1. FOX NEWS: North Carolina GOP move on school choice with new supermajority after Dem’s stunning party switch
“Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are poised to push ahead with school choice legislation and other education reforms, a key policy area where the GOP has surging momentum following the high-profile defection of a Democratic legislator.“
2. DAILY SIGNAL: Doctors Back Florida Medicaid Rule on Experimental Gender Treatments
“Psychiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, and other doctors testified in support of a Florida health agency’s rule preventing Medicaid from funding various forms of ‘gender-affirming care,’ such as ‘puberty-blockers,’ cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries. ‘Patients suffering from gender dysphoria or related issues have a right to be protected from experimental, potentially harmful treatments lacking reliable, valid, peer-reviewed, published, long-term scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness,’ Dr. Paul Hruz, an endocrinology researcher and clinician at Washington University School of Medicine, wrote in a sworn affidavit provided exclusively to The Daily Signal.
3. DAILY SIGNAL: Federal Judge Rules FDA Approval of Abortion Pills Not Valid
“A federal judge ruled late last week that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an at-home abortion pill over two decades ago was improper and didn’t consider all of the pill’s risks to patients. He also did what many in his profession have failed to do: recognize the humanity of the child in the womb. If the decision is upheld, the abortion drug that’s responsible for over half of all abortions in the United States could ultimately be pulled off shelves.”
4. WCNC: Union County school board approves new rule on transgender athletes
“The board voted unanimously to require all high school athletes to compete on teams ‘consistent with the gender on the student’s birth certificate.’”
5. THE POST MILLENNIAL: Texas GOP brings bill to force health insurers to cover detransition care
“A Texas bill has been introduced that would require health insurance companies that provide coverage for sex change interventions to provide coverage for all possible adverse outcomes, including those related to detransition.” “Chloe Cole, a detransitioned young woman, was on the panel and spoke of the difficulties she is having accessing detransition-related healthcare, due to the fact that “there are no standards of care for detransitioners.” Cole was put on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13, had a double mastectomy at 15, and then detransitioned at 16.”
Weekly Prayer: Life
LORD, we cry out to you as Father. You are a model of the love, mercy, and authority of the perfect parent. We thank you for modeling for us what every parent should strive for, and for creating this wonderful institution called family.
LORD, we thank you for creating us with a basic nature designed to not be alone. You made us to desire the intimacy of relationships, and it is here where we experience joys indescribable: the joys of marriage, the joys of having children; the joys of seeing our children have children. What a blessing and mercy you gave us in the family! In it we find our first teachers, our first guardians, and our first authorities.
LORD, we recognize how deeply you love your children, and how deeply it pains you when they go astray. Alongside our adoration and thanksgiving, we pray in confession—as individuals and as members of larger communities—over any sins we may have committed that undermine your beloved institution. Forgive us when we endanger your institution through selfishness and arrogance. Forgive our communities and nation for attempting to redefine some of the most basic and deepest parts of being human—being made male and female, having lifelong marriage vows and responsibilities, and having parental rights over educating one’s children.
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Colossians 3:12-17)
Amen
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