{"id":93503,"date":"2016-04-27T16:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=93503"},"modified":"2016-04-27T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:47:34","slug":"sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders: I&#8217;d use Justice Department &#8220;to go after&#8221; state pro-life laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a bid to counteract Hillary Clinton\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/clinton-and-sanders-spar-over-who-is-more-committed-to-abortion\/\">narrative<\/a> that she\u2019s the one true pro-abortion candidate, Vermont Senator and Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has <a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2016\/04\/26\/sanders-will-use-department-justice-go-states-restrict-reproductive-rights\/\">offered<\/a> his most aggressive promise to abortion fans yet.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he essentially told MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes that he would use the power of the presidency to disenfranchise pro-life voters at the state level&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[I]t is no secret that in states all over this country, in a dozen different ways, there are governors and legislatures who are trying to make it impossible for a woman to control her own body. I will use the Department of Justice to go after those states in every way that I legally can. I believe that in the United States of America women have that right to control their own body[.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I find that, I must say, completely hypocritical for my Republican colleagues who tell us every day how much they hate government, how they want to get government out of our life, but they think that local state and federal government have the right to tell you and every woman in America what she can do with her body. That is hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The second part of that statement is a cheap attack Sanders has <a href=\"\/news\/bernie-sanders-defends-abortion-pro-life-conservative-christian-university\/\">hurled<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/clinton-sanders-kneel-abortion-lobby-latest-democrat-debate\/\">repeatedly<\/a> throughout the campaign, but while it might amuse his groupies jonesing for a quick hit of smug superiority, all it really does is display the shallowness of his arguments on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>For what feels like the millionth time, banning abortion is <em>not<\/em> telling someone what she can do <a href=\"\/news\/ben-shapiro-reveals-sorry-state-of-pro-abortion-college-students-logic\/\">with \u201cher own\u201d body<\/a>; it is telling someone she cannot kill <em>someone else<\/em>. There is no hypocrisy here because protecting the individual from violence is the most elementary of the core functions limited-government advocates want to limit government to!<\/p>\n<p>As for the first part, it may not be news that Sanders\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/clinton-sanders-kneel-abortion-lobby-latest-democrat-debate\/\">100% pro-abortion position<\/a> calls for effectively blocking the states from making any meaningful pro-life policy decision\u2014he supported multiple federal bills that would do just that and would nominate activist pro-abortion judges.<\/p>\n<p>But Monday\u2019s declaration is a new low because he\u2019s promising to disenfranchise us without even the pretense of doing it on the authority of anything but his own will. Activist judges would have to be confirmed by the Senate before disenfranchising us. Congress would have to vote on the Freedom of Choice Act or the (Orwellian-named) Women\u2019s Health Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, leaving it in the hands of that pesky \u201cdemocracy\u201d thing isn\u2019t quite assuring enough for the abortion lobby\u2019s tastes; there\u2019s a reason why Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/obameter\/promise\/501\/sign-the-freedom-of-choice-act\/\">never made good<\/a> on his promise that signing FOCA would be one of his first acts as president, even in the early years when he had a Democrat majority in Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Sanders has decided to simply ignore the federal government\u2019s legislative and judicial branches and use the Justice Department to veto whatever state decisions that he dislikes. That would be an affront to Constitution\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/resources\/display\/content\/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-45\">purpose<\/a> of limiting the federal government to \u201cfew and defined purposes\u201d while letting the states decide for themselves \u201call the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is only supposed to step in when a state\u2019s laws are violating the Constitution. At best, Sanders can claim the precedent started by <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> gives him the power he\u2019s claiming here, even though <em>Roe<\/em> <a href=\"\/news\/the-case-against-roe-v-wade-and-planned-parenthood-v-casey\/\">is legally indefensible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But putting that aside, the Supreme Court has also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Constitutional-Law-and-Abortion-Primer.pdf\">upheld<\/a> a variety of the very laws Sanders is talking about suing, including parental notification, a variety of regulations on the abortion procedure, limits on taxpayer funding of abortion, waiting periods, and informed consent. Further, SCOTUS has expressly affirmed that states have a limited interest in regulating abortion not only in the interest of maternal health, but also fetal life.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, SCOTUS expressly affirmed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/505\/833\">Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/a><\/em> that states have a \u201clegitimate interest in assuring that a woman&#8217;s consent to an abortion be fully informed,\u201d which \u201cis not a large burden\u201d and is \u201cclearly related to maternal health\u201d; that a \u201cwaiting period helps ensure that a woman&#8217;s decision to abort is a well-considered one, and rationally furthers the State&#8217;s legitimate interest in maternal health\u201d; that parental consent requirements exercise a state\u2019s \u201cimportant and legitimate interest in the welfare of its young citizens, whose immaturity, inexperience, and lack of judgment may sometimes impair their ability to exercise their rights wisely\u201d; and even that states have a valid \u201cinterest in preserving unborn life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So by hijacking the Justice Department to take by force what the people won\u2019t give him, Bernie Sanders would not only violate the Constitution itself, but even the pro-life decisions that the modern legal consensus admits belong to voters and their elected officials. If protecting one \u201cright to choose\u201d requires taking so many choices out of democracy\u2019s hands, then maybe it\u2019s time to give up the label \u201cpro-choice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to counteract Hillary Clinton\u2019s narrative that she\u2019s the one true pro-abortion candidate, Vermont Senator and Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has offered his most aggressive promise to abortion fans yet. On Monday, he essentially told MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes that he would use the power of the presidency to disenfranchise pro-life voters at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":92169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[3581,19,4288,253,1127,611,8565,8567,728,74,8183,3707,3962,1118,144,8566,3913,197],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sanders: I&#039;d use Justice Department &quot;to go after&quot; state pro-life laws<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By hijacking the DOJ to take by force what the people won\u2019t give him, Sanders would violate the Constitution and SCOTUS rulings in favor of pro-life laws.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sanders: I&#039;d use Justice Department &quot;to go after&quot; state pro-life laws\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By hijacking the DOJ to take by force what the people won\u2019t give him, Sanders would violate the Constitution and SCOTUS rulings in favor of pro-life laws.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-27T20:47:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Bernie-Sanders-Dreamstime-licensed.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"356\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Calvin Freiburger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Calvin Freiburger\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Calvin Freiburger\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/6eb2bf94c8064b71953ba137bf413c4d\"},\"headline\":\"Sanders: I&#8217;d use Justice Department &#8220;to go after&#8221; state pro-life laws\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-27T20:47:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-27T20:47:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-id-use-justice-department-to-go-after-state-pro-life-laws\/\"},\"wordCount\":861,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"2016\",\"abortion\",\"Bernie Sanders\",\"Constitution\",\"democracy\",\"Democrats\",\"executive action\",\"executive overreach\",\"federalism\",\"hypocrisy\",\"Justice Department\",\"Planned Parenthood v. 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