Washington Governor Issues Directive Requiring Hospitals to Commit ‘Emergency’ Abortions
OLYMPIA, Washington (LifeSiteNews) — Washington Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee has issued a directive meant to force hospitals to provide “medically necessary” abortions in anticipation of a pending Supreme Court ruling about medical conscience rights that many in the abortion lobby fear will not go their way.
“I hereby direct the Department of Health to issue a policy statement reaffirming and clarifying the requirements under state law for hospitals to provide emergency abortion services,” reads Inslee’s June 11 directive. “Further, I direct the Department of Health to take enforcement action, in accordance with applicable law, against those hospitals that do not provide such required care.”
“Ideological politicians are relentlessly interfering with the most private and crucial health care decisions a doctor and their patient will ever make, and now they’re doing so even when the life of a mother hangs in the balance,” the governor added in a press release. “Fortunately, we’ve taken numerous steps in Washington to make sure patients in Washington are not subject to these horrors. Hospitals and clinics in Washington have become a haven for patients seeking the abortion care they can no longer access in other states. We will meet every challenge to women’s right of choice with an unwavering affirmation that Washington is and will remain a pro-choice state.”
The move is meant to prepare for the outcome of a current case at the nation’s highest court regarding the Biden administration’s efforts to force emergency room doctors in Idaho to participate in abortions under the guise of “medical necessity.”
In August 2022, the administration filed a lawsuit contending that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) overrides Idaho’s pro-life laws and requires emergency room doctors to commit abortions that would otherwise be illegal under state law. A lower court sided with the White House, prompting the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case and allow Idaho to continue to enforce its pro-life laws until it is resolved.
In April, Idaho Republican Attorney General Raúl Labrador, along with attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the law firm Cooper & Kirk, filed their reply brief laying out the case that the administration misreads and misapplies EMTALA in numerous ways, including that the law does not require procedures that violate state law, does not mandate services a particular hospital does not offer, and in fact requires hospitals to provide care for preborn children. The justices heard oral arguments later that month.
“We want the highest standard of care for women, and we do make an exception for abortion to save the life of the mother,” including in cases of ectopic pregnancy, Esther Ripplinger, president of Human Life of Washington, told NBC News in response to Inslee’s move. “But when you say ‘health’ is threatened — that’s an interesting proposal, because now, ‘health’ can mean, ‘Oh, I’ve got a headache, I need an abortion.’… We need to be very specific about what is that emergency and what is not.”
While some emergency situations in pregnancy can necessitate treatments indirectly resulting in a child’s death, numerous medical experts attest that intentionally killing a preborn baby is never medically necessary. Regardless, every state in the union with abortion prohibitions currently in effect also permits doctors to administer life-saving, non-abortive treatment to pregnant women even if it comes at the expense of a baby’s life.
Pro-abortion activists have long sought to keep abortion debates focused on such situations to divert attention from the vast majority of abortions that are sought for far less “sympathetic” reasons. They have gotten mileage out of that approach, which has helped defeat pro-lifers in recent state ballot referendums and convinced national Republicans to take a more moderate stance on life this year.
However, data released late last month by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, covering roughly 123,000 abortions across eight states in 2021 (the last full year that Roe v. Wade mandated legal abortion nationwide), found that alleged “risks to a woman’s life or a major bodily function” constituted just 0.3 percent of women’s reasons for abortion.
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Trudeau Gov’t Commits $110 Million to Fund DEI Projects, Consultants Looking for ‘Racism’
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking to spend $110 million of taxpayer money to fund yet another project driven by woke so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates.
The money will be used to hire DEI consultants tasked with looking into a supposed problem of “racism” in Canada. The funding will be given to “hundreds” of different projects linked to a DEI agenda across the country, announced Minister of Diversity, Inclusion, and Persons with Disabilities Kamal Khera over a week ago.
According to Khera, the new DEI “strategy” called “Changing Systems, Transforming Lives: Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy” incorporates the “voices and lived experiences of thousands of Canadians, and enhances our whole government approach to combating racism and discrimination in all its forms.”
The DEI program is set to run through 2028, with no less than $70 million going to local programs.
“Our goal with this strategy is to combat all forms of racism and drive positive change in the lives of Canadians,” Khera said.
The Trudeau government claims that “Indigenous, Black, racialized and religious minority communities continue to face barriers to inclusion due to racism and discrimination.”
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the promotion of so-called DEI requirements on employers because of a push for it from Trudeau’s federal government.
LifeSiteNews recently reported on Trudeau’s Liberal government spending over $30 million on DEI-affiliated contracts among many federal ministries since January 2019.
This has led to an increase in woke ideology creeping into all parts of society. As LifeSiteNews reported recently, the University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver campus posted an opening for a research chair position but has essentially barred non-homosexual white men from applying for the job.
When it comes to DEI, Elon Musk has been a formidable opponent to discriminatory hiring practices. In Canada, the only main party speaking out against it is the People’s Party of Canada under leader Maxime Bernier. He has been outspoken against radical gender ideology repeatedly over the last few years as well as the COVID jabs and mandates.
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Spain: New Bill Targets ‘Pseudomedia’ in Press Freedom Crackdown
A regional bill in Spain will provide a preview of the restraints on freedom of the press planned by the country’s Socialist government.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced recently that by July he would propose legislation for “democratic renewal,” specifically to “end the impunity” of what he called “pseudomedia.” These so-called pseudomedia outlets, according to Sánchez, “spread hoaxes and disinformation” with the help of financing from “the far-right coalition governments of the [center-right] Partido Popular and [populist] VOX.” The two parties have formed coalitions in several of Spain’s regional governments.
Sánchez promised this initiative when his wife came under investigation for alleged corruption and influence trafficking following months of reports in several Spanish media outlets that questioned her activities.
A few weeks before Sánchez delivers his promised legislation, the Socialist party in Andalusia has registered a bill in the regional parliament with the same end in mind.
El Debate reports that the bill includes proposals to “dignify” the profession of journalism through legislation “against hoaxes” and new rules around where the government can place advertising to prevent “pseudomedia” and “pseudojournalists” from receiving advertising money from the regional government.
The deputy spokesman for the Andalusian socialists, Josele Aguilar, claimed the proposal arose from his party’s concern over the state of “general disinformation” in Spain and Andalusia.
Additionally, the bill would include journalists in the government jobs scheme which stipulates the requirements for each post in public employment, specify which degrees are required for journalists, create support measures to “update” journalists over the age of 50, and measures to differentiate between “those who practice journalism as a professional or as a political agitator.”
For the general public, there are other measures to spread “digital literacy” among citizens so they “have the ability to discern” between information and “hoaxes.”
The Socialists will have the chance to defend their bill in the Andalusian parliament next week but it will be a tough sell as the center-right Partido Popular has an absolute majority in the chamber. It will, however, provide a platform for the Socialist Party to accuse their political opponents of fermenting “hoaxes,” accusations which will be echoed in government-friendly media throughout the country.
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