Paxton Smith, a card-carrying member of the Cult of Self, just revealed her narcissistic bona fides in her valedictory diatribe advocating for human slaughter at Lake Highlands High School in Richardson, Texas. She dumped her pre-approved speech and replaced it with a controversial political polemic.

In an act of surpassing selfishness and presumptuousness, Smith used a once-in-a-lifetime family celebration to spread her poisonous belief that women’s rights depend on their ability to have their children killed, and she did that in front of the young siblings, grandparents, and parents of her classmates.

To make a contemptible story worse, in multiple interviews Paxton Smith’s father Russell Smith said he feels “immense pride” in his daughter’s decision to ruin other people’s special day. Apparently, Russell Smith has no feelings of sorrow about the eagerness of his daughter to be free to exterminate inconvenient grandchildren.

Paxton Smith was motivated by rage at Texas legislation that prohibits the killing of humans after the beating of their hearts can be detected. ABC News offered this bizarre description of the bill:

It bans abortion once the rhythmic contracting of fetal cardiac tissue—aka the “fetal heartbeat”—can be detected.

The phrase “rhythmic contracting of fetal cardiac tissue” was not in scare quotes, but “fetal heartbeat” was. You can’t make this stuff up.

Here’s some of what Paxton Smith inflicted on families:

I was going to talk about TV and media and content. … However, under light of recent events, it feels wrong to talk about anything but what is currently affecting me and millions of other women in the state.

… Starting in September, there will be a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, regardless of whether the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest.

Six weeks. That’s all women get. … so, before they have a chance to decide if they are emotionally, physically and financially stable enough to carry out a full-term pregnancy, before they have the chance to decide if they can take on the responsibility of bringing another human being into the world, that decision is made for them by a stranger. …

I have dreams and hopes and ambitions. Every girl graduating today does. And we have spent our entire lives working towards our future. And without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us.

I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail, I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter. I hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is. I hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is, to have the autonomy over your own body taken away from you. …

And I cannot give up this platform … when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights.

Smith “feels” it would have been “wrong” not to usurp a family celebration by surreptitiously substituting a defense of human slaughter that she knew would offend audience members for the speech she had submitted for approval. Maybe she ought not put such stock in her feelings in the future.

Smith implies that the absence of rape and incest exceptions makes abortion laws an even more grievous moral offense. Is she saying that humans conceived in violence are less worthy than others? Are they less human? Are they less deserving of protection?

Smith frets that six weeks—the point at which the rhythmic contracting of fetal cardiac tissue can be detected—is not nearly enough time for women to decide if they want to have their babies killed. She claims they need more time to decide if they’re “emotionally, physically, and financially stable enough” to bring “another human being into the world.”

Words to Smith: First, in order for an abortion to take place, “another human being” is already in the world.

Second, any woman who is too emotionally, physically, or financially unstable to care for a child that is already in the world, can relinquish him or her to the loving care of stable moms and dads. Is killing a child rather than allowing him or her life in the care of others really the more compassionate, just, and loving option?

Prefacing comments about her dreams with an unseemly mention at a graduation ceremony about the possibility of her contraceptive failures, Smith asserts that all her hopes, aspirations, dreams, and efforts for the future would be dashed by carrying a pregnancy to term. Is that true? Is it likely? In the scales of justice, how does Smith weigh her hypothetical dashed dreams against the actual crushed body of her child?

Is Smith really dehumanized by not being able to have her child killed, or would killing her child dehumanize her? Is “bodily autonomy” as manifest in ordering the killing of another human a right of a higher moral order than the bodily autonomy of the other human as manifest in the right not to be killed?

Signs of cultural decay and decadence are ubiquitous. The most prevalent signs pertain to the intertwined issues of disordered sexuality and its necessary corollary, human slaughter. Without the ability to sacrifice one’s own child (or children) to the god of Self, the ritual of promiscuous sex would not be part of America’s sordid daily life. Human sacrifice is an essential sacrament in the Cult of Self.

While Jesus died so we can live, the Cult of Self tells women their children must die so they can live. While Jesus tells us to die to ourselves, the Cult of Self tells women the fulfillment of their desires requires the deaths of their children. While Jesus tells us to tithe to his bride—the church—the Cult of Self tells us we must tithe to Planned Parenthood.

There is a war on bodies and rights, but it’s not against the bodies and rights of women like Paxton Smith.

Listen to this article read by Laurie:

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Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on a monumental piece of pro-life legislation known as the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017.  Introduced by U.S. Representative Steven King (R-IA), H.R. 490 would require abortionists to listen for a heartbeat of a pre-born child and if it’s detected, the abortion could not proceed.  The only exception would be in cases where the mother’s life is in jeopardy.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the heartbeat of an in utero human being can be detected as early as six weeks of pregnancy.

Of the members of the Illinois Congressional delegation, U.S. Representatives Peter Roskam (R-Barrington), John Shimkus (R-Effingham), Randy Hultrgen (R-McHenry), Darin LaHood (R-Peoria), Rodney Davis (R-Champaign), Mike Bost (R-Carbondale) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Rockford) have signed on as co-sponsors.

Of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, this proposal already has 169 co-sponsors, including one Democrat from Minnesota (Collin Peterson).

“We think this bill properly applied does eliminate a large, large share of the abortions — 90 percent or better — of the abortions in America,” U.S. Rep. King told reporters in January, according to The Daily Caller.

“Since Roe v. Wade was unconstitutionally decided in 1973, nearly 60 million innocent babies’ lives have been ended by the abortion industry, all with a rubber stamp by the federal government,” he said. “My legislation will require all physicians, before conducting an abortion, to detect the heartbeat of the unborn child. If a heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected.”

This legislation also helps to educate the public of the humanity of the pre-born child. A detectable heartbeat sends the unmistakable message of life. Simply put, inanimate tissue doesn’t have a heartbeat.

And public opinion seems to agree. According to an amazing national poll released by the Barna Group earlier this year, 69 percent of Americans concur with the premise of this legislation, and specifically this question: “If a doctor is able to detect the heartbeat of an unborn baby, that unborn baby should be legally protected.”

The poll also reveals that eighty-six percent of Republicans support the Heartbeat Bill, and even 55 percent of Democrats.

Take ACTION:  Click HERE to urge your U.S. Representative to support the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 490) and speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. Medical science enables us to actually hear life beating in the womb. We cannot ignore that profound truth. If a heartbeat is detected, the baby should be legally protected.

The Ohio legislature has sent a bill to Governor John Kasich that will legally protect unborn babies from abortion once a heartbeat can be detected.  The law makes it a fifth-degree felony to abort an unborn human without checking for a heartbeat or aborting after the baby’s heartbeat can be detected.  It also opens the door to civil lawsuits and disciplinary action.

The heartbeat is present at around 3 weeks and 3 days, but usually can’t be detected until 4 to 6 weeks.  The bill also provides an exception to allow an abortion when it is necessary to save the mother’s life.

If Governor Kasich doesn’t veto the bill by December 16th, it automatically becomes law.  He also has the option to veto a portion of the bill (line-item veto).  The state legislature could override a potential veto, but that requires a three-fifths vote.  They are likely to override it in the Ohio Senate since the original vote was 21 to 10, but it’s less likely to be overridden in the Ohio House since that vote was 56 to 39.

Take ACTION:  Call Gov. Kasich’s office at (614) 466-3555 to leave a message encouraging this one time presidential candidate to stand for the right to life and sign the “Heartbeat Bill” into law.  You can also click HERE to send a message to Gov. Kasich via his website.

Background  

The ACLU has already threatened to sue the state of Ohio if this bill becomes law.  It’s very likely that the lower courts will find it unconstitutional because of Roe v Wade and subsequent cases.  Tragically, the current U.S. Supreme Court would agree and  Ohio would be forced to pay the legal fees of the attorneys that sued.  If Ohio tried to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court and enforce the heartbeat bill anyway, the Federal Government would force the state to comply.

Ultimately, the real problem is the current U.S. Supreme Court.

The five pro-choice Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will not allow “we the people” to govern ourselves when it comes to abortion.  Five pro-choice Justices continue to impose their personal opinions about abortion on 320 million Americans instead of allowing the ordinary democratic process to create the law that the people want.

These Justices hide behind stare decisis (upholding prior decisions), dubious interpretative approaches including substantive due process and what they call looking to the shadows of the U.S. Constitution. However, prior decisions have been changed numerous times and because they are so controversial, they harm the U.S. Supreme Court by politicizing the nomination and confirmation processes.  Meanwhile, it’s well established that no provision of the U.S. Constitution was ever adopted or ratified with the intention of creating a legal “right to abortion” nor were they adopted or ratified with the intent to prohibit the people from protecting the unborn from abortion.

Currently, the U.S. Supreme Court has five pro-choice Justices (Ginsberg, Kennedy, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor) and three pro-life Justices (Thomas, Alito, and Roberts).  There is one vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court left by the late Justice Scalia.  President-elect Trump has stated repeatedly that he will nominate a pro-life Justice once he is in office in January 2017.  The Republican U.S. Senate will likely fast-track the confirmation of that Justice.  However, the U.S. Supreme Court will still be split five pro-choice Justices to four pro-life Justices.  We will need one of the pro-choice Justices to leave the Court while Trump is President and the U.S. Senate is Republican if we want to move the U.S. Supreme Court away from abortion and toward life.

The three oldest Justices are pro-choice.  They are Ginsberg, Kennedy, and Breyer.  If one of them leaves the U.S. Supreme Court and that position is filled with a pro-life Justice, we could see Roe overturned in our lifetime.  Bills like this one in Ohio that protect babies with detectable heartbeats can finally be a reality.  It will be a true victory for the value of human life and for our democratic process.

Pro-lifers are hopeful that Gov. Kasich will sign this “Heartbeat Bill” into law.  It’s the right thing to do.  Meanwhile, another bill is available for him to sign that protects the unborn from abortion after 20 weeks.

Nevertheless, the real fight is with these five pro-choice Justices. They stand in the way of democracy.  They stand in the way of basic human rights for all humans (born & unborn).  They stand in the way of true human progress.

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