By Dave Andrusko
It must be a kind of badge of honor among pro-abortion elected officials to be considered the best at harassing pro-lifers. Take Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) who is unloading on Pregnancy Help Centers with a vengeance.
I probably donāt have to even tell you what so enrages Sen. Warren. Itās alleged ādisinformation.ā Writing for National Review Online, John McCormack explains that pro-life charities ācould be shut down under her bill if they ‘mimic Planned Parenthoodās colors’ and engage in other acts of supposed ‘disinformation.āā
So his headline is no exaggeration: āElizabeth Warren Escalates Her War on Pregnancy Resource Centersā.
āThese pro-life charities not only help women in poverty choose life instead of abortion, but they also help women after babies are born ā providing clothing, diapers, housing assistance, and more,ā McCormack writes. Needless to say, the indispensable work that PHC do with very limited resources doesnāt impress Warren.
Naw, they just need to be shutdown.
āIn Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one,ā an incensed Warren told an NBC affiliate in Boston. āWe need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.ā
Please note that she wants PHCs shut down āall around the country.ā Note also that PHCs outnumber abortion clinics 3-1, which must really stick in her craw.
McCormack quotes from a recent National Review Online editorial:
Under Warrenās bill, [pregnancy center] charities could be fined $100,000 or ā50 percent of the revenues earned by the ultimate parent entityā of the charity for violating the actās āprohibition on disinformationā related to abortion. But the legislation itself does not define prohibited speech. Warrenās bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to āpromulgate rules to prohibit a person from advertising with the use of misleading statements related to the provision of abortion services.ā Warrenās bill would thus turn the Federal Trade Commission into a national abortion disinformation board. Perhaps the task of determining what counts as a prohibited āmisleadingā statement would fall to the recently unemployed Nina Jankowicz for the remainder of the Biden administration. Warren does not seem to have considered who might do this job in a future Republican administration.
Weāll keep an eye out how Sen. Warrenās bill fares. Letās hope cooler heads (there must be a couple of them among all the pro-abortion Democrats) prevail.