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STUDY SHOWS TEENS WHO HAD ABORTIONS 40% MORE LIKELY TO DIE PREMATURELY THAN TEENS WHO NEVER GOT PREGNANT. A study published in JAMA Network Open using data from Ontario’s health registry from over two million Canadian females found that Canadian teenagers who became pregnant were more likely to die before reaching their 31st birthday. Read more here.
WISCONSIN ATTORNEY GENERAL THREATENS LAWSUIT TO PROMOTE ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH. Attorney General Josh Kaul has stated he will seek a broader state ruling on “women’s right to choose” if the state’s Supreme Court agrees to hear a highly anticipated case. Read more here.
BELGIUM EUTHANASIA DEATHS REACH RECORD HIGH IN 2024. Belgium is well-known for its liberal laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia, and its latest report indicates that euthanasia increased 15 percent from 2022 to 2023 in the country, reaching a record high. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL FROM PARENTS WHO LOST CUSTODY OF TRANS TEEN. The Supreme Court declined to decide whether an Indiana couple who believe children should be raised based on their sex at birth should have lost custody of their teenager, a transgender girl. Read more here.
WYOMING VOTES TO BAN MUTILATING TRANSGENDER SURGERIES, DRUGS FOR CHILDREN. The Wyoming state House and Senate approved legislation to prohibit transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. Read more here.
COLORADO COULD BECOME THE FIRST STATE TO BUILD SEPARATE PRISON UNITS FOR TRANSGENDER FELONS. After a class action lawsuit was filed by several transgender inmates in 2019 against the Colorado Department of Corrections alleging discrimination, harassment and assault, a judge is scheduled to rule on a consent decree that would bring further changes – including surgical “sex changes” and hormone treatment to the state’s penitentiary. Read more here.
MISSOURI DEMS READ TRANS BOOK TO CHILDREN FOR ‘NATIONAL READING DAY.’ REPUBLICANS RESPOND WITH MATT WALSH’S ‘JOHNNY THE WALRUS.’ Members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus read Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s children’s book “Johnny the Walrus” after state Democratic officials read a book that promoted transgenderism to children for “National Reading Day.” Read more here.
SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR LAWSUIT AGAINST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY OVER DRAG SHOW BAN. The case pits West Texas A&M students’ rights to freedom of expression against the university president’s claims of protecting dignity and disallowing drag shows, which he believes make a mockery of women. Read more here.
MARRIAGES RISE IN CHINA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NINE YEARS. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said there were 845,000 more marriages than in 2022. A record 13.47 million tied the knot in 2013. It comes as the government campaigns to promote marriage in its latest bid to target record-low birth rates. Read more here.
FLORIDA TEACHERS CAN INFORMALLY DISCUSS LGBT ISSUES IN SCHOOL UNDER NEW SETTLEMENT. The settlement comes after a legal battle regarding Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which passed in 2022 and prohibits teachers from discussing such issues through formal instruction for kindergarten through third-grade classes. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTED 374,000 BABIES LAST YEAR, KAMALA HARRIS WANTS MORE. Planned Parenthood is doing fewer and fewer cancer screenings and prenatal services, but it aborted 374,000 babies in the last reported year while collecting government funding. Read more here.
FIRED BIOLOGY PROFESSOR FIGHTS BACK AND WINS. Dr. Johnson Varkey and his attorneys at First Liberty Institute announced he has won his adjunct professorial job back at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas after being fired in 2023 “for teaching standard principles about human biology and reproduction.” Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION OBGYNS CRITICIZE FETAL DEVELOPMENT VIDEO FOR SEX ED CLASSES: ‘LAST THING KIDS NEED TO BE WATCHING.’ Pro-choice OBGYNs blasted the fetal development video, “Baby Olivia,” being considered for sex education curriculum in some states, with one doctor arguing the film was the “last thing kids need to be watching.” Read more here.
‘TOTALITARIAN’ BILL WOULD ESTABLISH MAINE AS SANCTUARY STATE FOR ABORTIONS, TRANS SURGERIES. A Democrat-led bill seeks to establish a legal right to abortions, transgender surgeries and hormonal treatments in Maine, and protect those traveling from outside of the state to get such procedures there. Read more here.
FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT UPHOLDS TEXAS AGE-VERIFICATION LAW RESTRICTING PORN SITE ACCESS. The Fifth Circuit Court of appeals has ruled 2-1 in favor of a Texas law requiring pornography websites to use age verification on their websites and mandates that websites “use reasonable age verification methods” in order to “verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older.” Read more here.
UNPACKING THE GEN Z LGBTQ NUMBERS, by Katrina Trinko. “Almost 30% of Generation Z women identify as LGBTQ, according to a new Gallup survey. Could that possibly be true? Well, the Gallup survey, which also found that 22% of Gen Z overall identifies as LGBTQ, is no outlier. …What is driving this huge surge? One possibility is societal acceptance. Same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide by the Supreme Court in 2015, the same year former Olympian and reality TV star Bruce Jenner announced that he now identified as a woman and wanted to be known as Caitlyn.” Read more here.
‘I FEEL LIKE I KILLED A CHILD, AND IT WAS ME.’ I WAS VICTIMIZED BY GENDER TRANSITION, by Prisha Mosley. “I was born female and grew up in North Carolina. I discovered the transgender community online as a teenager and was persuaded to socially transition. I was only 17 when doctors started injecting me with testosterone. In retrospect, I was the perfect victim. I was young, impressionable, isolated and suffering from severe mental health issues, including anorexia, self-harm and attempts to end my life. Doctors told me transitioning was the cure for my emotional pain.” Read more here.
NEW POLL CLAIMING AMERICANS ARE PRO-ABORTION IS VERY BIASED, by Steven Ertelt. “Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a new survey on sanctity-of-life issues. They polled over 1,300 adults in late February through both phone surveys and online surveys. The results purportedly show strong support for legal abortion in certain circumstances. The results show that those voters who are prioritizing abortion in 2024 are disproportionately supportive of legal abortion. …That is because the wording of some questions is skewed to elicit responses in favor of legal abortion.” Read more here.
THE TRANS AGENDA IS CRUMBLING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ITS OWN LIES, by Libby Emmons. “The UK banned puberty blocking drugs for minors seeking sex changes. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has been exposed as fetishistic frauds and liars. Detransitioners are suing their doctors, hospitals and mental health providers for peddling the lie that they can change sex. States are banning sex change drugs and surgeries for minors. Trans celebs like Dylan Mulvaney and diversity hires like Rachel Levine who make their living off of perpetrating trans are being exposed for the grifters that they are. The lies are being laid bare.” Read more here.
UNICEF IGNORES PARENTAL CONSENT IN MUTILATING SURGERY FOR KIDS, by Stefano Gennarini. “UNICEF has ‘no position’ on whether or not parents should consent or even know if their children are provided ‘gender-affirming’ care and powerful hormonal drugs like puberty blockers and contraception. Lauren Rumble, Associate Director of the UNICEF Gender Equality Programme Group, said this speaking to the Friday Fax after an event co-hosted by UNICEF with the United Kingdom titled ‘What Adolescent Girls Want.’” Read more here.
FDA LIED TO WOMEN. NOW ABORTION PILLS ARE KILLING AND INJURING THEM, by Erin Hawley. “It’s always interesting when something that shouldn’t be all that interesting suddenly becomes extremely interesting to people who are not easily interested. Recently, the academic publisher Sage retracted three studies from one of its journals. Ordinarily, retractions like these would not be newsworthy outside of the scholastic community, but in this case, some media outlets jumped at the chance to cover them. Why? Because the studies were about abortion drugs — in fact, the exact drugs the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing a case about on March 26. The media will be happy to tell you all about the retractions, but they may not tell you one crucial fact: None of these studies will be at issue as the Supreme Court considers the case.” Read more here.
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