Paul responded Monday that he supports Meredith and thought the conservative lawyer would make a good judge, but pointed to the process as the problem. McConnell told the newspaper that Paul’s position was “just utterly pointless.” McConnell, a key player in putting conservatives on the federal bench during Donald Trump’s presidency, told The New York Times last week that the White House intended to follow through on its commitment to nominate Meredith until Paul objected. The White House abruptly abandoned the nomination on Friday, pointing to the home-state resistance from Paul, who is seeking a third term in the U.S. Rand Paul on Monday accused Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of cutting “a secret deal with the White House that fell apart,” blaming a lack of communication by his fellow Kentuckian for the failure of a federal judicial nomination.įurther exposing long-simmering tensions between the state’s two Republican senators, Paul commented on his own role in sinking the nomination last week of anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith for a federal judgeship in Kentucky. The national group did not respond to messages from The Courier-Tribune, but besides the four North Carolina counties, there are seven counties in Mississippi that adopted sanctuary resolutions, and counties in Florida and Texas that have at least similarly worded sanctuary resolutions.LOUISVILLE, Ky. Former head of Georgia Right to Life Daniel Becker started the Personhood Alliance in 2014, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after National Right to Life cut ties with the Georgia affiliate over its position that abortion should be banned even in the case of rape or incest. Uncompromising is the group’s defining trait and how it started. Pavlansky called the overturning of the legal precedent making abortion legal in all 50 states “inevitable.” That would take the abortion fight to the state level, according to Pavlansky.īut states making their own laws does not look like the national group’s goal but rather an uncompromising nationwide abortion ban. Supreme Court majority seemingly hostile to Roe v. Supporters don’t seem to think it will come to defying federal courts with a U.S. The Personhood Alliance, according to its website, has adopted the same strategy as immigrant and marijuana legalization advocates. Randolph County’s ordinance does not commit it to defy federal law. The national Personhood Alliance sees these resolutions as the first of three steps followed by building support among churches, businesses, elected officials and community groups before going to the third step, actively defying current law and adopting ordinances with the force of law prohibiting abortions and funding them in the jurisdiction once there is political and legal support in the community. The comparison to the Declaration of Independence is pretty apt. Liz Barber, policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, said the resolution has nothing to enforce but stigmatizes abortion in an effort to curtail women’s rights.Īccording to Pavlansky, there was already a strong network of churches and pastors in Randolph County, and he gave them some background on how Yadkin County became the first in the country to adopt one of these sanctuary resolutions and guidance on the process. Keith Pavlansky, with the North Carolina affiliate of the Personhood Alliance, compared the resolution to the Declaration of Independence saying it was not law but a powerful and influential statement. Of course, the county commissioners have every right to express an opinion. Getting to Randolph County’s adoption of the resolution also followed the Alliance’s playbook of building support for the anti-abortion resolution among churches in a more rural, politically right-leaning area without an abortion clinic before taking the proposal to elected officials. Johnson & Johnson used material replicated from cells taken from a 1985 abortion but not actual fetal cells, and the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine developers didn’t even use those.
That is not accurate, according to Reuters. The group with affiliates in 26 states takes a more rigid stance than other anti-abortion groups calling for a ban without exceptions for rape, seriously questioning when a mother’s health could justify abortion and calling the COVID-19 vaccines unethical saying they were developed with cell lines derived from an aborted fetus.
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