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- A new Heritage Foundation report “The American Case for Taiwan” details why the United States has a national security and economic interest in protecting Taiwan from Communist China. It also provides policy recommendations to advance these interests.
- The report comes amid a significant increase in Chinese military provocations against the island in recent years and rising concern in Washington about the prospect of armed conflict with China.
- Taiwan produces over half of the world’s semiconductors and over 90% of the most advanced chips. The U.S. and global economies would likely be devastated by any conflict over Taiwan. A recent report estimated such a conflict could cost upward of $10 trillion, or 10% of the global economy.
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- The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two combined cases regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of abortion drugs.
- In Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, the court below—the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—had concluded that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop the safety rules for obtaining and using mifepristone were unlawful.
- 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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- An Arizona school board has taken a combative approach toward parents concerned over proposed curriculum or policies focused on sex education and transgenderism.
- These proposed changes described in a Feb. 26 meeting of the Flagstaff Unified School District include “updating” the verbiage in official district policies from “boy/girl” to “people,” allowing students to attend sex education classes designed for the opposite sex, and updating curriculum to be more “inclusive” of gender-fluid ideology.
- Parents, wary of changes they believe may threaten the safety of their children, attended the next Flagstaff school board meeting on March 13 to voice their objections.
- The Flagstaff school district isn’t the first one to advertise sexual or transgender services to minors without notifying parents. A recent investigation by the organization Parents Defending Education revealed that centers in public schools around the country were offering hormonal medication to students.
- The Daily Signal has reported on school districts with transgender policies that keep students’ gender “transitions” secret from their parents.
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