An Indiana doctor who performed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> on a 10-year-old girl and then shared details about the procedure with the media has been reprimanded by the state medical board.
The Indiana State Medical Licensing Board <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-doctor-reprimanded-performing-10-year-olds-abortion-telling-reporter-egregious-violation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> Thursday to reprimand Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis doctor, and fine her $3,000, saying she violated privacy laws and medical ethics standards, Fox News reported.
Bernard was also accused by Indiana&#8217;s Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita, of violating state law by not reporting the 10-year-old&#8217;s pregnancy as evidence of child sexual abuse, but the medical licensing board rejected that accusation.
The attorney general called Bernard an &#8220;abortion activist acting as a doctor&#8221; and also wanted the board to suspend Bernard&#8217;s license, but they refused to do so, according to Fox News.
Deputy Attorney General Cory Voight spoke to the board and argued Bernard committed an &#8220;egregious violation&#8221; of patient privacy by <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/01/indiana-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-overturned-travel/7779936001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sharing</a> details about the child&#8217;s situation with the media. Also, Bernard&#8217;s failure to report the child abuse immediately to police or Indiana&#8217;s child protective agency resulted in &#8220;a child returning to live with her rapist for five days in Ohio,&#8221; Voight said.
&#8220;Everyone – the country – learned about her patient. Learned a 10-year-old little girl was raped and had an abortion,” Voight <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2023/05/26/indiana-abortion-doctor-violated-privacy-law-medical-board-rules/70259794007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding that &#8220;no physician has been as brazen in pursuit of their own agenda.&#8221;
Bernard accused the deputy attorney general of pulling a &#8220;political stunt&#8221; with the situation.
Bernard insisted she had followed Indiana&#8217;s reporting requirements, notifying an Indiana University Health social worker and confirming the child abuse was already being investigated in Ohio, where the girl lived.
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The 10-year-old traveled to Indiana from Ohio for the abortion <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/25/caitlin-bernard-indiana-abortion-rape-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">less than a week</a> after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in June last year. The court&#8217;s decision triggered a six-week abortion ban to take effect in Ohio, and the girl was reportedly six weeks and three days pregnant.
The girl&#8217;s family initially <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/01/indiana-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-overturned-travel/7779936001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took her</a> to an Ohio doctor, who called Bernard and asked if Bernard could help by performing the girl&#8217;s abortion in Indiana instead.
Bernard&#8217;s legal team argued that she did not give identifying information about the girl to the Indianapolis Star reporter who wrote the initial story about the 10-year-old&#8217;s abortion. She and her legal team emphasized that Bernard did not expect the story to go viral in the way it did.
Asked why she had shared details of the girl&#8217;s situation with the reporter, Bernard said, &#8220;I think that it’s incredibly important for people to understand the real-world impacts of the laws of this country about abortion.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it’s important for people to know what patients will have to go through because of legislation that is being passed, and a hypothetical does not make that impact,&#8221; Bernard said.
The president of the medical licensing board, Dr. John Strobel, called Bernard “a good doctor” during the 14-hour board hearing. He said he is &#8220;certain that Dr. Bernard has learned a lot about privacy.&#8221;
Besides being an OB/GYN, Bernard is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

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A second whistleblower has come out describing &#8220;activist&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-childrens-hospital-performs-sex-change-procedures-on-children-as-young-as-11-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doctors</a> at Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital and the &#8220;culture of fear&#8221; around gender treatments for children.
Last week, City Journal reported that the country’s largest children’s hospital performs <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sex change</a> procedures on children as young as 11.
Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston inserted an implantable puberty blocker in multiple children, including at least one 11-year-old, according to whistleblower documents <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/sex-change-procedures-at-texas-childrens-hospital#:~:text=Last%20spring%2C%20executives%20at%20Texas,affirming%20therapy%2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo.
The hospital performed these procedures despite Texas Children’s Hospital executives <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/08/texas-childrens-hospital-stops-gender-affirming-care-trans-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in March of last year that they would stop performing transgender medical procedures on minors due to legal and criminal liability concerns.
A new whistleblower <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/texas-childrens-hospital-whistleblower-speaks-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> City Journal this week that they work closely with Dr. Richard Roberts, a pediatric endocrinologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and one of the leaders of the hospital&#8217;s child sex-change program.
The whistleblower said many of Roberts&#8217; trans-identifying patients have other mental conditions like autism, previous suicide attempts, depression, anxiety, and disabilities, according to their charts.
Roberts will up a female patient&#8217;s testosterone doses if she wants it, according to the whistleblower, and he has referred children out of state for double mastectomies.
Children are sometimes placed on puberty blockers as soon as the same day, the whistleblower said.
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&#8220;So yes, we’re ruining them,&#8221; the whistleblower said.
&#8220;They’re going to wake up in ten years and discover that they’re infertile, that they can’t have children, that their sexuality is completely dysfunctional. That they can’t function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves — when they wake up and realize that they’ve already been ruined,&#8221; the whistleblower said.
The whistleblower also said the hospital as a whole has &#8220;completely gone full-blown woke&#8221; when it comes to trans-identifying minors.
In one example, a doctor allegedly asked a ten-year-old girl who identified as a boy if she would like her periods to &#8220;go away,&#8221; and the girl said yes.
&#8220;The mom had some real concerns, and this provider totally shut her down,&#8221; the whistleblower said.
Parents are scared of being reported to Child Protective Services or of driving their child to suicide or self-harm, the whistleblower said. They are &#8220;intimidated&#8221; by the powerful doctors that are on the side of the child.
&#8220;I’m absolutely sick to my stomach. Absolutely just devastated. Literally, sometimes I have to go outside and cry, because, I don’t mean to be dramatic, but I truly feel like there is a demonic presence at my workplace,&#8221; the whistleblower said. &#8220;And I’m so 100 percent against this whole ideology and this movement of children just feeling like they were born in the wrong body and then being &#8216;affirmed&#8217; by adults who want to take advantage of them and make a buck.&#8221;
At least two other Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital employees feel similarly, the whistleblower said, but they don&#8217;t share their opinions because they are afraid to lose their jobs. There is a &#8220;culture of fear&#8221; at the hospital around transgender medical procedures for children, the whistleblower said.
An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration&#8217;s</a> Health and Human Services (HHS) department is offering up to $1.7 million in grants to groups that promote family &#8220;acceptance&#8221; of LGBT youths.
Groups can get <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/fg-23-004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">up to $425,000</a> a year for programs that &#8220;reduce rejection&#8221; of LGBT youth by their families and connect families to counseling in order to increase their acceptance.
The program is through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The program&#8217;s purpose is to &#8220;prevent health and behavioral health risks&#8221; like suicide, depression, homelessness, drug use, and HIV and to &#8220;promote well-being for LGBTQI+ youth in the context of their families/caregivers, cultures, and communities&#8221; through family counseling and support programs and interventions, according to the program&#8217;s SAMHSA <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/fg-23-004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a>.
&#8220;Research has shown that LGBTQI+ youth are at greater risk for poor behavioral health outcomes than their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts,&#8221; the grant application materials <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy-2023-lgbtq-family-support-nofo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a>.
The grant application materials cited a survey from The Trevor Project, a transgender activist group focused on youth, that found that LGBT youth with &#8220;high social support&#8221; from their families reported fewer suicide attempts than those with &#8220;low or moderate social support.&#8221;
&#8220;Yet, fewer than 1 in 3 transgender and nonbinary youth found their home to be gender-affirming,&#8221; the materials add. &#8220;Negative parental reactions related to sexual orientation are associated with increases in substance use, including alcohol, marijuana, and cigarettes, as well as higher risk of suicidal ideation.”
Transgender activists frequently tell parents who do not affirm their child&#8217;s new gender identity that they are increasing the likelihood their child will commit suicide. Activists push parents to allow their trans-identifying child access to medical interventions like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even gender surgeries, all of which are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/puberty-blockers-cause-infertility-and-are-given-out-like-candy-according-to-gender-clinic-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not completely</a> reversible.
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Grant recipients must connect youth and their families with counseling and support. They must also refer youth with mental health or substance abuse disorders to the proper community providers.
Groups must also develop an &#8220;evidence-based family counseling intervention&#8221; to &#8220;promote family acceptance&#8221; of LGBT youth and &#8220;prevent behaviors associated with family rejection of the LGBTQI+ youth that can lead to mental health and substance use conditions.&#8221;
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They must also establish an LGBT &#8220;advisory workgroup&#8221; that can include LGBT activists, youth, parents, and counselors.
Groups that get a grant are also allowed to use social media to promote the message that family rejection of a child&#8217;s LGBT identity could lead to suicide and other behavioral problems.
They may also consult with child welfare devices on programs that encourage families to accept their child&#8217;s identity.
The Biden administration has come out strongly in favor of allowing children to access transgender medical interventions like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries.
Last year, President Biden called on HHS to increase access to transgender medical treatments and fight red states that are attempting to restrict children&#8217;s access to them.
“My message to all the young people: Just be you,” Biden <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/15/joe-biden-texas-transgender-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.
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Paradromics, a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/silicon-valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">company</a> seeking to build direct data interfaces with the human <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brain</a>, earned a breakthrough device designation from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</a>, which will grant the firm an expedited review process to incorporate the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">technology</a> into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical</a> applications.
The company is seeking to <a href="https://www.paradromics.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">develop</a> an implanted brain-computer interface, also called a BCI, that can function outside of a laboratory to assist patients who lose the physical ability to speak or type, such as those impacted by spinal cord injuries and strokes. The designation from the FDA occurs as Paradromics, which has received $47 million in venture funds and $18 million in federal funds to advance the technology, announces an additional $33 million funding round.
&#8220;This designation recognizes the transformative promise of our device, and we look forward to continued coordination with the FDA to accelerate its availability,” Paradromics CEO Matt Angle said in a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paradromics-raises-33-million-in-funding-achieves-breakthrough-medical-device-designation-from-fda-301827969.html?tc=eml_cleartime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “And this investment validates our leadership position among the small group of BCI platform companies on the verge of commercialization.&#8221;
Paradromics will also seek to address motor and sensory deficits, chronic pain, and mood disorders, as well as treatment-resistant mental illnesses, which the company says represents a $240 billion market in the United States.
Other ventures have noted the various potential applications for brain implants: Neuralink, the brain-computer interface firm started by Elon Musk, also received FDA breakthrough designation for its technology three years ago. The company has repeatedly claimed that human trials would imminently start, although Neuralink has not yet received FDA authorization for the move, according to a recent investigative <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/neuralink-musk-fda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Reuters.
Neuralink posted a job <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-neuralink-makes-its-next-move-to-begin-human-trials-for-brain-implants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advertisement</a> last year for individuals who would “work closely with some of the most innovative doctors” on the company’s first clinical trials, as well as help to “build the team responsible for enabling Neuralink’s clinical research activities and developing the regulatory interactions that come with a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment.”
The worldwide market specific to brain implants is expected to witness a compound annual growth rate above 9% over the next five years, according to an <a href="https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/brain-implants-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from Grand View Research. The growing population of senior citizens, who are more likely to suffer from diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, is expected to serve as a key market for the technology.
Deep brain stimulators, which send electrical impulses through electrodes implanted in the brain, currently occupy the largest market share in the broader brain implant space. Increased awareness of the treatment options for neurological movement disorders is expected to accelerate growth in the segment. Vagus nerve stimulators, which send impulses to the brain through the vagus nerve, are expected to grow at the fastest annualized rate.
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News of the advancements in brain-computer interface technology comes as firms rush to develop artificial intelligence solutions. Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin unveiled a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-unveil-ai-that-can-turn-thoughts-into-written-text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">system</a> earlier this month which uses AI to transform a person’s brain activity into written words. The “semantic decoder” learns how to translate thoughts as the person listens to podcasts and the system concurrently measures brain activity, then produces text that mirrors the meaning of the individual’s thoughts. The system does not require implants but is impractical for use outside of a laboratory.

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In the depths of 2020, many Americans couldn&#8217;t wait for the COVID vaccine to hit pharmacies.
Once they got their shot, some couldn&#8217;t wait for their first booster dose — or their second.
Now though, the pandemic has died down, and Americans are exhausted.
Most never bothered getting their second, third, fourth, or fifth boosters, despite <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/cdc-keeps-pushing-covid-boosters-on-kids-despite-health-risks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne4CfAglWmQ&amp;t=28s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marketing</a> from the federal government. Those who did get four or five doses have inspired <a href="https://twitter.com/CryptoMo_/status/1473647681314729989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memes</a> online — portrayed as fearful hypochondriacs still living in 2020 who fell for government propaganda.
Meanwhile, booster dose rates are nearing zero.
Only 16.9% of the U.S. population — about 56.1 million people — have received the updated bivalent booster dose, the latest version of the booster shot, <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5">according</a> to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Contrast that with the 69.5%, more than 230 million Americans, who got their initial COVID vaccine at some point. About 81.4% received at least one dose of the vaccine.
The CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1119-booster-shots.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the first version of the booster dose for all adults in November, 2021. Ten months later in September, the updated bivalent booster targeting the Omicron variant <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0901-covid-19-booster.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became</a> available.
By mid-October, a month and a half into the updated booster rollout, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/15/us/politics/covid-booster-shots.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only 15 million</a> doses of the new shots had been administered to about one in 10 eligible people.
Americans weren&#8217;t as excited as the government hoped they would be.
Most of the vaccinated people who didn&#8217;t get the updated booster shot said they either didn&#8217;t know they were eligible, didn&#8217;t know boosters were available, or believed they still had strong protection against infection, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7203a5.htm?s_cid=mm7203a5_w#suggestedcitation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a November CDC survey.
Shots of the updated booster dose peaked on Friday, October 14 when <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 800,000 people across the country went to get their booster dose, according to the CDC&#8217;s tracker.
After that, though, the number of people getting boosters dropped precipitously in early November and has continued to sink since then. The last week of April saw a slight bump, but this month the numbers dropped even lower. According to the CDC, fewer than 8,000 people got a booster dose on May 9th.
Keep in mind, the CDC&#8217;s data only includes first booster doses. The numbers for subsequent boosters are even more dismal.
Enthusiasm for multiple COVID boosters was weak from the start.
By August, 2022, about 58.8 million people 50 or older had <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7135a4.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gotten</a> their original booster shot, but only 20 million had gotten their second booster dose, despite all of them being eligible. The people most likely to skip the second booster were blacks and Hispanics, people in rural areas, people aged 50 to 64, and people who got the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine.
Currently, the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html#:~:text=You%20may%20get%20a%20Novavax,any%20other%20COVID%2D19%20vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> people ages six and up need only one updated booster, while people 65 and up can get a second booster. The agency recommends immunocompromised people get a booster dose every two months.
In other words, a healthy person does not need more than one booster, even by the CDC&#8217;s standards.
Nevertheless, a small <a href="https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1567961245889839105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">but</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/richsignorelli/status/1568267364512276481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vocal</a> group is eager to announce getting their third, fourth, or fifth booster shots on social media, even as serious COVID cases have fallen.
For the most part, however, Americans&#8217; vaccine fatigue does not show signs of letting up, especially as we get further away from 2020.
The national public health emergency around COVID officially expired on Thursday, May 11, more than three years after it began under the Trump administration. This means the government will now treat COVID as any other respiratory illness.
Unless millions of Americans have a sudden change of heart about the booster shot, the anemic tally of those who have taken it is unlikely to change.

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The lawyer for a Canadian father jailed for opposing his daughter&#8217;s gender transition has been sanctioned for speaking out about the shocking case, prompting his client to charge that his own rights to defend himself in court &#8220;do not exist.&#8221;
The Law Society of British Columbia, a regulator authorized by Canadian law, cited attorney Carey Linde for &#8220;professional misconduct&#8221; for doing media interviews about his client, the father of a girl who identifies as male. Linde is accused of violating one or more orders from judges, a &#8220;publication ban,&#8221; an &#8220;anonymity order,&#8221; and a &#8220;protection order,&#8221; the Society alleges.
The child&#8217;s father, whose identity was put under a publication ban by the Canadian court ostensibly to protect his child, told The Daily Wire the system is trying to punish his attorney to undermine his case.
&#8220;A big part of the defense will be exposing the BC Supreme court system and the many judges that were a part of my case,&#8221; the father said. &#8220;We feel that this case is so &#8216;politically&#8217; charged that my rights and any level of fairness in the court system do not exist.&#8221;
In interviews with &#8220;American media outlets&#8221; Linde discussed his client&#8217;s daughter&#8217;s gender identity, physical and mental health, treatments, and &#8220;personal information&#8221; without regard for the judge&#8217;s orders, the regulator claims. Both citations were issued in 2021, but the regulator is only now taking the next step in the disciplinary process.
A date will now be set for a disciplinary action hearing for Linde, who has been practicing law in British Columbia for over 50 years.
In 2018, the child&#8217;s father, a Vancouver postman, was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/canadian-father-jailed-for-speaking-out-about-trans-identifying-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> that a hospital would start administering cross-sex hormones to his child. Thanks to a recent <a href="https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/bc-court-of-appeal-finds-trans-teen-can-seek-hormone-treatment-without-parents-consent/325135#:~:text=In%20A.B.,to%20hormone%20treatment%20under%20s." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian law</a>, doctors may administer transgender drugs to children without parental consent.
Five years later, the dad is still fighting in the British Columbia Courts over the loss of his parental rights in the medical transitioning of his teen daughter.
After the dad spoke out against his child’s gender transition, he was arrested in March, 2021 and fined $30,000 for misgendering his daughter, who was 13 at the time. He was also charged with criminal contempt of court. He was initially denied bail and held in jail.
The father has incurred “enormous losses and expenses” over the ordeal and has been “dragged through a kind of legal hell,” according to his GoGetFunding <a href="https://gogetfunding.com/bc-father-fighting-medical-transitioning-of-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a>. The page has raised over $88,000 ($65,000 USD) as of Friday.
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh interviewed the Canadian dad for his documentary “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman</a>,” released last year.
The dad told Walsh that his ex-wife brought their daughter to an appointment at British Columbia Children’s Hospital. The dad said he trusted the hospital to perform a thorough evaluation and thought, “good, this is going to be the end of it all. They’re going to clearly see that my child is not the opposite sex.”
He got a call less than an hour into that appointment, however, informing him that “they were going to pump her full of cross-sex hormones within the hour,” he said.
“And I put a halt to that. I said no,” the dad said. “They agreed to stop for the moment. They figured, well let’s get the dad on board too … I said it’s not going to happen.”
After that, the dad said he got a letter from the hospital in December 2018 saying that under British Columbia’s <a href="https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96223_01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Infants Act</a> the hospital would be starting his daughter on cross-sex hormones, and he had two weeks to respond with legal action if he chose to.
“So that’s how I ended up in court, because I did respond with legal action,” the dad said.
Meanwhile, he was publicly referring to his daughter as “she.” In Canada, it can be <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identity-rights-bill-c-16-explained" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considered</a> criminal violence to refuse to use someone’s preferred pronouns, the dad said, so he ended up in jail.
“It is no different than let’s say I were to take a broomstick and whack one of my kids over the head,” the dad said.
His daughter was still on cross-sex hormones as of Walsh’s interview.
The dad is back in court on May 31 to begin his appeal at the British Columbia Court of Appeal, he told The Daily Wire.
The dad said his legal team told him his case is a &#8220;priority&#8221; for the government of British Columbia and &#8220;they intend to win at all costs.&#8221;
WATCH: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman">&#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221;</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indiana</a> became the latest Republican-led states to implement bans on sex-change-related treatment for minors.
On Tuesday night, Idaho Republican Governor Brad Little signed a bill that outlaws puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and transition-related surgeries for minors, <a href="https://www.kivitv.com/news/gov-little-signs-house-bill-71-banning-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-in-idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Idaho News 6</a>. Medical practitioners who knowingly violate the ban face the prospect of a felony, and if convicted, they could land in <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/H0071.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prison for up to 10 years</a>.
In Indiana, Republican Governor Eric Holcomb signed similar legislation that goes into effect <a href="https://www.wndu.com/2023/04/05/gov-holcomb-signs-bill-banning-gender-affirming-care-into-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on July 1</a> and requires youths taking medication to transition to stop by the end of the year.
&#8220;Permanent gender-changing surgeries with lifelong impacts and medically prescribed preparation for such a transition should occur as an adult, not as a minor,&#8221; Holcomb said in a statement reported by <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/indiana/indiana-governor-signs-ban-on-gender-affirming-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Associated Press</a>.
Roughly a dozen states have now implemented laws or policies that crack down on sex-change-related treatment for minors with more on the way. For instance, Florida&#8217;s state Senate approved on Tuesday a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/04/florida-senate-ban-transgender-treatments-kids-00090481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban on transgender surgeries for children</a>.
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-gov-signs-bills-protecting-children-from-sex-change-procedures-drag-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed legislation</a> last month that bans sex-change procedures on minors in his state. &#8220;We should not allow permanent, life altering decisions that hurt children,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/GovBillLee/status/1578544807055872000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he tweeted in October</a>.
Such bans have prompted legal challenges and intense criticism. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Indiana <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/aclu-sues-indiana-senate-bill-480-gender-affirming-care-gov-eric-holcomb/531-3c14964b-29de-48ad-b848-99c771e360fc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced a lawsuit</a> soon after Holcomb signed the legislation in his state. A <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/aclu-of-idaho-to-sue-over-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-youth/277-73950bb7-7c34-49c5-b9ce-008d0e967c17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar suit</a> is expected in Idaho.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean, a Democrat, took aim at the bill just signed by Little.
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&#8220;My heart breaks today for every loving parent of a trans child, every doctor who strives to offer life-saving affirming care, and every child in our community targeted by H71,&#8221; McLean <a href="https://twitter.com/boisemayor/status/1643631823627464710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on Twitter</a>. &#8220;H71 is the heavy hand of the government coming between parents who deeply care and doctors trained to help, and it puts our most vulnerable kids at even greater risk.&#8221;
The Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has a map</a> on its website tracking the &#8220;Attacks on Gender Affirming Care by State.&#8221; The map shows court injunctions in Texas, Alabama, and Arkansas are temporarily blocking enforcement.
&#8220;In a coordinated push led by national anti-LGBTQ+ groups, legislators across the country have overridden the recommendations of the American medical establishment and introduced hundreds of bills that target transgender and non-binary youth’s access to age-appropriate, medically-necessary care,&#8221; the group says.
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/30/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a proclamation</a> to recognize the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-proclamation-condemns-states-with-laws-targeting-transgender-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221;</a> last week, President Joe Biden decried how a &#8220;wave of discriminatory State laws is targeting transgender youth, terrifying families and hurting kids who are not hurting anyone.&#8221;

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> agent slammed the bureau Tuesday for wasting taxpayer money after receiving a document from an alleged field office insider in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a>, which announced a &#8220;wellness room&#8221; that includes massage recliners, lounge furniture, and a yoga space for employees.
Steve Friend, a former FBI agent and current senior fellow for the Center for Renewing America, tweeted two photos sent to him by an apparent insider at the bureau&#8217;s Newark Field Office that shows a memo announcement from the Health &amp; Wellness Committee and a sign of self-care &#8220;reminders&#8221; outside the wellness room.
Friend, who was suspended after making a whistleblower complaint about the Department of Justice, slammed the bureau in his tweet, saying, &#8220;this is not a serious law enforcement agency.&#8221;
&#8220;I definitely see a value in activities that could build morale, but I don&#8217;t think that it should be done on the taxpayer&#8217;s time and dime,&#8221; Friend told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And when you see things like massage chairs being made available to federal employees to have access to during their workday — as a taxpayer myself, I find that insulting.&#8221;
According to the document posted by Friend, a Newark Wellness Committee volunteer issued the memo citing the mission statement and how to enhance the bureau&#8217;s so-called culture of excellence to maintain current and retired employees&#8217; physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
&#8220;The Wellness Committee seeks to encourage employees to prioritize their physical, emotional, and mental health by offering a wellness space, program, and resources,&#8221; the document reads. &#8220;The Committee will support employees in their development and maintenance of healthy and positive habits that increase their overall wellbeing.&#8221;
Aside from massage chairs, lounge furniture, and open space for yoga and relaxing, the Wellness Room will also have broadcast equipment for wellness-related programs and speakers. But before entering the safe space, agents are reminded to care for themselves by taking breaks, exploring their feelings, and that &#8220;It&#8217;s OK to have bad and unproductive days.&#8221;
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BONUS! Here is a sign posted outside the <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> wellness room. This is not a serious law enforcement agency. At best the FBI is an insult to the taxpayer. At worst, an enemy. <a href="https://twitter.com/Weaponization?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Weaponization</a> <a href="https://t.co/HFKoK5PO89">pic.twitter.com/HFKoK5PO89</a>
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Emotional wellness became a prolific focus for bureau officials during the pandemic, and the program itself comes off the heels of a recent trend, Friend said, that pushes FBI employees to be &#8220;kinder, gentler,&#8221; which the former federal agent noted extends beyond the field office in New Jersey.
The bureau had also reduced its physical fitness standards to bring in a broader pool of individuals who typically fail to meet those requirements, Friend said, that he had to pass before he became an agent, which took approximately four years and involved a multitude of comprehensive background checks, a polygraph examination, physical fitness test, as well as a medical physical examination.
&#8220;It is a contentious point, I know, within the rank and file that&#8217;s been raised a lot,&#8221; Friend said.
FBI Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, who spent six years in the bureau working in counterterrorism and counterintelligence, was officially suspended indefinitely and without pay in June 2022 after he complained of allegedly questionable activity within the bureau and refused to comply with its COVID vaccine mandate.
Seraphin told The Daily Wire that the wellness program emulates the &#8220;worst and weakest parts of the Woke corporate culture.&#8221;
&#8220;When the work you do is honorable and rewarding, you don&#8217;t need a Wellness Room set aside to gather your thoughts,&#8221; Seraphin said. &#8220;That used to be called ‘your lunch break.’ But when you hire people whose work doesn&#8217;t actually impact the rewarding mission of law enforcement and simply exists for its own sake — perhaps they need to detox from the cognitive dissonance of ‘federal service’ being a federal jobs program.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the FBI Newark Field Office for comment Tuesday.

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Could the experts be starting to admit, three years later, that they were wrong about COVID?
At least one medical researcher is calling on the scientific community to admit mistakes were made.
&#8220;I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives,&#8221; wrote Kevin Bass, an MD/PhD student, in a recent <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-scientific-community-admit-we-were-wrong-about-coivd-it-cost-lives-opinion-1776630">op-ed</a> for Newsweek.
Whoops.
For years and with almost one voice, the scientific elites seemingly doubled down on the necessity of broad vaccine mandates and prolonged lockdowns, even as Americans suffered.
Medical professionals who <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55141055">questioned</a> <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/05/scho-j05.html">the narrative</a> or <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/">offered</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601011428579717121">opinions</a> not accepted by the mainstream were mocked and censored on social media platforms.
Americans were required to abide by COVID restrictions even when they seemed to defy common sense, <a href="https://www.bmhsc.org/blog/mask-etiquette-when-dining-out">such as</a> wearing a face mask when standing in a restaurant but not when sitting down.
Bass said he &#8220;staunchly supported&#8221; public health authorities when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and booster shots. He believed at the time that they were responding with &#8220;compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise.&#8221;
Now the scales have fallen from his eyes, he said.
Public health authorities &#8220;overstated the evidence and misled the public&#8221; on a litany of issues, including natural COVID immunity vs. vaccine immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially for young people, Bass wrote.
The U.S. government, namely the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as the World Health Organization (WHO), are all at fault, he said.
Bass also pointed out that pandemic policies like lockdowns were promoted by elites in academia, government, medicine, journalism, tech, and public health and forced on the working class, &#8220;whose daily lives routinely demand that they reckon with risk.&#8221;
Not only were the experts wrong, but their mistakes cost lives, Bass concluded.
&#8220;If our public health officials had led with less hubris, the course of the pandemic in the United States might have had a very different outcome, with far fewer lost lives,&#8221; he wrote.
Beyond the loss of life potentially caused by the half-baked policies foisted on the public, Americans suffered physically, emotionally, and financially.
Elderly Americans <a href="https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2022/03/07/covid-patients-icu-dying-alone-helen-t-dcouto">died alone</a> in the hospital. Their families were <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-rites-insight/there-are-no-funerals-death-in-quarantine-leaves-nowhere-to-grieve-idUSKBN2161ZM">denied</a> a funeral. Children <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/student-suicides-nevada-coronavirus.html">committed</a> suicide. Many of the ones who didn&#8217;t suffered, cooped up at home and stuck behind a computer screen, watching their <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/briefing/pandemic-learning-loss.html">grades sink</a> while schools stayed closed longer than restaurants. Families <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/us/phoenix-arizona-aguirre-family-covid-deaths/index.html">lost</a> their businesses. <a href="https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/jobtracker/#tool-3-tracking">Millions</a> lost their jobs.
Then many Americans were forced to get the COVID vaccine <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251914/health-care-workers-denied-religious-exemption-to-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-settlement">despite</a> religious and health objections. Stories of &#8220;vaccine injuries&#8221; including <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1786/rr-0">nerve damage</a> proliferated online. Some young people, who are least at risk of developing serious COVID symptoms, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html">developed</a> myocarditis or inflammation of the heart after the vaccine.
Bass describes himself as a &#8220;centrist&#8221; with &#8220;non-partisan takes on health, longevity, nutrition&#8221; who welcomes &#8220;constructive criticism.&#8221;
He is not the first <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-need-to-admit-what-they-got-wrong-about-covid/">to admit</a> that medical experts oversold their confidence in how COVID works and what the response should be. Even CNN&#8217;s Dr. Leana Wen <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1473045198980665344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1473045198980665344%7Ctwgr%5Edb858c6fabbade8faa619e3a7a9b9eff05053fb7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-13444116233539229772.ampproject.net%2F2301181928000%2Fframe.html">said</a> at the end of 2021 that &#8220;cloth masks are little more than facial decorations.&#8221;
However, so far it has been crickets from most of the scientific community on whether they got anything wrong over the last three years.

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Pit bulls have been in the news lately, and that&#8217;s not a good thing.
A string of pit bull attacks has reignited a decades-old debate about whether the breed should be legal.
Earlier this month, a 7-year-old girl <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisiana-girl-age-7-dies-pit-bull-attack-east-baton-rouge-dog-owner-arrested/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> after being attacked by a neighbor&#8217;s pit bull in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. An 11-year-old in Georgia had his scalp halfway torn off, half his ear bitten off, and suffered deep puncture wounds on both legs when two pit bulls <a href="https://www.wrdw.com/2023/01/07/11-year-old-hospitalized-after-being-attacked-by-3-dogs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> him while he was riding his bike.
In November, two pit bulls <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/7-month-old-mauled-by-pit-bulls-inside-dc-home-left-fighting-for-his-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> a 7-month-old boy in Washington, D.C., leaving him fighting for his life in intensive care. The infant suffered a fractured skull and other serious injuries and required surgery.
The tragic list goes on. Many of the victims are young children, but some are adults, and some are even the dog&#8217;s owner, who is left heartbroken and bewildered when his pet attacks him. In a cruel twist, pit bulls also tend to be extremely <a href="https://www.friendstotheforlorn.org/about-pitbulls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affectionate</a> towards people, making them a favorite among dog lovers.
The breed has long been controversial, however.
Critics say the dogs should be outlawed given how frequently they attack people, and how deadly it can be when they do.
In 2019, pit bulls killed 33 Americans, 69% of all fatal dog bites that year, <a href="https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2019.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to DogsBite.org, one of the most prominent groups criticizing pit bulls. The next deadliest were mixed-breed dogs and Rottweilers.
Back in 1980, Hollywood, Florida became the first locality in the country to crack down on pit bulls after a dog scalped a 6-year-old boy and mangled his face. The city required pit bull owners to have $25,000 in personal liability insurance, but two years later a judge <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-12-09-8902140246-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapped</a> the law, saying there was not enough evidence that pit bulls are more dangerous than other dogs.
About 1,200 U.S. cities currently regulate pit bulls, DogsBite.org <a href="https://blog.dogsbite.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/estimated-breed-specific-laws-2021.pdf">estimates</a>.
In 1987, a Sports Illustrated <a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1987/07/27/the-pit-bull-friend-and-killer-is-the-pit-bull-a-fine-animal-as-its-admirers-claim-or-is-it-a-vicious-dog-unfit-for-society" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover</a> blared, &#8220;Beware Of This Dog: The Pit Bull Terrier&#8221; with a photo of a snarling dog.
The U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marines currently ban pit bull–type dogs as well as Rottweilers and other breeds deemed too dangerous for base housing.
Nevertheless, pit bulls have many defenders in the U.S. who say it is individual dogs, not specific breeds, that are too dangerous to live side by side with humans.
&#8220;All dogs, including pit bulls, are individuals,&#8221; the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) said in a position <a href="https://www.aspca.org/about-us/aspca-policy-and-position-statements/position-statement-pit-bulls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on pit bulls.
&#8220;Despite our best efforts, there will always be dogs of various breeds that are simply too dangerous to live safely in society,&#8221; and so laws must be passed and enforced that focus &#8220;not on breed, but on people’s responsibility for their dogs’ behavior,&#8221; ASPCA said. Breed-specific laws &#8220;create the illusion, but not the reality, of enhanced public safety,&#8221; the group added.
In 2013, the Obama White House came out against &#8220;breed-specific legislation,&#8221; calling it &#8220;largely ineffective and often a waste of public resources.&#8221;
&#8220;The simple fact is that dogs of any breed can become dangerous when they’re intentionally or unintentionally raised to be aggressive,&#8221; the White House <a href="https://petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/petition/ban-and-outlaw-breed-specific-legislation-bsl-united-states-america-federal-level-0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.
Pit bull supporters point to a 2013 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24299544/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association that found irresponsible dog owners, not breed, were the main cause of fatal dog bites.
One of the most confusing traits of pit bulls is that their vicious attacks often seem to come out of nowhere, perpetrated <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278239119312595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unprovoked</a> by dogs with loving owners.
Pit bulls are 48% more likely to attack without provocation, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261032/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a 2013 study on head and neck dog bites published in the American Journal of Otolaryngology.
Critics argue that the attacks can happen suddenly because pit bulls were originally bred for now-outlawed blood sports like dog fighting, and not even the best owner can love the &#8220;fighting gene&#8221; out of them.
Pit bulls were originally a cross between the muscly Old English Bulldog and the quick and feisty Black and Tan Terrier. Dog fighting breeders wanted the strength of the bulldog, which was bred for bear and bull baiting, with the agility of the terrier.
The pit bull&#8217;s deadly &#8220;hold and shake&#8221; bite style worked well in the context of dog fighting. The dogs will often sustain the attack until they themselves are killed, according to Colleen Lynn, founder of DogsBite.org.
&#8220;If we can’t regulate the breed – or outlaw the breed – at the very least pit bull advocates, humane groups and veterinary groups that oppose these regulations, need to start being honest about this dog breed. Genetics in dogs are real,&#8221; Lynn told The Daily Wire.
If pit bulls are ever outlawed on a large scale, pit bull lovers will be loathe to give up their dogs, who are beloved members of many families.
Nevertheless, they are up against difficult statistics when it comes to dangerous dogs and which breed consistently sticks out.

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In one of its first acts this session, the GOP-controlled House passed a bill Wednesday geared toward ensuring steps are taken by health providers to protect infants born alive after an attempted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a>.
Republicans and their supporters championed the legislation as instrumental in guaranteeing life-saving care to newborns while Democrats and pro-abortion groups generally cast the bill as an <a href="https://twitter.com/NormaJTorres/status/1613177408667926531" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attack on women&#8217;s reproductive rights</a> and unnecessary because it is already illegal to kill infants who are born alive.
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One Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), joined all voting GOP lawmakers to support the legislation. <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The final tally was 220-210</a>, with Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) voting &#8220;present&#8221; and three Republicans not voting. Despite the victory for Republicans in the House, the legislation likely won&#8217;t get far in the Democrat-led Senate.
The bill, called the &#8220;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/26/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Born-Alive+Abortion+Survivors+Protection+Act%22%2C%22Born-Alive%22%2C%22Abortion%22%2C%22Survivors%22%2C%22Protection%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1&amp;s=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act</a>,&#8221; establishes that health care practitioners who do not reasonably act to &#8220;preserve the life and health of the child&#8221; after an attempted abortion as they would any newborn face fines or up to five years imprisonment. The bill also outlines civil remedies for the mother of an abortion survivor.
&#8220;This reasonable legislation would protect a baby born alive following an abortion,&#8221; <a href="https://wagner.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/wagner-scalise-cammack-introduce-born-alive-abortion-survivors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Carol Tobias</a>, president of National Right to Life. &#8220;This bill isn’t about interfering with a so-called right to abortion. It is about stopping infanticide. Congress must act now to pass this legislation and protect these vulnerable babies.&#8221;
Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), who introduced the bill, celebrated its passing following a years-long effort. She touted how the <a href="https://wagner.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/wagners-born-alive-legislation-passes-house-heads-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation will</a> &#8220;ensure that every single baby born in the United States receives lifesaving medical care at their most vulnerable moment.&#8221;
The lower chamber <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also adopted</a> on Wednesday a measure &#8220;condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.&#8221;
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Mini Timmaraju, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, <a href="https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/2023/01/11/naral-pro-choice-america-condemns-house-gops-passage-of-assault-on-abortion-as-democrats-close-rank-around-reproductive-freedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a statement</a> criticizing Republicans for &#8220;doubling down on their anti-choice extremist values&#8221; and &#8220;forcing votes on bills that make it harder for Americans to access the care they need.&#8221;
Alluding to how the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturned Roe v. Wade last summer</a>, leaving abortion restrictions to the states, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) described Wagner&#8217;s bill as part of &#8220;a march towards criminalizing abortion care, a nationwide ban.&#8221;

eps. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., Ann Wagner, R-Mo., and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

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