Dubious assumptions underlie estimate of unplanned pregnancies caused by Trump policy. “The Biden administration is working to reverse a Trump-era family policy directive that…officials believe may have resulted in an estimated 180,000 unplanned pregnancies,” reports Newsweek. The startling estimate comes from a new proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to rescind […]
New legislation to be introduced in both the House and Senate today would add four justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. If successful, this would bring the number of Supreme Court justices to 13. “The number of justices on the court, which is set by Congress, has fluctuated throughout the course of the nation’s history, […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will once again allow abortion-inducing drugs to be prescribed remotely and sent via mail. Typically, a patient seeking a medical abortion—that’s the type induced via prescription drugs mifepristone and misoprostol—must be prescribed and receive the drugs at a physician’s office, hospital, or medical clinic, per FDA rules. But the […]
The truth about traffic stops and violence. The fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop by a police officer and union boss who supposedly can’t tell her taser from her gun spawned a rash of demonstrations against police brutality in which protesters were met with more police brutality. It’s also opened yet another […]
Are airplanes more dangerous now than they were during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic? No, of course not. Yet that’s what CNN implied on Sunday, in an article on “how to fly safely.” Correctly noting that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are only 90 percent protective against COVID-19, CNN went on to assert (incorrectly) […]
Setting the record straight on gun show sales. In announcing new gun control plans yesterday, President Joe Biden commented on alleged loopholes in gun background checks. “Most people don’t know, you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy […]
Appeals court rejects petition to compel judge to step down. Former Backpage.com executives are set to go to trial in August, after having the trial delayed multiple times in the three years since they were arrested for allegedly facilitating prostitution through the platform’s online classified ads. The judge on the case will be someone whose […]
Obtaining sex through “deception,” “concealment,” or “artifice” could violate consent. A group of New York lawmakers is trying to redefine consent in a way that would make it a crime to be less than fully truthful with sex partners. Under the new proposal, antics now considered merely caddish or immoral—like lying to a prospective sex […]
Suicide was 11th leading cause of U.S. mortality in 2020. There was a lot of speculation last year that business shutdowns and stay-at-home orders associated with COVID-19 would cause suicide rates to spike. Now, new evidence published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests this prediction may have been wrong. In fact, the […]
In short order, the scandal surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz (R–Fla.) has gone from alleged child sex trafficking!!! to maybe he took MDMA and paid some adult women for sex. We still don’t know all the details, and Gaetz may well turn out to have broken federal law. But it’s telling that the focus of the […]
