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Trump Admin Warns UN Against Using COVID-19 To Promote Pro-Choice Agenda

Jun 4, 2020

At the most recent World Health Assembly meeting, the Trump administration disassociated itself from a number of paragraphs regarding "sexual and reproductive health" written into the Assembly’s COVID-19 Response Resolution.

Religious Liberty, Adoption

Supreme Court to Rule on Religious Liberty Dispute Over Same-Sex Adoption

Jun 4, 2020

This week, the U.S. Justice Department filed a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow religious-based adoption agencies to make adoption placements in accordance with their religious beliefs regarding human sexuality and marriage.

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Tennessee House Sends Abortion Pill Education Bill to Senate

Jun 4, 2020

On Monday, the Tennessee House adopted legislation requiring that women wanting information about the abortifacient, RU-486, also be given information about what’s called the Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) technique.

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Pro-Life Legislation Goes to Full Health Committee

May 29, 2020

On Wednesday, the Tennessee House’s Health Subcommittee, by voice vote, recommended to the full Health Committee both the governor’s proposed abortion legislation, known as the “Missouri laddered” approach, as well as the Rule of Law Life Act.

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Trump Declares Churches as ‘Essential’

May 29, 2020

During a White House press briefing last Friday, President Trump declared, “Today, I’m identifying houses of worship—churches, synagogue, and mosques—as essential places that provide essential services.”

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AmazonSmile Called Out for SPLC ‘Hate Group’ Partnership

May 29, 2020

The National Center for Public Policy Research is taking Amazon to task for relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) “hate group” list to decide which charities get donations through its AmazonSmile program.

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Ravi Zacharias Loses Battle with Cancer

May 22, 2020

One of Christendom’s great apologists, evangelists, and beloved worldview teachers died at 74 on Tuesday, May 19, after a battle with a rare form of spinal cancer that was diagnosed in March. Ravi Zacharias had just celebrated his 48th wedding anniversary with wife Margie.

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Planned Parenthood Affiliates Called to Return PPP Loans

May 22, 2020

Thirty-seven affiliates of Planned Parenthood violated the rules by pursuing and receiving $80 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from the government, which was meant to help struggling small businesses affected by COVID-19’s economic fallout. Now the federal government wants the abortion organization to return the funds.

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Philly Students Change Birth Names on School Records Without Parental Consent

May 22, 2020

Biologically confused students in the Philadelphia public school system can now make a system-wide name and preferred pronoun change without a court order, without parental consent, and without evidence of a medical “transition.” And the students don’t have to be 18 to do so.

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California Churches Unite to Reopen Despite Governor’s Stay-at-Home Order

May 15, 2020

A network of California churches is going to open its doors to in-person worship services on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, instead of waiting for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s third phase of the Golden State’s reopening.

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