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In today’s episode, we’ll look at Democrat efforts to use the National Defense Authorization Act as a vehicle to advance abortion and transgenderism. Thankfully, Republicans are rejecting this affront.

Then, looking at state politics, there’s a dicey primary potentially coming together that pits an incumbent Assemblyman accused of sexual assault against an openly transgender challenger.

In state legislation, Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering whether to sign a bill that would ban deep-fake pornography.

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Nationally, the trend appears to be moving toward socially

Then, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that

Next up, the state’s bar association, as in New York lawyers,

Following that, there is a growing and well-financed movement

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In this week’s program, we’ll discuss a bill passed just before legislators left the Capitol known as “Clean Slate” that would seal criminal records. Conservatives oppose the measure. Will Governor Kathy Hochul sign it into law?

Then, something the governor already signed into law is a bill that offers legal protection to medical professionals who prescribe dangerous hormone treatments or even mutilating surgery to minors futilely attempting to alter their biological sex. Arkansas, however, is a state taking a very different approach to this issue.

Also, New York’s legalization of marijuana is being challenged in court.

Finally, the hard work of changing hearts and minds around the issue of abortion and the sanctity of human life isn’t over. Let’s discuss the need to continue making a persuasive case for life.

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On June 24, 2023, America notes the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Our organization celebrates the historic moment in which we stand and recognizes that there is much work yet to be done in protecting life in New York and the nation.

Others, however, are digging in their pro-abortion heels. Governor Kathy Hochul quickly signed a bill into law that shelters New York abortionists who offer telehealth abortions to women in states where abortion is restricted.

Also, on the life front, I’ll tell you more about our recent win over assisted suicide in the now-concluded 2023 legislative session.

And, in other news, we’re grateful for the New York State Republican Party that is speaking out against the new State Education Department guidance that incredibly denies parents the right to know about what is going on in their children’s lives.

If that isn’t enough, New York City is now giving taxpayer-funded crack pipes, but in Syracuse a local school district is facing scrutiny for allowing its facilities to be used by a church for weekend worship services. Sometimes the world seems especially upside down.

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New York parents, please take notice: The government and the educational establishment in the state of New York have fully embraced left-wing gender ideology and have taken drastic steps to impose it upon students, faculty, staff, and administrators in schools at all grade levels. In today’s episode of the Albany Update we’ll tell you more about this latest threat to parental rights and childhood innocence in the Empire State.

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By the time you listen to this program, the 2023 legislative session will have concluded (sort of). It’s been numerous late nights and early mornings. Mercifully, the State Legislature is no longer in Albany and unable to pass anymore legislation than the hundreds of bills it moved in just the final days of session. (Although there is the expectation that the State Assembly will return to the Capitol perhaps as soon as June 20, 2023 to address some unfinished business.) Now that legislators have exited the statehouse our office will begin the work of analyzing the results of this year’s session. While there are many bad bills that cleared the Legislature this year, there is one that didn’t. In today’s program, we’ll tell you about the defeat of assisted suicide legislation.

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We’re in the final week of the 2023 legislative session in Albany. In today’s program, we'll tell you about a couple of bills our organization is trying to stop and three bills that we’re working to get passed before legislators leave the statehouse.

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The 2024 Presidential Primaries are less than a year away. The entrance of Gov. Ron DeSantis is certainly shaking up the GOP side of things. It’s early, but we’re curious who you’re supporting in next year’s primary.

Then, we’ll discuss developments at Houghton University, where this small, Christian college, is taking a stand for the historic and orthodox view of human sexuality.

Next up, we’ll look at state legislation that would force many private, Christian schools throughout New York to choose between compromise or closure.

Finally, I’ll tell you about yet another abortion-friendly bill in Albany. This one would offer grants for training abortionists.

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Let’s face it. We live in a politically challenging state, but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing we can accomplish. When government overextends its constitutional authority, thankfully there is a balance of power in the judicial branch to keep it in check.

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We’ve entered the final weeks of the 2023 legislative session, and that has many New Yorkers wondering what the State Legislature may try to pass in the final days of this year’s session.

Specifically, there are two bills concerning to the pro-life community that are garnering our organization’s attention. One involves additional funding for out-of-state abortions and the second would require abortifacient availability in vending machines on college campuses.

Finally, activists were in Albany this week using Mother’s Day as an opportunity to advocate for assisted suicide for mom. It was sickening.

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