Thank you so much for the reporting -- but your description of crisis pregnancy centers as "posing" as clinics is ridiculous and betrays a lack of investigation. Ironically, crisis pregnancy centers provide women with ultrasounds. Planned Parenthood does not, for good reason: they have seen the stats that show that when mothers know the TRUTH -- that the fetus is not a "clump of cells" (PP's favorite line and their moneymaker), but a baby human with a heartbeat -- they decide killing it is wrong. Crisis pregnancy centers also provide pregnancy tests, STD testing, parenting classes, counseling, pre and post-natal care, formula, diapers, services and other essential items for infant health. They also work hard to help women in abusive situations, while PP has been documented on film as covering up statutory rape, abuse, and sex trafficking.
To claim that pro-life facilities are fake clinics, and that PP, which is really just a death center making millions, is a "real" clinic, is a serious lie. You've just spouted the pro-abortion propoganda instead of looking into the truth.
Please do a follow up story covering the differences in care between the two types of clinics. Any woman who had had an abortion at PP will tell you there is no option presented to save the baby, and that they sit in a hallway moaning and bleeding after its over with other young girls. That doesn't sound like good health care to me. In this particular example in DC, they refused to let the woman EVEN TALK TO A DOCTOR until she had taken a Xanax and was "pants-off" in the surgery room. https://youtu.be/_6bqFOnUsfg
I would never have an abortion, but I feel weird telling others what to do. At the same time, I judge people who kill their own offspring..... I was not aware of this.
This is a shocking and important story, and one that deserves much more coverage and condemnation of the perpetrators than it's received. But don't jump to conclusions about law enforcement failures or political interference by prosecutors when the crimes are incidents of bombing or arson. As a rule, a lot of time is required in order to build cases like those. More than a few months.
“ Pro-choice activists viewed themselves as protecting women’s right not only to choose whether to abort a fetus, but to be fully independent and equal.”
It is a human baby and abortion is killing a human baby. It is ok to speak the truth, just not for so called “journalists”
The article itself is fine. The reporting however is old. Tucker Carlson, the daily wire have been reporting on this for months. Forget the “msm” but even independent, disillusioned reporters such as this are late to reporting the catastrophic consequences of progressive policies. It is as if it was a surprise.
None of the comments here, as far as I can see, takes account of the fact that every abortion past the first three months or so (pick your limit, but most people here and in Europe agree there's a limit) involves violent termination of a human life. Pro-lifers didn't introduce violence into the argument; it was about violence to begin with.
Thank you. Evidently, people are not allowed to have differing views. Violence and destruction is never ever justified. Unfortunately, there is a double standard courtesy of the main stream media, the Executive office and the Justice department and their various sub-units.
Ms. Reingold, these thugs aren't "radical pro-choice groups" or "pro-choice vandals." They are pro-abortion. Like the Democratic party, they want these women to have NO choice but abortion, which is why they are attacking facilities where women go to seek alternatives, as opposed to, for example, offices of pro-life politicians.
I don't get the point of quoting the useless and ineffectual ACLU. There has been nothing but crickets from that organization about any of this. This was lip service.
The Democrats are a dumpster fire of a moral abomination of a shit sandwich and their reality check is about to be brutal.
Unfortunately, that second comment had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with you. The following poster questioned the overpopulation in cities and implied, "when are we going to realize that urban life is not sustainable." Again, NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. I was merely replying to HER comment. Those outside of NYC who are not aware of the conditions these families lived under on the lower east side may possibly not understand that it was not a choice (most got off the boat at Ellis Island) and living there certainly had nothing to do with "culture" or "art" as the writer stated, assuming that is why city dwellers lived there IN DISCUSSING HOW/WHY Margaret Sanger pursued her work, I then proceeded to explain why my maternal grandparents settled in a major city. AGAIN - NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
My husband spent most of his childhood on a farm in upstate NY which we visit frequently, so your assumptions about my background knowledge and over reactions and cries of condescension are almost funny. Talk about calling the kettle black! Can't you see? Getting your panties in a knot over a comment that WASN'T DIRECTED TO YOU, then condescendingly babbling on about I don't know what a woman is?? What does that even mean? What does that even have to do with the topic at hand?? Biology was part of my degree and I'm quite knowledgeable, thank you. I raised two beautiful daughters (one doctor, one police officer) so I have a pretty good idea of womanhood.
Forgive me - maybe you were trying to be funny? We did have a good laugh trying to decipher that.
I'm sorry if my opinion that I should have the right to decide what to do with my (and my daughter's) bodies offends you, but I DO have the right to voice that opinion. That's why I follow more right-leaning substacks. Because here, I still DO have that right. Here and now. Without name calling, insults, or personal attacks. If that bothers you, just hit "delete and find a page where no one disagrees with you. I believe that people who irrationally attack others when they don't like or disagree with what they say are... what is it? Ahhhh yes. Snowflakes. Don't do it.
H.Res.1233 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups, and churches;
(2) recognizes the sanctity of life and the important role pro-life facilities, groups, and churches play in supporting pregnant women, infants, and families; and
(3) calls upon the Biden Administration to use all appropriate law enforcement authorities to uphold public safety and to protect the rights of pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.
I have complained about CS at times. Fair is fair: Well done, Bari, well done CS. I know that this article is probably outside of your ideological comfort zone. Thank you for putting it out, anyway. A+ for journalistic integrity here.
Excellent reporting by Olivia Reingold. I hope we see more of her writing. I had no idea this was happening. This is why I love Bari Weiss and Common Sense.
Huckabee and Bush. You Nazi bastards didn't want Huckabee or Bush in 2016. Instead you opted for a racist career criminal rotten to the core Putin wannabe Insane Clown who tried to start a civil war because he lost the election. You cult followers raised the stakes. Take ownership now and live with it.
Killing a child in the mother's womb is not violence?
We are living through the dismal truth that mankind is not self-governing absent a reference for law. The "righteous" are loose across the land; having captured all the major institutions public and private, their cadre roam about free to work their will: we will be made to tug our forelocks, bend the knee, and silently obey our moral betters.
I had almost forgotten what that looked like, because it's not evident any where else.
Putting the issue of abortion aside (which is impossible to do, I suppose), this article is heartbreaking because it illuminates the 2-tiered justice system we have in America. One for Democrats/leftists. A different one for the rest of us.
Thank you so much for the reporting -- but your description of crisis pregnancy centers as "posing" as clinics is ridiculous and betrays a lack of investigation. Ironically, crisis pregnancy centers provide women with ultrasounds. Planned Parenthood does not, for good reason: they have seen the stats that show that when mothers know the TRUTH -- that the fetus is not a "clump of cells" (PP's favorite line and their moneymaker), but a baby human with a heartbeat -- they decide killing it is wrong. Crisis pregnancy centers also provide pregnancy tests, STD testing, parenting classes, counseling, pre and post-natal care, formula, diapers, services and other essential items for infant health. They also work hard to help women in abusive situations, while PP has been documented on film as covering up statutory rape, abuse, and sex trafficking.
To claim that pro-life facilities are fake clinics, and that PP, which is really just a death center making millions, is a "real" clinic, is a serious lie. You've just spouted the pro-abortion propoganda instead of looking into the truth.
Please do a follow up story covering the differences in care between the two types of clinics. Any woman who had had an abortion at PP will tell you there is no option presented to save the baby, and that they sit in a hallway moaning and bleeding after its over with other young girls. That doesn't sound like good health care to me. In this particular example in DC, they refused to let the woman EVEN TALK TO A DOCTOR until she had taken a Xanax and was "pants-off" in the surgery room. https://youtu.be/_6bqFOnUsfg
I would never have an abortion, but I feel weird telling others what to do. At the same time, I judge people who kill their own offspring..... I was not aware of this.
This is a shocking and important story, and one that deserves much more coverage and condemnation of the perpetrators than it's received. But don't jump to conclusions about law enforcement failures or political interference by prosecutors when the crimes are incidents of bombing or arson. As a rule, a lot of time is required in order to build cases like those. More than a few months.
“ Pro-choice activists viewed themselves as protecting women’s right not only to choose whether to abort a fetus, but to be fully independent and equal.”
It is a human baby and abortion is killing a human baby. It is ok to speak the truth, just not for so called “journalists”
The article itself is fine. The reporting however is old. Tucker Carlson, the daily wire have been reporting on this for months. Forget the “msm” but even independent, disillusioned reporters such as this are late to reporting the catastrophic consequences of progressive policies. It is as if it was a surprise.
None of the comments here, as far as I can see, takes account of the fact that every abortion past the first three months or so (pick your limit, but most people here and in Europe agree there's a limit) involves violent termination of a human life. Pro-lifers didn't introduce violence into the argument; it was about violence to begin with.
Thank you. Evidently, people are not allowed to have differing views. Violence and destruction is never ever justified. Unfortunately, there is a double standard courtesy of the main stream media, the Executive office and the Justice department and their various sub-units.
Ms. Reingold, these thugs aren't "radical pro-choice groups" or "pro-choice vandals." They are pro-abortion. Like the Democratic party, they want these women to have NO choice but abortion, which is why they are attacking facilities where women go to seek alternatives, as opposed to, for example, offices of pro-life politicians.
I don't get the point of quoting the useless and ineffectual ACLU. There has been nothing but crickets from that organization about any of this. This was lip service.
The Democrats are a dumpster fire of a moral abomination of a shit sandwich and their reality check is about to be brutal.
Unfortunately, that second comment had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with you. The following poster questioned the overpopulation in cities and implied, "when are we going to realize that urban life is not sustainable." Again, NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. I was merely replying to HER comment. Those outside of NYC who are not aware of the conditions these families lived under on the lower east side may possibly not understand that it was not a choice (most got off the boat at Ellis Island) and living there certainly had nothing to do with "culture" or "art" as the writer stated, assuming that is why city dwellers lived there IN DISCUSSING HOW/WHY Margaret Sanger pursued her work, I then proceeded to explain why my maternal grandparents settled in a major city. AGAIN - NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
My husband spent most of his childhood on a farm in upstate NY which we visit frequently, so your assumptions about my background knowledge and over reactions and cries of condescension are almost funny. Talk about calling the kettle black! Can't you see? Getting your panties in a knot over a comment that WASN'T DIRECTED TO YOU, then condescendingly babbling on about I don't know what a woman is?? What does that even mean? What does that even have to do with the topic at hand?? Biology was part of my degree and I'm quite knowledgeable, thank you. I raised two beautiful daughters (one doctor, one police officer) so I have a pretty good idea of womanhood.
Forgive me - maybe you were trying to be funny? We did have a good laugh trying to decipher that.
I'm sorry if my opinion that I should have the right to decide what to do with my (and my daughter's) bodies offends you, but I DO have the right to voice that opinion. That's why I follow more right-leaning substacks. Because here, I still DO have that right. Here and now. Without name calling, insults, or personal attacks. If that bothers you, just hit "delete and find a page where no one disagrees with you. I believe that people who irrationally attack others when they don't like or disagree with what they say are... what is it? Ahhhh yes. Snowflakes. Don't do it.
H.Res.1233 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups, and churches;
(2) recognizes the sanctity of life and the important role pro-life facilities, groups, and churches play in supporting pregnant women, infants, and families; and
(3) calls upon the Biden Administration to use all appropriate law enforcement authorities to uphold public safety and to protect the rights of pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.
The poison pill of course being (2).
I have complained about CS at times. Fair is fair: Well done, Bari, well done CS. I know that this article is probably outside of your ideological comfort zone. Thank you for putting it out, anyway. A+ for journalistic integrity here.
Excellent reporting by Olivia Reingold. I hope we see more of her writing. I had no idea this was happening. This is why I love Bari Weiss and Common Sense.
Huckabee and Bush. You Nazi bastards didn't want Huckabee or Bush in 2016. Instead you opted for a racist career criminal rotten to the core Putin wannabe Insane Clown who tried to start a civil war because he lost the election. You cult followers raised the stakes. Take ownership now and live with it.
Killing a child in the mother's womb is not violence?
We are living through the dismal truth that mankind is not self-governing absent a reference for law. The "righteous" are loose across the land; having captured all the major institutions public and private, their cadre roam about free to work their will: we will be made to tug our forelocks, bend the knee, and silently obey our moral betters.
I agree.
Solid journalism, thank you.
What a wonderful piece of JOURNALISM.
I had almost forgotten what that looked like, because it's not evident any where else.
Putting the issue of abortion aside (which is impossible to do, I suppose), this article is heartbreaking because it illuminates the 2-tiered justice system we have in America. One for Democrats/leftists. A different one for the rest of us.