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May 4, 2022

Dems Push for Second Opinion on Abortion
by Tony Perkins
Another 24 hours have come and gone, and Americans are no closer to answering the burning questions on everyone's minds: who leaked the draft Supreme Court ruling on Roe -- and why? In the aftermath of Monday night, the media is scrambling to play amateur detective, throwing out possible motives and scenarios, while the biggest story -- Alito's actual opinion -- falls below the fold. The Supreme Court is on the verge of wiping out the bloodiest stain on America ever left by an activist court, and the message to both sides should be: get ready.
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Affirm Foundation: Scripture Helps Parents Combat Trans Craze
by Joshua Arnold
In a final rule released Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) surprisingly omitted a proposed change to bundle so-called "gender transition" procedures into private insurance plans. Dr. Jennifer Bauwens believes comments submitted by Family Research Council, other policy organizations, and thousands of individual citizens are the reason. "By backing off this rule, they don't have to respond to our comments," explained Bauwens, Director of FRC's Center for Family Studies, who drafted FRC's comment. "The science behind this ideology is really flimsy." Federal agencies are legally obligated to answer every comment submitted to a proposed rule." FRC President Tony Perkins agreed they "avoided responding because... a scientific debate... [would] expose what's behind the curtain."
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Even in Divisive Times, The Flag of Religious Freedom Still Flies
by Dan Hart
Amid the furor that was unleashed on the Supreme Court after a leak of a draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade, an actual decision affirming religious liberty was handed down the same day but received scant attention. In a rare unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of Boston's refusal to allow a Christian flag to be flown in front of City Hall violated the First Amendment rights of a Christian group known as Camp Constitution who submitted an application for the flag to be flown.
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On today's program: James Lankford, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, discusses the leaked Dobbs draft majority opinion, his bill relating to China/Iran relations and the introduction of a bill to defund Biden's Disinformation Governance Board. Katherine Beck Johnson, FRC's Research Fellow for Legal and Policy Studies, offers her analysis of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, addresses the Biden Department of Education's decision to delay its overhaul of the Trump administration Title IX rule. George Barna, FRC's Senior Research Fellow for Biblical Worldview, highlights his new research revealing that children's disregard for their parents often has to do with the worldview confusion cause by the parents themselves.

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