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Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday threatened legal action against Kansas City, the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County if they use federal COVID-19 funds to help Missouri women get abortions outside the state.
Earlier this week, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said he would duplicate the action of the Board of Aldermen in the City of St. Louis and appropriate $1 million from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to help women with transportation, childcare or other needs while obtaining an abortion in Illinois or another state with legalized abortion.
“Using hard-earned taxpayer dollars, whether it be ARPA funds or other forms of revenue, to fund abortions is plainly illegal under Missouri law,” Schmitt, a candidate for the seat of retiring U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, said in a statement on Friday. “St. Louis City and County, and Kansas City, and any others who attempt to authorize taxpayer-funded abortions will be met with a lawsuit from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.”
During a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, Page criticized Schmitt’s immediate action to implement Missouri’s “trigger law” outlawing abortion just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week.
“The state’s Attorney general, desperate for a higher office, was proud to proclaim Missouri abortions banned,” Page said. “But what he also proclaimed is he does not care about the health care of Missourians, especially women of color, and those who have been disproportionately impacted by lack of access to health care based on where they live.”
Schmitt’s statement also referred to a Missouri statute prohibiting the use of any public funds for the purpose of performing or assisting an abortion not necessary to save the life of the mother. Encouraging or counseling a woman to have an abortion that’s not lifesaving is also illegal, according to […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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JD Rucker