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Greetings Friend --
Using the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a conduit to
further a leftist political agenda, the Obama Administration redefined
“sex” as an “internal sense of
gender, which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male
and female.” That is exactly what Attorney General Josh Stein,
along with 23 other states, hopes to maintain as they sue the Trump
Administration for rolling back this Obama-era
provision.
Rejecting the Obama-era redefinition of sex means
returning to the recognition that sex is determined by biology. Stein
and his colleagues argue that as a result, medical practitioners will
deny medical care to people who identify as homosexual or transgender.
However, federal and state laws already require doctors to provide
medical care and lifesaving treatment and forbid them from denying
emergency care for non-medical reasons. Therefore, redefining “sex” is
unnecessary. It is a political ploy to garner votes and cast
conservative opponents in a negative light.
According to Roger Severino, Director of the Office for Civil
Rights at HHS, the suggestion that “doctors would deny
life-saving care to people based on their identity is scaremongering
and insulting to the medical profession”.
In the insurance
context, private insurance companies should not be forced to pay for
highly controversial elective procedures like surgery and hormone
therapy. The other side of the coin is that transgender individuals
will be better off receiving coverage from an entity that supports the
medical ends they are pursuing. When healthcare providers retain
discretion, everyone wins.
While the State Attorney General is
known as the “People’s Lawyer”, Stein appears to be pursuing a
political agenda of his own. Joining lawsuits that seek to change
existing law resembles an attempt to act as legislator, instead of
fulfilling his official duties as the state’s head lawyer.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time Stein has prioritized his
personal liberal agenda.
Last summer, Stein joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the administration
diverted taxpayer funds under Title X for “family planning” from going
to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. After all,
abortion is not family planning. As expected, Planned Parenthood was
not happy with this decision. They led the charge to sue the Trump
Administration, which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately
denied.
Then in March of this year, Stein joined 21 other state
attorney’s general in a letter to DHHS
Secretary Azar and FDA Commissioner Hahn, asking them to loosen FDA
restrictions on chemical abortions (RU486) by revoking its current
protocol of requiring a physician to administer the drugs used for a
medication abortion. This drug starves a developing baby of the
progesterone needed during pregnancy. North Carolina has a statute
that requires a physician to administer the drug in person, so Stein’s
letter is in direct conflict with the law, which it is his job to
defend.
Stein and his colleagues cite the COVID-19 pandemic as
their reason for scrapping the FDA’s ban on prescribing the RU486 via
telehealth consultation. Essentially, he wants to allow
“self-abortion” which endangers women’s health. There are many risks associated with the drug, and careless
administration adds to the already-existing tragedy of depriving a
developing baby of their only life source. It can also mask symptoms
of an ectopic pregnancy and has been associated with deadly
infections. Around 5% of women who have medication abortions show up
in emergency rooms with complications. Chemical abortion has 4 times
the complications as surgical abortion during first
trimester.
Ironically, Stein’s abortion on demand rhetoric ends
up victimizing the women he claims to advocate for. It also leads to
the inevitably heart wrenching reality of medically-induced abortions,
which denies babies the opportunity to see the light of
day.
Fortunately for North Carolina, Stein faces a challenger
in the upcoming 2020 election. Jim O’Neill, veteran prosecutor and Forsyth County District Attorney for over a decade,
represents a stark difference from the political agenda of Stein and
the Cooper Administration. O’Neill would never use the office of
Attorney General to push a radical pro-abortion agenda like
Stein. Nor would he seek
to overturn North Carolina laws limiting abortion by joining law suits
to push a pro-abortion agenda like Stein has done.
As
political offices are up for grabs in November, North Carolina
residents have the privilege of utilizing the ballot box to further
political change. Attorney General Stein’s suppression of religious
freedom and promotion of abortion on demand do not represent the
values of pro-life North Carolinians. As a member of the judicial
branch, Stein should stay away from legislating and instead leave that
to the people elected to serve in the House and Senate.
That
is why the North Carolina Values Coalition whole-heartedly endorses
Jim O’Neill for Attorney General.
As the District Attorney in Winston-Salem, he has proven that
he is not pushing an agenda, but enforcing the laws passed by the
people of North Carolina.
He will not abuse his office, as Stein has done, to push
abortion on demand and other radical leftist agendas. The people of North Carolina
would gain a solidly conservative and law-and-order Attorney General
by electing Jim O’Neill.
If you're able, would you chip in $100, $50, $25, or
even $10 to help the NC Values Coalition continue to fight for your
rights and get like-minded candidates elected to office? You can
donate by clicking here.
Sincerely,
Tami Fitzgerald
NC
Values
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