Donald Trump, IVF and the Tenth Amendment

Trump returning to his liberal Democrat roots, promising goodies from Santa Government in exchange for votes.

Thirty years ago, Republicans took control of Congress with one overriding theme: Reduce the role of the federal government and turn governing authority over domestic policy to the states as the founding fathers intended. President Bill Clinton, who was brimming with ideas to make government bigger when he took office in 1993, conceded in his 1996 State of the Union address that "the era of big government is over." The days of Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey seem like they were a century ago, not just three decades. The Tea Party movement, just fifteen years old now, is a distant memory.

Today, the Republican Party is represented by a lifelong New York City liberal who just proposed that the federal government will either pay for in vitro fertilization or will mandate that insurance companies pay for IVF. It was just a decade ago that Republicans broadly supported Hobby Lobby in their successful lawsuit against the Obama regime's mandate that insurance companies pay for contraceptives that act as an abortifacient, and now the Republican Party's nominee for President is supporting requiring a fertility "treatment" that actively discards (murders) babies.

Trump promised to leave abortion to the states, but he is already breaking that promise by proposing the federal government get involved in paying for IVF. If the federal government pays for it, every taxpayer, no matter how opposed we are to abortion, will be literally forced at gunpoint to pay for "discarding" (murdering) human lives at the very earliest stages of life. No, "at gunpoint" is not hyperbole. What do you think will happen if you refuse to pay your income taxes?

Do we really want to produce more babies? It is not a coincidence that the availability of pornography has drastically increased while fertility has decreased. Porn often deadens men's sex drive for real women. We could instead crack down on pornography. The groomers in the "adult" entertainment industry are enraged and terrified by the thought that minors' access to hardcore sex videos will be restricted, despite the fact that every other product that is age restricted is subject to age verification.

The federal government has no constitutional authority to create a new program to pay for IVF with tax dollars. The Tenth Amendment is effectively a dead letter and has been for well over a century, but it is still technically part of the United States Constitution. Trump returning to his liberal Democrat roots, promising goodies from Santa Government in exchange for votes. I understand that Kamala Harris is much worse, but the last thing this country needs is two big government parties, with one expanding the authority of the federal government (and the tax burden required to pay for it) slightly slower than the other one.

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