Crosstalk: September 26, 2016

Jim Schneider passed along the following stories picked up by numerous news services:

--The first reported case of euthanasia for a minor took place in recently in Belgium.

--Child euthanasia center to open in the Netherlands soon.

--Chinese women in their 7th, 8th and even 9th month of pregnancy are being taken from their homes and strapped to tables where doctors abort their unborn children.

--A bill currently under review by the D.C. Council would legalize physician assisted suicide.

--Republican Oklahoma Senator James Lankford introduced a nationwide ban on dismemberment abortions (S-3306).

--A new abortion facility in Oklahoma City hopes to perform 1,500 abortions during their first year of business.

--The House Select Panel on Infant Lives has voted to hold a fetal tissue procurement company in contempt of Congress for stonewalling its investigation into the harvesting and sale of aborted baby body parts.

--Gloria Steinem supports abortion because she believes forced child birth is the single biggest cause of global warming.

--70% of the Charlotte rioters are allegedly coming from outside the state.

--A CNN reporter was assaulted during a live shot at the Charlotte riots.

--A photographer was allegedly unconscious during the Charlotte riots as people tried tossing him into a fire.

--The Massachusetts Supreme Court dismissed the gun conviction of a black man arrested by Boston police ruling that his fleeing from officers can be considered legitimate given the fear black males have of being racially profiled.

--Louis Farrakhan tells President Obama that he failed to to what he should have done in reference to people in Chicago.

--The top executive of a Dallas, Texas, fraternal police group is suing a collection of prominent individuals and an organization that advocates violence against cops for their alleged incitement to commit racial violence against police officers throughout the U.S.

--President Obama speaks troubling words to the U.N. General Assembly, particularly in regard to climate change.

--The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a new regulation that requires all shelters or housing facilities that receive federal funding to let transgender individuals have access to those shelters or facilities based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

--Beginning November 1st, all sailors will be required to undergo transgender behavioral education.

--Seattle's Children's Hospital will be opening a gender clinic next month so that adolescents as young as 8 years old can receive access to services such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and mental health support.

--A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a North Carolina law that says magistrates with religious objections can refuse to marry same-sex couples.

--A California law allows convicted sex offenders to volunteer on public school campuses with written permission from school officials.

--6 Democratic lawmakers have written the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs urging the removal of a rule banning VA coverage of sex-transition surgeries for veterans.

--A superior court judge in Arizona has adopted the position that gay rights outweigh the First Amendment protection for the free exercise of religion.

--If you are an uninsured American who has yet to sign up for Obamacare, you may be receiving a letter from the IRS this year suggesting that you enroll.

--An internal Obama administration e-mail shows immigration officials may be working overtime to swear in as many new citizen voters as possible for the upcoming election.

--California Governor Jerry Brown is considering whether to sign a bill that would allow tens of thousands of incarcerated felons to vote while continuing to deny the vote to others.

--The Obama administration opposes states verifying citizenship status of registered voters.

--Tuesday evening the Senate voted to proceed to the continuing resolution a bill that would allegedly fund the government until December 9th. The only problem is that the bill that they voted on hasn't been drafted yet.

--McDonald's outsources the jobs of 70 white collar professionals in Ohio to foreign H-1B workers.

--Texas says they are withdrawing from the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

--Billionaire George Soros is pledging to invest up to 500 million dollars in start-ups, established companies, social impact initiatives and businesses started by refugees and migrants.

--Migrants flood into Italy while the number of Italians moving from their home country more than doubled between 2010 and 2014

--President Obama tells the U.N. that Israel cannot permanently occupy 'Palestinian land'.

--King Abdullah of Jordan warns Israel that they will be in a sea of hatred if they don't accept a Palestinian state.

--Any of the continuing resolutions that would claim not to want to give away the Internet to the U.N. or some other international authority may be dead on arrival.

--The Wausau, Wisconsin, school board will be holding a meeting this Monday at 5pm about putting rules into effect that would bring the whole transgender issue not only into rest rooms, locker rooms and showers but to overnight field trips as well.

--Hundreds of school districts across the nation have taken a pledge to pronounce the names of students correctly to avoid the micro-aggression of mispronunciation.

--Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is threatening to shut down government if they try to pass a continuing resolution that would stop them from giving away the Internet to an international body.