{"id":207530,"date":"2019-07-29T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207530"},"modified":"2019-07-27T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T03:21:24","slug":"ilhan-omar-immigrants-promotes-abortion-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ilhan-omar-immigrants-promotes-abortion-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ilhan Omar welcomes immigrants, but promotes abortion for their preborn children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Representative Ilhan Omar professes to love immigrants, but she also seems to want fewer of them to exist.<\/p>\n<p>On July 22, she voiced her support via Twitter for taxpayer-funded abortion for undocumented immigrants entering the United States. The Vox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/7\/22\/20698285\/immigration-ice-raids-cities-pregnancy-abortion-health\">article<\/a> Omar links to in her tweet laments the fact that immigrants are avoiding seeking abortions for fear of deportation.\u00a0&#8220;No one should fear receiving medical care because they are undocumented,&#8221; said her tweet. &#8220;We must ensure that all people in our country have access to reproductive health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No one should fear receiving medical care because they are undocumented. We must ensure that all people in our country have access to reproductive health care.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bGuaS64HkL\">https:\/\/t.co\/bGuaS64HkL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1153431814935121920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion advocacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have been <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-judge-orders-15-week-old-preborn-child-killed-dismemberment\/\">fighting<\/a> with the pro-life Trump administration since 2017 to enable immigrant women, and even minors, to be granted state-funded abortions. Tragically, the ACLU <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/appeals-court-reverses-decision-protecting-15-week-old-preborn-baby-from-dismemberment\/\">won<\/a> a court case that enabled a 17-year-old to abort her 15-week-old preborn baby, a case that led some to speculate that the U.S. could become an \u201cabortion tourism\u201d destination.<\/p>\n<p>When pregnant immigrants are welcomed into the United States, promoting abortion for them declares that they are welcome, but their children aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-feminist-planned-parenthood-genes-reproduce\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pro-abortion feminist echoes Planned Parenthood founder: People with \u2018bad genes\u2019 shouldn\u2019t reproduce<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time abortion activists have reached such heights of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quote-columnist-says-you-cant-argue-refugees-while-rejecting-preborn\/\">hypocrisy<\/a> in expressing outrage at the plight of immigrants. In March, then-Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen, who ran an organization responsible for the deaths of more than 320,000 preborn babies per year through forcible removal, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrLeanaWen\/status\/1101560485009227776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101560485009227776&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveaction.org%2Fnews%2Fironic-planned-parenthood-president-slams-forcibly-removing-child-parents%2F\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cForcibly removing a child from their parent or guardian can cause lifelong physical and emotional harm to the child\u2019s well-being.\u201d Wen missed the irony that abortion forcibly removes a child from her parents and causes obvious harm to the child&#8217;s well-being: death.<\/p>\n<p>Ilhan Omar, herself an immigrant, was born in Somalia and came to the United States in 1992 when she was 10 years old. She lived with her family for a time in Arlington, Virginia, before moving to Minnesota. A naturalized citizen, she was welcomed together with her family, and now serves as Minnesota state representative.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the opportunities Omar was afforded by her mother choosing life and her family being welcomed into this country, Omar supports creating a society that encourages vulnerable immigrant women to deny those same opportunities to their preborn children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Ilhan Omar professes to love immigrants, but she also seems to want fewer of them to exist. On July 22, she voiced her support via Twitter for taxpayer-funded abortion for undocumented immigrants entering the United States. 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