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Proposed HHS Rule Upends Medical Care to Appease Woke Transgenderism - Our health care system should be focused on helping Americans of all ages get the best care and treatment, not advancing a narrow transgender agenda that replaces the hard facts of medicine with woke ideology. In attempting to address phantom problems, the proposal will inflict real harm on patients and providers. By imposing an unscientific gender standard of care, and requiring insurance plans to pay for it, the rule will result in sterilization, loss of sexual function, removal of healthy reproductive organs, and a plethora of unnecessary surgeries and chemical interventions with life-long consequences. Given appointments to HHS like transgender activist Dr. Rachel Levine and abortion radical Secretary Xavier Becerra, this transgender mandate is not surprising. On the heels of the Biden administration’s plans to require girls and women to share school lockers, showers, dorms, and sports with men and boys, this erasure of women from medicine and health will be the next domino to fall if it is not resisted. Heritage Expert: Roger Severino
Heritage President: ‘If There Is Any Fight Worth Having, It Is the Fight to Save Marriage and the Family’ - Marriage is a foundational bedrock of human society, one that many on the radical left are seeking to undermine and ultimately sweep away. The concept of marriage between a man and a woman is, and must remain, non-negotiable. It is a concept foundational to human flourishing and inherent to men and women as image-bearers of our Creator. And now, more than ever, we need leaders who will stand up for these basic truths. The bad-faith effort in Congress to weaponize marriage disrespects our fundamental institutions and divides Americans in a quest to score cheap political points, no matter the social consequences. It emanates from the left’s unceasing desire to silence and punish those whose views it finds objectionable or outdated. Heritage Experts: Jay Richards and Roger Severino
Revolution Principles and American Conservatism Now - The classical natural law and its participated theonomy had many of its ethical precepts specified by medieval law and formulated into its canons. One study that readers might consult is Robert Reilly’s America on Trial, which sets forth the medieval roots of constitutionalism, showing how doctrines of separation of powers, church and state, the executive and representatives, consent of the governed, and popular sovereignty emerge from canonical law and natural law reasoning. They are not merely derivations from scripture but a natural law participating in divine law and forming ethical norms that were drawn on by English constitutional lawyers in the formation of governing law. Heritage Expert: Richard Reinsch
Will Lower Courts Duly Follow the Supreme Court’s Lead in Abortion Cases? - The general has sounded the retreat. Will the soldiers follow? That is the question raised by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Supreme Court declared that the federal courts should retreat from their invasion of the democratic provinces of legislatures on the issue of abortion. But will the lower courts obey? One appellate court has obeyed the call and has resolved to make right the errors it committed when it first rallied behind the Supreme Court’s abortion misadventure of Roe v. Wade nearly 50 years ago. Heritage Experts: GianCarlo Canaparo and Sarah Parshall Perry
If Biden Backs the Blue, why is his team giving a deal to terrorists who attacked the NYPD? - Democrats are wising up to the fact that soaring crime rates, rogue prosecutors and calls to “Defund the Police” are political liabilities. That’s one reason President Joe Biden has been encouraging community leaders to tap federal COVID-relief funds to beef up local policing. And just last week, his administration announced it will try to boost police funding in next year’s budget. Heritage Expert: Zack Smith
Fighting to Reclaim Comic Books From Woke Left, New Comic Lands First Punch - As consumers of pop culture are increasingly aware, the world of comic books and superheroes has gone woke. Superman no longer fights for “the American Way,” and Captain America’s archnemesis, Red Skull, is now a Jordan Peterson analog. For the fans who just want a good story free from the political moralizing the left foists on us daily, alternative options are far and few between. Enter “Isom,” a new comic book series created by Eric July as an antidote to what he sees as a push by popular media to “beat people over the head with stuff like social justice.” Heritage Expert: Douglas Blair
Congress’ Vote on Delphi Pensions Bailout Shows Problem With Putting Unions Above Law - In March 2021, Congress passed the first-in-history taxpayer bailout of private union pension plans as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. Despite the Rescue Plan allegedly responding to COVID-19, this bailout had nothing to do with the pandemic. Multiemployer pensions for unions had accumulated $757 billion in underfunding and were on track to pay only 42 cents on the dollar in promised benefits as of 2018—well before the pandemic began. Those unfunded pension promises were the result of decades of reckless actions by union plans that have been allowed to operate under a separate set of toothless laws that failed to protect workers and retirees, and instead benefited union elites, who sold their members a bill of goods. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler
How CHIPS for America Act Chips Away at America’s Economic Freedom - Congress and the Biden administration are gearing up a bloated Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, but the CHIPS for America Act runs the real risk of chipping away at America’s economic freedom and competitiveness, rather than enhancing it. The Senate is scheduled this week to vote on the bill, whose price tag has soared to $250 billion from the initial $76 billion. The legislation does little to counter the economic challenge posed by China and the Chinese Communist Party, but spends billions of dollars on corporate handouts to tech companies and more funding for federal agencies. Heritage Expert: Dustin Carmack