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President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal Thursday to Eleanor Smeal, a lifelong abortion activist.<\/p>\n

Smeal served<\/a> as president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1977 to 1982 and 1985 to 1987, and is currently the president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. According to its website, NOW “fully supports safe and legal abortion, affordable and effective birth control and other contraception, and reproductive health education for all.” The organization has fought for decades for the expansion of abortion.<\/p>\n

According to a White House press release<\/a>, the medal is awarded to citizens who \u201chave performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.\u201d Smeal was one of 20 citizens who received the award. \u201cPresident Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,\u201d the White House news release stated. \u201cThe country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n

As NOW’s president, Smeal led the first March for Women\u2019s Lives in 1986, a protest designed to counteract the March for Life that takes place every January in Washington, D.C. She also campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have secured taxpayer funding of abortion while potentially making the killing of preborn human beings a constitutional “right.”<\/p>\n

READ: Kate Cox\u2019s abortion fundraising email lies about her pregnancy and dehumanizes her aborted baby<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Catholic News Agency<\/a>, Smeal, like Biden, was raised Catholic but appears to have rejected church teaching which values the sanctity of all human life, from the moment of fertilization to natural death. She has been openly critical of the Vatican and its position on abortion, human sexuality, and birth control. According to the Washington Post<\/a>, she was arrested in 1987 during a protest at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See \u2014 the Vatican\u2019s embassy \u2014 at which speakers criticized the Church\u2019s teachings on abortion and birth control.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of my sex, I am second-class forever in my church,\u201d Smeal said at the time. However, men and women are inherently equal, and Roe v. Wade<\/em> began an era in the U.S. in which that inherent equality continued to be ignored; an era in which women were not lifted up as they should have been, and they redistributed their mistreatment and oppression to their innocent preborn children. Roe<\/em> made it so<\/a> men could neglect and abandon their children, and women could then kill those children in the name of equality.<\/p>\n

Though Smeal has been awarded for her work in justice, she has neglected to fight for the justice of the most vulnerable among us \u2014 preborn children.<\/p>\n

Tell President Trump, RFK, Jr., Elon, and Vivek:<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Stop killing America\u2019s future. Defund Planned Parenthood NOW!<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal Thursday to Eleanor Smeal, a lifelong abortion activist. Smeal served as president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1977 to 1982 and 1985 to 1987, and is currently the president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. 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