Current Events – Page 19

Senate Health Committee Passes Measure to Ensure Patients, Nursing Home Residents Have Visitors

Mar 9, 2021Jerry CoxCurrent Events, LegislatureArkansas Legislature, COVID-19

*Above: Rep. Mayberry explains H.B. 1061, the No Patient Left Alone Act, to state representatives in this file photo.*

On Monday the Senate Public Health Committee passed H.B. 1061 by Rep. Julie Mayberry (R – Hensley) and Sen. Breanne Davis (R – Russellville).

This good bill protects people from being left alone and denied visitors in hospitals, nursing homes, and similar facilities.

Since the coronavirus outbreak began, we’ve heard story after story of people separated from their loved ones.

Nobody should be barred from being in the hospital with their dying child, their spouse, or their parent. This bill helps address that in Arkansas.

H.B. 1061 now goes to the entire Arkansas Senate for consideration.

President Biden, Democrats Look to Fund Abortion With Public Dollars

Jan 28, 2021Jerry CoxAbortion, Current Events, VideoAbortion, Hyde Amendment, Life, Mexico City Policy, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life, Video

President Biden and Democrats in Congress are working to do away with the federal ‘Mexico City Policy’ and the Hyde Amendment that prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortionists overseas and paying for elective abortions here at home.

Watch this video to learn more.

President Biden Signs Executive Order Redefining “Sex” in Federal Law

Jan 22, 2021Jerry CoxCurrent Events, LGBTLGBT

On Wednesday night President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing all federal agencies to interpret the word federal “sex” in anti-discrimination laws to include sexual-orientation and gender-identity.

This tracks with promises President Biden made during the presidential campaign to reinstate many of the pro-LGBT rules and guidelines that the Obama Administration rolled out prior to 2017.

The new executive order instructs all state agencies to evaluate and amend or rescind any rules or regulations that conflict with the Biden Administration’s redefinition of “sex.”

If left unchecked by congress and the states, this could result in federal agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, OSHA, and the Department of Justice rolling out new policies that affect businesses and force pro-LGBT policies on ordinary Americans.