The Runback: Galloping Towards Gomorrah
The wicked extremism of Democrats is on full display in Annapolis
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Chalk Session
Welcome to Chalk Session, where we break down and analyze political commercials.
This we analyze a spot from Gordana Schifanelli, running mate of Dan Cox and from Darren Badillo, Republican candidate for Baltimore County Executive.
News and Politics
Cox on Cox: A website is highlighting Dan Cox’s political disagreements with his toughest opponent: Dan Cox.
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Peroutka's Wild Bar Association Interview: Michael Peroutka Gonna Michael Peroutka in a Tour De Force of Warped Christian Reconstructionism
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MoCo Councilman Hans Riemer's Political Hoax: Reinstating the Military Draft: Montgomery County Councilman (and now Wannabe County Executive) Hans Riemer has proudly taken personal credit for his "fake news" media campaign claiming the military draft was about to be reinstated.
Yes, Charles Lollar is Running for Office....Again: The political world’s answer to the Washington Generals is back at it once again.
Sports
NFL Mystery Box: Free Agency Edition: Big Money. BIG MONEY.
The Monday Thought
In 1996, Justice Robert Bork wrote a book entitled “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline.” The premise of the book is that the legacy of 1960’s radicalism “demonstrates that the precepts of modern liberalism are antithetical to the rest of the U.S. political tradition” and that it led to the “U.S. cultural decline and degeneracy”.1 One of the ways that Bork highlighted as the cause for this “Slouching Towards Gomorrah” was the legalization of abortion and the sexualization of America.
I thought about that a lot when I read this story in The Baltimore Sun about Democratic efforts to expand abortion access ensconce abortion in Maryland’s State Constitution:
Legislation to expand access to abortions in Maryland and mandate that most health insurance plans cover the procedure cost-free for patients easily passed the House of Delegates on Friday, a step toward broadening access in Maryland even as the U.S. Supreme Court mulls allowing severe restrictions on abortion in other states.
Delegates also backed enshrining the right to abortion — as part of “the fundamental right to reproductive liberty” alongside contraception and prenatal care — in the state’s constitution, something that would require the approval of voters in November.
There’s a lot mentioned in those first two paragraphs that is worth pointing out.
The Abortion Care Access Act will make abortions free in the state of Maryland. The following comes directly from the text of the bill that passed the House of Delegates:
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS SECTION, AN ENTITY SUBJECT TO THIS SECTION SHALL:
(1) COVER ABORTION CARE SERVICES WITHOUT:
(I) A DEDUCTIBLE, COINSURANCE, COPAYMENT, OR ANY OTHER COST–SHARING REQUIREMENT; AND
(II) RESTRICTIONS THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE PROTECTED RIGHTS UNDER TITLE 20, SUBTITLE 2 OF THE HEALTH – GENERAL ARTICLE; AND
(2) PROVIDE INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS ABOUT ABORTION CARE COVERAGE USING THE TERMINOLOGY “ABORTION CARE” TO DESCRIBE COVERAGE.
Yup. To get an abortion in Maryland you can do it totally free. Neither the state nor your insurance company can force you to pay a penny to kill your child. But that portion can be suspended if and only if federal funds are at risk. This really goes to show you Maryland’s priorities, but I digress.
(C) IF THE COMMISSIONER DETERMINES THAT ENFORCEMENT OF THIS 12 SECTION MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT THE ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO THE STATE, THE COMMISSIONER MAY GRANT AN EXEMPTION TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION TO THE MINIMUM EXTENT NECESSARY TO ENSURE THE CONTINUED 1RECEIPT OF FEDERAL FUNDS.
The Sun points out some of the other lowlights from the bill;
The proposed Abortion Care Access Act would allow nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform abortions and create a program at the Maryland Department of Health, backed by a $3.5 million annual budget, to train medical professionals. Private insurance companies, except those with legal exemptions, would be required to waive deductibles or cost-share charges to completely cover the procedure.
Yes, now Democrats want to let non-doctors perform abortions. As if the procedures weren’t grizzly enough.
The language that some of these Democrats, among them morally questionable Delegate Ariana Kelly, is as ignorant as it is gruesome.
“We have a fundamental right to control our own decisions around pregnancy,” said Del. Ariana Kelly, a Montgomery County Democrat who sponsored the Abortion Care Access Act and spoke in support of the constitutional amendment as well….
The legislation “helps women by making sure that care is affordable, either through insurance or through Medicaid,” Kelly told her colleagues on Friday, “because low-income women and middle-income women should have the same right to make their own choices about their reproductive lives as rich women do.”
The unborn child also has a fundamental right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Kelly and her Democratic cohorts believe in an Animal Farm style “all are equal but some are more equal than others” scenario.
And yet, somehow it gets worse. The Constitutional Amendment also passed the House on Friday. And that also has some disturbing language in it as well:
"That as a central component of the individual's rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive liberty; prohibiting the State from directly or indirectly denying, burdening, or abridging the right unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means."
This language would be added to the Maryland Declaration of Rights, a document that Democrats tend to ignore liberally.2
And yet, neither of these bills are as remotely disgusting as Senate Bill 669. Introduced by Senate Judiciary Chairman Will Smith, the “Pregnant Person's Freedom Act of 2022” is a whole lot worse than just Smith advocating an anti-science position.3 The American Center for Law and Justice has this to say about it:
At first glance, this bill looks like it simply changes the word “woman” to “pregnant person,” and then prevents a “pregnant person” from being investigated or penalized for “terminating or attempting to terminate” her own pregnancy. But we are well aware that abortion advocates constantly package what they sell as benign, when it is truly lethal.
In this case, as we are prepared to point out in our testimony, the bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion. In other words – this bill will effectively legalize infanticide….
….hus, according to this bill, if a baby died because it was abandoned and police investigated and eventually arrested the person responsible for the baby’s death, then the woman could sue the police and get monetary damages for having been investigated and arrested.
And it gets worse. Because the language that is used is without clear definition, the bill could prevent any investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth, and may extend to infants as old as four weeks!
Somehow Democrats have now not only blown past “safe, legal, and rare” all the way to free abortions and infanticide. This makes what former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said look weak.
What limits do the Democrats have on their wickedness? How much worse could it possibly get than free abortions and legal infanticide? It’s hard to imagine how Maryland’s Democrats could get any more wicked, more evil, or crueler.
Instead of “Slouching Toward Gomorrah” as Bork warned, Maryland’s Democrats are practically galloping.
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Arguably, the Abortion Amendment to the Declaration of Violates violates Articles 16 and 36 of said Declaration.
The bill changes the law from “Pregnant Woman” to “Pregnant Person” because it’s a stupid time to be alive.
Thank you Brian!
You interviewed me back in 2019 at the MDGOP Convention when I introduced Resolutions against Infanticide and Abortion Funding which passed unanimously. Some scoffed at my use of the word "infanticide" which has already been happening in Maryland because Maryland is a international medical research state with NIH and Johns Hopkins which performs abortions. Research doctors want live beating hearts (Infanticide) and large well-developed body parts from aborted babies (organ harvesting).
You fully supported those Resolutions because apparently you could see what was coming down the pike, and here it is.
I plan to call for a Congressional investigation into these bills for corruption and bribery by Democrat legislators, Planned Parenthood and NARAL in the Maryland State House.
Maryland is being used as a flagship state by Planned Parenhood and if successful, this will be the blueprint for other states as well.
This is a Constitutional Crisis in Maryland. What if instead of the Pre- Born, we targeted African Americans by introducing a bill to create a $3.5 million dollar clinical program to teach white people how to enslave black people again, annahilate the Jews or any other Human Rights atrocity that targets a particular group of persons based on particular traits like race, ethnicity, religion or birth status (Pre-Born).
And to seal the deal, we introduced a Constitutional Amendment to prevent our elected representatives from introducing or debating any legislation that would abolish or regulate these human rights atrocities, which are actually part of the POPULATION CONTROL/NEW GREEN DEAL global agenda.
The Constitutional Amendment Bill actually contradicts the provisions for Life already found in the DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, first and foremost which is LIFE, from which all other rights attach, but only after a person is born. Life is the first Inalienable Right.
Abortion is a debatable subject, and it is patently Unconstitutional to silence all Debate in our state legislature through a "constitutional" amendment.
As to the crossfiled bills that decriminalize the murder of infants and their mothers by non physician and "DO YOUR OWN ABORTIONS" by "pregnant persons," it's all so vaguely reminiscent of the Black Lives Matters desecration of American cities while law enforcement was forced to stand down and watch. Hand cuffing law enforcement will go double for the murder of babies and women by botched abortion from every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to get paid for learning how to kill babies in the womb but through all nine month for any reason by dismemberment abortion.
What's to come? Thousands of tax supported paid State agents searching every quarter of Maryland for any vulnerable pregnant girl or woman, offering a free abortion at taxpayers expense by "culturally appropriate" individuals. Paid Black women to help black women kill their babies, paid Hispanic women to help Hispanic women kill their babies and paid white women to help poor rural white women kill their babies. By the way, women who choose to keep their babies will have no such free benefits to pay for childbirth. This is Pregnancy Discrimination at its best.
This is all so ironic from the pro-choice Dems who what to keep the government off their bodies, but are going to sick the government on other people's bodies (Born and Pre-Born) via paid government agents to coerce as many women as possible to kill their babies in Maryland, all to stoke fear and retaliation for the Texas heart beat Bill and Dobbs case which will have no impact on Maryland whatsoever if successful because we already have late term abortion by statute since 1992. Reminds me of King Herod, a Barbarian who out of political fear of a "Rival" King ordered the slaughter of all the Innocents (Infanticide).
Thank you again for defending LIFE and the CONSTITUTION in Maryland.
Katherine Adelaide, JD, Vice Chair
Carroll County Republican Central Committee
(CCRCC)
301-575-4889
Even for you this is a new low. It's 100% clear that it's not a child until viability. Your claims are insane and completely discredit you. I proudly support my friend's bodily autonomy and right to abort literal cells. Not people, cells. This is such a gross article.