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PJ Media: On Tuesday afternoon, the Arkansas House and Senate voted to override Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The bill would “prohibit a physician or other healthcare provider in Arkansas from providing any gender transition procedures to minors that are intended to alter the gender of a child or delay puberty.” Experimental “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones may have long-lasting impacts on fertility, so advocates have branded them “chemical castration.”

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Mark 9:42

The Arkansas House overrode Hutchinson’s veto, 72 to 25. The Senate overrode the veto by a 25-8 margin.

Hutchinson, who signed laws protecting religious freedom in health care and banning biological males from competing against females in women’s sports, vetoed H.B. 1570 on Monday.

“If [the bill] becomes law we are creating new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters dealing with young people,” Hutchinson explained in a video press conference. He argued that children “deserve the guiding hand of their parents and of the health care professional that their family has chosen.”

Hutchinson accused lawmakers of trying to make the state “the definitive oracle of medical care” for children in Arkansas.

There is no evidence that transgender surgery improves the mental health outcomes of gender dysphoric people. Men and women who formerly identified as transgender and underwent surgery have grown to reject transgender identity and lament the damage they did to their own bodies.

Last year, Britain’s High Court ruled that children under age 16 lack the ability to consent to “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones that have irreversible life-long effects. Children who undergo such “treatments” often persist in transgender identity and lose their ability to have children later in life.

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And Magazine: Recently the state of Georgia adopted a new election law. The centerpiece of this bill is a requirement that voters in the state requesting absentee ballots establish their identity by listing a driver’s license number, state ID number, or providing a copy of some other form of acceptable voter ID.

“Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy. Proverbs 12:20 ESV

This is a change from the previous procedure where your identity was established by a comparison of your signature on your application with your signature on file with the state, a notoriously unreliable methodology. The new law also allows you to return your application for an absentee ballot online via a newly established website. (No, the bill did not forbid people from drinking water while waiting to vote, limit the hours of polling places, or do any of the other myriads of things its detractors claimed.)

Immediately, the usual suspects went into fits of rage. The woke multinational corporations of America in particular melted down – led it seems by Coca-Cola – home-based in Atlanta and one of Georgia’s largest corporations. James Quincey, Coca-Cola’s chief executive, speaking on CNBC has this to say. “This legislation is unacceptable. It’s a step backward and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity.”

The official statement of the Coca-Cola Company, appearing over Quincy’s name added this.
“We want to be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting legislation. Throughout Georgia’s legislative session we provided feedback to members of both legislative chambers and political parties, opposing measures in the bills that would diminish or deter access to voting… Our focus is now on supporting federal legislation [emphasis ours] that protects voting access and addresses voter suppression across the country. We all have a duty to protect everyone’s right to vote, and we will continue to stand up for what is right in Georgia and across the U.S.”

Then Coke went back to work preparing for its role in the upcoming 2022 “Genocide Games” in Beijing. The 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held in China. Coca-Cola is an official sponsor of the games. It has even designed and begun to distribute in China commemorative Coke cans celebrating the upcoming games. The gold and red cans, which are already being seen in Beijing, bear the message “Congratulations Beijing.” Read more

Zero Hedge, Jonathan Turley:

I previously wrote that the key to conviction in the Derek Chauvin trial (and avoiding a cascading failure in all four cases) is the autopsy findings and the role of drugs (including fentanyl) in the body of George Floyd.

“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.” Proverbs 10:9 ESV

Prosecutors are now asking the jury to effectively dismiss the findings of the only official autopsy in the case and insist, contrary to those findings, that Floyd died from asphyxia, or, lack of oxygen. Some new disclosures may make that claim more difficult for the prosecution.

Last week, special prosecutor Jerry Blackwell admitted to jurors that Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker pointed to cardiac arrest as Floyd’s cause of death. However, he insisted that the state would prove that “was … not a fatal heart event,” but asphyxiation.

It is a bold move since it could invite reasonable doubt on the cause of death.  The question is whether a case of manslaughter could have been advanced without the need of opposing the state’s own coroner on such findings.

The failure of Chauvin to respond to a medical emergency speaks more to manslaughter than murder but it could be framed consistently with these findings. Instead, the prosecution has asked the jury to effectively reject the coroner’s findings — a risky maneuver. Read More