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Town Rejects Pro-Life Flag, But Allows Rainbow Flag Painted on Sidewalk

Town Rejects Pro-Life Flag, But Allows Rainbow Flag Painted on Sidewalk

Jul 7, 2023 | ,

Leaders of a Canadian town rejected a request last week to allow a pro-life flag to fly next to an LGBTQ rainbow display, claiming one is “controversial” and the other is “inclusive.”

In early June, the Smithers chapter of the Pro-Life Society asked the town council for permission to erect a pro-life flag display downtown. They pointed out that their British Columbia town approved another political display, an LGBTQ rainbow painted on a crosswalk.

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Surrogate pressured to abort after cancer diagnosis: ‘The fathers wanted a death certificate’

Surrogate pressured to abort after cancer diagnosis: ‘The fathers wanted a death certificate’

Jul 7, 2023 |

“[D]uring her second trimester, she was diagnosed with aggressive metastatic breast cancer. The problem facing her niece, she explained, was if she consented to treatment directed at her cancer, she would be required to terminate the pregnancy because the cancer therapy would be harmful to the developing 24-week fetus,” Lahl wrote. “Unwilling to abort the baby, the surrogate mother and her family were left trying to find a hospital where she would be allowed to deliver the baby early, in order to allow her to begin her cancer treatment. They knew that at this stage in the pregnancy the baby might not survive but that with support from the hospital staff, the baby could possibly survive.”

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Protecting Kids Online

Protecting Kids Online

Jul 7, 2023 |

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) governs how social media companies engage the nation’s children, but it was written in 1998, before social media existed. American teens are afflicted by a profound mental health crisis, and smartphones and social media are the principal culprit.

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Abortion supporters take next step to expand abortion, end parental consent in Ohio

Abortion supporters take next step to expand abortion, end parental consent in Ohio

Jul 7, 2023 | ,

Ohio abortion proponents filed 710,131 signatures Wednesday in support of an amendment that would enshrine the “right” to abortion in the state’s constitution. The proposed amendment, which states “every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s reproductive decisions,” is expected to land on the ballot for voters to decide this fall.

Though headlines are touting the fact that the over 700,000 petition signatures received are well over the 413,487 needed, pro-life leaders have already raised the alarm that the abortion industry used unorthodox tactics to collect the signatures, such as the Michigan man who was caught on video admitting that Planned Parenthood paid him to travel to the state to campaign for the amendment. In another instance, a signature gatherer accepted an invalid signature from an unregistered voter simply so that he could make more money.

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