I’m scared, and I hope you are too.
Kamala Harris said Saturday that young people are stepping into an “unsettled” world amid destabilizing forces such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine, adding that long-held principles in the U.S. are on “shaky ground.”
Like the principle that a VP should be qualified to function as POTUS in case her boss loses the ability to spew word salads and eat ice cream at the same time?
During commencement remarks at Tennessee State University, a historically Black institution, Harris said, “it cannot be denied also that your class has traveled a stony road — a pandemic that took away so much of the college experience that you once imagined.”
It was really mean of the pandemic to unnecessarily shut down the education system so that MPHs and Amazon could get much richer.
But on to abortion.
Harris decried the drafted opinion, saying the “rights of all Americans are at risk.”
“If the right to privacy is weakened, every person could face a future in which the government can potentially interfere in the personal decisions you make about your life. This is the time to fight for women and for our country with everything we have,” Harris said.
Scary.
Is Kamala envisioning a terrifying future in which the government can order you to take an experimental medication or be barred from going to work or school?
Maybe a horrifying society in which the White House creates a “disinformation” board to censor what Americans can say online?
What about a dystopian world where the government puts forward proposals to track every aspect of your life in order to “save the planet”?
The “government can potentially interfere in the personal decisions you make about your life” ship has sailed a while back. The same folks who claimed that they wanted the government out of your bedroom, now want to set up shop there and in your mind and your body.
Defending a right to privacy for a party that believes people have no right to privacy, that was caught red-handed spying on political opponents, that suddenly decided that, “my body, my choice” should be a slogan after taking away that same right from every human being in the country is as laughable as… well… Kamala.
mortimer says
PERSONAL DECISIONS? How about expressing personal OPINIONS, Kamala? Where do you stand on the freedom of expression when people disagree with you?
Hypocrite.
Westman says
Her reply would always be good for a laugh – hers.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dr3tRna3t0U
Today’s abortion demonstration outside our Catholic Cathderal: Two scruffy, seedy-looking, 20-something men, passing out handbills. Totally ignored.
Gretta Thunberg: “How dare you!”
Kamala Harris: “How dare they!”
Plagiarism?
Apparently Biden can’t read ’em and Harris can’t write ’em.
maria says
Harris is the terrified future if she would be VP again. She should be sent to Jamaica or India.
She is an embarrassement and danger for the US.
mortimer says
Almost all countries in the world limit abortion to the first trimester. After that, it is considered that the woman has made a decision. A lot of things in life have a time limit on them. It is perfectly reasonable to limit abortion for a similar reason. As medical technique advances, premature babies are surviving earlier and earlier outside the womb. We cannot therefore declare that such premature babies are not ‘persons’.
Abortion is a state mature, because health care is a state matter. The federal court should never have intervened.
mortimer says
correction: abortion is a state-regulated MATTER
PMK says
Health care WAS a state matter. Then we got Obamacare and its one-size-fits-all policies. Suddenly drug treatment was ‘essential’. So was pregnancy coverage, even for a woman in her sixties. As my congressman said: we had to make everyone buy it so it could be affordable.
somehistory says
The more this *female*? cackles, the more we see just how ignorant, stupid and evil she is.
Declaring that the Constitution has not a word about allowing a woman to have someone kill her unborn baby is not the same thing as “taking away the right to privacy.”
We lost that privacy…not the “right”…but the privacy part, long, long ago. Even businesses get into our personal life every day, every time we turn on our computers, or our phones or use them to send, receive, or use information from another citizen.
The government and businesses alike, know for what we search, what we buy, where we go, whom we call or who calls us.
The jabbed had to reveal their health information to various businesses due to the government making demands of them to limit entrance to eat, to engage in entertainment, etc. No one who decided to attend anything…except a party of the rich and infamous…had to be jabbed and then prove it.
Now, because the SCOTUS may have enough members to make the correction to the awful and wrong decision made by the fools who bought into the privacy of a woman wanting to commit murder should be upheld by making the killings “legal,” this cackler and her ilk have gone ballistic with the lies.
And not just lies about that, but lies about what else this means….interracial marriage, kids in school, etc…in order to make people so afraid of more intrusion into their lives, they’ll sink the ship of moral responsibility and deny the sacredness of the lives of the unborn in order to keep other “rights” safe from the government…a government that has already overstepped the boundaries the Founders put in place.
None of the guaranteed “rights” given by man’s Creator are being honored by the present people who believe they have every “right” to deny whatever they wish and to lie about it afterward; as this lying creep keeps doing.
somehistory says
good grief….’No one who decided to attend ‘ I meant everyone who decided, …
It’s monday on a sunday.
somehistory says
If I sat on the Court and this happened at my house, I’d have to blast them with something like the Police singing “Every Breath You Take”….I’ll Be Watching You.” and cameras would be videoing every one of the “peaceful protesters,” I’d consider it an invasion of privacy and a disturbing of the peace, hate and intimidation.
“Pro-choice protesters swarmed around Brett Kavanaugh’s house, shouting ‘My body, my choice”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pro-choice-protesters-swarmed-around-brett-kavanaugh-s-house-shouting-my-body-my-choice/ar-AAX2Veu?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=
CogitoErgoSum says
I am trying to stay consistent in my beliefs. I think each individual human being should be the one making the decisions when it comes to matters affecting his/her body. So I’m against forcing anyone to take the covid vaccine. So, therefore, to remain consistent I can’t see me having the power to tell a woman she must carry a child in her womb if doesn’t want to do that. I think the decision of what to do about such a matter should be hers and hers alone … even though I think it is a sin to kill an unborn child. Her guilt or innocence in such a case is a matter between her and God (whether she believes in God or not).
So that is the spiritual part of my reasoning. On the more worldly side of things I also think a woman should be allowed to make her own decision concerning abortion because it is likely that if she does have a child she will raise it to think as she does and with the same attitudes towards life as she has. I don’t want more people like that in the world so, yes, let her do what she wants in order to stop reproducing more people like her. Making her have a child against her will only increases the problems in the world and does not in any way lessen them.
Maybe I’ll change my thinking on this later but that’s the way I’m thinking now.
somehistory says
So, why can’t these women who know they don’t want any kids, but they do want to be engaging in the process that can produce what they don’t want, just go have *one* simple operation and be done with it and not carry on, having one after another “peocedure” to destroy the lives of the babies they don’t want?
Yes, they will have to answer for the things they do or don’t do; but it’s so very awful to have to know that millions of babies are being murdered because these worshippers of molech can’t make a decision with the value of the lives of others in mind instead of just what they and their “body” wants.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, sterilization is a choice they should consider and be free to make.
somehistory says
many women, after having children, and being told they should have no more, have the simple snipping done without any side effects. This is something that can be between the woman and her doctor. if married, her husband should also be a part of the decision as he may want children at some point.
And I believe if a woman has a moral conscience, she’ll go that route and not the murder at will one advocated by the planned infanticide people who are in it for the $$$
CogitoErgoSum says
Somehistory, I agree the choices women will make concerning abortion and sterilization will be selfish and without love for others but I still believe we should not make laws that control what a person can do regarding his/her own body. It’s where logic has led me and it’s a cold and hard place and if I were a woman I hope I would act in a way more acceptable to God but just as God gave our Mother Mary a choice concerning the use of her body, every woman should be given the choice to decide too, whether to accept the will of God or to refuse it.
I am surprised I have come to this decision concerning abortion but it is the only one that makes the most sense to me.
somehistory says
I cannot sit in judgment on others…although in many I see the “fruit” Jesus told us to look for…and whatever people do will either get them a reward or a severe Judgment for One Who can read the heart’s motivations.
I am not making laws, I would never be a politician. Jeremiah wrote that a “man can’t direct his own steps,” so how could i direct the steps for a nation of strangers?
But, I can rightly call out those who know it’s a baby and they are murdering it. Just as Jesus called out the pharisees for their wrongs they were doing and claiming to be representing the Law.
I pray that Jehovah will bring His Kingdom and do His Will here, and soon. That will put an end to all of this killing, lying, immorality, war….all of evil.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, you are right in calling out evil and you should be free to do so. Others may not like hearing what you have to say but no one should force you ever to be quiet.
somehistory says
CogitoErgoSum
Thank you. I know that our God will reward …with a “large reward” those who want the best for His children, and are hurt by seeing and hearing of all of the evil around us.
PMK says
CogitoErgoSum,
I agree with much of what you say. Technology has advanced considerably since Roe vs Wade. Ultrasound makes it possible for us to learn how the body develops in the womb. People realize that after a certain point, it’s no longer ‘just a clump of cells’.
I’m also pro-choice. At the same time, I think it’s reasonable to require this decision be made within a set period of time. Consensus on limits and rules for abortion was short-circuited by the Roe decision. The harm done to society by this decision cannot be undone. We’ve gone from ‘safe, legal and rare’ to saying a delivered baby can be allowed to die if the mother chooses. The MS law, I believe, sets a limit of fifteen weeks. That’s almost four months. Surely a responsible woman who wants an abortion will decide before the fifth month of pregnancy.
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CogitoErgoSum says
I don’t see what difference imposing a limit makes. Since I believe human life begins at conception, whether the abortion takes place the minute after conception or the minute before the baby exits the womb it is still the taking of the life of a human being. The sin of the woman remains the same. A woman’s womb is hers alone and whether to kill her baby or to keep it is her decision alone up until the time the baby leaves her womb. It will be brutal to have doctors killing babies just before birth but, again, the sin will be theirs and between them and God.
PMK says
I’m just being practical. I’m not passing judgment on those who choose to end a pregnancy. One justification I would cite for doing it early is cost. The earlier it’s done, the easier it is and probably less likelihood of complications as a result of the procedure. We taxpayers are likely to pay more for the care a woman needs after an abortion late in the second trimester or later. Another reason is to reach consensus as a society. Pro-life people may be ready to accept abortions in the earlier stages than in the later stages. Like it or not, we need to be able to compromise.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, I don’t know why a woman who does not want to be pregnant would wait until going into labor to have an abortion and your reasoning makes sense but still … setting a limit to any time before the baby has exited the womb goes against my reasoning that as long as the baby is within the woman’s womb any decision about what to do with it is hers and hers alone. You have a certain degree of logic in what you are saying but I think it is less comprehensive than the logic I am using.
James Lincoln says
CogitoErgoSum says,
“I don’t see what difference imposing a limit makes. Since I believe human life begins at conception”
Following your logic, you may not like oral contraceptives:
Birth control pills can cause changes in the uterine endometrium, reducing the likelihood of implantation – which is abortive (not generally emphasized).
https://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/17/short-condensation-does-birth-control-pill-cause-a/
CogitoErgoSum says
James, if conception has already occurred I would say anything that stops what has started in the life of a human being within the womb is an abortion. So, yes, I would think taking an oral contraceptive that causes an abortion is sinful. Again, I believe a woman’s decision whether to put such chemicals into her body is hers and hers alone to make.
James Lincoln says
CogitoErgoSum,
Thank you for your reply.
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum, I believe that suffering of the unborn baby is also an issue. In that case, a “morning after pill” and a late-term abortion are very different things in terms of the baby’s neural development and ability to feel pain.
CogitoErgoSum says
Graven, I realize the baby in the womb would be able to feel pain but, while it in the womb, the person responsible for causing that pain would be the mother and no one else should feel guilty about causing that baby’s pain. If there is a way to abort a baby without the baby feeling pain I would make it a law that such a procedure be the only allowable way. Also, I would try to find a way to make the mother alone be the one who kills her baby by voluntarily ingesting the chemicals that do the killing. I would want medical personnel to be involved as little as possible and be present only to insure the mother does no harm to herself. The only chemicals and procedures that should be allowable are those that do no harm to the mother and which cause the least amount of pain to the baby. BTW, I feel so sad even writing this.
gravenimage says
Thanks for your reply, CogitoErgoSum. And I agree that this is all horribly sad.
Tom says
In one breath these hypocrites shout about men having no say when it comes to abortion because it is the woman who has to bear an unwanted pregnancy, while in another breath they claim that anyone can become pregnant, including men.
They also declare there is no male or female, no men or women, no specific gender, but when it concerns abortion the individual woman’s rights become paramount, when even a supreme court nominee could not define what a woman is.
There are no limits to the extent of lies and hypocrisy coming from the left in their desperation to prevent a tsunami of a red wave in the upcoming mid term elections, which is due entirely to their incompetent president and his ineffective policies.
somehistory says
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somehistory says
This is an interesting development regarding the whole “gender” thing.
“Medical textbook strips gender dysphoria definition after being cited by Florida”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/medical-textbook-strips-gender-dysphoria-definition-after-being-cited-by-florida/ar-AAX2Gkd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Disappointing.
That was in regards to the Merck Manual, historically an excellent concise reference for general medicine topics.
Back in 1990, I read it cover-to-cover – with a highlighter – and it helped me to pass my family medicine boards on the first try.
somehistory says
James,
I’m just glad that Florida authorities are sticking to the truth and not bowing to the pressure.
I’m not surprised that you did well. Your medical knowledge is apparent from your comments here.
I worked for a health insurance company back in the 90’s and had to take a terminology exam. ..all kinds of illnesses, body parts, syndromes, etc. There were so many questions, but they told me that I had made the highest score ever made on that test. I missed one.
I can’t say that I would do as well now, but I’m pretty sure I can recognize the Truth when I see it regarding such things as this issue of gender and kids being “confused” by adults on purpose, with evil designs.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the compliment, somehistory.
And it sounds like you did very well on your medical terminology exam.
I took two years of Latin in college undergrad, and it helped me with the medical terminology that I had encountered in med school.
somehistory says
thank you, James
I didn’t ever study any language in school…except English, of course…but when I was taking the exam, I reasoned on the words I had to define based on the different parts.
Like a person can figure out that a cardio word…myopathy or other…has a relation to the heart if one knows that cardio refers to the heart. Medical words that were not so used in the public sphere…like hepatic., renal, etc. I had seen a lot of those words , guessing what the doctor meant,…while I was in charge of processing (paying for them) client’s medical records. From there, I would reason on the rest of the word, and I guess I did that better than I had expected to….I was so very nervous during the exam.
gravenimage says
I was listening to KCBS, the local radio news station this morning, and they played a clip from an abortion demonstration in San Francisco earlier today, where the speaker said that reproductive rights ‘affect not just women, but anyone with a uterus’. I *wish* I were making this up.
somehistory says
the “transmen” have been making a big deal of “not being a part of the conversation”, so what you heard is a bending to their will. They are so ignorant or something…they want it both ways and that is just so incredibly stupid.
Maybe they somehow believe body organ are available at the nearest walmart….in which case, may White males really do have a say in the issue.
gravenimage says
Yes–bizarre stuff.
PRCS says
Well, having an abortion IS a personal decision.
As is robbing a bank.
David M says
The “terrifying future” for America would be if they hauled old Joe off to the dementia home, and Cackling Kamala became President. As bad as Joe is, Kamala would make him look like a genius in comparison.
gravenimage says
Kamala Harris Warns of Terrifying Future of Government Interference in ‘Personal Decisions’
……………….
This is true–but not the way she means…
OLD GUY says
Americans are at risk because of who is in political office. Our political leaders are on a power trip with greed attached to it. Politicians now run for office not to serve the country and citizens, but to profit off of the position and sell influence.
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY,
Yes, that accurately characterizes a significant percentage of the current crop of politicians.