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PRO-LIFE ACADEMICS CHALLENGE RETRACTION OF STUDIES EXPOSING RISKS OF ABORTION. Ten academics are challenging Sage Publications’ Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology journal’s decision to retract peer-reviewed papers that studied the risks of abortion, with an arbitration demand against Sage Publications after it retracted three of their papers. Read more here.
POLICE SCOTLAND DROPS 12,000 INVESTIGATIONS TO EASE WORKLOAD DESPITE ARRESTING GRANDMOTHER FOR ALLEGEDLY BREACHING BUFFER ZONE. Police Scotland has scrubbed over 12,000 criminal investigations because they required excessive manpower, a report has revealed, despite several police officers arresting an elderly grandmother who allegedly breached a buffer zone in Glasgow in February. Read more here.
IDAHO GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL SAFEGUARDING CONSCIENCE RIGHTS FOR PRO-LIFE DOCTORS. Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 59 into law on Wednesday — a measure that will protect healthcare professionals from being compelled to perform non-emergency procedures like abortions that conflict with their religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. Read more here.
‘THIS SOUNDS DANGEROUS TO ME’: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HANDS OUT ABORTION DRUGS. University of Washington students can easily obtain dangerous drugs to abort their babies because the university has few, if any, safeguards in place to protect the women from the dangers of the drugs. Read more here.
DELAWARE HALTS ENFORCEMENT OF LAW TARGETING PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. Officials in the state of Delaware have agreed to temporarily halt enforcement of a law that would require pro-life pregnancy centers to display notices that their facilities do not have licensed medical professionals on staff — even when they have licensed nurses on staff. Read more here.
PENTAGON TO APPEAL JUDGE’S DECISION BLOCKING TRANSGENDER BAN, HEGSETH SAYS. The Pentagon will appeal a federal judge’s decision to block the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. Read more here.
MAINE UNIVERSITIES CAVE TO TRUMP DEMAND TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the University of Maine System has agreed to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep biological males out of women’s sports. Read more here.
NEW REPORT FINDS CANADA’S MAINSTREAM MEDIA PLAYS DIRECT ROLE IN PROMOTING ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS.’ A new report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute accuses Canada’s mainstream media of promoting gender “transitions” and ignoring medical evidence of their harmful effects on adolescents. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN ‘NOT GOING TO TOLERATE’ ILLINOIS SCHOOL FORCING GIRLS TO CHANGE CLOTHES ALONGSIDE TRANS CLASSMATE. As an Illinois mother seeks justice against the school district that forced her daughter to change in front a boy, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration won’t tolerate males invading private female-only spaces. Read more here.
EX-NCAA RUNNER MINNA SVÄRD WANTS ‘STOLEN’ TITLE WON BY TRANS ATHLETE CECE TELFER. Former collegiate runner Minna Svärd is demanding her “stolen” championship be returned years after placing second to a biological male in the 2019 NCAA Division II Women’s 400-meter hurdles. Read more here.
THESE ARE THE HOSPITALS STILL GIVING CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES’ DESPITE TRUMP BAN: REPORT. More than 35 hospitals have been performing child “sex change” surgeries and/or treatments despite the Executive Order enacted by President Donald Trump in January, which threatens to revoke federal funding for hospitals that provide “sex change” treatments for individuals under the age of 19. Read more here.
AMERICANS FED UP WITH TRANSGENDERISM, POLL SHOWS. Two out of three Americans support banning men from invading women’s sports, and 56 percent of those surveyed do not favor agenda-fixated doctors mutilating children, according to Pew research. Read more here.
MALE RUNNER WINS GOLD IN GIRLS VARSITY 400M AT TRACK MEET IN PORTLAND. Aayden “Ada” Gallagher, a junior at McDaniel High School, dominated female competitors at the Portland Interscholastic League meet, finishing first in both the girls’ 400-meter and 200-meter races. Read more here.
SOME SAN DIEGO PARENTS BALK AS TAMPON MACHINES INSTALLED IN 3RD-5TH GRADE BOYS’ BATHROOMS. Some parents are voicing frustration as school districts in North San Diego County install tampon machines in elementary school boys’ bathrooms to comply with state law. Read more here.
HOUSE BILL 798 COULD AMEND MONTANA CONSTITUTION FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS. House Bill 798 would amend the state’s constitution to provide a state right to same-sex marriage by attempting to repeal Article 13 Section 7, which currently states that only a marriage between one man and one woman is recognized in Montana. Read more here.
DISNEY INVESTORS VOTE TO REMAIN IN LGBTQ RANKING INDEX. Disney shareholders rejected an investor proposal to withdraw participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equity index, which rates workplaces on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEES ‘DISTURBED’ AND ‘EMOTIONALLY DRAINED’ BY WHAT THEY WITNESSED. Live Action News recently documented dozens of online reviews, allegedly posted by current and former Planned Parenthood employees, criticizing the abortion chain for its substandard care, exploitative treatment of employees and toxic culture. Read more here.
REPORT REVEALS PLANNED PARENTHOOD CEOS ‘STAGGERING’ SALARIES. The American Life League revealed that Planned Parenthood CEOs have seen their incomes significantly increase in the last few years. Read more here.
WISCONSIN SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYS SETTLEMENT TO TEACHER FIRED FOR REFUSING TO USE ‘PREFERRED PRONOUNS.’ The Argyle School District did not renew Christian teacher Jordan Cernek’s contract, refusing to give him a religious accommodation, after he continued to call students by their names and not their transgender pronouns. Read more here.
CHURCH CAN’T SUE WASHINGTON OVER ABORTION COVERAGE: 9TH CIRCUIT. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against a lawsuit brought by Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland, Wash., against former Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington Insurance Commissioner Myron Kreidler over Washington’s Reproductive Parity Act. Read more here.
PERUVIAN BISHOP DENOUNCES ‘DIRECT ATTACK’ ON CHURCH’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The bishop of Cajamarca, Peru, has denounced a “direct attack” on the Catholic Church’s freedom of speech by the LGBTQ+ community, which accuses the Church of the “alleged crime of discrimination” for a talk warning of the consequences of “Comprehensive Sexual Education” in Peru. Read more here.
ADOPTIONS HAVE INCREASED 3 PERCENT, MORE CHILDREN WILL BE ADOPTED THANKS TO ABORTION BANS. A new study has revealed that domestic adoptions of American children increased by over 3 percent in the U.S. between 2019 and 2022, which may be due in part to increased restrictions on international adoptions put in place by countries like China and Ukraine. Read more here.
VALLEY GIRL FEDERAL JUDGE CITES BROADWAY PLAY, RIPS UP CONSTITUTION IN TRANS SOLDIERS SCREED, by Joy Pullmann. “On March 18, another D.C. Circuit judge seized executive branch powers, enjoining the commander-in-chief from disqualifying military recruits with gender dysphoria. District Court Judge Ana Reyes, who identifies as some variety of LGBT, is a longtime Democrat Party donor and, as a lawyer, litigated against the first Trump administration. We knew she’d rule this way, not only because of her bio, but also because in oral arguments she insisted forcing soldiers to lie about reality couldn’t possibly affect military readiness.” Read more here.
ABORTION DECRIMINALISATION WILL ENABLE ABUSIVE MEN TO KILL MORE UNBORN BABIES, by Alithea Williams. “Last week, Labour MPs threatened to use the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill to achieve the cherished goal of the pro-abortion lobby – full decriminalisation of abortion. If we weren’t so used to this almost monomaniacal desire to push ‘abortion rights’ as far as they can go, we might find the timing of this surprising. After all, there is a lot going on politically already – the Government are having to stave off a rebellion on cuts to welfare spending, all while trying to keep the peace between warring factions abroad.” Read more here.
WHAT DOES MARK CARNEY THINK ABOUT GENDER IDEOLOGY?, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It has been several days since Juno News broke the story that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s eldest daughter is a trans activist, and no mainstream Canadian outlets have covered the revelations or followed up. The Daily Mail is the only publication to have mentioned that the prime minister’s daughter identifies as non-binary in a story titled ‘Who is Mark Carney? Everything we know about Canada’s next Prime Minister and his family.’ It is understandable that most journalists want to avoid the story.” Read more here.
TRANS VIOLENCE IS A REAL THING, AND IT IS OUT OF CONTROL, by David Strom. “People who are genuinely gender dysphoric and not just enjoying erotic Autogynephilia (getting sexually aroused by imagining themselves to be a female and playing out that fantasy) suffer from a potentially debilitating mental illness, and they do need treatment. Not medical treatment in most cases, but serious psychiatric or psychological care. As with depression or anxiety, ‘just get over it’ is not helpful advice. But there is a new class of violent trans activism, and it is waaaayyyyy out of control. Mass murders, sexual assaults, vandalism, and threats of or actual use of violence have become quite common, and are far outside the normal parameters of violent behavior in other population cohorts.” Read more here.
U.S. REFUSES TO JOIN DECLARATION AT UN COMMISSION ON WOMEN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Feminists likely paid by Western governments booed when U.S. and Argentinian diplomats defended women’s rights and opposed gender ideology at the end of the annual UN conference on women’s issues today. They cheered for an EU statement in favor [of] gender ideology instead. The boos erupted after a U.S. diplomat said it was ‘impossible’ for the U.S. to support a political declaration adopted by the UN Commission on the Status of Women because it contained “gender” terminology.” Read more here.
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