Elizabeth Warren, Woke Totalitarian | George Weigel | First Things
The subject line on the email was, shall we say, striking: Crone swoops with talons toward younger women with babies. The predatory beldame in question was Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and my cyber-correspondent was drawing my attention to this Tweet from @SenWarren: With Roe gone, it s more important than ever to crack down on so-called crisis pregnancy centers that mislead and deceive patients seeking abortion care. My bill with @SenatorMenendez would stop these harmful practices.
What would the bill touted by Senator Warren do? A justifiably irate editorial in National Review gave the nasty details:
Under Warren s bill, charities could be fined $100,000 or 50 percent of the revenues earned by the ultimate parent entity of the charity for violating the act s prohibition of disinformation related to abortion. But the legislation itself does not define prohibited speech. Warren s bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to promulgate rules to prohibit a person from advertising with the use of misleading statements related to the provision of abortion services. Warren s bill would thus turn the Federal Trade Commission into a national abortion disinformation board.
And who would define disinformation ? One likely suspect would be Liz Warren s friends at NARAL Pro-Choice America, whose study of crisis pregnancy centers complained that more than 67 percent of the centers surveyed intentionally referred to the fetus as baby.