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May 13, 2025
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| Planned Parenthood Committed 402,230 Abortions, Received $792.2 Million in Taxpayer Funding in 2024 |
| by Ben Johnson |
| House Republicans seeking to end federal funding of abortion businesses received two enormous boosts to their efforts on Monday, as a legislative provision inched closer to adoption and Planned Parenthood released an annual report showing it received more taxpayer funding than any time in history. The report has pro-life experts telling The Washington Stand, "Planned Parenthood must be defunded." |
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| Trump Skips Israel on Middle East Tour, as Cracks Emerge over Iran Policy |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| President Donald Trump on Monday began a four-day tour of the Middle East, with visits planned in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the U.A.E. to "focus on strengthening ties," through business and trade agreements, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday. One country not on Trump's itinerary is Israel, despite Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter asking Trump to visit. |
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| SCOTUS to Address Nationwide Injunctions amid Birthright Citizenship Controversy |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| One of President Donald Trump's most controversial executive orders - dismantling birthright citizenship - has been challenged in court and halted by federal judges in three different districts. Now, the three cases against the president's order will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. In an order released late last week, the Supreme Court announced that oral arguments will be heard on Thursday, with the Trump administration requesting a stay of the nationwide injunctions placed on the executive order. |
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| West Virginia Strengthens Law Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Procedures |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| West Virginia has enacted new legislation (SB 299) that substantially improves its protections for minors from gender transition procedures. In 2023, the Mountaineer State joined an avalanche of state legislatures protecting minors from the procedures - but with watered-down language. Now, West Virginia has become the first state since that watershed year to substantially improve upon its previously-enacted protections for minors. |
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| Experts Decry Washington State Law Singling out Clergy |
| by Dan Hart |
| A recently enacted piece of legislation in Washington state which requires Catholic clergy to break the seal of confession and report possible child abuse if the information is revealed during a confession is being lambasted by experts as an egregious violation of religious liberty and an unfair targeting of the clergy-penitent relationship. |
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| Pope Leo XIV Plans to Address Artificial Intelligence Concerns |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| One of the goals of the new pope will be to develop Catholic teaching on artificial intelligence (AI), the pope himself shared recently. Addressing the College of Cardinals on Saturday, the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV explained how he hopes to continue the work of his nominal predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and what that has to do with AI. |
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| Markets Soar as President Trump's China Deal Brings 'Certainty and Stability' |
| by Ben Johnson |
| The Trump administration has calmed business fears of a trade war, announcing both the U.S. and China will pause impending tariffs on one another's exports for 90 days. |
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| Totalitarian Social Engineering (Part 1): The Ten Commandments vs. the Communist Manifesto |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| The decalogues of the Manifesto and the Ten Commandments are naturally and irremediably antagonistic. The first, as materialist, favors a focus on the behavioral and public levels. Meanwhile, in practice, socialist systems crush the spiritual and intimate level, violating religious and conscience freedom (which Marx and Engels denigrated). |
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