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SHOCKING REPORT SHOWS WOMEN HAVING MULTIPLE ABORTIONS, SOME KILLING 10 OR MORE BABIES. Minnesota released its statistics on abortion for 2021, noting a small decrease in the number of abortions since 2020, but also demonstrating that some women have had as many as 10 abortions. Read more here.
OHIO JUDGE LETS NON-PHYSICIANS DISTRIBUTE DANGEROUS ABORTION DRUGS THAT COULD KILL WOMEN. An Ohio judge has issued a temporary restraining order allowing non-physicians to distribute abortion-inducing drugs via telemedicine, a decision pro-life advocates warn could endanger women’s lives by bypassing critical medical oversight. Read more here.
STUDENTS CALL FOR AN END TO PRO-ABORTION JUDICIAL ACTIVISM. Chanting the words, ‘‘We are the pro-life generation,’’ college students and young activists waved their bold pink ‘‘Defund Planned Parenthood’’ signs in front of the Supreme Court. Read more here.
ABORTION BUSINESS TAKES HEAT FOR MARKETING ITS ‘SERVICES’ USING AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS. Lovering Health Center, a New Hampshire abortion business, used American Girl Dolls in a recent Facebook post promoting abortion, cross-sex hormones and birth control. Read more here.
CANADA PLANS TO KILL 15 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS. Kelsi Sheren, host of The Kelsi Sheren Perspective and an outspoken opponent of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying policies, shared how Canada’s government-controlled healthcare system plans to euthanize an estimated 15 million Canadians between 2027 and 2047, a staggering figure justified under the pretext of cost savings. Read more here.
GERMAN ‘YOUTH PROTECTION’ SERVICE OFFERS DRAG DANCE CLASS FOR CHILDREN. Taxpayer money is being funneled through the health ministry in Baden-Württemberg—a state in southwest Germany—to a drag workshop for children under the guise of “child and youth protection.” Read more here.
CUBA GREENLIGHTS GENDER CHANGE BASED ON PERSONAL REQUEST. The Cuban Parliament gave the green light to the Civil Registry Law, a comprehensive regulation that permits individuals to change their gender identity upon personal request. Read more here.
STUDY: SOCIETAL STRESS IS DRIVING TRANS AND NON-BINARY YOUTH TO DRINK. A recent study by researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University claims “societal stress” leads “gender-diverse” — trans and non-binary individuals — to drink more alcohol and engage in more hazardous drinking than those who conform to basic biology. Read more here.
LOUDOUN COUNTY TEACHERS DON’T HAVE TO USE TRANS PRONOUNS, COURT RULES. A court ruled the Loudoun County school board can no longer force staff to use students’ preferred pronouns after teachers sued over the Northern Virginia school district’s transgender policy. Read more here.
BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITY WORKERS FACING UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR ‘SOCIAL RACISM’ AFTER MISGENDERING TRANSGENDER STUDENT. A female janitor and a university administrator in Brazil are facing up to five years in prison for alleged “social racism” after trans-identified male student Odara Moraes reported them to police for “transphobia” because he was asked to use the men’s restroom. Read more here.
PARENTS ASK SUPREME COURT TO PROTECT DAUGHTER FROM SECRET ‘SOCIAL TRANSITION’ AT PUBLIC SCHOOL. A Massachusetts family is challenging Ludlow School Committee officials for enacting a gender-identity policy that excludes parents from any knowledge or involvement in key decisions regarding their children’s care, blatantly violating parents’ fundamental right to direct their kids’ upbringing, health care, and education. Read more here.
SANITY RETURNS: CHILDREN’S NATIONAL HOSPITAL IN D.C. NO LONGER PRESCRIBING TRANSGENDER MEDICATIONS. Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., will soon end the prescribing of medications to assist children in “transitioning” to the opposite sex, the hospital announced on its website. Read more here.
TEXAS SUES U.S. MASTERS SWIMMING FOR ALLOWING MEN IN WOMEN’S EVENTS. Texas is suing U.S. Masters Swimming for allowing gender-confused men to compete against women, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims the organization misled female competitors and undermined the integrity of women’s sports. Read more here.
POPE REAFFIRMS STANCE AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, confirmed that the current policy on same-sex blessings will continue, stating, “the declaration will remain.” The move, approved under Pope Francis, permits blessings for same-sex couples but emphasizes that these blessings should not be equated with marriage. Read more here.
TRUMP ENDS TAXPAYER FUNDING OF LGBT ‘HOTLINE’ FOR GENDER-CONFUSED CHILDREN. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has shut down its LGBT extension of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline as part of President Trump’s defunding of radical LGBT programs. Read more here.
LGBTQ BOOKS DIRECTED AT CHILDREN BANNED FROM PENTAGON SCHOOLS. A U.S. district court released a comprehensive list of 596 books banned from use in Pentagon-run schools, which includes a slew of highly sexual LGBTQ+ topics directed at children. Read more here.
MAINE FAMILY PLANNING JOINS PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO BLOCK BILL DEFUNDING OF THE ABORTION INDUSTRY IN NEW LAWSUIT. Maine Family Planning filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to force the government to keep sending it Medicaid funds – even though Congress lawfully changed the eligibility rules. Read more here.
CHICAGO CLINICS ARE PROVING HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO GIVE ABORTION CLINICS A FREE PASS: THREE WOMEN INJURED IN JUST ONE MONTH. Three separate medical emergencies – two of them at Planned Parenthood clinics — were reported in January 2025 following botched abortion procedures at three different clinics in Chicago. Each incident involved women experiencing serious complications and required emergency medical intervention. Read more here.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT FIRED FOR CATHOLIC BELIEFS ALLOWED TO SUE UNION FOR DISCRIMINATION. A federal judge has ruled that a Catholic flight attendant fired by United Airlines may proceed with a lawsuit against his labor union, after alleging it failed to defend him for expressing church teachings on marriage and sexuality. Read more here.
SEX EDUCATION IN ENGLAND TO INCLUDE WARNINGS ABOUT CHOKING—WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW. Choking is becoming a more normalized part of sex for young people, and to keep them safe, new government guidance for England will teach pupils at secondary schools about the risks of choking and suffocation in sex and relationships education. Read more here.
GOP LAWMAKERS AIM TO REPEAL NEA’S CONGRESSIONAL CHARTER. Republican members of the U.S. Congress are working to strip the National Education Association of its congressional “stamp of approval”, alleging its true mission is to indoctrinate children with “toxic propaganda.” Read more here.
BIDEN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SOUGHT ‘FEDERAL HOOK’ TO GO AFTER PARENTS AS ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISTS’: DOCUMENTS, by Breccan F. Thies. “The Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden actively sought a ‘federal hook’ to justify sending federal law enforcement after parents it labeled ‘domestic terrorists’ because they were concerned about their children’s education. Documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) show that prior to the infamous Oct. 4, 2021, ‘domestic terrorist’ memo from former Attorney General Merrick Garland, staff were looking for any possible way to go after parents concerned with coronavirus mandates, critical race theory, and ‘transgender’ policies.” Read more here.
THREATENED AT BOSTON MARATHON: NEW MOM TAKES STAND FOR WOMEN’S SPORTS, COMMON SENSE, by Virginia Allen and Elise McCue. “Running in the Boston Marathon was a longtime dream for Natalie Daniels, and doing it six months’ postpartum, she says, felt like a way to celebrate the beauty and power of the female body. That’s why Daniels says she was troubled to learn that the Boston Marathon was now allowing men who identify as women to compete in the women’s category.” Read more here.
GENDER REVERSAL, by Bernard Lane. “French health authorities have abandoned draft treatment advice that would have treated 16- and 17-year-olds as if they were adults and enabled their fast-track gender medicalisation under the banner of ‘depathologisation’. On July 18, the French National Authority for Health (La Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS) issued a charter for the unquestioning medical transition of adults throughout primary care, but chose not to issue advice for the teenage group, citing a lack of data and consensus on the care of gender-distressed minors.” Read more here.
(TOWARD) THREE CHEERS FOR THE SUPREME COURT, by Adeline A. Allen. “Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton is one good case among many from this Supreme Court’s term. At stake was a Texas law, H. B. 1181, requiring porn sites to verify the ages of their users to protect children from pornography. The Court noted that at least twenty-one other states had similar laws, and for good reason; pornography is diabolically destructive, for children even more so. The Court upheld the Texas law, which is very good news for all.” Read more here.
UN REPORT CALLS FOR BAN ON SEX CHANGES FOR CHILDREN, DECLARES TRANSGENDERISM A THREAT TO WOMEN, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A United Nations draft report by the special rapporteur on violence against women affirmed what many critics have long warned: that there is a ‘concerted international push (to) erase’ women and girls, and that gender dysphoria is ‘socially contagious.’ The report, titled ‘Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues: Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls,’ was compiled by Reem Alsalem of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and warns that transgender ideology has become a threat to women.” Read more here.
GOING UNDERCOVER: QUEERING ACADEMIA, by James Esses. “As was featured in the Telegraph over the weekend, I recently sent someone undercover to attend the third ‘Queering Academia’ Conference held at the University of Westminster, as part of their ‘Westminster Conversations’ series. My ‘spy’ covertly recorded the entire event, and I’m very pleased they did because it uncovered the extent to which queer ideology has infiltrated academia, as well as politics.” Read more here.
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