U.S. Coast Guard Members Seek Class Action Relief From Shot Mandates

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U.S. Coast Guard Members Seek Class Action Relief From Shot Mandates

TAMPA, FL — Liberty Counsel filed an amended complaint in federal court before Judge Steven Merryday seeking class action relief from the unlawful federal COVID shot mandate on behalf of plaintiffs who currently serve in the United States Coast Guard. The additional Coast Guard service members added to the existing complaint are in the Tampa District.

The plaintiffs are Coast Guard members who refuse to receive an injection that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs since all of the COVID shots are associated with aborted fetal cells. They have been unlawfully refused any religious exemption or accommodation. Their deadlines to become fully vaccinated have passed, and disciplinary actions have already commenced.  Relief is needed now to prevent these military heroes from facing discharge, court-martial, other life-altering disciplinary procedures, and termination.
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The additional plaintiffs in the Tampa District now added to the complaint include:
Avionics Electrical Technician 1 (AET1) is a Petty Officer First Class has faithfully served in the Coast Guard for almost 19 years. AET1 is a Navigator on HC-130H aircraft and currently runs the training program and flight schedules at his air station, which is the only Coast Guard air station flying HC-130H aircraft. There is a shortage of Navigators in the Coast Guard, and AET1 is the only Navigator at his air station trained to perform his training function. AET1 has been a Christian from a young age, and his faith has grown through his marriage and the survival of his son who, at five weeks old in 2019, was diagnosed with a rare condition that only one of three babies survives and is usually diagnosed in utero, often leading to abortion. AET1 believes his son’s surviving and thriving, following a major surgery and multiple hospital stays, when many children with the same condition are aborted, is only by God’s grace, which strengthens AET1’s faith and pro-life convictions.
Pilot is an officer and fixed-wing aircraft pilot in the Coast Guard. He is qualified in the HC-144B aircraft and estimates the cost of his training borne by the taxpayers as at least $1,400,000. He has participated in many search and rescue operations and has been critical in locating and coordinating aid for many distressed mariners and persons in the water. He has flown countless law enforcement patrols of our nation’s southern border and has aided in the detection and interdiction of illegal immigrants and fishing vessels. The command climate where he is stationed is hostile to any religious beliefs and requests for religious accommodation that conflict with the vaccine mandate. When this pilot first learned about the vaccine mandate, he was compelled by his faith to submit a religious accommodation request on the grounds that there are fetal cell lines used in the production and/or testing of all the currently available COVID shots. This is contrary to his understanding of the sanctity of human life and that the status of his body as a temple of the Holy Spirit makes it a sin to accept medicines or treatments with unknown long-term effects and numerous adverse events documented in only the first 12 months of use.
Lieutenant Commander Pilot (LCDR Pilot) has served honorably on active duty for over 13 years. He has 3,010 military flights and 234 simulator hours and has served in operational tours in Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and Alaska. He has served as the HC-130J Engineering Officer and the unit’s Assistant Engineering Officer. He estimates the cost of his training to exceed $10 million over 13 years of military aviation. This LCDR Pilot has received two commendation medals. The vaccine mandate has placed him in a position of conflict between his faith and military order, and he must decide whether to remain faithful to his conscience and God or be separated from service. Based on his Roman Catholic Christian faith and absolute opposition to abortion, he cannot accept a shot that has been manufactured or whose efficacy has been tested and proved using aborted fetal cells.
Lieutenant 2 is a Christian who has sincerely held religious objections to injecting anything into his body that contains the product of aborted fetal cells. He believes every life is fearfully and wonderfully made and that accepting an injection in any way associated with aborted fetal cells represents a grave sin and significant moral problem.
Marine Science Technician 3 is a Christian who has sincerely held religious objections to injecting anything into her body that contains the product of aborted fetal cells. She also noted that injecting an mRNA vaccine into her body is accepting a synthetic product that alters God’s design for her.
Senior Chief Boatswain’s Mate is a Chief Petty Officer in the Coast Guard Reserve and leads a department of dedicated young servicemembers he mentors and loves. Senior Chief has over 23 years of faithful, uninterrupted service and zero disciplinary action. His primary operational duties and responsibilities throughout his career have revolved around the safe operation and navigation of multiple small craft. He ran a security boat for eight months in-country in Djibouti during the height of the pandemic and had no access to any vaccine, and not one crew member or command contracted COVID. Senior Chief is a Christian with sincere religious beliefs in the sanctity of human life at all stages of development, which beliefs are strengthened by his personal experience with the birth and short but important life of his daughter, whom he and his wife elected to bring into the world despite having been diagnosed in utero with multiple life-threatening conditions and recommended for abortion.
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Our courageous Coast Guard heroes have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and defend this country from foreign and domestic enemies. Their constitutional rights are not quarantined while they are defending this nation. The Department of Defense continues to violate the law and ignore their religious freedom. This lawlessness must end.” Liberty Counsel is a public law firm and a news partner with Wyoming News.

Biden Caught: DOJ Or Special Counsel Being Called To Investigate Biden’s Dealings With His Son’s Businesses

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Biden Caught: DOJ Or Special Counsel Being Called To Investigate Biden’s Dealings With His Son’s Businesses

Three Hikers In Montana Rescued

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Three Hikers In Montana Rescued

Helena Montana Police Department News

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@1112 An Officer took a report of fraudulent checks on the 300 block of Euclid Avenue.  This case is active.  

@1157 An Officer took a report of a theft of a key from the 1900 block of N Last Chance Gulch.  The male was identified and later located. The male received a citation for theft and advised to appear in Municipal Court. 

@1254 An Officer took a report of a fraudulent check on the 2900 block of Sanders Street.  This case is active.

@ 1513 An Officer took a report of a stolen check which was trying to be cashed on the 3100 block of N Sanders Street.  This case is active.   

@1925 Officers responded to the 500 block of Logan Street in reference to a family disturbance.  From the investigation Officers determined nothing criminal occurred.  This case is inactive. 

@2005 Officers responded to the area of Custer Avenue and Henderson in reference to a domestic.  The subsequent investigation led to a male being arrested for PFMA  (1st).  The male was booked at the jail. 

The Helena Police Department responded to 104 calls for service.  A brief summary of some of the calls the Officers responded to are as follows:  11 animal-related calls, two motor vehicle crashes,  6 Disorderly/Disturbance calls, six suspicious incidents, four thefts, four trespasses, and conducted 11 welfare checks.

My Abortion Story

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My Abortion Story

Written by: Karen Feuer

We wanted a miracle but my life was at risk.

I have whispered some of this, on park benches, in private moments with friends, and even once to my eldest daughter who was doing a report on emuna (faith in God) and needed a difficult story.

It’s not easy to write publicly about the most personal moments in life, but when so many people are shouting from rooftops on a topic which affects so many of us, I thought to share some of those whispers out loud.

I live in a neighborhood where children are valued above all else, and where my family of seven is considered average size if not small. Only more recently, as my friends and I have “grown up” and started to talk more openly about topics once relegated to the taboo (sex, mikvah, marriage, miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion), did I realize that I was foolish to have walked alone during times of hardship, particularly around issues of pregnancy. Perhaps those whispers could have been spoken out loud long ago.

My story is about one of my nine pregnancies, a pregnancy with twins, 15 years ago. At 21 weeks, I could feel these twins tumbling around inside nonstop, and I simply couldn’t eat enough to feel full. It was a fulltime challenge to care for myself, much less my two toddlers. My husband and I felt excitement and apprehension, and kept the wise words of a neighbor in the forefront of our minds: Every blessing means hard work. The bigger the blessing, the greater the work.

Despite all my positive thinking and best intentions, it seems that my body was not as equipped as my mind to sustain this pregnancy. At 22 weeks, my water broke.

Despite all my positive thinking and best intentions, it seems that my body was not as equipped as my mind to sustain this pregnancy. At 22 weeks, my water broke, and I was admitted to Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital. I was told that I was vulnerable to an infection, one that might even be life-threatening, and that it was likely I would give birth extremely early. The doctors recommended an abortion, but the decision was ultimately mine.

What followed was a week of gut-wrenching conversations about the right thing to do — after all, I was at a modern hospital and the likelihood that I would come to harm was low. The more probable outcome was giving birth to very, very premature twin babies. We consulted doctors, rabbis and a holy rebbetzin known for her kabbalistic chants. I even spoke with a few women who had been in my situation, beat the odds and now were celebrating the bar mitzvahs of their twins, the marriage of their twins… They told me not to give up. To believe in miracles.

We wanted to believe in miracles, but in the end a well-known, prominent rabbi helped us decide. He replied to my husband’s query in the most matter-of-fact way possible, “If you are telling me there is even the smallest risk to your wife’s life, why are you asking me this question?”

On the day of the abortion, I had to first have a difficult procedure (content-warning). Because I was at a later stage of pregnancy, and I would be induced to give birth, there was concern that the babies would cry, if only briefly. Therefore, to safeguard my mental health, I was sent to someone I named “Dr. Death,” a physician who would inject my twins’ hearts with a substance to stop them beating before birth. Many other women sat in the waiting room for this procedure, all with rounded stomachs and pain on their faces.

When Dr. Death was done, I somehow snapped out of my traumatized state to blurt out, “How can you do this job day in and day out, causing death? I feel sorry for you!”

The doctor looked at me, a bit surprised at my bluntness, and replied, “You have it all wrong. I’m a doctor of life. Because of what I do, women get a second chance. A second chance for their health, a second chance to bear children in the future.”

I realized later that I had gotten my miracle, albeit not what I had hoped for. I had my health, I had a reproductive future. I went on to have three more beautiful children.

It was only later I realized that I had gotten my miracle, albeit not what I had hoped for. I had my health, I had a reproductive future. I went on to have three more beautiful children, and sometimes our family speaks about how two of them could be the souls of the twins.

When I read some of the rhetoric surrounding the abortion debate, I often think of Dr. Life’s words. I think about my own journey, which I now know is by no means unique or exceptional. The more I look around me, and hear the whispers of other women, the more I understand that any conversation or debate around reproductive health and freedom affects her, and her and her…

This question affects us all.

Despite the very painful process, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to choose my own path, in consultation with wise medical staff, rabbis, rabbaniot and my husband.

It is my greatest hope that Israel can be an example of just and merciful laws, as they relate to abortion and many other important issues. I also pray that by raising my own voice, I will encourage other women to speak out a bit more loudly about the questions closest to our bodies…and to our hearts.

This article originally appeared on The Times of Israel.

Billings Justice Court Criminal Cases

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Teton County Judge Temporarily Blocks Wyoming’s Abortion Prohibition

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Teton County Judge Temporarily Blocks Wyoming’s Abortion Prohibition

Judge Melissa Owens of the Ninth Judicial District Court in Teton County temporarily blocked on Wednesday implementation of House Bill 92, Wyoming’s abortion prohibition trigger law with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

 

H.B. 92 had gone into effect earlier that day after Gov. Mark Gordon certified the bill last Friday.

 

The temporary block lasts for at least two weeks allowing babies to continue being slaughtered in the state for the next 14 days. It came during an emergency hearing while another hearing is set for Aug. 9 to discuss a preliminary injunction.

 

Dr. Giovannina Anthony of Jackson, one of the plaintiffs and currently the state’s only abortion provider, said “it’s with extreme relief that we can continue” to murder unborn babies while the block is in place.

 

Based on coverage from WyoFile and The Casper Star-Tribune, the arguments made by the plaintiffs relied on feelings and international law, not American or Wyoming law, while the arguments made by the defense, the State of Wyoming et al., were weak.

 

WyoFile reported that the pro-death plaintiffs argued that abortion is healthcare as “defined by several international health organizations and U.S. medical groups.” It is important to note that these are not legal arguments as international groups nor American medical groups have no bearing on the law.

 

Owens described plaintiff Danielle Johnson, a nurse who is currently 22 weeks pregnant, gave the “most compelling” argument.

 

Despite the fact that H.B. 92 includes exemptions for the life of the mother, Owens called it “compelling” that Johnson argued that she “could be affected by the ban if she developed a life-threatening complication,” The Casper Star-Tribune reported. Again, H.B. 92 literally allows for abortions over life-threatening complications.

 

Attorney Jay Jerde for the defense argued that H.B. 92 “isn’t directed at women making a decision about abortion. It just says that abortion can’t be performed in Wyoming.

 

The only apparent reference to legitimate law was Article 1, Sec. 38 of the Wyoming Constitution which states a “right of health care access” amendment approved by the voters back in 2012 as a response to Obamacare.

 

Both the plaintiffs and defense apparently haven’t read that amendment.

 

Because the plaintiffs call abortion “healthcare” they believe they have a right to access it based on the reading of the title of that amendment.

 

Although not a part of this lawsuit, Kenneth Chestek, a so-called “law” professor from the University of Wyoming, did make an argument in support of baby murder based on a little deeper reading of that amendment when he spoke to County 17 in June allowed for baby murder because Article 1, Sec. 38, subsection (a) states that parents and legal guardians “shall have the right to make health care decisions” for kids.

 

Wow, what a dangerous position. Would Chestek argue a parent has the right to murder, say a 2-year-old, who had a headache arguing that it relieved the child’s pain?

 

Chestek, who claims to know the law as a “law” professor, ignored the clear language in that amendment that clearly allows H.B. 92.

 

So did Jerde arguing for H.B. 92 whose sole argument in court related to the Wyoming Constitution was that the voters intended to support the Article 1, Sec. 38 amendment because it pertained to Obamacare, and voters would not have supported it if they thought it would allow for baby murder.

 

Jerde could have gone a little further down in Article 1, Sec. 38 to recite subsection (c) which states: “The legislature may determine reasonable and necessary restrictions on the rights granted under this section to protect the health and general welfare of the people or to accomplish the other purposes set forth in the Wyoming Constitution.”

 

There it is. The one legal argument made by the plaintiffs dismantled. It would have been nice if Jerde argued that.

 

And to go further, Article 1, Sec. 2 of the Wyoming Constitution, the “Equality of all” amendment, states an “inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal.” Unborn babies are members of the human race thus entitled to the right to life recognized in this amendment.

 

For the judge’s part, Owens did make a legitimate point in stating that H.B. 92 has too much ambiguity. That would be a fair argument as it doesn’t provide many definitions, one in particular cited in the court that it doesn’t define how a woman seeking an exemption for rape can obtain an abortion. Is it reliant on filing a police report in a certain time frame, does there need to be a rape conviction, etc.? Those are questions the state legislature should have had some foresight to debate and include when H.B. 92 was approved early this year.

 

The arguments supporting the right to seek access to the healthcare of our own choosing is correct. But only when it pertains to actual healthcare.

 

“As an O.B. doctor of 30 years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception. I am legally responsible for the unborn, no matter what I do, so there’s a legal life there. The unborn has inherent rights, and if there’s an injury or a killing, there is a legal entity. There is no doubt about it,” Dr. Ron Paul said in 2007 during a debate as he ran in the Republican presidential primary.

 

Abortion is not healthcare. It’s a criminal act. That’s why it should be criminalized.

 

Remember, the word “fetus” means “unborn child” from its Latin meaning. A child is a human life. Humans are created in the image of God. Abortion is the taking of a human life. Abortion is murder.

National And World News At a Glance

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Nancy Pelosi plans trip to Taiwan — The Speaker of the House’s upcoming visit was criticized by President Biden, who said it was “not a good idea.” Indications are that the trip will proceed as planned with Pelosi commenting, “It’s important for us to show support for Taiwan.” 

Increased Chinese censorship in reaction to protests — After being required to pay mortgages on houses which have not been completed on schedule, online protests began in regional capitals of Wuhan, Nanchang, and Zhengzhou. The government responded by removing any related videos, hashtags, and posts online. 

“Secondhand censorship” impact conservatives — Brent Bozell, of the Media Research Center, reported that seven social media companies, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Spotify, restricted information 144,301,713 times in the first quarter of 2022. 

Biden administration considers declaring public health emergency — White House Covid response coordinator Ashish Jha said the move, in response to increased cases of monkeypox, was under consideration, adding, “We’re looking at that, looking at what are the ways in which the response could be enhanced by declaring a public health emergency.”   

Liberal media outlets not invited to Sunshine Summit — DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw responded to complaints by saying, “My message to them is to try crying about it. Then go to kickboxing and have a margarita. And write the same hit piece you were gonna write anyway.” 

Truckers’ protest blocks Oakland port — The truckers want Governor Gavin Newsom to change the labor law AB 5, which requires them to be employees of a company rather than act as independent contractors. 

Alumni groups form to support free speech — Chapters from universities such as Harvard, Bucknell, Yale, and Cornell have united as the Alumni Free Speech Alliance. Edward Yingling of Princetonians for Free Speech described their motivation, “There’s a feeling that a lot of universities are losing their way. … There’s very little diversity of thought.” 

Wife ID’s Husband As Her Killer

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Wife ID’s Husband As Her Killer

Venice: The Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Pacific Division detectives are seeking the public’s assistance in locating the suspect responsible for the attempt murder of a 33-year-old woman. 

On July 25, 2022, at 5:40 a.m., Pacific Division officers responded to a radio call of an Assault With a Deadly Weapon Cutting in the area of Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Venice Boulevard.  Responding officers found the victim sitting in a vehicle, suffering from multiple stab wounds in the torso, and bleeding profusely as a result of her injuries.  The officers requested for paramedics to respond. 

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded and transported the victim to a local hospital.   

While enroute to the hospital, the victim was able to inform Officers that her husband stabbed her multiple times while parked in her vehicle in the area of Washington Boulevard and Yale Avenue.  The Victim was able to exit the driver’s side of her vehicle when a good Samaritan driving by observed her in the street and drove her to safe location where police were contacted.   

The suspect has been identified as Gerardo Doroteo (date of birth: 08/24/1984).  At the time of the incident, Gerardo Doroteo was seen fleeing southbound Yale Avenue on foot.  

H.B. 92 Prohibiting Baby Murders Set to Take Effect Today but Faces Lawsuit

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H.B. 92 Prohibiting Baby Murders Set to Take Effect Today but Faces Lawsuit

House Bill 92, which is expected to prohibit most abortions (baby murders), is set to go into effect today across Wyoming after Gov. Mark Gordon certified it last Friday.

 

The abortion trigger law was signed by Gordon in March. It required a repeal of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Roe v. Wade before it would take effect which occurred in the June 24 majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

 

H.B. 92, which makes providing an abortion (with some exceptions provided) a felony with a prison sentence up to 14 years, provided for a review process by the Attorney General of up to 30 days before the governor would certify it, and the bill would take effect 5 days after that certification.

 

Gordon certified the bill on July 22 and released a statement:

 

“I have certified House Bill 92 following the Attorney General’s analysis. I believe that the decision to regulate abortion is properly left to the states. As a pro-life Governor, my focus will continue to be on ensuring we are doing all we can to support Wyoming mothers, children and families.”

 

However, Gordon’s office told Wyoming News that a lawsuit has been filed as several ongoing questions remain unanswered.

 

“As there is now a pending court challenge to the law, we are not going to be providing additional comments,” Michael Pearlman, communications director, said via email after Wyoming News followed up on some questions that went unanswered during the review process.

 

The Casper Star-Tribune reported that the lawsuit, which was filed in Teton County on Monday, is seeking the law to be temporarily blocked. An emergency court hearing is scheduled today to consider a temporary block of H.B. 92.

 

The lawsuit lists several plaintiffs, including Wellspring Health Access (listed as Circle of Hope Healthcare in the complaint) which has been planning to open the state’s first surgical abortion facility in Casper. Julie Burkhart, founder of the murder facility, told the Star-Tribune that she still plans to open the facility but is “concerned” she won’t be able to murder babies because of H.B. 92.

 

Other plaintiffs include Dr. Giovannina Anthony from a Jackson clinic who is currently the state’s only abortion provider through abortifacients, nurse Danielle Johnson, University of Wyoming law student Kathleen Dow, Dr. Rene Hinkle of Cheyenne Women’s Clinic and Chelsea’s Fund which raises money to pay for the murder of babies.

 

The defendants in the suit include the State of Wyoming, Gordon, Attorney General Bridget Hill, Teton County Sheriff Matthew Carr and Jackson’s Police Chief Michelle Weber.

 

Pearlman did provide some answers to questions posed by Wyoming News.

 

On enforcement, Pearlman “enforcement of the law is at the local level.”

 

H.B. 92 provides exemptions for life of the mother as well as rape and incest. Some supporters of the bill want to remove the exemptions for rape and incest because it is punishing the baby for the crimes of the father.

 

Asked if Gordon supports removing the exemptions and if he’d sign a bill that removes them if one comes from the legislature, Pearlman said: “The Governor supports the exemptions for rape and incest that are in the bill.”

 

Asked if the Wellspring facility in Casper received licensing to allow surgical abortions and, if so, has that licensing been removed, Pearlman said: “The Governor’s office does not involve itself with medical licensing, so I can’t answer that question.”

 

What should be noted is that members of the Casper City Council, when questioned by pro-life resident Jeanette Ward, said they had no say over licensing or zoning of the murder facility. Councilman Kyle Gamroth said that oversight is through the Wyoming State Board of Medicine, which Gordon’s office does have oversight of.

 

H.B. 92 does not expressly define what abortion is, and Wyoming News asked Gordon’s office if the use of abortifacients (murder pills) will be included in the prohibitions. That question remains unanswered.

 

If abortifacients remain allowed under this prohibition, then H.B. 92 effectively changes nothing in Wyoming. The only protection it provides is for the babies who would be slaughtered surgically in the state.

 

Remember, the word “fetus” means “unborn child” from its Latin meaning. A child is a human life. Humans are created in the image of God. Abortion is the taking of a human life. Abortion is murder, whether done surgically or through use of drugs.

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