A New Perspective on Constantine

by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Anti-abortion legislation has been proposed in 12 states within the last few weeks, as social conservative lawmakers seek to respond to the Reproductive Health Act that decriminalized abortions in New York last month.

Lawmakers in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Tennessee have all introduced “heartbeat bills” that ban abortions after 6 weeks or after a heartbeat is detected in a fetus, while in Alabama, North Carolina, and Texas, harsher criminal penalties have been proposed for doctors who perform abortions or else fail to provide emergency medical care to babies born in spite of botched abortion attempts.

“A six-week ban is absolutely unconstitutional,” said Elisabeth Smith, Chief Counsel for State Policy for the Center for Reproductive Rights, referring to the 1973 Roe V. Wade Supreme Court decision that established abortion as a constitutional right for women under the privacy clause of the 14th amendment.

Terri Collins, the Alabama representative whose bill last week compared the “50 million babies [that] have been aborted since the Roe decision” to “German death camps, Chinese purges, Stalin’s gulags, Cambodian killing fields, and the Rwandan genocide” in terms death toll, expressed hope that the slew of recent “heartbeat” bills might propel a case to the federal level like Roe and redefine the constitutionality of abortion.

“Hopefully it completely takes it all the way to the Supreme Court, eventually to overturn [Roe V. Wade],” she said.

While the current set of proposed bills seem to have been stalled in Mississippi and Kentucky, Georgia governor Brian Kemp plans to sign a “heartbeat bill” by May 12th, and advocates hope Ohio governor Mike DeWine will follow through with promises he made in January to “absolutely” sign any similar bill that crosses his path.

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(Worthy News) – In the latest move by the Trump administration to boost fossil fuels and cut back on regulations, President Donald Trump announced two executive orders on Wednesday that are aimed at cutting “unnecessary red tape” for American energy companies by making it difficult for states to block projects by using the Clean Water Act.

“My action today will cut through destructing permitting delays and denials,” Trump said at the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center in Crosby, Texas.

Addressing a crowd of supporters and hard-hat wearing workers, the president boasted about the work his administration has done to boost fossil fuel industry in an area of the country where oil-and-gas is an economic lifeblood. [ Source: ABC News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The nation’s top law enforcement official on Wednesday appeared to back up President Donald Trump’s assertion that the Justice Department “spied” on his presidential campaign — an explosive comment that heightened partisan tensions ahead of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

During his second day of Capitol Hill testimony this week, Attorney General William Barr also suggested that the Justice Department was gearing up to investigate the genesis of the counterintelligence probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — a key rallying cry for Trump and his congressional allies that comes amid the president’s consistent claims that the Mueller report exonerates him.

“Spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” Barr told members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee during a hearing about the Justice Department’s budget. “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated. But I need to explore that.” [ Source: Politico (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Lawmakers from Russia, Iran and Turkey are calling for Syria’s territorial integrity to be preserved as remarks from Israel and the United States have renewed long-standing land disputes.

The legislators from parliament foreign affairs committees met Wednesday in Moscow for a special session on Syria.

Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti quoted Iranian parliament member Heshmatollah Falahatpishe as saying the discussion “was a good beginning.”

Falahatpishe continued: “We confirmed the necessity of preserving the territorial integrity of Syria, especially regarding the Golan Heights.” [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – European leaders and British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed Wednesday to push the final deadline for the U.K. to depart the bloc until Halloween, with European Council President Donald Tusk warning British politicians to “not waste this time” without ratifying a formal withdrawal agreement.

Britain had been due to leave the EU on Friday, but May rushed to an emergency summit in Brussels to plead with her European counterparts to hold off on saying goodbye for a couple more months. The prime minister had asked for a delay only until June 30, but Tusk said in a tweet that she had agreed to a longer “flexible” extension, which provides for Britain to leave any time before Oct. 31 provided Parliament ratifies a divorce deal and passes accompanying legislation to ensure a smooth transition out of the EU.

At a news conference late Wednesday, May said she wanted to leave the EU “as soon as possible,” and added that Brexit could still be accomplished before the end of June if lawmakers backed the withdrawal agreement she negotiated with EU leaders earlier this year. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Seven weeks after Israeli spacecraft Beresheet (Hebrew for Genesis) soared into the night sky at Cape Canaveral, Florida, commencing an epic 6.5 million km. journey, it is poised to make history on Thursday evening when it reaches the Moon.

Only three countries have completed the formidable task of landing a spacecraft on the lunar surface – the United States, Russia (then the USSR) and China. The tiny State of Israel is set to join that prestigious club of cosmic superpowers.

Beresheet, the ambitious project developed by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, has been making history even before the unmanned vessel was launched on February 22, becoming the world’s first spacecraft built by a non-governmental organization. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Pro-life lawmakers are bringing back the fight to ban abortions after five months of pregnancy, saying that’s the point at which scientific evidence shows babies being aborted feel pain.

Only seven countries currently allow elective abortions after five months of pregnancy, including the communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and China. The United States is also part of this small group, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) hopes to change that through the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

“I want to get out of the club of seven,” said Graham. “I think most people, once they know what we’re talking about, this will gain momentum and become law.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Ohio’s so-called “heartbeat” abortion bill was approved by the state legislature on Wednesday and is now headed to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk.

The House approved the measure 56-39, and later, the Senate agreed to House changes, 18-13. DeWine, who took office in January, has said he plans to sign the bill.

DeWine’s predecessor, Republican John Kasich, vetoed the bill twice. He said such a law would create a costly court battle and likely be found unconstitutional. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A ‘bomb cyclone’ blizzard swept out of the Rockies into the Great Plains on Wednesday, leading the Colorado governor to activate the National Guard and prompting fears of more flooding in areas still recovering from a deluge last month.

Warm spring temperatures on Tuesday gave way to heavy snow, gale-force winds and life-threatening conditions on Wednesday across a swath of the central United States running from Colorado to Minnesota, the National Weather Service said.

In March, a late-winter “bomb cyclone,” which involves a rapidly intensifying cyclone, triggered heavy rainfall over the region and combined with melting snow to cause extensive flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries. The deluge resulted in more than $3 billion in damage to property and crops in Nebraska and Iowa alone. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The federal government spent $2,198,468,000,000 in the first six months of fiscal 2019 (October through March), which is the most it has spent in the first six months of any fiscal year in the last decade, according to the Monthly Treasury Statements.

The last time the government spent more in the October-through-March period was in fiscal 2009, when it spent $2,326,360,180,000 in constant March 2019 dollars.

Fiscal 2009 was the fiscal year that began with President George W. Bush signing a $700-billion law to bailout the banking industry in October 2008 and then saw President Barack Obama sign a $787-billion stimulus law in February 2009. [ Source (Read More…) ]

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