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What do young people think about abortion? Are Millennials turning into godless heathens? With abortion and religion in the headlines, Host Jack Butler explores where young people stand on these areas and speculates on how they will develop as issues in the future, with the help of National Review staff writer Alexandra DeSanctis.

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A pregnant woman was killed in Queens. Witnesses heard her scream, “He’s going to kill the baby!” The attacker stabbed her repeatedly, including multiple stabs into her belly. It would seem he was indeed targeting the baby. The killer turned out to be the victim’s ex-boyfriend. He was caught and will be charged with one count of murder in the second degree.

You may ask, what exactly does this horrendous crime have to do with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Reproductive Health Act? Prior to that law being enacted there would have been additional charges for killing the unborn child. Now, aborting a child is never a crime, even if the abortion is performed against the mother’s will. The murder of the mother is still a crime, but killing the baby is not. That means this man will only be facing one count of murder.

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Ever since Catholic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gleefully signed the expansive abortion law that permits killing of children in the womb up until the moment of birth; and then lit up the island of Manhattan in pink to celebrate, the Catholic laity has been hounding Cardinal Archbishop Dolan of New York on social media […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Desperation: Slavery and Abortion

 

As I understand it, a major concern in the slave-owning South in the years leading up to the Civil War was that newly admitted territories would enter the union as slave-free states, thus diminishing the percentage of the nation that supported, and that was supported by, slavery. The Republican party, which was formed at least in part to advocate for slave-free territories and new states, and the election of its first President precipitated a desperate move on the part of the South to separate itself from what promised to be a nation dominated by free states and increasingly critical of the remaining slave states.

I wonder if the current excesses of the pro-abortion left, the swing-for-the-fences mindset that seems to have gripped the Democratic Party and its most progressive members, is an expression of a similar desperation. The left routinely portrays America as a reactionary country on the verge of theocracy, this despite the left’s impressive record over the past half-century of achieving dramatic social transformation. While I think this portrayal is absurd, I also suspect it’s sincere, and that many on the left believe we are one Ginsburg away from rolling America back to the dark ages of, say, 1958.

Bethany and Kelly get into some heavy stuff this week, but sometimes you just have to put it out there.

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There were several great moments in President Trump’s State of the Union address: the heroes in the gallery, the condemnation of socialism, the bitter tongue-sucking of Speaker Pelosi. But three excerpts stood out in particular. First up:

No issue better illustrates the divide between America’s working class and America’s political class than illegal immigration. Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards.

The political, cultural, and financial elite have spent decades mocking those they believe are beneath their station. Both parties spoke grand words on border security while their deeds undercut the very notion. Amnesty now, security later — if ever.

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I don’t believe I would have to do much convince anyone here (including myself) that Virginia Governor Northram is not only a terrible person, but a buffoon as well. However, the latest news out of Virginia has me thinking: He might know what he’s doing.  Preview Open

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are thrilled to see over 300,000 jobs created in January, easily surpassing expectations. They also smack Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine for the wimpiest possible opposition to the controversial abortion bill in Virginia and break down the logical problem in Kaine’s official position that he’s personally opposed to abortion but would never impose that view on others. And they dissect the launch of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s 2020 presidential campaign – with Jim offering an extensive review of Booker’s time as mayor of Newark.

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Mrs. Jones, I’m afraid I have bad news. Your health has deteriorated significantly since the beginning of your pregnancy. Your blood pressure is dangerously high, as are your triglycerides and LDL cholesterol, your blood glucose is at pre-diabetic levels and your weight gain has been extremely excessive. We can’t find an organic cause for the vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain, but those are concerning. If we don’t do an intervention soon, there will be dire consequences for your long-term health.

Oh, my.

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So, the Democrat Party in New York and Virginia have embraced abortion-on-demand-up-to-dilation policies that would make a Chinese Mobile Abortion Wagon operator say, 哥们, 这是铁杆 (“Dude, that’s hardcore.”) Everything Kermit Gosnell did in his unsanitary baby butcher shop is being made legal, and the pro-choice position has gone from “It’s OK since it’s just a […]

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Over the last couple of decades the Democratic Party had earned the tag line “The Party of Death” because of their advocacy of abortion, euthanasia, and medical death panels. In the past week, after the NY Legislators applauded and cheered for passing that horrific bill of unrestricted abortion, every apparent Democratically controlled state legislative bodies […]

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I like this actor (What Happens in Vegas is one of our favorite movies). However, he has made some forays into the arena of issues, at risk to his career. But what do you make of this? https://www.foxnews.com/health/ashton-kutcher-posts-down-syndrome-advocates-powerful-pro-life-testimony-amid-reignited-abortion-debate Preview Open

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad America is seeing just how radical Democrats are getting on abortion, with Virginia’s governor even appearing to endorse infanticide. They’re also happy to see one Democrat in the Virginia legislature change her mind on an abortion bill after the intense public opposition. They also shake their heads as Democrats and their friends in the media launch a relentless mission to destroy former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz for considering an independent presidential run. And they react to a Huffington Post column arguing that billionaires are bad for America so we shouldn’t have any.

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It’s arguable that the Pro-Life Movement began well rooted in the premise of progressivism. “Right to Life” activism and legislation carried the language of what could be rather than was was and is. The future that was being extinguished rather than the violence being inflicted. Of course, the potentiality of the unborn reveals a key […]

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Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America enjoy watching Howard Schultz and Elizabeth Warren trade insults over Warren’s proposed wealth tax and shudder to think that Schultz might be the most sensible liberal considering a 2020 presidential run. They also slam Kamala Harris for suggesting that lawmakers who don’t support gun control don’t care about the victims of mass shootings and contending that if Republicans saw photos of murdered children that they would vote differently. And they laugh and cringe as the chairwoman of a California State Senate committee bans the use of gendered pronouns in committee – and then proceeds to violate her own rule over and over again.

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In the wake of New York’s evil legislation, not just enacted but celebrated, a reminder is merited that abortion — baby killing — is not something Americans can accept on a state-by-state basis. As with legal slavery, legal abortion is a sin that stains us all. The core issue is the same as slavery: the […]

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A portal to Hell has opened in New York State. It was opened by elected members of the state legislature and by its governor, who was baptized in the Catholic faith and vowed at the sacrament of Confirmation to be a soldier of Christ. However, through his advocacy and promotion and the joy that he expressed when he signed the deceptively named Reproductive Health Act, Andrew Cuomo has switched allegiances and is now a soldier of Satan and his soul now is closer to eternal damnation and torment.

The name of this new satanic law is a lie and something we should expect from the Lord of Lies and those who have done his bidding. It does nothing to promote human reproduction but instead authorizes abortionists to inject fully-formed children in the womb with lethal poisons and to be brutally and horrifically killed up until the moment of live birth on the pretext that a mother’s ensuing life after the birth of her child might be stressful and emotionally challenging.

There are those non-believers, even regrettably some in positions of authority within the Catholic Church, who will scoff at the idea of Hell. Too many bishops and cardinals and many priests have avoided speaking about eternal damnation because they want the Church to be more inclusive and don’t want to frighten children. There are frauds and deceivers in the Vatican hierarchy who don’t even believe in Hell, reject the Apostles’ Creed, and some who may be following a different master. But as Saint Padre Pio replied when someone commented to him that modern people don’t believe in Hell, “They’ll believe in Hell when they get there.”

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We live in a time where outrage manifests itself daily in the media and on the internet. A lot of the outrage is much ado about nothing, but with the recent actions of the NY Legislature and NY’s Governor Cuomo, on signing into law the state’s new abortion law, I venture to say (as have […]

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Science cannot tell us whether we should or should not do or allow something, but it can help us understand what that thing is. Science shows that fertilization creates a unique living human, but it has nothing to say about what rights that human has. The argument against abortion is simply that all humans have […]

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