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The Colorado and South Dakota secretaries of state recently announced they had approved pro-abortion Constitutional amendments for inclusion on their respective states’ November 5 ballots.

The two states currently have diametrically opposed laws regarding abortion.

Colorado is one of only a handful of states that allow abortion up until birth – including late-term abortions. South Dakota on the other hand has enacted a pro-life law that protects almost all unborn children in the state.

Although Colorado has already completely legalized abortion, its pending initiative would formally “enshrine the right to unlimited abortion in the state constitution and would also override a 1984 measure that prohibits health insurance from covering abortions for public employees and those on public insurance,” Breitbart reported.

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(Live Action) — Legislation seeking to allow assisted suicide in New Hampshire reached an end last week after lawmakers in the Senate voted 17-7 to send the bill for further study, which reports say “essentially kills” the legislation.

House Bill 1283 would have permitted physician-assisted death to a terminally ill person who is mentally competent and projected to die within six months. There was no residency requirement for the bill, leading some lawmakers to express fear that the state would become a “death magnet.” Similar legislation has been considered multiple times in the state since 2010 and has failed each time, though this was the first year such legislation passed the House and moved on to the Senate.

Many gathered at the state Capitol building to lobby against the bill, including a physician who said the state needs better palliative care resources, not an easier way for people to end their lives. “We need to move the needle back towards more palliative care,” said Jonathan Eddinger, a cardiologist at the Catholic Medical Center. “[Support] people while they’re living, not facilitate their death, we need to not abandon them at the end of life.”

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The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been at the forefront of the legal war against efforts to use the government to force progressive gender ideology on the public. Currently, the organization is fighting back against the Biden administration’s revamping of Title IX rules to redefine the definition of “sex.”

The organization recently filed a motion to stay and a preliminary injunction with a federal district court in the case of State of Tennessee v. Cardona. The legal action was filed on behalf of a high school athlete in West Virginia and Christian Educators Association International. The organization’s attorneys are demanding that the court halt the White House’s effort to reimagine Title IX to include “gender identity.”

This move comes after the organization found that a biological male athlete in West Virginia defeated female competitors over 700 times in track and field events. This story, along with many others, highlights the ongoing debate over gender identity and women’s sports.

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Harrison Butker, a devout Catholic and professional kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, has stirred up a major controversy with remarks made during a commencement address at Benedictine College, a small Catholic institution located in Atchison, Kansas.

In his speech, steeped in traditional Catholic beliefs, Butker took aim at a variety of untouchable tenets of liberal orthodoxy — including “Pride Month,” which he called a “deadly sin,” while warning about the threat from “dangerous gender ideologies.”

After praising his wife, Isabelle, stating that she “would be the first to say that her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” he had the gall to suggest that the women in the graduating class could also aspire to assume “one of the most important titles of all, homemaker,” instead of climbing the corporate ladder.

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Mon May 20, 2024 – 7:56 pm EDT

(LifeSiteNews) — A gender-confused woman who has undergone a “sex change” and who lives as a “diocesan hermit” with the approval of Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, came out yesterday as “transgender.”

“Brother” Christian Cole Matson, born Nicole Matson, told Religion News Service (RNS) on Friday, “This Sunday, Pentecost 2024, I’m planning to come out publicly as transgender,” adding that she has the permission of Bishop Stowe to publicly share this information.

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CVS Health Corp. settled with nurse practitioner Robyn Strader after she sued the company after it stopped providing religious accommodations regarding “pregnancy prevention services.”

Strader said she had been granted a religious exemption for six years permitting her to not prescribe contraceptives and filed the lawsuit in January 2023 after having been fired following the policy change in 2021, according to the press release. First Liberty Institute, which represented Strader, announced Monday that CVS had agreed to a settlement of which the terms “were not made public.”

“We are thrilled that Robyn was able to reach a resolution with CVS,” Stephanie Taub, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute, said in the press release. “We are hopeful that companies across the country will recognize the religious liberty of their employees and work to protect those rights.”

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An Oregon city doubled down on its DEI policy after city officials received complaints about people using public restrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity, not sex.

On Monday, Mayor Jan Kaplan and the rest of the Newport City Council addressed the issue during a public meeting. An agenda for the meeting claimed that parks and recreation officials had been “fielding questions” about transgender-related policies.

‘If I see you as a predator, … then I will interpret whatever you do as predatory.’

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Is it antisemitic to point out that the massive, left-wing funding apparatus set up by Hungarian American hedge-fund billionaire George Soros has bankrolled many of the organizations behind anti-Israel protests and riots on college campuses? The Southern Poverty Law Center says that it is, and it smeared Sen. Ted Cruz for citing a Politico report on Soros funding.

Cruz, a Texas Republican, isn’t letting it stand.

“Leftists cannot defend their ideas on the merits, so they instead resort to censorship and cancel culture,” Cruz told The Daily Signal in a written statement Tuesday.

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EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released an open letter to university presidents on Tuesday expressing his “profound concern” with the wave of antisemitism at college campuses.

University administrators have come under growing GOP scrutiny for their handling of pro-Palestinian protests that have at times devolved into vandalism and acts of harassment against Jewish students. Police have been called in to disband or contain the protests, but the light touch used by some presidents has prompted calls for congressional action.

Scott, who has emphasized support for Israel during his first term in the Senate, said students had “surpassed” their free speech rights and that he would attempt to “rescind every last cent of taxpayer funding of any institution that condones” antisemitism.

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The Defense Department undercounted the number of abortions that it authorized between 2016 and 2020, new data shows.

Following a lawsuit from the Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, the Department of Defense said that it had identified a total of 77 abortions performed in military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) during the four-year period between 2016 and 2020. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)

That number includes 17 abortions that had previously not been included in the DOD’s figures.

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Former President Trump and President Biden have set a late June date for their first debate of 2024. On the heels of the second anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, which returned the right to protect unborn children to the people and their elected representatives, abortion is guaranteed to be front and center as an election issue.

Biden and the Democrats are spending millions of dollars on attack ads centered around abortion. Vice President Harris travels the country as Biden’s abortion czar and campaigned at an abortion center. Failing on everything else, they think this issue is their silver bullet. They even believe it gives them a shot at flipping Florida blue.

Yet the Democrats have a big vulnerability, one that plays right to Donald Trump’s strengths.

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is warning state-funded colleges that their funding will be stripped if they don’t protect Jewish students from the attacks and harassment of Nazi Hamas agitators.

Rokita warned state colleges and universities that they better start protecting the civil rights of the jewish students, too, or face the consequences.

Per Just The News:

Rokita sent a letter to university officials earlier this week saying antisemitic attacks that take place “without corrective measures” would allow Jewish students to file lawsuits, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That provision in the historic legislation bans discrimination on the basis of such factors as race, nationality or creed.

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Here’s the thing: The language reflected in the Operations Order and related documents was standard language — the sort of language you’d find in most orders of that nature. Don’t take my word for it — let’s see what those who’ve actually executed such warrants and/or been present at briefings involving them have to say:

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New documents are set to be released in the Florida case concerning classified files from ex-President Donald Trump, following a deal struck between defense lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

Mr. Smith filed a status report on the agreement on Monday.

“The parties hereby file this joint status report providing the parties’ positions … regarding the unsealing of filings,” the Smith team wrote.

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EXCLUSIVE — The National Republican Congressional Committee is brushing off demands from three freshman House Democrats to retract a “tongue-in-cheek” press release claiming the lawmakers supported Hamas.

On Friday, legal counsel from the Elias Law Group representing Reps. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) and Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) and from Olson Remcho LLP representing Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) sent immediate cease and desist letters to the NRCC, accusing the organization of false statements and defamation after they published several press releases with the headline “allegedly ‘quoting’” the representatives saying “I support Hamas.”

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Judge Aileen Cannon has the Department of Justice (DOJ) for pushing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s corrupted classified documents case against President Donald Trump.

Smith and the Democrats promised America that they had all of the evidence they needed to convince a judge or jury that Trump is a criminal.

However, they have yet to provide a shred of evidence, despite continued efforts to push politically motivated charges against the 45th president.

Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the classified docs case in Florida, is getting really frustrated at the lack of substance Smith is showing.

Smith’s case is already very flimsy, to begin with, and Judge Cannon.