68 Republicans Urge Supreme Court to let South Carolina Defund Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Sixty-eight Republican members of Congress signed onto an amicus brief filed July 5 in support of South Carolina’s right to exclude Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses from the state Medicaid program.
In March, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that South Carolina had to restore Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood after deeming the abortion giant not qualified, claiming Medicaid recipients had a right to the provider of their choice. The U.S. Supreme Court had previously ordered the Fourth Circuit to reconsider its prior ruling to that effect in light of its Talevski ruling, which concerned whether the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA) created federal rights healthcare recipients could enforce via lawsuits.
“Congress did not unambiguously create a right for Medicaid recipients to drag states into federal court to challenge those decisions, so no such right exists,” Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy John Bursch said. “The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Talevski makes that even clearer.”
The brief to the Supreme Court, headed by South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Sen. Tim Scott and signed by a total of seven senators and 58 House members, argues that the Fourth Circuit’s decision “will open the door to costly and unwarranted litigation and will undermine Congress’s prerogative to decide whether a statute should be enforced through private litigation.”
“Congress alone can create private rights of action. Amici believe that because Congress has not spoken clearly here, Section 1983 cannot support Planned Parenthood’s or its client’s claims to a private right of action under the Medicaid Act’s any-qualified-provider provision,” it argues. “Congress knows how to create a private right of action, but it did not do so here. Amici therefore urge this Court to grant the petition and reverse the decision.”
“Private parties like Planned Parenthood have no right to undermine congressional intent by forcing states to say that Planned Parenthood is a qualified Medicaid provider,” Norman said. “South Carolina has every right to determine what qualifies and disqualifies Medicaid healthcare providers operating within our state. That was precisely the intent of Congress. My hope is the Court will see this lawsuit for what it truly is: a misguided attempt to undermine that authority.”
“The people of South Carolina have made it clear they support the right to life, and therefore, should not be forced to spend taxpayer dollars to fund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,” South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster added. “I thank Congressman Norman, Senator Graham, Senator Scott, and the 65 other members of Congress who are standing with South Carolina to oppose this federal overreach and protect our ability to defend our values.”
Fourteen states currently ban all or most abortions. But the abortion lobby is working feverishly to cancel out those deterrent effects by deregulated interstate distribution of abortion pills, legal protection and financial support of interstate abortion travel, constructing new abortion facilities near borders shared by pro-life and pro-abortion states, making liberal states sanctuaries for those who want to evade or violate the laws of more pro-life neighbors, and enshrining abortion “rights” in state constitutions.
Taxpayer funding is key to perpetuating the abortion industry in the post-Roe v. Wadelandscape. Nationally, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s annual report released in April reveals that the organization committed 392,715 abortions in the most recent reporting period, a record number. Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in government grants and reimbursements in 2023, a 4.2 percent rise over its funding the previous year.
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Merck Defrauded the Public for Over a Decade, Falsely Advertising Their MMR Vaccine as ‘Safe & Effective’ Against Staggering Evidence
Much of the well-established “vaccine science” that Americans trust is really just fraudulent marketing and rigged trials put forth by the pharmaceutical companies. The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently heard oral arguments for a lawsuit alleging that Merck fraudulently marketed its MMR vaccine.
The most trusted medical intervention is based on decades of fraudulent advertisement, misbranding, mislabeling
For decades, the medical community insisted the vaccines are the most thoroughly studied pharmaceutical product in the history of medicine. However, there are no federally funded studies comparing vaccinated populations against unvaccinated populations because scientists believe it is unethical to withhold these “lifesaving” vaccines from children. The proper double blind, saline, placebo-controlled studies do not take place because of a longstanding bias that the vaccines are necessary for human life and should not be withheld from children. This supposition disregards historical evidence of populations that were never subjected to these products but did however develop natural immunity to various infectious diseases.
The scientific and medical community must take a more critical look at the safety and necessity of today’s vaccine schedule. The father of modern vaccinology himself, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, recently admitted that vaccines are not properly studied — neither pre-licensure nor post-licensure. Plotkin admitted that “prelicensure clinical trials have limited sample sizes [and] follow-up durations” and that “there are not resources earmarked for post authorization safety studies.”
Merck defrauded the CDC, FDA and the general public with its ineffective and unsafe MMR vaccine
For over three decades, Merck scientists have been aware that their measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) combination vaccine is less effective than the company proposes on its original product license and product insert. Over the years, researchers have demonstrated that Merck’s MMR vaccine loses efficacy over time. Instead of suspending sales and rendering the vaccine defective, Merck has pushed state legislatures to mandate the vaccine for schoolchildren, going as far as to lobby state reps to abolish philosophical, religious and medical exemptions to their vaccine.
Merck’s own test results for the MMR vaccine did not meet the FDA’s specifications and acceptance criteria for drug applications. Instead of withdrawing the product and issuing a product recall, the FDA allowed the vaccine on the market. The CDC continued to purchase the defective vaccine while the public was unaware and misinformed of its failing efficacy and growing risk profile.
By April 2012, two Merck virologists – Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski – became whistleblowers against Merck. They filed two lawsuits against their employers, alleging the company falsified research data, enabling the formation of a monopoly on the MMR vaccine. An expert witness from the FDA, ex-commissioner Dr. David A. Kessler, provided Merck’s own internal documents to show that the vaccine was “misbranded” “out of compliance” and “non-marketable.” Witnesses to the case allege that Merck scientists began “falsifying data and destroying unfavorable data” to make the MMR vaccine appear safe and effective.
The whistleblowers allege that Merck defrauded the U.S. government regulatory agencies, misleading them to purchase 4 million doses of misbranded and mislabeled MMR vaccine every year for at least a decade.
MMR vaccine’s false sense of security putting future generations at risk
Over the years, the vaccine’s lack of efficacy has given vaccinated populations a false sense of security and has led to mumps and measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations. Merck has known this for many years, but they have continued to deceive the public, the FDA and the CDC, destroying any shred of informed consent on the matter, and maintaining a monopoly on a product that doctors and parents have blindly trusted for decades.
So far, Merck has received favorable rulings because their defense contends that the CDC continued to purchase the vaccine and the FDA did not require any changes throughout the years. However, not providing the latest data and science on the MMR vaccine constitutes a willful act of fraud on behalf of Merck. This level of fraud has deeply affected many generations of people. Some have lost loved ones to the vaccine’s adverse events and others have received little to no immunity to measles, mumps and rubella – putting them at greater risk to the target infectious diseases over time. The loss of passively acquired maternal antibodies for infants can also be traced back to the failures of the MMR vaccine. Decades of Merck’s MMR vaccine fraud will have vast and potentially drastic consequences for future generations of children.
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Australian Lawmaker to Introduce Bill Requiring Religious Schools to Employ Homosexual Teachers
(LifeSiteNews) — A South Australian lawmaker plans to table a new bill that would require religious schools to employ homosexual teachers.
Robert Simms, an openly homosexual member of the upper house of South Australia’s Parliament and member of the leftist Greens Party, told Australian newspaper The Advertiser that he hopes to propose the aforementioned bill in August to eradicate exemptions for religious institutions.
“It is outrageous that in 21st-century South Australia, a gay teacher working in a religious school can be in fear of losing their job simply because of their sexuality … Surely all South Australians deserve equal protection before the law?” Simms said in comments cited by Russia Today.
Simms also told The Advertiser that it was “disappointing to see the Federal Government dragging their heels” on the issue, urging the South Australian government to “step up” and introduce the amendments, Russia Today added.
In statements to LifeSiteNews, Warwick D’Silva, national president of the Australian Family Association (AFA), criticized Simms’ proposal, declaring:
Robert Simms’s plan to remove current exemptions for faith-based schools from South Australia’s anti-discrimination law smacks of hypocrisy. Would Simms support legalization taking away the freedom of his Greens Party to employ only those who support Greens’ policy? Would the Greens support legislation that denied them the freedom to refuse employment to a member of the Liberal Party who was also a strong opponent of the Greens?
D’Silva added:
Simms says that these exemptions ‘allow discrimination’ against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. They don’t allow discrimination, they allow religious schools the freedom, the liberty, to employ teachers and staff in accordance with the deeply held beliefs on matters of sex, natural marriage and family. The current exemptions for faith-based schools in the South Australian Equal Opportunity Act protect the inherent right of parents to have their children raised and educated in accordance with their beliefs, as recognized in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 18(4) calls on governments to have ‘respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.’ Mr Simms’s proposals would violate this fundamental human right of parents, just as taking away the rights of political parties to employ only those who respected the principles and policies of their party would violate the civil and political rights of all political parties.
Meanwhile, removing faith school exemptions at the state level would not dispense with federal protections.
“Should Simms succeed in removing the exemptions for faith-based schools in South Australian law, current federal exemptions for religious schools would take precedence,” D’Silva told LifeSiteNews. “This means that the freedom of SA religious schools to choose who they wish to employ would be preserved under the Federal Sex Discrimination Act.”
Simms’ suggestion comes in wake of a heated debate over the employment of LGBT staff in faith-based organizations, such as religious schools, in Australia.
In May, non-profit LGBT organization Equality Australia urged the Australian federal government to “protect” LGBT staff and students in religious schools.
“Every day the government delays is another day more harm is being done because religious schools are allowed to discriminate against staff and students who are gay, trans, pregnant, divorced, or unmarried,” CEO Anna Brown claimed in remarks citedby Cityhub.
Also, in March, the Australian federal government published a report finalized by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in late 2023. Notably, the ALRC suggested removing the exemption in Section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act that permits religious schools to hire staff in accordance with their beliefs.
An excerpt of the ALRC report reads:
… the Australian Government’s commitment is that an educational institution conducted in accordance with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed: must not discriminate against a student on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or relationship status or pregnancy; must not discriminate against a member of staff on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or relationship status or pregnancy.
Furthermore, the ALRC suggested that religious institutions be permitted to choose like-minded staff as per their religious beliefs if it is “reasonably necessary” and “proportionate” to ensuring a community of faith without violating sex discrimination laws, as per a March report by Crux.
In response to the ALRC’s suggestions, Crux reported that Australian churches submitted a letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese objecting to any efforts to remove legal exemptions for faith-based schools.
Australian National Catholic Education Commission executive director Jacinta Collins, Melbourne Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli, Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Melkite Bishop Robert Rabbat, Maronite Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, Chaldean Bishop Amel Nona and Catholic Schools NSW chief executive Dallas McInerney were some of the Catholic signatories of the letter.
Jacinta Collins underscored that current Australian law enables Catholic and other faith-based schools to employ and enroll staff and students based on their faith.
“The recommendations would severely limit the ability of our schools to operate and teach according to our ethos and are at odds with the Inquiry’s terms of reference, and the desire of families to choose a faith-based school for their children,” she said in comments cited by Crux in March.
“The ALRC has critically neglected the Attorney General’s third term of reference to ensure that religious schools can ‘continue to build a community of faith by giving preference, in good faith, to persons of the same religion as the educational institution in the selection of staff.’”
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World’s Top Vaccinologist Comes Clean: “We Lied About Vaccines Being Safe”
One of the world’s top vaccinologist’s has come clean and admitted that mRNA jabs are not safe for public consumption. After decades of aggressively promoting the experimental jabs, Dr. Stanley Plotkin is finally admitting that vaccine safety […]
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Failed GREEN Deal? Biden Awards Nearly $2B to Carmakers to Boost EV Sales Because Almost Nobody Wants to Buy Them at Fair Market Prices
President Joe Biden’s drive to force people to totally ditch fossil fuel-engine cars and switch to electric vehicles (EVs) for zero-emission is not going according to plan as demand for EVs continues to plummet. To salvage his failing green deal with the globalists, he is spending $1.7 billion in taxpayers’ money to modernize automobile manufacturing facilities in eight states.
Claiming to help the EV industry compete with foreign subsidies, save 15,000 jobs and create nearly 3,000 new positions, the current administration will extend grants to 11 selected manufacturing plants in eight states, including in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, that have temporarily closed or were at risk of closing. The money will be dedicated to retrofitting factories, installing equipment and bolstering annual production.
This will also allow at-risk facilities to convert to manufacturing electric vehicles, related components and a broad range of new-generation cars, such as fuel cell vehicles, hybrid cars and high-growth vehicle drive trains.
The federal funding for the move, which is a part of the Automotive Community Benefits Plan, will come from the Inflation Reduction Act, according to reports. Among those who will receive the grants are auto manufacturing giants including Fiat-Chrysler, which will be given $584 million; General Motors, $500 million; Harley Davidson, $89 million; and Volvo, $208.2 million.
“Building a clean energy economy can and should be a win-win for union autoworkers and automakers,” Biden said in a statement. “This investment will create thousands of good-paying, union manufacturing jobs and retain even more – from Lansing, Michigan to Fort Valley, Georgia – by helping auto companies retool, reboot and rehire in the same factories and communities.”
The funding will complement the White House’s $177 billion investment in EV and battery manufacturing, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.
Moreover, top White House economist Lael Brainard explained that the investment is projected to generate $3.9 billion in total economic value and ensure that the United States keeps its climate goals intact. “We will not let our transition to clean energy be a zero-sum game where workers get left behind and where local plants close and move overseas,” Brainard said. “The president will not take his foot off the pedal when it comes to supporting the U.S. auto industry.”
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Meanwhile, reports indicate that Biden has been courting auto workers since the weeks-long standoff between the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and the Big Three automakers – Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Stellantis – in September 2023. “He heard the call and stood up and showed up,” UAW President Shawn Fain lauded Biden as he spoke at a picket line in Michigan. “This November, we can stand up and elect someone who stands with us and supports our cause, or we can elect someone who will divide us and fight us every step of the way. That’s what this choice is about.”
Survey: Owners of EVs report 266 problems per 100 vehicles
A unique selling point for selling electric cars is that they would “save the planet from greenhouse gasses.” However, the most attractive value proposition is that they are convenient – they require less maintenance than traditional gas-powered vehicles, no oil changes, less gunk and fewer moving parts. But a recent poll revealed problems that overshadow these said benefits.
Data analytics and consumer intelligence company JD Power recently conducted a survey and found that people who own internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles reported having 180 problems per 100 vehicles (PP100), while EV buyers have 266 PP100. According to the poll, the problems had little to do with the mechanics of EVs and almost entirely to do with the tech as they are essentially “giant computers on wheels.”
“Owners of cutting edge, tech-filled BEVs and PHEVs are experiencing problems that are of a severity level high enough for them to take their new vehicle into the dealership at a rate three times higher than that of gas-powered vehicle owners,” Frank Hanley, JD Power’s senior director of auto benchmarking, said in a statement.
Even Big Tech mogul Elon Musk’s Tesla, which typically performed better than legacy automaker’s EVs in past surveys, rated as poorly as the rest. JD Power attributes this to major design changes in Teslas, such as the removal of traditional feature controls like turn signal and wiper stalks.
The analytics firm also indicated that the major concern that came out of the study is that the auto industry is haphazardly racing to cram as much software into their models as possible. According to the report, customers get irritated about false rear-seat warnings and inaccurate and annoying alerts from advanced driver-assist systems, especially around new features like rear cross-traffic warnings and reverse automatic emergency braking. It has also listed that EVs had 30 percent more problems with “Features, Controls and Displays” than ICE vehicles.
“Customers most frequently experience difficulties connecting their phones to their vehicle or losing connection,” the findings further included. “More than 50 percent of Apple users and 42 percent of Samsung users access their respective feature every time they drive, illustrating that customers want their smartphone experience brought into the vehicle and also desire the feature to be integrated wirelessly.”
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UN Estimates it will Take at Least 15 Years to Clear Gaza of Bombing Debris
Clearing the rubble left from Israel’s sweeping bombardment of the Gaza Strip is expected to take 15 years and cost between $500m and $600m, the UN said on Monday.
The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa) posted on X about the staggering cost and years needed for reconstruction, saying the debris are a potential threat and “harmful”.
“Debris poses a deadly threat for people in the Gaza Strip as it can contain unexploded ordnance and harmful substances,” Unrwa said, adding that it would take more than 100 trucks to clear rubble.
The values show how difficult it will be to rebuild Gaza, even as Israel continues to pummel the enclave.
Israel dropped at least 70,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza between 7 October and 4 May, surpassing the World War II bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined, according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Unrwa cited a report from the UN environment programme released in June which said that 137,297 buildings had been damaged in Gaza, more than half the enclave’s total. It would take sprawling landfill sites occupying between 250 and 500 hectares to dump the rubble, the report said.
The report also said that Israel’s offensive likely set the Gaza Strip back 44 years in terms of the development of healthcare, education and wealth.
The report found that explosive weapons used in the war have generated around 39 million tonnes of debris, with every square metre of Gaza littered with more than 107kg of debris on average.
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“All of this is deeply harming people’s health, food security and Gaza’s resilience,” said UN environmental programme (Unep) executive director, Inger Andersen.
Israel’s war is exacerbating an already deteriorating environment in Gaza, where over 92 percent of water was deemed unfit for human consumption in 2020.
The UN report came as a result of a request from the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority in December, in which it called on Unep to look into environmental damages in Gaza.
Climate change and Israel’s attacks on environmental infrastructure have long plagued Gaza and other parts of occupied Palestine.
After the Nakba, which refers to the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestinian communities in 1948 by Zionist forces, the Jewish National Fund planted monoculture forests of pine trees, which destroy bio-diversity and indigenous lands, often on the ruins of Palestinian villages.
At least 38,664 Palestinians have been killed and 89,097 wounded by Israel’s war on Gaza since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday.
At least 80 Palestinians were killed and 216 wounded by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
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