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1. THE DAILY SIGNAL: Pro-Life
‘Trigger’ Laws Take Effect in Idaho, Tennessee,
Texas
“Life is now officially protected in three more
states.
Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas have anti-abortion “trigger”
laws—pro-life laws restricting abortion—that went into effect Thursday.
The three states are among more than a dozen states to pass trigger laws protecting the
unborn that would take effect following the Supreme Court’s June 24
ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,
which overturned Roe v. Wade.”
2. N&O: Trimester
restrictions? Exceptions? NC GOP leaders talk about potential abortion
bans
“North Carolina’s GOP leaders
gave more indications Tuesday of what abortion legislation might look
like if Republicans gain a supermajority this fall. The General
Assembly has a Republican majority, but not a supermajority needed to
override vetoes from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The Supreme Court’s
overturning of Roe v. Wade has given states power over their abortion
laws. North Carolina bans abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, a law
recently upheld in court.”
3. DAILY CALLER:
‘Psychologically Abusive’: Some Back-To-School Programs Dividing
Students By ‘Gender, Culture And Identity’
We’ve seen this type of ‘diversity inventory’
strategy for ourselves first-hand when we visited a group of angry
parents at Heritage High in Wake Forest a couple of years
ago.
“A back-to-school curriculum focused on social-emotional
learning (SEL) lays the foundation for Critical Race Theory (CRT) by
dividing children through the creation of identity charts, ‘getting to
know you’ questionnaires and classroom contracts, experts told the
Daily Caller News Foundation.”
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4. THE DAILY SIGNAL: Did
American Academy of Pediatrics Just Blink on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
or Bluff?
“Some of the bad press has
been spillover from Boston Children’s Hospital. Recently, this
hospital, a pioneer in applying the methods championed by the American
Academy of Pediatrics, put a series of short explainer videos on its
YouTube channel.
The videos, set to soothing music, feature talking heads describing
services such as breast removal and the surgical fashioning of penile
and vaginal simulacra. The former requires the harvesting of skin from
the forearm or thigh of the patient. The latter demands daily balloon
dilation inside the “neovagina” for the rest of the patient’s
life.
Note: This is a hospital for children.”
5. DAILY WIRE: Yelp Now
Flagging Listings For Crisis Pregnancy
Centers
“Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser
slammed Yelp’s move in a statement, saying the ‘discriminatory labels’
are meant to ‘scare women away’ from getting the resources they
need.
‘Shame on Big Tech companies like Yelp for colluding with the
abortion lobby in their war on compassionate pregnancy help,’
Dannenfelser said.”
 WEEKLY PRAYER: OFFICIALS
LORD, you also have instructed us to pray for our governing
officials, and we come to you in the spirit of this petition. We pray
for our national government and its executive, legislative, and
judicial servants. May they indeed be servants unto the people, and
govern in a manner that protects liberty and virtue. In the same
spirit, we pray for public servants across our state and local
governments. May they all heed your mandate in Romans 13:4 to be in
positions of authority as "God's servant" and for the "good" of the
public. They govern in what we confess are difficult times. May they
plead with you to give them wisdom, and may your grace to govern
wisely be poured out on them.
Protect us from the oppression
and loss of freedoms that other countries have experienced, and help
us to value and preserve freedom, which we know comes only from
You.
"I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I
have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now
come, I will send you back to Egypt." Acts 7:34 (God's words to
Moses)
Amen
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