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FDA Lacks Authority to Approve Abortion Pills, Claims First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit. The Left Is Apoplectic. <[link removed]> - In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs—a coalition of national medical associations and doctors experienced in caring for pregnant and post-abortive women—have requested that the court find the FDA’s approval of the pill and its years of subsequent loosening of restrictions on its
use to be unlawful. They have requested that the court order the FDA to withdraw its approval of the drug. That outcome would have an unprecedented impact on the availability of the drugs that are part of the FDA’s two-drug regimen for chemical abortion <[link removed]>: mifepristone and misoprostol. Those drugs are responsible for nearly 50% <[link removed]> of American abortions annually and represent the most common way to terminate unborn life in the U.S. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]> and Roger Severino <[link removed]>
Biden’s $7 Trillion Budget Shell Game Takes More of Everyone’s Money, Despite His Promises <[link removed]> - Fundamentally, the nation does not have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem <[link removed]>. Tax revenue has never been higher, whether measured in nominal terms or adjusted for inflation, or as a percent of gross domestic product, or as a percent of income. Rather, it is government spending that has ballooned to unsustainable levels and created record-breaking deficits. Consider that federal expenditures were about $4.8 trillion in 2019 but were over $6 trillion in 2022. That’s a 25% increase in three years—far outpacing economic growth—and it doesn’t even include the $6.7 trillion spent during the pandemic in 2020 or the record-breaking $7.2 trillion spent in 2021—Biden’s first year in office. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
First-Year Med Students Told to Call Women ‘People With Cervices’; Professor Slams ‘Anti-Biological’ Lesson <[link removed]> - A professor at Indiana University School of Medicine <[link removed]> condemned a lesson inculcating gender ideology among first-year medical students as “anti-scientific” and “anti-biological,” warning that it would have “very detrimental effects to the
health care profession” and stating that he had not heard of any internal discussions about the lesson before professors implemented it. “I did not hear about it until it came out in the news,” the professor, who spoke with The Daily Signal on condition of anonymity, said in a phone interview Wednesday. He said the transgender lesson <[link removed]> did not surprise him, however, because “the entire biomedical profession has been conquered by this aggressive ideology that inculcates a certain worldview.” Heritage Expert: Tyler O’Neil <[link removed]>
Massachusetts Mapping Project’s unseen dangers - <[link removed]>Launched last June, the Massachusetts Mapping Project has called to “dismantle” dozens of Jewish American organizations, including synagogues, schools, and homes for people with
disabilities. But a new investigative report suggests that the project is run not by local antisemites but by foreign state actors. Heritage Expert: Jim Carafano <[link removed]>
6 Takeaways From China’s National People’s Congress <[link removed]>-
The People’s Republic of China wrapped up its annual National People’s Congress session on Monday as tensions remain high between Beijing and Washington. “China’s legislature meets for one or two weeks each spring to outline the nation’s policy direction and set economic targets for the year ahead,” Michael
Cunningham, a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, explained recently for The Daily Signal <[link removed]>. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) In October, the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party held its weeklong, twice-a-decade meeting, at which Chinese President Xi Jinping secured his third five-year term as party general secretary, The Daily Signal previously reported <[link removed]>. Heritage Expert: Sam Aschieri <[link removed]>
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