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What's next for the abortion pill mifepristone? <[link removed]> - Judge Kacsmaryk’s stellar opinion takes down FDA’s politically motivated abortion pill approval: “[pregnancy] complications can be serious or life-threatening. But that does not make pregnancy itself an illness.” Great to see a judge acknowledge the plain fact that abortion is not health care. The pro-abortion left screams it’s about women’s health, but FDA didn’t limit its approval in any way for medical conditions or complications. Rather, the FDA deemed the living unborn child itself to be the “problem” and approved a two-step chemical regime because the first step kills the child. Moreover, FDA allowed its use for any reason, which overwhelmingly has nothing to do with maternal health and everything to do with not wanting a child. Heritage Expert: Roger Severino <[link removed]>
This $6 trillion problem threatens to push inflation even higher <[link removed]> - In the spring of 2021, the Fed began ratcheting up its
reverse repurchase agreement operations, or reverse repos. These are short-term loans to the Fed with Treasury securities serving as collateral and provide quick but not lasting adjustments to liquidity levels in financial markets. Reverse repos are a way to rapidly, but briefly, take cash out of circulation and keep it at the Fed. Conversely, if the Fed simply sold the securities in open market operations, the money from those sales would just cease to exist, which puts upward pressure on interest rates, including those for new Treasuries. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
Detransitioners Back Florida Medicaid Rule Amid LGBT Legal Challenge <[link removed]> -
LGBT and health activist groups led by Lambda Legal represent four young people who identify as transgender and filed a lawsuit in September aiming to block the rule. As part of their lawsuit, the LGBT groups asked the court to temporarily block the rule while it considers the full case. In denying that temporary injunction, the court ruled in October that the case centers on whether Florida’s determination that the transgender interventions are “experimental” is “reasonable.” Heritage Expert: Tyler O’Neil <[link removed]>
Best Part of Federal Judge’s Ruling Against Abortion Pill Comes Down to Two Words <[link removed]> - A federal judge ruled late last week that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an at-home abortion pill over two decades ago was improper and didn’t
consider all of the pill’s risks to patients. He also did what many in his profession have failed to do: recognize the humanity of the child in the womb. If the decision is upheld, the abortion drug that’s responsible for over half of all abortions in the United States could ultimately be pulled off shelves. Heritage Expert: Thomas Jipping <[link removed]>
Wokeness at Colonial Williamsburg <[link removed]> - Colonial Williamsburg is a member of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). A coalition of 35,000 museums and museum professionals, the AAM has established DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) as one of its four strategic priorities and developed a plethora of materials on DEIA and anti-racism. The AAM holds that museums should “champion an anti-racist movement” to create a “more just and equitable world,” and museum leaders should move away from “white-dominant characteristics of perfection, risk aversion, and conflict avoidance.” Clearly, the organization believes that the purpose of museums and historic sites is not to preserve history but to
promote activists' ideas of social justice. Heritage Expert: Brenda Hafera <[link removed]>
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