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Thailand to reopen international surrogacy market

Thailand is planning to reverse course and legalise surrogacy for foreigners, nine years after it banned it. “If the bill passes, it will be the first of its kind in the world,” said Arkhom Praditsuwan, deputy director-general of Health Service Support Department. “Foreigners are paying special attention to this issue. When this is liberalised, the health economy should be quite active.”

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Texas fire dept. chaplain sues after he was dismissed for opposing men in women’s sports

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a former volunteer chaplain of the Austin Fire Department, Dr. Andrew Fox, filed a motion Tuesday asking a federal court to protect his free speech and religious freedom after city officials fired him for sharing his religious views on his personal blog.

Fox is an ordained minister who helped start Austin’s fire chaplaincy program and served as the city’s lead chaplain – a volunteer position – for eight years. After sharing on his personal blog the fact that men and women are biologically different and his view that men should not compete on women’s sports teams, city officials demanded that Fox apologize, and then they proceeded to fire him.

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Critics of ‘Banning’ Books Are Wrong: They’re Not All Suitable for Kids

My colleagues at The Heritage Foundation found that about three-fourths of books on lists of “banned books” are actually still in the libraries where the books were challenged. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

Many of the rest are indeed inappropriate for children. They contain “images of people engaged in sex acts or graphic descriptions of those acts.”

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