Kentucky House Passes Bill Specifying Women Have No Constitutional Right to Abortion

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The Kentucky House passed a bill Tuesday seeking to amend the state constitution to specifically state that women do not have a legal right to an abortion.

House Bill 67 passed by a 71-21 vote and now heads to the Senate. If approved by three-fifths of that chamber, the proposed constitutional amendment would be approved or rejected by voters in a state referendum this fall.

The chamber also passed House Bill 451 by a 70-23 vote on Tuesday, which would expand the power of Kentucky’s attorney general to regulate abortion facilities, including bringing civil or criminal penalties for violations.

Rep. Joe Fischer, R-Fort Thomas, the main sponsor of HB 67, said the constitutional amendment would “end the slaughter of unborn children in Kentucky.”

Fischer also criticized the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 that legalized abortion nationwide, hoping that a constitutional restriction in Kentucky would kick in if that decision was ever overturned. (Read more from “Kentucky House Passes Bill Specifying Women Have No Constitutional Right to Abortion” HERE)

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The Father of a 4-Year-Old Killed in the Tennessee Tornado Shares His Heartbreaking Account of That Night

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Four-year-old Hattie Collins died last week when a powerful tornado touched down in Tennessee.

She was one of five children younger than 13 who died in Putnam County. Her father, Matt Collins, is now sharing on Facebook the heartbreaking details of the night he lost his daughter. . .

Collins said the tornado hit their house as soon as they hit the floor and everything was collapsing around them. In total, 24 people were killed across four counties after storms moved through the state. . .

He says the next thing he remembers is waking up across the street at the neighbors’ house. He said his neighbors filled them in on what happened, saying they found the family still holding on to each other. (Read more from “The Father of a 4-Year-Old Killed in the Tennessee Tornado Shares His Heartbreaking Account of That Night” HERE)

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Report: Connecticut Woman Sparks Deadly Fire Using Hand Sanitizer as Molotov Cocktail

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Destiny Waite allegedly set fire to her Hartford, Connecticut, apartment building on Monday using a “molotov cocktail” fueled by hand sanitizer.

The 28-year-old responded to a “domestic verbal and physical altercation” with her girlfriend by igniting a bottle of hand sanitizer and throwing it at her. The fire sparked by that bottle spread throughout the building, critically injuring four people — two adults and two children — and killing 50-year-old Jerome Kyser. Thirty residents were hospitalized.

The Hartford Fire Department responded within just one minute of the 1:22 a.m. emergency report, said Assistant Fire Chief Rodney Barco. When they arrived, building residents were already “hanging out the windows.” In less than five minutes, the blaze escalated to a three-alarm fire — meaning that at least three separate fire departments responded.

Responders then faced an almost impossible task. Amid reports of multiple people trapped inside, both the shape of the building and heavy smoke made “fighting the fire very difficult.” (Read more from “Report: Connecticut Woman Sparks Deadly Fire Using Hand Sanitizer as Molotov Cocktail” HERE)

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Why Women Live Longer Than Men: Science Has the Answer Now

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It is a known fact that women live longer than men, irrespective of the place they are born or choose to spend their life. Scientists have long wondered the reason and now it looks like they have come real close to the cause.

The researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) claim that the secret may lie in the second X chromosome, present in females. . .

The study, conducted on mice, showed that females live longer than males and that XX largely governs this trait in ageing mice. . .

The Y chromosome, present only in males, contains very few genes other than those that create secondary sex characteristics, like male genitals and facial hair, and it is not necessary for survival.

Further, having XX ovaries enabled mice to live longer, beginning at 21 months, which is toward the end of a normal mouse lifespan. (Read more from “Why Women Live Longer Than Men: Science Has the Answer Now” HERE)

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Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison

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The sentence was handed down by Judge James Burke on Wednesday morning, after emotional testimony by the two primary victims in the conviction.

Harvey Weinstein will spend 23 years in a New York State prison after being sentenced by Supreme Court Judge James Burke on Wednesday morning. . .

The sentencing ends Weinstein’s New York trial, which began Jan. 6. His team has said they will appeal the jury’s decision to convict him on two of the five charges he faced.

Judge Burke, before issuing his sentence, told Weinstein that he will be formally registered as a sex offender.

For his conviction on the first-degree count of criminal sexual act, Weinstein was given 20 years in prison plus five years of supervised release. On the other convicted charge, third-degree rape, he was given three years in prison. (Read more from “Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison” HERE)

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Harvey Weinstein Said Jennifer Aniston ‘Should Be Killed’ in Unsealed Court Documents; Weinstein Sought Help From Mike Bloomberg and Jeff Bezos

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By Daily Caller. Harvey Weinstein wrote in a 2017 email that Jennifer Aniston “should be killed” in new court documents unsealed Tuesday.

“Jen Aniston should be killed,” the disgraced movie mogul wrote in an email dated Oct. 31, 2017 to a reporter who had sought comment about an an untrue allegation that Weinstein had groped Aniston, according to Variety magazine.

The email was part of roughly a 1,000 pages of documents that were newly revealed ahead of Weinstein’s sentencing in his rape trial.

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Harvey Weinstein Sought Help From Mike Bloomberg and Jeff Bezos, Emails Show

By Page Six. Harvey Weinstein desperately tried to enlist some of the country’s most powerful billionaires in a failed bid to keep his job with the movie studio he co-founded, newly unsealed court filings revealed Tuesday.

Weinstein emailed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lloyd Blankfein, then the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and others to plead for help as he was engulfed by the #MeToo scandal in early October 2017, the documents show.

“My board is thinking of firing me,” Weinstein wrote in a form letter sent from his email account at The Weinstein Company.

“All I’m asking for is, let me take a leave of absence and get into heavy therapy and counseling whether it be in a facility or someplace else, and allow me to resurrect myself with a second chance.”

Weinstein claimed that “a lot of the allegations are false” and that “what the board is trying to do is not only wrong, but it might be illegal and would destroy the company.” (Read more from “Harvey Weinstein Sought Help From Mike Bloomberg and Jeff Bezos, Emails Show” HERE)

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Students Taunt Athlete From Rival School With Photos From His Gay Dating Profile: ‘Stick to Grindr’

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Monmouth University officials have launched an investigation after students allegedly targeted a basketball player from an opposing team with homophobic taunts.

Photos distributed on social media show at least one person holding a sign that read “Stick to Grindr” during Monmouth’s Friday night game against visiting Siena College, The Asbury Park Press reported. . .

Other attendees at the game held up photos allegedly taken from the Siena College player’s dating profile, according to LGBT outlet Queerty. . .

Monmouth University President Patrick Leahy issued a statement condemning the “highly offensive actions.”

“Please be assured that we are working swiftly to gather additional details and to directly address the behavior with those involved,” Leahy said in the statement, which was released on Sunday. (Read more from “Students Taunt Athlete From Rival School With Photos From His Gay Dating Profile: ‘Stick to Grindr’” HERE)

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Bernie Sanders’ Radical Abortion Agenda: ‘Free’ Abortion for Everyone, Banning Abstinence Sex Ed, and Defunding Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rolled out his “reproductive health” — i.e. abortion — agenda over the weekend and it contains some extreme positions that are par for the course for the rest of his far-left and expensive political agenda.

Sanders’ abortion plan also addresses how America’s children would be educated on the subject of sex by vowing to ban “ineffective abstinence-only sex education,” rather than leaving the question of sexual education curricula up to parents and educators. . .

“As President, Bernie will work tirelessly to undo the damage Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have done,” the plan says, referencing the White House and Senate’s efforts to fill federal judicial vacancies under President Trump. “That means working with reproductive justice and advocacy groups to fill vacancies with highly qualified, principled judges who will protect reproductive rights at every level.”

On that front, Sanders’ proposal says guarantees that he would require “all judicial nominees to support Roe v. Wade as settled law” and that the 1973 abortion ruling would also be codified in “legislative statute.” (Read more from “Bernie Sanders’ Radical Abortion Agenda: ‘Free’ Abortion for Everyone, Banning Abstinence Sex Ed, and Defunding Crisis Pregnancy Centers” HERE)

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School Removes Christian Mural Following Pressure from Hard-Left, Atheist Group

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The left’s crusade against Christianity has hit a new low: a mural invoking God and faith in a high school locker room has been covered in response to pressure from atheist, Freedom From Religion Foundation Foundation (FFRF) activists.

The mural at Letcher Central High School featured Jeremiah 20:11 – “But the Lord is with me like a mighty warrior” – and was positioned above athletes’ lockers.

After a letter from the notoriously left-wing, atheist activist group FFRF describing the display as “unconstitutional”, claiming it violates the “basic constitutional prohibition by creating the appearance that the District prefers religion over nonreligion and Christianity over all faiths,” the mural was erased. . .

While the FFRF letter was sent November 4th 2019, Letcher County superintendent Denise Yonts responded in late February, acquiescing to the foundation’s request by agreeing to remove not just the locker room mural but a bulletin board message proclaiming “Jesus is my savior. You can’t scare me!” and a Facebook post sharing a prayer for children at the beginning of the school year:

“Dear God, Thank you for the gift of education in every form. As our children prepare to start a new year may confidence be their foundation, may grace be their guide and may hope be their compass toward a bright future. I pray they would have eyes to see the needs of those around them and a heart to love well. May they face each day with positivity knowing that no matter what comes their way, they do not have to face it alone. Amen.”

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Family of Missouri’s First Coronavirus Patient Broke Self Quarantine, Attended School Dance

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The father of Missouri’s first coronavirus patient disobeyed quarantine and went to a school dance with his other daughter on Saturday evening, officials said.

Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School will close on Monday after administrators learned of the relationship between the patient and her younger sister — who goes to Villa and attended the social gathering. The father and daughter also went to a pre-dance party which consisted of other students in the St Louis County area. . .

Villa is an all-girls school that serves grades seven through 12, while Oak Hill is a coed school that teaches preschool through grade six. . .

“We will work with officials to ensure we are doing everything possible to mitigate risk and to maintain our safe environment, said Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill communications director Alice Dickherber, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The family was originally told to stay at home after their older daughter — who returned from Italy — contacted public health officials to report having symptoms of the fast-spreading virus on Thursday. She had been self quarantining herself at home with her parents who were not showing symptoms. She went to a hospital on Friday and tested “presumptively positive” on Saturday. (Read more from “Family of Missouri’s First Coronavirus Patient Broke Self Quarantine, Attended School Dance” HERE)

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