HE NOW HAS THE ARCHBISHOP

By Tim Rohr

Catholics (and non-Catholics) have worked long and hard to reduce, if not rid, the scourge of abortion in Guam, a scourge that kills more CHamoru's than all the other ethnicities in Guam combined.

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Thanks to their efforts, the last abortion clinic closed its doors in 2018. But as fate would have it, that was the same year "Lou and Josh" burst onto the scene as the next gubernatorial team. I say "as fate would have it," because Lou, and quite proudly so, had been a virulent, if not also famous, advocate for abortion for decades. 

Despite her clear anti-life-in-the-womb record, including her testimony in 2013 against a bill that would mandate normal medical care for babies who survive abortions, Guam voters, the majority of whom are Catholic, elected her over two other clear pro-life candidates (Frank Aguon, Jr., and Dennis Rodriguez). 

True to her promise, Lou immediately initiated efforts to bring abortionists to Guam via the Bureau of Women's Affairs. When there were no takers, Lou and Jane (at the Bureau) shifted gears and began working to bring abortion back to Guam via so-called "telemedicine." 

FOIA requests exposed a string of emails between Lou's government (Jane) and two doctors in Hawaii who agreed to get licensed in Guam for the sole purpose of providing remote medical abortions. The problem was that Guam's informed consent law required an in-person consultation and completion of a checklist certification before an abortion could be performed, or in the case of medical abortions, procured. 

The two Hawaii doctors, with the help of the ACLU, sued Guam and the lawsuit worked its way up to the 9th Circuit before a decision was made that upheld Guam's law. Of course, this cost the Guam taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars. What's so amazing about this is that it was the "Lou and Josh" administration, in their strange lust to keep aborting CHarmou babies, that brought the lawsuit. In fact, once you connect the dots, it's not hard to see that Lou and Josh, through the Bureau of Women's Affairs, quite probably invited the ACLU to sue us for the purposes of getting Guam's informed consent for abortion law thrown out. 

Meanwhile, the court loss was really no stumbling block for Lou and Josh's abortion agenda. Medical abortions via "telemedicine" could continue with the stipulation that the woman seeking an abortion met with an authorized person prior to the abortion and filled out a checklist. 

Not long after this, Josh would have an opportunity to be his own abortion champion. In 2023, one of the abortion drugs used in Guam abortions, Mifepristone, the drug which functionally kills the child (another drug expels it), came under judicial fire as being unsafe. After the matter went to the U.S. Supreme Court, Josh, along with 18 other lieutenant governors, signed a statement defending the drug. 

Given that the matter was before the U.S. Supreme Court at the time, this national-level action by Josh Tenorio to defend abortion and ensure that abortions would continue in Guam is an even more significant statement about Tenorio's support for killing babies in the womb than is his outgoing boss's decades of abortion advocacy. 

But no worries. Earlier I mentioned that despite Guam being a majority Catholic population, Guam voters elected Guam's most famous and virulent abortion advocate over two clearly pro-life candidates. And not only that, Guam voters, Catholic voters, re-elected her. Clearly Guam is a majority pro-abortion electorate, even if abortion, according to the reports, is decimating its native population. 

And I say "no worries," because not only does Josh have the majority of Catholics on board his pro-abortion platform, he now has Archbishop Jimenez as well.