Trump Vs The ACLU

American Thinker
William Dodd
Feb 1, 2018
 

After President Trump’s State of the Union address on Monday evening, the American Civil Liberties Union issued the following complaint through the media:

“Tonight, President Trump said the word ‘America’ more than 80 times in his speech. Yet, after a divisive first year, we hear and feel how exclusionary that ‘America’ is, with policies that have harmed so many vulnerable American communities.”

This is truly political doublespeak. The SOTU is a speech given by the President of a country named the United States of America. The statement that the President’s first year was ‘divisive’ further confirms how politicized and/or clueless the ACLU must be. Are they not aware that this President in no less than twelve months has, through his decision and policies, managed to:

• create new non-government jobs -- real jobs -- in every sector of our economy,
• reduce unemployment in all categories to the lowest level in decades,
• cause wage rates to increase in almost every industry,
• lower taxes for individuals and corporations,
• increase the values of American’s homes and retirement funds,
• convince major corporations to bring jobs back to the United States from foreign venues,
• expand GNP at the fastest rate in decades,
• begin to balance the budget with spending reductions and increased tax collections, and on and on and on.

President Trump’s policies have done more to help, not harm, “many vulnerable American communities” than any government program could ever hope to achieve. If nothing else, we have learned over two hundred and forty years that nothing brings people together more successfully than a prosperous and growing economy. Prosperity is the best antidote for the divisiveness that the Obama presidency and its directionless economy left in its wake. Just look at Venezuela to see how a poor economy and divisiveness feed on each other.

California To Force Faith-Based Institutions To Cover Abortions In Their Health Insurance - ACLU Ecstatic

"Keep Govt. Out of My Body!"

Dear Blue Hair;

By Allowing Govt. To Force Someone Else's Money Into Your Body, You have Sold Govt. All the Excuse Govt. wants to jump right in there With that money to Regulate Your Body.  

weaselzippers;

Big win for the War On Babies crowd.

Via Truth Revolt:

California issued a new directive last week that forces insurers, including those of faith-based institutions, to cover elective abortions—a move the ACLU of Northern California is cheering as a restoration of women’s “basic health care” rights.

California’s Dept of Managed Health Care told seven insurance companies last week that they must now comply with the 1975 Knox Keene Act which guarantees coverage of “basic health care services,” which they specify as including elective abortion. As The Daily Signal explains, the directive is in part a response to a controversial decision by two Catholic universities which refused to cover elective abortions:

Last fall, Santa Clara University and Loyola Marymount University notified their employees that abortion services would no longer be covered under the universities’ health care plans. Employees instead could pay for such procedures through supplemental coverage, provided by a third party. [...]

Predictably, the ACLU cheered the state’s decision to force insurers to cover elective abortions as “basic health care services”:

“The immediate effect of the agency’s guidance is to restore insurance benefits for the staff and faculty,” said ACLU-Northern California attorney Maggie Crosby. “Childbearing is a personal decision, abortion is a basic health care, and control of reproduction is critical to women’s autonomy.”

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Thank You Truth Revolt and Zip.