Britain's exit is a good thing for everyone

June 28, 2016
With less than a week to go before the Fourth of July, here is your weekly insight: While we wait for the markets to stabilize, read up on why you should be glad about Brexit and what steps come next. Also, why the Supreme Court's decision yesterday on abortion clinic safety is bad for women, and what the Senate should include in its bill addressing Puerto Rico's budget mess. —Michelle Cordero, Managing Editor, Heritage.org
Britain's exit is a good thing for everyone. The European Union has been in steep decline for many years, and Heritage called for a Brexit long ago. The EU has become synonymous with low economic growth, high taxes, burdensome regulations, and soaring public debts. A post-Brexit Britain will be a resurgent and powerful force for freedom across the world, alongside the United States. Next steps: The U.S. should move immediately to advance a free-trade area between Great Britain and America that would help both nations prosper. Watch Heritage's Nile Gardiner on "The Kelly File" talking about what Margaret Thatcher would have wanted.
This decision allows abortion extremists to keep open disreputable clinics. The Supreme Court was wrong to strike down a reasonable law that protected women from unsafe abortion facilities such as Kermit Gosnell's notorious and deadly "house of horrors" clinic. The court ignored its own precedents in choosing to protect the profits of the abortion industry over protecting women's health. #ProtectThemBoth.
Puerto Rico has only three days to pay $2 billion. This week, U.S. senators are under immense pressure to pass a bill to help Puerto Rico (exactly like the just-passed House bill) before the island's debt deadline on July 1. Heritage believes that the House bill fell short on key priorities such as offering no bailouts. Read more on these priorities and how Puerto Rico got here in the first place.
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Tuesday at noon, Maureen K. Ohlhausen, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, will discuss data security practices.
Tuesday at 3 p.m., two retired South Korean defense officials, Gen. Kim Jae-chang and Lt. Gen. Park Yong-Ok, will discuss threats from North Korea.
Heritage's Brett Schaeffer, Jay Kingham senior research fellow in international regulatory affairs, travels to a key Internet freedom forum, ICANN56, in Helsinki, Finland.
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