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Columbia City Council unanimously approves first reading of conversion therapy ban
Columbia City Council unanimously approves first reading of conversion therapy ban By Chris Joseph | May 4, 2021 at 6:23 PM EDT - Updated May 7 at 2:03 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Tuesday the Columbia City Council gave a proposed ordinance that would outlaw conversion therapy for minors within the city its first approval.
The council unanimously moved the ordinance to a second reading. It defines conversion therapy or reparative therapy as:
“.any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic feelings toward individuals of the same gender.”
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I’m a mother. I can’t help but want to protect my child. I want to be there to provide help and support, no matter what. The current effort to repeal Illinois’ Parental Notification of Abortion Act is a deliberate attempt to undermine my right to do so.
I want to protect my child. I need to do so. I have both a right and responsibility to do so. This is something that I learned during my first pregnancy, when at only 20 weeks’ gestation, I went into labor.
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The terror was unimaginable. Less than a month earlier, my husband and I had learned this tiny baby was a little girl, who we had already named Kendall Elizabeth. We rushed to the hospital where, thankfully, the labor was stopped. I spent the next ten weeks on heavily restricted bedrest while taking a daily cocktail of drugs to prevent labor and speed Kendall’s development.
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A team of researchers at UCR have been awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health and UCR’s Center for Health Disparities Research for their study, titled Parent Experiences of Remote Learning. This study is centered around the experiences of families with parents and school-aged children within the Inland Empire.
Jan Blacher, distinguished research professor in UCR’s Graduate School of Education, director of the SEARCH Family Autism Resource Center and one of the project leaders, spoke to The Highlander about the importance of this particular research endeavor.
She explained that though the negative impacts of school closures have likely been felt by all families, the effects may be much more far reaching among vulnerable populations, especially among young children who are dependent upon their caregivers, children with special education needs who have had their support services reduced and racial minority ch
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