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After ‘Roe,’ can Scientology continue to force Sea Org women into unwanted abortions?

[From ‘No Kids Allowed’: Claire and Marc Headley and their then 2-year-old, Kaiden]

It was a question we heard from a number of our readers and sources after news broke Friday that the US Supreme Court had (as expected) struck down the landmark 1973 opinion Roe v. Wade.

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Scientology is uniting vastly different countries to take over the world!

 
At a time when there’s so much strife in the world, isn’t it heartwarming to know that Scientology, at least, is creating bridges across this troubled globe?

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Scientology’s own publication shows how much David Miscavige worship is growing

 
Something interesting is going on in Scientology. For years, we’ve been telling you that the movement has been shrinking, and more recently we’ve said that the church’s gravitational center has moved from Los Angeles to Clearwater, Florida.

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Scientologist scammer, long on the run, ends up murdered in Mexico

[Raphaël Huppé]

On Tuesday, police in the Yucatan resort town of Playa Del Carmen found two Canadians, a man and a woman, dead in a condo. Both had their throats slashed. Police initially wouldn’t identify them, but said that the two were not tourists.

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Transcript: When Valerie Haney completed her escape from Scientology by vowing not to sue

[Valerie Haney and attorney Gary Soter]

We have a pretty stunning new document for you today which turned up in a recent court filing. It’s a transcript of the 2017 videotaped session when Scientology allowed Valerie Haney to leave her job in the Sea Org — but only if she signed away any right to sue the church for how she had been treated.

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Scientology fundraising is soaring to new heights! Scientology says so!

 
We’re trying to get our heads around what is revealed in a new flier that one of our great tipsters sent us. It purports to describe a fundraising event held in Atlanta, but for the purpose of raising money for an as-yet-unopened “Ideal Org” in Philadelphia. And in order to get the Atlanta folks into the spirit of the thing, they were apparently encouraged to dress up with 1776 in mind. Because, you know, Philadelphia and Ben Franklin and all.

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Scientology: Valerie Haney has no choice but to submit to the church’s authority

 
On Thursday, we told you that Valerie Haney’s attorneys submitted a 5-page declaration to prepare the new judge in her case for this Friday’s hearing. At that hearing, both sides will be explaining to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gail Killefer why, more than two years after her predecessor Judge Richard Burdge forced Valerie’s lawsuit into Scientology’s own brand of “religious arbitration,” no progress has been made toward that goal.

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Paul Haggis arrested in Italy: More proof he’s a villain, or is Scientology behind it?

 
By now you’ve heard the news that Oscar-winning director and screenwriter — as well as former celebrity Scientologist — Paul Haggis, 69, was arrested yesterday in the southern Italian town of Ostuni on sexual assault charges.

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When Father’s Day reminds you that Scientology has ripped apart your family

 
While here in the US today many children will be reconnecting with their dads for Father’s Day, some of us know that it’s not going to happen this year.

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Scientology: Put Bixler case on hold while we hit up the US Supreme Court about ‘arbitration’

[Bobette Riales, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and Chrissie Carnell-Bixler]

If you wondered how Scientology was going to deal with its stunning setback in the Bixler lawsuit, it confirmed this week that it’s going to try a Hail Mary to the US Supreme Court.

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