The Gilead Gazette: Heritage’s incest theory, ER refusals, and a war on Irish dancing

Emma Waters is a 28-year-old policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and she says hormonal birth control can make a woman attracted to her own brother. She’s compared IVF to Hitler’s breeding program, wants to end no-fault divorce, and wrote the plan to teach high school girls period tracking instead of contraception. Heritage wrote Project 2025 and staffs this administration, and they’re building her into the next Phyllis Schlafly. Her podcast has 42 views.Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is reorganizing its Office for Civil Rights around “conscience and religious freedom.” Law professor Liz Sepper says the target is EMTALA, the law that requires an emergency room to stabilize you. A conscience exemption would mean a hospital gets to decide whether saving your life is something it’s comfortable with.Delaware’s attorney general settled with the Alliance Defending Freedom and stopped enforcing a law that required crisis pregnancy centers to post a notice saying they are not a licensed medical facility. Delaware is also paying ADF about $50,000.Congressmen Randy Fine and Greg Steube wrote a formal letter to the governing body of Irish dance in Dublin, and Florida AG James Uthmeier threatened legal action, all to stop one trans girl from competing in Orlando.Students for Life wants a House Judiciary hearing on the Clean Water for All Life Act, which would require “biohazard catch kits” so women who miscarry at home collect the tissue themselves and return it. Kansas Rep. Ron Bryce says there’s no scientific data on abortion pills in the drinking water, which is why he wants Trump’s EPA to go find some.Speed round: SBA Pro-Life America endorses Vivek Ramaswamy. Indiana’s Todd Rokita moves to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid. Iowa and Oklahoma restrict abortion pills. Kat Cammack. And Graham Platner drops out in Maine.Nearly all of this is Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung reporting at Abortion, Every Day. Follow them.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/trump-religious-freedom-health-lgbtqhttps://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/05/19/gov-kim-reynolds-signs-laws-restricting-access-to-abortion-pills-hpv-vaccine/https://www.thehandbasket.co Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe