P-s-s-t, Mom and Dad: Clumsy Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs steps in it again by promoting abortions for minors
And think of it: Because aborted babies have souls, too, where do those souls go while waiting to meet the spirits of the radical politicians who pushed to have them killed?
Message from Dexter C. Duggan: To provide some other news, here is an article I wrote that went to press on May 2 in the other publication I’m with, the national weekly Catholic paper The Wanderer (the issue dated for May 9). I’ll be posting my regular Substack.com article here this weekend.
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As media pals focus in other direction — Arizona radical Dem gov's website uses her official role to busy up the business for abortionists
By DEXTER C. DUGGAN
PHOENIX -- It probably isn't easy to be both a blood-soaked and fire-breathing pro-abortion radical at the same time.
Either the blood would douse the fire or the fire would dry up the blood.
Which doesn't mean it's hard for pro-abortionist extremists to be, yes, radical.
Still, it's easier for them to be so when their dominant-media allies keep their propaganda barrage aimed at the other side, the foes of permissive abortion.
Katie Hobbs and Kris Mayes, Arizona's hardline pro-abortion Democratic governor and attorney general, respectively, continued to spend the length of their terms in office, which began in January 2023, locked in to an agenda that they wouldn't enforce laws against permissive abortion but cheer-led for the bloodletting.
Lately the drama had been stage-managed by media pro-abortionists to focus on the fate of Arizona's abortion law that had been set aside by the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton opinions in January 1973, which for the first time in U.S. history mandated one nationwide law for permissive abortion.
This, however, the high court overruled in its June 2022 Dobbs opinion that returned abortion regulation to the states.
Hobbs unconstitutionally, lawlessly, wildly ordered in 2023 that county attorneys across Arizona must not prosecute abortion cases but give them to Mayes. Who would not prosecute them.
A bit radical, yes?
But a bit easier for them to do when media enablers including Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, of The Washington Post, and Eliza Collins, of The Wall Street Journal, maintain their focus on attacking legal restriction of permissive abortion, not on Hobbs and Mayes' shocking dedication to spreading and promoting executions by abortion as widely and deeply as they could.
On May 1 the 30-member majority-Republican Arizona Senate narrowly repealed Arizona's original abortion law by a vote of 16-14 after two Republicans joined the Democratic minority of 14 members.
It was the same type of development as during the previous week, when the majority-Republican Arizona House narrowly repealed that law. Three GOP defectors joined the 29 minority Democrats to vote 32-28 for repeal.
Although the original law dated to 1864 -- in a time of scientific discoveries including regarding prenatal development -- media propagandists hardly ever acknowledged the law was codified well into the 20th century.
A 20th century law
It was a 20th century law, not the "Civil War-era" law they preferred to say while ignoring that that Civil War accomplished the worthy aim of ending slavery. And was Abraham Lincoln so bad even though he was a 19th century president?
The Arizona abortion-law repeal seems to be sort of a developing national script -- on various issues. A few GOP defectors are terrified that conservatives might win, so they instead ally themselves with the hardline Democratic Party of Depravity and Death.
Although Hobbs was expected to sign the repeal bill, perhaps the same day that this hardcopy issue of The Wanderer went to press, May 2, Hobbs and fellow Democratic extremists viewed her action as just a small step on the abortion battleground.
In late March 2022, then-Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill from the majority-GOP Arizona legislature to restrict abortion after 15 weeks. Roe and Doe still were in effect then. This Arizona law was intended to encourage the U.S. Supreme Court to rethink its ways.
However, the new Arizona law soon became unnecessary for that purpose because the high court announced Dobbs without ever having to review the Grand Canyon State law.
Arizona's 2022 law is the one expected to take effect soon, although Mayes and Hobbs intend to fight to the death -- thousands of innocent babies' deaths, not their own -- against it.
Hobbs and Mayes even promote permissive abortion for minors -- yes, girls under the age of legal majority -- through Hobbs' official website as governor of Arizona.
What do parents' legal and moral authority matter when there are babies' lives and minor daughters' welfare that these grim Democrat extremists can twist around and meddle with?
An avid champion of their cause
There was an avid champion of their cause that Hobbs and Mayes may have forgotten. He was Bernard Nathanson, M.D., co-founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. Nathanson didn't merely favor permissive abortion. He personally performed and supervised tens of thousands of them himself in New York City.
However, as 20th century scientific knowledge advanced, Nathanson concluded that he had made a terrible mistake. First, he wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine that he was rethinking the issue.
Then Nathanson announced in the late 1970s that he opposed permissive abortion. And that was when ultrasound, perinatology and other scientific accomplishments were even less developed than now.
It has been said that "If Bernard Nathanson can change, anyone can change."
Well, perhaps. Nathanson was self-accomplished and knowledgeable -- traits so far lacking in Hobbs and Mayes.
Conservative Arizona radio talk host Garret Lewis called attention to the fact Hobbs and Mayes have a strongly pro-abortion feature -- the craftily named "Reproductive Health in Arizona" -- spotlighted at Hobbs' official website as governor of Arizona.
It's a pro-abortion state arm, ReproductiveHealth.az.gov. A gubernatorial press release promoted it.
Under "Resources" in the upper right is an option for "Under 18" years of age. The second choice here is: "Planned Parenthood Arizona provides free and low-cost reproductive healthcare, pregnancy testing, annual exams, birth control, STI/STD testing, HIV prevention, vasectomies, and pregnancy counseling services."
Talk host Lewis, who simulcasts at KFYI (550 AM, Phoenix) and KNST (790 AM, Tucson), said Hobbs has trouble speaking out against anti-Semitism and open borders.
But not so regarding massive abortion. And this ill-suited, unpopular woman wanted to make sure everyone knew she got to stomp her foot as much as she pleased.
Lewis said on May 1 that the Emerson College poll puts Hobbs at just 38 percent popularity. He said that after the Arizona Senate vote, Democrats put out a press release saying "It will save lives" when in fact the intent is to increase abortions.
"These are evil people" who should be easy pickings for Republicans, Lewis said.
Hobbs supposedly narrowly won the general-election race for governor in 2022 after vital Republican election-integrity officials Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and Stephen Richer, the county recorder, made no secret of their hostility to MAGA Republicans.
MAGA Republicans happened to be the GOP nominees running against Hobbs and Mayes.
Mayes, who supposedly very narrowly won her attorney-general race by 280 votes out of more than 2.5 million cast -- yes, a difference of 280 votes, not 2,800 or 28,000 -- has barreled through Arizona law as if she had a 28-million-vote mandate.
Radio talk host James T. Harris, who simulcasts on KFYI and KNST, as Lewis does, described Mayes on April 29 as a "political lightweight."
As crazed for vetoes as she is for permissive abortion
Hobbs spent her first year as governor vetoing more bills than any Arizona governor ever had done in one year, far exceeding the previous veto queen, left-wing Democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano.
Before Hobbs' second year was done, she vetoed more bills than any Arizona governor ever had, no matter how long serving in that office.
Axios posted on April 19, 2024: "Gov. Katie Hobbs set a record this week: most vetoes in Arizona history... After vetoing 13 bills this week, Hobbs reached a total of 185 vetoes since taking office in January 2023 -- just 15 months ago."
Sprinkling in its bullet points, Axios said: "Democrat Janet Napolitano, who served as governor from 2003-2009, vetoed a record 181 bills. The previous record was held by Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt, who vetoed 114 bills.
"Last year Hobbs vetoed 143 bills, shattering Napolitano's single-session record of 58. Napolitano had six years' worth of vetoes, while Hobbs isn't yet finished with her second legislative session," the Axios story said.
Lewis said Hobbs has no public-speaking ability.
Well, maybe she has some if she can dictate exactly how she does it. But her nervous State of the State address for 2024, delivered in a sleeveless dress to the Arizona Legislature, hardly advanced her image.
During her 2022 gubernatorial campaign she absolutely refused to debate any foe, Democrat or Republican.
During that campaign, one video showed a reporter approaching Hobbs as she had a fast-food sack meal at an outdoors table. A panicked Hobbs jumped up, knocked over her drink, grabbed the drink upright and dashed away.
Cowards tend to be bullies and vice versa. Grab a bully by the collar and the threats probably collapse.
Would you like to see the craziest response yet in a time of crazy Democratic administrations?
Why didn’t mothers abort YOU?
Just ask Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, or Katie Hobbs, or Kris Mayes, or Kathy Hochul, or any of their bunch: Why didn't your mothers abort YOU?
What could be wrong with a mother getting an abortion? That's what Democrat politicians scream for night and day, and are screaming for more of it now from Washington, D.C., to Phoenix, Ariz.
Abortion simply means killing babies. If the babies aren't killed, they grow up to be someone. Maybe an office worker. Maybe a farmer. Maybe an athlete. Maybe a bus driver. Maybe a journalist or an airline pilot or an entertainment star or a university professor. Maybe the pilot of Air Force One. Maybe the Number One passenger of Air Force One.
Yes, maybe the future U.S. president or vice president or governor of a state.
Democrat radical pro-abortionists never want to look beyond their slogans and propaganda. But let's make it concrete. When massive abortion is so wonderful, why shouldn't it have disposed of these big future politicians while they yet were helpless infants?
We know for certain that massive abortion is bound to be killing future politicians and police officers and pianists and urban pedestrians who today are nameless but not without a future if left to be born.
And future presidents and maybe even popes.
Are Biden and Harris and Hobbs and Mayes and Hochul so proud of themselves now?