(SRN NEWS) President Trump wants to remove abortion coverage from the list of medical benefits for veterans and their families. The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted the proposed rule change and opened a public comment period on it that runs through September 3rd. The department says in its proposal that it wants to ensure […]
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(SRN NEWS) President Trump wants to remove abortion coverage from the list of medical benefits for veterans and their families. The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted the proposed rule change and opened a public comment period on it that runs through September 3rd. The department says in its proposal that it wants to ensure that it “provides only needed medical services to our nation’s heroes and their families.” Officials at the V.A. say they would still provide abortions in life-threatening circumstances — something state laws allow, even in places where abortion bans are in place. However, there would be no exceptions for rape or incest.
( ) A federal judge has ruled that a new Arkansas law requiring public classrooms to display the 10 Commandments cannot be enforced in a handful of the state’s largest school districts. That’s where parents have brought legal challenges on the grounds that the statute violates the so-called separation of church and state. However, the ruling only narrowly applies to four of the state’s 237 districts as Arkansas students prepare to return to class this month. Texas and Louisiana have passed similar laws requiring classrooms to display the Commandments and the issue is expected to eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
( ) A group of performers is traveling across the U.S. singing church songs first sung by the Gullah Geechee people — a group of enslaved Africans who worked the cotton and rice plantations of the South Carolina Sea Islands. They sing in the old Gullah Creole language that is rooted in West Africa. A recent performance took place at Coffin Point Praise House. It’s one of three remaining wooden structures on St. Helena Island that once served as a place of worship for the enslaved, and later, for generations of free black Americans. The singers are all in their 70s and 80s and learned the songs from their parents and grandparents.
( ) President Trump has established a 2028 Olympic Games task force to prepare for the big event in Los Angeles. While announcing the task force Mr. Trump also took time to praise Gene Sykes, chair of the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors, for banning men from competing in women’s sports. The president said “The United States will not let men steal trophies from women at the 2028 Olympics.” A growing number of international sports governing bodies are moving to bar males from competing against females ahead of the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee is still considering the matter.