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     On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety and control bill (The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act), which will save thousands of lives. This is a historical bill that shows that the Democrats and Republicans have the capacity to work together, if they sit down and communicate.

  For Black women in this country, today’s decision is especially devastating. Thirteen percent of American women are Black, but 38% of people receiving abortion care are Black. Abortion is necessary healthcare – and a lack of access can quite literally mean life or death for many Black women. This is especially true for Black women who have lower-incomes, live in rural areas, and do not have access to health care because of systemic racism and discrimination.

     For the unborn, abortion was a death sentence without due process making the mother’s womb like death row. Since Roe v. Wade is overturned, the fruit of the womb is no longer a despised object of doom.

   President Biden has contemplated the Supreme Court and Congress would help him to restore the soul of America. Sadly, what he’s failed to realize is that the Supreme Court has a sordid legacy. We can now add the overturn of Roe v. Wade to the horrendous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision of 1857.

      This week, the Food and Drug Administration will be hosting listening sessions ahead of its proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. While the attending bureaucrats will certainly rehash the data we’ve known for decades about the dangers of smoking, they’ll also be hearing a new spin from progressives: Banning menthol is essential to achieve “racial equity.”

Letter to the Editor  By Jon Hochschartner I was happy to learn the San Fran-cisco-based company Eat Just is planning to build the world’s biggest cultivated-meat…