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Biden Administration Sanctions Mail-Order Abortion. Here’s How the Move Endangers Women <[link removed]>—It’s clear that pro-abortion advocates will continue agitating to remove remaining safety protocols and make abortion pills as widely available as
possible, regardless of what the science and data tells us about the dangers <[link removed]>. Now more than ever, policymakers—particularly at the state level—must counteract the Food and Drug Administration’s ideologically motivated surrender to the abortion lobby by protecting life in their jurisdictions. They can do this through policies that include prohibitions on telemedicine and mail-order abortions, heightened informed-consent requirements, and reporting requirements to better track complications. Heritage Expert: Melanie Israel  <[link removed]>
The United States Can’t Afford Another Vague National Security Strategy <[link removed]> — In Crimea, Russia engineered annexation through its little green men. In the South China Sea, China has used its paramilitary maritime militia, in concert with its Coast Guard and People’s Liberation Army Navy, to incrementally impose its diktat well beyond any accepted international notion of jurisdictional waters. Why can’t the United States compete in the gray zone with China and Russia? It’s not outmoded military capabilities, intelligence gaps, or failed strategies. Fundamentally, it’s because the United States isn’t organized for modern great-power competition. Failure to compete in the gray zone erodes deterrence, making the danger of miscalculation or adventurism greater. Heritage Expert: Brent Sadler <[link removed]> 
Race-baiting Rittenhouse narratives don’t withstand
scrutiny <[link removed]> —The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse last month on charges related to his Aug. 25, 2020, shooting of three white men during a chaotic night of destructive civil unrest in Kenosha should have surprised no one who watched the trial with an open mind and a basic understanding of self-defense laws. Yet countless blue-check pundits on social media lost their collective minds in a race-baiting game of “What if Rittenhouse were black?” The hot takes abounded. Some highly followed commentators went so far as to explicitly assert that no person of color could ever intentionally shoot someone and be acquitted on grounds of lawful self-defense. The idea that self-defense is a legal justification largely for white Americans and that no jury would ever acquit defendants of color who claim they acted in self-defense is absurdly reductive. It’s also easily disprovable with a basic Google search. Heritage Expert: Amy Swearer <[link removed]>
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