I hadn't heard about that before. When I found an article on it, I realized I hadn't read your post carefully -- he hasn't signed anything yet -- he is saying he will sign something. He announced that at a Catholic event. It looks like electioneering to me, trying to get as many Catholic votes that he can. Biden is Catholic. Someone (I think it was another Senator) who knows him says he carries a rosary in his pocket. So it looks more like campaigning to me than anything substantial. I don't even know what he really means. Neither do some doctors according to a story I read.Well it's better than nothing. Depending on who gets the job in the Supreme Court, we could see more being done to protect and look after the unborn babies.
Trump announces ‘Born Alive’ executive order | ABC27
President Trump announced Wednesday he will sign an executive order that would require medical care be given to babies who are born alive after failed abortion attempts.
“I will be signing the Born-Alive Executive Order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve. This is our sacrosanct moral duty,” said Trump in a pre-recorded video address during the 16th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
Trump said his administration is increasing funding for neonatal research to ensure “every child has the very best chance to thrive and grow.”
Organizations representing obstetricians and gynecologists say the law already provides protections to newborns, whether born during a failed abortion or under other circumstances. But when anomalies are so severe that a newborn would die soon after birth, a family may choose what’s known as palliative care or comfort care. This might involve allowing the baby to die naturally without medical intervention.
It is not necessarily a crime to forgo sophisticated medical intervention in cases where severe fetal abnormalities leave a newborn with no chance of survival. This has happened on rare occasions in the course of a late-term abortion. The U.S. government recorded 143 deaths between 2003 and 2014 involving infants born alive during attempted abortions.
“I will be signing the Born-Alive Executive Order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve. This is our sacrosanct moral duty,” said Trump in a pre-recorded video address during the 16th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
Trump said his administration is increasing funding for neonatal research to ensure “every child has the very best chance to thrive and grow.”
Organizations representing obstetricians and gynecologists say the law already provides protections to newborns, whether born during a failed abortion or under other circumstances. But when anomalies are so severe that a newborn would die soon after birth, a family may choose what’s known as palliative care or comfort care. This might involve allowing the baby to die naturally without medical intervention.
It is not necessarily a crime to forgo sophisticated medical intervention in cases where severe fetal abnormalities leave a newborn with no chance of survival. This has happened on rare occasions in the course of a late-term abortion. The U.S. government recorded 143 deaths between 2003 and 2014 involving infants born alive during attempted abortions.
It's a distraction from the real issue. I don't think about 12 deaths a year of infants born alive during attempted abortions is a major problem. The article doesn't say how many of those 143 deaths between 2003 and 2014 involved babies who would have died anyway. Some mothers decide to have abortions if a fetus is deformed or diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Trump is also playing games with other healthcare issues. Now he's promised to provide healthcare that's already present under Obamacare which he's trying to do away with. I find it strange.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-health-care-plan-preexisting-conditions-obamacare-repeal-221123672.htm
President Trump announced Thursday that he would seek to guarantee health care coverage for Americans with preexisting conditions, a protection that is already part of the Affordable Care Act his administration is seeking to repeal.
“The historic action I’m taking today includes the first-ever executive order to affirm it is the official policy of the United States government to protect patients with preexisting conditions,” Trump said at an event in Charlotte, N.C., where he signed an executive order that he claimed would improve health care in the U.S.
Under the ACA, which was passed under former President Barack Obama, Americans with preexisting health conditions cannot be denied health coverage by insurers. Trump’s new executive order, meanwhile, amounts to a pledge and comes after he has repeatedly attempted to gut current health care law.
On a call earlier in the day, White House officials said that Trump’s “protections” for preexisting conditions would not actually be law should the ACA be repealed, but were a "defined statement of U.S. policy.” The White House also announced that Trump would be giving Congress a Jan. 1 deadline to pass legislation on surprise medical billing and encouraging more health care choice.
“The historic action I’m taking today includes the first-ever executive order to affirm it is the official policy of the United States government to protect patients with preexisting conditions,” Trump said at an event in Charlotte, N.C., where he signed an executive order that he claimed would improve health care in the U.S.
Under the ACA, which was passed under former President Barack Obama, Americans with preexisting health conditions cannot be denied health coverage by insurers. Trump’s new executive order, meanwhile, amounts to a pledge and comes after he has repeatedly attempted to gut current health care law.
On a call earlier in the day, White House officials said that Trump’s “protections” for preexisting conditions would not actually be law should the ACA be repealed, but were a "defined statement of U.S. policy.” The White House also announced that Trump would be giving Congress a Jan. 1 deadline to pass legislation on surprise medical billing and encouraging more health care choice.
I honestly don't understand what he's doing. I doubt he knows himself.
I can see what he's trying to do in Iowa however. He's trying to use federal tax dollars to buy votes. Iowa is close in the polls -- very close. His trade policy -- or should I call it trade war -- with China has driven many small farmers into bankruptcy when China started slapping tariffs on agricultural products from the US. China started buying more things from other countries -- hurting American farmers.
Federal Payments to Farmers Have Tripled Since 2017, and Trump Just Promised Even More
It was March 2, 2018, when President Donald Trump's top trade adviser appeared on Fox Business Network to reassure Americans that other countries wouldn't retaliate against new tariffs proposed by the White House.
Those tariffs on imported steel and aluminum were the first major battle in what's become an expensive and largely unsuccessful 2 1/2 year-long trade war. But even at that early stage, it was obvious to some observers that the trade war wouldn't be as easy or beneficial as the Trump administration was promising. "Should we expect China and others to come back and say, 'Oh really America? Well take this, I'm going to raise tariffs and retaliate on farm goods," Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo directly asked Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, during that March 2 interview.
Those tariffs on imported steel and aluminum were the first major battle in what's become an expensive and largely unsuccessful 2 1/2 year-long trade war. But even at that early stage, it was obvious to some observers that the trade war wouldn't be as easy or beneficial as the Trump administration was promising. "Should we expect China and others to come back and say, 'Oh really America? Well take this, I'm going to raise tariffs and retaliate on farm goods," Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo directly asked Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, during that March 2 interview.
Trump overplayed that hand. He also attempted to bluff Canada with tariffs on aluminum. The US at present doesn't manufacture enough aluminum to satisfy domestic demand. Unless more American companies start making more aluminum, we need Canadian aluminum; but Trump slapped a tariff on it. That was at a time when beer consumption in bars was down and people were buying more beer in cans to drink at home. The first I knew about an aluminum shortage was when I went to buy generic sodas in cans. There was a sign saying they apologized if some flavors were out of stock, but there was an aluminum shortage. I guess it affected only their generic brand -- the big name sodas were all there. Last week when I went again, I saw the same sign. I was curious and researched it. It doesn't make sense to put a tariff on something when demand for Canadian aluminum was going up and American companies couldn't produce that much.
Prime Minister Trudeau looked dazed when he first had to deal with Trump; but I think Trudeau's figured Trump out now. Canada said they would impose tariffs on American goods unless the US removed the tariff on aluminum. Who's the better poker player? Trudeau looks like he is. He called Trump's bluff, and Trump folded. He removed the aluminum tariff. It would be very awkward for Trump if Trudeau hit the US with tariffs right before an election. Jobs lost? Probably -- and Biden would make campaign ads about it, saying Trump's trade policy was hurting American jobs. I think Trudeau is clever enough too to know what states to pinpoint. The Chinese were clever that way. You pick swing states where a few votes matter, and you target products from those states.