Do I really need to say it??   

When abortion law isn’t the topic, everyone admits it’s a heartbeat
By
Timothy P. Carney
May 7, 2024 3:30 pm
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South Carolina’s legislature voted to outlaw abortions for babies who have a heartbeat. Planned Parenthood is challenging that law, and in particular, the abortion giant is challenging its application to babies at 6 to 8 weeks of gestation.

Part of Planned Parenthood’s argument is that babies at six weeks do not have a heartbeat. There are specific legal questions about the wording of the South Carolina law, but one of the least defensible arguments made by abortion defenders is that babies this early in development lack a heartbeat.

The first inconvenient fact for abortion defenders is that an ultrasound detects the heartbeat of the in-utero baby at about six weeks. On the ultrasound screen, you can see the tiny heart beating to pump blood throughout the tiny body. Also, ultrasound machines indicate the rate and magnitude of this motion by producing a sound.

The efforts to deny this is a heartbeat are tireless — and often inexplicable.

Stacey Abrams, the celebrity Democrat, tried to spread a bizarre conspiracy theory about the makers of these ultrasound machines.

“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams said while running for governor in 2022. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2994612/when-abortion-law-isnt-the-topic-everyone-admits-its-a-heartbeat/

I lasted about thirty seconds before my tolerance to abject stupidity level was exceeded.

Pretty amazing really... Ideology now supersedes all... No competence or facts required...

Trump privately tells MTG to call off attacks on Johnson
By
Elaine Mallon
May 7, 2024 2:56 pm
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Over the weekend, Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a phone call in which the former president advised her to back off from her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to a report.

Publicly, Trump has praised Johnson’s leadership and has said he is opposed to motions to vacate the speaker. Now in private, Trump told Greene not to proceed with her threats to oust Johnson, according to three Republican sources familiar with the conversations who spoke to Politico.

On Steve Bannon’s podcast, Greene asserted she is Trump’s strongest supporter in Washington.

“But everybody is trying to pretend like there’s a problem between us,” Greene said. “And I’m going to tell you right now: There is not.”

Greene hinted at her conversation with the former president, stating: “I’m just not someone that runs around and talks about my conversations with him. I don’t speak for President Trump and what he has to say.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2994652/trump-tells-mtg-to-call-off-attacks-on-johnson/

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