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MEDIA STATEMENT

7/12/2022

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Media Statement
 
 Utah Judge Stone Oversteps in Delaying Law Triggered by SCOTUS Abortion Ruling 
 
 SALT LAKE CITY--July 11, 2022--The Utah Eagle Forum today declared Third District Judge Andrew Stone’s temporary blockage of SB174, Utah's pro- life trigger law, as legislating from the bench without a single mention of the rights of the unborn babies. Responding to the knee jerk lawsuit by Planned Parenthood, Stone sided with them using the same reasoning as the Supreme Court of the United States did in “Roe v. Wade”, only this time he used the Utah Constitution for his unconstitutional bias opinion instead of the US Constitution.  
  
“This is an obvious example of legislating from the bench, in violation of the Utah constitution,” states Gayle Ruzicka, President of the Utah Eagle Forum. “We expected such desperate action from Planned Parenthood seeking to overcome the will of the people and rights of the unborn. But we are shocked and disappointed in this rock-hard liberal judgment and are prepared to continue fighting for full implementation of SB174, which is current law in Utah.” 
 
Ruzicka continues, “In our Republican form of government, the people elect legislators to make laws reflecting the will of the people.  In this case Judge Stone and Planned Parenthood seek to overrule the people’s vote and subjugate the law to force their agenda. That’s not the way our free government works.” 
  
The Forum believes Roe v. Wade was always an unconstitutional ruling by the Supreme Court. The right to abortion does not exist in the Constitution. The Forum affirms that we now have a Supreme Court majority that rules according to correct constitutional and moral principles.  
 
In a triumphant day for unborn babies and their mothers, the 2022 SCOTUS ruling affirmed that each state can now decide what laws will govern abortion in their state. 
 
About the Utah Eagle Forum
The Utah Eagle Forum has been a leader in the pro-life, pro-family movement and is part of the National Eagle Forum founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972. The Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, with respect for the nuclear family, public and private virtue, and private enterprise. For fifty years, Eagle Forum’s network of state organizations has led the charge to mobilize the grassroots to defend the founding principles of the United States. Since 1989, Utah Eagle Forum has been led by Gayle Ruzicka, who has committed her time as President to the defeat of Roe V. Wade
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SCOTUS Ruling a Win for babies, their mothers, and the Constitution

6/24/2022

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SALT LAKE CITY--June 24, 2022--The Utah Eagle Forum today announced a triumphant day for unborn babies and their mothers. An affirming day for the Constitution and a victory for the United States of America, Roe v. Wade, which required that abortion on demand be legal in all 50 states, has been overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Each state can now decide what laws will govern abortion in their state. 
With the SCOTUS ruling, Utah Eagle Forum is appreciative that Utah has a well vetted pro-life law that is ready to go into effect. The Forum is especially grateful to Senator Dan McCay, the sponsor of this law that prohibits an abortion at any stage of a pregnancy, except under certain circumstances. The House Sponsor of the Utah law is Karianne Lisonbee. 

Gayle Ruzicka, President of the Utah Chapter of the Eagle Forum stated, “I remember the shock and the pain, almost 50 years ago, when seven Supreme Court Justices voted in support of Roe v. Wade, making abortion on demand legal in all 50 states. Since that time, 63 million babies have lost their lives because of abortion.  I am grateful that I have lived long enough to see the end of Roe.”  
The Forum believes Roe v. Wade was always an unconstitutional ruling by the Supreme Court. The right to abortion does not exist in the Constitution. The Forum affirms that we now have a Supreme Court majority that rules according to correct constitutional and moral principles.  

Ruzika further states, “Our celebration includes creating support systems for mothers by connecting them with organizations and resources that can provide care and training for both the mother and her baby. These resources can provide a good start and opportunities for a successful future.”

On Saturday July 2nd at 2pm, the Forum will join other Utah pro-life groups in a “Celebration of Life” event to commemorate the end of Roe v. Wade and a new era of life for Utah’s unborn babies. This celebration will take place at the Utah State Capitol. 

About the Utah Eagle Forum
The Utah Eagle Forum has been a leader in the pro-life, pro-family movement and is part of the National Eagle Forum founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972. The Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policy-making so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, with respect for the nuclear family, public and private virtue, and private enterprise. For fifty years, Eagle Forum’s network of state organizations has led the charge to mobilize the grassroots to defend the founding principles of the United States. Since 1989, Utah Eagle Forum has been lead by Gayle Ruzicka, who has committed her time as President to the defeat of Roe V. Wade.
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For more information or questions please contact David Kyle, 801-615-1532 & Rana Williams, 801-688-2755

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HB 11 IS ABOUT PROTECTING UTAH GIRLS AND SAVING THE SPORTS THEY LOVE

3/21/2022

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Call Governor Cox today at 801-538-1000, between 8am and 5pm. Ask the receptionist to give Governor Cox your message to please sign HB 11, Student Eligibility Interscholastic Activities. NO VETO. 
 
This bill prohibits male students from competing in girls’ sports. Because of Title IX, which established girls’ sports in the schools, we have had girls’ teams, boys’ teams and coed teams. If governor Cox vetoes this bill we will have only boys’ teams and coed teams. Governor Cox said he plans to veto HB 11, that is why we must act now. He must receive 1000s of requests for NO VETO.   
 
Boys are usually bigger, stronger, and faster than girls. Boys participating in girls’ sports diminishes the girls’ opportunity to fairly compete. HB 11 ensures that female athletes have a fair and level playing field.  We Cannot Forget About The Girls Who, Without This Law, Will Be Forced to Play Against Biological Boys, Competing for Team Positions and College Scholarships.   
 
Boys dealing with gender dysphoria will still be able to participate in sports. HB11 designates “coed” or “mixed” sports as a place where both sexes can play. HB 11 states,  "Sex is defined as the biological, physical condition of being male or female, determined by an individual's genetics and anatomy at birth.”  
  
If biological boys qualify to play on girls’ teams then they would qualify to Share Girls’ Bathrooms, Showers, Dressing Rooms, As Well As the Sharing of Hotel Rooms With Girls When Traveling With the Teams.   
  
There are 11 states that have passed laws that ban biological males from competing with females in girls’ and women’s sports. Several more states are working on the same bills. What a terrible thing if Utah did not join all these other states in SAVING GIRLS’ SPORTS.  
  
WHAT CAN YOU DO?  
  1. Contact Governor Cox today and ask him to sign HB 11. Put HB 11 NO VETO in the subject line. https://servicecloudtrial-155c0807bf-158b6dc6793.force.com/governor/s/comments  
  2. Send this email to all of your contacts.  
  3. Talk to all of the youth that you know and ask them to contact the Governor and have their friends do the same. Tell them NO VETO.  
  4. Send this email to all of your family members.  
  5. Please email us and let us know that you have sent the message to the Governor so we know how many contacts he has received.  utaheagleforum@gmail.com  
  6. Put this message on all of your social media, Facebook, Instagram, text etc. 

Gayle Ruzicka
Utah Eagle Forum,  
​utaheagleforum.org 

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Let's Ban Vaccine Passports in Utah!

2/15/2022

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HB 60 Vaccine Passport Amendments (Substitute 1)
Please contact members of the House Business and Labor Committee and urge them to vote YES on HB 60 1st Substitute.

WE NEED YOU! It is vitally important that you come and show your support FOR this bill. It is scheduled to be heard on Tuesday, February 15 at 4:00 p.m. in room 445 of the Capitol.
(Contact information for committee members can be found below.)
 
HB 60 Sub. 1 primarily does the following:
  • Prohibits "vaccine passports" as a condition of participation in the private sector, as most individuals perceive the concept of a vaccine passport.
  • Prohibits any government entity from denying services to an individual on the basis of the individual's "vaccination status" including whether the individual has an immunity passport
  • Prohibits government and private employers from discriminating against their employees on the basis of the employee's "vaccination status" including whether the individual has an immunity passport
  • Prohibits a governmental entity or most employers from requiring an individual to receive a vaccine.

This bill protects both businesses AND the citizens of Utah. This would prohibit the use of someone's immunity status by places of public accommodation, governmental entities, and by most employers.

This is the way to free up businesses to do business, without the loss of time, focus, and revenue caused by the need to screen employees and/or customers. It also creates a safe atmosphere where employers, customers, and employees can interact without discrimination based upon health care decisions.

With HB 60 (Sub.1), the government is doing its primary job: protecting individual rights!
 
Please find the bill here:
https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillint/HB0060S01.pdf
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Walt Brooks
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Resignation Letter from Mr. Sam Crowley

8/22/2021

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Beloved Music Teacher at Draper Park Middle School for being required to teach the Social Emotional Learning program "Second Step" (shared with permission). They didn't even give his last 2 weeks:

My Dear DPMS families,
This is a difficult email to write.

I have given notice to the School and District of my resignation. I will be leaving Draper Park Middle School within the next two school weeks. This has been a heart-rending decision. I love working with your children, watching them grow and develop. I will miss being with them very much.

I know that this will come as a surprise. It has come as a surprise to me and my family. I intended to be at DPMS for years to come. Unfortunately the social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, “Second Step” was rolled out to Draper Park MS this year. Because I felt uncomfortable when our Admin announced that we would be implementing this program, I spent time reviewing the lessons, videos, teacher scripts, and student handouts from unit 1 for 7th grade curriculum, which is what I would be teaching. The more I watched and read, the more uncomfortable I became.

As a rule, I think that most people will agree that the skills, which the Second Step curriculum is supposed to teach students, are good and helpful. But way that these skills are presented in the Second Step Curriculum is concerning enough to me that I cannot, in good conscience, present the material to my students; material which teaches students that their parents are “roadblocks” to their goals; material which contains propaganda, and encourages students to become activists, among other things. I am especially uncomfortable with the anti-family undertone I have found find in the “Second Step” curriculum (particularly regarding the relationship between the students and their parents, which the curriculum occasionally calls “other generations”.) I am very concerned that this is in our schools.

I shared a detailed list of my concerns with our school Administration, who referred the issue to School Performance at the District level. At every level of interaction with school and district administrators I was treated better than I expected to be. (Parenthetically, Dr. Watts is perhaps the finest, most evenhanded administrator that I have had the pleasure to work with. His hands are tied in this situation. But even so, he has done more than I deserve to support me as we wrestled through this issue. We are fortunate to have him at Draper Park Middle.) My concerns were listened to, and a group at the district have taken the time to look at the relevant content to understand my concerns. Unfortunately, in the end, district personnel kindly told me that that my concerns are unfounded, and that I was seeing what I was “looking for”. They further indicated that the program, as applied in other schools through the district, is working well and helping achieve what they want. I was told that, as a teacher in the district, I am required to teach the concepts from the provided “Second Step” curriculum.
As a kind of compromise, I was offered some small flexibility in the way that I teach the material to the students, as guided an assigned district personnel. But having someone else tell me what I have to teach from a curriculum, which I believe doesn’t belong in the school, is even less appealing than the alternative.

I have advocated for total transparency of the curriculum for parent review, and an opt-out option for parents who are uncomfortable with the course. Because “Second Step” is a copyrighted program requiring a purchased license to access the content, parents can only review the lessons being taught to their students by going into the district office and having district personnel show it to them. No opt-out option will be offered.

I don’t expect all of you to agree with my decision, or that, given the same material to review, you would all feel reason for concern. But I hope that you will understand why I have felt the need to resign: that I cannot teach content to your children that I believe is harmful.

I also want you to know that I have not shared, and will not share, all that I am sharing with you with my students. I do not want to influence your children’s perception of the school, the “Second Step” program, or give them preconceptions about things which might make their time at the school more difficult or stressful. I will tell them that I was asked by the district to do something that I couldn’t do with a clear conscience, but will indicate that I have written to you with more detail so that you can share as much or as little of my concerns as you feel is appropriate.

I hope that you, and your children, will think kindly of me as we part ways. I have tried all that I know to find an acceptable solution which would allow me to stay. I wish all of you, your students, the school and the choir program all the best.

Sincerely,
Sam Crowley
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Physicians speak out - there are COVID-19 treatments!

7/27/2020

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It is disheartening to watch the digging in of heels by national media and other COVID cheerleaders when increasing numbers of physicians speak out against the “We’re all going to die!” narrative. Of course, to admit that the virus is highly treatable and is not an automatic death sentence might mean the country could get back to normal before the November elections. 

If you love Liberty it is EXTREMELY important the you watch both of these videos in this blog post.  If you beleive that you should be able to choose your own health care and your doctor should be able to prescribe the medicine you want and need you should:
  • Contact your legislators and tell them.  
  • Send these links to your doctor and any friends that you know that are doctors.
  • Send this email to all of your contacts.
  • Spread it on Facebook and all of your social media 

The first video is Dr. Richard Bartlett sharing information how he has had 100% success treating patients with Covid including those who are high risk by treating them EARLY with appropriate treatments.  The second video is Senator Bob Hall hosting a panel of 6 medical doctors all with the same story of success treating Covid. These are all very credible medical doctors and they all have 100% success if they treat them when they first have signs of Covid, including high risk patients of all ages. Please watch the video until the very end.  It is very interesting and has information you all need to know.

I have said from the beginning that you have to treat the Covid early.  As Texas State Senator, Bob Hall said, "you don't send a patient home with with the beginning stages of cancer and tell them to come back when it is stage four, that is what they are doing with Covid. He said you go to the doctor,  you test positive and they tell to go home and take 2 Tylenol and come back when you get sicker and then they will put you in the hospital on a ventilator."  Most of the patients who end up on the ventilator die.

Please send this to everyone you know today!
​Dr. Richard Bartlett Shares COVID Information. 
Dr. Richard Bartlett graduated from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in 1991. He works in Odessa and three other Texas locations in general practice and emergency medicine. The past four months he has been treating COVID cases in high risk populations such as the elderly and those with cancer and heart disease.
More: https://eagleforum.org/publications/insights/covid-crimes-against-humanity.html
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Stan Ellsworth is BATTLING COVID-19 and needs our HELP now!

5/19/2020

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PictureStan Ellsworth, host of BYUtv’s “American Ride”
On May 12, Stan Ellsworth, host of BYUtv’s “American Ride,” was diagnosed and admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. For much of the time since then, he has been in a medically induced coma receiving 100% oxygen from a ventilator as his body fights to overcome the virus. Stan’s wife Stacey reports that in the last few days, “they were able to dial his ventilator down to 50% and his body seems to be tolerating it. Their hope is that within the next two weeks they can begin to dial the ventilator down a little bit more everyday until he is eventually able to breath on his own.”

Stan and Stacey do not have medical insurance. Stan has already been in the ICU for nearly two weeks and has several more weeks of hospitalization and rehab ahead of him. This means Stan and Stacey will be facing staggering medical bills and Stan will not be able to return to work for several months.

Please donate to help this great man who has done so much for the cause of God, Family and Country.

As the star of “American Ride,” Stan rode his motorcycle into history telling the stories of the birth of our nation and our heritage as Americans. He has helped us appreciate the sacrifices of our Founders and heroic efforts of many others while taking us to the places where historic events took place. As a popular speaker Stan has helped thousands of children, youth and adults gain a greater awareness and appreciation of our history.

We are all praying that Stan will survive this terrible virus. Our prayers are also with Stacey and their family.

And they also need our financial help.
Please click here to make a donation today.

All funds received will be given to Stan and Stacey Ellsworth.


Thank You!
Stan and Chris Rasmussen 
Don and Gayle Ruzicka          
Tim and Katherine Ballard    
Walt and Peggy Plumb 
Kathy Smith 

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Stand Up For Liberty - Call Your Legislators Today!

4/14/2020

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On Thursday, April 16, at 9:00 am, the Utah Legislature will have a special session to consider multiple bills dealing with issues from the Coronavirus such as government operations, allocation of taxes, elections, worker’s compensation, right to try investigational drugs, unemployment benefits and emergency operations during the pandemic and to establish procedures for future emergencies.  So far, they have posted 10 bills and 2 resolutions that they will be considering.  They could post more.  It is important that we all call our representatives and legislative leadership and let them know how important it is to get people back to work. 
 
If we don’t do something very soon, we could have conditions similar to the “Great Depression” of the 1930s. Most everyone who lived during that time is gone, but we had parents and grandparent who told us the stories about the unbelievably high unemployment, individuals and families standing in long soup lines just to get something to eat, losing all they owned including their homes and, of course, there were those who actually committed suicide because they lost everything, had no means of support, and little hope.  They couldn’t pay their employees or their own obligations.
 
Our generation talks about the 2008-2009 “Great Recession”.  That is not what I am talking about.  We all survived that with very few consequences or discomfort.  We are experiencing for the first time in our lives, a pandemic, and because of that our life has changed. For the first time in our lives we are not able to move around freely from place to place.  We are being told that we cannot get in our car and drive to the:
  • Department store,
  • Stop and visit friends and family,
  • Go to the gym to workout,
  • Get a haircut,
  • Take our family to a movie,
  • Or even go to church,
  • Etc, etc, etc.
 
I am not suggesting that we should throw caution to the wind and go and do all these things, but when so many businesses are being forced to close by government order, they may be crossing the line between the common good and restricting liberty. I understand that in times of crisis, government can overreact in an effort to protect the public, but legislators must always protect our personal liberties first, and we must remember that with liberty comes responsibility. It is not the proper role of government to force businesses to close, but we must be responsible in the personal choices we make. We must protect ourselves and our families, as well as others who we could expose. Those who are high risk themselves or to others should stay home. 
 
Click here to read our statement on faith and liberty during the CONVID-19 Crisis.


It is very important that you contact you legislators today, as well as legislative leadership. We are the ones to steer the direction of government. That is how a republic works, from the bottom up. We elect them to represent us. Let your voice be heard for the preservation of liberty. Now is the time to stand up and act. 
 
Ask your legislators to find the best way to start to open businesses and send people back to work while continuing to practice appropriate social distancing. 


You can read the bills at: https://le.utah.gov/DynaBill/BillList?session=2020S3
 
Find, email and text your legislators at: https://www.utaheagleforum.org/contact-your-legislator.html#/


Contact information for House and Senate Leadership:

Speaker of the House: 
Brad Wilson
Republican, District 15, 
801-425-1028,
bradwilson@le.utah.gov

President of the State Senate:
Stuart Adams
Republican, District 22
801-593-1776,
jsadams@le.utah.gov


Gayle Ruzicka
Utah Eagle Forum
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Using Children As Guinea Pigs Is Not HealthCare

4/6/2020

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On Tuesday, March 31, Equality Utah sent an email that included the following misinformation:

“Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. And being visible literally saves lives. This year, a wave of anti-transgender bills swept across the country. Sadly, the Idaho governor just signed two anti-transgender bills into law. 
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Here in Utah, the Eagle Forum worked aggressively to push legislation to criminalize transition related healthcare for transgender children. They recruited Representative Brad Daw to carry out their harmful legislation. Thankfully, when Rep. Daw met with transgender children and their parents and doctors, he just couldn’t do it. He listened with an open heart and refused to advance the Eagle Forum’s cruel medical ban.

We are grateful to the courageous advocates who are working to change hearts and minds on Capitol Hill.”

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Equality Utah referred to “healthcare for transgender children.”  It is incomprehensible to call experimental medical procedures, that hurt and permanently damage children, “healthcare.” These are unproven treatments that use children as guinea pigs.

It is important to know that many organizations including Empowered Families, a coalition of 30 pro-family organizations, along with the Berean Baptist Church and The Compassion Coalition, and Utah Eagle Forum all joined together on this critically important legislation, and worked very hard during the Legislative session to protect children dealing with gender dysphoria (discomfort with one’s biological sex).

These experimental treatments are currently legal in Utah and are seriously harming our children, including:

  • Puberty blockers:  Children as young as 9 years old, are taken to adolescent transgender clinics where they are given unproven drugs, usually Lupron, to block puberty.
  1. There is not a single long-term study to demonstrate that puberty blockers are safe for gender incongruent youth. This means that the claim that puberty blockers are harmless for gender incongruent youth is a lie.
  2. There are also many harmful life-long side effects associated with the use of Lupron. These include premature osteoporosis, seizures, anxiety disorders in young women, obesity and testicular cancer in young men, memory problems in men and women, and when prescribed simultaneously with or followed by cross-sex hormones, permanent sterility in both sexes. The fact that the long-term permanent harm caused by these procedures have not been ruled out by the promoters of treatments means that informed consent is not possible for parents or their children.
  3. Puberty blockers used on young boys have been reported to cause the development of their genitalia to be arrested.  By their late teens, it was found that their genitalia were equivalent to that of a 9 year-old boy and that they experienced a loss of sexual sensation. This is a permanent condition. 
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  • Cross-sex hormones: Trans-identified youth next take dangerous cross-sex hormones to try to present as the opposite sex. Young girls are given testosterone and young boys are given estrogen.​​ 
  1. This puts youth at an increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, blood clots, cancer and more across their lifespan. And the best long-term evidence we have among adults shows medical intervention fails to reduce suicide.
  2. Most gender-distressed teens are girls and boys who are anxious, depressed, traumatized, struggling with ADHD, autism or other mental illnesses, and are uncomfortable with their bodies and struggling with their identity. Several case reports and series show that the vast majority of teens can embrace their bodies through psychological counseling alone.
 
  • Surgery: Top and bottom surgeries are being given to adolescents to change their sexual body parts. Girls as young as 12 years old are being subjected to mastectomies. These surgeries can and often do render children permanently sterile.

These misguided, draconian therapies and procedures can hardly be called Healthcare. Rather, they are radical, irreversible and dangerous experiments on children, without any credible medical or scientific validation. Introducing opposite sex hormones, and surgically removing and crudely reconstructing sexual  body parts, cannot change a human male into a female and a human female into a male. It may tragically succeed in making one look something like the other, but these children and/or adults will always remain the biological sex they were assigned by God.

The truth is, the rates of non-persistence (those who change their mind and are comfortable with their biological sex) are EXTREMELY HIGH. According to the DSM-5, females who identify during childhood as male, the rate of non-persistence can be as high as 88%.  For males identifying as females, the rate of non-persistence is as high as 97.8%.  There are many other studies with similar results. This shows that the vast majority of children resolve and identify as their biological sex by adulthood.

Dr. Michelle Cretella M.D., executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, has said, “Puberty is not a disease. It is a critical window of development that is permanently disrupted by puberty blockers because time machines do not exist. When normal puberty is artificially arrested, valuable time that should be spent in normal development is forever stolen from these children. This time period, during which highly significant and irreplaceable advances in bone, brain, sexual and psycho-social development occur, is time that can never be given back.”

Dr. Cretella went on to say, “the medical establishment is “affirming” a population of emotionally troubled and neurologically diverse youth onto a pathway of chemical and surgical sterilization and other life-long risks. This is eugenics not healthcare. Minors and their parents are being led astray by a few in the medical establishment and greater cultural movement driven by an evil ideology and financial greed, not science and the Hippocratic Oath. The suppression of normal puberty, sterilization, and the surgical mutilation of children constitutes atrocities and crimes against humanity, not healthcare.”

According to the Controlled Substance Database of Utah, the number of female to male transgender minors in Utah going through medical transition in 2019 was 553. That was just the girls, we don’t have the numbers yet for the boys (male to female), but we can assume that it is significant.  That would mean that presently approximately 1000 children are being medically “treated” with this experimental treatment. That is a 10000% increase over the last 5 years. A thousand children being used as guinea pigs.  A thousand children whose bodies are being mutilated. A thousand children who are being sterilized. And Equality Utah calls this “Healthcare for transgender children.” Appalling.

It is time that the Legislature and the people of Utah do something about this. Please talk to all of the candidates currently running for public office, especially those running for governor or the legislature, about this horrible practice.  The legislators are the only ones who can pass a law making it illegal for doctors to give these experimental drugs and medical procedures to children.  The governor will then need to sign the bill.  That is why we need a commitment from all of them to stop these procedures now.

Our vulnerable children and their futures are at stake.

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Ask the Governor to SIGN HB 332 - Special Needs Tax Credit Scholarships

3/31/2020

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Please contact Governor Herbert and ask him to sign HB 332, a bill that creates Special Needs Tax Credit Scholarships. This parental choice bill provides additional options to families with special needs students.
  • This scholarship will help families struggling to find solutions an opportunity to choose the education options that best meet their child’s unique learning needs.
  • Utah parents need a solution that is more flexible and most importantly can serve many more special needs students.
  • This bill allows parents to use some of the income tax dollars that they are already paying to pursue education opportunities of their choice.
  • HB 332 focuses on those students who need it the most.
  • HB 332 uses a proven funding model that is used in over 20 other states.
  • The end result of these tax credits would actually be a win-win,  increasing per-pupil spending for Utah students, while allowing parents to choose the best options to fit their child's needs.

Contact the governor's office: You can call directly: 801-538-1000 
You can use this online form to send a message/email the Governors Office: https://servicecloudtrial-155c0807bf-158b6dc6793.force.com/governor/s/comments​
Some FAQs about HB332:

What is the revenue source for this new scholarship? This new special needs scholarship will be funded using income tax credits, therefore avoiding taking funds directly out of the education fund.

What is a tax credit scholarship? Tax credit scholarships are funded by corporate and individual taxpayers who divert all or a portion of their state income taxes to non-profit organizations who then, in turn, provide scholarships to students in need.

Is this tax credit scholarship capped and if so, how will it grow? This new special needs scholarship caps how much each taxpayer could give at $1 million and caps the overall program at $6 million. Built into the program is a growth mechanism that allows that overall cap to increase each year there is sufficient demand for the scholarship program. If a 90% threshold of donations is reached in relation to the cap, then the cap itself will increase 10% next year.

Would this program just be for private school tuition? No, this new special needs scholarship would operate as a Flexible Education Spending Account. You, the parent would be able to spend the money on a variety of educational products and services that would best benefit your child.

Who would be eligible for this scholarship? The same conditions that currently allow a student to qualify for an IEP (Individual Education Plan) are used to determine who would be eligible as outlined by federal law.

What are some examples of what products and services the scholarship could be used for? The following isn’t an exhaustive list: tutoring, online classes and/or curriculum, private school tuition, educational therapy, mentoring, textbooks, specialized software, and equipment.

What would the amount of the scholarship be? Students exiting the public school system would be eligible for scholarships up to around $7,000 (2 WPUs). Students that are already in a private school or homeschooled would be eligible for scholarships up to around $3,500 (1 WPU). These caps would automatically increase year to year.

Who would oversee these non-profit organizations that would grant the scholarships? The State Board of Education and State Tax Commission would oversee the scholarship granting organizations
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How would families actually be able to use these funds?In other states that use these kinds of funding models, there are three primary ways funds are dispersed: debit card, a third-party “marketplace” app, and traditional physical checks.

Read HB 332: le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0332.html
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