(SRN NEWS)-( ) A faith-based pregnancy center came before the Supreme Court Tuesday to challenge an investigation its lawyers say was punitive. Pro-life pregnancy centers have been on the rise in the U.S., especially since the Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe versus Wade in 2022. In New Jersey, the Democratic attorney general sent a subpoena […]
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(SRN NEWS)-( ) A faith-based pregnancy center came before the Supreme Court Tuesday to challenge an investigation its lawyers say was punitive. Pro-life pregnancy centers have been on the rise in the U.S., especially since the Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe versus Wade in 2022. In New Jersey, the Democratic attorney general sent a subpoena for donor information claiming that the centers there had misled people into thinking they offered abortions. First Choice Women’s Resource Center fought back, eventually asking the Supreme Court to let it challenge the subpoena before a federal judge. The ACLU actually joined the case in support of First Choice.
( ) A Texas law that takes effect Thursday is designed to keep males out of female restrooms in certain government-owned buildings and schools. Republicans worked for more than a decade to pass the bathroom bill, which requires people to use the restroom, shower or changing room matching their actual biological sex. The bill doesn’t include any specific guidelines for enforcement and does not punish an individual for using a public facility that does not match their sex. However, facilities can be fined 25,000 dollars for the first violation. Supporters say the legislation will make public spaces safer for women and girls.
( ) Belgian authorities are mystified over the theft of a baby Jesus figure from a controversial Nativity scene. Snatched from his crib on the Grand Place in historic old Brussels last weekend, this version of baby Jesus has no face. Artist Victoria-Maria Geyer says she crafted the nativity figure without facial features so that people from all racial groups would see themselves in it. Many online critics say the display was in poor taste. Last year more than four million people visited the Christmas market in the center of Brussels’ historic old city to sip mulled wine and hot chocolate and see the nearly life-sized Nativity scene.
( ) A new book illuminates a little-known aspect of Russia’s history: Its post-war anti-Semitic purges. In the mid-1950’s Russian officials carried out a wave of state-sponsored anti-Semitism, including the purge of Jews from multiple occupations and unwritten quotas that limited their professional and educational opportunities. Carnegie Mellon Professor Wendy Goldman’s book is called “Stalin’s Final Terror: Anti-Semitism, Nationality Policy, and the Jewish Experience.” Some historians believe that Stalin was preparing a larger Terror, including the deportation of the Jewish population, before his death in 1953.