Good morning and welcome back!
Can you believe those tornadoes and all that flooding last night?!

IB Juniors and Seniors
-In today’s lesson, you will learn to:
-Experience cognitive biases through thought experiments
-Identify various cognitive biases
-Give examples of cognitive biases in your own life
-Explain what cognitive bias is and how it can impact our decision making
Your Student Activity Packet is in Google Classroom.

Personal Finance
-In today’s lesson, you will learn to:
-Experience cognitive biases through thought experiments
-Identify various cognitive biases
-Give examples of cognitive biases in your own life
-Explain what cognitive bias is and how it can impact our decision making
Your Student Activity Packet is in Google Classroom.

From Morning Brew:
In Texas, Abortions Ground to a Halt

A Texas law went into effect on Wednesday at midnight blocking abortions roughly six weeks after pregnancy—before many know they are pregnant.

It is the most restrictive abortion law in the country and could lead many abortion providers to shut their doors. At least 85% of abortions occur after six weeks of pregnancy.

Reproductive rights advocates were hoping that the Supreme Court would step in before the deadline to block the law, which is more restrictive than the current precedent set by Roe v. Wade in 1973. That landmark ruling bans states from restricting abortion before the fetus is able to live outside a mother’s womb—roughly 22–24 weeks into pregnancy.

Late last night, the Supreme Court denied an emergency appeal from opponents of the law in a 5–4 vote, leaving it in place.
The enforcement system is highly unusual.

Typically, public officials like judges or county clerks are tapped to enforce the law. But Texas’s legislation empowers private individuals to sue anyone who performs or helps with illegal abortions, with the ability to collect at least $10,000 in damages for a successful lawsuit.

That’s not only a threat to doctors and clinic staff, but also to theoretically anyone involved in the process—such as a ride-hailing driver who drives a woman to her abortion procedure.

Both opponents and advocates of the law agree lawsuits would be financially devastating for abortion providers.

“This bill is 100% about putting fear in physicians and putting fear in abortion funds and intimidating us. This law threatens my livelihood,” Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an OB-GYN and abortion provider in Texas, told NPR.
John Seago of Texas Right to Life, the largest anti-abortion organization in Texas, doesn’t dispute it. “The lawsuits would be against the individuals making money off of the abortion, the abortion industry itself.”

Looking ahead…the Supreme Court—now with a 6–3 conservative majority—will hear a pivotal abortion case in the fall over Mississippi’s request to enforce an abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy. — NF

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