For the President’s State of the Union Address last week, it was my pleasure to bring Kristin Akin (pictured) as my guest. She and her husband Justin lost their two sons from a rare disease, Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), and have since started a foundation to spread awareness about HLH and help other families in need. They are inspiring advocates, and I appreciate all the work they have done.
I agree with the President that Republicans and Democrats need to put politics aside and work together to better our nation. There is broad, bipartisan support to keep the government open and secure our border.
We can and will join together and pass legislation to provide for paid family leave, rebuild our infrastructure, protect those with pre-existing conditions, and lower healthcare costs for everyday Americans.
The President is committed to reaching across the aisle in support of these critical priorities and I will work with him and my colleagues in the House to bolster our national security, ensure our economy remains prosperous for all, and make life better for Americans in communities around the country. Our economy is strong and we are clearly on the right path forward, but the gridlock that has grown to define American politics must be broken so we can do even better.
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I have been horrified to watch radical Democrat legislators argue that babies who survive abortions should not be given the same level of medical care that all other newborn babies receive.
Congress must act to protect those who cannot protect themselves. That is why I introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which ensures that babies who survive abortions receive immediate, lifesaving care—just as any other baby would. To my colleagues, this is the simplest vote you will ever take: either you support babies being denied lifesaving healthcare after they are born or you don’t. It is time to go on the record and make clear whether you think babies born alive deserve medical care, or whether you think they should be left to die.
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Congress must act to protect those who cannot protect themselves. That is why I introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which ensures that babies who survive abortions receive immediate, lifesaving care—just as any other baby would. To my colleagues, this is the simplest vote you will ever take: either you support babies being denied lifesaving healthcare after they are born or you don’t. It is time to go on the record and make clear whether you think babies born alive deserve medical care, or whether you think they should be left to die.
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The trauma of trafficking can be long-lasting, and victims need every ounce of support we can give them. It has been estimated that fewer than 15% of trafficking victims get restitution in federal sex trafficking cases.
This is unacceptable, and the Put Trafficking Victims First Act directs the Attorney General to work on increasing restitution and adopt victim-friendly procedures in criminal cases. This legislation will help promote trauma-informed care that helps victims recover and cooperate with law enforcement so we can put pimps and buyers behind bars.
We also encourage law enforcement to make every attempt to determine whether an individual’s participation in trafficking is free from force, fraud, or coercion before arresting or charging them. Lack of help for victims in the justice system can tragically lead to re-victimization, or even result in victims being criminalized for offenses they were forced to commit. Most importantly, the bill calls on states to expand victim services including better screening of children in the welfare system, job counseling, and housing.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee heard testimony on U.S. relations with Syria and Yemen last week. Our Gulf partners have proven invaluable in opposing Iran’s destabilizing agenda, fighting terrorism, and recognizing Israel’s right to exist. I believe we must continue holding our allies to a high ethical and humanitarian standard. I appreciated the opportunity to discuss U.S. efforts to prevent civilian casualties and foster respect for human rights in the Arabian Peninsula.
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People who perform and support abortionsmay think they are getting by with something, but on the day they meet their maker, they will receive their punishment. I hope they repent before they die.
I wouldn't want to be them.
God loves the little children.
@ 8:36
According to U.N.I.C.E.F. the statistics for deaths of children 5 years of age and under in our world is 29,000 each day. More than 70% are attributable to diarrhea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, preterm delivery, or lack of oxygen at birth. An omnipotent god that created the universe with the capability to know all humans from the time in the womb, during life, and after death, allows this to occur and you dare say that he loves little children? I’m not sure what type of loving god deprives innocent children of the average life expectancy of a human on this earth. It certainly isn’t because they are sinners, although according to at least one god, everyone since Adam & Eve we’re sinners. This god you speak of, that allows for people that perform and support abortions to merely repent before they die and be forgiven with him, so I’m at a loss why you fear being them or for them.
1:34, complicated realities. You can leave God out of the equation if it helps you to understand that allowing infants to die simply because a mother doesn't want it is evil. And if your limited belief doesn't comprehend what evil is then we can say it is simply wrong. Point is, no matter how complex or simple you want to make our existence, murder or lack of compassion that leads to the death of an infant is something that should be viewed with disgrace.
@ 4:07
I would agree wholeheartedly that any father that would allow his child to die, if preventable, should be viewed with contempt and disgrace. However,a “holy father” that allows it to occur 29,000 times per day, while being able to prevent it, is 29,000 times more disgraceful and contemptuous. You are assuming the mother simply doesn’t want the child, but there is also a father for every child, unless you believe that a virgin could be impregnated by a god. If that is your belief, good luck.
Well, if the babies don't have health insurance, this is a moot point, no?
7:47, stop dragging religion into it. Stop trying to compare the natural process of life and death to murder. Either it is right or it is wrong to kill an infant. It has nothing to do with God or the cycle of life. It has to do with morality.
Furthermore, one of the most pompous things a human being can do is try and start a conversation about a topic that they don't know anything about or fully understand. If someone believes in God I am sure that they wrestle with the many questions of "why?" That life provides without having someone like yourself trying to punch holes in their belief. To each their own, unless it causes harm.
Absolutely everyone will answer to God. If you do not believe today, you will believe when you pass from this life.
Know God today as your saviour, don't wait to know him on the day he is your judge. God bless you.
@ 5:00
This thread started as a response to a commenter stating God loves the little children, and I responded to that religious assertion. As to whether I understand their religion, let me point you to 1 Samuel 15:2-3, where God tells Saul and the Israelites to commit genocide by killing all the Amalekites (Canaanites) including men, women, child, infants, ox, sheep,camels,and donkeys belonging to them.
Not only does this god not love children, he orders their deaths. There is absolutely nothing in the Bible about abortion, it only discusses when life begins on that in Genesis 2:7 where it states that life doesn’t begin until the first breath. You are not breathing in the womb, science has taught us that. That being said, I’m not in favor of abortion of a child in the womb after seeing my kids and grandkids sonograms prior to their birth.
I do not allow my preference to arrogantly make the mother’s decision with her concerns with the health implications, family medical history, or whatever she deems necessary in her determination of her best choice for her or her baby. I believe that decision belongs only to the parents. They will live with that decision and possibly face an angry god that could condemn her to hell, unless she repents, if the Bible is true.
In Psalm 51:5 it is written that a child born in iniquity of out of wedlock is not innocent but wicked and born in sin of the mother. In Psalm 58:3 it suggests the children will lie after they leave the womb, and follow in their parent’s footsteps against Israelites, so it is necessary to kill them all. You now possess several verses from their bible which contradict the religious assertion that God loves all the little children. Contrary to your simplistic assertion, not everything is right or wrong, black or white, but includes varying shades of grey. It does require a small amount of grey matter to understand that.
Just because you can Google and copy and paste doesn't mean you understand. And as for requiring a little bit of grey matter... you are in luck because it appears you only have a little bit.
@ 8:55
It is a terrible defense of your religion to state that any idiot can google, copy and paste your own scripture to disprove your religious assertions, I would say it’s pitiful. Do you prefer your god’s Assertion to Moses that thou shall not kill, or his assertion to Saul that he kilo them all, including their livestock? The defense that it depends on god’s “righteous judgement” seems a little hollow. God’s flooding of the world took everyone out, save Noah and his flock of humans and animals.
In 2000, Pope John Paul made apologies for Christians for the persecution and violence toward Jews, women, heretics, native peoples, the Crusades, and the trial of Galileo long after science proved him correct. There are over 4000 religions in the world, and Christianity is no longer the fastest growing despite its existence over the last 2500 years. Islam will soon overtake Christianity as the largest religion, although its existence can only be traced back to the seventh century. Even Christian religious scholars accept this statement.
It is painfully obvious that you have never spent time in the Smithsonian Museum to view their exhibit on dinosaurs or man’s history on this planet, as it cannot be reconciled with your religious position. Dinosaurs were here millions of years ago, and man has been here for 100,000-259,000 years according to science. Your god only chose to intervene into man’s life in the Middle East less than 3000 years ago, did he not care for the other humans for over 90,000 years prior to that? I realize this is heresy to you, but the Pope apologized, too bad you are not man enough to do the same.
Last word on this and it has already been said, you don't understand. You are not going to understand by reading a message board. You either get it or you don't. I am not here to persuade you of anything. The topic at hand dealt with denying infants healthcare and allowing them to die. It is evil. Doesn't matter if you believe in God or you don't. If you want to debate religion, there are better places. You know places, where it is actually the topic.
@ 9:09
Apparently you lack reading comprehension or didn’t bother to read the entire post instead of the title. The topic at hand was a law that Congresswoman Wagner introduced, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protect Act, which would provide insurance coverage for fetuses that survived abortion. You’re ignorantly unaware of the fact that the lady voted against the ACA, which provided healthcare for all children, including abortion survivors, even with coverage for pre-existing conditions.
The article goes on to effuse on horrible Democrats and her efforts on trafficking victims. It is offensive that you deem abortion evil, even while lawful, as nobody gives you the right to tell a woman that she must have a baby even if it kills her. It is ignorant and hypocritical to suggest that a woman who has been rapped is evil if she chooses to abort a child of iniquity, which your god condemns. You lack the ability to debate the matter if you don’t even understand the article to begin with.
@9:09, the other guy doesn't want to talk about killing infants. He only wants to be anti-belief. He wants to attack other peoples belief and can't accept that people a different worldview. Let him/she/it rant. It only continues to prove how intolerant people can be.
@ 11:15
Believers must have a reading comprehension problem as in my last comment and others, I discuss the killing of infants you say I don’t wish to discuss. I have shown scripture from the Bible that shows god vengefully demanding the killing of babies. I have also denigrated the Republican Comgresswoman that poses this law as she had voted against insurance for all babies in repealing the ACA. It appears she only wants to insure babies that have survived abortion attempts. That is the kind of stupidity exhibited by yourself and the previous commenter that support such nonsense.
You know what amazes me about this? Hospitals in our country allow babies to die all the time when there is a condition that the parents don't and can't deal with. I have seen the worst scenarios in my career. One time, in Wichita, there was a baby born with anencephaly and the NICU kept him in a container behind a room divider. This was so people wouldn't just gawk at the baby. The decision was to just let the baby lay there and eventually die. Had there been an ultrasound beforehand to see this terrible birth defect? If not, there should have been so the fetus could have been aborted. The only thing that was accomplished by this child's birth was trauma to the parent and the staff. The public has no idea of what goes on in the hospitals and we keep it that way for a reason. We also aborted babies that would have been born to women who suffer mental illnesses like Bi-Polar or Schizophrenia. Medications that are given for these disorders are harmful to fetuses and most of these women could not have taken care of that baby. They were encouraged to abort. But we called it D & C. All about semantics.
Listen to the remarks made a week or two ago by Virginia's governor, these were not the scenarios he was talking about. There are cases were these actions are understandable and there are proposed loosening of regulations that would be monsterous.
2:22
I was with you up until “the public has no idea what goes on in hospitals and we keep it that way for a reason.” I’m not sure what you meant by that. In the context of your comment, it sounds like some kind of conspiracy exists. While many procedures are done that the public might find disturbing to watch, they are necessary, not something sinister. For example, a code blue. It’s not pretty. Neither is a colonoscopy. The list could go on and on. I’ve been a nurse since the 80s and have never witnessed or even heard of this conspiracy. If you believe this, I would suggest you call Medicare, American Hospital Association, State Board of Nursing and anyone else you can think of. Otherwise, find a psychiatrist because you are delusional.
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