October 23, 2019
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Seven-Year-Old Boy at Center of Transition Battle
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by Tony Perkins
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Children suffer when their parents struggle with one another. A tragic case in point is unfolding in Dallas, Texas, where a jury this week denied a father sole custody of his 7-year-old son. What's uncommon about this custody battle is that the boy's mother is seeking ultimately to start the child on drug treatments that would block him from beginning puberty because, she claims, he now identifies as a girl.
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Abortion Funding Change Already Bearing Fruit for Life
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by Connor Semelsberger
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In May 2018, the Trump administration proposed changes to the rules which govern the Title X Family Planning Program. These changes, finalized on March 4, 2019, are known as the Protect Life Rule. This rule provides existing and prospective Title X grantees with a straightforward choice: comply with the rule and separate their family planning services from abortion activities or choose to relinquish their federal grant funding.
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Tension Rising in Hong Kong
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"Five demands, not one less." This message was paraded throughout Hong Kong by pro-democracy protestors over the weekend. This is bad news for Hong Kong politicians who want to finally suppress the demonstrations that have been occurring all summer. Today, protesters received one of their demands when Hong Kong's government relented and formally withdrew the extradition bill which sparked the protests.
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Today's show features: Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, on the importance of the principles of inalienable rights to U.S. foreign policy; Russ Fulcher, U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Idaho, on what yesterday's congressional hearing reveals about the Left's obsession to impeach President Trump; Connor Semelsberger, FRC's Legislative Assistant for Pro-Life Issues, to discuss a report showing nearly 900 clinics have given up federal Title X funding rather than give up abortion after a Trump administration rule separated the two; Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President, on FRC's new Stand Courageous conference series designed to rekindle biblical masculinity.
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