Plus: DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options
August 26 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where the Democrat mayor says she’s not budging on barring older students from school—most of them black—if they aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Doug Blair reports. Canada’s euthanization of vulnerable patients bodes ill for government-run health care here, Blair also writes. On the podcast, Samantha Renck interviews the father of one service member killed by a terrorist in the chaotic exit from Afghanistan one year ago today. Plus: a court loss for Biden on abortion; American pediatricians fudge on “gender-affirming care”; and three more states go pro-life. On this date in 1968, antiwar demonstrators clash in Chicago with police and National Guardsmen as the Democratic National Convention, the most violent in U.S. history, gets underway.
Over 40% of black D.C. students ages 12 to 17 are not vaccinated, according to city data. But the District of Columbia mandates that students in all schools, public or private, be vaccinated.
A federal district court blocks the Biden administration’s attempt to force the state’s emergency room doctors to perform abortions—regardless of their religious beliefs.
“To the best of my knowledge, President Biden has not said any of their names, which is really disappointing,” says the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, one of 13 service members killed.