When you rely on the legacy media for your information, you can rest assured of one thing: Your news will always have a left-wing bias, covering stories that feed the Left’s worldview and ignoring inconvenient facts. This is doubly true when such bona fide news as the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities dominate the airwaves. As Americans watched news develop on the other side of the world, they did not learn of consequential stories potentially reshaping America law, culture, and sovereignty. Here are three stories you missed.

1. Illinois bill Would Allow Abortionists to Dispense Abortion Pill Relying on the WHO, Even If the FDA Reverses Its Approval

The Democrats often flatter themselves as “the party of science” but, with science as with judicial review, they prefer to shop for a venue they know will decide in their favor. When it comes to abortion and women’s health, the Left now prefers to sideline the U.S. government in favor of the globalist World Health Organization (WHO).

A new bill, which swept through Illinois’s Democrat-controlled state legislature and now awaits the signature of possible 2028 Democratic presidential hopeful Governor J.B. Pritzker, would allow the abortion industry to continue dispensing the abortion pill, even if the FDA makes it illegal — as long as mifepristone carries the WHO’s endorsement.

“If a drug had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before January 1, 2025, the revocation of approval of the drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after that date shall not cause it to be deemed an adulterated drug in violation of this Act if the drug is recommended for use by the World Health Organization, even if the drug’s labeling reflects prior approval that is no longer in effect,” says the bill’s final enrolled text.

“We are allowing a foreign organization to determine if our drugs are safe and effective over our own FDA,” said state Rep. Kevin Schmidt (R-Millstadt). “They’re turning to the WHO, an unelected foreign body that doesn’t even have a drug safety review process,” state Rep. Bill Hauter (R-Morton), who is also a medical doctor, told local media. “No responsible doctor is going to prescribe a drug that doesn’t meet FDA standards.”

The bill poses a danger to patients and to national sovereignty alike. “The bill doesn’t specify a drug; it could apply to any drug that fits these stipulations, placing the World Health Organization’s authority over that of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in some instances,” notes Bridget Sielicki of Live Action News.

There seems little doubt whose side WHO takes on abortion and other social issues. In March 2022, WHO added “comprehensive abortion care” to its list of “essential health services” during a pandemic and called on nations to “counteract conservative opposition” to abortion. Last year, the WHO cemented a partnership with the radical Center for Reproductive Rights.

The bill to allow a globalist body of which the U.S. will soon no longer be a member to overrule officials of the duly elected U.S. government passed the state Senate 38-19 on May 20 and the state House of Representatives 75–39 on May 22; both votes on a party-line basis. It now sits on the desk of Governor Pritzker. He has 60 calendar days to sign or veto the bill, or let it become law without his signature.

Speaking of radicalism in the Land of Lincoln ….

2. Illinois Democrats Seek to Erase Mom and Dad from the Law

Democrats in the Illinois state legislature have passed a new bill that would erase the terms “mother,” “father,” “man,” and “woman” from Illinois family law.

H.B. 2568 replaces the term “man” with “person” 39 times and the word “mother” with “woman or person who gave birth” 39 times.

“Changing convict to justice-involved person, pedophile to minor-attracted person, prostitute to sex worker, illegal alien to undocumented immigrant, is not softening the term; it is normalizing the activity. These changes do not clarify; they obscure reality to fit a narrative,” wrote Thomas Hampson of the Illinois Family Institute.

Illinois legislators sent that bill to Governor Pritzker on June 9. The state House has a Democratic supermajority of 78-40, and the state Senate has a Democratic supermajority of 40-19. Vetoes seem unlikely.

Pritzker has increasingly embraced caustic, far-left rhetoric while positioning himself as a 2028 Democratic Party presidential contender. Will he side with extremists or the mainstream values that treasure the roles played by Mom and Dad?

3. UN Official Denounces “Misconception” that Humans Are Crown of Creation: ‘Nature Has Rights, Too’

A U.N. human rights commissioner wants to correct the “misconception” that the human race is superior to animal life while legally codifying non-Christian religious views. Volker Türk, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated in a June 3 speech at Oxford University, “The widespread misconception that nature is a hierarchy, with homo sapiens at its apex, is at the root of the planetary crises wreaking havoc across our world.”

Presumably that makes Genesis 1:26 a “misconception.” God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

Türk asks for the world to recognize the legal “rights” of nature, and prosecute them in a court of law:

“What if we recognized that nature has rights, too?

“The rights of certain species are already widely recognized in many legal systems; cruel treatment is illegal while there are restrictions on animal testing and laws to protect wildlife.

“What about an ocean? A glacier? A tree?”

Türk explicitly tied his proposal to pagan religions: “For many [i]ndigenous [p]eoples, the rights of nature are a given, part of their worldview, cultural practices, religions, and traditional laws. … Rather than viewing themselves as apart from nature, many Indigenous Peoples view human beings as part of nature, as embodied in the M?ori proverb: ‘I am the river, and the river is me.’”

The U.N. chief called on world leaders to create new “models of governance that integrate different worldviews and perspectives, including those that recognize the rights of nature,” reorienting the global policy around “fundamental values and principles that unite us all ... rather than distracting people with culture wars.” Protecting unborn babies or minors from irreversible transgender procedures constitutes a divisive distraction, while granting the unalienable rights of life and liberty to redwoods represents the consensus of Geneva’s echo chamber. 

“Granting rights to nature would destroy all that he claims to want to accomplish for suffering humanity,’ wrote America’s leading expert on the movement to repeal Genesis 1:26, Wesley J. Smith, at National Review. Smith has long chronicled and critiqued the global movement to establish legally justiciable “rights” for nature, such as forests and bodies of water, and to crimninalize “ecocide,” all while removing human rights at the beginning and end of life.

All three stories prove the global Left’s menacing threat to human exceptionalism and the biblical worldview continues apace.