Yet that didn’t end the issue in California. I’m on the mailing lists for both California Republicans and Democrats. It’s research for me, but I recommend against it for yourself because you’ll be deluged with emails.
The emails attacked Reps. Michelle Steel, Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, David Valadao, John Duarte, and Kevin Kiley, all of whom are running for reelection. Nearly the same exact wording was used in each email, so I’ll just use Ms. Steel’s name throughout. The emails began with the headline in boldface: “Reminder: Michelle Steel Pioneered Same Legislation As the Anti-Abortion Groups Currently in Front of Supreme Court.”
It explained in italics: “SCOTUS Oral Arguments in Case Challenging Mifepristone Access Spotlight Republicans’ Anti-Abortion Agenda.” Of course, “anti-abortion” is used instead of pro-life. Mifepristone, also called RU-486, is a drug that causes abortion.
“In nearly 90 minutes of arguments, a consensus appeared to emerge that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA’s approval of the medication, mifepristone, and subsequent actions to ease access to it, lack the legal right or standing to sue.
“Such a decision would leave in place the current rules that allow patients to receive the drug through the mail, without any need for an in-person visit with a doctor, and to take the medication to induce an abortion through 10 weeks of pregnancy. Should the court take the no-standing route, it would avoid the more politically sensitive aspects of the case.”
Increasing Abortion Mania
Mr. Gottlieb’s email continued: “As the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments that could ‘pave the way toward a national abortion ban’ by severely restricting access to the medication mifepristone, Michelle Steel and House Republicans have been simultaneously mounting a multiple front attack on reproductive freedoms in America.“Last year, Steel voted for fervently anti-abortion legislation that would prevent women from receiving mifepristone through the mail or at pharmacies—the exact same issue before the Supreme Court now.
“Steel’s crusade against access to safe medication is only one of many far-right, extreme measures he and the House GOP have been pushing for to achieve their eventual goal of a nationwide abortion ban.”
It’s an absurd argument. There’s no chance Congress could pass a total, national abortion ban. And all the Dobbs decision did was return abortion to where it stood before the 1973 Roe decision: with the states. Since then, state politicians, activists, and voters have been grappling with the issue. Some states, such as California and Michigan, have passed initiatives guaranteeing it is allowed. Others, such as Mississippi and Texas, have restored pre-Roe restrictions and bans.
Distorting the Issue
Mr. Gottlieb continued: “In the 118th Congress alone, Michelle Steel and House Republicans have used their majority to try to roll back reproductive freedom every chance they get, from passing anti-abortion legislation that would punish doctors who perform abortions, use federal funds to spread misinformation, and prevent vulnerable communities from seeking essential health care. A majority of their caucus has also backed a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions. ”Those all are distortions, as can be found even when clicking on the links he included in his text. As to “punish the doctors,” his link goes to H.R. 26, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Under it, if a baby survives an abortion and the abortionist still kills it, the doctor could be prosecuted. Well, what else is killing a live baby but murder? It’s no longer a “fetus” inside the womb, but a living human being separate from its mother.
The “use federal funds to spread misinformation” link leads to H.R. 6918, the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act. It prohibits discrimination in giving federal funds to pro-life pregnancy centers. That means Mr. Gottlieb thinks federal tax dollars should only go to abortion mills.
As to the majority of the Republican Caucus supporting a nationwide abortion ban, the link leads to H.R. 431, the Life at Conception Act. Well, at conception, what does Mr. Gottlieb think comes into being, a puppy or kitten—or a human baby?
Conclusion: Cynical Ploy
Republicans play games like this, too. But this shows how Democrats’ national strategy is to play on the obsession of many in their party—not just to keep abortion legal in blue states, but to mandate its legalization again nationally, as from 1973 to 2022. They want to make sure babies are killed not just in California, New York, and Michigan, but in Mississippi, Florida, and Texas.And if the Supreme Court allows the wide distribution of mifepristone, as apparently it will, then the death pills still could be sent by mail from pro-abortion states to pro-life states.
Finally, this is part of the general cultural war raging against the United States. The current Supreme Court’s actions, despite its detraction by radical leftists, should have cooled tempers by reversing previous unconstitutional laws on abortion, affirmative action, and gun rights. But the divisions have remained because, as these missives show, leftists never rest in advancing social corrosion.
