Sen. Katie Britt Introduces Her MOMS Act Legislation

Senator Katie Britt this week introduced her MOMS Act legislation: Senator Katie Boyd Britt @SenKatieBritt: “Today, I’m proud to introduce the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (MOMS) Act along with @SenMarcoRubio, @SenKevinCramer, and a group of @SenateGOP colleagues. You can learn more here:” https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/u-s-senators-katie-britt-marco-rubio-kevin-cramer-introduce-moms-act-to-help-build-culture-of-life-support-women-strengthen-families/ -- Britt included quotes from several colleagues in her press release, including Sen. Chuck Grassley: “New and expectant mothers should have ready access to health care resources. Often, even when the appropriate support exists, it can be difficult to find or get to – especially for women living in rural areas. Our bill addresses these challenges and promotes a pro-mother, pro-family culture by creating an online information hub for moms and improving telehealth capabilities,” Senator Grassley said.

An online information hub, huh? Britt writes: … the MOMS Act would establish Pregnancy.gov – a federal clearinghouse of resources available to expecting and postpartum moms, as well as those with young children. This clearinghouse would increase access to adoption agencies, pregnancy resource centers, and other relevant public and private resources available to pregnant women within their zip code and surrounding areas. As part of Pregnancy.gov, HHS would be required to include and maintain a national list of federal funding opportunities available to non-profit and healthcare entities for pregnancy support. So what she's really saying is that the government is creating a database of all pregnant women. As we learned in April, Donald Trump, as part of his second term as president, wants to track women's menstrual cycles.

We thought banning guns was Shannon Watts's bread and butter, but she seems concerned about a federal website with access to adoption agencies and pregnancy resource centers. "Pregnancy resource centers" really trigger Democrats —Sen. Elizabeth Warren has expressed her wish for crisis pregnancy centers to be banned nationally. Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts: “Katie Britt: Introduced a bill to create a federal database of pregnant women. Also Katie Britt: Opposes federal database of gun owners.” -- Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime: “So she creates a database of pregnant women so Trump then knows who to prosecute if any of those women get an abortion. Yet another example of why this election is fundamental to protecting your liberty & freedoms!” -- We imagine Trump himself would be monitoring this database of pregnant women as he tracks their cycles.

SBA Pro-Life America @sbaprolife: “These claims are intentionally false and dangerous. Pro-life laws across the board shield women from prosecutions. Moreover - read the bill, it provides a database of help for women, not a database of women. Women’s privacy is expressly protected. These claims are nothing but a cynical attempt to distract from the Democrats obsession with abortion and relentless attacks on charities that help women. While Biden created a website to promote the brutality of abortion, @SenKatieBritt offers a more hopeful approach that offers real support for moms and their babies.”

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