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California

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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 8, 2022
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Transgenderism
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California May Soon Become ‘Gender Affirming Care’ Sanctuary State

Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2022
California looks to be well on the way to passing a bill that would treat refusals to allow puberty blocking, transgender surgeries, or other forms of “gender affirming care” as akin to how the law now treats child abuse and abandonment of children brought from out of state. Read More ›
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Tom Shakely
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May 23, 2022
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Robert Marbut on America’s Homelessness Crisis, Strategies for Uplifting the Homeless, and Effective Government Policies

Robert Marbut
May 23, 2022

Homelessness has reached crisis proportions. Few issues of human dignity are as heart wrenching as the wretched scenes in our most prosperous cities — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle — where one can drive down main thoroughfares and be confronted with tent encampments lining streets that provide scant shelter for thousands of destitute people. The crisis is as Read More ›

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Premature newborn baby girl
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 25, 2022
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Abortion
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Now, a California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect

Wesley J. Smith
March 25, 2022
One blue-state bill that would allow a born baby to be neglected to death might be an anomaly. A second that does that — and perhaps could be interpreted to allow infanticide, also — is a pattern. The cultural Left is blazing new grounds of depravity. Read More ›
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Senior man kneel, holding wooden rosary beads in hand with Jesus Christ holy cross crucifix in the church. Natural light background. Prayer pose crop closeup with copy space. Catholic symbol of faith.
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 1, 2022
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Health Care
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Defending Catholic Healthcare

Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2022
The threats against religious freedom in the United States have become so acute that five major Catholic organizations have formed the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance (CHCLA), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to defending the right of Catholic hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutions—as well as Catholic doctors, nurses, and pharmacists—to provide care and treatment in accordance with the moral precepts of the Catholic Church. Read More ›
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 1, 2021
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Conscience
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California Bars State-Funded Travel to Ohio over Medical Conscience Law — as It Applauds China

Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2021
California has banned state-paid travel to Ohio because the state enacted a medical conscience law that permits professionals to refuse to participate in morally contentious procedures such as abortion and puberty blocking for transgendered teenagers. Read More ›
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New York State Capitol Building, Albany
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 19, 2021
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Genetic Manipulation
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New York to Stop Funding Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research

Wesley J. Smith
April 19, 2021
Oh, the screaming we heard about embryonic stem cells during the George W. Bush presidency. Those who opposed wide-open federal funding were branded “anti-science,” and delusional for claiming that adult stem cells offered the better promise of treatments. Read More ›
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Electric power lines against a dawn sky
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 27, 2021
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Human Flourishing
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Do Greens Want the World to Be Like the ‘Blackout State?’

Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2021
Electricity is essential to modernity. Prosperity depends on it. So does longevity and health. If you doubt that, ask those in impoverished nations who still don’t have access to reliable electrical power! Read More ›
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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 15, 2021
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Conscience
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California Insurance Commissioner Orders Health Insurance to Pay for Minors’ Transgender Mastectomies

Wesley J. Smith
February 15, 2021
I missed this when it happened in December, but it is worth noticing now. California’s Insurance Commissioner has decided that health-insurance companies must pay for the removal of the healthy breasts of biological minor girls with gender dysphoria, just as they would if the surgery was required for cancer or a serious injury. Read More ›
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 11, 2021
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Conscience, Euthanasia
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California Bill to Force M.D. Participation in Assisted Suicide

Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2021
When activists successfully legalized assisted suicide in California, they persuaded the California Medical Association to shift from opposition to neutrality with the promise that no doctor would be forced to participate. But here’s the thing with assisted suicide: Such promises are made to be broken. Read More ›
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