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State health plans must cover gender transition surgeries, federal appeals court rules

State health plans must cover gender transition surgeries, federal appeals court rules

May 1, 2024 |

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Monday requiring state health insurance plans to pay for gender transition surgeries, a decision that comes amid a nationwide struggle over transgender healthcare policy. The ruling came in a set of cases in West Virginia and North Carolina, in which state officials justified not covering the surgeries, including double mastectomies and vaginoplasties, on the basis of cost rather than on considerations related to gender identity and expression.

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Marriagelessness and the Loss of National Greatness

Marriagelessness and the Loss of National Greatness

May 1, 2024 |

The institution of marriage—if it can be called an institution—has collapsed. At the same time, the meaning of the institution has changed. Has it collapsed because its meaning changed, or did its meaning change as a way for society to come to grips with its collapse? And what effect does its collapse have on national character and national greatness?

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Christian leaders are attacked with swords in Northern India

Christian leaders are attacked with swords in Northern India

May 1, 2024 |

Four Nihang Sikhs, who as members of the traditional warrior group are permitted to carry such weapons, attacked Pastor Gurjeet Singh, alias Gurjeet Rinku, and his younger brother Gurdeep Singh on Thursday (April 18) in Sultanwind village, Amritsar District, a relative said. The assailants first told Gurdeep Singh, and later Pastor Singh, “We have warned you earlier as well to not conduct church and not convert people, but you have not paid heed,” according to Daljit Kaur, the pastor’s wife and an eyewitness.

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Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying rather than live with bedsores

Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying rather than live with bedsores

May 1, 2024 |

A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. In January Normand Meunier went to the emergency section of a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, for a respiratory complaint. He lay in a stretcher for four days without a pressure-relieving mattress and developed huge bed sores on his buttocks. The misery, apparently, was so great that he requested euthanasia, or, as it is called in Canada, MAID. “I don’t want to be a burden. At any rate, the medical opinions say I won’t be a burden for long; as the old folks say, it’s better to kick the can,” said Meunier.

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Germany Allows Parents to Change Their Baby’s Gender

Germany Allows Parents to Change Their Baby’s Gender

May 1, 2024 |

On April 12, the Bundestag, or the German parliament, “passed one of the world’s most far-reaching sex self-determination policies,” Reduxx reported. This radical legislation, it added, “establishes ‘gender identity’ as a protected characteristic and allows parents to change the sex marker on their children’s documents from birth.”

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