Proposals to restrict sex ed coincide with abortion restrictions at the national and state levels and a movement to stop educators from discussing gender and sexual orientation.
“If we’re thinking of a fetus as an actual person with rights, then a whole bunch of other stuff has to change,” said Chris Ellis, the co-director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy.
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The order comes two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion.
Candidates in competitive Senate races mostly pivot from praising the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to focusing on Biden, inflation and crime.
Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill went into effect Friday, alongside multiple school sports bans for transgender students and Alabama’s bathroom bill.
Some leaders have announced plans to minimize abortion criminalization efforts. But state law limits their options.
Biden’s administration is under pressure to respond to the Supreme Court’s decision gutting Roe v. Wade. But he has said options are limited and it would be best for Congress to pass a law.
“I started to get frustrated because I felt like I was watching a bad car accident that was about to happen,” the former aide to the White House chief of staff said.
Gun violence, food deserts and poor health care access have created a life expectancy in Kina Collins’ Chicago-area House district that’s lower than surrounding areas. She calls the race a fight for her life.