The MRC's Anti-Abortion Extremist Strikes Again
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg demanded that a woman be forced to carry a non-viable fetus, cheered fellow anti-abortion extremists, and endorsed violence against any woman who visits Planned Parenthood.
The next time an anti-abortion activist tells you they’re not about forcing women to give birth, we need simply point to the Media Research Center’s resident anti-abortion extremist, Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. She demanded that a Texas woman be forced to give birth to a fetus that would likely not survive outside of the womb (if it didn’t die inside the womb first, that is) and might jeopardize the woman’s life and future fertility in a Dec. 8 post:
Kate Cox learned at 20 weeks gestation with her baby that the child had a fetal abnormality. Rather than allowing the child to grow to full term and giving it the best chance at life, Cox wants to kill her child. A Texas judge, surprisingly, is allowing it to happen.
Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas woman and mom of two and one on the way (for now) learned that her baby in the womb developed a rare fetal abnormality. Her unborn daughter was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, which oftentimes results in a fatal outcome either just before or right after birth however, that isn’t always the case.
Nonetheless, Cox, who is past the limit for abortion in Texas, is suing the state so that she can obtain an emergency abortion as she doesn’t want a child with issues. As the lawsuit states, the baby girl “likely” has “an umbilical hernia; a twisted spine likely due to spina bifida, a neural tube defect; clubbed or ‘rocker-bottom’ foot; intrauterine growth restriction; and irregular skull and heart development.”
The lawsui also alleges that there would be risks for Cox during the delivery process, as there all with all childbirth processes but that if any of those risks resulted in actual harm, her chances for more pregnancies in the future could be at jeopardy[.]
Mandelburg’s headlline screeched, “Judge Permits Mother to Illegally Dismember Her 20-Week-Old Preborn Daughter.” But if the woman has gone through the legal process to obtain permission from a judge to get the procedure, it’s not illegal. Given that the goal of anti-abortion extremists is to shame women for having abortions no matter how necessary and eliminating as many exceptions as possible — and that their logical endpoint is to punish and imprison any woman who has ever had one — Mandelburg cited her fellow activists to play the shame-and-punish card:
As of now however, Ken Paxton, Texas AG, insisted that he’d prosecute any doctor who performs an abortion on Cox as an abortion at this point in pregnancy in the state is illegal.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life tweeted the following about Cox’s case.
“This is eugenics and selfishness,” Hawkins wrote and then added what Cox may be thinking “I know my child may die after birth (which by the way many children with Trisomy 18 survive for years after) and I don’t have to have to watch my child die in front of me, so I’m going to pay someone to kill her now.”
I’d like to think that Cox was an exception but as of now, that’s not how it looks. Just a few days after Cox issued her lawsuit, a woman in Kentucky asked a judge to grant her the same exception. “Two test cases for what could become a widely utilized strategy to access abortion care in post-Roe America,” an X user noted.
At this time there have not been reports indicating whether Cox has terminated her daughter’s life or not.
Mandelburg made no attempt to justify her anti-abortion absolutism and how she apparently hopes Cox will be harmed or killed by the nonviable fetus she would force her to carry. She’s also no medical expert and has never examined Cox, so she has no basis to insist that the fetus is viable and that Cox would not be harmed.
After the Texas Supreme Court blocked the judge’s ruling, Cox went out of state to have an abortion. Mandelburg returned in a Dec. 11 post to smear and shame Cox for undergoing a necessary procedure:
Last week a judge in Texas ruled that a 31-year-old mother of three could dismember her innocent baby in the womb after finding out the baby had Trisomy 18. As of Monday, a Texas supreme court blocked the judges ruling and halted the murder.
Kate Cox learned at 20 weeks gestation that her baby had a fetal abnormality. Rather than giving her child a chance at life, as many children with trisomy 18 end up surviving, Cox sought an emergency abortion insisting that she didn’t want to take any risks by delivering her baby.
Cox, fearful of her chance to have more pregnancies in the future, pleaded for a judge to allow her to have a dilation and evacuation abortion where a provider will reach up, grab the baby girl’s arms and legs and pull them off, one by one. It would be a brutal, gruesome and painful death for the little baby girl.
Again, Mandelburg has never examined Cox, so she cannot possibly know anything about Cox’s health and that of her fetus. She concluded by ranting that Cox was somehow being lied to by following normal medical advice:
Ultimately, the story of Kate Cox is heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking that her baby was diagnosed with a medical struggle but it’s also heartbreaking that she’s being fed lie after lie that’s convinced her that dismembering her baby is not only an option but a good option.
Prayers go out to Cox for clarity on truth and her innocent child for safety and sanctity.
The only liar we see here is Mandelburg. She doesn’t want prayers for Cox — she wants to shame and punish her for defying anti-abortion extremists like her and doing what was best for her health and not subjecting a fatally deformed fetus to more agony. She’s mad that she couldn’t inflict more state-mandated agony on her.
Endorsing violence
How much does Mandelburg hate anyone who’s not as far-right as she is? She has fantasies about committing violence against anyone who goes to a Planned Parenthood clinic, as expressed in a Jan. 4 tweet captioned “Me when someone says they're on their way to planned parenthood.”
The video is of a man being sentenced on felony battery charges violently attacking a judge in a Nevada courtroom, leaping over the judge’s bench to assault her and then fighting with court officials before being subdued. The assailant faces 15 new charges related to his attack of the judge.
What this man did to the judge is what Mandelburg wants to do to women who visit a Planned Parenthood clinic — even though most don’t go to one to have an abortion. Many go for health checkups or to get birth control. Is Mandelburg saying that a person on birth control deserves to get violently beaten? It seems that way.
Sounds like Mandelburg should seek some professional help to deal with her anger issues. And since she seems to be confessing to a felony assault, maybe law enforcement should get involved.
Pop star freakout
Mandelburg, freaked over a pop star for using concert tour proceeds to help with a cause she doesn’t like in a Feb. 29 post:
For a girl that got her period like two years ago, she sure has a lot to say about abortions.
Singer/Songwriter Olivia Rodrigo released a graphic on her Instagram story Tuesday indicating that she partnered up with the National Network of Abortion Funds to contribute financially to moms who travel to abort their children. Ticket sale proceeds from her GUTS World Tour will go towards three different abortion funds who help women kill their babies.
It takes a lot of GUTS to come out and insist that you want to help women kill their kids but then again, that line of thinking is normal for leftists who have no decency or respect for innocent human life.
Actually, Rodrigo was born in 2003 — which means she’s 21, contrary to Mandelburg’s headline claim that she’s a “teen pop star” — so she presumably got her period much longer ago than “like two years ago,” not that Mandelburg has any business knowing or even speculating about it. Indeed, she was too busy screeching further about Rodrigo:
This isn’t the first time Rodrigo has publicly supported abortion and likely, it won’t be the last.
When Roe v. Wade was overturned Rodrigo and another artist Lily Allen sang the song “F**k You” which the two dedicated to the five Supreme Court judges who voted to overturn Roe. “We hate you,” Rodrigo said at the time.
Ultimately, it’s disheartening to see a young lady like Rodrigo believe and project that abortion is something not only to be celebrated but something that somehow “helps” women. This campaign goes directly against what our country was founded on and promotes the rejection of the most basic human right: the right to life.
Given that Mandelburg supports the creation of an Orwellian surveillance state to monitor pregnant woman lest they cross state lines to obtain an abortion, she shouldn’t be surprised that her extremism might face a little criticism.
When Rodrigo gave away emergency contraception at some of her shows, Mandelburg spent a March 15 post being performatively outraged like other right-wing abortion extremists:
She shouldn’t have been allowed to in the first place!
“Driver License” singer/songwriter Olivia Rodrigo will no longer be allowed to pass out Plan B contraceptives at her concerts during her GUTS tour. This move comes after tons of pro-life individuals and groups condemned Rodrigo’s (whether she facilitated it or she simply didn’t stop it from happening) distribution of something that has the potential to abort a child.
An image captured by a fan and shared online showed the goodybag attendees received. Concertgoers were given two boxes of “emergency contraceptives” as well as numerous little cards advocating abortion and asking for donations. One note was a little heart that said “We can help you find abortion care.” They were assembled in part by the National Network of Abortion Funds who put up booths at every stop of Rodrigo’s North American tour.
The image gained more than 12.7 million views on X alone.
Mandelburg then quoted her fellow anti-abortion extremists, including a tweet from March for LIfe claiming that “Plan B is an abortifacient.” In fact, it is not, no matter what anti-abortion activists claim.
After Rodrigo eventually stopped giving out the contraception at concerts — which, of course, Mandelburg credited to outrage from anti-abortion extremists like herself — Mandelburg went on a rage-bender against Rodrigo:
Unfortunately, it seems that pro-aborts are ruthless about getting these drugs to young concert goers. Hurley even admitted that if she can’t pass them out inside the concert venue, she’ll stand on the sidewalk and hand them out to fans as they go in.
If you don’t think this is a blatant and targeted attack to not only brainwash young girls into thinking abortion is normal and casual but also to continue killing babies, your eyes must be shut.
Says an extremist who would desperately love to brainwash people into demonizing and shaming women who have abortions and going to extremes to prevent anyone from having one.
Mandelburg followed up in a June 26 post, by being angry that she … wore a T-shirt a fan gave her “with herself photoshopped to look like Jesus on it,” raging that “Olivia Rodrigo is NOT Jesus and it was sort of sacreligious to do what she did.” We don’t recall Mandelburg complaining that her fellow right-wingers have likened Donald Trump to various biblical figures or even suggest that he is the Messiah.
Cheering fellow extremists
As befits an anti-abortion extremist, Mandelburg worked to whitewash fellow extremists who were arrested for interfering with patients at an abortion clinic. Mandelburg offered this bland summary of the case in a February 2023 post: “Lauren Handy and ten other defendants are on trial for supposedly ‘blocking’ access to an abortion clinic.” (The rest of her post was spent raging at a judge in the trial for those extremists for suggesting there might be a right to abortion in the Constitution: “This judge is simply trying to convince the court and the public that there’s some sort of constitutional loophole that federally protects abortion. There isn’t. End of story.”) In writing about the conviction of five of those activists in August 2023, Mandelburg showed that her “supposedly” equivocation was bogus, admitting they did in fact block access:
In October, 2020, five pro-life activists, Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni and Herb Geraghty participated in the rescue action at the D.C. based abortion facility, Washington Surgi-Clinic (WSC).
On Tuesday, they were found guilty of violating the FACE Act.
The now-named “leader” of the group, Handy, made an appointment at the WSC under a fake name. When the clinic staff opened the door, a slew of pro-life activists emerged through the building’s emergency stairwell where they formed a blockade for roughly three hours, until authorities arrived. Supposedly the incident led to an altercation which left a clinic employee with an ankle injury.
As a result, prosecutors accused, and now charged, many in the group of violating the FACE Act which prohibits the use of physical force, threats of force or intentional damaging of property to prevent someone from obtaining or providing abortions.
According to Handy’s body-cam, Handy told officers she was there to “block the facility to prevent abortions,” but her attorney indicated that Handy had not physically blocked anyone or violated the FACE Act. A Facebook Live video documented the incident and one pro-life activist, Jonathan Darnel, was heard saying, “As long as they’re in there, no woman can go in to kill their children. We shall delay the murder of kids as long as we can in this building,” according to Life News.
Stilll, Mandelburg tried to whitewash Handy, insisting that “Handy was and is merely trying to fight for the lives of innocent kids. There’s not really much more to it.” She then whined that clinic employees werew thte real bad guys for fighting back against the interfering protesters:
Flash forward to now, the courtroom was heavily stacked against the pro-lifers. When the first trial began this month, it became abundantly clear that many of the potential jurors had previously donated to Planned Parenthood and took part in pro-abort marches.
As evidence emerged, Hinshaw’s attorney indicated that though the pro-lifers are on trial and being accused of violence, the only violence that took place was conducted by the clinic staff members, not the pro-lifers. One even wielded a broomstick towards the life affirmers, Life News reported.
Defendants insisted that the pro-lifers were not there to break any laws but rather “fight for the truth and for the lives of innocent children,” as Life News reported. Though the undercover video of Santangelo was submitted into evidence, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected it, calling it “gossip from propagandists” and insisted that it was “heavily edited.”
That was a reference to clinic operator Cesare Santangelo caught saying things on a secretly recorded video done by the anti-abortion extremists at Live Action.
Mandelburg concluded by arguing that anti-abortion extremists should be allowed to break the law with impunity: ‘It’s a shame how favored pro-aborts are in our justice system and this is just another example of how evident that is.”
A Feb. 7 post by Mandelburg focused on another act of extremism by Handy, in which she effectively went dumpster-diving outside that same clinic and claimed to have “discovered the remains of five dead preemie babies as well as the remains of over 100 pulverized remains of first-trimester babies,” whining that “the Department of Justice advised a Washington D.C. medical examiner to dispose of aborted baby bodies in over to hide criminal evidence.” No evidence of criminal activities was presented, and five of those fetuses remained stored in Handy’s refrigerator. Mandelburg spent a March 20 post touting how far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (whose name she misspelled) was helping to exploit the incident.
Whenb Handy received the full consequences of her crime, Mandelburg was there to whine about it in a May 15 post:
Lauren Handy, 30, was sentenced to 57 months in prison as well as three years probation on Tuesday for trying to save babies from abortion at an abortion facility back in 2020. The court however, deemed that Handy violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act).
On October 22, 2020, Handy, along with a number of other pro-life activists, was arrested for allegedly blocking access to the Washington Surgi abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors insist that Handy instructed other pro-lifers at the scene to link themselves together with locks and chains while they sang hymns and prayed for the moms and babies who were set up for abortions.
Mandelburg isn’t gelling the full story. We have to go to a real news organization for that, just as we did when WorldNetDaily whitewashed Handy’s offenses:
“Americans have been protesting in favor of and against abortion access for the better part of a century, and there may be nothing more American than these protests” over conflicting views of fundamental rights, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in handing down the penalty.
“But the law does not protect violence or obstructive conduct — nor should it,” Kollar-Kotelly continued. “That’s what you’re being punished for, not your views on abortion nor your very-American commitment to peaceful protest.”[…]
Handy and co-conspirators live-streamed a preplanned “lock-and-block” blockade that used force and physical obstructions to shut down the D.C. clinic on Oct. 22, 2020, Kollar-Kotelly said in summarizing trial evidence. Prosecutors said Handy was the leader of the group that orchestrated the blockade and recruited participants, arranged lodging and used a fake name to book an appointment. A nurse was injured and patients were traumatized in the incursion, including two women who begged to enter for treatment and one who suffered a medical emergency, the judge said.
“It was not peaceful, and it was not contemplated to be peaceful,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sanjay Patel argued in a 90-minute sentencing hearing. The government sought a sentence at the high end of a 63- to 78-month range recommended by federal guidelines — up to 6½ years — based on Handy’s leadership role, obstructive conduct, the violence and victims in the case.[…]
The judge concluded that while Handy and her co-conspirators were entitled to have “very strong views about abortion,” she found it disheartening that they “showed no compassion or empathy to women patients who were human beings in pain and seeking medical care.”
Rather than tell the truth, Mandelburg complained that others told the truth:
The leftist media are describing Handy as some sort of villain and insist the 57 month jail sentenced isn’t sufficient.
Daily Beast called Handy a “zealot” who “harassed and directly denied health care access to at least two women who were seeking medical care” (medical “care” being abortions).
Similarly The Associated Press called Handy an “anti-abortion activist who led a clinic blockade.”
Mandelburg didn’t dispute the accuracy of those descriptions, or why accurately describing what Handy did makes those media outlets “leftist.”
When a fellow extremist was sentenced for taking part in the same blockade operation, Mandelburg groused in a June 3 post:
Paulette Harlow, 75, was arrested back in 2020 after praying outside of a Washington D.C. abortion clinic. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Harlow on May 31, deciding that she deserves to sit in jail for two full years.
[…]
Harlow was arrested along with eight other pro-lifers outside of the clinic and was convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The FACE Act prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.”
Apparently praying and singing hymns is “violent” and “threatening.”
Mandelburg offered no evidence that “praying and singing hymns” was the only thing Harlow did. In fact, as prosecutors pointed out, Harlow as an active participant in “an elaborate conspiracy by 10 people to intentionally and forcibly block patients and workers from accessing a reproductive health clinic while streaming it live online.” Mandelburg made no mention of the nurse who was injured in the protest and the patients who suffered medical emergencies; apparently, in the view of Mandelburg and the other extremists, they were just collateral damage and deserved what they got.
Mandelburg left the MRC in early July to be a “digital media coordinator” for March for Life, where she’ll get more opportunities to indulge in her anti-abortion extremism.