@JohnJHarwood How has it been degraded? Closing our borders to illegals, severely hindering a country that believes in death to America, highest stock market value in history? Please opine.
When my oldest was born, they refused to let me hold her because her oxygen levels were low. But I was persistent, and they eventually relented, allowing her to lay on my chest until the NICU nurse came to roll her away. When the nurse arrived, I asked that they check her oxygen levels one more time before taking her. They did. Oxygen: 100%. Perfect. The nurse shrugged and left. Our baby girl was healthy. She just needed me. My heartbeat, my warmth, my touch. She needed her mom.
Stories like this aren’t rare. Newborns need their moms to regulate their oxygen and heart rate. That’s why, when at all possible, most doctors and hospitals give baby to mom right away.
We know this when it comes to normal births, but when it comes to surrogacy - especially the kind when two men are purchasing a baby from a woman - the baby is immediately and intentionally taken away from his or her mom and given to two strangers. It is not surprising that these babies often undergo complications post-birth. Beyond that, we don’t fully know the physiological and psychological effect of robbing babies of their mothers at birth.
It’s worse treatment than we give puppies and kittens, but when it’s for “inclusion,” it’s celebrated.
Adoption is one thing - it redeems a broken situation. But surrogacy is another - it intentionally creates the broken situation.
Babies’ needs will always matter more than adults’ wants.
@SpeakerWelchIL@MeetThePress@kwelkernbc You are an idiot. The color of her skin or her gender had nothing to do with it. Don’t you realize that using race or gender as victim hood just makes you look less intelligent.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s 2025 statistics show that out of roughly 66,000 people sentenced in federal court, about 28,000 were non-citizens, and 91.6% of those 28,000 were illegal aliens.
Many of those cases involved immigration-related offenses such as illegal entry, illegal reentry, alien smuggling, and immigration document fraud.
Much of the sentencing data also involve crimes such as murder, sex offenses, kidnapping, and drug trafficking– all which could’ve been preventable had the illegal immigrants not been in the country in the first place.
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@McJuggerNuggets I feel sorry for you. Not because of your own sorrow but because you never gave one of God’s children a chance. As the father of a 41 yr old with epilepsy and autism I know how hard it is but still, even if I had known all of the hardships - I still ….Would have said YES!!
Not quite.
1. Our founders knew - and declared - that the rights that undergird all laws come from God. They weren’t thinking of some general diety. They were thinking the God of Moses, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were thinking of Jesus Christ.
2. Understanding our innate rights come from our Creator is not synonymous with creating a national religion
3. Even if Christianity were declared our national religion, Christianity and Islam are not the same. Christianity is based on what is good, true and beautiful. Islam is largely advanced through violence and force. Christianity elevates the worth of a person; Islam denigrates it. Christianity produced the greatest nation that’s ever existed; no other worldview has come close
@GinaHinojosaTX@GregAbbott_TX Facts are nasty things Gina -
California's average residential electricity rate is roughly double that of Texas, hovering around 33.7 cents per kilowatt vs 16.3 cents in Texas!
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