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Alabama
The Republican Study Groups budget backs a bill that would give full legal rights to embryos from the moment of fertilization.
It is allowing our racial ethnicity, and the significance of our skin color, to be slowly stripped away," a local Democrat said.
The settlement clarifies what is allowed in Florida classrooms following passage two years ago of the law prohibiting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades.
Critics panned the Alabama senator's theatrical approach to her State of the Union rebuttal speech.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The law protects in vitro fertilization providers from possible lawsuits and criminal prosecution.
The bill would ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, programs and offices in certain public entities, state agencies and universities in the state.
Stewart defeated Bryan Taylor, a former state senator and legal adviser to two governors, to secure the GOP nomination.
Both parties held presidential primaries in the state on Tuesday.
Detectives took seven suspects responsible for the murder into custody within 48 hours of the investigation.
The state's high court categorized frozen embryos as "children" in an opinion laden with religious verbiage earlier this month.