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Democrat Leaders Deny the Declaration’s First Right

This year, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which declared the “self-evident” truth that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” including the rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The leaders of the Democratic Party, however, deny this self-evident truth. Take, for example, House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.

On Jan. 11, 2023, House Republicans brought up the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. This very simple and straightforward bill, as explained by its official summary, would have required that when “a child” is “born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion … a health care practitioner who is present must (1) exercise the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure the child is immediately admitted to a hospital.”

This proposal to protect born babies outraged Jeffries, who saw it as an attack on one of the fundamental principles embraced by his political party.

“As Democrats, we believe in a woman’s freedom to make her own reproductive healthcare decisions, period, full stop, decisions that should be between a woman, her family, and her doctors, period, full stop,” he said on the House floor.

“We believe in Roe v. Wade,” said Jeffries. “Do you wonder about our position? That is it. The Women’s Health Protection Act, that is it. Freedom to make your own reproductive healthcare decisions, that is it. As compared to a clear effort—that is what this bill is about today, a march toward criminalizing abortion care, a nationwide ban,........

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