I don’t follow New York politics as heavily, perhaps, as I should. I will defend myself by saying I come about my ignorance honestly; my political-observer stomach is reasonably strong, but not strong enough to make me want to spend my days in examination of that sewer. Instead, I spend much of my time observing the local swamp here in Louisiana.
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Which, rank though it may be, is far more decorous and amiable than the Fallen Empire State.
Because New York is only of passing interest to me, it wasn’t until Wednesday when I found out that Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Dominican perpetual college student (she’s 14 years into her higher-education training and apparently not near completion, and loudly squawks about the debilitating cost of student loans) who is the Democrats’ nominee for New York’s 13th Congressional District, is a Muslim.
Chevalier converted to Islam several years ago, we’re given to understand, which would make her the first female Muslim convert in Congress. Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, a pair of Nation of Islam types, would be preceding Muslim converts on Capitol Hill.
This matters because New York is becoming a caliphate of sorts. Certainly given that its principal city is now run by a Twelver Shiite named Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan of Indian descent who seems quite insistent on Islamicizing the Big Apple, this would be true. When the muezzin’s call to prayer rings out at all hours from mosques throughout the city and people walking their dogs are routinely hassled by members of the ummah, with little pushback from the authorities or the general population, there is more than a little dhimmitude to be seen among New Yorkers these days.
And if you scoff at that, then perhaps you should venture an explanation for this:
One bit of evidence that Hochul is serious about her new role as handmaiden of the new Islamic State of New York is her participation in jihad against the infidels. After all, the Qu’ran does tell the Believers:
“Then, when the sacred months have passed, kill the mushrikun wherever you find them, capture them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, establish prayer, and give zakat, then let them go their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.”
That’s Qur’an 9:5, often called the Verse of the Sword. And mushrikun is translated as “polytheists,” “idolaters,” or “infidels,” though there is some argument as to whether Christians or Jews fall within that definition. The “nice” Muslims will tell you we don’t, but then that word doesn’t seem to get out to the “not nice” Muslims, does it?
And perhaps it hasn’t gotten out to Kathy Hochul, either. Because Hochul and a couple of her fellow Democrat governors, with and without hijabs, are certainly exporting death and destruction to their Christian neighbors in red states in a fashion that the prophet Muhammad might well smile upon.
This happened on Wednesday. From a press release by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill:
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced a multistate lawsuit in the United States Supreme Court challenging the abortion “shield laws” of New York, California, and Massachusetts. Joined by Alabama and Arkansas, Louisiana claims that the “shield laws” violate the Constitution and federal law by promoting and facilitating the distribution of thousands of illegal abortion drugs through the mail and preventing pro-life states from enforcing their own laws.
After the Dobbs decision returned the issue of abortion to the states, New York, California, and Massachusetts swiftly moved to circumvent the Supreme Court and the law of the land—not by simply codifying abortion in their own territories, but by actively seeking ways to nullify the sovereign rights of pro-life states. They did this by adopting shield-law policies that restrict cooperation with out-of-state law enforcement, limit extradition, prevent the enforcement of certain out-of-state judgments and subpoenas, and harbor providers who prescribe and mail illegal abortion drugs into pro-life states—all to assure shield-law state residents that they can violate pro-life states’ laws with impunity and no fear of negative repercussions.
And they didn’t even try to hide their motives. New York Governor Kathy Hochul proudly proclaimed, “They can’t stop us—they can’t stop our providers, they can’t stop New York, and that’s how we’re fighting back.”
Shield laws are thus not shields at all; they are swords disguised as shields and driven into pro-life states.
Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to hold that these laws violate the Full Faith and Credit Clause, the equal-sovereignty doctrine, the federal common law of public nuisance, and the Dormant Commerce Clause.
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“Louisiana has made its position on abortion clear through the bipartisan will of the people’s representatives in its Legislature. Louisiana chooses life. We will not allow activists states, activist providers, or distributors profiting from killing babies to threaten Louisiana’s sovereignty, violate Louisiana law, or endanger Louisiana women and babies,” said Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill.
Due to the illegal enterprise that these shield laws have created and protected, Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have also filed legal action in the Western District of Louisiana against 30 individuals and organizations who, through a sweeping, coordinated scheme, have flooded illegal abortion pills into pro-life states by advertising, prescribing, dispensing, and shipping abortion drugs directly into Louisiana and other states.
“Alabama’s pro-life laws exist to protect mothers and their children. This is a coordinated scheme by bad actors from out of state to defy Alabama law and harm people in our state. These drugs are dangerous for women who take them, and these companies knowingly break our laws and brag about it in their advertising. If state sovereignty means anything, it means Alabama cannot be forced to accept the death of unborn children and the harm it causes to mothers because someone outside our borders disagrees with our choice to protect life,” said Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
The states further claim that the individuals and organizations made false or misleading representations concerning the safety, effectiveness, legality, risks, and appropriate use of abortion-inducing drugs, including minimizing potential complications and the need for in-person medical care. In Louisiana alone, their actions have resulted in the hospitalization of women and the deaths of thousands of unborn babies.
“The rule of law matters, and with this civil action, we are sending a clear signal that our states take our laws seriously. I have been proud to stand up for the lives of the unborn my entire time in public service, and I am proud to defend Arkansas’s pro-life laws through this civil action today. Arkansas’s General Assembly has repeatedly heeded the call to protect pregnant mothers and their unborn children, and I will continue to fight to uphold the General Assembly’s duly passed laws protecting life,” said Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin.
Defendants in the case include: Brandon Nouhavandi; Jessica Nouhavandi; JBN Operations LLC; Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants (d/b/a The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project); Angel Foster; Susan Yanow; Maureen Paul; Remy Coeytaux; Margaret Simeone; A Safe Choice Inc.; A Safe Choice Network Inc.; Remy Coeytaux, MD, PC (d/b/a Choix Reproductive Health); Optio Women’s Health, Inc.; Abuzz, LLC; Manisha Kumar; Ishani Village LLC; Christie Pitney; Christie Pitney Nursing and Reproductive Health Inc. (d/b/a Forward Midwifery, Nursing, and Reproductive Health); Forward Midwifery PLLC; Robin Tucker; R. Tucker Limited (a/k/a R. Tucker Chartered, a/k/a Metro Area Advanced Practice Healthcare); Metro Area Modern Reproductive Care, LLC (d/b/a Roxy Clinic); Charlene Eisenberg Reproductive Health Collaborative, Inc. (a/k/a CE Repro, a/k/a CE Repro Fund); Pea Conn LLC (d/b/a Southern Woven); Southern Woven Health PLLC (a/k/a Woven Health Partners); One Plus Four LLC (d/b/a We Take Care of Us); Robin Hewlett; CSA ASC LLC (d/b/a We Take Care of Us); Timothy Paik-Nicely; and With Open Arms Center for Reproductive Choices, Inc. (d/b/a Choices Rising)
The lawsuit asks the federal court to declare their actions a public nuisance. The states also seek injunctive relief, damages, civil penalties, statutory damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs.
You can say that Louisiana’s passage of laws limiting or banning the use of mifepristone for the purpose of abortion goes too far, and we can have an argument about that. You could say that efforts to stop Louisianans from traveling to other states to have abortions, which some in the pro-life movement are advocating for, are far too aggressive. This column isn’t going to attempt to persuade you otherwise.
We should all be able to agree, though, that after the Supreme Court has returned the abortion issue to the states to dispose of as they wish, which was the essence of the Dobbs decision, Louisiana has the power to ban abortions within its jurisdiction. You don’t have to like that. You do have to recognize that it’s true.
And once you have bowed to that reality, which you must, you should also bow to something else — which is that if Louisiana also bans chemical abortions through the use of drugs like mifepristone, such measures also carry the force of law.
But Kathy Hochul is so hell-bent on killing Louisiana’s children that she protects doctors who prescribe abortion drugs sight unseen to women seeking to terminate pregnancies in a state where it’s banned.
And not just in Louisiana. In Arkansas and Alabama, too.
Hochul is joined by her fellow Dhimmicrats, Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker, as defendants in this suit. All three are openly allowing quack doctors to telemedicine their way into killing unborn red-state children.
This can’t stand. The case must go to the Supreme Court, and this lawlessness, and outright disregard for the laws of Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas, must be punished.
It’s bad enough that we must tolerate Muslim jihadists in this country. Non-Muslim jihadists, in hijabs or out, are wholly out of bounds.
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