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1. FOX NEWS: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs six-week ‘heartbeat bill’ into law to limit abortion



“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law Thursday evening, putting the state more in line with other Republican-led states, just hours after the legislation cleared the Florida legislature.



The new law expands protections to unborn children, giving them full rights to life once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks of pregnancy. It also provides funding to help mothers across the state.”



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2. FOX NEWS: North Carolina GOP move on school choice with new supermajority after Dem's stunning party switch



“Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are poised to push ahead with school choice legislation and other education reforms, a key policy area where the GOP has surging momentum following the high-profile defection of a Democratic legislator.“



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3. NBC: Abortion pill legal fight heads toward Supreme Court showdown















“A federal appeals court decision that declined to suspend approval of the abortion pill mifepristone but kept in place restrictions that would prevent it from being sent to patients by mail has teed up a high-stakes showdown at the Supreme Court.



Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the Justice Department ‘strongly disagrees’ with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decisionto allow the restrictions and will seek immediate Supreme Court review.



The decision late Wednesday by the New Orleans-based appeals court leaves considerable uncertainty over access to the drug.”



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4. WCNC: Union County school board approves new rule on transgender athletes 



“The board voted unanimously to require all high school athletes to compete on teams ‘consistent with the gender on the student's birth certificate.’”



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5. THE POST MILLENNIAL: Texas GOP brings bill to force health insurers to cover detransition care



“A Texas bill has been introduced that would require health insurance companies that provide coverage for sex change interventions to provide coverage for all possible adverse outcomes, including those related to detransition.” “Chloe Cole, a detransitioned young woman, was on the panel and spoke of the difficulties she is having accessing detransition-related healthcare, due to the fact that “there are no standards of care for detransitioners.” Cole was put on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13, had a double mastectomy at 15, and then detransitioned at 16.”



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Weekly Prayer: Life



LORD, we cry out to you as Father. You are a model of the love, mercy, and authority of the perfect parent. We thank you for modeling for us what every parent should strive for, and for creating this wonderful institution called family. 



LORD, we thank you for creating us with a basic nature designed to not be alone. You made us to desire the intimacy of relationships, and it is here where we experience joys indescribable: the joys of marriage, the joys of having children; the joys of seeing our children have children. What a blessing and mercy you gave us in the family! In it we find our first teachers, our first guardians, and our first authorities. 



LORD, we recognize how deeply you love your children, and how deeply it pains you when they go astray. Alongside our adoration and thanksgiving, we pray in confession—as individuals and as members of larger communities—over any sins we may have committed that undermine your beloved institution. Forgive us when we endanger your institution through selfishness and arrogance. Forgive our communities and nation for attempting to redefine some of the most basic and deepest parts of being human—being made male and female, having lifelong marriage vows and responsibilities, and having parental rights over educating one's children. 



"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:12-17)







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