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183,720 BABIES WERE ABORTED LAST YEAR IN CALIFORNIA. The Guttmacher Institute estimated that 183,720 abortions were performed
in California in 2024, of which 180,220 were performed on California residents and 2,750 on non-residents. Read more
here.
ABORTIONIST'S LICENSE IS SUSPENDED AND NOW HE CAN'T ABORT BABIES. Florida abortionist Kirk Brody has reportedly failed to show up and perform abortions at All Women's Health Center locations, and in 2024 the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners ordered
an immediate suspension of Brody's license after reviewing evidence of unprofessional conduct, gross negligence, incompetence and other violations related to five female patients. Read more
here.
PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENTS URGED TO OPPOSE RADICAL PRO-ABORTION BILLS. A set of extreme abortion bills in Pennsylvania could make
the Keystone State one of the most radical pro-abortion states in the country if legislators carry them through both chambers. Read more
here.
TEACHER SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT SUSPENDED HER FOR EXPOSING SECRET ABORTIONS. Zenaida Perez, a dedicated teacher at Centreville
High School, has filed a lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools after the district suspended her for courageously exposing a school social worker's secret facilitation of abortions on teen girls and their babies without parental consent. Read more
here.
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REPORT: HOSPITALS USE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS TO COAX CHILDREN INTO GENDER 'TRANSITION.' Major medical companies are using
state law and medical records software to advance gender ideology among children and keep their parents in the dark about their so-called "transitions." Read more
here.
HEALTH MINISTER REINSTATES BAN ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS HOURS AFTER SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED FREEZE. Queensland Health Minister
Tim Nicholls has issued a new directive to ban public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to adolescents with gender dysphoria. It came just six hours after a judge ruled the previous freeze was unlawful. Read more
here.
JAPAN'S GENDER IDENTITY LAW REFORM STALLS DESPITE COURT RULINGS. A series of court rulings in Japan has found key legal provisions
on gender dysphoria unconstitutional, but the decisions have brought little relief to those seeking to change their gender identity, largely due to conservative opposition in parliament. Read more
here.
CONSERVATIVES, RELIGIOUS LEADERS PUSH BACK AGAINST GENDER IDENTITY BILL IN ALBANIA. Religious and conservative leaders in
Albania are sounding the alarm over a proposed "gender equality" law that they say will undermine the foundations of human nature, the family and society. Read more
here.
TRANS TEEN PLEADS GUILTY TO PLANNING MASSACRE AT INDIANA SCHOOL. Trinity "Jamie" Shockley, 18, will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, according to the Morgan County Prosecutor's Office in Indiana. Read more
here.
DRAG QUEEN READS TO KIDS-DESPITE CHILD PORN CONVICTION. Mario Olszinski (aka "Jurassica Parka"), a drag performer convicted of child pornography offences in 2023, appeared at the "Drag Reading Hour," part of the Queens & Flowers Festival, backed with
€40,000 in public funds. Read more
here.
MAJORITY OF IDAHO SCHOOLS IGNORING LAW THAT BANS GENDER IDEOLOGY. Using public records requests, Idaho Family Policy Center
contacted every public school district in the state regarding the July 1 deadline to ban sexual orientation and gender identity in classroom instruction and learned that only about 38 percent of public schools are complying with the law. Read more
here.
BOY SUES TO KEEP GIRLS TRACK TITLES; LAWSUIT REACHES SUPREME COURT. A biological boy named "Becky" Pepper-Jackson won the
girls shotput title in Harris County, West Virginia earlier this year, and now he's leading a case,
West Virginia v. B.P.J., at the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn all bans on men in women's sports. Read more
here.
MUSIC FESTIVAL IN TURKEY DROPS SINGER RÓISÍN MURPHY FOR CHEERING DECLINE IN TRANS-IDENTIFYING CHILDREN. Irish singer Róisín
Murphy was dumped as headliner of a music festival in Islamist Istanbul, Turkey, after she celebrated the fact that fewer children are now identifying as transgender. Read more
here.
OLYMPIC ATHLETE SUES USA FENCING OVER ALLEGED TRANS ATHLETE INCIDENT. U.S. Olympic fencer Margherita Guzzi Vincenti, alongside
fellow competitive women's fencers Emma Griffin and Patricia Hughes, has filed a class-action lawsuit against USA Fencing over an alleged incident at the January 2025 North American Cup in Kansas City, Missouri, alleging USA Fencing knowingly permitted biological
males to compete in women's divisions while advertising events as female-only. Read more
here.
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TEXAS SUPREME COURT RULES JUDGES CAN REFUSE TO MARRY SAME-SEX COUPLES. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that state judges
may decline to perform weddings, including same-sex marriages, based on religious belief. Read more
here.
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KAZAKHSTAN LAWMAKERS GIVE PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO BAN ON LGBT 'PROPAGANDA.' Kazakhstan moved a step closer to banning the
spreading of what it calls LGBT "propaganda" online or in the media, with repeat offenders facing up to 10 days in prison. Read more
here.
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SEVEN STATES ARE BAILING OUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD WITH TAX DOLLARS. Seven Democrat states have pledged tens of millions of dollars
in taxpayer funds to prop up Planned Parenthood amid federal defunding, and the move is drawing sharp condemnation from pro-life advocates who say the states are propping up the nation's biggest abortion company. Read more
here.
DOCUMENTARIAN ARRESTED FOR FILMING OUTSIDE PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Dan Brown Jr., an independent filmmaker, was taping a documentary
outside of a Planned Parenthood in California when police handcuffed him, confiscated his equipment and forced him to sit in the back of a police car for almost an hour - an incident his attorney argued violated his rights. Read more
here.
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TEXAS VOTERS TO DECIDE ON PARENTAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT IN NOVEMBER. Texas voters will head to the polls next week to consider
Proposition 15, the Parental Rights Amendment, a constitutional amendment aimed at enshrining parents' rights in the state constitution. Read more
here.
STUDY: FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS COULD BOOST BIRTH RATES. The abstract of a study by Stanford University's Nicholas Bloom claimed that respondents who worked from home at least one day per week had more biological children from 2021 to early 2025, and
plan to have more children in the future, compared to observationally similar persons who do not work from home. Read more
here.
CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM'S PROSTITUTION SHIELD LAW CREATES SEX MARKET FULL OF 12, 13-YEAR-OLD GIRLS IN DOWNTOWN L.A. The New York Times has shone a spotlight on the Democrats' long-ignored "kiddie stroll" sex market on Los Angeles' Figueroa Street, yet
the newspaper downplayed the pimp shield law pushed by a libertarian Democratic legislator, Rep Scott Wiener, and signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Read more
here.
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TRUMP'S TRUSTED POLLSTER: EVEN PRO-ABORTS SAY MIFEPRISTONE IS DANGEROUS AND NEEDS FDA REGULATION, by Mollie Hemingway and
Jordan Boyd. "Data collected by President Donald Trump's trusted pollster suggests a majority of likely voters want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protect women from the dangerous drug responsible for more than half of U.S. abortions." Read more
here.
LAX ABORTION PILL RULES MAKE ALREADY VULNERABLE WOMEN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HARM AND ABUSE, by Jordan Boyd. "It's no secret
that abortionists are suspected of enabling predators, ignoring child abuse, and covering up child trafficking for profit. The threat of death and danger for women and their babies, however, only intensified when the Biden administration welcomed mail-order
mifepristone. Pill-induced abortion, the most prevalent means for ending pregnancy in the U.S., is already laden with side effects such as hemorrhage, fast, weak pulse,' 'trouble breathing,' diarrhea, dizziness, headache, vomiting, 'pain' across the back,
arms, neck, and abdomen." Read more
here.
A NEW KIND OF 'ROE EFFECT' HAS APPEARED, by Charles A. Donovan. "A few decades back, a Wall Street Journal editor named James
Taranto posited what he called 'the Roe Effect.' The idea was spawned by data showing a correlation between a woman's political views and her views and actions regarding abortion. Taranto argued that, over time, conservative women and families would have more
children and liberal woman, accepting abortion, would have a lower birth rate, and this would lead to diminishing popular support for legal abortion." Read more
here.
AUSTRALIAN STATE MINISTER SAYS WOMEN ARE WOMEN IN NOTABLE SHIFT AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY, by David James. "In gender politics,
words matter. So when Fiona Simpson, Queensland's Minister for Women in the governing Liberal National Party, a right-wing party, said a woman 'is an adult female human being,' it represented a significant change of direction. That what she said would once
have been considered a statement of the obvious shows just how distorted, even ridiculous, the discourse has become." Read more
here.
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