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(SRN NEWS) – National pro-life groups are organizing a lobbying effort with Congress and the Trump administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood.  Pro-life advocates believe that Republican control of the White House and Congress presents a unique opportunity to end federal reimbursement for the nation’s largest abortion business.  Some also think that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency could be a tool for getting it done.  Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has announced it will hear a case involving South Carolina’s attempt to strip Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. 

A survey from the Pew Research Center indicates that a majority of Americans, including many Democrats, are turning against the practice of letting males compete against females in sports.  Leon Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says President Trump’s opposition to the LGBT agenda has given him a serious political edge.  Sapir says that the president is “putting his Democratic opponents in a very unfavorable position by having to decide between catering to their progressive, activist base or their median voter.”  Other analysts say the transgender issue hurt Democrats in the last election. 

British lawmakers are considering a measure that would limit pro-Hamas protests outside of Jewish places of worship, schools and other institutions.  Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the legislation is designed to protect and assure England’s Jewish community, which has felt embattled since the Hamas attack on Israel in the fall of 2023.  Cooper adds “The right to protest must not undermine a person’s right to worship.  And everybody has a right to live in freedom from fear.”  She spoke recently at a gathering of the Community Security Trust — a Jewish security group. 

A surge of grant cancellations has hit researchers focused on promoting the LGBT agenda, as the Trump administration targets ideologically driven science and government waste.  So far the government has terminated nearly 70 LGBT grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly 40 million dollars.  Administration officials say they want to root out unscientific studies and those that do not benefit the general public.  President Trump has already cut millions of dollars in U.S. funding to foreign entities that promote transgenderism and other aspects of the LGBT agenda.