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March 22, 2023
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| Missouri AG Moves to Curtail Gender Transition Procedures for Minors |
| by Dan Hart |
| On Monday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) announced that his office would file an emergency regulation that would restrict access to controversial gender transition procedures for minors, including the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to remove healthy organs. The move comes amid growing concerns over clinical gender transition practices in the state as well as a rise in lawsuits from former trans-identifying teenagers who cite physical and psychological harms from life-altering medical interventions. |
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| Tuberville Scorches Pentagon over 'Embarrassing' Abortion Policy Rewrite |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| You won't find many fans of the Pentagon's radical new abortion policy among the 200 senior officers waiting on their promotions. Those celebrations are on hold, thanks to the GOP's outrage over the Defense Department's latest power grab. If the president wants to turn our Armed Forces into an "abortion travel agency" without consulting Congress, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) warned, then Republicans will make it hurt. |
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| Supreme Court Vacates Ruling that Minors Have Constitutional 'Right' to Abortion; One Justice Dissents |
| by Ben Johnson |
| The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court's opinion asserting that underage girls possess a constitutional right to have an abortion without notifying their parents. Only one justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented that her colleagues effectively erased the pro-abortion decision from the books, preventing lawyers from citing it as a binding legal precedent in future cases. |
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| Kentucky Legislature Affirms Parents' Rights, Bans Gender Transition Procedures for Minors |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The Kentucky legislature passed a bill (SB 150) on Thursday advancing parental rights in education and prohibiting gender transition procedures on minors, largely along party lines. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Andy Beshear, the first Democratic governor to be presented with a bill to protect minors from gender transition procedures. |
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