U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that it’s up to states and not Congress to preserve access to in vitro fertilization, weighing in on a growing national debate and campaign issue.

The Supreme Court ordered Alabama to draw two majority-Black voting districts, but the Republican-controlled Legislature only drew one.

Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri are some of the other states where restrictions on expression related to sexual orientation or gender may affect education.

The law is part of a tidal wave of bills targeting transgender youth across the country.

Gov. Brian Kemp’s ban comes as Georgia is seeing a spike of coronavirus cases, like many other states in the South.

Democrats said it was ‘unconscionable that the legislature would spend the people’s money, meant to address the incredible hardships this pandemic has wrought on our workers, families, and state, on pork and pet projects.’

Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Alabama has a history of racism and homophobia and will soon have its own private police force.