WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — President Joe Biden offered few surprises Tuesday evening in his annual State of the Union address, summarizing his conventional left-wing economic and social priorities while downplaying his party’s role in the COVID-19 response and provoking Republican anger by accusing his opponents of wanting to end Social Security.
“As I stand here tonight, we have created a record 12 million new jobs, more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years,” Biden declared early in his speech. “Two years ago, COVID had shut down our businesses, closed our schools, and robbed us of so much. Today, COVID no longer controls our lives.”
“While the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people, we have broken COVID’s grip on us,” the president said when he returned to the topic later. “COVID deaths are down nearly 90%. We’ve saved millions of lives and opened our country back up. And soon we’ll end the public health emergency.”
He called for remembering those who died from COVID since early 2020 and said America “still need[s] to monitor dozens of variants and support new vaccines and treatments” but made no mention of his party’s support for lockdowns or that his administration only announced an end to the emergency declaration after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives declared it would move to end it immediately.
Biden also attempted to blame the “spike in violent crime in 2020” on the “scars” left by COVID, when in fact it was largely rooted in anti-police discontent driven by the Black Lives Matter movement, which Biden has supported, and doubled down on Tuesday by promoting the false narrative that black Americans are disproportionately likely to face excessive lethal force by police.
In the aftermath of the leak of the Supreme Court majority opinion draft overruling Roe v. Wade, lawless vandals backed by the abortion lobby and pro-abortion politicians have launched riots and violent attacks on pro-life entities across America, from pregnancy centers to churches, and even targeted Justices’ homes.
This widespread, organized effort not only sets a dangerous standard for how groups and individuals may opt to stage demonstrations going forward, but begs the question of how the pro-abortion crowd would behave if and when the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe later this summer.
And, worst of all, the White House has largely turned a blind eye to these riots, with Joe Biden — who at one time claimed to be personally opposed to abortion due to his Catholic faith — now acting as the foremost advocate for unfettered abortion access in America.
Biden’s nonexistent response must be addressed, and the White House needs to know that the American people demand better from their supposed “leader.”
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition calling on Joe Biden to stop beating around the bush and finally issue a formal statement condemning the violent riots and attacks on pro-life institutions across our country in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court majority opinion draft overturning Roe v. Wade.
Over Mother’s Day weekend, pro-abortion attacks broke out across America, with increasingly depraved activists targeting pregnancy centers, pro-life advocacy organizations, and churches with either disruptive demonstrations or, in some cases, vandalism and outright violence.
Among the most barbaric occurrences was the vicious attack on Wisconsin Family Action, a pro-life group headquartered in Madison, where vandals threw a Molotov cocktail into an office window, started a fire on one of its walls, and left a threatening graffiti message reading “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.”
Review a FULL LIST of other appalling attacks HERE.
They even descended upon the homes of Supreme Court Justices like Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice John Roberts, who appear poised to formally issue the final blow to Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, after publishing a map with their private addresses.
The case, which was decided nearly 50 years ago in 1973, saw members of the bench fabricate a constitutional “right” to abortion, depriving individual states from crafting their own laws to protect life. However, should Roe, as expected, be overturned, the matter of abortion would be returned to the states, where it always belonged, giving lawmakers the ability to propose legislation that would either place strong restrictions on the procedure or, in some cases, ban it outright.
And while, of course, freedom of speech must be protected and defended for all Americans, demonstrations that devolve into vandalism, rioting, the use of intimidation tactics against members of the judiciary (or anyone else, for that matter), or violence in any form must NEVER be tolerated.
But the White House seems to be taking a different approach…
It wasn’t until Monday afternoon that Press Secretary Jen Psaki finally acknowledged the threat posed to Supreme Court Justices by out-of-control pro-abotion activists, claiming that “judges perform an incredibly important function in our society, and they must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety.”
This is true, but it took Psaki an entire week to make any semblance of a definitive statement about the White House’s position on this urgent matter. In fact, Psaki previously refused to discourage the targeting of Justices’ homes when asked, insisting that pro-abortion groups were staging “peaceful protests” instead; she even failed to condemn the leak itself — an unprecedented breach of trust and rejection of institutional norms that could permanently damage the standing of the court and its ability to function as an apolitical body.
And, of course, Joe Biden, himself, has been virtually silent on the matter, failing to effectively speak out against these riots and reassure the American people that those who seek to vandalize property and perpetrate violence will be held legally accountable for their actions by the Department of Justice.
This is entirely unacceptable behavior from a commander-in-chief, and as political allies like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (rather ironically) incite insurrection by labeling the Supreme Court’s pending decision a “call to arms,” the American people must demand that Joe Biden clarify where he stands, and whose side he’s really on.
The rule of law must be upheld and applied equally, and that means calling out radical anti-life rioters and ensuring there are consequences for their violent outbursts and destruction of property across the country.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition calling on Joe Biden to condemn these rioters, and direct the U.S. Department of Justice to take action that will hold them accountable for their actions under the law.
Thank you!
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‘‘Rise up, fight back’: Pro-abortion protesters descend upon Justice Alito’s house over imminent abortion ruling’ (LifeSiteNews)
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While on the subject, he declared that “we all want… our children to come home safely,” and affirmed “equal protection under the law” as “the covenant we have with each other in America.” Near the end, he noted that America is “built on an idea” that “all of us, every one of us, is created equal in the image of God.”
Yet he defined “protect all the people’s rights and freedoms” to mean that “Congress must restore the right the Supreme Court took away last year and codify Roe v. Wade to protect every woman’s constitutional right to choose” abortion.
“The Vice President and I are doing everything we can to protect access to reproductive health care and safeguard patient privacy,” Biden said. “But already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans. Make no mistake; if Congress passes a national abortion ban, I will veto it.”
He followed the pro-abortion remarks by urging Congress to “also pass the bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.” That bill would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “sex,” “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity” among expressly recognized “non-discrimination” categories in “public accommodations.”
Conservatives argue that it would not merely protect homosexual or gender-confused Americans from actual harm but rather force religious adoption agencies to place children in same-sex homes; force the likes of photographers, florists, and bakers to participate in same-sex “weddings”; force employers and businesses to accommodate cross-dressing and sex-change treatments regardless of their own values or policies; and force women and girls to share sleeping quarters, showers, changing areas, restrooms, and sex-specific athletic competitions with gender-confused males.
The biggest of the evening’s few spontaneous moments came when the president claimed that “some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years. That means if Congress doesn’t vote to keep them, those programs will go away.” The chamber erupted in boos from Republicans, forcing Biden to stop his prepared remarks.
Biden at first tried to defend the statement, telling “anybody who doubts it” to “contact my office, I’ll give you a copy of the proposal.” When that failed to quell the unrest, Biden attempted to downplay the accusation, admitting “I don’t think it’s a majority of you, I don’t even think it’s a significant… ” before being interrupted. Eventually, he conceded that “as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?”
Democrats have recently seized on individual GOP lawmakers floating Social Security changes as a means of addressing the nation’s fiscal problems, but GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said “none of that is true” as far as the caucus adopting any plans to do so.
Biden’s job approval currently sits at 44.2 percent according to RealClearPolitics’ polling average. A newly released poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that only 37 percent of Democrats want him to seek a second term.