20 AGs Join Bishops in Condemning FBI Memo Profiling ‘Latin Mass’ Catholics

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20 AGs Join Bishops in Condemning FBI Memo Profiling ‘Latin Mass’ Catholics

(The Center Square) Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 19 other attorneys general joined Catholic Bishops protesting religious profiling in a leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation memo.

Last week, an FBI internal memorandum dated Jan. 23, was published by Undercover DC, an investigative journalism organization. It mentioned Virginia Catholics, specifically traditional Catholics, some of whom are not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, according to information from the Catholic Diocese of Richmond.

The attorneys general seven-page letter of complaint was addressed to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

The letter states the FBI memo “identifies ‘radical-traditionalist Catholics’ as a potential ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.’ … Among those beliefs which distinguish the bad Catholics from the good ones are a preference for ‘the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings,’ and adherence to traditional Catholic teachings on sex and marriage (which the memorandum describes as ‘anti-LGBTQ’).”

In 2021, Pope Francis ended pre-Vatican II Traditional Latin Masses, stating the liturgies were dividing the Catholic Church.

Last week, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Religious Liberty Chairman of the U.S. Catholic Council of Bishops, criticized the FBI memorandum. Dolan agreed with a statement made a day earlier by Bishop Barry Knestout of the Diocese of Richmond.

“Let me first be clear: anyone who espouses racism or promotes violence is rejecting Catholic teaching on the inherent dignity of each and every person,” Dolan’s statement said. “The USCCB roundly condemns such extremism and fully supports the work of law enforcement officials to keep our communities safe.

“I agree with my brother Bishop Barry Knestout that the leaked memorandum was nonetheless ‘troubling and offensive’ in several respects – such as in its religious profiling and reliance on dubious sourcing – and am glad it has been rescinded. We encourage federal law enforcement authorities to take appropriate measures to ensure the problematic aspects of the memo do not recur in any of their agencies’ work going forward.”

The Catholic News Agency received a response from the FBI confirming the document came from the Richmond office and it was being removed.

“While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product – disseminated only within the FBI – regarding racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI,” according to the FBI statement published by the Catholic News Agency.

Bailey said the FBI action was another attack on the First Amendment by President Joe Biden, who is a practicing Catholic.

“We already knew that President Biden was launching an attack on the First Amendment rights of Americans, as evidenced by our landmark free speech case Missouri v. Biden, but now it’s clear that he’ll weaponize unelected federal bureaucrats to go after any American who doesn’t worship the ‘right way,’” Bailey said in a statement. “The First Amendment includes both the right to free speech and religious liberty for a reason, and my office will use any tool necessary to defend the rights of all Missourians to worship as they please.”

On Saturday, Bishop David O’Connell, 69, of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was found shot to death inside his Hacienda Heights home. Several media outlets reported law enforcement agencies were treating the case as a homicide and didn’t know of a motive. Several media outlets reported an arrest was made today in the case.

Joining Bailey were AGs from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Poll: Americans Oppose Race as a Factor in College Admission Decisions

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Poll: Americans Oppose Race as a Factor in College Admission Decisions

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) As the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether it should be legal to use race as a factor in college admissions, new polling shows Americans oppose the idea.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 62% of Americans oppose higher education institutions using race as a factor when deciding who to admit. The majority of Americans favor diversity in higher education, but they don’t support using affirmative action policies to obtain it.

The analysis found 52% of minority respondents surveyed said they opposed using race as a factor.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the matter by June after one group filed suit against Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over their race-based admissions policy, pointing out they hurt other students.

As The Center Square previously reported, the schools argue that these policies have become common in their field.

“In recent years, surveys have reported that 41.5% of universities, and 60% of universities that admit 40% or fewer of applicants, consider race to some degree,” Harvard said in a legal filing.

Harvard and Carolina are the oldest private and public schools, respectively, in the country.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that colleges may consider race in admissions to help diversify their campuses.

That could change depending on the Supreme Court’s decision.

“But public schools have no legitimate interest in maintaining a precise racial balance, and they have no compelling interest in preventing minor dips in average SAT scores,” Students for Fair Admissions, a group that has led both challenges, wrote in a court filing. “The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after Brown cannot be cowed by the diktats of university administrators. If California and Michigan can maintain elite public universities without sorting applicants by race, then North Carolina can, too.”

UNC defended itself in oral arguments, pointing out that it creates diversity across a range of metrics, including admitting more veterans and rural students.

Critics argue race-based affirmative action policies are inherently discriminatory and wrong.

“Since 2014, over 20,000 students, parents and others have joined our membership to help restore colorblind principles to our nation’s schools, colleges and universities,” Students for Fair Admissions said on its website.

Google Whistleblower Rips Project Veritas for Gaslighting Coup that Ousted O’Keefe

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Google Whistleblower Rips Project Veritas for Gaslighting Coup that Ousted O’Keefe

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Project Veritas’s board of directors was already facing intense public criticism for ousting its founder, James O’Keefe, and the backlash intensified with a public roasting of the board’s public deception in plotting the coup.

The Google whistleblower who O’Keefe helped to expose the company’s AI censorship program accused the Project Veritas board of lying to him about why O’Keefe was given the boot.

“The Project Veritas company lied to me about what happened to @JamesOKeefeIII at Project Veritas,” tweeted Zach Vorhies.

“They told me this all spun out of control because the fundraising team wanted to call donors and James O’Keefe wanted to email them instead. 100% bullshit. This is a coup.”

Human Events editor Jack Posobiec noted that the deception extended to the public as a whole, comparing the difference between the board’s original statement on the brewing ouster, when members insisted O’Keefe was “enjoying a well deserved vacation,” compared to the dreck it issued after O’Keefe’s announcement.

The board made a seismic shift when it suddenly claimed that O’Keefe “left us no choice but to suspend him in the last few weeks.”

Posobiec and Zorhies weren’t alone in criticism of the board’s actions, skepticism for why such drastic measures were taken and disgust at the board’s attempt to gaslight the coup.

The board’s public line was that O’Keefe fired somebody he shouldn’t have and was wasting a lot of money.

“We could not allow for our donors to send us money and have it be misappropriated in such a way. We love our supporters, and we would never sit idly by as money is being used for matters that are not mission related,” the board’s statement claimed.

The board, which had recently stripped him of all power and sent him packing on leave, claimed “We did not fire him, nor do we want him to resign. We would like to continue conversations with James to resolve internal matters rather than litigate them publicly.”

Critics ripped the statement as not only disingenuous, but also legally dubious.

“Every employee who finds themselves out of work after @Project_Veritas goes under should sue the Board of Directors for damages,” tweeted VivaBarnesLaw. “This is looking less like a ‘hostile takeover’, and more like a sabotage of the entity, the idea that was Project Veritas.”

Train Derailment ‘Cleanup’ Produced WW1-Era Gas Banned by Geneva Convention: Lawsuit

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Train Derailment ‘Cleanup’ Produced WW1-Era Gas Banned by Geneva Convention: Lawsuit

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Norfolk Southern’s half-baked plan to ignite chemicals released in its East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment made matters worse by producing a highly lethal gas now banned under the Geneva Convention, according to the latest lawsuit filed over the matter.

The class action lawsuit, filed last week by law firm Morgan & Morgan, claims that Norfolk Southern was having difficulties extinguishing flames resulting from the Feb. 3 derailment. So the company instead decided to blow holes in the train cars, release some 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride into the environment, and then light the material on fire, according to the lawsuit.

The result was a 1 million-pound chemical burn pit, which produced a mushroom cloud that spread toxins for miles, the lawsuit states.

“I’m not sure Norfolk Southern could have come up with a worse plan to address this disaster. Residents exposed to vinyl chloride may already be undergoing DNA mutations that could linger for years or even decades before manifesting as terrible and deadly cancers,” attorney John Morgan said in a press release after the lawsuit was filed last week.

“From chemicals that cause nausea and vomiting to a substance responsible for the majority of chemical warfare deaths during World War I, the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities are facing an unprecedented array of threats to their health.”

The lawsuit includes the stories of two victims who live near the derailment.

One of the victims, Lisa Sodergen, lives approximately 5 miles from the site of the derailment, and her home and surrounding pasture were covered by toxic black smoke, the lawsuit states.

“She has suffered from pulmonary, ocular and dermal distress since her exposure to Norfolk Southern’s million pound chemical burn pit,” the lawsuit states. “She lives with ongoing pulmonary irritation and fear for the long-term consequences to her health and water supply.”

Another victim, Aysia Canterbury, lives nearly four miles from the site. According to the lawsuit, she was forced to evacuate from her home for several days.

“Norfolk Southern’s noxious fumes have left a lingering chemical odor on her property. She and her family have suffered from nasal, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal distress since their exposure to Norfolk Southern’s million-pound chemical burn pit,” the lawsuit says. “She lives with ongoing nasal and pulmonary irritation and fear for the long-term consequences to her health and water supply.”

The lawsuit seeks monetary compensation for damages, as well as an award to start a fund for a medical monitoring program. This is the sixth class-action lawsuit filed against Norfolk to date. The company has yet to issue a response to any of the lawsuits.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Explosion at Ohio Metal Plant Kills One, Fuels Sabotage Questions

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Explosion at Ohio Metal Plant Kills One, Fuels Sabotage Questions

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A reported mass casualty explosion rocked the town of Bedford, Ohio, on Monday after a fire ripped through a metal manufacturing plant, the latest in a series of potentially deadly disasters that has erupted across the country in recent weeks.

At least 14 people were rushed to the hospital after the explosion, which witnesses described as a giant “boom” and soaring plume of smoke. One fatality has already been reported.

The Bedford disaster came in the wake of the toxic train derailment and explosion earlier this month in East Palestine, Ohio, which has left residents reeling from the fallout. In response, the Biden administration has tried to downplay the East Palestine disaster, even initially refusing federal emergency aid in a decision that was reversed after former President Donald Trump announced he planned to visit the Ohio town.

Bedford, located just south of Cleveland, is about 70 miles from East Palestine. Firefighters were reportedly able to get the blaze under control, but not before flying debris caught several cars on fire hundreds of yards from the plant.

Officials have not released a cause for the fire, according to Cleveland’s News 5. While the long-term ramifications of health-related issues have also not been addressed, residents were already reporting a sickly, toxic smell in the air as far away as Cleveland, where smoke from the explosion was visible.

With no satisfactory official explanations following the East Palestine and Bedford explosions, along with multiple other disasters that have stuck food plants, manufacturing facilities and power stations across the country, concerns have been heightened that the events are part of a coordinated plan of sabotage designed to weaken America.

“Not just any metal plant, a copper alloy plant. This is a strategic resource,” noted one observer after the Bedford explosion. “All those lovely missiles, bullets and bombs use quite a bit of this stuff.”

“Is there coordinated sabotage underway against the #USA carried out by domestic or foreign terrorists and either managed or permitted by the #Biden regime?” tweeted Dr. Lawrence Sellin, Colonel U.S. Army Reserve retired and chemical warfare specialist. “7 toxic chemical disasters in a 2-week period. Deliberate toxic poisoning of the Ohio River system?”

The Bedford incident shocked residents, many who said they considered themselves lucky to escape without serious injury.

“We were just loading up a truck, getting ready to leave, and it was the loudest noise we ever heard,” a worker from a business across the street told the Akron Beacon Journal. “Everything was shaking, things were falling off the shelves here. We looked out, and saw a huge plume of smoke. About 40 feet down from the entrance, it blew up half the building. It blew debris and shrapnel, there were cars on fire. We just saw pandemonium after the explosion.”

That experience tracked with another’s recounting of the explosion to News 5.

“I’m finishing my porkchop from Tasty Take-Outs, like I usually do… next thing you know—BOOM,” the man said. “I looked over and it was just…boom. Ridiculous, I don’t know how nothing hit me.”

Ohio residents again ripped the Biden administration’s response to the latest disaster to hit the state. Many criticized the president for visiting Ukraine on Monday, instead of focusing on America’s heartland.

“Safer for Biden in Ukraine .. he probably knew it was happening so didn’t visit Ohio today,” tweeted one resident, while another wondered, “Where are the I’m with Ohio pins.”

Arizona Made Massive Order for Ballot-Stuffing Machines in March 2020

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Arizona Made Massive Order for Ballot-Stuffing Machines in March 2020

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) In March 2020, four months before tyrants and their enforcers in the media told Americans to stay at home to stop the spread of COVID-19, a private Arizona ballot printer placed the largest-ever order for ballot-stuffing machines.

Somehow Runbeck, the election services company that placed the order, had advanced knowledge that it would need to stuff more absentee ballots into envelopes than at any other time in American history, UncoverDC reported.

The United States had not yet plunged into the stay-home-stay-safe charade, but Runbeck made the right decision: the number of absentee ballots that were cast in the 2020 election would almost double from 33 million in 2016 to 65 million in 2020.

Runbeck happened to print the ballots that Maricopa County used in 2020.

“Runbeck placed the largest order in the world ever for ballot envelope stuffing machines on March 1—How did they know? I have the order and everything,” said Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, who conducted a forensic kinematic audit of Maricopa’s election.

Rather than a forensic audit, which analyzes ballots in themselves, Pulitzer looked  at the ballots from “printing, the folding, sorting, and mailing” to “the return process, the election handling process, and eventual scanning, tallying, and election recording of the votes—and reporting of the final outcome.”

That investigation made him confident enough to assert that Runbeck used pre-determined algorithms to print ballots favoring Joe Biden and then injected them into Maricopa as the trailing Democrat needed them.

“91.62 percent of the predetermined ballots were cast in favor of Joe Biden,” Pulitzer said.

The research also learned that no mail records exist that could have tracked the election printer’s purchases.

“Runbeck printed over 4,089,000 ballots. We don’t have an answer for that,” Pulitzer said. “That is why ballot cracking is key.”

The month after Runbeck bought the ballot envelope stuffing machines, the Postal Service discontinued its practice of taking pictures of everything that it ships and then saving the picture for six years.

“As soon as Runbeck ordered the machines our United States Post Office stopped its mail cover program—on April 1. It undid it from six years and changed it to 30 days,” Pulitzer said.

“Let the election run, let Biden get installed, and then turned it back on. We do not have the physical evidence trail. That’s what I was telling you. This is the highest levels of the government. This is how far it goes.”

Spain Decriminalizes Zoophilia

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Spain Decriminalizes Zoophilia

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Spanish Parliament decided to promote leftists’ sexual degeneracy by accepting and decriminalizing zoophilia — a desire to have sex with animals — as long as the animal does not receive “an injury that requires veterinary treatment.”

“Bestiality will no longer be considered a criminal offense if there are no injuries to the animal. This is established by the new Penal Code through the new Animal Welfare Law promoted by Minister Ione Belarra that was approved in Congress on February 9,” reported a Mundotoro article, according to the Post Millennial.

Ione Belarra Urteaga, Spain’s Minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda, supported the passing of the law.

According to article 337.1 of the Spanish Penal Code, bestiality was previously illegal and punishable by three months and one day to one year in prison” according to Mundotoro.

The new law changes the penal code by deleting article 337, completely removing the “sexual exploitation” of animals’ language from the code.

“It will be punished with a prison sentence of three to eighteen months or a fine of six to twelve months and with the penalty of special disqualification from one to five years for the exercise of a profession, trade or trade that is related to animals and for the Animal possession is the one that, outside of legally regulated activities and by any means or procedure, including acts of a sexual nature, causes an animal that is domesticated, tamed, domesticated or that lives temporarily or permanently under human control an injury that requires veterinary treatment to the restoration of his health,” the new reform, or title XVI, states.

The Post Millennial reported that the qualifying change is if the sex act with an animal causes the creature to need treatment at the vet.

Tucker Carlson Promises Public Release of J6 Video Footage Obtained from Speaker McCarthy

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Tucker Carlson Promises Public Release of J6 Video Footage Obtained from Speaker McCarthy

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Tucker Carlson reportedly received more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill rally from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Carlson’s producers were on Capitol Hill last week, digging through the 41,000 hours of footage captured that day, according to the Post Millennial. Excerpts of the footage will begin airing on the show in the coming weeks.

“[T]here was never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret,” Carlson said.

“If there was ever a question that’s in the public’s interest to know, it’s what actually happened on January 6. By definition, this video will reveal it. It’s impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.”

The process began in early February, according to a communication between people at Carlson’s show and a McCarthy representative.

However, some conservative activists stated that McCarthy’s decision to send the footage to Carlson is an indication that he doesn’t want to release the full unreleased security footage to the public, as he promised in January, according to Valiant News.

“I want to be very thoughtful about it, but yes,” McCarthy said back then.

“I think the public should see what happened on that day. I watched what [then-House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi did when she politicized it. For the first time in history as a speaker, not allowing the minority to appoint to a committee,” he told reporters. “We watched the politicization of this. I think the American public should actually see what happened instead of a report that’s written on a political basis.”

In August 2022, a group of House Republicans demanded that the US Capitol Police release all footage from Jan. 6 to allow for fair trials in the cases of the over 700 people arrested in connection to that day, the Post Millennial reported.

Twenty-three lawmakers wrote a letter that was sent to Capitol Police Board Chairman William J. Walker that the release of the footage “is absolutely essential to proper governance and truth.”

“The fact that these tapes have not been released, I think, is just a huge blot on the Department of Justice,” Louie Gohmert said. “It’s just outrageous to the American justice system that they’re not being required to make the videos available.”

On Monday afternoon, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., also revealed that McCarthy — her ally — gave Carlson exclusive access to the footage, and that it would be made “available for all J6 defendants.”

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EV Ads in the Super Bowl – An Inconvenient History

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EV Ads in the Super Bowl – An Inconvenient History

(Larry Behrens, RealClear Wire) With an audience north of 100 million viewers, the Super Bowl is the most watched television event in the United States every year. As the game within the game that rivals the action on the field for entertainment value, its commercials represent the Boardwalk and Park Place of advertising.

They are an ideal time to push a political agenda, especially with the hope that no one checks up on you years later.

However, it’s time fact check one consistent ad theme from the big game, and no, this isn’t a takedown of FTX or Sam Bankman-Fried. The Department of Justice is handling that one.

It’s electric vehicles, which have been a central theme for their “just around the corner” utopia. Celebrities, hit songs and even a cute robot dog are used to tout the hipness of EVs. Yet, there are some glaring problems. First, the EV in those ads can’t go the distance and second the only people who can afford most of them are the players on the field or those in the owner box.

During the 2015 version of the big game, Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel reunited for a reunion. They lightheartedly embrace their comical skepticism of the Internet in 1994.  Fast forward 21 years and they are behind the wheel of a BMW i3. The message is clear: This car will be just like the internet in a few years. Underestimate it at your own peril.

Whoops.

Today, the BMW i3 is no longer in production. It was discontinued in 2021. One article blamed its failure on being  just too darn small for Americans. A reasonable person might argue that after eight years in production, a price tag of $45,000 for a car that only achieved a range of 153 miles had something to do with it. Or maybe it was the  11-12 hours to fully charge.

Either way, we can all appreciate how Couric and Bryant seemed to miss the boat again.

During the big game in 2020, the Hummer EV made its debut and the nation’s collective jaws dropped. Here was the poster child for gas-guzzling extravagance switching sides to play for team EV! Labeled the “Quiet Revolution,” Lebron James was in the ad to up its gravitas.

Left unsaid were the two versions of the Hummer in the ad start at nearly $80,000 and go up past $100,000. More good news: the SUV version of the Hummer isn’t available until later in 2023, a full three years after the ad. Production is so slow that one media outlet noted that some of those already waiting in line will have to wait 17 years.

A “quiet revolution” indeed.

Two years ago, Will Ferrell went after Norway because they sell more EV per capita than the United States. Hollywood elites asking why America can’t be more like socialist Scandinavia is nothing new, but left on the cutting room floor were the dirty details: to achieve their “massive” EV sales, Norway offers a bevy of giveaways, including no taxes on registration or fuel, waiving the 25% VAT (sales) tax and a 50% reduction in road taxes and parking fees. Yet, after all the incentives, gas-powered vehicles still make up nearly 80% of the cars on the road in Norway.

Last year we had the Dr. Evil “trying to save the world so he can take over the world” spot. No specific cars are mentioned, but you get to laugh and feel good, and that’s the important part. This year Ferrell is back telling us that Netflix will now embrace EVs.  Perhaps the massive film subsidies offered in many states will help get to the streaming screen.

Just like Super Bowl ads from years gone by, the Biden Administration is all-in on EVs and states are now passing laws to make EV sales mandatory. After all, when something is so cool, practical, and affordable as an EV, the government must subsidize and force its transition.

EVs are now old enough that we can examine their track record: over-priced vehicles that don’t deliver on time, can only travel limited distances, and take hours to “fill up.” That’s the final score and the real losers are the American public. No amount of glossy commercials can whitewash that inconvenient truth.

AP Takes Sides in the Fight Against Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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AP Takes Sides in the Fight Against Crisis Pregnancy Centers

(Ashley McGuire, RealClear Wire) The Associated Press’ decision to call pregnancy resource centers “anti-abortion centers” in its style guide is just the latest politically motivated shot at pro-lifers. This one is rhetorical, of course, and language isn’t violence.

But in a culture rife with political violence, the language isn’t irrelevant. The AP, of all entities, should know this.

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade last June, more than 80 pregnancy centers have been attacked or vandalized, some of them firebombed or torched, others painted over with death threats. If you include churches that have been attacked, that number is well over 200. Never mind the attempt on a Supreme Court justice’s life.

Calling pregnancy centers, many of which have names that are in no way identified with abortion or the politics surrounding it, “anti-abortion,” jeopardizes the vulnerable women that turn to them for help by dragging them into the political spotlight and straight into the line of sight of violent anti-abortion extremists.

But the AP’s mischaracterization of these centers does more than push incendiary language. It’s flat-out biased and unfair – and that would be true coming from anyone, much less from an enterprise claiming to be the literal vanguard of journalistic integrity.

I know this firsthand, as the overturning of Roe inspired me to get involved with a pregnancy care organization, where I was stunned by the breadth of the services it provides. The first mom I served was an undocumented immigrant escaping domestic violence and caring for several other children as a single parent making minimum wage. She had zero interest in abortion; she was just seeking immediate material support.

We provided her with a stroller, car seat, hundreds of dollars’ worth of groceries and grocery gift cards, winter coats for her children, as well as Christmas gifts for her family, baby clothes, diapers, wipes, and formula. She handed me every single medical bill from her pregnancy and delivery, and we paid them. And I gave her what she perhaps needed more than anything else, a hug, the encouragement that she was a strong enough woman to do this, and the knowledge that someone would be there for her and her family. Contrast that with the findings in a recent study that found that nearly two-thirds of women feel pressure to abort.

And yet, the word “abortion” never even came up. Nor has it come up with subsequent client moms I am helping, one who is a young teen and has no immediate family in this country. Instead, we go through their list of needs and find a way to meet every single one of them. Soon I am going to her apartment with a team of men to install a crib.

Many pro-life pregnancy centers go so far as to offer moms job training and even a home to live in as they transition through the postpartum stage. They exist to offer women who are seeking a refuge from the pervasive cultural pressure to abort and the support they need to thrive as the moms they want to be, no matter how challenging the circumstances of their pregnancy. This is not first and foremost “anti-abortion.” This is authentically and comprehensively pro-woman.

No doubt this is why a recent Marist poll found that 90% of Americans support these centers and the work they do. Americans know that their work is about far more than opposing abortion. And even those Americans who self-identify as pro-choice increasingly don’t recognize the modern-day abortion lobby that wears its bona fides loudly and proudly. The abortion heart pin look that Sen. Ed Markey sported to the State of the Union is not the look Americans are going for; it’s the provide-women-in-crisis-with-true-loving-support they want more of.

Which is why these centers find themselves quite literally in the crosshairs of abortion activists. As Jane’s Revenge, one of the leaders of the attacks on pregnancy centers, said in a statement:

“For the allies of ours who doubt the authenticity of the communiqués and actions: there is a way you can get irrefutable proof that these actions are real. Go do one of your own. Everyone with the urge to paint, to burn, to cut, to jam: now is the time.”

Now they have the Associated Press to help them make a list of targets.

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