Massive Apostasy Continues At Notre Dame (Our Lady!) University: Celebration Of Pride Eclipses Its Legacy Of Devotion To The Sacred Heart!!!!!

 Catholic parents, did you get that??

If you are considering sending your precious (Catholic) children to that hot bed of liberalism and those sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance, then you ought to have your collective heads examined!!

You will be jeopardizing the immortal souls of your offspring!

And you will be held accountable to Christ Almighty at your Particular Judgment!

Doesn't that scare you?

If not, then something is very wrong with your critical thinking -- and your Catholic Faith!

Or do you think that such filth is no big thing??

Most Catholics know that for decades upon decades, the-once Catholic university of Notre Dame has succumbed to the Zeitgeist and, for all practical purposes, has abandoned the Faith of our Fathers.

Wake up!!!

Here from lifesitenews.com and written by Sycamore Trust Mon May 26, 2025 - 11:28 am EDT: Notre Dame’s celebration of pride eclipses its legacy of devotion to the Sacred Heart - LifeSite

This article will reveal the stunning, blasphemous insult to the Sacred Heart of Our Blessed Lord, and instead embraces the madness of the sins that destroyed and reduced Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes!

 "(Sycamore Trust) — In this bulletin, we draw attention to Notre Dame’s troubling observance of “Pride Month” over the past four years—a stark contrast to its Catholic foundation. We invite you to stand with us in reclaiming the month of June in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And, as part of this effort, we encourage you to participate in our Sacred Heart Novena, which will take place from June 19 to 27, 2025.

We also remind you that our annual Breakfast is fast approaching. Whether you join us in person or via livestream, you won’t want to miss this compelling presentation on an unprecedented legal challenge and its far-reaching implications for the preservation of Catholic identity at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame’s celebration of pride eclipses its legacy of devotion to the Sacred Heart

Notre Dame University Facebook post (text) from June 1, 2024.

For the past four years, the University of Notre Dame has embraced June as “Pride Month,” offering a wide range of events, resources, and affirmations in celebration of “LGBTQ+” identity and experience. Gone is any institutional recognition of June as the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a devotion at the very heart of the Catholic tradition and foundational to Notre Dame’s own identity and historical ties with the Congregation of Holy Cross.

With June only a week away, we await confirmation whether, for a fifth year, Notre Dame will celebrate “Pride” at the expense of the Sacred Heart.

READ: Confidence in the mercy of Christ’s Sacred Heart comes only with repentance

Following secular culture

Pride Month has become a modern phenomenon, championed by secular culture, and celebrated in cities worldwide. In higher education, the Campus Pride Index now lists over 400 colleges affirming LGBT inclusivity – including more than half of the Jesuit Catholic universities in the United States and Notre Dame. Notre Dame’s participation not only aligns it with this secular trend but sets it in opposition to the Church’s teachings on chastity, the family, and the anthropology of the human person as created male and female.

In spite of the dramatic misalignment with Catholic teaching and tradition, Notre Dame has expanded its observance of “Pride Month” each year since 2021 through campus-wide programming, community events, and social media content that celebrates and promotes “LGBTQ+” identity and experience.

In addition to participating in South Bend’s annual Pride Festival, for example, the University has promoted events like Allyship 101 to provide training in “LGBTQIA+ advocacy” and Pride OUTside Hike to “show your true colors” by “dressing in support of the LGBTQ+ Community” for a mile long hike. Official Notre Dame Social Media accounts along with those of many Notre Dame Alumni clubs and affinity groups featured rainbow motifs (like the one above) and solidarity statements actively promoting and celebrated a common cause that conflicts with the truth of Catholicism.

And not an official peep about the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The heart of Notre Dame University, forgotten

Blessed Basil Moreau consecrated the Holy Cross order to the Sacred Heart in 1837. Father Edward Sorin enshrined this devotion at the center of campus life with the Church of the Sacred Heart. Poignantly, he placed a statue of the Sacred Heart in front of the Main Building as a symbol of Notre Dame’s trust in divine mercy and fidelity to the Church.

“Venite ad me omnes” is inscribed at the base of the statue recalling Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

This is one of the most tender and consoling invitations of Christ in the entire New Testament. It is His call to the weary, the burdened, the sinners, the wounded—to come to His Sacred Heart, the wellspring of mercy and peace: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

In a letter dated June 20, 1876 – Feast of the Sacred Heart – Father Sorin exhorted his fellow priests:

More than ever, let us place our hopes and prayers and needs in the Sacred Heart – the primary Patron of our Congregation… and whilst our glorious and loving Patron is failing us in nothing, let us not fail first in duty, but endeavor to deserve an increase of blessings.

The University’s spiritual history is further adorned by figures like Servant of God Brother Columba O’Neill, C.S.C., a humble cobbler and healer whose devotion to the Sacred Heart was deeply tied to his love for the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Brother Columba was widely known for encouraging confession “to Jesus through Mary” and for distributing Sacred Heart badges across campus as tokens of faith and protection.

To neglect the rich legacy of Notre Dame’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for a month-long endorsement of “LGBTQ+ Pride” is not a neutral shift – it is a repudiation of the very identity Notre Dame was consecrated to uphold.

Doctrine ignored, identity endangered

While firmly and unfailingly upholding the dignity of those suffering with same-sex attraction (CCC 2358), the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches clearly that homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity” (CCC 2357), and the Vatican’s instruction Male and Female He Created Them rejects the ideological foundations of gender theory as contrary to human dignity and the family. “Pride Month,” by contrast, celebrates these very identities and experiences. That Notre Dame joins in the celebration without qualification – while omitting the Sacred Heart – is a decisive turn away from fidelity to Catholic teaching.

This June, Notre Dame faces a choice once again. Will it continue to follow the path of secular affirmation, or will it remember its roots in the Heart of Christ?

Should Notre Dame choose not to participate in “Pride Month” this year it would distinguish itself from its peers. Such a decision would highlight a commitment to alternative values and traditions – the very sort that are courageously countercultural and Catholic in every sense.

To be conformed to the Sacred Heart is to love with a crucified love and to stand firm before a world that scoffs at the Cross – rebuking cowardice, compromise, and modernism.

Let us pray the University chooses reparation over rebellion – and return to the Sacred Heart that once inspired its founding.

May Notre Dame and other Catholic institutions rekindle devotion to the Sacred Heart which is to rekindle the very soul of Catholic identity.

Learn what you can do to reclaim June for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and join us in our Sacred Heart Novena (June 19-27, 2025)."

Reprinted with permission from the Sycamore Trust.

READ: Bishops of Turkey consecrate country to Sacred Heart of Jesus

End of very disturbing article...

Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

Oregon Wants All Americans To Come There To Kill Themselves!!

 Oregon, one of those damned states, "where legalized assisted suicide was born, has no residency requirement, meaning that anyone anywhere in the U.S. could fall victim to the state’s radical law"!

From lifenews.com and written by Maria Gallagher  |   May 30, 2025   |   5:35PM   |  Salem, Oregon: Oregon Wants All Americans to Come There to Kill Themselves - LifeNews.com

"The territory for the disaster known as assisted suicide is expanding. Oregon, the state where legalized assisted suicide was born, has no residency requirement, meaning that anyone anywhere in the U.S. could fall victim to the state’s radical law. Now, some lawmakers in the Western state want to dismantle the few restrictions that exist regarding the diabolical practice.

In response, I decided to submit written testimony to the Oregon legislature raising my objections to the ill-conceived SB 1003.

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My name is Maria Gallagher, and I come to you as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life. I also come as a concerned mother, a daughter who has dealt with the health challenges of her parents, and an American citizen who is worried about the suicide tourism which is likely to expand under SB 1003.

In the year 2000, Jeanette Hall was told that she had only six months to live after receiving a cancer diagnosis. But she had a doctor who believed in her, who encouraged her not to give up. Twelve years later, she was still alive, and happy about it!

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She readily admitted that, had her doctor believed in assisted suicide, she would have been dead, and would have missed out on so much of life. She expressed gratitude to her physician for giving her life with dignity.

The number one reason given for assisted suicide by its victims is not pain—it is loss of autonomy. They fear being a burden on others. That can be exacerbated when family members, friends, or medical professionals portray the patient as being a burden rather than a human being in need of care.

Shortening the existing waiting period, mandating promotion of assisted suicide by health care facilities, and broadening the definition of who can prescribe lethal drugs will only worsen a health care crisis which sees patients as problems rather than as people of priceless worth and dignity.

What about the patient who feels as if he or she is being pressured into assisted suicide because of the high cost of health care? What about the patient who is suffering from debilitating depression and needs treatment, but who does not receive it? What about the patient whose loneliness and fears drive him or her to want to stop living?

While I live in Pennsylvania, I see this legislation as a threat to not only citizens of Oregon, but all Americans, since Oregon has dropped its residency requirement for assisted suicide. That makes people across the country vulnerable to this corruption of the medical field. Under the scenario created by SB 1003, health care professionals will not be in the business of healing, but of hurting, at an accelerated pace.

Oregon’s assisted suicide bill does not need to be expanded. What needs to be expanded are affordable health care, true compassion in the face of challenging circumstances, and a health care system that honors the value of patients, especially people with disabilities, who can become the most vulnerable in a pro-assisted suicide paradigm.

Please take the course of true compassion and patient-centered care and defeat SB 1003. So many precious lives are depending on the outcome of this critical decision.

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I am just one individual, but I believe that if we all raise our voices against the broadening of assisted suicide, it is possible to persuade public officials of the serious dangers associated with the practice. The only way for compassion not to win is for us to remain silent."

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Gallagher is the Legislative Director and Political Action Committee Director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and she has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio.

End of very disturbing article...

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

This Is DAMNING!! Was The Conclave Even Valid?????? Chinese Communist-Approved "Cardinal" Took Part In Papal Election. Why Is No One Talking About This?

 The real Catholic Church continues to reap the rotten fruits of the diabolical deal between the Red Chinese Communist Party and the equally diabolical traitors in the Vatican, beginning with the now-deceased pervert, McCarrick, signing away, back in 2018, the freedom of faithful Chinese Catholics to worship Our Blessed Lord. 

All with the approval, I might add, of Bergoglio...

Now, it has been revealed that a Red Chinese Communist "Cardinal" by the name of Stephen Chow of Hong Kong, actually voted in the conclave to elect the pope, taking the name of Leo XIV!

 The question now begs: was that conclave and the election of Leo XIV even valid????

I ask, how can a Communist Party member be validly ordained in the first place????

Are we living in the Land of Oz?????

What the heck is going on here?????

And why is no one talking about the invalidity of a Communist voting for a Catholic pope of the Catholic Church?????

Ladies and gentlemen, this just does not make any sense at all!!!!

This is demonic!!!!!

(Please read the following article from early March:  

Devastating Implications Of Heretical "Cardinals" Voting In The Next Conclave! (The Sedevacantists Will Have A Field Day, Proving They Are "Right"!)

 See if you can stomach this article from lifesitenews.com and written by Dede Laugesen Fri May 30, 2025 - 5:14 pm EDT:Chinese Communist-approved cardinal took part in papal election. Why is no one talking about this? - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — The conclave that elected the first American pope had another first that few have heard about: a voting cardinal named Stephen Chow who was approved for his current position by the Chinese Communist Party, pursuant to a 2018 pact between the Party and the Vatican. He is, by Chinese law, obliged to “support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party” as part of the CCP’s United Front Work Department. That’s its entity charged with conducting global propaganda and influence operations.

Cardinal Chow was among 133 cardinal electors allowed to participate in the conclave that elected U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.

Effectively with Vatican approval, the CCP’s “wolf” clerics now travel the world. Wearing the robe of a priestly lamb, they entice the unsuspecting and naïve to worship Xi Jinping — not Jesus. Cardinal Chow recently spoke at graduation ceremonies at Boston University.

Five years into the Sino-Vatican deal, on September 30, 2023, Chow became the fourth cardinal of Hong Kong. While the exact terms of this odious pact have yet to be revealed, it evidently gave the Party a consultative role in selecting and approving new Catholic bishops in the Chinese mainland and, since 2020, in Hong Kong. Unsurprisingly, the CCP has abused its authority, most recently by unilaterally announcing two new bishops during the sede vacante period after the death of Francis.

Cardinal Chow may once have been a true man of the cloth. These days, however, under Chinese religious laws and regulations increasingly impacting the Church in Hong Kong, he is obliged to serve as a tool of the CCP – notably, by advancing demands it has long made on the Chinese mainland and now imposes on Hong Kong, which is now just another PRC city, to the effect that Chinese clergy collaborate to diminish the influence of the “foreign” hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in China.

For example, in 2024, according to the U.S. Consulate for Hong Kong and Macau, Cardinal Chow stated that his Catholic diocese had to “adjust certain religious practices” to avoid breaking the new security law. The unspecified adjustments likely involved measures to comply with Hong Kong’s 2020 National Security Law (NSL) and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (Article 23), enacted in 2024. It can be inferred from other sources that such adjustments include self-censorship, cancellation of commemorative events and educational compliance, the latter involving altering religious education to align with “patriotic” and socialist values.

It is shocking but not surprising that the Party is, in addition to banning religious activities and Bible sales online, undertaking a 10-year project to rewrite the Bible and other religious texts to make them align with Party ideals. The CCP’s goal is to control the Church and co-opt Christianity as a means of controlling the population and ensuring their allegiance to the Party.

Indeed, the Chinese Communist Party has a history of restricting religious freedom and brutally persecuting religious adherents. Under President Xi Jinping, the Party has become increasingly hostile toward religion, initiating campaigns to “Sinicize” Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and Christianity to rid them of “foreign influences.”

Sinicization attempts to transform the faithful and their religious institutions into perfect vessels of the CCP, purging all perceived non-CCP influences disparaged by the Party as “foreign.” Sinicization subdues ethnic minorities through forced assimilation in a quest to end all religious worship and practices.

Sinicization and its “patriotic values” — atheistic Marxism, radical national unity, and unconditional fidelity to “His Communist Holiness” Xi Jinping — underpins every major government regulation of religious organizations, whether in the mainland or Hong Kong.

New regulations took effect on May 1, prohibiting Chinese citizens in the mainland from engaging in religious activities with foreigners. By banning foreign observers, the CCP obstructs the Vatican’s ability to monitor the party’s abusive practices.

Based on what little is known about the Vatican’s deal with the CCP, long-suffering, “underground” Catholics are expected by not only Xi Jinping, but the Vatican, to join the sham “church” of the People’s Republic. Known as the “Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association,” it isn’t even called a church. In fact, the Patriotic Association is wholly antithetical to a church, since it is nothing more than a political warfare instrument against religion under the complete control of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front.

In a Christian church, one expects to hear about Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. Not in China.

Inside CCP “churches,” Jesus is not welcome. Instead, one finds images of Xi. Homilies promote the principles of Chinese Communist patriotism. Under Xi’s religious regulations and laws, Chinese priests, bishops, and cardinals are mandated to promulgate Communist Party doctrine, not the doctrine of the Church.

Church buildings are not permitted to look like “churches.” That means no stained glass and no crosses visible to the public. The architecture and design of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association’s “churches” must not stand out in any way. Xi’s forces have bulldozed many of China’s historic Catholic and Protestant churches because they conveyed religious tradition or symbols.

“Going to Church” in China means leaving children at home, as Communist law prohibits including children under 18 in religious activities of any kind. CCP security guards greet churchgoers at the doors. Believers shake hands with spies in the pews and are videotaped and surveilled.

Being a registered believer of any kind in China automatically decreases a person’s social credit score, making believers vulnerable to an assortment of social pressures and abuse. A believer can be arrested, detained, and harassed at any moment. Religious parents may be turned in to authorities by their own children for teaching or practicing their religion at home. In China, one may be subjected to extreme torture, slave labor, or worse — including forced organ harvesting — for honoring a god or philosophy other than Xi.

By its very nature, the Vatican-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Church is heretical and not a “church” by any free world definition. The Vatican’s deal, combined with restrictive laws and regulations emanating from the Party, has given legitimacy to the CCP’s brutal tactics and sealed the fate of Catholics in China and now in Hong Kong. For the faithful, the deal made a sham of religion and the universal command for all disciples to pick up their cross daily and follow after Jesus, even in persecution and death, in defense of the Gospel, which had been the heroic standard of China’s faithful but persecuted underground Church, until the deal was done.

Despite all of this, as China races to eradicate Catholicism within one generation, the Vatican Conclave welcomed Hong Kong’s Cardinal Chow, a veritable agent of the Chinese Communist Party, to help elect the new pope. It leaves one wondering. Cardinal Chow may have been the first CCP cardinal in the conclave, but if the Sino-Vatican deal is not promptly repealed by Pope Leo, he will surely not be the last."

Dede Laugesen is the executive director of the U.S. non-profit Save the Persecuted Christians, co-sponsor of RepealTheDeal.org, and a lifelong Catholic from Colorado.

End of very disturbing article...

I ask all to do some "deep" thinking and see if you come to the conclusion that -- must! -- be staring you in the face!

Pray for strength and honor -- and for discernment!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

Modernism: The Synthesis Of All Heresies (Pope SAINT Pius X): Charlotte Bishop Michael T. Martin's Leaked Proposals To Ban Traditional Liturgical Practices In The Novus Ordo.

 From lifesitenews.com and written by LifeSiteNews staff Fri May 30, 2025 - 8:00 pm EDT: Charlotte bishop's war on reverence: dissecting the controversial leaked document - LifeSite

A non-Catholic pretending to be a Catholic bishop?

How are these bad actors ordained to the priesthood in the first place?

Are such types the third and fourth generation of those recruited by the likes of Bella Dodd and her cronies back in the 20's, 30's and 40's -- communists and homosexuals -- to infiltrate and bring down the church from within? 

The hate displayed by "bishop" Martin toward the sublime offering of holy Mass to God Almighty is beyond belief!

Pure madness!

"(LifeSiteNews) — On this episode of Faith and Reason, John-Henry Westen and Frank Wright discuss Charlotte Bishop Michael T. Martin’s leaked directives, which proposed banning traditional liturgical practices such as using altar rails, celebrating Mass ad orientem, kneeling, ringing bells to begin Mass, the use of Latin, and much more.

Earlier this week, following Bishop Martin’s suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) last week, a draft of a letter placing further restrictions on reverent liturgical practices in the ordinary form of the Mass was leaked. The diocese later described it as “an early draft” that is still being sizably changed before any norms are promulgated.

READ: Charlotte bishop denounces Latin, altar rails, kneeling in leaked letter

Wright recalled thinking the letter was satire when it was first leaked.

“The first time I looked at (the letter), I couldn’t believe that it wasn’t satire, because it wasn’t only inspired obviously by an undisguised hostility towards anything that resembles the Catholic tradition, but it also seemed to be rather absurd in some places,” he said. “It would be an elaborate joke if it weren’t so gravely serious.”

The panel read several of Martin’s proposed directives from the letter, starting with the proposed requirement that bells no longer be used to signal the opening of Mass.

“The ringing of a bell(s) to signal the congregation to stand before the Opening Hymn is no longer to be used at any Mass. A verbal welcome by the Lector (or other suitable minister), followed by an indication of the hymn to be sung and an invitation to stand, is most appropriate and should be normative at all Masses,” the letter said.

Westen called this proposal “bizarre.”

“There’s always been this beautiful practice of ringing a bell so that everybody knows when to stand and the organist knows when to start playing and so on. … That’s banned,” the host said. “In fact, in its place, we are supposed to have some kind of welcomer up front calling to them. … This is actually so bizarre, it’s unspeakable.”

READ: Charlotte diocese says controversial liturgy letter was only a ‘draft’

The panel looked at another proposed directive on removing all altar rails from churches.

“Moveable altar rails should be removed, and permanently fixed altar rails should no longer be used. The placement of a prei dieu for the reception of communion is not appropriate,” the letter read.

Westen pondered how this is fair for the elderly faithful who want to kneel to receive the Eucharist but struggle to get back up without an altar rail.

Wright emphasized that this directive appears to be the deliberate desacralization of Holy Communion.

“It’s difficult to see this in any other sense than a deliberate desacralization of the right of Communion, because, of course, it should be taken when you kneel,” he said. “And to discourage people from doing so seems to be spiteful to me, and especially in this exceptional detail.”

“(The letter’s) very precise, and it’s expressed without any possibility of disagreement,” he added. “I think this is frankly breathtaking to say that you actually remove any possibility of people comfortably and acceptably kneeling for Communion. Why on earth would you want to do that?”

WATCH NEXT: Fr. Chris Alar RESPONDS to Charlotte’s Latin Mass BAN

The panel then looked at part of the directive barring priests from celebrating Mass ad orientem.

“Mass must be celebrated facing the people,” the letter said.

Wright underscored that this doesn’t make sense since Mass is supposed to be offered toward God.

“The idea, I thought, of offering the Mass was that it was towards God. And to replace that with a directive to offer Mass to the people, again, seems motivated by a curious imperative,” he said.

“There’s no explanation as to why this is wrong, offering Mass towards God, as it were. I would like to see that explained, because I think it would be very difficult to defend it and remain credible,” he added.

For more discussion on Bishop Martin’s proposed crackdown on reverent liturgical practices, tune in to this episode of Faith and Reason."

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End of very revealing article...

Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno,  pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

Good News -- For Now, That Is: Missouri Supreme Court Shuts Down Every Abortion Clinic In Missouri!

 You read that right!

From lifenews.com and written by Ben Johnson  |   May 30, 2025   |   2:00PM   |  Jefferson City, Missouri: Court Shuts Down Every Abortion Clinic in Missouri - LifeNews.com

Pro-life advocates are celebrating a state Supreme Court ruling that “effectively shuts down abortion clinics” for the time being and exposes Planned Parenthood facilities for acting “more like a criminal enterprise than any kind of legitimate health care entity.”

The Missouri Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that stopped the state from requiring abortion facilities to meet health and safety codes, assure the mother had not been coerced into an abortion, and for the facility to make adequate preparations in the event of a botched abortion. The high court did not address the underlying substance of the issue, instead rejecting the judge’s legal reasoning and returning the decision to her for reevaluation.

“What the Supreme Court said was that the lower court did not apply the proper standard: The lower court said any likelihood, any chance of success on the merits, is sufficient. And that is not legally accurate,” explained Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Wednesday.

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“We’re going to take a moment to celebrate, because this effectively shuts down abortion clinics in the state of Missouri for the time being,” added Bailey.

In December, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang cited Amendment 3 as she prevented the state from enforcing numerous health and safety regulations including requirements that abortionists have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles in the event of complications, obtain a mother’s informed consent before committing the abortion, observe a 72-hour waiting period, and assure that mothers consume the abortion pill on the premises rather than remotely. In February, Zhang blocked a requirement that abortion facilities receive licenses from the state, calling it “discriminatory” and asserting it did “not treat services provided in abortion facilities the same as other types of similarly situated health care, including miscarriage care.” In March court filings, the state observed that Zhang’s injunction left the state’s abortion industry “functionally unregulated,” operating as a law unto itself with “no guarantee of health and safety” for the state’s women.

The radical group Right By You sued to strike down a state requirement that parents give their consent before underage girls have an abortion, citing Amendment 3. The group, which facilitates abortions for minors, filed a 59-page legal brief in Jackson County on April 30.

“Planned Parenthood at this point, is starting to look more like a criminal enterprise than any kind of legitimate health care entity,” Bailey told Perkins. “We said all along that Amendment 3 was bad, because it was not only going to result in the death of innocent children, but potentially harm to women, as well. And as soon as Amendment 3 passed, Planned Parenthood marched to court and said that they shouldn’t have to have ultrasounds anymore. … They didn’t have to have any plan to prevent hemorrhaging or sepsis of their ‘patients,’ that their facilities didn’t have to be licensed, that they didn’t need to sterilize their equipment, and that they didn’t have to get informed consent voluntarily from the women before they performed these abortions.”

“These are pernicious and dangerous positions that Planned Parenthood has taken in court. And they convinced a judge in Kansas City that they were correct that Amendment 3 wiped all of that out,” continued Bailey. “I’m proud to say that [Tuesday] we got that action reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court.”

Ample evidence exists that the state abortion industry violates each provision.

Informed consent. State law does not allow an abortionist to commit an abortion “unless and until the [abortionist] has obtained from the woman her voluntary and informed consent given freely and without coercion.” Nearly three-quarters (74%) of all post-abortive mothers say they felt some form of coercion to have an abortion, according to a 2017 study in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, including 58% who “reported aborting to make others happy.” Evidence suggests coerced abortion has taken place in Missouri. “I went to Planned Parenthood [in St. Louis] … and I was actually forced to get an abortion. And it was something that I regretted,” a young woman named Anya told Students for Life of America in 2015. “It was my mom’s decision. … She was like, ‘You need to have this done, or you can’t stay here.’”

“I didn’t know it was going to be so traumatic,” remembered the mournful young lady, by then the mother of three children. “I didn’t know I was going to be affected by it for the rest of my life.”

Health and safety standards. State law (19 CSR 30-30.060) requires abortion facilities to meet the same health and safety procedures as other surgical units. During a 2018 inspection of a Missouri Planned Parenthood office, state health inspectors found that abortionists used an abortion suction machine clogged with “blackish gray residue” that inspectors later identified as black mold. Planned Parenthood techs used the potentially infection-transmitting machine, although the replacement hose lay unused in a nearby cabinet. They documented that other equipment contained “rusted areas, old peeling tape, dried adhesive residue” and “uncleanable surfaces,” as well as the potential presence of mold or human blood during the unannounced September 26 inspection of Planned Parenthood’s Columbia Health Center in Columbia, Missouri.

The number of women harmed by the abortion industry is unknown, in part, because abortionists admit they do not track all such impacts, even when required by law. David Eisenberg, former medical director at Planned Parenthood, admitted in a 2018 court deposition involving then-State Attorney General Josh Hawley that Planned Parenthood facilities had not filed reports of abortion-related complication for 15 years. Planned Parenthood abortionist Colleen McNicholas made a similar admission the same year in a separate case.

Abortion industry employees dismiss such laws as “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws” and insisted state legislators imposed the safety guidelines only to interfere with their profitability. State health protections “were based on making it harder to access abortion. And right now, without these injunctions in place, abortion is out of reach of Missourians,” Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, complained to local media. But Bailey had said the legislature enacted the pro-women health code protections to make Missouri “the safest state in the nation for women and families.”

Bailey called the ruling “a win for common sense, for basic medical safety, and for the sanctity of human life.”

Zhang threw out the health protections in the name of Amendment 3, which narrowly passed a state referendum last November. The controversial provision amended the state constitution to include a woman’s “right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives.” Although it allows voters to protect unborn life after a baby reaches the age of viability, it contains a broad exception for the alleged “health” of the mother.

But critics say the amendment deliberately contained vague language as a Trojan Horse to undo health and safety standards. Similarly elliptical wording went into Ohio’s Issue 1 and other well-financed state referenda loosening state pro-life laws in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs decision.

A state amendment allows maximum room for judicial activism, said Bailey. “The Supreme Court of Missouri interprets statutes” enacted through the legislature “by giving the words of their plain and ordinary meaning.” But “when it comes to initiative petitions adopted by the people, the court applies a broader interpretive methodology and gives the words endless possible meanings. And that’s why the drafters of Amendment 3 specifically chose vague and ambiguous language, so they could … undermine the state’s ability to guarantee health and safety for women.”

“Amendment 3 was especially dangerous,” explained Bailey. “The people of the state of Missouri were defrauded by the purveyors of Amendment 3. They sold people on this idea that you have a constitutional right to kill innocent children and that there should be no limitations on it. What they didn’t explain is that it would eliminate all health and safety regulations.”

It is, however, a temporary victory. Pro-abortion groups believe they will convince Zhang, a liberal judicial activist, to side with them under any legal standard. “A majority of Missouri voters passed Amendment 3” to “protect reproductive freedom,” said the ACLU of Missouri, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers in a joint statement last month. “Patients deserve more access to [abortion], not less. We will fight these attacks on our fundamental rights to ensure all Missourians continue to have access to abortion.”

“Planned Parenthood has already said they’re going to file a new motion for preliminary injunction, and they anticipate being able to obtain that injunction” in Jackson County, Missouri, said Bailey.

But, Bailey explained, he now has the ability to expedite the removal of preliminary injunctions — a problem for conservatives from the state to the national level. He hailed the passage of Senate Bill 22, which primarily aimed to allow the state election chief to rewrite the wording of ballot initiatives up to three times — but also provided that the state attorney general can appeal any preliminary injunction against any provision of the state constitution, statute, or regulation. Governor Mike Kehoe (R) signed the bill into law on April 24. “This is the first time in state history we’ve had that authority,” noted Bailey. “Even if Planned Parenthood is able to convince this judge a second time that doctors at abortion clinics don’t have to sterilize instruments, or be licensed, or that the facilities don’t have to have complication plans to prevent against hemorrhaging and sepsis of women, we will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. We now have that legal authority, because of the passage of Senate Bill 22.”

“I will not stop fighting to prevent the criminal enterprise of Planned Parenthood from killing babies and harming women in the state of Missouri, and this court case is going to be front and center on the frontlines of that fight,” vowed Bailey."

LifeNews Note: Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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