Tag: Social Issues

Too Quick to Cut: The Dark Side of Surgery in Women’s Medicine

April 18, 2023
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In my teens, I had terrible cramps that came every month with my periods. They were so painful that I was incapacitated for one week out of every four, making my life miserable. I went to countless doctors and specialists, who either told me to “deal with it” or prescribed medication. The drugs were so…

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DeSantis Backs Bud Light Boycott

April 18, 2023
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday urged people to continue boycotting Bud Light amid the company’s controversial promotion of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. DeSantis told political commentator Benny Johnson that he would not be drinking Bud Light because he didn’t want to enable “woke companies” and their aims of “trying to change our country, trying…

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DeSantis Joins Bud Light Boycott

April 18, 2023
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday urged people to continue boycotting Bud Light amid the company’s controversial promotion of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. DeSantis told political commentator Benny Johnson that he would not be drinking Bud Light because he didn’t want to enable “woke companies” and their aims of “trying to change our country, trying…

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Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Request to Delay E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case

April 18, 2023
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A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay a civil defamation lawsuit after he disputed author E. Jean Carroll’s allegations that he raped her. In a 2019 book, Carroll claimed that Trump raped her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump has repeatedly denied…

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Here Come the Higgins Copycats

April 18, 2023
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Commentary While our country recovers from the COVID lockdown years, across Australia there are thousands of families who look back to 2021 as the start of a very different nightmare—the year their sons were accused of sexual assault. This is the legacy of the media hype around Brittany Higgins. There’s a flood of copycat cases…

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DeSantis Says Legislature Will Roll Back Disney’s Last-Minute Deal

April 17, 2023
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doubled down on his war with the Disney company, saying the legislature will soon invalidate the company’s last-minute moves to circumvent the new state-appointed board governing its special district. In a speech in Lake Buena Vista on April 17, DeSantis said he was confident the special district’s new board—at its meeting…

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De Blasio Argues ‘MAGA Extremism’ Will Be Florida’s Achilles Heel

April 17, 2023
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During a debate that pitted Florida against New York, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed that “MAGA extremism” will ultimately undermine the Sunshine State, even as it attracts tens of thousands of former New Yorkers. The Democrat predicted many skilled Floridians would leave the state due to policies such as a newly…

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IN-DEPTH: Transgender Inclusion in High School Sports Devastates Girls’ Athletic Aspirations

April 17, 2023
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As a little girl, Selina Soule ran simply for the joy of it, her little legs pumping furiously, her dark hair streaming behind her, as she streaked across grassy playgrounds. Her mother introduced her to track and field at a young age, she told The Epoch Times. When she was 5, she started competing in…

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IN-DEPTH: Survivors Alleging Satanic Ritual Abuse Raise Awareness Amid Media Claims of ‘Panic’

April 17, 2023
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Survivors alleging satanic ritual abuse (SRA) and their advocates are continuing a decades-long fight to advance their cases as media companies push a narrative that the type of abuse they allege is largely the creation of a social panic. Last month, the South by Southwest film festival screened “Satan Wants You,” which “tells the untold…

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Pennsylvania Taxpayers Fund Transgender Therapy Training for Hundreds of Mental Health Providers

April 17, 2023
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The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services gave more than $176,000 over three years to the Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to create a series of transgender therapy training workshops. The webinars and in-person training have been taken by more than 1,800 mental health providers and educators between 2018–2022….

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