{"id":51522,"date":"2014-07-08T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=51522"},"modified":"2014-07-09T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T16:41:11","slug":"lollipops-abortion-and-sheila-jackson-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lollipops-abortion-and-sheila-jackson-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lollipops, abortion, and Sheila Jackson Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judging from some of the things she says,\u00a0 Democrat Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee occasionally embodies Mark Twain\u2019s quip, \u201cSuppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. \u201d<\/p>\n

In 2011, arguing against the Pence Amendment to appropriations bill H.R. 1, which proposed defunding Planned Parenthood and actually succeeded, Jackson Lee said: \u201cThis is not about abortion; this is about saving lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same year, during the House floor debate on the Protect Life Act, Ms. Jackson Lee defended abortion as a \u201cneeded action\u201d and referred to the heartbeat of a fetus as a \u201csound.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So \u2013 and this is just a guess \u2013 it\u2019s very likely that Sheila Jackson Lee, being the generous person she is proving to be, as a show of support for the right to choose, would gladly hand out orange juice to teenagers recovering in an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n

But on this occasion, it\u2019s not orange juice Sheila\u2019s handing out.<\/p>\n

Instead, Ms. Jackson Lee was recently on the border handing out lollipops<\/a> to immigrant children who fall into the same category as American babies who Lee would normally argue, based on poverty level and potential for a bleak future, deserve to be aborted. These are extremely needy children who, along with the fact that their parents handed them over to coyotes to be herded north across the border, certainly fall into the poor “ramen noodle\/mayonnaise sandwich-eating” group that pro-abortion advocates like representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) think\u00a0Planned Parenthood and abortion are here<\/a>\u00a0to deny the right to life to.<\/p>\n