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And it's now time for your Daily Portage News break up production of Fortes Institute.
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Starting in Indiana, a superior court judge named Christina Kleinman has just rolled that
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Indiana's abortion ban violates the State's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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The plaintiffs, their group called Hoosier Jews for choice.
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And their argument is that their faith doesn't recognize life beginning at conception.
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So now, Indiana's own religious freedom law is being used to gut one of the strongest
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pro-life statutes in the country.
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And the ACLU couldn't be more thrilled, of course they couldn't.
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The Trump Department of Justice recently threw its own curveball, the Justice Department
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moved to block a lawsuit from Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho, states that want to stop the FDA
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from mailing abortion pills in the pro-life states.
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The Department of Justice says let the FDA finish its own safety review first, and the
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courts aren't the right venue.
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And pro-livers aren't buying it.
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The state of Ohio shows you why this matters, after voters embedded sweeping abortion rights
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and to the state constitution in 2023, abortions dropped 15 percent last year, over 25,000
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And one in five came from out-of-state women crossing into Ohio specifically to get one.
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And the people who warned Ohio that it would become an abortion destination were right.
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Some good news coming out of Canada of all places, Selberta Premier Daniel Smith is standing
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firm on her province's ban on transgender surgeries and experimental drugs for minors.
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She pointed out that two major American Medical Associations now agree with her stance,
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saying that we may have been first on that.
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And she's not wrong because, in America, states are fighting the battle one courtroom
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Now to Virginia, where Democrats there passed the law requiring teachers to tell students
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that January 6th was a violent attack on American democracy intended to overturn the 2020 election.
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Any other characterization is now illegal in the classroom.
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And teachers who see it differently are barred from saying so during instruction.
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One approved version of history sounds like Communist propaganda to me.
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Former in Minnesota, the Democratic Co-Chair of a House Committee floated the idea of studying
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the benefits of shoplifting.
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Some people might depend on it.
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He later said he was being sarcastic.
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The video didn't look sarcastic, his face didn't look sarcastic, and the fact that it
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happened during an official legislative hearing really didn't look sarcastic.
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These are the people writing our laws.
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Finally, the Atlanta Hawks are in the news.
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They wanted to throw a themed game night honoring what they called one of Atlanta's iconic
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cultural institution.
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That institution, Magic City, a strip club, and the commissioner Adam Silver stepped
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And the Hawks said they were very disappointed.
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Because daughters and wives and sisters are now not going to be disrespected and dishonored
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and devalued in a public display of shame.
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