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Abortion rights are on the ballot in 4 states. Here's what to know
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Times
Idaho voters will decide whether to roll back the state’s abortion ban, the secretary of state told the group behind the initiative in a letter Monday, joining three other states where abortion will be directly on the ballot on Nov. 3. Voters in Virginia and Nevada - both states where abortion is already legal through at least 24 weeks of pregnancy - are considering state constitutional amendments to create a right to abortion. And in Missouri, which in 2024 became the first state to use a constitutional amendment to undo an abortion ban, voters are being asked to override that to bring back an abortion ban, with limited exceptions, and to write into the state constitution a ban on some gender-affirming care for minors.

AI pushing the expected rise in college closures, analysts say
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
Artificial intelligence is driving a surge in expected college closures by automating repetitive office roles that long have been reserved for liberal arts graduates, recent analyses show. Huron Consulting Group estimates, as reported by the Hechinger Report, that 442, or 26%, of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit campuses will close or merge over the coming decade. That would affect 670,000 students. The nonprofit trade publication has noted that AI automation is accelerating this downsizing by reducing the perceived market value of many four-year degrees, hurting enrollment at tuition-dependent campuses.

Researchers Identify Age of Fertility Wall for Women
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
Even IVF with donor eggs can't fully offset age-related decline after 49, study finds. Women in their late 40s may be hitting a fertility wall that even young donor eggs can't fully knock down, new research suggests. An Italian team tracked 1,774 women undergoing IVF with donor eggs and found that success rates dip notably from age 49. Women aged 35–40 had about a 54% chance of getting pregnant and a 46% live birth rate; for those 49 and older, those figures fell to roughly 43% and 32%, per the BBC. The likelihood of a successful birth over several IVF rounds was also significantly lower for women over 49: 62.5% compared to 80% for those 35–40, per a release. Miscarriage risk doubled in the older group, rising from 24% to 38%

New Germany sex-crime figures reignite migration fight
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: FOX News
...as exploitation probe expands. Researcher warns failed asylum screening and weak integration policy are fueling organized sexual exploitation across Europe. Germany recorded 751 cases categorized as group rapes in 2025, according to the federal government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry submitted by the opposition Alternative für Deutschland party. All parties represented in the Bundestag German federal parliament may submit formal questions requiring government responses, a key tool through which opposition lawmakers scrutinize federal policy.

Olivia Rodrigo pledges to bankroll Planned Parenthood after Trump cuts funding
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Post Millennial
Rodrigo was awarded Planned Parenthood's Catalyst of Change Award in 2025. Olivia Rodrigo is really into abortion. Her new plan is to hold a festival of all women recording artists and donate proceeds from ticket sales to Planned Parenthood, which delivers surgical abortions and abortion pills, and other women's and girls' charities. This comes after the Trump administration and Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which defunded Planned Parenthood so that federal funds could no longer be used by the group to pay for the killing of unborn American children.

Appeals court lets Florida revive suit against pediatricians group
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Washington Times
A full federal appeals court has cleared Florida to resume a lawsuit accusing the American Academy of Pediatrics of misleading the public about the safety of gender-transition treatments for minors, pausing a lower court injunction that had blocked the case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled Wednesday that it would rehear Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s appeal with the court’s active judges sitting en banc — an unusual move that bypasses the standard three-judge panel — and that it was staying a preliminary injunction entered by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois, according to the court’s order. Judge Kennelly, a Clinton appointee, ruled June 2 and formally entered the injunction June 8, finding Mr. Uthmeier’s Florida lawsuit was likely brought in bad faith to retaliate against the group’s advocacy.

Fifth Circuit Rules Against In-State Tuition For Illegal Aliens
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: PJ Media
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Trump admin and against woke states or universities that try to provide special tuition breaks to illegal aliens...Brett Shumate, who serves as the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division, celebrated the court win on Thursday, July 9. This is a victory not only for the Trump administration, which is trying to enforce laws at the state level against law-breaking foreigners, but also for American taxpayers, who perforce contribute to public universities that then give special deals to illegal aliens. Meanwhile, many Americans can’t afford to attend college.

Record High 53% Of Gang Rape Suspects Were Foreigners In 2025 In Germany
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix News
80% of the victims were German citizens...The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD). countries

Texas to investigate 'shadow DEI program' at SFA University
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
...censoring of politics after Charlie Kirk assassination. Texas is set to investigate what was reported to be a "shadow DEI program" at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in Nacogdoches, Texas, after a complaint was made to Texas about a possible violation of the state's ban on DEI practices at universities, where after Charlie Kirk’s death, an office in the school allegedly banned some political speech, but not left-wing expression. After Texas announced a ban on discriminatory DEI practices at colleges, the state launched the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman last year in order to be a watchdog on DEI practices and has been receiving complaints from students.

Women Over 40 Are Now Having More Babies Than American Teenagers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Birth rates among women ages 40–49 increased 24% nationwide between 2015 and 2024... Americans are increasingly reaching major life milestones later than previous generations, and parenthood is no exception. While overall U.S. fertility rates have fallen for decades, births among women over 40 are moving in the opposite direction. Rising education levels, delayed marriage, and high housing costs have all contributed to a growing share of women waiting longer to have children. Using newly published research based on National Vital Statistics System data, this map, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows where births among women ages 40–49 are most common across the country.

Believe All Women - Unless They're Inconvenient
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The American Spectator
From Biden and Cuomo to Ellison and Swalwell, the Left's commitment to believing women appears to depend on the politics of the accused. The political Left has spent years promoting the slogan "Believe All Women," using it as a powerful weapon against conservatives, especially during critical events like the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. But this mantra has never been about seeking justice or protecting victims; instead, it serves as a cynical tool for gaining power - a way to undermine opponents while conveniently overlooking the serial abusers, gropers, and predators within their own ranks.

A gonorrhea vaccine fails - and reveals a much bigger problem
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Alex Berenson Substack
with the studies health bureaucrats use to push flu and Covid jabs. Last year, England began offering gay and bisexual (aka gay) men a vaccine for gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted bacterial infection often called “the clap.” Though not fatal, gonorrhea is unpleasant and increases risk for HIV. Like other sexually transmitted diseases, it is far more common in gay men. English authorities offered the vaccine, originally designed for meningitis, after studies showed it cut infections by about 40 percent. The shot could have a “huge impact,” England’s top vaccine regulator told the BBC. Or not.

Why are women & gay men backing a movement that undermines their rights?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Andrew Doyle
The fiercest advocates of gender identity ideology are often those with the most to lose from it. Last week saw yet another victory for women’s rights in the US. The Supreme Court upheld state bans on males participating in girls’ sports. Predictably, the ruling was split along party lines, with the six Republican appointees supporting single-sex sports and the three Democrat appointees voting against. Riley Gaines has been quick to note the perversity of so-called ‘progressives’ working against women. ‘Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor ruled against women having equal protection under the law,’ she posted on X. ‘Liberal women, yet again, prove to be the biggest hurdle women face.’

First Amendment Protects Universities From Florida's Stop WOKE Act
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
In the U.S., government officials aren’t allowed to fight ideas they don’t like with censorship. The cure for a regime of establishment-approved ideology does not come from government censorship of conversations. That should be clear to anybody who believes in freedom, and it's a point strongly made by a federal appeals court in overruling Florida's Stop WOKE Act. Saying the First Amendment is incompatible with "an official government line—in a college classroom of all places," the court overruled the state's effort to battle ideological orthodoxy by imposing its own orthodoxy.

US Men's World Cup Team Required To Split $12.8M Payout With Women's Team
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Headline USA
"...this policy treats men's soccer as a piggy bank for 'fairness'..." America’s fleeting interest in soccer may once again have abated following a humiliating World Cup defeat to Belgium last Monday, in a game that saw President Donald Trump become personally involved over a red-card dispute. But the high-profile flop in the first elimination round was not the only indignity that the U.S. athletes must endure. A collective bargaining agreement means that the team will have to share its $16 million prize pot (minus a 20% cut for the U.S. Men’s Soccer organization) with the U.S. women’s team.

We Know Who’s Buying US College Campuses—the Senate Must Act
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Newsweek
The ideological transformation of American college campuses is not organic. "We are two Muslim women who have each had a death warrant, a fatwa, placed on our heads—not for committing a crime, but for opposing the extremists who claim to speak for our faith. One of us, Anila, came to America from Pakistan and built a life here as a public school teacher. After September 11, Anila founded an organization to empower Muslim women and confront extremism. The other, Dalia, fled Egypt after Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023."

Muslim Child Marriage In Gaza and Afghanistan Isn't Our Fault
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Daniel Greenfield
Even if the media would rather blame America and Israel for an Islamic practice. The BBC ran a story about Afghan men selling daughters as young as five years old into the sex slavery known as Islamic marriage. Rather than blaming the Koran and the example set by Islam’s pedophile founder Mohammed who married his most prominent ‘wife’ Aisha at the tender age of seven, the radical state media outlet instead blamed the Trump administration. The BBC complained that “the US – once the top donor to Afghanistan – cut nearly all aid to the country last year” without explaining that the aid was cut because the money was going through the UN to the Taliban which is once again hosting Al Qaeda and aiding Islamic terrorists.

2 Psychologists Go At It Over Kids' Mental Health
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Atlantic
Jonathan Haidt blames phones, socials for decline; Peter Gray blames schools, restrictions on freedom. Writing for the Atlantic, Kaitlyn Tiffany digs into psychologist Peter Gray's upcoming book, Restoring Childhood, which takes direct aim at Jonathan Haidt's hugely influential The Anxious Generation, published in 2024. Haidt blames smartphones and social media for today's youth mental-health crisis and backs strict limits on kids' screen use. Gray, however—once Haidt's ally in the "free play" movement and a co-founder, along with Haidt, of the nonprofit Let Grow—now calls that argument "immoral" and says it fuels a broader pattern: Whenever kids struggle, adults respond by taking away one more freedom. He calls it a "knee-jerk reaction," adding that Haidt's tome "is helping to jerk some of those knees even further."

California Puts Abortion Pill Reversal on Trial
Topic: Abortion
Source: Washington Stand
Pro-life organization Heartbeat International (HBI) is on trial in a California court for daring to inform women that the effects of the abortion pill can sometimes be reversed. "Heartbeat International is fighting for one thing: The ability to tell women the truth when they call seeking help after taking the first abortion pill and regretting their decision," HBI general counsel Danielle White said in a statement to The Washington Stand. "Women deserve to know all of their options. They don't lose that right after beginning a chemical abortion."