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- U.S Senator Tammy Duckworth recently moved for a unanimous consent vote on her Access to Family Building Act. The legislation would make in-vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies a statutory right.
- Duckworth’s proposal uses the pretense of protecting access as a smokescreen for enabling an unregulated in-vitro fertilization industry.
- If passed, the AFBA would give any adult the statutory right to create a child using any reproductive technology, including the cloning and genetic editing made possible by CRISPR.
- The bill pre-empts any state effort to limit such access, meaning states would be helpless to pass common-sense regulations for IVF that guard against ethical abuses.
- In their attempt to show their support for IVF, some Republicans may be tempted to consider Duckworth’s legislation. They should think twice.
- Republicans should stand firm in their commitment to hold fertility clinics accountable to provide the best possible care for the embryonic children that parents have entrusted to them.
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- The Wall Street Journal recently ran a thinly veiled harangue titled “To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast.”
- Dripping with elitism, it not only presumed to lecture Americans, but it also incorrectly cast the blame for today’s high prices on everything from the weather to the war in the Ukraine, instead of addressing the root cause: government spending.
- The condescending suggestion to simply skip a meal is the kind of nonchalance that comes from those unaffected by the common man’s economic ills.
- With the explosion in food prices, it’s no wonder families are going into credit card debt just to buy groceries.
- While it’s true that certain specific food prices have increased recently because of world events, weather patterns, or other temporary issues, food prices in general have risen dramatically.
- By spending trillions of dollars it didn’t have, the government created 40-year-high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis that has disproportionately affected low- and middle-income earners.
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- The Justice Department arm focused on prosecuting “hate crimes” welcomed input from a far-left organization known for demonizing conservatives and Christians right after that organization put parental rights groups, including Moms for Liberty, on a “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan, documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveal.
- The new documents reveal yet more collaboration between the Biden administration and the far-left group.
- The Southern Poverty Law Center reached out to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division on June 6, 2023—the day the SPLC released its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report and had added Moms for Liberty to the map.
- Despite the SPLC's numerous scandals, the Biden White House has hosted SPLC leaders and staff at least 11 times, and Biden nominated an SPLC attorney to a top federal judgeship.
- Recently unearthed documents showed that a leading education Department official met with SPLC staff in 2022, one year before the SPLC put Moms for Liberty on its “hate map.”
- The White House had previously targeted parents who spoke out to school boards amid school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to draft the (later rescinded) National School Boards Association letter to President Joe Biden comparing concerned parents to domestic terrorists.
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