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(SRN NEWS)  Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a law intended to curtail abortion pills, but at least one provider plans to keep shipping them into the state.  Angel Foster, who runs Massachusetts-based The MAP, which prescribes the drugs to women in every state, says her organization will keep doing business in Texas.  The Map has shipped abortifacients to about 10,000 Texas women in the past two years.  The new law takes effect in three months. It lets anyone file lawsuits against those involved in providing the pills in the state.  Plaintiffs who win the suits collect as much as 100,000 dollars in damages.

(  )  Florida is setting the tone for a number of conservative states when it comes to social issues.  In 2022, Florida became the first state to prohibit classroom instruction on sexuality or so-called “gender identity topics” from kindergarten through third grade.  By 2024, a growing list of at least 20 states, including Alabama and Indiana, had followed Florida’s lead.  Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has also set his sights squarely on eliminating Critical Race Theory from the public schools.  Since 2021, approximately 30 states, including Texas, Idaho, Tennessee and Montana, have also banned CRT.

(  )  A Missouri judge has struck down a ballot summary for a pro-life amendment backed by Republican state lawmakers, stating that it presented an unfair and insufficient description to voters.  Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled that the ballot summary must be rewritten, but he rejected a request by abortion advocates to block the proposed constitutional amendment from going to voters.  The decision marks the latest in a series of twists and turns in Missouri’s abortion policies over the past three years.  After Roe versus Wade was repealed, a pro-life law went into effect, but last year an abortion amendment was narrowly approved by voters.

(  )  It’s been nearly two years since Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel and still, anti-Semitism shows no sign of abating at American colleges and universities.  School officials have responded in various ways to Jewish students’ reports of harassment and discrimination.  Meanwhile, the Trump administration has launched a task force to combat anti-Semitism at 10 universities, including Harvard and Columbia.  It has also withheld federal funding from a range of universities on the grounds of their inaction over anti-Semitism.  A recent poll found that the majority of Jewish students say there is a hostile environment on their campus.