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How About ProLife After Birth

It’s perplexing, seems that many in the ProLife community don’t care very much about life after birth. Everyone deserves decent shelter, clothing, health care, education and food regardless of their station in life.

The pandemic waiver for free school meals, which launched in March 2020, expired at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year after a Covid-19 aid package allowed the Agriculture Department to waive certain regulations for the first time. The percentage of free lunches served dropped from 99.8 percent in May 2022 to 67.5 percent in September, according to data from USDA.

Data backs the benefits of universal free school meals. Schools that provided no-cost meals for all students, through the Community Eligibility Provision, saw academic and behavioral benefits for students who didn’t meet the income qualifications for free meals, according to research from Krista Ruffini, a Georgetown University professor who has studied universal free school meals and student achievement.

“We see that expanding the school meals program to all kids, regardless of their families’ income leads to improvements for kids and families,” Ruffini said. “Math test scores go up, exclusionary discipline — basically out-of-school suspensions — go down and the use of food bank services also falls.”

Some Decisions Are Just Tough, Unpopular Give And Takes…

The Biden administration said Monday it is approving the huge Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope, a major environmental decision by President Joe Biden that drew quick condemnation that it flies in the face of the Democratic president’s pledges to slow climate change.

The announcement came a day after the administration, in a move in the other direction toward conservation, said it would bar or limit drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean.

Administration officials were concerned that ConocoPhillips’ decades-old leases limited the government’s legal ability to block the project and that courts might have ruled in the company’s favor.

Houston-based ConocoPhillips will relinquish rights to about 68,000 acres of existing leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

We’re Celebrating, Yet We’re Still Waiting On Total Equality

The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. Proponents assert it would end legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. It’s awaiting congressional action now.

In the meantime, each March, various organizations and individuals join together to commemorate “Women’s History Month.” “Women’s History Month” is an observance and celebration of the vital roles women have played in American history and beyond.

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day.

In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women’s History Week.

Call or write your Representative and request their support and passage of the ERA amendment.

We Have To All Call For Change…
I have a wife, a daughter, a granddaughter, two daughters-in-law, two sons, a grandson and two brothers. While we may disagree on some issues, I believe each of my family members and most of my friends would agree with the following:

With all the restrictions on, and discrimination against women today, I can only imagine how my female love ones feel about their current situation while living in America. It has to hurt and anger each of them. I’m sure my daughter and granddaughter are justifiably concerned about their life and future in the USA.

If I could change the direction of discriminatory right wing politics, I would. If I could erase the harm caused by laws that affect a woman’s right to body autonomy, I would. If I could show evangelicals and christian nationalists how Jesus loved, accepted, blessed and welcomed everyone, I would. If I could convince men that patriarchy and machismo we morally wrong, I would.

Unfortunately I can’t correct all the wrongs women are facing. All I can do is to enthusiastically support their cause and speak out against the oppression they face every opportunity I get, and ask likeminded others to do the same.

I’m not a fan of NiKKKi, I think she’s more or less a female Trump/DeSantis type and would be a disaster for the country, but, unfortunately secession may be the ultimate answer for such a divided nation. It’s not something that I support, it didn’t work for the Southern States in the 1860’s and I would be surprised if it worked today.

Scientists and government oversight watchdogs are expressing alarm over new language in the White House’s “scientific integrity” framework, which one group said amounts to a “gag rule” that would harm federal researchers’ ability to study issues including the climate emergency and public health threats.

“This restriction on discussing the implications of research has no place in a scientific integrity policy,” said Rich in a statement late last month. “Typically, it is only scientific research that has policy implications that is at risk of suppression or political manipulation.”

“Government scientists should not need to cast a profile in courage to openly discuss the implications of their research,” Ruch added.