that Indiana would likely succeed in its legal
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battles and overturned a stay or pause on the enforcement of laws, some of which have been
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on the books for years. But rulings from the courts have not all been positive. On Tuesday,
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outside the United States, in Mexico, the Mexican Supreme Court struck down several articles that
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protected unborn life in the penal code of the Mexican state of Coahuila, potentially opening
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the door to legal abortion throughout Mexico. Currently, elective abortion is legal in Mexico City
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and in the states of Oaxa, Hidalgo, and Veracruz until the unborn child is 12 weeks of old. Since 2019,
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abortions for reasons of rape have been permissible throughout the country,
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though elective abortion has remained illegal. Coahuila is the most recent state to change its
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tune on the legality of abortion, although decriminalized does not make the procedure
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legal per se. Coahuila shares a border with the American state of Texas, by the way.
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So Mexico, of course, is home to the famous apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
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who appeared almost 500 years ago to St. Juan Diego, in what is now Mexico City. Our Lady of Guadalupe
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is the patroness of the unborn, and historically, Mexico, a devout Catholic nation. The abortion
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debate, however, is very contentious in Mexico, even among Mexicans who do not practice the faith.
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Almost immediately after the pro-abortion decision, a major earthquake struck near the port of Acapulco.
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And the quake was measured at a 7.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, and aftershocks of it were felt
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as far inland as Mexico City. Over a million people were left without power for a time,
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and so far, at least one person has been killed as a result. Meanwhile, in India, the High Court of
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the Indian state of Kerala dismissed a mother's request to abort her 31-week-old baby, stating that,
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quote, right to life of an unborn cannot be treated differently from a born child. And this is
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quoting directly from the ruling of the Indian court, in the absence of any threat to the life
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or health of the mother, the reproductive choice of the mother, which is a facet of the fundamental
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right guaranteed to her under Article 21 of the Constitution, will have to give way to the right
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of the unborn to be born. Article 21 of the Indian Constitution secures two rights, the right to
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life and the right to personal liberty. The ruling says, quote, the unborn has life from the stage it
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transforms into a fetus. If the unborn has life, though it is not a natural person, it can certainly
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be considered as a person within the meaning of Article 21 of the Constitution, for there is absolutely
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no reason to treat an unborn child differently from a born child. End quote. And speaking of good pro-life
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news internationally, the UK held its annual March for Life on Saturday, gathering around 4,000 pro-life
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activists who marched through the streets of London with the slogan, Life from Conception, No Exception.
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The march ended in prayer with a blessing from Bishop Swabek of the Diocese of Lancaster,
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and I'll sign off on this happy note for Wednesday, September 15th. May God bless you.
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The river is full of little drops of rain, and each one of you, each contribution,
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is a little drop that's making that river great. So whoever you are, wherever you're from,
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whatever your faith, whatever holds your life together, whatever experiences you've been
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through, and whatever awaits us along the road, let's value this moment.
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Abortion's the number one issue for today because the right to life is the most fundamental human
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right of all. So if you're not going to argue for the right to life for everyone, then all
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other human rights are extinct. In a society where unborn babies are not valued, how can you
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As we abolished the death penalty for the guilty, why do we still have it for the innocent?
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Today I have come to support March for Life. I have been there, I've been through it,
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and I know how difficult it is. Sometimes you need somebody to let you know that you can do it,
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no matter how difficult it is. Abortion is not giving an opportunity for another life to live.
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You don't know what that child is going to be. No reason is good enough to have the abortion.
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I'm here today knowing that it's a pregnant woman walking down the street, sees the March,
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and she's considered an abortion. She might hear us, she might see us, she might see one particular
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banner, the banner I saw, and she might cancel her abortion.
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In years to come, when people look back with clarity at this number one issue,
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the greatest human rights violation of all time, and they ask, how could there be so many
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bystanders? Let no one be able to say, that among those bystanders was you or me?
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