Day: May 12, 2024
If You’re Not for a Two-State Solution, ‘You’re Not Morally Serious’
“There’s only one solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Two states for two indigenous people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. And if you’re not for that, if you’re not for ending the violence and for hostage release, if you’re only condemning one side and not the other, you’re not morally serious.”
— Thomas Friedman, quoted by CNN.
MAGA Senator Introduces Bill to Create Pregnancy Database A baby step closer to Gilead
In a follow-up to her disastrous response to Pres. Biden’s barnburner 2024 State of the Union speech, Sen. Katie Britt (MAGA-AL) has introduced a bill that would use federal resources both to discourage abortion and to create a database of pregnant people.
The More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act (MOMS Act) provides online pregnancy resources through a new website, pregnancy.gov, but it also funds anti-abortion organizations and offers no resources on abortion.
Users of pregnancy.com can opt to have their contact information compiled into a federal pregnancy database. The government may use the data to “conduct outreach via phone or email” to share “additional resources that would be helpful.”
But critics fear that the government database may be used to discouraged abortion. Troy Matthews at Meidas Touch News suggested that, “It’s very likely the government staffer that follows up with the website users will also be tasked with pressuring them out of seeking proper healthcare if it involves an abortion.”
Britt was famously caught lying during her MAGA State of the Union rebuttal. She claimed she met with a woman who was sex trafficked in the United States as a result of Biden administration policies. In fact, the woman was trafficked in Mexico City decades before Biden became president.
