Former SCOTUS clerk texts me: "That went about as badly for the pro-abortion side as it could reasonably have been expected to go." He's right. No missteps on pro-life side; no worrying lines of questions from the conservative justices; Kagan surprisingly quiet.
This is an amazing exchange. And it is how the Left consistently tries to win on these issues. Talking down to conservatives and claiming we’re responsible for violence. Kudos to
@HawleyMO
for not backing down.
A thought: It would be great if every pro-lifer here could find their nearest pregnancy resource center and make a commitment to donate $6.24, $62.40, or $624 (whatever you have capacity for) every year on this date. They do heroic work and deserve our support.
Remember when the city of Atlanta fired their fire chief because he wrote a book that had one page defending marriage as union of husband and wife? Well they just paid him $1.2 million for violating his rights. Great job
@AllianceDefends
“I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job.” — Antonin Scalia
If Roe is finally overturned, that isn't the end of the pro-life movement, but the beginning of a new stage. Time to pass laws to protect babies, craft pro-family policies, build support systems for women. So much of this already exists, and now is the time to take to next level.
Oh good grief, Sotomayor playing the "brain death" card now. There is no dispute about whether or not an unborn the baby is in fact a baby, a living human being. It's not a debate about when the baby is viable outside a womb, it's a question about whether the baby's life matters
God has blessed us with another child. Born at 2:22 this morning. 8 lbs, 5 oz. 22 in. Mama and baby (and other babies) all doing well. We are grateful.
You said the same about the baker, florist, photographer, right? The independent mom and pop stores with no market power at all, right? The ones that served all costumers but couldn’t celebrate all events with their own artistic work, right?
Plenty of arguments to make about Facebook's decisions but this now-common response of "I don't like what this private company did so our public officials should use their government powers to punish them" is an interesting philosophical development
People keep saying the biggest problem with yesterday's ruling is the violation of separation of powers, or that it was legislating from the bench. Those are problems. But not the biggest. The biggest problem is that the Court has imposed a harmful gender ideology on the nation.
Unreal. Justice Roberts just voted with the four liberals on an abortion case because of stare decisis... The precedent he's upholding is from a case just four years ago, that he dissented on. If he thought the Court got it wrong four years ago, today was his chance to correct it
I don’t know of a single state that bans “trans students from participating in school sports.” Smart states, though, have policies saying physical competition should be based on a student’s biology not “gender identity.”
Today the NCAA confirmed it will pull events from states with bills banning trans students from participating in school sports.
State lawmakers take note: discriminating against trans youth is wrong, against the law, and costly.
Colorado court just ruled that Jack Phillips has to create cakes celebrating sex reassignment.
@AllianceDefends
is on it: "The harassment of people like Jack and Barronelle has been occurring for nearly a decade and must stop. We will appeal this decision"
Parents have the primary responsibility for and authority over the education of their kids. Schools should be accountable to parents. And public schools to citizens. Of course parents/citizens should be telling schools what they should teach.
A week after they removed my book, Amazon still refuses to say which aspect of their "content policy" the book violates (after three years of not violating that policy). And they refuse to say which page of the book commits the offense. You can buy direct
I hope you’ve already bought your copy, cause Amazon just removed my book “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment” from their cyber shelves.... my other four books are still available (for now).
A huge win for
@ADFLegal
!
"In landmark victory, VA Supreme Court vindicates high school teacher fired over pronoun policy
Historic ruling affirms broad right to speak according to conscience and beliefs"
Anderson family is expanding. Our son knows it’s a baby human growing inside mama, he kisses her belly and prays for the baby. Our daughter is … apparently hoping for a baby dinosaur. Due to exit the womb 2/2/22.
Four years, two (human) kids, nine goats, thirteen sheep, twenty chickens, a dog and a cat later, and we still look at each other this way. Happy Anniversary to my bride, who is too virtuous to be on Twitter.
The intentional killing of children in the womb is unjust and immoral. It should be illegal. And yet rather than protect children from lethal violence our president proposes a budget forcing taxpayers to fund abortion. Rejecting the 40 year consensus on Hyde is a divisive mistake
God has blessed us with another son. Born this afternoon at 4:43. Weighing in at 8 pounds and 3 ounces, and 20 inches long. Mama and baby are doing great. Big brothers and sister adore him.
Hmmm. The Christian community was caring for widows and orphans long before LGBT ideology existed. And these agencies are more successful at finding children homes than secular and government agencies. But you favor shuttering them because ideology has blinded you. So sad.
You mean the orphans that you want religious adoption agencies to deprive of potential parents just because they're same-sex couples? Yeah, you really care about the kids, Ryan.
More of this: "Abortion clinics reported dramatic drops in patients on their schedules. And pregnancy crisis centers, where [pro-life] groups offer pregnancy services, reported surges in phone calls and walk-ins."
BREAKING: Gov signs law that everyone else says will protect faith-based adoption agencies from coercion, discrimination or punishment because they help orphans find homes with a mom and a dad.
This should have been clear to all long ago, but given the recent coverage of the Florida sex ed bill, the Missouri chemical abortion bill, the Texas heartbeat bill, etc. do not trust any mainstream media reports on social conservative legislation until you’ve verified yourself.
Today's ruling is the culmination of decades of public advocacy, of unheralded acts of love and mercy, and of unrelenting prayers for justice for the unborn and their mothers. It will be remembered and celebrated as one of the most important days in the history of this country...
The idea that helping a teenage girl feel comfortable as a girl is “conversion” but giving that girl high doses of testosterone and a double mastectomy is “affirmation” is Orwellian. And unethical.
@RyanTAnd
Yes Ryan - every major medical organization has explicitly labeled conversion therapy for
#trans
people unethical. You are the only one having this debate. Medical organizations are unanimous. Attacking me personally isn’t going to change that reality.
Great news!
#SCOTUS
just told the Washington state court to reconsider Barronelle Stutzman’s case in light of
#Masterpiece
. Barronelle is the florist who served a gay couple for a decade, but couldn’t do their wedding flowers, and the state AG went after her.
"The point of this harassment — and it is only harassment — is to bully and coerce dissidents into obedience and conformity. That 'dissident baker' is a genuine political category speaks eloquently to the insanity of our times."
@NRO
Remember all that inaugural address rhetoric about healing and unity? Well that very same day Biden issued this Executive Order. The federal government mandating that males be allowed inside female-only spaces and take places on female sports teams. Unity.
The American Journal of Psychiatry has issued a major correction to a recent study. Neither “gender-affirming hormone treatment” nor “gender-affirming surgery” reduced the need of transgender-identifying people for mental health services.
@PublicDiscourse
Orwellian. This would prevent efforts to help girls identify as girls. That’s what they’re calling “conversion therapy.” Meanwhile it’ll expand efforts to give girls puberty blockers and testosterone. That’s what they’re calling “gender affirmation.”
Outrageous: “The Pope has a bigger agenda," Cardinal Cupich said. "He's got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church. We're not going to go down a rabbit hole on this."
Throughout my wife’s pregnancy I’d say that I wasn’t going to change diapers. She’d roll her eyes, sigh, pity laugh, or just ignore me. You know, the usual. Baby has been out of the womb 7 days. Guess who has changed each and every diaper? He’s turned me into a giant softy.
"Every baby announcement, every sonogram image, every gender-reveal party, every baby shower, every first kick from the womb, every tragic miscarriage testifies to what we already know: they’re babies in there, and abortion kills them dead."
@JimDeMint
Gender dysphoria is listed in the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which Amazon sells. So the real deciding factor seems to be whether you endorse hormones and surgery as the proper treatment or counseling.
Great news! House committee just voted to prevent federal and state governments from discriminating against religious adoption agencies. Protecting the conscience rights and religious liberty of private adoption providers takes nothing away from others. This is a win-win!
So my book disappears from Amazon, and then
@DrDebraSoh
and
@AbigailShrier
books disappear from Target. Big Tech is really afraid of people reading books... But I'm sure it's all just a misunderstanding...
The use of puberty blockers to delay or permanently block natural biological puberty is unethical and violates the rights of children to bodily integrity. Prudent legislation is needed to prevent adults from interfering with a child’s bodily development.
"My once beautiful daughter is now nineteen, homeless, bearded, in extreme poverty, sterilized, not receiving mental health services, extremely mentally ill, and planning a surgical procedure that removes part of her arm to construct a fake penis."
Why would Amazon exercise its unrivaled market power to banish my book? Because the book is changing minds in a continuing debate about how best to help patients who experience gender dysphoria. My oped in tomorrow’s
@WSJopinion
Justice Clarence Thomas is always worth reading closely. Today is no exception. Read his entire concurrence today (starts at p. 9 of this PDF: ) and then note the reference here to Amazon... We need more legal thinkers like Justice Thomas.
Abortionists don't perform abortions to stop babies "from happening." They perform them on babies that have already "happened" in order to stop them from continuing to live.
That the left is spending so much time attacking Amy Barrett tells you that she’s the potential nominee they’re most afraid of. She’s ridiculously smart, young as far as SCOTUS goes (meaning she’d be on the Court a long time), and devoted to the rule of law (not of robed lawyers)
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.
Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.
Justice Thomas is one of the most joyful people I've ever met, and with the best belly laugh in the world. But one of these people does strike me as "a person of grievance for as long as I have known [her] — resentment, grievance, anger "
.
@HillaryClinton
: "I went to law school with [Justice Thomas]. He’s been a person of grievance for as long as I have known him — resentment, grievance, anger … Women are going to die, Gayle. Women will die.”
Amazon has finally responded. Everyone agrees that gender dysphoria is a serious condition that causes great suffering. There is a debate, however, which amazon is seeking to shut down, about how best to treat patients who experience gender dysphoria.
Great news! Trump FFA Office of Civil Rights "has notified San Antonio Airport & Buffalo Airport that it has opened investigations... Federal requirements prohibit airport operators from excluding persons on the basis of religious creed from participating in airport activities."
Unanimous Supreme Court ruling in favor of Catholic Social Services foster care agency! "The refusal of Philadelphia to contract with CSS unless CSS agrees to certify same-sex couples as foster parents violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment."
"If having a free society should mean anything, it ought to mean it’s possible to debate contentious issues on which reasonable people (and experts) can disagree. But we’ve gotten to the point where any debate about the treatment of children is shut down."
Took the two-year-old to daily Mass with me for the first time this morning. Then we got coffee and donuts. He loved it. So did I. The beginning of a new family tradition.
Outstanding! Kudos to
@MattWalshBlog
for this clear explanation and defense. He’s exactly right to say the central question is “what is marriage.”
@joerogan
if you want to think more on that, have I got a book for you…
@McCormickProf
@sherifgirgis
Phenomenal conversation between
@mattwalshblog
and
@joerogan
on marriage. So encouraging to see a prominent conservative not squish on the fundamental political institution, and equally encouraging to see the biggest podcaster in the world take the issue seriously.
Statement from my
@EPPCdc
colleague Roger Severino who sued President Biden two hours ago. For the legal eagles, will be very interesting to watch the legal argument Biden makes to justify this.
Blocking normal development and mutilating the body of a minor is unethical & should be illegal. “At 13 she was prescribed hormone blockers, and by 15 she’d had a double mastectomy. Now, at 16, she’s raising money on gofundme for a breast reconstruction.”
While you can’t buy the book on Amazon, you can still get it (for now?) at Barnes and Noble. Given the aggressive push on trans policies coming from the Biden admin, now is a great time to read it. Buy it before you no longer can.
Great news! Trump HHS published a new rule today eliminating an unlawful Obama-era rule that defined “sex” as “gender identity.” Obama HHS rule never went into effect as a federal judge ruled against it before it took effect. But it’s still good for Trump HHS to formally clarify.
As a new dad I find the fact that Catholic bishops would protect predatory priests utterly unfathomable.
As a believing Catholic I find it satanic.
As a struggling sinner I am grateful for God’s grace and for the many faithful priests who help me experience that grace.
Tough Words from Justice Clarence Thomas: "So what explains the Court’s refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named 'Planned Parenthood.'"
@NRO
@RameshPonnuru
This speech by
@AbigailShrier
is simply outstanding. Do yourself a favor and read it.
What I told the students of Princeton:
Show some self-respect and reclaim your freedom
1. impose sexual ideology.
2. compel speech.
3. shut down charities.
4. allow more biological males to defeat girls in sports.
5. coerce medical professionals.
6. lead to more parents losing custody of their children.
7. enable sexual assault.
@Heritage
Ooo boy. More false statements about me from a journalist at Jeff Bezos’s paper. For those not paying attention, Michelle is retaliating by quoting me out of context and adding a false referent because I criticized a story she wrote on the equality act in today’s paper.
Outstanding. More Governors need to follow
@GovRonDeSantis
’s lead.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis has instructed schools in his state to ignore President Joe Biden's new federal guidelines on inserting gender ideology into school curricula and counseling.”
At the ER with the toddler. Either a broken or dislocated toe. Finally got him to stop screaming. He’s being a champ. Me not so much. X-ray next. Prayers appreciated.
Guardian front page: what appears to be a change in policy, with 'unborn child' used to describe the baby in the womb. 👏👏
Is this the end of using language which dehumanises the baby in the womb? Will we see this term used to describe all pre-born, not just 'wanted' babies? 🤔
The most liberating thing you can do as a conservative is to stop caring about the approval of people who hate you. I've learned to see these media fights as accelerants to my campaigns, rather than personal judgements on me. They do not matter in my day-to-day life at all.
Oh yes. All those families I saw this morning who spent the night on buses traveling from Iowa and New Hampshire, they’re “power players trying to gain more influence.”
The
#MarchForLife
is an opportunity for anti-choice power players to network and try to gain more influence and make the movement appear more popular than it really is:
Why should a doctor perform surgery when it won’t make the patient happy, it won’t accomplish its intended goal, it won’t improve the underlying condition, it might make the underlying condition worse, and it might increase the likelihood of suicide?
For the past several months we’ve been building a barn. It’s now more or less finished. Tomorrow we go to pick up a cow—my birthday present from my wife…. Pics of the barn construction in the thread below.