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Tom Joyce

Tom Joyce is a freelance reporter covering politics, sports and culture.

Abortion, Texas
Abortion rate drops in Texas since 2021 law, report concludes

(The Heartlander)–A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports a significant decline in abortions among Texas residents since the state’s heartbeat law took effect… Read More

December 11, 2025
Government
New York governor discusses amendments to assisted suicide proposal

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants changes to a bill that would allow doctors to provide lethal drugs to patients with terminal diagnoses. The Medical Aid in Dying… Read More

December 10, 2025
Public Education
Seattle using ‘gender book kit’ to teach kindergarteners they can change genders

Seattle Public Schools is using a set of classroom materials that tells kindergarten through 5th-grade students that boys can become girls and girls can become boys. The lessons… Read More

December 8, 2025
Gender
Oregon school survey asks 11-year-olds if they’re ‘two spirit,’ ‘genderfluid’

(The Heartlander) — Oregon officials are facing a firestorm of outrage over intrusive, age-inappropriate, far-left sexual ideology in surveys of schoolchildren there. A new student health survey created… Read More

December 5, 2025
World
Quebec bill would ban public prayer

Quebec leaders are moving ahead with another plan to limit public expressions of faith, even as critics warn the province is trampling basic freedoms. The government introduced Bill… Read More

December 4, 2025