Plus: Biden’s ‘Disinformation’ Board Gives Ammo to Court Action on Big Tech Censorship, Louisiana AG Says
May 11 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats seize on a leaked Supreme Court opinion to try to ram through a national abortion law. That would be a worse result than Roe v. Wade, Heritage Foundation scholar Thomas Jipping argues. And the abortion bill shies away from the words “woman” and “women,” Virginia Allen reports. Plus: Louisiana’s attorney general sees Biden’s disinformation board as helpful in Big Tech case; an oral surgeon’s COVID-19 win; and the president unleashes thought police. On this date in 1934, a massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from the drought-ridden Great Plains as far east as New York, Boston, and Atlanta.
The so-called Women’s Health Protection Act would prohibit any government anywhere from doing anything that could, even potentially, reduce the number of abortions actually taking place.
A lawsuit by two states alleges top government officials worked with social media giants to censor free speech regarding COVID-19, election reforms, and other matters.
Democrats’ latest abortion bill doesn’t include the words “woman,” “women,” or “female.” Instead, the legislation uses the word “person” to refer to those who bear and give birth to children.
Three Republican attorneys general have withdrawn from the National Association of Attorneys General, asserting that the organization has become too ideological.
After six months of suspension, Rhode Island, in its munificence, permits the “defiant” maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Stephen Skoly to reopen his medical practice.
In a New York Times column, Bret Stephens argues that although Roe v. Wade was “ill-judged” when decided in 1973, overruling it today would be “a radical, not conservative, choice.”
Demonstrators protesting a leaked abortion ruling outside the Supreme Court Building and justices’ homes seem to have violated at least two federal laws.
