New International Version Mark 7:34
34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”). Read full chapter | Mark 7:34 in all English translations
WATCH: Trump misinformation about abortion ‘insulting’ to American women, Harris says (youtube.com) Daniel Dale CNN Digital | Published June 7, 2024 1:01 p.m. EDT
Fact check: Trump falsely claims Democratic states are passing laws allowing people to execute babies after birth
Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. No state has passed or is passing a law that allows the execution of a baby after it is born. Killing a person after birth is illegal in every state. “Every state explicitly criminalizes infanticide,” Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, said Thursday. “There is no basis for this claim,” Kimberly Mutcherson, a professor at Rutgers Law School, said Thursday.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a CNN request to specify which states Trump was talking about. Mutcherson said: “The falsity of the claim can be seen in the fact that Trump never identifies such a state.”
There was at least one instance, in an interview with NBC last year, in which Trump specified that he was making the claim about the state of New York in addition to unspecified “other places.” But he was wrong then, too: New York did not pass a law allowing babies to be killed after birth, though false social media posts claimed it had.
Similar false claims have circulated about California.
Some of those claims were based on criticism of vague language in an early version of a Democratic state legislator’s 2022 bill that was intended to protect people from being prosecuted over miscarriages, stillbirths and self-managed abortions.
But the vague language was revised before the bill was signed into law.
Months before passage, a Democratic-led legislative committee acknowledged that the early text’s vague use of the phrase “perinatal death” might have inadvertently left open the interpretation that the bill would immunize people from punishment in all cases in which their baby died in the first days of its life, even in cases where the death was caused by acts after the baby was born.
The final bill that was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom clarified that the “perinatal death” immunity is specifically for “perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero.” In other words, there is no basis for a claim that California passed a law legalizing post-birth executions.
Trump floats punishment for ABC after debate (msn.com)
Even with the illegal use of “smart earrings” during a debate, along with backing from the @abc network and moderators, Kamala Harris was still defeated by Donald Trump. That’s how great President Trump is!
I LOVE Kamala’s new earrings. Hey! Wait a minute…
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A repeated false claim about legal scholars
Trump appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who voted in 2022 to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had guaranteed abortion rights around the country. During his current presidential campaign, he has repeatedly made the false claim that all legal scholars had wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and power over abortion policy returned to individual states.
Trump said it again in the Fox News interview: “I say, let the states decide.”
This is — every legal scholar wanted this to be where abortion should be.
Facts First: Trump’s claim that “every legal scholar” wanted Roe overturned and the power to set abortion policy returned to the states is not even close to true. Many legal scholars wanted Roe preserved, as several of them reiterated in April comments to CNN.
“Any claim that all legal scholars wanted Roe overturned is mind-numbingly false,” Mutcherson, who supported the preservation of Roe, said in April.
“Donald Trump’s claim is flatly incorrect,” Maya Manian, an American University law professor who also did not want Roe overturned, said in April.
Trump’s claim is “obviously not” true, said Ziegler, another scholar who did not want Roe overturned. She said in April: “Most legal scholars probably track most Americans, who didn’t want to overturn Roe. … It wasn’t as if legal scholars were somehow outliers.”
Linsey Davis held Trump’s feet to the fire. How she became ABC News’ rising star (msn.com) | You can read a more detailed fact check of this claim here.
HERE is a fact check on babies left to die after surviving abortion in Tim Walz’s Minnesota.
American women, Harris says
Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back against the false claim repeated by former President Donald Trump in their Sept. 10 debate that some states and Democrats supported “post-birth” abortions, or killing babies after they are born.
Killing anyone after birth is illegal. No states have or are considering laws that allow for the killing of a baby after birth.
When asked about her plans around abortion rights during the ABC News Presidential Debate, Harris pointed this out, and supported reinstating protections formerly offered by the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.
“Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion — that is not happening. It’s insulting to the women of America,” Harris said.
She described the fallout of new abortion restrictions enacted by states after the high court’s Dobbs decision left the issue in their hands, including the challenge of women accessing care or having to travel out of state to receive, and doctors fearing providing abortion or miscarriage care for fear of prosecution.
According to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll, more than two-thirds of Americans say they will watch all or most of the debate. While many voters have already made up their minds, 14 percent of Americans say the debate will have a great impact on which candidate they choose.
In an odd way, President Trump reminds me of Ed Norton (Honeymooners).
Uncouth and offensive to the “elite” Establishment, but always the first person called when the sewer needs clearing out. We elected him not for his table manners, but because he’ll get the job done.
I think he got a 7 or 8 last night for bringing out the truth, and I did notice they were all three attacking him…it was pretty unfair…I am an independent voter…I will be voting Trump. The man just keeps taking blows and I respect that big time….I have never voted for Dems and won’t again this year because after last night I feel like he’s fighting for me.
Nothing was fair about last night and sadly our country learned nothing about policy from either candidate. It was a waste of time to watch. our country better wake up before we become a socialist country. Mr. Trump is a sincere man who truly loves this country and the people! Glad you came to this side of the wall!!! No PUN intended!!
It was certainly not a debate.
It was an attack on Trump with the grinning jackanapes and ABC leading the charge. After last night’s debate 63% of Americans supported Harris compared to 37% for Trump in a CNN poll. You’ll never see a lion reduced to an ant. He’ll fight tooth and nail to the bitter end. If I had to go to war with anyone to protect me, it would be him!
That’s for sure.