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Understanding the Left’s Plan to Codify Roe v. Wade Into Law <[link removed]> – When the left says they want to “codify” Roe v. Wade—a Supreme Court decision—into law, what they’re actually <[link removed]> talking about is the misnamed Women’s Health Protection Act <[link removed]>. Any suggestion that the Women’s Health Protection Act simply codifies <[link removed]> Roe is misleading and inaccurate. The bill would effectively repeal existing <[link removed]> state laws, expressly prohibit future laws that regulate abortion and the abortion industry, and place at risk long-standing federal policies that reflect more than 40 years of bipartisan consensus. The bill would endanger policies that disentangle tax dollars from abortion, conscience-protection laws, state-level pro-life laws such as informed consent requirements, reflection periods, parental involvement laws, and more. Heritage Expert: Melanie Israel <[link removed]>
 
Supreme Court Ponders Whether Parents May Use Tuition Aid for Religious
Instruction <[link removed]> – Such centralized power, and such potential for anti-religious discrimination in the hands of an unelected bureaucrat, should send chills down the spine of all those who seek to exercise their faith as they see fit. If a state chooses to establish a program that provides tuition assistance to parents living in areas where there are no public schools, parents who wish to practice their faith by sending their children to a religious school should be able to participate in that program. And parents should be able to do so to the same extent as parents who are content to send their children to a secular school. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Biden claims that his massive tax-and-spend package won’t add to inflationary pressures <[link removed]> – “The cost of living increased at the steepest rate in more than three decades this past year. Given the prolific government spending underway and the trillions of additional spending proposed, Americans have good reason to worry about inflation from ‘too many dollars chasing too few
goods.’  The enormous expansions of government spending proposed by the left will come at a cost. Americans will pay either through direct taxation, higher borrowing costs (as the government competes with businesses for available capital), or the hidden tax of inflation as the central bank purchases government debt. This inflation tax can be the most destructive and painful of all.” Heritage Expert: Joel Griffith <[link removed]>
 
Washington is coming to micromanage your preschool, giving you fewer options <[link removed]> – Presidents should resist the urge to rewrite the dictionary. Such powers are not in the Constitution. Yet, President Joe Biden seems bound and determined to treat language in the style of Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, … it means just what I choose it to mean—nothing more nor less.” Exhibit A is the title he has given his attempt at domestic policy micromanagement: the “Build Back Better Act.” As private and religious preschool
leaders told a gathering of U.S. Senators last week, the plan will do more limiting than building. What the White House has defined as <[link removed]> “the most transformative investment in children and caregiving
in generations” will turn out to be “a complete flop,” according to these preschool leaders. Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]>
How Trial Lawyers Team With Leftist Activists to Hurt Consumers <[link removed]> – Trial lawyers across the country are cozying up to the left, advancing their radical agendas while lining their pockets with government money. The result? The average consumer pays the price.  “It affects [consumers] in part because you’ve got governments handing out big-deal contracts to politically active people on probably the wrong side of the aisle,” says O.H. Skinner, executive director of Alliance for Consumers. “And I think that alone should be something that people pay attention to.” “But on a basic level,” Skinner adds, “these contracts are the kind of things where there’s millions of dollars that are often not tied to individual cases, not tied to case outcomes, where consumers get money.” Heritage Expert: Douglas Blair <[link removed]>

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