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- The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in the Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which examines the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop virtually all safety precautions for obtaining and using chemical abortion drugs.
- As long as abortion remains legal in parts of America, it is reprehensible that our federal government is allowing the use of dangerous chemical abortion drugs, which result in up to1 out of every 22 women who take them ending up in the ER.
- Mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most chemical abortions, is linked with up to 32 deaths, thousands of serious adverse events often resulting in ER visits, and more than 500 life-threatening complications (the FDA in 2016 made reporting for all complications other than death optional, so the actual number is likely much higher).
- To protect women and girls’ health and safety, the federal government, at a minimum, should ensure that chemical abortion drugs meet the Food and Drug Administration’s own safety requirements from when the pills were initially approved—reversing the more recent watered-down standards adopted to appease the abortion industry.
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- Since February 29, a group of allied Haitian gangs has launched coordinated attacks seeking to topple the Haitian government, hitting key targets including the country’s prisons, police stations and main airport.
- To avoid sending in U.S. military forces to stabilize Haiti, the Biden administration has been scouring the world for leaders willing to send some of their security forces to the island. The response has been underwhelming with limited commitments by African nations, primarily 1,000 police officers from Kenya.
- It is perhaps the height of U.S. weakness under the Biden administration that we are turning to Kenya to confront crises within our own hemisphere.
- Even as the inadequacy of the administration’s hasty plans are laid bare, President Joe Biden is exerting pressure on the U.S. Congress to fund them.
- The first step here is for the Biden administration to immediately end its permissive policies toward illegal immigration and secure the U.S. border. Programs like mass immigration parole for Haitians and other nationalities should be terminated as the population outflow hastens the decline of stability in countries like Haiti and entrenches mass migration to the U.S. as the go-to escape from regional crises.
- Furthermore, the crisis in Haiti highlights the importance of bolstering the security of U.S. maritime borders, particularly in Florida and Puerto Rico. While much attention is centered on Florida’s proactive response to Haiti’s crisis, Puerto Rico is likely to see substantial illegal immigration from Haiti, as it has in the past.
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- After passage by the House and Senate, President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending package to avert a government shutdown but continue the massive deficit spending negatively impacting the economy.
- The second tranche of FY24 government funding bills not only failed to rein in the size and scope of government spending, but the process used to draft, introduce, and consider the package denied members and their constituents enough time to review the 1,000-page bill. This package only continues the spending trajectory that has led to historic inflation and fuels Biden’s disastrous border policies.
- The omnibus further fuels radical policies by robustly funding the federal agencies responsible for a variety of the Biden administration’s instances of overreach without doing anything to address them.
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