I have spent a lot of time covering psychiatric drugs like SSRIs. The problem with these drugs is that they’re incredibly potent, potentially dangerous, and they effect the mind in ways that the doctors prescribing them don’t fully understand. And all of these problems are compounded by the fact that they are increasingly easy to obtain. In fact, as the problems with psychiatric medications become more evident, the barriers to access them only become lower. It seems that things should be working the opposite way. But that’s how it goes now. If you want to get a highly potent, dangerous, mind altering drug, you can. In fact, you probably don’t even have to leave your house.

This trend is becoming more and more common with an ever increasing array of drugs. They are very easy to get, there is very little oversight, and you don’t have to leave your house to obtain them. This is a major problem that will require all kinds of legislation to fix. But there are some steps we can, and must, take immediately to address the problem of fraudulent, life-altering drugs being handed out in large quantities to young people, basically on demand. One of those steps is to defund some of the largest distributors of these life-altering drugs, which is something that should’ve happened a long time ago.

If we can’t ban these people from operating outright, then at the very least, we should stop giving them money and tax breaks. What’s happening is a genuine crisis — and it’s not limited to SSRIs. It extends to a whole host of other drugs as well. And a new investigation by Live Action, the pro-life nonprofit, has just brought renewed urgency to this crisis, and how completely out-of-control the problem really is.

Here is part of an undercover investigation by Live Action, where they contacted various Planned Parenthood locations posing as a 16-year-old girl. And in these conversations, Live Action’s 16-year-old girl requests “gender-affirming care,” including cross-sex hormones. And Planned Parenthood responds by saying this is completely fine. They say they’ll do it virtually, over Zoom or something like that. And then they suggest that, if the girl goes to a clinic in-person, she doesn’t need to be accompanied by her mother in the examination room. Watch:

BREAKING: New investigation from @LiveAction exposes Planned Parenthood for prescribing cross-sex hormones to MINORS using virtual appointments

Planned Parenthood needs to be investigated and defunded NOW.pic.twitter.com/QsLTPIsQgj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2025

This footage is part of an extensive investigation by Live Action into Planned Parenthood. The full report was just released this week. To put things in context, Planned Parenthood is the leading abortion mill in the country. They commit roughly 40% of the abortion in this country, all by themselves. And they receive something like $700 million from taxpayers every year.

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So what exactly is that money buying, aside from abortions and irreversible drugs for children? According to Live Action, citing various investigations, it’s allowing Planned Parenthood to traffic in human body parts, commit all kinds of health code and privacy violations, and engage in anti-white racism at all levels of its operation. The entire report is available online if you want to view it, and you should. I will simply highlight this one section in particular:

At least 40,000 patients went to Planned Parenthood for ‘gender affirming care’ in 2023 alone, a number that has risen tenfold since 2017. The largest proportion, about 40 percent, were 18-to-22-year-olds.

According to Live Action, 45 out of Planned Parenthood’s 49 affiliated facilities provide this so-called “care,” and Planned Parenthood is now the second-largest provider of so-called “gender-affirming hormones” in the United States.

The report continues:

Planned Parenthood targets minors for gender-affirming care by disseminating pro-transgender ideology online and in schools. It has also stated that it would like to expand its gender-affirming care to a greater number of minors.

The report cites a video from Planned Parenthood, in which the organization claims that puberty blockers are, “like a stop sign” that pauses puberty without any potential side-effects. Planned Parenthood also provides sex education materials to elementary schools, according to this report, including, “information about puberty blockers and graphics of pubic hair art.”

In some cases, Live Action notes that Planned Parenthood was caught referring a 14-year-old undercover actor for “gender-affirming” treatments at another organization, so that he could hide his so-called “transition” from his parents. It goes on and on. Every page of this report is extremely difficult to read, and it’s all very damning. Even if you put all of the baby murder to the side — which you can’t, because that’s still obviously the most evil thing this organization does — but even if you did somehow forget about that, Planned Parenthood still remains one of the most evil organizations in the country. Their explicit goal is to permanently alter the lives of young people with surgeries and hormones, long before they’re able to consent to anything like this. And as the report outlines, half the time, they don’t even follow their own protocols, as limited as they are.

What’s left unanswered, in all of this, is why Planned Parenthood still receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. Republicans control Congress and the White House. So why the hell are we still sending so much money to these butchers? To be clear, as Live Action’s report outlines, you probably don’t even need legislation to stop this funding. There are dozens of violations listed in this report, which documents Planned Parenthood’s issues with patient privacy, fraud, trafficking of fetal remains, and so on. All of these problems, by themselves, are grounds for an executive order shutting down the funding immediately. But that hasn’t happened yet. And Congress hasn’t done anything either. Nor have they done anything about the mass prescription of SSRIs.

To be clear, Planned Parenthood should be forcible shut down, by law. The whole organization should be banned and all of its executives and employees at every level of the company should be put on trial for crimes against humanity. There should be a Nuremberg for Planned Parenthood executives. But that is not likely to happen any time soon. There are a lot of things that should happen but won’t, and this is number one on that list. So defunding them is the bare minimum. It’s not even close to the full extent of what should be done to shut down these butchers and child abusers and bring them to justice. It’s just the most meager first step. It’s the step where we at least stop forcing Americans to fund these psychopaths. And yet we haven’t even done that. Republicans control the federal government and yet somehow we are still sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood.

Why? What is the reason? What is the negative consequence of defunding them? The Left will be mad? The media will complain? The activists will shriek and sing protests songs in the street? That last thing is pretty painful, I admit. But is in any of that enough to override the great moral necessity of defunding an organization that kills and castrates children? Obviously not. Especially because the protesters will be shrieking anyway. The media will complain regardless. The Left will stay mad no matter what. They’re going to cry. We might as well give them something real to cry about.

That’s not to say the Republicans in Congress haven’t done anything at all. They’re technically showing up to work even though it’s not exactly ground-breaking stuff. But it’s well past time for elected Republican representatives, along with the White House, to take decisive action on the ghouls and butchers who call themselves healthcare providers. If we can defund NPR — and the White House says we can — then we can defund these abortionists too. And we can stop corporations from distributing psychoactive drugs like they’re candy, while we’re at it. This is what we voted for.

The “Big Three” U.S. car companies are disappointed in President Donald Trump’s trade agreement with the United Kingdom, claiming that the deal will harm “American automakers, suppliers, and auto workers.”

The American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), which represents Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, released a statement on Thursday criticizing Trump’s trade deal with Britain shortly after the agreement was announced in the Oval Office. Trump and his trade officials hailed the deal as a major victory for the president’s economic agenda, but U.S. car manufacturers argue that it prioritizes the United Kingdom “ahead of our North American partners.”

Ford, GM, and Stellantis, which make some of their vehicles in Canada and Mexico, are upset that U.K. car companies will only pay a 10% tariff to export to the U.S. market while the American automakers continue to face a 25% tariff for vehicles manufactured outside of the country.

“The U.S. automotive industry is highly integrated with Canada and Mexico; the same is not true for the U.S. and UK. We are disappointed that the administration prioritized the UK ahead of our North American partners,” said Matt Blunt, the former Missouri GOP governor who is now the AAPC president. “Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts. This hurts American automakers, suppliers, and auto workers.”

In a statement to the New York Post on Friday, the White House responded to the automakers’ statement, defending the deal with the United Kingdom.

“No president has taken a greater personal interest in reviving the American auto industry than President Trump. The Trump administration is working hand-in-glove with automakers to reshore manufacturing that is critical to our national and economic security, including with custom-tailored tariff relief and deregulatory policies,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai.

Trump, through his 25% tariff on auto imports, has been pushing American auto manufacturers to bring manufacturing back to the United States from Canada and Mexico. Last month, the president agreed to provide some tariff relief to U.S. car companies, preventing additional tariffs from stacking on top of each other in exchange for the companies’ commitments to furthering their domestic production. The “Big Three” automakers are now concerned that foreign competition from the United Kingdom will get the upper hand following Trump’s trade deal.

Trump’s agreement with the United Kingdom will allow the country to export up to 100,000 cars to the United States for a 10% tariff, a decrease from the president’s 25% duty on other foreign auto imports. In 2024, nearly 16 million total vehicles were sold in the United States. Some of the top-selling British brands include Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and Range Rover. Rolls-Royce engines will also be allowed to come into the United States tariff-free.

“This historic deal delivers for British business and British workers, protecting thousands of British jobs in key sectors including car manufacturing and steel,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.

U.K. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the BBC that the trade deal came just in time as the country was close to losing thousands of auto manufacturing jobs due to Trump’s tariffs.

“This was very serious,” he said. “It would have meant people would have lost their jobs without this breakthrough.”

The AAPC added that it hopes “this preferential access for UK vehicles over North American ones does not set a precedent for future negotiations with Asian and European competitors.”