PA News Roundup
And an appeal to Nature
But first, our lagniappe!
Dear Readers, when Your Humble Author needs a break from unrelenting misogyny and other insanity, she turns to Nature. Nature always amazes.
On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, the Russian Arctic, Greenland, and parts of Europe saw a total solar eclipse “for the ages.” Here is one photo of totality from La Rioja region, Spain:
Source: Space dot com
How can anyone NOT be amazed and moved when seeing magnificence like this??
Your Humble Author’s appeal to Nature is not the logical fallacy, but an appeal to love our gorgeous world and beyond. Even watching the 2026 eclipse live on YouTube (excellent coverage, timeanddate) moved YHA to tears.
To see more spectacular photos and videos of the the 2026 total solar eclipse, visit Space dot com above, Universe Today, and EarthSky, among many others.
Now, back to Earth
PA News
The big good news is that our PA Coalition for Women’s Sports got a shout-out from Kara Dansky!
In other good PA news, our Commonwealth's rape-crisis centers had a $12 million increase in state funding.
PA Attorney General Dave Sunday takes aim at TikTok over kids’ safety. The lawsuit mentions sexually explicit content and drug use, but not pro-sex-rejection or grooming content.
Federal funding aims to help pregnant women in rural Pa. Will it make a difference? YHA wonders why anti-abortion agitators, who claim to care so very deeply about life, don’t care that rural PA hospitals are losing maternity care at an alarming rate. Don’t the “right to lifers” care about maternal and infant mortality? No. No they don’t.
Federal officials abruptly cut funding for a teen pregnancy prevention program in Philadelphia Again, where are the anti-abortionists? Don’t they WANT to prevent teen pregnancy? After all, fewer unintended pregnancies means fewer abortions. YHA supposes that logic isn’t their skill.
Fly Like A Girl program offers Pittsburgh-area girls 'a pathway' toward aviation. But does the program admit boys who think they’re girls?
Carnegie Mellon University leads $40M effort to reinvent fetal monitoring during childbirth. Strangely, CMU doesn’t know that WOMEN give birth…
The big bad news is that DOJ ends effort to get records of UPMC Children's patients receiving gender-affirming care [sic]. Of course, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette disabled comments on this story and “reported” from an entirely pro-trans bias. If the P-G article is paywalled, read about it here and here.
ACLU sues Penn State Health over canceled gender-affirming care procedure Because of course ACLU did.
Why Pennsylvania quietly repealed its 1929 midwifery law — and is now getting sued for it
National News
Mass. will help fund gender-affirming care for youth after federal government backs out SMH. And Massachusetts has a large budget deficit, so… where is this money coming from?
There's a birth control backlash online. Can it explain the rise in abortions? Um, yes. Again, YHA is surprised that anti-abortion agitators oppose contraception, since contraception use prevents unintended pregnancies which prevent abortions… Again, logic.
From ROAR Women NYC: men are being housed in women’s homeless shelters.
Federal Judge Rules That FDA’s Mifepristone Restrictions Are Excessive, Unscientific, and Unlawful Finally some common sense!
Taxpayer-funded trans dolls with removable genitalia to hit classrooms this fall for kids as young as 4 to ‘learn about different options’ And goodbye to common sense!
from LGB Courage Coalition:
Medicaid/Medicare rule ends funding for sex-rejecting procedures for Americans under 19 effective October 13, 2026. Woo hoo!
The HHS Wolves in White Coats report should initiate serious DOJ/CMS investigations of both hospitals and providers who might have engaged in billing/insurance fraud for sex-rejecting procedures. This is a long report, includes and it includes detransitioner stories. Whistleblower Dr Eithan Haim discusses the report here.
WPATH’s statements in its motion to dismiss the FTC case are in the early stages of the suit.
Justice Department Secures Agreement with Connecticut Children’s to End Pediatric “Gender-Affirming Care” This is the first time the federal government has forced a blue state to end sex-rejecting procedures for minors.
Once again, a wonderfully comprehensive news round up. Thank you!