February 22, 2021
With the confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services selection Xavier Becerra scheduled for Tuesday, a coalition of more than 60 pro-life leaders sent a joint letter urging the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions as well as the Finance Committee to reject the nomination.
“Xavier Becerra has been portrayed as moderate, but he is infamous among pro-lifers for his decades-long record as a vocal pro-abortion advocate. In Congress and as attorney general of California, Becerra not only joined pro-abortion efforts he led them. President Biden could not have picked a more eager pro-abortion activist to head HHS and we urge senators to reject his nomination,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
02/09/2021 at 9:47 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing, February 9, 2021
In the British comic Review in the 1960s, Beyond the Fringe, a commanding officer in the Royal Air Force sought to persuade a pilot to go on a kamikaze mission. “Smedley,” he said, “we need someone at this moment to make a [Grand] Futile Gesture.”
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska has made his career with Grand Futile Gestures, not because his policies have been wanting in merit, but because he has shown little interest in doing the grinding work of a legislator in working out bills in committee and persuading his colleagues.
When each of our two girls was born, a cry was the first sound we heard. It was a sound of discomfort and need, yes, but also the sound of life! It was.
Ten more bills were given a do-pass recommendation in the Arizona Senate Health and Human Services Committee’s virtual meeting on Wednesday, one of which spurred a partisan debate on abortion policy.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 1009, sponsored by Sen. Sine Kerr, would express the Arizona Legislature’s support for the passage of the federal Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The resolution proved to be controversial among committee members, with Democratic Senators Tony Navarrete, Rosanna Gabaldon and Sally Ann Gonzales voting against the bill. Although the five “yes” votes it received allowed it to pass, the bill is regarded as politically motivated by its three disputants.