Older Opinion and Analysis Articles
2023
No, Idaho Doesn’t Ban Pregnant Women From Traveling; It Protects Babies From Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “…[T]he Idaho law does not ban interstate travel any more than kidnapping laws do. Rather, it protects young girls from being taken, potentially by force or coercion, to another state to have her unborn baby [sic] aborted without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Abusers and human traffickers often rely on abortion to cover up their crimes. To protect young girls and their babies, the Idaho law creates a crime called ‘abortion trafficking’…” Read more here.
Biden Administration Demands Georgia Schools Show Pornography to Kids, by Jordan Boyd. “Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal power to intimidate districts that have successfully purged porn from campuses.” Read more here.
Major Children’s Clothing Retailers Poured Money Into LGBT Group That Promotes Secret Gender Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “Target and Kohl’s, two major children’s clothing retailers, have both made sizable donations to GLSEN… GLSEN’s goal is to make K-12 schools a safe place for LGBT students by preventing bullying and harassment, according to its website. In practice this has meant encouraging teachers to use children’s preferred names and pronouns while keeping students’ transgender identity a secret from parents, along with numerous other policy recommendations supporting youth gender transitions.” Read more here.
UCI Must Follow British Cycling’s Lead and Change Transgender Policy Before World Championships, by Nicole-Cooke. “What garnered less coverage, but was very insightful, were the post-race comments made by the organiser of the race, Michael Engleman, a long-time supporter and promoter of women’s sport. He was critical of the UCI’s position on transgender participation that had tied his hands. When individuals such as him are contemplating the effect of the UCI policy, saying that ‘this may kill the sport’ and are considering leaving cycling, that threat is real.” Read more here.
Australian Judges Need to Review Standards for Gender Dysphoria Treatment, by Michael Cook. “Australian ‘standards of care’ are based on the ‘gold standard’ Dutch model. However, she writes: ‘there are significant concerns about quality and applicability of the [Dutch] studies to the current cohort of children presenting at gender clinics.’ Alarmingly, she asserts that: ‘The Dutch studies would not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine today.’” Read more here.
Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs, by Ben Johnson. “Federally funded guidelines instruct adults to pause before discussing sex with minors and to ask, ‘Are you alone in the room?’ These instructions specify tactics to follow ‘if you’re really having a hard time getting a parent’ to leave the room during the sex talk. They suggest children as young as 13 discuss sex with groups like Planned Parenthood in a parked car or communicate in writing, so their parents cannot hear the adults’ side of the conversation.” Read more here.
‘Between a Woman and Her Doctor?’ Not With Mail Order Abortion Pills, by Ingrid Skop. “The reality is that these mail order abortions may be completely medically unsupervised: no ultrasound to confirm gestational age or rule out a potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy. No labs to determine need for RhoGAM to prevent future pregnancy complications. No testing and treatment for concurrent sexually transmitted infections to prevent future infertility. No verification that the person requesting the pills is a woman, rather than a sex trafficker, incestuous abuser, or coercive boyfriend.” Read more here.
Legalization of Polygamy Was Always the Logical Consequence of Obergefell, by Jonathan S. Tobin. “If marriage is possible between any two individuals of the opposite or the same sex, then why not three, four, or any number of consenting adults, regardless of their sex? And if Somerville is the harbinger of a growing movement to legalize polyamorous and inevitably polygamous marriages by cities and ultimately states, then those who will defend such laws are on firm ground declaring that the logic of Obergefell demands that all non-traditional ideas about marriage must be treated equally under the law. This is the choice America made in 2015.” Read more here.
The ACT’s Takeover of Calvary Hospital Overrides Conscientious Objection and Threatens Religious Freedom, by Joanna Howe. “The fundamental problem with first attacking and then forcibly acquiring Calvary Hospital because it won’t perform abortions is that it overrides Australia’s longstanding tradition of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Freedom of conscience is a foundational principle of a pluralist democracy like Australia. It is a commitment that values human dignity and integrity and promotes a society in which a healthy diversity of views is tolerated.” Read more here.
‘They’re Wanting to Play God,’ by Christopher F. Rufo. “’We have a generation of kids with mental health problems. It’s very sad. And we need to treat those problems correctly, not by recommending that they change genders to fix their mental health problem. That’s never worked. It never will work… They’re going to wake up in ten years and discover that they’re infertile, that they can’t have children, that their sexuality is completely dysfunctional. That they can’t function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves – when they wake up and realize that they’ve already been ruined.’” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Try to Fool Ohioans Into Constitutional Amendment Threatening Unborn Lives and Parental Rights, by Jordan Boyd. “One advertisement … specifically asserts that the amendment’s language barring the state from interfering with an individual’s ‘right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions’ could easily ‘cut’ parents ‘out of the biggest decision’ of their child’s life, including abortion or even the deforming genital surgeries and chemical castration that transgender activists promote to vulnerable teens.” Read more here.
Ontario Bill Would Banish Freedom of Speech From LGBT ‘Safety Zones,’ by Thomas Jipping. “Bill 94, titled the ‘2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act,’ requires the attorney general to make three decisions: whether to designate a particular location as a safety zone, whether to charge someone with uttering the wrong words within 100 meters of that safety zone, and, if so, whether to seek a fine of up to $25,000. All three decisions would be completely up to the attorney general’s unfettered, and unreviewable, discretion.” Read more here.
Federal Officials Have No Right to Order Schools to Carry Indecent Books, by Washington Examiner. “…[T]his is not ‘book banning’ or authoritarian. Nobody is trying to block the publication of these sexually explicit books. Nobody is trying to stop their sales. Nobody is trying to stop ordinary libraries from carrying them, although they might be labeled to give notice of their contents. Nobody is saying parents can’t buy or borrow books from libraries if they deem them appropriate for their children.” Read more here.
Texas Children’s Hospital Pursued Transgender Procedures With ‘Religious-Like Fervor,’ by Breccan F. Thies. “Medical records show some doctors at TCH were providing these procedures and drugs to extremely young children. One assistant professor at Baylor who practices medicine at TCH has provided procedures to patients as young as 11 years old, according to medical records. Another TCH doctor said he privately asks children about other names or pronouns they might use but does not tell the child’s parents because ‘not every patient who is gender-diverse may have that safe environment at home.’” Read more here.
Target Partnered With Satan Supporter Who Wants to ‘Eradicate’ Critics of Transgenderism, by Jordan Boyd. “One quick glance at the designer’s website and Instagram shows dozens of designs featuring satanic and sacrilegious symbols such as pentagrams, ‘Satan respects pronouns’ T-shirts, ‘gay as hell’ stickers, and stained glass windows covered up by ‘trans bodies are holy…’ One particularly graphic image on the designer’s Instagram shows a naked demonic creature with a horned skull and mutilated breasts.” Read more here.
Florida and Texas Defend Kids Against Gender Madness, by the Editors of National Review. “There is no shortage of examples to illustrate the madness to which DeSantis is referring. Gender clinicians openly promote their cavalier attitude to ‘top surgery’ (i.e., breast amputation), advertising the procedure to young prospective patients on TikTok. Drag queens strip and pole-dance in front of audiences made up of children, much to the delight of grown men and women. Pornographic materials too obscene to detail here are distributed in school libraries.” Read more here.
Kid-Free Zones: How Low Birth Rates Cause Even Lower Birth Rates, by Timothy P. Carney. “…[C]hildren cry, take up space, sometimes run around, and sometimes smell bad. A culture based on ‘personal space,’ autonomy, and minding your own business is a culture that pretends children don’t exist. The more people who go through their daily lives not seeing kids, or seeing only very few, the easier it is to uphold this myth of a childless world – and then that childless world becomes reality.” Read more here.
Teacher Pushes Gay Pornography on Middle Schoolers, NBC Provides Smokescreen for It, by Timothy P. Carney. “…Bonner thought it was a good idea to include this porn-book encouraging stranger-sex in her middle school book tasting. At best, this is a total abandonment of all decency and common sense in pursuit of an ideological culture war. At worst, the teacher is grooming children – introducing them to totally inappropriate sexual material in order to destroy their natural aversion to perversion and reticence about sex. That’s why parents called the police on this teacher.” Read more here.
Trans Sex Attacker Case Exposes Yet More Holes in Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Bill, by Alan Cochrane. “Throughout the passage of the Bill at Holyrood, its supporters had insisted that there was no evidence men ‘ever had to pretend to be anything else’ to prey on girls. That assertion was killed stone dead by what happened to the little girl in this case because she had only gotten into Miller’s car because she felt safe as he had been dressed as a woman… What will shock people most about these cases would be the ease with which Miller and Graham appeared able to switch gender virtually at will.” Read more here.
A Win for Pro-Life Pragmatism in North Carolina, by the Editors of National Review. “With no margin for error, North Carolina Republican legislators prudently went as far as they could go to protect life. Representative Tricia Cotham recently switched from being a Democrat to a Republican but was unwilling to vote for an abortion limit earlier than twelve weeks of pregnancy… None of these bills is perfect. But each bill would save some lives, and it would be a grave error to insist that no lives should be saved until all lives can be saved.” Read more here.
Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Gets Biology Wrong for Both Humans and Birds, by Zachary Faria. “…[T]he other problem this argument has, aside from being wrong, is quite clear. Believe it or not, humans are not white-throated sparrows. Even if it were true that one species of birds had four different sexes (which, again, is not the case here), that would mean nothing… The science around humans is very clear: Sex is binary, and it is not something that can be changed with hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.
Sex Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital, by Christopher F. Rufo. “The executives at Texas Children’s appear to be playing a duplicitous game. They announced that the hospital had stopped performing transgender medical interventions on minors, but this is simply untrue. TCH doctors administered such procedures days after the announcement, and they have continued to perform them… If ‘gender-affirming care’ is truly the gold standard in medicine, TCH should defend it openly, not perform it in secret.” Read more here.
Fertility Rates Are Collapsing – and It’s Not ‘Backward’ to Be Concerned, by Miriam Cates. “Politics works on the basis that society will go on and on into the future… But can we really be so sure that there will be future generations to benefit from our endeavours – or even to look after us in our old age? The short answer is no: the evidence suggests that the very existence of future society hangs in the balance. The current UK fertility rate – the average number of children per woman – stands at 1.6. This is significantly below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1 and continues to fall.” Read more here.
Proud Abortionist Kills Democratic Talking Points About Late-Term Abortions, by Zachary Faria. “…[P]oliticians and abortion activists insist that late-term abortions only occur if medically necessary or if the unborn child is going to die anyway… But, according to the Atlantic, ‘Hern estimates that at least half, and sometimes more, of the women who come to the clinic do not’ have a diagnosis that their lives would be in danger or that their babies will not be born alive. Over half of the late-term abortions Hern performs … are elective.” Read more here.
Colorado School District Hosts Drag Show Amid Teachers Union Embrace of Gender Ideology, by Maddie Dermon. “Muse, rated for children aged eight and above, focused on an adult male transitioning to a female and featured provocatively dressed men performing sexual dances for an audience full of children. Young audience members were clearly disturbed. One student expressed his concern by interrupting the show: ‘This is wrong,’ he cried. ‘Don’t you know we’re in third grade?’” Read more here.
The World Health Organization Has a Message for Parents: ‘Sexuality Education Starts at Birth,’ by Malcolm Roberts. “By age 6, the WHO wants the education industry … to expose children to the concepts of intercourse, masturbation, and pornography. By age 9, they are expected to reach an ‘adult’ knowledge of sex including teaching of masturbation and viewing of online pornography. At age 12 … the WHO wishes the official European education course to explore political and emotional responses to sex, puberty, and gender.” Read more here.
Parents Forced to Sue School District for Compelling Student to Read Sexually Explicit Monologue in Class, by Jeff Charles. “The case raises concerns about the appropriateness of educational materials and assignments in public schools. It highlights the delicate balance between freedom of speech and protecting minors from exposure to explicit content. As the legal proceedings continue, the outcome of the lawsuit will likely have implications for similar cases and potentially impact the development of guidelines and policies regarding the use of explicit material in educational settings…” Read more here.
Wake Up, Lawmakers! Protect Girls and Women and Restore Their Rights, by Eileen J. O’Connor. “Transradical sympathizers rail that it is cruel to exclude from women’s spaces a person who feels he belongs there. Rarely, if ever, and certainly not in the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX regulations, is consideration given to how cruel it is to the girls and women who are confronted not only by the sight of a male in female-only spaces, but also by being viewed by a male stranger in violation of their deeply ingrained, self-protective modesty.” Read more here.
If You Can Perform Surgery on Fetuses, Then Maybe They Have Value After All, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “…[T]he American Heart Association called it the ‘first in-utero brain surgery.’ Now seven weeks old, Denver Coleman is a marvel of medical technology and a testament to the value of the unborn… Even CNN, no bastion of pro-life thought, was eager to characterize baby Denver as a person. Notable as well is that the doctors, realizing fetuses’ capacity for pain, provided her with pain relief during the surgery.” Read more here.
Teen Sexting and Sexually Explicit Music, by Christine Lee and Jane Shawcroft. “…[I]t is easy to treat music, and highly sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics in particular, as white noise in the background of more important activities, despite research suggesting that music contains more messages about sex than any other media content except pornography. It is easy to dismiss the lyrics and messages in a three-minute song as inconsequential, but our research … suggests that listening to highly sexual music influences teenagers’ sexual risk-taking, specifically sexting.” Read more here.
The Media Are Campaigning to Deprive Parents of Their Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The root of the problem … is this idea that parents can somehow be a threat to their children simply for disagreeing with the state’s prescribed orthodoxy. …[T]o compare an ideological disagreement to actual abuse is despicable. Parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit, and the state does not get to come along and take that right from them just because they happen to believe that their 13-year-old son is not, in fact, a girl.” Read more here.
Why Are We Ignoring Family as a Solution to Loneliness? by Jim Dalrymple. “A widely cited 1998 study … found that both marriage and parenthood were associated with lower levels of loneliness. Significantly, the study found that simply cohabitating didn’t offer the same benefits. There’s something unique about marriage. It’s not just about companionship. Subsequent research has repeatedly confirmed, to quote economist and policy advisor Christos A. Makridis, that ‘the unmarried are substantially more likely to feel lonely,’ while ‘married Americans have much lower rates of loneliness.’” Read more here.
The Next Frontier for the Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia, by Jane Robbins. “The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. ‘Pedophile’ has become ‘minor-attracted person’ (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other ‘experts’ … describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.” Read more here.
Corporate Media Wants to Help Democrats Separate Supposedly ‘Trans’ Children From Their Parents, by Zachary Faria. “There is no … attempt to report anything even resembling questions about such irreversible procedures for children. Instead, you see things like the Associated Press’s headline from Tuesday: ‘Trans minors protected from parents under Washington law…’ Yes, keeping parents in the dark about their runaway children and instead handing them off to a state bureaucracy that will let them harm themselves is apparently not an utterly insane policy. It is simply ‘protecting’ transgender children from their own parents.” Read more here.
Biden’s Bizarre View of Women’s Sports Puts Female Athletes at Risk, by Alexandra Caro Campana and Ryann McEnany. “What seems to be forgotten in this proposed rule is all the harm that will be done to the millions of female students when they are forced to compete against men and share intimate spaces with them. Being a competitive athlete takes as much mental strength as physical ability. Sharing a bathroom, changing room and/or hotel room with a biological male ahead of a competition will potentially cause severe emotional, mental and even physical harm to female athletes.” Read more here.
Just Like the Transgender Industry, PornHub Relies on Targeting Kids, by Allison Schuster. “PornHub’s willingness to boycott the state entirely shows who the target demographic is: children… PornHub’s reliance on showing its content to minors can be easily understood in the context of its addictive nature. Young people are easily taken advantage of and starting them young provides PornHub with an audience more susceptible to long-term addiction and abuse.” Read more here.
What Are They Hiding? Pro-Transgender Groups Refuse to Hand Over Internal Documents Even as They Move to Oppose Florida’s Medicaid Rule, by Tyler O’Neil. “…[T]he groups went to court trying to quash the subpoenas. They argued that they should not be forced to hand over documents, in part because they are not direct parties to the case. Yet not only are these groups the medical authorities by which Lambda Legal aims to torpedo the Florida rule, but most of the groups themselves filed the amicus brief April 28 that highlights their interest in the case.” Read more here.
The Legal Case That Could Force Abortion Upon El Salvador Is Based on a Lie, by Nancy Flanders. “Beatriz Garcia, the woman at the core of the case, did not die from a lack of access to induced abortion. In fact, she never had life-threatening pregnancy complications, doctors never advised abortion, and she died four years later in a vehicle accident. And the more than 50 women allegedly jailed for miscarriages and obstetric emergencies due to El Salvador’s pro-life laws … were not actually convicted for abortion but for infanticide.” Read more here.
Don’t Forget Men in the Abortion Debate, by Sara Scarlett Wilson. “Support After Abortion … found that 71 percent of men suffered issues after abortion … and that 82 percent of men did not know where to find help. Men struggled regardless of their involvement in the abortion decision, and even men who fully supported their partner’s decision found themselves with anger, grief, and other negative emotions when thinking about the child or children they never got to know.” Read more here.
Utah Benefits as Porn Peddlers Block Access, by Timothy P. Carney. “America would be better off if every pornographer went out of business and every web hosting service, internet provider, and web browser cut off access to pornography. That’s unlikely ever to happen, but Utah scored a minor victory this week when porn-peddler MindGeek … announced it would block access to its websites from all IP addresses within Utah. This was MindGeek’s protest against Utah’s new law requiring age verification for everyone visiting pornographic websites or other sites with sexually explicit material.” Read more here.
New Jersey Will House Two More Male Sexual Predators With Female Inmates, by Zachary Faria. “What do you do with two male pedophiles who claim that they are women? According to liberal gender ideology, and the state government of New Jersey, you put them in a women’s prison because even child abusers must have their gender identities ‘affirmed,’ even if it endangers female inmates… The messages here from the state of New Jersey are clear. The most abhorrent men convicted of heinous crimes can simply claim they are women and be housed alongside female inmates. The safety of women does not matter.” Read more here.
Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Rule Mandating Schools Treat Biological Males as Females Gets Tested, by Sarah Parshall Perry & Caroline Heckman. “How are schools and colleges going to balance the interest of competing civil rights complaints? If a biological male sexually assaults or harasses a female in a bathroom that’s no longer sex-specific due to the new Title IX rule, and a female files a Title IX complaint – who prevails? According to the Biden administration’s rule, any transgender-identified male is ‘entitled’ to be in that bathroom, but any female is granted the benefit of the doubt in a sexual harassment or assault proceeding.” Read more here.
North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban Is Popular, Enforceable, and Pro-Life Without Political Poison, by Tiana Lowe Doescher. “In short, a 12-week ban allows the state to begin to crack down on the worst abortion offenders, mainly in-person clinics likely to perform later-term abortions, while avoiding interfering with that politically near-sacrosanct relationship between a woman and her doctor. In practice, this also means that the state isn’t stuck going to war with the Food and Drug Administration or regulating interstate commerce of abortion pills, which also have legitimate medical uses unrelated to terminating pregnancies.” Read more here.
Yes, the Trans Movement Is Coming for Your Kids, by John Daniel Davidson. “Recently a group of Democrat legislators in Minnesota, led by the state’s first transgender lawmaker, introduced a bill that would have removed language in Minnesota’s Human Rights Act that explicitly says pedophilia is not a ‘sexual orientation’ as defined by state statute. By removing that language, the bill would have opened the door to widening the definition of sexual orientation to include pedophilia as a protected class alongside other minorities.” Read more here.
Kansas Law Defending Biological Sex and Women’s Rights Is Vital, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Which part of the law do gender activists find so offensive? The part that says women have the right to privacy and safety or the part that rebuffs the Left’s efforts to turn sex into a meaningless free-for-all? … Do women’s rights matter or don’t they? Kansas’s law makes it clear that they do. The gender activists who oppose it, on the other hand, would subject every single sex-exclusive space in the country, and every woman who depends on them, to male intrusion. That is bigotry.” Read more here.
The Biden Admin Is Still Withholding Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Data From Lawmakers, by Spencer Brown. “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said last fall that it would work toward providing abortion services for veterans and their dependents via its taxpayer-funding [sic] health care system. As Tuberville … noted at the time, and since then, such a policy would be a violation of federal law… Yet Tuberville’s questions about how such an illegal policy would be implemented and his ongoing attempts to provide oversight for taxpayers have seen no response from the VA or others in the Biden administration.” Read more here.
India Same-Sex Marriage Case Tests Judges, by Geeta Pandey. “…[A]s the hearings have continued, the five-judge bench has been conceding that tweaking one law may not really work, since it’s a complex web of 35 laws that govern issues of divorce, adoption, succession, maintenance and other related issues – and that many of them do spill over into religious personal laws. And during Thursday’s hearing, the top court appeared to agree with the government that granting legal sanction to same-sex marriage was parliament’s domain.” Read more here.
Biden HHS Using Language Meant to Protect Abortion Survivors to Exclude Preborn as ‘Persons,’ by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “This is a brazenly cruel twisting of the intention of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, legislation that abortion supporters continue to argue is unnecessary on the claim that abortion survivors do not exist. Additionally, it’s a complete and utter denial of scientific fact. Based on all basic biological principles, preborn children are alive, even before their hearts start beating. At the moment of fertilization, the child … already has his or her own unique DNA, with traits like sex, hair color, eye color, and countless more already determined.” Read more here.
Colorado Law Seeks to Prevent and Hide Information About Medication Abortion Reversal, by Harry Scherer. “The new law is full of inconsistencies. For example, it permits the administration of progesterone for women facing miscarriage, but it explicitly forbids the same medication for women seeking to reverse an abortion. The law also does not offer any distinction between patients who seek progesterone after ingesting mifepristone willingly or unwillingly, with the latter being an all-too-common practice among sex traffickers.” Read more here.
Indiana Health Department Sits on Records Showing Two Babies Born Alive After Abortions, Three Women Dead, by Joy Pullmann. “Indiana abortion records … indicate that in 2022 three women died after abortion procedures and two babies were born alive after chemical abortions. They also suggest Indiana abortionists failed to report four abortions on girls aged 15 and younger, as legally required. One of the minors not referred for a state abuse investigation after her abortion, a violation of state law, was just 13 years old, the records say.” Read more here.
Biden DOJ Says Mutilating Children Is ‘Medically Necessary,’ by Zachary Faria. “This is not ‘civil rights’ or ‘acceptance’ or ‘inclusivity.’ It is reckless, dangerous, and, most of all, unnecessary. Chemically and physically mutilating children is not going to save their lives or make them happier. It is only going to saddle them with even more physical health problems to go along with the unaddressed mental health problems that are being ignored. It is an attempt to medicalize them permanently… Yet that is precisely what Biden’s Justice Department is fighting for.” Read more here.
Leftist Minnesota Just Gave State Power to Take Kids Away If Parents Don’t Approve Gender Surgery, by Hank Berrien. “The new law gives state courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child in Minnesota who has been abandoned, is in need of protection from abuse, or has ‘been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.’ The law defines such care as … puberty blockers and chemical and surgical procedures ‘to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity.’” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Steps Deeply Into Transgender Hormones, Including for Minors, by Ben Johnson. “Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report reveals that the multi-billion-dollar business has diversified its portfolio beyond abortion, pushing deeply into the transgender industry by offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young adults and minors – often while explicitly withholding this information from parents.” Read more here.
Attempts Underway to Redefine ‘Forced Pregnancy’ in International Law, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The term ‘forced pregnancy’ is back on the UN agenda as nations begin to negotiate a treaty on crimes against humanity… In its just-released ‘State of World Population Report,’ the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) asserted that the ICC definition of ‘forced pregnancy’ has ‘been more widely interpreted by advocates to include, for instance, situations in which a pregnant person is denied an abortion.’” Read more here.
School District Prompts Parents to Enter Children’s ‘Preferred Pronouns’ When Registering for Kindergarten, by Christopher Tremoglie. “It’s a concerning discovery given the extremely young age of kindergarten students who are unfamiliar with pronouns or mature enough to know anything about gender transitioning. It’s a disturbing revelation showing just how radicalized education officials have become in the country, even in a state like Florida. It should also put parents on high alert throughout the country.” Read more here.
How to Stop the Gender Cult in Education, by Debra Soh. “There is an assumption that poor mental health is the result of gender dysphoria, as opposed to the other way around. In actuality, high rates of co-morbidity abound in individuals with gender dysphoria, with 70% or more of such youth presenting with an additional diagnosis… From what I’ve witnessed in the years I’ve been fighting this cultural battle, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, trans activists and their allies happily disregard this information in favor of plowing forward with their preferred narratives.” Read more here.
The Myth of Sexual Experience, by Jason S. Carroll and Brian J. Willoughby. “In the report, we review a series of recent studies … that show that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages… Overall, we found that ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals, or those who have only had sex with their spouse, are mostly likely to be flourishing in marriage. These ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals report the highest levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, sexual satisfaction, and emotional closeness with their spouses.” Read more here.
Woman Whose Chemical Abortion Has Haunted Her for 23 Years: ‘Don’t Make the Same Mistake,’ by Margot Cleveland. “I started having intense cramping. At one point I went to the toilet, and a baby came out. It looked exactly like the pictures of seven- to 9-week-old babies you see in photos. It was rounded. There was a black eye. My husband fished it out of the toilet and held the dead baby in his hand. I remember looking at it and wondering what it was. But I also knew what it was. I remember going completely numb.” Read more here.
West Coast Shuts Parents Out of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Decisions as Swedish Research Urges Caution, by Greg Piper. “America’s West Coast is separated by a continent and an ocean from Europe. Their policy gap on ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors … is becoming similarly wide… In a new ‘systematic review’ of research on hormone treatment for gender-confused children in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, Swedish researchers … found so little evidence on its effects that they recommended a ban except for clinical trials.” Read more here.
Arrogant Western Countries Outplayed by Developing Member States at the UN, by Lisa Correnti. “The EU and the UN wanted to force sexual ideology for children into a resolution on education. This effort failed due to smart tactics by a united Africa group and delegates from other parts of the world… The lack of consensus including from diverse countries took Western delegates by surprise, many pivoting to damage control to try and save the document they so desperately wanted.” Read more here.
Detransitioner Laura Becker Exposes the Dark Truth Behind Transgender ‘Transitioning’ of Children in Texas Senate Hearing, by Jeff Charles. “What is truly unfortunate about situations like Becker’s is that progressives have convinced the nation to believe that there are only few people who regret having ‘transitioned’ to the opposite sex. The issue is that we do not yet have enough credible data to prove this. Moreover, there is evidence that many of those who go through this process as minor children end up suffering from additional mental issues caused by the use of puberty blockers and surgical treatments.” Read more here.
Zero House Democrats Respected Americans’ Wishes by Voting to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports, by Jordan Boyd. “If the White House gets its way, female athletes will no longer be entitled to federal protection against sex discrimination on the field or in the locker room. Instead, teams of girls as young as kindergarten are forced to accept males on their roster. It’s only in high school and college that the Biden administration concedes males have an advantage that could be disqualifying under a set of extreme criteria. As the vote … showed, Democrats in Congress are all too willing to help the Biden administration erase women.” Read more here.
Marriage Makes Women Happier and Healthier, Harvard Scholars Say, by Kira Mautone. “The researchers found that the women that became married and stayed married over the course of the study showed a 35 percent decrease in risk of all-cause mortality, lower risks of cardiovascular diseases, and ‘greater psychological wellbeing on multiple indicators including greater positive affect, purpose in life, hope and optimism.’” Read more here.
White House Endorses Discrimination Against Female Athletes, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Allowing men, who have undeniable, significant physical advantages, to compete on teams created specifically for women is exactly the kind of discrimination that Title IX was meant to redress. Democrats, however, do not seem at all bothered that women are being deprived of their right to equal competition. Better for women to lose this right than the men who claim to identify as women, according to the White House.” Read more here.
Why Progressives Should Support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, by Kara Dansky. “Our society has been taught a vicious and unscientific lie: that some men can be women, and that some women can be men, on the basis of their ‘gender identity…’ Men aren’t women, even if they say they are, and even if they claim to ‘identify’ as such… There is no credible scientific evidence to support the proposition that a person born with a Y chromosome can be a woman. It should not be considered ‘conservative’ or even remotely controversial to say so.” Read more here.
Your Doctor Asking for Your Pronouns Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s a Sign of the Industry’s Decline, by Elle Purnell. “…[H]aving doctors ask about your pronouns isn’t just an obnoxious chore, it’s a sign of the health-care industry’s willingness to forego medical reality for a few ideological brownie points… Just wait until trans activists insist on making women with breast cancer wait for mastectomies so that other women who want to cut off their healthy breasts to look more like men can go first. (Oh wait, that’s already happening.)” Read more here.
Unborn Children Deserve the Right to Trust Their Mother, by Mark Zimmerman. “Indeed, there are many different angles from which to criticize abortion: that it’s a sin in the sight of God; that it’s a cruel and violent way to die; that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion kills a person; that prenatal screening puts us on a slippery slope toward eugenics; that killing a person isn’t therapeutic. These things are all true, in my view. But I have come to believe there is another reason abortion is wrong: It denies a child the right to trust her mother.” Read more here.
Common Sense Is Finally Returning to the Trans Debate, by Mo Lovatt. “New government guidance [in England] on how schools handle the rise in transgender pupils is currently being drawn up and is due to be issued within weeks. It means that single-sex schools will no longer be required to accommodate pupils who identify as transgender for fear of legal action, nor will they have to affirm a pupil’s preferred pronoun simply because a child demands it.” Read more here.
Colorado’s New ‘Trans Tourism’ Law Beckons Red-State Kids for Trans Interventions and Abortions, by Tristan Justice. “Senate Bill 23-188, signed into law Friday, opens the door for ‘trans tourism’ in the state, allowing minors to seek abortions or ‘gender-affirming health care services.’ In other words, teens seduced by transgender ideology in Kansas, where lawmakers are preparing to ban interventions for minors, may travel to Colorado for sterilizing procedures under Polis’s protection with parental consent.” Read more here.
Washington State Declares Transgender War Against Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “Washington … passed a bill regarding children’s gender transitions that borders on unadulterated evil… Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.” Read more here.
UNFPA: Restricting Online Abortion Is Violence, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In the wake of Dobbs, online purveyors of abortion pills have proliferated widely, and with them the potential for women to be exposed to pills of dubious provenance and quality, either voluntarily or, as news reports have documented, administered through stealth by others. National governments have a role in protecting women and girls from exploitation by nefarious online businesses willing to risk their health for profit.” Read more here.
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Proves the Case Against the Abortion Pill Is Legally Justified, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[T]here is certainly a case to be made that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to abandon very basic safety precautions about the abortion pill call into question its ability to fairly regulate the pill at all. Indeed, the FDA’s watering down of nearly all restrictions on mifepristone is further proof that the agency is using the drug to push a political agenda.” Read more here.
MrBeast Is Introducing Millions of Children to Transgenderism Without Parental Consent, by Eoin Lenihan. “What MrBeast is doing is sinister and will have far-reaching consequences. He is grooming an unsuspecting generation of children into uncritically accepting transgender and trans activism at a vulnerable age. Due to the unrivaled reach of MrBeast and the unparalleled and often unmonitored access he has to millions of kids across the globe, he is now, without a shadow of a doubt, the leading source of child-focused, transgender content in the world.” Read more here.
Appeals Court Reinstates Safety Restrictions for Abortion Drug While Lawsuit Against Its FDA Approval Continues, by Thomas Jipping. “The result of the 5th Circuit’s decision is that … the FDA’s original approval of mifepristone remains and the safety restrictions that were repealed in 2016 and 2021 are reinstated. In other words, mifepristone can be used up to seven, not 10, weeks; using mifepristone will require three physician office visits; only doctors may dispense or administer the drug; doctors must report all medical complications to the FDA; and abortion drugs may not be dispensed through the mail or mail-order pharmacies.” Read more here.
Why the Latest Abortion Pill Ruling Is Both Good and Bad for Pro-Lifers, by Margot Cleveland. “…[U]ntil the Fifth Circuit considers the merits of the FDA’s appeal, distribution of the abortion pill will be governed by the 2000 FDA approval, not the changes the FDA adopted in 2016… No matter the outcome, however, the case is educating the public on the dangers of chemical abortions much beyond what the Planned Parenthood pill-pushers have been doing for the last 20-plus years.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Misses the Point on Transgender Sports Participation, by Tom Joyce. “The problem with transgender elementary schoolers playing on girls’ sports teams has little to do with sports participation. The problem is there are self-identified transgender elementary schoolers, and the government recognizes this delusion as a reality. Government policy should reflect the biological reality of two genders that people cannot change: male and female. It should not support the delusion that children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus can choose their gender.” Read more here.
The Poison Pill Goes to Court, by the Editors of National Review. “From the beginning, the pill was given favored regulatory treatment, with accelerated approval under Subpart H, a program designed for emergency AIDS drugs. Utilizing this fast-track approval process required the FDA to characterize pregnancy, preposterously, as a ‘serious or life-threatening illness.’ A legal challenge was filed with the FDA in 2002 … and the agency sat on it for nearly 14 years in order to thwart judicial review while the pill expanded its market share. The mifepristone pill … now accounts for a majority of all U.S. abortions.” Read more here.
Even the Trans Lobby Can’t Override Biology in Sport, by Suzanne Moore. “The government has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to clarify that when we talk of sex in the Equality Act we mean biological sex. The blurring of sex and gender is what causes problems, and this may help stop this confusion. Women who say biological sex matters have been demonised and I am one of them… Any woman who tells the truth is met by an unthinking mob, online or in real life. And yet it has not stopped us saying it any more than it has stopped sports fans seeing it. For here we do have the advantage: being on the side of reality.” Read more here.
Why I, as a Former Abortionist, Support Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act, by Kathi Aultman. “…[A]lthough I continued to do abortions while pregnant, after my daughter’s birth, I could no longer kill babies just because they weren’t wanted. I still believed abortion was a woman’s right, but my view changed as I saw young women in my OB-GYN practice with unplanned pregnancies, who kept their babies and did exceptionally well, in contrast to those women with psychological and physical complications from abortion. Later, I realized I was not only murdering innocent human beings but that I was also hurting women.” Read more here.
The Madness of Banning ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ by Ella Whelan. “The fact that judges are now pressured to be ‘respectful’ of identity and gender, and feel the need to self-censor, shows how intimidating the conversation around gender ideology has become. For fear of upsetting a tiny minority, we bore the majority with language that is stripped of all meaning. Instead of mothers we say pregnant people, instead of binman, we say wheelie-bin-operator. Sometimes we’re expected to simply invent words – Teen Vogue suggests using ‘folx’ instead of ladies and gentleman, and ‘nibling’ instead of niece or nephew.” Read more here.
Judge’s Abortion Pill Opinion Tells the Truth About ‘Unborn Humans,’ and the Left Can’t Stand It, by Margot Cleveland. “Calling an unborn human an ‘unborn human’ immediately triggered abortion activists, but as Kacsmaryk explained in a footnote, such terminology is scientifically correct… It is understandable that abortion activists want to hide the humanity of unborn humans, but that doesn’t make the science less real: It just means girls and women who have bought the ‘clump of cells’ narrative will suffer when faced with the truth, which chemical ‘at home abortions’ force.” Read more here.
In California, Parents May Soon Effectively Lose Custody of Kids 12 and Older, by Katrina Trinko. “California lawmakers know that plenty of parents have concerns about minors who pursue gender transition. These are valid concerns: gender transition medical procedures, even for minors, can be extensive – and some of it is irreversible… But California lawmakers don’t want parents to be able to stand in the way of their minor children making these life-changing decisions. ‘It is apparent that one result of this bill will be the removal of trans-identified children from the family home,’ Garfield-Jaeger said in her testimony.” Read more here.
Title IX Rule Change: Biden Is Determined to Force Gender Ideology Onto a Public That Doesn’t Want It, by Kaylee McGhee White. “More insulting than this administration’s blatant disregard for women’s rights … is its attempt to gaslight the public on this subject. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s statement announcing the rule, for example, included this astonishing claim: ‘Today’s proposed rule is designed to support Title IX’s protection for equal athletics opportunity.’ How, exactly, does allowing men with massive physical advantages to crush female competition advance ‘equal athletics opportunity’?” Read more here.
Court’s Ruling on FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs Is Huge Win for Women, Girls, by Julie Marie Blake. “The FDA, in collusion with pro-abortion politicians, never properly tested these drugs for safety in the first place and has continued to dismantle safety protections, so that it is now perfectly simple for a teenage girl, for example, to obtain chemical abortion drugs without a single physician visit or her parents’ knowledge – even though these drugs have been shown to cause intense pain and bleeding, and can often progress into worse complications, like hemorrhaging, life-threatening infection, and loss of fertility.” Read more here.
Biden Admin Concedes It’s Unfair to Let Men Compete in Women’s Sports With New Rules Allowing Men in Women’s Sports, by Tristan Justice. “The Biden administration is trying to have it both ways on transgender participation in women’s sports with new Title IX rules introduced Thursday… Under the long-anticipated proposal, the Department of Education outlined new guidelines that would invalidate bans on men in women’s sports currently implemented across 20 states. At the same time, schools that receive federal funding and therefore subject to Title IX stipulations may bar male athletes on female teams in competitive leagues.” Read more here.
Christians Must Take Children to Transgender Procedures or They Can’t Adopt, Oregon State Law Says, by Ben Johnson. “The policy potentially excludes faithful adherents of most major world religions and most Americans generally, experts say. ‘This isn’t just about excluding Christians: The state is effectively telling the growing majority of people that believe that sex is determinable by time of birth they need not apply to foster and adopt kids,’ González said. ‘It’s not enough to be neutral on the issue; prospective foster and adoptive parents must support the state’s radical gender ideology.’” Read more here.
New HHS Report Attacks SOGI Change Efforts, by Dan Hart. “Opponents of sexual orientation/ gender identity (SOGI) change efforts – which could encompass talk therapy, counseling, … or any other type of therapy designed to help people who have unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion – describe it with a negative connotation as ‘conversion therapy,’ often calling it ‘pseudoscience.’ However, dozens of individuals have testified to how SOGI change efforts have transformed their lives, leading them to happily walk away from homosexual and transgender lifestyles.” Read more here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From the Latest CDC Survey of Youth Risk Behavior, by Dana Mack. “According to the survey, being a teenage girl carries with it another elevated risk – that of mental illness. Well more than half of teen girls (57%) reported feelings of sadness and hopelessness that were profound enough, over a two-week period, to interfere with their ability to complete their daily routines (as compared to 36% in 2011). Some of this extreme depression might be attributed to feelings of isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns but certainly not all of it.” Read more here.
One Mom’s Harrowing Story From Inside Whistleblower’s Trans Clinic, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Doctors insisted the puberty blockers were ‘standard procedure’ for anyone ‘experiencing discomfort with their sex.’ And yet, Caroline was shocked to learn that this ‘standard procedure’ would almost certainly lead to infertility. When the psychologist wanted to know if Casey wanted to bank his sperm before they started the drug Supprelin, she kept thinking: my son is only 14 years old.” Read more here.
Ireland’s Commonsense Three-Day Abortion Waiting Period Is Under Attack, by Eilis Mulroy. “In the 2018 legislation, an abortion is defined as ‘a procedure to end the life of the foetus.’ It is the only legal medical procedure in Ireland the sole aim of which is to end human life. This ought to place it apart from all other procedures and justify a far greater threshold in terms of reflecting on it before it is carried out. But the sad fact is that, to pro-abortion groups and political parties, an unborn child isn’t a human life – it’s just a ‘clump of cells,’ with no more significance than warts or skin lesions.” Read more here.
Biden and EU Gang Up on Africans at UN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Adding this controversial language to the annual resolution of the commission would give Western powers more political leverage to push sex-ed programs that promote homosexuality and transgender ideology among children. Western governments, led by the European Union and the Biden administration, are insistent that the resolution must include ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ because the theme of this year’s resolution is centered on education.” Read more here.
Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy, by Katy Faust. “Our culture has shifted drastically, but children haven’t changed. In fact, they continue to be victimized by practices and policies that prioritize adult desires above children’s rights. It’s past time to start putting them at the center of our national conversation. That begins with clearly and courageously defending children’s rights by shaping culture, reforming law, and rethinking our approach to technology.” Read more here.
Transgender Inc.: A Running List of Corporate Gender Insanity Insulting Women, Kids, and Reality, by The Federalist Staff. “Rather than highlight the dangerous and irreversible procedures associated with transgenderism, … many major corporations have opted to champion trans ideology – even for unsuspecting children. In order to help Americans hold these companies financially accountable, The Federalist has compiled a list of major businesses promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
The Surgeries Are Immoral, by Cole S. Aronson. “The real problem is more basic: the surgeries remove healthy organs without good reason. That’s not risky – it’s harmful and morally wrong. The people who seek such surgeries are trying to alleviate very real suffering, but whether surgery addresses such suffering humanely is not a question patients are automatically best positioned to answer. That’s true of any patient seeking any medical procedure.” Read more here.
A Double Mastectomy at 13? How Can President Biden Possibly Overlook That? by Michael Cook. “It’s painfully obvious that the President is ignoring the growing number of detransitioners – don’t they deserve to be safe and supported as well? He ended his speech with these stirring words: ‘You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.’ But that’s all they are – words. Or does he mean that ‘love, dignity, and respect’ mean amputating the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl?” Read more here.
This Is How Schools Are Trying to Gender-Transition Children Without Parents’ Knowledge, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Another report surfaced yesterday detailing how a school district in Colorado also focused on deceiving parents about children transitioning… Their thoughts have progressed into what should be considered criminal actions. Any school district, school, or teacher enabling a student’s transition without notifying and consulting their parents should be charged with child abuse by law enforcement.” Read more here.
Last Students Graduate: School Closures Spread in Aging Japan, by Eimi Yamamitsu, Tom Bateman, and Issei Kato. “Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged ‘unprecedented measures’ to boost the birthrate … and says maintaining the educational environment is crucial. But little has helped so far. Births tumbled below 800,000 in 2022, a new record low, according to government estimates and eight years earlier than expected, dealing a knockout blow to smaller public schools that are often the heart of rural towns and villages.” Read more here.
Women Deserve to Be Empowered by Doctors, Not Rushed to Medical Abortion Without Them, by Susan Bane. “…[T]he Department of Justice announced the U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver prescribed abortion drugs… Similarly, the FDA changed a rule to allow abortion drugs to be dispensed at retail pharmacies… These developments do a great disservice to women by removing the opportunity for them to receive information that can empower them to make informed decisions. This is especially true when the dangers of self-administered abortion are considered.” Read more here.
Democrats Reintroduce Radical Abortion Bill in GOP-Controlled House, by Rebecca Downs. “Lest you think the bill’s name means Democrats have acknowledged the biological reality that only women can get pregnant, a quick glance of the text dashes any hope. ‘This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy – cisgender women, transgender men, nonbinary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others – who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services,’ it reads.” Read more here.
Liberal Media Champion Leftist Crusaders ‘Against Book Bans,’ by Tim Graham. “One uproar is over books – assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for ‘book bans.’ Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books entirely from public view. They get to pose as the defenders of books and ‘book learning’ and as compassionate defenders of the book-reading needs of the ‘marginalized.’” Read more here.
Pumping Gender-Bending Drugs Into Kids Is Even More Dangerous Than We Thought, by Samuel Silvestro and Jay W. Richards. “Lupron stops the body’s normal hormonal process, including the development of ovaries and testes, by ‘blocking’ the brain’s ability to communicate with the pituitary gland… Lupron’s side effects are so severe that doctors tend not to prescribe it for even mild (non-metastatic) cases of prostate cancer. Would you be shocked to learn it might not be great for young girls, either?” Read more here.
I Was a Public School Teacher, and I’m Blowing the Whistle on Transgenderism Before Its Too Late, by Stephen Schultz. “One 8th grade boy arrived at school in high heels, a short skirt, open blouse, make-up, and women’s jewelry. He demanded to use the girls’ restroom… Too many Americans too often think that these sorts of bizarre things cannot possibly be happening because they were not remotely part of their own personal school experience. Unfortunately, they are very real, they are increasingly common, and now they are not only protected but promoted.” Read more here.
Holy See Foils Western Push for Abortion/Sex Ed at UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western countries kept negotiations going on comprehensive sexuality education, abortion-related terms, and homosexual/trans issues deep into the night, well past the deadline for agreement… These are common tactics to break down opposition through a combination of political pressure, tiredness, and discomfort. The idea is to make it so difficult that by the time agreement comes only the most dutiful and tenacious of diplomats are left in the negotiating room.” Read more here.
Why States Must Define Sex Precisely, by Jay W. Richards. “Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex … was needed because no one contested it. Unfortunately, because of gender ideology’s growing influence on our laws and institutions, states no longer have this luxury. Gender activists are now working to redefine sex in federal laws and regulations, such as Title IX, to include ‘gender identity.’ If this succeeds, it will subvert all preexisting legal references to sex, contrary to their original intent.” Read more here.
Abortion Giant Lies About Outcome of Recent UN Negotiation, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The international abortion giant issued a press release following the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) claiming that ‘the text includes a standalone paragraph on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE).’ In fact, the term CSE was not included anywhere in the document. The paragraph referred to by IPPF included language insisting that education must be ‘age appropriate,’ ‘relevant to cultural contexts’ and ‘with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.’” Read more here.
There Are No Banned Books, by David Harsanyi. “For the left, the banned book claim is a political racket, allowing them to feign indignation over the alleged ‘authoritarianism’ of Republicans who don’t want kids reading identitarian pseudohistories or books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, or gender dysphoria in their schools. Yet, major media now regularly contend, as indisputable fact, that ‘book bans’ are in place.” Read more here.
The Government Should Not Bully People Into Supporting ‘Gender Transitions,’ by Matt Lamb. “Religious institutions have First Amendment rights to refuse to be involved with medical procedures that violate their teachings and beliefs… The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which represents Catholics across the country, recently admonished efforts by the federal government to force hospitals to assist in transgender procedures, such as surgeries that remove healthy organs and can permanently make someone sterile or infertile.” Read more here.
Belgium to Allow Repeated Gender Changes, by Wesley J. Smith. “The Belgium supreme court previously ruled that requiring people to identify as male or female violated the equality of people who don’t see themselves as exclusively either. So, a new law will be passed allowing ongoing fluidity of gender identity which will be officially recognized by submitting a simple form… This is civilization-destroying stuff. Not because of the transgender issue per se, but because it represents the triumph of the subjective.” Read more here.
Sex Education Is Now How-to in Schools – Parents, Beware, by Betsy McCaughey. “The facts of life haven’t changed, but sex ed is entirely different from what you took in school. Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body positions. Supplemental reading in middle school libraries includes ‘Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff,’ a book explaining foreplay and how to rub the clitoris to produce pleasure… Planned Parenthood, the largest producer of sex-ed curriculum for public schools, argues children are entitled to know how to ‘experience different forms of sexual pleasure.’” Read more here.
FDA Stonewalled Abortion Drug Concerns to Escape Responsibility for Their Dangers, by Julie Marie Blake. “When the FDA first approved the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000, it sidestepped the required studies – including studies that look specifically at risks for teenage girls – and wrongly categorized the drugs as offering a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit.’ The FDA justified its reckless approval by claiming that pregnancy is a ‘life-threatening or serious illness.’” Read more here.
Parents Are Fed Up With Public Schools Secretly Transitioning Children, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Could these clandestine transition policies and practices be the reason for the alarming spike in the number of high schoolers identifying as transgender? The U.S. saw a nearly five-fold increase in gender transition surgeries for teens from 2016 to 2019 alone. And a new report indicates that approximately 300,000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender. It is not surprising, then, that disenfranchised parents have finally had it.” Read more here.
Maternity Wards Are Closing Everywhere Because of a Lack of Babies; the Media Desperately Want to Make It a Story About Abortion Bans, by Timothy P. Carney. “Maternity wards have been closing all over the United States for more than a decade, primarily for a simple reason: People have been having fewer babies every year since 2007. There were fewer children in America at the 2020 census than there were in the 2010 census. Of course, a country with less maternity will be a country with fewer maternity wards… The closure of rural hospitals’ obstetrics and maternity wards has nothing to do with laws that protect the unborn…” Read more here.
Why Is Netflix Teaching Preschoolers to Come Out as Nonbinary? by Madeline Fry Schultz. “In the show, which is targeted toward preschoolers, ‘Fred’ the bison is reunited with her grandmother and realizes that she hasn’t told her that she now goes by ‘Fred’ instead of ‘Winifred’ and uses ‘they/them’ pronouns… The story is pure propaganda, but don’t take my word for it: Series creator Chris Nee called the episode ‘a road map for coming out but also for having someone else tell you they’ve changed their pronouns and/or name.’” Read more here.
DeSantis Goes There, Shows Graphic Video of Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries Alongside Biden Comments, by Bob Hoge. “Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Governor’s response team … was it at again, taking footage of President Joe Biden lambasting the state for its policies on transgender surgeries and putting in a split-screen with videos showing some of the more benign steps of ‘gender-affirming surgery.’ WARNING: some of the images are graphic, so if you’re squeamish, beware. It’s hard to watch.” Read more here.
Vermont Bans a High School From Athletics for Objecting to Boys in Girls’ Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The [Vermont Principals’ Association] alleged that Mid Vermont Christian violated the organization’s policy on discrimination and harassment by refusing to force its girls to play basketball against a boy… This wasn’t done to uphold the sanctity of VPA’s policies. It was done as a warning to other schools that recognize how unfair it is to force its girls’ teams to play against boys. Bend the knee to gender ideology, or you too will be banned from all sports.” Read more here.
With ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,’ Democrats Openly Celebrate Executioners, by Nathanael Blake. “…[A]bortion advocates believe that without abortion, women cannot be sexually and economically – and therefore socially and politically – equal to men. But this perceived remedy to the injustice and inequality of nature is itself unjust and unequal. In this age of ultrasound, we can no longer effectively lie to ourselves about the lives violently ended by abortion. We have all seen the pulsing heartbeats and the tiny fingers. There is no justice in ending these developing human lives.” Read more here.
If Biden Gets His Way, Using Correct Pronouns Could Be a Human Rights Violation, by Cherise Trump. “With Title IX enforcing gender ideology, what will happen to students who disagree with this dangerous dogma? What will happen to students who believe in basic biology, namely the notion that there are two sexes, that a man can’t become a woman, and vice versa? What will happen to students who have traditional values and remain true to their faith? The answer is alarming. Under this butchered version of civil rights law, these students will be vulnerable to an array of punishments, including suspension and even expulsion.” Read more here.
Yes, the State Has Both the Right and the Responsibility to Restrict Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “He points out that giving the state additional authority over familial relationships is a slippery slope, arguing that this authority could easily be used against, say, homeschooling families. …[T]here is no question at all that surgically and chemically mutilating children … is morally reprehensible. This reality must take priority over any concern of a slippery slope, no matter how legitimate it might be.” Read more here.
From California to South Carolina, Abortion Extremists Pollute Public Policy, by Quin Hillyer. “Enough is too much. On both sides. Abortion is a matter so fraught with conflicting emotions, conflicting values and beliefs, and still even conflicting ‘science’ that there’s no way a pluralistic society will ever reach a perfect consensus on it. For the foreseeable future, there will be plenty of facets of abortion policy to argue about, battle politically about, and maybe prayerfully compromise over, all in a very broad range. In that light, shouldn’t we all at least renounce the absolute extremes?” Read more here.
No, Age-Appropriate Library Restrictions Are Not ‘Book Bans,’ by Raheem Williams. “The issue is primarily a cultural tug-of-war taking place in public school libraries. The discovery of sexually explicit books on school bookshelves nationwide has sparked controversy… There’s an assumption that the government has a responsibility to produce and distribute every book in existence to school children free of charge. This may sound great until you consider that books often contain inaccurate, poorly sourced, or controversial information.” Read more here.
Four Things to Know About Major Texas Court Case Against Abortion Pill Access, by Kaelan Deese. “The case surrounds a challenge brought by anti-abortion physicians and medical associations to the Food and Drug Association’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, the first drug in the medication abortion process. If the judge grants the request to block access to the drug nationwide, it could make the abortion pills more difficult to obtain even in states where such procedures are legal.” Read more here.
Exposing the Lie of ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ by Doreen Denny. “…[W]hat didn’t receive that kind of attention is a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, that the practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ convincing impressionable teenagers that feeling like the opposite sex means you are the opposite sex, is extremely damaging. In a seven-part statement, AAPS exposes this heresy – ‘changing physical appearance does not change biological sex’ – and takes direct aim at the medical industry promoting destructive ‘transgender’ medical procedures on youth…” Read more here.
Declaring a Public Health Emergency Over Abortion Would Be Reckless, by Jeanne Mancini. “A public health emergency declaration would expand distribution of these pills and eliminate safeguards at the expense of women’s health. It would allow the Biden administration to simply ignore any unfavorable ruling in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s lawsuit and to promote the chemical abortion pill even more. But it wouldn’t stop there. The declaration would also direct emergency federal resources towards advancing the pro-abortion agenda overall and force Americans to fund it against their consciences.” Read more here.
VA House Stops Democrats From Putting a Right to Partial-Birth Abortion in the State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “The amendment would have … legalized abortion up to and during birth… That bill would have given abortionists license to choose an alternative method of killing through a provision of ‘Method not listed’ with almost no limitations. The so-called Right to Abortion Amendment would have made unborn babies vulnerable to these assaults up until birth. Advocates made no apologies for their gruesome stance.” Read more here.
Norway Offers a Stop Forward in Eliminating Gender Ideology, by Debra Soh. “Common sense and science are gradually prevailing. Last week, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced it would be revising its current guidelines regarding so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors because it no longer considers them to be evidence-based. The board also acknowledged that the growing number of teenage girls identifying as male post-puberty remains under-studied.” Read more here.
Make Women Female Again, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The joint forces of the radical Left and the transgender lobby have appropriated the day to adhere to the insanity that is contemporary left-wing political ethos. Once a day to celebrate all things feminine, International Women’s Day now actually celebrates men pretending to be women… Women must not submit to left-wing cultural extremism that would debase them and embrace a counterfeit womanhood.” Read more here.
Outdated State Laws Don’t Address Common Practice of Teenage Sexting, by Christine Queally. “Cases involving child sexual abuse material have risen in the last two decades with the advent of new technologies to capture and share explicit imagery… While it is illegal for teenagers to send explicit images of their peers to others in all states and of themselves to others in almost all states, many of them still do. In fact, according to a 2018 study, more teenagers are sending and receiving explicit imagery than ever before.” Read more here.
FDA Absurdly Claims There’s ‘Therapeutic Benefit’ to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs, by Terence Jeffrey. “…[T]he Biden administration’s argument for the alleged ‘therapeutic benefit’ of a chemical abortion focuses entirely on the ramifications for the human being seeking the abortion, not the human being who is aborted… The administration completely ignores the fact that not only is there a death associated with the use of these drugs, it is the very purpose of these drugs. An unborn child is a human being. A drug that is designed to abort the life of that unborn child is a drug designed to kill a human being.” Read more here.
The Realities of Transition Regret, by Debra Soh. “She grieved the inability to breastfeed her baby after giving birth and wanted to raise awareness about the difficulties detransitioned women experience. She also spoke about the poor maternity care she encountered during her pregnancy because practitioners didn’t understand her situation or what detransitioning had entailed… Considering that girls as young as 12 are undergoing this procedure, I anticipate a huge uptick in the number of new mothers presenting with this issue in the future.” Read more here.
How Undemocratic Democrats Force Gender Ideology on Unsuspecting Families, by Washington Examiner. “The committee’s report justifying its recommendations explains that ‘when students are separated by boys and girls, it affirms a rigid binary based on anatomy.’ Apparently, this affirmation of biological reality is bad. The committee adds, ‘Separation of students into boys and girls does not create an inclusive environment for instruction to occur.’ Inclusion, in this rationale, excludes the opinion of the vast majority, which also happens to accord with reality rather than the Left’s preferred fantasy.” Read more here.
Pro-Lifers Issue Warnings After Ohio’s ‘Radical’ Abortion Amendment Clears First Hurdle, by Sarah Arnold. “The proposed constitutional amendment would pose risks for women by removing current health and safety protections for women, abolish parental consent and notification laws, and enable abortion on demand up until the moment of birth… SBA Pro-Life America’s State Affairs Director Sue Liebel cautioned against the amendment, saying it would endanger women’s lives by doing away with basic health regulations.” Read more here.
Sending the Wounded to the Front, by Nathanael Blake. “Transgenderism is culturally powerful and financially lucrative – every troubled teenage girl who identifies as trans is worth a fortune to the medical–pharmaceutical complex. Greed and ideology are a potent combination, so it is no wonder that almost all safeguards have been abandoned when it comes to transitioning children. But this greed may be their undoing. …[L]awsuits may bring down the medical and pharmaceutical cartels that profited from hurting them. The transgender monolith will fall as its victims stand up to it.” Read more here.
Major Doctors’ Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth, by Jordan Boyd. “…[T]he American College of Physicians (ACP) announced its official stance on abortion is that ‘individuals have the right to make their own decisions, in partnership with their physician or health care professional’ without legal consequences… The ACP also used the brief … to formally condemn life-saving pro-life laws for banning the barbaric practice of in-utero dismemberment abortion and punishing anyone who illegally ends unborn lives.” Read more here.
TikTok Influencers Are Trying to Turn Your Kids Trans Behind Your Back as This Must-See Exposé Shows, by Brandon Morse. “…White points out that some of these influencers talking to your kid are actively encouraging your child to keep their ‘conversations’ a secret from you, the parent. This doesn’t just mean random transgendered people, but medical professionals as well who give out phone numbers they can call for a secretive consultation… None of this should be surprising but it’s absolutely integral to see what your kids may very well be seeing whenever they log onto TikTok, if you let them on the app at all.” Read more here.
The Powerful LGBT Group Behind California’s Most Radical Laws Is Setting Its Sights on Washington, by Susannah Luthi. “Powerful organizations in Sacramento often team up on bill sponsorship to add to the pressure. Unions, several of which donate to Equality California, are a particularly important ally, as are Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. Together, this coalition overhauled California schools’ sex education curriculum to include instruction about gay sex and gender identities. Planned Parenthood and Equality California consult with districts on how to teach the program.” Read more here.
Parents Defended Embattled Child Gender Clinic. Their Stories Confirm Critics’ Worst Fears, by Laurel Duggan. “About two dozen parents disputed recent claims that the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was rushing mentally ill children onto cross-sex medical interventions … but their stories highlight some of the clinic’s controversial practices… Parents who were supportive of the clinic reported that their children had numerous mental health comorbidities and transitioned at young ages, sometimes without a history of gender identity issues, and that doctors used suicide risk to pressure families into medical transitions.” Read more here.
Washington State AG: Abortion Pill Is ‘Safer Than Tylenol,’ by Dan Hart. “As noted previously by Szoch and Dr. Ingrid Skop, chemical abortions also pose a unique challenge for the woman, who is expected to carry out the abortion at her home. ‘Chemical abortions are uniquely traumatic in that a mother must personally dispose of the remains of her aborted child, who may be visibly recognizable as a baby. At eight to 10 weeks gestation when chemical abortions are often carried out, the baby is approximately the size and shape of a gummy bear with easily recognizable head, hands, feet, fingers, and toes.’” Read more here.
Washington State Would Destroy Both a Homeless Shelter and Religious Freedom, by Quin Hillyer. “The Washington Supreme Court, ignoring copious U.S. Supreme Court precedent, recently decided that the Union Gospel Mission may not adhere to its faith-based hiring practices, and state officials now threaten the charity with considerable punishment for doing so. As in many other similar cases, the homeless shelter in question will serve anybody in need but just not hire nonbelievers to serve them.” Read more here.
NSW Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of Other States About Conversion Therapy Legislation, by John Steenhof. “The NSW Parliament must resist pressure to repeat the same mistakes. It should open an evidence-based parliamentary inquiry. It should hold public hearings. It should listen to the voices of dissenting gays and lesbians. It should protect the right of people to seek whatever help they want, from whoever they want, in accordance with the human rights of all concerned.” Read more here.
Busting Five Myths of Gender Ideology, by Madeleine Kearns. “Scrutinizing the claims of gender ideology, it soon becomes apparent how incoherent they are. On the one hand, we’re told that men and women are the same – that the differences we observe in professional outcomes and sexual behavior are the result of sexist stereotyping. And yet, they are different; and men can really be women and women can really be men, by appropriating opposite-sex stereotypes.” Read more here.
Actually, Most People Love Being Parents, by Jim Dalrymple. “Specifically, 36% of Pew’s respondents said that being a parent is enjoyable all the time. Another 44% said it’s enjoyable most of the time. That’s a total of 80% of respondents who described parenting as enjoyable… More surprising still, lower-income parents are actually more likely to see parenting as enjoyable and rewarding all the time than parents with higher and middle incomes.” Read more here.
The Abortion Pill Turns Every Woman’s Home Into a Potential Site of Trauma, by Abby Johnson. “I have counseled many former abortion workers as well as women who have had abortions. The anguish they suffer is almost unbearable. Abortion workers see a side of abortion almost no one else does – they have to put together the pieces of the baby in the lab to make sure nothing is left inside the woman… They have images inside their heads they can never forget. Now women who go the medication abortion route are going to see these same things, and like many abortion workers, they aren’t trained to deal with it.” Read more here.
With 3D Body-Image Avatars and Fake Voices for Trans People, Biden’s NIH Goes to New Extremes, by Anonymous. “The NIH is wasting taxpayer dollars on a project titled ‘Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities,’ which purports to help people with gender dysphoria by mapping the difference between their actual physical embodiment and what they believe their body to be. But instead, it indulges their illness by defying science and denying the immutability of sex.” Read more here.
Biden Seeks to Strip Health Care Professionals of Conscience Protections, by Melanie Israel. “In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience protection laws. But now, the Biden administration is proposing to gut those rules, which would ultimately leave people more vulnerable to being forced to participate in controversial procedures that violate their conscience.” Read more here.
The Left’s Transgender Agenda for Children Is at a Tipping Point, by Sarah Weaver. “A large number of key studies used to justify sex-change treatments for minors have fallen apart under scrutiny. One study, which outlets like NBC, U.S. News and The Hill touted as disproving the theory that ‘social contagion’ contributes to the rise in transgender-identified youth, was methodologically flawed… What studies do appear to show, however, is that in cases of children experiencing gender dysphoria, the vast majority will desist.” Read more here.
The Scientific Revolt Against Gender Ideology Has Begun, by Kaylee McGhee White. “To be clear, gender activists don’t really care whether the science backs up their agenda or not. But it does give them a claim to authority on this issue, which they have used aggressively in recent years to convince every one of our powerful institutions, from the education establishment to the healthcare sector to the White House, to accept gender ideology as fact. Debunking their bogus scientific claims brings us one step closer to breaking this ideological grip.” Read more here.
Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of the Equal Rights Amendment, by Emma Waters. “…Democrats have looked for new ways to secure an absolute right to abortion. If Congress votes to remove the expiration date of the Equal Rights Amendment, and if the amendment is ratified later by the specified number of states, then the ERA could anchor a supposed right to abortion in the Constitution itself… To protect the lives of women and their unborn children, lawmakers must oppose the national Equal Rights Amendment.” Read more here.
As Porn Gets Worse and Democrats Embrace It, One Newer Group Has a Novel Approach to Combat It, by Rachel Alexander. “The left promotes the attitude of doing whatever you want sexually by labeling it ‘freedom’ but completely ignores all the damage porn does to its victims. Many of the women exploited are fooled into thinking it’s harmless… Brain scans have shown that pornography has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. FTND states that there are ‘35 neuroscience-based studies using a variety of brain imaging technologies … that provide solid support for the reality of internet porn addiction.’” Read more here.
Washington State Teacher ‘Says the Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Parental Rights in Education, by Tyler O’Neil. “’On one hand, it’s utterly frightening that a teacher would hold the views that she is a better judge of children than their own parents and then publicly say so on Twitter,’ Prior said. ‘On the other hand, having people in positions of authority say the quiet part out loud gives parents the opportunity to understand what is actually happening at their schools and take appropriate action.’” Read more here.
Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains to Bless Putting Male Soldiers in Female Showers and Bedrooms, by Elaine Donnelly. “Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged ‘biases against transgender individuals,’ which are prohibited, could include anything from ‘misgendering’ people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.” Read more here.
Citizens Request Treaty Change for Abortion, by Bridget Ryder. “A European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) to add access to abortion to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has – for the moment – been rejected by the European Commission… As the commission has made it clear, it does not have the power to move forward with citizens’ proposals on treaty change, so the initiative may be a dead end for abortion advocates. But … pro-life supporters should keep an eye on such proposals. They are one more way abortion proponents will continue their attempts to create a right to abortion.” Read more here.
Incredible … UN Women Refused to Hear WYA’s CSW67 Recommendations, by Sofia Piecuch. “Our participant from Tunisia spoke against the inclusion of CSE but was not allowed to finish. ‘They cut me off saying that they have no time and mentioned going back to the main room…’ As WYA experienced, the space provided by UN Women to gather youth and adolescent inputs was not open, inclusive, accessible or transparent for WYA members, who were either removed from the platform or silenced by moderators.” Read more here.
How the LGBT Movement Is Making Young Women Depressed, by Conn Carroll. “…[I]f you dig into the numbers a little deeper, you’ll quickly see that almost all of the growth in LGBT identification is coming from young adults identifying as ‘bisexual,’ and almost all of the growth in young Americans identifying as ‘bisexual’ is coming from young women specifically… One recent study found that bisexual females and females questioning their sexuality had significantly higher scores for depression, anxiety, and traumatic distress than female heterosexuals.” Read more here.
Teenage Girls Are in Trouble. It’s Time to Acknowledge Social Media’s Role, by Jean Twenge. “Although not all teens are negatively affected by social media, some are very negatively impacted. If 38% of girls who ate a new-to-the-market candy got a stomachache, compared to only 11% who ate other candy, the new candy would immediately be pulled from the market even though the majority were not adversely affected. Yet those are the exact statistics for social media and depression for girls in one of the best-designed studies, and social media is still available to children and teens with no age verification required.” Read more here.
UN Commission Considers AI Crackdown on Homosexual/Trans Critics, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The first artificial intelligence programs have only just begun to emerge, but progressive countries already have plans to use the new technology to silence … anyone who objects to abortion and homosexual/trans demands. Progressive Western governments are pushing for global censorship through artificial intelligence to fight ‘technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence,’ a new term that can be used to re-cast opposition to abortion and homosexual/trans rights as a form of online violence and quash it.” Read more here.
The Evils of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, by Isabella DeLuca. “The issue that we are facing now is medical professionals, such as doctors and therapists, who are put in place to protect children, are spreading this propaganda that all gender dysphoria has one root cause: being born in the wrong body and that there is one solution to this: complete gender transition. This supposed ‘cause’ does not account for any other potential internal or external factors within the child’s life, and this ‘treatment’ does nothing but harm the child.” Read more here.
Taxpayer-Funded NPR Uncritically Promotes Mutilation for ‘Transgender’ Children, by Zachary Faria. “NPR is the best propaganda outlet that taxpayer money can buy. The outlet has joined in on the transgender craze, publishing a completely uncritical piece about ‘gender-affirming care’ for children in Florida, one of the states that have wisely moved to ban it. ‘Gender-affirming care’ is nothing more than chemical manipulation and surgical mutilation, and such procedures have permanent effects on children that can never be reversed.” Read more here.
Beyond Binary: New and Old Models of Fatherhood Can Work Together, by Alan J. Hawkins. “The missing second part of his statement is a clear acknowledgement that quality and quantity are highly correlated, that the quality of the parental relationship is strongly associated with positive father involvement, and that co-residence supports quality father engagement, while not living with the child and the child’s mother inhibits it, even among fathers who have a strong desire to be good dads. Yes, non-residential fathers can be good fathers … but the empirical reality … is that the odds are heavily stacked against fathers when the romantic partnership with his child’s mother goes south.” Read more here.
The Associated Press Joins the War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers, by Ashley McGuire. “Calling pregnancy centers, many of which have names that are in no way identified with abortion or the politics surrounding it, ‘anti-abortion,’ jeopardizes the vulnerable women that turn to them for help… But the AP’s mischaracterization of these centers does more than push incendiary language. It’s flat-out biased and unfair – and that would be true coming from anyone, much less from an enterprise claiming to be the literal vanguard of journalistic integrity.” Read more here.
There’s a New Battlefield in the Fight Over Abortion, and Conflict Is Heating Up, by Katelynn Richardson. “In 2000, when the FDA approved mifepristone, …it did so under accelerated approval regulations intended for drugs that ‘have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments,’ forcing the agency to categorize pregnancy as an ‘illness,’ according to the lawsuit.” Read more here.
Reforms Could Change Ethos of Australia’s Religious Schools, by Angela Shanahan. “The ALRC says a school would have control over the curriculum, as far as the state’s curriculum guidelines. Fair enough, but how can you have control over curriculum, especially in religion, when at the same time there is a proviso to present ‘alternative views’ that ignore the fundamental nature of Judaeo-Christian teaching on marriage, family and sex that is at the moral core of belief on human sexuality and procreation of human life?” Read more here.
Leave Pregnancy Resource Centers Alone, by Matt Lamb. “…[T]here are efforts from Big Tech, politicians, and legacy media to harm these groups that provide low-cost or free services to help families choose life and either raise their children in a healthy environment or place them for adoption… While Big Tech silences within the private sector, political efforts work to use the weight of the government to stop these pro-life nonprofit organizations.” Read more here.
The Child Sex Change Industry Is Exploding in the U.S., by Laurel Duggan. “About 300,000 children in the U.S. identify as transgender, according to the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, though not everyone who adopts a transgender identity seeks a medical transition. While many of these children undergo surgical procedures, particularly mastectomies, a larger portion receive puberty blockers and/or hormones, which provides a continuous stream of revenue to pharmaceutical companies and medical providers.” Read more here.
Spain: Study Links Increased Transgender Cases With Laws, by Bridget Ryder. “The study found that in Valencia, the number of transgender cases grew by more than 10,000 percent between 2016 and 2021. In Catalonia, it grew by 7,000 percent between 2012 and 2021, with the number of new cases increasing by 40 percent between 2020 and 2021. In Madrid, between January and August of 2022 alone, the endocrinology departments of the city’s six public hospitals received a total of 848 visits from referrals by the gender identity units, almost half of which were first consultations.” Read more here.
By Accusing Pregnancy Centers of False Advertising, Pro-Abortion Politicians Prove They Can’t Handle the Truth, by Jor-El Godsey. “If every state already has laws against deceptive advertising and if pregnancy centers are, in their opponents’ words, advertising deceptively, why is another law required? You’d think … the current laws would have been easy to use to stop the ‘deceptive advertising’ practices the abortion proponents rail against… Perhaps pregnancy centers are really only guilty of standing against Big Abortion and its deep pockets and bought-off politicians.” Read more here.
Can States Stop Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills? by Sarah Parshall Perry. “State or local governments can regulate matters related to health and safety without violating the supremacy clause. And, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Tom Jipping and I have written, that means, with Roe v. Wade now overruled, the states may again exercise their traditional police power to restrict or prohibit abortion – including particular methods of abortion, such as by pill.” Read more here.
How Autogynephilia Is Fueling Today’s Transgender Activism, by Debra Soh. “There exists an overlap between [autogynephilia] and narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, but the most aggressive individuals with AGP, who demand that trans women be considered indistinguishable from women, and who are overriding social boundaries and requiring policy to facilitate this, don’t represent everybody. Many of those experiencing AGP do so quietly and don’t transition to female full-time.” Read more here.
End the Horrors of the Pediatric Gender-Industrial Complex, Now, by Post Editorial Board. “…[A]ll it took to get these kids on hormones was one letter from a therapist plus a single medical consultation. Those hormones have potentially life-altering and irreversible consequences, including sterility, liver toxicity and severe sexual issues. Worse yet, intakes came in from a mental health unit at the hospital. Yes, kids with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were put on hormones as a cure for their mental illness…” Read more here.
Trained to Hate Their Sex and Selves, 1 in 3 Teen Girls Now Considers Suicide, by Auguste Meyrat. “What has changed in the last decade and in the last few years that has driven young women ever further to despair? From what I’ve witnessed as a high school teacher, this would probably be the rise of social media and transgenderism… Related to the problem of social media is the transgenderism movement, which argues that sex is fluid and that changing one’s sex will make someone happier. This idea has been incredibly destabilizing for female identity and has led to the wide-scale invasion of women’s spaces.” Read more here.
The Associated Press Has Lost Its Brain to Gender Ideology, by Zachary Faria. “The delusions go far beyond the scientifically illiterate assertion that men can become women and women can become men. The AP bemoans the lack of ‘recognition’ for ‘nonbinary or gender-fluid people,’ two completely fabricated categories that mean nothing… This is really all just a form of disinformation. The AP is taking sides in the culture war, and unfortunately, that means that its reporting on this topic cannot be trusted.” Read more here.
As Book Battles Erupt Across the Country, Idaho Turns to Legislation, by Abigail Olsson. “If this bill passes, parents would have the ability to sue agencies that expose children to inappropriate content, adding an additional layer of accountability to the education system. Allowing parents to sue is a good step forward, Kilgannon says, but ‘the only reason we need a bill like this is because librarians, teachers, and school administrators are ignoring parents.’” Read more here.
Six Reasons Why Alex Greenwich’s Gay Conversion Therapy Bill Will Be Bad for New South Wales, by Michael Cook. “A ban on criticism of LGBTQIA+ will stop parents, pastors, and therapist [sic] from offering advice to teenagers who are confused about their sexuality. A ban is a conversion rachet which moves only in one direction – towards assimilation in the LGBTQIA+ community. It will allow therapists to offer affirming advice to teens but stop anyone from discouraging them. The ultimate effect of this will be to hand over the care of troubled teens to government-funded counsellors.” Read more here.
‘Queer’ Whistleblower Exposes Evils of the School-to-Scalpel Pipeline, by Ian Prior. “The whistleblower’s story … reveals the endgame of drugs and surgery to chemically castrate and irreversibly damage children physically and mentally. That endgame does not happen in isolation. It begins at school… Students who ‘identify’ as a different sex are effectively given rights above and beyond everyone else. It’s no wonder young adolescents would deal with their growing pains in a way that gives them a feeling of acceptance, validation, and being part of a new ‘civil right.’” Read more here.
Red States Should Lead Way in Reforming Anti-Marriage Welfare Policies, by Benjamin Paris and Jamie Bryan Hall. “Twenty-six state-level preschool programs contain penalties that discourage marriage. The vast majority of those programs will allow a single mother to send her child to preschool free of charge but eliminate the entire preschool benefit if she marries a man of equal or even lower income… Because of this program structure, a typical working-class couple is incentivized to remain unmarried and raise their children as single parents in order to retain their preschool benefits.” Read more here.
Prayer Is Becoming Criminal in the UK, by Elyssa Koren. “Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the UK.” Read more here.
No, Being a Mother to Your Unborn Baby Is Not the Same as Slavery, by Nathanael Blake. “No one at the time the 13th Amendment was written and ratified thought it included unwanted pregnancy as a form of involuntary servitude. And they were right. It is madness to regard a developing human in the womb as an intrusive stranger with no claim upon a woman. It is crazy to believe that the ordinary, natural processes of human reproduction are the moral and legal equivalent of slavery.” Read more here.
Detransitioners Are Being Abandoned by Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies and Minds, by Kelsey Bolar. “After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition… Prisha doesn’t know why she’s been turned away from so many doctors and medical providers – whether it’s about money, politics, or a lack of knowledge to help.” Read more here.
Religious Schools Will Be Forced to Embrace Transgender Ideology, by Kirralie Smith. “The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a paper that seems intent on destroying religious schooling in Australia… Balancing clauses that have, until now, allowed religious schools and colleges to operate in accordance with their faith, are to be abolished. The propositions require the schools, even religious studies classes, to include ‘alternative views,’ and staff cannot be restricted in any way regardless of their sexual orientation or identity.” Read more here.
The United Nations’ Agenda to Sexualize American Children in the Name of Equality, by Kimberly Ells. “…UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and their partners including IPPF have proven themselves to be tenacious advocates of CSE and/or sexual rights for children. Since this is the case, the global education structure being mounted by them is poised to spread sexual rights ideology like a contagion to children everywhere. UN-directed, tech-based education is the syringe through which comprehensive sexuality education is poised to be administered to the children of the world.” Read more here.
State Hearings on Gender Transitions for Minors Draw Large Crowds, by Chantel Hoyt. “The contentious debate surrounding gender transition procedures for minors continued unabated in statehouses across the nation this week, with several states moving bills meant to shield youth from the physical and emotional harms of such procedures… State lawmakers seem more determined than ever to address the trauma and permanent scars experienced by people like Chloe Cole from occurring to minors in their state.” Read more here.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, by Jamie Reed. “During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager … around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors… I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to ‘do no harm.’ Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.” Read more here.
The FBI’s Slander of ‘Radical’ Traditionalist Catholics, by the Editors of National Review. “The Richmond office of the FBI prepared a memo on what it called ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’ and the threat they posed… The memo accuses such Catholics of ‘adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.’ It contains several references to Catholic hostility to ‘abortion rights.’ And it recommended with some optimism that containing the threat posed by such Catholics can be accomplished by cultivating sources and assets within the Catholic Church itself.” Read more here.
We Must Protect Minors From Gender Transition Procedures, by Matt Sharp. “We must be clear: the experimental gender transition procedures foisted on our children are often irreversible. They prevent healthy puberty, radically alter the child’s hormonal balance, and may even remove healthy external or internal organs and body parts. And not only are such drugs and procedures dangerous, but they are also experimental and unproven. In fact, multiple long-term studies show that when young children who experience gender dysphoria are allowed to mature naturally, most of them … grow out of their dysphoria.” Read more here.
Prostitution Bill Moves to Parliament, by Errol Naidoo. “This is not new legislation but rather the repeal of existing laws that criminalise the sale and purchase of adult sexual services. Essentially, this Amendment will legalize all aspects of the sex industry in South Africa – effectively legitimizing pimps, brothels and criminal syndicates. The impact of a legalized sex industry on society will be dire and far-reaching. Decriminalised prostitution significantly expands the sex trade and increases child prostitution and trafficking.” Read more here.
No Room for Debate: Parents, Not Schools, Must Direct Children’s ‘Gender’ Decisions, by Quin Hillyer. “The horrors inflicted upon Sage as a consequence comprise an extreme case, of course. But even if Sage had not been removed from her own home or abused, the school was way off base in hiding her ‘identity change’ from her parents to start with. No matter what school officials think about their own power, parents, not the officials, ordinarily have ultimate authority over how to raise children. Absent a court finding of abuse or severe abandonment, parental authority is sacrosanct.” Read more here.
Abortion-Inducing ‘Period Pills’ Come to the U.S., by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…[P]roponents of so-called ‘period pills’ are trying to appeal to an audience that is uncomfortable with abortion for moral reasons. A website promoting the pills quotes women’s reasons to prefer this method to a standard abortion following a pregnancy test. ‘It would be easier on my emotional well-being to not know I was actually pregnant,’ one woman said. Another said, ‘I wouldn’t feel I am a bad person.’” Read more here.
Biden Paints Lifesaving, Pro-Life Laws as ‘Extreme,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The president’s reference to ‘extreme abortion bans’ refers to laws that protect unborn babies from being killed. Almost 70% of Americans support limiting abortions to the first three months of a pregnancy… The states with strong pro-life laws on the books allow timely medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and other medical procedures needed to save the life of a pregnant woman, contrary to the claims of many high-profile Democrats.” Read more here.
How to Combat Gender Theory in Public Schools, by Christopher Rufo. “As radical gender theory has made its way into public schools across the United States, children as young as five have been exposed to ideas that encourage them to question their gender identities, sometimes with life-changing and irreversible results. Despite Americans’ broadly shared skepticism about gender identity curricula and practices in schools, many ideologically motivated teachers and administrators have not relented in their mission to advance radical gender theory…” Read more here.
No, Mr. President, the Equality Act Harms Women and Children, by Emma Waters. “Biden encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act ‘to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.’ But we know what this is code for… The Equality Act harms women, children, and all those who understand mammalian biology. While he spoke in lofty terms about ‘our duty to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms’ last night, Biden’s address failed to protect the rights and freedoms of women and children – the two groups most harmed by his radical agenda.” Read more here.
Puberty Blockers Fast-Track Children Toward Full Gender Transition, by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors did find a low rate of detransition during the puberty blocker phase: 93% – 98% of youth who started puberty blockers … proceeded to start cross-sex hormones. This finding led the authors to appropriately conclude that puberty blockers may not serve as a diagnostic tool, but rather represent the first step in medical gender transition – and they even suggest that treatment with puberty blockers may contribute to the high incidence of subsequent treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
Indiana Lawmakers Fight Back Against Schools’ Hidden Transgender Policies, by Tony Kinnett. “Teshka condemned what he called ‘emotional blackmail’ in which ‘…anyone who questions any of these “affirmation policies” is immediately confronted by this idea that “you hate transgender youth because transgender youth are going to commit suicide [without] these policies.”’ ‘Suicide is nothing to throw around lightly,’ the Indiana lawmaker said.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Trying to Force Doctors to Perform Abortions, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “[The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act] explicitly states that hospitals are required to provide treatment to stabilize emergency medical conditions for both a pregnant mother and her ‘unborn child.’ The act clearly outlines the need to protect unborn children, not harm them. But following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, the Biden administration is attempting to redefine EMTALA to mandate the performance of abortions.” Read more here.
The Right to Life Will Be Constitutionally Protected When the Truth About Abortion Is Acknowledged, by James Sherley. “The leading provider of abortions in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, earns the majority of its revenue by stopping pregnant mothers from being parents. Pro-choice protesters pronounce abortion to be healthcare, although every abortion kills a child… Pro-choice marchers claim to want to give their daughters a future with abortion rights, but current abortion practice will end the lives of millions of those daughters, along with their brothers, long before their childbearing years.” Read more here.
Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender, by Douglas Blair. “In a video game set in a world where magic exists and can make you into whatever version of yourself you want to be, why would you choose to be transgender and not just the sex you feel you are? The insistence that video games must give players the option to be transgender is yet another piece of evidence that transgenderism can be an identity adopted for social cachet and is not always an actual desire to be the opposite sex.” Read more here.
Virginia Senate Votes Today on Bill to Put Abortion Until Birth in State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “On Feb. 6, the Senate will vote on SJ 255, a ‘Right to Abortion Amendment’ that would make abortion a ‘fundamental right’ in the commonwealth. This state constitutional amendment would allow abortion to be performed until birth and require taxpayers to pay for it. The amendment would be codified into law if it passes both chambers for two consecutive years and then passes a statewide ballot referendum. It would effectively nullify any pro-life laws in the state…” Read more here.
The Double Whammy Making Italy the West’s Fastest Shrinking Nation, by Jason Horowitz. “Italy’s population is aging and shrinking at the fastest rate in the West, forcing the country to adapt to a booming population of the elderly that puts it at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the ‘silver tsunami.’ But it faces a demographic double whammy, with a drastically sinking birthrate that is among the lowest in Europe. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said Italy is ‘destined to disappear’ unless it changes.” Read more here.
Why Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Not the Answer, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both the U.S.-based and international reviews looked at the sustainability of effects … and whether sexual activity, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancies, and condom use rose or fell among students who were taught according to the different programs. Overall, the researchers concluded that the much-hyped successful outcomes of CSE were based on weak evidence, unsustainable results, and, likely, some degree of motivated reasoning by those conducting the evaluations.” Read more here.
Female Athletes Sound the Alarm About Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports, by Madeline Leesman. “February 1 marks the 37th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which celebrates the achievements and progression in women’s athletics since the implementation of Title IX. In the past few years, however, women’s sports have been threatened, as male-bodied ‘transgender’ athletes have made their way onto women’s sports teams, and in some cases, even into their locker rooms.” Read more here.
Montana Senate Hears Testimony for the ‘Youth Health Protection Act,’ by Chantel Hoyt. “The proponent side of the argument featured parents and grandparents, medical and mental health experts, researchers, and individuals who have ‘detransitioned.’ It was clearly challenging for witnesses to confine their testimony concerning their knowledge and personal experience on this important subject to the three-minute timeframe provided.” Read more here.
With Mark Houck, as With Jack Phillips, the Persecution Is the Whole Point, by Kaylee McGhee White. “I doubt the Biden DOJ thought they’d actually win this case. But that wasn’t the goal anyway. The goal of the charges against Houck and the raid on his family was intimidation. The DOJ wanted to send Houck – and the rest of the pro-life movement, for that matter – a message: interfere with our abortion agenda in any way, and we will come for you. It’s a tactic the Left has been using with increasing fervor over the past several years.” Read more here.
Even Progressive Europe Won’t Go as Far as America in Child Transgender Treatments, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Miriam Grossman. “The American approach, ‘gender affirmation,’ assumes gender identity is knowable from as early as toddlerhood, fixed as soon as it is declared and should be medicalized into permanence as soon as possible. It insists merely questioning a minor’s gender self-definition before often-irreversible interventions is harmful… Europeans generally see affirmation leading to rapid medical interventions as unethical and dangerous.” Read more here.
When Study Shows Transgender Medicine Hurts Kids, Activists and Media Allies Slant the Science, by Nathanael Blake. “Despite the suicides, null results for males, and questionable (at best) results among female subjects, the researchers reported their findings as though they were positive results that supported giving children wrong-sex hormones. And the corporate media bought this spin… Thus, this study will be cited as scientific evidence proving the benefits of transitioning children, even though it shows nothing of the kind.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration’s Proposed Changes to Title IX Threaten Parental Rights, by Kate Anderson and Emilie Kao. “…[T]he Biden Administration’s proposed rule seems to adopt policies that treat parents with suspicion until parents prove that they will support their child’s gender transition… Parents know their children best and have the constitutional right to direct treatment of their children’s mental health. Policies made pursuant to the new Title IX rules could keep parents in the dark and prevent them from exercising their fundamental rights.” Read more here.
Sage’s Law: Protecting Vulnerable Children From the Ideological Fervor of the State, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Sage’s … school should never have hidden the information about her ‘gender identity’ and ailing mental health from her grandparents. The court should never have taken temporary custody of Sage, and it certainly should not have placed her in a male dormitory. All of this could have been prevented, but the state’s relentless desire to force gender ideology onto the public left it blind to a child’s suffering…” Read more here.
Abusing Religious Freedom for Abortion Access, by Tal Fortgang and Howard Slugh. “Allowed to stand, this ruling would have ghastly consequences for religious liberty. States would have to choose between religious liberty laws and every other law they would enforce, nearly all of which burden someone’s conscience and limit behaviors some people consider obligatory. Faced with such a choice, states will have to give up protecting religious liberty altogether. What appears to be a victory for religious liberty … is really just the opposite.” Read more here.
Get Married Before Having Children, and Other Recipes for Reducing Poverty, by James Rogan. “One solution to this catastrophe affecting the nation is to teach the success sequence. The data say that millennials who graduate from high school, get a job, get married, and only then have children will escape poverty, with 97% of those who do so not ending up poor… Studies show demonstrably that the structure of the family is the most important factor in educational and economic success. Schooling has only a limited impact on later life success.” Read more here.
Music Teacher Forced Out for His Religious Beliefs, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Religious freedom has been one of America’s most cherished rights since the Founding. …[T]he right to exercise our religion is a hallmark of a free society. But over the past few decades, employers have been slowly chipping away at protections for religious exercise in the workplace. Now, some companies are trying to tell their employees that they must set aside their religious beliefs as a condition of employment. This is exactly what happened to one orchestra teacher in Indiana.” Read more here.
The Persecution of Jack Phillips Should End, by the Editors of National Review. “The liberal promise of anti-discrimination laws is that they secure the same rights to all in a neutral fashion. The illiberal reality of their deployment by progressives in clashes between sex-based identity and faith-based identity is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups. A decent and liberal society would leave Jack Phillips alone. The Colorado government’s pursuit of him has sent a public message that it is neither decent nor liberal.” Read more here.
You Can Expedite Your Nursing License Application in California … If You Plan to Commit Abortions, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “A recent nursing school graduate from California was ‘shocked, horrified, and disgusted’ when she applied to take the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX) and learned that her home state will expedite the application of any healthcare professional willing to assist with or perform abortions… California’s blatant preferential treatment of abortion is particularly egregious considering the massive nursing shortage the state faces.” Read more here.
Biden’s Abortion Mandates Threaten Pro-Life VA Nurse’s Job, but She Isn’t Giving Up, by Danielle Runyan and Holly Randall. “…[T]he [Department of Veterans Affairs] announced that it would begin offering abortion services at VA facilities nationwide. The VA brazenly issued this edict without first engaging the legislative branch, as it is required to do. Ignoring 30 years of congressional authority expressly prohibiting abortions at VA facilities, the VA was to immediately begin offering abortion services regardless of the unborn child’s gestational age and in spite of any state laws which might prohibit such a procedure.” Read more here.
Leftist Lawyers Try to Protect Killing the Unborn by Calling It a Religion, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Thomas Jipping. “The Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’ did not stop the attacks on legal protection for the unborn. Going forward, most challenges will make familiar arguments but shift the venue from federal to state courts. Abortion lawyers are also launching less conventional attacks, including that pro-life laws violate the right, under state constitutions or statutes, to freely exercise religion.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s Cowardice Allows Colorado to Keep Persecuting Christians, by Joy Pullmann. “In 2018, the Supreme Court rebuked the Colorado judicial apparatus for expressing clear animus against Phillips’ Christian beliefs. It did not, however, back the clear First Amendment protections that ought to allow Phillips to worship God peaceably and bake whatever he wants for any reason whatsoever. So Phillips has been made an example by the rapacious LGBT lobby whose end goals are erasing Americans’ free speech and religious exercise rights as well as inserting government meddling into every personal relationship, all marks of totalitarianism.” Read more here.
Woke Activists Promote Drag Shows, Transgenderism in East Tennessee, by Spencer Lindquist. “A report out of east Tennessee’s Blount County reveals that ‘all ages’ drag shows and other forms of LGBT activism are not limited to liberal areas but instead are spreading into conservative strongholds… A report from Misrule of Law documents how drag shows have been organized in the conservative community by a small but dedicated handful of woke activists.” Read more here.
NIH-Funded Study Claims Trans Hormones Improve Mental Health – Despite Patient Suicides, by Laurel Duggan. “A National Institutes of Health-funded study published Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed to find that cross-sex hormones caused improvements in psychosocial functioning for transgender and nonbinary adolescents. However, two participants committed suicide while another 11 developed suicidal ideation, according to the study.” Read more here.
Christian Cake Artist Gets Persecuted Again, by Quin Hillyer. “Not content to let him get away with refusal to serve same-sex weddings, a leftist lawyer demanded that Phillips make a cake to celebrate a gender transition and another one depicting Satan. These were clearly not good-faith requests but mere harassment… Of course, Phillips refused, which kick-started another Colorado attempt to nail up Phillips as a sacrifice to their gender gods. Naturally, Colorado’s courts … again held Phillips responsible for illegal discrimination based on gender, his religious objections notwithstanding.” Read more here.
Oregon’s Unhinged ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ Guidance Spells the Death of Education, by Emily Mangiaracina. “The Oregon Department of Education’s new ‘transgender’ guidance, now written for ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ students …, may not have made more than a quiet splash upon its release – perhaps in part due to the numbing ‘boiling frog’ syndrome. However, it signals something monumental: that the state education department and the culture that shaped it have, perhaps unwittingly, completely subverted the very purpose of education.” Read more here.
The Pro-Life Movement Still Deserves a National Strategy, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “Up until now, thanks to Roe, calling oneself a pro-life politician hasn’t required much at all. This is the moment for pro-lifers to prove those tepid leaders wrong and insist that any candidate who calls himself pro-life must do more than gesture vaguely to state lawmakers. As the March for Life demonstrated, pro-life Americans still have momentum. They would be wise not to give it up.” Read more here.
The Trans War on Tomboys, by Nina Power. “Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was ‘born in the wrong body’ and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this path – one that many regret – is an obvious, grotesque harm. We have taken a terribly wrong turn in allowing pharmaceutical companies to construct lifelong patients out of healthy children.” Read more here.
A Predator’s Paradise, by Abigail Shrier. “[I]f some of Wiener’s bills seek to protect LGBTQ youth, they also represent a golden opportunity for a different group: adults who would take advantage of them… Consider the Wiener-authored SB 145, a 2020 measure that amended the sex-offender registration laws in California, so that an adult having anal or oral sex with a minor could avoid getting placed on the sex-offender registry, as long as the child was at least 14 and the adult was no more than a decade older.” Read more here.
Transgender Ideology Is Putting Male Rapists Into Women’s Prisons, With Predictable Results, by Zachary Faria. “Men are not women. Men do not belong in women’s spaces, especially if that space is a confined one, such as a prison. Men who are convicted rapists belong nowhere near any women, even if they claim to think they are women… The insanity of transgenderism is having real consequences when it is adopted by the government, and the harm will continue unless people reject this nonsense.” Read more here.
A Public School District Took Middle Schoolers to a Drag Show Without Telling Their Parents, by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon. “When school officials in a diverse community treat their solemn responsibility to seek parental consent as a light matter … they not only jeopardize the welfare of children, they tear at the fabric of our pluralistic social order… When school leaders minimize the problem, they make concerned parents out to be reactionaries. When they betray the trust of parents, they rupture a vital relationship.” Read more here.
The Cultural Abomination of Drag Queen Story Hour Came to Baltimore, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Make no mistake, drag queen story hour has no business in front of children. Much like people would reject exotic dancers reading stories to children because of the mature content of their hypersexualized nature, so, too, should drag queen story hour. They shouldn’t receive special privileges or exemptions (mainly) because they’re part of the LGBT community. Inappropriate is inappropriate regardless of the sexual orientation of most actors involved.” Read more here.
How Not to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Leor Sapir and Colin Wright. “State efforts to restrict the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to address (apparent) gender-related distress in youth make for good public policy. Yet even lawmakers on the morally and scientifically correct side of an issue risk overstepping by unintentionally proposing harmful or strategically counterproductive regulations. We write to warn of three such mistaken efforts.” Read more here.
Dobbs Dealt a Blow to the Supply Side of Abortion; Now Pro-Lifers Should Focus on the Demand Side, by Marvin Olasky. “Going forward, pro-lifers need to emphasize compassionate approaches that can reduce demand for abortions. Prime among them: pregnancy resource centers that offer free material, psychological, and spiritual help to women (and men) in need. They provide 3D or 4D ultrasounds so pregnant women and the fathers of their unborn children can make an informed choice, and they provide a new support community for women when their old one has rejected them. They don’t abandon women who choose abortion, and instead offer post-abortion counseling.” Read more here.
The Weird New Era of Abortion Debate, by Kathryn Lopez. “In this new moment after Roe, there needs to be an examination of our national conscience. Why is abortion so commonplace? Why is it considered freedom and health care when it’s often posited as the only solution, with no consideration of other options for women? There are very hard cases and painful sufferings. Most abortions in America do not involve horrific stories that necessitate babies being born alive in the latest stages of pregnancy – most abortions are birth control.” Read more here.
Minnesota Poised to Legalize Infanticide, Nuke Protections for Women and Babies in Radical Abortion Bill, by Jordan Boyd. “’Viable’ as defined in Minnesota law means ‘able to live outside the womb even though artificial aid may be required,’ which could be as early as ‘the second half of [the] gestation period.’ The [Protect Reproductive Options Act] doesn’t just rid the state of that definition in an attempt to expand abortion for all through birth. It also quashes provisions that abortions performed beyond the first trimester must be done in hospitals and only executed if a mother’s life is at risk.” Read more here.
Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents, by Laura Bryant Hanford. “When the FBI found Sage … in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her in not affirming her as male. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex-trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.” Read more here.
New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show the Whole Picture, by Melanie Israel. “…[T]he growing use of abortion pills at home makes it harder to count actual abortions. Guttmacher counts chemical (abortion pill) abortions that ‘occurred in clinical settings’ but points out that during their census, roughly 55,000 people requested abortion pills online without going to a facility, according to one study. How many of these women got pills and went through with an abortion? And how many more women got abortion pills from unscrupulous foreign and domestic sources? We don’t know.” Read more here.
The Orwellian World of the Pro-Abortion Movement, by Christopher Tremoglie and Michael Tremoglie. “The issue of ‘reproductive rights’ is not semantical. It makes the issue sound like one of government interfering in the lives of individuals. But this clashes with the fact that abortion advocates most certainly do want laws that interfere with private lives. The most arrant interference is the elimination of parental notification. This means that a minor can legally be taken by some other adult – often an adult sexual abuser, covering up his crime – to have an abortion without her parent’s knowledge.” Read more here.
Washington Laws Now Allow Teen Gender Reassignment Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own. It’s an easy position for politicians or activists to take when they don’t have to deal with the consequences the way a child and his or her family would.” Read more here.
Study Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Linked to Suicide but Ignores Crucial Data Showing Otherwise, by Thomas Kelly. “The authors are claiming that there is an expected 5 percent increase in suicide rates in states that have restrictive abortion laws. But the upward bias in their recorded suicide rates for some states is multiple times the estimated effect of abortion restrictions on suicide rates. This data cannot demonstrate that abortion restrictions are associated with suicide increases because the bias in their data is so extreme.” Read more here.
Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Glenn … convey[ed] through district spokesman Jeff Meador that all the titles they’d pulled from shelves are ‘sexually explicit and not age-appropriate.’ That said, the libraries ‘continue to house a socially and culturally diverse collection of books for students to read, including,’ he pointed out, ‘books that analyze and explore LGBTQ+ issues.’ Naturally, that didn’t satisfy the ACLU, whose lawyers decided to involve the federal government in a local dispute that could have a chilling effect nationwide.” Read more here.
Medical Experts, Not Activists, Must Lead Discussion of Puberty Blockers, by Kate Anderson. “…[M]any school districts have adopted the activist line that the only way to support children with gender dysphoria is to adopt an ‘affirmative’ response that immediately puts a child onto a treatment pathway that ends with medical intervention… Schools that have enacted these radical policies should take a hard look at the very serious harms that children are exposed to in pursuit of an ‘affirmative’ approach.” Read more here.
An LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy Ban Is Bound to Backfire, by Lottie Moore. “Of course, we would hope and expect that all MPs would be against persecution. But this amendment will have consequences that go far beyond that noble aim – with serious and dangerous results. If this amendment is passed, professionals simply trying to do their jobs could be accused of practising conversion therapy – because the amendment fails to define what it entails.” Read more here.
A ‘Botched Abortion’ Is the Birth of a Child, by Larry O’Connor. “The unanimous voice of Hakeem Jeffries’ Democrat caucus was that mothers and doctors should not be obliged to provide medical attention to an [sic] ‘survivor’ after a so-called ‘botched abortion…’ Think about that term for a moment. What happens when you ‘botch’ an abortion? …What happens when an abortion goes ‘wrong?’ A baby is born. A baby is born, alive. A ‘botched abortion’ is also known as ‘child birth.’” Read more here.
Oops! Democratic ‘Oversights’ Would Legalize Polygamy, Infanticide, by Ben Johnson. “Voters can glean the inner disposition of our lawmakers, learning which issues they consider vital and which never enter their minds, through … the ‘errors,’ omissions, and oversights politicians make when drafting legislation. Allegedly inadvertent ‘oversights’ and ‘drafting errors’ by Democratic lawmakers over the last year alone would have decriminalized infanticide, legalized polygamy, and suppressed sacred religious liberty rights enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more here.
The Dutch Studies and the Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors assert that had the Dutch studies been published today for the first time, the ‘innovative practice’ of using hormones and surgery to gender transition children and young adults would never have been permitted to enter general medical settings due to the very low quality of the research and problematic outcomes experienced by several of the young people.” Read more here.
Democrats Can’t Help but Make the Case for Life, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made a similar argument, saying, ‘The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital.’ Again, I fail to see how a bill that mandates immediate, life-saving care for born-alive infants puts them at any more risk. A hospital is surely a much safer place for them than an abortion clinic, considering the former exists to heal people and the latter exists to make sure they’re never born.” Read more here.
How a Public Library Used Third-Party Allies and ‘Listening Sessions’ to Dismiss Flak Over Pornographic Kids’ Books, by Casey Chalk. “A member of the Library Foundation … dismissed Horne’s complaints, challenging her to go out into the stacks and find something that was inappropriate. That same staffer also argued that young adult books with sexual content were ‘not pornographic’ and that different people had different standards of what material was too sexually explicit for adolescents (that’s not exactly true, given current U.S. federal law on obscenity).” Read more here.
West Virginia Wins Day on Fairness in Women’s Sports but Plot Thickens on Title IX, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Recognizing that the administration’s attempts to redefine sex are suffering some notable legal defeats, the U.S. Department of Education recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, indicating that it intends to make a new rule on Title IX. That rule, however, in contrast to the Title IX rule announced last summer … will deal only with transgender participation in school sports.” Read more here.
Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation to Get a License, by Ryan MacPherson. “The state’s insistence that every teacher positively affirm homosexual behaviors and transgendered identities understandably aggravates consciences among moral traditionalists, but the issues run deeper than the ‘culture war.’ What is at stake is the nature of knowledge, the future of liberty, and the prospects for a sustainable social order. In a word: civilization.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Is Losing in the Courts, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Goodwin’s ruling is significant for several reasons, the first being that Goodwin has previously sided with gender ideologues. Just 18 months ago, he held that the male middle school student in question had to be allowed to try out for the girl’s cross-country and track teams while the case was pending. But even he admitted in his final ruling that sex is an immutable characteristic, and that changing its definition would have devastating consequences for everyone.” Read more here.
State Department’s LGBT Virtue Signaling Is Unhelpful, by Michael Rubin. “While LGBT evangelicals demand the State Department fly their flag, such virtue signaling often does more harm than good. Flying the rainbow flag at the Vatican to troll the Catholic faith is bad enough, but to do so in Muslim-majority countries such as Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates simply stirs the hornet’s nest for little result… The State Department’s gay pride activism is setting back both LGBT rights and kneecapping our diplomats’ effectiveness.” Read more here.
‘Dead Name’ Documentary Shows Kids Aren’t the Only Victims of Trans Radicals – Their Parents Are, Too, by Nathanael Blake. “Parents who oppose so-called transitioning their children are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the transgender activists who have promulgated a false narrative labeling these parents as suicide-inducing bigots when these parents try to protect their kids from a destructive ideology pushing dangerous medical experiments.” Read more here.
Abortion Industry Seeks to End All FDA Abortion Pill Safety Regulations, by Carole Novielli. “Abortion pill safety regulations created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known as REMS, are the next target of the profitable abortion industry, which has historically bemoaned all regulations to protect women. The ultimate goal of these abortion advocates – many associated with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) – is to allow over-the-counter dispensing of the abortion pill.” Read more here.
Transgenderism Is Experiencing a Crisis of Scientific Legitimacy, by David Gortler. “Today, almost every academic medical school, most prominent U.S. professional medical organizations, and the Biden administration are fully advocating both drugs and major surgeries, including the removal of healthy tissue and organs, in children, adolescents, and adults… The problem is that they all ignore the fundamentals of biology and make unsubstantiated claims without the conclusive, long-term clinical safety findings otherwise required for all other types of medical or pharmacological interventions.” Read more here.
Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail, by Thomas Jipping. “The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says… Far from offering a reasonable interpretation of §1461, the Office of Legal Counsel attempts to construct a fictional statute that would not interfere with the Biden administration’s pro-abortion agenda.” Read more here.
New Evidence From Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility, by Laurie DeRose. “The transition to below replacement fertility has happened at the same time as (and likely because of) the global ‘retreat from marriage,’ a phrase that captures the many ways that people spend fewer of their adult years married. Fewer enter marriage at all, and those who do marry typically do so later in life, often divorce, and either do not remarry or do not remarry quickly. The retreat from marriage takes many adult years away from the normative context for childbearing…” Read more here.
New York Is Violating Photographer’s Free Speech, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “The First Amendment guarantees to all Americans – including artists – the freedom to choose which messages to express. If the government can compel Emilee to convey a view of marriage that cuts against her beliefs, it can compel the speech of others… But a victory for Emilee and Lorie wouldn’t be just a win for them. The same protections that ensure they can promote messages consistent with their beliefs ensure that a lesbian cake artist can decline to create a custom cake criticizing same-sex marriage…” Read more here.
FDA Aids Biden’s Abortion-for-All Agenda by Letting Pharmacies Sell Dangerous Abortion Pill, by Jordan Boyd. “Already, pill-induced abortions account for more than half of them in the United States. Now that the FDA quietly scaled back its regulation of the abortion pill even further to match the Biden administration’s post-Roe activism, that number is only expected to rise as chains such as CVS and Walgreens agree to legally dispense the fatal drug in any state where chemical abortions are legal.” Read more here.
If States Followed the Science, They’d Emulate Europe to Protect Kids With Gender Dysphoria, by Sharon Supp. “After thoroughly reviewing the reliable evidence, these countries concluded that the risks of ‘gender-affirming care’ far outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they are returning to psychological and psychiatric care as the starting point for addressing gender confusion in children – a model known as ‘watchful waiting’ – noting that gender dysphoria in teens could be just a ‘transient phase’ which should not be mishandled with radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries.” Read more here.
Hospital Surgery Dept ‘Proud’ to Announce App Targeting Children for Gender Transitions, by Joshua Arnold. “Under the guise of ‘offering counseling’ to a youth questioning his or her gender identity, gender activists often pressure them towards transitioning (in some jurisdictions, it’s illegal to counsel a child against transitioning). This counseling is often done privately, without the supervision or possibly even knowledge of the child’s parent. This strategy can manipulate children into agreeing to … procedures to which the child is totally incapable of giving mature, informed consent.” Read more here.
Biden’s FDA and Justice Department Are All-in on Abortion, by Ian Haworth. “…[I]n a society where every other product and service is available at the touch of a button – including meals, transportation, and narcotics – it’s apparently unconscionable that murdering your own unborn child should be any different. When medical abortions account for more than half of abortions in the United States, and with abortion becoming more difficult across the country, the only area of the economy booming under Biden’s leadership will apparently be abortion by mail.” Read more here.
Most American Teens Are Watching Porn, Says Disturbing Report, by Thomas Lickona. “Anybody who cares about the healthy sexual and character development of children should read the report, Teens and Pornography issued earlier this year by the organization Common Sense Media. The report was based on a representative national survey of 1,300 teenagers ages 13 to 17. Some of its troubling findings: 73 percent of the respondents (75 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger. Seven in 10 who admitted they had watched porn intentionally said they had done so in the past week. Four in 10 said they had watched pornography, including nudity and sexual acts, during the school day. Almost half said they had done so on school-owned devices. Of those who watched the past week, 80 percent said they had seen ‘what appears to be rape, choking, or someone in pain.’” Read more here.
Adolescent Gender Transitioning as a Dangerous Fad, by Tom Patterson. “We now live in an era in which mutilating surgeries are done routinely as part of the preferred treatment for gender dysphoria, which is the belief that the gender “assigned’ to you at birth does not reflect your true self. Modern science has developed solid evidence that gender is determined at conception, not birth, and is not assigned by anybody, but is fixed for life. So until recently, sufferers from gender dysphoria were thought to be confused and maybe need educational counseling while simply waiting for adulthood, when over 80% seamlessly settled into their ‘birth gender.’” Read more here.
University Erases ‘L’ in LGBTQ, Redefining Lesbians as ‘Non-Men,’ by Jarrett Stepman. “The woke well is bottomless. Johns Hopkins University recently updated the ‘LGBTQ Glossary’ in its so-called inclusive language guide with a new definition for ’lesbian.’ A lesbian, according to the famed Baltimore university’s guide, should be referred to as a ’non-man attracted to non-men.’ A broad definition, right? … In the war on women, isn’t it ironic that the latest shots are being fired by that fanatical campus Left? One wonders how much longer the ‘G’ has to keep its place in the gender ideology pantheon before the new letters come for the old.” Read more here.
California is Dismantling Women’s Hard-Won Rights – in the Name of Progressivism, by Julie Bindel. “Are there still women in California? They seem to have ceased to exist – at least as far as the state’s laws are concerned. A new raft of legislation currently under consideration seeks to both criminalise parents who wish to protect their children from harmful medical interventions, and further entrench the notion that it is possible to change sex.” Read more here.
Government-Funded Pseudo-Research Reveals the Costs of ‘Gender Affirmation,’ by Kaylee McGhee White. “The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a government-funded study on experimental medical interventions for gender-confused youths. The results were alarming: two subjects committed suicide, 11 others experienced suicidal ideation, and the rest are at risk for permanent bodily damage as a result of the hormonal drugs they were given.” Read more here.
California Is Losing Its Mind, by National Review Editors. “Already we have seen the toxic effects of gender ideology infiltrating family law. Across the country, activist-minded judges are penalizing parents who don’t accept the claims of trans activists. Judges in California, Illinois, and Texas have denied custody rights to divorced parents opposed to, or even skeptical of, their child’s transition. In some cases, judges have received special ‘training’ on these matters from transgender activists.” Read more here.
More Terrible News for Bud Light as It Tries to Turn Things Around, by Spencer Brown. “It’s been a rough few months for Anheuser-Busch and its Bud Light product line thanks to an entirely unforced error on the part of its leaders who thought it would be a good idea to celebrate the one year anniversary of biological male Dylan Mulvaney deciding to be a ‘girl.’ As a result of its little Mulvaney stunt, Bud Light has lost its place at the top of U.S. sales charts. The resulting boycott of Bud Light and other Anheuser-Busch brands was swift, severe, and hit its mark.” Read more here.
When LGBT Activists Flood Target With Bomb Threats, Media Pretend Conservatives Did It, by Kylee Griswold. “The shameless corporate media are so desperate for a narrative about LGBT victimhood, they’re pretending threats of violence from angry pro-‘pride’ perpetrators are instead threats against them. The latest examples are pure propaganda from The Hill and The Washington Post on Monday, which led with scaremongering — ‘bomb threats over Pride items’ — while completely burying the lede: The bomb threats against culturally embroiled retail giant Target came from pro-LGBT activists.” Read more here.
Off the Trans Train, by Bernard Lane. “There are reasons to expect an increasing number of detransitioners to emerge in coming years, although nobody is systematically tracking how many adolescents regret medicalised gender change, according to a new journal article. ‘Given the novelty of the gender-affirmation model and a “honeymoon” period of up to 10 years, the full extent of regret and detransition in young people transitioning today, under vastly different circumstances than in the past, will not be known for many years,’ says the author, Dr Sarah C. J. Jorgensen of Toronto University’s Institute of Medical Science. Read more here.
Europe Wakes Up to The Harms of ‘Transgender’ Affirmation as the US Races Off the Cliff, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Transgender identity has spread like wildfire among young adults, especially those with preexisting mental conditions and those who do not fit the criteria for actual gender dysphoria. The UKOM [an independent government watchdog over Norway’s healthcare system] doesn’t come right out and say it, but I will: Transgender ideology is a social contagion, and to treat it medically with irreversible, experimental drugs and surgeries is an affront to both science and common sense. Read more here.
‘2SLGBTQIA+’: What’s in an Acronym?, by Frank Haviland. “The alphabet soup in its current form stands for ‘two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex and asexual.’ The ‘+’ is there to highlight ‘all other identities that have yet to be captured by the acronym, making it clear that all forms of gender and sexuality are valid.’ If all identities are valid, it kind of makes you wonder why you need an acronym in the first place?” Read more here.
Target is Now Selling ‘Pride’ Toys and Treats for Your Pets, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Pets don’t care about the orientation of who is feeding and taking care of them. And if you’re that desperate to use pets to tell everyone your sexual orientation — or that you support people of a particular sexual orientation — maybe it is a sign there is no need for such a thing to exist in the first place. Such propaganda goes beyond just being proud of your sexual orientation. There are no corresponding treats or dog toys showcasing heterosexuality. This whole thing is silly and weird but also indicative of the depths that some radicalized supporters of the LGBT movement will go to try to alter and change cultural norms.” Read more here.
Bisexual America, by Nicholas H. Wolfinger. “Who’s gay? Social scientists have long known that the answers to this question are very different if you ask about self-identified sexual orientation, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior. Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking work on sex midway through the 20th century introduced the idea that 10% of the population was gay or lesbian, but rigorous subsequent analysis with national data put the true number closer t 2 or 3 percent. But that was then. More recent data from Gallup suggest an explosion in the number of Americans who identify as LGBT, up to 7 percent. For Zoomers (Generation Z; anyone born between 1997 and 2012), a full 20% identify as LGBT. That’s a big jump. Read more here.
5 Things I Saw at DC Library’s Children’s Pride Parade, by Gigi De La Torre. “The Children’s Pride Parade held on a sunny Saturday by the D.C. Public Library drew fewer than 100 parents, children, and other adults in a metropolitan area of 5.5. million. As I found out, the parade celebrating ‘LGBTQ Pride’ lasted no more than 10 minutes along the third of a mile from the District of Columbia’s Montrose Park to Georgetown Neighborhood Library. A relative few spectators watched as mostly white participants walked the parade route beginning at 11 a.m. to celebrate the ‘pride of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and those who identify as transgender or ‘queer.’ … The parade and festival weren’t shy about pushing the LGBTQ+ agenda on children in attendance, I noticed.” Read more here.
Iconic Children’s Show Shoving ‘Pride Month’ Down Kids’ Throats: ‘Happy Pride! Elmo Loves You,’ by Warner Todd Huston. “…[I]conic children’s TV series ‘Sesame Street’ went all-in once again for June’s ‘pride month’ with several tweets celebrating the sexuality-based month of recognition. And the gay lobby claims they aren’t targeting our kids? While the show did not refashion its logo in rainbow ‘pride month’ colors like so many other entities have, the show did post several tweets pushing the left-wing celebration onto its tiny fans.” Read more here.
Orwellian: Associated Press Forbids Even Discussing Transgenderism as an Ideology, by Tyler O’Neil. “Forget debates over bathrooms or pronouns. The Associated Press recently released new guidelines suppressing the very concept of transgenderism as an ideology that can be debated, while forcing that ideology on reporters in the name of promoting good journalism … The most recent update to the AP style guide is quite clear: ‘Do not use the term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity as an ideology.’ Yet the entire document is dripping with this ideology.” Read more here.
No, Idaho Doesn’t Ban Pregnant Women From Traveling; It Protects Babies From Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “…[T]he Idaho law does not ban interstate travel any more than kidnapping laws do. Rather, it protects young girls from being taken, potentially by force or coercion, to another state to have her unborn baby [sic] aborted without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Abusers and human traffickers often rely on abortion to cover up their crimes. To protect young girls and their babies, the Idaho law creates a crime called ‘abortion trafficking’…” Read more here.
Biden Administration Demands Georgia Schools Show Pornography to Kids, by Jordan Boyd. “Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal power to intimidate districts that have successfully purged porn from campuses.” Read more here.
Major Children’s Clothing Retailers Poured Money Into LGBT Group That Promotes Secret Gender Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “Target and Kohl’s, two major children’s clothing retailers, have both made sizable donations to GLSEN… GLSEN’s goal is to make K-12 schools a safe place for LGBT students by preventing bullying and harassment, according to its website. In practice this has meant encouraging teachers to use children’s preferred names and pronouns while keeping students’ transgender identity a secret from parents, along with numerous other policy recommendations supporting youth gender transitions.” Read more here.
UCI Must Follow British Cycling’s Lead and Change Transgender Policy Before World Championships, by Nicole-Cooke. “What garnered less coverage, but was very insightful, were the post-race comments made by the organiser of the race, Michael Engleman, a long-time supporter and promoter of women’s sport. He was critical of the UCI’s position on transgender participation that had tied his hands. When individuals such as him are contemplating the effect of the UCI policy, saying that ‘this may kill the sport’ and are considering leaving cycling, that threat is real.” Read more here.
Australian Judges Need to Review Standards for Gender Dysphoria Treatment, by Michael Cook. “Australian ‘standards of care’ are based on the ‘gold standard’ Dutch model. However, she writes: ‘there are significant concerns about quality and applicability of the [Dutch] studies to the current cohort of children presenting at gender clinics.’ Alarmingly, she asserts that: ‘The Dutch studies would not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine today.’” Read more here.
Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs, by Ben Johnson. “Federally funded guidelines instruct adults to pause before discussing sex with minors and to ask, ‘Are you alone in the room?’ These instructions specify tactics to follow ‘if you’re really having a hard time getting a parent’ to leave the room during the sex talk. They suggest children as young as 13 discuss sex with groups like Planned Parenthood in a parked car or communicate in writing, so their parents cannot hear the adults’ side of the conversation.” Read more here.
‘Between a Woman and Her Doctor?’ Not With Mail Order Abortion Pills, by Ingrid Skop. “The reality is that these mail order abortions may be completely medically unsupervised: no ultrasound to confirm gestational age or rule out a potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy. No labs to determine need for RhoGAM to prevent future pregnancy complications. No testing and treatment for concurrent sexually transmitted infections to prevent future infertility. No verification that the person requesting the pills is a woman, rather than a sex trafficker, incestuous abuser, or coercive boyfriend.” Read more here.
Legalization of Polygamy Was Always the Logical Consequence of Obergefell, by Jonathan S. Tobin. “If marriage is possible between any two individuals of the opposite or the same sex, then why not three, four, or any number of consenting adults, regardless of their sex? And if Somerville is the harbinger of a growing movement to legalize polyamorous and inevitably polygamous marriages by cities and ultimately states, then those who will defend such laws are on firm ground declaring that the logic of Obergefell demands that all non-traditional ideas about marriage must be treated equally under the law. This is the choice America made in 2015.” Read more here.
The ACT’s Takeover of Calvary Hospital Overrides Conscientious Objection and Threatens Religious Freedom, by Joanna Howe. “The fundamental problem with first attacking and then forcibly acquiring Calvary Hospital because it won’t perform abortions is that it overrides Australia’s longstanding tradition of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Freedom of conscience is a foundational principle of a pluralist democracy like Australia. It is a commitment that values human dignity and integrity and promotes a society in which a healthy diversity of views is tolerated.” Read more here.
‘They’re Wanting to Play God,’ by Christopher F. Rufo. “’We have a generation of kids with mental health problems. It’s very sad. And we need to treat those problems correctly, not by recommending that they change genders to fix their mental health problem. That’s never worked. It never will work… They’re going to wake up in ten years and discover that they’re infertile, that they can’t have children, that their sexuality is completely dysfunctional. That they can’t function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves – when they wake up and realize that they’ve already been ruined.’” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Try to Fool Ohioans Into Constitutional Amendment Threatening Unborn Lives and Parental Rights, by Jordan Boyd. “One advertisement … specifically asserts that the amendment’s language barring the state from interfering with an individual’s ‘right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions’ could easily ‘cut’ parents ‘out of the biggest decision’ of their child’s life, including abortion or even the deforming genital surgeries and chemical castration that transgender activists promote to vulnerable teens.” Read more here.
Ontario Bill Would Banish Freedom of Speech From LGBT ‘Safety Zones,’ by Thomas Jipping. “Bill 94, titled the ‘2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act,’ requires the attorney general to make three decisions: whether to designate a particular location as a safety zone, whether to charge someone with uttering the wrong words within 100 meters of that safety zone, and, if so, whether to seek a fine of up to $25,000. All three decisions would be completely up to the attorney general’s unfettered, and unreviewable, discretion.” Read more here.
Federal Officials Have No Right to Order Schools to Carry Indecent Books, by Washington Examiner. “…[T]his is not ‘book banning’ or authoritarian. Nobody is trying to block the publication of these sexually explicit books. Nobody is trying to stop their sales. Nobody is trying to stop ordinary libraries from carrying them, although they might be labeled to give notice of their contents. Nobody is saying parents can’t buy or borrow books from libraries if they deem them appropriate for their children.” Read more here.
Texas Children’s Hospital Pursued Transgender Procedures With ‘Religious-Like Fervor,’ by Breccan F. Thies. “Medical records show some doctors at TCH were providing these procedures and drugs to extremely young children. One assistant professor at Baylor who practices medicine at TCH has provided procedures to patients as young as 11 years old, according to medical records. Another TCH doctor said he privately asks children about other names or pronouns they might use but does not tell the child’s parents because ‘not every patient who is gender-diverse may have that safe environment at home.’” Read more here.
Target Partnered With Satan Supporter Who Wants to ‘Eradicate’ Critics of Transgenderism, by Jordan Boyd. “One quick glance at the designer’s website and Instagram shows dozens of designs featuring satanic and sacrilegious symbols such as pentagrams, ‘Satan respects pronouns’ T-shirts, ‘gay as hell’ stickers, and stained glass windows covered up by ‘trans bodies are holy…’ One particularly graphic image on the designer’s Instagram shows a naked demonic creature with a horned skull and mutilated breasts.” Read more here.
Florida and Texas Defend Kids Against Gender Madness, by the Editors of National Review. “There is no shortage of examples to illustrate the madness to which DeSantis is referring. Gender clinicians openly promote their cavalier attitude to ‘top surgery’ (i.e., breast amputation), advertising the procedure to young prospective patients on TikTok. Drag queens strip and pole-dance in front of audiences made up of children, much to the delight of grown men and women. Pornographic materials too obscene to detail here are distributed in school libraries.” Read more here.
Kid-Free Zones: How Low Birth Rates Cause Even Lower Birth Rates, by Timothy P. Carney. “…[C]hildren cry, take up space, sometimes run around, and sometimes smell bad. A culture based on ‘personal space,’ autonomy, and minding your own business is a culture that pretends children don’t exist. The more people who go through their daily lives not seeing kids, or seeing only very few, the easier it is to uphold this myth of a childless world – and then that childless world becomes reality.” Read more here.
Teacher Pushes Gay Pornography on Middle Schoolers, NBC Provides Smokescreen for It, by Timothy P. Carney. “…Bonner thought it was a good idea to include this porn-book encouraging stranger-sex in her middle school book tasting. At best, this is a total abandonment of all decency and common sense in pursuit of an ideological culture war. At worst, the teacher is grooming children – introducing them to totally inappropriate sexual material in order to destroy their natural aversion to perversion and reticence about sex. That’s why parents called the police on this teacher.” Read more here.
Trans Sex Attacker Case Exposes Yet More Holes in Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Bill, by Alan Cochrane. “Throughout the passage of the Bill at Holyrood, its supporters had insisted that there was no evidence men ‘ever had to pretend to be anything else’ to prey on girls. That assertion was killed stone dead by what happened to the little girl in this case because she had only gotten into Miller’s car because she felt safe as he had been dressed as a woman… What will shock people most about these cases would be the ease with which Miller and Graham appeared able to switch gender virtually at will.” Read more here.
A Win for Pro-Life Pragmatism in North Carolina, by the Editors of National Review. “With no margin for error, North Carolina Republican legislators prudently went as far as they could go to protect life. Representative Tricia Cotham recently switched from being a Democrat to a Republican but was unwilling to vote for an abortion limit earlier than twelve weeks of pregnancy… None of these bills is perfect. But each bill would save some lives, and it would be a grave error to insist that no lives should be saved until all lives can be saved.” Read more here.
Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Gets Biology Wrong for Both Humans and Birds, by Zachary Faria. “…[T]he other problem this argument has, aside from being wrong, is quite clear. Believe it or not, humans are not white-throated sparrows. Even if it were true that one species of birds had four different sexes (which, again, is not the case here), that would mean nothing… The science around humans is very clear: Sex is binary, and it is not something that can be changed with hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.
Sex Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital, by Christopher F. Rufo. “The executives at Texas Children’s appear to be playing a duplicitous game. They announced that the hospital had stopped performing transgender medical interventions on minors, but this is simply untrue. TCH doctors administered such procedures days after the announcement, and they have continued to perform them… If ‘gender-affirming care’ is truly the gold standard in medicine, TCH should defend it openly, not perform it in secret.” Read more here.
Fertility Rates Are Collapsing – and It’s Not ‘Backward’ to Be Concerned, by Miriam Cates. “Politics works on the basis that society will go on and on into the future… But can we really be so sure that there will be future generations to benefit from our endeavours – or even to look after us in our old age? The short answer is no: the evidence suggests that the very existence of future society hangs in the balance. The current UK fertility rate – the average number of children per woman – stands at 1.6. This is significantly below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1 and continues to fall.” Read more here.
Proud Abortionist Kills Democratic Talking Points About Late-Term Abortions, by Zachary Faria. “…[P]oliticians and abortion activists insist that late-term abortions only occur if medically necessary or if the unborn child is going to die anyway… But, according to the Atlantic, ‘Hern estimates that at least half, and sometimes more, of the women who come to the clinic do not’ have a diagnosis that their lives would be in danger or that their babies will not be born alive. Over half of the late-term abortions Hern performs … are elective.” Read more here.
Colorado School District Hosts Drag Show Amid Teachers Union Embrace of Gender Ideology, by Maddie Dermon. “Muse, rated for children aged eight and above, focused on an adult male transitioning to a female and featured provocatively dressed men performing sexual dances for an audience full of children. Young audience members were clearly disturbed. One student expressed his concern by interrupting the show: ‘This is wrong,’ he cried. ‘Don’t you know we’re in third grade?’” Read more here.
The World Health Organization Has a Message for Parents: ‘Sexuality Education Starts at Birth,’ by Malcolm Roberts. “By age 6, the WHO wants the education industry … to expose children to the concepts of intercourse, masturbation, and pornography. By age 9, they are expected to reach an ‘adult’ knowledge of sex including teaching of masturbation and viewing of online pornography. At age 12 … the WHO wishes the official European education course to explore political and emotional responses to sex, puberty, and gender.” Read more here.
Parents Forced to Sue School District for Compelling Student to Read Sexually Explicit Monologue in Class, by Jeff Charles. “The case raises concerns about the appropriateness of educational materials and assignments in public schools. It highlights the delicate balance between freedom of speech and protecting minors from exposure to explicit content. As the legal proceedings continue, the outcome of the lawsuit will likely have implications for similar cases and potentially impact the development of guidelines and policies regarding the use of explicit material in educational settings…” Read more here.
Wake Up, Lawmakers! Protect Girls and Women and Restore Their Rights, by Eileen J. O’Connor. “Transradical sympathizers rail that it is cruel to exclude from women’s spaces a person who feels he belongs there. Rarely, if ever, and certainly not in the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX regulations, is consideration given to how cruel it is to the girls and women who are confronted not only by the sight of a male in female-only spaces, but also by being viewed by a male stranger in violation of their deeply ingrained, self-protective modesty.” Read more here.
If You Can Perform Surgery on Fetuses, Then Maybe They Have Value After All, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “…[T]he American Heart Association called it the ‘first in-utero brain surgery.’ Now seven weeks old, Denver Coleman is a marvel of medical technology and a testament to the value of the unborn… Even CNN, no bastion of pro-life thought, was eager to characterize baby Denver as a person. Notable as well is that the doctors, realizing fetuses’ capacity for pain, provided her with pain relief during the surgery.” Read more here.
Teen Sexting and Sexually Explicit Music, by Christine Lee and Jane Shawcroft. “…[I]t is easy to treat music, and highly sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics in particular, as white noise in the background of more important activities, despite research suggesting that music contains more messages about sex than any other media content except pornography. It is easy to dismiss the lyrics and messages in a three-minute song as inconsequential, but our research … suggests that listening to highly sexual music influences teenagers’ sexual risk-taking, specifically sexting.” Read more here.
The Media Are Campaigning to Deprive Parents of Their Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The root of the problem … is this idea that parents can somehow be a threat to their children simply for disagreeing with the state’s prescribed orthodoxy. …[T]o compare an ideological disagreement to actual abuse is despicable. Parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit, and the state does not get to come along and take that right from them just because they happen to believe that their 13-year-old son is not, in fact, a girl.” Read more here.
Why Are We Ignoring Family as a Solution to Loneliness? by Jim Dalrymple. “A widely cited 1998 study … found that both marriage and parenthood were associated with lower levels of loneliness. Significantly, the study found that simply cohabitating didn’t offer the same benefits. There’s something unique about marriage. It’s not just about companionship. Subsequent research has repeatedly confirmed, to quote economist and policy advisor Christos A. Makridis, that ‘the unmarried are substantially more likely to feel lonely,’ while ‘married Americans have much lower rates of loneliness.’” Read more here.
The Next Frontier for the Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia, by Jane Robbins. “The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. ‘Pedophile’ has become ‘minor-attracted person’ (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other ‘experts’ … describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.” Read more here.
Corporate Media Wants to Help Democrats Separate Supposedly ‘Trans’ Children From Their Parents, by Zachary Faria. “There is no … attempt to report anything even resembling questions about such irreversible procedures for children. Instead, you see things like the Associated Press’s headline from Tuesday: ‘Trans minors protected from parents under Washington law…’ Yes, keeping parents in the dark about their runaway children and instead handing them off to a state bureaucracy that will let them harm themselves is apparently not an utterly insane policy. It is simply ‘protecting’ transgender children from their own parents.” Read more here.
Biden’s Bizarre View of Women’s Sports Puts Female Athletes at Risk, by Alexandra Caro Campana and Ryann McEnany. “What seems to be forgotten in this proposed rule is all the harm that will be done to the millions of female students when they are forced to compete against men and share intimate spaces with them. Being a competitive athlete takes as much mental strength as physical ability. Sharing a bathroom, changing room and/or hotel room with a biological male ahead of a competition will potentially cause severe emotional, mental and even physical harm to female athletes.” Read more here.
Just Like the Transgender Industry, PornHub Relies on Targeting Kids, by Allison Schuster. “PornHub’s willingness to boycott the state entirely shows who the target demographic is: children… PornHub’s reliance on showing its content to minors can be easily understood in the context of its addictive nature. Young people are easily taken advantage of and starting them young provides PornHub with an audience more susceptible to long-term addiction and abuse.” Read more here.
What Are They Hiding? Pro-Transgender Groups Refuse to Hand Over Internal Documents Even as They Move to Oppose Florida’s Medicaid Rule, by Tyler O’Neil. “…[T]he groups went to court trying to quash the subpoenas. They argued that they should not be forced to hand over documents, in part because they are not direct parties to the case. Yet not only are these groups the medical authorities by which Lambda Legal aims to torpedo the Florida rule, but most of the groups themselves filed the amicus brief April 28 that highlights their interest in the case.” Read more here.
The Legal Case That Could Force Abortion Upon El Salvador Is Based on a Lie, by Nancy Flanders. “Beatriz Garcia, the woman at the core of the case, did not die from a lack of access to induced abortion. In fact, she never had life-threatening pregnancy complications, doctors never advised abortion, and she died four years later in a vehicle accident. And the more than 50 women allegedly jailed for miscarriages and obstetric emergencies due to El Salvador’s pro-life laws … were not actually convicted for abortion but for infanticide.” Read more here.
Don’t Forget Men in the Abortion Debate, by Sara Scarlett Wilson. “Support After Abortion … found that 71 percent of men suffered issues after abortion … and that 82 percent of men did not know where to find help. Men struggled regardless of their involvement in the abortion decision, and even men who fully supported their partner’s decision found themselves with anger, grief, and other negative emotions when thinking about the child or children they never got to know.” Read more here.
Utah Benefits as Porn Peddlers Block Access, by Timothy P. Carney. “America would be better off if every pornographer went out of business and every web hosting service, internet provider, and web browser cut off access to pornography. That’s unlikely ever to happen, but Utah scored a minor victory this week when porn-peddler MindGeek … announced it would block access to its websites from all IP addresses within Utah. This was MindGeek’s protest against Utah’s new law requiring age verification for everyone visiting pornographic websites or other sites with sexually explicit material.” Read more here.
New Jersey Will House Two More Male Sexual Predators With Female Inmates, by Zachary Faria. “What do you do with two male pedophiles who claim that they are women? According to liberal gender ideology, and the state government of New Jersey, you put them in a women’s prison because even child abusers must have their gender identities ‘affirmed,’ even if it endangers female inmates… The messages here from the state of New Jersey are clear. The most abhorrent men convicted of heinous crimes can simply claim they are women and be housed alongside female inmates. The safety of women does not matter.” Read more here.
Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Rule Mandating Schools Treat Biological Males as Females Gets Tested, by Sarah Parshall Perry & Caroline Heckman. “How are schools and colleges going to balance the interest of competing civil rights complaints? If a biological male sexually assaults or harasses a female in a bathroom that’s no longer sex-specific due to the new Title IX rule, and a female files a Title IX complaint – who prevails? According to the Biden administration’s rule, any transgender-identified male is ‘entitled’ to be in that bathroom, but any female is granted the benefit of the doubt in a sexual harassment or assault proceeding.” Read more here.
North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban Is Popular, Enforceable, and Pro-Life Without Political Poison, by Tiana Lowe Doescher. “In short, a 12-week ban allows the state to begin to crack down on the worst abortion offenders, mainly in-person clinics likely to perform later-term abortions, while avoiding interfering with that politically near-sacrosanct relationship between a woman and her doctor. In practice, this also means that the state isn’t stuck going to war with the Food and Drug Administration or regulating interstate commerce of abortion pills, which also have legitimate medical uses unrelated to terminating pregnancies.” Read more here.
Yes, the Trans Movement Is Coming for Your Kids, by John Daniel Davidson. “Recently a group of Democrat legislators in Minnesota, led by the state’s first transgender lawmaker, introduced a bill that would have removed language in Minnesota’s Human Rights Act that explicitly says pedophilia is not a ‘sexual orientation’ as defined by state statute. By removing that language, the bill would have opened the door to widening the definition of sexual orientation to include pedophilia as a protected class alongside other minorities.” Read more here.
Kansas Law Defending Biological Sex and Women’s Rights Is Vital, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Which part of the law do gender activists find so offensive? The part that says women have the right to privacy and safety or the part that rebuffs the Left’s efforts to turn sex into a meaningless free-for-all? … Do women’s rights matter or don’t they? Kansas’s law makes it clear that they do. The gender activists who oppose it, on the other hand, would subject every single sex-exclusive space in the country, and every woman who depends on them, to male intrusion. That is bigotry.” Read more here.
The Biden Admin Is Still Withholding Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Data From Lawmakers, by Spencer Brown. “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said last fall that it would work toward providing abortion services for veterans and their dependents via its taxpayer-funding [sic] health care system. As Tuberville … noted at the time, and since then, such a policy would be a violation of federal law… Yet Tuberville’s questions about how such an illegal policy would be implemented and his ongoing attempts to provide oversight for taxpayers have seen no response from the VA or others in the Biden administration.” Read more here.
India Same-Sex Marriage Case Tests Judges, by Geeta Pandey. “…[A]s the hearings have continued, the five-judge bench has been conceding that tweaking one law may not really work, since it’s a complex web of 35 laws that govern issues of divorce, adoption, succession, maintenance and other related issues – and that many of them do spill over into religious personal laws. And during Thursday’s hearing, the top court appeared to agree with the government that granting legal sanction to same-sex marriage was parliament’s domain.” Read more here.
Biden HHS Using Language Meant to Protect Abortion Survivors to Exclude Preborn as ‘Persons,’ by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “This is a brazenly cruel twisting of the intention of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, legislation that abortion supporters continue to argue is unnecessary on the claim that abortion survivors do not exist. Additionally, it’s a complete and utter denial of scientific fact. Based on all basic biological principles, preborn children are alive, even before their hearts start beating. At the moment of fertilization, the child … already has his or her own unique DNA, with traits like sex, hair color, eye color, and countless more already determined.” Read more here.
Colorado Law Seeks to Prevent and Hide Information About Medication Abortion Reversal, by Harry Scherer. “The new law is full of inconsistencies. For example, it permits the administration of progesterone for women facing miscarriage, but it explicitly forbids the same medication for women seeking to reverse an abortion. The law also does not offer any distinction between patients who seek progesterone after ingesting mifepristone willingly or unwillingly, with the latter being an all-too-common practice among sex traffickers.” Read more here.
Indiana Health Department Sits on Records Showing Two Babies Born Alive After Abortions, Three Women Dead, by Joy Pullmann. “Indiana abortion records … indicate that in 2022 three women died after abortion procedures and two babies were born alive after chemical abortions. They also suggest Indiana abortionists failed to report four abortions on girls aged 15 and younger, as legally required. One of the minors not referred for a state abuse investigation after her abortion, a violation of state law, was just 13 years old, the records say.” Read more here.
Biden DOJ Says Mutilating Children Is ‘Medically Necessary,’ by Zachary Faria. “This is not ‘civil rights’ or ‘acceptance’ or ‘inclusivity.’ It is reckless, dangerous, and, most of all, unnecessary. Chemically and physically mutilating children is not going to save their lives or make them happier. It is only going to saddle them with even more physical health problems to go along with the unaddressed mental health problems that are being ignored. It is an attempt to medicalize them permanently… Yet that is precisely what Biden’s Justice Department is fighting for.” Read more here.
Leftist Minnesota Just Gave State Power to Take Kids Away If Parents Don’t Approve Gender Surgery, by Hank Berrien. “The new law gives state courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child in Minnesota who has been abandoned, is in need of protection from abuse, or has ‘been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.’ The law defines such care as … puberty blockers and chemical and surgical procedures ‘to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity.’” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Steps Deeply Into Transgender Hormones, Including for Minors, by Ben Johnson. “Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report reveals that the multi-billion-dollar business has diversified its portfolio beyond abortion, pushing deeply into the transgender industry by offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young adults and minors – often while explicitly withholding this information from parents.” Read more here.
Attempts Underway to Redefine ‘Forced Pregnancy’ in International Law, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The term ‘forced pregnancy’ is back on the UN agenda as nations begin to negotiate a treaty on crimes against humanity… In its just-released ‘State of World Population Report,’ the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) asserted that the ICC definition of ‘forced pregnancy’ has ‘been more widely interpreted by advocates to include, for instance, situations in which a pregnant person is denied an abortion.’” Read more here.
School District Prompts Parents to Enter Children’s ‘Preferred Pronouns’ When Registering for Kindergarten, by Christopher Tremoglie. “It’s a concerning discovery given the extremely young age of kindergarten students who are unfamiliar with pronouns or mature enough to know anything about gender transitioning. It’s a disturbing revelation showing just how radicalized education officials have become in the country, even in a state like Florida. It should also put parents on high alert throughout the country.” Read more here.
How to Stop the Gender Cult in Education, by Debra Soh. “There is an assumption that poor mental health is the result of gender dysphoria, as opposed to the other way around. In actuality, high rates of co-morbidity abound in individuals with gender dysphoria, with 70% or more of such youth presenting with an additional diagnosis… From what I’ve witnessed in the years I’ve been fighting this cultural battle, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, trans activists and their allies happily disregard this information in favor of plowing forward with their preferred narratives.” Read more here.
The Myth of Sexual Experience, by Jason S. Carroll and Brian J. Willoughby. “In the report, we review a series of recent studies … that show that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages… Overall, we found that ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals, or those who have only had sex with their spouse, are mostly likely to be flourishing in marriage. These ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals report the highest levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, sexual satisfaction, and emotional closeness with their spouses.” Read more here.
Woman Whose Chemical Abortion Has Haunted Her for 23 Years: ‘Don’t Make the Same Mistake,’ by Margot Cleveland. “I started having intense cramping. At one point I went to the toilet, and a baby came out. It looked exactly like the pictures of seven- to 9-week-old babies you see in photos. It was rounded. There was a black eye. My husband fished it out of the toilet and held the dead baby in his hand. I remember looking at it and wondering what it was. But I also knew what it was. I remember going completely numb.” Read more here.
West Coast Shuts Parents Out of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Decisions as Swedish Research Urges Caution, by Greg Piper. “America’s West Coast is separated by a continent and an ocean from Europe. Their policy gap on ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors … is becoming similarly wide… In a new ‘systematic review’ of research on hormone treatment for gender-confused children in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, Swedish researchers … found so little evidence on its effects that they recommended a ban except for clinical trials.” Read more here.
Arrogant Western Countries Outplayed by Developing Member States at the UN, by Lisa Correnti. “The EU and the UN wanted to force sexual ideology for children into a resolution on education. This effort failed due to smart tactics by a united Africa group and delegates from other parts of the world… The lack of consensus including from diverse countries took Western delegates by surprise, many pivoting to damage control to try and save the document they so desperately wanted.” Read more here.
Detransitioner Laura Becker Exposes the Dark Truth Behind Transgender ‘Transitioning’ of Children in Texas Senate Hearing, by Jeff Charles. “What is truly unfortunate about situations like Becker’s is that progressives have convinced the nation to believe that there are only few people who regret having ‘transitioned’ to the opposite sex. The issue is that we do not yet have enough credible data to prove this. Moreover, there is evidence that many of those who go through this process as minor children end up suffering from additional mental issues caused by the use of puberty blockers and surgical treatments.” Read more here.
Zero House Democrats Respected Americans’ Wishes by Voting to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports, by Jordan Boyd. “If the White House gets its way, female athletes will no longer be entitled to federal protection against sex discrimination on the field or in the locker room. Instead, teams of girls as young as kindergarten are forced to accept males on their roster. It’s only in high school and college that the Biden administration concedes males have an advantage that could be disqualifying under a set of extreme criteria. As the vote … showed, Democrats in Congress are all too willing to help the Biden administration erase women.” Read more here.
Marriage Makes Women Happier and Healthier, Harvard Scholars Say, by Kira Mautone. “The researchers found that the women that became married and stayed married over the course of the study showed a 35 percent decrease in risk of all-cause mortality, lower risks of cardiovascular diseases, and ‘greater psychological wellbeing on multiple indicators including greater positive affect, purpose in life, hope and optimism.’” Read more here.
White House Endorses Discrimination Against Female Athletes, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Allowing men, who have undeniable, significant physical advantages, to compete on teams created specifically for women is exactly the kind of discrimination that Title IX was meant to redress. Democrats, however, do not seem at all bothered that women are being deprived of their right to equal competition. Better for women to lose this right than the men who claim to identify as women, according to the White House.” Read more here.
Why Progressives Should Support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, by Kara Dansky. “Our society has been taught a vicious and unscientific lie: that some men can be women, and that some women can be men, on the basis of their ‘gender identity…’ Men aren’t women, even if they say they are, and even if they claim to ‘identify’ as such… There is no credible scientific evidence to support the proposition that a person born with a Y chromosome can be a woman. It should not be considered ‘conservative’ or even remotely controversial to say so.” Read more here.
Your Doctor Asking for Your Pronouns Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s a Sign of the Industry’s Decline, by Elle Purnell. “…[H]aving doctors ask about your pronouns isn’t just an obnoxious chore, it’s a sign of the health-care industry’s willingness to forego medical reality for a few ideological brownie points… Just wait until trans activists insist on making women with breast cancer wait for mastectomies so that other women who want to cut off their healthy breasts to look more like men can go first. (Oh wait, that’s already happening.)” Read more here.
Unborn Children Deserve the Right to Trust Their Mother, by Mark Zimmerman. “Indeed, there are many different angles from which to criticize abortion: that it’s a sin in the sight of God; that it’s a cruel and violent way to die; that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion kills a person; that prenatal screening puts us on a slippery slope toward eugenics; that killing a person isn’t therapeutic. These things are all true, in my view. But I have come to believe there is another reason abortion is wrong: It denies a child the right to trust her mother.” Read more here.
Common Sense Is Finally Returning to the Trans Debate, by Mo Lovatt. “New government guidance [in England] on how schools handle the rise in transgender pupils is currently being drawn up and is due to be issued within weeks. It means that single-sex schools will no longer be required to accommodate pupils who identify as transgender for fear of legal action, nor will they have to affirm a pupil’s preferred pronoun simply because a child demands it.” Read more here.
Colorado’s New ‘Trans Tourism’ Law Beckons Red-State Kids for Trans Interventions and Abortions, by Tristan Justice. “Senate Bill 23-188, signed into law Friday, opens the door for ‘trans tourism’ in the state, allowing minors to seek abortions or ‘gender-affirming health care services.’ In other words, teens seduced by transgender ideology in Kansas, where lawmakers are preparing to ban interventions for minors, may travel to Colorado for sterilizing procedures under Polis’s protection with parental consent.” Read more here.
Washington State Declares Transgender War Against Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “Washington … passed a bill regarding children’s gender transitions that borders on unadulterated evil… Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.” Read more here.
UNFPA: Restricting Online Abortion Is Violence, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In the wake of Dobbs, online purveyors of abortion pills have proliferated widely, and with them the potential for women to be exposed to pills of dubious provenance and quality, either voluntarily or, as news reports have documented, administered through stealth by others. National governments have a role in protecting women and girls from exploitation by nefarious online businesses willing to risk their health for profit.” Read more here.
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Proves the Case Against the Abortion Pill Is Legally Justified, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[T]here is certainly a case to be made that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to abandon very basic safety precautions about the abortion pill call into question its ability to fairly regulate the pill at all. Indeed, the FDA’s watering down of nearly all restrictions on mifepristone is further proof that the agency is using the drug to push a political agenda.” Read more here.
MrBeast Is Introducing Millions of Children to Transgenderism Without Parental Consent, by Eoin Lenihan. “What MrBeast is doing is sinister and will have far-reaching consequences. He is grooming an unsuspecting generation of children into uncritically accepting transgender and trans activism at a vulnerable age. Due to the unrivaled reach of MrBeast and the unparalleled and often unmonitored access he has to millions of kids across the globe, he is now, without a shadow of a doubt, the leading source of child-focused, transgender content in the world.” Read more here.
Appeals Court Reinstates Safety Restrictions for Abortion Drug While Lawsuit Against Its FDA Approval Continues, by Thomas Jipping. “The result of the 5th Circuit’s decision is that … the FDA’s original approval of mifepristone remains and the safety restrictions that were repealed in 2016 and 2021 are reinstated. In other words, mifepristone can be used up to seven, not 10, weeks; using mifepristone will require three physician office visits; only doctors may dispense or administer the drug; doctors must report all medical complications to the FDA; and abortion drugs may not be dispensed through the mail or mail-order pharmacies.” Read more here.
Why the Latest Abortion Pill Ruling Is Both Good and Bad for Pro-Lifers, by Margot Cleveland. “…[U]ntil the Fifth Circuit considers the merits of the FDA’s appeal, distribution of the abortion pill will be governed by the 2000 FDA approval, not the changes the FDA adopted in 2016… No matter the outcome, however, the case is educating the public on the dangers of chemical abortions much beyond what the Planned Parenthood pill-pushers have been doing for the last 20-plus years.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Misses the Point on Transgender Sports Participation, by Tom Joyce. “The problem with transgender elementary schoolers playing on girls’ sports teams has little to do with sports participation. The problem is there are self-identified transgender elementary schoolers, and the government recognizes this delusion as a reality. Government policy should reflect the biological reality of two genders that people cannot change: male and female. It should not support the delusion that children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus can choose their gender.” Read more here.
The Poison Pill Goes to Court, by the Editors of National Review. “From the beginning, the pill was given favored regulatory treatment, with accelerated approval under Subpart H, a program designed for emergency AIDS drugs. Utilizing this fast-track approval process required the FDA to characterize pregnancy, preposterously, as a ‘serious or life-threatening illness.’ A legal challenge was filed with the FDA in 2002 … and the agency sat on it for nearly 14 years in order to thwart judicial review while the pill expanded its market share. The mifepristone pill … now accounts for a majority of all U.S. abortions.” Read more here.
Even the Trans Lobby Can’t Override Biology in Sport, by Suzanne Moore. “The government has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to clarify that when we talk of sex in the Equality Act we mean biological sex. The blurring of sex and gender is what causes problems, and this may help stop this confusion. Women who say biological sex matters have been demonised and I am one of them… Any woman who tells the truth is met by an unthinking mob, online or in real life. And yet it has not stopped us saying it any more than it has stopped sports fans seeing it. For here we do have the advantage: being on the side of reality.” Read more here.
Why I, as a Former Abortionist, Support Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act, by Kathi Aultman. “…[A]lthough I continued to do abortions while pregnant, after my daughter’s birth, I could no longer kill babies just because they weren’t wanted. I still believed abortion was a woman’s right, but my view changed as I saw young women in my OB-GYN practice with unplanned pregnancies, who kept their babies and did exceptionally well, in contrast to those women with psychological and physical complications from abortion. Later, I realized I was not only murdering innocent human beings but that I was also hurting women.” Read more here.
The Madness of Banning ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ by Ella Whelan. “The fact that judges are now pressured to be ‘respectful’ of identity and gender, and feel the need to self-censor, shows how intimidating the conversation around gender ideology has become. For fear of upsetting a tiny minority, we bore the majority with language that is stripped of all meaning. Instead of mothers we say pregnant people, instead of binman, we say wheelie-bin-operator. Sometimes we’re expected to simply invent words – Teen Vogue suggests using ‘folx’ instead of ladies and gentleman, and ‘nibling’ instead of niece or nephew.” Read more here.
Judge’s Abortion Pill Opinion Tells the Truth About ‘Unborn Humans,’ and the Left Can’t Stand It, by Margot Cleveland. “Calling an unborn human an ‘unborn human’ immediately triggered abortion activists, but as Kacsmaryk explained in a footnote, such terminology is scientifically correct… It is understandable that abortion activists want to hide the humanity of unborn humans, but that doesn’t make the science less real: It just means girls and women who have bought the ‘clump of cells’ narrative will suffer when faced with the truth, which chemical ‘at home abortions’ force.” Read more here.
In California, Parents May Soon Effectively Lose Custody of Kids 12 and Older, by Katrina Trinko. “California lawmakers know that plenty of parents have concerns about minors who pursue gender transition. These are valid concerns: gender transition medical procedures, even for minors, can be extensive – and some of it is irreversible… But California lawmakers don’t want parents to be able to stand in the way of their minor children making these life-changing decisions. ‘It is apparent that one result of this bill will be the removal of trans-identified children from the family home,’ Garfield-Jaeger said in her testimony.” Read more here.
Title IX Rule Change: Biden Is Determined to Force Gender Ideology Onto a Public That Doesn’t Want It, by Kaylee McGhee White. “More insulting than this administration’s blatant disregard for women’s rights … is its attempt to gaslight the public on this subject. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s statement announcing the rule, for example, included this astonishing claim: ‘Today’s proposed rule is designed to support Title IX’s protection for equal athletics opportunity.’ How, exactly, does allowing men with massive physical advantages to crush female competition advance ‘equal athletics opportunity’?” Read more here.
Court’s Ruling on FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs Is Huge Win for Women, Girls, by Julie Marie Blake. “The FDA, in collusion with pro-abortion politicians, never properly tested these drugs for safety in the first place and has continued to dismantle safety protections, so that it is now perfectly simple for a teenage girl, for example, to obtain chemical abortion drugs without a single physician visit or her parents’ knowledge – even though these drugs have been shown to cause intense pain and bleeding, and can often progress into worse complications, like hemorrhaging, life-threatening infection, and loss of fertility.” Read more here.
Biden Admin Concedes It’s Unfair to Let Men Compete in Women’s Sports With New Rules Allowing Men in Women’s Sports, by Tristan Justice. “The Biden administration is trying to have it both ways on transgender participation in women’s sports with new Title IX rules introduced Thursday… Under the long-anticipated proposal, the Department of Education outlined new guidelines that would invalidate bans on men in women’s sports currently implemented across 20 states. At the same time, schools that receive federal funding and therefore subject to Title IX stipulations may bar male athletes on female teams in competitive leagues.” Read more here.
Christians Must Take Children to Transgender Procedures or They Can’t Adopt, Oregon State Law Says, by Ben Johnson. “The policy potentially excludes faithful adherents of most major world religions and most Americans generally, experts say. ‘This isn’t just about excluding Christians: The state is effectively telling the growing majority of people that believe that sex is determinable by time of birth they need not apply to foster and adopt kids,’ González said. ‘It’s not enough to be neutral on the issue; prospective foster and adoptive parents must support the state’s radical gender ideology.’” Read more here.
New HHS Report Attacks SOGI Change Efforts, by Dan Hart. “Opponents of sexual orientation/ gender identity (SOGI) change efforts – which could encompass talk therapy, counseling, … or any other type of therapy designed to help people who have unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion – describe it with a negative connotation as ‘conversion therapy,’ often calling it ‘pseudoscience.’ However, dozens of individuals have testified to how SOGI change efforts have transformed their lives, leading them to happily walk away from homosexual and transgender lifestyles.” Read more here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From the Latest CDC Survey of Youth Risk Behavior, by Dana Mack. “According to the survey, being a teenage girl carries with it another elevated risk – that of mental illness. Well more than half of teen girls (57%) reported feelings of sadness and hopelessness that were profound enough, over a two-week period, to interfere with their ability to complete their daily routines (as compared to 36% in 2011). Some of this extreme depression might be attributed to feelings of isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns but certainly not all of it.” Read more here.
One Mom’s Harrowing Story From Inside Whistleblower’s Trans Clinic, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Doctors insisted the puberty blockers were ‘standard procedure’ for anyone ‘experiencing discomfort with their sex.’ And yet, Caroline was shocked to learn that this ‘standard procedure’ would almost certainly lead to infertility. When the psychologist wanted to know if Casey wanted to bank his sperm before they started the drug Supprelin, she kept thinking: my son is only 14 years old.” Read more here.
Ireland’s Commonsense Three-Day Abortion Waiting Period Is Under Attack, by Eilis Mulroy. “In the 2018 legislation, an abortion is defined as ‘a procedure to end the life of the foetus.’ It is the only legal medical procedure in Ireland the sole aim of which is to end human life. This ought to place it apart from all other procedures and justify a far greater threshold in terms of reflecting on it before it is carried out. But the sad fact is that, to pro-abortion groups and political parties, an unborn child isn’t a human life – it’s just a ‘clump of cells,’ with no more significance than warts or skin lesions.” Read more here.
Biden and EU Gang Up on Africans at UN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Adding this controversial language to the annual resolution of the commission would give Western powers more political leverage to push sex-ed programs that promote homosexuality and transgender ideology among children. Western governments, led by the European Union and the Biden administration, are insistent that the resolution must include ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ because the theme of this year’s resolution is centered on education.” Read more here.
Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy, by Katy Faust. “Our culture has shifted drastically, but children haven’t changed. In fact, they continue to be victimized by practices and policies that prioritize adult desires above children’s rights. It’s past time to start putting them at the center of our national conversation. That begins with clearly and courageously defending children’s rights by shaping culture, reforming law, and rethinking our approach to technology.” Read more here.
Transgender Inc.: A Running List of Corporate Gender Insanity Insulting Women, Kids, and Reality, by The Federalist Staff. “Rather than highlight the dangerous and irreversible procedures associated with transgenderism, … many major corporations have opted to champion trans ideology – even for unsuspecting children. In order to help Americans hold these companies financially accountable, The Federalist has compiled a list of major businesses promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
The Surgeries Are Immoral, by Cole S. Aronson. “The real problem is more basic: the surgeries remove healthy organs without good reason. That’s not risky – it’s harmful and morally wrong. The people who seek such surgeries are trying to alleviate very real suffering, but whether surgery addresses such suffering humanely is not a question patients are automatically best positioned to answer. That’s true of any patient seeking any medical procedure.” Read more here.
A Double Mastectomy at 13? How Can President Biden Possibly Overlook That? by Michael Cook. “It’s painfully obvious that the President is ignoring the growing number of detransitioners – don’t they deserve to be safe and supported as well? He ended his speech with these stirring words: ‘You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.’ But that’s all they are – words. Or does he mean that ‘love, dignity, and respect’ mean amputating the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl?” Read more here.
This Is How Schools Are Trying to Gender-Transition Children Without Parents’ Knowledge, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Another report surfaced yesterday detailing how a school district in Colorado also focused on deceiving parents about children transitioning… Their thoughts have progressed into what should be considered criminal actions. Any school district, school, or teacher enabling a student’s transition without notifying and consulting their parents should be charged with child abuse by law enforcement.” Read more here.
Last Students Graduate: School Closures Spread in Aging Japan, by Eimi Yamamitsu, Tom Bateman, and Issei Kato. “Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged ‘unprecedented measures’ to boost the birthrate … and says maintaining the educational environment is crucial. But little has helped so far. Births tumbled below 800,000 in 2022, a new record low, according to government estimates and eight years earlier than expected, dealing a knockout blow to smaller public schools that are often the heart of rural towns and villages.” Read more here.
Women Deserve to Be Empowered by Doctors, Not Rushed to Medical Abortion Without Them, by Susan Bane. “…[T]he Department of Justice announced the U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver prescribed abortion drugs… Similarly, the FDA changed a rule to allow abortion drugs to be dispensed at retail pharmacies… These developments do a great disservice to women by removing the opportunity for them to receive information that can empower them to make informed decisions. This is especially true when the dangers of self-administered abortion are considered.” Read more here.
Democrats Reintroduce Radical Abortion Bill in GOP-Controlled House, by Rebecca Downs. “Lest you think the bill’s name means Democrats have acknowledged the biological reality that only women can get pregnant, a quick glance of the text dashes any hope. ‘This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy – cisgender women, transgender men, nonbinary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others – who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services,’ it reads.” Read more here.
Liberal Media Champion Leftist Crusaders ‘Against Book Bans,’ by Tim Graham. “One uproar is over books – assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for ‘book bans.’ Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books entirely from public view. They get to pose as the defenders of books and ‘book learning’ and as compassionate defenders of the book-reading needs of the ‘marginalized.’” Read more here.
Pumping Gender-Bending Drugs Into Kids Is Even More Dangerous Than We Thought, by Samuel Silvestro and Jay W. Richards. “Lupron stops the body’s normal hormonal process, including the development of ovaries and testes, by ‘blocking’ the brain’s ability to communicate with the pituitary gland… Lupron’s side effects are so severe that doctors tend not to prescribe it for even mild (non-metastatic) cases of prostate cancer. Would you be shocked to learn it might not be great for young girls, either?” Read more here.
I Was a Public School Teacher, and I’m Blowing the Whistle on Transgenderism Before Its Too Late, by Stephen Schultz. “One 8th grade boy arrived at school in high heels, a short skirt, open blouse, make-up, and women’s jewelry. He demanded to use the girls’ restroom… Too many Americans too often think that these sorts of bizarre things cannot possibly be happening because they were not remotely part of their own personal school experience. Unfortunately, they are very real, they are increasingly common, and now they are not only protected but promoted.” Read more here.
Holy See Foils Western Push for Abortion/Sex Ed at UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western countries kept negotiations going on comprehensive sexuality education, abortion-related terms, and homosexual/trans issues deep into the night, well past the deadline for agreement… These are common tactics to break down opposition through a combination of political pressure, tiredness, and discomfort. The idea is to make it so difficult that by the time agreement comes only the most dutiful and tenacious of diplomats are left in the negotiating room.” Read more here.
Why States Must Define Sex Precisely, by Jay W. Richards. “Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex … was needed because no one contested it. Unfortunately, because of gender ideology’s growing influence on our laws and institutions, states no longer have this luxury. Gender activists are now working to redefine sex in federal laws and regulations, such as Title IX, to include ‘gender identity.’ If this succeeds, it will subvert all preexisting legal references to sex, contrary to their original intent.” Read more here.
Abortion Giant Lies About Outcome of Recent UN Negotiation, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The international abortion giant issued a press release following the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) claiming that ‘the text includes a standalone paragraph on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE).’ In fact, the term CSE was not included anywhere in the document. The paragraph referred to by IPPF included language insisting that education must be ‘age appropriate,’ ‘relevant to cultural contexts’ and ‘with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.’” Read more here.
There Are No Banned Books, by David Harsanyi. “For the left, the banned book claim is a political racket, allowing them to feign indignation over the alleged ‘authoritarianism’ of Republicans who don’t want kids reading identitarian pseudohistories or books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, or gender dysphoria in their schools. Yet, major media now regularly contend, as indisputable fact, that ‘book bans’ are in place.” Read more here.
The Government Should Not Bully People Into Supporting ‘Gender Transitions,’ by Matt Lamb. “Religious institutions have First Amendment rights to refuse to be involved with medical procedures that violate their teachings and beliefs… The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which represents Catholics across the country, recently admonished efforts by the federal government to force hospitals to assist in transgender procedures, such as surgeries that remove healthy organs and can permanently make someone sterile or infertile.” Read more here.
Belgium to Allow Repeated Gender Changes, by Wesley J. Smith. “The Belgium supreme court previously ruled that requiring people to identify as male or female violated the equality of people who don’t see themselves as exclusively either. So, a new law will be passed allowing ongoing fluidity of gender identity which will be officially recognized by submitting a simple form… This is civilization-destroying stuff. Not because of the transgender issue per se, but because it represents the triumph of the subjective.” Read more here.
Sex Education Is Now How-to in Schools – Parents, Beware, by Betsy McCaughey. “The facts of life haven’t changed, but sex ed is entirely different from what you took in school. Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body positions. Supplemental reading in middle school libraries includes ‘Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff,’ a book explaining foreplay and how to rub the clitoris to produce pleasure… Planned Parenthood, the largest producer of sex-ed curriculum for public schools, argues children are entitled to know how to ‘experience different forms of sexual pleasure.’” Read more here.
FDA Stonewalled Abortion Drug Concerns to Escape Responsibility for Their Dangers, by Julie Marie Blake. “When the FDA first approved the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000, it sidestepped the required studies – including studies that look specifically at risks for teenage girls – and wrongly categorized the drugs as offering a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit.’ The FDA justified its reckless approval by claiming that pregnancy is a ‘life-threatening or serious illness.’” Read more here.
Parents Are Fed Up With Public Schools Secretly Transitioning Children, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Could these clandestine transition policies and practices be the reason for the alarming spike in the number of high schoolers identifying as transgender? The U.S. saw a nearly five-fold increase in gender transition surgeries for teens from 2016 to 2019 alone. And a new report indicates that approximately 300,000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender. It is not surprising, then, that disenfranchised parents have finally had it.” Read more here.
Maternity Wards Are Closing Everywhere Because of a Lack of Babies; the Media Desperately Want to Make It a Story About Abortion Bans, by Timothy P. Carney. “Maternity wards have been closing all over the United States for more than a decade, primarily for a simple reason: People have been having fewer babies every year since 2007. There were fewer children in America at the 2020 census than there were in the 2010 census. Of course, a country with less maternity will be a country with fewer maternity wards… The closure of rural hospitals’ obstetrics and maternity wards has nothing to do with laws that protect the unborn…” Read more here.
Why Is Netflix Teaching Preschoolers to Come Out as Nonbinary? by Madeline Fry Schultz. “In the show, which is targeted toward preschoolers, ‘Fred’ the bison is reunited with her grandmother and realizes that she hasn’t told her that she now goes by ‘Fred’ instead of ‘Winifred’ and uses ‘they/them’ pronouns… The story is pure propaganda, but don’t take my word for it: Series creator Chris Nee called the episode ‘a road map for coming out but also for having someone else tell you they’ve changed their pronouns and/or name.’” Read more here.
DeSantis Goes There, Shows Graphic Video of Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries Alongside Biden Comments, by Bob Hoge. “Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Governor’s response team … was it at again, taking footage of President Joe Biden lambasting the state for its policies on transgender surgeries and putting in a split-screen with videos showing some of the more benign steps of ‘gender-affirming surgery.’ WARNING: some of the images are graphic, so if you’re squeamish, beware. It’s hard to watch.” Read more here.
Vermont Bans a High School From Athletics for Objecting to Boys in Girls’ Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The [Vermont Principals’ Association] alleged that Mid Vermont Christian violated the organization’s policy on discrimination and harassment by refusing to force its girls to play basketball against a boy… This wasn’t done to uphold the sanctity of VPA’s policies. It was done as a warning to other schools that recognize how unfair it is to force its girls’ teams to play against boys. Bend the knee to gender ideology, or you too will be banned from all sports.” Read more here.
With ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,’ Democrats Openly Celebrate Executioners, by Nathanael Blake. “…[A]bortion advocates believe that without abortion, women cannot be sexually and economically – and therefore socially and politically – equal to men. But this perceived remedy to the injustice and inequality of nature is itself unjust and unequal. In this age of ultrasound, we can no longer effectively lie to ourselves about the lives violently ended by abortion. We have all seen the pulsing heartbeats and the tiny fingers. There is no justice in ending these developing human lives.” Read more here.
If Biden Gets His Way, Using Correct Pronouns Could Be a Human Rights Violation, by Cherise Trump. “With Title IX enforcing gender ideology, what will happen to students who disagree with this dangerous dogma? What will happen to students who believe in basic biology, namely the notion that there are two sexes, that a man can’t become a woman, and vice versa? What will happen to students who have traditional values and remain true to their faith? The answer is alarming. Under this butchered version of civil rights law, these students will be vulnerable to an array of punishments, including suspension and even expulsion.” Read more here.
Yes, the State Has Both the Right and the Responsibility to Restrict Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “He points out that giving the state additional authority over familial relationships is a slippery slope, arguing that this authority could easily be used against, say, homeschooling families. …[T]here is no question at all that surgically and chemically mutilating children … is morally reprehensible. This reality must take priority over any concern of a slippery slope, no matter how legitimate it might be.” Read more here.
From California to South Carolina, Abortion Extremists Pollute Public Policy, by Quin Hillyer. “Enough is too much. On both sides. Abortion is a matter so fraught with conflicting emotions, conflicting values and beliefs, and still even conflicting ‘science’ that there’s no way a pluralistic society will ever reach a perfect consensus on it. For the foreseeable future, there will be plenty of facets of abortion policy to argue about, battle politically about, and maybe prayerfully compromise over, all in a very broad range. In that light, shouldn’t we all at least renounce the absolute extremes?” Read more here.
No, Age-Appropriate Library Restrictions Are Not ‘Book Bans,’ by Raheem Williams. “The issue is primarily a cultural tug-of-war taking place in public school libraries. The discovery of sexually explicit books on school bookshelves nationwide has sparked controversy… There’s an assumption that the government has a responsibility to produce and distribute every book in existence to school children free of charge. This may sound great until you consider that books often contain inaccurate, poorly sourced, or controversial information.” Read more here.
Four Things to Know About Major Texas Court Case Against Abortion Pill Access, by Kaelan Deese. “The case surrounds a challenge brought by anti-abortion physicians and medical associations to the Food and Drug Association’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, the first drug in the medication abortion process. If the judge grants the request to block access to the drug nationwide, it could make the abortion pills more difficult to obtain even in states where such procedures are legal.” Read more here.
Exposing the Lie of ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ by Doreen Denny. “…[W]hat didn’t receive that kind of attention is a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, that the practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ convincing impressionable teenagers that feeling like the opposite sex means you are the opposite sex, is extremely damaging. In a seven-part statement, AAPS exposes this heresy – ‘changing physical appearance does not change biological sex’ – and takes direct aim at the medical industry promoting destructive ‘transgender’ medical procedures on youth…” Read more here.
Declaring a Public Health Emergency Over Abortion Would Be Reckless, by Jeanne Mancini. “A public health emergency declaration would expand distribution of these pills and eliminate safeguards at the expense of women’s health. It would allow the Biden administration to simply ignore any unfavorable ruling in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s lawsuit and to promote the chemical abortion pill even more. But it wouldn’t stop there. The declaration would also direct emergency federal resources towards advancing the pro-abortion agenda overall and force Americans to fund it against their consciences.” Read more here.
VA House Stops Democrats From Putting a Right to Partial-Birth Abortion in the State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “The amendment would have … legalized abortion up to and during birth… That bill would have given abortionists license to choose an alternative method of killing through a provision of ‘Method not listed’ with almost no limitations. The so-called Right to Abortion Amendment would have made unborn babies vulnerable to these assaults up until birth. Advocates made no apologies for their gruesome stance.” Read more here.
Norway Offers a Stop Forward in Eliminating Gender Ideology, by Debra Soh. “Common sense and science are gradually prevailing. Last week, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced it would be revising its current guidelines regarding so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors because it no longer considers them to be evidence-based. The board also acknowledged that the growing number of teenage girls identifying as male post-puberty remains under-studied.” Read more here.
Make Women Female Again, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The joint forces of the radical Left and the transgender lobby have appropriated the day to adhere to the insanity that is contemporary left-wing political ethos. Once a day to celebrate all things feminine, International Women’s Day now actually celebrates men pretending to be women… Women must not submit to left-wing cultural extremism that would debase them and embrace a counterfeit womanhood.” Read more here.
Outdated State Laws Don’t Address Common Practice of Teenage Sexting, by Christine Queally. “Cases involving child sexual abuse material have risen in the last two decades with the advent of new technologies to capture and share explicit imagery… While it is illegal for teenagers to send explicit images of their peers to others in all states and of themselves to others in almost all states, many of them still do. In fact, according to a 2018 study, more teenagers are sending and receiving explicit imagery than ever before.” Read more here.
FDA Absurdly Claims There’s ‘Therapeutic Benefit’ to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs, by Terence Jeffrey. “…[T]he Biden administration’s argument for the alleged ‘therapeutic benefit’ of a chemical abortion focuses entirely on the ramifications for the human being seeking the abortion, not the human being who is aborted… The administration completely ignores the fact that not only is there a death associated with the use of these drugs, it is the very purpose of these drugs. An unborn child is a human being. A drug that is designed to abort the life of that unborn child is a drug designed to kill a human being.” Read more here.
The Realities of Transition Regret, by Debra Soh. “She grieved the inability to breastfeed her baby after giving birth and wanted to raise awareness about the difficulties detransitioned women experience. She also spoke about the poor maternity care she encountered during her pregnancy because practitioners didn’t understand her situation or what detransitioning had entailed… Considering that girls as young as 12 are undergoing this procedure, I anticipate a huge uptick in the number of new mothers presenting with this issue in the future.” Read more here.
How Undemocratic Democrats Force Gender Ideology on Unsuspecting Families, by Washington Examiner. “The committee’s report justifying its recommendations explains that ‘when students are separated by boys and girls, it affirms a rigid binary based on anatomy.’ Apparently, this affirmation of biological reality is bad. The committee adds, ‘Separation of students into boys and girls does not create an inclusive environment for instruction to occur.’ Inclusion, in this rationale, excludes the opinion of the vast majority, which also happens to accord with reality rather than the Left’s preferred fantasy.” Read more here.
Pro-Lifers Issue Warnings After Ohio’s ‘Radical’ Abortion Amendment Clears First Hurdle, by Sarah Arnold. “The proposed constitutional amendment would pose risks for women by removing current health and safety protections for women, abolish parental consent and notification laws, and enable abortion on demand up until the moment of birth… SBA Pro-Life America’s State Affairs Director Sue Liebel cautioned against the amendment, saying it would endanger women’s lives by doing away with basic health regulations.” Read more here.
Sending the Wounded to the Front, by Nathanael Blake. “Transgenderism is culturally powerful and financially lucrative – every troubled teenage girl who identifies as trans is worth a fortune to the medical–pharmaceutical complex. Greed and ideology are a potent combination, so it is no wonder that almost all safeguards have been abandoned when it comes to transitioning children. But this greed may be their undoing. …[L]awsuits may bring down the medical and pharmaceutical cartels that profited from hurting them. The transgender monolith will fall as its victims stand up to it.” Read more here.
Major Doctors’ Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth, by Jordan Boyd. “…[T]he American College of Physicians (ACP) announced its official stance on abortion is that ‘individuals have the right to make their own decisions, in partnership with their physician or health care professional’ without legal consequences… The ACP also used the brief … to formally condemn life-saving pro-life laws for banning the barbaric practice of in-utero dismemberment abortion and punishing anyone who illegally ends unborn lives.” Read more here.
TikTok Influencers Are Trying to Turn Your Kids Trans Behind Your Back as This Must-See Exposé Shows, by Brandon Morse. “…White points out that some of these influencers talking to your kid are actively encouraging your child to keep their ‘conversations’ a secret from you, the parent. This doesn’t just mean random transgendered people, but medical professionals as well who give out phone numbers they can call for a secretive consultation… None of this should be surprising but it’s absolutely integral to see what your kids may very well be seeing whenever they log onto TikTok, if you let them on the app at all.” Read more here.
The Powerful LGBT Group Behind California’s Most Radical Laws Is Setting Its Sights on Washington, by Susannah Luthi. “Powerful organizations in Sacramento often team up on bill sponsorship to add to the pressure. Unions, several of which donate to Equality California, are a particularly important ally, as are Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. Together, this coalition overhauled California schools’ sex education curriculum to include instruction about gay sex and gender identities. Planned Parenthood and Equality California consult with districts on how to teach the program.” Read more here.
Parents Defended Embattled Child Gender Clinic. Their Stories Confirm Critics’ Worst Fears, by Laurel Duggan. “About two dozen parents disputed recent claims that the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was rushing mentally ill children onto cross-sex medical interventions … but their stories highlight some of the clinic’s controversial practices… Parents who were supportive of the clinic reported that their children had numerous mental health comorbidities and transitioned at young ages, sometimes without a history of gender identity issues, and that doctors used suicide risk to pressure families into medical transitions.” Read more here.
Washington State AG: Abortion Pill Is ‘Safer Than Tylenol,’ by Dan Hart. “As noted previously by Szoch and Dr. Ingrid Skop, chemical abortions also pose a unique challenge for the woman, who is expected to carry out the abortion at her home. ‘Chemical abortions are uniquely traumatic in that a mother must personally dispose of the remains of her aborted child, who may be visibly recognizable as a baby. At eight to 10 weeks gestation when chemical abortions are often carried out, the baby is approximately the size and shape of a gummy bear with easily recognizable head, hands, feet, fingers, and toes.’” Read more here.
Washington State Would Destroy Both a Homeless Shelter and Religious Freedom, by Quin Hillyer. “The Washington Supreme Court, ignoring copious U.S. Supreme Court precedent, recently decided that the Union Gospel Mission may not adhere to its faith-based hiring practices, and state officials now threaten the charity with considerable punishment for doing so. As in many other similar cases, the homeless shelter in question will serve anybody in need but just not hire nonbelievers to serve them.” Read more here.
NSW Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of Other States About Conversion Therapy Legislation, by John Steenhof. “The NSW Parliament must resist pressure to repeat the same mistakes. It should open an evidence-based parliamentary inquiry. It should hold public hearings. It should listen to the voices of dissenting gays and lesbians. It should protect the right of people to seek whatever help they want, from whoever they want, in accordance with the human rights of all concerned.” Read more here.
Busting Five Myths of Gender Ideology, by Madeleine Kearns. “Scrutinizing the claims of gender ideology, it soon becomes apparent how incoherent they are. On the one hand, we’re told that men and women are the same – that the differences we observe in professional outcomes and sexual behavior are the result of sexist stereotyping. And yet, they are different; and men can really be women and women can really be men, by appropriating opposite-sex stereotypes.” Read more here.
Actually, Most People Love Being Parents, by Jim Dalrymple. “Specifically, 36% of Pew’s respondents said that being a parent is enjoyable all the time. Another 44% said it’s enjoyable most of the time. That’s a total of 80% of respondents who described parenting as enjoyable… More surprising still, lower-income parents are actually more likely to see parenting as enjoyable and rewarding all the time than parents with higher and middle incomes.” Read more here.
The Abortion Pill Turns Every Woman’s Home Into a Potential Site of Trauma, by Abby Johnson. “I have counseled many former abortion workers as well as women who have had abortions. The anguish they suffer is almost unbearable. Abortion workers see a side of abortion almost no one else does – they have to put together the pieces of the baby in the lab to make sure nothing is left inside the woman… They have images inside their heads they can never forget. Now women who go the medication abortion route are going to see these same things, and like many abortion workers, they aren’t trained to deal with it.” Read more here.
With 3D Body-Image Avatars and Fake Voices for Trans People, Biden’s NIH Goes to New Extremes, by Anonymous. “The NIH is wasting taxpayer dollars on a project titled ‘Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities,’ which purports to help people with gender dysphoria by mapping the difference between their actual physical embodiment and what they believe their body to be. But instead, it indulges their illness by defying science and denying the immutability of sex.” Read more here.
Biden Seeks to Strip Health Care Professionals of Conscience Protections, by Melanie Israel. “In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience protection laws. But now, the Biden administration is proposing to gut those rules, which would ultimately leave people more vulnerable to being forced to participate in controversial procedures that violate their conscience.” Read more here.
The Left’s Transgender Agenda for Children Is at a Tipping Point, by Sarah Weaver. “A large number of key studies used to justify sex-change treatments for minors have fallen apart under scrutiny. One study, which outlets like NBC, U.S. News and The Hill touted as disproving the theory that ‘social contagion’ contributes to the rise in transgender-identified youth, was methodologically flawed… What studies do appear to show, however, is that in cases of children experiencing gender dysphoria, the vast majority will desist.” Read more here.
The Scientific Revolt Against Gender Ideology Has Begun, by Kaylee McGhee White. “To be clear, gender activists don’t really care whether the science backs up their agenda or not. But it does give them a claim to authority on this issue, which they have used aggressively in recent years to convince every one of our powerful institutions, from the education establishment to the healthcare sector to the White House, to accept gender ideology as fact. Debunking their bogus scientific claims brings us one step closer to breaking this ideological grip.” Read more here.
Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of the Equal Rights Amendment, by Emma Waters. “…Democrats have looked for new ways to secure an absolute right to abortion. If Congress votes to remove the expiration date of the Equal Rights Amendment, and if the amendment is ratified later by the specified number of states, then the ERA could anchor a supposed right to abortion in the Constitution itself… To protect the lives of women and their unborn children, lawmakers must oppose the national Equal Rights Amendment.” Read more here.
As Porn Gets Worse and Democrats Embrace It, One Newer Group Has a Novel Approach to Combat It, by Rachel Alexander. “The left promotes the attitude of doing whatever you want sexually by labeling it ‘freedom’ but completely ignores all the damage porn does to its victims. Many of the women exploited are fooled into thinking it’s harmless… Brain scans have shown that pornography has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. FTND states that there are ‘35 neuroscience-based studies using a variety of brain imaging technologies … that provide solid support for the reality of internet porn addiction.’” Read more here.
Washington State Teacher ‘Says the Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Parental Rights in Education, by Tyler O’Neil. “’On one hand, it’s utterly frightening that a teacher would hold the views that she is a better judge of children than their own parents and then publicly say so on Twitter,’ Prior said. ‘On the other hand, having people in positions of authority say the quiet part out loud gives parents the opportunity to understand what is actually happening at their schools and take appropriate action.’” Read more here.
Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains to Bless Putting Male Soldiers in Female Showers and Bedrooms, by Elaine Donnelly. “Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged ‘biases against transgender individuals,’ which are prohibited, could include anything from ‘misgendering’ people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.” Read more here.
Citizens Request Treaty Change for Abortion, by Bridget Ryder. “A European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) to add access to abortion to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has – for the moment – been rejected by the European Commission… As the commission has made it clear, it does not have the power to move forward with citizens’ proposals on treaty change, so the initiative may be a dead end for abortion advocates. But … pro-life supporters should keep an eye on such proposals. They are one more way abortion proponents will continue their attempts to create a right to abortion.” Read more here.
Incredible … UN Women Refused to Hear WYA’s CSW67 Recommendations, by Sofia Piecuch. “Our participant from Tunisia spoke against the inclusion of CSE but was not allowed to finish. ‘They cut me off saying that they have no time and mentioned going back to the main room…’ As WYA experienced, the space provided by UN Women to gather youth and adolescent inputs was not open, inclusive, accessible or transparent for WYA members, who were either removed from the platform or silenced by moderators.” Read more here.
How the LGBT Movement Is Making Young Women Depressed, by Conn Carroll. “…[I]f you dig into the numbers a little deeper, you’ll quickly see that almost all of the growth in LGBT identification is coming from young adults identifying as ‘bisexual,’ and almost all of the growth in young Americans identifying as ‘bisexual’ is coming from young women specifically… One recent study found that bisexual females and females questioning their sexuality had significantly higher scores for depression, anxiety, and traumatic distress than female heterosexuals.” Read more here.
Teenage Girls Are in Trouble. It’s Time to Acknowledge Social Media’s Role, by Jean Twenge. “Although not all teens are negatively affected by social media, some are very negatively impacted. If 38% of girls who ate a new-to-the-market candy got a stomachache, compared to only 11% who ate other candy, the new candy would immediately be pulled from the market even though the majority were not adversely affected. Yet those are the exact statistics for social media and depression for girls in one of the best-designed studies, and social media is still available to children and teens with no age verification required.” Read more here.
UN Commission Considers AI Crackdown on Homosexual/Trans Critics, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The first artificial intelligence programs have only just begun to emerge, but progressive countries already have plans to use the new technology to silence … anyone who objects to abortion and homosexual/trans demands. Progressive Western governments are pushing for global censorship through artificial intelligence to fight ‘technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence,’ a new term that can be used to re-cast opposition to abortion and homosexual/trans rights as a form of online violence and quash it.” Read more here.
The Evils of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, by Isabella DeLuca. “The issue that we are facing now is medical professionals, such as doctors and therapists, who are put in place to protect children, are spreading this propaganda that all gender dysphoria has one root cause: being born in the wrong body and that there is one solution to this: complete gender transition. This supposed ‘cause’ does not account for any other potential internal or external factors within the child’s life, and this ‘treatment’ does nothing but harm the child.” Read more here.
Taxpayer-Funded NPR Uncritically Promotes Mutilation for ‘Transgender’ Children, by Zachary Faria. “NPR is the best propaganda outlet that taxpayer money can buy. The outlet has joined in on the transgender craze, publishing a completely uncritical piece about ‘gender-affirming care’ for children in Florida, one of the states that have wisely moved to ban it. ‘Gender-affirming care’ is nothing more than chemical manipulation and surgical mutilation, and such procedures have permanent effects on children that can never be reversed.” Read more here.
Beyond Binary: New and Old Models of Fatherhood Can Work Together, by Alan J. Hawkins. “The missing second part of his statement is a clear acknowledgement that quality and quantity are highly correlated, that the quality of the parental relationship is strongly associated with positive father involvement, and that co-residence supports quality father engagement, while not living with the child and the child’s mother inhibits it, even among fathers who have a strong desire to be good dads. Yes, non-residential fathers can be good fathers … but the empirical reality … is that the odds are heavily stacked against fathers when the romantic partnership with his child’s mother goes south.” Read more here.
The Associated Press Joins the War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers, by Ashley McGuire. “Calling pregnancy centers, many of which have names that are in no way identified with abortion or the politics surrounding it, ‘anti-abortion,’ jeopardizes the vulnerable women that turn to them for help… But the AP’s mischaracterization of these centers does more than push incendiary language. It’s flat-out biased and unfair – and that would be true coming from anyone, much less from an enterprise claiming to be the literal vanguard of journalistic integrity.” Read more here.
There’s a New Battlefield in the Fight Over Abortion, and Conflict Is Heating Up, by Katelynn Richardson. “In 2000, when the FDA approved mifepristone, …it did so under accelerated approval regulations intended for drugs that ‘have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments,’ forcing the agency to categorize pregnancy as an ‘illness,’ according to the lawsuit.” Read more here.
Reforms Could Change Ethos of Australia’s Religious Schools, by Angela Shanahan. “The ALRC says a school would have control over the curriculum, as far as the state’s curriculum guidelines. Fair enough, but how can you have control over curriculum, especially in religion, when at the same time there is a proviso to present ‘alternative views’ that ignore the fundamental nature of Judaeo-Christian teaching on marriage, family and sex that is at the moral core of belief on human sexuality and procreation of human life?” Read more here.
Leave Pregnancy Resource Centers Alone, by Matt Lamb. “…[T]here are efforts from Big Tech, politicians, and legacy media to harm these groups that provide low-cost or free services to help families choose life and either raise their children in a healthy environment or place them for adoption… While Big Tech silences within the private sector, political efforts work to use the weight of the government to stop these pro-life nonprofit organizations.” Read more here.
The Child Sex Change Industry Is Exploding in the U.S., by Laurel Duggan. “About 300,000 children in the U.S. identify as transgender, according to the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, though not everyone who adopts a transgender identity seeks a medical transition. While many of these children undergo surgical procedures, particularly mastectomies, a larger portion receive puberty blockers and/or hormones, which provides a continuous stream of revenue to pharmaceutical companies and medical providers.” Read more here.
Spain: Study Links Increased Transgender Cases With Laws, by Bridget Ryder. “The study found that in Valencia, the number of transgender cases grew by more than 10,000 percent between 2016 and 2021. In Catalonia, it grew by 7,000 percent between 2012 and 2021, with the number of new cases increasing by 40 percent between 2020 and 2021. In Madrid, between January and August of 2022 alone, the endocrinology departments of the city’s six public hospitals received a total of 848 visits from referrals by the gender identity units, almost half of which were first consultations.” Read more here.
By Accusing Pregnancy Centers of False Advertising, Pro-Abortion Politicians Prove They Can’t Handle the Truth, by Jor-El Godsey. “If every state already has laws against deceptive advertising and if pregnancy centers are, in their opponents’ words, advertising deceptively, why is another law required? You’d think … the current laws would have been easy to use to stop the ‘deceptive advertising’ practices the abortion proponents rail against… Perhaps pregnancy centers are really only guilty of standing against Big Abortion and its deep pockets and bought-off politicians.” Read more here.
Can States Stop Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills? by Sarah Parshall Perry. “State or local governments can regulate matters related to health and safety without violating the supremacy clause. And, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Tom Jipping and I have written, that means, with Roe v. Wade now overruled, the states may again exercise their traditional police power to restrict or prohibit abortion – including particular methods of abortion, such as by pill.” Read more here.
How Autogynephilia Is Fueling Today’s Transgender Activism, by Debra Soh. “There exists an overlap between [autogynephilia] and narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, but the most aggressive individuals with AGP, who demand that trans women be considered indistinguishable from women, and who are overriding social boundaries and requiring policy to facilitate this, don’t represent everybody. Many of those experiencing AGP do so quietly and don’t transition to female full-time.” Read more here.
End the Horrors of the Pediatric Gender-Industrial Complex, Now, by Post Editorial Board. “…[A]ll it took to get these kids on hormones was one letter from a therapist plus a single medical consultation. Those hormones have potentially life-altering and irreversible consequences, including sterility, liver toxicity and severe sexual issues. Worse yet, intakes came in from a mental health unit at the hospital. Yes, kids with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were put on hormones as a cure for their mental illness…” Read more here.
Trained to Hate Their Sex and Selves, 1 in 3 Teen Girls Now Considers Suicide, by Auguste Meyrat. “What has changed in the last decade and in the last few years that has driven young women ever further to despair? From what I’ve witnessed as a high school teacher, this would probably be the rise of social media and transgenderism… Related to the problem of social media is the transgenderism movement, which argues that sex is fluid and that changing one’s sex will make someone happier. This idea has been incredibly destabilizing for female identity and has led to the wide-scale invasion of women’s spaces.” Read more here.
The Associated Press Has Lost Its Brain to Gender Ideology, by Zachary Faria. “The delusions go far beyond the scientifically illiterate assertion that men can become women and women can become men. The AP bemoans the lack of ‘recognition’ for ‘nonbinary or gender-fluid people,’ two completely fabricated categories that mean nothing… This is really all just a form of disinformation. The AP is taking sides in the culture war, and unfortunately, that means that its reporting on this topic cannot be trusted.” Read more here.
As Book Battles Erupt Across the Country, Idaho Turns to Legislation, by Abigail Olsson. “If this bill passes, parents would have the ability to sue agencies that expose children to inappropriate content, adding an additional layer of accountability to the education system. Allowing parents to sue is a good step forward, Kilgannon says, but ‘the only reason we need a bill like this is because librarians, teachers, and school administrators are ignoring parents.’” Read more here.
Six Reasons Why Alex Greenwich’s Gay Conversion Therapy Bill Will Be Bad for New South Wales, by Michael Cook. “A ban on criticism of LGBTQIA+ will stop parents, pastors, and therapist [sic] from offering advice to teenagers who are confused about their sexuality. A ban is a conversion rachet which moves only in one direction – towards assimilation in the LGBTQIA+ community. It will allow therapists to offer affirming advice to teens but stop anyone from discouraging them. The ultimate effect of this will be to hand over the care of troubled teens to government-funded counsellors.” Read more here.
‘Queer’ Whistleblower Exposes Evils of the School-to-Scalpel Pipeline, by Ian Prior. “The whistleblower’s story … reveals the endgame of drugs and surgery to chemically castrate and irreversibly damage children physically and mentally. That endgame does not happen in isolation. It begins at school… Students who ‘identify’ as a different sex are effectively given rights above and beyond everyone else. It’s no wonder young adolescents would deal with their growing pains in a way that gives them a feeling of acceptance, validation, and being part of a new ‘civil right.’” Read more here.
Red States Should Lead Way in Reforming Anti-Marriage Welfare Policies, by Benjamin Paris and Jamie Bryan Hall. “Twenty-six state-level preschool programs contain penalties that discourage marriage. The vast majority of those programs will allow a single mother to send her child to preschool free of charge but eliminate the entire preschool benefit if she marries a man of equal or even lower income… Because of this program structure, a typical working-class couple is incentivized to remain unmarried and raise their children as single parents in order to retain their preschool benefits.” Read more here.
Prayer Is Becoming Criminal in the UK, by Elyssa Koren. “Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the UK.” Read more here.
No, Being a Mother to Your Unborn Baby Is Not the Same as Slavery, by Nathanael Blake. “No one at the time the 13th Amendment was written and ratified thought it included unwanted pregnancy as a form of involuntary servitude. And they were right. It is madness to regard a developing human in the womb as an intrusive stranger with no claim upon a woman. It is crazy to believe that the ordinary, natural processes of human reproduction are the moral and legal equivalent of slavery.” Read more here.
Detransitioners Are Being Abandoned by Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies and Minds, by Kelsey Bolar. “After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition… Prisha doesn’t know why she’s been turned away from so many doctors and medical providers – whether it’s about money, politics, or a lack of knowledge to help.” Read more here.
Religious Schools Will Be Forced to Embrace Transgender Ideology, by Kirralie Smith. “The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a paper that seems intent on destroying religious schooling in Australia… Balancing clauses that have, until now, allowed religious schools and colleges to operate in accordance with their faith, are to be abolished. The propositions require the schools, even religious studies classes, to include ‘alternative views,’ and staff cannot be restricted in any way regardless of their sexual orientation or identity.” Read more here.
The United Nations’ Agenda to Sexualize American Children in the Name of Equality, by Kimberly Ells. “…UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and their partners including IPPF have proven themselves to be tenacious advocates of CSE and/or sexual rights for children. Since this is the case, the global education structure being mounted by them is poised to spread sexual rights ideology like a contagion to children everywhere. UN-directed, tech-based education is the syringe through which comprehensive sexuality education is poised to be administered to the children of the world.” Read more here.
State Hearings on Gender Transitions for Minors Draw Large Crowds, by Chantel Hoyt. “The contentious debate surrounding gender transition procedures for minors continued unabated in statehouses across the nation this week, with several states moving bills meant to shield youth from the physical and emotional harms of such procedures… State lawmakers seem more determined than ever to address the trauma and permanent scars experienced by people like Chloe Cole from occurring to minors in their state.” Read more here.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, by Jamie Reed. “During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager … around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors… I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to ‘do no harm.’ Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.” Read more here.
The FBI’s Slander of ‘Radical’ Traditionalist Catholics, by the Editors of National Review. “The Richmond office of the FBI prepared a memo on what it called ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’ and the threat they posed… The memo accuses such Catholics of ‘adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.’ It contains several references to Catholic hostility to ‘abortion rights.’ And it recommended with some optimism that containing the threat posed by such Catholics can be accomplished by cultivating sources and assets within the Catholic Church itself.” Read more here.
We Must Protect Minors From Gender Transition Procedures, by Matt Sharp. “We must be clear: the experimental gender transition procedures foisted on our children are often irreversible. They prevent healthy puberty, radically alter the child’s hormonal balance, and may even remove healthy external or internal organs and body parts. And not only are such drugs and procedures dangerous, but they are also experimental and unproven. In fact, multiple long-term studies show that when young children who experience gender dysphoria are allowed to mature naturally, most of them … grow out of their dysphoria.” Read more here.
Prostitution Bill Moves to Parliament, by Errol Naidoo. “This is not new legislation but rather the repeal of existing laws that criminalise the sale and purchase of adult sexual services. Essentially, this Amendment will legalize all aspects of the sex industry in South Africa – effectively legitimizing pimps, brothels and criminal syndicates. The impact of a legalized sex industry on society will be dire and far-reaching. Decriminalised prostitution significantly expands the sex trade and increases child prostitution and trafficking.” Read more here.
No Room for Debate: Parents, Not Schools, Must Direct Children’s ‘Gender’ Decisions, by Quin Hillyer. “The horrors inflicted upon Sage as a consequence comprise an extreme case, of course. But even if Sage had not been removed from her own home or abused, the school was way off base in hiding her ‘identity change’ from her parents to start with. No matter what school officials think about their own power, parents, not the officials, ordinarily have ultimate authority over how to raise children. Absent a court finding of abuse or severe abandonment, parental authority is sacrosanct.” Read more here.
Abortion-Inducing ‘Period Pills’ Come to the U.S., by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…[P]roponents of so-called ‘period pills’ are trying to appeal to an audience that is uncomfortable with abortion for moral reasons. A website promoting the pills quotes women’s reasons to prefer this method to a standard abortion following a pregnancy test. ‘It would be easier on my emotional well-being to not know I was actually pregnant,’ one woman said. Another said, ‘I wouldn’t feel I am a bad person.’” Read more here.
Biden Paints Lifesaving, Pro-Life Laws as ‘Extreme,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The president’s reference to ‘extreme abortion bans’ refers to laws that protect unborn babies from being killed. Almost 70% of Americans support limiting abortions to the first three months of a pregnancy… The states with strong pro-life laws on the books allow timely medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and other medical procedures needed to save the life of a pregnant woman, contrary to the claims of many high-profile Democrats.” Read more here.
How to Combat Gender Theory in Public Schools, by Christopher Rufo. “As radical gender theory has made its way into public schools across the United States, children as young as five have been exposed to ideas that encourage them to question their gender identities, sometimes with life-changing and irreversible results. Despite Americans’ broadly shared skepticism about gender identity curricula and practices in schools, many ideologically motivated teachers and administrators have not relented in their mission to advance radical gender theory…” Read more here.
No, Mr. President, the Equality Act Harms Women and Children, by Emma Waters. “Biden encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act ‘to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.’ But we know what this is code for… The Equality Act harms women, children, and all those who understand mammalian biology. While he spoke in lofty terms about ‘our duty to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms’ last night, Biden’s address failed to protect the rights and freedoms of women and children – the two groups most harmed by his radical agenda.” Read more here.
Puberty Blockers Fast-Track Children Toward Full Gender Transition, by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors did find a low rate of detransition during the puberty blocker phase: 93% – 98% of youth who started puberty blockers … proceeded to start cross-sex hormones. This finding led the authors to appropriately conclude that puberty blockers may not serve as a diagnostic tool, but rather represent the first step in medical gender transition – and they even suggest that treatment with puberty blockers may contribute to the high incidence of subsequent treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
Indiana Lawmakers Fight Back Against Schools’ Hidden Transgender Policies, by Tony Kinnett. “Teshka condemned what he called ‘emotional blackmail’ in which ‘…anyone who questions any of these “affirmation policies” is immediately confronted by this idea that “you hate transgender youth because transgender youth are going to commit suicide [without] these policies.”’ ‘Suicide is nothing to throw around lightly,’ the Indiana lawmaker said.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Trying to Force Doctors to Perform Abortions, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “[The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act] explicitly states that hospitals are required to provide treatment to stabilize emergency medical conditions for both a pregnant mother and her ‘unborn child.’ The act clearly outlines the need to protect unborn children, not harm them. But following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, the Biden administration is attempting to redefine EMTALA to mandate the performance of abortions.” Read more here.
The Right to Life Will Be Constitutionally Protected When the Truth About Abortion Is Acknowledged, by James Sherley. “The leading provider of abortions in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, earns the majority of its revenue by stopping pregnant mothers from being parents. Pro-choice protesters pronounce abortion to be healthcare, although every abortion kills a child… Pro-choice marchers claim to want to give their daughters a future with abortion rights, but current abortion practice will end the lives of millions of those daughters, along with their brothers, long before their childbearing years.” Read more here.
Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender, by Douglas Blair. “In a video game set in a world where magic exists and can make you into whatever version of yourself you want to be, why would you choose to be transgender and not just the sex you feel you are? The insistence that video games must give players the option to be transgender is yet another piece of evidence that transgenderism can be an identity adopted for social cachet and is not always an actual desire to be the opposite sex.” Read more here.
Virginia Senate Votes Today on Bill to Put Abortion Until Birth in State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “On Feb. 6, the Senate will vote on SJ 255, a ‘Right to Abortion Amendment’ that would make abortion a ‘fundamental right’ in the commonwealth. This state constitutional amendment would allow abortion to be performed until birth and require taxpayers to pay for it. The amendment would be codified into law if it passes both chambers for two consecutive years and then passes a statewide ballot referendum. It would effectively nullify any pro-life laws in the state…” Read more here.
The Double Whammy Making Italy the West’s Fastest Shrinking Nation, by Jason Horowitz. “Italy’s population is aging and shrinking at the fastest rate in the West, forcing the country to adapt to a booming population of the elderly that puts it at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the ‘silver tsunami.’ But it faces a demographic double whammy, with a drastically sinking birthrate that is among the lowest in Europe. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said Italy is ‘destined to disappear’ unless it changes.” Read more here.
Why Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Not the Answer, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both the U.S.-based and international reviews looked at the sustainability of effects … and whether sexual activity, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancies, and condom use rose or fell among students who were taught according to the different programs. Overall, the researchers concluded that the much-hyped successful outcomes of CSE were based on weak evidence, unsustainable results, and, likely, some degree of motivated reasoning by those conducting the evaluations.” Read more here.
Female Athletes Sound the Alarm About Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports, by Madeline Leesman. “February 1 marks the 37th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which celebrates the achievements and progression in women’s athletics since the implementation of Title IX. In the past few years, however, women’s sports have been threatened, as male-bodied ‘transgender’ athletes have made their way onto women’s sports teams, and in some cases, even into their locker rooms.” Read more here.
Montana Senate Hears Testimony for the ‘Youth Health Protection Act,’ by Chantel Hoyt. “The proponent side of the argument featured parents and grandparents, medical and mental health experts, researchers, and individuals who have ‘detransitioned.’ It was clearly challenging for witnesses to confine their testimony concerning their knowledge and personal experience on this important subject to the three-minute timeframe provided.” Read more here.
With Mark Houck, as With Jack Phillips, the Persecution Is the Whole Point, by Kaylee McGhee White. “I doubt the Biden DOJ thought they’d actually win this case. But that wasn’t the goal anyway. The goal of the charges against Houck and the raid on his family was intimidation. The DOJ wanted to send Houck – and the rest of the pro-life movement, for that matter – a message: interfere with our abortion agenda in any way, and we will come for you. It’s a tactic the Left has been using with increasing fervor over the past several years.” Read more here.
Even Progressive Europe Won’t Go as Far as America in Child Transgender Treatments, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Miriam Grossman. “The American approach, ‘gender affirmation,’ assumes gender identity is knowable from as early as toddlerhood, fixed as soon as it is declared and should be medicalized into permanence as soon as possible. It insists merely questioning a minor’s gender self-definition before often-irreversible interventions is harmful… Europeans generally see affirmation leading to rapid medical interventions as unethical and dangerous.” Read more here.
When Study Shows Transgender Medicine Hurts Kids, Activists and Media Allies Slant the Science, by Nathanael Blake. “Despite the suicides, null results for males, and questionable (at best) results among female subjects, the researchers reported their findings as though they were positive results that supported giving children wrong-sex hormones. And the corporate media bought this spin… Thus, this study will be cited as scientific evidence proving the benefits of transitioning children, even though it shows nothing of the kind.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration’s Proposed Changes to Title IX Threaten Parental Rights, by Kate Anderson and Emilie Kao. “…[T]he Biden Administration’s proposed rule seems to adopt policies that treat parents with suspicion until parents prove that they will support their child’s gender transition… Parents know their children best and have the constitutional right to direct treatment of their children’s mental health. Policies made pursuant to the new Title IX rules could keep parents in the dark and prevent them from exercising their fundamental rights.” Read more here.
Sage’s Law: Protecting Vulnerable Children From the Ideological Fervor of the State, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Sage’s … school should never have hidden the information about her ‘gender identity’ and ailing mental health from her grandparents. The court should never have taken temporary custody of Sage, and it certainly should not have placed her in a male dormitory. All of this could have been prevented, but the state’s relentless desire to force gender ideology onto the public left it blind to a child’s suffering…” Read more here.
Abusing Religious Freedom for Abortion Access, by Tal Fortgang and Howard Slugh. “Allowed to stand, this ruling would have ghastly consequences for religious liberty. States would have to choose between religious liberty laws and every other law they would enforce, nearly all of which burden someone’s conscience and limit behaviors some people consider obligatory. Faced with such a choice, states will have to give up protecting religious liberty altogether. What appears to be a victory for religious liberty … is really just the opposite.” Read more here.
Get Married Before Having Children, and Other Recipes for Reducing Poverty, by James Rogan. “One solution to this catastrophe affecting the nation is to teach the success sequence. The data say that millennials who graduate from high school, get a job, get married, and only then have children will escape poverty, with 97% of those who do so not ending up poor… Studies show demonstrably that the structure of the family is the most important factor in educational and economic success. Schooling has only a limited impact on later life success.” Read more here.
Music Teacher Forced Out for His Religious Beliefs, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Religious freedom has been one of America’s most cherished rights since the Founding. …[T]he right to exercise our religion is a hallmark of a free society. But over the past few decades, employers have been slowly chipping away at protections for religious exercise in the workplace. Now, some companies are trying to tell their employees that they must set aside their religious beliefs as a condition of employment. This is exactly what happened to one orchestra teacher in Indiana.” Read more here.
The Persecution of Jack Phillips Should End, by the Editors of National Review. “The liberal promise of anti-discrimination laws is that they secure the same rights to all in a neutral fashion. The illiberal reality of their deployment by progressives in clashes between sex-based identity and faith-based identity is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups. A decent and liberal society would leave Jack Phillips alone. The Colorado government’s pursuit of him has sent a public message that it is neither decent nor liberal.” Read more here.
You Can Expedite Your Nursing License Application in California … If You Plan to Commit Abortions, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “A recent nursing school graduate from California was ‘shocked, horrified, and disgusted’ when she applied to take the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX) and learned that her home state will expedite the application of any healthcare professional willing to assist with or perform abortions… California’s blatant preferential treatment of abortion is particularly egregious considering the massive nursing shortage the state faces.” Read more here.
Biden’s Abortion Mandates Threaten Pro-Life VA Nurse’s Job, but She Isn’t Giving Up, by Danielle Runyan and Holly Randall. “…[T]he [Department of Veterans Affairs] announced that it would begin offering abortion services at VA facilities nationwide. The VA brazenly issued this edict without first engaging the legislative branch, as it is required to do. Ignoring 30 years of congressional authority expressly prohibiting abortions at VA facilities, the VA was to immediately begin offering abortion services regardless of the unborn child’s gestational age and in spite of any state laws which might prohibit such a procedure.” Read more here.
Leftist Lawyers Try to Protect Killing the Unborn by Calling It a Religion, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Thomas Jipping. “The Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’ did not stop the attacks on legal protection for the unborn. Going forward, most challenges will make familiar arguments but shift the venue from federal to state courts. Abortion lawyers are also launching less conventional attacks, including that pro-life laws violate the right, under state constitutions or statutes, to freely exercise religion.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s Cowardice Allows Colorado to Keep Persecuting Christians, by Joy Pullmann. “In 2018, the Supreme Court rebuked the Colorado judicial apparatus for expressing clear animus against Phillips’ Christian beliefs. It did not, however, back the clear First Amendment protections that ought to allow Phillips to worship God peaceably and bake whatever he wants for any reason whatsoever. So Phillips has been made an example by the rapacious LGBT lobby whose end goals are erasing Americans’ free speech and religious exercise rights as well as inserting government meddling into every personal relationship, all marks of totalitarianism.” Read more here.
Woke Activists Promote Drag Shows, Transgenderism in East Tennessee, by Spencer Lindquist. “A report out of east Tennessee’s Blount County reveals that ‘all ages’ drag shows and other forms of LGBT activism are not limited to liberal areas but instead are spreading into conservative strongholds… A report from Misrule of Law documents how drag shows have been organized in the conservative community by a small but dedicated handful of woke activists.” Read more here.
NIH-Funded Study Claims Trans Hormones Improve Mental Health – Despite Patient Suicides, by Laurel Duggan. “A National Institutes of Health-funded study published Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed to find that cross-sex hormones caused improvements in psychosocial functioning for transgender and nonbinary adolescents. However, two participants committed suicide while another 11 developed suicidal ideation, according to the study.” Read more here.
Christian Cake Artist Gets Persecuted Again, by Quin Hillyer. “Not content to let him get away with refusal to serve same-sex weddings, a leftist lawyer demanded that Phillips make a cake to celebrate a gender transition and another one depicting Satan. These were clearly not good-faith requests but mere harassment… Of course, Phillips refused, which kick-started another Colorado attempt to nail up Phillips as a sacrifice to their gender gods. Naturally, Colorado’s courts … again held Phillips responsible for illegal discrimination based on gender, his religious objections notwithstanding.” Read more here.
Oregon’s Unhinged ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ Guidance Spells the Death of Education, by Emily Mangiaracina. “The Oregon Department of Education’s new ‘transgender’ guidance, now written for ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ students …, may not have made more than a quiet splash upon its release – perhaps in part due to the numbing ‘boiling frog’ syndrome. However, it signals something monumental: that the state education department and the culture that shaped it have, perhaps unwittingly, completely subverted the very purpose of education.” Read more here.
The Pro-Life Movement Still Deserves a National Strategy, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “Up until now, thanks to Roe, calling oneself a pro-life politician hasn’t required much at all. This is the moment for pro-lifers to prove those tepid leaders wrong and insist that any candidate who calls himself pro-life must do more than gesture vaguely to state lawmakers. As the March for Life demonstrated, pro-life Americans still have momentum. They would be wise not to give it up.” Read more here.
The Trans War on Tomboys, by Nina Power. “Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was ‘born in the wrong body’ and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this path – one that many regret – is an obvious, grotesque harm. We have taken a terribly wrong turn in allowing pharmaceutical companies to construct lifelong patients out of healthy children.” Read more here.
A Predator’s Paradise, by Abigail Shrier. “[I]f some of Wiener’s bills seek to protect LGBTQ youth, they also represent a golden opportunity for a different group: adults who would take advantage of them… Consider the Wiener-authored SB 145, a 2020 measure that amended the sex-offender registration laws in California, so that an adult having anal or oral sex with a minor could avoid getting placed on the sex-offender registry, as long as the child was at least 14 and the adult was no more than a decade older.” Read more here.
Transgender Ideology Is Putting Male Rapists Into Women’s Prisons, With Predictable Results, by Zachary Faria. “Men are not women. Men do not belong in women’s spaces, especially if that space is a confined one, such as a prison. Men who are convicted rapists belong nowhere near any women, even if they claim to think they are women… The insanity of transgenderism is having real consequences when it is adopted by the government, and the harm will continue unless people reject this nonsense.” Read more here.
A Public School District Took Middle Schoolers to a Drag Show Without Telling Their Parents, by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon. “When school officials in a diverse community treat their solemn responsibility to seek parental consent as a light matter … they not only jeopardize the welfare of children, they tear at the fabric of our pluralistic social order… When school leaders minimize the problem, they make concerned parents out to be reactionaries. When they betray the trust of parents, they rupture a vital relationship.” Read more here.
The Cultural Abomination of Drag Queen Story Hour Came to Baltimore, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Make no mistake, drag queen story hour has no business in front of children. Much like people would reject exotic dancers reading stories to children because of the mature content of their hypersexualized nature, so, too, should drag queen story hour. They shouldn’t receive special privileges or exemptions (mainly) because they’re part of the LGBT community. Inappropriate is inappropriate regardless of the sexual orientation of most actors involved.” Read more here.
How Not to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Leor Sapir and Colin Wright. “State efforts to restrict the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to address (apparent) gender-related distress in youth make for good public policy. Yet even lawmakers on the morally and scientifically correct side of an issue risk overstepping by unintentionally proposing harmful or strategically counterproductive regulations. We write to warn of three such mistaken efforts.” Read more here.
Dobbs Dealt a Blow to the Supply Side of Abortion; Now Pro-Lifers Should Focus on the Demand Side, by Marvin Olasky. “Going forward, pro-lifers need to emphasize compassionate approaches that can reduce demand for abortions. Prime among them: pregnancy resource centers that offer free material, psychological, and spiritual help to women (and men) in need. They provide 3D or 4D ultrasounds so pregnant women and the fathers of their unborn children can make an informed choice, and they provide a new support community for women when their old one has rejected them. They don’t abandon women who choose abortion, and instead offer post-abortion counseling.” Read more here.
The Weird New Era of Abortion Debate, by Kathryn Lopez. “In this new moment after Roe, there needs to be an examination of our national conscience. Why is abortion so commonplace? Why is it considered freedom and health care when it’s often posited as the only solution, with no consideration of other options for women? There are very hard cases and painful sufferings. Most abortions in America do not involve horrific stories that necessitate babies being born alive in the latest stages of pregnancy – most abortions are birth control.” Read more here.
Minnesota Poised to Legalize Infanticide, Nuke Protections for Women and Babies in Radical Abortion Bill, by Jordan Boyd. “’Viable’ as defined in Minnesota law means ‘able to live outside the womb even though artificial aid may be required,’ which could be as early as ‘the second half of [the] gestation period.’ The [Protect Reproductive Options Act] doesn’t just rid the state of that definition in an attempt to expand abortion for all through birth. It also quashes provisions that abortions performed beyond the first trimester must be done in hospitals and only executed if a mother’s life is at risk.” Read more here.
Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents, by Laura Bryant Hanford. “When the FBI found Sage … in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her in not affirming her as male. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex-trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.” Read more here.
New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show the Whole Picture, by Melanie Israel. “…[T]he growing use of abortion pills at home makes it harder to count actual abortions. Guttmacher counts chemical (abortion pill) abortions that ‘occurred in clinical settings’ but points out that during their census, roughly 55,000 people requested abortion pills online without going to a facility, according to one study. How many of these women got pills and went through with an abortion? And how many more women got abortion pills from unscrupulous foreign and domestic sources? We don’t know.” Read more here.
The Orwellian World of the Pro-Abortion Movement, by Christopher Tremoglie and Michael Tremoglie. “The issue of ‘reproductive rights’ is not semantical. It makes the issue sound like one of government interfering in the lives of individuals. But this clashes with the fact that abortion advocates most certainly do want laws that interfere with private lives. The most arrant interference is the elimination of parental notification. This means that a minor can legally be taken by some other adult – often an adult sexual abuser, covering up his crime – to have an abortion without her parent’s knowledge.” Read more here.
Washington Laws Now Allow Teen Gender Reassignment Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own. It’s an easy position for politicians or activists to take when they don’t have to deal with the consequences the way a child and his or her family would.” Read more here.
Study Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Linked to Suicide but Ignores Crucial Data Showing Otherwise, by Thomas Kelly. “The authors are claiming that there is an expected 5 percent increase in suicide rates in states that have restrictive abortion laws. But the upward bias in their recorded suicide rates for some states is multiple times the estimated effect of abortion restrictions on suicide rates. This data cannot demonstrate that abortion restrictions are associated with suicide increases because the bias in their data is so extreme.” Read more here.
Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Glenn … convey[ed] through district spokesman Jeff Meador that all the titles they’d pulled from shelves are ‘sexually explicit and not age-appropriate.’ That said, the libraries ‘continue to house a socially and culturally diverse collection of books for students to read, including,’ he pointed out, ‘books that analyze and explore LGBTQ+ issues.’ Naturally, that didn’t satisfy the ACLU, whose lawyers decided to involve the federal government in a local dispute that could have a chilling effect nationwide.” Read more here.
Medical Experts, Not Activists, Must Lead Discussion of Puberty Blockers, by Kate Anderson. “…[M]any school districts have adopted the activist line that the only way to support children with gender dysphoria is to adopt an ‘affirmative’ response that immediately puts a child onto a treatment pathway that ends with medical intervention… Schools that have enacted these radical policies should take a hard look at the very serious harms that children are exposed to in pursuit of an ‘affirmative’ approach.” Read more here.
An LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy Ban Is Bound to Backfire, by Lottie Moore. “Of course, we would hope and expect that all MPs would be against persecution. But this amendment will have consequences that go far beyond that noble aim – with serious and dangerous results. If this amendment is passed, professionals simply trying to do their jobs could be accused of practising conversion therapy – because the amendment fails to define what it entails.” Read more here.
A ‘Botched Abortion’ Is the Birth of a Child, by Larry O’Connor. “The unanimous voice of Hakeem Jeffries’ Democrat caucus was that mothers and doctors should not be obliged to provide medical attention to an [sic] ‘survivor’ after a so-called ‘botched abortion…’ Think about that term for a moment. What happens when you ‘botch’ an abortion? …What happens when an abortion goes ‘wrong?’ A baby is born. A baby is born, alive. A ‘botched abortion’ is also known as ‘child birth.’” Read more here.
Oops! Democratic ‘Oversights’ Would Legalize Polygamy, Infanticide, by Ben Johnson. “Voters can glean the inner disposition of our lawmakers, learning which issues they consider vital and which never enter their minds, through … the ‘errors,’ omissions, and oversights politicians make when drafting legislation. Allegedly inadvertent ‘oversights’ and ‘drafting errors’ by Democratic lawmakers over the last year alone would have decriminalized infanticide, legalized polygamy, and suppressed sacred religious liberty rights enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more here.
The Dutch Studies and the Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors assert that had the Dutch studies been published today for the first time, the ‘innovative practice’ of using hormones and surgery to gender transition children and young adults would never have been permitted to enter general medical settings due to the very low quality of the research and problematic outcomes experienced by several of the young people.” Read more here.
Democrats Can’t Help but Make the Case for Life, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made a similar argument, saying, ‘The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital.’ Again, I fail to see how a bill that mandates immediate, life-saving care for born-alive infants puts them at any more risk. A hospital is surely a much safer place for them than an abortion clinic, considering the former exists to heal people and the latter exists to make sure they’re never born.” Read more here.
How a Public Library Used Third-Party Allies and ‘Listening Sessions’ to Dismiss Flak Over Pornographic Kids’ Books, by Casey Chalk. “A member of the Library Foundation … dismissed Horne’s complaints, challenging her to go out into the stacks and find something that was inappropriate. That same staffer also argued that young adult books with sexual content were ‘not pornographic’ and that different people had different standards of what material was too sexually explicit for adolescents (that’s not exactly true, given current U.S. federal law on obscenity).” Read more here.
West Virginia Wins Day on Fairness in Women’s Sports but Plot Thickens on Title IX, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Recognizing that the administration’s attempts to redefine sex are suffering some notable legal defeats, the U.S. Department of Education recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, indicating that it intends to make a new rule on Title IX. That rule, however, in contrast to the Title IX rule announced last summer … will deal only with transgender participation in school sports.” Read more here.
Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation to Get a License, by Ryan MacPherson. “The state’s insistence that every teacher positively affirm homosexual behaviors and transgendered identities understandably aggravates consciences among moral traditionalists, but the issues run deeper than the ‘culture war.’ What is at stake is the nature of knowledge, the future of liberty, and the prospects for a sustainable social order. In a word: civilization.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Is Losing in the Courts, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Goodwin’s ruling is significant for several reasons, the first being that Goodwin has previously sided with gender ideologues. Just 18 months ago, he held that the male middle school student in question had to be allowed to try out for the girl’s cross-country and track teams while the case was pending. But even he admitted in his final ruling that sex is an immutable characteristic, and that changing its definition would have devastating consequences for everyone.” Read more here.
State Department’s LGBT Virtue Signaling Is Unhelpful, by Michael Rubin. “While LGBT evangelicals demand the State Department fly their flag, such virtue signaling often does more harm than good. Flying the rainbow flag at the Vatican to troll the Catholic faith is bad enough, but to do so in Muslim-majority countries such as Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates simply stirs the hornet’s nest for little result… The State Department’s gay pride activism is setting back both LGBT rights and kneecapping our diplomats’ effectiveness.” Read more here.
‘Dead Name’ Documentary Shows Kids Aren’t the Only Victims of Trans Radicals – Their Parents Are, Too, by Nathanael Blake. “Parents who oppose so-called transitioning their children are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the transgender activists who have promulgated a false narrative labeling these parents as suicide-inducing bigots when these parents try to protect their kids from a destructive ideology pushing dangerous medical experiments.” Read more here.
Abortion Industry Seeks to End All FDA Abortion Pill Safety Regulations, by Carole Novielli. “Abortion pill safety regulations created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known as REMS, are the next target of the profitable abortion industry, which has historically bemoaned all regulations to protect women. The ultimate goal of these abortion advocates – many associated with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) – is to allow over-the-counter dispensing of the abortion pill.” Read more here.
Transgenderism Is Experiencing a Crisis of Scientific Legitimacy, by David Gortler. “Today, almost every academic medical school, most prominent U.S. professional medical organizations, and the Biden administration are fully advocating both drugs and major surgeries, including the removal of healthy tissue and organs, in children, adolescents, and adults… The problem is that they all ignore the fundamentals of biology and make unsubstantiated claims without the conclusive, long-term clinical safety findings otherwise required for all other types of medical or pharmacological interventions.” Read more here.
Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail, by Thomas Jipping. “The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says… Far from offering a reasonable interpretation of §1461, the Office of Legal Counsel attempts to construct a fictional statute that would not interfere with the Biden administration’s pro-abortion agenda.” Read more here.
New Evidence From Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility, by Laurie DeRose. “The transition to below replacement fertility has happened at the same time as (and likely because of) the global ‘retreat from marriage,’ a phrase that captures the many ways that people spend fewer of their adult years married. Fewer enter marriage at all, and those who do marry typically do so later in life, often divorce, and either do not remarry or do not remarry quickly. The retreat from marriage takes many adult years away from the normative context for childbearing…” Read more here.
New York Is Violating Photographer’s Free Speech, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “The First Amendment guarantees to all Americans – including artists – the freedom to choose which messages to express. If the government can compel Emilee to convey a view of marriage that cuts against her beliefs, it can compel the speech of others… But a victory for Emilee and Lorie wouldn’t be just a win for them. The same protections that ensure they can promote messages consistent with their beliefs ensure that a lesbian cake artist can decline to create a custom cake criticizing same-sex marriage…” Read more here.
FDA Aids Biden’s Abortion-for-All Agenda by Letting Pharmacies Sell Dangerous Abortion Pill, by Jordan Boyd. “Already, pill-induced abortions account for more than half of them in the United States. Now that the FDA quietly scaled back its regulation of the abortion pill even further to match the Biden administration’s post-Roe activism, that number is only expected to rise as chains such as CVS and Walgreens agree to legally dispense the fatal drug in any state where chemical abortions are legal.” Read more here.
If States Followed the Science, They’d Emulate Europe to Protect Kids With Gender Dysphoria, by Sharon Supp. “After thoroughly reviewing the reliable evidence, these countries concluded that the risks of ‘gender-affirming care’ far outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they are returning to psychological and psychiatric care as the starting point for addressing gender confusion in children – a model known as ‘watchful waiting’ – noting that gender dysphoria in teens could be just a ‘transient phase’ which should not be mishandled with radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries.” Read more here.
Hospital Surgery Dept ‘Proud’ to Announce App Targeting Children for Gender Transitions, by Joshua Arnold. “Under the guise of ‘offering counseling’ to a youth questioning his or her gender identity, gender activists often pressure them towards transitioning (in some jurisdictions, it’s illegal to counsel a child against transitioning). This counseling is often done privately, without the supervision or possibly even knowledge of the child’s parent. This strategy can manipulate children into agreeing to … procedures to which the child is totally incapable of giving mature, informed consent.” Read more here.
Biden’s FDA and Justice Department Are All-in on Abortion, by Ian Haworth. “…[I]n a society where every other product and service is available at the touch of a button – including meals, transportation, and narcotics – it’s apparently unconscionable that murdering your own unborn child should be any different. When medical abortions account for more than half of abortions in the United States, and with abortion becoming more difficult across the country, the only area of the economy booming under Biden’s leadership will apparently be abortion by mail.” Read more here.
No, Idaho Doesn’t Ban Pregnant Women From Traveling; It Protects Babies From Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “…[T]he Idaho law does not ban interstate travel any more than kidnapping laws do. Rather, it protects young girls from being taken, potentially by force or coercion, to another state to have her unborn baby [sic] aborted without her parents’ knowledge or consent. Abusers and human traffickers often rely on abortion to cover up their crimes. To protect young girls and their babies, the Idaho law creates a crime called ‘abortion trafficking’…” Read more here.
Biden Administration Demands Georgia Schools Show Pornography to Kids, by Jordan Boyd. “Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal power to intimidate districts that have successfully purged porn from campuses.” Read more here.
Major Children’s Clothing Retailers Poured Money Into LGBT Group That Promotes Secret Gender Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “Target and Kohl’s, two major children’s clothing retailers, have both made sizable donations to GLSEN… GLSEN’s goal is to make K-12 schools a safe place for LGBT students by preventing bullying and harassment, according to its website. In practice this has meant encouraging teachers to use children’s preferred names and pronouns while keeping students’ transgender identity a secret from parents, along with numerous other policy recommendations supporting youth gender transitions.” Read more here.
UCI Must Follow British Cycling’s Lead and Change Transgender Policy Before World Championships, by Nicole-Cooke. “What garnered less coverage, but was very insightful, were the post-race comments made by the organiser of the race, Michael Engleman, a long-time supporter and promoter of women’s sport. He was critical of the UCI’s position on transgender participation that had tied his hands. When individuals such as him are contemplating the effect of the UCI policy, saying that ‘this may kill the sport’ and are considering leaving cycling, that threat is real.” Read more here.
Australian Judges Need to Review Standards for Gender Dysphoria Treatment, by Michael Cook. “Australian ‘standards of care’ are based on the ‘gold standard’ Dutch model. However, she writes: ‘there are significant concerns about quality and applicability of the [Dutch] studies to the current cohort of children presenting at gender clinics.’ Alarmingly, she asserts that: ‘The Dutch studies would not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine today.’” Read more here.
Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs, by Ben Johnson. “Federally funded guidelines instruct adults to pause before discussing sex with minors and to ask, ‘Are you alone in the room?’ These instructions specify tactics to follow ‘if you’re really having a hard time getting a parent’ to leave the room during the sex talk. They suggest children as young as 13 discuss sex with groups like Planned Parenthood in a parked car or communicate in writing, so their parents cannot hear the adults’ side of the conversation.” Read more here.
‘Between a Woman and Her Doctor?’ Not With Mail Order Abortion Pills, by Ingrid Skop. “The reality is that these mail order abortions may be completely medically unsupervised: no ultrasound to confirm gestational age or rule out a potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy. No labs to determine need for RhoGAM to prevent future pregnancy complications. No testing and treatment for concurrent sexually transmitted infections to prevent future infertility. No verification that the person requesting the pills is a woman, rather than a sex trafficker, incestuous abuser, or coercive boyfriend.” Read more here.
Legalization of Polygamy Was Always the Logical Consequence of Obergefell, by Jonathan S. Tobin. “If marriage is possible between any two individuals of the opposite or the same sex, then why not three, four, or any number of consenting adults, regardless of their sex? And if Somerville is the harbinger of a growing movement to legalize polyamorous and inevitably polygamous marriages by cities and ultimately states, then those who will defend such laws are on firm ground declaring that the logic of Obergefell demands that all non-traditional ideas about marriage must be treated equally under the law. This is the choice America made in 2015.” Read more here.
The ACT’s Takeover of Calvary Hospital Overrides Conscientious Objection and Threatens Religious Freedom, by Joanna Howe. “The fundamental problem with first attacking and then forcibly acquiring Calvary Hospital because it won’t perform abortions is that it overrides Australia’s longstanding tradition of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Freedom of conscience is a foundational principle of a pluralist democracy like Australia. It is a commitment that values human dignity and integrity and promotes a society in which a healthy diversity of views is tolerated.” Read more here.
‘They’re Wanting to Play God,’ by Christopher F. Rufo. “’We have a generation of kids with mental health problems. It’s very sad. And we need to treat those problems correctly, not by recommending that they change genders to fix their mental health problem. That’s never worked. It never will work… They’re going to wake up in ten years and discover that they’re infertile, that they can’t have children, that their sexuality is completely dysfunctional. That they can’t function as a normal human being. And ultimately, I believe that that realization is going to cause them to harm themselves – when they wake up and realize that they’ve already been ruined.’” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Try to Fool Ohioans Into Constitutional Amendment Threatening Unborn Lives and Parental Rights, by Jordan Boyd. “One advertisement … specifically asserts that the amendment’s language barring the state from interfering with an individual’s ‘right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions’ could easily ‘cut’ parents ‘out of the biggest decision’ of their child’s life, including abortion or even the deforming genital surgeries and chemical castration that transgender activists promote to vulnerable teens.” Read more here.
Ontario Bill Would Banish Freedom of Speech From LGBT ‘Safety Zones,’ by Thomas Jipping. “Bill 94, titled the ‘2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act,’ requires the attorney general to make three decisions: whether to designate a particular location as a safety zone, whether to charge someone with uttering the wrong words within 100 meters of that safety zone, and, if so, whether to seek a fine of up to $25,000. All three decisions would be completely up to the attorney general’s unfettered, and unreviewable, discretion.” Read more here.
Federal Officials Have No Right to Order Schools to Carry Indecent Books, by Washington Examiner. “…[T]his is not ‘book banning’ or authoritarian. Nobody is trying to block the publication of these sexually explicit books. Nobody is trying to stop their sales. Nobody is trying to stop ordinary libraries from carrying them, although they might be labeled to give notice of their contents. Nobody is saying parents can’t buy or borrow books from libraries if they deem them appropriate for their children.” Read more here.
Texas Children’s Hospital Pursued Transgender Procedures With ‘Religious-Like Fervor,’ by Breccan F. Thies. “Medical records show some doctors at TCH were providing these procedures and drugs to extremely young children. One assistant professor at Baylor who practices medicine at TCH has provided procedures to patients as young as 11 years old, according to medical records. Another TCH doctor said he privately asks children about other names or pronouns they might use but does not tell the child’s parents because ‘not every patient who is gender-diverse may have that safe environment at home.’” Read more here.
Target Partnered With Satan Supporter Who Wants to ‘Eradicate’ Critics of Transgenderism, by Jordan Boyd. “One quick glance at the designer’s website and Instagram shows dozens of designs featuring satanic and sacrilegious symbols such as pentagrams, ‘Satan respects pronouns’ T-shirts, ‘gay as hell’ stickers, and stained glass windows covered up by ‘trans bodies are holy…’ One particularly graphic image on the designer’s Instagram shows a naked demonic creature with a horned skull and mutilated breasts.” Read more here.
Florida and Texas Defend Kids Against Gender Madness, by the Editors of National Review. “There is no shortage of examples to illustrate the madness to which DeSantis is referring. Gender clinicians openly promote their cavalier attitude to ‘top surgery’ (i.e., breast amputation), advertising the procedure to young prospective patients on TikTok. Drag queens strip and pole-dance in front of audiences made up of children, much to the delight of grown men and women. Pornographic materials too obscene to detail here are distributed in school libraries.” Read more here.
Kid-Free Zones: How Low Birth Rates Cause Even Lower Birth Rates, by Timothy P. Carney. “…[C]hildren cry, take up space, sometimes run around, and sometimes smell bad. A culture based on ‘personal space,’ autonomy, and minding your own business is a culture that pretends children don’t exist. The more people who go through their daily lives not seeing kids, or seeing only very few, the easier it is to uphold this myth of a childless world – and then that childless world becomes reality.” Read more here.
Teacher Pushes Gay Pornography on Middle Schoolers, NBC Provides Smokescreen for It, by Timothy P. Carney. “…Bonner thought it was a good idea to include this porn-book encouraging stranger-sex in her middle school book tasting. At best, this is a total abandonment of all decency and common sense in pursuit of an ideological culture war. At worst, the teacher is grooming children – introducing them to totally inappropriate sexual material in order to destroy their natural aversion to perversion and reticence about sex. That’s why parents called the police on this teacher.” Read more here.
Trans Sex Attacker Case Exposes Yet More Holes in Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Bill, by Alan Cochrane. “Throughout the passage of the Bill at Holyrood, its supporters had insisted that there was no evidence men ‘ever had to pretend to be anything else’ to prey on girls. That assertion was killed stone dead by what happened to the little girl in this case because she had only gotten into Miller’s car because she felt safe as he had been dressed as a woman… What will shock people most about these cases would be the ease with which Miller and Graham appeared able to switch gender virtually at will.” Read more here.
A Win for Pro-Life Pragmatism in North Carolina, by the Editors of National Review. “With no margin for error, North Carolina Republican legislators prudently went as far as they could go to protect life. Representative Tricia Cotham recently switched from being a Democrat to a Republican but was unwilling to vote for an abortion limit earlier than twelve weeks of pregnancy… None of these bills is perfect. But each bill would save some lives, and it would be a grave error to insist that no lives should be saved until all lives can be saved.” Read more here.
Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Gets Biology Wrong for Both Humans and Birds, by Zachary Faria. “…[T]he other problem this argument has, aside from being wrong, is quite clear. Believe it or not, humans are not white-throated sparrows. Even if it were true that one species of birds had four different sexes (which, again, is not the case here), that would mean nothing… The science around humans is very clear: Sex is binary, and it is not something that can be changed with hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.
Sex Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital, by Christopher F. Rufo. “The executives at Texas Children’s appear to be playing a duplicitous game. They announced that the hospital had stopped performing transgender medical interventions on minors, but this is simply untrue. TCH doctors administered such procedures days after the announcement, and they have continued to perform them… If ‘gender-affirming care’ is truly the gold standard in medicine, TCH should defend it openly, not perform it in secret.” Read more here.
Fertility Rates Are Collapsing – and It’s Not ‘Backward’ to Be Concerned, by Miriam Cates. “Politics works on the basis that society will go on and on into the future… But can we really be so sure that there will be future generations to benefit from our endeavours – or even to look after us in our old age? The short answer is no: the evidence suggests that the very existence of future society hangs in the balance. The current UK fertility rate – the average number of children per woman – stands at 1.6. This is significantly below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1 and continues to fall.” Read more here.
Proud Abortionist Kills Democratic Talking Points About Late-Term Abortions, by Zachary Faria. “…[P]oliticians and abortion activists insist that late-term abortions only occur if medically necessary or if the unborn child is going to die anyway… But, according to the Atlantic, ‘Hern estimates that at least half, and sometimes more, of the women who come to the clinic do not’ have a diagnosis that their lives would be in danger or that their babies will not be born alive. Over half of the late-term abortions Hern performs … are elective.” Read more here.
Colorado School District Hosts Drag Show Amid Teachers Union Embrace of Gender Ideology, by Maddie Dermon. “Muse, rated for children aged eight and above, focused on an adult male transitioning to a female and featured provocatively dressed men performing sexual dances for an audience full of children. Young audience members were clearly disturbed. One student expressed his concern by interrupting the show: ‘This is wrong,’ he cried. ‘Don’t you know we’re in third grade?’” Read more here.
The World Health Organization Has a Message for Parents: ‘Sexuality Education Starts at Birth,’ by Malcolm Roberts. “By age 6, the WHO wants the education industry … to expose children to the concepts of intercourse, masturbation, and pornography. By age 9, they are expected to reach an ‘adult’ knowledge of sex including teaching of masturbation and viewing of online pornography. At age 12 … the WHO wishes the official European education course to explore political and emotional responses to sex, puberty, and gender.” Read more here.
Parents Forced to Sue School District for Compelling Student to Read Sexually Explicit Monologue in Class, by Jeff Charles. “The case raises concerns about the appropriateness of educational materials and assignments in public schools. It highlights the delicate balance between freedom of speech and protecting minors from exposure to explicit content. As the legal proceedings continue, the outcome of the lawsuit will likely have implications for similar cases and potentially impact the development of guidelines and policies regarding the use of explicit material in educational settings…” Read more here.
Wake Up, Lawmakers! Protect Girls and Women and Restore Their Rights, by Eileen J. O’Connor. “Transradical sympathizers rail that it is cruel to exclude from women’s spaces a person who feels he belongs there. Rarely, if ever, and certainly not in the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX regulations, is consideration given to how cruel it is to the girls and women who are confronted not only by the sight of a male in female-only spaces, but also by being viewed by a male stranger in violation of their deeply ingrained, self-protective modesty.” Read more here.
If You Can Perform Surgery on Fetuses, Then Maybe They Have Value After All, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “…[T]he American Heart Association called it the ‘first in-utero brain surgery.’ Now seven weeks old, Denver Coleman is a marvel of medical technology and a testament to the value of the unborn… Even CNN, no bastion of pro-life thought, was eager to characterize baby Denver as a person. Notable as well is that the doctors, realizing fetuses’ capacity for pain, provided her with pain relief during the surgery.” Read more here.
Teen Sexting and Sexually Explicit Music, by Christine Lee and Jane Shawcroft. “…[I]t is easy to treat music, and highly sexual and sexually objectifying lyrics in particular, as white noise in the background of more important activities, despite research suggesting that music contains more messages about sex than any other media content except pornography. It is easy to dismiss the lyrics and messages in a three-minute song as inconsequential, but our research … suggests that listening to highly sexual music influences teenagers’ sexual risk-taking, specifically sexting.” Read more here.
The Media Are Campaigning to Deprive Parents of Their Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The root of the problem … is this idea that parents can somehow be a threat to their children simply for disagreeing with the state’s prescribed orthodoxy. …[T]o compare an ideological disagreement to actual abuse is despicable. Parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit, and the state does not get to come along and take that right from them just because they happen to believe that their 13-year-old son is not, in fact, a girl.” Read more here.
Why Are We Ignoring Family as a Solution to Loneliness? by Jim Dalrymple. “A widely cited 1998 study … found that both marriage and parenthood were associated with lower levels of loneliness. Significantly, the study found that simply cohabitating didn’t offer the same benefits. There’s something unique about marriage. It’s not just about companionship. Subsequent research has repeatedly confirmed, to quote economist and policy advisor Christos A. Makridis, that ‘the unmarried are substantially more likely to feel lonely,’ while ‘married Americans have much lower rates of loneliness.’” Read more here.
The Next Frontier for the Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia, by Jane Robbins. “The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. ‘Pedophile’ has become ‘minor-attracted person’ (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other ‘experts’ … describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.” Read more here.
Corporate Media Wants to Help Democrats Separate Supposedly ‘Trans’ Children From Their Parents, by Zachary Faria. “There is no … attempt to report anything even resembling questions about such irreversible procedures for children. Instead, you see things like the Associated Press’s headline from Tuesday: ‘Trans minors protected from parents under Washington law…’ Yes, keeping parents in the dark about their runaway children and instead handing them off to a state bureaucracy that will let them harm themselves is apparently not an utterly insane policy. It is simply ‘protecting’ transgender children from their own parents.” Read more here.
Biden’s Bizarre View of Women’s Sports Puts Female Athletes at Risk, by Alexandra Caro Campana and Ryann McEnany. “What seems to be forgotten in this proposed rule is all the harm that will be done to the millions of female students when they are forced to compete against men and share intimate spaces with them. Being a competitive athlete takes as much mental strength as physical ability. Sharing a bathroom, changing room and/or hotel room with a biological male ahead of a competition will potentially cause severe emotional, mental and even physical harm to female athletes.” Read more here.
Just Like the Transgender Industry, PornHub Relies on Targeting Kids, by Allison Schuster. “PornHub’s willingness to boycott the state entirely shows who the target demographic is: children… PornHub’s reliance on showing its content to minors can be easily understood in the context of its addictive nature. Young people are easily taken advantage of and starting them young provides PornHub with an audience more susceptible to long-term addiction and abuse.” Read more here.
What Are They Hiding? Pro-Transgender Groups Refuse to Hand Over Internal Documents Even as They Move to Oppose Florida’s Medicaid Rule, by Tyler O’Neil. “…[T]he groups went to court trying to quash the subpoenas. They argued that they should not be forced to hand over documents, in part because they are not direct parties to the case. Yet not only are these groups the medical authorities by which Lambda Legal aims to torpedo the Florida rule, but most of the groups themselves filed the amicus brief April 28 that highlights their interest in the case.” Read more here.
The Legal Case That Could Force Abortion Upon El Salvador Is Based on a Lie, by Nancy Flanders. “Beatriz Garcia, the woman at the core of the case, did not die from a lack of access to induced abortion. In fact, she never had life-threatening pregnancy complications, doctors never advised abortion, and she died four years later in a vehicle accident. And the more than 50 women allegedly jailed for miscarriages and obstetric emergencies due to El Salvador’s pro-life laws … were not actually convicted for abortion but for infanticide.” Read more here.
Don’t Forget Men in the Abortion Debate, by Sara Scarlett Wilson. “Support After Abortion … found that 71 percent of men suffered issues after abortion … and that 82 percent of men did not know where to find help. Men struggled regardless of their involvement in the abortion decision, and even men who fully supported their partner’s decision found themselves with anger, grief, and other negative emotions when thinking about the child or children they never got to know.” Read more here.
Utah Benefits as Porn Peddlers Block Access, by Timothy P. Carney. “America would be better off if every pornographer went out of business and every web hosting service, internet provider, and web browser cut off access to pornography. That’s unlikely ever to happen, but Utah scored a minor victory this week when porn-peddler MindGeek … announced it would block access to its websites from all IP addresses within Utah. This was MindGeek’s protest against Utah’s new law requiring age verification for everyone visiting pornographic websites or other sites with sexually explicit material.” Read more here.
New Jersey Will House Two More Male Sexual Predators With Female Inmates, by Zachary Faria. “What do you do with two male pedophiles who claim that they are women? According to liberal gender ideology, and the state government of New Jersey, you put them in a women’s prison because even child abusers must have their gender identities ‘affirmed,’ even if it endangers female inmates… The messages here from the state of New Jersey are clear. The most abhorrent men convicted of heinous crimes can simply claim they are women and be housed alongside female inmates. The safety of women does not matter.” Read more here.
Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Rule Mandating Schools Treat Biological Males as Females Gets Tested, by Sarah Parshall Perry & Caroline Heckman. “How are schools and colleges going to balance the interest of competing civil rights complaints? If a biological male sexually assaults or harasses a female in a bathroom that’s no longer sex-specific due to the new Title IX rule, and a female files a Title IX complaint – who prevails? According to the Biden administration’s rule, any transgender-identified male is ‘entitled’ to be in that bathroom, but any female is granted the benefit of the doubt in a sexual harassment or assault proceeding.” Read more here.
North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban Is Popular, Enforceable, and Pro-Life Without Political Poison, by Tiana Lowe Doescher. “In short, a 12-week ban allows the state to begin to crack down on the worst abortion offenders, mainly in-person clinics likely to perform later-term abortions, while avoiding interfering with that politically near-sacrosanct relationship between a woman and her doctor. In practice, this also means that the state isn’t stuck going to war with the Food and Drug Administration or regulating interstate commerce of abortion pills, which also have legitimate medical uses unrelated to terminating pregnancies.” Read more here.
Yes, the Trans Movement Is Coming for Your Kids, by John Daniel Davidson. “Recently a group of Democrat legislators in Minnesota, led by the state’s first transgender lawmaker, introduced a bill that would have removed language in Minnesota’s Human Rights Act that explicitly says pedophilia is not a ‘sexual orientation’ as defined by state statute. By removing that language, the bill would have opened the door to widening the definition of sexual orientation to include pedophilia as a protected class alongside other minorities.” Read more here.
Kansas Law Defending Biological Sex and Women’s Rights Is Vital, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Which part of the law do gender activists find so offensive? The part that says women have the right to privacy and safety or the part that rebuffs the Left’s efforts to turn sex into a meaningless free-for-all? … Do women’s rights matter or don’t they? Kansas’s law makes it clear that they do. The gender activists who oppose it, on the other hand, would subject every single sex-exclusive space in the country, and every woman who depends on them, to male intrusion. That is bigotry.” Read more here.
The Biden Admin Is Still Withholding Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Data From Lawmakers, by Spencer Brown. “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said last fall that it would work toward providing abortion services for veterans and their dependents via its taxpayer-funding [sic] health care system. As Tuberville … noted at the time, and since then, such a policy would be a violation of federal law… Yet Tuberville’s questions about how such an illegal policy would be implemented and his ongoing attempts to provide oversight for taxpayers have seen no response from the VA or others in the Biden administration.” Read more here.
India Same-Sex Marriage Case Tests Judges, by Geeta Pandey. “…[A]s the hearings have continued, the five-judge bench has been conceding that tweaking one law may not really work, since it’s a complex web of 35 laws that govern issues of divorce, adoption, succession, maintenance and other related issues – and that many of them do spill over into religious personal laws. And during Thursday’s hearing, the top court appeared to agree with the government that granting legal sanction to same-sex marriage was parliament’s domain.” Read more here.
Biden HHS Using Language Meant to Protect Abortion Survivors to Exclude Preborn as ‘Persons,’ by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “This is a brazenly cruel twisting of the intention of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, legislation that abortion supporters continue to argue is unnecessary on the claim that abortion survivors do not exist. Additionally, it’s a complete and utter denial of scientific fact. Based on all basic biological principles, preborn children are alive, even before their hearts start beating. At the moment of fertilization, the child … already has his or her own unique DNA, with traits like sex, hair color, eye color, and countless more already determined.” Read more here.
Colorado Law Seeks to Prevent and Hide Information About Medication Abortion Reversal, by Harry Scherer. “The new law is full of inconsistencies. For example, it permits the administration of progesterone for women facing miscarriage, but it explicitly forbids the same medication for women seeking to reverse an abortion. The law also does not offer any distinction between patients who seek progesterone after ingesting mifepristone willingly or unwillingly, with the latter being an all-too-common practice among sex traffickers.” Read more here.
Indiana Health Department Sits on Records Showing Two Babies Born Alive After Abortions, Three Women Dead, by Joy Pullmann. “Indiana abortion records … indicate that in 2022 three women died after abortion procedures and two babies were born alive after chemical abortions. They also suggest Indiana abortionists failed to report four abortions on girls aged 15 and younger, as legally required. One of the minors not referred for a state abuse investigation after her abortion, a violation of state law, was just 13 years old, the records say.” Read more here.
Biden DOJ Says Mutilating Children Is ‘Medically Necessary,’ by Zachary Faria. “This is not ‘civil rights’ or ‘acceptance’ or ‘inclusivity.’ It is reckless, dangerous, and, most of all, unnecessary. Chemically and physically mutilating children is not going to save their lives or make them happier. It is only going to saddle them with even more physical health problems to go along with the unaddressed mental health problems that are being ignored. It is an attempt to medicalize them permanently… Yet that is precisely what Biden’s Justice Department is fighting for.” Read more here.
Leftist Minnesota Just Gave State Power to Take Kids Away If Parents Don’t Approve Gender Surgery, by Hank Berrien. “The new law gives state courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child in Minnesota who has been abandoned, is in need of protection from abuse, or has ‘been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.’ The law defines such care as … puberty blockers and chemical and surgical procedures ‘to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity.’” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Steps Deeply Into Transgender Hormones, Including for Minors, by Ben Johnson. “Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report reveals that the multi-billion-dollar business has diversified its portfolio beyond abortion, pushing deeply into the transgender industry by offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young adults and minors – often while explicitly withholding this information from parents.” Read more here.
Attempts Underway to Redefine ‘Forced Pregnancy’ in International Law, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The term ‘forced pregnancy’ is back on the UN agenda as nations begin to negotiate a treaty on crimes against humanity… In its just-released ‘State of World Population Report,’ the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) asserted that the ICC definition of ‘forced pregnancy’ has ‘been more widely interpreted by advocates to include, for instance, situations in which a pregnant person is denied an abortion.’” Read more here.
School District Prompts Parents to Enter Children’s ‘Preferred Pronouns’ When Registering for Kindergarten, by Christopher Tremoglie. “It’s a concerning discovery given the extremely young age of kindergarten students who are unfamiliar with pronouns or mature enough to know anything about gender transitioning. It’s a disturbing revelation showing just how radicalized education officials have become in the country, even in a state like Florida. It should also put parents on high alert throughout the country.” Read more here.
How to Stop the Gender Cult in Education, by Debra Soh. “There is an assumption that poor mental health is the result of gender dysphoria, as opposed to the other way around. In actuality, high rates of co-morbidity abound in individuals with gender dysphoria, with 70% or more of such youth presenting with an additional diagnosis… From what I’ve witnessed in the years I’ve been fighting this cultural battle, even when presented with evidence to the contrary, trans activists and their allies happily disregard this information in favor of plowing forward with their preferred narratives.” Read more here.
The Myth of Sexual Experience, by Jason S. Carroll and Brian J. Willoughby. “In the report, we review a series of recent studies … that show that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages… Overall, we found that ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals, or those who have only had sex with their spouse, are mostly likely to be flourishing in marriage. These ‘sexually inexperienced’ individuals report the highest levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, sexual satisfaction, and emotional closeness with their spouses.” Read more here.
Woman Whose Chemical Abortion Has Haunted Her for 23 Years: ‘Don’t Make the Same Mistake,’ by Margot Cleveland. “I started having intense cramping. At one point I went to the toilet, and a baby came out. It looked exactly like the pictures of seven- to 9-week-old babies you see in photos. It was rounded. There was a black eye. My husband fished it out of the toilet and held the dead baby in his hand. I remember looking at it and wondering what it was. But I also knew what it was. I remember going completely numb.” Read more here.
West Coast Shuts Parents Out of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Decisions as Swedish Research Urges Caution, by Greg Piper. “America’s West Coast is separated by a continent and an ocean from Europe. Their policy gap on ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors … is becoming similarly wide… In a new ‘systematic review’ of research on hormone treatment for gender-confused children in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, Swedish researchers … found so little evidence on its effects that they recommended a ban except for clinical trials.” Read more here.
Arrogant Western Countries Outplayed by Developing Member States at the UN, by Lisa Correnti. “The EU and the UN wanted to force sexual ideology for children into a resolution on education. This effort failed due to smart tactics by a united Africa group and delegates from other parts of the world… The lack of consensus including from diverse countries took Western delegates by surprise, many pivoting to damage control to try and save the document they so desperately wanted.” Read more here.
Detransitioner Laura Becker Exposes the Dark Truth Behind Transgender ‘Transitioning’ of Children in Texas Senate Hearing, by Jeff Charles. “What is truly unfortunate about situations like Becker’s is that progressives have convinced the nation to believe that there are only few people who regret having ‘transitioned’ to the opposite sex. The issue is that we do not yet have enough credible data to prove this. Moreover, there is evidence that many of those who go through this process as minor children end up suffering from additional mental issues caused by the use of puberty blockers and surgical treatments.” Read more here.
Zero House Democrats Respected Americans’ Wishes by Voting to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports, by Jordan Boyd. “If the White House gets its way, female athletes will no longer be entitled to federal protection against sex discrimination on the field or in the locker room. Instead, teams of girls as young as kindergarten are forced to accept males on their roster. It’s only in high school and college that the Biden administration concedes males have an advantage that could be disqualifying under a set of extreme criteria. As the vote … showed, Democrats in Congress are all too willing to help the Biden administration erase women.” Read more here.
Marriage Makes Women Happier and Healthier, Harvard Scholars Say, by Kira Mautone. “The researchers found that the women that became married and stayed married over the course of the study showed a 35 percent decrease in risk of all-cause mortality, lower risks of cardiovascular diseases, and ‘greater psychological wellbeing on multiple indicators including greater positive affect, purpose in life, hope and optimism.’” Read more here.
White House Endorses Discrimination Against Female Athletes, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Allowing men, who have undeniable, significant physical advantages, to compete on teams created specifically for women is exactly the kind of discrimination that Title IX was meant to redress. Democrats, however, do not seem at all bothered that women are being deprived of their right to equal competition. Better for women to lose this right than the men who claim to identify as women, according to the White House.” Read more here.
Why Progressives Should Support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, by Kara Dansky. “Our society has been taught a vicious and unscientific lie: that some men can be women, and that some women can be men, on the basis of their ‘gender identity…’ Men aren’t women, even if they say they are, and even if they claim to ‘identify’ as such… There is no credible scientific evidence to support the proposition that a person born with a Y chromosome can be a woman. It should not be considered ‘conservative’ or even remotely controversial to say so.” Read more here.
Your Doctor Asking for Your Pronouns Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s a Sign of the Industry’s Decline, by Elle Purnell. “…[H]aving doctors ask about your pronouns isn’t just an obnoxious chore, it’s a sign of the health-care industry’s willingness to forego medical reality for a few ideological brownie points… Just wait until trans activists insist on making women with breast cancer wait for mastectomies so that other women who want to cut off their healthy breasts to look more like men can go first. (Oh wait, that’s already happening.)” Read more here.
Unborn Children Deserve the Right to Trust Their Mother, by Mark Zimmerman. “Indeed, there are many different angles from which to criticize abortion: that it’s a sin in the sight of God; that it’s a cruel and violent way to die; that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion kills a person; that prenatal screening puts us on a slippery slope toward eugenics; that killing a person isn’t therapeutic. These things are all true, in my view. But I have come to believe there is another reason abortion is wrong: It denies a child the right to trust her mother.” Read more here.
Common Sense Is Finally Returning to the Trans Debate, by Mo Lovatt. “New government guidance [in England] on how schools handle the rise in transgender pupils is currently being drawn up and is due to be issued within weeks. It means that single-sex schools will no longer be required to accommodate pupils who identify as transgender for fear of legal action, nor will they have to affirm a pupil’s preferred pronoun simply because a child demands it.” Read more here.
Colorado’s New ‘Trans Tourism’ Law Beckons Red-State Kids for Trans Interventions and Abortions, by Tristan Justice. “Senate Bill 23-188, signed into law Friday, opens the door for ‘trans tourism’ in the state, allowing minors to seek abortions or ‘gender-affirming health care services.’ In other words, teens seduced by transgender ideology in Kansas, where lawmakers are preparing to ban interventions for minors, may travel to Colorado for sterilizing procedures under Polis’s protection with parental consent.” Read more here.
Washington State Declares Transgender War Against Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “Washington … passed a bill regarding children’s gender transitions that borders on unadulterated evil… Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.” Read more here.
UNFPA: Restricting Online Abortion Is Violence, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In the wake of Dobbs, online purveyors of abortion pills have proliferated widely, and with them the potential for women to be exposed to pills of dubious provenance and quality, either voluntarily or, as news reports have documented, administered through stealth by others. National governments have a role in protecting women and girls from exploitation by nefarious online businesses willing to risk their health for profit.” Read more here.
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling Proves the Case Against the Abortion Pill Is Legally Justified, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[T]here is certainly a case to be made that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to abandon very basic safety precautions about the abortion pill call into question its ability to fairly regulate the pill at all. Indeed, the FDA’s watering down of nearly all restrictions on mifepristone is further proof that the agency is using the drug to push a political agenda.” Read more here.
MrBeast Is Introducing Millions of Children to Transgenderism Without Parental Consent, by Eoin Lenihan. “What MrBeast is doing is sinister and will have far-reaching consequences. He is grooming an unsuspecting generation of children into uncritically accepting transgender and trans activism at a vulnerable age. Due to the unrivaled reach of MrBeast and the unparalleled and often unmonitored access he has to millions of kids across the globe, he is now, without a shadow of a doubt, the leading source of child-focused, transgender content in the world.” Read more here.
Appeals Court Reinstates Safety Restrictions for Abortion Drug While Lawsuit Against Its FDA Approval Continues, by Thomas Jipping. “The result of the 5th Circuit’s decision is that … the FDA’s original approval of mifepristone remains and the safety restrictions that were repealed in 2016 and 2021 are reinstated. In other words, mifepristone can be used up to seven, not 10, weeks; using mifepristone will require three physician office visits; only doctors may dispense or administer the drug; doctors must report all medical complications to the FDA; and abortion drugs may not be dispensed through the mail or mail-order pharmacies.” Read more here.
Why the Latest Abortion Pill Ruling Is Both Good and Bad for Pro-Lifers, by Margot Cleveland. “…[U]ntil the Fifth Circuit considers the merits of the FDA’s appeal, distribution of the abortion pill will be governed by the 2000 FDA approval, not the changes the FDA adopted in 2016… No matter the outcome, however, the case is educating the public on the dangers of chemical abortions much beyond what the Planned Parenthood pill-pushers have been doing for the last 20-plus years.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Misses the Point on Transgender Sports Participation, by Tom Joyce. “The problem with transgender elementary schoolers playing on girls’ sports teams has little to do with sports participation. The problem is there are self-identified transgender elementary schoolers, and the government recognizes this delusion as a reality. Government policy should reflect the biological reality of two genders that people cannot change: male and female. It should not support the delusion that children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus can choose their gender.” Read more here.
The Poison Pill Goes to Court, by the Editors of National Review. “From the beginning, the pill was given favored regulatory treatment, with accelerated approval under Subpart H, a program designed for emergency AIDS drugs. Utilizing this fast-track approval process required the FDA to characterize pregnancy, preposterously, as a ‘serious or life-threatening illness.’ A legal challenge was filed with the FDA in 2002 … and the agency sat on it for nearly 14 years in order to thwart judicial review while the pill expanded its market share. The mifepristone pill … now accounts for a majority of all U.S. abortions.” Read more here.
Even the Trans Lobby Can’t Override Biology in Sport, by Suzanne Moore. “The government has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to clarify that when we talk of sex in the Equality Act we mean biological sex. The blurring of sex and gender is what causes problems, and this may help stop this confusion. Women who say biological sex matters have been demonised and I am one of them… Any woman who tells the truth is met by an unthinking mob, online or in real life. And yet it has not stopped us saying it any more than it has stopped sports fans seeing it. For here we do have the advantage: being on the side of reality.” Read more here.
Why I, as a Former Abortionist, Support Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act, by Kathi Aultman. “…[A]lthough I continued to do abortions while pregnant, after my daughter’s birth, I could no longer kill babies just because they weren’t wanted. I still believed abortion was a woman’s right, but my view changed as I saw young women in my OB-GYN practice with unplanned pregnancies, who kept their babies and did exceptionally well, in contrast to those women with psychological and physical complications from abortion. Later, I realized I was not only murdering innocent human beings but that I was also hurting women.” Read more here.
The Madness of Banning ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ by Ella Whelan. “The fact that judges are now pressured to be ‘respectful’ of identity and gender, and feel the need to self-censor, shows how intimidating the conversation around gender ideology has become. For fear of upsetting a tiny minority, we bore the majority with language that is stripped of all meaning. Instead of mothers we say pregnant people, instead of binman, we say wheelie-bin-operator. Sometimes we’re expected to simply invent words – Teen Vogue suggests using ‘folx’ instead of ladies and gentleman, and ‘nibling’ instead of niece or nephew.” Read more here.
Judge’s Abortion Pill Opinion Tells the Truth About ‘Unborn Humans,’ and the Left Can’t Stand It, by Margot Cleveland. “Calling an unborn human an ‘unborn human’ immediately triggered abortion activists, but as Kacsmaryk explained in a footnote, such terminology is scientifically correct… It is understandable that abortion activists want to hide the humanity of unborn humans, but that doesn’t make the science less real: It just means girls and women who have bought the ‘clump of cells’ narrative will suffer when faced with the truth, which chemical ‘at home abortions’ force.” Read more here.
In California, Parents May Soon Effectively Lose Custody of Kids 12 and Older, by Katrina Trinko. “California lawmakers know that plenty of parents have concerns about minors who pursue gender transition. These are valid concerns: gender transition medical procedures, even for minors, can be extensive – and some of it is irreversible… But California lawmakers don’t want parents to be able to stand in the way of their minor children making these life-changing decisions. ‘It is apparent that one result of this bill will be the removal of trans-identified children from the family home,’ Garfield-Jaeger said in her testimony.” Read more here.
Title IX Rule Change: Biden Is Determined to Force Gender Ideology Onto a Public That Doesn’t Want It, by Kaylee McGhee White. “More insulting than this administration’s blatant disregard for women’s rights … is its attempt to gaslight the public on this subject. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s statement announcing the rule, for example, included this astonishing claim: ‘Today’s proposed rule is designed to support Title IX’s protection for equal athletics opportunity.’ How, exactly, does allowing men with massive physical advantages to crush female competition advance ‘equal athletics opportunity’?” Read more here.
Court’s Ruling on FDA Approval of Abortion Drugs Is Huge Win for Women, Girls, by Julie Marie Blake. “The FDA, in collusion with pro-abortion politicians, never properly tested these drugs for safety in the first place and has continued to dismantle safety protections, so that it is now perfectly simple for a teenage girl, for example, to obtain chemical abortion drugs without a single physician visit or her parents’ knowledge – even though these drugs have been shown to cause intense pain and bleeding, and can often progress into worse complications, like hemorrhaging, life-threatening infection, and loss of fertility.” Read more here.
Biden Admin Concedes It’s Unfair to Let Men Compete in Women’s Sports With New Rules Allowing Men in Women’s Sports, by Tristan Justice. “The Biden administration is trying to have it both ways on transgender participation in women’s sports with new Title IX rules introduced Thursday… Under the long-anticipated proposal, the Department of Education outlined new guidelines that would invalidate bans on men in women’s sports currently implemented across 20 states. At the same time, schools that receive federal funding and therefore subject to Title IX stipulations may bar male athletes on female teams in competitive leagues.” Read more here.
Christians Must Take Children to Transgender Procedures or They Can’t Adopt, Oregon State Law Says, by Ben Johnson. “The policy potentially excludes faithful adherents of most major world religions and most Americans generally, experts say. ‘This isn’t just about excluding Christians: The state is effectively telling the growing majority of people that believe that sex is determinable by time of birth they need not apply to foster and adopt kids,’ González said. ‘It’s not enough to be neutral on the issue; prospective foster and adoptive parents must support the state’s radical gender ideology.’” Read more here.
New HHS Report Attacks SOGI Change Efforts, by Dan Hart. “Opponents of sexual orientation/ gender identity (SOGI) change efforts – which could encompass talk therapy, counseling, … or any other type of therapy designed to help people who have unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion – describe it with a negative connotation as ‘conversion therapy,’ often calling it ‘pseudoscience.’ However, dozens of individuals have testified to how SOGI change efforts have transformed their lives, leading them to happily walk away from homosexual and transgender lifestyles.” Read more here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From the Latest CDC Survey of Youth Risk Behavior, by Dana Mack. “According to the survey, being a teenage girl carries with it another elevated risk – that of mental illness. Well more than half of teen girls (57%) reported feelings of sadness and hopelessness that were profound enough, over a two-week period, to interfere with their ability to complete their daily routines (as compared to 36% in 2011). Some of this extreme depression might be attributed to feelings of isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns but certainly not all of it.” Read more here.
One Mom’s Harrowing Story From Inside Whistleblower’s Trans Clinic, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Doctors insisted the puberty blockers were ‘standard procedure’ for anyone ‘experiencing discomfort with their sex.’ And yet, Caroline was shocked to learn that this ‘standard procedure’ would almost certainly lead to infertility. When the psychologist wanted to know if Casey wanted to bank his sperm before they started the drug Supprelin, she kept thinking: my son is only 14 years old.” Read more here.
Ireland’s Commonsense Three-Day Abortion Waiting Period Is Under Attack, by Eilis Mulroy. “In the 2018 legislation, an abortion is defined as ‘a procedure to end the life of the foetus.’ It is the only legal medical procedure in Ireland the sole aim of which is to end human life. This ought to place it apart from all other procedures and justify a far greater threshold in terms of reflecting on it before it is carried out. But the sad fact is that, to pro-abortion groups and political parties, an unborn child isn’t a human life – it’s just a ‘clump of cells,’ with no more significance than warts or skin lesions.” Read more here.
Biden and EU Gang Up on Africans at UN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Adding this controversial language to the annual resolution of the commission would give Western powers more political leverage to push sex-ed programs that promote homosexuality and transgender ideology among children. Western governments, led by the European Union and the Biden administration, are insistent that the resolution must include ‘comprehensive sexuality education’ because the theme of this year’s resolution is centered on education.” Read more here.
Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy, by Katy Faust. “Our culture has shifted drastically, but children haven’t changed. In fact, they continue to be victimized by practices and policies that prioritize adult desires above children’s rights. It’s past time to start putting them at the center of our national conversation. That begins with clearly and courageously defending children’s rights by shaping culture, reforming law, and rethinking our approach to technology.” Read more here.
Transgender Inc.: A Running List of Corporate Gender Insanity Insulting Women, Kids, and Reality, by The Federalist Staff. “Rather than highlight the dangerous and irreversible procedures associated with transgenderism, … many major corporations have opted to champion trans ideology – even for unsuspecting children. In order to help Americans hold these companies financially accountable, The Federalist has compiled a list of major businesses promoting and glorifying gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
The Surgeries Are Immoral, by Cole S. Aronson. “The real problem is more basic: the surgeries remove healthy organs without good reason. That’s not risky – it’s harmful and morally wrong. The people who seek such surgeries are trying to alleviate very real suffering, but whether surgery addresses such suffering humanely is not a question patients are automatically best positioned to answer. That’s true of any patient seeking any medical procedure.” Read more here.
A Double Mastectomy at 13? How Can President Biden Possibly Overlook That? by Michael Cook. “It’s painfully obvious that the President is ignoring the growing number of detransitioners – don’t they deserve to be safe and supported as well? He ended his speech with these stirring words: ‘You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.’ But that’s all they are – words. Or does he mean that ‘love, dignity, and respect’ mean amputating the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl?” Read more here.
This Is How Schools Are Trying to Gender-Transition Children Without Parents’ Knowledge, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Another report surfaced yesterday detailing how a school district in Colorado also focused on deceiving parents about children transitioning… Their thoughts have progressed into what should be considered criminal actions. Any school district, school, or teacher enabling a student’s transition without notifying and consulting their parents should be charged with child abuse by law enforcement.” Read more here.
Last Students Graduate: School Closures Spread in Aging Japan, by Eimi Yamamitsu, Tom Bateman, and Issei Kato. “Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged ‘unprecedented measures’ to boost the birthrate … and says maintaining the educational environment is crucial. But little has helped so far. Births tumbled below 800,000 in 2022, a new record low, according to government estimates and eight years earlier than expected, dealing a knockout blow to smaller public schools that are often the heart of rural towns and villages.” Read more here.
Women Deserve to Be Empowered by Doctors, Not Rushed to Medical Abortion Without Them, by Susan Bane. “…[T]he Department of Justice announced the U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver prescribed abortion drugs… Similarly, the FDA changed a rule to allow abortion drugs to be dispensed at retail pharmacies… These developments do a great disservice to women by removing the opportunity for them to receive information that can empower them to make informed decisions. This is especially true when the dangers of self-administered abortion are considered.” Read more here.
Democrats Reintroduce Radical Abortion Bill in GOP-Controlled House, by Rebecca Downs. “Lest you think the bill’s name means Democrats have acknowledged the biological reality that only women can get pregnant, a quick glance of the text dashes any hope. ‘This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy – cisgender women, transgender men, nonbinary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others – who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services,’ it reads.” Read more here.
Liberal Media Champion Leftist Crusaders ‘Against Book Bans,’ by Tim Graham. “One uproar is over books – assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for ‘book bans.’ Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books entirely from public view. They get to pose as the defenders of books and ‘book learning’ and as compassionate defenders of the book-reading needs of the ‘marginalized.’” Read more here.
Pumping Gender-Bending Drugs Into Kids Is Even More Dangerous Than We Thought, by Samuel Silvestro and Jay W. Richards. “Lupron stops the body’s normal hormonal process, including the development of ovaries and testes, by ‘blocking’ the brain’s ability to communicate with the pituitary gland… Lupron’s side effects are so severe that doctors tend not to prescribe it for even mild (non-metastatic) cases of prostate cancer. Would you be shocked to learn it might not be great for young girls, either?” Read more here.
I Was a Public School Teacher, and I’m Blowing the Whistle on Transgenderism Before Its Too Late, by Stephen Schultz. “One 8th grade boy arrived at school in high heels, a short skirt, open blouse, make-up, and women’s jewelry. He demanded to use the girls’ restroom… Too many Americans too often think that these sorts of bizarre things cannot possibly be happening because they were not remotely part of their own personal school experience. Unfortunately, they are very real, they are increasingly common, and now they are not only protected but promoted.” Read more here.
Holy See Foils Western Push for Abortion/Sex Ed at UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western countries kept negotiations going on comprehensive sexuality education, abortion-related terms, and homosexual/trans issues deep into the night, well past the deadline for agreement… These are common tactics to break down opposition through a combination of political pressure, tiredness, and discomfort. The idea is to make it so difficult that by the time agreement comes only the most dutiful and tenacious of diplomats are left in the negotiating room.” Read more here.
Why States Must Define Sex Precisely, by Jay W. Richards. “Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex … was needed because no one contested it. Unfortunately, because of gender ideology’s growing influence on our laws and institutions, states no longer have this luxury. Gender activists are now working to redefine sex in federal laws and regulations, such as Title IX, to include ‘gender identity.’ If this succeeds, it will subvert all preexisting legal references to sex, contrary to their original intent.” Read more here.
Abortion Giant Lies About Outcome of Recent UN Negotiation, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The international abortion giant issued a press release following the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) claiming that ‘the text includes a standalone paragraph on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE).’ In fact, the term CSE was not included anywhere in the document. The paragraph referred to by IPPF included language insisting that education must be ‘age appropriate,’ ‘relevant to cultural contexts’ and ‘with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.’” Read more here.
There Are No Banned Books, by David Harsanyi. “For the left, the banned book claim is a political racket, allowing them to feign indignation over the alleged ‘authoritarianism’ of Republicans who don’t want kids reading identitarian pseudohistories or books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, or gender dysphoria in their schools. Yet, major media now regularly contend, as indisputable fact, that ‘book bans’ are in place.” Read more here.
The Government Should Not Bully People Into Supporting ‘Gender Transitions,’ by Matt Lamb. “Religious institutions have First Amendment rights to refuse to be involved with medical procedures that violate their teachings and beliefs… The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which represents Catholics across the country, recently admonished efforts by the federal government to force hospitals to assist in transgender procedures, such as surgeries that remove healthy organs and can permanently make someone sterile or infertile.” Read more here.
Belgium to Allow Repeated Gender Changes, by Wesley J. Smith. “The Belgium supreme court previously ruled that requiring people to identify as male or female violated the equality of people who don’t see themselves as exclusively either. So, a new law will be passed allowing ongoing fluidity of gender identity which will be officially recognized by submitting a simple form… This is civilization-destroying stuff. Not because of the transgender issue per se, but because it represents the triumph of the subjective.” Read more here.
Sex Education Is Now How-to in Schools – Parents, Beware, by Betsy McCaughey. “The facts of life haven’t changed, but sex ed is entirely different from what you took in school. Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body positions. Supplemental reading in middle school libraries includes ‘Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff,’ a book explaining foreplay and how to rub the clitoris to produce pleasure… Planned Parenthood, the largest producer of sex-ed curriculum for public schools, argues children are entitled to know how to ‘experience different forms of sexual pleasure.’” Read more here.
FDA Stonewalled Abortion Drug Concerns to Escape Responsibility for Their Dangers, by Julie Marie Blake. “When the FDA first approved the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000, it sidestepped the required studies – including studies that look specifically at risks for teenage girls – and wrongly categorized the drugs as offering a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit.’ The FDA justified its reckless approval by claiming that pregnancy is a ‘life-threatening or serious illness.’” Read more here.
Parents Are Fed Up With Public Schools Secretly Transitioning Children, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Could these clandestine transition policies and practices be the reason for the alarming spike in the number of high schoolers identifying as transgender? The U.S. saw a nearly five-fold increase in gender transition surgeries for teens from 2016 to 2019 alone. And a new report indicates that approximately 300,000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender. It is not surprising, then, that disenfranchised parents have finally had it.” Read more here.
Maternity Wards Are Closing Everywhere Because of a Lack of Babies; the Media Desperately Want to Make It a Story About Abortion Bans, by Timothy P. Carney. “Maternity wards have been closing all over the United States for more than a decade, primarily for a simple reason: People have been having fewer babies every year since 2007. There were fewer children in America at the 2020 census than there were in the 2010 census. Of course, a country with less maternity will be a country with fewer maternity wards… The closure of rural hospitals’ obstetrics and maternity wards has nothing to do with laws that protect the unborn…” Read more here.
Why Is Netflix Teaching Preschoolers to Come Out as Nonbinary? by Madeline Fry Schultz. “In the show, which is targeted toward preschoolers, ‘Fred’ the bison is reunited with her grandmother and realizes that she hasn’t told her that she now goes by ‘Fred’ instead of ‘Winifred’ and uses ‘they/them’ pronouns… The story is pure propaganda, but don’t take my word for it: Series creator Chris Nee called the episode ‘a road map for coming out but also for having someone else tell you they’ve changed their pronouns and/or name.’” Read more here.
DeSantis Goes There, Shows Graphic Video of Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries Alongside Biden Comments, by Bob Hoge. “Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Governor’s response team … was it at again, taking footage of President Joe Biden lambasting the state for its policies on transgender surgeries and putting in a split-screen with videos showing some of the more benign steps of ‘gender-affirming surgery.’ WARNING: some of the images are graphic, so if you’re squeamish, beware. It’s hard to watch.” Read more here.
Vermont Bans a High School From Athletics for Objecting to Boys in Girls’ Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The [Vermont Principals’ Association] alleged that Mid Vermont Christian violated the organization’s policy on discrimination and harassment by refusing to force its girls to play basketball against a boy… This wasn’t done to uphold the sanctity of VPA’s policies. It was done as a warning to other schools that recognize how unfair it is to force its girls’ teams to play against boys. Bend the knee to gender ideology, or you too will be banned from all sports.” Read more here.
With ‘Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,’ Democrats Openly Celebrate Executioners, by Nathanael Blake. “…[A]bortion advocates believe that without abortion, women cannot be sexually and economically – and therefore socially and politically – equal to men. But this perceived remedy to the injustice and inequality of nature is itself unjust and unequal. In this age of ultrasound, we can no longer effectively lie to ourselves about the lives violently ended by abortion. We have all seen the pulsing heartbeats and the tiny fingers. There is no justice in ending these developing human lives.” Read more here.
If Biden Gets His Way, Using Correct Pronouns Could Be a Human Rights Violation, by Cherise Trump. “With Title IX enforcing gender ideology, what will happen to students who disagree with this dangerous dogma? What will happen to students who believe in basic biology, namely the notion that there are two sexes, that a man can’t become a woman, and vice versa? What will happen to students who have traditional values and remain true to their faith? The answer is alarming. Under this butchered version of civil rights law, these students will be vulnerable to an array of punishments, including suspension and even expulsion.” Read more here.
Yes, the State Has Both the Right and the Responsibility to Restrict Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “He points out that giving the state additional authority over familial relationships is a slippery slope, arguing that this authority could easily be used against, say, homeschooling families. …[T]here is no question at all that surgically and chemically mutilating children … is morally reprehensible. This reality must take priority over any concern of a slippery slope, no matter how legitimate it might be.” Read more here.
From California to South Carolina, Abortion Extremists Pollute Public Policy, by Quin Hillyer. “Enough is too much. On both sides. Abortion is a matter so fraught with conflicting emotions, conflicting values and beliefs, and still even conflicting ‘science’ that there’s no way a pluralistic society will ever reach a perfect consensus on it. For the foreseeable future, there will be plenty of facets of abortion policy to argue about, battle politically about, and maybe prayerfully compromise over, all in a very broad range. In that light, shouldn’t we all at least renounce the absolute extremes?” Read more here.
No, Age-Appropriate Library Restrictions Are Not ‘Book Bans,’ by Raheem Williams. “The issue is primarily a cultural tug-of-war taking place in public school libraries. The discovery of sexually explicit books on school bookshelves nationwide has sparked controversy… There’s an assumption that the government has a responsibility to produce and distribute every book in existence to school children free of charge. This may sound great until you consider that books often contain inaccurate, poorly sourced, or controversial information.” Read more here.
Four Things to Know About Major Texas Court Case Against Abortion Pill Access, by Kaelan Deese. “The case surrounds a challenge brought by anti-abortion physicians and medical associations to the Food and Drug Association’s 2000 approval of the drug mifepristone, the first drug in the medication abortion process. If the judge grants the request to block access to the drug nationwide, it could make the abortion pills more difficult to obtain even in states where such procedures are legal.” Read more here.
Exposing the Lie of ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ by Doreen Denny. “…[W]hat didn’t receive that kind of attention is a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, that the practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ convincing impressionable teenagers that feeling like the opposite sex means you are the opposite sex, is extremely damaging. In a seven-part statement, AAPS exposes this heresy – ‘changing physical appearance does not change biological sex’ – and takes direct aim at the medical industry promoting destructive ‘transgender’ medical procedures on youth…” Read more here.
Declaring a Public Health Emergency Over Abortion Would Be Reckless, by Jeanne Mancini. “A public health emergency declaration would expand distribution of these pills and eliminate safeguards at the expense of women’s health. It would allow the Biden administration to simply ignore any unfavorable ruling in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s lawsuit and to promote the chemical abortion pill even more. But it wouldn’t stop there. The declaration would also direct emergency federal resources towards advancing the pro-abortion agenda overall and force Americans to fund it against their consciences.” Read more here.
VA House Stops Democrats From Putting a Right to Partial-Birth Abortion in the State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “The amendment would have … legalized abortion up to and during birth… That bill would have given abortionists license to choose an alternative method of killing through a provision of ‘Method not listed’ with almost no limitations. The so-called Right to Abortion Amendment would have made unborn babies vulnerable to these assaults up until birth. Advocates made no apologies for their gruesome stance.” Read more here.
Norway Offers a Stop Forward in Eliminating Gender Ideology, by Debra Soh. “Common sense and science are gradually prevailing. Last week, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced it would be revising its current guidelines regarding so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors because it no longer considers them to be evidence-based. The board also acknowledged that the growing number of teenage girls identifying as male post-puberty remains under-studied.” Read more here.
Make Women Female Again, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The joint forces of the radical Left and the transgender lobby have appropriated the day to adhere to the insanity that is contemporary left-wing political ethos. Once a day to celebrate all things feminine, International Women’s Day now actually celebrates men pretending to be women… Women must not submit to left-wing cultural extremism that would debase them and embrace a counterfeit womanhood.” Read more here.
Outdated State Laws Don’t Address Common Practice of Teenage Sexting, by Christine Queally. “Cases involving child sexual abuse material have risen in the last two decades with the advent of new technologies to capture and share explicit imagery… While it is illegal for teenagers to send explicit images of their peers to others in all states and of themselves to others in almost all states, many of them still do. In fact, according to a 2018 study, more teenagers are sending and receiving explicit imagery than ever before.” Read more here.
FDA Absurdly Claims There’s ‘Therapeutic Benefit’ to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs, by Terence Jeffrey. “…[T]he Biden administration’s argument for the alleged ‘therapeutic benefit’ of a chemical abortion focuses entirely on the ramifications for the human being seeking the abortion, not the human being who is aborted… The administration completely ignores the fact that not only is there a death associated with the use of these drugs, it is the very purpose of these drugs. An unborn child is a human being. A drug that is designed to abort the life of that unborn child is a drug designed to kill a human being.” Read more here.
The Realities of Transition Regret, by Debra Soh. “She grieved the inability to breastfeed her baby after giving birth and wanted to raise awareness about the difficulties detransitioned women experience. She also spoke about the poor maternity care she encountered during her pregnancy because practitioners didn’t understand her situation or what detransitioning had entailed… Considering that girls as young as 12 are undergoing this procedure, I anticipate a huge uptick in the number of new mothers presenting with this issue in the future.” Read more here.
How Undemocratic Democrats Force Gender Ideology on Unsuspecting Families, by Washington Examiner. “The committee’s report justifying its recommendations explains that ‘when students are separated by boys and girls, it affirms a rigid binary based on anatomy.’ Apparently, this affirmation of biological reality is bad. The committee adds, ‘Separation of students into boys and girls does not create an inclusive environment for instruction to occur.’ Inclusion, in this rationale, excludes the opinion of the vast majority, which also happens to accord with reality rather than the Left’s preferred fantasy.” Read more here.
Pro-Lifers Issue Warnings After Ohio’s ‘Radical’ Abortion Amendment Clears First Hurdle, by Sarah Arnold. “The proposed constitutional amendment would pose risks for women by removing current health and safety protections for women, abolish parental consent and notification laws, and enable abortion on demand up until the moment of birth… SBA Pro-Life America’s State Affairs Director Sue Liebel cautioned against the amendment, saying it would endanger women’s lives by doing away with basic health regulations.” Read more here.
Sending the Wounded to the Front, by Nathanael Blake. “Transgenderism is culturally powerful and financially lucrative – every troubled teenage girl who identifies as trans is worth a fortune to the medical–pharmaceutical complex. Greed and ideology are a potent combination, so it is no wonder that almost all safeguards have been abandoned when it comes to transitioning children. But this greed may be their undoing. …[L]awsuits may bring down the medical and pharmaceutical cartels that profited from hurting them. The transgender monolith will fall as its victims stand up to it.” Read more here.
Major Doctors’ Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth, by Jordan Boyd. “…[T]he American College of Physicians (ACP) announced its official stance on abortion is that ‘individuals have the right to make their own decisions, in partnership with their physician or health care professional’ without legal consequences… The ACP also used the brief … to formally condemn life-saving pro-life laws for banning the barbaric practice of in-utero dismemberment abortion and punishing anyone who illegally ends unborn lives.” Read more here.
TikTok Influencers Are Trying to Turn Your Kids Trans Behind Your Back as This Must-See Exposé Shows, by Brandon Morse. “…White points out that some of these influencers talking to your kid are actively encouraging your child to keep their ‘conversations’ a secret from you, the parent. This doesn’t just mean random transgendered people, but medical professionals as well who give out phone numbers they can call for a secretive consultation… None of this should be surprising but it’s absolutely integral to see what your kids may very well be seeing whenever they log onto TikTok, if you let them on the app at all.” Read more here.
The Powerful LGBT Group Behind California’s Most Radical Laws Is Setting Its Sights on Washington, by Susannah Luthi. “Powerful organizations in Sacramento often team up on bill sponsorship to add to the pressure. Unions, several of which donate to Equality California, are a particularly important ally, as are Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. Together, this coalition overhauled California schools’ sex education curriculum to include instruction about gay sex and gender identities. Planned Parenthood and Equality California consult with districts on how to teach the program.” Read more here.
Parents Defended Embattled Child Gender Clinic. Their Stories Confirm Critics’ Worst Fears, by Laurel Duggan. “About two dozen parents disputed recent claims that the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was rushing mentally ill children onto cross-sex medical interventions … but their stories highlight some of the clinic’s controversial practices… Parents who were supportive of the clinic reported that their children had numerous mental health comorbidities and transitioned at young ages, sometimes without a history of gender identity issues, and that doctors used suicide risk to pressure families into medical transitions.” Read more here.
Washington State AG: Abortion Pill Is ‘Safer Than Tylenol,’ by Dan Hart. “As noted previously by Szoch and Dr. Ingrid Skop, chemical abortions also pose a unique challenge for the woman, who is expected to carry out the abortion at her home. ‘Chemical abortions are uniquely traumatic in that a mother must personally dispose of the remains of her aborted child, who may be visibly recognizable as a baby. At eight to 10 weeks gestation when chemical abortions are often carried out, the baby is approximately the size and shape of a gummy bear with easily recognizable head, hands, feet, fingers, and toes.’” Read more here.
Washington State Would Destroy Both a Homeless Shelter and Religious Freedom, by Quin Hillyer. “The Washington Supreme Court, ignoring copious U.S. Supreme Court precedent, recently decided that the Union Gospel Mission may not adhere to its faith-based hiring practices, and state officials now threaten the charity with considerable punishment for doing so. As in many other similar cases, the homeless shelter in question will serve anybody in need but just not hire nonbelievers to serve them.” Read more here.
NSW Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of Other States About Conversion Therapy Legislation, by John Steenhof. “The NSW Parliament must resist pressure to repeat the same mistakes. It should open an evidence-based parliamentary inquiry. It should hold public hearings. It should listen to the voices of dissenting gays and lesbians. It should protect the right of people to seek whatever help they want, from whoever they want, in accordance with the human rights of all concerned.” Read more here.
Busting Five Myths of Gender Ideology, by Madeleine Kearns. “Scrutinizing the claims of gender ideology, it soon becomes apparent how incoherent they are. On the one hand, we’re told that men and women are the same – that the differences we observe in professional outcomes and sexual behavior are the result of sexist stereotyping. And yet, they are different; and men can really be women and women can really be men, by appropriating opposite-sex stereotypes.” Read more here.
Actually, Most People Love Being Parents, by Jim Dalrymple. “Specifically, 36% of Pew’s respondents said that being a parent is enjoyable all the time. Another 44% said it’s enjoyable most of the time. That’s a total of 80% of respondents who described parenting as enjoyable… More surprising still, lower-income parents are actually more likely to see parenting as enjoyable and rewarding all the time than parents with higher and middle incomes.” Read more here.
The Abortion Pill Turns Every Woman’s Home Into a Potential Site of Trauma, by Abby Johnson. “I have counseled many former abortion workers as well as women who have had abortions. The anguish they suffer is almost unbearable. Abortion workers see a side of abortion almost no one else does – they have to put together the pieces of the baby in the lab to make sure nothing is left inside the woman… They have images inside their heads they can never forget. Now women who go the medication abortion route are going to see these same things, and like many abortion workers, they aren’t trained to deal with it.” Read more here.
With 3D Body-Image Avatars and Fake Voices for Trans People, Biden’s NIH Goes to New Extremes, by Anonymous. “The NIH is wasting taxpayer dollars on a project titled ‘Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities,’ which purports to help people with gender dysphoria by mapping the difference between their actual physical embodiment and what they believe their body to be. But instead, it indulges their illness by defying science and denying the immutability of sex.” Read more here.
Biden Seeks to Strip Health Care Professionals of Conscience Protections, by Melanie Israel. “In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience protection laws. But now, the Biden administration is proposing to gut those rules, which would ultimately leave people more vulnerable to being forced to participate in controversial procedures that violate their conscience.” Read more here.
The Left’s Transgender Agenda for Children Is at a Tipping Point, by Sarah Weaver. “A large number of key studies used to justify sex-change treatments for minors have fallen apart under scrutiny. One study, which outlets like NBC, U.S. News and The Hill touted as disproving the theory that ‘social contagion’ contributes to the rise in transgender-identified youth, was methodologically flawed… What studies do appear to show, however, is that in cases of children experiencing gender dysphoria, the vast majority will desist.” Read more here.
The Scientific Revolt Against Gender Ideology Has Begun, by Kaylee McGhee White. “To be clear, gender activists don’t really care whether the science backs up their agenda or not. But it does give them a claim to authority on this issue, which they have used aggressively in recent years to convince every one of our powerful institutions, from the education establishment to the healthcare sector to the White House, to accept gender ideology as fact. Debunking their bogus scientific claims brings us one step closer to breaking this ideological grip.” Read more here.
Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of the Equal Rights Amendment, by Emma Waters. “…Democrats have looked for new ways to secure an absolute right to abortion. If Congress votes to remove the expiration date of the Equal Rights Amendment, and if the amendment is ratified later by the specified number of states, then the ERA could anchor a supposed right to abortion in the Constitution itself… To protect the lives of women and their unborn children, lawmakers must oppose the national Equal Rights Amendment.” Read more here.
As Porn Gets Worse and Democrats Embrace It, One Newer Group Has a Novel Approach to Combat It, by Rachel Alexander. “The left promotes the attitude of doing whatever you want sexually by labeling it ‘freedom’ but completely ignores all the damage porn does to its victims. Many of the women exploited are fooled into thinking it’s harmless… Brain scans have shown that pornography has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. FTND states that there are ‘35 neuroscience-based studies using a variety of brain imaging technologies … that provide solid support for the reality of internet porn addiction.’” Read more here.
Washington State Teacher ‘Says the Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Parental Rights in Education, by Tyler O’Neil. “’On one hand, it’s utterly frightening that a teacher would hold the views that she is a better judge of children than their own parents and then publicly say so on Twitter,’ Prior said. ‘On the other hand, having people in positions of authority say the quiet part out loud gives parents the opportunity to understand what is actually happening at their schools and take appropriate action.’” Read more here.
Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains to Bless Putting Male Soldiers in Female Showers and Bedrooms, by Elaine Donnelly. “Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged ‘biases against transgender individuals,’ which are prohibited, could include anything from ‘misgendering’ people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.” Read more here.
Citizens Request Treaty Change for Abortion, by Bridget Ryder. “A European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) to add access to abortion to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has – for the moment – been rejected by the European Commission… As the commission has made it clear, it does not have the power to move forward with citizens’ proposals on treaty change, so the initiative may be a dead end for abortion advocates. But … pro-life supporters should keep an eye on such proposals. They are one more way abortion proponents will continue their attempts to create a right to abortion.” Read more here.
Incredible … UN Women Refused to Hear WYA’s CSW67 Recommendations, by Sofia Piecuch. “Our participant from Tunisia spoke against the inclusion of CSE but was not allowed to finish. ‘They cut me off saying that they have no time and mentioned going back to the main room…’ As WYA experienced, the space provided by UN Women to gather youth and adolescent inputs was not open, inclusive, accessible or transparent for WYA members, who were either removed from the platform or silenced by moderators.” Read more here.
How the LGBT Movement Is Making Young Women Depressed, by Conn Carroll. “…[I]f you dig into the numbers a little deeper, you’ll quickly see that almost all of the growth in LGBT identification is coming from young adults identifying as ‘bisexual,’ and almost all of the growth in young Americans identifying as ‘bisexual’ is coming from young women specifically… One recent study found that bisexual females and females questioning their sexuality had significantly higher scores for depression, anxiety, and traumatic distress than female heterosexuals.” Read more here.
Teenage Girls Are in Trouble. It’s Time to Acknowledge Social Media’s Role, by Jean Twenge. “Although not all teens are negatively affected by social media, some are very negatively impacted. If 38% of girls who ate a new-to-the-market candy got a stomachache, compared to only 11% who ate other candy, the new candy would immediately be pulled from the market even though the majority were not adversely affected. Yet those are the exact statistics for social media and depression for girls in one of the best-designed studies, and social media is still available to children and teens with no age verification required.” Read more here.
UN Commission Considers AI Crackdown on Homosexual/Trans Critics, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The first artificial intelligence programs have only just begun to emerge, but progressive countries already have plans to use the new technology to silence … anyone who objects to abortion and homosexual/trans demands. Progressive Western governments are pushing for global censorship through artificial intelligence to fight ‘technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence,’ a new term that can be used to re-cast opposition to abortion and homosexual/trans rights as a form of online violence and quash it.” Read more here.
The Evils of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, by Isabella DeLuca. “The issue that we are facing now is medical professionals, such as doctors and therapists, who are put in place to protect children, are spreading this propaganda that all gender dysphoria has one root cause: being born in the wrong body and that there is one solution to this: complete gender transition. This supposed ‘cause’ does not account for any other potential internal or external factors within the child’s life, and this ‘treatment’ does nothing but harm the child.” Read more here.
Taxpayer-Funded NPR Uncritically Promotes Mutilation for ‘Transgender’ Children, by Zachary Faria. “NPR is the best propaganda outlet that taxpayer money can buy. The outlet has joined in on the transgender craze, publishing a completely uncritical piece about ‘gender-affirming care’ for children in Florida, one of the states that have wisely moved to ban it. ‘Gender-affirming care’ is nothing more than chemical manipulation and surgical mutilation, and such procedures have permanent effects on children that can never be reversed.” Read more here.
Beyond Binary: New and Old Models of Fatherhood Can Work Together, by Alan J. Hawkins. “The missing second part of his statement is a clear acknowledgement that quality and quantity are highly correlated, that the quality of the parental relationship is strongly associated with positive father involvement, and that co-residence supports quality father engagement, while not living with the child and the child’s mother inhibits it, even among fathers who have a strong desire to be good dads. Yes, non-residential fathers can be good fathers … but the empirical reality … is that the odds are heavily stacked against fathers when the romantic partnership with his child’s mother goes south.” Read more here.
The Associated Press Joins the War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers, by Ashley McGuire. “Calling pregnancy centers, many of which have names that are in no way identified with abortion or the politics surrounding it, ‘anti-abortion,’ jeopardizes the vulnerable women that turn to them for help… But the AP’s mischaracterization of these centers does more than push incendiary language. It’s flat-out biased and unfair – and that would be true coming from anyone, much less from an enterprise claiming to be the literal vanguard of journalistic integrity.” Read more here.
There’s a New Battlefield in the Fight Over Abortion, and Conflict Is Heating Up, by Katelynn Richardson. “In 2000, when the FDA approved mifepristone, …it did so under accelerated approval regulations intended for drugs that ‘have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments,’ forcing the agency to categorize pregnancy as an ‘illness,’ according to the lawsuit.” Read more here.
Reforms Could Change Ethos of Australia’s Religious Schools, by Angela Shanahan. “The ALRC says a school would have control over the curriculum, as far as the state’s curriculum guidelines. Fair enough, but how can you have control over curriculum, especially in religion, when at the same time there is a proviso to present ‘alternative views’ that ignore the fundamental nature of Judaeo-Christian teaching on marriage, family and sex that is at the moral core of belief on human sexuality and procreation of human life?” Read more here.
Leave Pregnancy Resource Centers Alone, by Matt Lamb. “…[T]here are efforts from Big Tech, politicians, and legacy media to harm these groups that provide low-cost or free services to help families choose life and either raise their children in a healthy environment or place them for adoption… While Big Tech silences within the private sector, political efforts work to use the weight of the government to stop these pro-life nonprofit organizations.” Read more here.
The Child Sex Change Industry Is Exploding in the U.S., by Laurel Duggan. “About 300,000 children in the U.S. identify as transgender, according to the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, though not everyone who adopts a transgender identity seeks a medical transition. While many of these children undergo surgical procedures, particularly mastectomies, a larger portion receive puberty blockers and/or hormones, which provides a continuous stream of revenue to pharmaceutical companies and medical providers.” Read more here.
Spain: Study Links Increased Transgender Cases With Laws, by Bridget Ryder. “The study found that in Valencia, the number of transgender cases grew by more than 10,000 percent between 2016 and 2021. In Catalonia, it grew by 7,000 percent between 2012 and 2021, with the number of new cases increasing by 40 percent between 2020 and 2021. In Madrid, between January and August of 2022 alone, the endocrinology departments of the city’s six public hospitals received a total of 848 visits from referrals by the gender identity units, almost half of which were first consultations.” Read more here.
By Accusing Pregnancy Centers of False Advertising, Pro-Abortion Politicians Prove They Can’t Handle the Truth, by Jor-El Godsey. “If every state already has laws against deceptive advertising and if pregnancy centers are, in their opponents’ words, advertising deceptively, why is another law required? You’d think … the current laws would have been easy to use to stop the ‘deceptive advertising’ practices the abortion proponents rail against… Perhaps pregnancy centers are really only guilty of standing against Big Abortion and its deep pockets and bought-off politicians.” Read more here.
Can States Stop Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills? by Sarah Parshall Perry. “State or local governments can regulate matters related to health and safety without violating the supremacy clause. And, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Tom Jipping and I have written, that means, with Roe v. Wade now overruled, the states may again exercise their traditional police power to restrict or prohibit abortion – including particular methods of abortion, such as by pill.” Read more here.
How Autogynephilia Is Fueling Today’s Transgender Activism, by Debra Soh. “There exists an overlap between [autogynephilia] and narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders, but the most aggressive individuals with AGP, who demand that trans women be considered indistinguishable from women, and who are overriding social boundaries and requiring policy to facilitate this, don’t represent everybody. Many of those experiencing AGP do so quietly and don’t transition to female full-time.” Read more here.
End the Horrors of the Pediatric Gender-Industrial Complex, Now, by Post Editorial Board. “…[A]ll it took to get these kids on hormones was one letter from a therapist plus a single medical consultation. Those hormones have potentially life-altering and irreversible consequences, including sterility, liver toxicity and severe sexual issues. Worse yet, intakes came in from a mental health unit at the hospital. Yes, kids with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were put on hormones as a cure for their mental illness…” Read more here.
Trained to Hate Their Sex and Selves, 1 in 3 Teen Girls Now Considers Suicide, by Auguste Meyrat. “What has changed in the last decade and in the last few years that has driven young women ever further to despair? From what I’ve witnessed as a high school teacher, this would probably be the rise of social media and transgenderism… Related to the problem of social media is the transgenderism movement, which argues that sex is fluid and that changing one’s sex will make someone happier. This idea has been incredibly destabilizing for female identity and has led to the wide-scale invasion of women’s spaces.” Read more here.
The Associated Press Has Lost Its Brain to Gender Ideology, by Zachary Faria. “The delusions go far beyond the scientifically illiterate assertion that men can become women and women can become men. The AP bemoans the lack of ‘recognition’ for ‘nonbinary or gender-fluid people,’ two completely fabricated categories that mean nothing… This is really all just a form of disinformation. The AP is taking sides in the culture war, and unfortunately, that means that its reporting on this topic cannot be trusted.” Read more here.
As Book Battles Erupt Across the Country, Idaho Turns to Legislation, by Abigail Olsson. “If this bill passes, parents would have the ability to sue agencies that expose children to inappropriate content, adding an additional layer of accountability to the education system. Allowing parents to sue is a good step forward, Kilgannon says, but ‘the only reason we need a bill like this is because librarians, teachers, and school administrators are ignoring parents.’” Read more here.
Six Reasons Why Alex Greenwich’s Gay Conversion Therapy Bill Will Be Bad for New South Wales, by Michael Cook. “A ban on criticism of LGBTQIA+ will stop parents, pastors, and therapist [sic] from offering advice to teenagers who are confused about their sexuality. A ban is a conversion rachet which moves only in one direction – towards assimilation in the LGBTQIA+ community. It will allow therapists to offer affirming advice to teens but stop anyone from discouraging them. The ultimate effect of this will be to hand over the care of troubled teens to government-funded counsellors.” Read more here.
‘Queer’ Whistleblower Exposes Evils of the School-to-Scalpel Pipeline, by Ian Prior. “The whistleblower’s story … reveals the endgame of drugs and surgery to chemically castrate and irreversibly damage children physically and mentally. That endgame does not happen in isolation. It begins at school… Students who ‘identify’ as a different sex are effectively given rights above and beyond everyone else. It’s no wonder young adolescents would deal with their growing pains in a way that gives them a feeling of acceptance, validation, and being part of a new ‘civil right.’” Read more here.
Red States Should Lead Way in Reforming Anti-Marriage Welfare Policies, by Benjamin Paris and Jamie Bryan Hall. “Twenty-six state-level preschool programs contain penalties that discourage marriage. The vast majority of those programs will allow a single mother to send her child to preschool free of charge but eliminate the entire preschool benefit if she marries a man of equal or even lower income… Because of this program structure, a typical working-class couple is incentivized to remain unmarried and raise their children as single parents in order to retain their preschool benefits.” Read more here.
Prayer Is Becoming Criminal in the UK, by Elyssa Koren. “Prayer, even silent prayer, could be a prosecutable offense in the United Kingdom, thanks to recent developments. Catholic priest Father Sean Gough from Birmingham, England finds himself in the midst of a legal battle for allegedly violating a censorship zone banning prayer on public streets around an abortion facility. This marks the latest in a string of thought crime cases rocking fundamental freedoms in the UK.” Read more here.
No, Being a Mother to Your Unborn Baby Is Not the Same as Slavery, by Nathanael Blake. “No one at the time the 13th Amendment was written and ratified thought it included unwanted pregnancy as a form of involuntary servitude. And they were right. It is madness to regard a developing human in the womb as an intrusive stranger with no claim upon a woman. It is crazy to believe that the ordinary, natural processes of human reproduction are the moral and legal equivalent of slavery.” Read more here.
Detransitioners Are Being Abandoned by Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies and Minds, by Kelsey Bolar. “After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition… Prisha doesn’t know why she’s been turned away from so many doctors and medical providers – whether it’s about money, politics, or a lack of knowledge to help.” Read more here.
Religious Schools Will Be Forced to Embrace Transgender Ideology, by Kirralie Smith. “The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a paper that seems intent on destroying religious schooling in Australia… Balancing clauses that have, until now, allowed religious schools and colleges to operate in accordance with their faith, are to be abolished. The propositions require the schools, even religious studies classes, to include ‘alternative views,’ and staff cannot be restricted in any way regardless of their sexual orientation or identity.” Read more here.
The United Nations’ Agenda to Sexualize American Children in the Name of Equality, by Kimberly Ells. “…UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and their partners including IPPF have proven themselves to be tenacious advocates of CSE and/or sexual rights for children. Since this is the case, the global education structure being mounted by them is poised to spread sexual rights ideology like a contagion to children everywhere. UN-directed, tech-based education is the syringe through which comprehensive sexuality education is poised to be administered to the children of the world.” Read more here.
State Hearings on Gender Transitions for Minors Draw Large Crowds, by Chantel Hoyt. “The contentious debate surrounding gender transition procedures for minors continued unabated in statehouses across the nation this week, with several states moving bills meant to shield youth from the physical and emotional harms of such procedures… State lawmakers seem more determined than ever to address the trauma and permanent scars experienced by people like Chloe Cole from occurring to minors in their state.” Read more here.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, by Jamie Reed. “During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager … around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors… I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to ‘do no harm.’ Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.” Read more here.
The FBI’s Slander of ‘Radical’ Traditionalist Catholics, by the Editors of National Review. “The Richmond office of the FBI prepared a memo on what it called ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’ and the threat they posed… The memo accuses such Catholics of ‘adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.’ It contains several references to Catholic hostility to ‘abortion rights.’ And it recommended with some optimism that containing the threat posed by such Catholics can be accomplished by cultivating sources and assets within the Catholic Church itself.” Read more here.
We Must Protect Minors From Gender Transition Procedures, by Matt Sharp. “We must be clear: the experimental gender transition procedures foisted on our children are often irreversible. They prevent healthy puberty, radically alter the child’s hormonal balance, and may even remove healthy external or internal organs and body parts. And not only are such drugs and procedures dangerous, but they are also experimental and unproven. In fact, multiple long-term studies show that when young children who experience gender dysphoria are allowed to mature naturally, most of them … grow out of their dysphoria.” Read more here.
Prostitution Bill Moves to Parliament, by Errol Naidoo. “This is not new legislation but rather the repeal of existing laws that criminalise the sale and purchase of adult sexual services. Essentially, this Amendment will legalize all aspects of the sex industry in South Africa – effectively legitimizing pimps, brothels and criminal syndicates. The impact of a legalized sex industry on society will be dire and far-reaching. Decriminalised prostitution significantly expands the sex trade and increases child prostitution and trafficking.” Read more here.
No Room for Debate: Parents, Not Schools, Must Direct Children’s ‘Gender’ Decisions, by Quin Hillyer. “The horrors inflicted upon Sage as a consequence comprise an extreme case, of course. But even if Sage had not been removed from her own home or abused, the school was way off base in hiding her ‘identity change’ from her parents to start with. No matter what school officials think about their own power, parents, not the officials, ordinarily have ultimate authority over how to raise children. Absent a court finding of abuse or severe abandonment, parental authority is sacrosanct.” Read more here.
Abortion-Inducing ‘Period Pills’ Come to the U.S., by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…[P]roponents of so-called ‘period pills’ are trying to appeal to an audience that is uncomfortable with abortion for moral reasons. A website promoting the pills quotes women’s reasons to prefer this method to a standard abortion following a pregnancy test. ‘It would be easier on my emotional well-being to not know I was actually pregnant,’ one woman said. Another said, ‘I wouldn’t feel I am a bad person.’” Read more here.
Biden Paints Lifesaving, Pro-Life Laws as ‘Extreme,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The president’s reference to ‘extreme abortion bans’ refers to laws that protect unborn babies from being killed. Almost 70% of Americans support limiting abortions to the first three months of a pregnancy… The states with strong pro-life laws on the books allow timely medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and other medical procedures needed to save the life of a pregnant woman, contrary to the claims of many high-profile Democrats.” Read more here.
How to Combat Gender Theory in Public Schools, by Christopher Rufo. “As radical gender theory has made its way into public schools across the United States, children as young as five have been exposed to ideas that encourage them to question their gender identities, sometimes with life-changing and irreversible results. Despite Americans’ broadly shared skepticism about gender identity curricula and practices in schools, many ideologically motivated teachers and administrators have not relented in their mission to advance radical gender theory…” Read more here.
No, Mr. President, the Equality Act Harms Women and Children, by Emma Waters. “Biden encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act ‘to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.’ But we know what this is code for… The Equality Act harms women, children, and all those who understand mammalian biology. While he spoke in lofty terms about ‘our duty to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms’ last night, Biden’s address failed to protect the rights and freedoms of women and children – the two groups most harmed by his radical agenda.” Read more here.
Puberty Blockers Fast-Track Children Toward Full Gender Transition, by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors did find a low rate of detransition during the puberty blocker phase: 93% – 98% of youth who started puberty blockers … proceeded to start cross-sex hormones. This finding led the authors to appropriately conclude that puberty blockers may not serve as a diagnostic tool, but rather represent the first step in medical gender transition – and they even suggest that treatment with puberty blockers may contribute to the high incidence of subsequent treatment with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
Indiana Lawmakers Fight Back Against Schools’ Hidden Transgender Policies, by Tony Kinnett. “Teshka condemned what he called ‘emotional blackmail’ in which ‘…anyone who questions any of these “affirmation policies” is immediately confronted by this idea that “you hate transgender youth because transgender youth are going to commit suicide [without] these policies.”’ ‘Suicide is nothing to throw around lightly,’ the Indiana lawmaker said.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Trying to Force Doctors to Perform Abortions, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “[The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act] explicitly states that hospitals are required to provide treatment to stabilize emergency medical conditions for both a pregnant mother and her ‘unborn child.’ The act clearly outlines the need to protect unborn children, not harm them. But following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, the Biden administration is attempting to redefine EMTALA to mandate the performance of abortions.” Read more here.
The Right to Life Will Be Constitutionally Protected When the Truth About Abortion Is Acknowledged, by James Sherley. “The leading provider of abortions in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, earns the majority of its revenue by stopping pregnant mothers from being parents. Pro-choice protesters pronounce abortion to be healthcare, although every abortion kills a child… Pro-choice marchers claim to want to give their daughters a future with abortion rights, but current abortion practice will end the lives of millions of those daughters, along with their brothers, long before their childbearing years.” Read more here.
Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender, by Douglas Blair. “In a video game set in a world where magic exists and can make you into whatever version of yourself you want to be, why would you choose to be transgender and not just the sex you feel you are? The insistence that video games must give players the option to be transgender is yet another piece of evidence that transgenderism can be an identity adopted for social cachet and is not always an actual desire to be the opposite sex.” Read more here.
Virginia Senate Votes Today on Bill to Put Abortion Until Birth in State Constitution, by Ashley Bateman. “On Feb. 6, the Senate will vote on SJ 255, a ‘Right to Abortion Amendment’ that would make abortion a ‘fundamental right’ in the commonwealth. This state constitutional amendment would allow abortion to be performed until birth and require taxpayers to pay for it. The amendment would be codified into law if it passes both chambers for two consecutive years and then passes a statewide ballot referendum. It would effectively nullify any pro-life laws in the state…” Read more here.
The Double Whammy Making Italy the West’s Fastest Shrinking Nation, by Jason Horowitz. “Italy’s population is aging and shrinking at the fastest rate in the West, forcing the country to adapt to a booming population of the elderly that puts it at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the ‘silver tsunami.’ But it faces a demographic double whammy, with a drastically sinking birthrate that is among the lowest in Europe. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said Italy is ‘destined to disappear’ unless it changes.” Read more here.
Why Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Not the Answer, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both the U.S.-based and international reviews looked at the sustainability of effects … and whether sexual activity, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancies, and condom use rose or fell among students who were taught according to the different programs. Overall, the researchers concluded that the much-hyped successful outcomes of CSE were based on weak evidence, unsustainable results, and, likely, some degree of motivated reasoning by those conducting the evaluations.” Read more here.
Female Athletes Sound the Alarm About Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports, by Madeline Leesman. “February 1 marks the 37th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which celebrates the achievements and progression in women’s athletics since the implementation of Title IX. In the past few years, however, women’s sports have been threatened, as male-bodied ‘transgender’ athletes have made their way onto women’s sports teams, and in some cases, even into their locker rooms.” Read more here.
Montana Senate Hears Testimony for the ‘Youth Health Protection Act,’ by Chantel Hoyt. “The proponent side of the argument featured parents and grandparents, medical and mental health experts, researchers, and individuals who have ‘detransitioned.’ It was clearly challenging for witnesses to confine their testimony concerning their knowledge and personal experience on this important subject to the three-minute timeframe provided.” Read more here.
With Mark Houck, as With Jack Phillips, the Persecution Is the Whole Point, by Kaylee McGhee White. “I doubt the Biden DOJ thought they’d actually win this case. But that wasn’t the goal anyway. The goal of the charges against Houck and the raid on his family was intimidation. The DOJ wanted to send Houck – and the rest of the pro-life movement, for that matter – a message: interfere with our abortion agenda in any way, and we will come for you. It’s a tactic the Left has been using with increasing fervor over the past several years.” Read more here.
Even Progressive Europe Won’t Go as Far as America in Child Transgender Treatments, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Miriam Grossman. “The American approach, ‘gender affirmation,’ assumes gender identity is knowable from as early as toddlerhood, fixed as soon as it is declared and should be medicalized into permanence as soon as possible. It insists merely questioning a minor’s gender self-definition before often-irreversible interventions is harmful… Europeans generally see affirmation leading to rapid medical interventions as unethical and dangerous.” Read more here.
When Study Shows Transgender Medicine Hurts Kids, Activists and Media Allies Slant the Science, by Nathanael Blake. “Despite the suicides, null results for males, and questionable (at best) results among female subjects, the researchers reported their findings as though they were positive results that supported giving children wrong-sex hormones. And the corporate media bought this spin… Thus, this study will be cited as scientific evidence proving the benefits of transitioning children, even though it shows nothing of the kind.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration’s Proposed Changes to Title IX Threaten Parental Rights, by Kate Anderson and Emilie Kao. “…[T]he Biden Administration’s proposed rule seems to adopt policies that treat parents with suspicion until parents prove that they will support their child’s gender transition… Parents know their children best and have the constitutional right to direct treatment of their children’s mental health. Policies made pursuant to the new Title IX rules could keep parents in the dark and prevent them from exercising their fundamental rights.” Read more here.
Sage’s Law: Protecting Vulnerable Children From the Ideological Fervor of the State, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Sage’s … school should never have hidden the information about her ‘gender identity’ and ailing mental health from her grandparents. The court should never have taken temporary custody of Sage, and it certainly should not have placed her in a male dormitory. All of this could have been prevented, but the state’s relentless desire to force gender ideology onto the public left it blind to a child’s suffering…” Read more here.
Abusing Religious Freedom for Abortion Access, by Tal Fortgang and Howard Slugh. “Allowed to stand, this ruling would have ghastly consequences for religious liberty. States would have to choose between religious liberty laws and every other law they would enforce, nearly all of which burden someone’s conscience and limit behaviors some people consider obligatory. Faced with such a choice, states will have to give up protecting religious liberty altogether. What appears to be a victory for religious liberty … is really just the opposite.” Read more here.
Get Married Before Having Children, and Other Recipes for Reducing Poverty, by James Rogan. “One solution to this catastrophe affecting the nation is to teach the success sequence. The data say that millennials who graduate from high school, get a job, get married, and only then have children will escape poverty, with 97% of those who do so not ending up poor… Studies show demonstrably that the structure of the family is the most important factor in educational and economic success. Schooling has only a limited impact on later life success.” Read more here.
Music Teacher Forced Out for His Religious Beliefs, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Religious freedom has been one of America’s most cherished rights since the Founding. …[T]he right to exercise our religion is a hallmark of a free society. But over the past few decades, employers have been slowly chipping away at protections for religious exercise in the workplace. Now, some companies are trying to tell their employees that they must set aside their religious beliefs as a condition of employment. This is exactly what happened to one orchestra teacher in Indiana.” Read more here.
The Persecution of Jack Phillips Should End, by the Editors of National Review. “The liberal promise of anti-discrimination laws is that they secure the same rights to all in a neutral fashion. The illiberal reality of their deployment by progressives in clashes between sex-based identity and faith-based identity is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups. A decent and liberal society would leave Jack Phillips alone. The Colorado government’s pursuit of him has sent a public message that it is neither decent nor liberal.” Read more here.
You Can Expedite Your Nursing License Application in California … If You Plan to Commit Abortions, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “A recent nursing school graduate from California was ‘shocked, horrified, and disgusted’ when she applied to take the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX) and learned that her home state will expedite the application of any healthcare professional willing to assist with or perform abortions… California’s blatant preferential treatment of abortion is particularly egregious considering the massive nursing shortage the state faces.” Read more here.
Biden’s Abortion Mandates Threaten Pro-Life VA Nurse’s Job, but She Isn’t Giving Up, by Danielle Runyan and Holly Randall. “…[T]he [Department of Veterans Affairs] announced that it would begin offering abortion services at VA facilities nationwide. The VA brazenly issued this edict without first engaging the legislative branch, as it is required to do. Ignoring 30 years of congressional authority expressly prohibiting abortions at VA facilities, the VA was to immediately begin offering abortion services regardless of the unborn child’s gestational age and in spite of any state laws which might prohibit such a procedure.” Read more here.
Leftist Lawyers Try to Protect Killing the Unborn by Calling It a Religion, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Thomas Jipping. “The Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’ did not stop the attacks on legal protection for the unborn. Going forward, most challenges will make familiar arguments but shift the venue from federal to state courts. Abortion lawyers are also launching less conventional attacks, including that pro-life laws violate the right, under state constitutions or statutes, to freely exercise religion.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s Cowardice Allows Colorado to Keep Persecuting Christians, by Joy Pullmann. “In 2018, the Supreme Court rebuked the Colorado judicial apparatus for expressing clear animus against Phillips’ Christian beliefs. It did not, however, back the clear First Amendment protections that ought to allow Phillips to worship God peaceably and bake whatever he wants for any reason whatsoever. So Phillips has been made an example by the rapacious LGBT lobby whose end goals are erasing Americans’ free speech and religious exercise rights as well as inserting government meddling into every personal relationship, all marks of totalitarianism.” Read more here.
Woke Activists Promote Drag Shows, Transgenderism in East Tennessee, by Spencer Lindquist. “A report out of east Tennessee’s Blount County reveals that ‘all ages’ drag shows and other forms of LGBT activism are not limited to liberal areas but instead are spreading into conservative strongholds… A report from Misrule of Law documents how drag shows have been organized in the conservative community by a small but dedicated handful of woke activists.” Read more here.
NIH-Funded Study Claims Trans Hormones Improve Mental Health – Despite Patient Suicides, by Laurel Duggan. “A National Institutes of Health-funded study published Jan. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed to find that cross-sex hormones caused improvements in psychosocial functioning for transgender and nonbinary adolescents. However, two participants committed suicide while another 11 developed suicidal ideation, according to the study.” Read more here.
Christian Cake Artist Gets Persecuted Again, by Quin Hillyer. “Not content to let him get away with refusal to serve same-sex weddings, a leftist lawyer demanded that Phillips make a cake to celebrate a gender transition and another one depicting Satan. These were clearly not good-faith requests but mere harassment… Of course, Phillips refused, which kick-started another Colorado attempt to nail up Phillips as a sacrifice to their gender gods. Naturally, Colorado’s courts … again held Phillips responsible for illegal discrimination based on gender, his religious objections notwithstanding.” Read more here.
Oregon’s Unhinged ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ Guidance Spells the Death of Education, by Emily Mangiaracina. “The Oregon Department of Education’s new ‘transgender’ guidance, now written for ‘LGBTQ2SIA+’ students …, may not have made more than a quiet splash upon its release – perhaps in part due to the numbing ‘boiling frog’ syndrome. However, it signals something monumental: that the state education department and the culture that shaped it have, perhaps unwittingly, completely subverted the very purpose of education.” Read more here.
The Pro-Life Movement Still Deserves a National Strategy, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “Up until now, thanks to Roe, calling oneself a pro-life politician hasn’t required much at all. This is the moment for pro-lifers to prove those tepid leaders wrong and insist that any candidate who calls himself pro-life must do more than gesture vaguely to state lawmakers. As the March for Life demonstrated, pro-life Americans still have momentum. They would be wise not to give it up.” Read more here.
The Trans War on Tomboys, by Nina Power. “Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was ‘born in the wrong body’ and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this path – one that many regret – is an obvious, grotesque harm. We have taken a terribly wrong turn in allowing pharmaceutical companies to construct lifelong patients out of healthy children.” Read more here.
A Predator’s Paradise, by Abigail Shrier. “[I]f some of Wiener’s bills seek to protect LGBTQ youth, they also represent a golden opportunity for a different group: adults who would take advantage of them… Consider the Wiener-authored SB 145, a 2020 measure that amended the sex-offender registration laws in California, so that an adult having anal or oral sex with a minor could avoid getting placed on the sex-offender registry, as long as the child was at least 14 and the adult was no more than a decade older.” Read more here.
Transgender Ideology Is Putting Male Rapists Into Women’s Prisons, With Predictable Results, by Zachary Faria. “Men are not women. Men do not belong in women’s spaces, especially if that space is a confined one, such as a prison. Men who are convicted rapists belong nowhere near any women, even if they claim to think they are women… The insanity of transgenderism is having real consequences when it is adopted by the government, and the harm will continue unless people reject this nonsense.” Read more here.
A Public School District Took Middle Schoolers to a Drag Show Without Telling Their Parents, by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon. “When school officials in a diverse community treat their solemn responsibility to seek parental consent as a light matter … they not only jeopardize the welfare of children, they tear at the fabric of our pluralistic social order… When school leaders minimize the problem, they make concerned parents out to be reactionaries. When they betray the trust of parents, they rupture a vital relationship.” Read more here.
The Cultural Abomination of Drag Queen Story Hour Came to Baltimore, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Make no mistake, drag queen story hour has no business in front of children. Much like people would reject exotic dancers reading stories to children because of the mature content of their hypersexualized nature, so, too, should drag queen story hour. They shouldn’t receive special privileges or exemptions (mainly) because they’re part of the LGBT community. Inappropriate is inappropriate regardless of the sexual orientation of most actors involved.” Read more here.
How Not to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Leor Sapir and Colin Wright. “State efforts to restrict the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to address (apparent) gender-related distress in youth make for good public policy. Yet even lawmakers on the morally and scientifically correct side of an issue risk overstepping by unintentionally proposing harmful or strategically counterproductive regulations. We write to warn of three such mistaken efforts.” Read more here.
Dobbs Dealt a Blow to the Supply Side of Abortion; Now Pro-Lifers Should Focus on the Demand Side, by Marvin Olasky. “Going forward, pro-lifers need to emphasize compassionate approaches that can reduce demand for abortions. Prime among them: pregnancy resource centers that offer free material, psychological, and spiritual help to women (and men) in need. They provide 3D or 4D ultrasounds so pregnant women and the fathers of their unborn children can make an informed choice, and they provide a new support community for women when their old one has rejected them. They don’t abandon women who choose abortion, and instead offer post-abortion counseling.” Read more here.
The Weird New Era of Abortion Debate, by Kathryn Lopez. “In this new moment after Roe, there needs to be an examination of our national conscience. Why is abortion so commonplace? Why is it considered freedom and health care when it’s often posited as the only solution, with no consideration of other options for women? There are very hard cases and painful sufferings. Most abortions in America do not involve horrific stories that necessitate babies being born alive in the latest stages of pregnancy – most abortions are birth control.” Read more here.
Minnesota Poised to Legalize Infanticide, Nuke Protections for Women and Babies in Radical Abortion Bill, by Jordan Boyd. “’Viable’ as defined in Minnesota law means ‘able to live outside the womb even though artificial aid may be required,’ which could be as early as ‘the second half of [the] gestation period.’ The [Protect Reproductive Options Act] doesn’t just rid the state of that definition in an attempt to expand abortion for all through birth. It also quashes provisions that abortions performed beyond the first trimester must be done in hospitals and only executed if a mother’s life is at risk.” Read more here.
Virginia Teen Sex-Trafficked Twice After School Hides Gender Identity From Her Parents, by Laura Bryant Hanford. “When the FBI found Sage … in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her in not affirming her as male. Housed in the boys’ quarters of a children’s home away from her parents, she told her mother, she was assaulted again. The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex-trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.” Read more here.
New Abortion Numbers Don’t Show the Whole Picture, by Melanie Israel. “…[T]he growing use of abortion pills at home makes it harder to count actual abortions. Guttmacher counts chemical (abortion pill) abortions that ‘occurred in clinical settings’ but points out that during their census, roughly 55,000 people requested abortion pills online without going to a facility, according to one study. How many of these women got pills and went through with an abortion? And how many more women got abortion pills from unscrupulous foreign and domestic sources? We don’t know.” Read more here.
The Orwellian World of the Pro-Abortion Movement, by Christopher Tremoglie and Michael Tremoglie. “The issue of ‘reproductive rights’ is not semantical. It makes the issue sound like one of government interfering in the lives of individuals. But this clashes with the fact that abortion advocates most certainly do want laws that interfere with private lives. The most arrant interference is the elimination of parental notification. This means that a minor can legally be taken by some other adult – often an adult sexual abuser, covering up his crime – to have an abortion without her parent’s knowledge.” Read more here.
Washington Laws Now Allow Teen Gender Reassignment Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own. It’s an easy position for politicians or activists to take when they don’t have to deal with the consequences the way a child and his or her family would.” Read more here.
Study Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Linked to Suicide but Ignores Crucial Data Showing Otherwise, by Thomas Kelly. “The authors are claiming that there is an expected 5 percent increase in suicide rates in states that have restrictive abortion laws. But the upward bias in their recorded suicide rates for some states is multiple times the estimated effect of abortion restrictions on suicide rates. This data cannot demonstrate that abortion restrictions are associated with suicide increases because the bias in their data is so extreme.” Read more here.
Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Glenn … convey[ed] through district spokesman Jeff Meador that all the titles they’d pulled from shelves are ‘sexually explicit and not age-appropriate.’ That said, the libraries ‘continue to house a socially and culturally diverse collection of books for students to read, including,’ he pointed out, ‘books that analyze and explore LGBTQ+ issues.’ Naturally, that didn’t satisfy the ACLU, whose lawyers decided to involve the federal government in a local dispute that could have a chilling effect nationwide.” Read more here.
Medical Experts, Not Activists, Must Lead Discussion of Puberty Blockers, by Kate Anderson. “…[M]any school districts have adopted the activist line that the only way to support children with gender dysphoria is to adopt an ‘affirmative’ response that immediately puts a child onto a treatment pathway that ends with medical intervention… Schools that have enacted these radical policies should take a hard look at the very serious harms that children are exposed to in pursuit of an ‘affirmative’ approach.” Read more here.
An LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy Ban Is Bound to Backfire, by Lottie Moore. “Of course, we would hope and expect that all MPs would be against persecution. But this amendment will have consequences that go far beyond that noble aim – with serious and dangerous results. If this amendment is passed, professionals simply trying to do their jobs could be accused of practising conversion therapy – because the amendment fails to define what it entails.” Read more here.
A ‘Botched Abortion’ Is the Birth of a Child, by Larry O’Connor. “The unanimous voice of Hakeem Jeffries’ Democrat caucus was that mothers and doctors should not be obliged to provide medical attention to an [sic] ‘survivor’ after a so-called ‘botched abortion…’ Think about that term for a moment. What happens when you ‘botch’ an abortion? …What happens when an abortion goes ‘wrong?’ A baby is born. A baby is born, alive. A ‘botched abortion’ is also known as ‘child birth.’” Read more here.
Oops! Democratic ‘Oversights’ Would Legalize Polygamy, Infanticide, by Ben Johnson. “Voters can glean the inner disposition of our lawmakers, learning which issues they consider vital and which never enter their minds, through … the ‘errors,’ omissions, and oversights politicians make when drafting legislation. Allegedly inadvertent ‘oversights’ and ‘drafting errors’ by Democratic lawmakers over the last year alone would have decriminalized infanticide, legalized polygamy, and suppressed sacred religious liberty rights enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more here.
The Dutch Studies and the Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine, by Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. “The authors assert that had the Dutch studies been published today for the first time, the ‘innovative practice’ of using hormones and surgery to gender transition children and young adults would never have been permitted to enter general medical settings due to the very low quality of the research and problematic outcomes experienced by several of the young people.” Read more here.
Democrats Can’t Help but Make the Case for Life, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made a similar argument, saying, ‘The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital.’ Again, I fail to see how a bill that mandates immediate, life-saving care for born-alive infants puts them at any more risk. A hospital is surely a much safer place for them than an abortion clinic, considering the former exists to heal people and the latter exists to make sure they’re never born.” Read more here.
How a Public Library Used Third-Party Allies and ‘Listening Sessions’ to Dismiss Flak Over Pornographic Kids’ Books, by Casey Chalk. “A member of the Library Foundation … dismissed Horne’s complaints, challenging her to go out into the stacks and find something that was inappropriate. That same staffer also argued that young adult books with sexual content were ‘not pornographic’ and that different people had different standards of what material was too sexually explicit for adolescents (that’s not exactly true, given current U.S. federal law on obscenity).” Read more here.
West Virginia Wins Day on Fairness in Women’s Sports but Plot Thickens on Title IX, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Recognizing that the administration’s attempts to redefine sex are suffering some notable legal defeats, the U.S. Department of Education recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, indicating that it intends to make a new rule on Title IX. That rule, however, in contrast to the Title IX rule announced last summer … will deal only with transgender participation in school sports.” Read more here.
Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation to Get a License, by Ryan MacPherson. “The state’s insistence that every teacher positively affirm homosexual behaviors and transgendered identities understandably aggravates consciences among moral traditionalists, but the issues run deeper than the ‘culture war.’ What is at stake is the nature of knowledge, the future of liberty, and the prospects for a sustainable social order. In a word: civilization.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Is Losing in the Courts, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Goodwin’s ruling is significant for several reasons, the first being that Goodwin has previously sided with gender ideologues. Just 18 months ago, he held that the male middle school student in question had to be allowed to try out for the girl’s cross-country and track teams while the case was pending. But even he admitted in his final ruling that sex is an immutable characteristic, and that changing its definition would have devastating consequences for everyone.” Read more here.
State Department’s LGBT Virtue Signaling Is Unhelpful, by Michael Rubin. “While LGBT evangelicals demand the State Department fly their flag, such virtue signaling often does more harm than good. Flying the rainbow flag at the Vatican to troll the Catholic faith is bad enough, but to do so in Muslim-majority countries such as Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates simply stirs the hornet’s nest for little result… The State Department’s gay pride activism is setting back both LGBT rights and kneecapping our diplomats’ effectiveness.” Read more here.
‘Dead Name’ Documentary Shows Kids Aren’t the Only Victims of Trans Radicals – Their Parents Are, Too, by Nathanael Blake. “Parents who oppose so-called transitioning their children are not the bad guys. The bad guys are the transgender activists who have promulgated a false narrative labeling these parents as suicide-inducing bigots when these parents try to protect their kids from a destructive ideology pushing dangerous medical experiments.” Read more here.
Abortion Industry Seeks to End All FDA Abortion Pill Safety Regulations, by Carole Novielli. “Abortion pill safety regulations created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known as REMS, are the next target of the profitable abortion industry, which has historically bemoaned all regulations to protect women. The ultimate goal of these abortion advocates – many associated with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) – is to allow over-the-counter dispensing of the abortion pill.” Read more here.
Transgenderism Is Experiencing a Crisis of Scientific Legitimacy, by David Gortler. “Today, almost every academic medical school, most prominent U.S. professional medical organizations, and the Biden administration are fully advocating both drugs and major surgeries, including the removal of healthy tissue and organs, in children, adolescents, and adults… The problem is that they all ignore the fundamentals of biology and make unsubstantiated claims without the conclusive, long-term clinical safety findings otherwise required for all other types of medical or pharmacological interventions.” Read more here.
Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail, by Thomas Jipping. “The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says… Far from offering a reasonable interpretation of §1461, the Office of Legal Counsel attempts to construct a fictional statute that would not interfere with the Biden administration’s pro-abortion agenda.” Read more here.
New Evidence From Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility, by Laurie DeRose. “The transition to below replacement fertility has happened at the same time as (and likely because of) the global ‘retreat from marriage,’ a phrase that captures the many ways that people spend fewer of their adult years married. Fewer enter marriage at all, and those who do marry typically do so later in life, often divorce, and either do not remarry or do not remarry quickly. The retreat from marriage takes many adult years away from the normative context for childbearing…” Read more here.
New York Is Violating Photographer’s Free Speech, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “The First Amendment guarantees to all Americans – including artists – the freedom to choose which messages to express. If the government can compel Emilee to convey a view of marriage that cuts against her beliefs, it can compel the speech of others… But a victory for Emilee and Lorie wouldn’t be just a win for them. The same protections that ensure they can promote messages consistent with their beliefs ensure that a lesbian cake artist can decline to create a custom cake criticizing same-sex marriage…” Read more here.
FDA Aids Biden’s Abortion-for-All Agenda by Letting Pharmacies Sell Dangerous Abortion Pill, by Jordan Boyd. “Already, pill-induced abortions account for more than half of them in the United States. Now that the FDA quietly scaled back its regulation of the abortion pill even further to match the Biden administration’s post-Roe activism, that number is only expected to rise as chains such as CVS and Walgreens agree to legally dispense the fatal drug in any state where chemical abortions are legal.” Read more here.
If States Followed the Science, They’d Emulate Europe to Protect Kids With Gender Dysphoria, by Sharon Supp. “After thoroughly reviewing the reliable evidence, these countries concluded that the risks of ‘gender-affirming care’ far outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they are returning to psychological and psychiatric care as the starting point for addressing gender confusion in children – a model known as ‘watchful waiting’ – noting that gender dysphoria in teens could be just a ‘transient phase’ which should not be mishandled with radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries.” Read more here.
Hospital Surgery Dept ‘Proud’ to Announce App Targeting Children for Gender Transitions, by Joshua Arnold. “Under the guise of ‘offering counseling’ to a youth questioning his or her gender identity, gender activists often pressure them towards transitioning (in some jurisdictions, it’s illegal to counsel a child against transitioning). This counseling is often done privately, without the supervision or possibly even knowledge of the child’s parent. This strategy can manipulate children into agreeing to … procedures to which the child is totally incapable of giving mature, informed consent.” Read more here.
Biden’s FDA and Justice Department Are All-in on Abortion, by Ian Haworth. “…[I]n a society where every other product and service is available at the touch of a button – including meals, transportation, and narcotics – it’s apparently unconscionable that murdering your own unborn child should be any different. When medical abortions account for more than half of abortions in the United States, and with abortion becoming more difficult across the country, the only area of the economy booming under Biden’s leadership will apparently be abortion by mail.” Read more here.
2022
Everything That’s Wrong With Scotland’s New Gender Recognition Law, by David Robertson. “The Bill allows you to change your birth certificate so that it lies about your sex. If you are born male and later decide you want to be a woman then you can change your birth certificate to say that you were born a woman. This is biological nonsense and a straightforward lie. But it is a lie that the government promotes – to such an extent that you can be prosecuted for speaking the truth!” Read more here.
Why Did Congress Remove Language From the Defense Bill Protecting Military Kids From Trans Insanity? by Amy Haywood. “In November, a concerned mom posted on social media her shock at seeing ‘artwork’ in the entrance of an elementary school that caused her 7-year-old to ask her what ‘polysexual’ meant. The response was swift, but not in the way you might expect: An Army officer … called state and local law enforcement and used base security forces to monitor the supposedly unsafe situation she had created in the school district where more than half of the students are children of active-duty military personnel.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration Wants to Censor People Who Oppose Gender Transitions for Children, by Zachary Faria. “The next step in ‘misinformation’ censorship is going to come with government officials attempting to silence any debate about mutilating children in the name of transgenderism. This is the biggest takeaway from the recently leaked video of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine… In her comments, Levine said that ‘the positive value of gender-affirming care for youth and adults is not in scientific or medical dispute’ and that anyone questioning it is ‘dangerous to the public health.’” Read more here.
Protect Our Children: Stop the Sexualization of America’s Kids, by Kimberly Fletcher. “It is no accident that children are in the audience of these heavily sexualized ‘shows.’ That is the point. If children see lewd and indecent behavior at a young age, they lose their innocence and accept as normal what was once rightly recognized as a threat to the family and our civic order. Increasingly, we have seen graphic sexual content making its way into our schools; that, too, is on purpose.” Read more here.
Why Detransitioners Are Crucial to the Science of Gender Care, by Chad Terhune, Robin Respaut, and Michelle Conlin. “In his continuing search for detransitioners, MacKinnon spent hours scrolling through TikTok and sifting through online forums where people shared their experiences and found comfort from each other. These forays opened his eyes to the online abuse detransitioners receive – not just the usual anti-transgender attacks, but members of the transgender community telling them to ‘shut up’ and even sending death threats.” Read more here.
In States That Limited Abortion After Dobbs, Biden’s Federal Agencies Are Pushing It Anyway, by Sophia Corso. “…[T]he order’s pledge to ‘protect access to medication abortion’ is a misleading euphemism for a chemical abortion that starves, kills, and expels the dead child from a mother’s womb. This is clearly the antithesis of ‘medication’ and has also sparked lawsuits against the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The order is just another way for the Biden administration to push abortion into states that have legally placed restrictions on it.” Read more here.
Here Are the States Most Likely to Pass Abortion Restrictions in 2023, by Abigail Adcox. “Several state legislatures appear poised to consider new abortion restrictions next year, potentially adding to the dozen-plus states that have already adopted new restrictions since the Supreme Court said … there is no constitutional right to abortion. State lawmakers in Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, and Florida have signaled they might hear proposals to limit access to the procedure in the next legislative session.” Read more here.
Fringe Gender Ideology Defeats Three Judges’ Impartiality, by Washington Examiner. “The judges use such ideologically charged words that most real people don’t use, such as ‘cisgender.’ This is evidence that the judges took sides before the issue was litigated. In other words, they exercised their prejudices, not their judgment… Gender ideology and its Orwellian language about sex are contaminating the machinery of government and corrupting our culture.” Read more here.
Colorado Christians Have Felt the First Winds From the Coming Harassment Storm, by Jeff Hunt. “The real problem is that Christian values are increasingly finding themselves in conflict with the values pushed by the state. A biblical worldview on human identity and sexuality, for instance, runs head-on into the state’s embrace of LGBT identity politics. Indeed, the framing of LGBT rights as its own civil rights issue has made it difficult for people of all religious backgrounds to live according to their beliefs without fear of retaliation.” Read more here.
Teens Need Tech Limits and Real-Life Relationships to Thrive, by Tessa Carman. “Most disturbingly, suicide is the second-largest cause of death for 10-to-18-year-olds in particular. It’s an eerie statistic in a time when teens are far less likely to get in trouble in the tangible world – through car crashes, teenage pregnancy, daredevil stunts. Instead of clubbing and dancing all night, too many teens are safely home, logged into their online communities. Physically safe, maybe – but incredibly lonely and vulnerable to deadly spells of depression.” Read more here.
The Transgender Trajectory, by Terry Jeffrey. “The court’s opinion meticulously refers to two types of ‘girls.’ One it calls ‘transgender girls’ or ‘girls who are transgender.’ The other it calls ‘cisgender girls’ or ‘girls who are cisgender.’ In other words, in this court’s arithmetic, two distinct sexes equal one… The trajectory of the transgender movement is driving America away from a society based on objective truth – where a boy is a boy, for example – toward a society where what we pretend is true depends on what those in authority demand.” Read more here.
University of Washington’s Questionable Fetal Tissue Program Loses Legal Battle, by Matt Lamb. “If treating preborn babies like commodities sounds callous and immoral, it is. The monetary payments create conflicts of interest for medical providers who should not be pressuring women into having abortions… Society and our laws should not tolerate the buying and selling of fetal tissue. Abortion should be outlawed, but at a minimum, even pro-choice states should require the dignified burial of aborted babies.” Read more here.
Leftists Call Free Speech ‘Violence’ to Mute Critics of Barbaric Transgender Surgeries for Kids, by Chad Felix Greene. “What these organizations are attempting to do is stigmatize anyone who participates in such criticism by accusing them of contributing to any potential violence that may occur. More to the point, they want to intimidate conservative commentators to prevent them from discussing or sharing provocative LGBT activism, often in their own words, in a way that will result in criticism or outrage.” Read more here.
The LGBT Alphabet Lobby Has Come for Its Own Women, by Victoria Marshall. “Women – especially lesbians – cannot expect the LGBT activist crowd (or so-called ‘allies’) ever to come to their defense. The LGBT movement, much like the sexual revolution, was never really for the liberation or sexual freedom of women. Its logical end has always been about giving power to perversion, rejecting basic biological reality, and trampling the rights of women.” Read more here.
Under the Radar, the Detranisitioner Movement Is Surging, by Dan Hart. “With the explosive phenomenon of gender dysphoria continuing to ripple across America’s youth, a related but much less highlighted trend is simultaneously occurring – a movement almost completely ignored by the mainstream media. New studies are now emerging showing that the ‘detransitioner’ movement is far larger than what is commonly acknowledged, with detransition rates nearing 30 percent in some instances.” Read more here.
Stop Playing the Left’s Language Games, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[S]top using the nice-sounding euphemisms crafted by leftist activists to normalize an ideology that is anything but. Don’t acknowledge or use preferred pronouns; stop using phrases like ‘transgender,’ ‘cisgender’ and ‘gender identity.’ Ceding to these terms grants them legitimacy and makes one an unwitting participant in a destructive lie.” Read more here.
Actually, Hollywood Isn’t Woke Enough, LGBT Group Complains, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “When will there be enough gay people in movies? According to GLAAD, the answer is: Probably never… No one was good enough for GLAAD this year, with Warner Bros. receiving a grade of ‘poor’ despite 12 percent of its films being ‘LGBT inclusive’ and Sony, United Artists, Universal, and Disney all receiving ‘insufficient’ ratings because their inclusion ranged 13 percent to 44 percent.” Read more here.
The FDA Was Wrong to Approve Chemical Abortion Drugs, by Julie Blake. “The FDA and abortionists are lying when they say that chemical abortion drugs are safe… Abortionists mail these drugs to women to take at home, alone, with no indication of the potential horrors that await. Sometimes abortionists even recommend that women pass the fetus into a toilet and not look at it; women who do look are often horrified to find that the baby, which they were told was just a clump of cells, has hands, feet, and even little fingers and toes.” Read more here.
Biden’s Transgender Crusade, by Kimberly Ross. “Minors should not be encouraged to give in to every whim or pressure from friends or culture. Disrupting or altering the natural processes of a male or female body during puberty has long-lasting physical and mental effects. It is unethical not to bring up concerns. But Biden believes those who do so are not only the bad guys but are, by extension, racists, antisemites, homophobes, and transphobes.” Read more here.
The Great UN Pushback Against Gender Ideology, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “During the soon to conclude General Assembly, Western delegates met a wall of resistance to any new mentions of controversial social policies, whether express or implied. Traditional countries blocked references to sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, and comprehensive sexuality education. Additionally, these governments delivered dozens of statements against the left’s sexual agenda. All told, more than 60 countries objected to what they see as dangerous and even radical language.” Read more here.
San Francisco Demands Teachers Confuse Children About Their Gender, by Zachary Faria. “A ‘teaching guide for elementary grades’ issued by the San Francisco Unified School District demands that teachers begin confusing children about their gender as early as kindergarten, urging teachers to tell 5-year-olds that it is ‘normal to explore and be curious about gender’ and that ‘gender identity is determined by the way we feel inside or right for us.’ Of course, letting 5-year-olds define their entire existence could not possibly go wrong.” Read more here.
Whether or Not Abortions Are Going Up or Down, Chemical Abortions Have Become an Increasing Problem, by Rebecca Downs. “…[T]he Food and Drug Administration … did away with safety regulations … so that women no longer needed an in-person visit with a doctor to acquire the abortion-inducing pills of mifepristone and misoprostol… This move from the FDA is despite dangers associated with the method, which the FDA has approved for up to 10-weeks. Such a method carries with it four times the complications of surgical abortions.” Read more here.
Sex Not Limited to Biological Sex, Scottish Court Rules, by Joan Smith. “This latest decision shows how close we are to the word ‘woman’ becoming a mixed category in Scotland. It’s the logical end point of bad legislation, pushed way beyond its original intention by gender extremists. The UK government urgently needs to amend the Equality Act to add the word ‘biological’ to its definition of woman – and a campaign to repeal the Gender Recognition Act is surely long overdue.” Read more here.
Women’s Health Care After Dobbs, by Br. Columba Thomas, OP. “…[E]ven when a clear definition of abortion is established, amid the heat of the debate and the fear over the future of women’s health, what’s often overlooked are alternatives to abortion that are both ethical and safe for the mother. And if Dobbs helps medicine move away from viewing abortion as standard care, clinicians and researchers will have new opportunities to develop treatments aimed at both the mother’s and baby’s well-being.” Read more here.
NHL-Backed Team Trans Illustrates the Problem With Men in Women’s Sports, by Tom Joyce. “The hockey games at this event were mixed-sex because part of the criteria to compete at Team Trans events is that participants be transgender. So, if those identifying as a gender they are not can compete in Team Trans events regardless of their biological sex. But men are, on average, bigger and stronger than women. That means that they not only have an advantage in terms of athletic ability but also in their ability to hurt smaller, weaker players.” Read more here.
Trans Ideology Exploits the Left’s Fallacy That We Can Be Liberated From Our Sex, by Nathanael Blake. “…[T]he ideal of liberation from gender deprives children of guidance on what it means to be men and women. Children’s desires are not enough to bring them to flourishing adulthood. It is not liberating to abandon all rules and role models in favor of the oft-repeated pablum of ‘you can be whatever you want to be.’ Instead of liberating their children, parents who follow this model condemn them to be ruled by a mix of their own immature impulses, often-toxic cultural influences, and the agendas of other adults.” Read more here.
The U.S. Cares About Religious Freedom Abroad, but at Home? Not so Much, by Grace Melton and Simon Hankinson. “It’s been clear from the start that the Biden administration doesn’t prioritize religious freedom. Religious freedom is a fundamental right that upholds others. But Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued that it is just one ‘co-equal’ and ‘interdependent’ right. That’s because it’s a stumbling block for the Left’s pursuit of an ideological agenda that is even less popular in the developing world than it is here. As it turns out, devaluing religious freedom is a critical step in promoting rights based on sexual orientation or gender identity.” Read more here.
Business Owners Have Rights, Too, by Adam J. MacLeod. “In 303 Creative, Colorado officials assert that all proprietors who open their services to the public have a duty to serve any potential customer on demand… This assertion raises the stakes of conflicts over civil rights in places of public accommodation. If the Colorado officials are right, the impact will be significant: it will mean that many business owners and charities do not have the right to decide their terms of service.” Read more here.
Bait and Switch, by Christopher F. Rufo. “…[T]he elite Francis W. Parker School in Chicago hosted an ‘LGBTQ health’ event in which adults provided ‘dildos’ and ‘butt plugs’ to students as young as 14 years old. The Dean of Students, Joseph Bruno, explained that he did not inform parents or the board of trustees, because he believed that none would oppose teaching ‘queer sex’ in school. In other words, he believed that by labeling the program as ‘LGBTQ,’ it would become immune from criticism. In my latest video, I explain how schools are able to smuggle in radical gender theory under the guise of ‘diversity and inclusion’ – and how it can be stopped.” Watch video here.
Employment Tribunal Rulings on Gender-Critical Beliefs in the Workplace, by Patrick Brione. “A series of employment tribunal rulings since 2021 have considered whether and to what extent gender-critical beliefs count as ‘philosophical beliefs.’ Philosophical beliefs are protected from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. Gender-critical beliefs include the belief that sex is biological and immutable, people cannot change their sex and sex is distinct from gender identity… This insight looks at three significant recent cases and what they mean for employment law in this area.” Read more here.
1 in 4: Projecting Childlessness Among Today’s Young Women, by Lyman Stone. “By now, it’s not news to anyone that America’s fertility rate is falling. But there are different ways fertility can fall. One way is that the average family size can shrink as people shift from having four kids to three, two kids to one, etc. But the other way is by people not forming families at all. Most of the drop in fertility in America in the last two decades is driven by this second factor: more Americans are staying single and never having children at all…” Read more here.
‘Pregnant Workers Fairness Act’ Treats Abortion Like Maternity Leave, by Joy Stockbauer and Mary Szoch. “In part, the protection of reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers is what the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act H.R. 1065 (PWFA) would ensure… Unfortunately, that’s not all it would do. The PWFA also advances a malicious pro-abortion agenda that would force employers to make accommodations surrounding abortions in the same way as they would for a woman giving birth.” Read more here.
Stop Holding International Women’s Health Hostage to Ideology, by Valerie Huber and Elyssa Koren. “Big donors such as the Gates Foundation and the U.S. government should take heed of the Geneva Consensus. Governments at the receiving end of their ‘help’ can speak for themselves, and together, they are speaking loud and clear – every person is born with inherent dignity and the right to life, and real women’s health gains should never be held hostage by the abortion agenda.” Read more here.
The Future of the First Amendment Hinges on the 303 Creative Case Before the Supreme Court, by David Harsanyi. “If we want a diverse and open society … one side of the cultural divide can’t be empowered to crush the economic lives of anyone who dissents. There are thousands of businesses that will bake the cake or create the website. Public accommodation laws were meant to stop discrimination against minorities, not compel minorities to promote the political and theological positions of the majority.” Read more here.
French Pro-Choice Politicians Try to Bypass the People to Amend the Constitution, by Chiara Bertoglio. “…[I]n some Western countries the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade has spurred debate on the possibility of affirming such a right and of protecting it from potential threats by enshrining it in Constitutions. This is currently happening in France, where several political parties are attempting to amend the Constitution to safeguard the ‘right’ to abortion.” Read more here.
The Transgender Lobby Is a Massive and Well-Funded Leviathan, by Pedro Gonzalez. “The advocates of transgenderism like to present themselves as scrappy underdogs, outgunned and fighting for the marginalized, but they are actually immensely well-funded with far-reaching political connections and influence. The pharmaceutical companies fund the foundations that support the Democrats who promote the transgender movement, which, in turn, creates demand for the drugs used in the transitioning sequence. It’s a vicious wheel that turns round and round; everybody gets rich and powerful, and nobody cares about the victims.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration Wants Taxpayers to Fund Gender Transitions for Children, by Zachary Faria. “In a move that would surprise absolutely no one, the Biden administration is preparing to argue that gender transitions for children should be taxpayer funded… The damage being done to children in the name of acceptance is despicable, and there will be a national reckoning for it in the future once the consequences are made more clear. But the damage to children suffering from gender dysphoria, and to children who have been pushed down this path by social media, will have already been done.” Read more here.
Shrinking American Motherhood: 1-in-6 Women in Their 40s Have Never Given Birth, by Wendy Wang. “More U.S. women are skipping motherhood today. In 2020, 1-in-6 women reaching the end of their childbearing years had never given birth, according to a new Institute for Family Studies analysis of Census data. This share was lower in 2016, when 14 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had never given birth. At the same time, the share of women who have had two or more children declined from 32 percent in 2016 to 30 percent in 2020.” Read more here.
Amid Rise in Number of Gender-Confused Children in Maryland Schools, Parents Need a New Bill of Rights, by Madison Marino and Andrzej Wieciorkowski. “In the past two years, Maryland’s largest public school district … saw a purported 582 percent increase in students self-reporting as identifying as ‘gender nonconforming’ or as a gender different from their biological sex… Guidance counselors are building ‘gender support plans’ for students. According to district guidelines, they aren’t required to disclose a child’s preferred sexual identity to the parent and are instructed to strictly enforce transgender pronoun usage.” Read more here.
For Artists Like Colorado’s Lorie Smith, the First Amendment Protects the Right Not to Speak, by Erin Hawley. “…[I]n 303 Creative, Colorado claims the authority to compel Smith to confess by word her faith in Colorado’s mandated orthodoxy instead of her own. Colorado requires Smith to create custom same-sex wedding websites – speech – even though doing so violates her deeply held beliefs. Regardless of your beliefs about marriage (or any other topic), 303 Creative raises deeply significant questions about whether the government may force people to speak and promote messages with which they disagree.” Read more here.
Making Body Dysmorphia Great Again, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Are girls really more likely than boys to be ‘born into the wrong body,’ as activists put it? Not at all. However, girls are more likely to feel uncomfortable in their bodies, struggle with body dysmorphia, and battle anxiety and depression at a young age. Many girls already believe their bodies are the problem. That’s why, when I was growing up, eating disorders were so common. The underlying anxieties have always been the same, but the way in which they’re expressing themselves has changed.” Read more here.
Where Is the Outrage Over Balenciaga’s Embrace of Child Pornography? by Madeline Fry Schultz. “In photos for Balenciaga’s gift collection campaign, young children pose with teddy bears in what appears to be BDSM gear. And, lest you think this is all just a horribly stupid accident, hidden among a stack of papers in photos for the spring campaign is the Supreme Court’s United States v. Williams opinion, which upheld a federal law prohibiting child pornography in advertising even if the content doesn’t specifically constitute ‘child pornography.’ Wow, I wonder if there’s a connection here.” Read more here.
Win for Website Designer at Supreme Court Would Be Win for Free Speech for All, by Lathan Watts. “…Colorado officials audaciously claim the authority to force Smith and any other artist or creative entrepreneur to forfeit their right to free speech as a cost of doing business. As specious as that claim is, its tenuous link to credulity is further weakened by the fact that the state only imposes this Faustian bargain on those who disagree with the state’s current preferred message on marriage. Its position is clear: Speak the state’s message or don’t speak at all.” Read more here.
Fairfax County Schools Used to Assign Homework. Now They Fixate on What Sex Their Students Were ‘Assigned at Birth,’ by Sophia Corso. “According to a local report, the school board is considering a number of radical proposals regarding its sex education curriculum. In addition to the proposal to label boys and girls as ‘assigned’ males and females ‘at birth’ – implying that sex is something arbitrarily ‘assigned’ by doctors rather than an immutable characteristic – the board has also proposed to teach co-ed classrooms lessons on ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ that includes watching a pro-transgender PBS video telling kids that they can have ‘intermediate’ private parts.” Read more here.
Thai Conference Shows Abortion and Family Planning Intimately Connected, by Craig-Austin Rose. “Despite Ipas’s claims that pro-life laws are colonialist, it remains clear that progressive western governments and organizations place global pressures on all other nations to adopt pro-abortion and gender laws. Many U.S. politicians and countries in the UN continue to oppose this agenda, but as long as funds remain for these groups, abortion will continue to be imposed on the developing world under the guise of family planning.” Read more here.
NYT Finally Admits ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Is Dangerous, by Sarah Arnold. “The New York Times published a lengthy story admitting that ‘gender-affirming’ care could be harmful to kids… ‘The questions are fueling government reviews in Europe, prompting a push for more research and leading some prominent specialists to reconsider at what age to prescribe them and for how long. A small number of doctors won’t recommend them at all,’ the NYT article reads.” Read more here.
Society-Altering Respect for Marriage Act Likely to Create Firestorm Akin to Roe v. Wade, by Christopher Bedford. “The problem is, while the act acknowledges the First Amendment and includes language to protect ‘the liberty [and] conscience’ of individuals and organizations, the protections are both narrow and meaningless… The jaws behind the law are twofold. First, state attorneys general may bring civil suits against those they believe are in violation of the laws. Second, any person who is harmed by a violation of [the law] may bring a civil action … against their neighbor. The result? Every man a Jack Phillips – the Colorado baker who’s spent a decade embroiled in frivolous-yet-life-altering legal harassment from both private activists and the state itself.” Read more here.
Twelve GOP Senators Help Democrats Erode Americans’ Right to Act on Religious Convictions About Marriage, by Jordan Boyd. “The [Respect for Marriage Act] as it stands doesn’t just repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between male and female, by codifying the Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. It goes further by enabling LGBT activists, who have already made a habit of exploiting the legal system to target religious Americans, and the politically motivated Department of Justice to bring civil action against anyone they say violates the terms of the legislation.” Read more here.
Biden Uses Your Tax Dollars to Deal Abortions to Pro-Life Countries That Don’t Want Them, by Elyssa Koren. “Given the state of play in the United States, it is both profoundly incongruous and inappropriate for the U.S. to lead the charge on global abortion promotion. Not to mention it is also illegal for the U.S. government to assume this role, considering the plain fact that abortion is against the law in the vast majority of countries where the Biden administration engages in the dirty work of bankrolling the practice.” Read more here.
Lawsuit Could Force the FDA to Rescind Approval of Abortion Pills That Endanger Mom and Baby Alike, by Sophia Corso. “While pro-abortion circles push the narrative that the pill designed to end the life of an unborn child is ‘safe and effective,’ multiple reports point to the opposite conclusion. In a study meant to analyze abortion pill reversal, researchers actually had to halt the study due to ‘safety concerns’ for those who did not take the reversal medication, progesterone, after taking mifepristone. Forty percent of the women who took the abortion pill ‘and did not take progesterone, required emergency surgery, and one required a transfusion.’” Read more here.
Slippery Slope: Washington Post Gives Rave Review for Play About Pedophiles, Treating Them Kinder, by Tim Meads. “All of this is an attempt to destigmatize pedophilia. Norris’ play wants the viewer to believe that we need to change our views on the subject. You would only give out lighter sentences to these creeps if what you think they did is acceptable or at the very least not as bad of a crime as it’s treated now. Of course, it isn’t. It’s heinously evil, but some want to convince you otherwise.” Read more here.
Respect for Marriage Act: Why Religious Liberty Deserves Protection and My Amendment Will Provide It, by Senator Mike Lee. “My simple, commonsense amendment would prohibit the federal government from retaliating against any person or group for adhering to sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions about marriage. In no way would my amendment impair the RFMA’s ability to perform its simple, stated purpose: to protect same-sex marriage against an extremely unlikely scenario in which the Supreme Court one day decides to overturn Obergefell.” Read more here.
Trans Ideologues Who Cheer Cutting Off Healthy Genitals Shouldn’t Set Federal Medical Standards, by Douglas Wilson. “On the list of WPATH ‘treatments’ are mutilating surgeries (mastectomies, vaginectomies, penectomies), ‘chest binding,’ ‘genital tucking,’ ‘aesthetic procedures’ like ‘body contouring’ and ‘voice surgery,’ and puberty-blocking drugs for children. There’s no minimum age requirement for these procedures… This isn’t medicine. It is the destruction of healthy bodies, the indoctrination of children, and the dissolution of parental rights. It is radical sexual ideology under the guise of science.” Read more here.
SCOTUS Should Hold States Can’t Compel Politically Correct Wedding Messages, by Ilya Shapiro. “A freelance writer cannot be punished for refusing to write press releases for the Church of Scientology, even if he is willing to work for other religious groups. A musician cannot be punished for refusing to play at Republican Party rallies, even if he will play at other political events – and even if the jurisdiction statutorily bans discrimination based on political affiliation. Likewise, a photographer or a wedding singer should not be punished for refusing to take photographs celebrating a same-sex wedding, or for refusing to sing at such a wedding, regardless of what any statute says.” Read more here.
San Francisco’s Perverse Incentive to Identify as Transgender, by Jay Richards and Jamie Hall. “Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to ‘transition’ from man to woman or from woman to man. That’s exactly what San Francisco has just done with a program called Guaranteed Income for Transgender People, or GIFT. This is like using a fire hose to spray a burning skyscraper with gasoline. Talk about perverse incentives. Anyone want to bet that, if this program expands, the number of San Francisco’s poor who say they identify as transgender also will expand?” Read more here.
Defending Marriage: Will Senate Republicans Display Courage and Uphold Truth? by Rep. Chip Roy and Ryan T. Anderson. “The Senate bill pays lip service to religious liberty and conscience rights, but it does not offer any meaningful protections for those rights. Had the Senate sponsors wanted to, they could have explicitly stated that no individual or organization could be penalized by the government for operating according to the conviction that marriage unites husband and wife… But the bill offers no such protections. It is not a compromise, not even a bad compromise. It enshrines a false definition of marriage in our law and then tells people they can have their day in court if and when they get sued.” Read more here.
Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Law: Justifying Harms to Religious Minorities With Ideological Science, by Amy Hamilton. “…[I]f [Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act] exists to protect minorities, the protection should also be extended to people like Smith who, because of their religious beliefs, are in a minority today. Smith now faces enormous stress and social stigma of her own from hate mail, death threats, online vitriol, and numerous attempts to hack her website and harm her business. Yet Colorado state officials ignore the harms she is suffering. Rather, they are aggressively threatening her with fines and penalties if she dares to conduct her business according to her conscience.” Read more here.
The Childhood Transition Narrative Is Crumbling, by Debra Soh. “A few years ago, the concept of transition regret and detransitioning remained relatively rare. Now, as the number of detransitioners continues to grow, I hope that more policymakers will take heed and listen to their voices. The fact that mainstream news outlets are gradually pulling the reins on the early transitioning movement is an indication that the cultural tide is turning. But concern and support for detransitioners must remain, even after the battle against childhood transition has been won.” Read more here.
The Case Against Sex Education, by Sonnie Ekwowusi. “It beats the imagination that the UNFPA and others are corrupting Nigerian children with immoral CSE under the watch of the government. The American College of Pediatricians has said that CSE is one of the greatest assaults on the health and innocence of children because, unlike traditional sexuality education, CSE highly and explicitly promotes sexual promiscuity and high-risk sexual behaviors among children and teenagers… It is high time Nigerian parents woke up to their parental responsibilities. Parents are the primary educators of their children. They cannot shirk this responsibility under the excuse that they are working hard to eke out a living.” Read more here.
The Abortion Lobby Wants You to Think Adoption Isn’t a ‘Replacement’ for Abortion. Don’t Believe Them, by Herbie Newell. “The reason more mothers don’t choose adoption is because of a lack of education and support – not because they prefer aborting. Connecting vulnerable women with networks of support and material resources is an essential next step after the fall of Roe. Facing an unplanned pregnancy is hard, and so is every step forward. But ‘hard’ doesn’t mean ‘impossible.’ It also doesn’t mean that women have to face parenting or adoption alone.” Read more here.
The Social Contagion of Transgenderism Is Harming the Most Vulnerable Children, by Zachary Faria. “This social contagion is spreading among vulnerable children and young adults through social media, and our liberal culture makers are promoting it with cheer and demanding anyone who objects be silenced. This is not compassion, and this will not help children suffering from gender dysphoria. It will only cause them more harm as they age and realize what was done to them, and that society did not protect them from permanently altering their lives for the worse.” Read more here.
‘Not Permitted in the Public Square:’ How One Australian Christian Was Forced to Resign, by Arielle Del Turco. “A reaction like that might lead you to think that the church was caught up in inappropriate behavior or teachings… Thorburn’s church didn’t express anything that is at all out of the ordinary for the Christian. The source of public controversy was that the church had articulated a biblical understanding of sexuality and a proper Christian response to the tragedy of abortion. For Thorburn, the takeaway was obvious. He said, ‘My personal Christian faith is not tolerated or permitted in the public square.’” Read more here.
More Tech, Less Teen Happiness, by Jenet Erickson and W. Bradford Wilcox. “Our teens are in crisis. The share of American high school students reporting ‘persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness’ has increased to nearly half of youth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… A host of factors are driving our kids to despair, from decreased social connection to increased worries about the future of the planet. But there is no doubt that technology figures heavily in the problems besetting our teens.” Read more here.
Therapist: Yes, Post-Abortive Women Suffer From ‘Trauma’ and ‘Complicated Grief,’ by Sophia Corso. “While abortion proponents do their best to suppress any narrative that questions the morality, ethics, and safety of snuffing out human life in the womb, an account from North Carolina clinical therapist Adam Fadel further solidifies the reality of what many women actually experience after choosing abortion: grief and trauma… In both anecdotes and data analysis, it’s clear abortion doesn’t liberate women – it traumatizes them.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood’s Egregious Record Should Result in Federal Defunding. Here’s Why, by Carole Novielli. “Despite years of complaints from staffers about discrimination, retaliation, abuse, and racism, the organization has committed nearly 6.4 million abortions since 2000 and has received a whopping $9.3 billion in taxpayer dollars. Over the years, accusations of abuses, scandals, fraud, racism, pregnancy discrimination, privacy breaches, and Medicaid fraud have piled up against Planned Parenthood – yet the U.S. government under the Biden Administration continues to funnel millions in taxpayer dollars to the organization.” Read more here.
Don’t Be Fooled: The Senate’s Gay Marriage Bill Does Not Protect Religious Objectors, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) gave the Senate an opportunity … to protect religious individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations from government discrimination. But … his colleagues refused even to consider it. This is a shame. It is bad enough that the government wants to redefine the institution of marriage to be something it is not, but it is even worse that it would do so at the expense of religious Americans, whose only crime is holding a belief that, until very recently, had governed every civil society for tens of thousands of years.” Read more here.
In Declaring ‘Heartbeat Act’ Unconstitutional, Georgia Judge Gets Law Flatly Wrong, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “This time, they got the outcome they wanted, with McBurney ruling that there was ‘no legal basis’ for Georgia to bar abortions after six weeks, and neither the state government nor local governments could enforce a ban on abortions after a heartbeat is detected. How did McBurney reach such a head-scratching conclusion? By suspending the realities of time and space and pretending that Dobbs didn’t exist.” Read more here.
Senate Gay Marriage Bill Wouldn’t Protect Jack Phillips, by John McCormack. “As you can see, that language only applies to the ‘solemnization or celebration of a marriage’ and ‘nonprofit religious organizations’ – not to the likes of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker in Colorado who was sued for conscientiously objecting to decorating a cake for a same-sex wedding. True, the Senate bill does not gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. And Phillips has been able to defend himself in court under the First Amendment. But as advocates of religious liberty have argued, the process is the punishment.” Read more here.
Why Can’t We Let Children Be Children? by Kaylee McGhee White. “Back when I was growing up, girls who enjoyed playing sports and roughhousing and disliked feminine activities, including dolls and dress-up, were allowed to go through their tomboy phase without being pressured to fit in. They were girls who might not have gotten along well with other girls, but they were girls – that much was certain. Nowadays, those girls are lucky to make it to puberty without having their breasts cut off.” Read more here.
My High School Punished Me for Saying a Male Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Watch Me Undress, by Blake Allen. “Shouldn’t every girl be taught to speak out to protect herself from situations where she hasn’t given consent – and be listened to by those in a position to help? If something feels off, trust your gut? Not at my high school. If you don’t comply with the school’s preferred gender identity policy, you’re the bad guy. For expressing true, commonsense, biological facts – boys and girls are different and must respect each other’s bodily privacy – I was punished.” Read more here.
Amended Respect for Marriage Act Still Threatens People of Faith, by Greg Baylor. “The Respect for Marriage Act goes well beyond the scope of Obergefell, empowering the government and activist organizations to violate the constitutional freedoms of millions of Americans to speak and live according to their faith. If today’s existing conscience protections are not adequately protecting religious Americans now, it’s nonsensical to believe they would afford protection under a more expansive enforcement regime as designed in the bill. The truth is that the Baldwin-Collins amendment does nothing to meaningfully address the serious religious liberty issues with the bill.” Read more here.
Courts Deliver the First Blow Against Biden’s Egregious Embrace of Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Dr. Susan Neese, one of the plaintiffs, said it would violate her beliefs to provide sex-change treatments, such as puberty blockers, to a minor patient or refer that minor for a surgical sex-change procedure. Neese … argued medical ethics require doctors to consider each patient and situation carefully and deny care in cases ‘where a patient’s denial of biological realities will endanger their life or safety.’ Biden’s mandate would prevent her from using her medical judgment to help each patient individually and would harm a great number of patients as a result, she explained.” Read more here.
The So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Disrespects Marriage, Reality, and the Citizens Who Embrace It, by Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D. “Marriage is the union of husband and wife. It’s bad enough that five members of the Supreme Court wrongly claimed that the U.S. Constitution requires a new definition of marriage. But if the Senate votes to codify this redefinition of marriage, all it will do is add fuel to the fire of those harassing and penalizing citizens and organizations that hold to the truth about marriage. The Senate bill pays lip service to religious liberty and conscience rights, but it does not offer any meaningful protections for those rights.” Read more here.
Same-Sex Marriage Bill Opens Door to American Persecution, by Tony Perkins. “As a former commissioner and chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, I’ve seen the warning signs of this gathering like clouds across the Atlantic. As the mainstream culture moves further and further away from a Christian worldview, I’ve witnessed the hostility to moral truth creep closer to our shores. The West, once the safe haven of free speech and religion, is turning cold to the foundations that made our countries thrive.” Read more here.
Democrats’ ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Would Hurt Children, by Katy Faust. “A child who is the product of a married man and woman receives the complementary developmental benefits of a male and female parent, the two adults who are (statistically) the safest, most connected to, and most invested in them, and are granted 100% of their biological identity. A child raised by married men is deprived of the emotional and developmental benefit conferred exclusively by mothers…” Read more here.
Detransitioners Shed Light on Medical Malpractice, by Madeleine Kearns. “When she mentions that she took the drugs because of a transgender identity she says the doctors ‘get really weird and say, “we don’t know what the side effects are,” or “it’s safe,” or get really defensive.’ Yet when she gives the impression that she was taking testosterone for some other reason, as in bodybuilding, the doctors have no problem stating ‘what the consequences are… They will tell you the things that will do to your body, how that will damage your body, unabashedly, unashamedly. They’ll name it.’” Read more here.
Liberal Individualism Is Undermining Itself, by Nathanael Blake. “Our culture will spend money to protect children, but it is reluctant to limit adult autonomy, especially sexual autonomy, for that purpose… Predictably, this hurts children, especially poor children. But the importance of intact natural families cuts against the grain of liberal individualism. Policies from divorce laws to blue laws that promote and protect families by limiting adult options are routinely denounced as paternalistic by ideologues on both the Right and the Left, with the former especially concerned over any interference in the market, and the latter over any restrictions on sex.” Read more here.
On Survey, 1,168 Parents Report Their Kids Encountered Sexually Explicit Content in School, by Audra Facinelli. “Ultimately, 1,195 people took this survey, a pretty good sample size. Of that total, 1,168 reported their children had encountered sexually explicit materials in school… The most concerning results? I would say the reports of ‘sex toys,’ ‘abortion resources,’ ‘Burlesque/strippers/go-go dancers’ in schools and the one at which my heart stopped cold: ‘Putting together a “Gender plan” for your child without your knowledge.’ In the survey’s overall nationwide results, 14 percent of parents, or 165 of them, reported this had happened to their child at school.” Read more here.
Disturbing: Women Can Now Get an Abortion at Nine Months in California, by Sarah Arnold. “…Americans need to worry about what the passing of Proposition 1 means for unborn babies’ lives in California. Nearly two-thirds of California voters approved a measure on the ballot to preserve the ‘right’ to abortion and contraception in the state constitution. Prop. 1 would allow women to receive an abortion up until the time of birth, or when the baby is viable, meaning there are no limitations for when an unborn baby’s life could be cut off.” Read more here.
Anti-Conversion Therapy Laws: An Ideological Weapon to Challenge Religious Beliefs in Australia, by John Steenhof. “The rationale for banning so-called conversion therapy has shifted suddenly and radically… Until recently many believed that banning conversion therapy was justified because it involved coercion… It has become clear from Victoria’s legislation, and more recent proposals for Tasmania, that the cardinal purpose now is to eradicate the allegedly stigmatising assumptions that underlie conversion therapy. In other words, they seek to eliminate the promotion of any practical sexual moral code, particularly Christianity.” Read more here.
Make It as Easy as Possible to Sue Doctors Who Perform Transgender Surgeries, by David Freddoso. “The doctors who perform these procedures are doing it because it is so lucrative, and they all need to be sued into oblivion, forever… They will come around when they are forced to pay through the nose for their malpractice insurance. That is the only way to get justice for children who, like Cole, were encouraged to have both breasts chopped off because they were going through a phase as teenagers.” Read more here.
Exposed: Gender Workshop for Parents Supporting Trans/Non-Binary Youth, by Colin Wright. “…I attended a private online workshop titled ‘Supporting Your Trans/Non-Binary Youth: A Starter Guide for Parents and Caregivers’ which, as the title indicates, is geared toward parents are [sic] caregivers of children who have adopted trans and/or nonbinary identities… Because these ‘experts’ believe they are speaking to a sympathetic audience, exposing this private workshops [sic] provides a rare and useful glimpse into how gender ideology is discussed behind the scenes to likeminded ‘allies.’” Read more here.
What You Should Know About the Respect for Marriage Act, by Gregory S. Baylor. “The so-called Respect for Marriage Act is a misnamed bill that expands not only what marriage means, but also who can be sued for disagreeing with the new meaning of marriage. While proponents of the bill claim that it simply codifies the 2015 Obergefell decision, in reality it is an intentional attack on the religious freedom of millions of Americans with sincerely held beliefs about marriage.” Read more here.
Nevada Poised to Pass a ‘Trojan Horse for Gender Ideology,’ Critics Warn, by Tyler O’Neil. “Nevadans … have voted in favor of a new version of the Equal Rights Amendment to the state constitution, and for the first time, the amendment includes explicit language on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Critics warn that the new amendment will prove to be a ‘Trojan horse for gender ideology’ that threatens ‘harm to women and children’ and mandates ‘discrimination against faith-based organizations and religious medical professionals.’” Read more here.
Circling the Wagons, by Christopher Rufo. “Last year, Old Dominion University professor Allyn Walker was forced to resign after an uproar about his campaign to destigmatize pedophilia, which included the suggestion to rebrand the word ‘pedophile’ as ‘minor-attracted person…’ Many considered the case open and shut. But this month, the American Society of Criminology, a professional association housed at Ohio State University, published an unequivocal defense of the embattled professor.” Read more here.
There’s Nothing Pro-Woman About Shoddy Standards for Abortion Pills That Can Kill Them, by Chuck Donovan. “Imagine being a parent and discovering that your 15-year-old daughter has somehow obtained mifepristone and misoprostol via her school, a friend, or the internet. Imagine she is one of the women who endure up to 16 days of hemorrhaging from the drug, or that she is further along than the 10 weeks of pregnancy for which the drug is authorized. Imagine she delivers an extremely premature baby … in the family bathroom, alone, frightened, and weighted with an unerasable memory.” Read more here.
How Preferred Pronouns Threaten Free Speech, by Neal Hardin. “Conceiving of pronouns as something to be specified by the individual (with a potentially infinite array of choices), rather than as words that are proper or improper to use depending on who or what is being referenced, is the first step in the activists’ attempt to redefine the relationship between sex and human identity… All of this illustrates the message that viewing pronouns as ‘preferred’ instead of proper is designed to communicate that every reality about human identity is rooted in will rather than nature.” Read more here.
Bombshell Audio Reveals How Tony Evers Normalized Gender-Bending Insanity in Wisconsin Schools, by Evita Duffy. “While Evers was superintendent, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) … began allowing school districts to integrate so-called ‘human growth and development’ instruction, which includes radical gender-bending ideology, into all school subjects, including social studies, math, reading, and science… Stahl also instructed teachers to use DPI as a scapegoat if parents start asking questions about the integration of objectionable topics into everyday lesson plans.” Read more here.
Michigan’s Prop 3 Follows the Abortion-on-Demand Playbook: Be Intentionally Vague in Defining ‘Health,’ by Elizabeth Troutman. “Abortion advocates started working on a ballot proposal to enshrine the right to abortion in Michigan’s Constitution in anticipation of the Dobbs decision. Prop. 3 would flip Michigan from one of the most pro-life states in the country to the most radically pro-choice. It would invalidate all of Michigan’s pro-life legislation, eliminating laws requiring parental consent for minors to get abortions, rules that only a licensed physician can perform an abortion, and the state’s ban against partial-birth and late-term abortion.” Read more here.
One State Seeks to Prevent Its Own Roe Among Midterm Choices on Abortion, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Voters’ approval of the constitutional amendment would ensure that Kentucky’s existing laws on abortion – namely the Human Life Protection Act, the Heartbeat Law, and other pro-life measures – are largely insulated from legal challenges under state law. Approval of Kentucky’s amendment also would prevent citizens’ tax dollars from being used to fund abortions. It simultaneously would tie the hands of activist judges who otherwise might have used the existing terms of the Kentucky Constitution to ‘creatively’ confer a right to abortion…” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood’s Support for California’s Abortion Amendment Is About Cash Flows, Not Health Care, by Forrest Smith. “I was puzzled for some time over the deletion of the fetal viability limit from Proposition 1 and the first reasonable explanation I came up with to explain PPFA’s large financial commitment was if abortion were legal up to birth, the abortion giant would be able to attract late-pregnant women from ‘red states’ to have their third-trimester abortions in California facilities that would allow it to recover some of the profits it lost after the Dobbs decision reversed Roe v. Wade.” Read more here.
UN Powers Once More Threaten Critics of LGBT, by Austin Ruse. “In previous UN statements Madrigal-Borloz called on social media companies and governments to address ‘hate speech,’ a term that has never been defined in UN policy but is widely viewed by progressive governments are [sic] referring to moral objections to homosexuality or transgender behavior. Madrigal-Borloz has even called for criminal sanctions against anyone who criticizes the homosexual and transgender agenda, including the Catholic Church.” Read more here.
NPR Airs Sickening Audio of a Woman Getting an Abortion, by Sarah Arnold. “During the disturbing audio, listeners can hear the sound of a vacuum turning on, along with the sound of the woman crying and moaning. After a few moments, the doctor can be heard telling the patient that the abortion was complete. However, the sick and disgusting part didn’t end there. After the procedure was done, people in the room celebrated and shouted words of encouragement telling the woman ‘you did it!’ and ‘you did great!’” Read more here.
Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act Is About Protecting Minors, Experts Say, by Gillian Richards. “Hutchison … said a number of children called her saying they would kill themselves if the SAFE Act became law. ‘I guarantee … if this bill passes, children will die,’ she argued… Cretella, countering these claims, told The Daily Signal: ‘Standard of care for suicidal thoughts includes counseling and, where indicated, antidepressant medications – not puberty blockers or hormones.’” Read more here.
As $57 Million Is Spent on Michigan’s Abortion Referendum, Experts Warn of Hidden Agenda, by Dan Hart. “Legal experts are also warning that Proposition 3 goes well beyond enshrining abortion into state law. According to the Great Lakes Justice Center, the ballot proposal’s ‘expansive, vague, and broad terms’ would: Allow a minor to undergo an abortion without the consent or knowledge of the child’s parents; Override parental rights to direct their child’s education, especially regarding sex education; Could potentially override parental consent laws for minors to obtain puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender reassignment surgeries…” Read more here.
Bioethicist Proposes ‘Right’ to Gender-Affirming Care, by Wesley J. Smith. “An article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics shows that an idea is brewing that would conjure an absolute right to access medical-transitioning interventions. On what basis? A supposed right to ‘live with integrity.’ How does that work? Because people have freedom of religion, the author argues, transgender people have the right to receive surgery and medical interventions to live as ‘who’ they really are.” Read more here.
Drop in U.S. Abortions Shows Banning Abortion Works, by Tom Joyce. “For years, liberals have said that outlawing abortion fails to prevent abortions from happening. The data now show this is false. Banning elective abortion alone will not stop all abortions from happening, especially when it, unfortunately, remains legal in most states. However, along with preventing unintended pregnancies and increasing support for women and families with children, outlawing abortion plays a role in reducing the number of abortions that occur in the country. And when a country legalizes abortion, the opposite happens.” Read more here.
Trans Activists Offer Gender-Confused Minors Cash and Uber Rides to Get Them Away From Home, by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora. “At best, [Pride Liberation Project] is helping children run away from home. But it seems there is a sinister drive behind this network. Children are among our society’s most vulnerable, and those confused and separated from their parents are ripe prey. It is suspicious that identity disagreements within families, notably during this era of the social contagion of gender dysphoria and confusion … would ever justify removing children from their families and placing them with strangers.” Read more here.
Why a Connected Life Via Marriage, Family Is a Happier Life, by Timothy Goeglein. “…[T]he overall findings become abundantly clear: The key to a happy life is a connected life – and marriage and families are a common denominator in making those connections. Family cohesion or disintegration is now the definitive barometer of the health or illness of the social fabric of our country. That barometer is pointing to stormy weather ahead unless we turn back as a society to affirming and creating families, rather than dismissing them.” Read more here.
Parents Lose Appeal for Custody of Teen Identifying as Transgender, Told They Can’t Discuss Gender Identity With Child Outside of Therapy, by Joshua Arnold. “…[T]he court steamrolled the constitutional right to free exercise of religion. The parents refused to use their child’s preferred pronouns ‘based on their sincerely held religious beliefs,’ and the court never objects to those on the surface. Rather, the child was taken from the home ‘based on Child’s medical and psychological needs and not on the Parents’ disagreement with Child’s transgender identity.’ Yet the court found a ‘nexus between this discord about the lifestyle and the medical issues,’ so the parents’ religious beliefs were ultimately the reason.” Read more here.
Study: Outside of School, America’s Teens Average 70 Hours Per Week Glued to Screens, by Joy Pullmann. “If your child did anything for 10 hours a day, you’d be worried about him and work strenuously to bring some balance to his life, for his own good. Parents need to man up and do the hard work of tightly restricting the addictive side of the internet from their kids, for not only their own good but for the sake of our country. Even 30 hours of screen time a week is obviously excessive for kids. Seventy hours of screen time a week is completely out of control, the willful destruction of our future.” Read more here.
U.S. Medical Groups Get the Science Wrong on Pediatric ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care, by Christina Buttons. “None of these U.S.-based organizations have done systematic reviews of the evidence, while arguably more progressive European countries like Sweden, Finland, and England have. After reviewing the evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in treating pediatric gender dysphoria, health authorities in all three countries have decided to abandon the ‘gender-affirming’ model, finding the costs outweigh the benefits.” Read more here.
Tucking and Binding Are Trendy With Gender Dysphoric Kids. Pediatricians Warn They’re Not Harmless, by Mairead Elordi. “A growing number of children and teens are turning to ‘tucking’ their male genitals or ‘binding’ their female breasts as a way to get relief from gender dysphoria or just experiment with their gender. Tucking and binding have been promoted by some in the medical community as harmless ways for children to explore their gender, but they come with medical and psychological risks. Now, some pediatricians are sounding the alarm.” Read more here.
European Union Should Let Africa Be, by Sonnie Ekwowusi. “…[A]ny African country that signs the [European Union and Africa-Caribbean and Pacific Countries] Agreement has signed its death warrant. Why? Because the country has consented to legalization of lesbianism, homosexualism, transgenderism, queer behaviorism, LGTBQ1+ [sic] socialization, gay marriage, and population and human capital reduction on its soil. Sadly enough, the EU-ACP Agreement specifically targets African children for corruption and destruction… The EU should let Africa be Africa again. Down with cultural imperialism!” Read more here.
Reject Michigan’s Radical Abortion Amendment, by the Editors of National Review. “On Election Day, Michigan voters will decide whether to make their state the most pro-abortion in the country. The ballot measure, called Proposal 3 or the ‘Right to Reproductive Freedom’ proposal, would amend Michigan’s constitution to declare that ‘every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom.’ If approved, the amendment will have devastating consequences that extend far beyond cementing unlimited abortion in the state constitution.” Read more here.
Biden Would Harm Transgender Youth in the Name of ‘Fundamental Rights,’ by Kimberly Ross. “Unfortunately, Biden isn’t … concerned with properly helping minors who may be struggling with mental issues. Instead, he is encouraging the use of gender transitioning as a Band-Aid for a range of internal problems and branding those who want to restrict it as ‘immoral.’ Rather than responsibly use his platform, he caters to extreme activists, disregarding what is best for children.” Read more here.
Why Are Virginia Students Studying Sexuality, Body Size, and Privilege in Spanish Class? by Asra Q. Nomani. “For these teens as young as 14, they faced the task … of identifying their ‘Social Identity Groups,’ including their ‘Sexual Orientation,’ with this wide array of confusing choices: ‘Lesbian,’ ‘Gay,’ ‘Bisexual,’ ‘Heterosexual,’ ‘Pan-Attractional,’ ‘Attractionality’ and, in case those didn’t cover it, ‘Questioning.’ For their ‘sex,’ these young students had ‘intersex’ among their choices, along with female and male. For gender, they had ‘Woman, Man, Transgender, Post-Gender.’” Read more here.
DOJ’s Kristen Clarke: A Pro-Abortion Activist Enforcing the Law Against Pro-Lifers, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, is a vocal abortion proponent who has repeatedly expressed her support for preserving Roe v. Wade. She also oversees investigations into violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act – which she has used to charge 26 pro-life individuals this year.” Read more here.
Even Water Can Advance a Leftwing Agenda, by Craig-Austin Rose. “Included in the water strategy is the USAID Menstrual Health and Hygiene technical brief, which details approaches to care for ‘menstruators,’ with the term appearing twice as many times as ‘women.’ The brief also details plans for comprehensive sexuality education, lessons teaching youth about trans/homosexual categories and sexual ideology, directing USAID to collaborate with ‘local organizations led by and for people who identify as LGBTQI+.’” Read more here.
Biden Goes Big Trans, by Dominic Green. “Americans now lead the world when it comes to ‘transitioning’ children. ‘Transitioning’ is a euphemism for filling children with hormones, castrating the boys and cutting off the girls’ breasts, replacing their genitalia with manmade parodies such as a ‘neo-vagina’ and a ‘neo-penis,’ and then putting them on a lifelong diet of hormones in order to sustain this absurd medical fiction. Welcome to the United States of Mutilation.” Read more here.
Biden Wants Your Kids to Be Gender-Transitioned Whether You Like It or Not, by Jarrett Stepman. “The truth is, many Americans are quite informed about the transgender issue and increasingly reject the Left’s ideas about it. In addition, they reject the outlook of the politically compromised science and medical institutions that have wrapped this political decision in the cloak of credentialism and pseudo-credibility. If Biden has his way, it will be the ‘right’ of children to make life-altering changes to their anatomy and there will be nothing voters can do to stop it.” Read more here.
DOD Is Forging a Woke K-12 Army With Race and Sex Indoctrination in Military Schools, by Amy Haywood. “Aside from the relentless instruction on anti-racism and white privilege, a clear effort was underway to normalize transgender identities and the notion of a gender spectrum. Genevieve Chavez and Lindsey Bagnaschi, presenters of ‘Ally 101 – Creating an Inclusive Classroom for LGBTQ+ Students,’ talked about gender transitions they have facilitated for students at their schools in Spain and Germany, respectively – sometimes without parental knowledge or consent.” Read more here.
Ignoring the Health Risks of Abortion Pills Is Not Caring for Women, by Denise Harle. “A new start-up called Choix (pronounced ‘Choice’) has begun offering abortion pills to women… who aren’t even pregnant. The idea is to expand abortion pill access so that women can attempt to give themselves at-home abortions on demand. If that sounds like unethical medicine – and a disaster waiting to happen – that’s because it is.” Read more here.
It Is Time to End This Horrific Medical Scandal, by Colin Wright. “Most people don’t realize how much our major scientific and medical institutions have been captured by this pseudoscience… But the American Psychological Association, the Endocrine Society, the American Psychiatric Association, and even the CDC, to name only a few, all literally define ‘transgender’ as ‘persons whose expression or behavior does not conform to that which is typically associated with their sex.’ That’s their definition. Go look it up for yourself if you don’t believe me.” Read more here.
The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour, by Christopher Rufo. “The philosophical and political project of queer theory has always been to dethrone traditional heterosexual culture and elevate what Rubin called the ‘sexual caste’ at the bottom of the hierarchy: the transsexual, the transvestite, the fetishist, the sadomasochist, the prostitute, the porn star, and the pedophile. Drag Queen Story Hour can attempt to sanitize the routines and run criminal background checks on its performers, but the subculture of queer theory will always attract men who want to follow the ideology to its conclusions.” Read more here.
Mapping Abortion Laws by State, by Alliance Defending Freedom. “Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the abortion question returns to the legislatures of the fifty states. Laws governing abortion will vary by state. While some states have already passed laws increasing protections for mothers and their unborn children, other states are sadly attempting to head in the opposite direction. Because of this, we can map out what abortion laws will look like around the country.” Read more here.
Overwhelming Amount of People Oppose Left’s Radical Transgender Policies, by Sarah Arnold. “According to a new … poll, 78.7 percent of Americans oppose sex changes, puberty blockers, and transgender-related medical procedures for kids… ‘This polling confirms the obvious – the vast majority of Americans are not on board with the far-Left’s sexual agenda, which is seeking to permanently mutilate the young and vulnerable…’” Read more here.
Americans Are Burned Out Because They Traded Faith and Family for Work, by Timothy P. Carney. “Millennials and Gen Z are far less likely to belong to an organized religion. Millennials and Gen Z are far less likely to be married or have children. Faith and family are where most people in world history have found meaning, purpose, and belonging. So where do millennials and Gen Z find it? Increasingly, at work… The problem with workism is that it drives you to keep working until you get ultimate meaning from work – which you never will.” Read more here.
Virginia Teacher Reveals the Left’s Next Public School Quest: Convincing Autistic Kids They’re Trans, by Victoria Marshall. “Back in 2018, a whistleblowing teacher in the UK alleged that autistic students at her school were being persuaded they were trans… The teacher said few of the 17 ‘trans’ students were actually suffering from gender dysphoria. Rather they were ‘tricked’ into believing they were the wrong sex as a way of coping with problems associated with their autism. Even older students at her school who had transitioned ‘groomed’ younger autistic students to do the same.” Read more here.
New Trial Seeks FDA Approval for Extending Abortion Pill Use Later in Gestation, by Carole Novielli. “The abortion pill regimen … is currently only FDA-approved through 70 days (10 weeks) gestation. But, … the industry is already committing abortions well past this timeframe, flouting FDA’s guidelines. Now, Gynuity is testing the abortion pill for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval up to 84 days or 12 weeks – a point at which the preborn child’s bones are beginning to calcify (harden), and when studies indicate that the child has the capacity to feel pain.” Read more here.
Should Schools Notify Parents If Their Child Claims to Be Transgender? by Ryan Womack. “…[W]hen Wendell and his wife Maria arrived at the school, they found out that school officials had been having confidential meetings with their daughter and discussing her discomfort with her gender. Wendell and Maria found out that teachers and staff at school had begun treating their daughter as a boy at school without their consent or knowledge. Wendell was told by staff that they didn’t share information about his daughter’s ‘transition’ with him or his wife because of ‘confidentiality issues.’” Read more here.
As the Media’s Pro-Abortion Propaganda Heats Up, Catholic Hospitals Are in the Crosshairs, by Madeline Osburn. “The false equivalency of abortion to treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies is not just a talking point that has been used far and wide since the Dobbs ruling – it’s a flat-out lie. Abortion is the intentional taking of a human life, while the Catholic Church and Catholic hospitals have been very clear about the permissibility of procedures that save a mother’s life, even in complicated pregnancies and or miscarriages.” Read more here.
Scotland’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Canard, by Madeleine Kearns. “…LGBT activists are deliberately confusing three unrelated things: First, best clinical practice for treating gender dysphoric youth. Second, voluntary talk therapies for people with unwanted sexual desires. Third, expressing orthodox religious beliefs about the purpose of sex and sexuality, especially as it pertains to Christian parenting or religious counselors. All these are being cynically conflated with the medical malpractice and abuse homosexuals were subjected to in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” Read more here.
New Study Shows Physical Differences in Transgender Female Athletes, by Debra Soh. “This is the first study to show associated differences in the cardiopulmonary capacity of transgender women. The authors acknowledged that it would be useful to conduct a larger study in the future… But it appears the activist narrative that a year or two of hormonal therapy overrides the physical advantages bestowed by male puberty is not true. Surely, we did not require a scientific study to convince most rational people of this, but here we are, dealing with the consequences of unrelenting activism in 2022.” Read more here.
Puberty Isn’t Optional: How Gender Ideology Harms Children, by Steven A. Richards. “Puberty blockers, the experts tell us, are perfectly safe. The St. Louis Children’s Hospital informs children and parents that taking puberty blockers, which have not been FDA-approved for use in gender dysphoric patients, is ‘like hitting a pause button’ on puberty. Likewise, the Boston Children’s Hospital calls puberty blockers ‘temporary’ and ‘completely reversible.’ As someone who was put on Lupron, the most commonly used puberty-blocking drug, as a 15-year-old, I can say with confidence that these are lies.” Read more here.
Democrats Are Finally Being Forced to Own Their Abortion Extremism, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Take, for example, Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, who refused to say whether she would support limits on abortion if elected this November… Who can blame her? The alternative would be to admit the truth: She believes abortion should be available at every stage of pregnancy, for any reason at all, with no restrictions whatsoever. And to admit that would be to admit that she has more in common with the totalitarians of North Korea and China than with the American public.” Read more here.
Puberty Blockers ‘Stop’ Fertility, Admits Hospital Gender Clinic Director, by Joshua Arnold. “In private training sessions, the program director for Boston Children’s gender clinic expresses more caution about the risks of gender transition procedures than her hospital’s public website. This seems, at best, like an overpromising sales pitch. At worst, it is deliberate deception designed to deny parents (these are minors, remember) the right of informed consent, with an aim towards steering children into a life of medical dependency and expensive procedures.” Read more here.
What Kind of Doctor Amputates the Breasts of a 12-Year-Old Girl? by Michael Cook. “An estimated 1,130 ‘top jobs’ were performed during those four years on girls as young as 12. What kind of doctor amputates the healthy breasts of a 12-year-old girl? …Furthermore, more than a third of the girls had been diagnosed with anxiety or depression. (The study fails to mention autism, which is often implicated in gender dysphoria.) What kind of surgeon amputates the breasts of a mentally ill teenager?” Read more here.
How Much Porn Do Libraries and Schools Have to Sponsor to Get Defunded? by Joy Pullmann. “There are few opportunities for compromise here. The two groups want exactly opposite things: more books about gay sex for kids versus no books about gay sex for kids… Essentially, both sides believe the other’s position enables child abuse. If you are the logical kind … you realize that both sides cannot be correct. Either one side is right that the other’s position equals child abuse, or they both are wrong.” Read more here.
When Doctors Can’t Tell Children Their Sex, by May Mailman. “A wave of cities and states have banned what they call ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBT people over the past several years… Far from banning conversion therapy as we used to understand that term, these laws are conversion mandates. Under these so-called conversion therapy bans, therapists may not tell their patients the scientific truth. Instead, they are required to participate in the psychological conversion of boys into girls and girls into boys.” Read more here.
How to Make a ‘Trans Kid,’ by Colin Wright. “Since adults typically make difficult converts…, gender activists are increasingly turning their focus to children, and one of the most common ways they go about indoctrinating youngsters into gender ideology is through normalizing the ‘inclusive’ practice of sharing pronouns. Being asked ‘what are your pronouns?’ is often the first encounter a child will have with gender ideology, and it is therefore a common first step in creating so-called ‘trans kids.’” Read more here.
YouTube Slaps Dehumanizing Pro-Abortion ‘Context’ Onto Pro-Life Videos, by Sophia Corso. “Now, tacked onto the posts of pro-lifers, YouTube is directing users to pro-abortion information. This means that life-affirming videos … will now have links slapped onto their videos that direct viewers to the pro-abortion talking points they’re advocating against. YouTube is following its predictable partisan pattern, using the cover of ‘misinformation’ and ‘context’ to dehumanize unborn human lives.” Read more here.
Social Contagion, Not Biology, Is Causing Transgender Surge, by Zachary Faria. “Most notably from this data, 45 percent of the students who returned these survey forms identified as ‘nonbinary,’ meaning they choose to be neither gender. It is a meaningless term, but it allows students to claim to be part of a community that is now swamped in ‘affirmation’ and praises of bravery by teachers and administrators. Is it a coincidence that such a surge happened at the same time students were being shut out of schools and thrown into social isolation?” Read more here.
The DOJ Created a Pro-Abortion Task Force to Crack Down on Pro-Lifers, by Timothy P. Carney. “The DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Task Force was announced on July 12 with the stated goal of ‘protect[ing] access to reproductive health care,’ which means abortion… Along with lobbying Congress to create a federal right to abortion, the task force’s work included centralizing ‘information about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,’ the federal law used to prosecute at least a dozen pro-life activists in recent weeks.” Read more here.
High School Girls Explain Why They’re Uncomfortable Having a Biological Male in Their Locker Room, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “These girls tell us they bear no ill will toward the trans-identifying student – they just don’t believe a biological male should be in their locker room and they can’t understand why school officials seemingly don’t care about their feelings and their discomfort… ‘And after I asked him to leave, he didn’t, and later looked over at girls with their shirts off. And it made many people uncomfortable and feel violated. And I left as soon as I could in a panic.’” Read more here.
Michigan’s Radical Proposition 3 Ballot Measure Would Go Far Beyond Just Codifying Roe v. Wade, by Jay Richards and Emma Waters. “Proposition 3 would enshrine abortion as an absolute right in state law. That’s bad enough, but since it’s written so vaguely … it would do a lot more than that… The first concern – the rights of parents – comes from Proposition 3’s use of the term ‘individual.’ It means that anyone, including a minor, could have a right to abortion, birth control, or other reproductive surgeries like the removal of healthy breasts. All without the knowledge or consent of parents.” Read more here.
This Is Precisely How an Abortion Is Performed: I Dare You to Read It, Then Tell Me You’re ‘Pro-Choice,’ by Abby Johnson. “I realize this will not a [sic] pleasant thing to read, but I feel it is necessary if we are to fight this battle with facts. I find that most people on both sides of this debate don’t actually know how abortion procedures are performed. Showing someone a picture is one thing, but actually describing, in detail, what takes place to the woman and her baby during these hours seems to really have an impact on even those who claim to support abortion.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood’s Foray Into Child Gender Transitions, Featuring Your Tax Dollars, by Mairead Elordi. “Planned Parenthood has gone all in on child gender transition services, which means you are paying for them. The nation’s largest abortion provider offers gender transition services at hundreds of clinics across the country, and because Planned Parenthood and its affiliates get more than half a billion dollars in government funding every year, that’s Americans’ tax dollars at work.” Read more here.
The American Medical Association Asks the Federal Government to Prosecute Critics of Radical Gender Medicine, by Christopher F. Rufo. “…[T]he AMA, CHA, and AAP provide no evidence, or even a working definition, of ‘disinformation.’ The ‘high-profile users on social media’ would undoubtedly include those of us who have published investigative reporting on radical gender medicine at children’s hospitals, often using original source materials published by the hospitals themselves. Rather than grapple with the facts, however, left-wing activists and medical providers have dismissed them with accusations of ‘disinformation’ – even when journalists have directly quoted their own words.” Read more here.
‘Extensive Closures’ of Abortion Clinics Undermine One of Planned Parenthood’s Favorite Talking Points, by Laurel Duggan. “Planned Parenthood has long claimed that abortion makes up only 3-4 percent of the services offered at its clinics, an argument echoed by others in the industry who euphemistically refer to abortions as ‘reproductive services’ and clinics as ‘women’s health clinics.’ But many clinics are closing their doors in states that don’t allow elective abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration Acknowledges Biological Reality, by Tom Joyce. “While Biden may be a part of the political party that thinks gender is limitless and people are whatever they say they are at any given moment, the administration doesn’t allow woke gender ideology to interfere with one thing: the military draft… Whether or not the United States should have Selective Service and whether or not individuals suffering from gender dysphoria should serve in the military are subjects worthy of debate. However, this one policy, at least, is consistent.” Read more here.
It’s Never Been About Transgender People – It’s About Respecting Reality, by Dan Hannan. “Until this week, the debate over gender fluidity left me completely cold. It was possible, I felt, to treat transgender people with respect while at the same time holding the view that only women could have babies… Then it suddenly struck me that the row is not really about transgender people at all… No, what we are seeing is an attempt to deny biological sex completely: to assert, in other words, that boys and girls are born identical and that any differences in their interests, abilities, and choices are the just result of social conditioning.” Read more here.
Jack Turban’s Research Is Incapable of Answering the Questions It Attempts to Address, by Abigail Reed. “This study drew sharp criticism not only from the usual critics of gender affirmation, but also from die-hard proponents of gender affirmation concerned that Turban’s flawed methods would only provide fuel for the other side. While much has already been said about Turban’s Pediatrics paper, I will add to the chorus of criticism by addressing whether the study’s design, data, or methods stood any chance of ever supporting the hypotheses it set out to evaluate.” Read more here.
The Left’s Abortion War on Science, by Ben Carson and Marjorie Dannenfelser. “After years of accusing pro-life advocates of being ‘anti-science,’ the pro-abortion movement turned aggressively on well-established scientific consensus and began rewriting the truth regarding fetal development… The Left’s heartbeat denialism is just one of many episodes that demonstrates the depths pro-abortion zealots will stoop to at the expense of innocent lives. However, while the pro-abortion movement spreads harmful misinformation, more than a dozen states have laws in or coming into effect soon that protect unborn children, saving potentially 200,000 lives annually.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Sends Women ‘Care Packages’ to Celebrate Their Abortions, by Maria Gallagher. “Sometimes, even veteran pro-life activists are stunned by developments in Abortion World. That certainly was the case when I read through a recent publication by Planned Parenthood Keystone… The publication listed different activities in which volunteers could take part. One of them was ‘Abortion Care Basket assembly parties.’ At these events, abortion backers are encouraged to put together baskets which include ‘heating pads, under pads, fuzzy socks, coloring pages, tea, and more!’” Read more here.
Why Marriage Is the Cornerstone of Society, by Belinda Brown. “What he discovered was that monogamous one man, one woman marriage affects society in fundamental ways. He found that there was a strict relationship between those societies which practiced absolute monogamy and cultural flourishing in those societies. It turned out that sexual restraint was associated with hugely productive cultural energy. The key factor appeared to be pre-nuptial chastity. A society which practices pre-nuptial chastity is much more likely to maintain the monogamy essential to cultural flourishing.” Read more here.
It Sure Looks Like the FBI Is Just Fishing for Pro-Lifers to Prosecute, by Timothy P. Carney. “The FBI is on a rampage against pro-life activists and protesters, having charged a dozen men and women with federal felonies in the last three weeks for offenses that allegedly occurred last year… The picture is clear: Anyone who has ever been charged with a crime, even if the charges were dropped or were for a misdemeanor, should expect a visit from the Biden FBI if the old charges involved pro-life activism or advocacy.” Read more here.
Your 4-Year-Old Child Is Not Transgender, by Zachary Faria. “Families in most of these cases are victims, misled by doctors who have committed themselves to transgender dogma without considering their ethical obligations. But it cannot be stressed enough that your 4-year-old child is not transgender. It is reckless and irresponsible for families to push children down this path, starting at ages where the children barely even understand what sex or gender is. Years from now, we will be mourning the damage that was done and reading about the lawsuits these children bring against the providers who behaved so irresponsibly.” Read more here.
Trudeau Is Gaslighting Canadians About Abortion, by Hendrik van der Breggen. “According to Trudeau, ‘Abortion is covered under our universal health care system.’ This is true. But in the context of Trudeau’s statement, the suggestion or implication is that it also should remain true… Because abortion is not essential health care, Canadian taxpayers can correctly judge abortion to be a non-essential medical procedure, and thus taxpayers have reasonable grounds for thinking their tax dollars need not fund abortions.” Read more here.
Allowing Biological Males in Women’s Sports Is Scientifically Unsound, by David Gortler. “A recent review of two dozen medical studies published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine explains the athletic advantages of XY chromosomes at a cellular level. It shows that biological males have advantages in muscle mass, lean body mass, muscle strength, and two measurements of endurance… While synthetic estrogen and anti-testosterone pharmaceuticals have been shown to slightly decrease these parameters – and even if normal male testosterone levels are absent at the time of competition – inborn advantages from the latent effects of a lifetime of testosterone persist.” Read more here.
Hospitals, Clinics Are Promoting Services to Gender-Nonconforming Kids. Here Are 47 of Them, by Christina Buttons. “…[R]ather than let these feelings fade, gender clinics and hospitals across the U.S. have adopted the ‘gender-affirming’ approach. In practice, this approach amounts to putting children in charge of dictating the terms of their own sex change. The gender-affirmation model prevents medical professionals from questioning a child’s self-reported transgender identity and from exploring possible underlying factors causing their dysphoria. The standard protocol for gender affirmation is administering puberty blockers, followed by cross-sex hormones and then surgery, if desired.” Read more here.
The American Medical Association Wants You to Stop Questioning Gender Ideology – or Else, by Kaylee McGhee White. “In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the organization claimed threats are being made against hospitals that provide ‘evidence-based health care’ – a euphemism for irreversible and experimental surgeries that permanently alter the bodies of gender-confused but otherwise healthy people. The solution, the letter claimed, is to ‘prevent’ the spread of ‘misinformation’ about these procedures ‘on digital platforms.’” Read more here.
Canada’s ‘Lower’ Abortion Rate Is Deceptive, by Chuck Donovan and Tessa Longbons. “From 2017 to early 2020, the OHIP data reflects approximately 21,000 more abortions than were reported to CIHI. When the Ontario numbers are extrapolated across Canada, it’s clear that the abortion rate is just as high as ever. The study also suggests that the abortion complication rate is higher than ever, too, despite the careful efforts of the authors to downplay this fact. Studies from countries with better data consistently show higher rates of complications from chemical abortion.” Read more here.
NY Judge: The ‘Time Has Arrived’ to Legalize Polygamy, by Tony Perkins. “The decision by trial court judge Karen May Bacdayan should have been frontpage news. After all, she essentially gave New York’s blessing to polyamorous unions in her September decision, declaring that ‘… the problem with [previous same-sex marriage rulings] is that they recognize only two-person relationships.’” Read more here.
Father of 11-Year-Old Speaks Out as New York Hospital, Courts Attempt to Medically Transition His Child, by Libby Emmons. “A law guardian in the state of New York meets privately with the child and is meant to look out for the best interests of the child. It is standard, in a circumstance like this, for a law guardian to also meet privately with a child’s medical provider to ascertain the best course forward for a child. In this case, both provider and law guardian appear to be on the side of medical affirmation, which leaves the father struggling to see just who among them is looking out for the best interests of his child, not just as that child stands today, but as that child grows up.” Read more here.
‘Codify Roe’ Is Biden’s Euphemism for Democrats’ Atrocious Aim: Unregulated Abortion Anywhere, Anytime, by Margot Cleveland. “While some Democrats may want to codify the Roe–Casey law of abortion, … the current political scene tells a vastly different story — one in which Democrats demand an unfettered state constitutional right to abortion… Abortion on demand, at any time, for any reason, without informed consent or parental notification, without the safety and medical licensing regulations currently governing in most states and paid for by taxpayers…” Read more here.
Parents Don’t Want Sexually Explicit Material in Schools, by Tom Joyce. “It’s not bigoted not to want children exposed to sexual depictions. It’s creepy and disgusting that some school officials and politicians think this is a good idea. And it’s a waste of money to prop up these kinds of titles with taxpayer funding. The taxpayers don’t want their money paying for these books. If some families want to buy them, there are no laws against that. However, schools should not push this kind of material on children, including via suggested reading lists.” Read more here.
California Becomes First Sanctuary State for Child Exploitation, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The law also effectively strips parents of custody by empowering California courts to take over ‘temporary emergency jurisdiction’ of children who travel to the state seeking sex-change treatments. Parents can do absolutely nothing to stop this. In fact, if they do try to protest the state’s kidnapping of their child, California officials will almost certainly work to make sure that the loss of custody becomes permanent.” Read more here.
Biden USAID’s Radical Gender Policy Is Exporting Cultural Colonialism, by Grace Melton. “This new gender policy at USAID is the latest manifestation of President Joe Biden’s plan to make gender ideology a central theme of government policy… Gender ideology offends many of our needy foreign aid recipients. Putting such ideological shackles on our aid undermines the goodwill that our assistance would otherwise garner. It perpetuates the notion that Americans see other cultures as morally inferior, and that we use our aid to ‘improve’ their cultures.” Read more here.
Court That First Legalized Same-Sex Marriage Now Legalizing Polygamy, Too, by Conn Carroll. “The same New York state court that first recognized same-sex marriage over 30 years ago has now recognized polygamous relationships… In his Obergefell v. Hodges dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts warned that recognition of same-sex marriage would inevitably lead to the recognition of plural marriages. Judge Bacdayan notes this warning in her opinion and proves him right.” Read more here.
Abortion Is Not Safer Than Childbirth – Here’s the Data the Left Wants to Hide, by Grazie Pozo Christie. “This misuse of statistics serves many political purposes: to gin up opposition to health and safety regulations on abortion, to increase funding for abortion businesses such as Planned Parenthood, and even to discredit pregnancy resource centers that support women who choose birth for their children. But these fake claims also have real-life negative consequences for the very women about whom pro-abortion activists claim to care. They scare women away from the delight of motherhood. At the same time, their disingenuous talking point minimizes the serious medical risks that women experience in having an abortion.” Read more here.
Why Are We Normalizing Double Mastectomies in Girls? by Debra Soh. “Methodologically speaking, any study assessing outcomes related to transition would benefit from having a control group consisting of individuals with gender dysphoria who are not in the process of transitioning or who are perhaps attempting to resolve their bodily discomfort through other avenues, like therapy. It’s possible that girls who did not transition would show mental health outcomes similar to, or better than, those who did. In today’s climate, however, such a control group could not exist because withholding transition would be deemed harmful.” Read more here.
California Attacks Parents’ Rights Under the Guise of Medical Care, by Jay Richards and Emilie Kao. “Imagine the parental nightmares this California bill would unleash. A mother in Texas who has sole custody of her daughter could find her custody stripped by a California court who sides with an estranged father who takes the daughter to California to get puberty blockers. No family is off limits, and no court decision is safe, because California has decided that its courts – not those of the family’s home state – should be the final deciders of whether parents are fit to raise their child.” Read more here.
Pronouns Unbound, by Christopher Rufo. “San Francisco Unified’s policy subverts basic parental rights. The district is playing a dangerous game, facilitating child gender and sexual transitions without notifying or gaining the consent of their families. This is intentional. The district explicitly encourages teachers to prioritize ideology over parental interests and … recommends that teachers identify parents as ‘caregiver 1 and caregiver 2 instead of mother and father’ – a practice that assumes that parents are interchangeable and incidental.” Read more here.
Newsom Signs Bill to Let California Strip Gender-Confused Teens From Parents – Even When They Live in Other States, by Tristan Justice. “…[T]he bill undermines parental choice by empowering the state to strip custody from those who refuse to support their children’s demand for ‘gender-affirming care…’ Such procedures could range from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to surgeries leaving a child’s genitals permanently altered. The bill extends California’s reach beyond its borders, enabling minors in other states to pursue treatment on the West Coast away from parental oversight.” Read more here.
Spain Considers Radical Trans Bill, by Debbie Hayton. “Emotions are running high, but the question we must keep asking is why these bills are so important to so many politicians. At a time when there is real war in Europe, why are they fighting to impose an ideology that replaces fact with feeling, using emotion rather than reason? La Ley Trans is particularly worrying because it opens the door to children to change their legal sex. Those under 16 would need parental consent, but they could take the matter to court if there was disagreement.” Read more here.
Self-Determination Law Drives Wedge Between Parents and Children, by CNE News. “Several countries, such as the Netherlands and Germany, are currently attempting to pass a new a [sic] so-called self-identification law… More and more, gender dysphoria is no longer seen as a disorder but instead as a standard variant of sexual development. That leads to dilemmas in psychological health care. ‘Trans identity must be acknowledged as fact by the therapist,’ Albert states. Questioning whether someone is transgender can now be seen as a punishable offence.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Could Echo Photographer’s Free Speech Victory Over Mandated LGBT Wedding Support, by Jonathan Scruggs. “This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear 303 Creative v. Elenis, a … case that involves a graphic artist named Lorie Smith. Lorie wants … to create art and websites consistent with the core of who she is. But, much like Louisville, Colorado officials are forcing Lorie to create websites promoting ideas about marriage that violate her faith. Once again, the issue is whether free speech protects each of us or whether government officials get to dictate what people can say and create.” Read more here.
New York Times Admits That Hundreds of ‘Top Surgeries’ Are Being Performed on Children, by Jarrett Stepman. “In an extensive piece written by Azeen Ghorayshi and published Monday, The New York Times reported on how transgender ‘top surgeries’ for minors have become a growing phenomenon. When reporters say top surgeries, they often mean mastectomy – the total removal of female breast tissue – though the Times’ article never uses this word… For boys who want to transition to girls, top surgery means breast implants.” Read more here.
Spanish Equal Opportunities Minister Calls Paedophilia ‘a Right,’ by Andrea Ambrano. “A child cannot nurture any kind of sexual taste unless this is forcibly inculcated in them, nor can they experience the concept of consent since their will is extremely malleable and conditionable. Simply, consent and sexual preferences are non-existent concepts in a child’s head because they lack maturity. Any psychologist knows this, but it’s strange that the only psychologist who ignores them is precisely the one who is also a minister of a European democracy like Spain, and moreover the mother of three children.” Read more here.
The ‘Dutch Protocol’ and Childhood Gender Transitioning, by Debra Soh. “When we consider global trends, the United Kingdom and Europe have been moving in a different direction, exercising greater caution and skepticism in their approach to treating children with gender dysphoria. North America, on the other hand, continues bulldozing the other way. Parents need to know they are justified in their concerns despite the browbeating and bullying they may encounter from professionals in the field, the media, and wider society.” Read more here.
Grade School Used to Be About Math, Science, and Growing Up. Now It’s About Sex, Drag, and Obesity, by Tristan Justice. “Earlier this month, teachers in a western suburb of Columbus, Ohio welcomed back students to the classroom with lessons on ‘anal sex’ and ‘fisting…’ In Michigan, the state deployed training material to coach teachers to conceal information about students from their parents, including what pronouns the kids go by in the classroom… Further south in Chicago, schools went one step further. Several districts partnered with the city’s largest children’s hospital to promote sex toys to kids.” Read more here.
These Detransitioners Have a Message for Distressed Girls: Mangling Your Body Is a Sickness, Not a Cure, by Jordan Boyd. “The film from the Center for Bioethics and Culture documents the testimonies of three women – Helena, Cat, and Grace – who went through various forms of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ prescriptions and procedures only to discover that the wrongly named ‘treatments’ marketed to make them feel better about their bodies did more harm than good. The featured women do not shy away from mentioning the irreversible procedures and damage this mutilative movement had on their bodies and souls…” Read more here.
Stop Subsidizing the Transgender-Industrial Complex, by Washington Examiner. “Not liking your body is completely normal for an adolescent, but most people eventually become comfortable in their own natural skin. It is morally wrong to let children completely alter their bodies before their judgment is even fully mature. It is doubly wrong that hospitals are making money off of these mutilations. It is triply wrong that the government is subsidizing this form of child abuse by mandating insurance coverage for it.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration Has Launched Its War on Pro-Lifers, by Timothy P. Carney. “Even if you take only the FBI’s version of the tale, the Biden administration assembled a grand jury, secured an indictment, and charged a man with a federal crime possibly carrying an 11-year sentence because he shoved another man who received ‘injuries … that required medical attention.’ Because there is an extraordinary federal law protecting abortionists from protesters, sidewalk counselors, and rosary prayers, Houck is now charged with a federal felony.” Read more here.
Let the Shout Arise Across the Nation: Stop Sexualizing Our Children! by Michael Brown. “From the heterosexual side, the attack has come through sex ed curricula in schools, presenting inappropriate subjects in inappropriate ways, beginning with the youngest school children. It has been going on for a long time… As for the LGTBQ+ sexualizing of our children, much of it comes in the form of indoctrination. Gay is good. Queer is cool. Being trans is something to celebrate. And your kids need to know this starting in pre-school, if not earlier. In fact, let’s normalize drag queens for toddlers!” Read more here.
‘Women Deserve a Better Solution Than Abortion,’ by Christopher Tremoglie. “Leftists who typically argue in favor of abortion say women should have the right to choose abortion. What they fail to acknowledge is that all abortions could be avoided by simply avoiding risky and careless sexual behavior. Only since Dobbs has it become clear from the Left’s rhetoric the extent to which abortion was relied on by irresponsible people as a form of birth control. For these, abortion is not a ‘choice’ but a means of avoiding consequences, even at the expense of a baby’s life.” Read more here.
New Census Data: Key Takeaways on Divorce, Marriage, and Fertility in the U.S., by Wendy Wang, et al. “Besides marriage and divorce, another important indicator that reflects the health of American families is the birth rate. During the pandemic, the U.S. birth rate experienced its largest single-year decease in nearly 50 years… The total fertility rate, which is the estimated number of children a woman has in her lifetime, also dropped to 1.6 in 2020. The fertility rate did rebound slightly in 2021 to 1.7 children per woman, but it is still well below the population replacement level (2.1 children per woman).” Read more here.
Castrating Your Child’s Future, by Melissa Mackenzie. “Medical doctors, sworn to do no harm, carve up children and give them untested drugs based on specious evidence and radical ideology… But the biggest betrayal is by the parents acceding to this savagery. They know how important having children is … they’ve had them. Yet they steal that choice from their children, knowing what they’re taking. It cannot be reversed. The harm is complete, total, and reaches decades into the future.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Promises Young Adults Relief But Leaves Them With Mental Anguish, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Gender ideology’s rapid spread among adolescents and young adults makes much more sense when you realize that it’s a form of escapism. It gives awkward and impressionable teenagers an explanation for the social and physical discomfort they naturally feel. It promises them a solution. This promise, however, is based on a lie. It is no more possible for a girl to become a boy than it is for a white person to become black.” Read more here.
Sexual Disturbance, by Christopher Rufo. “The national teachers union’s ‘LGBTQ+ Caucus’ has created a website and badge for public school employees that promote non-binary identities, a how-to guide for ‘queer sex,’ and the idea that ‘transgender men can get pregnant…’ One of these linked resources … includes a how-to guide for performing ‘anal sex,’ ‘bondage,’ ‘rimming,’ ‘domination,’ ‘sadomasochism,’ ‘muffing,’ and ‘fisting.’ The materials are extremely graphic, explaining how to, for example, ‘[put] a fist or whole hand into a person’s vagina or bum.’” Read more here.
The States Must Stand Up to Biden’s Egregious Title IX Overreach, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Biden’s Title IX guidance would be disastrous for the education system. It would force school administrations to incorporate gender ideology into their policies and affirm students’ chosen ‘gender identity’ regardless of the consequences – the most obvious being the invasion of girls’ sex-exclusive spaces, such as restrooms and sports teams. It would also undermine students’ right to free speech and due process and deputize school officials to override parental prerogatives.” Read more here.
Biden Administration’s Proposed Gender Policy Would Define Women Out of Existence, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “According to a draft USAID gender policy, sex is a ‘designation’ that is ‘assigned’ at birth and there are about 40 variations of sex characteristics that ‘cannot be categorized as male or female…’ The policy makes numerous references to women and girls ‘in all their diversity,’ which is further defined as including the ‘full range of gender identity and/or gender expression, sex characteristics, [and] sexual orientation.’” Read more here.
Lawmakers, Experts Alarmed by Trend to Remove Age Guidelines for Trans Procedures, by Dan Hart. “It would appear that the viewpoint that children of any age should receive cross-sex hormones if they express any inkling of questioning their biological sex is becoming increasingly prevalent. On Monday, news broke that the Medical University of South Carolina’s Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic had seen transgender patients between the ages of four and 18, with 62 percent of them receiving ‘either puberty blockers or hormone affirming therapy.’” Read more here.
Just Say ‘No’ to Using Children as Lab Rats, by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora. “Gender and sexual identity … have become ubiquitous topics for consideration and affirmation in school curricula and surveys… In the 2021 Fairfax County (Virginia) Youth Survey, public school students as young as 12 were asked questions about sexual experiences, including: ‘Have you ever had sexual intercourse? How old were you when you had sexual intercourse for the first time? During your life, with how many people have you had sexual intercourse?’” Read more here.
Father Recalls School’s Secret Attempt to Transition Daughter, by Marjorie Jackson. “…Perez’s case is one of many instances of schools breaching parental rights and transgender ideology being forced upon children. Many parents across the country have found themselves as plaintiffs fighting school administrations that have helped their children begin quietly transitioning, such as a mother in California and a couple in Tallahassee, Florida with similar situations. Other instances across the country have included the emergence of ‘gender transition closets’ in communities and schools.” Read more here.
UN Education Summit Wants to Stamp Out Traditional Values, by Craig-Austin Rose. “One of the conference documents proposed expanding the role of the teacher from ‘knowledge providers to knowledge producers and sense-makers of complex realities,’ in order to teach modern values and to eliminate any influence of parents and traditional cultures on the formation of children.” Read more here.
Our Politics Needs a Pro-Family Policy Agenda, by Ryan T. Anderson, et al. “Parents bear the primary and ultimate responsibility to nurture, shape, and educate their children. As such, they should be afforded space, shielded from inappropriate state intrusion or undue market pressures, to fulfill their responsibilities and live out their irreplaceable function. As scholars, writers, and legal experts, we offer the following eleven principles to advance an authentically pro-family approach to public policy.” Read more here.
Follow the Money: Medical Experts Are Mutilating Gender-Confused People Because It’s Profitable, by Kaylee McGhee White. “We need to be upfront about what this is: medical malpractice. These procedures are experimental and irreversible and often have severe long-term effects on the patient’s physical and mental health. These treatments aren’t ‘caring,’ as transgender activists like to claim – they’re inhumane and exploitative, and the only reason the medical community has decided to go along with this is because they know … that ‘gender-affirming care’ is a ‘moneymaker.’” Read more here.
California ‘Transgender Refuge’ Bill Usurps Parental Rights and Endangers Children, by Melissa Moschella. “If Governor Newsom signs California’s transgender youth ‘refuge’ bill into law, it will be one of the most explicit and radical assaults on parental rights that our nation has ever seen. While debates about how best to care for children with gender dysphoria are ongoing, one thing is clear: encouraging troubled children to run away from home and dividing them from their parents is certain to inflict great harm.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Advocates Should Pay Attention to Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report, by Caroline Reeves. “Planned Parenthood boasts increased numbers of aborted babies and quietly includes that it provided 239,000 fewer health services like well-woman exams and prenatal care than it did the previous year. Yet Planned Parenthood’s revenue managed to increase from $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion. The abortion organization’s incessant talk of ‘health care’ is nothing more than a marketing ploy.” Read more here.
The Real Reason for the Rise in Book Bans, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “Today, PEN is a left-wing advocacy group, for which censorship apparently means blocking over-the-top, sexually explicit materials from children in classrooms. The report, which looked at July 2021 to June 2022, found ‘2,532 instances of individual books being banned, affecting 1,648 unique book titles.’ The five most popular of these titles are ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir,’ ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue,’ ‘Lawn Boy,’ ‘Out of Darkness,’ ‘The Bluest Eye,’ and ‘Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out,’ all of which contain sexually explicit language.” Read more here.
Exposing Transgenderism for What It Is: A Lie, by Kara Dansky. “Democrats on the whole support ‘rights for “transgender people,”’ and Republicans on the whole oppose allowing sex-confused people to hijack sex-specific spaces. But regardless of whether or not a person supports or opposes ‘rights for “transgender people,”’ that person probably believes that there is such a category of people. But there isn’t. ‘Trans’ is a lie. It is a lie as big as the lie that the emperor is wearing clothes. He isn’t wearing clothes. He’s naked. He’s just too arrogant to acknowledge it, and everyone around him is too cowed to say so.” Read more here.
Detransitioner Chloe Cole Gives Powerful Testimony Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ at White House, by Christina Buttons. “Cole opened her speech with a chilling statistic, ‘Over the past decade, there has been as high as a 4000 percent increase in children being referred to so-called “gender clinics” across the United States…’ A recent UCLA survey found that the number of trans-identified teens has doubled in the last five years to about 300,000 in the United States, while the rates of adults identifying as transgender have remained the same.” Read more here.
Top Trans Medical Group Quietly Removes Age Recommendations for Minors Seeking Transgender Surgeries, Hormones, Puberty Blockers, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The organization widely considered to be the gold standard on transgender health care has removed its age recommendations for minors to receive hotly debated transgender medical interventions from its guidelines – and it won’t explain why. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health published a correction to its Standards of Care 8th Edition this week, removing those sections on ‘suggested minimal ages for gender-affirming medical and surgical treatment for adolescents.’” Read more here.
That ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Is Very Popular When You Accurately Describe It, by Zachary Faria. “The poll asked registered voters, ‘Do you support or oppose allowing public school teachers to provide classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children in elementary school (grades 1 to 5)?’ Just 27 percent said they support the stance pushed by the liberal activists. A whopping 70 percent opposed it. That means 70 percent of registered voters support, in principle, a law that goes much further than Florida’s new law, which only outlawed such instruction through third grade.” Read more here.
Pregnancy Centers Targeted by Massachusetts Attorney General Deserve Help, by Andrew Beckwith and Jeremy Dys. “Who are these faith-based organizations on the receiving end of Healey’s politically charged ire? They are men and women motivated by their faith to provide medical and professional counseling services, and to give away diapers, baby wipes, and hand-knitted baby booties to those in need… Rather than protect these faith-based organizations providing much-needed professional reproductive health services to Bay State mothers, as is the duty of her office, Healey placed them in harm’s way.” Read more here.
12 Facts Everyone Should Know About Babies at 15 Weeks of Gestation, by Jordan Boyd. “This isn’t quite the all-out ban on killing unborn life, which science agrees begins at conception, that America’s pro-life voters want, but it’s a start designed to at least get the nation on the same level as most civilized European countries and some U.S. states. It’s important for all to know the facts about babies at this stage of development to weigh the proposal. Here are 12 facts that Congress, and all Americans, should know about babies and their development at 15 weeks of gestation.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Can’t Hide Its Problem With Adoption, by Joy Stockbauer. “Every woman facing an unexpected pregnancy must wrestle with difficult questions surrounding the pathway forward – but it is unethical and misleading to misrepresent these questions in a way that makes abortion seem like the only viable option. It is also interesting to note that, when dissuading a woman from choosing adoption, Planned Parenthood is comfortable humanizing the child – but in every other instance, they deliberately dehumanize the child as a mere product of pregnancy.” Read more here.
Biden’s Title IX Change Hamstrings Doctors’ Ability to Care for Patients, by Christiana Kiefer. “The Biden administration is pushing to redefine ‘sex’ in the civil rights law known as Title IX to include ‘gender identity…’ This change would weaponize the federal civil rights law and force health care professionals – against their religious and ethical convictions – to perform life-altering surgeries or procedures such as a mastectomy or testosterone suppression. That’s because Title IX governs on-campus health centers, medical schools, and health systems that are part of university systems.” Read more here.
Department of Education Takes a Title IX Hammer to Freedom, by Maya Noronha. “Bureaucrats at President Joe Biden’s Department of Education are the new schoolyard bullies… For a start, bullies like to call other children disparaging names. Likewise, the Education Department’s bureaucrats want to label anyone who respectfully disagrees with gender ideology as a bigot. Instead of defending the civil rights of all people, they are targeting some who have sincerely held beliefs about males and females, what marriage means, and the role of parents in teaching their children about faith.” Read more here.
The Boston Marathon Doesn’t Need a Nonbinary Category, by Tom Joyce. “The problem with this move, besides denying biological reality, is that it could take spots away from hardworking women who want to run a marathon… The nonbinary category uses the women’s standards of qualifying for the race, which permit registrants to run it up to 30 minutes slower. Therefore, biological men who identify as nonbinary can qualify for the race using those times.” Read more here.
I’m an NCAA Champion Female Swimmer and We Have to Protect Girls, Women From Biden’s Destruction of Title IX, by Riley Gaines. “Under Title IX, women are entitled to their own locker rooms so that we can be vulnerable and change in private. Yet at the NCAA Championships, I saw a 6’4” biological male exposing male parts in our women’s locker room… I asked the officials where I should change as I had no intention of undressing in front of a man. They informed me that there were no protections in place for me to change in a space that Thomas did not have access to.” Read more here.
UN LGBT Czar Attacks America on Transgender Issues, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The report also denounces a ‘veritable plague of anti-LGBT bills sweeping across the nation…’ Madrigal-Borloz referred specifically to pro-family policies in Florida, Texas, and Alabama. These include laws and policies to shield children from homosexual and transgender propaganda in schools, laws banning transgender hormone protocols and sex change operations for children, and policies that ban boys from competing as girls in girls’ sports.” Read more here.
UN Committee Says America Is Racist, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The committee concerned with race has been one of the few that has largely left the issue of abortion alone, although that may be about to change. In August, the committee held a meeting about issuing a general comment on the intersection of racial discrimination and health, which was attended by representatives of many pro-abortion groups… The UN’s official summary of the meeting summarized their position: ‘Abortion access was an integral component of public health care, and legal barriers to abortion should be removed.’” Read more here.
Does Your Kid’s School Librarian Need Parental Supervision? ‘Banned Books Week’ May Tell You, by Amy Haywood. “…[A] father at a recent school board meeting had his microphone silenced for attempting to read from some of the objectionable books found in his child’s school because the school board was aware that allowing the words to air was illegal. But, magically, once a child enters a school library, a librarian can provide ‘Gender Queer’ and other challenged books to him or her without fear of prosecution.” Read more here.
On the Pro-Life Senate Bill and ‘Late Term’ Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “…[A]bortions after 15 weeks could only be characterized as something other than ‘late term’ by people who support legal elective abortion until the moment of birth… What matters, in the end, is what happens in an abortion procedure, and whether we believe that act should be legally permissible. Hayes and his fellow supporters of legal abortion would prefer not to have that debate, because their perspective on the matter makes normal Americans shudder.” Read more here.
Protecting Freedom of Religion, by Betsy McCaughey. “The American Civil Liberties Union sides with LGBTQ advocates, claiming they’re battling intolerant people who use religion as an excuse to discriminate. The ACLU is wrong. The battle isn’t about one right but two: the right of LGBTQ individuals to be protected from bias, and the longstanding right of all Americans to practice their religion – a right guaranteed by the First Amendment.” Read more here.
Jill Biden Dismisses Parental Control of Books in School Libraries, by Gillian Richards. “Before Jones finished the question, Jill Biden jumped in: ‘All books should be in the library. All books. This is America. We don’t ban books.’ Biden’s comment dismisses the ongoing controversy over whether public school libraries should exclude books that parents consider pedophilic and obscene… According to Jill Biden’s logic, the parents who protested Loudoun and Fairfax County public schools were out of line – and un-American – for wanting to remove pornographic and ideological material out of their kid’s libraries.” Read more here.
Lindsey Graham’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Would Bring Us in Line With the Rest of the Civilized World, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Just about every other country in the civilized world restricts abortion far more than the U.S. does. We are one of only seven countries to allow elective abortions … at 20 weeks, which is the halfway mark in a pregnancy. Most countries, including liberal European nations such as France, Norway, and Denmark, don’t even allow abortions after 12 weeks. And only three of 42 European countries allow abortions past 15 weeks.” Read more here.
Congress Should Work to End Infanticide in America, by the Editors of National Review. “…[E]ven after the end of Roe, barbaric late-term abortions are still legal in most of the country. In several states and the District of Columbia, there is no legal limit on abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Down the street from the White House, one abortion clinic advertises elective abortions up to 27 weeks. NPR recently reported that a new ‘all-trimester’ clinic will soon open in Maryland that will perform abortions up to the middle of the eighth month of pregnancy.” Read more here.
What Schools Are Teaching Your Kids About ‘Gender,’ by Laura López. “Altogether, there are eighteen gender options, only one of which will correspond to the child’s actual biological sex… Neither the wheel nor the book explain the potential long-term implications of adopting an alternative gender identity, or even what these identities mean. It’s safe to say that the average three-year-old has no idea that ‘affirming’ a neutrois identity involves surgically removing your genitalia.” Read more here.
Since When Does Freedom From Discrimination Require Destroying Religious Freedom? by Thomas Jipping. “The right to freely exercise religion has been a central theme in America’s story for more than 350 years. It was recognized as a natural right of mankind long before the Constitution was drafted, before America was America. Laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity exist against that backdrop, not the other way around.” Read more here.
Dr. Richard Pan’s Claims in Support of California’s SB 107 Are False and Medically Irresponsible, by Leor Sapir. “It is one thing for Dr. Pan to express an opinion as an elected representative and lawmaker on SB 107. It is quite another for him to invoke his scientific and medical credentials and spread false or highly misleading information about the state of the evidence for ‘gender affirming care.’ Dr. Pan warned against using Dr. Google instead of medical expertise, but it seems that his own views on pediatric gender medicine are heavily informed by Google and avoid any careful analysis of existing research.” Read more here.
Why Religious Freedom Can’t Protect Abortion, by Andrew Kubick. “Because direct abortion intentionally kills an unborn human being, no right – religious or otherwise – can be invoked to protect it… No religion, or any adherent thereof, has the lawful or moral claim to kill an innocent human being in the name of that faith. To deny the tragedy of abortion and make a rights claim to defend abortion is not religious freedom; rather, doing this uses religion as a license for unconscionable acts. And a just political community and the whole of society ought to categorically reject that license.” Read more here.
The Transgender Umbrella Casts Its Shadow Over Gender Nonconformity, by Colin Wright. “Because girls are more likely to exhibit gender nonconformity than boys (i.e., girls are more likely to exhibit stereotypically masculine traits than boys are to exhibit feminine traits), and because the definition of transgenderism is now synonymous with common gender nonconformity, it should come as absolutely no surprise that the rates of children claiming to be transgender is [sic] exploding, and that the majority of these children are girls.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Could Echo Photographer’s Free Speech Victory Over Mandated LGBT Support, by Jonathan Scruggs. “The court got it right. The government shouldn’t be in the business of imposing its orthodoxy on its citizens and silencing those who disagree. You don’t leave your right to free speech behind when you choose to make a living for your family, and Chelsey – like all Americans – should be free to express her beliefs – even if the government disagrees with them. But Chelsey is not the only wife and mom who needs to teach a class in constitutional law to certain government bureaucrats.” Read more here.
UN’s Gender Czar Ends Examination of U.S. With Bleak Report, by Grace Melton. “Madrigal-Borloz is the ‘SOGI czar’ at the United Nations… And [he] just concluded an official visit to the United States intended to ‘assess’ the ‘human rights of LGBT persons’ here. In a press conference…, Madrigal-Borloz shared his initial reactions… He bemoaned the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade and its ‘devastating’ impact on lesbians and ‘people with gestational faculties.’ And he derided efforts in various American states to limit ‘gender-affirming care.’” Read more here.
New Title IX Rule Creates Federal Dictatorship Over America’s Public Schools, by Meg Kilgannon. “The Department of Education’s newly proposed Title IX rule uses the federal rulemaking process to destabilize students with gender ideology, roll back rights for women and girls, and undermine parental rights, just to name a few – all in order to force the LGBTQ+ political agenda on every public school student in America… Equal opportunity for women in academics and sport will be erased if this rule is enforced.” Read more here.
Can Children Actually Consent to Gender Surgeries? by Debra Soh. “Expected changes in the forthcoming edition include the lowering of recommended ages for hormones and surgeries in minors… This would mean children are able to undergo cross-sex hormones at age 14, double mastectomies at age 15, and genital surgeries, including hysterectomies and removal of the ovaries or testes, at age 17… Does anyone truly believe that children understand the long-term implications of these decisions on their bodies and fertility, especially if they have yet to experience romantic relationships with their peers?” Read more here.
The Transgender Movement Isn’t Just Targeting Kids, It’s Targeting Families, by John Daniel Davidson. “Evidence continues to mount that a concerted effort is underway between major hospitals and public school systems to indoctrinate children with transgender ideology and push harmful, sometimes irreversible, medical procedures on minors – sometimes without the knowledge or consent of parents. The point of the indoctrination, though, isn’t only to create more ‘gender-nonconforming’ students. It’s to break down family structures and parental authority.” Read more here.
African Nations Should Spurn UN’s Radical Sex Ed Seduction, by Bettina Roska. “The UN’s International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education calls for a hypersexualized view of even very young children, explicitly rejecting family values and cutting off the rights of parents to educate their children in conformity with their moral and religious convictions. Instead of focusing on risk avoidance, it pushes minors into high-risk situations with proven catastrophic consequences for their health and well-being.” Read more here.
End Infanticide, by the Editors of National Review. “Each human being is endowed with the unalienable right to life at her creation, not her birth. But at this time, the majority of the American public is not willing to support a law protecting life from conception. There is, however, national support for setting limits on abortion later in pregnancy when it becomes even more indefensible for anyone to deny the humanity of a developing child.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Isn’t on the Way Out, It’s Transitioning to Gender-Bending, by Kristan Hawkins. “Planned Parenthood has found something besides abortion to sell. Few people realize that, nationally, ‘Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of hormone therapy’ for ‘transgender and gender non-conforming patients,’ it reports. Even in states that have banned all or most abortions, Planned Parenthood affiliates are fighting to stay open under the banner of ‘gender-affirming care.’” Read more here.
Abortion Is Not Health Care, Anywhere, by Valerie Huber. “Abortion activist politicians want Americans to accept abortion as health care – not just here at home but in every country around the world, irrespective of the country’s own values and beliefs on the topic… But abortion isn’t health care, anywhere. Intentionally ending innocent lives is not – and has never been – an acceptable outcome for ‘health’ care.” Read more here.
Trust the Science … Except Biology, by Rachel Csutoros. “From kindergarten classrooms to human resources offices to elite academic institutions, pressure is growing for Americans to ignore what’s in front of them in favor of a new version of reality that is more ‘inclusive’ and ‘updated.’ Public discourse now centers on debates about whether men can become pregnant and how to define a woman. The trend is to deny scientific reality in favor of the new wave of gender ideology.” Read more here.
Alarming Questions About Self-Determination Bill in Germany, by Evert van Vlastuin. “The state opens up a huge potential for abuse to these instinct-driven people through this self-determination act. For example, they could take advantage of the fact that they could no longer commit exhibitionism by simply declaring it. According to Section 183 of the Criminal Code, exhibitionist acts are only punishable for men. The law also gives men with exhibitionist tendencies legal access to women’s shelters. If they were legally considered women by self-determination, they should not be turned away at the entrance or thrown out of the shelters.” Read more here.
NJ Second Graders Will Learn About Gender Identity as New Sex Ed Standards Begin, by Sarah Arnold. “Progressive New Jersey school districts are teaching kids as young as six years old that it is normal to feel like you were born the ‘wrong’ gender from what God originally created you to be… The graphic material the woke, radical Left leaders are pushing on to children is shocking. They are attempting to sexualize kids at such a young age, at a time where sex and gender means nothing to them.” Read more here.
‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Sacrifices Safety for Ideology, by Aida Cerundolo. “Gender-affirming therapy for adolescents often employs ‘puberty blockers,’ synthetic hormones that inhibit the release of natural hormones that usher in sexual maturation. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration for rare instances of precocious puberty, these medicines are prescribed off-label as a pause button for physically healthy children… Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones carry risks. Artificially pausing puberty impedes other vital functions, such as brain and bone development.” Read more here.
UK Children’s Commissioner Fails British Children, by Ann Farmer. “It was refreshing to hear the UK Children’s Commissioner calling for strong families… But, like most modern policymakers, Dame Rachel refuses to endorse any particular form of family… Whatever Dame Rachel’s review may say, the family is not just any old collection of individuals living in the same space but springs from the committed relationship of a man and a woman who bring children into the world as part of that relationship.” Read more here.
Four ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ Programs That Won’t Corrupt Your Child, by Kimberly Ells. “Are the top priorities of most parents in your local school district to undermine patriarchy, expand abortion, expand LGBT advocacy, and increase racial tension in their children’s schools? If not, then perhaps globally funded SEL programs might not a [sic] good fit for your school district. Is there a solution to the global infiltration of local schools through SEL? Yes. Decline to utilize programs that are linked to global education initiatives.” Read more here.
California Becomes Sanctuary for Trans as Children Taking Puberty Blockers Increased Nearly 270 Percent, by Sarah Arnold. “The woke state of California advanced a bill to make it a sanctuary for transgender kids and their parents… The bill aims to allow children to undergo life-alternating sex-change surgery and take medication that will disrupt their natural puberty growth. Meanwhile according to Florida Medicaid data, the rate of the children taking puberty blockers has increased by 270 percent.” Read more here.
Michigan’s ‘Anything Goes’ Abortion Initiative, by Conn Carroll. “Michigan Democrats have succeeded in getting an initiative placed on this fall’s ballot that would effectively legalize all abortions. But that isn’t how Democrats are describing the initiative. They want you to believe that their proposed amendment to Michigan’s constitution would merely ‘codify Roe v. Wade.’ That is, the amendment would reinstate for Michigan the constitutional right struck down by the federal Supreme Court. But in reality, the proposal goes much further than that.” Read more here.
Federal Court Ruling on Gender Identity Upends Civil Rights Law, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “In sum: If you’re ‘distressed’ about being transgender, then you’re entitled to all the accommodations you’d like in public life, whether in bathrooms, locker rooms, prisons, or same-sex housing. The illogical conclusion, of course, is that transgender individuals who might be perfectly at ease with their underlying biological sex are not entitled to accommodations at all. As to how this will play out in modern America, one thing is for sure: It will be messy.” Read more here.
Emails Show Local Librarians Recruiting Drag Performers for Kids, by Joy Pullmann. “The emails show multiple librarians expressing enthusiasm and anticipation for Wright’s drag performance… The like-minded librarians eagerly plotted their 2022 LGBT programming and especially the drag storytime together, according to the emails. Librarians from different towns eagerly offered to help promote each others’ LGBT events and offered emotional as well as strategic support for the community backlash they all expected.” Read more here.
Title IX Comes for Christian Schools, by Christiana Kiefer. “Because HUD announced that it would enforce its order through the Fair Housing Act, College of the Ozarks and other colleges across the country – regardless of their beliefs – will be required to house male students in female dorms and vice versa. Colleges will be required to allow students to choose which restrooms, dorms, showers, and locker rooms they want to use – or be shut down.” Read more here.
‘Removing Pregnancies’: The Abortion Industry’s Misuse of Language, by Rob Schwarzwalder. “…[T]he eagerness of abortion advocates to dehumanize the unborn speaks of something sad and desperate. Unable to deny the personhood of the little one in the womb, they speak in a sort of muted code. By using terms that attempt to sanitize something evil, we assuage our consciences and gradually create a thick callous over the tender flesh of our basic moral impulses.” Read more here.
Legal, Scientific Defeats for ‘Gender-Affirming’ Procedures, by Joshua Arnold. “The Biden administration is arguing – and losing – on these grounds, because what they are endeavoring to force into law (by executive fiat) is indefensible on any other grounds. The Biden administration didn’t even bother arguing that the First Amendment allowed them to force physicians to perform gender-transition surgeries and abortions against their consciences, because they can’t. All they could do was pretend that they hadn’t decided to enforce on religious health care providers a rule they created for precisely this purpose.” Read more here.
How to Prepare Your Child for the Gender Debate, by Laura Linmar. “Parents need to understand that it’s not a matter of whether their young children will encounter radical gender ideology, but rather when. With this understanding comes the parental responsibility, if not duty, of having these conversations with their children sooner than most would like, while still approaching it from an age-appropriate stance.” Read more here.
Gender Identity Movement Targets Middle America for Indoctrination, by Greg Piper. “The vast majority of the training is devoted to LGBTQ issues, … warning employees they can harm ‘sexual minority youth’ if they aren’t careful with their words… The training explains ‘biological sex assigned at birth’ and gender identity and expression, using the popular but controversial ‘Gender Unicorn’ graphic that has appeared in curricula nationwide… The training features a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) video on student experiences and another with students explaining why ‘pronouns are important.’” Read more here.
Class Action Suits Against Gender Doctors Cloud the Future of Transgender Medicine, by Michael Cook. “The lawyers will not address the numerous sociological, psychological, ethical and philosophical questions swirling around the transgender movement. But if doctors fear that they might be sued for malpractice if they cooperate with an autistic teenager’s desire to transition, far fewer people will be harmed. And detransitioners will get the justice they deserve.” Read more here.
Federal Judge Strikes Blow to Biden’s Abortion Coercion Efforts in Texas, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “That interpretation means that under the HHS mandate, the federal government’s own definition of ‘emergency medical condition’ would preempt any state definition that is more narrowly tailored. It also means that elective abortions would qualify as ‘emergency medical conditions.’ Is this a proper reading of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act? Far from it. It’s a poorly disguised attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.” Read more here.
How the Transgender Social Contagion Took Over This Alaska Town, by Kelsey Bolar. “…[E]very institution surrounding them, from health professionals to the public school, and a local LGBT support group, rushed to validate their daughter’s gender confusion, treating it as real. Worse, they intentionally deceived Susie and her husband, using their daughter’s birth name and female pronouns in official communications while using her made-up name and male pronouns behind closed doors.” Read more here.
Democrats Accuse Crisis Pregnancy Centers of Manipulating Women – But That’s Planned Parenthood, by Kate Roberson. “If the counseling services at pregnancy resource centers are ‘deceptive,’ then Planned Parenthood’s services ought to raise even more questions. Planned Parenthood regularly tells women that their babies are ‘clumps of cells’ or ‘not babies yet’ and then refuses to let them see their ultrasounds, so they can’t evaluate those claims for themselves.” Read more here.
Did American Academy of Pediatrics Just Blink on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ or Bluff? by Jay Richards. “For years, the academy has been a booster for the school-to-sterilization pipeline for kids struggling with their sexed bodies – to the dismay of at least some of its 67,000 members… But in a telling letter to The Wall Street Journal this week, the group seemed to signal a shift in its position. Over the last few weeks, the group has suffered some bad press and may have decided that its preferred term of art needs an update.” Read more here.
UN Program Teaching Kids ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ Actually Seeks to Kill Their Individualism, by Kimberly Ells. “UNESCO’s materials make it clear that SEL is intended to foster not only kindness between students, but cooperation with a global agenda rooted in the doctrine of collectivism… They want children to be taught to value the ‘collective good’ over individual liberties, rights, and property despite the fact that the freest, most prosperous nations in the world are founded on individual liberties, rights, and property.” Read more here.
Toddlers Aren’t Transgender, by Debra Soh. “If you think it sounds insane to take seriously a 3-year-old’s whimsical and quite possibly arbitrary declarations, that’s because it is. Three-year-olds can barely dress themselves, much less articulate a complete thought, yet gender cultists wholeheartedly believe these children know their ‘authentic selves.’ At best, parents may be concerned about their son’s or daughter’s cross-sex preferences in toys, hairstyle, or clothing.” Read more here.
Unsafe, Illegal, and Far From Rare: Chemical Abortion’s Online Black Market, by Joy Stockbauer. “Another website that the WSJ cites is Medside24.com – a chemical abortion dealer based in Kazakhstan. The front page of the dealer’s website claims that abortion drugs are ‘painless’ and ‘not accompanied by complications.’ Further digging, however, reveals their disclaimers about the pain and complications that chemical abortion does, in fact, cause. How many women does the dealer warn experience ‘severe’ or ‘intolerable’ pain from their chemical abortion? At least half.” Read more here.
OB-GYN Dispels the Most Common Lies About Abortion, Miscarriage, and Saving the ‘Life of a Mother,’ by Alison Centofante and Christina Francis. “In 14 years of clinical practice, I have never needed to intentionally end the life of a preborn child in order to save the life of his or her mother. There are rare situations in which we need to prematurely deliver a baby due to life-threatening complications of pregnancy. If this occurs after the point at which the baby can survive apart from the mother (viability), we simply deliver the child and take care of both mom and baby.” Read more here.
Court Rules Man Who Identifies as Woman Must Be Allowed in Women’s Jail, by Joshua Arnold. “Indeed, transferring males who identify as females to female-only prison units is not a victimless policy decision. Female inmates at prisons in California, New York, and Washington have suffered sexual assault and rape from men pretending to be women. The policy question at issue is, should we upend the order of our penal system and subject women to violence to coddle the fantasies of a slim minority?” Read more here.
Poll: Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Support Public Funding for Pregnancy Clinics Democrats Want to ‘Shut Down,’ by Sophia Corso. “A majority of Americans across the political spectrum support public funding for pro-life pregnancy resource centers, according to a new poll from CRC Research – showing how out of touch Democrats’ rabid push to stifle pro-life clinics is from the average, compassionate American voter. The online survey of 1,600 participants conducted earlier this month shows overall 64 percent of Americans support public funding of these centers for mothers…” Read more here.
The Future of Pediatric Medicine: Chemical Castration and Surgical Mutilation, by Kaylee McGhee White. “We need to be explicit about what’s happening right now. Trans activists, medical professionals, and ideologues who promote and defend ‘gender-affirming care’ are advocating the chemical castration and physical mutilation of vulnerable persons. They can try to tie it up with a ribbon and make it sound as pretty as they’d like, but that’s what it is.” Read more here.
Government Shouldn’t Subsidize Intentional Motherlessness and Fatherlessness, by Katy Faust. “The fact that children are the byproduct of heterosexual relationships isn’t an accident. They are designed specifically for the care of their own mother and father, which is why they reap gender-specific benefits from each parent and crave both male and female love. Insisting that single and same-sex adults have ‘equal access’ to ‘reproductive care’ requires children to sacrifice their right to that love for the sake of adult desire.” Read more here.
Opposing Biological Males in Women’s Sports Cost Me My Job as Austin’s Fire Chaplain, Now I’m Suing, by Dr. Andrew Fox. “Unfortunately, I’m writing in the past tense because I’m no longer a chaplain for the Austin Fire Department. I was fired from my volunteer role because I shared my religious views on my personal blog – views which city officials could not tolerate. The controversial viewpoint that extinguished my career? Writing about my religious and commonsense view that men and women are biologically different, and men should not compete on women’s sports teams.” Read more here.
The Tide Is Turning Against Transgender Activism, by Michael Brown. “Just as we should have compassion on those who truly struggle with their gender identity, we should stand firmly against transgender activism. Thankfully, there are more and more signs that the tide is turning against this latest example of sociological contagion… The bad news is that many young lives have already been irreparably destroyed, at least physically. Let us, then, do our best to hasten the societal turn by continuing to get the truth out.” Read more here.
It’s OK to Say ‘Woman’ Again, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The Associated Press Stylebook … updated its guidance this week to say it is ‘acceptable’ to use the phrases ‘pregnant women’ or ‘women seeking abortions.’ Considering women are the only people in the world capable of conceiving and bearing children and are thus the only people in the world who would be seeking abortions for themselves, it’s a wonder this language was considered unacceptable in the first place.” Read more here.
Biden’s Change to Title IX Shuts Parents Out of Kids’ Mental, Emotional Health, by Christiana Kiefer. “The Biden administration’s push to redefine ‘sex’ in the civil rights law known as Title IX to include ‘gender identity’ … threatens one of the basic principles of American society: the idea that parents, not the state, are the primary caretakers for children. With the proposed change, the Biden administration is poised to compel school districts to treat students as the opposite sex – without their parents’ knowledge or consent – and even to lie to parents about their children’s psychological and emotional health.” Read more here.
The Compromised Research of Child Gender-Transition Doctor Jack Turban, by Caroline Downey. “In many of Turban’s published papers, the sources of the funding for his research reveal conflicts of interest. Particularly, his past work was made possible by a grant from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry… Most notably, AACAP is financially supported by pharmaceutical companies Arbor and Pfizer. Both produce off-label puberty blockers that inhibit the onset of physical changes aligning with a person’s sex.” Read more here.
Florida Is Right: Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund Transgender Surgery, by Tom Joyce. “Unfortunately, some people suffer from gender dysphoria. These people deserve our compassion and should receive professional help for depression, anxiety, and substance abuse associated with this mental disorder. However, that doesn’t mean that society should treat such men like women. Men don’t belong in women’s-only spaces such as bathrooms, beauty salons, locker rooms, showers, and sports teams.” Read more here.
At Boston Children’s Hospital, Illogical and Destructive Gender Ideology Reigns, by Zachary Faria. “Two of the videos claim that children can know that they are transgender from birth or even while still in utero. The hospital boasts that it regularly sees transgender children as young as 2 or 3 years old, when they meet with a psychologist who pushes them down the road of social gender transitioning. Concerned parents are told that beginning an irreversible process based on the word of a 2-year-old is just being ‘supportive.’” Read more here.
Tavistock Clinic Fallout: What UK Courts Would Consider in Litigation by Former Transgender Patients, by Charles Foster. “…[O]verwhelmingly, there is again the issue of under-researched puberty blockers. In a ‘letter to children and young people’ at the beginning of her report, Cass wrote: ‘Whenever doctors prescribe a treatment, they want to be as certain as possible that the benefits will outweigh any adverse effects so that when you are older you don’t end up saying “Why did no one tell me that that might happen?” This includes understanding both the risks and benefits of having treatment and not having treatment.’ That’s an accurate statement of the law and the ethics.” Read more here.
I Lost a Child to Miscarriage. New York Times Essay Likening Miscarriage to Abortion Is Despicable, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “These faulty premises assume we cannot tell the difference between an intentional ending of an unborn life, and the spontaneous loss of an unborn child. They also assume we do not know we are being lied to when we are told abortion was a common and respected birth control method in early America… This kind of moral equivalence is despicable – and denigrates those who have lost an unborn child to miscarriage.” Read more here.
The UK Turns Its Back on Transgender Ideology, by the Editors of National Review. “Skeptics of this wicked experiment rightly feel vindicated by the clinic’s demise. But this is hardly consolation to its victims. No lawsuit, however successful, will ever restore what has been taken from them: their peace of mind, fertility, sexual functioning, and even healthy body parts. But rather than heed this warning, the United States continues to move full speed ahead with so-called gender-affirming care.” Read more here.
Voters Need to Be Educated on the Importance of the Family, by Don Feder. “In a sense, every issue is a family issue… Thus, the major threat to the American way of life isn’t inflation or the war on fossil fuels or Russian President Vladimir Putin’s adventurism or Chinese expansionism, the surge in a crime [sic] or even open borders – as important as they all are – but the decline of marriage, the family and respect for life.” Read more here.
Biden’s Title IX Takeover Will Give America an Extreme Makeover, by Ryan Bomberger. “Biden wants to allegedly create a world ‘free of discrimination’ which, of course, requires a world that intensely discriminates in order to fulfill his LGBTQ+++ vision for America. We have to mangle our language, deny basic biology, promote bodily mutilation, and cheer on blatant inequality in the name of ‘progress…’ We can no longer say what we know. We must repeat what we’re told.” Read more here.
Shoehorning Tax-Exempt Status Into Title IX Threatens Nonprofits That Won’t Pretend Boys Are Girls, by Gregory Baylor. “Schools and other nonprofits newly subject to these statutes would face comprehensive regulation of their activities – including both student and employee relations. They will incur large compliance costs. And they could encounter aggressive enforcement efforts by both federal bureaucrats and agenda-driven activist organizations.” Read more here.
Biden Executive Order on Abortion Access Is Misleading and Full of Misinformation, by Nina Owcharenko Schaefer. “When the Biden administration refers to ‘reproductive health care,’ it means abortion. Period. The public should not be confused that it means anything else. It hopes the executive order will miraculously present a new pathway to fund abortions. Yet, under any of the scenarios, such action would be incredible. For policymakers, this only further underscores the importance of protecting – and strengthening – the Hyde Amendment.” Read more here.
The Shocking Criminality of an Underground Transgender Drug ‘Network’ for Children, by Mairead Elordi. “A prominent transgender activist recently boasted online about plans to organize an international drug ring to illegally mail transgender hormones to children. The criminality of Eli Erlick’s proposal is shocking, but so far, it’s unclear whether Erlick, a biological male who identifies as a woman, will face any legal consequences despite admitting to the scheme on social media.” Read more here.
Government Should Stop Feeding the Nonbinary Delusion, by Tom Joyce. “President Joe Biden’s administration is also guilty of feeding into this woke gender ideology. Earlier this year, the State Department started issuing gender X passports for American citizens. One has to wonder what kinds of problems this may present for people traveling abroad to countries that find woke gender ideology absurd. Thankfully, however, the next administration could abandon this practice.” Read more here.
Is the Tide Turning on the Transgender Debate? by Isaac Schorr. “Across the UK, … politicians, doctors, and activists are all beginning to recognize that the unquestioningly affirmative model of care for children is scientifically unsound, morally dangerous, and the result of, more than anything else, social and political dogma. And the UK is not the first European country to begin to recognize its past mistakes… It’s not a total victory – far from it – but it’s representative of genuine progress from a ghastly status quo.” Read more here.
Justice Department Attacks Pro-Life States With Bogus ‘Preemption’ Argument, by Thomas Jipping. “The Biden administration is using a spurious legal argument to crack down on states limiting abortion. On Aug. 2, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Idaho, hoping to undermine its new law prohibiting most abortions by claiming that it conflicts with a federal law regarding medical treatment in hospital emergency rooms… Not only is this evidence that the Justice Department is now just a part of President Joe Biden’s political apparatus, but DOJ’s argument here is bogus.” Read more here.
War on Parents: Male Teacher Asked This Mom’s 11-Year-Old ‘Transgender’ Daughter to Sleep in Boys’ Cabin, by Kelsey Bolar. “…Jennifer also obtained notes from the school therapist, which confirmed her suspicion that the therapist was encouraging her daughter’s transition behind her back. ‘I was so upset because [the school therapist] was using male pronouns for my daughter from the first moment, from the first notes,’ Jennifer said. ‘He, him. And it seemed like all that she was doing with my daughter was helping her advocate for herself whenever somebody “misgendered” her.’” Read more here.
4 Compelling Reasons for the Senate to Oppose Redefining Marriage, by David Closson. “Societies have rightly believed (and social science proves) that a married man and woman are best suited to care for and raise their children. This reality has prompted the state … to concern itself with marriage. Regrettably, the link between a strong marriage culture and a stable society has been downplayed in the United States in recent years as gratifying adult sexual desires has superseded the welfare of children as a societal goal.” Read more here.
Litigation in State Courts Puts Pro-Life Laws on Hold, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[O]n June 24, the [U.S. Supreme Court] acknowledged that its decision in Roe had been ‘egregiously wrong from the start’ and overruled it. Although that decision eliminated the U.S. Constitution as an obstacle to protecting the unborn, abortion advocates now are changing venues and arguing in state courts that pro-life laws violate state constitutions.” Read more here.
The Left’s Alarming Push to Sever the Parent-Child Relationship Has Hit the Medical Industry, by Libs of TikTok. “The Left’s agenda to groom your children has taken another turn. Various states across America have begun implementing laws and policies to allow children to make healthcare decisions without a parent or guardian’s consent — and the medical industry is promoting it. Many of these states are using these new laws to allow for drastic medical decisions to be made without parental consent including hormone therapy, gender reassignment surgery, and medicated mental health treatment. In Washington, children as young as 13 are now allowed to undergo gender reassignment surgery and other questionable medical treatments without parental consent.” Read more here.
‘We Love Killing Babies’: What I Saw at Women’s March Protest, by Douglas Blair. “Protests around the nation continue in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the issue of abortion to the American people … The protesters made their way through the streets of Washington D.C., chanting and yelling all the while … As the pro-abortion group turned to head towards the White House, one of the protesters blocked a pro-life sign and screamed ‘We love killing babies!’” Read more here.
Abortion Regret Is Real, Despite Media’s Attempts to Dismiss Those Who Experience It, by Bettina di Fiore. “The fact is, there are thousands of women in online support groups — like the aptly named site, I regret my abortion — and thousands more signing up for programs like Rachel’s Vineyard, which aims to help women process grief and trauma following pregnancy loss of all kinds, including and especially abortion. The website Silent No More Awareness has over 3,000 personal testimonies of abortion regret – and it’s just one of many sites that have compiled similar narratives. The Washington Post implies that these thousands upon thousands of women don’t exist – or maybe just that they don’t matter.” Read more here.
The Church of England Doesn’t Know What a Woman Is, by Katelynn Richardson. “Descending further into liberal madness, the Church of England just announced it has “no official definition” of a woman. It’s not much of a surprise, since the church has continually made headlines for its gender activism in recent years. In 2018, it produced guidance on how clergy could use the rite of Affirmation of Baptismal Faith to celebrate a person’s new transgender identity and publicly use the individual’s new name.” Read more here.
Why Are So Many Children Claiming to Be ‘Trans’? By Jonathon Van Maren. “It has been four years since Dr. Lisa Littman of Brown University was viciously attacked for publishing a paper titled “Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria.” Littman revealed that a key reason for the exponential growth of children and teens identifying as transgender is that gender ideology has become a peer contagion. Nearly every week since Littman’s much-maligned research was published, new evidence has emerged that she was correct. “ Read more here.
Supreme Court Abortion Ruling Does Not Ban Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancies; Pro-Choice Claim is Dangerous, by Jonathan Turley. “…[T]he ectopic pregnancy talking point is not just false, it is dangerous. These pregnancies can be life-threatening and must be addressed as soon as possible. These interventions are not abortions and even restrictive states expressly state so. …[E]ven if the law were silent on ectopic pregnancies, it is doubtful that the courts would ignore the medical and factual classifications to treat such emergency procedures as abortions or ignore that the mother’s life is in danger from such pregnancies.” Read more here.
Vanderbilt Health Is Gender-Bending Tennessee Minors Without Parental Consent, by Landon Starbuck. “…[P]arents report that their kids can make their own medical decisions, hide their health records, and schedule private one-on-one appointments with doctors who can begin the process of gender transition treatment without parental consent once they turn 13. So-called ‘mature minor’ doctrines around the country have led to dangerous drugs being prescribed without parents knowing about it and even procedures being performed without their knowledge.” Read more here.
Biden’s New Executive Order on Abortion Is Full of Fearmongering and Half-Truths, by Nicole Russell. “…[P]er the administration’s policies, the order will create a new task force on reproductive healthcare. Perhaps Biden’s team has difficulty reading opinions, but the Supreme Court just stripped the federal government of its standing power to hold abortion in its hand. The abortion issue must be handled by each state individually or by Congress at a federal level. A reproductive healthcare task [sic] is not only meaningless but likely without jurisdiction or authority to institute change.” Read more here.
Look How Even Democrat Opinion Shifts on Abortion Laws When Polls Stop Using Leftist Framing, by Beth Whitehead. “Fifty-three percent said they support, versus 31 percent who opposed, Roe v. Wade when it was presented to them as the keystone to recognizing abortion as a so-called ‘constitutional right,’ which is the left’s framing of the issue. But when participants learned Roe allowed for late-term abortions, when unborn babies can feel pain, those numbers reversed and then some: 56 percent said they opposed Roe v. Wade, and only 28 percent supported it.” Read more here.
Children Should Not Be Politicized, Especially When It Comes to Transgenderism, by Zachary Faria. “Roughly 80% of children who claim to be transgender grow out of it by the time they become adults. The procedures being pushed on these children, ranging from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to surgical transitions, have permanent effects that cannot simply be reversed if someone changes their mind. Children are pushed down this irreversible path based on decisions that they make when they are as young as 4, as Shappley was. A 13-year-old is not fit to make those kinds of decisions, let alone a preschooler, yet that’s what media outlets are promoting through Shappley.” Read more here.
Biden’s Abortion Order Undermines SCOTUS and Democracy by Seizing Power From Voters and Giving It to Feds, by Jordan Boyd. “In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, … President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday that pushes his taxpayer-funded, abortion-on-demand agenda to the top of his administration’s priority list. The order will funnel federal time, resources, and funds … to shield existing abortion clinics, promote unlimited abortion, and circumvent Republican state laws to help send women to abortion appointments in other states.” Read more here.
Senator Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill Attacking Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers, by Nancy Flanders. “Might Warren and her colleagues instead be attacking pregnancy centers because without Roe, abortion businesses may face closure or a decline in patients and income, and they view pregnancy centers as their competition? Shutting down or tying the hands of the centers that provide abortion alternatives will only accomplish one thing: more women will walk through the doors of abortion facilities.” Read more here.
Homosexual and Transgender Issues Backfire on Western States at UN, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “While he rejected violence against any person on any grounds, he said ‘we cannot support efforts to invent new rights on the basis of personal sexual preferences.’ He also accused Western countries of undermining ‘respect for diversity and pluralism’ when they promote divisive policies that ‘run counter to the social, cultural and religious particularity’ of different countries, and urged respect for the family as the ‘natural and fundamental unit of society.’” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood CEO Outlines Next Steps Following Roe v. Wade Overturn, by Madeline Leesman. “McGill Johnson shared the abortion organization’s three major goals with The Guardian. First, she wants to help women seeking an abortion cross state lines in order to do so… Next, McGill Johnson wants to win lawsuits in state courts where abortion access is restricted… And, McGill Johnson wants to ‘win at the ballot box’ where constituents vote for pro-abortion politicians.” Read more here.
Why the Arguments About ‘Bodily Autonomy’ and ‘Forced Birth’ Fail to Justify Abortion, by Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra Desanctis. “For many abortion supporters, that is the aim: allowing mothers and fathers to choose abortion … as a means of eliminating their unwanted child from the world. The bodily autonomy arguments for abortion fail to acknowledge that all our liberties have limits. One standard limit on our liberty is that we aren’t allowed to intentionally kill innocent people. Whether those other people are in utero or ex utero, the same basic principle applies.” Read more here.
Young Democrats of America Advertises ‘Training’ Event on ‘Self-Managed Abortion,’ by Rebecca Downs. “An upcoming event hosted by Young Democrats of America (YDA) is being met with horror as the group advertises a ‘training’ event on ‘What Is Self-Managed Abortion?’ A tweet from YDA … noted that they were ‘thrilled’ to educate people on how women can have a ‘self-managed abortion.’ This tweet garnered a particular amount of attention, with many outright calling the group ‘demonic.’” Read more here.
Undercover Footage: Women Drugged With Xanax Before Speaking to Abortionist, by Rebecca Downs. “The undercover footage, filmed in January of this year with a pregnant investigative activist presenting herself as a patient, reveals that patients have to take Xanax and have their pants off when speaking to the abortionist. A nurse also reveals that they perform ‘a lot’ of abortions at or past 28 weeks – the start of the third trimester – that are not for medical emergencies.” Read more here.
The Numbers Behind Pennsylvania’s Turmoil Over Transgender Women in Prison, by Fred Lucas. “Almost 200 biological males behind bars in Pennsylvania’s state prisons say they identify as women. A small number of them are seeking a transfer to a women’s prison… However, in response to the question of how many male inmates who self-identify as women have at least one conviction for either sexual abuse or sexual assault, the Department of Corrections said: ‘This information does not exist.’” Read more here.
It’s Past Time for America to Have Stronger Pro-Life Laws Than Europe, by Shawn Fleetwood. “While any pro-life legislation to protect the unborn is welcome, the striking down of Roe offers legislators nationwide the unique opportunity to show Europe — and the rest of the world — what it means to defend and promote liberty and justice for all. For many, America has stood as a beacon of freedom and liberty in the world for decades, where the natural rights endowed by God are to be guaranteed to every individual. It’s past time we live up to such ideals and extend them to every human being in our nation, no matter how young.” Read more here.
Millions of Women Will Be Free From Abortion’s Hidden Costs, by Elayne Allen. “When a baby enters the scene unexpectedly, it’s understandable that parents sometimes blanch initially. New life means significant adjustments: pregnancy is hard on women’s bodies, and children require vast effort, time, and resources… But it’s hard to see how presenting women with a devastating choice is the best solution to the dilemma of undesired pregnancy. No woman … should face the horror of considering whether to end her baby’s life.” Read more here.
Harvard Poll Demolishes Major Media Narrative on Roe, by Jordan Boyd. “As a matter of fact, the majority of Americans, 72 percent, support bans on abortions at least as restrictive as a ban after 15 weeks of gestation. Even 60 percent of Democrats say their states should allow abortions no later than 15 weeks. That’s a drastically different position than Democrat politicians’ calls for unlimited abortion and the media’s amplification of that radical position.” Read more here.
The Ethics of Abortion: Clarifying Misconceptions, by Melissa Moschella. “Now that … authority to determine abortion policy has finally been returned to the people through their elected representatives, persuading our fellow citizens that the lives of the unborn deserve legal protection is more important than ever. Unfortunately, however, public debates about abortion are distorted by numerous misconceptions and misleading slogans. Identifying and correcting these misconceptions is crucial if we are to have a reasonable public dialogue about this important and sensitive issue.” Read more here.
It’s Time to Retire Pride Month, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Pride Month was originally built around the commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots… But what was once a month to promote gay equality has turned into a cesspool of hedonistic debauchery. Pride celebrations throughout the country feature grotesque displays of fetishes and sexual perversions in public… This isn’t even about homosexuality – it is about parades that feature drag queens mimicking sexual acts in public, half-naked people wearing BDSM masks while interacting with children, and many other performances that can only be called deviant.” Read more here.
UN Bureaucrats Lash Out Angrily at U.S. Abortion Ruling, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “UN bureaucrats and human rights experts lost no time in denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the almost-fifty-year-old ruling that made abortion on demand the law of the U.S… While the Dobbs decision does not directly affect U.S. foreign policy, for an influential, sovereign nation to explicitly strike down abortion as a right sends a powerful message to other countries who have been repeatedly told that they are obliged to liberalize their own abortion laws.” Read more here.
People Are Waking Up to the Reality of Gender, by Tom Joyce. “Transgenderism is an issue on which conservatives are enjoying success in the battle of public opinion for a few reasons. The biggest one is that they have biology on their side. If someone is a man, he is a man… Parents also don’t like seeing this woke gender ideology seep into their children’s schools, especially in the lower grade levels. Parents want a safe place for their children to learn – not a place for some stranger to inject them with a liberal worldview.” Read more here.
Americans’ Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues, by Kim Parker, Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Anna Brown. “Roughly six-in-ten adults (58%) favor proposals that would require transgender athletes to compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth (17% oppose this, 24% neither favor nor oppose). And 46% favor making it illegal for health care professionals to provide someone younger than 18 with medical care for a gender transition (31% oppose). The public is more evenly split when it comes to making it illegal for public school districts to teach about gender identity in elementary schools…” Read more here.
Why Did My Daughter Become Trans? by Jo Brown. “It seems that a trans identity is offered to kids these days as a way out of their confusion and misery. All of us, or at least everyone that I have been close to, can remember our adolescence as difficult years. Feeling unacceptable, substandard, not cool enough. We struggled, were unhappy, but eventually found our way through… What we did not have were people whispering to us in our bedrooms that our gender identity was the problem and changing it the solution.” Read more here.
The Dark Side of Gender Transition Is Only Beginning to Reveal Itself, and It’s Tragic, by Elizabeth Stauffer. “Gender ideology, the idea that gender is a fluid construct rather than an undeniable biological fact, has made its way into just about every part of our culture, from Hollywood films to public school curricula. And it is now making its way into our medical system, with potentially grievous consequences for young children and adults.” Read more here.
Listening to People Who Detransition, by John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander. “…[W]e must not buy into any ‘inevitability thesis’ when it comes to trans ideology. We aren’t on the wrong side of history, or of our religious beliefs, or of love. The number of detransition stories coming out of the UK are a good example that, if anything, America is out of step with much of the rest of the world, who are currently applying the brakes to ‘gender transitioning’ therapies for minors.” Read more here.
Post-Roe America Begins Now, by Kathryn Lopez. “Why choose death when we are meant for life? Why snuff out the innocent when they deserve our protection? Why pretend that abortion doesn’t harm, when it in fact kills a child and often inflicts psychic damage on parents? The end of Roe v. Wade isn’t the end of the world. It’s a new day where motherhood can get the attention it deserves. Celebrate life. Embrace it. Surround it with love and resources.” Read more here.
Post-Dobbs, the Abortion Battle Hits Activist State Courts, by Margot Cleveland. “…[T]he U.S. Supreme Court declared it was returning the authority to regulate or prohibit abortion ‘to the people and their elected representatives.’ The abortion lobby, however, has no intention of leaving the legality of abortions to the American public. Instead, it will seek to create an abortion-on-demand regime via activist state judges. Countering this strategy must take priority, or Dobbs will be for naught.” Read more here.
Parents Face Even More Than the Destruction of Their Daughters’ Sports as Title IX Turns 50, by Sharon Supp. “Under the influence of Washington, D.C., more schools are likely to put into practice an extreme and destructive gender ideology without parental knowledge or consent. And the White House has further undermined parental rights by issuing an executive order aimed at censoring talk therapy for kids who are struggling with gender dysphoria. Parents have the right to make decisions for both their children’s education and healthcare without government interference.” Read more here.
What We Saw During ‘Night of Rage’ Pro-Abortion Protest, by Douglas Blair and Virginia Allen. “As the sun set over Washington, D.C., hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators stood chanting and holding signs outside the Supreme Court. Rally speakers called for protesters to ‘take to the streets’ in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday that overturned Roe v. Wade… Below are videos and pictures from the ‘Night of Rage,’ as it was dubbed by the pro-abortion demonstrators. Warning: Rude language ahead.” Read more here.
Make Transgender Ideology Expensive, by Washington Examiner. “Female privacy represents progress… This privacy is meant to exclude men, even those males who adopt stereotypically effeminate affectations and say they are women. But this progress is currently being undone… Women deprived of their rightful privacy and subjected to such treatment should relentlessly sue the institutions involved until such policies are discontinued. This is one way to make wokeness a prohibitively expensive luxury.” Read more here.
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns One of the World’s Most Extreme Abortion Regimes, Returns Decision to State-Level Democratic Process, by ADF International. “American abortion laws, which vary by state, have been out of step with the vast majority of countries, positioning the U.S. among the most extreme in the world… ‘The U.S. is correcting course after decades of abortion extremism, showing the world that it’s never too late to restore human rights. This judgment realigns the U.S. with Europe and the majority of other countries that protect unborn children from abortion on demand…’” Read more here.
California School District Uses JEDI Techniques to Confuse 3-Year-Olds About Their Gender, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The notes revealed that a person identified as a ‘PTSA member and DEI chair’ wanted to target these young children because ‘ages 3-5 is often when children begin to recognize their gender and we’ve seen a rapid rise in trans/non-binary identification’ in recent years. Additionally, they called for more gay and transgender education resources in schools because there’s been a ‘boom in literature on gender which can help both kids and adults to learn.’” Read more here.
What to Expect in a Post-Roe World, by Jonathan Turley. “Indeed, it is relatively rare to see the court go to this extent to proactively close off the use of a new case in future cases. The court said that ‘intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage’ are not impacted by its holding because ‘abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged.’ It noted that abortion is unique in dealing with ‘what those decisions called “fetal life” and what the law now before us describes as an “unborn human being.”’” Read more here.
Dobbs Isn’t the End. It’s the Beginning of a Ballot Measure Battle to Save Preborn Lives in Every State, by Jordan Boyd. “A Dobbs victory is worth celebrating… But beware because it also opens the door for radically pro-baby-killing states to double down on their abortion agendas… Dobbs is not the end-all solution because there’s still plenty of pro-life work left to be done in states … where leftists are dreaming up new ways to hurt children. Conservatives and pro-lifers need to act now while the wind from possibly the largest Supreme Court decision in history is behind their backs.” Read more here.
What Effect Will Dobbs Have on the International Abortion Debate? by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Abortion advocates frequently argue that abortion is an international human right, despite the fact that this has never been agreed in any global negotiation, much less a binding document. For a national government – especially one as influential as the U.S. – to amend its laws to allow further restrictions illustrates the falseness of this claim. The reversal of Roe would also undercut the narrative favored that the liberalization of abortion laws … represents an inexorable wave of ‘progress’ that cannot be stopped or turned back.” Read more here.
Overturning Roe Definitively Proved the Culture War Is Worth Fighting, by Elle Reynolds. “The culture war is not lost yet, and the triumphant reversal of Roe should remind us all that it’s still very much worth fighting. If the right (and our pro-life allies from the left) can successfully push the cultural needle in such a way that not only the Supreme Court, but also many in the American public, want to see at least some protections for preborn life, then it’s not time to give up on pushing back against the cultural shifts that have besieged us for decades.” Read more here.
By Inserting Gender Identity, Team Biden Muddies Title IX’s Protections for Girls, Women at School, by Jarrett Stepman. “Perhaps most significantly, the changes would extend the prohibition of discrimination based on sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s amazing how at this stage in the history of our republic, sweeping national social and political changes increasingly are made by bureaucratic decree. The result of the Title IX changes effectively would force all schools that receive federal funding … to conform to a radical version of gender ideology, or else.” Read more here.
50 Years Later, Title IX Is Under Attack, by Tom Joyce. “If there were no differences between boys and girls, there wouldn’t be separate teams for the two genders. Schools wouldn’t have separate soccer, basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse teams for boys and girls if sex didn’t make a difference; that would be a redundant waste of money. That’s not to say boys who identify as girls should not have the chance to participate in athletics. However, they should have the same opportunities as the rest of their male peers: to compete on boys’ teams.” Read more here.
Biden Launches Global Campaign Against ‘Conversion Therapy,’ by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The Biden White House announced a global campaign to eradicate any kind of therapy and counseling to help persons who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria… The executive order directs the Secretary of State to develop an action plan to combat conversion therapy and ‘promote an end to its use around the world,’ including by leveraging U.S. foreign assistance and promoting initiatives against ‘conversion therapy’ at the United Nations.” Read more here.
Biden Administration to Force Schools to Adopt Radical Gender Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know, by Jonathan Butcher. “Individuals – including minor-age children – who are struggling with their sexual identity deserve empathy and compassion. Parents and family are necessary parts of such responses… Despite the talk of ‘parent councils’ and ‘protecting families,’ the Biden White House wants to force a radical gender agenda on young minds and limit parents’ power to stop it.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Upholds School Choice, Free Exercise in Maine Case, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Jonathan Butcher. “When private individuals use taxpayer funding to choose a religious K-12 school for their children, those individuals are not using public money to establish a religion. The Supreme Court noted that the state’s interest in not establishing religion and maintaining government neutrality on religion doesn’t justify cutting out parents who want to exercise their religious beliefs by sending their children to schools that provide religious instruction.” Read more here.
Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats, by Ginny Gentles. “At its horribly rotten core, the culture created by the question ‘Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?’ intentionally drives a painful wedge between parents and children unless parents consent without question to immediate social and medical transition. Parents who would do anything to keep their children safe are shoved aside by arrogant and callous school staff, doctors, and therapists. Rather than assuring children that no one is born in the ‘wrong’ body, schools and many doctors and therapists choose to parrot activist slogans instead.” Read more here.
‘Misgendering’ Now a Punishable Offense in Schools, by Zachary Faria. “School boards and administrators are pumping gender ideology into schools across the country. In many cases, teachers and administrators have encouraged children to begin socially transitioning to the opposite gender without their parents’ knowledge… Now, students who do not humor these things and commit the grave offense of saying ‘she’ instead of ‘they’ are being targeted… This is the next step for a movement that demands total compliance, and it will continue to bleed into other school districts until parents put their foot down.” Read more here.
The Fall of the Wall Around Religious Education, by the Editors of National Review. “The Supreme Court, which has been dismantling this framework in a series of decisions in 2002, 2017, and 2020, has now properly and finally interred all of this as extra-constitutional nonsense. A seven-year-old attending the school of her parents’ choosing, in a faith different from her neighbor’s school, is not an establishment of any particular faith; it is the freedom to exercise every faith or none – the state of religious liberty the Constitution contemplates.” Read more here.
Easing Minors’ Access to Gender Transitioning Won’t Decrease Suicide, by Debra Soh. “…[S]tates with provisions allowing minors to access healthcare without parental or guardian consent had higher rates of suicide among young people than other states. By contrast, a similar increase in suicides was not found among individuals over the age of 18 during this time period, who would have been unaffected by these policies… Repeatedly telling gender-variant children and their families that without transitioning, a child is at a high risk of suicide runs the risk of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Read more here.
If the Supreme Court Overturns Roe, the United States Will Still Have Looser Abortion Laws Than Europe, by Michael O’Shea. “Upon further research, I felt comfortable asserting what I had suspected, and what so many Europeans seem not to realize: no matter how the justices rule in this case, the United States will continue to have looser abortion laws than virtually all of Europe. Thus, even if the worst fears of the pro-abortion lobby are realized, American abortion laws will remain radical within the Western world.” Read more here.
It’s Not Pro-Choice to Attack Pregnancy Centers That Offer Choices, by Patty Knap. “If the abortion movement’s mantra of being ‘pro-choice’ really means genuine choice, how can they reconcile the hypocrisy of attacking the very places offering choices in unplanned pregnancies? They know very well that Planned Parenthood and other abortionists overwhelmingly promote abortion – the only ‘choice’ they profit from – leaving all the documented, researched negatives out of the discussion while exaggerating the challenges of keeping and raising a child.” Read more here.
The Science on Brain Development Rebukes Those Pushing Gender Transition on Kids, by Jane Anderson. “Given this research on the immature processing that occurs in the adolescent brain, it is crucial that adults assist with decision-making, especially those decisions that involve lifelong consequences. Practically, this means that adolescents who are struggling with gender dysphoria should not be allowed to make decisions that contribute to permanent, unnecessary surgical procedures, mutilation, and infertility.” Read more here.
International Swimming Federation’s New Trans Policy Rewarding Preteen Castration Is Nothing to Celebrate, by Jordan Boyd. “There’s already a cultural push to brainwash and mutilate children. Even without sports organizations encouraging the castration of preteens, the ‘recommendations’ for irreversible sex experiments on children get younger and younger each year. The last thing this world needs is elite, global sports associations rewarding parents of children still too young to join the JV team at school for carving up their little boys.” Read more here.
The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities, by Jennifer Bilek. “With the introduction of [synthetic sex identities], the current incarnation of the LGBTQ+ network … is working closely … to solidify the idea that humans are not a sexually dimorphic species – which contradicts reality and the fundamental premises not only of ‘traditional’ religions but of the gay and lesbian civil rights movements and much of the feminist movement, for which sexual dimorphism and resulting gender differences are foundational premises.” Read more here.
Pride Month Jumps the Shark, by Jay Richards. “‘Pride’ events started a few decades ago as an activist effort to push back against the stigma attached to homosexuality. Now extended across the whole month of June, it looks more like an effort designed to do the opposite… Pride now seems less about gay and lesbian inclusion and more about abolishing the difference between males and females, and between adults and children.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology’s Fatal Consequences, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[W]hy is it that almost every one of our major institutions, from … the American Academy of Pediatrics to the Department of Health and Human Services, has endorsed ‘gender-affirming care’ and all of its consequences without question? Perhaps because, despite what they claim, they don’t care at all about the long-term health and happiness of the young adults being swept away by transgenderism. They have an ideology to uphold – and that’s all that matters.” Read more here.
Time Magazine Champions ‘Gender-Expansive’ Teens, by Tim Graham. “The two sides of this fight are labeled the ‘conservatives’ and the ‘LGBTQ advocates.’ Carlisle cannot mention ‘anti-trans laws’ from Republicans without suggesting they’ll make kids suicidal. The Trevor Project activists roll out their poll that ‘85% of trans and nonbinary youth said recent debates about anti-trans bills had negatively affected their mental health.’ Surrender to the left, or children die. That’s called ‘winning through intimidation.’” Read more here.
NYC Mayor Promotes Drag Shows for Kids, by Sarah Arnold. “The highly inappropriate group sends drag queens into schools, without parental consent, and reads kids books in their full drag costume. This year alone, the group has organized 49 drag programs in 34 elementary, middle and high schools. According to their website, they claim their events are ‘powerful,’ ‘glorious,’ and ‘crucial,’ to expose children that [sic] type of sexualization. Democrat mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) defended the recent slew of ‘drag queen’ shows hosted for kids, even openly supporting them.” Read more here.
Transgender Health Organization Updates Guidance, Recommends Children Transition Younger, by Maddy Welsh. “Chemical castration with the above listed drugs is commonly used on male sex offenders… Yet advocates for children transitioning would have minors, who cannot possibly understand the long-term consequences of chemical castration, take these same drugs… Perhaps most shockingly, the WPATH has also lowered their recommended ages … for sex reassignment surgeries, now saying life-altering, irreversible surgeries such as breast removals can be performed on children as young as 15.” Read more here.
Abortion Is Not a Religious Ritual Protected by the First Amendment, by Katelynn Richardson. “Increasingly, abortion advocates point out that religions hold different stances on abortion, arguing abortion bans trample these other religious perspectives and default to Christianity. It allows two favorite issues of social conservatives, religious liberty and pro-life laws, to be framed as in conflict with each other. But seeking religious liberty protections is not the silver bullet some activists seem to think it is.” Read more here.
EU Parliament Attacks U.S. Supreme Court, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The resolution claims that abortion is a ‘fundamental right’ and ‘essential element’ of healthcare, citing the non-binding opinions of UN human rights bodies and experts of the World Health Organization, and it condemns Federal and State laws that allow doctors and nurses to refuse to perform abortions ‘on grounds of religion or conscience…’ Abortion is not within the purview of the European Union, but the EU Commission and the Parliament consistently violate this norm.” Read more here.
Europe Dialing Back Shocking Policies on Transgender Kids and Medical Intervention, by Mairead Elordi. “As the U.S. barrels toward allowing more children with gender dysphoria to get medical intervention to affirm their new gender identities, several European countries that have been ahead of the U.S. on this issue are pumping the brakes. Some countries initially embraced puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children several years ago but are now taking a step back.” Read more here.
Online Porn Should Be Banned, and It’s Long Overdue, by David Marcus. “In 1994, when then-mayor Rudy Giuliani began the transformation of crime and poverty ridden New York City, one of his first actions was to kick the porn theaters out of Times Square. It was not a minor policy, what he understood was that those coursing avenues are the public square, and porn was choking the life out of it. Today the public square is in the palm of our hands, and it is time to tear down the virtual porn theaters.” Read more here.
Transgenderism’s Lies Have a Cost, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[N]o matter how many procedures one undergoes, no matter how many rounds of hormonal therapy are prescribed, the fact remains that a woman will always be a woman, and a man will always be a man. No wonder, then, that gender-confused persons who undergo experimental interventions in the hopes that this reality will have changed are struck by despair and hopelessness when they realize it has not. The effort to deny biological reality is doing irreversible harm to people’s bodies and minds. It is not compassionate – it’s cruel.” Read more here.
‘Detransitioner’ Tells All in Horrifying Account of What ‘Gender Affirmation’ Really Means, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Thousands of children are embarking on this path without knowing any of this. Thousands of children are opting for physical destruction while being promised happiness. Thousands of children are choosing a future entirely devoid of both sexual pleasure and the possibility of having their own children before they have any conceptualization of what they are giving up. Meanwhile, as another detransitioner told Matt Walsh in his recent documentary, each child who takes this path makes up to $1.3 million for the pharmaceutical industry.” Read more here.
Medication Abortion Set to Become Next Culture War Battleground, by Cassidy Morrison. “The culture and legal wars over abortion are shifting to a new battleground: the use of pills that end pregnancies. Abortion-inducing medication, which has become the most commonly used method for ending pregnancy, is the latest front in the battle over the legality of the procedure. A looming Supreme Court decision … could rescind the federal guarantee of abortion rights and effectively erase access to the pills in at least a dozen states.” Read more here.
Executive Action on Abortion Would Circumvent Constitutional Order, by Katelynn Richardson. “…[P]lacing the decision in the hands of state governments closer to the people is unacceptable to the proponents of child sacrifice. They want it protected and guaranteed by federal law. Despite the continued insistence of Democrats, there is no constitutional right to an abortion… Instead of letting the court course-correct and states restore justice denied to millions of unborn children killed since 1973, Democrats want to step in with government regulations that violate the established constitutional order.” Read more here.
Welcome to the Party, Pal, by Abigail Shrier. “Here, then, is the question: If our ultimate goal is return to a normalcy in which government agencies and corporations treat all Americans fairly regardless of viewpoint, how are we to achieve this? First, acknowledge that they are already weaponized and the artillery points only in one direction: against the opponents of the Left. Acknowledge that an ever-increasing tyranny is ratcheted upon those who dare criticize the indefatigable encroachment of gender ideology.” Read more here.
5 Things We Saw at DC’s Gay Pride Parade, by Bernadette Hassan. “The fact that this year’s pride parade was more family-friendly and less graphic is what made it most concerning to some onlookers, who see the left seeking to normalize the LGBTQ agenda by marketing it to younger and younger children. By presenting less visceral, objectionable material, the left appeared to encourage everyday Americans, subtly but effectively, to accept this agenda as a fact of life that is appropriate for children of all ages.” Read more here.
The Science Behind Gender Ideology Is Bunk, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Like so many toxic movements, gender ideology relies on fear to control people. Its activists have convinced our institutions that anything but full-blown acceptance of transgenderism will lead to a number of adverse effects, including increased suicide rates among children and young adults who weren’t ‘affirmed…’ A closer look at these studies, however, reveals that they don’t even come close to supporting the medical interventions that everyone … has endorsed.” Read more here.
Study Connects Jump in Youth Suicide With Transgender Treatments, Lack of Parental Consent, by Jarrett Stepman. “With so much debate among Americans over transgenderism, the conversation has been contained and controlled by much of the media, Big Tech, and countless other big institutions. They’ve suppressed any opinion or evidence that contradicts the narrative that gender transitioning is an unalloyed good that is opposed only by bigots… It appears that this social contagion not only is spreading rapidly but, as the Heritage report finds, causing direct and permanent harm to children at an accelerated rate.” Read more here.
Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide, by Jay Greene, Ph.D. “Using a superior research design, the new analysis finds that increasing minors’ access to cross-sex interventions is associated with a significant increase in the adolescent suicide rate. Rather than facilitating access by minors to these medical interventions without parental consent, states should be pursuing policies that strengthen parental involvement in these important decisions with life-long implications for their children.” Read more here.
Seattle Public High School Program Requires Students to Sign Pro-Abortion Agreement, by Bettina di Fiore. “…[T]he fourth category on the list included a politically motivated checklist, which students were expected to initial as a sign of their agreement. The following statements were included on the list: ‘Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, No human is illegal, Women’s rights are human rights.’ Taken at face value, these statements may seem inoffensive. But these are slogans used by people pushing a leftist agenda. ‘Women’s rights are human rights,’ in particular, has been co-opted by the pro-abortion movement.” Read more here.
Majority of Transgender Americans Are Teenagers, and the Numbers Are Rising, by Sarah Arnold. “According to a new report conducted by UCLA’s Williams Institute, 1.4 percent of U.S. teenagers over the age of 13 identify as transgender, that number has nearly doubled in the last few years. The study’s lead author Jody Herman said the numbers suggests [sic] that the current climate of the world has been the driving factor in why so many young adults are identifying as something they biologically are not.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Holds School Lunches Hostage to Radical Transgender Agenda, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Approximately 100,000 public and private schools … receive federal funding to provide subsidized free or reduced-price meals for qualifying children. But now, a school’s failure to adhere to ‘gender identity’ anti-discrimination policies and open restrooms, locker rooms, or sports teams to those professing to be the opposite sex will put their federal nutrition assistance funding at risk. That means that needy kids – no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity – might have to go without meals at school.” Read more here.
The Nonbinary Cult Keeps Expanding, by Debra Soh. “The best part about ‘nonbinary’ or ‘genderfluid’ identities is they are easily adopted, and no one is allowed to question their validity. For those who are looking to score sympathy points or gain social capital, third-gender identities are a relatively easy way to opt in. The fact that a larger percentage of 18- to 29-year-olds say they are ‘nonbinary’ than transgender speaks to this.” Read more here.
What the Polls Actually Say: Only 1 in 3 Americans Support Roe v. Wade, by Lathan Watts and Greg Scott. “Following the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization … a blizzard of news stories declared that support for Roe … is overwhelming and unshakable. What these reports and the polling they cite conveniently omit is one decisive fact: Most Americans have no idea what Roe v. Wade is or what it did.” Read more here.
The Benefits of Marriage Shouldn’t Only Be for Elites, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Chris Bullivant. “Four out of five children born into the bottom income quintile, but raised by married parents, had managed to escape the bottom 20% by adulthood. In contrast, those raised by a never-married single mother had only a 1 in 2 chance of doing the same. All this suggests that marriage – our most fundamental institution – is a key engine for economic mobility and public safety in communities across America.” Read more here.
Yes, Children Are Too Young for Drag Shows, by Kimberly Ross. “Rejecting drag queen events aimed at children is considered by some to be homophobic. The truth is, there are many events children should never attend and plenty of entertainment they should not consume. Standing between children and mature, violent, and/or sexually explicit things is what adults should be doing. Instead, the issue has become another culture war topic in which the Left is said to be about diversity and the Right is all about hatred. It’s dishonest, lopsided nonsense.” Read more here.
New Lawsuit Alleges a Virginia School District Is Promoting Gender Fluidity and Hiding It From Parents, by Nicole Russell. “Schools are required to be open with parents about everything that happens on their grounds, whether that’s a broken finger on the playground or a child sent to the principal’s office for disciplinary action. That these school districts … would work around federal law and normal school policies demonstrates how little they value parental rights. In fact, these school officials are acting as if their institutions are superior to parents.” Read more here.
‘Pro-Choice’ Has Always Been a Fraud, by Ryan Bomberger. “It’s not pro-choice. It’s faux-choice. And it kills those with no choice over 2,300 times a day in our nation. As an adoptee conceived in rape but adopted in love, as an adoptive father, as a husband to an incredible woman who rejected the violence of abortion when she was a single mom, I’ll keep exposing the fraud that targets the vulnerable and exploits fear for profit.” Read more here.
Disney Doubles Down on LGBTQ Programming With ‘Lightyear’ and More, by Josh Shepherd. “Disney is going all-out in joining leftists’ June celebration of Pride Month, making same-sex themes central to a new ‘Toy Story’ feature film spin-off and adding more than 100 hours of LGBTQ titles to family-targeted streamer Disney Plus… Following backlash over Disney creative executives discussing their ongoing efforts at ‘queering’ children’s entertainment, it seems Disney has decided to dismiss the concerns of many conservative parents.” Read more here.
Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Progressive’s Gender Ideology Agenda, by Jeff Charles. “…[A] new survey conducted by YouGov for SAVE, an education advocacy group, revealed that a majority of Americans are not in favor of the administration’s plan. According to the organization’s press release, about 63 percent of Americans wish to keep the ‘traditional biological definition’ in place while only 37 percent welcomed the Biden administration’s plan to change it.” Read more here.
Woman Writing for Fatherly Says ‘Absolutely’ Take Kids to Pride Parades, Despite ‘Public Nudity and Kink,’ by Rebecca Downs. “I read the actual piece so you don’t have to, and it’s not only as bad as you’d think it would be, it’s worse. The only reason for hesitation expressed in the piece is because they’re ‘new things.’ It’s certainly not that children should not be exposed to ‘public nudity and kink,’ or that such behavior is unseemly in a public setting, or that to be so vocal about this promotion is to be vocally in support of grooming.” Read more here.
Report: School Districts Receiving Training on How to Conceal Gender Identity From Parents of Special Needs Children, by Jeff Charles. “…[T]his law firm has given multiple presentations of its webinar, which is titled ‘My Name Is… A Legal and Practical Framework for Affirming Students’ Identities in their Records and in the School Setting.’ Fagen Friedman, & Fulfrost LLP (F3), the law firm in question, was making sure teachers were ‘trained to implement gender ideology interventions – behavioral transition, social transition, ideology indoctrination – without notifying parents,’ according to the report.” Read more here.
MSNBC Devoted Air Time to Hail Women Who Perform Abortions as ‘Heroes,’ by Sarah Arnold. “Host Andrea Mitchell paraded these women as ‘deeply moral women who wanted to save lives…’ Meanwhile, another MSNBC host Ali Velshi called the movie ‘remarkable’ and hailed the women as ‘smart, deeply moral human beings’ that ‘put all of their smarts to test here.’ Both hosts deem the act of performing a procedure in which it kills a human life as ‘moral.’ It seems though they don’t fully understand what being moral truly means.” Read more here.
Biden’s Trans Policies Are Putting Men in Women’s Prisons and Kicking Christians Out of Law Enforcement, by Nathanael Blake. “…[T]he just-issued executive order is a cornucopia of bad ideas, including policies that are meant to drive Biden’s ideological enemies, especially conservative Christians, out of law enforcement. Thus, Biden has ordered the government to create and implement plans for hiring and retaining federal law enforcement officers that include ‘vetting mechanisms … that … help avoid the hiring and retention of law enforcement officers who promote … bias against persons based on … sexual orientation and gender identity.’” Read more here.
Gender Differences Are Necessary and Good, by Katelynn Richardson. “Conservatives are great at railing against the woke agenda infiltrating corporations, government, schools, and cultural institutions. But they often fail to explain why the concept of gender that, until now, has been undisputed for millenniums is attractive. The culture so suddenly spiraled out of control that it sent many into defense mode. Others are afraid to admit that women and men are not the same. They shouldn’t be.” Read more here.
LGBTQI+ Pride Month Caught in Its Own Contradictions, by Ben Shapiro. “June marks LGBTQI+ Pride Month – a month honoring those who are ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex.’ This ever-expanding rubric revolves around a particular value system entirely embraced by the modern left: the notion that a person’s core identity ought to lie not in the relationship between individual desires and societal duties, but instead ought to revolve around a subjective sense of self, unverifiable by the world at large and justified against all societal roles and rules.” Read more here.
CBS Mini-Doc Shows Tik Tok Is a Ground Zero for Kids Learning About Transgenderism, by Eddie Scarry. “For the uninitiated, Tik Tok is most commonly known as a place where pre-teens and even some nerdy adults share videos of themselves doing dance routines. But … there’s a very large network on the app made up of transgender and ‘queer’ users who delight in sharing details about their sexual identities and the ways in which they’ve exposed children to those concepts as well.” Read more here.
Forcing Pronoun Usage Is Compelled Speech, by Katelynn Richardson. “Forcing students or teachers to use pronouns that do not correspond with an individual’s biological sex is a clear violation of not only Virginia state law but also the First Amendment. The government cannot compel speech and require any citizen to affirm a belief they do not hold… By accepting that someone can choose their pronouns, you affirm that gender has no meaningful ties to biology. It’s a significant concession to an entire worldview that sees gender and identity as fluid.” Read more here.
Five Key Transgender Fights Conservatives Can Win Right Now, by Scott Morefield. “We are sadly at a point in history where people who blindly accept every absurd component of so-called ‘gender theory’ control the culture, the institutions, and the psyche of this country and much of the rest of the Western world. And the rest of us – the sane ones – marvel at their seemingly overnight success and wonder how in the world we can possibly push back. But push back we must, or Western civilization will be lost.” Read more here.
How I Was Trapped by Gender Ideology, by Stephen A. Richards. “Mutilating myself hadn’t made me whole – it had only made me mutilated. Two years after my orchiectomy, I found myself in the same situation I’d been in before: Either I could admit that transitioning was never going to fix me, or I could go in for another surgery and hope that this time, it would be enough. I couldn’t make myself believe the lie again.” Read more here.
Scientists Bow to Transgender Activists Once Again, by Debra Soh. “I agree that it is important to take sex into account when conducting research, as using men as a scientific baseline … means that many biomedical findings won’t be relevant to women. But because biological sex is verboten among transgender activists, an emphasis on gender identity must be even further prioritized… Being receptive to the concerns of minority communities is, of course, a worthwhile endeavor, but rewriting science to acknowledge 0.8% of the population frankly doesn’t make sense.” Read more here.
We Have a Duty to Protect the Unborn, by Kevin Roberts. “Our work must also extend beyond the womb. We will embrace the mothers and fathers who find themselves considering abortion and are struggling with what to do. Revitalizing the culture of life means we have a duty not just to protect the unborn, but to strengthen families, provide help to those in need, and show grace to all… There’s no time to waste. We must fight tirelessly until we become a fully pro-life nation.” Read more here.
Biden Admin: K-12 Schools Must Put Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms to Get Federal Lunch Money, by Joy Pullmann. “Even if this regulation is ultimately overturned by one means or another, millions of American children will be forced to eat their school lunches with a side of sexual politics… Parents have told The Federalist that their daughters no longer use the bathrooms or locker rooms at their public schools because they don’t feel safe there. Many parents are finding after the fact that school districts are helping their children live as the opposite sex and hide that from their families.” Read more here.
Wisconsin Court Can Stop Schools From Lying to Parents About Transgender Children, by Quin Hillyer. “The school policy guide says that teachers who think they perceive gender uncertainty in young students should not just play along but actually work to ‘disrupt … the gender binary…’ Children are impressionable. If school staff are deliberately tipping the scale in favor of gender transitions while keeping parents in the dark, a child may be led along a path that does lasting damage while giving the parents no recourse to help.” Read more here.
Radical Transgender Conference for Teachers Exposes the Left’s ‘Disinformation’ Lies, by Laura Zorc. “The content of the videos shown to teachers at this conference should horrify everyone who wants what’s best for our nation’s kids. Sessions at this conference included discussions about preparing students for ‘gender-affirming care,’ in addition to many sexually explicit topics. A doctor who performed thousands of transgender surgeries on adolescent girls told teachers that there is ‘no minimum age’ for students to begin their ‘gender journey.’” Read more here.
‘Pools of Blood’: Authorities Shut Down Abortion Clinic for Endangering Patients, by Laurel Duggan. “The agency’s emergency order revealed further complaints about the clinic: women with cervical lacerations and excessive blood loss; clinic workers failing to meet requirements about monitoring patients’ vital signs such as blood pressure, including during medical emergencies; and a doctor who admitted to not knowing what emergency protocols were in place.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Refuses to Recognize Long-Term Effects of Puberty Blockers, by Dan Hart. “As it turns out, despite the NIH’s sham ignorance, studies have in fact already been done on the long-term health effects of puberty-blocking drugs on minors, and the results aren’t pretty: sterilization, reduced bone density, cognitive problems, increased body fat percentage and body mass index, decreased lean body mass, and arterial hypertension.” Read more here.
Biased Washington Law Is a Gross Violation of Therapists’ Freedom of Speech, by Nicole Russell. “Washington’s law violates the First Amendment rights of therapists with traditional views. The state has no business dictating private conversations between clients and therapists. Furthermore, it is advantageous for therapists to have the freedom to encourage their clients to consider all avenues of healing – especially when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Pushing clients to pursue only one lifestyle could be devastating later.” Read more here.
Stating Biological Facts Is Now Sexual Harassment, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…[T]he Biden administration has turned Title IX into yet another tool for radical gender ideologues to force compliance with their ideology throughout the public education system – which is exactly what’s happening in Wisconsin… If stating a biological fact and referring to boys as boys and girls as girls now counts as a form of bullying, then it is clear our society has lost its grip on reality completely.” Read more here.
The Adolescent Mental Health Crisis Is Our Responsibility, by Erica Komisar. “Newly-released statistics on suicide rates reveal a rise in adolescent suicide from 2020 to 2022… The increase in the despair and anger of teens – as reflected in rising suicide rates – are an example of the collective trauma we have all experienced. And yet this mental health crises [sic], which existed before COVID, is also a communication to us as parents, teachers, and other authority figures that we are failing our children by not preparing them for adversity in their lives…” Read more here.
A Brand New Phase of the Pro-Life Movement, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Those who are pro-life have steadily built the pro-life safety net over decades. Thousands of pregnancy centers and maternity homes nationwide provide essential medical, educational, and support services to millions of women and families each year. This is all the more impressive considering their mostly volunteer workforce and historically private funding. And as one expert on these centers points out, their clients are overwhelmingly pleased, reporting satisfaction rates of more than 97%.” Read more here.
The Left Has Effectively Banned Christian Kids From Public Pools, Libraries, and Summer Camps, by Joy Pullmann. “Given how socially contagious LGBT identification is, it’s not just about transgender issue [sic] but also exposing children to sexual information and pressures far earlier than they are ready. Hand in hand with grouping children by gender identity is forcing conversations about what that means, which pushes children earlier and earlier to declare and investigate sexual behaviors. This is destabilizing to their identity, not ‘affirming’ it.” Read more here.
Under Biden’s Title IX Changes, Wisconsin’s ‘Sexual Harassment’ Circus Over Trans Pronouns Would Ensnare Students in Every State, by Kylee Zempel. “This story is a preview of exactly the kind of routine hostility we can expect for students all over the country, First Amendment be damned, if Biden and his bureaucrats successfully write ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ into the meaning of ‘sex’ in education. If they prevail, you could be the next one getting a phone call to let you know your child is a sexual harasser for discerning between the sexes and between singular and plural words.” Read more here.
In Battle Between Religious Liberty vs. LGBTQ Rights, One Case Declares Clear Winner, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “In his ruling, O’Connor determined not only that religious nonprofits can escape Title VII liability for firing, refusing to hire, or taking other adverse job actions against LGBTQ employees, he went further, saying both sets of employers could implement sex-specific dress and grooming codes for men and women, and could require employees to use restroom [sic] designated for their biological sex.” Read more here.
The U.S. Military’s K-12 Schools and Hospitals Are Pushing Transgender Ideology on Kids, by Amy Haywood. “The excuse for keeping gender transitions hidden from parents is that it would render a child unsafe at home. However, this is sophistry parading as concern: if the teacher in Rota believed the mom was dangerous, why didn’t she follow policy that requires her to report suspected abuse, and why was the ‘unsafe’ mom still employed? Further, given that military children are at higher risk for childhood trauma, why is DoDEA pushing surreptitiously transitioning a child as an implied ‘best practice?’” Read more here.
With New Book, Pediatricians Try to Ensnare Kids in Gender Ideology, by Douglas Blair. “Other nightmarish terms the book uses to confuse children include ‘sperm-making bodies’ to refer to boys and ‘baby-growing bodies’ to refer to girls. ‘You-ology’ revels in these sex nonspecific phrases… Later chapters recommend that kids who are uncomfortable with their bodies should wear binders or ‘tuck’ their genitals. The book claims in some cases, medical intervention, including puberty blockers, is necessary.” Read more here.
Using ‘Wrong’ Pronouns Could Lead to Suspensions in Virginia Public Schools, by Joshua Arnold. “…[T]he school board conducted an annual review of its Regulation 2601, proposing edits to a 70-page-long document on ‘Student Rights and Responsibilities,’ and parents noticed something shocking. According to a short provision buried deep in the document, students could face suspension for up to five days, and possibly further punishment, for referring to a fellow student according to their biological, God-given sex.” Read more here.
Parents Against Stupid Stuff, by Betsy McCaughey. “Adults deciding where to settle and raise their families once considered tax rates, job opportunities and housing prices. Now they also have to ask themselves whether they want their children in schools that push gender fluidity, teach masturbation and provide tampons in the boys’ room for females transitioning to become males… Parents are outraged by the indoctrination and sexualization of their children.” Read more here.
The Left’s War on Children, by Mike Stenhouse. “The next major issue will be claims of the declining mental health of our nation’s youth – and it might be true to some extent. And, of course, the agenda-driven left will be ready to rush in with its latest prescriptions and school curricula, including destructive policies that will further advance its agenda and, ultimately, only make matters worse… These are purposefully inflicted wounds that will leave lifelong scars on our nation’s most precious assets.” Read more here.
Target Normalizes Transgender Lifestyle, by Nicole Russell. “Showcasing these items as if teenagers everywhere have been looking for a chest binder or unisex article of clothing grossly overestimates the number of LGBT youth, normalizing these items for kids who are not their target audience. This goes beyond a need to represent a population that claims to be marginalized. This is a blatant attempt to normalize something about which most teenagers cannot relate.” Read more here.
Cakegender? Genderfaun? Orbgender? by Jeff Johnston. “Libs of TikTok recently posted a video of a young person explaining … what ‘xenogender’ is… Well, typically, I would laugh or roll my eyes and move on with my life after seeing something like this. But this seems like a good teachable moment. Here’s a key point: Gender activists are making all this up as they go along, so don’t expect it to make sense. Here’s a second key point to understand – and act on: Gender activists and their allies want to sexualize and confuse children by inculcating them into this irrational belief system.” Read more here.
The Shifting Language of Abortion, by Kathryn Lopez. “…[T]he Pro-Choice Caucus also wants to move away from the word ‘unwanted’ pregnancy in regard to a woman seeking an abortion. Instead, it suggests the word ‘unexpected.’ No doubt, that is to make sure the girl or woman is seen with sympathy. But I see that word and want a woman faced with an ‘unexpected’ pregnancy to know that she has options, that there is support out there for her and her child. Instead, too often, all signs in her life point to an abortion clinic.” Read more here.
Marvel Has Fallen to the Woke Mob, Introduces Transgender Superheroes, by Sarah Arnold. “Escapade co-creator, Charlie Jane Sanders, said he created her to be a ‘cool weirdo,’ adding, ‘Morgan was there for Shela when she was first transitioning … supporting each other through their transitions when they were kids.’ So Marvel is making it seem normal for kids to go through transitions. Sanders said she wanted transgenderism to be a ‘key part of the story.’” Read more here.
Biden Administration Wants More Powers for International Health Experts, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The Biden administration proposes to establish an international monitoring committee of the World Health Organization to review efforts at pandemic readiness… The World Health Organization routinely describes abortion as a human right and used the COVID-19 emergency to promote abortion. The new committee would give the international agency a monitoring role similar to human rights mechanisms that routinely pressure countries to liberalize their abortion laws and regulations.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Profits Big From Getting Kids Hooked on Transgender Hormones Through the School-to-Clinic Pipeline, by Jared Eckert and Emma Sofia Mull. “Planned Parenthood has quietly been in the gender transition business since at least 2017… While those seeking puberty blockers or surgical procedures are referred elsewhere, Planned Parenthood is offering access to cross-sex hormones, promoting gender ideology in sex ed programs, and establishing ‘well-being centers’ in local high schools. The organization is looking to cash in on gender transition for years to come.” Read more here.
Court Gives Another Win for Religious Freedom – and for Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “The school system has a policy requiring teachers to call students by personally ‘preferred’ names and pronouns matching the gender each student ‘identifies’ as but then requires that when teachers communicate with parents, they use the given name and original gender pronoun. In sum, the policy requires the teacher to kowtow to a child’s wishes but keep the parents in the dark about the child’s decision to identify as a different gender.” Read more here.
Microsoft Pledges Support for Abortion, ‘Gender Affirming Care’ Travel Costs for Employees and Their Dependents, by Tim Meads. “Does your videogame company support a woman’s right to annihilate her child in the womb? Does it pay for costs related to a medically-induced gender transition for employees’ dependents? Microsoft certainly appears to be in favor of having access to such services… Additionally, it will be extending company benefits to include covering travel expenses for employees who have to go out of state in order to legally receive both procedures for themselves or their dependents.” Read more here.
7 Reasons Roe v. Wade Should Be Overturned, by Bruce Ashford. “Because of Roe, the gains of the civil rights movement were undone in an instant. A few Ivy League lawyers decided that an entire class of human beings – unborn beings – would be denied justice and equality. Those unborn beings now have far fewer rights than many species of birds, and the body count of Roe-enabled deaths far surpasses the total deaths caused by World War II. How has Roe harmed American society? Here are seven ways.” Read more here.
Transgender Lobby Has Corrupted Daily Journalistic Ethics, by Quin Hillyer. “Beneath a picture of what looks like a boy and his father, it says (with my emphasis added), ‘Granbury (Texas) High School junior Lou Whiting, 17, rests their hands on “This Book Is Gay” by James Dawson during a public inspection of books designated for removal at the Granbury school district administration building. Above, she looks over books with their father, David Whiting.’ Huh? How can an individual boy be both a ‘she’ and a ‘they’ in the same sentence?” Read more here.
Schools Across America Promote Planned Parenthood Services and Curriculum, by Spencer Lindquist. “Schools across America are partnering with the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, turning to them for sex education curriculum starting in elementary school, listing them as ‘community health partners,’ and promoting their services to students.” Read more here.
Dangerous Abortion Bill in Congress Risks Health of Baby and Mother, by Teresa Stanton Collett. “Proponents of the act claim that it simply codifies Roe v. Wade. That is not true. Rather, it establishes a regimen of abortion absolutism that goes far beyond Roe… In addition to the elimination of almost all protections states afford women and the unborn, any attempt by states to craft new protections will be subject to federal intervention anytime local abortion providers claim a proposed law impairs their ability to perform abortions freely. In short, the act will impose the most aggressive pro-abortion policy in the world outside of China.” Read more here.
Why Today’s Left Is Willing to Admit Abortion Kills a Child and Still Support It, by Elle Reynolds. “If self-gratification is our highest good, then any act (up to and including the murder of a child) becomes good if done in its pursuit. If we are our own arbiters of truth, then moral reality ceases to become an inhibition, and life itself ceases to become an inherent good. If limiting the licentious indulgence of our own desires is ‘oppression’ and therefore the greatest sin, then the anti-abortion crowd becomes the bad guys.” Read more here.
New Study on Transgender Children Reinforces Social Transitions, by Nicole Russell. “Its findings suggest that young children who socially transition to a new gender, by changing their name, pronouns, and clothes, tend to continue to identify with that ‘new’ gender five years later. The New York Times gleefully inferred that this means the right thing for parents to do when their child is questioning their identity is to begin socially transitioning them. There are a few issues with the study.” Read more here.
The Current Gender-Affirming Care Model in B.C. Is Unvalidated and Outdated, by Joanne Sinai, MD. “Canadian physicians should not ignore the potential risks of the affirmation model when there is international evidence of harm to vulnerable youth… We are in a unique position to rethink the treatment model for gender dysphoria. I hope we can begin a dialogue, so that our youth can get the treatment they need and deserve. Gender affirmation is not a one-size-fits-all model. To allow ideology to prevail over sound medicine is negligent at best.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Decision on Overturning Roe Will Be an Inflection Point for the Nation, by Joy Pullmann. “The potential overturn of Roe v. Wade is a massive opportunity to overturn a horrifying evil, and therefore to do great good. The opportunity to do great good is a strong and previously unavailable motivator. It would be a huge energizer for those who have resisted the usurping regime’s massive efforts to get us to stop seeing and talking about what we have seen that regime do to our nation. It would be the fall of a great spiritual Berlin Wall inside our nation.” Read more here.
Trans Narrative Under Fire in Sweden, by Michael Cook. “The troubling revelations from the SVT’s investigative reporters were one factor in new guidelines for gender-affirming care issued in February by the National Board of Health and Welfare. It stated that, based on current knowledge: ‘the risks of puberty suppressing treatment … currently outweigh the possible benefits, and that the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases.’” Read more here.
UN Exploits Climate Change Concerns to Push Contraception, Population Control, by Grace Melton and Jay Richards. “…[I]f you look closely, you’ll find that, at the U.N., protecting the Earth often provides cover for unseemly causes like abortion and population control. These hide in phrases like ‘meeting the unmet need for family planning.’ In the global arena, ‘comprehensive sexuality education,’ contraception, ‘safe abortion care,’ and maternal health all fall under the umbrella of sexual and reproductive health rights.” Read more here.
‘Social and Emotional Learning’ Programs Are No Substitute for Mothers, by Kimberly Ells. “Is school-based social and emotional instruction the best way to nurture social and emotional wellness in children? Some programs have reported helpful outcomes. But is there an even better, more effective way to foster social and emotional wellness in children, and therefore in society at large? Yes. It is this: Let children be raised and taught principally by their mothers and fathers while they are very young.” Read more here.
Gender Dysphoria: When Politics Influences Science, by Sarah Arnold. “The definition that was removed from a bestselling medical textbook by Merck Manual … mentioned that ‘Gender dysphoria is characterized by a strong, persistent cross-gender identification associated with anxiety, depression, irritability, and often a wish to live as a gender different from the one associated with the sex assigned at birth.’ It was removed after the Florida Department of Health cited it in a recent guidance advising against gender transitions for children and adults.” Read more here.
Polling Reveals That American People Are Not on the Side of Democratic Position of Abortions Without Limits, by Rebecca Downs. “Democrats point to how a majority of respondents do not want to see Roe overturned. A major reason for that, though, is because many don’t know overturning Roe will not automatically ban abortion nationwide, as they have been led to fear. Rather, it will allow the states to decide their own abortion laws through their elected officials.” Read more here.
Protecting Imprisoned Women From Men Who Say They’re Women, by Nicole Russell. “Women serving time in prison or jail still deserve to be treated humanely and with respect. They still have a right to privacy and safety. But, intimidated by a vocal minority, local politicians and officials have buckled under new definitions of sex and gender, showing they are more worried about being sued for discrimination by criminals trying to take advantage of women, than being sued for an assault such as rape.” Read more here.
The Problems of Putting Off Children, by Nathanael Blake. “…[G]etting married and having children helps us build and establish more substantial identities than those sought through professional advancement and personal pleasures, or relationships that always come with an exit option. In particular, the permanence of marriage and children indicates that these gifts express the deeper aspects of our identities, while also reflecting the truth that we are ordered toward giving and receiving love.” Read more here.
Biden’s Gender Transition Agenda Is Harming Children, by Washington Examiner. “The day is coming when thousands of de-transitioners, having been rushed into this idiocy as children too young to consent to it, will suffer lifelong regrets because of irresponsible people such as Levine and President Joe Biden. They will file lawsuits against their former medical providers and public school districts. And even the multimillion-dollar judgments they win will not restore their bodies or the potential their lives will have lost.” Read more here.
Democrats Don’t Just Want to Keep Roe, They Want the Unlimited Ability to Kill Preborn Babies, by Jordan Boyd. “Democrats are outraged that, according to a leaked version of the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion, the United States Supreme Court is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade – but their hypocritical insistence that abortion is the ‘law of the land’ is fueled by the party’s determination to codify abortion without any restrictions.” Read more here.
GLSEN: An Instrumental Organization Responsible for Infiltrating Schools With LGBT Ideology, by Chrissy Clark. “One organization is highly influential in infiltrating private and public schools with LGBT ideology in the form of teacher programming, resources, and research, according to an analysis conducted by a concerned parents organization. GLSEN … is the touchpoint between political activism and activism in K-12 public and private schools. The organization is responsible for teacher training, school policy guides, curriculum, and Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs in schools nationwide…” Read more here.
New Biden Title IX Order Will Help Schools Push Transgenderism on Your Kids Behind Your Back, by Sharon Supp. “All children need protection, and redefining ‘sex’ under Title IX … will endanger them. In most cases, children need the protection of their parents, not protection from their parents. Erroneously redefining ‘sex’ to include gender identity will hasten the spread of secretive ‘gender support plans,’ which, at their core, undermine parental rights. Parents should, therefore, proceed with caution, as this signals that a monumental parental rights battle looms ahead.” Read more here.
UN Actors Angry About Supreme Court Abortion Decision, by Austin Ruse. “The U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning the 50-year-old abortion regime in the United States, and some at the UN are not happy including the Secretary General… The spokesman for Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, ‘The Secretary General has long believed that sexual and reproductive health and rights are the foundation for lives of choice, empowerment and equality for the world’s women and girls.’” Read more here.
I Had an Abortion. Here’s Why I Want Roe Reversed, by Cathy Harris. “My pro-life stance is more than an opinion; it is a faith-filled, moral, and spiritual resolve. After experiencing my own abortion and sitting eye-to-eye with hundreds of hurting post-abortive women over the years, I have no other choice but to believe abortion has to end one day. It has to end for the sake of the innocent children being killed and for the scared, coerced, or misled women who feel they have no other choice.” Read more here.
Christian Employers Push Back on Government’s Transgender Procedures Mandates, by Nicole Russell. “Providing coverage for ‘sex change’ surgeries, cross-sex hormones, or other related things – especially via federal mandate – is particularly egregious to conservatives and especially to people of faith… The fact that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is mandating any business, faith-based or not, to provide coverage of these surgeries and treatments is a willful misinterpretation of the definition of sex discrimination outlined in Title VII.” Read more here.
Georgia Leads the Way in Protecting Parents’ Rights, by William Estrada. “Georgia shows us that elected officials are starting to listen to parents. It shows that parents are winning. And it should remind us, yet again, that parental rights are bipartisan. Elected officials across the political spectrum should sit up, take notice, and support the right of parents in the education of their precious children.” Read more here.
Alito’s Draft Abortion Decision Is Brilliantly Persuasive, by Quin Hillyer. “As Alito demonstrates at great length, Roe was so poorly reasoned that subsequent ‘pro-choice’ Supreme Court decisions have jettisoned all of it — both its reasoning and its practical applications. All that remains is a shell around the idea that abortion is a right… In sum, not even those who say abortion is a constitutional right can settle among themselves why it is such a right or what provisions of the Constitution actually protect it. That’s because, as written, it manifestly does not.” Read more here.
The United States Is Radical on Abortion When Compared to Other Countries, by Charlotte Pence Bond. “A more recent report by the Family Research Council … backs up the claim that the United States is far outside the norm of international standards on abortion. It showed that the United States is one of just six countries that permits abortion throughout the entirety of a woman’s pregnancy. The countries included in its report were Canada, China, Vietnam, North Korea, and South Korea.” Read more here.
Biden’s Transgender Decree, by Byron York. “Levine has declared the argument among medical professionals over. The new consensus, amazingly enough, agrees with Levine. And now, the administration will move to the next step. Since the debate is over, since there is a scientific consensus in favor of ‘gender-affirming’ treatment, those who are still criticizing are not debating the facts. They are attacking their fellow human beings.” Read more here.
The Left Is Finally Admitting That Abortion Means Killing Children, by Jordan Boyd. “The difference between the pro-life community and the left is no longer about whether babies in the womb are indeed children. It’s that, even though Biden, Goldberg, and the ACLU seem to understand that abortion ends a baby’s life in utero, they and the rest of the abortion lobby are still advocating for the destruction of preborn lives.” Read more here.
Fact-Checking 6 Outrageous Claims About Leaked Supreme Court Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade, by Fred Lucas. “Amid news reports about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would end abortion on demand, critics wailed in the media, in speeches, and on Twitter about the proposed ruling… If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it would not ban abortion but rather allow state legislatures to determine to what extent abortion is allowed in their states. Here are fact checks of six assertions made about the leaked draft opinion.” Read more here.
Unanimous Supreme Court Flies Flag for Free Speech in Case Against City of Boston, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “In a rare unanimous ruling…, the Supreme Court secured a major victory for free speech. In the opinion in Shurtleff v. Boston, authored by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, the court ruled that the city of Boston violated the Constitution when it prohibited a group from flying a Christian flag on a flagpole it had held open to other groups and their flags.” Read more here.
Democrats Admit It’s Women Who Get Abortions After All, by Laurel Duggan. “Democrats made an admission about what type of people can actually get abortions in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion… After many liberals pushed for gender-neutral terms surrounding pregnancy and abortion such as ‘birthing people’ instead of ‘women,’ prominent Democrats made statements appearing to suggest only women can get pregnant and have abortions.” Read more here.
Why Does YouTube Host This Channel That Teaches Kids About Porn and Abortion? by Bailey Duran. “One particular video discusses abortion with a purple monster as the friendly guide to all things abortion. The monster says abortion is always okay if that is what the ‘pregnant person’ wants. He also lists some reasons people may choose to get an abortion, such as they don’t want a baby, they have too many kids already, or something is wrong with the baby.” Read more here.
California Lawyers Train Teachers to Deceive Parents While Grooming Children, by Jeff Charles. “Progressives tend to complain when conservatives use the term ‘grooming’ when describing these practices. But what else are we supposed to call it, when teachers, counselors, and other school faculty are blatantly working to help kids transition without their parents’ knowledge? What else should we say when these schools are actively developing ways to avoid notifying adults when they are teaching progressive ideas about sexuality and gender to children?” Read more here.
Four Reasons to Distrust UCSF’s Study Alleging Safety of ‘No-Test’ Abortion Pill Protocol, by Bettina di Fiore. “We mandate independent trials for drug efficacy and food safety, yet we presume that abortion profiteers will produce more reliable science about the very product they sell than truly independent researchers. In no other industry would we accept the fox-guarding-the-henhouse status quo we afford the abortion industry. This study is yet one more example of the sloppy, biased ‘science’ we should expect such a situation to produce.” Read more here.
Ongoing Bathroom Wars Challenge Concepts of Equality and Discrimination, by Nicole Russell. “Many schools have attempted a kind of balancing act by allowing students identifying as transgender to use a facility designed just for them because a full transgender bathroom ban may result in an expensive lawsuit. However, many transgender students will buck at the compromise of transgender bathrooms and insist it is not equal enough. Of course, it is.” Read more here.
New Jersey Schools to Install Radical Youth Sex Curriculum, by Penny Starr. “A New Jersey media outlet reported on the new sex education curriculum set to be installed in K-12 schools in the state but did not investigate the group that designed it. Advocates for Youth is a far-left organization that pushes gender fluidity, abortion on demand, transgenderism, and promiscuous relationships to young people.” Read more here.
Sarah Has Been on Both Sides of the Abortionist’s Table. Here’s What She Wants You to Know, by Alasdaire Fleitas. “If the Supreme Court strikes down Mississippi’s ban on abortion and others like it, millions of unborn children will be sacrificed to the lie that it’s empowering for women to abort their children. In reality, killing an unborn child brings nothing but trauma, guilt, and heartbreak. Not only can the Supreme Court save the lives of millions of unborn children, but the lives of so many women may be salvaged too.” Read more here.
Gender Dysphoria and Adverse Childhood Experiences, by Walt Heyer. “Given the role of [Adverse Childhood Events] and mental illness in the development of beliefs about transgender identity, it is folly to suggest that the first and only step in treating deep hurt and trauma done to a person’s identity in childhood is to alter the body with cross-sex hormones and surgery. But that’s exactly what is happening today. I hear from people who wake up from the transgender surgery nightmare, distraught and sometimes suicidal for allowing something so destructive and ineffective.” Read more here.
How Safe Haven Laws Help Make Abortion Unnecessary, by Leanna Baumer. “Many women see abortion as an imperfect resolution to unwanted parenthood. It’s time we listen to their voices and emphasize a broadened framework for choice that includes parenting with community support services (like those freely offered by the nearly 3,000 nonprofit pregnancy help centers similar to the one I lead), open adoption, and also safe surrender options beyond birth.” Read more here.
Underwear Flattening Children’s Genitals? Just Another Example of Gender Ideology Insanity, by Debra Soh. “Medical professionals have warned that using temporary measures to modify one’s body can result in serious side effects. For example, chest binders, especially popular among teenage girls looking to flatten their breasts to present a masculine-looking form, can fracture ribs and lead to back pain and difficulties in breathing. In the case of boys, flattening the testes and maintaining them too close to the body can harm sperm production and lead to infertility.” Read more here.
Growing Up Lonely: Generation Z, by Daniel Cox. “New findings from the American National Family Life Survey show that Americans raised in single-parent homes are more likely to report having felt lonely growing up than those raised in two-parent households. They’re also more likely to miss out on formative experiences, such as daily family meals, an activity that has been associated with lower rates of depression.” Read more here.
Sexual Left Loses Ground at UN Population Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western diplomats took a rain check on an all-out battle to push homosexuality and transgenderism and other controversial social policies at the UN Commission on Population and Development. They gave up on adding new language to promote abortion, homosexuality, transgender issues, and sexual autonomy for children in the commission’s agreement early this week. They vowed to fight harder next year instead…” Read more here.
Oral Arguments at Supreme Court Offer Glimmer of Hope for Praying Coach in First Amendment Case Against School District, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “The questions facing the justices are these: When a public school employee says a brief, quiet prayer by himself while at school and visible to students, is he engaged in government speech that lacks any First Amendment protection? And if not, assuming that kind of religious expression is private and protected by the First Amendment, does the Constitution’s establishment clause require the public school to prohibit it anyway?” Read more here.
What Will It Take for Prosecutors and Politicians to Take Abortion Crimes Seriously? by Susan Wills. “There seems to be a lack of political will to mandate and fund reasonably frequent, unannounced inspections of abortion facilities for the health and safety of women and to deter illegal activities. The District of Columbia joins 19 states in exempting abortion facilities from even annual inspections. Abortion is not health care, but it has definite health impacts. If Washington’s government will not change its laws and policies, Congress should. Our common humanity requires it.” Read more here.
Protecting Kids From Bathroom Bullies, by Jameson Taylor. “…[F]eeling bullied is not the same as actually being bullied. Being asked to respect the privacy rights of other students by using a single occupancy bathroom, instead of a shared restroom or locker facility, is not bullying. Indeed, many people prefer the privacy that single occupancy bathrooms afford. In any event, making demands that violate the privacy and safety rights of other students is a form of actual bullying that will cause suffering and anxiety for many other students.” Read more here.
School District Secretly Pushes Sexual Orientation to Eight-Year-Olds Behind Parents’ Backs, by Jeff Charles. “The far left, instead of defending the teaching of this material, has chosen to lie about it. They ridicule anyone suggesting these topics are being taught to small children. It is a pathetic attempt to gaslight parents who are concerned about what teachers are teaching to their kids behind their backs. But as more of these stories surface, it is becoming more and more difficult for progressives to continue lying about it.” Read more here.
Biden Will Try to Break UN Stalemate on LGBT Issues and Abortion, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “…[T]he UN bureaucracy has increasingly become a channel for the leftist sexual policies of wealthy Western countries, including sexual autonomy for children, abortion without parental consent for girls as young as ten, and explicit comprehensive sexuality education for children younger than five. Western countries want to legitimize these developments by having UN agreements, like the resolution of the commission expected to be adopted next week, to endorse these policies.” Read more here.
New York Times Admits: Experimenting on Trans Kids Has Horrifying, Irreversible Consequences, by Eddie Scarry. “You’re supposed to be comfortable with this. You’re supposed to feel a sense of compassion for parents who go through the process of artificially, irreversibly altering their child’s biological chemistry. You’re supposed to be accepting of parents who let their kids make life changing medical choices to remove and mutilate their genitals… That this stuff is happening should upset everyone. If it’s not, there’s nothing left to say about it. The monsters have won.” Read more here.
Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Kentucky Abortion Law, but the Real Fight Is Still to Come, by Rebecca Downs. “The law also has provisions requiring abortion providers to maintain local hospital privileges in case a complication arises… There are new reporting requirements, as well as annual audits to ensure compliance. The abortion facility must also cremate or bury the aborted fetal remains, rather than treat them as medical waste. The abortion facilities, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center, claimed that they could not comply with certain provisions of the law immediately, or even potentially at all.” Read more here.
Sexualizing Schoolchildren: Comprehensive Sex Ed, by Jeff Johnston. “Years ago, if schools even taught basic sex education, educators usually promoted abstinence, emphasizing delaying sexual activity until marriage. This sex ed focused on biology, puberty, reproductive systems and preventing sexually transmitted infections. But in many schools, this has been replaced with CSE – a radical ‘rights-based’ and ‘pleasure-based’ sexuality curriculum.” Read more here.
Biden Admin Doubles Down on Pro-Abortion, Pro-Transgender Policies as It Looks to Get Rid of Conscience Rule, by Rebecca Downs. “The 2019 rule would have given teeth to HHS’ ability to enforce these protections for providers, by penalizing hospitals and practices that retaliated against those who claimed conscience protections… Conscience protections are popular with Americans. According to a poll …, 75 percent of respondents said such professionals with religious objections ‘should not be legally required to perform abortions.’ This includes 65 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of pro-choicers.” Read more here.
Pregnancy Centers Are the Answer to America’s Abortion Problem, by Thomas Glessner. “The left’s proclamations that women will be victimized if Roe is overturned ignore the magnanimous work of nearly 3,000 pro-life pregnancy centers and medical clinics. The charitable work of these centers provides – free of charge – medical and non-medical services, hope and life-affirming options to mothers who feel alone and powerless.” Read more here.
Finnish Prosecutor’s Decision Paints Picture of Hostile Path Towards Free Speech and Christianity, by Rep. Chip Roy and Sean Nelson. “The prosecutor’s decision to appeal the case is not only absurd. It paints a clear picture of what is to come for people of faith if the West continues barreling down a path that is increasingly hostile to free speech and, especially evident in this case, Christian belief. Opponents of freedom of speech and religion never shy away from an opportunity to silence debate and snuff out open discussion, which are the foundations of a free society.” Read more here.
Two Biden Rules on Trans Care Raise Religious Liberty Fears, by Cassidy Morrison. “The rule could apply in ways that would not be likely to raise religious liberty concerns. For example, it would require that an insurer that agrees to mammograms for biological women must also cover that service for transgender women, who are also susceptible to breast cancer. But legal experts who specialize in religious freedom argue that the updated rule could amount to a mandate on insurers to cover transition procedures to which religious providers might object.” Read more here.
Amid Public Concern About Grooming Kids, American Library Association Picks ‘Marxist Lesbian’ as President, by Joy Pullmann. “In the rest of the presentation, Drabinski went on to teach librarians how to change how visitors find books about sex, contradicting her claims to the Boise reporter that librarians don’t work to get sexual material into patrons’ hands. This very effort has been a part of Drabinski’s public professional work for decades, by her own public attestation.” Read more here.
Florida Follows the Science With New Guidelines on Transgender Treatment for Kids, by Katrina Trinko. “Finally, someone actually cares about the children. The Florida Department of Health released new guidelines … about treating gender dysphoria in children. Unlike the recent guidance from the Biden administration, Florida’s guidance doesn’t promote aggressive medical interventions for minors who are struggling with gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
Biological Sex Isn’t Up for Debate, by Armstrong Williams. “Regardless of what the mainstream media and Democrats might want you to think, no one can change their biological sex, regardless of the hormones or surgical procedures that they might undertake to attempt to do so. We are at a moment in time where up is down and down is up, and it’s a dangerous precedent if we allow it to foment itself as a cultural norm and standard.” Read more here.
Even the Left Is Beginning to Admit It Has Pushed Transgenderism Too Far, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Transgender orthodoxy has moved so far past the bounds of sanity that any attempt to question its effects is quickly discouraged and punished. We are expected to shut up and accept that public schools are passing policies to keep students’ gender identity transitions from parents, that medical professionals can file to remove children from their parents’ custody if parents oppose physical and chemical transition efforts… None of this is normal or even remotely defensible, and everyone, including many on the Left, know it.” Read more here.
The D.C. 5: Callousness, Cruelty of Post-Viability Abortion, by Steven Aden. “Why are we constantly warned in online reports of the D.C. 5 incident that photographs of the babies are ‘graphic’ and to view them advisedly? The pictures are hard to look at, but that’s the point… The Charlotte Lozier scholars who examined the bodies harkened back to the words of William Wilberforce, … who was instrumental in ending the slave trade. ‘You can choose to look away, but you can never again say that you did not know,’ Wilberforce said.” Read more here.
California Democrats Ban Adjectives During Public Comment Session on Abortion Bill, by Kira Davis. “California Democrats have introduced an abortion bill so shocking that it drew over a thousand pro-life supporters out to the capital of Sacramento on Tuesday night to register their protest during public comments… The Democrat response to the protesters was less than impressive and right on brand. With an estimated 1,500 people waiting to make comments, they limited the public comment session to one hour.” Read more here.
A Bipartisan Win for Religious Freedom, by Sean Nelson. “In a remarkable show of bipartisan cooperation, last week, the Senate unanimously reauthorized the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The reauthorization, included within a bill to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, makes permanent a landmark piece of legislation used to target gross violators of internationally recognized human rights. The act has been a vital tool in advancing religious freedom worldwide.” Read more here.
Kentucky Abortion Facilities Ceasing to Do Business Have Themselves to Blame, by Rebecca Downs. “Providers said there is no way for them to comply with the law given its immediate effective date. But if you think they’ll be willing or able to comply with the law even if they were to have more time, think again. ‘They said it would be difficult to comply with the law even long term because some of the information they are required to provide on the forms would violate patient privacy and they don’t think they could find funeral homes who would work with them to dispose of remains,’ the WSJ noted.” Read more here.
China’s Complex Abortion Problem, by Yi Fuxian. “…[R]educing the incidence of abortion in China is easier said than done. In the past, the authorities regarded the country’s large population as a burden, and the one-child policy not only encouraged women to have abortions but also involved the government forcing them to do so. From television screens to giant outdoor billboards to roadside electricity poles, abortion advertisements are everywhere in China. Abortion is regarded as casually as dining out is and is widely available in hospitals and clinics.” Read more here.
Powerful Arguments to Keep ‘Trans Ed’ Out of Schools, by Betsy McCaughey. “Trans advocates want greater acceptance. But instructing young kids that it’s normal for boys to become girls and vice versa is going too far. Parents rightly fear their kids are being ‘groomed.’ In the last two decades, the proportion of minors saying they’re transgender has soared to 1.8%… Children need to be protected from gender hysteria and moving headlong into transitioning.” Read more here.
In Preparation for Dobbs, Florida Is Latest State to Defend the Sanctity of Life With Abortion Ban, by Shawn Fleetwood. “The pro-life actions taken by Republican-led states come as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on a major abortion-related case this summer. As noted by … correspondent Tristan Justice, ‘a decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization contesting a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy is expected in June, with the potential to reverse the court’s landmark 1973 decision in Roe.’” Read more here.
Children’s Storybook Glorifying the Killing of Unborn Babies Disgusts Even Some Abortion Supporters, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Scores of … people pointed out that a family cannot be ‘created’ by abortion, because abortion kills a child. A family can only be damaged by these acts of violence against its weakest and most vulnerable members, not ‘created.’ Pro-choice [social media] accounts also expressed their disgust, noting that abortion bedtime stories for children is simply a bridge too far, even for those who support permitting feticide.” Read more here.
D.C. Abortion Scandal Shows the Overwhelming Systemic Bias Facing Preborn Children, by Sam Dorman. “The prevailing and callous indifference to preborn life … can only last so long. Pro-choice leftists may argue that it’s inappropriate to even consider preborn babies as the type of humans who could experience social injustice. But science has ‘literally unveiled’ humanity in the womb – and in doing so, indicated preborn babies are humans who feel the weight of social burdens even more acutely than victim groups routinely cited by the left.” Read more here.
The Left, Children and Sex, by Laura Hollis. “Why should 5- and 6-year-olds be subjected to books or other materials with sexual content? And yet, the uproar on the Left has been nothing short of astonishing. Social media is now filled with TikTok videos in which teachers are demanding the right to discuss their sexual preferences and gender identity with the students they teach, as well as the right to encourage their students’ sexual experimentation and gender confusion – all without knowledge of the children’s parents.” Read more here.
The Hidden Threat to Freedom of Conscience in the [UK] Conversion Therapy Bill, by Stuart Waiton. “Using coercion to force someone to change their beliefs is criminal. The bill, however, talks about not only coercion but ‘manipulation.’ Based on this definition, if it can be called a definition, there is the potential that anyone who attempts to persuade someone from desisting from involvement in a gay relationship could be criminalized… Either we live in a free society where people can express their beliefs freely or we do not. If the UK bill is passed, there is a serious danger that this freedom will be lost.” Read more here.
Transgender Activists Use Unreliable Surveys to Emotionally Blackmail America, by Chad Felix Greene. “The truth is, we simply cannot say what does and does not ‘cause’ suicide in youth, and we can only speculate based on the self-reports of anonymous survey takers, assuming their reports are accurate. What we can determine, however, is that there is no objective evidence to suggest increasing parental involvement in schools and restricting advanced adult education on sexuality causes distress or suicidality, certainly not in children under the age of 10.” Read more here.
Why Parental Rights Activists Use Term ‘Grooming’ in Support of Laws to Protect Kids, by Nicole Russell. “One of the strangest reactions to all this is for the left to ridicule the use of the word ‘groomer’ – specifically, the semantics of the issue – rather than condemn the conversations teachers have admitted to having all over the internet… Rather than obsess over whether or not conservatives should use this word or that word, it’d be far more productive to ascertain what adults are teaching our kids in schools and whether that’s beneficial for them or not.” Read more here.
Alabama School District Caves to Atheists, Bans Prayers at Football Games, by Todd Starnes. “The school board consulted with their attorneys and decided it would be best to stop the prayers. ‘The superintendent met with school principals, and the administration will not allow prayer at school-sponsored events, including football games,’ read a letter from the district’s attorney to the out-of-town atheists. Cowards, all.” Read more here.
How Much Is Social Media to Blame for Teens’ Declining Mental Health? by Jean Twenge. “I noticed the early increases in teen depression when I was writing my book about the generation born after 1995… At first, I had no idea why teen depression was increasing so much in such a short period of time. But then I noticed some big trends in teens’ social lives: They were spending less time with their friends in-person and more time online. That tends not to be a good formula for mental health, especially for girls, and especially when that online time is spent on social media.” Read more here.
Democrat Leadership Killed a Virginia Bill That Would Have Banned Post-Abortion Infanticide, by Ashley Bateman. “Democrats were so afraid of life-affirming legislation, leadership even pocketed a bill that would protect a baby who survived an abortion. It has gotten so radical in Virginia that Democrats won’t even acknowledge that babies who are born after an abortion procedure should not be killed. …[T]he Born Alive bill may have passed if Senate leadership had brought it to a fair hearing.” Read more here.
Biden’s Title IX Changes Are a Threat to Due Process and Women’s Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…President Joe Biden is trying to use Title IX as a tool to erase women – to force schools and universities that take federal funds to embrace the cultural radicalism of the Left, if they have not already. This poses a serious threat to the rights of students, especially female students, who will be expected to sacrifice their right to privacy and equal opportunity on the altar of gender ideology.” Read more here.
Sex Educators Say ‘Early Grades May Be the Best Time’ to Introduce Children to LGBT Issues, by Jeff Johnston. “In an online meeting with sex educators, two researchers said that sex education is ‘most important’ for children, and, they stated, ‘It can be strongest when it starts in elementary school…’ That’s right. Teach young children – even preschoolers – about gender ideology and homosexuality. And do so before basic truths – such as the reality that humans almost always form opposite-sex relationships or that people come in two forms, male or female – get ‘more deeply ingrained’ and less easy to change.” Read more here.
I Asked What My Daughter Would Learn in Kindergarten. Then the Teachers Union Sued Me, by Nicole Solas. “The principal said they don’t call children ‘boys’ and ‘girls,’ and teachers embed values of gender theory into classroom lessons… The principal told me these were ‘common practices’ but could not define a ‘common practice’ or tell me when these ‘practices’ originated. Now I wanted to know these ‘common practices’ and the educational pedagogy supporting them, but the school refused to answer my questions.” Read more here.
Lia Thomas Was Just the Beginning. Biden Administration Wants to Eliminate Women’s Sports, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Abby Kassal. “…[T]his new Title IX rule will unilaterally expand the prohibition against discrimination based on ‘sex’ to include: ‘sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (including intersex traits), pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.’ For anyone who’s been half awake since January 2021, it’s clear that this administration’s pet mission is to advance the transgender agenda.” Read more here.
Not a ‘Kitchen Table Issue,’ Jen Psaki? Actually, Our Kids Are All We’re Thinking About, by Abigail Shrier. “That the Biden administration would peddle an activist talking point with no solid factual basis signals how desperate they are to please the radical flank of its supporters. That is too bad. Leaders who mollycoddle the activists quietly corrupting nearly every institution of American life fool themselves that they are merely paying a tax. They don’t realize it’s a ransom, and that those who demand it will never be satisfied until they have despoiled every American institution. And much worse in this case: they encourage irreversible harm to children.” Read more here.
Biden Significantly Boosts Funding to UN Agency Complicit in Human Rights Abuses, by Lisa Correnti. “The newly released White House budget for 2023 requests $56 million for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and calls for removing stipulations preventing the powerful UN agency from funding programs in China. This despite a recent Congressional report confirming China’s ongoing ‘genocide’ of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, including through brutal population control programs… Language prohibiting funds for abortion and funds to China have been eliminated.” Read more here.
The Most Radical Abortion Law in the Nation, by David Harsanyi. “Colorado’s new law doesn’t merely allow abortion of viable babies, for any reason, until crowning; it makes eugenic arguments about the ‘social, moral, and economic benefits’ of not having children, as if any law or regulation compels anyone to do so. The debate, lest it be repeated, is over when life is worth protecting. According to Colorado, which has no fetal-protection laws either, an unborn baby is never considered a life – so you can stop playing them that Baby Mozart.” Read more here.
The [Irish] Government Is Keeping Us in the Dark on Abortion Data, by Maria Steen. “To date, the Minister has refused to publish any meaningful figures about the operation of the law… This approach runs contrary to the spirit of the ‘information age’ in which we live. Other countries which have made abortion legally available publish detailed statistics, which give a fuller picture of the operation of their law and the circumstances of women seeking abortions. Questions of racism, the oppression of poor and marginalised women and ‘gendercide’ arise – but we can challenge abuses only if we have the data.” Read more here.
Protecting Children From Sextortion, by Sarah Harding. “Today, children are rarely abducted by strangers in public places. Child sex abusers have new highly effective tools to find their victims. Technology allows the abuser to gain virtual access to a child and obtain sexually explicit images that are then distributed online in a matter of seconds, a crime called sextortion, which the FBI says is on the rise… Gaining an understanding of how online predators operate can help parents more effectively prepare their children for the dangers they will encounter online, including how to detect sextortion.” Read more here.
A Universal Basic Income for Transgender People? by Nicole Russell. “On March 24, the Palm Springs City Council unanimously approved [a] request … for $200,000 in funding. The purpose of that funding? To determine the best way to operate a guaranteed income pilot program primarily for transgender and nonbinary individuals. This seems discriminatory and like a waste of taxpayer dollars… No one should be homeless, transgender or not. That said, it’s wholly discriminatory for Palm Springs to spend $200,000 to figure out whether only transgender or nonbinary people need universal basic income stipends.” Read more here.
Red and Blue States Chart Opposite Courses as Dobbs v. Jackson Looms, by Sarah Westwood. “A number of red states are pursuing bans on abortion that would face potentially successful court challenges in the event the Supreme Court upholds the abortion protections established by the 1973 Roe decision. Some blue states, meanwhile, are looking to codify abortion protections in anticipation of a potential erosion of the legal precedents that prevent most abortion restrictions from getting enacted.” Read more here.
UNFPA Report Frames ‘Unintended Pregnancy’ as Global Crisis, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “How does UNFPA account for the enormous disconnection between intention and pregnancy? ‘The biggest issue, by far, is the unmet need for contraception,’ according to the new report. UNFPA has often used ‘unmet need’ interchangeably with a lack of access, but this is inaccurate. Based on surveys of women themselves, only a small percentage – about 5% – of ‘unmet need’ is caused by a lack of access to family planning.” Read more here.
Biden Administration to Demand Colleges Erase Women’s Sports, Due Process, Free Speech, and Men and Women, by Madeline Osburn. “President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is expected to finalize changes to Title IX rules in the coming weeks to expand the definition of discrimination beyond sex to also include sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule changes will have seismic implications, setting off not just state versus federal showdowns over state laws barring biological males from competing in women’s sports, but also how college campuses handle sexual harassment charges and due process.” Read more here.
Abortion Pills Take Center Stage as Supreme Court Considers Landmark Case, by Charlotte Pence Bond. “One of the main concerns with the pills is ectopic pregnancy… Such pregnancies are only visible via ultrasound, meaning pregnant women receiving abortion pills without seeing a physician wouldn’t be aware of the condition… Another concern about these drugs being sent through the mail is that this could be used to provide cover for perpetrators of sexual abuse. For example, if a young girl becomes pregnant, it’s important for her to be seen in person so a medical provider can screen for abuse.” Read more here.
Biden’s Order on Gender Transitioning Kids Shows Left Is All in on the Culture War, by Jarrett Stepman. “The left is all in on the idea that being a man or a woman is a social construct, that men can and should compete in women’s sports if they identify as women, and that children should take life-altering drugs if at any moment they feel like they are not the sex assigned at birth. The left now demands that the law, from the top down, enforces this evolution of ideas… With its new HHS order, the Biden administration is signaling that it is for the cultural revolution, and that you will accept its faith, or else.” Read more here.
Biden Doubles Down on Radical ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids, by Jay Richards. “[Arkansas’ SAFE Act] prevents doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or performing surgeries on minors to ‘affirm gender identity…’ Biden opposes this. You read that right. The White House thinks that minors can consent to their own sterilization. And Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services claims that this is the proper standard of care for treating minors who struggle with their sexed bodies.” Read more here.
In Finland, a Win for Free Speech Everywhere, by Elyssa Koren. “In no way isolated to Finland, this case is a stark example of the dangers of pervasive ‘hate speech’ laws sweeping the globe. We must not let this win obscure the reality that the day has arrived in which expressing an opinion on social media could conceivably land someone in jail. As this dystopian day dawns in Europe, Americans should take note. The U.S. is far from immune to the insidious trend of silencing – cancel culture is closing in around us everywhere, and the looming threat of jail time has already arrived on our shores.” Read more here.
The Four States Planning to Become ‘Abortion Sanctuaries’ as Others Pass Bans, by Cassidy Morrison. “The court is slated to rule in June on the most consequential abortion rights case in decades, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. The case pertains to a 2018 Mississippi law effectively banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which flouted the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to allow abortions up to the point of viability, between 22 to 24 weeks. The majority-conservative court has signaled its willingness to consider overturning Roe, a prospect that has sent blue states scrambling to preserve the right to abortions within their borders.” Read more here.
Is TikTok Dangerous for Teens? by Leonard Sax. “One parent told me: ‘…I already use the TikTok Family Pairing option so that I can see what my daughter is doing in the app.’ I remind parents that I see many teens who have created two TikTok accounts. One is the ‘clean’ account which they show to their parents and which their parents follow on the Family Pairing option. The other is the real account, where the daughter is watching, or posting, the videos she doesn’t want her parents to see.” Read more here.
Florida’s New Law Is Only Bad for People Who Believe Parents Have No Rights Over Their Children, by Eddie Scarry. “On CNN, Moricz fretted that the law would prohibit ‘queer’ children from coming out as non-heterosexual to their teachers. That impression – to the extent that it’s an honest one – appears to come from some notion that requiring schools to provide parents with total access to their own children’s health records could potentially mean ‘outing’ students to family members before they’re ready to do so. But to the contrary, the law explicitly protects students from that very scenario.” Read more here.
On Transgenderism, the Biden Administration Is Disguising Cruelty as Compassion, by Kaylee McGhee White. “[The Department of Health and Human Services] went on to claim that ‘evidence-based interventions such as puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones’ are actually essential for ‘transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents’ and should be followed up with ‘”top” surgery – to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts’ or ‘”bottom” surgery – surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization, or other procedures.’” Read more here.
Lawsuits Targeting Florida’s Parental Rights Law Get Puff Piece Coverage, by Rebecca Downs. “’After they wed in 2016 when same-sex marriage became legal in Florida, they thought they would be guaranteed all the “rights and privileges” that come with it, Casares says, including having their child be protected and treated equally under the law,’ Carlisle’s piece dramatically begins in part. There’s no indication, though, that Casares and Feinberg, as well as their child, will not have those ‘rights and privileges,’ including when it comes to ‘having their child be protected and treated equally under the law.’” Read more here.
A Teachable Moment – Let’s Tell Teens the Truth About Sex and Its Consequences, by Janet Morana. “Organizations like Planned Parenthood have been telling teens for decades that sex is a normal and natural part of adolescent life. Of course, the nation’s number one abortion seller would say that, but the reality is that sex is hazardous to teenagers’ health. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise and teens are among the groups most impacted… Teens have a lot to lose when they become sexually active, so instead of encouraging this behavior, or looking the other way, let’s face it head on.” Read more here.
Yes, Schools Are Secretly Trying to ‘Gender Transition’ Kids, and It Must Be Stopped, by Emilie Kao. “More mothers and fathers across the country are waking up to the shock that schools and government officials are promoting transgender ideology in the classroom and then ‘socially transitioning’ confused children, sometimes even behind a wall of secrecy. ‘Gender support plans’ put out by school administrators require school employees to use names and pronouns that align with a student’s gender identity instead of their biological sex.” Read more here.
UN Experts Exceed Their Mandates on Same-Sex Relations, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The text of CEDAW contains no direct references to lesbians, homosexuality, or sexual minorities, and its use to create new categories of human rights protections in these areas is controversial and not supported by states parties to the treaty. Nevertheless, the CEDAW Committee has used its communications to advance such a standard on numerous occasions, particularly in the last two decades.” Read more here.
Gay Lobby Disappointed at Just-Concluded UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The 54 Member States of the UN Commission on the Status of Women have refused to bow to U.S. and EU pressure on homosexual/trans issues. The just-concluded commission adopted an agreement largely along the lines of past years, with marginal bureaucratic gains for homosexual/trans issues and abortion groups through ambiguous terms like ‘sexual and reproductive health’ and ‘women in diverse situations and conditions.’” Read more here.
Disney Executives Admit: Of Course We’re Grooming Your Children, by Elle Reynolds. “Disney isn’t just grooming children with radical sexual propaganda – now they’re bragging about it. On the heels of Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education law, which bars educators from instructing kindergarten through third-grade students about sexual ideology, multiple executives and employees from the Walt Disney Company admitted their own personal missions to deluge 5- to 9-year-olds with as much of their own sexual ideology as possible.” Read more here.
Leaked Documents Show How Teachers Recruit Students, Form Gay and Transgender Clubs in Schools, by Christopher Tremoglie. “For example, one of the recommended activities is for teachers to ask students their Kinsey Scale rating. …[T]he Kinsey Scale … emphasizes that ‘sexuality is fluid’ and that human sexuality does not fit into ‘two strict categories.’ Moreover, it asks participants to describe their emotions behind having sexual intercourse with people of the same sex and other sexual fantasies. It’s a completely inappropriate activity for teachers to do with students, regardless of age.” Read more here.
Finnish Court Rebukes State Prosecution of Christians for Saying God Made Men and Women Different, by Joy Pullmann. “Rasanen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola were acquitted of all four ‘hate crimes’ charges against them for speaking the Bible’s teachings that sex is rightly reserved for lifelong marriage between one man and one woman. The three-judge court not only cleared the two Christians but ordered the prosecution to pay their legal costs, ruling that in a free country courts have no place deciding permissible religious views.” Read more here.
At UN Commission on Status of Women, Far Left Ties Gender Ideology, Abortion to Climate Change, by Grace Melton. “Whatever its stated theme, radical feminists and their allies in Western governments and the UN bureaucracy use the annual event as cover for radical policies and abortion on demand. This year, they folded their abortion promotion into left-wing gender ideology and yoked it with the well-funded climate agenda… It’s hard to believe that the United Nations is serious about improving women’s lives when it seems to promote abortion at every turn. Furthermore, its embrace of gender ideology threatens to erase women by denying the realities of biological sex.” Read more here.
Now, a California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect, by Wesley J. Smith. “As in the Maryland law, if a state actor seeks to bring an action against people who give birth or those who help them ‘based on their actions or omissions’ with regard to ‘perinatal death,’ that person or entity can be sued… One blue-state bill that would allow a born baby to be neglected to death might be an anomaly. A second that does that – and perhaps could be interpreted to allow infanticide, also – is a pattern. The cultural Left is blazing new grounds of depravity.” Read more here.
This School District Might Be the Worst Violator of Parental Rights, by Ian Prior. “By both pushing students to conceal their sexual and/or gender identity from their own parents and dismissing objections of parents, there is little doubt that the Eau Claire Area trainings comprise unwarranted usurpation, disregard, and disrespect for parental choice when it comes to biological sex, whether that choice is based on faith or a basic understanding of human biology.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Declines Religious Liberty Case, but One Justice Hints at Potential Outcome in Future Cases Like It, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[T]he Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a religious organization claiming it had the right to refuse to hire individuals who did not share its religious beliefs. In denying the case on technical grounds, Justice Samuel Alito indicated that if it or a similar case came before the court in the future, the justices could likely find in favor of such a right for religious employers.” Read more here.
High-Quality Study Finds Preschool Enrollment Makes Children Learn Less and Misbehave More, by Joy Pullmann. “This trend of increasingly negative disparities over time among preschool attendees also affected student behavior records, the study says… These negative behavioral findings included decreased rates of school attendance, violations of school policies such as cheating and disobeying the dress code, being held back a grade, and being diagnosed with a learning disability or emotional disturbance.” Read more here.
USA Today and Gender Studies Experts Confirm: Women Don’t Exist, by Zachary Faria. “Between establishment media and their chosen ‘experts,’ we’re clearly in good hands… The reason Jackson’s response is such a big deal is precisely that it exposes the ideologues such as Dastagir, who are imposing their anti-science zealotry on media, schools, and sports. They use genetic abnormalities to justify their view that men and women don’t biologically exist and are entirely interchangeable social labels. It doesn’t make any sense, but if you can’t trust gender studies professors, who can you trust?” Read more here.
What Sen. Mike Lee’s Discussion of Abortion Procedures and the Media Censorship Says About the Issue, by Rebecca Downs. “It wasn’t just that Sen. Lee brought up the issue, specifically in the form of the particularly gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure, that is worthy of attention, but how pro-abortion journalist Aaron Rupar, of Vox, covered it, or, more accurately, didn’t… Many who called Rupar out offered that if abortion is no big deal to someone who is pro-abortion as he is, then it shouldn’t be a big deal to discuss the method.” Read more here.
Will Finland Side With Religious Freedom? by Frank Wolf and Arielle Del Turco. “We must not allow the secular equivalent of blasphemy laws to take root in law or culture. What’s unfolding in Finland should be a wake-up call to stand for our freedoms, rather than take them for granted. We may not think that such a case could happen in the United States, but Räsänen thought the same thing about Finland until it happened to her.” Read more here.
Jackson’s Failure to Define ‘Woman’ Indicates She Won’t Protect Females on Supreme Court, by Nicole Russell. “By refusing to answer the definition of ‘woman,’ Jackson leaves the door open to what she thinks about sex, gender, and controversial cases like Bostock v. Clayton County… If Jackson is unable or unwilling to define what a woman is in a legal sense, this can pose real problems for future cases she may hear as a sitting Supreme Court justice. How can she know what the law says on sex and gender identity if she cannot define sex? How can she rule in cases on women’s issues or rights when she isn’t sure how to define a woman?” Read more here.
Parent Bill of Rights Would Let Wisconsin Parents Sue Schools for Exploiting Our Kids, by Alyssa Pollow and Emily Donohue. “Wisconsin’s parent bill of rights establishes a statutory legal right for parents to direct their child’s education and a legal framework to hold schools accountable to this law. Among the rights enumerated in the bill are the right to review and receive access to educational materials, the right to be notified about and opt out of certain educational topics, the right to choose the name and pronouns one’s child goes by at school, … and the rights to be notified about school safety concerns and student surveys.” Read more here.
No, School Boards Are Not ‘Banning Books,’ by David Harsanyi. “If parents want, they can, in only a few minutes, order ‘This Book Is Gay,’ ‘Out of Darkness,’ or ‘We Are the Ants’ at a reasonable price. But Granbury Independent School District has no constitutional obligation to stock its shelves with novels touching on rape, abortion or transgenderism; there is no tenet of free expression that demands libraries make books on racial identitarianism available to kids; there’s no rule that state [sic] schools must keep books on a shelf in perpetuity simply because a librarian ordered it.” Read more here.
Mother of Trans Teenager: Los Angeles County Killed My Daughter, by Tori Richards. “’The more you pull on this thread, you will be shocked,’ said a Brooklyn parent named Emmaline… ‘We have been lied to, brainwashed and manipulated – all to turn my child’s nonconformity and anxiety into a pharmaceutical product.’ Emmaline took a crash course in child dysphoria three years ago when her 12-year-old daughter suddenly announced she was gay, then later decided she was transgender.” Read more here.
‘We Are Just Guinea Pigs:’ Women Describe Trauma of Transitioning as Teenagers, by Tori Richards. “Social media is filled with a neverending stream of detransitioners who are trying to undo the effects of hormone therapy and invasive surgeries such as hysterectomies and mastectomies… The average age to detransition is 23, approximately five years after undergoing transition, a clinical survey of 237 participants showed. Seventy percent realized that their gender dysphoria was related to other issues, such as existing depression.” Read more here.
Top Pediatrician: Teenage Transgender Medicine a Deadly Path, by Tori Richards. “Transgender health care is a big business, so it’s not clear if the runaway train can be slowed any time soon. Van Meter said he has seen a 500% increase in treatments on minors over the past decade. Online sites such as Plume offer a one-stop shopping experience complete with virtual doctors who can sign off on prescriptions and refer patients for surgery for a monthly $99 subscription. Sites such as Reddit are filled with posts of teenagers asking for doctor referrals and giving surgery advice.” Read more here.
WHO Guidelines on Abortion Imply Conscience Objections Are ‘Indefensible,’ by Kevin J. Jones. “The document’s twenty-second recommendation addresses conscientious objection, contending that there is a ‘human rights obligation to ensure that conscientious objection does not hinder access to quality abortion care…’ The WHO document suggests ‘prohibiting conscientious objection in urgent or emergency situations’ and also regulating conscientious objection in a way that includes ‘identifying, addressing and sanctioning non-compliance.’” Read more here.
Religious Freedom Is Under Threat in Victoria, by Andy Mullins. “In reality this means that a religious school may no longer prioritise the employment of teaching staff who support the religious ethos of the school… The law only recognises the right of specific teachers in religious schools to teach religious knowledge, but not the right of the school as a whole to build a culture informed by faith. Faith and life are decoupled under this law. It is a direct attack on religion and on the rights of parents.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Is on Life Support. My Day Watching Lia Thomas Swim, by Colin Wright. “At some point, and I suspect it will be soon, the force of cultural pushback in response to the excesses of gender ideology will begin to prevail… Stark absurdities, like what occurred at the NCAA Women’s Championships last week, will only fast-track gender ideology’s demise. Reality can only be warped so much before it eventually snaps back to reclaim its original form, and more and more people are everyday becoming privy to the destructive nature of the current gender madness.” Read more here.
Kansas Weighs Protecting Rights of Children, Families in Education, by Jonathan Butcher. “The proposal includes key provisions being considered in many other states. For example, the Kansas proposal allows parents to ‘be informed of and inspect’ the materials that educators use in the classroom. That way, parents can talk with their children about controversial topics before, during, and after they complete an assignment. Families can also object to material that is not age-appropriate for children.” Read more here.
Colorado Legislature Creating New Way for People to Become Parents While Denying Best Interests of Children, by The Daily Citizen. “This bill does nothing less than facilitates the legally streamlined creation of intentionally motherless or fatherless parentage of children so that same-sex couples can merely ‘assign’ a child’s other ‘parent’ based on the desires of the adults involved, rather than the fundamental needs of the child. Be sure, this is a very radical step in family law that should be resisted. If two women or two men propose they are the parents of a child, this bill would establish them as legal parents without question from anyone. All that is needed is the declaration of the two adults.” Read more here.
Distorting Florida’s Parental Rights Bill, by Jerry Newcombe. “…[G]ender dysphoria is a form of depression. And while puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgeries may provide temporary relief, they don’t address the root issue: ‘When you don’t like who you are at the core of who you are, you’re depressed about who you are.’ Why should parents, who are responsible for their children’s education and well-being, have to pick up the pieces as our society recklessly destroys these little children and their futures?” Read more here.
Including Rachel Levine Among the Women of the Year Is an Affront to Women and Girls, by Nicole Russell. “USA Today is suggesting that the achievements of Levine, who spent over 50 years living as a biological male, are the same as biological women and their unique attributes. It is wholly unfair to biological women… Women did not work tirelessly to achieve the right to vote, and then the right to work on equal terms, and then the right to get a credit card without a cosigner just so transgender females could best them in track, on the swim team, and in high-ranking government positions.” Read more here.
Why the Act of Marriage (Still) Makes a Difference, by Harry Benson. “So do we need marriage? Are the poor leading the way by abandoning it? Are the rich hanging on to marriage as some kind of status symbol? Is marriage permanently dented, or is it just going through a bad patch? What I want to do is restore your confidence in marriage. I want to reassure you that the statistics continue to show that families who marry tend to have better outcomes, both adults and children, both rich and poor alike.” Read more here.
Canada’s Crackdown on Religious Freedom Is a Wake-Up Call for Americans, by Jorge Gomez. “Americans must confront a difficult question: Is a wave of religious hostility, tyranny and intolerance headed to the Land of the Free? The shocking truth is that similar and equally brazen violations are already happening in our nation. It’s no longer a dystopian fantasy to think of religious citizens being muzzled and kept from living out their faith. It’s an undeniable reality…” Read more here.
WHO Advises Telemedicine Abortions/Eliminate Conscience Protections for Doctors, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “With regard to conscientious objection by health care providers, the guidance recommends that it be restricted so as not to impose any barrier to accessing abortion… As the WHO continues to expand its pool of potential abortion providers from doctors to all levels of medical practitioners, the number of people seeking conscientious exceptions from involvement with abortion also increases. This guidance also ‘suggests’ that pharmacists and pharmacy workers should be included among abortion providers.” Read more here.
Marie Stopes International and Abortion, Inc., by Hayden Ludwig. “That report also found that Marie Stopes doctors were pressuring female patients to undergo abortions, often ignoring or bulk-signing the pre-consent forms required by British law… A year later, government inspectors discovered that Marie Stopes staff were ‘encouraged’ to suggest patients undergo abortions because it was ‘linked to their performance bonuses,’ a feature the inspectors called the group’s ‘cattle market culture.’” Read more here.
Students Are Being Groomed by Teachers to Embrace LGBT ‘Glitter Families’ in Place of Parents, by Jonathon Van Maren. “LGBT activists will claim that … kids identifying as LGBT face genuine danger from their own families. Government employees, in other words, care more about these children than their parents do, and as such those employees must be both instructed and enabled to protect children from their families. Combine this with omnipresent LGBT sex education beginning in the earliest grades and increasingly presenting children the option of changing genders, and the results are inevitable.” Read more here.
Florida Law Is Pro-Freedom, Not Anti-LGBTQ, by Star Parker. “Anyone who wants to publicize this as, ‘Don’t say gay’ should also publicize it as saying, ‘Don’t say straight.’ Because that’s what it’s about. Removing discussion about sexual orientation from classrooms of toddlers. But for LGBTQ activists, anything not actively promoting their agenda is taken as opposition. Therefore, for them, freedom, and the tolerance and neutrality that it requires, is by definition anti-LGBTQ.” Read more here.
Americans Across the Political Spectrum Need to Say No to Men in Women’s Sports and No to Corporate Identity, by Kara Dansky. “Most legacy media outlets also misleadingly use language designed to confuse us all. Media usages of phrases such as ‘transgender athlete,’ ‘transgender children,’ and ‘transgender prisoner’ and of wrong-sex pronouns are deliberately designed to manipulate readers into questioning their own sense of what is true. Don’t let them get away with it. Every time anyone uses language that obscures the truth, we contribute to the lie. Let’s all commit to using language that is grounded in material reality instead.” Read more here.
New Media Outlet Examines the Evidence for ‘Gender Medicine,’ by Bernard Lane. “Maybe the gender clinics could start a program for new referrals, matching them up with young adult ‘detransitioners’ who have stopped taking hormones and reclaimed their birth sex. Those detransitioners might tell the would-be transitioners that high hopes for medical treatment, especially for gender medicine with its weak evidence base, can be disappointed in practice, leaving a patient with side effects and regret.” Read more here.
When It Comes to Minor Transition, Gender Activists Leave Lawmakers Little Choice, by Debra Soh. “As someone who supports transitioning in adults and is in favor of personal autonomy, in an ideal world, banning something would not be my preferred line of defense. But I have seen the extent to which trans ideology’s unscientific tentacles have woven their way into medical, educational, and scientific organizations. I am highly skeptical that activist groups responsible for these changes will ever consider quitting while they are ahead.” Read more here.
Progressive Group Slammed for Creepy Attack on Florida’s Parental Rights Bill, by Tim Meads. “The progressive group ‘Together Rising’ is being slammed for its creepy attack on Florida’s ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill and for its point-blank admission that they view other people’s kids as something society should control. While it may seem like a new development, observers have been warning for several years the Left’s assault on the traditional family unit is explicitly linked to indoctrinating children with their progressive political agenda.” Read more here.
By Any Other Name, by Helena. “It’s understandable that any young person exposed to this kind of belief system would grow to deeply resent being white, ‘cis,’ straight, or (biologically) male. The beauty of gender ideology is it provides a way to game this system, so that you can get some of those targets off your back and enjoy the camaraderie of like-minded youths. …[I]t’s as easy as putting a ‘she/they’ in your bio. Instantly you are transformed from an oppressing, entitled, evil, bigoted, selfish, disgusting cishet white scum into a valid trans person who deserves celebration and special coddling to make up for the marginalization and oppression you supposedly now face.” Read more here.
Maryland Legislature Considers Sick Bill That Could Legalize Infanticide Up to 28 Days After Birth, by Olivia Summers. “…[T]he bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/ manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion. In other words – this bill will effectively legalize infanticide… And it gets worse. Because the language that is used is without clear definition, the bill could prevent any investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth and may extend to infants as old as four weeks!” Read more here.
Here’s Why Florida’s Anti-Grooming Bill Is Necessary, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The legislation is really an anti-grooming bill meant to protect young children from coercive leftist theories on gender and sex. …[L]aws like the one being proposed in Florida are not overreactive or irrelevant but necessary. There are people out there, like Robertson and Turner, whose primary goal is to indoctrinate and sexualize young children, and they view the classroom as the perfect place to do both. Florida’s bill would make sure they’re allowed nowhere near it.” Read more here.
Trans Activists Funded by Big Pharma Push Biased Research Promoting Medical Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “A … comprehensive review of nine studies failed to find evidence that hormonal therapy and puberty blockers were helpful. The review pointed out common flaws in transgender treatment research, such as confounding variables and bias resulting from observational studies that lack control groups. Yet the media has widely publicized studies funded by pharmaceutical corporations and activist groups which claim to find that ‘gender-affirming’ medical care … is good for kids’ mental health.” Read more here.
Activists Hosting ‘Sex-Ed Summer Camp’ for Children as Young as 7-Years-Old, by Rebecca Downs. “Another answer confirms that children will see condom demonstrations. ‘At this age, kids are primed for level-headed learning. They are information-gatherers. There is no shame or ickiness associated with using bandaids and that same philosophy is applied to condoms and other barriers in this body-positive curriculum,’ the explanation reads.” Read more here.
Colorado Leftists Want to Legalize Abortion Up to Birth, by Zachary Faria. “Colorado has no limits on abortion, but that apparently is not good enough. Colorado Democrats are advancing a bill to codify its lack of abortion restrictions and to prevent unborn children from having independent rights under state law. According to Axios, the bill is ‘a first step toward asking Colorado voters to approve a constitutional protection on the 2024 ballot.’” Read more here.
Actually, Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is Common Sense, by Tom Joyce. “Woke gender ideology denies reality. People are male and female… Meanwhile, concepts such as nonbinary, genderqueer, and other fringe genders don’t belong in the classroom at that age. Telling children young enough to believe in Santa Claus that they might not be a boy or a girl and that they can pick their gender is a great way to confuse young children.” Read more here.
Florida and Texas Are Right to Fight Back in the Transgender Debate, by the Editors of National Review. “Beyond grade three, the bill allows for gender ideology to be taught so long as it is ‘age-appropriate.’ But ‘age-appropriate’ according to whom? Is there ever an appropriate age to tell a child that puberty may be optional? Discussing varieties in human sexuality and identity with older children is one thing, but some ideological creeds – gender ideology and critical race theory among them – are so dubious and divisive that they ought to be kept out of the classroom.” Read more here.
The FDA Should Follow England – and the Science – on Mail Order Abortion, by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Tessa Longbons. “Without direct, in-person consultation between a pregnant woman and a medical professional prior to chemical abortion, not only is it difficult to diagnose serious risk factors such as an ectopic pregnancy, but the door is left wide open for vulnerable women and girls to be bullied or physically forced into an unwanted abortion. Unfettered and unfiltered access to abortion pills dramatically reduces the possibility of detection and deterrence.” Read more here.
Biden Uses International Women’s Day to Promote Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “In his official statement marking yesterday’s celebration of International Women’s Day, President Biden lauded his administration’s efforts to assist women, including ‘a whole-of-government effort to protect reproductive rights.’ It’s difficult for progressives to imagine celebrating women without, in the same breath, calling for more abortion.” Read more here.
Fighting Abortion Now Requires Fighting Americans’ Increasing Hatred of Children, by Brenna Lewis. “Along with the rise of the term ‘childfree’ (reducing the idea of children to burdens), Pew is finding that an unprecedented number of Americans don’t plan to have children for no reason other than that they don’t want them. The study, released in November 2021, found that a whopping 44 percent of childless 18- to 49-year-olds said they’re not too or not at all likely to have children.” Read more here.
Utah Governor Caves to the Left’s Radical Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The contents of pro-women’s sports legislation and how to best preserve equal access to competition are certainly up for debate. But the fundamental principle of these bills, the belief that women’s sports and female athletes deserve protection, must never be compromised. By refusing even to consider Utah’s bill, Cox betrayed this principle and proved he cannot be trusted to defend women’s rights against the radical gender ideology that would undermine them.” Read more here.
The New York Times Misleads on Texas Abortion Trends, by Michael J. New. “…[A] closer look at the Times article indicates there is much less to their claims than they suggest. First, even taking the data at face value, the increases in mail-order abortions and out-of-state abortions fail to totally offset the overall decline in the abortion rate. Even the Times admits that the heartbeat law is preventing hundreds of abortions every month and has saved thousands of lives since it took effect.” Read more here.
On International Women’s Day, Oppose the Violence of Abortion, by Sarah Michalak. “Worldwide, abortion is used aggressively against precious preborn baby girls. A five-year study reported in 2019 found ‘(n)early 23.1 million females are missing due to sex-selective abortions in 12 Asian and European countries.’ This is a failure on the part of our global society and something that this year’s International Women’s Day theme of ‘gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,’ could highlight, given America’s track record.” Read more here.
Wisconsin School District: Parents ‘Not Entitled’ to Know Kids’ Gender Identity, by Matt Margolis. “The latest outrage comes out of the Eau Claire School District in Wisconsin, where a slide shared during a staff development training session instructed teachers that parents are ‘not entitled’ to know their kids’ gender identity. The slide … says the following: ‘…Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities. That knowledge must be earned. Teachers are often straddling this complex situation. In ECASD, our priority is supporting the student.’” Read more here.
Abortion Industry Promotes ‘Missed Period Pills’ so Women Won’t Know If They Were Pregnant, by Carole Novielli. “In an attempt to normalize abortion by using deceptive euphemisms, the abortion industry is now referring to the use of mifepristone and/or misoprostol (the same drugs as are used in the abortion pill regimen) as ‘missed period pills’ or ‘later period pills.’ The drugs are being sold to women without a confirmation of pregnancy, … allowing them to escape the knowledge of whether or not they killed their own preborn children.” Read more here.
Senate Democrats Fail to Codify Roe v. Wade, by Lisa Correnti. “Prior to the vote, Schumer justified his actions saying that ‘abortion has never been more at risk’ and that every American deserves to know where his or her Senator stands on the issue. Schumer’s statement confirmed suspicions that the vote was called with the November mid-term elections looming and the abortion lobby demanding to know where Senators stand before they direct election funding.” Read more here.
The Latest Body Mutilation Fad Pushed by Trans Activists Is Not ‘Life Saving,’ It’s Dangerous to Human Health, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Breast binders are essentially wraps that flatten the breasts of girls who wish to identify as boys so that they can ‘present’ as male. Binders can cause back pain, shoulder pain, chest pain, shortness of breath, and fractured ribs – especially if used long-term… If girls use breast binders as they enter puberty, the results are often irreversible. But breast binders are all the rage right now, promoted by trans vloggers and YouTube stars as well as activists.” Read more here.
In Wisconsin, a Fight Over Whether Children Belong to the State or the Parents, by Andrea Widburg. “In the massive battle shaping up across America, public school districts are metaphorically carrying a banner saying ‘All your children are belong to us’ [sic] in their battle against parents over children’s gender (not to mention racial issues). What’s happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, exemplifies this battle and can be summed up in a sentence from a staff training session: ‘[P]arents are not entitled to know their kids’ [gender] identities. That knowledge must be earned.’” Read more here.
Don’t Buy Media’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Distortions About Florida’s Parental Rights Bill, by Jarrett Stepman. “This provision is a response to what’s happened in some schools, where a student is pushed by school officials to undergo a gender transition without the permission or knowledge of parents. There may have been a time and place where such restrictions on sexually explicit content for young children didn’t have to be addressed, but the reality is that more of such content is getting injected into children’s books and other materials.” Read more here.
What We Learn From Democrats’ Failure to Pass an Extreme Abortion Bill, by Nicole Russell. “The legislation would have repealed all existing state laws that specify abortion restrictions or protect the unborn in some way, endangering laws that ban late-term abortions… The bill also would have prohibited future laws regulating abortions and the abortion industry. This is especially gut-wrenching, because as technology has improved and our understanding of the human body has grown, abortion laws have reflected such progress.” Read more here.
The Moral Atrocity of ‘Top Surgery,’ by Miriam Grossman. “Increasingly, confused girls with mental health issues are lining up to have their breasts removed, erroneously believing my colleagues who tell them the operation will alleviate their emotional pain and allow them to emerge as their authentic selves. Girls as young as 13 are having ‘top surgery,’ a euphemism for a bilateral mastectomy – the removal of both breasts – in order to create, as gender surgeons put it, a ‘masculinized’ chest.” Read more here.
Joe Biden Shamelessly Promotes Abortion as ‘Advancing Liberty and Justice’ and ‘Access to Health Care’ in SOTU, by Rebecca Downs. “During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden delved into the abortion issue, though he didn’t mention it by name. Instead, he framed it as ‘rights of women’ and ‘health care…’ Referring to the abortion procedure, which ends the life of an unborn child as being about ‘advancing liberty and justice’ as well as ‘protect[ing] access to health care’ and ‘continu[ing] to advance maternal health care for all Americans,’ drew outrage.” Read more here.
Performing ‘Sex-Change Procedures’ on Kids Is Child Abuse, Texas’ Attorney General Says. He’s Right, and I Should Know, by Walt Heyer. “Adults should not subject children to surgery that removes healthy organs and causes sterilization, nor endanger them with drugs to block normal onset of puberty or to induce cross-sex appearance. Adults should protect children’s long-term health and well-being, not experiment with it… The first step in helping anyone, especially children, is to see their troubles through an appropriate lens, free from political ideology.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Takes Another Important Religious Freedom Case, by Nicole Russell. “…[S]he does not agree with gay marriage due to her orthodox religious beliefs. So, she would have to decline to design websites in celebration of such a marriage… Thankfully, the First Amendment was designed to protect just such beliefs. Anti-discrimination laws were formed to prevent discrimination, to keep malicious bigots in check. But Colorado’s language is such that it turns the First Amendment on its head. It now makes the people who embrace the most traditional beliefs the ‘bigots.’” Read more here.
Doubling of LGBT-Identifying Americans Is Due to Trendiness, by Debra Soh. “According to the report, the LGBT percentage of the total population has doubled from 3.5% to 7.1% in approximately 10 years. As one could reasonably expect, LGBT self-identification was more common among young people. For example, about 11% of millennials and 21% of Gen Z identified this way. That’s right, roughly 1 in 5 Zoomers says they are gay or transgender. This is in contrast with only 4% of Gen Xers and 3% of baby boomers.” Read more here.
Secret Teacher Portals Reveal ‘Pronoun Surveys,’ ‘Black Lives Matter Curriculum.’ Here’s What I Found in the Leaked Content, by Kenny Xu. “Preschool-aged children are highly impressionable, and using books like ‘Sparkle Boy’ and ‘When Aidan Became a Brother’ are bound to create an unhealthy focus on one’s own sexuality at an extremely vulnerable age. It is quite conceivable that a normal 5-year-old girl, upon reading one of these books, suddenly decides she is trans based upon a classroom experience.” Read more here.
U.S. Senate Considers Abortion-on-Demand Bill, by Lisa Correnti. “The bill passed the House of Representatives in September by a vote of 218-211. The abortion lobby has pressed Senate Democrats to take up a bill in response to a Supreme Court decision that may restrict abortion rights. The bill would roll back nearly all state laws that restrict abortion enacted over the past 40 years, including laws on parental notification, informed consent, late term abortion, dismemberment abortion, telemedicine abortion and conscience protection.” Read more here.
Colombian High Court Says Aborting Disabled Children Can Never Be a Crime, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The high court said it is through abortion that women, children, and ‘gestating persons’ exercise their sexual and reproductive freedom and put into practice their own individual system of beliefs and values. The reasoning in the Court’s decision follows the lead of the legislature of Argentina and the Supreme Court of Mexico, both of which over the last two years recognized abortion as a right for all ‘gestating persons.’ It remains unclear if this refers only to women who identify as men or also men who identify as women.” Read more here.
Schools Using ‘Transition Closets’ to Hide Children’s Transgender Identity From Parents, by Jeff Charles. “…[E]ducators are using ‘Transition Closets’ as a means of helping students dealing with gender dysphoria to conceal the issue from their parents. The practice allows them to socially transition to the opposite sex without their parents’ knowledge… Transition Closets appear to be present mostly on university campuses at the moment. However, they could be far more ubiquitous in K-12 schools than it seems. The secretive nature of the project could mean it is flying under the radar at other schools.” Read more here.
The War on Parents Continues, by Ben Shapiro. “Florida is now considering a bill, the Parental Rights in Education bill, that would restrict primary schools from indoctrinating children on matters of sexual orientation or gender identity and would require schools to inform parents about minors who begin identifying as LGBTQ in school. None of this should be controversial… It is parents who care most about their children, not school administrators; it is parents who shape the values and choices of their children.” Read more here.
Biden’s Stealth Expansion of Abortion Policy Is a Losing Battle, by Jeanne Mancini. “What this means in plain English is that HHS will attack all existing federal constraints on abortion and generally make life more difficult for pro-life people. Biden’s Food and Drug Administration has already eliminated restrictions on mail-order abortion pills that too often have serious side effects. If Becerra and Biden get their way, many more safeguards will fall. Conscience protections will also be weakened or eliminated altogether.” Read more here.
The Violence Against ‘Individuals’ Act, by Alexandra Desanctis. “Under the House bill, legislation that was originally intended to protect women from domestic violence now includes ‘transgender’ and ‘gender non-conforming’ individuals in addition to biological women… The bill would allow biological men who identify as women not only to be placed in women’s prisons but also to seek shelter in the same housing as vulnerable women fleeing abuse, and it doesn’t grapple with the obvious complications this poses in the context of domestic violence.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Measures Sweep the Nation as Three More States Move to Protect Life in the Womb at 15-Weeks Gestation, by Nicole Hunt. “If Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, Arizona law would automatically outlaw abortion in the state. However, if the Supreme Court stops short of overturning Roe and instead only upholds Mississippi’s 15-week restriction on abortion, pro-life lawmakers in Arizona want to have this law in place to protect pre-born babies at 15-weeks gestation.” Read more here.
The Gender Cult Marches On, by Abigail Shrier. “The Gender Ideologues and Critical Race Theorists care little for the building blocks of traditional education – math, reading, writing, history. Traditional subjects are viewed primarily as vehicles for advancing their agenda, time slots into which propaganda must be inserted. The activists are in the process of commandeering every part of the school day and numberless impressionable American minds. They wreak identity confusion in our young and teach kids to hate their bodies and their country.” Read more here.
The Realities of Life and the Lies of Abortion, by Kathryn Lopez. “The Times wants you to believe that because the heart of a 6-week-old fetus isn’t fully developed, it’s beat doesn’t count. It’s ‘only a primitive tube of cardiac cells that emit electric pulses and pump blood.’ The piece contends: ‘The consensus among most medical experts is that the electrical activity picked up on an ultrasound at six weeks is not the sound of a heart…’ You don’t have to be a doctor to find this absurd.” Read more here.
NYT Science Reporter Flunks on the Science of Transgender Athletes, by Zachary Faria. “Ghorayshi’s piece goes on to cover the typical ‘straight news’ structure of a piece on transgender athletes, claiming that ‘some people’ think it is unfair that men compete against women while other people are worried about ‘inclusivity.’ At one point, the piece cites the director of the ‘Adult Gender Identity Clinic’ in London as saying that biological men may even have a disadvantage in some women’s sports – which sports that would be, exactly, isn’t immediately clear.” Read more here.
How a Trial in Finland Could Have Worldwide Effects on Government Persecution of Religion, by Joy Pullmann. “It’s not clear Finland’s hate crimes law even bans controversial speech, but Finland’s top prosecutor is arguing that it does. If the prosecutor wins the case, it would mark an unprecedented expansion of identity laws that exist in most European countries, many U.S. cities and states, and that U.S. Democrats are trying to make a nationwide law in The Equality Act… The charges against the two Christians include an attempt to criminalize statements they made years before the law being used to prosecute them passed.” Read more here.
Meet the Sex Shop Founder Who Is Grooming Children Through Books in School Libraries, by Spencer Lindquist. “It isn’t a fluke that a leftwing sex shop founder has been propped up as an authority on sexuality, with direct access to children. Media and education institutions, alongside several leftwing activists, have helped mainstream such fringe beliefs. The author is praised because of, not in spite of, the extremism of his sexual worldview. …[T]he author pointed out that some of his critics believe that he is ‘warping people’s ideas of gender.’ He flatly responded, ‘Maybe I am.’” Read more here.
EU Increases Abortion Funding, Demands Abortion Loyalty, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…European leaders have made it clear that opposition to abortion will not be tolerated among their own members. When Maltese politician Roberta Metsola was elected president of the European Parliament, she had to give assurances that she would promote the parliament’s position which she characterized as ‘unambiguous’ in favor of abortion. Prior to that Metsola had been an outspoken pro-lifer.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Celebrates ‘National Condom Week’ With Lies, by Ruth Institute. “Even Planned Parenthood itself states on its website: ‘If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they’re 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren’t perfect, so in real life condoms are about 85% effective – that means about 15 out of 100 people who use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant each year…’ But that’s good business for Planned Parenthood. Most of its income comes from the 345,000 abortions it performs each year.” Read more here.
Cut the ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Line, Corporate Abortion. Real Help Doesn’t Hurt the Preborn, by Kristan Hawkins. “The abortion lobby sells women short, and then sells them an abortion. Claims that ‘women need abortion to succeed’ imply that women are too stupid and weak to succeed while parenting – they’re just silly damsels in distress who can’t be trusted to handle career AND family. In any other setting but an abortion vendor’s office, that kind of misogyny could get you canceled… Abortion hurts women. It can never deliver the one thing it promises – an end to problems. All that’s ended is a child’s life.” Read more here.
Abortion Activists’ $3.7 Billion Blowout, by Hayden Ludwig. “For evidence that the abortion industry is perhaps the single most powerful player on the left, look no further than its mountains of cash. In 2020 alone, pro-abortion activists raked in a stunning $3.4 billion and spent nearly $3.8 billion. That is quite a leap from the $1.9 billion the industry spent in 2019 – undoubtedly a consequence of the huge amount of money it spent on the 2020 election. It is a stunning display of wealth and illustrates the abortion industry’s enormous impact on our politics.” Read more here.
Kids as Young as 13 Are Crowdfunding ‘Sex Change’ Surgeries to Chop Off Their Body Parts, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Over the last few years, an entire industry aimed at providing transgender accessories to children has sprung up to meet – and drive – the demand for gender-bending supplies. Children hooked on the idea of changing genders through peer contagion or Internet trans celebrities can order ‘breast-binders,’ which flatten the chest, or ‘packers,’ which girls use to ‘present’ as having a penis, online without their parents’ knowledge… Now, a Daily Mail report indicates that children are crowdfunding their sex change surgeries online.” Read more here.
Finnish Christian on Trial for Quoting the Bible on Twitter: ‘God Is Working,’ by Joy Pullmann. “Rasanen and Pohjola are being prosecuted for stating basic Christian beliefs about sex and marriage. One of the three charges against Rasanen is for tweeting a picture of a Bible verse at Finland’s state church to criticize its co-sponsorship of a homosexual parade. ‘This is a very serious issue, because for Christians the Bible is the word of God, and there is no Christianity if you are not allowed to agree with the Bible,’ Rasanen said.” Read more here.
Does a Teacher Have a Right to Refuse to Call a Girl a Boy? Virginia’s Supreme Court May Decide, by Virginia Allen. “Vlaming said he tried to avoid using female pronouns with the student, but in the fall of 2018, he accidentally called the student ‘she’ in front of the class. The same day, Vlaming was called to his principal’s office and put on administrative leave. Superintendent Laura Abel said Vlaming could return to teach at West Point High if he would use male pronouns proactively to refer to the female student. Vlaming again explained that he could not in good conscience refer to a female as a male.” Read more here.
States Must Follow Florida’s Lead on Combating Fatherhood Crisis to Rebuild Strong American Families, by Chris Sprowls. “The fact is, one in four children live without a father figure in their home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and nearly every negative outcome plaguing so many of today’s youth has been linked to their lack of a present and intentional father. Studies conducted by the National Fatherhood Initiative have shown that when children are raised in father-absent homes, they have a four-times greater risk of living in poverty and are twice as likely to drop out of high school. Six in 10 youth suicides come from fatherless homes.” Read more here.
California Schools Can Change Students’ Gender Categories Without Parent Consent, by Dov Fischer. “The California Teachers Association adopted a policy in January 2020 stating students should be able to access hormone therapy without parent consent, for the sake of ‘equity.’ …[M]inors can bill their parents’ insurance without their parents’ consent for gender-affirming care, which includes hormone therapy or ‘sex-change’ operations. Today’s accommodations could consign a child to lifelong ramifications – powerful hormone treatments, a lifetime of meds, inability to bear offspring, horrific and grotesque surgeries that irreversibly remove core body parts.” Read more here.
Arizona Legislators Propose Communist-Style ‘Community Schools,’ by Kimberly Ells. “The CDC’s ‘Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child’ model focuses on 10 components… Note that family falls dead last on the list. This is not a trivial accident. While ‘parental and family involvement’ are given robust lip-service in such initiatives, the main thing the community school model does is reduce the influence of parents and exponentially expand the role of the state-run school.” Read more here. Editor’s note: Though this specific bill in Arizona has reportedly been pulled, the article still contains valuable information about the promotion of “community schools.”
Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill Hits Target: Gender Ideology Harms Kids, by Jay Richards and Jared Eckert. “Lawmakers in the Sunshine State have introduced a new bill, Parental Rights in Education. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that may be because big media have mislabeled it as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill. The bill would not ban the word ‘gay.’ Rather, it would protect children from teachers and other school officials who seek to sexualize and bombard them with gender ideology. In particular, it would require schools to be transparent with and get permission from parents for any health services students receive.” Read more here.
Transgender School Policies Are a Safeguarding Nightmare, by Stassja Frei. “Many parents will be shocked to learn that schools around Australia already have policies that allow male students to use the toilets, change rooms, and even overnight accommodation meant for girls. There is no requirement to gain consent from other students or to inform parents. What could possibly go wrong?” Read more here.
Could Biden Bypass State Laws by Placing Abortion Clinics on Federal Land? by Katie Yoder. “As the Supreme Court considers a case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade’s 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, legal experts are exploring strategies to protect abortion access. One such option proposes placing abortion clinics on federal land within states that restrict or ban abortion. The idea is that these clinics would fall under federal governance, rather than state law.” Read more here.
New York Times Falsely Claims Unborn Babies’ Hearts Aren’t Really Beating, by Steven Ertelt and Micaiah Bilger. “For decades, the scientific world has known that unborn children are living human beings whose lives begin at conception. Their hearts begin beating before any mother knows she’s pregnant, and their body begins to develop very quickly – well before abortions are routinely done to end their little lives. But, in its latest bit of scientific revisionism, the New York Times falsely claims unborn babies don’t have beating hearts. This new terminology is not based on facts or scientific evidence. It’s based on an agenda that supports abortion on demand.” Read more here.
Inside LGBTQ Picture Books for Young Children, by Ellie Gardey. “LGBTQ activists are brazen with the ideology they put into their children’s books. They intend to make the children reading their books become part of the LGBTQ movement, base their understanding of family, love, and relationships around the brainless rallying cry ‘Love is love,’ and see themselves as gendered, multi-gendered, or non-gendered spirits who happen to inhabit a body that may or may not match that spirit’s gender(s) — if it has a gender at all.” Read more here.
Christians Across Australia Furious Over Religious Bill Drama, by Matt Young. “…[T]he Australian Christian Lobby said the bills were ‘intended to help faith-based schools,’ but they now ‘do more harm than good.’ Five Liberal MPs joined with Labor and the crossbench on Thursday to extend the protections to gay students to those of diverse gender identity. The ACL said in doing so, ‘the loss of this protection would outweigh any benefits that could be obtained by the Religious Discrimination Bill.’” Read more here.
C-Fam Investigation Reveals Lack of Agreement and Nefarious Connections in UN Human Rights Mechanism, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “A C-Fam investigation reveals that the influence of these wealthy countries has also infiltrated the [Universal Periodic Review] at the level of regular citizens. Non-government stakeholders are invited to submit their own reports on countries’ human rights records. C-Fam has found local organizations submitting abortion and SOGI friendly reports are actually funded by the European Union, Canada and other powerful governments. These organizations present themselves as part of the grassroots.” Read more here.
Signs for Hope in Protecting Women’s Sports, by Debra Soh. “The issue of transgender athletes has been tucked under the guise of promoting human rights when many transgender people are in fact furious at this activism. For example, activists will claim that transgender women are biologically female, or that transition bestows upon them a cervix… The more damage these activists do, the sooner change will be forthcoming. As organizations and individuals increasingly find the courage to challenge this ideology, many more will be emboldened to do the same.” Read more here.
Religious Discrimination Bill Passes Lower House Along With SDA Amendment, by Neil Foster. “The ‘presenting problem’ was seen to be the possibility that a faith-based school would expel a student on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Leave aside the fact that as far as I am aware no religious school in Australia has ever done this. What s 38(3) provides is a statement that a religious school can operate in teaching and caring for students in accordance with its faith commitments, which is the very reason for its existence! To simply repeal it is, in my view, a bad move.” Read more here.
How Many LGBT Kids Commit Suicide? Not as Many as You Think, by Michael Cook. “So it is true that transgender youths commit suicide at a higher rate, although it is orders of magnitude less than the alarming reports in the media – and in Parliament. But is this to be attributed to the fact that they identify as trans? …[T]he Society for Gender-Based Medicine (SEGM) pointed out that trans kids often have other mental health conditions as well. ‘Adolescents referred to the GIDS differ in many other ways from their peers of the same age: they are more likely to suffer from depression and to be on the autism spectrum, for example. These conditions increase the risk of suicide,’ it says.” Read more here.
Parents, Do You Know What Your Kids Are Learning at College? Disturbing ‘Sex Week’ Events Underway Nationwide, by CBN News. “New Orleans’ Tulane University is hosting numerous Sex Week events, including discussions of fornication and polyamory. Students can even drop by the Department of Sociology’s table and play the ‘Wheel of Fornication.’ Another event is called ‘Sexy Bingo’ where students can ‘engage in conversations about sexuality and learn about safer sex practices, sexual anatomy, sexual behavior and preference, and pleasure.’ Billed as ‘not your grandparents’ bingo,’ winners will receive prizes that include sex toys.” Read more here.
Major British Newspaper Admits What Pro-Lifers Already Know: Back-Alley Abortions Are a Myth, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The Western media works to paint these countries not as family-oriented nations that love and value children, but as bitter hellscapes where untold millions of women die in back alleys. They never claim that they are seeking to legalize abortion for their own profit, … they always claim it is for the good of the people they are demanding accept it. No lie is too large not to find its way into print. This makes a recent correction by the British publication The Telegraph rather shocking — not because it got abortion numbers wrong, but because it bothered to admit it.” Read more here.
Trans Health Association Recommends Mental Health Assessment Before Teens Transition. The New York Times Isn’t Convinced, by Nicole Russell. “It’s still refreshing to see a paper like The New York Times acknowledge the myriad of problems with teens transitioning and publish the cautionary guidelines, but it didn’t exactly leave it at that. It worked pretty hard to go to bat for the transgender ideology that suggests the only way to handle gender dysphoria is to transition through surgery and hormones. This is unfortunate. Conservatives must continue to battle the media and reframe the topic.” Read more here.
Child Custody’s Gender Gauntlet, by Abigail Shrier. “Courts are … seeing a child who has a feeling of gender dysphoria as no different from one born with a cleft palate. From this perspective, the only relevant question in a custody dispute involving a transgender-identified minor is: When will you allow him to get the necessary surgery to fix his body? Once a court swallows gender ideology, in other words, judges will believe that the only thing left for a loving parent to do, after an adolescent announces a trans identity, is shuttle him to the doctors who will alter his body and contribute clapping-hands emojis to the photos he posts on Instagram.” Read more here.
Biden’s Latest Proposal Would Force Insurers to Pay for Gender ‘Transition,’ by Jay Richards and Jared Eckert. “Behind ‘gender-affirming care’ is the hope of aligning the recipient’s body with his or her gender identity. Such ‘care’ … cannot achieve the impossible: to change someone’s sex with chemicals or scalpels. The Department of Health and Human Services rule … would displace biological sex as a criterion for medical care with a fluid and illusory notion of gender identity. This, in turn, would also serve as precedent for further policy changes elsewhere in the administrative state.” Read more here.
Vermont Plans to Enshrine Legal Abortions Right Up to Birth, by John Klar. “Vermont has long embraced this barbaric extremism with regard to the unborn. Its leftist legislature has steadfastly avoided acknowledging fetal personhood at any age, which leaves pregnant women gravely unprotected from domestic abusers who murder their unborn children — there is no Vermont recognition of these as homicides, even if the child is viable.” Read more here.
Do Critics of ‘Conversion Therapy’ Live in a Fact-Free Zone? by Michael Cook. “First, in 2022, what is ‘conversion therapy?’ Abusive violence no longer happens – at least not in the countries which are banning it. Second – and even more important – where is the peer-reviewed expert proof that ‘talking conversion therapy’ is harmful? … An article published this week in a leading peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Psychology, claims that there is none. American sociologist Paul Sullins states bluntly that ‘even for persons for whom SOCE has had no efficacy, there is no discernible psychosocial risk.’” Read more here.
Religious School Tells Parents It Will Apply Its Religious Beliefs, by Neil Foster. “Under Queensland law, the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) says that detrimental treatment of people on various grounds is unlawful, including the grounds of ‘sexuality’ and ‘gender identity’ (see s 7). One area in which such discrimination is forbidden is ‘education’… However, there is an important question as to whether setting out moral principles which a school believes, while saying that enrolment decisions will not be made on the basis of the specific questions of sexuality or gender identity, amounts to a breach of the Act.” Read more here.
Transgender Ideology and the Rise of the Thought Police, by David Robertson. “Nicola Sturgeon denies, despite all the evidence, that there is any conflict between transgender rights and sex-based rights. Anyone who dares to question that is automatically labelled ‘transphobic…’ The irony and folly of the policy is seen when they argue that having everyone believing the same state doctrine is ‘crucial to promote diversity.’ It appears that we can believe and practise only what the government decrees.” Read more here.
Sex Offenders Are Laughing at Us When They Identify as Female, by Debra Soh. “Male violent offenders and rapists have been given special accommodations because they identify as women, and presumably, those in charge of these provisions are afraid of transgender activists. Has anyone stopped to ask how everyday transgender people feel about this? And what message does this send to victims and women? Really, I’m surprised that every single male offender hasn’t taken it upon himself to do the same.” Read more here.
Another Unhinged Professor Has Been Exposed as a Pedophilia Apologist, by Spencer Lindquist. “Let’s be abundantly clear: this is not a complicated issue. In fact, there can be no simpler issue. Pedophilia is evil. That’s it. We shouldn’t accept the notion that pro-pedophilia sentiments are valid ideas to be contended with in the marketplace of ideas by the use of rhetorical flourish or superior philosophizing. Illiberalism is no crime when your opponent uses bad-faith arguments to justify moral atrocities that target the most vulnerable among us, victimizing them in ways they can’t even comprehend.” Read more here.
The Truth About My Parental Bill of Rights, by Greg Abbott. “Texas parents have every right to know what is being taught to their children, and under my plan, we will expand parents’ access to the course curriculum and all material available in their child’s school… We must protect them from obscene content while they are in the classroom. My plan would ensure that any educational personnel convicted of providing minors with pornographic materials will lose their educational public credentials and state licensing, forfeit their retirement benefits, and be placed on the ‘Do Not Hire’ list.” Read more here.
College Professors Who Promote Pedophilia, by Michael Brown. “This begs the question, were other professors totally unaware of his views? Did no administrators know about it? Did no students ever complain? Was the university totally in the dark? What Kershnar and Russell advocate is monstrously evil. The fact that they could do it for decades as paid professors shaping the views of our children is mind-boggling and sickening.” Read more here.
There Is No Such Thing as a Pregnant Man, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Such propaganda occurred late last week when it was revealed that Apple’s latest software update, iOS 15.4, included a ‘pregnant man’ emoji. Obviously, the powers that be at Apple are trying to normalize such lunacy in the hope that there are enough stupid people willing to be bullied into accepting it… I empathize with the internal anguish of someone who longs to belong to the opposite sex. But I will not accept fiction as fact. Men cannot have babies. They cannot be pregnant. No one who respects the truth or science can ever accept such lies.” Read more here.
Schools Conspire With Outside Groups Behind Parents’ Backs to Counsel Kids on Myriad Gender Choices, by Brenda Lebsack. “In the elementary school where I teach, we have new mental health workers being hired right out of college… I asked, ‘If a kindergartner tells you he believes he’s both genders, how are you trained to deal with that?’ She responded, ‘To affirm whatever he says he is, including his pronouns.’ I said, ‘If the kindergartner says, “Please don’t tell my parents, because they won’t like this,” what are you trained to do?’ She said, ‘We must keep it confidential until children feel comfortable to “come out” publicly about their gender identity, and that includes parents, because we need our school to be a safe place.’” Read more here.
New Poll Shows Strong Opposition to Mail-Order Abortions, by Michael J. New. “…[T]his year’s Marist poll was unique because it was the first to ask about mail-order chemical abortion drugs. The survey found that 63 percent of respondents oppose new Biden administration FDA rules eliminating the requirement that women obtain chemical abortion drugs in person from a medical professional, allowing them instead to obtain them through the mail without an in-person appointment. That opposition to the new FDA rules was consistent across a wide range of demographic groups.” Read more here.
Does a Seattle-Area Coach Have a Prayer in His Supreme Court Case? by Salena Zito. “The protection of religious freedoms does not benefit just people of faith; it also protects the nonbeliever. The secular elite … don’t understand that notion, which is why they often will dismiss it, look down on it or mock it. That’s why watching the Supreme Court arguing Coach Kennedy’s case will be so compelling: It will open a window into how much regard people hold for their freedoms, as well as how the press covers it and how politics is affected by it.” Read more here.
Trans Athletes, the New York Times, and the Ivy League, by Dennis Prager. “Like virtually every other university in America, and every other Ivy League college, the University of Pennsylvania threw its women swimmers under the bus. Not only did it not side with the women swimmers, nearly all of whom, according to reports, felt cheated when Thomas beat them in every race they competed, but it had no reaction to Thomas displaying male genitals in the women’s locker room… Of course, neither Cornell nor Harvard defended their women either.” Read more here.
University of Pittsburgh Report Tries to Explain Away Barbaric Experiments With Aborted Babies, by Madeline Osburn. “Pitt and the lawyers they hired at HPM clearly have no intention of addressing the initial allegations or answering questions such as: Did Pitt facilities perform illegal partial-birth abortions or infanticide in operating a fetal kidney harvesting program? Instead, the report backfired, raising even more questions that lawmakers and taxpayers must demand answers to.” Read more here.
No One Benefits From Highly Inaccurate Prenatal Tests More Than Planned Parenthood, by Mary Szoch and Joy Zavalick. “Planned Parenthood’s website inconspicuously recommends that mothers discuss prenatal testing with their doctors in order ‘to make sure you’re healthy and that your fetus is developing normally.’ Of course, the abortion giant stands to gain from convincing mothers to receive prenatal testing that will incorrectly tell many that their child will be born with painful or life-threatening conditions.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Opposes Bill to Stop Coercing Women to Have Abortions, by Mike Fichter. “…Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates have attempted to downplay the significance of coerced abortions as a form of reproductive coercion. Who gets hurt in this strategy? Not only the innocent baby, who dies at the hands of an abortionist, but the mother, whose victimization may extend from the home front of domestic abuse, right into the local and global arenas of human trafficking. In other words, women and girls who are already victims of abusers, predators, and traffickers.” Read more here.
What Pro-Life Really Means, by Kathryn Lopez. “All life is ‘sacred and fragile,’ Cardinal Dolan said… And he challenged everyone present and listening to step up to the plate and support Walking With Moms in Need, an initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. To combat the evil of abortion, we need more and more people showing what pro-life means: love for women and children, not violence. We need a culture where the alternatives to abortion are ubiquitous. This can be done. It must be. And we might just find some common ground along the way.” Read more here.
ACLU Opposes Transparency Law on Educational Materials, by Jonathan Turley. “Greater transparency on public education (like other government programs) would seem a good thing… School boards are elected by the voters who have a right and a need for such information… Parents have a say in how their public schools are run, which is why these boards [sic] positions are subject to elections. Yet, the ACLU is opposing greater transparency, declaring ‘Curriculum transparency bills are just thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools.’” Read more here.
Why Accepting Child Transgenderism Will Pave the Way for Accepting Pedophilia, by Spencer Lindquist. “The push for childhood transgenderism is predicated on a perverse and extreme individualistic sentiment, specifically that children’s rights as individuals imply an autonomous ability to make irreversible decisions regarding their health… The dangerous claim that children can meaningfully consent to puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, or genital mutilation is … also leading our society down a sinister path towards accepting pedophilia. Here’s how.” Read more here.
NCAA, Leaders Are Deliberately Turning a Blind Eye to Injustices in Women’s Sports, by Chelsea Mitchell. “They used to call me ‘the fastest girl in Connecticut.’ But I couldn’t outrun an injustice… At the end of the race, it’s about biology, not gender identity. And no amount of testosterone suppression can change a male’s innate physical advantages, like bone structure and muscle mass. And fast as I am, I can’t outrun those advantages. Or the injustice that protects them. For saying that out loud, I’ve been branded by some as a sore loser and a hater.” Read more here.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decriminalizes Infanticide, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The court’s sentence described the strict abortion laws of El Salvador as part of a pattern of systemic gender discrimination rooted in El Salvador’s pro-life laws and law enforcement protocols. The Inter-American Court ultimately told El Salvador to revise its infanticide laws, which currently allow the imposition of the full 30- to 50-year prison sentence foreseen in cases of homicide. Manuela had been sentenced to the minimum 30 years when she was found guilty of infanticide in 2008. But the court didn’t stop there.” Read more here.
Forcing Abortion on the World, by Katelyn Walls Shelton. “Officials at the UN and the WHO … are attempting to export abortion around the world. Conservative countries are being threatened: You either legalize and expand abortion access or forfeit your healthcare funding. Negotiations around women’s health at the UN often stall on the abortion issue. Ideological negotiators undermine advances in women’s health if unlimited abortion rights language is not included. And the women who would serve to benefit from these resolutions are collateral damage in the fight for total abortion rights.” Read more here.
As I Found Out With My Daughter, Not Even Catholic Schools Are Safe Havens From Gender Ideology, by Charlie Jacobs. “I asked if they were aware of the information being presented at Pride Student Union events, specifically the formal meetings on gender, or whether they had queried the faculty monitor, the club president, or any members. Neither Principal K nor Father B would answer that question, waving it off as if I had no right to be concerned. Yet, Father B told me that my daughter needed the club. He warned me that she might commit suicide without it, and said she needed a place to make friends.” Read more here.
No, California Should NOT Abolish Parenthood in the Name of Equity, by William Estrada. “Parental rights are a good thing. It is good for children to know their parents, to be raised by their parents, to be loved by their parents. It is good for children to grow up around their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings. It is good for society. Parental rights are the bedrock upon which civilization stands.” Read more here.
Truth About Abortion: Everyone Knows It’s a Baby, by Katherine Beck Johnson. “The justices inside the Beltway need to take a step back from their wonky legal arguments and take a minute to remember just what Mississippi is fighting for: the legal protection of life inside the womb. This isn’t some arcane property dispute where nothing more is at stake than esoteric legal doctrines spelled out in Latin. This is a case over the fundamental right to life and the ability to prevent the greatest civil rights abuse of our time: the legalization of killing our most vulnerable brothers and sisters.” Read more here.
NCAA’s Transgender Policy Change Proves It’s Losing the Debate, by Kaylee McGhee White. “These girls want what they are owed: a level playing field and a chance to compete and win. Whether the NCAA will admit it or not, the organization knows it has denied female athletes that chance by forcing them to compete against transgender opponents. Hence the policy change. NCAA officials would rather let the blame fall on individual sports organizations than own up to allowing the destruction of women’s sports by male competitors.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration Must Protect the Unborn From Bogus Prenatal Tests, by Ken Blackwell. “Have you ever listened to the news, and come across a story that really makes you angry? Some stories just touch a nerve. This recently happened to me, when I learned that expecting parents are being given bad information about the health and wellbeing of their unborn child. Worse, because of misleading test results, it seems some families may be terminating healthy pregnancies.” Read more here.
Canada’s War on Children, by Mia Ashton. “…[A]llowing teens to sacrifice their fertility and healthy body parts in the name of gender identity will soon be seen for what it really is: the worst medical scandal the world has ever seen. We’re in the eye of the storm right now, and we won’t be able to see the true scale of the catastrophe until it has passed. But once it has, and the masses of young adults facing a lifetime of regret are visible for all to see, everyone involved in Canada’s education system will have to accept their part of the blame for the damage done.” Read more here.
These Trans TikTok Videos Are Pushing Kids Over the Edge, by Anonymous Author. “I caution anyone who chooses to watch this documentary to use their discretion. It is truly shocking – but it is what our kids are freely able to access online. Every parent should watch it if they feel able. However, there should be no discretion for any politician, journalist, health professional or teacher who is pushing this harmful, abusive ideology to our children. Any who wish to utter one more word about ‘acceptance and inclusion,’ and about how ‘affirming’ medical transition is, should be forced to watch this documentary and imagine their own daughters walking around their homes, topless, sporting flat, scarred chests.” Read more here.
Conscientious Objection to Abortion Is at Risk in Europe, by Michael Cook. “Even if M. Macron took a holiday from logic, the law never does. And the logic of enforcing a right to abortion upon Europe leads inevitably to denying the right to conscientious objection. This issue seems to have escaped scrutiny by journalists. When the EP voted to support abortion, it also voted to force doctors to provide it… In short, if abortion is ordinary medical care, doctors must provide it. There’s nothing new about this deeply flawed and totalitarian argument, but it is chilling to think that it could be enforced across Europe.” Read more here.
Standing on Shoulders of Science to Turn Page on Roe v. Wade, by Bernadette Tasy. “The students on the campus were shocked when they learned that America allows abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. When presented with simple facts about the unborn at 15 weeks gestation and images of ultrasounds from both the 1970s and now, they, too, agreed that our country’s abortion laws – or lack thereof – are extreme. My generation and the generations that follow are standing on the shoulders of science and, ultimately, standing for the lives of the unborn.” Read more here.
The March for Life Just Took Place on Friday to Mark the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Could It Be the Last One? by Rebecca Downs. “For many pro-lifers, the March for Life is something of a tradition. However, this year could be different. The Court last month heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson, a case examining the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, which bans most abortions at 15 weeks. The decision is expected in June. Both sides of the issue have acknowledged that this could be the case where the Court overturns Roe. If so, 2022 could be the last March for Life, at least the one held in January.” Read more here.
The NCAA Drops the Ball on Protecting Women’s Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The NCAA has altered its policy for transgender athletes, but the change does little and still does not address the central problem — the clear, demonstrable, and unfair advantage that men have over female athletes. Much like the International Olympic Committee, the NCAA punted on its policy change. In fact, the NCAA simply copied the IOC’s homework, adopting the same sport-by-sport, case-by-case framework that dodges the central matter at hand.” Read more here.
False Positives for Genetic Disorders in Prenatal Testing Unacceptably High, by Tara Sander Lee. “The high false positive rate of prenatal genetic screening has profound implications for public health and clinical decision-making. Not only is this a life-or-death scenario for an unborn child based on the mother’s decision to continue the pregnancy or abort, but it also has larger implications for the population, diversity, and values of our society.” Read more here.
The Left’s Love for Abortion Blinds It to Abortion Alternatives, by Thomas Glessner. “The left’s criticism of Justice Barrett shows that they will uphold the abortion industry’s death-on-demand ideology over every other consideration. These apostles of abortion see it as a sacred rite. However, safe haven laws – if utilized by a mother considering abortion – are a win-win for all involved. The birth mother and the adoptive parents benefit from these laws. Additionally, the unborn child’s life is spared and given an opportunity to achieve his or her ordained purpose.” Read more here.
Protecting Unborn Children in a Post-Roe World, by Dr. Ben Carson, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Jim DeMint, Tony Perkins, and Kevin Roberts. “If the court relies on Roe to strike down the Mississippi law, it would be an unmitigated failure … to faithfully interpret the Constitution… Yet all of us in the pro-life movement would continue working hand-in-hand to do all we can to change the hearts and minds of the American people about abortion, because real change cannot happen until we have a culture that recognizes abortion for what it truly is: intentionally and violently ending the life of an innocent human being.” Read more here.
The Time to Overturn Roe v. Wade Is Now, by Todd Rokita. “Long gone are the days when promoters of “choice” touted the motto of “safe, legal, and rare.” Pro-abortion extremists now lobby for abortion on demand at any cost to women’s health and safety. Obviously, the abortion industry itself also pushes for the wholesale acceptance of the procedure – acting, perhaps, on the basis of a profit motive. Abortion is no longer promoted simply as a means of protecting vulnerable women but as a beneficial end in itself.” Read more here.
President Biden’s One Major Success in His First Year: Turning America Into an Abortion Haven, by Connor Semelsberger. “Although states and courts provide a check to Biden’s abortion extremism, the president still faces pressure from his base and his own vice president to go further. This administration has implemented abortion policies and installed pro-abortion personnel at a record pace. With three years left in this term, Biden is on track to quickly surpass the abortion records that took the Clinton and Obama administrations eight years to achieve.” Read more here.
End of the Roe v. Wade Era? by Star Parker. “Looking back over the last half century that abortion has been part of our national culture, it is difficult to imagine how anyone can see anything but damage that this decision has done to our nation and to our national soul… Surveying our national culture since 1973, I cannot identify a single cultural institution that is better. On the contrary, regarding our core social institutions, everything is uniformly worse. The American family is in far worse shape today than in 1973.” Read more here.
Why I’m Not Afraid to Bring More Children Into a Broken World, by Alexandra Davis. “Should we wait until the world is less ‘confused’ before having children? To say yes would mean basing a life-altering decision on a false premise: that utopia is achievable on earth. It is not… We are, and will always be, confused. The world is, and will always be, uncertain. Even though evidence on issues like climate change points to inevitable crises, calamity and chaos have always lurked in the shadows. Yet no global crisis of any magnitude justifies the life-altering decision to remain childless.” Read more here.
Against Transgender Opponents, Women Are Vying for Silver, by Mary Szoch. “When a biological man plays a woman’s sport, at least one woman loses every single time. The girl who comes in second to the biological male matters, and so does the girl who would have sat on the bench but instead watches from the stands. I lived the fairy tale of my team dancing our way to the national championship game. A man should not be able to take that fairy tale away – even from the girl at the end of the bench.” Read more here.
Preparing for Post-Roe America, by Kathryn Lopez. “We don’t want to put women in jail. We don’t want them to suffer or be alone. All too often, the pressures are too great for a woman to consider anything but abortion. But women are capable of amazing things when they find people who want to support them and help them make the right choice both for themselves and their child. We march for life not only to oppose abortion, but to celebrate the women who have made courageous choices to give life – to mother in challenging circumstances or choose adoption.” Read more here.
We Are Mothers. Here Are Our Reactions to ‘Woke’ Children’s Books, by Marguerite Bowling. “I’m excited to be in a new video that’s out today from The Heritage Foundation, featuring real-time mom reactions to ‘woke’ children’s books that have been read in public schools… We read ‘I Am Jazz,’ ‘Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity,’ and ‘My Princess Boy’ while offering our feedback, which was blunt at times.” Read more here.
A New Year’s Resolution for Maryland: Eliminate Human Trafficking, by Andrea Bottner. “…[T]he Hogan administration has allocated $58 million to support comprehensive anti-trafficking efforts across Maryland… Recently, The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services expanded the Child Sex Trafficking Screening and Services Act Regional Navigator Program. This program puts child trafficking victims in touch with services that will help them get to safety and learn how to be self-sufficient in the future. The program operates in 10 jurisdictions across Maryland.” Read more here.
EU Court’s Power Grab Is Subverting Democracy and National Sovereignty, According to Legal Expert, by Daniel Deme. “In Koudelka’s view, supra-national institutions should not decide about cultural and ethnic questions that belong to individual states… These decisions belong to elected parliaments in each individual country. However, as supporters of child adoptions by LGBT couples are often unable to find sufficient support for their cause in stances in democratic elections, they are bypassing the democratic process via court cases.” Read more here.
When Talking About Birthrates and Babies, Why Are We Omitting Marriage? by Timothy P. Carney. “We should turn around our birthrate decline in this country. We should listen to every objection from the liberal feminists, the sociologists, and the childless millennials. But when we ask why people don’t have children today, we need to start by asking why young people get married less and later. The delay in marriage and retreat from marriage is perhaps the leading cause of falling birthrates.” Read more here.
Biden Nominates Pro-Abortion Lawyer to State Department Legal Post, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. “Cleveland also complained that many individual members of the Commission … were known for their focus on religious freedom and ‘extreme positions’ on abortion and the homosexual/transgender agenda. Because the Department of State implements foreign assistance worldwide, … critics have also expressed concern over Cleveland’s pro-abortion bias coupled with Biden Administration’s recent signal that it intends to reinterpret the Helms Amendment.” Read more here.
WA Laws Now Allow Teen ‘Gender Reassignment’ Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Many Democrats who support this kind of legislation try to silence critics by labeling them transphobic and intolerant… No, 13-year-olds aren’t mature enough at that age to determine they can handle a gender reassignment surgery. Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own.” Read more here.
False Positives for Genetic Disorders in Prenatal Testing Unacceptably High, by Tara Sander Lee. “The New York Times’ analysis reported that positive results on prenatal genetic screenings can be wrong up to 85% of the time… That isn’t a trivial matter. Mothers presented with the far too common false positive DNA results face emotional trauma and agonizing decisions. As reported by the Times, some mothers receive a false positive, have an abortion, and then learn too late that their babies carried no risk of disease at all.” Read more here.
Injury, Infertility, and Death From Chemical Abortions Are A-OK With the FDA, by Kristi Stone Hamrick. “Corporate Abortion is refusing to screen for the two, well-known risks of death with a widely available technology. Women have died when taking chemical abortion pills later in pregnancy or when they are experiencing an ectopic pregnancy (one that implants in a mother’s body, outside the womb). A simple ultrasound test can check for both, but why bother when the FDA lets you off the hook?” Read more here.
All Adrian Wanted Was a Family. Transgender Doctors Left Him Despairing and Sterile, by Walt Heyer. “For Adrian, the future it offered was a fraud. Nothing was said about his impending, permanent sterility, or the true burdens and impacts of having to take cross-sex hormones for the rest of his life. No effort was made to deal with the mental health issues detected and diagnosed by the provider’s own staff before clearing him for surgery. If this sounds like malpractice to you, it sounds like it to me, too.” Read more here.
Bereavement and Parental Leave After Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “While it is certainly true that many women experience negative physical and mental consequences following an abortion procedure, this policy is discordant coming from those who support abortion. If we are to acknowledge that a mother and father are bereaved after an abortion, presumably something – indeed, someone – has been lost. And if we acknowledge that in every abortion someone is lost – intentionally done away with – then it makes little sense to ‘destigmatize’ the procedure and extend bereavement leave to those who have intentionally chosen to do away with their child.” Read more here.
The Sweet Taste of Freedom, by Lizzie Troughton. “We should be emboldened to assert that conscience still matters. Society around us may be changing at such a fast pace and those of us with conservative or religious perspectives can feel overwhelmed at times… Thankfully, this case tells us that we haven’t yet crossed the line where judges are compelling us to say things we disagree with; be that about sexuality, gender, or other matters that go against what we hold to be true. A right to expression includes a right not to hold certain opinions.” Read more here.
The Legalized Sexualization of America’s Young Children, by Marilyn Quigley. “Down the hall from Mr. Smith, the 10- and 11-year-olds review their lessons using [National Sexuality Education Standards] core expectations for elementary grades including the joys of masturbation and how hormone blockers help transgender children. Their vocabulary test includes gender identity, gender nonbinary and expansive, and lesbian, to name a few. The test covers differing behaviors of sexual intimacy and how same-sex couples can acquire children, such as in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy.” Read more here.
Despite San Francisco Chronicle Sermon, Parents Oppose Teachers Hiding LGBTQ Evangelism, by Julia Duin. “She heard from parents at the school where these women taught; parents who knew what the teachers were up to and had been complaining about it for some time. Someone else leaked to her a similar presentation – again via the CTA – about how to broach the subject of gender fluidity in classes for elementary school students. (Note: I just finished five years of part-time subbing – mainly for elementary school students – and the thought of introducing some of this stuff to anyone under fifth grade is crazy.)” Read more here.
International Abortion Groups Weigh Gains and Losses From 2021, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both MSI and IPPF characterized the past year as a patchwork of gains and losses at the national level. This indirectly points to the ongoing achievement of the global pro-life movement in blocking attempts to create an internationally recognized human right to abortion. While abortion groups insist that such a right exists, it remains a hollow assertion: longstanding global consensus holds that abortion laws are to be determined by national governments, and the legal changes held up by abortion groups as their greatest wins were all done at the national or subnational level.” Read more here.
As FDA Loosened Regulations on Chemical Abortion, Reports Indicate Women in India Are Suffering From Method, by Rebecca Downs. “Thanks to the FDA loosening regulations, women can acquire these pills online through the mail without a doctor confirming that they are even pregnant, are pregnant within the approved of timeframe, or are experiencing an ectopic pregnancy. Such a nonviable pregnancy develops outside of the uterus and is not treated through this method. If left untreated, it can kill a woman.” Read more here.
Leaked Biden Plan Would House Violent Men in Women’s Prison Cells, by Nathanael Blake. “In short, under this executive order, the federal government will house criminals based on subjective, self-declared ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex. Male rapists, child molesters, and other sexual criminals will be allowed to live in women’s prisons… This move toward co-ed prisons will result in male sexual predators exploiting the system in order to abuse and rape female prisoners. We know this because it has already happened in places these proposals have been enacted.” Read more here.
Wake Up, America: Cultural Marxism Is ‘Identifying’ as Transgenderism, by Walt Heyer. “Hundreds of parents have written me about their school-aged and college-aged children suddenly announcing trans identities… Urging children along this path is child abuse. The transgender indoctrination starts young. Trans-affirming curriculum and storybooks plant seeds of gender confusion in children (aka ‘grooming’) as early as kindergarten by pushing the bogus idea that children can choose their gender. Many school policies require aiding and abetting children who think they may be the opposite sex.” Read more here.
Clarifying ‘Transgender Hate Speech,’ by Neil Foster. “Is it unlawful to say that ‘a trans woman is a man?’ Not according to the Appeal Tribunal in the Rep decision… While none of the relevant parties seem to have referred to religious reasons for their comments, the question of what can be lawfully said in public contexts about issues raised by the ‘gender identity’ debates has some importance for religious groups which take the view that religious texts teach that sex is determined at birth, not fluid, and not able to be changed.” Read more here.
Parents Push Indiana Legislature for Hearing on Toughest School Racism and Pornography Bill, by Joy Pullmann. “Parents around the state, like those around the nation, have found public schools and libraries introducing minors to explicit materials, such as books describing rape, masturbation, underage sex, and other obscene acts. Current Indiana law exempts public schools and libraries from penalties for exposing minors to obscene materials. Both HB 1040 and SB 167 would end that exception.” Read more here.
Biological Sex Is Being Redefined to Subvert Society, by Debra Soh. “…[I]f anyone has the potential to be female, this justifies the obsolescence of sex-based spaces and sports divisions and biomedical research that is actually relevant to women. To be clear, this ideology has less to do with the beliefs and priorities of everyday transgender people and everything to do with redefining words and reality to subvert society and promote wider activist goals. It is an indication of what is coming down the road. When the scientific process has been compromised, we are deeply in trouble.” Read more here.
Court Gives Another Win for Religious Freedom – and for Parents, by Quin Hillyer. “The school system has a policy requiring teachers to call students by personally ‘preferred’ names and pronouns matching the gender each student ‘identifies’ as but then requires that when teachers communicate with parents, they use the given name and original gender pronoun. In sum, the policy requires the teacher to kowtow to a child’s wishes but keep the parents in the dark about the child’s decision to identify as a different gender.” Read more here.
Microsoft Pledges Support for Abortion, ‘Gender Affirming Care’ Travel Costs for Employees and Their Dependents, by Tim Meads. “Does your videogame company support a woman’s right to annihilate her child in the womb? Does it pay for costs related to a medically-induced gender transition for employees’ dependents? Microsoft certainly appears to be in favor of having access to such services… Additionally, it will be extending company benefits to include covering travel expenses for employees who have to go out of state in order to legally receive both procedures for themselves or their dependents.” Read more here.
7 Reasons Roe v. Wade Should Be Overturned, by Bruce Ashford. “Because of Roe, the gains of the civil rights movement were undone in an instant. A few Ivy League lawyers decided that an entire class of human beings – unborn beings – would be denied justice and equality. Those unborn beings now have far fewer rights than many species of birds, and the body count of Roe-enabled deaths far surpasses the total deaths caused by World War II. How has Roe harmed American society? Here are seven ways.” Read more here.
Transgender Lobby Has Corrupted Daily Journalistic Ethics, by Quin Hillyer. “Beneath a picture of what looks like a boy and his father, it says (with my emphasis added), ‘Granbury (Texas) High School junior Lou Whiting, 17, rests their hands on “This Book Is Gay” by James Dawson during a public inspection of books designated for removal at the Granbury school district administration building. Above, she looks over books with their father, David Whiting.’ Huh? How can an individual boy be both a ‘she’ and a ‘they’ in the same sentence?” Read more here.
Schools Across America Promote Planned Parenthood Services and Curriculum, by Spencer Lindquist. “Schools across America are partnering with the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, turning to them for sex education curriculum starting in elementary school, listing them as ‘community health partners,’ and promoting their services to students.” Read more here.
Dangerous Abortion Bill in Congress Risks Health of Baby and Mother, by Teresa Stanton Collett. “Proponents of the act claim that it simply codifies Roe v. Wade. That is not true. Rather, it establishes a regimen of abortion absolutism that goes far beyond Roe… In addition to the elimination of almost all protections states afford women and the unborn, any attempt by states to craft new protections will be subject to federal intervention anytime local abortion providers claim a proposed law impairs their ability to perform abortions freely. In short, the act will impose the most aggressive pro-abortion policy in the world outside of China.” Read more here.
Why Today’s Left Is Willing to Admit Abortion Kills a Child and Still Support It, by Elle Reynolds. “If self-gratification is our highest good, then any act (up to and including the murder of a child) becomes good if done in its pursuit. If we are our own arbiters of truth, then moral reality ceases to become an inhibition, and life itself ceases to become an inherent good. If limiting the licentious indulgence of our own desires is ‘oppression’ and therefore the greatest sin, then the anti-abortion crowd becomes the bad guys.” Read more here.
New Study on Transgender Children Reinforces Social Transitions, by Nicole Russell. “Its findings suggest that young children who socially transition to a new gender, by changing their name, pronouns, and clothes, tend to continue to identify with that ‘new’ gender five years later. The New York Times gleefully inferred that this means the right thing for parents to do when their child is questioning their identity is to begin socially transitioning them. There are a few issues with the study.” Read more here.
The Current Gender-Affirming Care Model in B.C. Is Unvalidated and Outdated, by Joanne Sinai, MD. “Canadian physicians should not ignore the potential risks of the affirmation model when there is international evidence of harm to vulnerable youth… We are in a unique position to rethink the treatment model for gender dysphoria. I hope we can begin a dialogue, so that our youth can get the treatment they need and deserve. Gender affirmation is not a one-size-fits-all model. To allow ideology to prevail over sound medicine is negligent at best.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Decision on Overturning Roe Will Be an Inflection Point for the Nation, by Joy Pullmann. “The potential overturn of Roe v. Wade is a massive opportunity to overturn a horrifying evil, and therefore to do great good. The opportunity to do great good is a strong and previously unavailable motivator. It would be a huge energizer for those who have resisted the usurping regime’s massive efforts to get us to stop seeing and talking about what we have seen that regime do to our nation. It would be the fall of a great spiritual Berlin Wall inside our nation.” Read more here.
Trans Narrative Under Fire in Sweden, by Michael Cook. “The troubling revelations from the SVT’s investigative reporters were one factor in new guidelines for gender-affirming care issued in February by the National Board of Health and Welfare. It stated that, based on current knowledge: ‘the risks of puberty suppressing treatment … currently outweigh the possible benefits, and that the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases.’” Read more here.
UN Exploits Climate Change Concerns to Push Contraception, Population Control, by Grace Melton and Jay Richards. “…[I]f you look closely, you’ll find that, at the U.N., protecting the Earth often provides cover for unseemly causes like abortion and population control. These hide in phrases like ‘meeting the unmet need for family planning.’ In the global arena, ‘comprehensive sexuality education,’ contraception, ‘safe abortion care,’ and maternal health all fall under the umbrella of sexual and reproductive health rights.” Read more here.
‘Social and Emotional Learning’ Programs Are No Substitute for Mothers, by Kimberly Ells. “Is school-based social and emotional instruction the best way to nurture social and emotional wellness in children? Some programs have reported helpful outcomes. But is there an even better, more effective way to foster social and emotional wellness in children, and therefore in society at large? Yes. It is this: Let children be raised and taught principally by their mothers and fathers while they are very young.” Read more here.
Gender Dysphoria: When Politics Influences Science, by Sarah Arnold. “The definition that was removed from a bestselling medical textbook by Merck Manual … mentioned that ‘Gender dysphoria is characterized by a strong, persistent cross-gender identification associated with anxiety, depression, irritability, and often a wish to live as a gender different from the one associated with the sex assigned at birth.’ It was removed after the Florida Department of Health cited it in a recent guidance advising against gender transitions for children and adults.” Read more here.
Polling Reveals That American People Are Not on the Side of Democratic Position of Abortions Without Limits, by Rebecca Downs. “Democrats point to how a majority of respondents do not want to see Roe overturned. A major reason for that, though, is because many don’t know overturning Roe will not automatically ban abortion nationwide, as they have been led to fear. Rather, it will allow the states to decide their own abortion laws through their elected officials.” Read more here.
Protecting Imprisoned Women From Men Who Say They’re Women, by Nicole Russell. “Women serving time in prison or jail still deserve to be treated humanely and with respect. They still have a right to privacy and safety. But, intimidated by a vocal minority, local politicians and officials have buckled under new definitions of sex and gender, showing they are more worried about being sued for discrimination by criminals trying to take advantage of women, than being sued for an assault such as rape.” Read more here.
The Problems of Putting Off Children, by Nathanael Blake. “…[G]etting married and having children helps us build and establish more substantial identities than those sought through professional advancement and personal pleasures, or relationships that always come with an exit option. In particular, the permanence of marriage and children indicates that these gifts express the deeper aspects of our identities, while also reflecting the truth that we are ordered toward giving and receiving love.” Read more here.
Biden’s Gender Transition Agenda Is Harming Children, by Washington Examiner. “The day is coming when thousands of de-transitioners, having been rushed into this idiocy as children too young to consent to it, will suffer lifelong regrets because of irresponsible people such as Levine and President Joe Biden. They will file lawsuits against their former medical providers and public school districts. And even the multimillion-dollar judgments they win will not restore their bodies or the potential their lives will have lost.” Read more here.
Democrats Don’t Just Want to Keep Roe, They Want the Unlimited Ability to Kill Preborn Babies, by Jordan Boyd. “Democrats are outraged that, according to a leaked version of the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion, the United States Supreme Court is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade – but their hypocritical insistence that abortion is the ‘law of the land’ is fueled by the party’s determination to codify abortion without any restrictions.” Read more here.
GLSEN: An Instrumental Organization Responsible for Infiltrating Schools With LGBT Ideology, by Chrissy Clark. “One organization is highly influential in infiltrating private and public schools with LGBT ideology in the form of teacher programming, resources, and research, according to an analysis conducted by a concerned parents organization. GLSEN … is the touchpoint between political activism and activism in K-12 public and private schools. The organization is responsible for teacher training, school policy guides, curriculum, and Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs in schools nationwide…” Read more here.
New Biden Title IX Order Will Help Schools Push Transgenderism on Your Kids Behind Your Back, by Sharon Supp. “All children need protection, and redefining ‘sex’ under Title IX … will endanger them. In most cases, children need the protection of their parents, not protection from their parents. Erroneously redefining ‘sex’ to include gender identity will hasten the spread of secretive ‘gender support plans,’ which, at their core, undermine parental rights. Parents should, therefore, proceed with caution, as this signals that a monumental parental rights battle looms ahead.” Read more here.
UN Actors Angry About Supreme Court Abortion Decision, by Austin Ruse. “The U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning the 50-year-old abortion regime in the United States, and some at the UN are not happy including the Secretary General… The spokesman for Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, ‘The Secretary General has long believed that sexual and reproductive health and rights are the foundation for lives of choice, empowerment and equality for the world’s women and girls.’” Read more here.
I Had an Abortion. Here’s Why I Want Roe Reversed, by Cathy Harris. “My pro-life stance is more than an opinion; it is a faith-filled, moral, and spiritual resolve. After experiencing my own abortion and sitting eye-to-eye with hundreds of hurting post-abortive women over the years, I have no other choice but to believe abortion has to end one day. It has to end for the sake of the innocent children being killed and for the scared, coerced, or misled women who feel they have no other choice.” Read more here.
Christian Employers Push Back on Government’s Transgender Procedures Mandates, by Nicole Russell. “Providing coverage for ‘sex change’ surgeries, cross-sex hormones, or other related things – especially via federal mandate – is particularly egregious to conservatives and especially to people of faith… The fact that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is mandating any business, faith-based or not, to provide coverage of these surgeries and treatments is a willful misinterpretation of the definition of sex discrimination outlined in Title VII.” Read more here.
Georgia Leads the Way in Protecting Parents’ Rights, by William Estrada. “Georgia shows us that elected officials are starting to listen to parents. It shows that parents are winning. And it should remind us, yet again, that parental rights are bipartisan. Elected officials across the political spectrum should sit up, take notice, and support the right of parents in the education of their precious children.” Read more here.
Alito’s Draft Abortion Decision Is Brilliantly Persuasive, by Quin Hillyer. “As Alito demonstrates at great length, Roe was so poorly reasoned that subsequent ‘pro-choice’ Supreme Court decisions have jettisoned all of it — both its reasoning and its practical applications. All that remains is a shell around the idea that abortion is a right… In sum, not even those who say abortion is a constitutional right can settle among themselves why it is such a right or what provisions of the Constitution actually protect it. That’s because, as written, it manifestly does not.” Read more here.
The United States Is Radical on Abortion When Compared to Other Countries, by Charlotte Pence Bond. “A more recent report by the Family Research Council … backs up the claim that the United States is far outside the norm of international standards on abortion. It showed that the United States is one of just six countries that permits abortion throughout the entirety of a woman’s pregnancy. The countries included in its report were Canada, China, Vietnam, North Korea, and South Korea.” Read more here.
Biden’s Transgender Decree, by Byron York. “Levine has declared the argument among medical professionals over. The new consensus, amazingly enough, agrees with Levine. And now, the administration will move to the next step. Since the debate is over, since there is a scientific consensus in favor of ‘gender-affirming’ treatment, those who are still criticizing are not debating the facts. They are attacking their fellow human beings.” Read more here.
The Left Is Finally Admitting That Abortion Means Killing Children, by Jordan Boyd. “The difference between the pro-life community and the left is no longer about whether babies in the womb are indeed children. It’s that, even though Biden, Goldberg, and the ACLU seem to understand that abortion ends a baby’s life in utero, they and the rest of the abortion lobby are still advocating for the destruction of preborn lives.” Read more here.
Fact-Checking 6 Outrageous Claims About Leaked Supreme Court Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade, by Fred Lucas. “Amid news reports about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would end abortion on demand, critics wailed in the media, in speeches, and on Twitter about the proposed ruling… If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it would not ban abortion but rather allow state legislatures to determine to what extent abortion is allowed in their states. Here are fact checks of six assertions made about the leaked draft opinion.” Read more here.
Unanimous Supreme Court Flies Flag for Free Speech in Case Against City of Boston, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “In a rare unanimous ruling…, the Supreme Court secured a major victory for free speech. In the opinion in Shurtleff v. Boston, authored by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, the court ruled that the city of Boston violated the Constitution when it prohibited a group from flying a Christian flag on a flagpole it had held open to other groups and their flags.” Read more here.
Democrats Admit It’s Women Who Get Abortions After All, by Laurel Duggan. “Democrats made an admission about what type of people can actually get abortions in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion… After many liberals pushed for gender-neutral terms surrounding pregnancy and abortion such as ‘birthing people’ instead of ‘women,’ prominent Democrats made statements appearing to suggest only women can get pregnant and have abortions.” Read more here.
Why Does YouTube Host This Channel That Teaches Kids About Porn and Abortion? by Bailey Duran. “One particular video discusses abortion with a purple monster as the friendly guide to all things abortion. The monster says abortion is always okay if that is what the ‘pregnant person’ wants. He also lists some reasons people may choose to get an abortion, such as they don’t want a baby, they have too many kids already, or something is wrong with the baby.” Read more here.
California Lawyers Train Teachers to Deceive Parents While Grooming Children, by Jeff Charles. “Progressives tend to complain when conservatives use the term ‘grooming’ when describing these practices. But what else are we supposed to call it, when teachers, counselors, and other school faculty are blatantly working to help kids transition without their parents’ knowledge? What else should we say when these schools are actively developing ways to avoid notifying adults when they are teaching progressive ideas about sexuality and gender to children?” Read more here.
Four Reasons to Distrust UCSF’s Study Alleging Safety of ‘No-Test’ Abortion Pill Protocol, by Bettina di Fiore. “We mandate independent trials for drug efficacy and food safety, yet we presume that abortion profiteers will produce more reliable science about the very product they sell than truly independent researchers. In no other industry would we accept the fox-guarding-the-henhouse status quo we afford the abortion industry. This study is yet one more example of the sloppy, biased ‘science’ we should expect such a situation to produce.” Read more here.
Ongoing Bathroom Wars Challenge Concepts of Equality and Discrimination, by Nicole Russell. “Many schools have attempted a kind of balancing act by allowing students identifying as transgender to use a facility designed just for them because a full transgender bathroom ban may result in an expensive lawsuit. However, many transgender students will buck at the compromise of transgender bathrooms and insist it is not equal enough. Of course, it is.” Read more here.
New Jersey Schools to Install Radical Youth Sex Curriculum, by Penny Starr. “A New Jersey media outlet reported on the new sex education curriculum set to be installed in K-12 schools in the state but did not investigate the group that designed it. Advocates for Youth is a far-left organization that pushes gender fluidity, abortion on demand, transgenderism, and promiscuous relationships to young people.” Read more here.
Sarah Has Been on Both Sides of the Abortionist’s Table. Here’s What She Wants You to Know, by Alasdaire Fleitas. “If the Supreme Court strikes down Mississippi’s ban on abortion and others like it, millions of unborn children will be sacrificed to the lie that it’s empowering for women to abort their children. In reality, killing an unborn child brings nothing but trauma, guilt, and heartbreak. Not only can the Supreme Court save the lives of millions of unborn children, but the lives of so many women may be salvaged too.” Read more here.
Gender Dysphoria and Adverse Childhood Experiences, by Walt Heyer. “Given the role of [Adverse Childhood Events] and mental illness in the development of beliefs about transgender identity, it is folly to suggest that the first and only step in treating deep hurt and trauma done to a person’s identity in childhood is to alter the body with cross-sex hormones and surgery. But that’s exactly what is happening today. I hear from people who wake up from the transgender surgery nightmare, distraught and sometimes suicidal for allowing something so destructive and ineffective.” Read more here.
How Safe Haven Laws Help Make Abortion Unnecessary, by Leanna Baumer. “Many women see abortion as an imperfect resolution to unwanted parenthood. It’s time we listen to their voices and emphasize a broadened framework for choice that includes parenting with community support services (like those freely offered by the nearly 3,000 nonprofit pregnancy help centers similar to the one I lead), open adoption, and also safe surrender options beyond birth.” Read more here.
Underwear Flattening Children’s Genitals? Just Another Example of Gender Ideology Insanity, by Debra Soh. “Medical professionals have warned that using temporary measures to modify one’s body can result in serious side effects. For example, chest binders, especially popular among teenage girls looking to flatten their breasts to present a masculine-looking form, can fracture ribs and lead to back pain and difficulties in breathing. In the case of boys, flattening the testes and maintaining them too close to the body can harm sperm production and lead to infertility.” Read more here.
Growing Up Lonely: Generation Z, by Daniel Cox. “New findings from the American National Family Life Survey show that Americans raised in single-parent homes are more likely to report having felt lonely growing up than those raised in two-parent households. They’re also more likely to miss out on formative experiences, such as daily family meals, an activity that has been associated with lower rates of depression.” Read more here.
Sexual Left Loses Ground at UN Population Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Western diplomats took a rain check on an all-out battle to push homosexuality and transgenderism and other controversial social policies at the UN Commission on Population and Development. They gave up on adding new language to promote abortion, homosexuality, transgender issues, and sexual autonomy for children in the commission’s agreement early this week. They vowed to fight harder next year instead…” Read more here.
Oral Arguments at Supreme Court Offer Glimmer of Hope for Praying Coach in First Amendment Case Against School District, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “The questions facing the justices are these: When a public school employee says a brief, quiet prayer by himself while at school and visible to students, is he engaged in government speech that lacks any First Amendment protection? And if not, assuming that kind of religious expression is private and protected by the First Amendment, does the Constitution’s establishment clause require the public school to prohibit it anyway?” Read more here.
What Will It Take for Prosecutors and Politicians to Take Abortion Crimes Seriously? by Susan Wills. “There seems to be a lack of political will to mandate and fund reasonably frequent, unannounced inspections of abortion facilities for the health and safety of women and to deter illegal activities. The District of Columbia joins 19 states in exempting abortion facilities from even annual inspections. Abortion is not health care, but it has definite health impacts. If Washington’s government will not change its laws and policies, Congress should. Our common humanity requires it.” Read more here.
Protecting Kids From Bathroom Bullies, by Jameson Taylor. “…[F]eeling bullied is not the same as actually being bullied. Being asked to respect the privacy rights of other students by using a single occupancy bathroom, instead of a shared restroom or locker facility, is not bullying. Indeed, many people prefer the privacy that single occupancy bathrooms afford. In any event, making demands that violate the privacy and safety rights of other students is a form of actual bullying that will cause suffering and anxiety for many other students.” Read more here.
School District Secretly Pushes Sexual Orientation to Eight-Year-Olds Behind Parents’ Backs, by Jeff Charles. “The far left, instead of defending the teaching of this material, has chosen to lie about it. They ridicule anyone suggesting these topics are being taught to small children. It is a pathetic attempt to gaslight parents who are concerned about what teachers are teaching to their kids behind their backs. But as more of these stories surface, it is becoming more and more difficult for progressives to continue lying about it.” Read more here.
Biden Will Try to Break UN Stalemate on LGBT Issues and Abortion, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “…[T]he UN bureaucracy has increasingly become a channel for the leftist sexual policies of wealthy Western countries, including sexual autonomy for children, abortion without parental consent for girls as young as ten, and explicit comprehensive sexuality education for children younger than five. Western countries want to legitimize these developments by having UN agreements, like the resolution of the commission expected to be adopted next week, to endorse these policies.” Read more here.
New York Times Admits: Experimenting on Trans Kids Has Horrifying, Irreversible Consequences, by Eddie Scarry. “You’re supposed to be comfortable with this. You’re supposed to feel a sense of compassion for parents who go through the process of artificially, irreversibly altering their child’s biological chemistry. You’re supposed to be accepting of parents who let their kids make life changing medical choices to remove and mutilate their genitals… That this stuff is happening should upset everyone. If it’s not, there’s nothing left to say about it. The monsters have won.” Read more here.
Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Kentucky Abortion Law, but the Real Fight Is Still to Come, by Rebecca Downs. “The law also has provisions requiring abortion providers to maintain local hospital privileges in case a complication arises… There are new reporting requirements, as well as annual audits to ensure compliance. The abortion facility must also cremate or bury the aborted fetal remains, rather than treat them as medical waste. The abortion facilities, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center, claimed that they could not comply with certain provisions of the law immediately, or even potentially at all.” Read more here.
Sexualizing Schoolchildren: Comprehensive Sex Ed, by Jeff Johnston. “Years ago, if schools even taught basic sex education, educators usually promoted abstinence, emphasizing delaying sexual activity until marriage. This sex ed focused on biology, puberty, reproductive systems and preventing sexually transmitted infections. But in many schools, this has been replaced with CSE – a radical ‘rights-based’ and ‘pleasure-based’ sexuality curriculum.” Read more here.
Biden Admin Doubles Down on Pro-Abortion, Pro-Transgender Policies as It Looks to Get Rid of Conscience Rule, by Rebecca Downs. “The 2019 rule would have given teeth to HHS’ ability to enforce these protections for providers, by penalizing hospitals and practices that retaliated against those who claimed conscience protections… Conscience protections are popular with Americans. According to a poll …, 75 percent of respondents said such professionals with religious objections ‘should not be legally required to perform abortions.’ This includes 65 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of pro-choicers.” Read more here.
Pregnancy Centers Are the Answer to America’s Abortion Problem, by Thomas Glessner. “The left’s proclamations that women will be victimized if Roe is overturned ignore the magnanimous work of nearly 3,000 pro-life pregnancy centers and medical clinics. The charitable work of these centers provides – free of charge – medical and non-medical services, hope and life-affirming options to mothers who feel alone and powerless.” Read more here.
Finnish Prosecutor’s Decision Paints Picture of Hostile Path Towards Free Speech and Christianity, by Rep. Chip Roy and Sean Nelson. “The prosecutor’s decision to appeal the case is not only absurd. It paints a clear picture of what is to come for people of faith if the West continues barreling down a path that is increasingly hostile to free speech and, especially evident in this case, Christian belief. Opponents of freedom of speech and religion never shy away from an opportunity to silence debate and snuff out open discussion, which are the foundations of a free society.” Read more here.
Two Biden Rules on Trans Care Raise Religious Liberty Fears, by Cassidy Morrison. “The rule could apply in ways that would not be likely to raise religious liberty concerns. For example, it would require that an insurer that agrees to mammograms for biological women must also cover that service for transgender women, who are also susceptible to breast cancer. But legal experts who specialize in religious freedom argue that the updated rule could amount to a mandate on insurers to cover transition procedures to which religious providers might object.” Read more here.
Amid Public Concern About Grooming Kids, American Library Association Picks ‘Marxist Lesbian’ as President, by Joy Pullmann. “In the rest of the presentation, Drabinski went on to teach librarians how to change how visitors find books about sex, contradicting her claims to the Boise reporter that librarians don’t work to get sexual material into patrons’ hands. This very effort has been a part of Drabinski’s public professional work for decades, by her own public attestation.” Read more here.
Florida Follows the Science With New Guidelines on Transgender Treatment for Kids, by Katrina Trinko. “Finally, someone actually cares about the children. The Florida Department of Health released new guidelines … about treating gender dysphoria in children. Unlike the recent guidance from the Biden administration, Florida’s guidance doesn’t promote aggressive medical interventions for minors who are struggling with gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
Biological Sex Isn’t Up for Debate, by Armstrong Williams. “Regardless of what the mainstream media and Democrats might want you to think, no one can change their biological sex, regardless of the hormones or surgical procedures that they might undertake to attempt to do so. We are at a moment in time where up is down and down is up, and it’s a dangerous precedent if we allow it to foment itself as a cultural norm and standard.” Read more here.
Even the Left Is Beginning to Admit It Has Pushed Transgenderism Too Far, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Transgender orthodoxy has moved so far past the bounds of sanity that any attempt to question its effects is quickly discouraged and punished. We are expected to shut up and accept that public schools are passing policies to keep students’ gender identity transitions from parents, that medical professionals can file to remove children from their parents’ custody if parents oppose physical and chemical transition efforts… None of this is normal or even remotely defensible, and everyone, including many on the Left, know it.” Read more here.
The D.C. 5: Callousness, Cruelty of Post-Viability Abortion, by Steven Aden. “Why are we constantly warned in online reports of the D.C. 5 incident that photographs of the babies are ‘graphic’ and to view them advisedly? The pictures are hard to look at, but that’s the point… The Charlotte Lozier scholars who examined the bodies harkened back to the words of William Wilberforce, … who was instrumental in ending the slave trade. ‘You can choose to look away, but you can never again say that you did not know,’ Wilberforce said.” Read more here.
California Democrats Ban Adjectives During Public Comment Session on Abortion Bill, by Kira Davis. “California Democrats have introduced an abortion bill so shocking that it drew over a thousand pro-life supporters out to the capital of Sacramento on Tuesday night to register their protest during public comments… The Democrat response to the protesters was less than impressive and right on brand. With an estimated 1,500 people waiting to make comments, they limited the public comment session to one hour.” Read more here.
A Bipartisan Win for Religious Freedom, by Sean Nelson. “In a remarkable show of bipartisan cooperation, last week, the Senate unanimously reauthorized the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The reauthorization, included within a bill to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, makes permanent a landmark piece of legislation used to target gross violators of internationally recognized human rights. The act has been a vital tool in advancing religious freedom worldwide.” Read more here.
Kentucky Abortion Facilities Ceasing to Do Business Have Themselves to Blame, by Rebecca Downs. “Providers said there is no way for them to comply with the law given its immediate effective date. But if you think they’ll be willing or able to comply with the law even if they were to have more time, think again. ‘They said it would be difficult to comply with the law even long term because some of the information they are required to provide on the forms would violate patient privacy and they don’t think they could find funeral homes who would work with them to dispose of remains,’ the WSJ noted.” Read more here.
China’s Complex Abortion Problem, by Yi Fuxian. “…[R]educing the incidence of abortion in China is easier said than done. In the past, the authorities regarded the country’s large population as a burden, and the one-child policy not only encouraged women to have abortions but also involved the government forcing them to do so. From television screens to giant outdoor billboards to roadside electricity poles, abortion advertisements are everywhere in China. Abortion is regarded as casually as dining out is and is widely available in hospitals and clinics.” Read more here.
Powerful Arguments to Keep ‘Trans Ed’ Out of Schools, by Betsy McCaughey. “Trans advocates want greater acceptance. But instructing young kids that it’s normal for boys to become girls and vice versa is going too far. Parents rightly fear their kids are being ‘groomed.’ In the last two decades, the proportion of minors saying they’re transgender has soared to 1.8%… Children need to be protected from gender hysteria and moving headlong into transitioning.” Read more here.
In Preparation for Dobbs, Florida Is Latest State to Defend the Sanctity of Life With Abortion Ban, by Shawn Fleetwood. “The pro-life actions taken by Republican-led states come as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on a major abortion-related case this summer. As noted by … correspondent Tristan Justice, ‘a decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization contesting a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy is expected in June, with the potential to reverse the court’s landmark 1973 decision in Roe.’” Read more here.
Children’s Storybook Glorifying the Killing of Unborn Babies Disgusts Even Some Abortion Supporters, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Scores of … people pointed out that a family cannot be ‘created’ by abortion, because abortion kills a child. A family can only be damaged by these acts of violence against its weakest and most vulnerable members, not ‘created.’ Pro-choice [social media] accounts also expressed their disgust, noting that abortion bedtime stories for children is simply a bridge too far, even for those who support permitting feticide.” Read more here.
D.C. Abortion Scandal Shows the Overwhelming Systemic Bias Facing Preborn Children, by Sam Dorman. “The prevailing and callous indifference to preborn life … can only last so long. Pro-choice leftists may argue that it’s inappropriate to even consider preborn babies as the type of humans who could experience social injustice. But science has ‘literally unveiled’ humanity in the womb – and in doing so, indicated preborn babies are humans who feel the weight of social burdens even more acutely than victim groups routinely cited by the left.” Read more here.
The Left, Children and Sex, by Laura Hollis. “Why should 5- and 6-year-olds be subjected to books or other materials with sexual content? And yet, the uproar on the Left has been nothing short of astonishing. Social media is now filled with TikTok videos in which teachers are demanding the right to discuss their sexual preferences and gender identity with the students they teach, as well as the right to encourage their students’ sexual experimentation and gender confusion – all without knowledge of the children’s parents.” Read more here.
The Hidden Threat to Freedom of Conscience in the [UK] Conversion Therapy Bill, by Stuart Waiton. “Using coercion to force someone to change their beliefs is criminal. The bill, however, talks about not only coercion but ‘manipulation.’ Based on this definition, if it can be called a definition, there is the potential that anyone who attempts to persuade someone from desisting from involvement in a gay relationship could be criminalized… Either we live in a free society where people can express their beliefs freely or we do not. If the UK bill is passed, there is a serious danger that this freedom will be lost.” Read more here.
Transgender Activists Use Unreliable Surveys to Emotionally Blackmail America, by Chad Felix Greene. “The truth is, we simply cannot say what does and does not ‘cause’ suicide in youth, and we can only speculate based on the self-reports of anonymous survey takers, assuming their reports are accurate. What we can determine, however, is that there is no objective evidence to suggest increasing parental involvement in schools and restricting advanced adult education on sexuality causes distress or suicidality, certainly not in children under the age of 10.” Read more here.
Why Parental Rights Activists Use Term ‘Grooming’ in Support of Laws to Protect Kids, by Nicole Russell. “One of the strangest reactions to all this is for the left to ridicule the use of the word ‘groomer’ – specifically, the semantics of the issue – rather than condemn the conversations teachers have admitted to having all over the internet… Rather than obsess over whether or not conservatives should use this word or that word, it’d be far more productive to ascertain what adults are teaching our kids in schools and whether that’s beneficial for them or not.” Read more here.
Alabama School District Caves to Atheists, Bans Prayers at Football Games, by Todd Starnes. “The school board consulted with their attorneys and decided it would be best to stop the prayers. ‘The superintendent met with school principals, and the administration will not allow prayer at school-sponsored events, including football games,’ read a letter from the district’s attorney to the out-of-town atheists. Cowards, all.” Read more here.
How Much Is Social Media to Blame for Teens’ Declining Mental Health? by Jean Twenge. “I noticed the early increases in teen depression when I was writing my book about the generation born after 1995… At first, I had no idea why teen depression was increasing so much in such a short period of time. But then I noticed some big trends in teens’ social lives: They were spending less time with their friends in-person and more time online. That tends not to be a good formula for mental health, especially for girls, and especially when that online time is spent on social media.” Read more here.
Democrat Leadership Killed a Virginia Bill That Would Have Banned Post-Abortion Infanticide, by Ashley Bateman. “Democrats were so afraid of life-affirming legislation, leadership even pocketed a bill that would protect a baby who survived an abortion. It has gotten so radical in Virginia that Democrats won’t even acknowledge that babies who are born after an abortion procedure should not be killed. …[T]he Born Alive bill may have passed if Senate leadership had brought it to a fair hearing.” Read more here.
Biden’s Title IX Changes Are a Threat to Due Process and Women’s Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…President Joe Biden is trying to use Title IX as a tool to erase women – to force schools and universities that take federal funds to embrace the cultural radicalism of the Left, if they have not already. This poses a serious threat to the rights of students, especially female students, who will be expected to sacrifice their right to privacy and equal opportunity on the altar of gender ideology.” Read more here.
Sex Educators Say ‘Early Grades May Be the Best Time’ to Introduce Children to LGBT Issues, by Jeff Johnston. “In an online meeting with sex educators, two researchers said that sex education is ‘most important’ for children, and, they stated, ‘It can be strongest when it starts in elementary school…’ That’s right. Teach young children – even preschoolers – about gender ideology and homosexuality. And do so before basic truths – such as the reality that humans almost always form opposite-sex relationships or that people come in two forms, male or female – get ‘more deeply ingrained’ and less easy to change.” Read more here.
I Asked What My Daughter Would Learn in Kindergarten. Then the Teachers Union Sued Me, by Nicole Solas. “The principal said they don’t call children ‘boys’ and ‘girls,’ and teachers embed values of gender theory into classroom lessons… The principal told me these were ‘common practices’ but could not define a ‘common practice’ or tell me when these ‘practices’ originated. Now I wanted to know these ‘common practices’ and the educational pedagogy supporting them, but the school refused to answer my questions.” Read more here.
Lia Thomas Was Just the Beginning. Biden Administration Wants to Eliminate Women’s Sports, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Abby Kassal. “…[T]his new Title IX rule will unilaterally expand the prohibition against discrimination based on ‘sex’ to include: ‘sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (including intersex traits), pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.’ For anyone who’s been half awake since January 2021, it’s clear that this administration’s pet mission is to advance the transgender agenda.” Read more here.
Not a ‘Kitchen Table Issue,’ Jen Psaki? Actually, Our Kids Are All We’re Thinking About, by Abigail Shrier. “That the Biden administration would peddle an activist talking point with no solid factual basis signals how desperate they are to please the radical flank of its supporters. That is too bad. Leaders who mollycoddle the activists quietly corrupting nearly every institution of American life fool themselves that they are merely paying a tax. They don’t realize it’s a ransom, and that those who demand it will never be satisfied until they have despoiled every American institution. And much worse in this case: they encourage irreversible harm to children.” Read more here.
Biden Significantly Boosts Funding to UN Agency Complicit in Human Rights Abuses, by Lisa Correnti. “The newly released White House budget for 2023 requests $56 million for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and calls for removing stipulations preventing the powerful UN agency from funding programs in China. This despite a recent Congressional report confirming China’s ongoing ‘genocide’ of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, including through brutal population control programs… Language prohibiting funds for abortion and funds to China have been eliminated.” Read more here.
The Most Radical Abortion Law in the Nation, by David Harsanyi. “Colorado’s new law doesn’t merely allow abortion of viable babies, for any reason, until crowning; it makes eugenic arguments about the ‘social, moral, and economic benefits’ of not having children, as if any law or regulation compels anyone to do so. The debate, lest it be repeated, is over when life is worth protecting. According to Colorado, which has no fetal-protection laws either, an unborn baby is never considered a life – so you can stop playing them that Baby Mozart.” Read more here.
The [Irish] Government Is Keeping Us in the Dark on Abortion Data, by Maria Steen. “To date, the Minister has refused to publish any meaningful figures about the operation of the law… This approach runs contrary to the spirit of the ‘information age’ in which we live. Other countries which have made abortion legally available publish detailed statistics, which give a fuller picture of the operation of their law and the circumstances of women seeking abortions. Questions of racism, the oppression of poor and marginalised women and ‘gendercide’ arise – but we can challenge abuses only if we have the data.” Read more here.
Protecting Children From Sextortion, by Sarah Harding. “Today, children are rarely abducted by strangers in public places. Child sex abusers have new highly effective tools to find their victims. Technology allows the abuser to gain virtual access to a child and obtain sexually explicit images that are then distributed online in a matter of seconds, a crime called sextortion, which the FBI says is on the rise… Gaining an understanding of how online predators operate can help parents more effectively prepare their children for the dangers they will encounter online, including how to detect sextortion.” Read more here.
A Universal Basic Income for Transgender People? by Nicole Russell. “On March 24, the Palm Springs City Council unanimously approved [a] request … for $200,000 in funding. The purpose of that funding? To determine the best way to operate a guaranteed income pilot program primarily for transgender and nonbinary individuals. This seems discriminatory and like a waste of taxpayer dollars… No one should be homeless, transgender or not. That said, it’s wholly discriminatory for Palm Springs to spend $200,000 to figure out whether only transgender or nonbinary people need universal basic income stipends.” Read more here.
Red and Blue States Chart Opposite Courses as Dobbs v. Jackson Looms, by Sarah Westwood. “A number of red states are pursuing bans on abortion that would face potentially successful court challenges in the event the Supreme Court upholds the abortion protections established by the 1973 Roe decision. Some blue states, meanwhile, are looking to codify abortion protections in anticipation of a potential erosion of the legal precedents that prevent most abortion restrictions from getting enacted.” Read more here.
UNFPA Report Frames ‘Unintended Pregnancy’ as Global Crisis, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “How does UNFPA account for the enormous disconnection between intention and pregnancy? ‘The biggest issue, by far, is the unmet need for contraception,’ according to the new report. UNFPA has often used ‘unmet need’ interchangeably with a lack of access, but this is inaccurate. Based on surveys of women themselves, only a small percentage – about 5% – of ‘unmet need’ is caused by a lack of access to family planning.” Read more here.
Biden Administration to Demand Colleges Erase Women’s Sports, Due Process, Free Speech, and Men and Women, by Madeline Osburn. “President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is expected to finalize changes to Title IX rules in the coming weeks to expand the definition of discrimination beyond sex to also include sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule changes will have seismic implications, setting off not just state versus federal showdowns over state laws barring biological males from competing in women’s sports, but also how college campuses handle sexual harassment charges and due process.” Read more here.
Abortion Pills Take Center Stage as Supreme Court Considers Landmark Case, by Charlotte Pence Bond. “One of the main concerns with the pills is ectopic pregnancy… Such pregnancies are only visible via ultrasound, meaning pregnant women receiving abortion pills without seeing a physician wouldn’t be aware of the condition… Another concern about these drugs being sent through the mail is that this could be used to provide cover for perpetrators of sexual abuse. For example, if a young girl becomes pregnant, it’s important for her to be seen in person so a medical provider can screen for abuse.” Read more here.
Biden’s Order on Gender Transitioning Kids Shows Left Is All in on the Culture War, by Jarrett Stepman. “The left is all in on the idea that being a man or a woman is a social construct, that men can and should compete in women’s sports if they identify as women, and that children should take life-altering drugs if at any moment they feel like they are not the sex assigned at birth. The left now demands that the law, from the top down, enforces this evolution of ideas… With its new HHS order, the Biden administration is signaling that it is for the cultural revolution, and that you will accept its faith, or else.” Read more here.
Biden Doubles Down on Radical ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids, by Jay Richards. “[Arkansas’ SAFE Act] prevents doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or performing surgeries on minors to ‘affirm gender identity…’ Biden opposes this. You read that right. The White House thinks that minors can consent to their own sterilization. And Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services claims that this is the proper standard of care for treating minors who struggle with their sexed bodies.” Read more here.
In Finland, a Win for Free Speech Everywhere, by Elyssa Koren. “In no way isolated to Finland, this case is a stark example of the dangers of pervasive ‘hate speech’ laws sweeping the globe. We must not let this win obscure the reality that the day has arrived in which expressing an opinion on social media could conceivably land someone in jail. As this dystopian day dawns in Europe, Americans should take note. The U.S. is far from immune to the insidious trend of silencing – cancel culture is closing in around us everywhere, and the looming threat of jail time has already arrived on our shores.” Read more here.
The Four States Planning to Become ‘Abortion Sanctuaries’ as Others Pass Bans, by Cassidy Morrison. “The court is slated to rule in June on the most consequential abortion rights case in decades, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. The case pertains to a 2018 Mississippi law effectively banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which flouted the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to allow abortions up to the point of viability, between 22 to 24 weeks. The majority-conservative court has signaled its willingness to consider overturning Roe, a prospect that has sent blue states scrambling to preserve the right to abortions within their borders.” Read more here.
Is TikTok Dangerous for Teens? by Leonard Sax. “One parent told me: ‘…I already use the TikTok Family Pairing option so that I can see what my daughter is doing in the app.’ I remind parents that I see many teens who have created two TikTok accounts. One is the ‘clean’ account which they show to their parents and which their parents follow on the Family Pairing option. The other is the real account, where the daughter is watching, or posting, the videos she doesn’t want her parents to see.” Read more here.
Florida’s New Law Is Only Bad for People Who Believe Parents Have No Rights Over Their Children, by Eddie Scarry. “On CNN, Moricz fretted that the law would prohibit ‘queer’ children from coming out as non-heterosexual to their teachers. That impression – to the extent that it’s an honest one – appears to come from some notion that requiring schools to provide parents with total access to their own children’s health records could potentially mean ‘outing’ students to family members before they’re ready to do so. But to the contrary, the law explicitly protects students from that very scenario.” Read more here.
On Transgenderism, the Biden Administration Is Disguising Cruelty as Compassion, by Kaylee McGhee White. “[The Department of Health and Human Services] went on to claim that ‘evidence-based interventions such as puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones’ are actually essential for ‘transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents’ and should be followed up with ‘”top” surgery – to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts’ or ‘”bottom” surgery – surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization, or other procedures.’” Read more here.
Lawsuits Targeting Florida’s Parental Rights Law Get Puff Piece Coverage, by Rebecca Downs. “’After they wed in 2016 when same-sex marriage became legal in Florida, they thought they would be guaranteed all the “rights and privileges” that come with it, Casares says, including having their child be protected and treated equally under the law,’ Carlisle’s piece dramatically begins in part. There’s no indication, though, that Casares and Feinberg, as well as their child, will not have those ‘rights and privileges,’ including when it comes to ‘having their child be protected and treated equally under the law.’” Read more here.
A Teachable Moment – Let’s Tell Teens the Truth About Sex and Its Consequences, by Janet Morana. “Organizations like Planned Parenthood have been telling teens for decades that sex is a normal and natural part of adolescent life. Of course, the nation’s number one abortion seller would say that, but the reality is that sex is hazardous to teenagers’ health. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise and teens are among the groups most impacted… Teens have a lot to lose when they become sexually active, so instead of encouraging this behavior, or looking the other way, let’s face it head on.” Read more here.
Yes, Schools Are Secretly Trying to ‘Gender Transition’ Kids, and It Must Be Stopped, by Emilie Kao. “More mothers and fathers across the country are waking up to the shock that schools and government officials are promoting transgender ideology in the classroom and then ‘socially transitioning’ confused children, sometimes even behind a wall of secrecy. ‘Gender support plans’ put out by school administrators require school employees to use names and pronouns that align with a student’s gender identity instead of their biological sex.” Read more here.
UN Experts Exceed Their Mandates on Same-Sex Relations, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The text of CEDAW contains no direct references to lesbians, homosexuality, or sexual minorities, and its use to create new categories of human rights protections in these areas is controversial and not supported by states parties to the treaty. Nevertheless, the CEDAW Committee has used its communications to advance such a standard on numerous occasions, particularly in the last two decades.” Read more here.
Gay Lobby Disappointed at Just-Concluded UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The 54 Member States of the UN Commission on the Status of Women have refused to bow to U.S. and EU pressure on homosexual/trans issues. The just-concluded commission adopted an agreement largely along the lines of past years, with marginal bureaucratic gains for homosexual/trans issues and abortion groups through ambiguous terms like ‘sexual and reproductive health’ and ‘women in diverse situations and conditions.’” Read more here.
Disney Executives Admit: Of Course We’re Grooming Your Children, by Elle Reynolds. “Disney isn’t just grooming children with radical sexual propaganda – now they’re bragging about it. On the heels of Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education law, which bars educators from instructing kindergarten through third-grade students about sexual ideology, multiple executives and employees from the Walt Disney Company admitted their own personal missions to deluge 5- to 9-year-olds with as much of their own sexual ideology as possible.” Read more here.
Leaked Documents Show How Teachers Recruit Students, Form Gay and Transgender Clubs in Schools, by Christopher Tremoglie. “For example, one of the recommended activities is for teachers to ask students their Kinsey Scale rating. …[T]he Kinsey Scale … emphasizes that ‘sexuality is fluid’ and that human sexuality does not fit into ‘two strict categories.’ Moreover, it asks participants to describe their emotions behind having sexual intercourse with people of the same sex and other sexual fantasies. It’s a completely inappropriate activity for teachers to do with students, regardless of age.” Read more here.
Finnish Court Rebukes State Prosecution of Christians for Saying God Made Men and Women Different, by Joy Pullmann. “Rasanen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola were acquitted of all four ‘hate crimes’ charges against them for speaking the Bible’s teachings that sex is rightly reserved for lifelong marriage between one man and one woman. The three-judge court not only cleared the two Christians but ordered the prosecution to pay their legal costs, ruling that in a free country courts have no place deciding permissible religious views.” Read more here.
At UN Commission on Status of Women, Far Left Ties Gender Ideology, Abortion to Climate Change, by Grace Melton. “Whatever its stated theme, radical feminists and their allies in Western governments and the UN bureaucracy use the annual event as cover for radical policies and abortion on demand. This year, they folded their abortion promotion into left-wing gender ideology and yoked it with the well-funded climate agenda… It’s hard to believe that the United Nations is serious about improving women’s lives when it seems to promote abortion at every turn. Furthermore, its embrace of gender ideology threatens to erase women by denying the realities of biological sex.” Read more here.
Now, a California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect, by Wesley J. Smith. “As in the Maryland law, if a state actor seeks to bring an action against people who give birth or those who help them ‘based on their actions or omissions’ with regard to ‘perinatal death,’ that person or entity can be sued… One blue-state bill that would allow a born baby to be neglected to death might be an anomaly. A second that does that – and perhaps could be interpreted to allow infanticide, also – is a pattern. The cultural Left is blazing new grounds of depravity.” Read more here.
This School District Might Be the Worst Violator of Parental Rights, by Ian Prior. “By both pushing students to conceal their sexual and/or gender identity from their own parents and dismissing objections of parents, there is little doubt that the Eau Claire Area trainings comprise unwarranted usurpation, disregard, and disrespect for parental choice when it comes to biological sex, whether that choice is based on faith or a basic understanding of human biology.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Declines Religious Liberty Case, but One Justice Hints at Potential Outcome in Future Cases Like It, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[T]he Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a religious organization claiming it had the right to refuse to hire individuals who did not share its religious beliefs. In denying the case on technical grounds, Justice Samuel Alito indicated that if it or a similar case came before the court in the future, the justices could likely find in favor of such a right for religious employers.” Read more here.
High-Quality Study Finds Preschool Enrollment Makes Children Learn Less and Misbehave More, by Joy Pullmann. “This trend of increasingly negative disparities over time among preschool attendees also affected student behavior records, the study says… These negative behavioral findings included decreased rates of school attendance, violations of school policies such as cheating and disobeying the dress code, being held back a grade, and being diagnosed with a learning disability or emotional disturbance.” Read more here.
USA Today and Gender Studies Experts Confirm: Women Don’t Exist, by Zachary Faria. “Between establishment media and their chosen ‘experts,’ we’re clearly in good hands… The reason Jackson’s response is such a big deal is precisely that it exposes the ideologues such as Dastagir, who are imposing their anti-science zealotry on media, schools, and sports. They use genetic abnormalities to justify their view that men and women don’t biologically exist and are entirely interchangeable social labels. It doesn’t make any sense, but if you can’t trust gender studies professors, who can you trust?” Read more here.
What Sen. Mike Lee’s Discussion of Abortion Procedures and the Media Censorship Says About the Issue, by Rebecca Downs. “It wasn’t just that Sen. Lee brought up the issue, specifically in the form of the particularly gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure, that is worthy of attention, but how pro-abortion journalist Aaron Rupar, of Vox, covered it, or, more accurately, didn’t… Many who called Rupar out offered that if abortion is no big deal to someone who is pro-abortion as he is, then it shouldn’t be a big deal to discuss the method.” Read more here.
Will Finland Side With Religious Freedom? by Frank Wolf and Arielle Del Turco. “We must not allow the secular equivalent of blasphemy laws to take root in law or culture. What’s unfolding in Finland should be a wake-up call to stand for our freedoms, rather than take them for granted. We may not think that such a case could happen in the United States, but Räsänen thought the same thing about Finland until it happened to her.” Read more here.
Jackson’s Failure to Define ‘Woman’ Indicates She Won’t Protect Females on Supreme Court, by Nicole Russell. “By refusing to answer the definition of ‘woman,’ Jackson leaves the door open to what she thinks about sex, gender, and controversial cases like Bostock v. Clayton County… If Jackson is unable or unwilling to define what a woman is in a legal sense, this can pose real problems for future cases she may hear as a sitting Supreme Court justice. How can she know what the law says on sex and gender identity if she cannot define sex? How can she rule in cases on women’s issues or rights when she isn’t sure how to define a woman?” Read more here.
Parent Bill of Rights Would Let Wisconsin Parents Sue Schools for Exploiting Our Kids, by Alyssa Pollow and Emily Donohue. “Wisconsin’s parent bill of rights establishes a statutory legal right for parents to direct their child’s education and a legal framework to hold schools accountable to this law. Among the rights enumerated in the bill are the right to review and receive access to educational materials, the right to be notified about and opt out of certain educational topics, the right to choose the name and pronouns one’s child goes by at school, … and the rights to be notified about school safety concerns and student surveys.” Read more here.
No, School Boards Are Not ‘Banning Books,’ by David Harsanyi. “If parents want, they can, in only a few minutes, order ‘This Book Is Gay,’ ‘Out of Darkness,’ or ‘We Are the Ants’ at a reasonable price. But Granbury Independent School District has no constitutional obligation to stock its shelves with novels touching on rape, abortion or transgenderism; there is no tenet of free expression that demands libraries make books on racial identitarianism available to kids; there’s no rule that state [sic] schools must keep books on a shelf in perpetuity simply because a librarian ordered it.” Read more here.
Mother of Trans Teenager: Los Angeles County Killed My Daughter, by Tori Richards. “’The more you pull on this thread, you will be shocked,’ said a Brooklyn parent named Emmaline… ‘We have been lied to, brainwashed and manipulated – all to turn my child’s nonconformity and anxiety into a pharmaceutical product.’ Emmaline took a crash course in child dysphoria three years ago when her 12-year-old daughter suddenly announced she was gay, then later decided she was transgender.” Read more here.
‘We Are Just Guinea Pigs:’ Women Describe Trauma of Transitioning as Teenagers, by Tori Richards. “Social media is filled with a neverending stream of detransitioners who are trying to undo the effects of hormone therapy and invasive surgeries such as hysterectomies and mastectomies… The average age to detransition is 23, approximately five years after undergoing transition, a clinical survey of 237 participants showed. Seventy percent realized that their gender dysphoria was related to other issues, such as existing depression.” Read more here.
Top Pediatrician: Teenage Transgender Medicine a Deadly Path, by Tori Richards. “Transgender health care is a big business, so it’s not clear if the runaway train can be slowed any time soon. Van Meter said he has seen a 500% increase in treatments on minors over the past decade. Online sites such as Plume offer a one-stop shopping experience complete with virtual doctors who can sign off on prescriptions and refer patients for surgery for a monthly $99 subscription. Sites such as Reddit are filled with posts of teenagers asking for doctor referrals and giving surgery advice.” Read more here.
WHO Guidelines on Abortion Imply Conscience Objections Are ‘Indefensible,’ by Kevin J. Jones. “The document’s twenty-second recommendation addresses conscientious objection, contending that there is a ‘human rights obligation to ensure that conscientious objection does not hinder access to quality abortion care…’ The WHO document suggests ‘prohibiting conscientious objection in urgent or emergency situations’ and also regulating conscientious objection in a way that includes ‘identifying, addressing and sanctioning non-compliance.’” Read more here.
Religious Freedom Is Under Threat in Victoria, by Andy Mullins. “In reality this means that a religious school may no longer prioritise the employment of teaching staff who support the religious ethos of the school… The law only recognises the right of specific teachers in religious schools to teach religious knowledge, but not the right of the school as a whole to build a culture informed by faith. Faith and life are decoupled under this law. It is a direct attack on religion and on the rights of parents.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Is on Life Support. My Day Watching Lia Thomas Swim, by Colin Wright. “At some point, and I suspect it will be soon, the force of cultural pushback in response to the excesses of gender ideology will begin to prevail… Stark absurdities, like what occurred at the NCAA Women’s Championships last week, will only fast-track gender ideology’s demise. Reality can only be warped so much before it eventually snaps back to reclaim its original form, and more and more people are everyday becoming privy to the destructive nature of the current gender madness.” Read more here.
Kansas Weighs Protecting Rights of Children, Families in Education, by Jonathan Butcher. “The proposal includes key provisions being considered in many other states. For example, the Kansas proposal allows parents to ‘be informed of and inspect’ the materials that educators use in the classroom. That way, parents can talk with their children about controversial topics before, during, and after they complete an assignment. Families can also object to material that is not age-appropriate for children.” Read more here.
Colorado Legislature Creating New Way for People to Become Parents While Denying Best Interests of Children, by The Daily Citizen. “This bill does nothing less than facilitates the legally streamlined creation of intentionally motherless or fatherless parentage of children so that same-sex couples can merely ‘assign’ a child’s other ‘parent’ based on the desires of the adults involved, rather than the fundamental needs of the child. Be sure, this is a very radical step in family law that should be resisted. If two women or two men propose they are the parents of a child, this bill would establish them as legal parents without question from anyone. All that is needed is the declaration of the two adults.” Read more here.
Distorting Florida’s Parental Rights Bill, by Jerry Newcombe. “…[G]ender dysphoria is a form of depression. And while puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgeries may provide temporary relief, they don’t address the root issue: ‘When you don’t like who you are at the core of who you are, you’re depressed about who you are.’ Why should parents, who are responsible for their children’s education and well-being, have to pick up the pieces as our society recklessly destroys these little children and their futures?” Read more here.
Including Rachel Levine Among the Women of the Year Is an Affront to Women and Girls, by Nicole Russell. “USA Today is suggesting that the achievements of Levine, who spent over 50 years living as a biological male, are the same as biological women and their unique attributes. It is wholly unfair to biological women… Women did not work tirelessly to achieve the right to vote, and then the right to work on equal terms, and then the right to get a credit card without a cosigner just so transgender females could best them in track, on the swim team, and in high-ranking government positions.” Read more here.
Why the Act of Marriage (Still) Makes a Difference, by Harry Benson. “So do we need marriage? Are the poor leading the way by abandoning it? Are the rich hanging on to marriage as some kind of status symbol? Is marriage permanently dented, or is it just going through a bad patch? What I want to do is restore your confidence in marriage. I want to reassure you that the statistics continue to show that families who marry tend to have better outcomes, both adults and children, both rich and poor alike.” Read more here.
Canada’s Crackdown on Religious Freedom Is a Wake-Up Call for Americans, by Jorge Gomez. “Americans must confront a difficult question: Is a wave of religious hostility, tyranny and intolerance headed to the Land of the Free? The shocking truth is that similar and equally brazen violations are already happening in our nation. It’s no longer a dystopian fantasy to think of religious citizens being muzzled and kept from living out their faith. It’s an undeniable reality…” Read more here.
WHO Advises Telemedicine Abortions/Eliminate Conscience Protections for Doctors, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “With regard to conscientious objection by health care providers, the guidance recommends that it be restricted so as not to impose any barrier to accessing abortion… As the WHO continues to expand its pool of potential abortion providers from doctors to all levels of medical practitioners, the number of people seeking conscientious exceptions from involvement with abortion also increases. This guidance also ‘suggests’ that pharmacists and pharmacy workers should be included among abortion providers.” Read more here.
Marie Stopes International and Abortion, Inc., by Hayden Ludwig. “That report also found that Marie Stopes doctors were pressuring female patients to undergo abortions, often ignoring or bulk-signing the pre-consent forms required by British law… A year later, government inspectors discovered that Marie Stopes staff were ‘encouraged’ to suggest patients undergo abortions because it was ‘linked to their performance bonuses,’ a feature the inspectors called the group’s ‘cattle market culture.’” Read more here.
Students Are Being Groomed by Teachers to Embrace LGBT ‘Glitter Families’ in Place of Parents, by Jonathon Van Maren. “LGBT activists will claim that … kids identifying as LGBT face genuine danger from their own families. Government employees, in other words, care more about these children than their parents do, and as such those employees must be both instructed and enabled to protect children from their families. Combine this with omnipresent LGBT sex education beginning in the earliest grades and increasingly presenting children the option of changing genders, and the results are inevitable.” Read more here.
Florida Law Is Pro-Freedom, Not Anti-LGBTQ, by Star Parker. “Anyone who wants to publicize this as, ‘Don’t say gay’ should also publicize it as saying, ‘Don’t say straight.’ Because that’s what it’s about. Removing discussion about sexual orientation from classrooms of toddlers. But for LGBTQ activists, anything not actively promoting their agenda is taken as opposition. Therefore, for them, freedom, and the tolerance and neutrality that it requires, is by definition anti-LGBTQ.” Read more here.
Americans Across the Political Spectrum Need to Say No to Men in Women’s Sports and No to Corporate Identity, by Kara Dansky. “Most legacy media outlets also misleadingly use language designed to confuse us all. Media usages of phrases such as ‘transgender athlete,’ ‘transgender children,’ and ‘transgender prisoner’ and of wrong-sex pronouns are deliberately designed to manipulate readers into questioning their own sense of what is true. Don’t let them get away with it. Every time anyone uses language that obscures the truth, we contribute to the lie. Let’s all commit to using language that is grounded in material reality instead.” Read more here.
New Media Outlet Examines the Evidence for ‘Gender Medicine,’ by Bernard Lane. “Maybe the gender clinics could start a program for new referrals, matching them up with young adult ‘detransitioners’ who have stopped taking hormones and reclaimed their birth sex. Those detransitioners might tell the would-be transitioners that high hopes for medical treatment, especially for gender medicine with its weak evidence base, can be disappointed in practice, leaving a patient with side effects and regret.” Read more here.
When It Comes to Minor Transition, Gender Activists Leave Lawmakers Little Choice, by Debra Soh. “As someone who supports transitioning in adults and is in favor of personal autonomy, in an ideal world, banning something would not be my preferred line of defense. But I have seen the extent to which trans ideology’s unscientific tentacles have woven their way into medical, educational, and scientific organizations. I am highly skeptical that activist groups responsible for these changes will ever consider quitting while they are ahead.” Read more here.
Progressive Group Slammed for Creepy Attack on Florida’s Parental Rights Bill, by Tim Meads. “The progressive group ‘Together Rising’ is being slammed for its creepy attack on Florida’s ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill and for its point-blank admission that they view other people’s kids as something society should control. While it may seem like a new development, observers have been warning for several years the Left’s assault on the traditional family unit is explicitly linked to indoctrinating children with their progressive political agenda.” Read more here.
By Any Other Name, by Helena. “It’s understandable that any young person exposed to this kind of belief system would grow to deeply resent being white, ‘cis,’ straight, or (biologically) male. The beauty of gender ideology is it provides a way to game this system, so that you can get some of those targets off your back and enjoy the camaraderie of like-minded youths. …[I]t’s as easy as putting a ‘she/they’ in your bio. Instantly you are transformed from an oppressing, entitled, evil, bigoted, selfish, disgusting cishet white scum into a valid trans person who deserves celebration and special coddling to make up for the marginalization and oppression you supposedly now face.” Read more here.
Maryland Legislature Considers Sick Bill That Could Legalize Infanticide Up to 28 Days After Birth, by Olivia Summers. “…[T]he bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/ manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion. In other words – this bill will effectively legalize infanticide… And it gets worse. Because the language that is used is without clear definition, the bill could prevent any investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth and may extend to infants as old as four weeks!” Read more here.
Here’s Why Florida’s Anti-Grooming Bill Is Necessary, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The legislation is really an anti-grooming bill meant to protect young children from coercive leftist theories on gender and sex. …[L]aws like the one being proposed in Florida are not overreactive or irrelevant but necessary. There are people out there, like Robertson and Turner, whose primary goal is to indoctrinate and sexualize young children, and they view the classroom as the perfect place to do both. Florida’s bill would make sure they’re allowed nowhere near it.” Read more here.
Trans Activists Funded by Big Pharma Push Biased Research Promoting Medical Transitions for Children, by Laurel Duggan. “A … comprehensive review of nine studies failed to find evidence that hormonal therapy and puberty blockers were helpful. The review pointed out common flaws in transgender treatment research, such as confounding variables and bias resulting from observational studies that lack control groups. Yet the media has widely publicized studies funded by pharmaceutical corporations and activist groups which claim to find that ‘gender-affirming’ medical care … is good for kids’ mental health.” Read more here.
Activists Hosting ‘Sex-Ed Summer Camp’ for Children as Young as 7-Years-Old, by Rebecca Downs. “Another answer confirms that children will see condom demonstrations. ‘At this age, kids are primed for level-headed learning. They are information-gatherers. There is no shame or ickiness associated with using bandaids and that same philosophy is applied to condoms and other barriers in this body-positive curriculum,’ the explanation reads.” Read more here.
Colorado Leftists Want to Legalize Abortion Up to Birth, by Zachary Faria. “Colorado has no limits on abortion, but that apparently is not good enough. Colorado Democrats are advancing a bill to codify its lack of abortion restrictions and to prevent unborn children from having independent rights under state law. According to Axios, the bill is ‘a first step toward asking Colorado voters to approve a constitutional protection on the 2024 ballot.’” Read more here.
Actually, Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is Common Sense, by Tom Joyce. “Woke gender ideology denies reality. People are male and female… Meanwhile, concepts such as nonbinary, genderqueer, and other fringe genders don’t belong in the classroom at that age. Telling children young enough to believe in Santa Claus that they might not be a boy or a girl and that they can pick their gender is a great way to confuse young children.” Read more here.
Florida and Texas Are Right to Fight Back in the Transgender Debate, by the Editors of National Review. “Beyond grade three, the bill allows for gender ideology to be taught so long as it is ‘age-appropriate.’ But ‘age-appropriate’ according to whom? Is there ever an appropriate age to tell a child that puberty may be optional? Discussing varieties in human sexuality and identity with older children is one thing, but some ideological creeds – gender ideology and critical race theory among them – are so dubious and divisive that they ought to be kept out of the classroom.” Read more here.
The FDA Should Follow England – and the Science – on Mail Order Abortion, by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Tessa Longbons. “Without direct, in-person consultation between a pregnant woman and a medical professional prior to chemical abortion, not only is it difficult to diagnose serious risk factors such as an ectopic pregnancy, but the door is left wide open for vulnerable women and girls to be bullied or physically forced into an unwanted abortion. Unfettered and unfiltered access to abortion pills dramatically reduces the possibility of detection and deterrence.” Read more here.
Biden Uses International Women’s Day to Promote Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “In his official statement marking yesterday’s celebration of International Women’s Day, President Biden lauded his administration’s efforts to assist women, including ‘a whole-of-government effort to protect reproductive rights.’ It’s difficult for progressives to imagine celebrating women without, in the same breath, calling for more abortion.” Read more here.
Fighting Abortion Now Requires Fighting Americans’ Increasing Hatred of Children, by Brenna Lewis. “Along with the rise of the term ‘childfree’ (reducing the idea of children to burdens), Pew is finding that an unprecedented number of Americans don’t plan to have children for no reason other than that they don’t want them. The study, released in November 2021, found that a whopping 44 percent of childless 18- to 49-year-olds said they’re not too or not at all likely to have children.” Read more here.
Utah Governor Caves to the Left’s Radical Gender Ideology, by Kaylee McGhee White. “The contents of pro-women’s sports legislation and how to best preserve equal access to competition are certainly up for debate. But the fundamental principle of these bills, the belief that women’s sports and female athletes deserve protection, must never be compromised. By refusing even to consider Utah’s bill, Cox betrayed this principle and proved he cannot be trusted to defend women’s rights against the radical gender ideology that would undermine them.” Read more here.
The New York Times Misleads on Texas Abortion Trends, by Michael J. New. “…[A] closer look at the Times article indicates there is much less to their claims than they suggest. First, even taking the data at face value, the increases in mail-order abortions and out-of-state abortions fail to totally offset the overall decline in the abortion rate. Even the Times admits that the heartbeat law is preventing hundreds of abortions every month and has saved thousands of lives since it took effect.” Read more here.
On International Women’s Day, Oppose the Violence of Abortion, by Sarah Michalak. “Worldwide, abortion is used aggressively against precious preborn baby girls. A five-year study reported in 2019 found ‘(n)early 23.1 million females are missing due to sex-selective abortions in 12 Asian and European countries.’ This is a failure on the part of our global society and something that this year’s International Women’s Day theme of ‘gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,’ could highlight, given America’s track record.” Read more here.
Wisconsin School District: Parents ‘Not Entitled’ to Know Kids’ Gender Identity, by Matt Margolis. “The latest outrage comes out of the Eau Claire School District in Wisconsin, where a slide shared during a staff development training session instructed teachers that parents are ‘not entitled’ to know their kids’ gender identity. The slide … says the following: ‘…Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities. That knowledge must be earned. Teachers are often straddling this complex situation. In ECASD, our priority is supporting the student.’” Read more here.
Abortion Industry Promotes ‘Missed Period Pills’ so Women Won’t Know If They Were Pregnant, by Carole Novielli. “In an attempt to normalize abortion by using deceptive euphemisms, the abortion industry is now referring to the use of mifepristone and/or misoprostol (the same drugs as are used in the abortion pill regimen) as ‘missed period pills’ or ‘later period pills.’ The drugs are being sold to women without a confirmation of pregnancy, … allowing them to escape the knowledge of whether or not they killed their own preborn children.” Read more here.
Senate Democrats Fail to Codify Roe v. Wade, by Lisa Correnti. “Prior to the vote, Schumer justified his actions saying that ‘abortion has never been more at risk’ and that every American deserves to know where his or her Senator stands on the issue. Schumer’s statement confirmed suspicions that the vote was called with the November mid-term elections looming and the abortion lobby demanding to know where Senators stand before they direct election funding.” Read more here.
The Latest Body Mutilation Fad Pushed by Trans Activists Is Not ‘Life Saving,’ It’s Dangerous to Human Health, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Breast binders are essentially wraps that flatten the breasts of girls who wish to identify as boys so that they can ‘present’ as male. Binders can cause back pain, shoulder pain, chest pain, shortness of breath, and fractured ribs – especially if used long-term… If girls use breast binders as they enter puberty, the results are often irreversible. But breast binders are all the rage right now, promoted by trans vloggers and YouTube stars as well as activists.” Read more here.
In Wisconsin, a Fight Over Whether Children Belong to the State or the Parents, by Andrea Widburg. “In the massive battle shaping up across America, public school districts are metaphorically carrying a banner saying ‘All your children are belong to us’ [sic] in their battle against parents over children’s gender (not to mention racial issues). What’s happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, exemplifies this battle and can be summed up in a sentence from a staff training session: ‘[P]arents are not entitled to know their kids’ [gender] identities. That knowledge must be earned.’” Read more here.
Don’t Buy Media’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Distortions About Florida’s Parental Rights Bill, by Jarrett Stepman. “This provision is a response to what’s happened in some schools, where a student is pushed by school officials to undergo a gender transition without the permission or knowledge of parents. There may have been a time and place where such restrictions on sexually explicit content for young children didn’t have to be addressed, but the reality is that more of such content is getting injected into children’s books and other materials.” Read more here.
What We Learn From Democrats’ Failure to Pass an Extreme Abortion Bill, by Nicole Russell. “The legislation would have repealed all existing state laws that specify abortion restrictions or protect the unborn in some way, endangering laws that ban late-term abortions… The bill also would have prohibited future laws regulating abortions and the abortion industry. This is especially gut-wrenching, because as technology has improved and our understanding of the human body has grown, abortion laws have reflected such progress.” Read more here.
The Moral Atrocity of ‘Top Surgery,’ by Miriam Grossman. “Increasingly, confused girls with mental health issues are lining up to have their breasts removed, erroneously believing my colleagues who tell them the operation will alleviate their emotional pain and allow them to emerge as their authentic selves. Girls as young as 13 are having ‘top surgery,’ a euphemism for a bilateral mastectomy – the removal of both breasts – in order to create, as gender surgeons put it, a ‘masculinized’ chest.” Read more here.
Joe Biden Shamelessly Promotes Abortion as ‘Advancing Liberty and Justice’ and ‘Access to Health Care’ in SOTU, by Rebecca Downs. “During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden delved into the abortion issue, though he didn’t mention it by name. Instead, he framed it as ‘rights of women’ and ‘health care…’ Referring to the abortion procedure, which ends the life of an unborn child as being about ‘advancing liberty and justice’ as well as ‘protect[ing] access to health care’ and ‘continu[ing] to advance maternal health care for all Americans,’ drew outrage.” Read more here.
Performing ‘Sex-Change Procedures’ on Kids Is Child Abuse, Texas’ Attorney General Says. He’s Right, and I Should Know, by Walt Heyer. “Adults should not subject children to surgery that removes healthy organs and causes sterilization, nor endanger them with drugs to block normal onset of puberty or to induce cross-sex appearance. Adults should protect children’s long-term health and well-being, not experiment with it… The first step in helping anyone, especially children, is to see their troubles through an appropriate lens, free from political ideology.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Takes Another Important Religious Freedom Case, by Nicole Russell. “…[S]he does not agree with gay marriage due to her orthodox religious beliefs. So, she would have to decline to design websites in celebration of such a marriage… Thankfully, the First Amendment was designed to protect just such beliefs. Anti-discrimination laws were formed to prevent discrimination, to keep malicious bigots in check. But Colorado’s language is such that it turns the First Amendment on its head. It now makes the people who embrace the most traditional beliefs the ‘bigots.’” Read more here.
Doubling of LGBT-Identifying Americans Is Due to Trendiness, by Debra Soh. “According to the report, the LGBT percentage of the total population has doubled from 3.5% to 7.1% in approximately 10 years. As one could reasonably expect, LGBT self-identification was more common among young people. For example, about 11% of millennials and 21% of Gen Z identified this way. That’s right, roughly 1 in 5 Zoomers says they are gay or transgender. This is in contrast with only 4% of Gen Xers and 3% of baby boomers.” Read more here.
Secret Teacher Portals Reveal ‘Pronoun Surveys,’ ‘Black Lives Matter Curriculum.’ Here’s What I Found in the Leaked Content, by Kenny Xu. “Preschool-aged children are highly impressionable, and using books like ‘Sparkle Boy’ and ‘When Aidan Became a Brother’ are bound to create an unhealthy focus on one’s own sexuality at an extremely vulnerable age. It is quite conceivable that a normal 5-year-old girl, upon reading one of these books, suddenly decides she is trans based upon a classroom experience.” Read more here.
U.S. Senate Considers Abortion-on-Demand Bill, by Lisa Correnti. “The bill passed the House of Representatives in September by a vote of 218-211. The abortion lobby has pressed Senate Democrats to take up a bill in response to a Supreme Court decision that may restrict abortion rights. The bill would roll back nearly all state laws that restrict abortion enacted over the past 40 years, including laws on parental notification, informed consent, late term abortion, dismemberment abortion, telemedicine abortion and conscience protection.” Read more here.
Colombian High Court Says Aborting Disabled Children Can Never Be a Crime, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The high court said it is through abortion that women, children, and ‘gestating persons’ exercise their sexual and reproductive freedom and put into practice their own individual system of beliefs and values. The reasoning in the Court’s decision follows the lead of the legislature of Argentina and the Supreme Court of Mexico, both of which over the last two years recognized abortion as a right for all ‘gestating persons.’ It remains unclear if this refers only to women who identify as men or also men who identify as women.” Read more here.
Schools Using ‘Transition Closets’ to Hide Children’s Transgender Identity From Parents, by Jeff Charles. “…[E]ducators are using ‘Transition Closets’ as a means of helping students dealing with gender dysphoria to conceal the issue from their parents. The practice allows them to socially transition to the opposite sex without their parents’ knowledge… Transition Closets appear to be present mostly on university campuses at the moment. However, they could be far more ubiquitous in K-12 schools than it seems. The secretive nature of the project could mean it is flying under the radar at other schools.” Read more here.
The War on Parents Continues, by Ben Shapiro. “Florida is now considering a bill, the Parental Rights in Education bill, that would restrict primary schools from indoctrinating children on matters of sexual orientation or gender identity and would require schools to inform parents about minors who begin identifying as LGBTQ in school. None of this should be controversial… It is parents who care most about their children, not school administrators; it is parents who shape the values and choices of their children.” Read more here.
Biden’s Stealth Expansion of Abortion Policy Is a Losing Battle, by Jeanne Mancini. “What this means in plain English is that HHS will attack all existing federal constraints on abortion and generally make life more difficult for pro-life people. Biden’s Food and Drug Administration has already eliminated restrictions on mail-order abortion pills that too often have serious side effects. If Becerra and Biden get their way, many more safeguards will fall. Conscience protections will also be weakened or eliminated altogether.” Read more here.
The Violence Against ‘Individuals’ Act, by Alexandra Desanctis. “Under the House bill, legislation that was originally intended to protect women from domestic violence now includes ‘transgender’ and ‘gender non-conforming’ individuals in addition to biological women… The bill would allow biological men who identify as women not only to be placed in women’s prisons but also to seek shelter in the same housing as vulnerable women fleeing abuse, and it doesn’t grapple with the obvious complications this poses in the context of domestic violence.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Measures Sweep the Nation as Three More States Move to Protect Life in the Womb at 15-Weeks Gestation, by Nicole Hunt. “If Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, Arizona law would automatically outlaw abortion in the state. However, if the Supreme Court stops short of overturning Roe and instead only upholds Mississippi’s 15-week restriction on abortion, pro-life lawmakers in Arizona want to have this law in place to protect pre-born babies at 15-weeks gestation.” Read more here.
The Gender Cult Marches On, by Abigail Shrier. “The Gender Ideologues and Critical Race Theorists care little for the building blocks of traditional education – math, reading, writing, history. Traditional subjects are viewed primarily as vehicles for advancing their agenda, time slots into which propaganda must be inserted. The activists are in the process of commandeering every part of the school day and numberless impressionable American minds. They wreak identity confusion in our young and teach kids to hate their bodies and their country.” Read more here.
The Realities of Life and the Lies of Abortion, by Kathryn Lopez. “The Times wants you to believe that because the heart of a 6-week-old fetus isn’t fully developed, it’s beat doesn’t count. It’s ‘only a primitive tube of cardiac cells that emit electric pulses and pump blood.’ The piece contends: ‘The consensus among most medical experts is that the electrical activity picked up on an ultrasound at six weeks is not the sound of a heart…’ You don’t have to be a doctor to find this absurd.” Read more here.
NYT Science Reporter Flunks on the Science of Transgender Athletes, by Zachary Faria. “Ghorayshi’s piece goes on to cover the typical ‘straight news’ structure of a piece on transgender athletes, claiming that ‘some people’ think it is unfair that men compete against women while other people are worried about ‘inclusivity.’ At one point, the piece cites the director of the ‘Adult Gender Identity Clinic’ in London as saying that biological men may even have a disadvantage in some women’s sports – which sports that would be, exactly, isn’t immediately clear.” Read more here.
How a Trial in Finland Could Have Worldwide Effects on Government Persecution of Religion, by Joy Pullmann. “It’s not clear Finland’s hate crimes law even bans controversial speech, but Finland’s top prosecutor is arguing that it does. If the prosecutor wins the case, it would mark an unprecedented expansion of identity laws that exist in most European countries, many U.S. cities and states, and that U.S. Democrats are trying to make a nationwide law in The Equality Act… The charges against the two Christians include an attempt to criminalize statements they made years before the law being used to prosecute them passed.” Read more here.
Meet the Sex Shop Founder Who Is Grooming Children Through Books in School Libraries, by Spencer Lindquist. “It isn’t a fluke that a leftwing sex shop founder has been propped up as an authority on sexuality, with direct access to children. Media and education institutions, alongside several leftwing activists, have helped mainstream such fringe beliefs. The author is praised because of, not in spite of, the extremism of his sexual worldview. …[T]he author pointed out that some of his critics believe that he is ‘warping people’s ideas of gender.’ He flatly responded, ‘Maybe I am.’” Read more here.
EU Increases Abortion Funding, Demands Abortion Loyalty, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…European leaders have made it clear that opposition to abortion will not be tolerated among their own members. When Maltese politician Roberta Metsola was elected president of the European Parliament, she had to give assurances that she would promote the parliament’s position which she characterized as ‘unambiguous’ in favor of abortion. Prior to that Metsola had been an outspoken pro-lifer.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Celebrates ‘National Condom Week’ With Lies, by Ruth Institute. “Even Planned Parenthood itself states on its website: ‘If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they’re 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren’t perfect, so in real life condoms are about 85% effective – that means about 15 out of 100 people who use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant each year…’ But that’s good business for Planned Parenthood. Most of its income comes from the 345,000 abortions it performs each year.” Read more here.
Cut the ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Line, Corporate Abortion. Real Help Doesn’t Hurt the Preborn, by Kristan Hawkins. “The abortion lobby sells women short, and then sells them an abortion. Claims that ‘women need abortion to succeed’ imply that women are too stupid and weak to succeed while parenting – they’re just silly damsels in distress who can’t be trusted to handle career AND family. In any other setting but an abortion vendor’s office, that kind of misogyny could get you canceled… Abortion hurts women. It can never deliver the one thing it promises – an end to problems. All that’s ended is a child’s life.” Read more here.
Abortion Activists’ $3.7 Billion Blowout, by Hayden Ludwig. “For evidence that the abortion industry is perhaps the single most powerful player on the left, look no further than its mountains of cash. In 2020 alone, pro-abortion activists raked in a stunning $3.4 billion and spent nearly $3.8 billion. That is quite a leap from the $1.9 billion the industry spent in 2019 – undoubtedly a consequence of the huge amount of money it spent on the 2020 election. It is a stunning display of wealth and illustrates the abortion industry’s enormous impact on our politics.” Read more here.
Kids as Young as 13 Are Crowdfunding ‘Sex Change’ Surgeries to Chop Off Their Body Parts, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Over the last few years, an entire industry aimed at providing transgender accessories to children has sprung up to meet – and drive – the demand for gender-bending supplies. Children hooked on the idea of changing genders through peer contagion or Internet trans celebrities can order ‘breast-binders,’ which flatten the chest, or ‘packers,’ which girls use to ‘present’ as having a penis, online without their parents’ knowledge… Now, a Daily Mail report indicates that children are crowdfunding their sex change surgeries online.” Read more here.
Finnish Christian on Trial for Quoting the Bible on Twitter: ‘God Is Working,’ by Joy Pullmann. “Rasanen and Pohjola are being prosecuted for stating basic Christian beliefs about sex and marriage. One of the three charges against Rasanen is for tweeting a picture of a Bible verse at Finland’s state church to criticize its co-sponsorship of a homosexual parade. ‘This is a very serious issue, because for Christians the Bible is the word of God, and there is no Christianity if you are not allowed to agree with the Bible,’ Rasanen said.” Read more here.
Does a Teacher Have a Right to Refuse to Call a Girl a Boy? Virginia’s Supreme Court May Decide, by Virginia Allen. “Vlaming said he tried to avoid using female pronouns with the student, but in the fall of 2018, he accidentally called the student ‘she’ in front of the class. The same day, Vlaming was called to his principal’s office and put on administrative leave. Superintendent Laura Abel said Vlaming could return to teach at West Point High if he would use male pronouns proactively to refer to the female student. Vlaming again explained that he could not in good conscience refer to a female as a male.” Read more here.
States Must Follow Florida’s Lead on Combating Fatherhood Crisis to Rebuild Strong American Families, by Chris Sprowls. “The fact is, one in four children live without a father figure in their home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and nearly every negative outcome plaguing so many of today’s youth has been linked to their lack of a present and intentional father. Studies conducted by the National Fatherhood Initiative have shown that when children are raised in father-absent homes, they have a four-times greater risk of living in poverty and are twice as likely to drop out of high school. Six in 10 youth suicides come from fatherless homes.” Read more here.
California Schools Can Change Students’ Gender Categories Without Parent Consent, by Dov Fischer. “The California Teachers Association adopted a policy in January 2020 stating students should be able to access hormone therapy without parent consent, for the sake of ‘equity.’ …[M]inors can bill their parents’ insurance without their parents’ consent for gender-affirming care, which includes hormone therapy or ‘sex-change’ operations. Today’s accommodations could consign a child to lifelong ramifications – powerful hormone treatments, a lifetime of meds, inability to bear offspring, horrific and grotesque surgeries that irreversibly remove core body parts.” Read more here.
Arizona Legislators Propose Communist-Style ‘Community Schools,’ by Kimberly Ells. “The CDC’s ‘Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child’ model focuses on 10 components… Note that family falls dead last on the list. This is not a trivial accident. While ‘parental and family involvement’ are given robust lip-service in such initiatives, the main thing the community school model does is reduce the influence of parents and exponentially expand the role of the state-run school.” Read more here. Editor’s note: Though this specific bill in Arizona has reportedly been pulled, the article still contains valuable information about the promotion of “community schools.”
Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill Hits Target: Gender Ideology Harms Kids, by Jay Richards and Jared Eckert. “Lawmakers in the Sunshine State have introduced a new bill, Parental Rights in Education. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that may be because big media have mislabeled it as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill. The bill would not ban the word ‘gay.’ Rather, it would protect children from teachers and other school officials who seek to sexualize and bombard them with gender ideology. In particular, it would require schools to be transparent with and get permission from parents for any health services students receive.” Read more here.
Transgender School Policies Are a Safeguarding Nightmare, by Stassja Frei. “Many parents will be shocked to learn that schools around Australia already have policies that allow male students to use the toilets, change rooms, and even overnight accommodation meant for girls. There is no requirement to gain consent from other students or to inform parents. What could possibly go wrong?” Read more here.
Could Biden Bypass State Laws by Placing Abortion Clinics on Federal Land? by Katie Yoder. “As the Supreme Court considers a case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade’s 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, legal experts are exploring strategies to protect abortion access. One such option proposes placing abortion clinics on federal land within states that restrict or ban abortion. The idea is that these clinics would fall under federal governance, rather than state law.” Read more here.
New York Times Falsely Claims Unborn Babies’ Hearts Aren’t Really Beating, by Steven Ertelt and Micaiah Bilger. “For decades, the scientific world has known that unborn children are living human beings whose lives begin at conception. Their hearts begin beating before any mother knows she’s pregnant, and their body begins to develop very quickly – well before abortions are routinely done to end their little lives. But, in its latest bit of scientific revisionism, the New York Times falsely claims unborn babies don’t have beating hearts. This new terminology is not based on facts or scientific evidence. It’s based on an agenda that supports abortion on demand.” Read more here.
Inside LGBTQ Picture Books for Young Children, by Ellie Gardey. “LGBTQ activists are brazen with the ideology they put into their children’s books. They intend to make the children reading their books become part of the LGBTQ movement, base their understanding of family, love, and relationships around the brainless rallying cry ‘Love is love,’ and see themselves as gendered, multi-gendered, or non-gendered spirits who happen to inhabit a body that may or may not match that spirit’s gender(s) — if it has a gender at all.” Read more here.
Christians Across Australia Furious Over Religious Bill Drama, by Matt Young. “…[T]he Australian Christian Lobby said the bills were ‘intended to help faith-based schools,’ but they now ‘do more harm than good.’ Five Liberal MPs joined with Labor and the crossbench on Thursday to extend the protections to gay students to those of diverse gender identity. The ACL said in doing so, ‘the loss of this protection would outweigh any benefits that could be obtained by the Religious Discrimination Bill.’” Read more here.
C-Fam Investigation Reveals Lack of Agreement and Nefarious Connections in UN Human Rights Mechanism, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “A C-Fam investigation reveals that the influence of these wealthy countries has also infiltrated the [Universal Periodic Review] at the level of regular citizens. Non-government stakeholders are invited to submit their own reports on countries’ human rights records. C-Fam has found local organizations submitting abortion and SOGI friendly reports are actually funded by the European Union, Canada and other powerful governments. These organizations present themselves as part of the grassroots.” Read more here.
Signs for Hope in Protecting Women’s Sports, by Debra Soh. “The issue of transgender athletes has been tucked under the guise of promoting human rights when many transgender people are in fact furious at this activism. For example, activists will claim that transgender women are biologically female, or that transition bestows upon them a cervix… The more damage these activists do, the sooner change will be forthcoming. As organizations and individuals increasingly find the courage to challenge this ideology, many more will be emboldened to do the same.” Read more here.
Religious Discrimination Bill Passes Lower House Along With SDA Amendment, by Neil Foster. “The ‘presenting problem’ was seen to be the possibility that a faith-based school would expel a student on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Leave aside the fact that as far as I am aware no religious school in Australia has ever done this. What s 38(3) provides is a statement that a religious school can operate in teaching and caring for students in accordance with its faith commitments, which is the very reason for its existence! To simply repeal it is, in my view, a bad move.” Read more here.
How Many LGBT Kids Commit Suicide? Not as Many as You Think, by Michael Cook. “So it is true that transgender youths commit suicide at a higher rate, although it is orders of magnitude less than the alarming reports in the media – and in Parliament. But is this to be attributed to the fact that they identify as trans? …[T]he Society for Gender-Based Medicine (SEGM) pointed out that trans kids often have other mental health conditions as well. ‘Adolescents referred to the GIDS differ in many other ways from their peers of the same age: they are more likely to suffer from depression and to be on the autism spectrum, for example. These conditions increase the risk of suicide,’ it says.” Read more here.
Parents, Do You Know What Your Kids Are Learning at College? Disturbing ‘Sex Week’ Events Underway Nationwide, by CBN News. “New Orleans’ Tulane University is hosting numerous Sex Week events, including discussions of fornication and polyamory. Students can even drop by the Department of Sociology’s table and play the ‘Wheel of Fornication.’ Another event is called ‘Sexy Bingo’ where students can ‘engage in conversations about sexuality and learn about safer sex practices, sexual anatomy, sexual behavior and preference, and pleasure.’ Billed as ‘not your grandparents’ bingo,’ winners will receive prizes that include sex toys.” Read more here.
Major British Newspaper Admits What Pro-Lifers Already Know: Back-Alley Abortions Are a Myth, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The Western media works to paint these countries not as family-oriented nations that love and value children, but as bitter hellscapes where untold millions of women die in back alleys. They never claim that they are seeking to legalize abortion for their own profit, … they always claim it is for the good of the people they are demanding accept it. No lie is too large not to find its way into print. This makes a recent correction by the British publication The Telegraph rather shocking — not because it got abortion numbers wrong, but because it bothered to admit it.” Read more here.
Trans Health Association Recommends Mental Health Assessment Before Teens Transition. The New York Times Isn’t Convinced, by Nicole Russell. “It’s still refreshing to see a paper like The New York Times acknowledge the myriad of problems with teens transitioning and publish the cautionary guidelines, but it didn’t exactly leave it at that. It worked pretty hard to go to bat for the transgender ideology that suggests the only way to handle gender dysphoria is to transition through surgery and hormones. This is unfortunate. Conservatives must continue to battle the media and reframe the topic.” Read more here.
Child Custody’s Gender Gauntlet, by Abigail Shrier. “Courts are … seeing a child who has a feeling of gender dysphoria as no different from one born with a cleft palate. From this perspective, the only relevant question in a custody dispute involving a transgender-identified minor is: When will you allow him to get the necessary surgery to fix his body? Once a court swallows gender ideology, in other words, judges will believe that the only thing left for a loving parent to do, after an adolescent announces a trans identity, is shuttle him to the doctors who will alter his body and contribute clapping-hands emojis to the photos he posts on Instagram.” Read more here.
Biden’s Latest Proposal Would Force Insurers to Pay for Gender ‘Transition,’ by Jay Richards and Jared Eckert. “Behind ‘gender-affirming care’ is the hope of aligning the recipient’s body with his or her gender identity. Such ‘care’ … cannot achieve the impossible: to change someone’s sex with chemicals or scalpels. The Department of Health and Human Services rule … would displace biological sex as a criterion for medical care with a fluid and illusory notion of gender identity. This, in turn, would also serve as precedent for further policy changes elsewhere in the administrative state.” Read more here.
Vermont Plans to Enshrine Legal Abortions Right Up to Birth, by John Klar. “Vermont has long embraced this barbaric extremism with regard to the unborn. Its leftist legislature has steadfastly avoided acknowledging fetal personhood at any age, which leaves pregnant women gravely unprotected from domestic abusers who murder their unborn children — there is no Vermont recognition of these as homicides, even if the child is viable.” Read more here.
Do Critics of ‘Conversion Therapy’ Live in a Fact-Free Zone? by Michael Cook. “First, in 2022, what is ‘conversion therapy?’ Abusive violence no longer happens – at least not in the countries which are banning it. Second – and even more important – where is the peer-reviewed expert proof that ‘talking conversion therapy’ is harmful? … An article published this week in a leading peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Psychology, claims that there is none. American sociologist Paul Sullins states bluntly that ‘even for persons for whom SOCE has had no efficacy, there is no discernible psychosocial risk.’” Read more here.
Religious School Tells Parents It Will Apply Its Religious Beliefs, by Neil Foster. “Under Queensland law, the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) says that detrimental treatment of people on various grounds is unlawful, including the grounds of ‘sexuality’ and ‘gender identity’ (see s 7). One area in which such discrimination is forbidden is ‘education’… However, there is an important question as to whether setting out moral principles which a school believes, while saying that enrolment decisions will not be made on the basis of the specific questions of sexuality or gender identity, amounts to a breach of the Act.” Read more here.
Transgender Ideology and the Rise of the Thought Police, by David Robertson. “Nicola Sturgeon denies, despite all the evidence, that there is any conflict between transgender rights and sex-based rights. Anyone who dares to question that is automatically labelled ‘transphobic…’ The irony and folly of the policy is seen when they argue that having everyone believing the same state doctrine is ‘crucial to promote diversity.’ It appears that we can believe and practise only what the government decrees.” Read more here.
Sex Offenders Are Laughing at Us When They Identify as Female, by Debra Soh. “Male violent offenders and rapists have been given special accommodations because they identify as women, and presumably, those in charge of these provisions are afraid of transgender activists. Has anyone stopped to ask how everyday transgender people feel about this? And what message does this send to victims and women? Really, I’m surprised that every single male offender hasn’t taken it upon himself to do the same.” Read more here.
Another Unhinged Professor Has Been Exposed as a Pedophilia Apologist, by Spencer Lindquist. “Let’s be abundantly clear: this is not a complicated issue. In fact, there can be no simpler issue. Pedophilia is evil. That’s it. We shouldn’t accept the notion that pro-pedophilia sentiments are valid ideas to be contended with in the marketplace of ideas by the use of rhetorical flourish or superior philosophizing. Illiberalism is no crime when your opponent uses bad-faith arguments to justify moral atrocities that target the most vulnerable among us, victimizing them in ways they can’t even comprehend.” Read more here.
The Truth About My Parental Bill of Rights, by Greg Abbott. “Texas parents have every right to know what is being taught to their children, and under my plan, we will expand parents’ access to the course curriculum and all material available in their child’s school… We must protect them from obscene content while they are in the classroom. My plan would ensure that any educational personnel convicted of providing minors with pornographic materials will lose their educational public credentials and state licensing, forfeit their retirement benefits, and be placed on the ‘Do Not Hire’ list.” Read more here.
College Professors Who Promote Pedophilia, by Michael Brown. “This begs the question, were other professors totally unaware of his views? Did no administrators know about it? Did no students ever complain? Was the university totally in the dark? What Kershnar and Russell advocate is monstrously evil. The fact that they could do it for decades as paid professors shaping the views of our children is mind-boggling and sickening.” Read more here.
There Is No Such Thing as a Pregnant Man, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Such propaganda occurred late last week when it was revealed that Apple’s latest software update, iOS 15.4, included a ‘pregnant man’ emoji. Obviously, the powers that be at Apple are trying to normalize such lunacy in the hope that there are enough stupid people willing to be bullied into accepting it… I empathize with the internal anguish of someone who longs to belong to the opposite sex. But I will not accept fiction as fact. Men cannot have babies. They cannot be pregnant. No one who respects the truth or science can ever accept such lies.” Read more here.
Schools Conspire With Outside Groups Behind Parents’ Backs to Counsel Kids on Myriad Gender Choices, by Brenda Lebsack. “In the elementary school where I teach, we have new mental health workers being hired right out of college… I asked, ‘If a kindergartner tells you he believes he’s both genders, how are you trained to deal with that?’ She responded, ‘To affirm whatever he says he is, including his pronouns.’ I said, ‘If the kindergartner says, “Please don’t tell my parents, because they won’t like this,” what are you trained to do?’ She said, ‘We must keep it confidential until children feel comfortable to “come out” publicly about their gender identity, and that includes parents, because we need our school to be a safe place.’” Read more here.
New Poll Shows Strong Opposition to Mail-Order Abortions, by Michael J. New. “…[T]his year’s Marist poll was unique because it was the first to ask about mail-order chemical abortion drugs. The survey found that 63 percent of respondents oppose new Biden administration FDA rules eliminating the requirement that women obtain chemical abortion drugs in person from a medical professional, allowing them instead to obtain them through the mail without an in-person appointment. That opposition to the new FDA rules was consistent across a wide range of demographic groups.” Read more here.
Does a Seattle-Area Coach Have a Prayer in His Supreme Court Case? by Salena Zito. “The protection of religious freedoms does not benefit just people of faith; it also protects the nonbeliever. The secular elite … don’t understand that notion, which is why they often will dismiss it, look down on it or mock it. That’s why watching the Supreme Court arguing Coach Kennedy’s case will be so compelling: It will open a window into how much regard people hold for their freedoms, as well as how the press covers it and how politics is affected by it.” Read more here.
Trans Athletes, the New York Times, and the Ivy League, by Dennis Prager. “Like virtually every other university in America, and every other Ivy League college, the University of Pennsylvania threw its women swimmers under the bus. Not only did it not side with the women swimmers, nearly all of whom, according to reports, felt cheated when Thomas beat them in every race they competed, but it had no reaction to Thomas displaying male genitals in the women’s locker room… Of course, neither Cornell nor Harvard defended their women either.” Read more here.
University of Pittsburgh Report Tries to Explain Away Barbaric Experiments With Aborted Babies, by Madeline Osburn. “Pitt and the lawyers they hired at HPM clearly have no intention of addressing the initial allegations or answering questions such as: Did Pitt facilities perform illegal partial-birth abortions or infanticide in operating a fetal kidney harvesting program? Instead, the report backfired, raising even more questions that lawmakers and taxpayers must demand answers to.” Read more here.
No One Benefits From Highly Inaccurate Prenatal Tests More Than Planned Parenthood, by Mary Szoch and Joy Zavalick. “Planned Parenthood’s website inconspicuously recommends that mothers discuss prenatal testing with their doctors in order ‘to make sure you’re healthy and that your fetus is developing normally.’ Of course, the abortion giant stands to gain from convincing mothers to receive prenatal testing that will incorrectly tell many that their child will be born with painful or life-threatening conditions.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Opposes Bill to Stop Coercing Women to Have Abortions, by Mike Fichter. “…Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates have attempted to downplay the significance of coerced abortions as a form of reproductive coercion. Who gets hurt in this strategy? Not only the innocent baby, who dies at the hands of an abortionist, but the mother, whose victimization may extend from the home front of domestic abuse, right into the local and global arenas of human trafficking. In other words, women and girls who are already victims of abusers, predators, and traffickers.” Read more here.
What Pro-Life Really Means, by Kathryn Lopez. “All life is ‘sacred and fragile,’ Cardinal Dolan said… And he challenged everyone present and listening to step up to the plate and support Walking With Moms in Need, an initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. To combat the evil of abortion, we need more and more people showing what pro-life means: love for women and children, not violence. We need a culture where the alternatives to abortion are ubiquitous. This can be done. It must be. And we might just find some common ground along the way.” Read more here.
ACLU Opposes Transparency Law on Educational Materials, by Jonathan Turley. “Greater transparency on public education (like other government programs) would seem a good thing… School boards are elected by the voters who have a right and a need for such information… Parents have a say in how their public schools are run, which is why these boards [sic] positions are subject to elections. Yet, the ACLU is opposing greater transparency, declaring ‘Curriculum transparency bills are just thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools.’” Read more here.
Why Accepting Child Transgenderism Will Pave the Way for Accepting Pedophilia, by Spencer Lindquist. “The push for childhood transgenderism is predicated on a perverse and extreme individualistic sentiment, specifically that children’s rights as individuals imply an autonomous ability to make irreversible decisions regarding their health… The dangerous claim that children can meaningfully consent to puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, or genital mutilation is … also leading our society down a sinister path towards accepting pedophilia. Here’s how.” Read more here.
NCAA, Leaders Are Deliberately Turning a Blind Eye to Injustices in Women’s Sports, by Chelsea Mitchell. “They used to call me ‘the fastest girl in Connecticut.’ But I couldn’t outrun an injustice… At the end of the race, it’s about biology, not gender identity. And no amount of testosterone suppression can change a male’s innate physical advantages, like bone structure and muscle mass. And fast as I am, I can’t outrun those advantages. Or the injustice that protects them. For saying that out loud, I’ve been branded by some as a sore loser and a hater.” Read more here.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decriminalizes Infanticide, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The court’s sentence described the strict abortion laws of El Salvador as part of a pattern of systemic gender discrimination rooted in El Salvador’s pro-life laws and law enforcement protocols. The Inter-American Court ultimately told El Salvador to revise its infanticide laws, which currently allow the imposition of the full 30- to 50-year prison sentence foreseen in cases of homicide. Manuela had been sentenced to the minimum 30 years when she was found guilty of infanticide in 2008. But the court didn’t stop there.” Read more here.
Forcing Abortion on the World, by Katelyn Walls Shelton. “Officials at the UN and the WHO … are attempting to export abortion around the world. Conservative countries are being threatened: You either legalize and expand abortion access or forfeit your healthcare funding. Negotiations around women’s health at the UN often stall on the abortion issue. Ideological negotiators undermine advances in women’s health if unlimited abortion rights language is not included. And the women who would serve to benefit from these resolutions are collateral damage in the fight for total abortion rights.” Read more here.
As I Found Out With My Daughter, Not Even Catholic Schools Are Safe Havens From Gender Ideology, by Charlie Jacobs. “I asked if they were aware of the information being presented at Pride Student Union events, specifically the formal meetings on gender, or whether they had queried the faculty monitor, the club president, or any members. Neither Principal K nor Father B would answer that question, waving it off as if I had no right to be concerned. Yet, Father B told me that my daughter needed the club. He warned me that she might commit suicide without it, and said she needed a place to make friends.” Read more here.
No, California Should NOT Abolish Parenthood in the Name of Equity, by William Estrada. “Parental rights are a good thing. It is good for children to know their parents, to be raised by their parents, to be loved by their parents. It is good for children to grow up around their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings. It is good for society. Parental rights are the bedrock upon which civilization stands.” Read more here.
Truth About Abortion: Everyone Knows It’s a Baby, by Katherine Beck Johnson. “The justices inside the Beltway need to take a step back from their wonky legal arguments and take a minute to remember just what Mississippi is fighting for: the legal protection of life inside the womb. This isn’t some arcane property dispute where nothing more is at stake than esoteric legal doctrines spelled out in Latin. This is a case over the fundamental right to life and the ability to prevent the greatest civil rights abuse of our time: the legalization of killing our most vulnerable brothers and sisters.” Read more here.
NCAA’s Transgender Policy Change Proves It’s Losing the Debate, by Kaylee McGhee White. “These girls want what they are owed: a level playing field and a chance to compete and win. Whether the NCAA will admit it or not, the organization knows it has denied female athletes that chance by forcing them to compete against transgender opponents. Hence the policy change. NCAA officials would rather let the blame fall on individual sports organizations than own up to allowing the destruction of women’s sports by male competitors.” Read more here.
The Biden Administration Must Protect the Unborn From Bogus Prenatal Tests, by Ken Blackwell. “Have you ever listened to the news, and come across a story that really makes you angry? Some stories just touch a nerve. This recently happened to me, when I learned that expecting parents are being given bad information about the health and wellbeing of their unborn child. Worse, because of misleading test results, it seems some families may be terminating healthy pregnancies.” Read more here.
Canada’s War on Children, by Mia Ashton. “…[A]llowing teens to sacrifice their fertility and healthy body parts in the name of gender identity will soon be seen for what it really is: the worst medical scandal the world has ever seen. We’re in the eye of the storm right now, and we won’t be able to see the true scale of the catastrophe until it has passed. But once it has, and the masses of young adults facing a lifetime of regret are visible for all to see, everyone involved in Canada’s education system will have to accept their part of the blame for the damage done.” Read more here.
These Trans TikTok Videos Are Pushing Kids Over the Edge, by Anonymous Author. “I caution anyone who chooses to watch this documentary to use their discretion. It is truly shocking – but it is what our kids are freely able to access online. Every parent should watch it if they feel able. However, there should be no discretion for any politician, journalist, health professional or teacher who is pushing this harmful, abusive ideology to our children. Any who wish to utter one more word about ‘acceptance and inclusion,’ and about how ‘affirming’ medical transition is, should be forced to watch this documentary and imagine their own daughters walking around their homes, topless, sporting flat, scarred chests.” Read more here.
Conscientious Objection to Abortion Is at Risk in Europe, by Michael Cook. “Even if M. Macron took a holiday from logic, the law never does. And the logic of enforcing a right to abortion upon Europe leads inevitably to denying the right to conscientious objection. This issue seems to have escaped scrutiny by journalists. When the EP voted to support abortion, it also voted to force doctors to provide it… In short, if abortion is ordinary medical care, doctors must provide it. There’s nothing new about this deeply flawed and totalitarian argument, but it is chilling to think that it could be enforced across Europe.” Read more here.
Standing on Shoulders of Science to Turn Page on Roe v. Wade, by Bernadette Tasy. “The students on the campus were shocked when they learned that America allows abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. When presented with simple facts about the unborn at 15 weeks gestation and images of ultrasounds from both the 1970s and now, they, too, agreed that our country’s abortion laws – or lack thereof – are extreme. My generation and the generations that follow are standing on the shoulders of science and, ultimately, standing for the lives of the unborn.” Read more here.
The March for Life Just Took Place on Friday to Mark the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Could It Be the Last One? by Rebecca Downs. “For many pro-lifers, the March for Life is something of a tradition. However, this year could be different. The Court last month heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson, a case examining the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, which bans most abortions at 15 weeks. The decision is expected in June. Both sides of the issue have acknowledged that this could be the case where the Court overturns Roe. If so, 2022 could be the last March for Life, at least the one held in January.” Read more here.
The NCAA Drops the Ball on Protecting Women’s Sports, by Zachary Faria. “The NCAA has altered its policy for transgender athletes, but the change does little and still does not address the central problem — the clear, demonstrable, and unfair advantage that men have over female athletes. Much like the International Olympic Committee, the NCAA punted on its policy change. In fact, the NCAA simply copied the IOC’s homework, adopting the same sport-by-sport, case-by-case framework that dodges the central matter at hand.” Read more here.
False Positives for Genetic Disorders in Prenatal Testing Unacceptably High, by Tara Sander Lee. “The high false positive rate of prenatal genetic screening has profound implications for public health and clinical decision-making. Not only is this a life-or-death scenario for an unborn child based on the mother’s decision to continue the pregnancy or abort, but it also has larger implications for the population, diversity, and values of our society.” Read more here.
The Left’s Love for Abortion Blinds It to Abortion Alternatives, by Thomas Glessner. “The left’s criticism of Justice Barrett shows that they will uphold the abortion industry’s death-on-demand ideology over every other consideration. These apostles of abortion see it as a sacred rite. However, safe haven laws – if utilized by a mother considering abortion – are a win-win for all involved. The birth mother and the adoptive parents benefit from these laws. Additionally, the unborn child’s life is spared and given an opportunity to achieve his or her ordained purpose.” Read more here.
Protecting Unborn Children in a Post-Roe World, by Dr. Ben Carson, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Jim DeMint, Tony Perkins, and Kevin Roberts. “If the court relies on Roe to strike down the Mississippi law, it would be an unmitigated failure … to faithfully interpret the Constitution… Yet all of us in the pro-life movement would continue working hand-in-hand to do all we can to change the hearts and minds of the American people about abortion, because real change cannot happen until we have a culture that recognizes abortion for what it truly is: intentionally and violently ending the life of an innocent human being.” Read more here.
The Time to Overturn Roe v. Wade Is Now, by Todd Rokita. “Long gone are the days when promoters of “choice” touted the motto of “safe, legal, and rare.” Pro-abortion extremists now lobby for abortion on demand at any cost to women’s health and safety. Obviously, the abortion industry itself also pushes for the wholesale acceptance of the procedure – acting, perhaps, on the basis of a profit motive. Abortion is no longer promoted simply as a means of protecting vulnerable women but as a beneficial end in itself.” Read more here.
President Biden’s One Major Success in His First Year: Turning America Into an Abortion Haven, by Connor Semelsberger. “Although states and courts provide a check to Biden’s abortion extremism, the president still faces pressure from his base and his own vice president to go further. This administration has implemented abortion policies and installed pro-abortion personnel at a record pace. With three years left in this term, Biden is on track to quickly surpass the abortion records that took the Clinton and Obama administrations eight years to achieve.” Read more here.
End of the Roe v. Wade Era? by Star Parker. “Looking back over the last half century that abortion has been part of our national culture, it is difficult to imagine how anyone can see anything but damage that this decision has done to our nation and to our national soul… Surveying our national culture since 1973, I cannot identify a single cultural institution that is better. On the contrary, regarding our core social institutions, everything is uniformly worse. The American family is in far worse shape today than in 1973.” Read more here.
Why I’m Not Afraid to Bring More Children Into a Broken World, by Alexandra Davis. “Should we wait until the world is less ‘confused’ before having children? To say yes would mean basing a life-altering decision on a false premise: that utopia is achievable on earth. It is not… We are, and will always be, confused. The world is, and will always be, uncertain. Even though evidence on issues like climate change points to inevitable crises, calamity and chaos have always lurked in the shadows. Yet no global crisis of any magnitude justifies the life-altering decision to remain childless.” Read more here.
Against Transgender Opponents, Women Are Vying for Silver, by Mary Szoch. “When a biological man plays a woman’s sport, at least one woman loses every single time. The girl who comes in second to the biological male matters, and so does the girl who would have sat on the bench but instead watches from the stands. I lived the fairy tale of my team dancing our way to the national championship game. A man should not be able to take that fairy tale away – even from the girl at the end of the bench.” Read more here.
Preparing for Post-Roe America, by Kathryn Lopez. “We don’t want to put women in jail. We don’t want them to suffer or be alone. All too often, the pressures are too great for a woman to consider anything but abortion. But women are capable of amazing things when they find people who want to support them and help them make the right choice both for themselves and their child. We march for life not only to oppose abortion, but to celebrate the women who have made courageous choices to give life – to mother in challenging circumstances or choose adoption.” Read more here.
We Are Mothers. Here Are Our Reactions to ‘Woke’ Children’s Books, by Marguerite Bowling. “I’m excited to be in a new video that’s out today from The Heritage Foundation, featuring real-time mom reactions to ‘woke’ children’s books that have been read in public schools… We read ‘I Am Jazz,’ ‘Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity,’ and ‘My Princess Boy’ while offering our feedback, which was blunt at times.” Read more here.
A New Year’s Resolution for Maryland: Eliminate Human Trafficking, by Andrea Bottner. “…[T]he Hogan administration has allocated $58 million to support comprehensive anti-trafficking efforts across Maryland… Recently, The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services expanded the Child Sex Trafficking Screening and Services Act Regional Navigator Program. This program puts child trafficking victims in touch with services that will help them get to safety and learn how to be self-sufficient in the future. The program operates in 10 jurisdictions across Maryland.” Read more here.
EU Court’s Power Grab Is Subverting Democracy and National Sovereignty, According to Legal Expert, by Daniel Deme. “In Koudelka’s view, supra-national institutions should not decide about cultural and ethnic questions that belong to individual states… These decisions belong to elected parliaments in each individual country. However, as supporters of child adoptions by LGBT couples are often unable to find sufficient support for their cause in stances in democratic elections, they are bypassing the democratic process via court cases.” Read more here.
When Talking About Birthrates and Babies, Why Are We Omitting Marriage? by Timothy P. Carney. “We should turn around our birthrate decline in this country. We should listen to every objection from the liberal feminists, the sociologists, and the childless millennials. But when we ask why people don’t have children today, we need to start by asking why young people get married less and later. The delay in marriage and retreat from marriage is perhaps the leading cause of falling birthrates.” Read more here.
Biden Nominates Pro-Abortion Lawyer to State Department Legal Post, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. “Cleveland also complained that many individual members of the Commission … were known for their focus on religious freedom and ‘extreme positions’ on abortion and the homosexual/transgender agenda. Because the Department of State implements foreign assistance worldwide, … critics have also expressed concern over Cleveland’s pro-abortion bias coupled with Biden Administration’s recent signal that it intends to reinterpret the Helms Amendment.” Read more here.
WA Laws Now Allow Teen ‘Gender Reassignment’ Surgery Without Parental Consent, by Jason Rantz. “Many Democrats who support this kind of legislation try to silence critics by labeling them transphobic and intolerant… No, 13-year-olds aren’t mature enough at that age to determine they can handle a gender reassignment surgery. Unfortunately, unless a parent immediately and unquestionably accepts their kid’s feelings at the time, the Left deems them to be unfit parents. And they believe that if a child even suspects their parents might say no to a life-altering surgery, the child should have the right to move forward on their own.” Read more here.
False Positives for Genetic Disorders in Prenatal Testing Unacceptably High, by Tara Sander Lee. “The New York Times’ analysis reported that positive results on prenatal genetic screenings can be wrong up to 85% of the time… That isn’t a trivial matter. Mothers presented with the far too common false positive DNA results face emotional trauma and agonizing decisions. As reported by the Times, some mothers receive a false positive, have an abortion, and then learn too late that their babies carried no risk of disease at all.” Read more here.
Injury, Infertility, and Death From Chemical Abortions Are A-OK With the FDA, by Kristi Stone Hamrick. “Corporate Abortion is refusing to screen for the two, well-known risks of death with a widely available technology. Women have died when taking chemical abortion pills later in pregnancy or when they are experiencing an ectopic pregnancy (one that implants in a mother’s body, outside the womb). A simple ultrasound test can check for both, but why bother when the FDA lets you off the hook?” Read more here.
All Adrian Wanted Was a Family. Transgender Doctors Left Him Despairing and Sterile, by Walt Heyer. “For Adrian, the future it offered was a fraud. Nothing was said about his impending, permanent sterility, or the true burdens and impacts of having to take cross-sex hormones for the rest of his life. No effort was made to deal with the mental health issues detected and diagnosed by the provider’s own staff before clearing him for surgery. If this sounds like malpractice to you, it sounds like it to me, too.” Read more here.
Bereavement and Parental Leave After Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “While it is certainly true that many women experience negative physical and mental consequences following an abortion procedure, this policy is discordant coming from those who support abortion. If we are to acknowledge that a mother and father are bereaved after an abortion, presumably something – indeed, someone – has been lost. And if we acknowledge that in every abortion someone is lost – intentionally done away with – then it makes little sense to ‘destigmatize’ the procedure and extend bereavement leave to those who have intentionally chosen to do away with their child.” Read more here.
The Sweet Taste of Freedom, by Lizzie Troughton. “We should be emboldened to assert that conscience still matters. Society around us may be changing at such a fast pace and those of us with conservative or religious perspectives can feel overwhelmed at times… Thankfully, this case tells us that we haven’t yet crossed the line where judges are compelling us to say things we disagree with; be that about sexuality, gender, or other matters that go against what we hold to be true. A right to expression includes a right not to hold certain opinions.” Read more here.
The Legalized Sexualization of America’s Young Children, by Marilyn Quigley. “Down the hall from Mr. Smith, the 10- and 11-year-olds review their lessons using [National Sexuality Education Standards] core expectations for elementary grades including the joys of masturbation and how hormone blockers help transgender children. Their vocabulary test includes gender identity, gender nonbinary and expansive, and lesbian, to name a few. The test covers differing behaviors of sexual intimacy and how same-sex couples can acquire children, such as in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy.” Read more here.
Despite San Francisco Chronicle Sermon, Parents Oppose Teachers Hiding LGBTQ Evangelism, by Julia Duin. “She heard from parents at the school where these women taught; parents who knew what the teachers were up to and had been complaining about it for some time. Someone else leaked to her a similar presentation – again via the CTA – about how to broach the subject of gender fluidity in classes for elementary school students. (Note: I just finished five years of part-time subbing – mainly for elementary school students – and the thought of introducing some of this stuff to anyone under fifth grade is crazy.)” Read more here.
International Abortion Groups Weigh Gains and Losses From 2021, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Both MSI and IPPF characterized the past year as a patchwork of gains and losses at the national level. This indirectly points to the ongoing achievement of the global pro-life movement in blocking attempts to create an internationally recognized human right to abortion. While abortion groups insist that such a right exists, it remains a hollow assertion: longstanding global consensus holds that abortion laws are to be determined by national governments, and the legal changes held up by abortion groups as their greatest wins were all done at the national or subnational level.” Read more here.
As FDA Loosened Regulations on Chemical Abortion, Reports Indicate Women in India Are Suffering From Method, by Rebecca Downs. “Thanks to the FDA loosening regulations, women can acquire these pills online through the mail without a doctor confirming that they are even pregnant, are pregnant within the approved of timeframe, or are experiencing an ectopic pregnancy. Such a nonviable pregnancy develops outside of the uterus and is not treated through this method. If left untreated, it can kill a woman.” Read more here.
Leaked Biden Plan Would House Violent Men in Women’s Prison Cells, by Nathanael Blake. “In short, under this executive order, the federal government will house criminals based on subjective, self-declared ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex. Male rapists, child molesters, and other sexual criminals will be allowed to live in women’s prisons… This move toward co-ed prisons will result in male sexual predators exploiting the system in order to abuse and rape female prisoners. We know this because it has already happened in places these proposals have been enacted.” Read more here.
Wake Up, America: Cultural Marxism Is ‘Identifying’ as Transgenderism, by Walt Heyer. “Hundreds of parents have written me about their school-aged and college-aged children suddenly announcing trans identities… Urging children along this path is child abuse. The transgender indoctrination starts young. Trans-affirming curriculum and storybooks plant seeds of gender confusion in children (aka ‘grooming’) as early as kindergarten by pushing the bogus idea that children can choose their gender. Many school policies require aiding and abetting children who think they may be the opposite sex.” Read more here.
Clarifying ‘Transgender Hate Speech,’ by Neil Foster. “Is it unlawful to say that ‘a trans woman is a man?’ Not according to the Appeal Tribunal in the Rep decision… While none of the relevant parties seem to have referred to religious reasons for their comments, the question of what can be lawfully said in public contexts about issues raised by the ‘gender identity’ debates has some importance for religious groups which take the view that religious texts teach that sex is determined at birth, not fluid, and not able to be changed.” Read more here.
Parents Push Indiana Legislature for Hearing on Toughest School Racism and Pornography Bill, by Joy Pullmann. “Parents around the state, like those around the nation, have found public schools and libraries introducing minors to explicit materials, such as books describing rape, masturbation, underage sex, and other obscene acts. Current Indiana law exempts public schools and libraries from penalties for exposing minors to obscene materials. Both HB 1040 and SB 167 would end that exception.” Read more here.
Biological Sex Is Being Redefined to Subvert Society, by Debra Soh. “…[I]f anyone has the potential to be female, this justifies the obsolescence of sex-based spaces and sports divisions and biomedical research that is actually relevant to women. To be clear, this ideology has less to do with the beliefs and priorities of everyday transgender people and everything to do with redefining words and reality to subvert society and promote wider activist goals. It is an indication of what is coming down the road. When the scientific process has been compromised, we are deeply in trouble.” Read more here.
2021
The San Francisco Chronicle Ignores the Problem of Schools Hiding Information From Parents, by Zachary Faria. “Kelly Baraki and Lori Caldeira mocked the concerns of parents in their workshop about running gay and transgender clubs on campus. They talked about how they look at the Google search history of students to try and determine potential clubs members [sic] to recruit, and that they eavesdrop on students’ conversations with the same intent. And, most importantly, they emphasize that parents should be left in the dark… ‘What happens in this room, stays in this room,’ Caldeira said on a podcast.” Read more here.
‘Self-Care’ That Harms and Kills: The WHO’s Push to ‘Demedicalize’ Abortion, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. and Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In recent years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has increasingly advocated for the use of self-care in the field of ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights,’ including for abortion. Unlike other forms of self-administered health care, which seeks [sic] to balance the ability of patients to manage their own treatments and the need for and availability of medical professionals, the WHO is explicitly using the framework of ‘self-care’ to bypass legal restrictions on abortion and make access to it the highest priority.” Read more here.
The New Public School Orthodoxy, by Mark R. Schneider. “Sex and gender theory comes in many guises but is centered around the separation of biology from personal identity. This messaging begins in kindergarten, where children are sometimes exposed to cartoon instructional books… Teachers tell impressionable children, ‘Babies can’t talk, so grown-ups make a guess [about their gender] by looking at their bodies.’ This is followed in later grades with books like My Princess Boy and Jacob’s New Dress, and graphical tools like ‘The Gender Unicorn’ to cement the illusion that chromosomes and body parts are irrelevant.” Read more here.
Joy Reid Asks for Proof Porn Is in High School Libraries. Here It Is, by Ben Johnson. “When a Twitter reader asked if Reid had seen some of the pornographic material in public school libraries, Reid challenged her: ‘Can you name some of the titles you’re talking about and the offending passages? I highly doubt libraries are stocked with pornography, but happy to hear your intel.’ The user then named a number of books including Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts), Gender Queer (illustrated), All Boys Aren’t Blue, and Tricks. As of this writing, Reid has not responded.” Read more here.
USA Swimming Official Stands Up for Women’s Rights, by Kaylee McGhee White. “Millen is right. The women competing against Lia Thomas don’t stand a chance. Thomas has crushed every female athlete in competition, breaking multiple U.S. women’s swimming records. In one race, Thomas beat the second-place swimmer by 38 seconds. A video of the race shows Thomas lapping opponents several times. As I’ve written before, that’s like expecting a teenage girl to be able to hold a block against a 250-pound male linebacker. It’s absurd.” Read more here.
With Biden Support, UNFPA Steps Up Abortion Advocacy, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Other panelists repeatedly referred to abortion activists as ‘human rights defenders.’ This, too, is an area in which UNFPA has sharply diverged from global consensus. The UN General Assembly adopted an important declaration on human rights defenders in 1998. Its official title refers to the protection of ‘universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms,’ which cannot be said to apply to a right to abortion or the redefinition of gender or the family as promoted by UNFPA and the UN’s human rights expert bodies.” Read more here.
Children Are Being Groomed With Gender Ideology, by Debra Soh. “There is zero science supporting the concept of gender fluidity. Science does, however, support the existence of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, an epidemic of adolescent girls and young women who suddenly announce their desire to live as male or ‘nonbinary’ despite having no previous history of gender dysphoria. In most cases, their decision stems from issues unrelated to gender identity… The idea that educators should ‘affirm’ a child’s gender not only oversteps parental boundaries but is unscientific.” Read more here.
The Left’s Gender Tyranny, by Betsy McCaughey. “Elementary school teachers are putting words such as nonbinary and transgender on the blackboard, even before kids have learned multiplication. But the Maine Department of Education reports that between 13% and 18% of public high school students say they’re ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, or unsure’ of their gender. It’s no wonder when the curriculum programs them to doubt their identity. In school, it’s cool to be anything but heterosexual.” Read more here.
Kindergartner Claire Didn’t Want to Wear a Skirt One Day. Mom, NBC Now Call Her ‘Clark,’ by Jordan Boyd. “Other experts have warned that the hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical procedures gender-confused kids undergo can lead to sterility, severe dysfunction, and a myriad of health problems. These facts, unfortunately, aren’t stopping parents, schools, the progressive left, and corporate media outlets such as NBC from promoting transgenderism as a good thing that needs to be shoved down the throats of people as young as 5 years old.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Sanctions Mail Order Abortion. Here’s How the Move Endangers Women, by Melanie Israel. “So how does mail order abortion put women even further at risk? It is impossible for a prescriber who may not even be in the same town – or state – to rule out ectopic pregnancy without an ultrasound… Neither can a prescriber precisely date a pregnancy, meaning more women might be prescribed an abortion pill well past 70 days gestation (a serious risk itself, as the risks from a chemical abortion increase the farther along in pregnancy she is).” Read more here.
Texas Democrats Might Use Federal ‘COVID Relief’ Money to Fund Abortion, by John McCormack. “At the time, pro-life advocates and members of Congress warned that without the [Hyde Amendment] — the long-standing measure that prevents federal funding of abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is endangered — there were several slush funds in the ‘COVID relief’ bill that could be used to fund elective abortions with federal tax dollars. The Houston Chronicle reports that Democratic officials in liberal Harris County, Texas, are now considering whether to do just that in response to the state’s law generally prohibiting abortion later than six weeks of pregnancy.” Read more here.
How Dare We Support the Chemical Castration of Children, by Michael Brown. “A related article reported that, ‘In one case, a girl who wished to become a boy at the age of 10 was put on a regimen of puberty-blocking drugs at the age of 11 by the hospital. Five years after the treatment, the effects of the hormone therapy are said to have resulted in osteoporosis and damaged the vertebrae in teen’s [sic] back, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported…’ How is this not child abuse?” Read more here.
Biden’s FDA Allows Deadly Abortion Drugs to Permanently Be Available by Mail Without In-Person Visit, by Rebecca Downs. “A woman first takes mifepristone, which starves her unborn child of nutrients. Then, 24-48 hours later, she takes misoprostol to cause contractions to expel the dead child. This method carries with it four times the complications of surgical abortions… In procuring the drugs by mail or online, a woman may not be sure of the safety or authenticity of the drugs. Without an exam, she may not know if she is under the gestational limit or is not experiencing an ectopic pregnancy.” Read more here.
To Fix a Cratering Birthrate, Stop Killing Your Children, by Bonnie Chernin. “The statistics are grim: in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control reported that the U.S. birth rate is plummeting and is the lowest it has been since 1909… Part of the population decline could have been avoided had abortion not wiped out 63 million preborn babies. It’s astonishing that people can talk about a demographic shift of the magnitude America is facing without including the tragedy of abortion. It isn’t just the 63 million people missing, but their children and the generations after them. That loss is incalculable.” Read more here.
The Religious Marriage Paradox: Younger Marriage, Less Divorce, by Lyman Stone and W. Bradford Wilcox. “The effect of cohabitation on marriage is indeed statistically significant (premarital cohabitation increases divorce probabilities by about 15%), but the biggest effect religion has on union stability isn’t about what happens once a woman is married, but more about her relationship choices before marriage – the fact that she did get married, rather than start a series of cohabiting relationships. To the extent that the effects associated with religious upbringing are causal, they show that religiosity could dramatically reduce women’s experience of relationship instability in early adulthood.” Read more here.
Women’s Sports Should Be Women Only, by the Editors of National Review. “Even if Thomas is in compliance with the NCAA rules that require testosterone-suppression treatment for one year for male-to-female athletes, this is still … insufficient at mitigating sex-based advantages that are years in the making and do not simply disappear with chemical or surgical interventions. Such policies fail on principle, in any case. As politically incorrect as it is to point out, there is no material difference between a man and a trans woman. This is not difficult. The athletes in women’s sports should be women only.” Read more here.
The Magic Fix for Family Life: Dinner Together, by Ida Gazzola. “Imagine if there was one simple thing parents could do for their children that would lead to the following results: better mental and physical health, higher self-esteem, less risky behaviour, better academic performance, better communication skills and a better relationship between parent and child. Twenty years of research has shown that this tool does, indeed, exist. It is the family meal.” Read more here.
Cross-Sex Hormones Are Steroids and Addictive, by Walt Heyer. “Gender clinics, now including Planned Parenthood, routinely prescribe cross-sex hormones on the first or second visit, and they neglect to disclose that steroids are addictive and distort one’s ability to make decisions. Steroid use makes people easy marks for the next step: surgery, such as mastectomy and genital reconfiguration, both of which mutilate healthy tissue.” Read more here.
The University of Pennsylvania Is Oppressing Females, by Christopher Tremoglie. “…[B]iological males should not be allowed to race as females and take opportunities away from women. As much as I empathize with Thomas for the mental and emotional struggles, I empathize with the female swimmers more. Thomas was a second-team All-Ivy League swimmer in 2018-2019. Yet this sick, twisted, maniacal philosophy would allow men to dominate women’s sports simply by identifying as a different gender. Sorry, but the emperor is wearing no clothes — it is offensive and insulting this is being allowed to occur.” Read more here.
Here Are Five False Pro-Abortion Claims Totally Refuted, by Mary Szoch. “The matter of an unborn child being a human being is not a ‘philosophical issue;’ it is a scientific fact. Furthermore, at no point in time do babies — born or unborn (or countless fully grown adults) — have the ability to ‘survive separately,’ so if Rickelman actually believes that the Court’s line where a person has the ability to ‘survive separately’ is the logical point before which a person can be killed — she is endorsing abortion, infanticide, and the right to kill anyone who cannot survive on their own.” Read more here.
What I’ve Learned Rescuing My Daughter From Her Transgender Fantasy, by Charlie Jacobs. “I managed to get all of her passwords to all of her social media accounts. What I saw was jaw-dropping. Almost everyone that she was conversing with was a stranger… The discussions on the Discord platform online involved fetishistic sexual conversations. Kids were sending each other erotica, including involving incest and pedophilia… I went nuclear. I took the phone and stripped it of all social media – YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter. I even blocked her ability to get to the internet. I deleted all of her contacts and changed her phone number.” Read more here.
SCOTUS Keeps Texas Heartbeat Law Alive, but Roberts Joins Court’s Left-Wing in Foreshadowing Pro-Abortion Dissent, by Jordan Boyd. “’Texas has employed an array of stratagems designed to shield its unconstitutional law from judicial review,’ Roberts wrote. Later he added that ‘these provisions, among others, effectively chill the provision of abortions in Texas’ and claimed that abortion is ‘a federal right.’ Roberts’ strong display of opposition to the Texas law prompted some to speculate whether he could be the fourth vote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to side with upholding abortion law and Roe v. Wade.” Read more here.
Democrats’ Massive Entitlement Plans Include Banning Christians From Government Childcare, by Joy Pullmann. “This means potentially forcing religious organizations to deny all theology that acknowledges basic truths about human biology and reproduction. Given the state of federal ‘nondiscrimination’ law, this could include forcing religious organizations to allow males into female bathrooms, hire transgender babysitters, and teach small children that men can turn themselves into women and that theologically condemned sex acts are in fact morally good.” Read more here.
Understanding the Left’s Plan to Codify Roe v. Wade Into Law, by Christian Mysliwiec. “’When the left says they want to ‘codify’ Roe v. Wade – a Supreme Court decision – into law, what they’re actually talking about is the misnamed Women’s Health Protection Act… The bill would endanger policies that disentangle tax dollars from abortion, conscience-protection laws, state-level pro-life laws such as informed consent requirements, reflection periods, parental involvement laws, and more.’” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Did No Harm With the Texas Abortion Case, by the Editors of National Review. “…[W]e continue to be disappointed in Chief Justice Roberts, whose opinion endorsed the judicial-activist remedy of federal lawsuits against state court clerks, a bizarre position for a man whose professed judicial minimalism is supposed to be justified by a concern for the institutional integrity and prestige of the courts. We are skeptical of the enforcement mechanism used by the Texas legislature, which was born of desperation to find some way to protect unborn life. The Court has available, in Dobbs, a better way: End Roe.” Read more here.
Parents Have to Fight Big Tech, Government, Schools and More to Protect Their Kids From LGBT Propaganda, by Jonathon Van Maren. “If you have children and you want them to develop a healthy, biblical view of sexuality, you need to know that you are facing off against the forces of Big Tech, the government, the entertainment industry, and what passes for education these days. Parents have told me that it is pretty much impossible to let kids pick out their own books at the public library … because LGBT themes pervade the children’s section (all funded by you, the taxpayer)! To ensure that your children do not see the ugliness, hedonism, and confusion of today as ‘normal,’ you will have to be extraordinarily vigilant.” Read more here.
Abortion on Trial, by Jerry Newcombe. “…Justice Samuel Alito posed a question to Biden’s pro-abortion Solicitor General, who is relying heavily on maintaining decades of Supreme Court precedent rather than the Constitution itself. He asked her: ‘Is it your argument that a case can never be overruled simply because it was egregiously wrong?’ Just because we’ve lived with Roe all these years doesn’t make it right. 63 million dead babies in the wake of Roe v. Wade would agree, if somehow they could be polled.” Read more here.
The Left’s War With Biological Reality, by Ben Shapiro. “The same people who maintain that your biology dictates that you can be a man in a woman’s body and that this represents not gender dysphoria … but an objective reality to which all of society should conform also argue that biology creates morally unjust connections between mother and child… This means that women should consider killing the child rather than putting it up for adoption.” Read more here.
If the Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, What Happens? by Larry Elder. “Roe did not legalize abortion. Rather, the Court discovered a ‘right to privacy’ – nowhere mentioned in the Constitution… Our Founding Fathers restricted the duties, powers and obligations of the federal government, leaving the remainder to the people and to the states themselves. This includes abortion… With a reversal of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court says this: Where the Constitution fails to provide a specific empowerment for the federal government – butt out.” Read more here.
An Appalling Attack on Adoption, by the Editors of National Review. “…[S]he explained that pregnant women have a threefold ‘liberty interest’ in abortion. The right to abortion keeps women from having to go through pregnancy, to go through childbirth, and ‘to have a child out in the world.’ Notice how that third interest is framed. The ‘freedom’ that Roe v. Wade promises — that it insists the Constitution protects — includes not only the freedom from having to raise an unwanted child but the freedom from knowing that someone else is raising her.” Read more here.
Canada Has Just Declared War on Freedom of Religion and Conscience, by Michael Brown. “The reality is that this new bill actually prohibits Christians from practicing their faith when it comes to homosexuality and bisexuality and transgenderism. It also prohibits people who want to get help to pursue change, whatever their age, from pursuing that change – as long as it is changed away from being gay or bi or trans. Not only so, but the bill prohibits any attempt at ‘behavioral modification,’ meaning, simply wanting to lessen one’s same-sex attractions or actions. This is now forbidden by law.” Read more here.
NYC Will Spend $500 Million Teaching Kids to Obsess About Sex and Race, by Auguste Meyrat. “To make up for this injustice, Parker has now committed herself to providing a ‘culturally responsive and sustaining education’ or ‘CRSE.’ This means that she will pick texts on the basis of ‘representation’ and ‘diversity’ and emphasize racial and sexual identity in all her lessons. Instead of learning about the world and how to contribute to it, her students will now learn about themselves and how to become ‘agents of change.’” Read more here.
Telling the Truth on Abortion and Adoption, by Kelly Rosati. “Adoption isn’t the reason so many kids are without those life essentials. But it is one of the solutions for kids who are suffering and alone, without permanent family in their lives. And let’s settle this once for all: The idea that babies are better off dead than adopted is repugnant. And, as a society, we should push back hard against it and work for the day when all reasonable people gasp and shake their heads in disbelief that there was a time when this line of reasoning was advanced in a civilized society.” Read more here.
Report: The CIA Caught Employees Molesting Children and Didn’t Prosecute Them, by Joy Pullmann. “According to the internal CIA report BuzzFeed obtained, a CIA employee who had sexual contact with a 2-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl was merely fired… The article also notes that child pornography is widespread on federal intelligence employees’ work computers and phones. BuzzFeed quotes director of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Service Daniel Payne in 2016 noting that on intelligence agency workers’ computers and phones, ‘the amount of child porn I see is just unbelievable.’” Read more here.
During Dobbs Oral Arguments, Justice Sotomayor Referenced Some of the Worst Pro-Abortion Arguments There Are, by Rebecca Downs. “Sotomayor bent over backwards to try to dismiss claims that unborn children can feel pain in the womb. The Mississippi solicitor general, Scott Stewart, had offered up the science of studying fetal pain as one of the advancements made since 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey… Justice Sotomayor admonished Stewart, claiming that it’s ‘a gross minority of doctors who believe fetal pain exists before 24, 25 weeks, it’s a huge minority and one not well founded in science at all…’” Read more here.
Religious Liberty Is Inadequately Protected by Australia’s Religious Discrimination Bill, by Greg Walsh. “A critical flaw of the Bill is that the protections for the conscience rights of health professionals found in the previous draft of the Bill have been removed. These provisions protected a health practitioner who objected to a procedure that conflicted with their religious beliefs. If it is not politically feasible to provide comprehensive protection for the conscience rights of health professionals, then there should at least be protection in relation to procedures involving the ending of life such as euthanasia and abortion.” Read more here.
No, We Shouldn’t Kill Babies Because Adoption Is Traumatic, by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning. “Adoption is a just society’s response to children in need. It’s an institution centered around the well-being of children, not the desires of adults. In adoption, the adults do the hard thing by meeting the needs of the child. They undergo screenings, background checks, references, home studies, financial and physical evaluations, etc. The list of qualifications to adopt is daunting, which is right and proper because the state is responsible for furnishing children with the loving and stable home they deserve.” Read more here.
Why the [Australian] Sex Discrimination Act Must Change, by Binary Australia. “If sex is not a protected characteristic in the Sex Discrimination Act, how can we defend and promote sex-based rights? If sex – that is male or female – is not referred to or defined, how do we know discrimination has or has not occurred? There are no other sexes. Sex is binary: male or female. No law can change this fact, but laws not founded in biological reality will do untold harm to our children and our communities.” Read more here.
Parents Across Country Sue Schools Over Clandestine Gender Transitions, by Harold Hutchison. “The lawsuit filed Nov. 17 by two public interest law firms against the Kettle Moraine School District in Wisconsin over the clandestine social transition of a 12-year-old girl marks the latest in a series of cases where school officials allegedly initiated social gender transitions without parental consent… ‘[T]his sort of thing is metastasizing like a cancer underneath the surface around the country,’ Vernadette Broyles, president and general counsel of the Child and Parent Rights Campaign, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.” Read more here.
Pro-Lifers Slam NYT Guest Essay Over Claim That Adoption Can Be More Traumatic Than Abortion, by Landon Mion. “Democratic consultant Elizabeth Spiers … argued that adoption is ‘often just as traumatic as the right thinks abortion is, if not more so, as a woman has to relinquish not a lump of cells but a fully formed baby she has lived with for nine months.’ The article prompted a slew of criticisms from notable conservative commentators that Spiers described as ‘callous’ opinions.” Read more here.
When It’s Parents Versus Teachers, Kids Lose, by Leonard Sax. “Twenty years ago, if a kid was caught cheating at school, that kid would be disciplined, but he or she would likely face more severe discipline at home. The teacher would notify the parents, who were likely to withhold privileges, perhaps grounding the child for cheating. Today, when a student is caught cheating, it’s not unusual for parents to swoop in like attorneys, demanding evidence and mounting a defense. Children and teenagers are most likely to thrive when parents and teachers are in alliance. But that alliance is breaking down.” Read more here.
High Court Hears Arguments in Biggest Abortion Case Since Roe. Here Are Key Takeaways, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “Sotomayor asked a question about the current case that actually applies best to Roe and Casey: How can the Supreme Court ‘survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just acts’? The answer is, how can the high court survive without overruling Roe and Casey – decisions that divined a constitutional right to abortion very nearly out of thin air?” Read more here.
Actually, Justice Sotomayor, Everything Has Changed About the Abortion Debate Since Roe, by Tiana Lowe. “The average point of fetal viability has fallen to just 23 or 24 weeks, but even that continues to plummet thanks to miraculous advances in neonatal medicine… Even if the court upholds Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, ultra-blue states like New York will surely maintain their statutes permitting abortion up until the point of birth, while, God willing, red states at least match our European counterparts with bans after the first trimester. If the past does indeed prove preview, those babies may very well soon be considered viable.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Originalist Justices Should Allow Bad Abortion Law to Die by Its Own Hand, by Margot Cleveland. “Scientific advances likewise ‘have so changed’ that the court should see things differently – if only the justices would look. The rudimentary sonograms used at the time of Roe make the descriptor of fetuses as mere ‘clumps of cells’ more understandable, but the high-tech 4D ultrasounds of today establish beyond doubt the humanity of the unborn… And science now shows that fetuses experience pain much earlier than thought.” Read more here.
Dispelling 3 Common Myths About Abortion, by Melanie Israel and Levy Pait. “Abortion activists claim that abortions are safer than childbirth. But that’s the exact inverse of reality – and for a number of reasons. First, this framing of the debate denies the humanity of the unborn child from the outset. Because every fetus is a human possessing fundamental dignity, their health and safety must also be taken into consideration. No procedure that destroys life can be considered safe. By definition, abortion is always fatal for at least one party involved; namely, the unborn child. Therefore, by definition, abortion is never ‘safe.’” Read more here.
Critics Say Canada Is Too Quick to Treat Gender Dysphoria in Minors With Hormones and Surgery, by Tom Blackwell. “…[L]ast year the young woman made a stunning admission to her mother: even as she was being wheeled into the operating room to have her breasts removed, she was having doubts about her decision. Now the 21-year-old is ‘detransitioning,’ reverting to her original female identity. And Mary is part of a nascent movement calling for breaks to be placed on a health-care system geared to affirming a young person’s transgender feelings with drugs and surgery, allegedly in some instances after little assessment of other psychological issues.” Read more here.
Regardless of When an Unborn Child Is Considered ‘Viable,’ It’s an Arbitrary Standard, by Timothy M. Jackson. “The Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Wednesday, a case addressing the specific question of, ‘Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.’ Or in layman’s terms, should states ever be allowed to outlaw abortions before the child is developed enough to survive outside the womb? The Supreme Court’s answer to this question has the potential to reshape or even obliterate the applicability of Roe.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Movement Is ‘Encouraged’ by Oral Arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson, by Rebecca Downs. “The United States is just one of seven nations that allow for elective abortions past 20 weeks, with China and North Korea also included in that list. Emphasizing how the United States is indeed ‘extreme,’ Bennett responded that it ‘does’ give her a renewed sense of hope to hear that Roberts brought up that point. She added she hopes all the justices will consider it in their decision-making.” Read more here.
A Major Abortion Case Goes Before the Supreme Court. Here’s What You Need to Know, by Melanie Israel. “…[O]utdated abortion jurisprudence has blocked much state policymaking on pre-viability abortions that accounts for advances in modern science and technology… Overturning Roe v. Wade wouldn’t mean that abortion in America would immediately be prohibited. It would mean that the American people in their respective states, through their elected representatives, could establish policies that account for advances in modern science and technology as well as pro-life shifts in public sentiment.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Will Determine If Customers Can Sue Businesses for ‘Emotional Distress.’ This Has Serious Implications for Religious Freedom, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Teresa Schuster. “If Premier Rehab is forced to pay emotional distress damages to Cummings, what of the medical practitioners who refuse to perform mastectomies on transgender patients or bakeries that decline to make custom cakes for same-sex couples? …As the courts continue to recognize sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under federal civil rights law, allowing people to sue violators for causing them vaguely defined and often unverifiable emotional distress would open a Pandora’s box of harmful effects on religious freedom.” Read more here.
Pennsylvania Governor Celebrates Hospital Accused of Grotesque Fetal Experiments, by Ryan Navarro. “Claims from whistleblowers that aborted babies have lived through the procedures at Magee go back as far as 1972, when a Magee nurse provided testimony to Pennsylvania’s Abortion Law Commission. She discussed witnessing moving, breathing fetuses being ‘packed in ice’ and rushed to a laboratory. Doctors at the hospital were using a legal loophole to perform abortions during this time, according to a former Magee employee.” Read more here.
The Persecution of J.K. Rowling at Hands of ‘Oppressed,’ by Douglas Blair. “If you are transgender, especially a biological man pretending to be a woman, you will have the full backing of the media, corporate America, academia, the political class, and the vicious, violent Twitter mob. How could anyone with the backing of every major facet of American life be considered oppressed? Criticism of transgenderism, no matter how benign, is immediately met with fierce pushback and deplatforming.” Read more here.
Biden’s State Department Slips Abortion Into Human Rights Report, by Arielle Del Turco. “The term ‘reproductive rights’ is code for abortion, and its use in official U.S. human rights reports is inappropriate. A ‘right’ to abortion is nowhere to be found in international human rights law; meanwhile, the right to life certainly is. Now, American allies like Poland – known for being a great protector of human rights and champion of freedom – will receive a slap on the wrist at the hands of the State Department’s report for having pro-life protections.” Read more here.
Wisconsin Case Illustrates Public Schools’ Disdain for Parental Rights, by Emilie Kao. “Dr. Kenneth J. Zucker warns that encouraging social transition is actually ‘implementing a psychosocial treatment that will increase the odds of long-term persistence’ of gender dysphoria. School officials do not have the medical expertise, much less the authority to make health care decisions for students. The Wisconsin lawsuit should be a wake-up call to all parents. Parents, not schools, have the authority and the duty to help children flourish according to the truth that they are born in the right body.” Read more here.
A Conversion Therapy Ban Threatens to Leave Unhappy Children Medicalised, Sterilised and Sexually Impaired, by Maya Forstater. “The thing we are being warned off talking about here is that, at the heart of the proposal to ban conversion therapy, is a plan to criminalise delivering talking therapies to under-18-year-olds ‘with the intention of changing them from being transgender.’ This will mean that if children claim to be transgender, therapists who try to explore possible alternative diagnoses or causes for their distress could be accused of attempting conversion and face criminal investigation.” Read more here.
The Abortion Restriction Mississippi Wants Is Actually Moderate, by Tom Joyce. “Globally, the U.S. is a rarity when it comes to abortion law… While people may think of Mississippi as some bastion of southern Christian conservatism, the gestational limit that the state wants to put in place is liberal, even by European standards. In Europe, 47 of the 50 countries ban elective abortion at or before 15 weeks gestation, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute. That’s the part of the world many American liberals want to emulate.” Read more here.
The Horror of the Abortion Pill: Tens of Thousands of Women Need Hospital Treatment Due to Adverse Effects, by Helena Sutan. “Based on 85 freedom of information requests to NHS trusts, it was discovered that in 2020, more over 1 in 17 women (about 20 per day) who utilized the tablets by post service required hospital treatment. The findings have prompted advocates to demand that post-service tablets be phased out because to the risk [sic] they pose to women. The service was implemented as part of the Covid measures, which encouraged people to stay at home, but it is now being suggested that it should be phased out now that the limitations have been eased.” Read more here.
Germany’s New Government Surrenders to Identity Politics, by Katja Hoyer. “…[E]xisting legislation regarding trans people will be replaced with a ‘self-declaration law,’ which will allow everyone to change their gender by declaration alone. Gender reassignment surgery will be fully funded through the public health system. ‘Rainbow families’ will receive more support ‘especially in middle-size businesses and in the civil service’ but also in education, which is traditionally a devolved matter for the individual states.” Read more here.
10 Amazing Facts About Unborn Babies You Should Know Before SCOTUS Rules on Dobbs, by Jordan Boyd. “By 10 and a half weeks gestation, babies in the womb can control their fingers. Unborn babies typically begin to explore their new appendages by opening or closing their fingers into their hands before slowly learning to intentionally reach and grasp at the womb around them. By 27 weeks, Furth says a baby ‘will be able to support his own body weight momentarily by grasping!’ As early as 10 weeks gestation, unborn babies also learn to suck their thumbs and start to show a preference for a dominant right or left hand.” Read more here.
Why Aren’t We Having Enough Children to Replace Ourselves? by Louis T. March. “Bottom line: this is the first time in the history of humanity that fertility has declined on a sustained basis. Why is this happening? Even demographers, who relentlessly track such things, are stumped. Rather than rehash Pew’s research, let’s cut to the chase. Why? I’ll take a whack at it. Here are some reasons, all interrelated and overlapping, in no particular order.” Read more here.
Social and Emotional Indoctrination in Schools, by Betsy McCaughey. “On Nov. 22, the Hartford Courant reported that West Hartford, Connecticut, elementary school parents are in an uproar. They’re complaining that teachers are putting words such as ‘nonbinary’ on the chalkboard and telling kids, including kindergarteners, they can live life as a gender different from what they were assigned at birth. Parents were told by school authorities that they can’t opt their children out.” Read more here.
ER Visits Went Up 500 Percent With Chemical Abortions, Yet Biden’s FDA Wants to Expand Availability, by Rebecca Downs. “According to Medicaid claims data, visits to the emergency room following a chemical abortion increased by 507 percent from 2002 to 2015. Also of concern should be that most these [sic] ER visits, over 60 percent, were miscoded as spontaneous miscarriages, which a press release from [the Charlotte Lozier Institute] learns is ‘potentially putting patients at risk and masking the true dangers of chemical abortion.’” Read more here.
Fairfax County Public Schools Gives Parents the Double-Barreled Middle Finger, by Andrea Widburg. “In Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), parents identified sexual grooming in two library books: Lawn Boy and Gender Queer: A Memoir, both of which have explicit homosexual behavior and groom children for pedophilia. FCPS temporarily pulled the books, but it’s now reinstated them, which is the equivalent of a double-barreled middle finger at parents. …[A]ny educators who sign off on this X-rated grooming material should be dismissed as a potential risk to children.” Read more here.
A Trans Online ‘Friend’ Tried to Groom My Son, by Anonymous Author. “WPATH [World Professional Association for Transgender Health] is telling us to shut up and let the professionals discuss transgender medicine in journals behind a paywall. Activists call us transphobic, allies say we are harming our child. The media says affirming and celebrating a trans identity is suicide prevention. I disagree! In our experience, the more our child attached to the trans identity, the less functional and more self-destructive he became. We are the parents of a formally [sic] trans identifying kid – what more of a stakeholder could we be than that?” Read more here.
Roe v. Wade: Unscientific and Outdated, by David A. Prentice. “For decades, those who championed unrestricted abortion until birth advanced two arguments to supersede all others. First, an unusually stringent loyalty to legal precedent that is questioned even by pro-choice legal scholars; second, that science should reign as the preeminent authority in policymaking. In making these two rules the platform of their defense, guardians of Roe have backed themselves into an uncomfortable corner.” Read more here.
The Importance of the Adoption and Children Bill [in Ireland], by Colm Gildernew. “Some of the key provisions contained in the Bill are to align adoption law to ensure that the child’s welfare is the paramount consideration in decisions [and] allowing the Department of Health to establish an independent review mechanism in relation to assessing prospective adopters… These changes are important and will positively affect the lives of children and young people. They do not come without a financial cost… But we cannot just look at the costs of implementing these changes; the costs of not doing this may be seen in young people who cannot reach their full potential.” Read more here.
Religious Employers Shouldn’t Have to Violate Their Convictions on Gender Ideology, by Shannon O. Royce. “If you happen to be one who brings sincere religious convictions to debates about gender identity, it’s disturbing to find suddenly that the deepest beliefs you hold are forfeit to government overreach… What’s more, the mandate even compels some to perform procedures they believe do egregious physical harm on those who look to them for medical care. That’s a lot to ask of any citizen in a country founded on religious liberty and freedom of speech. Indeed, it’s far too much.” Read more here.
The United States Goes All-In to Advance LGBT in UN Policy, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The Biden administration took a risk by tabling a draft UN resolution with ‘sexual orientation and gender identity,’ but it paid off when the resolution was adopted unanimously… Traditional countries may come to regret not voting against the resolution. Allowing the Biden administration to put ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ in a UN resolution is a provocation. It sets a precedent for adding LGBT issues in dozens of UN resolutions every year, ending a longstanding stalemate in UN negotiations over LGBT issues.” Read more here.
Trans Ideology Has No Place in Children’s Groups Like the Girl Guides, by Frank Furedi. “As it happens, there is far more at stake than the issue of safeguarding. Transgender ideology is not simply committed to advocating the inclusion of biological males who identify as girls to join a well-known single gender organisation. It is also obsessed with imposing gender-neutrality on society and eliminating biological distinction between the sexes. Consequently, the term ‘Girlguiding’ is fast becoming a misnomer.” Read more here.
Dear Birthmom, by Ryan Bomberger. “I want you to know that I was adopted and so deeply loved. The parents that welcomed me into their home and hearts, when I was just six weeks old, weren’t deterred by how I came to be. They were committed to nurturing who I was meant to be. I wish you knew the beautiful reverberations you caused with that singular decision so many years ago. When I look into the faces of my amazing wife and four children (two of whom were also adopted), I can’t help but thank you…” Read more here.
How Some Schools Hide Sex Curriculum From Parents, by Capital Resource Institute. “The bait-and-switch is intentional. Remember, the school hands a concerned parent a binder containing the curriculum. The concerned parent assumes he or she is holding all of it… The parent is not told that a large portion of the curriculum lurks in a second location – either on a flash drive meant only for the teacher, or on the curriculum website that the teacher opens with a code – and it is here where the true intention and purpose of the supposed ‘curriculum’ is revealed.” Read more here.
In Case With Global Implications, Finland Puts Christians on Trial for Their Faith, by Joy Pullmann. “Rasanen and Pohjola are being charged with ‘hate speech’ for respectively writing and publishing a 24-page 2004 booklet that explains basic Christian theology about sex and marriage, which reserves sex exclusively for within marriage, which can only consist of one man and one woman, for life. The Finnish prosecutor claims centuries-old Christian teachings about sex ‘incite hatred’ and violate legal preferences for government-privileged identity groups.” Read more here.
The Left’s Appalling Efforts to ‘Normalize’ Pedophilia, by Nicole Russell. “While Heine rightly noted that abusing children is ‘wrong without any doubt,’ she also said that a ‘pedophile who doesn’t abuse children has done nothing wrong.’ That seems like a dramatically low bar for civilized society and hardly an area where we want to collectively shift our cultural standards: Pedophilia is a form of paraphilia, not an orientation, and it isn’t acceptable even if abuse does not occur.” Read more here.
Outcry After Nigeria Removed From U.S. ‘Country of Particular Concern’ List, by ADF International. “Why is the United States undermining its commitment to protecting international religious freedom? …Christians living in Nigeria face some of the worst acts of persecution. Millions of people have fled devastating violence and have become internally displaced. As a result of the violence, 13,000 churches have been closed or destroyed altogether. Many victims have been kidnapped, raped, forcibly converted or married, or sold into slavery.” Read more here.
New Olympic Committee Rules Essentially End Women’s Sports, by Libby Emmons. “This essentially spells the end of women’s sports at the highest levels of global competition. The IOC said testing athletes’ testosterone levels to verify that they are able to compete against women, who have far less testosterone than any male person, is ‘invasive’ and ‘disrespectful.’ They did not issue a statement on how invasive or disrespectful it is to force women to compete against bigger, stronger, men, or to allow men to take women’s places in athletic competition. The IOC basically doesn’t care about that.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Will Be Central to a Post-Roe America, by Thomas Glessner. “These agencies provide vital support to mothers contemplating abortion. Medical services include pregnancy testing and ultrasound confirmation of pregnancy, as well as STI testing and treatment. Material resources include adoption services, referrals for ongoing medical and legal care, post-abortion counseling, temporary housing services and ongoing support. More than 1,300 centers are licensed medical clinics providing medical care at no charge.” Read more here.
Pedophilia Takes a Cautious Step Forward Toward Respectability, by Michael Cook. “My prediction is that it will be argued that paedophiles, at least the non-offending ones, have a ‘right’ to act out their desires. How this will be achieved is anyone’s guess. Perhaps child pornography will be legalised… Perhaps the law will take a more ‘enlightened’ view of the age of consent. But no doubt Allyn Walker and ‘their’ colleagues will find a way forward.” Read more here.
How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids, by Abigail Shrier. “Last month, the California Teachers Association (CTA) held a conference advising teachers on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.” Read more here.
Former Architect of American Abortion Industry Speaks Out Against It, by Jerry Newcombe. “Nathanson was the ‘abortion king.’ He was the architect of the abortion industry. He co-founded NARAL… Beatley relates the main points of Nathanson’s erstwhile strategy to deceive America, the first being: ‘They framed the debate, and they framed it around the word “choose.”’ The use of euphemism, concealing the killing of a child under the positive word ‘choice,’ was highly effective.” Read more here.
The Olympics Open the Door for More Men in Women’s Sports on the World Stage, by Zachary Faria. “The International Olympic Committee has updated its guidelines for transgender athletes. The result is a collection of meaningless language about ‘inclusion’ and new standards that are open to subjectivity… It seems that the IOC is setting itself up to make determinations on a case-by-case basis. That alone would be unacceptable, but it is made even worse by the fact the IOC and other national sporting organizations have begun surrendering to gender ideology and transgender activists at the expense of female athletes.” Read more here.
If You Let Government Parent, Don’t Be Surprised When It Claims Your Kids, by Julie Gunlock. “Those who advocate for keeping children’s medical care private from parents often cite concerns about abuse arising from a parent finding out about their child’s sexual activity or its consequences. Yet school officials seem less concerned about the harms that could result from letting a child navigate these traumatic and potentially life-altering health conditions without assistance from their parents.” Read more here.
Democrats Like Me Are Furious With Our Party for Pushing Gender Insanity, by Kara Dansky. “Feminists have a saying: we cannot protect women and girls on the basis of sex if we cannot say what sex is. My hope is that lawmakers across the political aisle will get a grip and right the wrongs that have been perpetrated in the name of ‘gender identity.’ Every single human being is either female or male. No one ‘is transgender.’ It’s long past time that lawmakers across the political aisle and members of corporate media said so.” Read more here.
Biased ABC Poll Falsely Claims Americans Support Roe v. Wade and Abortions Up to Birth, by Micaiah Bilger. “A new ABC News/Washington Post poll with biased questions appears to show that a strong majority of Americans support the infamous abortion ruling Roe v. Wade… These results, however, do not match with numerous other polls that show strong public opposition to what Roe does: It forces states to legalize the killing of unborn babies in abortions without limits up to viability and allows abortion on demand up to birth.” Read more here.
Religious Freedom Means Both Worship and Witness, by Kristen Waggoner. “A militant secularism that is hostile to religion has been on the rise for many years… Who could have imagined that faith-based adoption agencies would be punished for living out their belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? Or a cake artist, a florist, or a web designer? Believing that all we need to do is look inside in order to flourish has not made America more pluralistic. Instead, hyper-individualism has led to surging intolerance against those who dissent from new orthodoxies on sexuality, marriage, and the family.” Read more here.
Transgender Professor at Old Dominion University Rebrands Pedophiles as ‘Minor-Attracted Persons,’ by Spencer Lindquist. “Pedophiles are stigmatized because pedophilia is and deserves to be accurately seen as unspeakably reprehensible. Stigmas are a way we socially communicate this reprehensibility. Any word, framing, or action that chips away at this stigma inevitably breaks down the guardrails against such evil actions. Yet again we witness an instance of the left siding with the oppressor while pretending to advocate for the victim, this time under the guise of academic inquiry.” Read more here.
The Department of Justice Is Ignoring Child Victims of Sex Crimes, by Congresswoman Ann Wagner. “This isn’t conjecture. Serious sex crimes, including human trafficking, selling Child Sexual Abuse Material, kidnapping, battery, and child rape, involving OnlyFans have occurred across the country this year. I’m a mother and a grandmother, and I believe that we have a moral obligation to protect the most vulnerable. Frankly, I’m infuriated that the Department of Justice seems to be willing to turn a blind eye to the serious threat OnlyFans poses to minors.” Read more here.
Memphis Christian School Under Attack for Affirming Christian Values, by Todd Starnes. “Briarcrest Christian School drew fire after they announced a training session for parents and students on a Gospel response to sexuality and gender titled, ‘God Made Them Male and Female. And It Was Good. A Gospel Response to Culture’s Gender Theory…’ LGBT activist Dylan Sandifer accused the school of promoting bigoted ideas.” Read more here.
Money Is Not the Main Reason Why Americans Who Desire Marriage Remain Single, by Wendy Wang. “Marriage is declining quickly in the United States, especially among lower-income Americans. What’s worse, this ‘family polarization’ by income seems to have deepened since the pandemic began last year, according to our new report. Needless to say, money plays a critical role in this marriage divide. But if you ask individual Americans on the marriage market today why they are not married, surprisingly, their answers have little to do with money.” Read more here.
Transwomen May Have a Right to Be Pregnant, Argue Bioethicists, by Michael Cook. “Do transgender women (i.e., natal males) have a right to experience pregnancy? Two Italian doctors from the University of Rome Sapienza argue in Acta Biomedica that technology is advancing so fast that we need to confront this question. At the moment uterine transplants (UTx) are rare and often unsuccessful. But as surgeons improve their techniques, it may be possible for a natal male to give birth. ‘Such an option will mark a point where the set of moral and ethical precepts which we espouse could soon become obsolete,’ they write.” Read more here.
The Real Pro-Life Movement, by Kathryn Lopez. “I wish more people knew about the actual pro-life movement. It’s not just about defunding Planned Parenthood and undoing Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that made abortion legal in all trimesters of pregnancy. It’s about love. Women deserve better than abortion. And their unborn babies certainly do.” Read more here.
My Son’s English Teacher Showed a Transgender Activist’s Video in Class. Here’s What I Did Next, by Matt Schoenfeldt. “My eighth grade son recently got a ‘lesson’ in English class that featured a video of a transgender activist making a speech that includes sexually suggestive language. As a society, we have seen this sort of thing play out time and time again in recent years. First the left asks for tolerance, then acceptance, and then they demand that you celebrate their push for full ‘social justice’ indoctrination in every classroom in America.” Read more here.
Therapists Have Betrayed the Parents of Gender-Confused Kids, and There’ll Be Hell to Pay, by Miriam Grossman. “Following their teen’s bombshell announcement, most parents initially consult with gender therapists or clinics. The vast majority tell them they must unconditionally accept their child’s chosen identity, use a random, unfamiliar name, and help Sara bind her breasts and Michael tuck his genitals. Parents object, suggesting a slower process and deeper exploration. They insist: we know our child! The ideologues dismiss their parental instincts. They see their discomfort but brush it off.” Read more here.
To Protect Women, Trust the Science on Abortion, by Donna Harrison. “The truth is, in protecting women’s health, U.S. policies are woefully behind those of our European neighbors. In many progressive countries throughout Europe, laws require that elective abortions be performed at 14 weeks or earlier… These countries have based their abortion laws not on politics but on peer-reviewed medical research aimed at protecting women’s health. Their intent is to use empirically accurate information to promote the highest standards of medical care for women.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Restores Abortion to Human Rights Reports, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Given the U.S.’s record of leadership on international human rights issues and extensive diplomatic presence around the world, the State Department’s annual country reports are an important source of information for advocates seeking to expose and end human rights abuses. Placing abortion alongside issues like freedom of speech, religious liberty, and other universally agreed human rights sends a message to the global community.” Read more here.
The Fringe of the Far-Left Fringe Is Controlling the Media’s Discourse on Transgenderism, by Becket Adams. “Feminism is always, always, always sidelined in favor of competing special interest groups that work against women. In this case specifically, the demands of transgender ideology require the suppression of the word ‘women.’ It is being erased from basic speech in service of honoring men who identify as women. This is what some would call ‘irony.’” Read more here.
Abortion Isn’t the Winning Issue Democrats Think It Is, by Zachary Faria. “Democrats like to convince themselves that abortion is a winning issue because of some neatly worded poll questions, but Virginia and Texas both provide evidence that that just isn’t the case. Abortion may be one of the driving issues for Democratic politicians and liberal activists, but it isn’t a deal breaker for independent voters. And it appears to create a lot more enthusiasm among pro-life voters than it does among Democrats.” Read more here.
Azusa Pacific University Proves Gender Insanity Has Also Invaded Christian Schools, by Jasmine Campos. “The conversation moved to a lecture, question and answer format. After a discussion of ‘neo-pronouns’ including xe/xem and ze/zer, the leaders briefly explained what they believed it meant to be transgender. One individual described it as someone feeling as though one is ‘different from the sex they were assigned at birth…’ The leaders then asked the group how each individual had explored his or her identity and pronouns, implying this is something everyone goes through.” Read more here.
Abortion Is Not a Punch Line, SNL, by Alexandra Desanctis. “If we assume the best of the skit’s creators, perhaps they meant to help post-abortive women feel less alone, but instead they erased the stories of countless women who didn’t want to choose abortion. All too often, women who have had an abortion felt that they had no choice because of financial difficulties, pressure from family, or lack of support from the child’s father. The skit likewise whitewashes the reality that some women are coerced into abortion, whether by literal force or by threats of abandonment.” Read more here.
If the Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need a License to Raise Your Own Child, by Stella Morabilto. “Social engineers would certainly like to see legislation that allows the state to assess parents for ‘fitness,’ dictating whether people can raise their own children… The idea is still consigned to journal articles and some academic chatter. But let’s not forget that critical race theory and transgenderism were once laughed off as fringy academic notions before they burst into newsrooms, then into classrooms and public libraries.” Read more here.
Please Don’t Clown Around When It Comes to Abortion, by Michael Brown. “…[A]ll of this underscores the need to sit down … and have honest, compassionate discussions with those on the ‘pro-choice’ side, as well as to provide safe spaces for the many women grieving over past abortions, enabling them to open up their hearts. In stark contrast, the last thing we need is someone called Goober the Clown to clown around about abortion. If there is any subject on the planet that does not comport with a ridiculous clown skit, it is the subject of abortion.” Read more here.
Therapists Must Be Allowed to Question Gender Identity, by Maya Forstater. “The Department of Health … has commissioned Dr. Hillary Cass to undertake an independent review of gender identity services for children and young people. She and her team are carefully considering evidence without a predetermined outcome. The Government should resist the LGBTQIA+ lobby’s encouragement to rush to criminalise therapists who refuse to tell parents they have a choice between a ‘dead daughter and living son.’ Instead, it should be patient and allow the Cass Review team to do their job.” Read more here.
UK Universities Clamp Down on Speech About Gender, by Lois McLatchie. “The integrity of one of Britain’s greatest global legacies is at stake here. The UK attracts over half a million international students to its institutions of higher learning every year, including over 20,000 students from the U.S. Oxford and Cambridge are legendary bastions of free speech, discovery, and the pursuit of truth. But with biological fact sheltered from exposure and legitimate debate silenced on uncomfortable issues, it’s unclear where these global titans will go next.” Read more here.
Boy Scouts Announce New Critical Race Theory Requirement, by Spencer Lindquist. “One such resource is the ‘All My Relations’ podcast, which focuses on the Native American experience and features episodes titled ‘Decolonizing Sex,’ ‘Celebrate Indigenous Peoples, Not Columbus,’ and ‘Indigiqueer.’ Flag folding is so last year. What we really need are Eagle Scouts who understand the Native American LGBT sexual experience!” Read more here.
Debunking a Fallacy: New Study Shows Therapy for Undesired Same-Sex Attraction ‘Can Be Effective, Beneficial, and Not Harmful,’ by Andre Van Mol, MD. “Ideology-driven legislative initiatives are underway to ban therapeutic choice – ‘conversion therapy’ being the provocative, pejorative and ill-defined colloquial term used as a jamming tactic – in the U.S. and internationally for people with undesired same-sex attraction or levels thereof… The foundational requirement for such therapy – and for talk-therapy of any kind for any patient complaint – is a willing, motivated and self-directed client. Involuntary therapy is failed therapy, no matter the problem.” Read more here.
Growing Problem of a Teen Transgender Trend, by Family First. “Many young people today are wondering if they were ‘born in the wrong body,’ and transgender activists are pushing an agenda that insists the body should be remade to conform with feelings. As such, the transgender trend spreads a confusing message to all kids, including those who struggle to accept their sex. Regrettably, this trend is taking root in the school curriculum where these radical ideas are being indoctrinated into young people, often without the express permission or even knowledge of parents.” Read more here.
Why Young Adults in Canada Embrace Marriage – or Reject It, by Peter Jon Mitchell. “Our most intriguing finding was among partnered young adults choosing to forego marriage. Half of partnered men and two out of five women selected ‘don’t believe in the institution of marriage’ as the main reason for their decision not to get married. The second most selected response among young adult women in this group was ‘current situation is fine as is,’ followed by ‘wedding preparations and cost.’” Read more here.
Upcoming Congressional Hearing on Abortion Ban Cares More About Politics Than Women’s Health, by Christina Francis. “The argument for the existence of these under-credentialed abortion clinics follows the rationale that women who wish to undergo an abortion would otherwise have to resort to unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Yet, ironically, abortion clinics often replicate the same unsanitary and unsafe conditions. Furthermore, these clinics evade the fundamental tenets of informed medical consent that apply to the entire medical industry… These clinics, in short, are not ethical or honest in their approach to health.” Read more here.
Media Explodes in Fury as Ghana Prepares to Pass the World’s Most Restrictive LGBTQ+ Law, by Mathew Otieno. “This is where the Western LGBTQ+ train goes off the rails. For some reason, they think it will be possible to impose tolerance for their community in Africa from the top down… Well, Africa has some news for the LGBTQ+ lobby. This approach will fail, friends. Pompous moralising can’t magically turn something people detest into something they admire. If anything, it will most likely result in more kneejerk reactions of the kind that precipitated the bill in Ghana. A tolerant future for LGBTQ+ people in Africa is possible. But it will have to come through genuine dialogue.” Read more here.
Dear Trans Activists: Parents Have Their ‘Lived Experience’ of Gender Dysphoria, Too, by Anonymous Author. “…[W]e parents are not having it. [Rapid onset gender dysphoria] is real. We need no more studies to tell us what we are seeing with our own eyes. These are our lived experiences. Unlike activists, we do not histrionically accuse our detractors of trying to deny our existence or to kill us. However, we do expect to be listened to and taken seriously so that our kids can receive proper care and avoid unnecessary harm – and we will not stop screaming from the rooftops until this happens.” Read more here.
Orphaned Children Need Attention on Adoption Law, by Barrister Zahid Rahman. “Adoption is usually viewed positively by society and has many benefits like loving families that take care of and lift their adopted children as if they were their own and giving them opportunities for better lives. As per the record, there are more than 4.4 million orphaned children in Bangladesh. Adoption can provide a favorable home to those children.” Read more here.
Rising Number of Single Mothers a Big Concern, by Samuel Yesuiah. “The respective family organisations and religious bodies [in Malaysia] need to implement measures to strengthen the institution of marriage through effective pre-marriage courses for men and women intending to get married. These courses should be made compulsory for all couples of all races and religions… The courses could help reduce marriage related issues and prepare them to face the impending onslaught of marital blues and thus rein in separation and divorce.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Two Texas Heartbeat Act Cases. Here Are the Top Takeaways, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “Justice Neil Gorsuch appeared impatient with the United States’ broad request for relief, saying that there had never been such an injunction so expansive ‘in the history of the United States.’ This skepticism about the federal government’s desire to intervene in a state’s legislative and judicial process may mean that United States v. Texas is on shakier ground than Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson.” Read more here.
They Legalized Abortion by Complaining Women Were Doing Their Own, Now That’s What They Want Women to Do, by Micaiah Bilger. “They claimed they wanted to protect women from dangerous, self-induced abortions. But now they are openly promoting them. Self-induced abortions are becoming ‘more popular’ across the U.S. now that the pro-abortion movement is openly promoting what it once called a dangerous crisis… And the very language that abortion activists used for years to claim that legalizing abortion was necessary to protect women from dangerous self-induced abortions, they are now calling stigmatizing.” Read more here.
Abortion Pill Complications Requiring Hospital Visits in UK Mirror U.S. Data … and It’s Not Good, by Carole Novielli. “Abortion pill complications arising from incomplete abortion in the UK seem to mirror recently published data from a study in the U.S. According to Kevin Duffy, a former Global Director of Clinics Development at MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International), nearly 6% of women (as many as 1 in 17 pregnant women) who obtained a so-called ‘medical abortion’ (abortion pill) in the UK were subsequently treated for complications and needed hospital treatment arising from an incomplete abortion.” Read more here.
The Abortion Lobby Doubles Down on Risky Chemical-Abortion Pills, by Kristan Hawkins. “Corporate Abortion is now making sales pitches to stockpile the drugs in light of potential changes in the law. See, as one example, the recent New York Times op-ed… Uninformed readers were treated to extraordinary claims that no-test, at-home experiences are safe, and that there were ‘no significant safety reasons’ to have health and safety standards … kept in place by the FDA. That all depends on how women feel about infection, surgery, infertility, depression, horrifying pain, and even death.” Read more here.
Texas Heartbeat Act Again Before Supreme Court. Here’s What You Need to Know, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[T]he primary focus will be on strictly procedural questions. In United States v. Texas, the court will address whether the Department of Justice has standing to sue Texas at all and, if so, under what cause of action. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the court will address the abortion provider’s claim that the civil enforcement mechanism itself is unconstitutional.” Read more here.
Democrats Still Haven’t Fixed All the Abortion-Funding Problems in Their Reconciliation Bill, by John McCormack. “This issue is in the legislative weeds, but the point is important: The Hyde amendment, which prohibits Medicaid funding of abortion except in rare circumstances, must be attached each year to an appropriations bill that funds the program. The Hyde amendment is not permanently embedded in the underlying law that established Medicaid.” Read more here.
Man Who Fights Women Claims Safety and Fairness Aren’t Legitimate Concerns, by Zachary Faria. “You can either oppose letting men such as McLaughlin punch women in the face in combat sports, or you can oppose physically and chemically altering the bodies of children because they claim to be of the opposite gender, an irreversible process that roughly 80% of them will grow to regret. Opposing both means you don’t care about safety. Or something.” Read more here.
The Aftermath of Gray Divorce for Men, Women, and Their Adult Children, by Kay Hymowitz. “So, what happens to relations between parents and adult children after gray divorce? The first thing to note may not sit comfortably with those committed to gender-neutral assumptions: fathers and mothers react to a break-up very differently. Mothers increase their involvement with their adult children; they are twice as likely to have more frequent contact with their adult children after a late divorce than they did before. For men, it’s the opposite; they are only half as likely to engage regularly with their grown children after a split.” Read more here.
Virginia Parents Standing Up to Loudoun County School Board Should Inspire Parents Everywhere, by Mary Clare Amselem. “…[O]ne cannot help but wonder how the public school system became so detached from the will of the parents, whose tax dollars fund the school…. The answer is that the left has come to embrace the troubling perspective that children are partially owned by the state. In the leftist worldview, the family unit does not have the sole right to determine what values and perspectives children should hold, but that public schools are equal stakeholders in these deeply personal decisions.” Read more here.
Biden’s Equality Plan: Deadly for Unborn Babies, by Marie Smith. “Perhaps they forgot that the Declaration of Independence recognized ‘that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’ and that the first of these rights is Life. The promotion of the death of the most vulnerable children among us – those alive but not yet born – shows the hypocrisy of the Biden Administration’s claim that it is following a ‘tireless pursuit of greater equity for all.’” Read more here.
Irony: ‘Inter-Gender’ MMA Fight Horrifies Fans in Poland, by Matt Margolis. “…Ula Siekacz was eventually overpowered by Piotrek Muaboy, who pinned her down and repeatedly punched her in the head while she was unable to move. MMA fans couldn’t believe what they saw. ‘How is this sanctioned? This is horrific,’ one fan asked on social media. But we know the answer. Men physically beating up women has been sanctioned for a while now. The key difference here is that Piotrek Muaboy isn’t a ‘transgender woman;’ otherwise, the fight would have been celebrated by the LGBTQ community and trans rights activists.” Read more here.
Small-Town Wisconsin Schools Won’t Tell Parents If Their Children Identify as Transgender, by Dan O’Donnell. “To officially change their names in the district’s computer system, students will still need to provide documentation of a legal name change. However, the new policy allows teachers and other district employees to treat students as members of the opposite sex without ever informing their parents that they are doing so… ‘This is outrageous,’ said one Oshkosh parent. ‘So, if my son starts identifying as a girl at school but hides it from me, I will never know about it?’” Read more here.
‘Award-Winning’ Sexually Explicit Books Terry McAuliffe Kept in Virginia School Libraries, by Dr. Susan Berry. “In late September, the Fairfax County school district finally removed two books from its libraries, including Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, which contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters, including oral sex and masturbation, involving children… Fairfax County parent Stacy Langton raised the issue about the books’ accessibility to children at a school board meeting, and, as she read some of the explicit passages from Gender Queer, a school board member cut her off and actually chastised her for using explicit language.” Read more here.
Genderless Passports Are Absurd, by Nicole Russell. “Normalizing a person’s gender as ‘X’ rather than male or female is as dangerous as allowing an anorexic person to continue to starve herself because, after all, she’s merely only living out her true identity by refusing her body nourishment. Willingly participating in identifying a person as genderless is a sign that the U.S. government … fails to recognize the disastrous signs of what will become of a nation that allows people enduring an obvious mental health crisis to succumb to their whims.” Read more here.
Portland’s Abortion ‘Bereavement Leave’ for Employees Begs the Question: Who Died? by Bettina di Fiore. “If ‘bereavement’ is frequently defined as a period of grief or mourning after the death of a family member or loved one, and ‘bereavement leave’ is time off of work that is granted to employees to mourn that death, then this amended policy begs the question: who died? Granting this type of leave following an abortion is a tacit admission of the humanity and family membership of the one who has been aborted — something abortion advocates almost never do.” Read more here.
No Woman Should Have to Get an Abortion to Keep Her Job, by Mary Szoch. “Our society and workplaces will not be equal for men and women until we recognize that men and women are fundamentally different. Women have the ability to nurture and sustain life within them, and men do not. Little girls growing up in America should hear, ‘Women can do anything,’ not, ‘Women can do anything … as long as they don’t have children.’ If a man were told to kill his child in order to keep his career, the world would react in horror, and rightly so. So, why, then, do we accept women being told to do the same?” Read more here.
Loudoun County Is Putting Children in Harm’s Way, by Bethany Kozma. “Five years ago, I stood in front of both the Fairfax and Loudoun County school boards advocating for the protection of my children and others by warning against the adoption of radical new gender identity policies that are now in effect across Virginia and many parts of the United States. I uncomfortably spoke up as a sexual assault survivor, speaking on behalf of those who have no voice or are silenced. Looking back, who would have thought that freedom of speech at a public school board meeting would be such a divisive issue threatening our country today.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Issues Gender Strategy Promoting Abortion and LGBT Rights, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Like several gender strategies issued under the Obama administration, Biden’s gender strategy aligns federal policies with international gender policies developed without the input and consent of U.S. voters and their representatives. But Biden’s gender strategy expands the reach of ‘gender’ policies far beyond what even the Obama administration had previously adopted. It affects both domestic and international policy. Obama’s gender policies only affected U.S. foreign policy and U.S. foreign assistance.” Read more here.
‘Fake News’ From Malawi About Unsafe Abortions, by Michael Cook. “…[T]he latest and more authoritative evidence from the World Health Organisation and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study estimates that the number of maternal deaths every year [in Malawi] is between 1150 and 2100. So the number of back-street abortions cited in The Telegraph is between 6 and 10 times the number of maternal deaths from all causes. In the real world, outside of the Twitterverse, that is called ‘making it up as you go along.’” Read more here.
The Death of Marriage Proves Yet Again That Social Conservatives Were Right, by Nathanael Blake. “The sexual revolution’s redefinition of family was never going to stop with same-sex marriage, but few on the left have had the courage to say no to the expansion of the alphabet agenda. People who insisted same-sex marriage would have no effect on the rest of us now want to punish dissenters who don’t want to promote and celebrate same-sex weddings. People who declared this was about consenting adults are now all-in on the LGBT youth agenda, from child drag queens to transgender toddlers.” Read more here.
Why the Transgender Movement Is So Aggressively Misogynistic, by Kira Davis. “They constantly silence the voices of women. They hurl misogynistic, vile names at women like J.K. Rowling who simply defend the biological reality of womanhood. They label her and other women who don’t toe the trans line as TERFs – trans-exclusionary, radical feminists. Did you catch that? You’re a ‘radical’ for opposing the erasure of womanhood from the public square.” Read more here.
What to Do About Your Local Library Putting Porn on Kids’ Shelves, by Jonathan Lange. “The pornographic language and pictures found in the children’s section of America’s libraries are so over-the-top that examples cannot be printed in any respectable publication… Thus, parental concerns are shielded from the public by sheer decorum and decency. But that same decency is not restraining librarians from exposing even the youngest children to indecent content. By attractive, kid-friendly displays, they invite curious children to read what your local newspaper editor is ashamed to print.” Read more here.
First Comes Love. Then Comes Sterilization, by Suzy Weiss. “It used to be that people wanted to make babies. Women, especially, but also men. That was a healthy young person’s default position, and our existence depended on it. We wanted to do other things, of course, and the great post-feminist challenge was how to have it all — the proper work-life balance, the career and the baby, the supportive husband and the adventurous life. But now, for an increasing number, the question isn’t how to have it all. It’s: why do it at all?” Read more here.
Empty Pews Are an American Public Health Crisis, by Tyler J. Vanderweele and Brendan Case. “Our research suggests that religious service attendance specifically, rather than private practices or self-assessed religiosity or spirituality, most powerfully predicts health. Religious identity and private spirituality may, of course, still be very important and meaningful within the context of religious life, but their effects on health and well-being don’t seem to be as strong as those of regular gatherings with other believers.” Read more here.
Rachel Levine Is Not the First Female Anything, by Christopher Tremoglie. “Being female is more than just a word. It is not a ‘social construct,’ as is so often claimed… What is the message Levine’s boasted promotion sends to women? It lets them know that men will game the system to deny women opportunities and will be aided in doing so by the Democratic president and his party.” Read more here.
Prenatal Testing, Used in a Pro-Life Way, Made the Difference for These Families, by Bridget Sielicki. “Many well-meaning people decide against prenatal testing altogether, as if receiving it would somehow indicate that they intend to abort if an abnormality is detected. But prenatal testing can be used in a very positive, pro-life way. When parents are aware of a child’s medical needs before birth, they are often better able to prepare for raising a special needs child, while securing the help and attention needed immediately to give their child the best chance of survival after birth.” Read more here.
Conflicts of Interest Between Radical Left George Soros-Funded NGOs and Judges on the European Court of Human Rights: ECLJ Report Bears Fruit, by Grégor Puppinck. “A year and a half after its publication, a report on NGOs and the judges of the ECHR by the ACLJ’s international affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), continues to bear fruit. In what may be a most important move, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has just modified its internal code of ethics and has undertaken to modify its rules on conflicts of interest.” Read more here.
Biden’s Absurd Gender Strategy, by the Editors of National Review. “Yes, the ‘National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality,’ the first-ever such declaration because in the near-quarter millennium of this country’s existence no one ever thought we needed one, lays out a list of goals and aspirations and solutions to alleged problems whose existence keeps being asserted without evidence. ‘Health care,’ for instance, is a strange action item to list as a gender crisis when women outlive men in this country by 5.7 years… But of course the ‘women’s health’ issue that most excites the imagination of progressives is the continued right to exterminate the unborn.” Read more here.
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Is Becoming a Growth Industry, by Michael Cook. “…[F]rom an ethical point of view, the most controversial feature of [non-invasive prenatal testing] is that many women will abort their child after learning of the abnormality. A cynic might even argue that NIPT is basically a marketing tool for abortion clinics. As the authors note, this is sometimes factored into studies of the cost-effectiveness of public funding. In other words, economists assess the life of a person with a disability as a drain on the economy.” Read more here.
Will More Canadian Journalists Stand Up to the LGBT Mob After CTV’s Report on the Dangers of ‘Gender-Transitioning’? by Jonathon Van Maren. “For the Canadian media, even admitting that there are two sides to the transgender question is a big step… This CTV investigation may seem like a small thing, and I noticed that almost no Canadian journalists did the usual thing of tweeting and commenting about anything controversial that emerges from their bubble, probably calculating that on this issue, it is wiser to simply stay silent. Canada deserves better journalists; reporters who actually have the guts to do deep dives into stories and report perspectives regardless of how ideologically correct they are.” Read more here.
Marriage Protects Mental Health: Evidence During COVID-19, by Christos Makridis and Clara E. Piano. “What do these results about the protective effects of marriage imply for children? While time will tell, they suggest that children with the benefit of both parents fared better during the pandemic than their counterparts who had only one parent present. If one parent was laid off, he/she could reallocate time to child care, while the other parent continued working. If only one parent is available, then he/she could be forced to take time off, especially since the child care sector was hit so hard.” Read more here.
Two Transgender Specialists Wonder: Has the New Orthodoxy Gone Too Far? by Paula Rinehart. “For nearly a decade, the transgender movement has steamrolled through American society with a façade of certainty and moral superiority no one is allowed to question. Choosing one’s gender has been the brave new frontier our children are entitled to cross, and woe to the parent, doctor, or educator who takes issue. In recent weeks, though, another major crack in this wall has appeared.” Read more here.
UN Health Special Rapporteur Supports Abortion at Expense of Women’s Health, by Grace Melton. “Pro-abortion actors in the U.S. and abroad have been working to weaken existing restrictions on chemical abortion pills and to promote telemedicine and mail-order pills under the guise of pandemic-related concerns. This is leading to more women undergoing this dangerous process at home, away from medical supervision and support. The consequences for women of self-administering mifepristone and misoprostol can be devastating, especially in the developing world.” Read more here.
Science Says What’s Really Compassionate Is Encouraging People With Gender Dysphoria to Love Their Real Bodies, by Kylee Zempel. “The sad truth is that so-called transition and those who peddle it as a solution can’t deliver on their promises. According to the study, 71 percent of respondents reported that prior to transition, they ‘thought transitioning was my only option to feel better,’ and 65 percent said they ‘thought transitioning would eliminate my gender dysphoria.’ They later detransitioned when these beliefs were exposed as lies.” Read more here.
Democrats’ Assault on Religious Liberty Began With an Innocuous-Sounding Phrase, by Sean Spicer. “Words matter. When politicians speak of freedom of worship, they are saying that you are free to worship any way you choose in your home or in your house of worship. But they don’t want your religion to affect the way you live your life in public or the way you conduct your business. Democrats and progressives say that you are perfectly free to pray and worship in any way you choose — as long as you do so behind closed doors.” Read more here.
Mom Says Superintendent Defended Gay Porn Book in School Library After Complaint, by Spencer Lindquist. “Erika Sanzi reported … that another concerned parent had emailed Auger about the ‘inappropriate’ book, which features multiple graphic scenes of gay men having sex, discussion of sexual fantasies, and even an instance where a girl is encouraged by her sibling to ‘taste’ herself. Sanzi posted a screenshot of an email she says is from Auger, which insists the book is not pornographic and compares the book to the work of Renaissance artist Michelangelo or an anatomy textbook.” Read more here.
Overturn Roe? It’s Not 1973 Anymore. Justices Should Let States Follow Science, by Melanie Israel. “In 1973, doctors couldn’t have dreamed of the ways they are now able to treat unborn patients. As science and technology advances, the field of perinatal medicine has exploded with options to diagnose, plan for, and treat various conditions – including surgery while children are still in the womb. Likewise, knowledge about fetal pain – and how it may be felt as early as at 12 weeks, far earlier than previously thought – has changed the standard of care for surgical procedures in utero, palliative care for babies born too early to survive, and more.” Read more here.
If You Can’t Tell a Man From a Woman, You’re Not a Health Official, You’re a Health Threat, by Joy Pullmann. “Not only did Joe Biden appoint a man who claims he’s a woman, and whose poor public health decisions led to thousands of unnecessary COVID deaths, as assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Biden has now made that man a four-star admiral and proclaimed we should all cheer at his administration appointing the ‘first’ ‘female’ ‘four-star officer.’ I repeat, this is not a joke.” Read more here.
Democrats Are Trying to Sneak Gender Dogma Into Bill on Family Violence, by Jay Richards. “Many of these updates are uncontroversial. But if you read closely, gender activists are trying to legally redefine sex, making it harder to maintain public facilities specifically for female victims of violence… The proposal would prohibit programs from providing reasonable safety for women as women – including sex-specific dressing, sleeping, and shower spaces – unless they can prove it’s essential to the program. It’s beyond bizarre to impose a higher burden for women-only spaces in violence prevention programs that mainly help women.” Read more here.
Solving the Supreme Court’s Abortion Dilemma in Dobbs, by Richard Stith. “The strategy I propose … would avoid a constitutional crisis; it would allow the Court to speak powerfully and compassionately about the nature and dignity of the child; and it would allow it to declare the reasonableness of protecting both the child and the child’s mother from the violence of abortion. Then, many years from now, after a successful outcome to the political debate that must still come, the Court could finally recognize that child to be fully one of us: a fellow human being with a constitutional right to life.” Read more here.
Yes, Abortion and Transgenderism Do Have Lots in Common, by Nathanael Blake. “Although there are abortion supporters who oppose transgenderism and vice versa, Boylan is correct that the justifications for abortion and transgenderism share most of their ideological DNA. Both are rooted in hatred for the givenness of human embodiment and its limitations. Both should be rejected in favor of something better.” Read more here.
To My Daughter’s Gender Therapist: You Were Wrong, by Anonymous. “She is a brilliant and beautiful human being whose entire future came so close to being stolen from her by the gender transition industry. It is alarming that an entire generation of gifted children who may be on the autism spectrum is being sterilized in what amounts to a eugenics experiment with the participation of big-name medical and professional institutions, and to the benefit of a novel category of mental health practitioners: gender therapists like you.” Read more here.
McAuliffe Agrees Public Schools Should Not Tell Parents If Their Child Is ‘Gender Fluid,’ by Nick Bell. “The most pernicious aspect of the model policies is the alarming mandate that schools not tell parents if their son or daughter has adopted a new gender at school: ‘If a student is not ready or able to safely share with their family about their gender identity, this should be respected.’ The policies even suggest teachers use a child’s birth name with parents but a name of the opposite sex at school.” Read more here.
The Importance of Foster Care, by Kathryn Lopez. “In the abortion debates, the polarized discussion often focuses on death. Which is a shame, as foster care and adoption are important, even crucial, parts of the pro-life platform… We are getting into a heated season for the abortion debate – which too often is all about adults and not the child who has a right to not just life but love. Let’s work together to find solutions for children, families and communities.” Read more here.
Keeping Kids Off Porn, by Alysse ElHage. “Preventing our children from becoming the porn industry’s next addicts also involves equipping them to reject porn when they encounter it, which starts with pointing them to something better, and then helping them to make wise decisions alone. Even as we warn them away from harmful content, we should introduce children to the beauty and purpose of healthy sexuality, relationships, and marriage early and often, so they can identify the fraudulent messages of pornography.” Read more here.
Democrats Erase Women Through Budget ‘Reconciliation,’ by Jay Richards and Jared Eckert. “In 2021, opting to refer to a woman as a ‘pregnant, lactating, and postpartum individual’ suggests that someone need not be a female to be pregnant, to lactate, or to suffer postpartum health complications. That is, of course, exactly the point. For certain radical gender activists, being a woman is more a function of nurture and self-designation than nature and biology. That language reflects that conviction.” Read more here.
Loudoun County Knew It Was Putting Female Students at Risk With Its Transgender Policy, by Kaylee McGhee White. “In each of these cases, there’s a noticeable trend: Women are always the targets. Girls identifying as boys aren’t the ones waltzing into male locker rooms and assaulting or flashing young men. Women are almost always the victims, which means these transgender policies place women at a distinct disadvantage. Loudoun County’s officials knew this. They pushed their transgender agenda anyway, and two young women were raped as a consequence of their negligence.” Read more here.
Telling Women They Don’t Need Men Is Hurting Their Children, by Tim Goeglein. “Seeking to fill the void left by the absence of a loving father can tempt fatherless girls to become severely depressed, self-destructive, or sexually promiscuous. Boys more often deal with that void through anger, rage, or apathy. While we know of single mothers who have done heroic jobs in raising self-confident and successful children, in most cases society reaps the negative consequences of what we have sown over the past 25 years – children who have no concept of an intact family.” Read more here.
The Facebook Expose: Four Things Parents Need to Know, by Jean Twenge. “…[I]t seems clear that parents should delay kids and teens getting social media (particularly Instagram) as long as possible – perhaps until age 16 or even age 18. In a recent op-ed, a college student said her parents had not allowed her to have social media until she was 17 – and that she was grateful for that. In pre-pandemic visits to college campuses to give talks on iGen, I heard similar statements from many young students: Their parents had limited their use of technology when they were younger, and they praised their parents for doing so.” Read more here.
Mississippi Makes a Powerful Case Against Roe v. Wade, by Kaylee McGhee White. “When the Supreme Court hears the case in December, it will deal specifically with one question raised by Mississippi: whether all restrictions on pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. This will make it extremely difficult for the court to avoid revisiting its previous rulings in Roe and Casey, which provide the legal justification for pre-viability abortions. In other words, the court will have to decide definitively: Can states restrict abortions, pre-viable or not, or should they be banned from restricting abortions altogether?” Read more here.
General Assembly Will Test Biden’s Commitment to Abortion and LGBT Rights, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “During negotiations over UN strategic plans last summer, where western donor countries influence is at its height, UN member states accepted language on ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ as well as ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ for the first time, albeit with disclaimers and asserting national prerogatives… It remains to be seen if the Biden administration and its allies can carry either of those terms into UN resolutions, where they have been repeatedly rejected in the past, and traditional countries feel more able to influence the outcome.” Read more here.
Humanity’s Demographic Future, by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde. “…[T]he world’s demographic future is, to put it lightly, unusual. Not only is fertility declining, it is collapsing faster than I would have predicted ten years ago… Although a full analysis of this phenomenon is beyond the scope of this article, one thing is clear: the political, social, and economic consequences of such a demographic collapse will be tremendous.” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion Group Wants to Send Mobile Abortion Units to Surround Texas, Kill Babies in Abortions, by Micaiah Bilger. “Pro-abortion groups are doing everything they can to ‘help’ women ‘choose’ abortion, including sending a mobile abortion facility to the border. Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are quietly and compassionately offering real help to mothers and their babies across Texas, providing financial aid, material resources and many other forms of support, all for free.” Read more here.
Without Roe v. Wade, Abortion Will Remain Legal in Most States, by Jacob Sullum. “In most of the country … neither voters nor legislators are inclined to support the sort of sweeping restrictions that were common prior to Roe. Something like a 14% drop in abortions would be a welcome development for those who view the procedure as tantamount to murder. But it is a far cry from the goal that has driven the anti-abortion movement since Roe, and the dystopia envisioned by that decision’s most passionate supporters.” Read more here.
Queering Public Schools: LGBTQ+ Propaganda Within the U.S. Education System Worries Parents, by RT. “As part of education on consent and abuse prevention, 3Rs directs students to pair up and role-play various relationship scenarios. One of the tasks asks a male student to pretend his name is ‘Morgan’ and he is very active in the school LGBTQ+ community, while another student plays the role of ‘Terence,’ a closet homosexual in love with Morgan. In the role-play, Morgan plans a secret date with Terence, and it is suggested that students ‘make a decision on whether to have sex.’” Read more here.
Meet the Heretical Parents Questioning the Trans Narrative for Children and Teens, by Michael Cook. “…[I]t’s refreshing to read dissenting voices from mums and dads across the world who believe that their children should not adopt a transgender identity in their teen years… Are they transphobic? Ms. Armstrong bristles at the word. ‘Every single one of us has been called “transphobic,” but that’s a ridiculous term used to silence us from asking legitimate questions about actions and beliefs that directly threaten the health and safety of our children.’” Read more here.
New Sex Ed ‘Common Core’ Would Force Explicit Images, Gender Mayhem, and Abortion on Kids, by Nick Bell. “This is widespread debasing of sex and the creation of new life through filling the minds of public school children with sordid sexual imagery. It interprets humans as animals operating on pure instinct. For parents, there is nothing more disturbing than learning that their right to teach their children about sex, and the great responsibilities that accompany it, is being trampled by public schools.” Read more here.
Loudoun County Schools Covered Up Rape, Prosecuted a Concerned Father to Protect Transgender Agenda, by Kaylee McGhee White. “They tried to avoid getting law enforcement involved, telling Smith they would handle it ‘in-house,’ apparently in order to prevent controversy over their transgender policy. They also downplayed the assault when communicating with other parents, describing the incident as ‘something out of the ordinary.’ And finally, they transferred the assailant to a different school, where he went on to sexually assault another student just a few months later.” Read more here.
Here’s What We Know About Pitt’s Sadistic Experiments on Unborn Babies, by Madeline Osburn. “Daleiden explained how, in grant applications to receive NIH funding, the University of Pittsburgh essentially advertised their facilities as the best location for the GUDMAP aborted fetal kidney harvesting program. Pitt described how aborted babies are still alive at the time their kidneys are cut out. This was a selling point for why Pitt should receive millions of taxpayer dollars.” Read more here.
Now Two-Parent Families Are Racist, Too, by Kendall Qualls. “According to [the National Council on Family Relations], the nuclear family is now a vehicle of ‘family privilege’ – yet another new term – and white supremacy, a ‘structure’ that no longer is viewed as one that nurtures young children, provides them with stability and security, and prepares them for successful and emotionally sound adulthood. Instead, NCFR now says the family of mom, dad, and kids has mistakenly been upheld as ‘superior to all others’ and ‘creates systemic barriers to equal opportunity and justice for all families.’” Read more here.
When Conscience Is Attacked, the Ground Beneath Us Shakes, by Brian Bird. “This neglect is costing us. If there is one form of freedom on which a liberal democracy stands or falls, it is the freedom to live in alignment with our core convictions, whether ethical, religious, or political. Yet the once-settled principle that we should not force others to betray their conscience – unless there is a compelling reason to do so – is being diluted across our society.” Read more here.
Finnish Christian MP in Epic Court Battle Over Right to Criticise Homosexual Activity, by Michael Cook. “[Finland] is also the Number 1 country in the world for quality of life… Religious freedom, though, not so much. An astonishing case is beginning to make its way through the Finnish court system which the rest of the world should observe carefully. It could be a template for bullying LGBTQI+ activists to exclude Christian perspectives from the public square everywhere in the West.” Read more here.
When Parents Became the Enemy, by Michael Brown. “One mother told me that, without her or her husband’s knowledge, their 16-year-old daughter’s school was about to announce publicly that their daughter was now ‘he,’ with a new name and a new set of pronouns. The parents only found out because they happened to meet with her daughter’s teachers the night before the announcement was planned, having been concerned about the negative influence the school was having on their daughter. How can this be? Who gave the public school system such rights?” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion Advocates React as Texas ‘Heartbeat’ Law Is Reinstated by Federal Appeals Court, by Madeline Leesman. “The Center for Reproductive Rights’ President and CEO Nancy Northup said in a statement that the Supreme Court needs to intervene and that ‘patients are being thrown back into a state of chaos and fear.’ Adiana Pinon, the senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Texas said in a statement that ‘[t]he Fifth Circuit has failed again to preserve a critical right that has long existed in the United States.’ ‘Abortion is critical health care, and no one should be denied safe and legal access to it,’ she added.” Read more here.
Pushing Gender Dysphoria on Kids Is Child Abuse, and Child Abuse Warrants Intervention, by Casey Chalk. “Vanity Fair contributor Tracy Moore … writes glowingly of the new, unexplored adventure of talking pronouns with her 11-year-old daughter, whose friends identity as ‘demi-girls’ (those born female who don’t fully feel the part), or are transitioning genders, or expect Moore to use certain unintuitive preferred pronouns. For parents who have reservations about all of this, Moore enjoins them: ‘take your discomfort somewhere else, because this isn’t about you. It’s about stepping up as a parent in an era that’s new for all of us, but doubly delicate for our children.’” Read more here.
The UN and Gender Ideology: Laying Down a Paper Trail to Be Used by Activists in the Years Ahead, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A key aspect of totalitarianism is that dissenters from the state orthodoxy are punished… We are seeing that with the LGBT movement. Same-sex weddings aren’t just for same-sex couples — they want to force Christian florists and bakers to help them celebrate. It isn’t enough for them to change their pronouns, or even to have the government play along and recognize them either — they want you, and everybody else, to affirm them, as well.” Read more here.
12 Pro-Life Truths to Counter Every Abortion Myth, by Eleanor Bartow. “…[D]rawing the line at the point of viability is also problematic — that point will continue to get earlier in the pregnancy as medical advances create better means of keeping the unborn alive outside the womb; indeed, viability is now weeks earlier than it was when Roe was decided. Yet the unborn child did not become a person because it could survive due to modern science. Newborns are not technically viable either, as they cannot survive on their own. By this logic, we should consider it acceptable to kill newborns.” Read more here.
The Texas Heartbeat Law and the Pro-Life Movement After Roe, by Charles C. Camosy. “Dr. Jennifer Kerns … said in a Wired interview that at that stage, the child does not have a heart, only ‘a group of cells with electrical activity…’ If it wasn’t clear that abortion politics has been driving the rhetoric in these debates, the very same OB-GYNs will tell pregnant woman who want their child that at six weeks that [sic] their baby’s heartbeat is so-and-so many beats per minute and make sure they can in fact listen to that heartbeat.” Read more here.
Yes, the House Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill Would Fund Elective Abortions, by John McCormack. “…[I]t is indisputably true that the current iteration of the House Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill would fund abortion in several different ways. It includes a new ‘Medicaid-like’ program… The new program is fully funded by the federal government outside of the annual … bill that funds the traditional Medicaid program and has for many years included the Hyde amendment. According to judicial precedents, any federal health-care program that does not explicitly prohibit federal funding of elective abortion must fund all legal abortions.” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion Protesters Admit They Don’t Care If the Unborn Are Humans, by Spencer Lindquist. “We often presume that if we can simply win the war of ideas and prove that the unborn child is a living being, then the other side will naturally accept that we must protect them. Unfortunately, this assumption that everyone values human life isn’t always true. It’s an irreconcilable difference that transcends political ideology: Some people value life, and others do not. When debating those who have a complete disregard for human life, your arguments don’t matter.” Read more here.
An Important Church and State Battle in Seattle, by Jerry Newcombe. “A month after he was sworn in as our first president, George Washington wrote a group of Baptists: ‘If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.’ In short, if you believe that the Constitution allows for government to interfere with religious organizations, you’ll find no support from the father of our country.” Read more here.
The Women’s Health Protection Act Does Anything but Protect Women, by Congresswoman Kat Cammack. “The Women’s Health Protection Act … codifies universal, unlimited access to abortion, prohibiting states from implementing restrictions on when or how an abortion can be performed, including waiting periods, ultrasounds, or limits based on pregnancy stage. It also permanently eliminates pro-life protections including the Hyde Amendment, which protects American taxpayers from paying for abortions with their tax dollars.” Read more here.
Federal Judge Slams Texas Heartbeat Law With Strong Words as He Blocks Enforcement, by Rebecca Downs. “The ruling not only denied the state’s request to pause the ruling pending appeal, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, appointed by President Barack Obama, also had the strongest of words with his ruling… Pitman’s ruling is close to 113 pages long. His introduction refers to the now blocked law as ‘flagrantly unconstitutional,’ a term he also uses later in his decision… Pitman’s language towards the end of the decision was certainly an attention grabber, as he slammed what he called ‘offensive deprivation of such an important right…’” Read more here.
No, Men Cannot Become Pregnant and Have Babies, by Christopher Tremoglie. “This nonsense that males can bear children is the latest brainwashing attempt against society by radical leftists and Democrats. What was once a push for equality for people regardless of their sexuality has now evolved into an attempted reinvention of societal norms to accommodate fringe ideas. …[T]his is something everyone who believes in science must resist. Treating others equally and with respect is one thing. Recreating reality to accommodate gender dysphoria is another.” Read more here.
Fact Check: Do Most Americans Oppose the Hyde Amendment? by Ben Johnson. “Polls have consistently shown that Americans support limits on abortion, including the time it may be performed, the conditions under which abortion should be legal, and who pays for it. Years of polling data show that the Hyde Amendment and other policies that protect taxpayers against having to pay for most elective abortions have strong and steady support across political parties.” Read more here.
WA: Disturbing Outcome to Landmark Trans Case, by Peter Abetz. “That a judgement is based on the claims of a child which were reported second hand to the court, and were not allowed to be tested in court, and which are not divulged in the judgement, is most concerning. Indeed, the judgement seems to have been made on the basis of assuming that what the child reportedly said was true and accurately reported, while the parents were not reliable witnesses and not in a position to provide a safe home for their daughter.” Read more here.
Parents of Trans Kids Deserve Compassion, Not Condemnation, by Binary Australia. “The media’s wrongful characterisation of regular, careful parents as abusive monsters has gone unchallenged for far too long. It works to alienate children from their parents, right when parents are relying on the trust and connection they have established with their child over years of careful nurturing and relationship development… At a time when culture is working so hard to encourage children down the transgender road, the vilification of ordinary Australian parents who express caution about where that road might lead should concern us all.” Read more here.
Victoria’s Conversion Practices Act Is a Genuine Assault on Religious Freedom, by Murray Campbell. “…[F]or all the pop-talk about the separation of church and state, and of government commissions not getting involved in church doctrine, this law is all about doctrine and forcing a hardline (and at times anti-scientific) humanistic view onto religion. As another pastor expressed to me, for a law that’s designed to ban ‘conversion,’ he feels that he is being forcibly converted away from Christianity and into some new-fangled civil religion.” Read more here.
The Left Is Trying to Bypass Long-Standing Pro-Life Protections in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill. Here’s What You Need to Know, by Melanie Israel. “The plans would also be required to cover ‘family planning’ services for those individuals, with the Department of Health and Human Services reimbursing insurers for 100% of the added cost – all without the Hyde-like protections that apply in other contexts of Obamacare to ensure that tax dollars aren’t underwriting abortion.” Read more here.
With a Conversion Therapy Ban on the Table, the Threat of Jail for Christians Is Real, by David Robertson. “In summary, we now have a group of people … who argue that abortion must not be criminalised. Killing the elderly or sick must not be criminalised. But praying for someone who asks for prayer is to be criminalised… If the principle is conceded that any form of prayer or religious practice which seeks to change people is ‘harmful’ to someone’s identity, then all forms of conversion could be banned. The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, slanderers, swindlers are not permitted to be converted or prayed for – lest we harm their ‘identity.’” Read more here.
Panel Rules That Not Using Preferred Pronouns Violated Transgender Person’s Human Rights, by Chris Enloe. “Cousineau also ordered … restaurant owners to update their employee policies to include a statement ‘that affirms every employee’s right to be addressed with their correct pronouns.’ Perhaps someone should lend Cousineau a basic linguistics textbook. Despite Cousineau claiming that ‘pronouns are a fundamental part of a person’s identity,’ pronouns are merely grammatical devices used in language to refer to nouns or noun phrases that have either been stated already or are assumed by context.” Read more here.
Media, Abortion Groups Recognize ‘International Safe Abortion Day,’ by Katie Yoder. “Abortion organizations and many in the media recently recognized and even celebrated ‘International Safe Abortion Day…’ But abortion is never safe because it always ends at least one life, the pro-life movement stresses. Five years ago, obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Anthony Levatino partnered with pro-life group Live Action to detail abortion procedures. Even his description of abortion by pill made clear: abortion is not safe for the unborn baby.” Read more here.
The Ideological Civil War Over Abortion, by Michael Brown. “For the pro-choice side, this is really a matter of life and death. A matter of ‘my body, my choice.’ A matter of health and security and freedom… For the pro-life side, this is also a matter of life and death. A matter of stopping the shedding of innocent blood. A matter of standing with ‘the least of these.’ A matter of doing what is best for the mothers as well.” Read more here.
With ‘Pregnant People’ Tweet, Government Promotes Transgender Agenda, by Katrina Trinko. “If you’re pregnant, it’s because you’re a woman – because you have a vagina, a uterus, and everything else necessary for a baby to be conceived and grow. If someone doesn’t ‘identify’ as a woman and is pregnant, it’s still because that person is biologically female. Our scientists – who seem to have little humility or wisdom about the dangers of manipulation and control of life – are recklessly working on uterus transplants and other technology that could allow a man to be pregnant, but we’re not there yet.” Read more here.
Doctors Kill 10 Percent of All Babies Who Die in Flanders, by Wesley J. Smith. “Belgium has no age limit for its euthanasia. Now, a letter published in a British Medical Journal publication reports that 10 percent of babies who died from 2016 to 2017 in Flanders … were given drugs by their own doctors with ‘an explicit life-shortening intention.’ In other words, they were euthanized, a.k.a., infanticide… Instead of demanding immediate action to stop these homicides, the authors suggest that a framework be considered to permit infanticide under more controlled conditions.” Read more here.
Women’s March Excludes Women With New Abortion Focus, by Katie Yoder. “The Women’s March first announced the Oct. 2 marches ‘to defend abortion rights’ in a Sept. 3 press release. Instead of calling them regular ‘women’s marches,’ organizers revealed that this would be a ‘Rally for Abortion Justice.’ Even its merchandise reflected the abortion messaging, with shirts reading ‘It’s my body, it’s my choice’ and ‘We need to talk about the elephant in the womb.’” Read more here.
Suicidal Sweet Sixteen: A Reflection on Trans Youth Medicine, by Jean C. Lloyd. “In acute situations of crisis, parents and young people need immediate help, as well as support to slow down and aim for the best long-term outcomes… But that is not what is happening. Instead, parents are led astray by a rogue and en vogue ‘trans-affirmative’ medical establishment, in which financial and ideological motivations override good clinical practice. As with Keira Bell, clinicians now often begin with suppressing puberty instead of dealing with suppressed problems.” Read more here.
Preteens Need Less Social Media, Not More, by Kimberly Ross. “For teenagers, social media is a different but no less toxic beast… The teenage years spawn enough body image and self-esteem issues. Social media makes all of it worse. Instead of launching an Instagram Kids to target 10- to 12-year-olds, there should be a hands-off approach. If anything, preteens should be sheltered from any type of social media platform whether it’s supposedly tailored to them or not.” Read more here.
Panic and Threats as a Small Fraction of British Doctors Dissent From LGBTQ+ Orthodoxy, by Carolyn Moynihan. “Woke politicians around the world want to ban ‘conversion therapy,’ though most of them could not tell you exactly what it is or who is doing it. For many people, the term evokes nasty scenarios from decades ago… What the average person doesn’t realise is that it now includes parents, pastors, teachers and possibly mental health professionals who recoil from the idea of giving drugs to 12-year-olds to stop them entering puberty because the children are unhappy with their sex.” Read more here.
Newborn Babies Are Killed in Belgium, Netherlands – but Most Won’t Call It Infanticide, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Of course, most will not defend these practices as ‘infanticide,’ per se. These killings are defended as necessary sacrifices for sexual liberation, ‘choice,’ ‘science,’ or ‘compassion.’ Infanticide is too inflammatory a term to use, which is why activists advocating for it are always careful to use different terms. And when researchers and journalists and activists shed light on the practice, it is ignored.” Read more here.
Wrong Then, Wrong Now: The Fake Abortion History of Roe v. Wade, by Justin Dyer. “The history put forward in abortion litigation by advocates of abortion has never been about history. By their own admission, they ‘fudge it as necessary,’ keeping up ‘the guise of impartial scholarship while advancing the proper ideological goals.’” Read more here.
Keeping Kids Off Porn, by Alysse ElHage. “Through our families, faith communities, and schools, we can infuse our children’s minds with beautiful and rich depictions of friendship, love, marriage, and family life from Scripture, good books, movies, music, art, and even social media. Teaching our kids to dwell on the edifying and beautiful things in this world – and how to seek out that content wherever they look – can help them reject harmful content.” Read more here.
Parents Deserve to Know What Kids Are Being Taught – so Why Is This State Preventing It? by Meg Kilgannon. “Since presumably, the teacher assigning the books would know about their content, simply notifying parents of that content is not much to ask. The education lobby maintained that parents should have to read all the assigned books to find out which ones had explicit sexual content. But if schools are truly partnering with parents, why the secrecy? Why not disclose to the parents what is going to be read by their children, which the teachers well know is in the material?” Read more here.
Abortion Harms Women, Including Athletes, by Katie Yoder. “Hundreds of female athletes are making headlines after claiming in a Supreme Court brief that their careers and profession depend on abortion. But their narrative isn’t unanimous. Other athletes – athletes who don’t appear in the brief – tell a different story: Their abortions wounded them.” Read more here.
PPU Students Seek to Expel Conservative Student Who Spoke Out Against Pronoun Rule, by Jonathan Turley. “Of course, anyone can post such an anonymous petition, and there is no indication that the university is taking such a move seriously… However, what does concern me is the hundreds of signatures in support of the campaign and, most importantly, the silence of the university. I could not find any comment from PPU reaffirming that it will not expel a student over his … criticism of the university or such policies.” Read more here.
Another Jack Phillips? Website Designer Targeted for Her Faith Appeals to Supreme Court, by Nicole Russell. “…[A]ttorneys representing Smith at the Alliance Defending Freedom petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her case, perhaps pushing the Supreme Court for a more broad ruling on free speech and antagonistic public accommodation laws that seem to compel people to act against their faith in the workplace, effectively punishing them for their religious beliefs.” Read more here.
Abortionist Proposes Scheme to Dispense Abortion Pills … Before Pregnancy, by Carole Novielli. “Despite the dangers, the abortionist is going full speed ahead with promoting this dangerous scheme, even spelling out how it could be done… Writing in the LA Times, Grossman stated, ‘The idea is simple: Give women abortion pills before they need them — “advance provision,” as it’s known — so that they can take them as soon as they discover a pregnancy. Women could get the pills from their gynecologist at the time of their annual exam, say, or the pills could be made available online.’” Read more here.
The Texas Heartbeat Act Is Saving 100 Babies’ Lives Every Single Day, by Rebecca Parma. “So far in Texas, we are seeing the abortion industry comply with the new law. Eighty-five percent of abortions that previously would have been occurring in our state are now illegal. More than 100 babies per day are being given a chance at life. There have not been any credible assertions of violation. This means that the unique threat of private lawsuits under this law is successfully saving babies.” Read more here.
There Is No Time to Lose in the Appointment of a New EU Special Envoy for FoRB, by Mervyn Thomas. “Many of the world’s most serious conflicts are rooted in, or are exacerbated by, religious differences or the misappropriation of religion. The EU is generally viewed as a neutral broker; consequently, its interventions, including through the agencies of the Special Envoy, are essential to advancing international peace and security… Moreover, the Special Envoy should be integrated more holistically into EU human rights policy structures, in order to facilitate the emergence of an overarching FoRB policy strategy that is long-term and connected to other human rights strategies and activities.” Read more here.
Can a Minor Consent to Losing Their Sexuality? by Edie Wyatt. “Internationally, many counties [sic] are moving away from the ‘gender affirmation model’ for the treatment of gender dysphoria and its reliance on puberty blockers. Gender affirmation is the practice of affirming the child in their chosen gender and critically requires widespread social engagement and restructuring of beliefs in human sex and gender. My opinion is that the political investment in the later [sic] has led to inappropriate activism for the former.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Work Doesn’t Stop With Texas, by Nathan Berning. “The demand for abortions will not decrease just because we have outlawed them. The supply may shrink, which is undoubtedly a good thing, but we cannot hope to eradicate abortion primarily through legislation, no matter how far it goes to limit the ability to obtain an abortion. Without support, women that are facing unplanned pregnancies will still find ways to have abortions.” Read more here.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Position to Hand Our Commonwealth to Abortion Extremists, by Jeanne Mancini. “A win for the abortion industry in this case would not only force state funding of abortion but would likely enshrine abortion as a right in Pennsylvania’s Constitution. That’s a chilling prospect, considering that abortion providers have been allowed to stay open even when they repeatedly fail health and safety inspections.” Read more here.
Colorado 303 Creations Web Designer Petitions Supreme Court Over Compelled Speech, by Rebecca Downs. “Smith serves all people, including those who identify as LGBT, but she is against being compelled to create websites and graphics that would go against her religious beliefs, such as supporting a same-sex wedding. Further, she cannot even make clear on her website that she is only willing to create websites consistent with her beliefs.” Read more here.
Fired High School Football Coach Appeals Prayer Case to Supreme Court, by Nicole Russell. “Kennedy’s brief inspirational prayers on a football field are clearly not an example of him or the school ‘establishing’ religion, nor would it look like the Bremerton School District promotes religion via its employees if it had allowed him to continue the practice. Even if he is a government employee, Kennedy’s free speech and free exercise rights aren’t moot.” Read more here.
What Pro-Abortion Dems Did Besides Passing So-Called Women’s Health Protection Act Adds Insult to Injury, by Rebecca Downs. “Not only did Democrats vote to pass such extreme pro-abortion legislation, they also denied the motion to recommit, which would have amended the bill to include protections for babies born alive after abortions… Republicans have been trying for years to get such protections onto the House floor for a vote, in the form of Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Their efforts remain stymied, however, because the method the Republicans are turning to, a discharge petition, needs 218 members, and there just aren’t enough.” Read more here.
The Long-Awaited End to Roe v. Wade Will Be Just the Beginning, by Nathanael Blake. “The violent evil of abortion itself is obvious in the age of ultrasound, and decades of abortion on demand have shown that it only encourages other evils, rather than remedying them… Abortion removes the perceived problems of an undesired pregnancy, but it encourages the dynamics that produce such situations. Abortion supports a materialistic and selfish culture, in which wealth and status are the measure of a life, and relationships are about looking out for number one, rather than mutual love and self-giving.” Read more here.
Policing Pronouns: How ‘Misgendering’ Is Becoming the New Battleground Over Discrimination, by Jonathan Turley. “Pronouns are fast fading from common discourse under the threat of pronoun penalties. Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Yet some people have religious beliefs against following the new order and using such pronouns. As a result, there are serious free-speech and religious-freedom objections to mandatory usage rules.” Read more here.
What the Latest Current Population Survey Tells Us About the Future of Fertility, by Lyman Stone. “Marriage is not only being delayed, it is being foregone altogether by a growing share of women. To the extent marriage rates do converge across generations, that convergence occurs by the time women are in their 40s and 50s, and these marriages have less influence on childbearing trends. In all the crucial years of childbearing, fewer women happen to have ever been in the married unions that tend to produce more children. This trend has continued at a similar pace across each generation with no sign of abating.” Read more here.
House Democrats Unite to Pass Barbaric Abortion Bill, by the Editors of National Review. “The legislation is nothing short of an act of barbarism: It would create an absolute right to abort a child before ‘fetal viability’ … and it would prohibit states from protecting life after viability until birth if a lone ‘health care provider’ determines the ‘continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk’ to the mother’s life or ‘health.’ The bill’s chief sponsor in the Senate has acknowledged the legislation ‘doesn’t distinguish’ between physical and mental health, and the text of the bill explicitly instructs the courts to ‘liberally’ interpret the legislation.” Read more here.
The Pro-Life Movement’s Best Chance at Overturning Roe v. Wade Heads to the Supreme Court, by Kaylee McGhee White. “When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, it said it would deal specifically with one question: whether all restrictions on pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. This will leave the court no choice but to revisit its previous rulings in Roe and Casey that the lower courts cited as a justification for striking down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. And it must choose to either roll back its past restrictions on abortion bans or expand them.” Read more here.
How the Women’s Health Protection Act Endangers Women, by Kristan Hawkins and Rep. Lauren Boebert. “Why is this pro-abortion legislation so dangerous? If passed, H.R. 3755 would obliterate almost every state-implemented restriction on abortion. Widely supported policies such as mandatory waiting periods and ultrasounds, counseling requirements, informed consent laws, late-term abortion limits, and even basic health and safety standards would be invalidated.” Read more here.
House Republicans Just Voted to Draft Our Daughters – and GOP Senators Will, Too, by Drew White. “Politicians can repeal and amend statutory language, but they cannot repeal and amend basic biology. The fact is, my daughter, your daughter, your granddaughter, does not have an equal opportunity to survive on the battlefield. Indeed, a 2013 Marine Corps study showed that all-male units have a higher performance than mixed-sex units in 70 percent of combat tasks. Women have far higher injury rates than men when undergoing the same training, sometimes ten times the injury rate.” Read more here.
You Must Read This Stunning Letter From a ‘Detransitioned’ Woman Demanding the Medical Establishment Treat Gender Dysphoria With Science, Not Activism, by Kira Davis. “…Watson and others in her organization remain concerned that people … are actually hurting healthy youth by steering them down the singular path of medical transitioning, instead of taking a robust and ‘evidence-based’ approach to the issue of gender dysphoria. For a group of people who claim to be on the side of those we’ve made ‘invisible’ in our society, the pro-transition activists seem very determined to relegate detransitioned trans youth to the plane of invisibility in service of their agenda.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Has Several Chances to Preserve Religious Liberty, by Nicole Russell. “It wouldn’t be a Supreme Court semester without a lawsuit involving nuns. In Diocese of Albany v. Emami, an order of nuns that provides healthcare services is involved in a large group of faith-based organizations challenging a New York state abortion mandate that would force the nuns to cover abortions in their health plans. The mandate does have a narrow religious exemption, but that’s not enough for nuns reaching out to all people of all walks of life.” Read more here.
Transgender Medicine Has Failed Us, Say Detransitioners, by Rachael Wong. “The courts must also recognise that puberty blockers and other ‘gender-affirming’ treatments are not like any other medical treatments in terms of the magnitude of their implications and irreversible nature. Even better would be the recognition that they are not ‘medical treatments’ at all, but rather highly problematic medical experiments on some of our society’s most vulnerable young people.” Read more here.
Most People Support Women-Only Sports. Why Won’t Corporate Media Admit It? by Natasha Chart and Wendy Wixom. “…[I]s there any other issue on which the media is so consistently afraid to air a viewpoint that’s probably shared by about two-thirds of their potential audience? … Maybe journalists appear afraid that a Twitter mob will get them fired, or that some of their far-left colleagues will organize against them at the office. But how many polls do journalists and their editors have to see before they stop letting internet comments and fashionably unpopular activists run their newsrooms?” Read more here.
Is This Child Abuse? by Binary Australia. “One Australian study found 2.3 percent of Australian students in years 10 to 12 identified as transgender or gender diverse. The current study, led by Dr. Michelle Tollit, found 29 percent of patients over 10 years old received puberty blockers and 38 percent of teens were given gender-affirming hormones. More than 90 percent were transgender or non-binary. Alarmingly, these medical professionals are including very young children in their experimental treatments.” Read more here.
The Pro-Abortion Case Is Based on Bad Science, by Grazie Pozo Christie. “We want the justices to know that there have been vast changes in our fields in the decades since Roe… The patient-doctor relationship with our fetal patients has grown and grown, reflecting scientific advances in the areas of fetal therapeutics, fetal imaging, and our understanding of fetal pain. Our growing knowledge of fetal pain, especially, demands the end of Roe, which enshrines the nationwide legality of the breathtaking brutality of second- and third-trimester elective abortion. In short, if Roe is based on science, then let it stand or fall today on modern science.” Read more here.
What Really Led to OnlyFans’ Flip Flop on Its Porn Policy, by Haley McNamara. “There was significant backlash to OnlyFans from content creators who felt betrayed by the platform’s momentary no-porn policy. But in reality, this platform was already betraying them, and is still betraying them every day, by enabling an environment rife with sexual exploitation. OnlyFans, like other pornography sites, will always gloss over the reality that prostitution is never ‘safe’ and inevitably leads to physical, emotional, and psychological trauma.” Read more here.
Rand Paul Hasn’t Given Up on Recovering Illegitimate PPP Loans to Planned Parenthood, by Christopher Tremoglie. “The facts suggest that Planned Parenthood knowingly and willfully took taxpayer money to which it did not have a right. Bureaucratic malfeasance is common in our country, but there seems to be purposeful wrongdoing in this situation. If an organization like Planned Parenthood is able to skirt the rules during a time when all of the country is suffering vast economic setbacks, it demonstrates that organizations that align politically with Democrats in power are simply above the law.” Read more here.
More Radical Than Roe: House Abortion Bill Would Repeal Existing Laws, Prohibit Future Pro-Life Laws, by Melanie Israel. “The Women’s Health Protection Act would expressly prohibit existing laws that regulate abortion and the abortion industry. The bill bans informed consent requirements, reflection periods, and provisions that give women the opportunity to view an image of their unborn child or listen to the child’s heartbeat. The proposed federal policy would also preempt policies like the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which currently protects women and their unborn children in more than a dozen states from inhumane late-term abortions performed after 20 weeks.” Read more here.
Don’t Ask Me for My Pronouns, by Debra Soh. “Nonbinary people identify as a third gender, either male and female or neither, and typically use pronouns such as ‘they/them,’ a mix such as ‘she/they,’ or nonsensical creations such as ‘xe/xem…’ From what I’ve observed, this obsession with pronouns is being pushed by nonbinary people and so-called allies who enjoy the attention that comes with advertising their pronouns but are not themselves transgender and have no desire to transition.” Read more here.
Gender Identity and Your Kids, by Rod Dreher. “’Forget trying to turn off their phones, if parents aren’t talking to their children right now about what sex (and gender) really are and how varied and multifaceted they can be while still existing in a binary, then they might as well be handing them over to the gender-packaging factory to receive their stripes. The instant someone says, “I don’t always adhere to stereotypes,” a million voices are waiting to tell them which of 364,000 identities they can fit into to be special and cool just like everyone else. If they don’t have a response for that, it’s over. Period.’” Read more here.
The Realities of Abortion, by Kathryn Lopez. “Whatever you think of the specifics of the Texas abortion law, there is something to be said for telling the truth: We’re not talking about a clump of cells in abortions, but a developing child. Science suggests that children in the womb can detect pain. We help no one by insisting abortion doesn’t involve the death of a child.” Read more here.
Democrats Are Set to Launch a Vicious Attack on Texas’ ‘Heartbeat’ Law, by Jeff Charles. “It seems the Democrats plan to once again introduce the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021… If passed, it would enact sweeping measures specifically designed to ensure an increase in the number of abortion procedures performed each year. It would essentially eliminate any methods for helping mothers consider other solutions; for example, ultrasounds and counseling would be banned.” Read more here.
Christians Should Be ‘Outraged’ That Children Are Being ‘Trafficked in Our Own Backyard,’ by Jeannie Ortega Law. “As this CP reporter was being driven to the safe house in a remote location to meet some of the boys in the organization’s care, a team member of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking shared several stories of the horrors the boys experienced as children and young teens. Sadly, most of the boys have been raped multiple times before the age of 15. One boy was abused so badly he was hospitalized for weeks before being transferred to the safe house.” Read more here.
EU Resolution on Afghanistan Demonstrates a ‘Guilty Lack of Attention to Christians,’ Says Co-Chair of Intergroup on FORB, by ADF International. “An estimated group of 10,000 Christians are facing danger in Afghanistan because of their faith. The majority are converts from Islam to Christianity. For decades they have largely practiced their faith underground, as conversion is considered a crime punishable by death under Sharia Law. Credible reports claim that the Taliban is conducting targeted killings of Christians and other minorities found using public transportation, as well as executing anyone found with Bible software installed on their cell phones.” Read more here.
Texas’s Abortion Law Isn’t Just a Win for Unborn Children, by James L. Sherley. “We face this disturbing prospect of a world with genetically modified clones because, when we stand by while legalized abortion strips six-week-old pre-born children of their right to life, it becomes even harder to require scientists to respect the privacy of children they have conceived in their experiments who are only days or weeks old. With its heartbeat law, the Texas Legislature may be saving us all from ourselves.” Read more here.
A Pattern of Anti-Family, Anti-Religion Legislation Is Emerging in Victoria, by Andy Mullins. “It’s almost impossible now to deny that the Andrews government has an anti-family agenda. In the government’s 18-page anti-vilification response, there are no references to ‘parent’ or ‘family,’ but the word ‘school’ is used 22 times. The primacy of parental rights in education has been ignored. Back in ancient Sparta, children were the responsibility of the state, not the parents. This is a step 2,400 years into the past.” Read more here.
When I Was a Kid, It Was Nothing for Boys to Play With Girl Toys. Now, It’s Life-Threatening, by J. Allen Cartwright. “Government intervention in gender transitions has become increasingly aggressive. As a consequence, this ‘cultural’ issue affects the average person more than other GOP talking points … and cannot be dismissed by our political leaders. Nor can conservatives simply write off the issue as ‘between a doctor and patient.’ Because the American Psychological Association and American Medical Association both support affirmation of gender transitions as a matter of policy, the outcome of the doctor-patient meeting is thus a foregone conclusion.” Read more here.
Google Is Helping Abortion Advocates Lie About an Abortion Reversal Treatment, by Kaylee McGhee White. “…Google removed and blocked advertisements from pro-life group Live Action, including ads about a medical treatment used to reverse the abortion pill and a video depicting how an unborn child develops in the womb. Live Action President Lila Rose shared a screenshot of the notification she received from Google, which says the ads were removed for using ‘restricted drug terms,’ ‘restricted medical content,’ ‘health in personalized advertising,’ and ‘misleading content.’” Read more here.
Beer Brand Celebrates Female Athletes by Promoting Men in Women’s Sports, by Zachary Faria. “Telfer, a biological man who races against female athletes, won the NCAA women’s championship in the 400-meter hurdles in 2019… What better way to celebrate the accomplishments of women in sports than promoting the accomplishments of a man who was competing against them and depriving them of opportunities at the college level?” Read more here.
Facebook Said That Instagram Wasn’t Bad for Teens. It Is and Here Are the Facts, by Christia Brown. “Humans, as a general rule, look to others to know how to fit in and judge their own lives. Teens are especially vulnerable to these social comparisons. Just about everyone can remember worrying about fitting in in high school. Instagram exacerbates that worry. It is hard enough to compare yourself to a supermodel who looks fantastic (albeit filtered); it can be even worse when the filtered comparison is Natalie down the hall.” Read more here.
Colleges Don’t Have a Guy Problem. America Has a Marriage Crisis, by Conn Carroll. “…[W]hen marriage rates decline, boys are more often left without male role models to help them navigate and master the world. And there is a growing body of evidence that being raised in an unmarried household hurts boys more than it hurts girls… A majority of Americans (53%), including 73% of Democrats, believe unwed parents can raise children just as well as married couples. Unfortunately, they are just wrong. Marriage matters.” Read more here.
European Group Attacked for Criticizing Dark Money Influence on UN Human Rights, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “…[T]he European Center for Law and Justice issued a report charging that the UN human rights agenda was driven by leftwing foundations. Almost immediately, UN bureaucrats closed ranks to defend their own from accusations that they promote LGBT rights and abortion under the influence of dark money.” Read more here.
If the Weddings Boom Keeps Going, It Could Solve a Lot of the World’s Problems, by Tim Goeglein. “Perhaps this recent uptick in birthrates is the beginning of achieving that demographic balance and will bring an economic, emotional, and even physical healing and restoration to our nation. It could transform our society from being trapped in a fallow winter of exploding entitlements to an abundant spring that can adequately care for all its members, and with a special focus on the needs of others rather than the needs of one individual.” Read more here.
What Happens When an Anti-Family Activist Has a Baby? by Kimberly Ells. “Israeli Labor Party Leader Merav Michaeli has momentous news: she has a new baby. This news is especially momentous since, for the last decade, Michaeli has been among the most vocal opponents of marriage, familial belonging, and parental rights on the planet… If anything can soften Michaeli’s heart or change her mind, it will be her baby, just like it is for most of us. Welcome to motherhood, Merav. It’s going to be a wonderful ride.” Read more here.
More College-Educated Women Putting the Baby Carriage Before Marriage, by Andrew Cherlin. “…[T]he percentage [of college graduates] who have a nonmarital first birth is rising… The data also suggest, however, that having a nonmarital first birth does not necessarily indicate a lifelong rejection of marriage. Rather, some college-educated young adults may be moving toward a pattern we have come to associate with Northern Europe, in which couples have a child outside of marriage, usually while cohabiting, and then marry at a later point.” Read more here.
Federal Leaders Get an F on Defending Religious Freedom, by Brian Dryden. “Father Deacon Bennett said Quebecers are Canadian citizens too and the federal government has a duty to defend religious freedom across the country despite Quebec Premier Francois Legault maintaining the rest of Canada has no business interfering. He said the law is ‘an affront’ to people who came to Canada after suffering religious persecution only to find it happening here.” Read more here.
The Draw and Drawbacks of Porn for Young Adults: Can Mindfulness Help? by Joshua Otani, Alyssa Lysenko Brown, and Rebecca Clarke. “Among individuals 18 to 30 years old, 63% of men and 21% of women reported they had viewed pornography at least several times a week. In addition, young adults have reported viewing porn more frequently compared to other age groups. But how is widespread use of pornography affecting young adults in terms of relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and commitment between partners? How does porn affect emotional health, and what are the dangers of using it as a coping mechanism to escape daily stress?” Read more here.
Canadian Tax Dollars Pay for State Broadcaster’s LGBT Promotion, by Jonathon Van Maren. “CBC’s latest show almost defies parody… Here’s how one Toronto publication described it: ‘”Sort Of” follows Toronto millennial Sabi Mehboob, a gender fluid, Canadian-Pakistani as they navigate the twists and turns of, well … life. The show has everything. Sabi struggles with their gender identity and sexuality, friendships, work, and relationships all while coming of age. Based loosely on Bilal Baig’s life, “Sort Of” is the first show on TV to star a trans-feminine, queer, Muslim actor.’ Yeah. Reread that for a moment. Your tax dollars pay for that.” Read more here.
Texas Stood Up for the Unborn – Others Must Follow, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “…[T]hanks to the Supreme Court’s radical and hopelessly convoluted precedents, the United States is one of only seven countries in the world — including China and North Korea — that permit abortion on demand, for any reason, up to the point of birth. The strong majority of Americans agree this is too extreme, something they share with 47 out of 50 European nations that limit elective abortion prior to 15 weeks.” Read more here.
Allowing Biological Men to Fight Women in Combat Sports Is Dangerous and Grotesque, by Zachary Faria. “It does not matter what gender Fox or McLaughlin identifies as. There are two biological sexes, and McLaughlin is biologically male. Maybe that doesn’t matter in most aspects of life, but it certainly matters in combat sports. This is not progress. This is not ‘acceptance’ or compassion or tolerance. It’s grotesque. It is barbarism.” Read more here.
Family Love Is the Foundation of Civilization, by Kimberly Ells. “…[I]s loving your own child a racist, ‘moral vice?’ Well, if a new mother cared no more for her newborn babe than for the baby in the next room, the world—and the babies in it—would be in a world of hurt. In fact, I submit such a world could not last one generation. Family love is not racism. It is the very foundation of civilization.” Read more here.
In Defense of Motherhood: What’s Wrong With ‘Birthing People,’ by Cole S. Aronson. “If a mother is just a birthing person, a mere channel introducing into the world an otherwise rootless individual, then a mother’s child is not hers in any morally thick sense. If children are raised to believe parental authority is arbitrary, and if lawyers and policymakers ingest the same vision, then the rich network of claims and duties binding parents to children will become publicly unintelligible.” Read more here.
In Texas and Montana, Pro-Life Attitudes Are Winning, by Nicole Russell. “As science has improved to now observe a baby’s development, state legislatures have also evolved. As a result, they have passed laws that demonstrate a more broad, nuanced concern for mother and baby. If anything, in an age of life-saving in utero fetal surgeries, Roe reads like a horror novel. Only barbarians offer up their babies ‘for the good of society.’” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Should Follow the Science That Proves Human Life Begins at Conception, by Thomas Glessner. “Contrary to the Supreme Court’s 1973 statement in Roe, current science proves beyond doubt that human life begins at conception. Thus, the most important question for the court now as it reconsiders Roe is, ‘when do human rights begin?’ The obvious answer to this question is that human rights begin when human life begins. In determining the fate of Roe v. Wade and millions yet to be born, the Supreme Court simply needs to follow the science.” Read more here.
‘The U.S. Government Is Censoring Private Conversations,’ Says the ‘Conversion Therapist’ Fighting a Legal Battle Not to Be Silenced, by Chris Sweeney. “Should private discussions between a counsellor and minors worried about their sexuality be allowed? Therapist Brian Tingley believes they should, and has taken to the courts to fight his case. Brian and his team are keen to overturn a district court decision in the state of Washington to reject his challenge to a law that prohibits ‘sexual orientation change therapy’ for young people.” Read more here.
Poll Delivers Blow to Narrative on Texas Heartbeat Law, by Rebecca Downs. “A new poll from Rasmussen Reports paints a different narrative than what Democrats and abortion advocates would like us to think when it comes to how voters feel when it comes to the Texas abortion law which recently went into effect… Forty-six percent support the new law, while 43 percent were opposed. Eleven percent were undecided.” Read more here.
Mexico High Court Declares Right to Abortion for Women and ‘Gestating Persons,’ by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the criminal abortion laws of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza based on what it termed ‘women’s and gestating persons’ right to choose…’ The effect of the decision could be that abortion may never be considered a criminal act when it is carried out with the woman’s consent, effectively granting a right to abortion-on-demand up to the point of birth.” Read more here.
Hell Hath No Fury Like Democrats Blocked From Killing Babies, by Christopher Tremoglie. “We can make laws that … cover extreme cases. But this would not be enough for baby-killing advocates. Their endgame is predicated on keeping abortion legal in all cases. Nothing short of that is acceptable to them. People should not conflate a ‘right to choose’ with the termination of human life through abortion. Such language only desensitizes the public to the harsh reality of infanticide. There is no choice that supersedes the right of an innocent person to live.” Read more here.
Three-Year-Olds to Be Asked Their Pronouns, by Binary Australia. “The NSW government has sunk to new lows, publishing a guide that imposes radical gender ideology on children as young as three years of age. An official guide produced by the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian titled Empowerment and Participation says adults should not assume a child’s gender… Unable to really defend the nonsense, a spokesman from the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian said the prompt to ask for pronouns was simply about ‘avoiding confusion.’” Read more here.
UN Human Rights Experts Mess With Texas Pro-Life Law, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “While the opinion of experts like Upreti and Alsalem may be sought by newspapers like The Guardian or their testimonies solicited by local or national governments with regard to specific legislation, they have no power to impose obligations on any level of government. No binding international human rights treaty – either ratified or unratified by the U.S. – creates any right to abortion, and nor does any nonbinding global consensus.” Read more here.
Anti-Discrimination Acts Are Discriminatory, by Binary Australia. “An increasing number of people are challenging the discriminatory nature of the anti-discrimination acts around the country… Tasmanian Jessica Hoyle wanted an exemption to exclude ‘biological men’ from lesbian-only events in Launceston. She was denied. Hoyle is currently appealing a decision to deny lesbians the right to sex-based spaces and events.” Read more here.
There’s a Four-Letter Word for Pornography: Evil. Why Can’t the Media Pronounce It? by Michael Cook. “There’s only one correct response to pornography: absolute rejection. It corrupts men; it exploits women. Our democracy is built on the notion that each person has a unique, precious and transcendental destiny. Pornography is built on the notion that some persons are just raw meat. Are there difficulties in banning pornography? Of course. We’ll never scour this blot entirely away. But the first step is the unwavering conviction that it is absolutely unacceptable in a civilised society.” Read more here.
Gender Self-Identification Laws Are Being Exploited by Sexual Predators, by Debra Soh. “Of note, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released a flyer from 2018 stating that Merager claims to be female in order to access women’s locker rooms and showers. But instead of pausing for a moment of reflection, left-leaning publications have dug in, framing any apprehension or sense of alarm as attempts by the ‘far-right’ to sow division and anti-transgender discrimination. Concern for the safety of women and girls has been replaced with emphatic reminders about the harassment transgender people face if they are excluded from their preferred spaces.” Read more here.
Deep in the Hearts of Texas Babies, by Cal Thomas. “Abortion and refusing to take personal responsibility for one’s actions have contributed to a general coarseness and disrespect for life at all stages as witnessed by the shooting sprees regularly occurring in Chicago and other major cities. The Texas and Mississippi laws seek to reverse, or at least slow down the process of squandering human life. The question remains: Is abortion the cause of our increasingly decadent culture, or a reflection of it?” Read more here.
Virginia Supreme Court Stands With Teacher Who Opposes School Transgender Policy, by Nicole Russell. “It’s one thing for school districts to create an atmosphere of compassion for children in puberty who are dealing with gender dysphoria, but it’s quite another to require staff, teachers, and students to defy science and logic and to engage in the all-out denial of sex differences and embrace the mysticism of gender transitions and gender-fluid pronouns, especially when social or medical transitions have not been proven to help children.” Read more here.
A Turning Point in the Scientific Debate on Childhood Transition, by Debra Soh. “…[M]ore research needs to be done to determine the best treatment course for these youth, particularly those for whom gender dysphoria only became present after puberty. This is a newer, less understood population… Because gender has become so hotly politicized, any scientific paper posing a threat to accepted narratives will typically be retracted, subjected to an additional round of peer review and a correction, or, more likely, rejected from publication to begin with.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Should Look at International Abortion Law and Overrule Roe v. Wade, by Ligia De Jesus Castaldi. “The amicus curiae brief of 141 international legal scholars … argues that if the Court chooses to consider international law in the Dobbs case, it should find that international human rights law and foreign law generally recognize unborn children as rights-holders and affirm the prerogative of sovereign states to protect their lives by rigorously regulating abortion. Many countries’ abortion laws are much more restrictive than the Mississippi Gestational Age Act.” Read more here.
Yes, Pro-Lifers Should Cheer for Texas’s Winning New Unborn Protection Law, by Nathanael Blake. “As Texas already shows, law shapes culture, as well as being shaped by it. In particular, abortion on demand has been a boon for irresponsible and abusive men, but we don’t have to live like this. Abortion supporters have been arguing that without abortion men will have to support the women they impregnate, and that the government will need to treat the unborn as persons, to which the pro-life reply is a simple: Yes.” Read more here.
An Example of How Transgender Rights Affect Women’s Safety, by Katrina Trinko. “Across the country, women are being affected right now by transgender rights… Solutions are out there that could accommodate both transgender people and keep women’s spaces safe, such as single-stall bathrooms that are gender-neutral. Yet unfortunately, instead of working on solutions like this, the default seems to be letting transgender rights trample women’s rights.” Read more here.
We Must Refuse to Accept Sex-Selective Abortion, by Brittany Summers. “…[T]he UNFPA reported in 2020 that an estimated 1.5 million unborn baby girls were killed that year globally through sex-selective abortion – not health issues, incest, rape or financial reasons – just preference. Calling this simply, ‘son preference’ achieved via ‘gender-biased sex selection,’ and leaving out the term ‘abortion,’ mind you, the UNFPA conveniently attributes this to discrimination against females, but takes no issue with abortion taking a life of either sex.” Read more here.
Abortion Is Not Just a Women’s Issue – Men Are Hurting, Too, by Nathan Misirian. “It is our culture’s perception that men are the perpetrators and aren’t hurting. In consumer research conducted by Support After Abortion, 48% of men surveyed who had an abortion experience shared they didn’t have a voice. Additionally, 71% of men shared that have experienced [sic] an adverse effect from abortion.” Read more here.
Left’s Reaction to Texas’ Pro-Life Law Shows It Reveres Abortion, by Nicole Russell. “Since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade, abortion has been a hot-button issue for the left and right for different reasons. The left’s unhinged, ignorant, bizarre reactions to a law that protects the lives of the most vulnerable Texans demonstrate that abortion will always be an issue of utmost importance to it, no matter that it literally destroys women and children.” Read more here.
Post-Cotonou Agreement: Blackmail for Development Aid, by Nicolas Bauer. “Before the adoption of the agreement, some MEPs … demanded precise answers from the EU institutions on some of its provisions. In particular, they questioned Article 29 § 5, which commits the parties to ‘supporti[ng] universal access to sexual and reproductive health commodities and healthcare services, including for family planning … and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.’ When the European Commission uses the concept of sexual and reproductive health, it explicitly includes abortion.” Read more here.
The Real Attack Against Our Children, by Michael Brown. “It’s as if a horde of demons has been unleashed and our society has fallen into deep deception and delusion. And the ultimate victims, targeted for indoctrination from their earliest years, are the children. (If you think I’m exaggerating, take a minute to watch this ‘queer, non-binary’ pre-school teacher celebrating her accomplishments or this toddler reading through a gay ABC book.) Whatever the cause of this societal madness, the question that remains is simple: what are we going to do about it?” Read more here.
Congress Ignores Biology, Human Nature, and Decency in Moving to Make Women Draft-Eligible, by Quin Hillyer. “The confused elite culture insists that ‘equality’ means equal bearing of burdens, all burdens, as well as of opportunities. In this oh, so exalted viewpoint, the differences between men and women are so negligible as to be unworthy of serious consideration. After all, goes the sentiment, we’re all just ‘assigned’ a ‘gender’ at birth, right? Biological sex? Nothing more than a ‘social construct.’” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Decision Could Spell Doom for Roe v. Wade, by Thomas Glessner. “Due to the existence of safe haven laws in every state and the estimated 1-2 million couples waiting to adopt, there is no longer such a thing as an unwanted child… Much has changed since 1973. These substantial changes provide strong legal grounds for the Supreme Court to eliminate Roe v. Wade. As a just nation, America must always protect its most vulnerable citizens – born and unborn, regardless of gender, race, handicaps or infirmities.” Read more here.
Pro-Abortionists Want to Codify Late-Term Baby-Killing in the Vermont Constitution, by Jordan Davidson. “If passed, the potential amendment, which is heavily promoted and even financially supported by Planned Parenthood, will show up on Vermont voters’ ballots in November 2022. In Planned Parenthood’s press release celebrating the potential amendment’s progress, the organization which profits off of killing children in the womb explicitly stated the abortion industry’s intent to make the changes national if their efforts prove successful in Vermont.” Read more here.
Texas Heartbeat Law Is Now in Effect. Here’s What You Need to Know, by Melanie Israel and Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[T]he Texas Heartbeat Act takes a novel approach. Specifically, state officials may not enforce the law and are granted sovereign immunity against anyone seeking to bring suit on the grounds that the bill is contrary to constitutional law. Instead, private citizens may bring a civil enforcement action against someone who performs an abortion in violation of the law or assists someone in obtaining an illegal abortion.” Read more here.
Outside of the Media, Support for Roe Is Thin, by Timothy P. Carney. “The public, wrongly convinced by sloppy and biased media reporting that overturning Roe would amount to a few judges instantly outlawing all abortions, tells pollsters that it wants Roe upheld. If you ask them about the things Roe does, though, you get very different answers. A majority in a recent CBS poll (54%) want abortion to be more restricted than it currently is. That means they want Roe and Casey to be struck down or replaced with a completely different court precedent.” Read more here.
Loudoun County School Board’s Transgender Policy Is Still a Threat to First Amendment Rights, by Zachary Faria. “Under the guise of compassion for children, Loudoun County may still be able to compel teachers to adhere to the worldview of transgender activists, redefining sex and gender not just in violation of the religious rights of teachers, but basic biology. Cross’s recent victory is well-deserved, but the fact that it was necessary at all is a problem that goes far deeper.” Read more here.
20 States Sue Biden Administration for Corrupting Title IX With ‘Gender Identity’ Mumbo Jumbo, by Kylee Zempel. “…[T]he bureaucrats in the Biden administration, by ‘flouting procedural requirements in their rush to overreach,’ have decided to rewrite the law so that wherever ‘sex’ appears, it actually means ‘sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.’ This overreach from Biden’s Department of Education and EEOC creates its own barrel of problems, of course — not the least of which is the fact that by writing ‘gender identity’ into the meaning of sex, the people who do not deny basic biology will assuredly face discrimination.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Gets It Right on Texas Abortion Law, by Editors of National Review. “The private-enforced mechanism in the Act is a brilliant response to the traps for pro-life legislation that Roe and Casey have illegitimately set. There are good reasons to question whether that mechanism is a desirable feature of a model abortion law. The right time to address that question is after Roe and Casey have been overturned. Let’s hope that the chief justice shows much sounder judgment on that question in Dobbs and joins with the five members of today’s majority to restore the people’s constitutional power to enact strong legislative protections for unborn children.” Read more here.
International Abortion Groups Demand a Cut of Climate Funding, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. “The letter is likely an effort to make up for the deficit in funds for sexual and reproductive health due to the UK’s cuts to its foreign aid budget earlier this year. However, this is not the first time abortion advocates have lobbied for funds from a seemingly unrelated source. Abortion advocates have successfully integrated into other sectors, including funding for HIV/AIDS and LGBT rights.” Read more here
Supreme Court Rejects Injunction of Texas Abortion Law … Media Erupts With Roe Obituaries, by Jonathon Turley. “…[I]n the age of echo journalism, legal experts are expected to drive ratings and readership with breathless, partisan takes on every story. Some of that analysis constitutes raw conspiracies [sic] theories dressed up as legal analysis like declaring that this order proves the ‘very real possibility in America right now that the federal courts are conspiring against us, against the rights of women, of people of color, of voters, of poor people.’ Others cut to the chase and demanded that Congress immediately pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority to guarantee results in such cases.” Read more here.
When Abortion Access Is at Stake, Suddenly the Left Remembers Men and Women Are Different, by Libby Emmons. “Abortion activists who have been referring to mothers as ‘birthing people,’ to women as ‘people who menstruate,’ and to biological males who identify as transgender as ‘women’ suddenly appeared to know what women actually are when laws opposing abortion went into effect in Texas… When it suits the left’s interests, men and women don’t exist, biology is a myth, and transgender persons are whatever they say they are, but for an abortion, everyone knows what a woman is.” Read more here.
Should Public Schools Be Allowed to Deceive Parents? by Abigail Shrier. “The ‘Gender Support Plan’ the district followed is an increasingly standard document which informs teachers of a child’s new chosen name and gender identity (‘trans,’ ‘agender,’ ‘non-binary,’ etc.) for all internal communications with the child. The school also provided the girl a year’s worth of counseling in support of her new identity, which in her case was ‘no gender.’ Even the P.E. teachers were in on it. Left in the dark were her parents.” Read more here.
The Texas Heartbeat Bill Is a Preview of a Post-Roe World, by Alexandra Desanctis. “…[T]he fundraising plea from the American Civil Liberties Union this morning insists that the effects of the Texas law ‘will be immediate and devastating…’ Contrary to this rhetoric, it’s important to note that the law in Texas imposes no criminal penalties, and none of its civil provisions apply to a woman who seeks or obtains an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.” Read more here.
Thousands of Doctors and Health Professionals Sue the Biden Administration Over New Gender Transition Policy, by Jonathon Turley. “The third claim is under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) which prohibits the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion, unless the government demonstrates that the burden is the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling government interest… ‘The gender identity mandate substantially burdens the Religious Plaintiffs’ exercise of religion by requiring them to engage in the objectionable practices in violation of their beliefs.’” Read more here.
Singer Shares 3 Positive Abortion Stories: ‘My Favorite Traumatic Topic of All Time!’ by Katie Yoder. “The latest burst of positive abortion storytelling came … when singer and musician Amanda Palmer released a video featuring conversations with three women in Canada about their abortions. Their stories all had one thing in common: They claimed that abortion improved their lives. The video came as part of a new series that Palmer advertised on Twitter, where she has one million followers. She’s no stranger to the topic, having had three abortions herself.” Read more here.
‘We’re on a Mission:’ Advocacy Groups Behind Push to Save Women’s Sports Campaign Against Trans Surgeries for Minors, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “The battle to ‘Save Women’s Sports’ resulted in a slew of legislation banning biological males from girls’ sports and conversations on the national stage about gender, sex, individual dignity, and much more. Now the advocacy groups behind this push are assembling to battle the next burgeoning culture war issue — transgender sex change surgeries and procedures for minors.” Read more here.
Landmark Court Ruling Invites Inevitable Transgender Dilemma, by Nicole Russell. “This court’s ruling has incredible implications: By embracing a deceptively simple view of language that feigns ignorance about what the differences between ‘gender identity’ and ‘sex’ really are, this logic eliminates the ability for any person, organization, workplace, or university to have sex-specific sports programs, clubs, or bathroom facilities without fear of a lawsuit crying discrimination.” Read more here.
A Supreme Court That Capitulates on Roe v. Wade Will Unleash a Whirlwind, by Nathanael Blake. “The most important consideration is the wickedness of the radical regime of abortion on demand established by Roe and confirmed by Casey. In the age of ultrasound, we know what abortion is, and who it kills. The images eagerly shared on social media and stuck to the fridge condemn the atrocity of our abortion regime, in which the child whose features can be seen on the screen, and whose movements can be felt in the womb, has less legal protection than livestock.” Read more here.
State Reports Reveal Gruesome Abortion Procedures Once Thought Obsolete Are Still Being Committed, by Carole Novielli. “…[T]wo gruesome abortion procedures used shortly after abortion was legalized are being used again today… While some saline (prostaglandin) reports could be the result of miscoding, there is a concern that hysterotomy abortions conducted in both the first and second trimesters — which are very dangerous for women — could be used to procure live human specimens for ghoulish research like the experiments conducted using aborted children at the University of Pittsburgh.” Read more here.
When Harvard Hired an Atheist to Be the Chief University Chaplain, by Michael Brown. “…[T]o be a chaplain, by definition, means to be a religious leader, not simply a department head or an administrator or someone who believes in ethical living. And so, to appoint an atheist to be chief university chaplain is like appointing a Christian evangelist to head up the university’s atheist club. Or a devout Muslim to head up the university’s Judaism club. It is a total contradiction in both purpose and logic.” Read more here.
With the Help of a Unicorn, College Students Are Schooled on Which Restroom to Use, by Alex Parker. “…[A]ttendees of the University of Hawaii at Manoa are getting educated on which restroom to use. And in case they don’t quite get it, a quiz at the end can help out. Aiding the adolescents: a unicorn. For those unaware, The Gender Unicorn was created by Trans Student Educational Resources… Additionally, the resident training affirms all LGBTQ+ people’s preferred pronouns. As for LGBT identity, students are provided a form by which they can ban their ‘dead’ name and become something new.” Read more here.
The Pandemic Changed How Abortions Are Performed in America. Here’s How, by Zachary Mettler. “The regulation required abortionists ‘to prescribe and provide the first abortion pill (mifepristone) in person, before the woman takes the other half of the abortion pill protocol (misoprostol) at home to complete the abortion.’ The pro-abortion groups won in court and convinced a federal judge to block the policy nationwide… So, a woman could choose to abort her preborn child, be prescribed the abortion pill virtually, and then abort her baby via a chemical abortion without ever talking to someone in-person.” Read more here.
Biden Admin ‘Back-to-School’ Transgender Message: ‘We Intend to Enforce Our Ideology,’ by Dr. Susan Berry. “The Biden administration released a ‘back-to-school’ video that serves as a message it intends to ‘enforce’ its transgender ideology and ‘use children as enforcers,’ states the founder of an organization that helps victims of what she refers to as the ‘Sexual State.’” Read more here.
McDonald’s New ‘Saweetie Meal’ Promotes Rapper With Foul Videos and Lyrics, by Jeff Johnston. “Her videos also feature sexually suggestive dancing and clothing. One video on her YouTube channel is titled, ‘I shot with P*rnhub’ where she says, ‘We just wrapped a really sexy skit with Pornhub.’ The more than 633,000 people who’ve watched that video on her YouTube site get to see her in costume for the Pornhub shoot and performing sexually suggestive acts.” Read more here.
Afghanistan’s Christians Are Turning Off Phones and Going Into Hiding, by Kelsey Zorzi. “Some Christians on the ground have expressed that, with the takeover of Kabul, they expect to be killed, mafia-style. Although some reports say that the Taliban is already conducting targeted killings of Christians and other minorities found using public transportation, as well as executing anyone found with Bible software installed on their cell phones.” Read more here.
In Illinois, Tanning Salons Now Get More Oversight Than Abortion Facilities, by Amy Gehrke. “Abortion centers now fall outside the realm of standard Illinois health facility regulations, allowed to conduct their deadly business as they please. Does this sound like an industry that cares for women’s health? This disregard for women is par for the course throughout the abortion industry and is protected by politicians beholden to the millions in donations they receive from the industry and its supporters.” Read more here.
America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Will Open the Door for Sex Traffickers, by Tim Ballard. “Imagine being a woman or a child in Afghanistan now faced with one of two options, both with potentially tragic outcomes. The first, stay in a country that is ruled by a regime that was known to have one of the worst human rights records in the world. The second, attempt to flee the country and risk falling prey to those who seek to victimize the vulnerable, and force them into being trafficked for sex for forced labor.” Read more here.
OnlyFans Is Exploitative, but Not in the Way Elites and Prostitutes Claim, by Emily Jashinsky. “OnlyFans gets negative treatment and media coverage when pornographers are exploited and endangered, which is great but stops short of conceding those dangers are inevitable byproducts of ‘sex work’ and a culture that normalizes it… Normalized pornography warps and numbs men, consequentially hurts women, and absolutely commodifies bodies and intimacy to psychologically scarring effects.” Read more here.
Abortion Businesses Give Discounts to Women Already Under Pressure to Abort, by Nancy Flanders. “Making abortion cheaper for underprivileged women will only further enforce the pro-abortion discrimination that they already experience. Free or low-cost abortion weighed against the costs associated with raising a child is a tactic used by the abortion industry to convince women that abortion is their best option.” Read more here.
Why a Virginia Middle School Is Removing Urinals From the Boys’ Bathrooms, by Michael Brown. “…[T]his same school is removing the urinals from the boys’ bathrooms. Why? It’s because a number of biological females, who identify as males, are offended by the presence of urinals. So, rather than point out to these females that they are not really males (otherwise, they’d have no problems with urinals), the school turns the world upside down to accommodate them.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Is a Boon to Big Pharma and Threat to Parental Rights, by Pedro L. Gonzalez. “In our brave new world, a culture of depravity preys on children. That culture insists that the state and medical professionals revoke guardianship from the adults to whom kids were accidentally born. The implications for this are terrifying, yet neither political party seems to have the courage to speak for the sanity and safety of American families. Meanwhile, Big Pharma cashes in handsomely.” Read more here.
Loudoun County School Board Enacts Wide-Ranging ‘Gender Identity’ Policy, by Alexandra Desanctis. “At least one public-school teacher in Loudoun County has already quit her job since the board approved the new policy, which also requires teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns as opposed to those that reflect their sex, without requiring students to offer ‘any substantiating evidence’ of their new gender identity.” Read more here.
‘Heteroromantic’ Privilege? James Madison University Pulls Controversial Diversity Training Video, by Jonathan Turley. “While employees were reportedly told not to share the material with others, the material became public before the school suddenly pulled it off of its sites. What stood out for me was the inclusion of the term ‘heteroromantic’ as a privileged group juxtaposed with the countervailing oppressed groups of ‘homoromantic, aromantic, bi/panromatic’ individuals. I had not previously seen those categories in such materials, so I sought out some definitions.” Read more here.
While COVID Restrictions Reduced General U.S. Health Services, Sex Change Surgeries Grew by 12%, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The elites in education and many other public institutions now believe that they know what is good for children, and parents do not. In fact, they will assist and facilitate children living as different genders and obtaining permanent and damaging treatments with lifelong effects without alerting mothers and fathers to what is going on… As Shrier noted in Irreversible Damage, one day, many girls will wake up with no breasts and no uterus and wonder: I was just a teen. A kid. Why didn’t anyone stop me?” Read more here.
A Court Victory in Texas Against Obamacare’s Transgender Mandate, by Jay Richards and Sarah Parshall Perry. “Many doctors, for instance, reasonably believe that to remove healthy organs, or to give young people puberty-blocking drugs, would harm their patients—whatever the subjective wishes of the patient. Healthy organs are not deadly tumors, and puberty is not a disease. O’Connor’s ruling protects such medical judgment, whether it’s based on scientific evidence, religious conviction, or plain common sense.” Read more here.
Cohabitation Changes People: Contemporary European Evidence, by Laurie DeRose and Rebecca Oldroyd. “Why is this new work so remarkable? Because much cohabitation research in the past quarter century has focused on the characteristics of those who choose to cohabit versus marry—not on how people’s characteristics (i.e., their attitudes towards family dissolution) change during cohabitation. Such changes in attitudes have measurable consequences: favorable attitudes toward divorce are linked to patterns of marital interaction that decrease marital quality and increase the likelihood of divorce.” Read more here.
Democrats Pursue Radical Abortion Agenda, Upending Bipartisan Consensus, by Melanie Israel. “Outside Congress, pro-life policies enjoy broad support across the political spectrum. A majority of Americans oppose using taxpayer dollars to fund elective abortions, including 65% of independents and 31% of Democrats… To reflect that, members of Congress should reject attempts to enact spending bills that don’t incorporate longstanding pro-life policy provisions.” Read more here.
Texas Pro-Life Victory Is a Reminder That the Supreme Court Should Reevaluate Its Abortion Jurisprudence, by Zachary Faria. “The Supreme Court repeatedly has appeased pro-abortion activists … when it comes to abortion, disregarding the Constitution to expand and protect the abortion industry… That’s why lower courts, such as the district judge who was rightly overruled this week, continue to enjoy cover for even the most extreme pro-abortion jurisprudence. Confused lower courts will continue such jurisprudence until the Supreme Court does its duty by issuing a new, clear standard for abortion laws.” Read more here.
California Prisons ‘Lead’ the Way Into an Imaginary Sexless Future, by Inez Stepman. “The situation in the Golden State is the inevitable result of the false idea that sex is a social construct — an idea that is in the process of being enshrined at every level of U.S. law. What’s happening in California is the future of the country, unless the majority of Americans who object to the insanity find the courage to contradict the most sacred of politically correct edicts.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Must End Coercive Abortion Mandates, by Alexandra Desanctis. “In order to qualify for relief from New York’s abortion-funding mandate, these and other Christian churches and ministries would have to cease offering their services to anyone except for those individuals who share the same faith… Unless they follow the mandate and provide coverage for elective abortions, the only other option for these groups is to forgo health insurance altogether, opening themselves up to immense fines from the state.” Read more here.
The Free Speech of Christians in the Public Square Must Be Protected, by Jeremiah Igunnubole. “Numerous other examples can be given of individuals arrested and detained, and though not prosecuted, chillingly warned not to repeat the alleged behaviour… Or those who, after arrest, release and confirmation that their actions are perfectly legal, are simply too scared to re-engage in the lawful activity for fear that another officer may think differently – reasoning that a repeat of the ordeal is not worth risking. How, despite changes in law specifically created to protect free speech, has it continued to be unjustly restricted in the public sphere?” Read more here.
Uninformed Consent: The Transgender Crisis, by Paul McHugh and Gerard V. Bradley. “To block puberty and then artificially redirect its course is to tamper with a vital human developmental matter with no reason for confidence in what will emerge beyond a lifetime preoccupied with medico-surgical interventions to maintain the illusion that one’s sex has changed. It was with this crucial feature of human beings in mind that the UK court ruled that no child is capable of consenting to these treatments.” Read more here.
Religious Belief Deserves Protection, by Vanessa Cheng and Mark Spencer. “We accept that people have the freedom to change their interpretation of what the Bible teaches around many things, including sexuality and marriage. But we do not believe that an individual teacher should expect to impose their changed beliefs about an important theological matter onto a Christian school that has been entirely consistent about their beliefs from the start.” Read more here.
Democrats Want to Use Your Taxpayer Money to Fund Abortion on Demand, by Rep. Steve Scalise and Rep. Kay Granger. “If congressional Democrats truly cared about bipartisanship, they would listen to voters. Recent polling reflects that most voters do not support the subsidizing of abortion on demand with their tax dollars. The poll … found that 58% of voters — including 31% of Democrats, 34% of self-described pro-choice voters, and 65% of independents — oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.” Read more here.
Booksellers’ Organization Apologizes for Promoting Book on Trans Damage to Children, by Jonathon Van Maren. “…[E]very aspect of [the American Bookseller’s Association]’s work will be combed over for any evidence of disloyalty to the trans movement, with … a new editor ‘reviewing for conscious language and an awareness of equity and inclusion issues.’ A program aimed at promoting LGBT voices will also be launched so that instead of booksellers getting Shrier’s book, they’ll only see what her detractors have to say.” Read more here.
‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,’ by Angus Fox. “To spell out precisely how nefarious the pharmaceutical industry’s behaviour has become, she cites the work of Jennifer Bilek, who has mapped out the labyrinthine financial networks connecting hospitals, commercial hormone providers, rights campaigns and politicians, each professing wide-eyed innocence while stashing the cash on the sly.” Read more here.
The Scottish Government Is Determined to Advance Trans Ideology – and It’s Our Children Who Will Suffer, by David Robertson. “This week it was reported … that ‘children as young as four will be able to change their name and gender at school without their parents’ consent under new LGBT inclusivity guidelines drawn up by the Scottish Government.’ You have to stop, take a breath and re-read that sentence again… As someone said to me, it’s so mad that it cannot be true. Four-year-olds sometimes think they are animals or Thomas the Tank Engine – they are certainly not capable of determining that they are a different gender from their body.” Read more here.
Biden’s Transgender Healthcare Mandate Has Always Been Unlawful, by Nicole Russell. “Of course, the federal court found that forcing faith-based doctors to treat patients in a way that goes against their faith and medical training violates their religious liberties, protected under both federal law and the Constitution. There is truly no other way to rule in this case. It is remarkable, in fact, that the Biden administration thought this was not only the right thing but the lawful thing to do.” Read more here.
The Trans Trends Which Are Sending Scotland Mad, by Ann Farmer. “Scotland, once renowned as the home of the philosophy of common sense, is slowly going bonkers… Gender is a purely personal category constructed by the individual; in real life nobody can change sex — they can only change their pronouns. Most people judge by their senses as to whether an individual is male or female – and the fact that there are two sexes is one of the very few facts of life that a four-year-old is able to grasp – but in Scotland people are being told to ignore common sense and obey government diktats.” Read more here.
I’m a Teacher. Parents Should Know That School Districts Hide an Ideology of ‘Unlimited Gender,’ by Brenda Lebsack. “As a current special education teacher, I believe communication with parents is essential. And as a former school board member, I believe transparency to taxpayers, who fund public education, is obligatory. Unfortunately, authorities in public school districts in charge of pre-K through grade 12 have been slow to disclose to parents and taxpayers their new terms and definitions for ‘expanding’ gender identities and ‘evolving’ sexual orientations.” Read more here.
SCOTUS Should Reverse Roe v. Wade Because Abortion Is a Crime Against Humanity, by Thomas Glessner. “Abortion is a gruesome and hideous act. It … brutally dismembers a living human being. Skulls are crushed. Arms and legs are dismembered. And the human remains of children are scraped together, placed in a plastic body bag, and sent to an incinerator for disposal. Animals killed at slaughterhouses for food are treated more humanely. The procedures for the demise of condemned prisoners on death row are far more compassionate.” Read more here.
Shocking Allegations of Live Baby Organ Harvesting Deserve Explanation, by Lou Barletta. “The documents demonstrate that Pitt has received at least $2.7 million in federal Health and Human Services (HHS) funding to become a ‘tissue hub’ for baby body parts for scientific research… So, what does almost $3 million in federal funding buy? Well, according to the documents, it bought Pitt a stockpile of fetal tissues, including ‘liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain, genitourinary tissues including kidneys, ureters and bladders.’” Read more here.
Global Family Planning Partnership Garners U.S. Support in Rebranding and Promoting LGBTQ Issues, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The current foreign aid bill passed in the U.S. House raises international family planning by $200 million. Under the Biden administration, agencies involved with any foreign assistance have been ordered to ‘consider the impact of programs…on LGBTQI+ persons’ when making funding decisions.” Read more here.
Breastfeeding Academy Bails on ‘Breasts,’ by Alex Parker. “Though the organization features ‘breast’ in its very name, it’ll no longer tout the term as a prime ‘lactation-related’ reference… The Academy asserts that ‘language has power,’ and it’s standing against ‘gender inequality and health inequities’ — those contribute ‘to rising morbidity and mortality of vulnerable populations.’” Read more here.
Olympics Bans Women From Women’s Sports While Letting Men Compete, by Elle Reynolds. “…[W]e have a system in which men can be women if they take enough hormone blockers, but women who have not messed with their natural hormone levels are told they cannot qualify as women. Such is the stunted logic of our modern view of sex, taken to its batty conclusion.” Read more here.
Biden’s IRS Is a Partisan Weapon in the War on Religious Freedom, by Timothy Head. “Never before in the history of America has professing the Christian faith been understood as a form of partisan political campaigning… Our Constitution was designed to protect us from government tyranny, and the IRS has no right to target and discriminate against Christian nonprofits like this. Our fundamental religious freedom should never be weaponized by partisan politics.” Read more here.
Are These 7 LGBT ‘Kids’ Books in Your Child’s Classroom or School Library? by Virginia Allen. “Children are learning about gay marriage, preferred pronouns, and gender identity, thanks to woke children’s books… Beyond the sexual messages of the books being inappropriate for children, there are also mental health concerns involved…” Read more here.
Why Women Should Pursue Marriage Just as Intentionally as a Career, by Suzanne Venker. “Whom you marry, and how that marriage fares, will have a greater effect on your happiness and well-being than anything else you do. It will be the axis upon which all other decisions are made: where to live, which career to pursue, how much wealth you’ll build — the list goes on. What sense does it make, then, to not prioritize it?” Read more here.
The Pro-Life Movement Doesn’t Just Save Lives, It Can Herald Real Feminism That Actually Helps Women, by Willis L. Krumholz and Robert Delahunty. “The pro-life movement can and should be an important part of this new feminism… It should have an educational, not merely a legal, mission. Overturning Roe will not be enough. Even stopping (some of) the killing will not be enough. Restoring the sense of the true dignity of womanhood is the momentous but achievable task for a post-Roe world.” Read more here.
We’re All Funding Stonewall, by Danielle Boxall. “Unfortunately for taxpayers, this craze has vigorously swept through our public institutions. So much so that each year, taxpayers are funding over £1 million worth of guidance on issues like gender-neutral spaces, pronouns, and transgender inclusion as part of the ‘Diversity Champions’ programme. At least 327 publicly funded groups were signed up to the scheme (at an average cost of around £3,500), but that is only the tip of the iceberg.” Read more here.
The Incoherence of Gender Ideology, by Michael Robillard. “The logical implications of the passing of the U.S. Equality Act would therefore constitute nothing less than the legal canonization of a new priest class of magical persons who speak all of reality into existence and a subordinate class of everyday citizens held hostage by state compulsion to be unwilling stage-actors in their never-ending, incoherent game of pretend. What is at stake here is therefore not simply one of politeness and etiquette having to do with proper names.” Read more here.
Investigate Now: Federal Grants Sponsored Possibly Live Baby Harvesting at University of Pittsburgh, by Edie Heipel. “…[N]ew evidence points to the University of Pittsburgh harvesting organs from born-alive babies as a real possibility—meaning the babies would have died while researchers dissected their bodies for kidneys and other organs… The records released this week reveal this wasn’t a one-off incident, unearthing an agreement between NIH and the university to fully operationalize a grotesque baby organ bank funded by federal taxpayers.” Read more here.
In the UK, Doctors and Judges Trample on a Family’s Religious Liberty, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “…[T]he doctors aren’t God. Courts aren’t, either. And while I certainly agree that there are times when palliative care is perfectly appropriate and humane, the way this is all happening is chilling. The temporal isn’t everything, and we should all be able to agree that the spiritual care of a child is well within parents’ rights.” Read more here.
Trans Activism’s Long March Through Our Institutions, by Helen Joyce. “What campaigners mean by ‘trans rights’ is gender self-identification: that trans people be treated in every circumstance as members of the sex they identify with, rather than the sex they actually are. This is not a human right at all. It is a demand that everyone else lose their rights to single-sex spaces, services, and activities. And in its requirement that everyone else accept trans people’s subjective beliefs as objective reality, it is akin to a new state religion, complete with blasphemy laws.” Read more here.
Federally Funded University Makes Startling Admissions When It Comes to Tissue Bank Utilizing Aborted Babies, by Rebecca Downs. “Speaking on the ‘Drew Mariani Show’ on Friday, Dr. Michael New brought attention to how the university in their grant application indicates they try to keep the fetal tissue at room temperature, which raises concerns that the tissue may be extracted from infants born alive.” Read more here.
My 13-Year-Old Identifies as Polyamorous. What Should I Do? by Michael Cook. “There’s a good reason why it’s problematic. Polyamory – three or more adults in consensual sexual relationships, both homosexual and heterosexual – is not a good way to raise children… Society should not get into the business of protecting lifestyle choices for people who have lost sight of what sex is all about. We all have a stake in men and women ushering a new generation into the world, but not in subsidising their desire for pleasure.” Read more here.
Abortion Activist ‘Eats’ Abortion Pills on Camera ‘Because I Can,’ by Katie Yoder. “To show women that abortion ‘doesn’t necessarily need to be a huge deal,’ Amelia Bonow, the cofounder of Shout Your Abortion, recently swallowed abortion pills on camera. In a two-part video series, Bonow ordered the pills online and walked through the process of taking them – by taking them herself. But it was unrealistic for at least two reasons: Bonow wasn’t pregnant and she didn’t film what happened after she swallowed the pills.” Read more here.
Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy Poses Problems for Therapists, by Jacky Grainger, Madeleine Ni Dhailigh, and Stella O’Malley. “If therapists are fearful of accusations of ‘conversion’ therapy, first the majority won’t work in the area of gender and, second, there will be no chance for gender-questioning clients of this age to explore or be challenged. No room for growth, no time for reflection or self-discovery. The result of which would be a rigidity most alien to both effective psychological therapy and every single child development model that has every [sic] existed.” Read more here.
Roe v. Wade Must Meet Its End at Supreme Court, by Thomas Glessner. “After a significant victory by the Allied forces in World War II, Winston Churchill remarked, ‘This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ The same will be true of the demise of Roe, which many feel is imminent. The cultural battle for the sanctity of life will become more intense in the months and years ahead. In the end, respect for innocent human life will prevail and a culture of life will become reality in America.” Read more here.
Breaking: Crisis-Pregnancy Centers Help Women Avoid Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “Once again, it seems impossible for ‘pro-choice’ activists to comprehend that, in the majority of cases, women don’t actually want to choose abortion — and that, far from harming or misleading these women, the majority of CPCs actually offer women a real choice by giving them the help they need to choose life.” Read more here.
Polyamory Gets Another Push, This Time From Harvard Law, by Alex Parker. “A mere few years ago, there were only hims and hers and straight, bi- and gay. Now we have eys, yos, xies, ves and bunselves, who may or may not be demigender, pansexual and/or neurodivergent minor. And as we evolve, no one should be stunned if their local Ferris wheel’s seats get conspicuously widened. They may need to, in accommodation of a cotton-candy eating romantic trio or quartet. Romance isn’t dead; in fact, it’s multiplied. Hence, prepare for the expanding popularity of polyamory.” Read more here.
SCOTUS Must Abandon Its Jurisprudence of Appeasing Abortion, by Zachary Faria. “The courts have once again affirmed that Tennessee’s 48-hour abortion waiting period is legal. Now, it’s on the Supreme Court to offer a clear standard for abortion laws… The Supreme Court needs to reevaluate its abortion jurisprudence based on the Constitution, or it risks giving away its institutional credibility.” Read more here.
Trans YouTube Star Arrested for Raping 79-Year-Old Mom to Be Jailed With Female Inmates, by Jonathon Van Maren. “…[W]e have decided that women are collateral damage as we rebuild society according to the ever-evolving ideology of gender activists. This male rapist … even insisted on being able to shower with the women. Vulnerable women are being locked up with sexual predators, and there is almost no protest. And now a man who allegedly raped his own mother will be locked up with female prisoners. Trans activists say this is right and just. It is not. It is wicked.” Read more here.
American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates, by Jarrett Stepman. “The managerial class in government agencies, corporate boardrooms, and professional organizations have flipped on a switch, transforming themselves into social justice warriors. The cause and the revolution always will come first, no matter the science, no matter the truth. Medicine clearly isn’t immune.” Read more here.
Activists Seeking Universal Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Frustrated by Fundamental Rights Enshrined in Law, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. “’Mental health clients have the right to explore, with the assistance of a supportive therapist, questions or issues in their lives that may be causing them concern or distress and to participate in the setting of counseling goals that are compatible with their freely chosen personal or religious values,’ says the Alliance website. LGBT activists reject this right and are pushing for a universal ban on all therapies addressing same-sex attraction.” Read more here.
Do We Really Want to Draft Our Daughters? by Frances Tilney Burke. “What some people conveniently forget is that some women enjoy raising their children. It’s a privilege to do so. They do not want to be taken away from their family unit by the draft, and they do not want to abdicate the responsibility of mothering to another person, to include the father (in a scenario where the mother is drafted first). In a hypothetical scenario of ‘total war,’ where the draft would go into effect, wouldn’t it make sense to leave the young mothers, or the women with potential to become mothers, at home?” Read more here.
Don’t Let the SJWs at the American Medical Association Neuter Your Birth Certificate, by Kylee Zempel. “If a person’s gender is detached from his sex (it is not, but for a moment just entertain the delusion), why should he care that the way he identifies doesn’t match the ‘M’ or ‘F’ on his birth certificate? If the argument goes that gender and sex are different, then why is gender identity relevant in matters of sex? Why is something so purportedly so irrelevant to one’s identity so triggering?” Read more here.
The Troubled Girls the Transgender Movement Ignores, by Ginny Gentles. “The young teenage girls increasingly captivated by gender ideology possess bodies and minds that are still growing and developing. The adults in their lives are responsible for guiding them safely through adolescence. Yet journalists and many other corners of society are suddenly claiming that cross-sex hormones and damaging surgeries should be readily offered to children, often citing the examples of transitions by people who are already adults.” Read more here.
The Left Has a Pedophilia Problem, and It’s Out in the Open, by Spencer Lindquist. “With increasing frequency, the obvious has become undeniable. Those who have a creepy obsession with involving children in their sexual tastes, and use any avenue at their disposal to do so, either have a direct sexual interest in children or want to run cover for those who do. The left has a pedophilia problem, and it’s only getting worse.” Read more here.
Biological Sex in Sydney, by Katherine Deves. “Every protected group should have the right to advocate for their interests and to facilitate discussions that impact those interests, yet the City of Sydney Council do not believe women are entitled to that right. Denying modest resources to a woman-centred legal service for daring to question the controversial belief that ‘transwomen are women,’ the Council have joined the ranks of other Australian institutions that are in thrall to gender identity ideology.” Read more here.
Let’s Celebrate the Best Year in Decades for the Preborn’s Right to Life, by Tim Goeglein. “In the first half of 2021, in states across America, 90 pro-life laws have been passed and signed into law – a new record (the previous record was 89 in 2011)… But there is a key difference between 2011 and 2021… In 2021, rather than passing laws against something, state lawmakers are passing laws for something – the right to life for the preborn child.” Read more here.
The Hyde Amendment Is Popular. Why Do Democrats Pretend Otherwise? by Kimberly Ross. “The leftist media portrays a majority as wholly supportive not just of abortion but also its federal funding. This could not be further from the truth. Abortion is a polarizing topic in the discourse, but wide support for unrestricted, government-funded abortion simply does not exist. That narrative is driven by those who wish to see it become reality.” Read more here.
Time to Overturn Roe v. Wade, by Star Parker. “It is no accident that following the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, we have seen a collapse of the American family and now the general collapse of birth itself… A society without family and children, with increasing drug overdoses and suicides, with reports of far too great a frequency of individuals pointlessly murdering people they don’t know, is a society whose soul is in bad shape. Restoring sanctity of life in the womb is a good place to start turning things around.” Read more here.
Roe v. Wade Got Its Legal History Wrong, by John Finnis and Robert P. George. “The Fourteenth Amendment bars States from depriving ‘any person of life’ ‘without due process of law’ or denying ‘to any person’ ‘the equal protection of the laws.’ It was adopted against a backdrop of established common-law principles, legal treatises, and statutes recognizing unborn children as persons possessing fundamental rights.” Read more here.
Mississippi Seeking to Become ‘The Safest Place in America for an Unborn Child,’ by Denise Burke. “Mississippi and other states should be free to pass commonsense laws through their democratically elected representatives without interference from the courts. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that prohibits states from regulating abortion; in fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has already repeatedly held that states are free to regulate abortion to protect unborn children, maternal health, and the dignity of the medical profession. That is exactly what Mississippi did here.” Read more here.
We Can’t Solve the Sexual Assault Problem Unless We Solve the Porn Problem, by Greg Teague. “There has been little recognition of the destructive impact pornography has on the perception of what is appropriate sexual conduct. The sex industry debases and exploits women. Men are wholly capable of having fictitious and ‘satisfying’ interactions with women where the concept of consent and rejection are entirely absent. The issue of sexual assault can never truly be tackled unless we can solve the problem of pornography.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology Run Amok, by Abigail Shrier. “How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns? How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin ‘gender affirming’ therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo ‘top surgery’ – elective double mastectomy – without her parents’ permission?” Read more here.
The Urgency of Ending Roe v. Wade, by Roger Wicker. “Science has been pivotal in shifting many hearts and minds on abortion. Written in 1973, Roe could not comprehend that expectant parents would one day use sonograms to look at their unborn children’s hands and feet and see themselves in the faces of their offspring. We now know that the fetal heartbeat begins as early as six weeks and that an unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks, if not earlier. These realities weigh heavily on the hearts of millions of Americans, and they are driving pro-life change in state after state.” Read more here.
Don’t Believe a Man Can Be a Woman? Prepare to Be Labeled an Extremist, by Shea Bradley-Farrell. “If this bill passes, the insanity we have witnessed since the Obama administration – biological males in female safe spaces like locker rooms and on sports teams – will be enshrined into our civil rights law. Public facilities will be forced to allow a man who ‘self-identifies’ as a woman to use and benefit from the same facilities, programs, or funding that biological women do. ‘Self-identification’ means there are no legal or medical standards to reach under this legislation; if a man says he’s a woman, presto, he’s a woman.” Read more here.
House Forces Taxpayers to Fund Abortion, Even After Speaker Pelosi’s Bishop Confirms Church Stance on Issue, by Rebecca Downs. “Abandoning Hyde was something supported by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), even after Archbishop Salvadore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of San Francisco issued a reminder last week that ‘no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it.’” Read more here.
The Democrats’ Appalling Vote to Kill the Hyde Amendment, by the Editors of National Review. “The House Democrats’ unanimous support for taxpayer funding of abortion is atrocious. As common sense and multiple studies tell us, government subsidies for abortion result in more abortions. A report published in 2020 by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a nonprofit affiliated with the Susan B. Anthony List, estimated that the Hyde amendment had spared the lives of more than 2,400,000 human beings since 1976.” Read more here.
California May Require Public Colleges to Provide Free … Men’s Menstrual Products? by Stephen Green. “I’ll concede there might be some merit … to Chen’s argument in favor of putting free menstrual products in the ladies’ rooms. But men’s menstrual products? AB-367 isn’t about providing an inexpensive necessity to women who might have gotten caught unawares. Garcia’s bill is about using taxpayer money to comfort the delusions of a very few who believe that they might somehow, all biology aside, magically get a period this month. Because science.” Read more here.
‘Truly the End of Female Sports:’ Athletes and Congresswomen Fight Transgender Takeover, by Maggie Hroncich. “As a coach, Cynthia said it breaks her heart to see her students give up after realizing they often can’t physically compete with males. One of her students who had been training and preparing for a race was beaten by a male who two weeks prior decided he would compete, and was able to run faster than any of her times. Cynthia said this student didn’t want to include her performance on college applications, because she didn’t see a point since the male athlete took away her chance to compete in state championships.” Read more here.
Students of Faith Should Have Confidence in the First Amendment, by Nicole Russell. “Anti-discrimination laws were put in place to quell true bigotry. They were not designed to see people of belief gaslit into believing they are bigots. Even in 2018, when this University of Iowa lawsuit originally began, it was hard to believe any court took seriously the claim that a faith-based club requiring its leaders to be religious was discriminatory. Undoubtedly, a university or college campus might be an alienating or frightening place for a political conservative or person of faith to thrive.” Read more here.
The Case for the Unconstitutionality of Abortion, by Josh Hammer. “According to Finnis, unborn children are properly understood as ‘persons’ under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, and state-level homicide laws therefore cannot discriminate by protecting live people but not unborn people. The upshot under this logic is that overturning Roe and its 1992 successor Planned Parenthood v. Casey would not merely return abortion regulation to the ambits of the various states… Rather, it would mandate banning the bloody practice nationwide.” Read more here.
Women Deserve Full Information About Abortion’s Effects, by Emily Gerlach. “The association between abortion and an increase in mental health problems is statistically significant. Abortion interrupts the hormonal cycle in a similar way to a miscarriage. Women who have had an abortion are consistently shown to be at a greater risk of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, grief, suicidal tendencies, and post-traumatic stress symptoms.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Set to Ignore Abortion Transparency Requirement, by Melanie Israel. “…[S]imply notifying a policyholder at the time of enrollment that there will be an abortion surcharge falls short of what is statutorily required. The abortion surcharge may, in some cases, be buried in pages upon pages of plan documents. And after this ‘notice,’ the abortion surcharge would be essentially hidden from consumers within a monthly premium that is collected in a single—again, not separate—payment. For consumers with sincere moral or religious objections to abortion, the proposed rule is particularly harmful.” Read more here.
Biden’s Call for a UN Inquisition Into America Is Even Worse Than It Seems, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “After a couple of weeks, the experts will publish their reports with a summary judgment on the status of racism, health (including reproductive health), religious freedom, and other issues in America. The reports will have been largely prepared in advance as is typical. And they will find that the U.S. is a uniquely racist and sexist country. They will blame U.S. laws and policies protecting the religious freedom of Churches for the oppression of women and sexual minorities.” Read more here.
Why We Need a Pro-Life Constitutional Amendment Even if the Supreme Court Modifies Roe v. Wade, by Willis L. Krumholz and Robert Delahunty. “Jacobs argues strenuously that the movement should seek the ‘constitutionalization’ of a general nationwide ban on abortion. The argument is that the Constitution protects human life whenever it exists – and an unborn fetus is a human life, entitled to government protection from anyone who would kill it.” Read more here.
Exhibit A in the History of How the Transgender Movement Domesticated the Press, by Jonathon Van Maren. “If one day on the other side of this madness, somebody wants to write a history of how the transgender movement domesticated the press, Exhibit A will be the way they leaped to obey each time a celebrity announced that he or she was switching genders and declared that they wanted to be addressed by the pronouns of the opposite sex.” Read more here.
Transgender Policy and the Willful Demoralization of the American Military, by Kurt Schlichter. “…[I]f you genuinely believe that men and women can mutilate their genitals, change their clothes, and become the opposite sex, you are unfit for military service. At any rank, in any position. Full stop. But these men don’t really believe it. They are motivated by varying combinations of a desire to get promoted and a fear of getting fired. These are … men who don’t have the spine to speak an obvious yet suddenly unspeakable truth. Men who will force out of service everyone who isn’t also a coward in order to maintain uniformity.” Read more here.
Inconvenient Truth: No One Actually Changes Gender, Only Persona, by Walt Heyer. “Because sex change is physically impossible, contortions to language are necessary in order to sell the procedures. Preferred terms for attempting the change have evolved over the years. ‘Sex change’ became ‘sex reassignment,’ then ‘gender reassignment,’ followed by ‘gender affirmation.’ The attempts to physically change gender and sex through ‘affirmative’ surgery are in vain.” Read more here.
The Left Keeps Trying to Codify Roe. This Time, It’s Also Slashing RFRA, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Together, these bills form a nefarious trio: one requires federal health care programs and facilities to cover abortion, one ensures taxpayer dollars flow to abortion providers, and one invalidates virtually all state limitations on abortions, thereby codifying abortion policy on a national level. Pair this with the EACH Act’s explicit denial of RFRA protection for employees who refuse to participate in the termination of unborn life based on their religious beliefs, and the stage has been set for another battle royale.” Read more here.
New Book Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Fixation: A ‘Positive, Moral Good,’ by Katie Yoder. “In her memoir published on July 27, Dr. Leana Wen details her time spent as president of the nation’s largest abortion provider: Planned Parenthood… Among other things, she says she was told to say ‘abortion’ in ‘every media interview.’ Someone else also warned her that ‘If we don’t talk about abortion openly, loudly, and proudly, as a positive moral good, then we are further stigmatizing it.’” Read more here.
8 Facts You Should Know About the Abortion Pill, Which Kills Babies and Hurts Women, by Micaiah Bilger. “…[M]ost of the reports about the abortion pill do not tell the whole truth. One would be hard pressed to find any that mention the unborn baby. BuzzFeed referred to the unborn baby as a ‘pregnancy [leaving] the body’ – as if pregnancy is a thing rather than a condition and the unborn baby does not exist. So here are eight facts about the abortion pill that the mainstream media is neglecting to tell women…” Read more here.
Mississippi Takes Aim at Roe, by Kathryn Lopez. “We won’t be a healthy society until we realize that what we’re doing as a nation under Roe is not only killing more than a million children a year and leaving behind a trail of sorrow, but killing the soul of this nation. Roe makes no sense constitutionally or any other way. The Mississippi case is about more than overturning Roe; it’s about saving us from the culture of death that we’re immersed in.” Read more here.
Meet the CDC-Backed Groups That Want to Teach Trans Ideology to Kindergartners, by Patrick Hauf. “Children in Grades 3-5 are taught about masturbation, hormone blockers used to transition pre-pubescent children, STDs, and the differences between cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, and ‘gender expansive.’ Grades 6-8 are taught about abortion, contraception, and differences between vaginal, oral, and anal sex… Dr. Susan Greenwald, a retired pediatrician in Nebraska who worked with childhood victims of sexual abuse for 35 years, said the standards are closer to ‘grooming’ than age-appropriate education.” Read more here.
University of Iowa Again Found to Be Discriminating Against Religious Groups, by Jonathan Turley. “In a July 16 decision, the Eighth Circuit affirmed that the University of Iowa administrators violated the First Amendment rights of … the InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship. While the group allowed anyone to join, it required its leaders to adhere to core Christian values. It is another major victory for religious rights… It is also a serious rebuke of the University which defiantly continued to discriminate at not just great cost to these students but the university as a whole.” Read more here.
Nancy Pelosi’s Abortion Defense Signals Alarming Trend, by Katie Yoder. “As for Speaker Pelosi, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco responded directly: ‘Let me repeat: no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it’ …It’s a difference the media should note: Just because a politician ties his or her faith to abortion, doesn’t mean they belong together.” Read more here.
The Bible Is Clear: Transgender Ideology Is Incompatible With Christianity, by Tyler O’Neil. “Ferguson noted that in modern America, ‘gender has become divorced from biology.’ He recounted that his interactions with gender dysphoric friends taught him three key lessons: that gender dysphoria is real and involves real suffering; that uncertainty on these issues is pervasive, especially among Christians; and that Christian engagement requires compassion and clarity.” Read more here.
Chicago Is Wrong on Condoms for 10-Year-Olds, by Laura Hollis. “…[A]ccording to Fox, these children are developmentally capable of having sex and of making the responsible choice to use a condom during sexual intercourse. In fact, he says as much in the article: ‘Young people have the right to accurate and clear information to make healthy decisions.’ So, a middle schooler having sex qualifies as a ‘healthy decision?’” Read more here.
In Louisiana, Legislators Fall Short of Saving Women’s Sports, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Until or unless the Supreme Court hears a challenge to a state law protecting women’s sports or one based on the federal government’s reinterpretation and application of Title IX spawned by last year’s Bostock decision, women’s right to fair play in Louisiana, at least for the time being, remains on the bench.” Read more here.
Mississippi’s Case Against Roe, by the Editors of National Review. “The brief notes that just last year, the five justices who agreed to strike down an abortion regulation could not agree on the basis for doing it, and the five justices who agreed on what Casey meant did not reach the same judgment in the case. The justices’ inability to devise a predictable set of rules that protects abortion from legislatures, gives them some leeway to set policy, and has some plausible grounding in the Constitution does not stem from any lack of cleverness on their part. The thing cannot be done.” Read more here.
EU Commission Will Sue Poland and Hungary at the EU Court Over LGBT Issues, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “This is the latest escalation of the ongoing culture war between the European Commission and Poland and Hungary. The Commission is the most powerful organ of the European Union. It controls the EU budget. It sets EU rules for all aspects of trade and governs the EU bureaucracy. The Commission has been openly critical of Polish and Hungarian politicians and their policies to protect life and family, and is not afraid to use all tools available to put pressure on them.” Read more here.
Psychotherapeutic and Behavioral Approaches to Treating Gender Dysphoria, by Anonymous. “The ‘affirmative’ model of care for patients with ‘gender’ identity disturbances essentially fast-tracks vulnerable people into a life dependent on exogenous hormone supplementation and surgical after-care, without helping them resolve their underlying psychological issues. The supposed scientific evidence supporting these ‘affirmative’ approaches is based on smoke and mirrors. This has resulted in many harms.” Read more here.
In Praise of Texas’s Abortion-Ban ‘Trigger’ Law, by Kevin D. Williamson. “It is difficult to say whether the Supreme Court actually will overturn Roe and its companion cases, but if five of the justices were to muster enough self-respect to do their job, it is likely that the ruling would be followed by some considerable civic disturbance and political violence, because that is how Americans do things, now. Better to have the law on the books before the riots start.” Read more here.
Senate Republicans Are Determined to Get to the Bottom of Planned Parenthood’s PPP Loans, by Rebecca Downs. “The Small Business Administration (SBA) approved funds for Planned Parenthood it was not supposed to, to the tune of $80 million… Last August, then Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) spearheaded an effort to demand accountability on the loans, and if Planned Parenthood knowingly committed fraud to obtain these loans. Since then, even with Sen. Loeffler out of office and their party now in the majority [sic], Republicans have not let up.” Read more here.
We Are Doctors. Here’s the Truth About Transgender Females’ Bodies and Athleticism, by Michelle Cretella and Quentin Van Meter. “Studies have identified more than 3,000 genes that are differentially expressed in male and female skeletal muscle. Obvious bone differences due to a combination of genetics and hormones even exist at birth; the average male is heavier and taller than the average female and this advantage continues, when controlled for stage of puberty, throughout life. Genetics is why a male who self-identifies as female remains male, and giving estrogen to a male does not transform him into a female.” Read more here.
We Should Defund Colleges and Universities That Distribute Abortion Drugs, by Rep. Chip Roy, Sen. Steve Daines and Kristan Hawkin. “In California, abortion activists recently helped pass a law mandating every public college and university to make abortion pills available to pregnant female students, without exception. This move to dramatically expand abortion on college campuses essentially converts every student health center into another Planned Parenthood and turns dorm rooms into potential abortion clinics.” Read more here.
You Have a Right to Be Transgender. You Don’t Have a Right to Expose Yourself to Women, by Dennis Prager. “Within the lifetime of even the youngest person reading this column, exposing the male organ to strangers … was considered sick and criminal. Men who did it were arrested and charged with indecent exposure, and rightly so. In the span of a few years, thanks to the schools people still send their children to, and thanks to the media people still watch, listen to and read, exposing one’s penis is to be considered wholesome and not only legal but a fundamental civil right.” Read more here.
Medical Professionals and School Districts Are Denying Girls Access to Mental Health Services, by Ginny Gentles. “…[P]arents with daughters who have historically struggled with anxiety, body image, obsessive thoughts, and eating disorders are being told that any expression of gender dysphoria, commonly known as a transgender identity, must be affirmed and validated. Rather than partner with parents, doctors, mental health professionals, and public school staff ignore the child’s mental health anguish, and focus only on validating their gender confusion.” Read more here.
Sports Illustrated’s New Transgender Cover Model Is the Latest Harbinger of Our Confusing Future, by Jonathon Van Maren. “…[E]very time a trendy ‘trans girl’ takes another award or prize or spot from an actual female, the space allotted to women shrinks. That said, biological men identifying as women and winning beauty pageants and landing on swimsuit covers has got to be some sort of feminist nightmare: patriarchy combined with crude objectification. To many trans activists, being gawked at and catcalled like a real girl is the goal, not an irritating part of life in a pornified culture.” Read more here.
Why Free Online Porn Should Be Banned, by Anthony Leonardi. “On a foundational level, our country enacts laws that protect the least of us, particularly children, from becoming victims. Neither federal law nor the Constitution permits obscenity or child pornography. But a proactive, commonsense porn law, like banning free online porn, can and should be enacted to protect them.” Read more here.
Abortion Is Always a Tragedy. No Hollywood Treatment Can Cover That Up, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “…[D]espite a fetus’ current residence in his or her mother’s womb, that infant is still a living, human child, one that would certainly be recognized as such if the mother had chosen to keep her baby. When she’s the first or second child, she’s a miracle, she gets a gender reveal, she has presents piled up for her at a baby shower. When she’s the accident that arrives after the parents have decided they’re done having children, she’s just a clump of cells that an abortionist can dispose of in a ‘safe and quick’ procedure.” Read more here.
Hey, There, IOC: Why Are You Letting Men Compete Against Women at the Olympic Games? by Donna M. “Despite the International Olympic Committee’s mission and commitment ‘to encourage fair play,’ ‘to act against discrimination’ and ‘to encourage and support the promotion of women,’ it has abandoned women. The pinnacle event for female sports is a mockery. Why? Because men are masquerading as women at Tokyo. At least three men have taken the place of female athletes at the Olympics.” Read more here.
The Nation’s Most Profitable Abortion Business Is Also the Main Provider of Sex Ed for Children, by Catherine Livingston, Ph.D. “According to Planned Parenthood, any sex education that promotes avoiding sex before marriage is ‘shaming’ and doesn’t work at all. In fact, in its own words and in bold print, what the abortion giant actually says is this: ‘We have to fight against abstinence-only-until-marriage/SRA [sexual risk avoidance] programs and advocate for sex education laws and funding that support the full range of sex education topics that young people need.’” Read more here.
Why Are Defense Department Schools Transitioning Students’ Gender Behind Parents’ Backs? by Amy Haywood. “To ‘out’ children to their parents, said the teacher, would be ‘unsafe’ and would put them ‘at risk’ at home. For these children, she claimed, school might be the only safe place for them to be their authentic selves, with their chosen ‘safe’ adult. Activist Gay-Straight Alliance sponsors are assuming the roles of medical professional and parent as they facilitate secret gender transitions at school.” Read more here.
The Transgender Industry Is Culling Tomboys Out of Existence, by Nathanael Blake. “The biggest sources of sex stereotypes and strict gender roles in America today are the trans movement and its allies. Many self-described feminists have knuckled under, cheering as it is said that girls should stick to dresses and dolls and that girls who like ‘boy’ things must actually be boys. The transgender movement is far more sexist than the most retrograde, fundamentalist Christians I’ve ever known — at least the latter still let their daughters enjoy basketball and PE.” Read more here.
‘Gender Neutrality’ Emojis Have Given Us a Pregnant Man Emoji, by Rebecca Downs. “There is also ‘a gender-inclusive alternative’ to the princess and prince emojis. The new emoji will simply be ‘Person with Crown.’ It’s all part of a consistent ‘gender neutral option’ though, as mentioned in the blog: ‘The above additions will mean that nearly all emojis can have default [sic] a gender neutral option, with choice to use a woman or man where relevant.’” Read more here.
Against ‘Impurity,’ by Dominic Pino. “If your idea of pornography is Playboy, we aren’t even having the same conversation. We’re so far beyond revealing pictures of models or famous actresses. However bad you think Internet pornography is, it’s worse than that, and the choices are endless. Inexhaustible supply, delivered immediately, no consequences… The church has been powerless to stop it. It feels like all we get are sermons on impurity.” Read more here.
No, Emma Corrin, Chest Binding Is Not ‘Cool,’ by Grace Glaser. “…[A] growing number of young girls have been practicing a technique called chest binding, which involves compressing breast tissue in an attempt to appear more masculine. Compression garments are frequently worn by transgender and ‘nonbinary’ people to diminish feelings of body dysmorphia. Despite the potentially severe consequences, chest binding has been glamorized by fashion magazines and celebrities as a means of fueling the transgender movement.” Read more here.
‘Birthing People’ Canceled – Along With Yet-to-be-Birthed People, by Ann Farmer. “Some have warned that the ‘birthing people’ controversy is just ‘the latest move towards a language which erases women.’ Indeed, we are fast approaching a Brave New World in which the F-word is ubiquitous but motherhood is a dirty word… The wokest of people are usually the most anti-people of people, even while they shout loudest about human rights.” Read more here.
Feminist Camps Clash Over Gender Ideology, Decriminalizing Prostitution, by Lisa Correnti. “Called ‘An Affirmation of Feminist Principles,’ the statement includes eight tenets… These include legalizing abortion, decriminalizing prostitution, ‘gender-transformative comprehensive sexuality education’ for children, including for bodily autonomy and pleasure, opening women-only spaces to biological men who identify as women, and free, comprehensive life-long health care that assists persons identifying as transgender to change their bodies with hormones and surgery.” Read more here.
Schools, Back Off. It’s My Kid You’re Transitioning, by Anonymous Author. “Without my permission or knowledge, my son’s school counsellor changed his name to a girl’s name. When I wrote to the counsellor, she ignored my emails. I was looked upon as the enemy even though I have always been my son’s biggest advocate. I was afraid to push back because I feared that the school would call in child services.” Read more here.
For These Booksellers, Science Is Suddenly Violence, by Madeline Fry Schultz. “It would be funny, if it weren’t so sad, to see the way progressives on Twitter responded to the ABA’s already groveling apology. ‘You’ve actively hurt people,’ reads one comment, which, as far as I can tell, is not satire. No mention of the ‘hurt’ that may be endured by thousands of young girls who permanently alter their biology to conform to an identity they might well wish to abandon when they grow up a bit.” Read more here.
Loudoun County Parents Discover Chilling CRT Teacher Training Material Decrying ‘Heterosexism’ and Parental Autonomy, by Kira Davis. “Got that? The role of parents role is to respect the teachers’ authority as the secondary parent in a child’s life. If any birthing person want to exercise their role as a co-parent with the state and voice their opinions about Critical Race Theory they will first need to…*checks notes*… ‘accept responsibility for their own racism, sexism, heterosexism, etc., and attempt to deal with them in a non-defensive, guilt free manner.’” Read more here.
Yale Professor Wants Your Kids to See Sex at Pride Parades so They’re Not ‘Homophobes,’ by Spencer Lindquist. “The assertion that ‘children might like it,’ with ‘it’ referring to adult nudity and kink, blatantly contradicts the common moral understanding that children should be entirely removed from adult sexuality. Through this statement and the entire article, it becomes apparent that this understanding is one Fischel is actively working to undermine.” Read more here.
Thanks to Neil Gorsuch, the Biden Administration Is Forcing Employers Everywhere to End Free Speech and Put Men in Women’s Bathrooms, by Laura Baxter. “This regime forces employers to waste enormous amounts of time and money on compliance (i.e., lawyers), Orwellian training, complaint hotlines, and redesigning perfectly serviceable bathroom facilities. And employees waste time and brain cells on continuous self-censorship, while struggling with how to stand up for their convictions without getting fired. Actual work, of course, goes on the back burner.” Read more here.
I Went to Drag Queen Story Hour in Washington, D.C. so You Don’t Have To, by Gabe Kaminski. “One can only hope parents did not have knowledge of the performer’s past while bringing children to the event. Her performances include dancing in stockings with pieces of green cake falling off her costume, singing shirtless with duct tape on her breasts as people touch her forehead, dancing with a black thong around her thighs, and laying down with what appears to be fake sperm across her mouth.” Read more here.
Radical Transgender Activism Is Proof Positive That We Have Lost Our Corporate Minds, by Michael Brown. “No one has the right to expect that a biological male, naked and fully exposed, will not come marching into the women’s area? No one has the right to expect that their children will not suffer this kind of sexual and psychological abuse? Seriously? This used to be called indecent exposure. You could go to jail for this. But not today. Today it is just a needless ‘hullabaloo,’ to quote the exact term used by the Times. We’ll get over it soon enough.” Read more here.
New York Times Shocked: Parents Oppose ‘Porn Literacy’ in Schools, by Ben Johnson. “In reality, parents objected to an overly explicit (and amoral) presentation being made to their children without their consent. One outraged parent told the New York Post, ‘It’s outrageous that the school is introducing pornography into a mainstream classroom and starting to indoctrinate kids. The goal of this is to disrupt families.’ That parent may not have known how right she was.” Read more here.
Netflix Star Dons Latest LGBT Fashion Trend to Promote Gender Confusion in Young Girls, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Corrin’s ‘first breast-binder’ photo, unfortunately, will torque the transgender craze and assist in the normalization of the medicalization of childhood, adolescence and adulthood. For many girls considering taking this step, a faux-sexy celebrity photo shoot will go a long way towards convincing them that this is a safe and normal step to take. Transgender ‘treatments’ have entered the mainstream. Protect your families. This is going to get much worse before it gets better.” Read more here.
2 Educators Fight for Their Jobs After Suggesting Commonsense Transgender Policies for School, by Nicole Russell. “…[W]hat’s the harm in allowing for multiple viewpoints in the spirit of tolerance? Perhaps their commonsense views would have been a jumping-off point to a different kind of debate, one that allows for tradition, logic, and science—rather than the pervasive view that transgender students should be able to waltz into whatever bathroom they desire, to the chagrin of other students and their privacy.” Read more here.
Trans Activist: ‘As a Non-Binary Person, My Abortion Experience Led to a Lot of Gender Dysphoria,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “Lloyd is now both an abortion activist and a trans activist, attempting to debunk the old pro-abortion slogans about abortion being a women’s issue. Abortion activists who never accepted that pre-born children had fathers and that fathers have a stake in the future of their children are happily accepting the idea that men can get pregnant and thus also need to experience the joy of having a child killed.” Read more here.
Yes, a Family Competes With Women’s Careers, but Family Matters More, by Joy Pullman. “If you have a husband and children — and the vast majority of women very much want these things — it is counterproductive to acquire them only to take them out only on weekends like rented designer clothing. Not only do you miss the full experience of family life this way, you also miss the opportunity to shape your children deeply in the ways that women find so rewarding and society needs so badly.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Denies a Woman’s Free Exercise of Christianity, by Terence Jeffrey. “Can Barronelle Stutzman, a Christian, run her flower shop in keeping with her faith? The Supreme Court—with determinative votes cast by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh—has effectively decided she cannot.” Read more here.
2021 Has Been a Banner Year for the Pro-Life Movement So Far, by Zachary Faria. “Voters have given their politicians a mandate, and in several states, those politicians have fulfilled it. This year, Arkansas passed a near-total ban on abortion. Idaho, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas have passed bills banning abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected… And Oklahoma and Texas have joined the 10 other states who have ‘trigger’ laws on the books, which would enact near-total abortion bans if the legal abomination of Roe v. Wade is overturned.” Read more here.
Inside UC San Francisco’s Massive Abortion Training Network, by Ben Zeisloft. “The Ryan Residency’s recruitment brochure for medical students laments that obstetrics and gynecology programs ‘do not offer routine abortion training’ and ‘spend little time discussing abortion.’ Beyond residencies, students are encouraged to attend an annual Conference on Family Planning ‘for a weekend of abortion and family planning education’ and an Abortion Training Institute to ‘learn all about abortion procedures’ and ‘abortion-focused legislation.’” Read more here.
Canadian Psychotherapist Says That School Teachers are Cultivating Transgender Kids, by Wyatt Claypool. “When asked if teachers specifically are pushing it on students Dr Gillies confirmed it and said, ‘Yes, I’ve interviewed teens about this,’ going on to agree with the proposition that some teachers feel ‘progressive’ by cultivating transgender children in their classroom and are not simply just following the lead of the children and often leading the children into identification as transgender.” Read more here.
The Transgender Lobby Wants to Rewrite the Law, by Maya Forstater. “That there are two sexes, and that people cannot literally change sex, are plain statements of fact that also align with British law… A powerful lobby group led by the charity Stonewall, which used to campaign for gay rights, has told organisations to go ‘above and beyond’ the law. As a result, we now live in a society where articulating the law is deemed an offence for which powerful people and organisations will try to ruin your life, while others look away.” Read more here.
Facebook-Funded Radical Trans Ideology Infiltrates UK Schools, by Ann Farmer. “Children naturally internalise such matters, and boys and girls still at the stage of believing in fairies, witches and magic spells will begin to wonder if they are really girls and boys, with predictable results: the numbers of self-identifying ‘gender questioning’ young people will rise, justifying … even more unnecessary, dangerous and irreversible ‘treatments’ and, no doubt, even more government money for sexual diversity activists to produce even more damaging material for schools.” Read more here.
Chinese Scientists Try to Make a Male Rat Pregnant. It’s Time to Draw the Line, by Matthew Eagan. “The ramifications for this would be extreme. Would the development of such a procedure lead to doctors being encouraged to implant uteri into biological males who identify as females so they are able to gestate children? This is just one of many questions that could and should be asked about this study and where they hope for it to lead.” Read more here.
Biden’s Budget Proposal Contradicts Majority of Americans Who Oppose Taxpayer-Funded Abortion, by Marjorie Dannenfelser and Tessa Longbons. “…Biden now caters to the most extreme pro-abortion voices in his party and has campaign promises to keep to an industry that spent millions to elect him. House Democrats likewise have the Dornan Amendment in their crosshairs. Their dream budget would unravel these vital protections – forcing taxpayers to pay for unlimited abortions, even up to birth, against the will of most Americans.” Read more here.
We’ll Tell You What ’60 Minutes+’ Won’t About How Transgender Movement Endangers Kids, by Emilie Kao. “A growing number of actual doctors in the U.S. and overseas are questioning why there is such a sudden rise in the number of children who ‘identify’ as transgender. The recent surge in the number of children expressing gender dysphoria even caused the doctors who created the ‘Dutch Protocol’ of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to question its use on young patients with gender dysphoria.” Read more here.
If You Think Trans Ideology Is Infantile, You’re Not Wrong, by Jane Robbins. “Transgender mania thus is explained on a theoretical level by understanding this academic context. It simply doesn’t matter that there’s no science to support it and that rational people are baffled by it. There is no normal, no objective truth. And the experiences of the growing number of primarily young people who now regret the medical interventions imposed upon them are simply not ‘authentic.’” Read more here.
Academics Rush to Defend Teacher Who Taught ‘Pornography Literacy,’ Showed First Graders Cartoon About Masturbation, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “…[E]ducators defended the teacher’s methods to The New York Times, saying that she did not teach anything inappropriate… The Times emphasized that many children have already been exposed to pornography by their early teenage years and thus profit from pornography literacy classes that teach students how to assess what they see.” Read more here.
Gay Men’s Chorus Sings ‘We’ll Convert Your Children, We’re Coming for Them.’ They’re Serious, by Doug Mainwaring. “These are arrogant conquerors who, despite their after-the-fact protestations, are letting it be known that the rainbow flag has been firmly planted in American culture, eviscerating science, nature, and morality by rejecting the immutable truth of complementarity… Activist homosexuals and transgenders have ostensibly won this war.” Read more here.
Base Olympic Competition on Biological Sex, Not Testosterone Levels, by Tom Joyce. “The testosterone level policy is bunk. What matters is whether or not someone is a man or a woman. Some people have natural athletic advantages over one another. If that person is an XX chromosome woman, she should be allowed to use those advantages and compete against other women. If that person is a man with XY chromosomes, let him use those advantages to compete against other men… This isn’t an issue that should require intense debate: Accept biology and move on.” Read more here.
New Security and Humanitarian Compact: Advancing Women or Abortion Trojan Horse? by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The Compact was not the result of an open and transparent negotiation, as UN agreements are traditionally required to be. UN donors increasingly bypass traditional negotiations to avoid having to sacrifice political priorities that lack universal support, including abortion and LGBT issues.” Read more here.
When Marriage Becomes a Private Matter, by Mark Regnerus. “It matters profoundly whether a society understands marriage as a public concern or merely a private matter… Divorce severs far more than a solitary marriage, even if the union has yielded no children. In-laws are commonly cut off from an ex-spouse, and friends often wind up forced to pick sides. (I refer to divorce as ‘the gift that keeps on taking.’) Both marriage and divorce have extensive social ramifications in others’ lives.” Read more here.
The Endgame Is in Sight: Participate in the Mass Delusion of Trans Ideology or Face Sanction, by Jeanette Ward and Jonathan David Farley. “The media uses the pronoun ‘she’ to describe biologically male students who wish they were girls, and in so doing denies science and the very basis for sex-segregated restrooms and locker rooms. If biological sex does not determine restroom usage, there is no reason to prohibit any student from using any restroom, locker room, or shower that he, she or ‘ze’ desires. ‘Indecent exposure’ becomes meaningless.” Read more here.
Transgenderism: Is Restroom Choice All There Is to It? by Richard Arrington. “Should we as a society encourage young people to do what feels right, even if it is wrong? Why don’t we treat the anorexic who feels like they are fat, see themselves as fat, and starves or purges as a result, like we do the gender dysphoric? Both are harmful to the student, and both are mental illnesses. Why don’t we just tell the child with social anxiety disorder, ‘it is who you are, go home and become a hermit?’ …[W]e show compassion and seek to help them with treatment.” Read more here.
Solving the Nation’s Violence Problem Starts With Supporting Fathers, by Ellen Sauerbrey & Richard E. Vatz. “Since the 1960s Great Society, government programs that attempted to replace the father have failed to solve the problem. In fact, they have made it worse. Despite clear evidence of the relationship between crime, gangs, poverty, and educational failure, politicians, religious leaders, and the media simply refuse to acknowledge, much less address, the primary cause: the breakdown of the family.” Read more here.
Trans Women Should Not Be in Women’s Prisons, by Jo Bartosch. “But fear not, there’s a procedure for filtering out the benign convicts in wigs and lippy from the baddies who might identify as trans to gain access to female victims. A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) policy, entitled ‘The care and management of individuals who are transgender,’ advises that staff with responsibility for placing male prisoners in the female estate must first complete an e-learning module on transgender identity. What could possibly go wrong?” Read more here.
Biden Admin’s Gender-Confused Passport Reform Is Just a Road to More Confusion, by Jonathon Van Maren. “You’ll notice … that there were a number of things that Blinken did not explain. For example, why a non-binary person — who rejects identifying as either male or female — needs ‘a gender marker.’ Or why gender identity needs to be presented on government ID. Or whether self-selecting gender eliminates the usefulness of ID in the first place. Or if government documents are really the best place for self-expression.” Read more here.
WaPo Promotes Children Being Exposed to ‘Kink at Pride’ in What May Be Its Most Horrifying Piece Yet, by Rebecca Downs. “The piece reads throughout as a celebration of those engaging in kink, exposing it to children, and claiming everyone else is in the wrong. They’re ‘fierce and determined role models’ and ‘Kink embodies the freedom that Pride stands for…’ It’s one thing for people to do as they please as consenting adults and in the appropriate, private setting. Literally parading it around in public is another story entirely.” Read more here.
This Is the Dangerous LGBTQ+ Trajectory That We Have Been Warning About, by Michael Brown. “Just look at this four-word phrase: ‘woman exposing their penis’ (and yes, never forget that he did this in the presence of girls). What kind of madness is this? A woman does not have a penis (yes, we need to remind people of this fact these days, since it is hotly disputed). And a single woman is not described by the possessive pronoun ‘their…’ And what of the dangerous trajectory in which some believe that this man has the ‘right’ to such behavior since, after all, he is trans?” Read more here.
EU to Orban: Back Gay Rights or Get Out! by Pat Buchanan. “Christian teachings have a pedigree that goes back millennia. But what is the source of moral authority for modernity’s doctrine that homosexuality is moral, other than some transient ideology, which Russell Kirk reminded us is political religion? What is the source of the morality that teaches same-sex unions are the equal of traditional marriage and any government that does not agree is a bigoted regime with which we ought not associate?” Read more here.
Biden Administration Masks Abortion Agenda as ‘Gender Equality,’ by Neydy Casillas. “Simply put, the unstated purpose of Biden’s memo is to ensure access to free abortion with no limits globally, even if this means bypassing a country’s national sovereignty. The memo states that existing conditions undermine the U.S.’s ability to advance ‘gender equality’ globally because it restricts the possibility to support ‘women’s health.’ Women and gender equality are not of interest to the Biden administration, advancing the abortion agenda is.” Read more here.
Watch Barclays Demand Employees Mindlessly Agree With LGBTQ Mantras in Creepy Video, by Jordan Davidson. “During pride month in June, the multinational bank instructed employees how to ‘support pride by understanding how our actions can help the LGBT+ community…’ In addition to disturbingly telling employees to state their alliance with gay, transgender, and other queer people, the company openly encourages employees to prioritize ‘championing equality, understanding, respect, and inclusivity for the LGBT+ community.’” Read more here.
California’s Latest Gender Identity Law Is Producing Predictable Consequences, by Katie Pavlich. “A California state law passed last year … allows men to be housed at prisons with women. All they have to do is identify as a woman and they’re in. No questions or judgement allowed. Sane people knew the law would have negative effects on women in California’s prisons by putting them at risk for assault and abuse. Now, six months into the practice the results have been horrific. Worse, they were completely predictable.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Wants to Eradicate Religious Freedom, by Liberty Counsel. “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 permits houses of worship to make employment decisions based on religion… The ‘Equality Act’ would abolish this fundamental right. Churches, synagogues, and mosques could be forced to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs with respect to LGBTQ. The Senate version of the bill states that ‘Q’ stands for ‘Queer.’ This term can include the LGBTQ agenda as well as a long list of paraphilias, including ‘minor attracted individuals’ (pedophilia).” Read more here.
Critics Slam Washington Post Article Encouraging ‘Kink Culture’ for Children, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Greenwald added: ‘The problem is that when a highly funded social movement succeeds in all of its goals, it won’t declare victory and stop: too much money, too much activist bureaucracy and jobs at stake, so it keeps expanding to justify its own existence into unrecognizable areas.’” Read more here.
Women’s Sports Are Under Attack, by Nicola Williams. “No one has a human right to compete in the Olympic Games. Nonetheless, in 2015, … the IOC reviewed its 2003 policy. The new policy ditched not just the testes-removal requirement but all three of the old criteria, opening up eligibility to compete as female to many more trans-identifying males, not just transsexuals. Now all that’s needed is a declaration of gender identity, and testosterone suppression for twelve months, to a level that is still ten times higher than the typical female level.” Read more here.
Britons Are Fighting for American Values, by Abigail Shrier. “Gender ideology provides the ultimate test for free speech across the West precisely because its demands are so egregious, its arrogation of women’s rights so shameless, its tenets so absurd: the case for ‘reasonable minds may differ’ will never be more easily made. Fail this test, and we will soon be babbling Woke patois: ‘My pronouns are she and they.’” Read more here.
Save James: Father Risks Arrest to Save 9-Year-Old Son From Forced Gender Transition, by John-Henry Westen. “Jeff points out just how dangerous the ‘transitioning’ methods are to psychological and physical health. He explains how ‘puberty blockers block the normal growth of the skeleton,’ and mentions the problems with cross-sex hormones, which cause permanent sterilization. Jeff tells me how he believes it is his right and duty as a father to protect his son and to disobey ‘any illegal order, mandate or law that especially endangers my son.’” Read more here.
Laurel Hubbard Is Just a Symptom of New Chilling Attacks on Free Speech in New Zealand, by Amy Brooke. “The situation regarding the NZOC’s decision is now even more relevant, given new proposals by the Left to widen New Zealand’s ‘hate speech’ legislation, proposing it be removed from the Human Rights Act to create a new offence in the Crimes Act. Despite the usual disclaimers, it will inevitably (and is very probably so designed) not only inhibit debate but empower the government to punish those formerly able to claim freedom of speech in any area now regarded as displeasing. Possible debate around basic sexuality has become one of these fraught areas.” Read more here.
Marriage Officers Should Have the Right to Object on Religious Grounds, by Shaun de Freitas. “…[T]he required protection should be awarded to the marriage officer or magistrate who objects to solemnise same-sex marriages, an objection based on a conscientiously prescribed conviction. Related to this, the civil authorities, as tasked by the Constitution itself, ‘must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights.’ The final outcome in this matter will clearly indicate the degree of commitment and urgency by the government to truly advance diversity…” Read more here.
When Men Are Crowned First Place in Female Beauty Pageants, You Know Elites Think You’re Stupid Cattle, by Gabe Kaminsky. “If this all rubs you the wrong way, don’t fret. You are a sane person who understands basic science, regardless of what corrupt institutions and the government demand that you think. Enriquez’s victory is not shocking given the cultural moment we find ourselves in, but the minute it becomes normalized by the public is when our republic gets laid to rest.” Read more here.
The Trouble With Claiming 1 in 5 Latter-Day Saints Is Non-Heterosexual, by Jacob Hess. “…[S]cientific research has the potential to unite us as we gather together to grapple over truth and consider the meaning of particular datasets. This scientific process at its best can undermine even popular narratives and unsettle cherished ideas. But at its worst, we see more and more examples of exactly the opposite — selective data analyses being leveraged to advance popular narratives, quite apart from what the actual truth of the matter is. And that should concern us all.” Read more here.
‘Trans Mission’ Raises Questions LGBT Activists Refuse to Answer About Transgendering Kids, by Nathanael Blake. “Even if we accepted the claim that some adults should surgically alter their bodies to impersonate the opposite sex, could we ever justify putting young children on a course of social and medical interventions that will leave them sterile and consigned to a life of potentially hazardous hormone treatments? … This is not about being nice to Caitlyn. It’s about ruinous mutilations of children’s bodies.” Read more here.
U.S. and Other Donors Pledge Billions at UN Event to Promote Abortion and Radical Feminist Policies, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. and Rebecca Oas, Ph. D. “Twenty-five years ago, 189 countries adopted a landmark platform to advance women’s rights without creating a right to abortion. This week, the UN commemorated that agreement with a forum in which donors pledged billions of dollars to advance abortion and a radical feminist agenda.” Read more here.
5 Things Every Christian Should Know About the Trans Movement, by Brandon Showalter. “Until recently, the idea that someone might be ‘transgender’ was confined to the margins of society and was seen as an extremely rare phenomenon. Today, rising numbers of people, especially in the younger generations, are not only identifying as the opposite sex, as transgender, but are choosing a new gender identity from an ever-growing list of made-up options. Some of these include ‘nonbinary,’ ‘agender’ or ‘genderqueer.’ None of these so-called gender identities can be defined biologically or in material terms.” Read more here.
Doublespeak on Abortion Helps Neither Women nor Children, by Christina Francis. “This is what the pro-choice lobby doesn’t want you to know: according to the Guttmacher Institute’s own numbers, the overwhelming majority of abortions in the U.S. are performed for socioeconomic and not medical reasons. Even so, pro-choice advocates pretend that abortion and women’s health are one and the same. They are not, and in fact, there are thousands of cases each year of abortions causing lasting damage to a woman’s health.” Read more here.
Abortions Due to Disabilities and Illness are Heartbreaking and Should Not Be Normalized, by Charlotte Pence Bond. “Fostering a sense of normalcy around late-term abortions due to disability enhances the stigma that disabled persons and their families live with on a daily basis, not to mention ignores the situations when doctors are wrong about a diagnosis and a mother who was encouraged to abort her baby gives birth to a perfectly healthy child. It also reinforces the notion that some lives are worth living — while others are not.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Gives Democrats Free Rein to Transgender Public Schools, by Margot Cleveland. “…[W]hile the Supreme Court may see no urgency in the resolving the legal questions at issue, while the justices sit on the sidelines, the privacy rights of children (and adults) are at risk, as are parental rights, the right to free exercise of religion, and the right to free speech—which also includes the right not to be compelled to speak, even when the forced speech concerns pronouns.” Read more here.
Repudiating Roe (Part I): The Most Important Abortion Case in Thirty Years, by Michael Stokes Paulsen. “Roe’s formulation of the abortion right is also quite extreme… After viability, an abortion may be had for any ‘health’ reason, but ‘health’ is defined broadly (and misleadingly) to embrace emotional, psychological, age, or ‘familial’ considerations. This loophole is big enough to make the right to abortion functionally absolute, even when the child could live outside the womb.” Read more here.
Repudiating Roe (Part II): The Pernicious Doctrine of Stare Decisis, by Michael Stokes Paulsen. “Whenever it can be said, with sufficient confidence, that a prior decision is seriously and meaningfully wrong—not just technically mistaken in some minor, immaterial, or inconsequential respect; not a matter of reasonable disagreement; but out-and-out wrong in a way that matters—the justices’ ultimate duty to the Constitution obliges them to overrule the error. Roe … is not a close case. It is a flat-out indefensible misreading of the Constitution with enormous consequences.” Read more here.
By Dodging School Bathrooms Case, Supreme Court Cements Earlier Win for Transgender Rights, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “The recent guidance issued by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights makes clear that at least until a change in administration or the Supreme Court’s review of the issue, Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding will be interpreted to mean discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, too.” Read more here.
Transgender, Transracial, What’s the Difference? by Rod Dreher. “If men can have vulvas, and women can have penises, despite their biology, and despite their DNA, by what standard do we tell Oli London that he can’t be an ethnic Korean, despite having the DNA of an Englishman? I think he’s beyond bonkers, but if identity is a matter of self-perception and assertion, no matter what biology testifies, then Oli has a valid point.” Read more here.
Ohio Democrats Bang on Desks to Disrupt Vote on Amendment to Protect Women’s Sports From Men, by Joshua Arnold. “It’s sad that legislators are so imprisoned by a false ideology that they cannot endure a brief description of reality. And it’s sad that so many grown Americans lack the self-control to listen to an opposing point of view with civility and respect. On the other hand, it’s encouraging to see states maintain momentum in protecting women’s sports.” Read more here.
How a 10-Year-Old Girl’s Mom Saved Her From Going Transgender, by Walt Heyer. “With this mother’s permission, I share her terrifying experience of almost losing her young daughter in a few short months. I’ve shortened her emails for space and clarity. Her story illustrates how easily a ten-year-old girl can be groomed into a cross-sex identity, but for the intervention of her mindful parents… Their story followed a common five-step process I have seen numerous times.” Read more here.
‘Progressive’ Education: Against Religion, Substitute Polymorphous Sexuality, by David Lewis Schaefer. “…[F]ew of these scenarios have anything to do with the stated purposes for implementing a sex-education curriculum: preventing pregnancy or STD’s. Instead, the aim is to encourage students to rethink their gender identification and sexual orientation, to challenge traditional sources of moral authority, and to regard sexual activity, as early as the tenth grade, as a ‘right’ free of parental interference.” Read more here.
Thanks to Supreme Court Cowardice, the Government Is Still Persecuting Jack Phillips for Being a Christian, by Dennis Weisman. “The extant case is arguably not about discrimination, unless it is discrimination against Phillips’s religious beliefs, but about the Colorado Civil Rights Commission expressing its disapproval of his views. Phillips does not think the way the commission thinks he should. Phillips is a devout Christian, and the government should not force him to employ his skills in a manner that offends his faith.” Read more here.
SOCE Reduces Suicidality in a New Study, by Andrè Van Mol, M.D. “What if another study came to print asserting that sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) constituted harmful stressors to sexual minorities? What if a published letter to the editor in the same journal exposed gaping holes in the assessment? What if a reanalysis of the original study … revealed polar opposite findings: SOCE ‘strongly reduces suicidality’… Now that would be something! And these things happened!” Read more here.
The Crusade to Destroy Jack Phillips Continues, by David Harsanyi. “Phillips is now back where he started, guilty of a thought crime. Scardina, in fact, admitted this was about wanting to ‘correct the errors’ in Phillips’ thinking. And an unprincipled judge has affirmed the right of certain people to impel speech on others… What is certain is that the crusade to destroy Phillips—and many others like him—will continue until the Supreme Court upholds the clear language and intent of the First Amendment.” Read more here.
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues, by Quillette Magazine. “…[T]he very fact that she had to defend her reputation in this way shows how deeply embedded gender dogma has become in the world of arts and letters. This includes journalism, too: Even after the Academy apologized to de Wahls, news reports described the artist as being marked by ‘accusations of transphobia,’ without plainly noting that these accusations are baseless. And thanks to Google, these smears will follow de Wahls throughout her career.” Read more here.
President Biden Rants Against ‘Ugliest, Most Un-American Laws’ Which ‘Target Transgender Children,’ by Rebecca Downs. “The Equality Act would not so much protect LGBT individuals as it would infringe on the rights of everyone else who is not in lock-step with the radical left. It should never be ‘appropriate’ or be considered ‘medical care’ for minors to be given puberty blockers, hormonal therapies, and be sterilized or even mutilated because they may or may not be trans. Studies have consistently showed that most children with gender dysphoria grow out of it.” Read more here.
Promoting Loki’s ‘Bisexuality’ May Be Hurting the Show’s Ratings, by Megan Basham. “’As for why he believes the show is falling off a cliff, Heel vs Babyface states, “It’s very, very obvious to see why. Because Marvel, Disney, whichever way you want to put it, are hiring selfish, self-absorbed, narcissistic activists, who can’t see past skin, who can’t see past sexuality, who must force their politics into the show.”’” Read more here.
Births in Germany: A Dead Cat Bounce or Real Recovery? by Louis T. March. “Sadly, every year since the 1970s, more people have died than were born in Germany. Only through longevity and immigration has the population increased, and that is certainly a double-edged sword… [I]f the number of native, traditional Europeans continues to decline, with cheap labor imported to fill the gap, soon enough their societies will be European only by incident of geography.” Read more here.
Conservative Democratic [sic] Disappoints With Opposition to Legislation Protecting Women’s Sports, by Rebecca Downs. “…Edwards raised concerns that the NCAA would punish the state and not allow the 2022 Final Four to be played in New Orleans… However, as I reported last month: ‘Earlier this week, the NCAA proved it wasn’t going to punish states that passed laws to protect young women from competing in sports against biological men after all.’” Read more here.
Jamaica Under Pressure: A Caribbean Nation Faces Mounting Demands by International Actors to Change Its Abortion Laws, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “…[T]he framing of the survey’s findings as ‘massive support’ for abortion as a right is part of a coordinated campaign to convince Jamaicans that their neighbors support a right to abortion, and to convince politicians that taking a stand in favor of abortion will be popular among their constituents.” Read more here.
Fatherlessness Can Be Fatal, by Jerry Newcombe. “…[O]ne of the biggest problems with all this is viewing the father as ‘expendable.’ And who fills in the gap? Uncle Sam? The gang leaders? Of course, many young men become gang-bangers because the gang leader becomes surrogate fathers for them. The Bible warns: Bad company corrupts good morals. And the whole thing becomes a vicious cycle.” Read more here.
Growing Up With Mom and Dad: New Data Confirm the Tide Is Turning, by Nicholas Zill. “It is too early to say for certain but growing numbers of actual and would-be parents seem to be heeding the conventional wisdom that a stable two-parent family helps children flourish educationally, socially, and economically. They have come to accept that loving and being loved by one’s two parents, who are also committed to one another, has benefits for the children and adults involved and for the community in which they live.” Read more here.
Government Cannot Force Americans to Affirm Transgender Ideology, by Travis Barham. “When a right enumerated in the Constitution … conflicts with an interest, a right, or an alleged ‘right’ that is not in the Constitution, the constitutional right always prevails in a legal dispute… So, the free speech and free exercise rights of a professor should prevail over a transgender-identifying person’s demand that other people affirm his asserted gender identity (and the underlying ideological claims about the relationship between sex and gender identity that go along with it).” Read more here.
Scientists Are Creating Unborn Babies to Kill for Research, by Jamie Bowers. “‘The ISSCR is a self-appointed group of scientists with no oversight making up the rules to justify their horrific experiments. The removal of the 14-day limit shows their real goal: unlimited human experimentation, making human embryos into disposable laboratory supplies. The removal of any limits on laboratory growth of human beings also paves a deadly path for further use of human embryos as lab rats.’” Read more here.
Nickelodeon Promotes Transgender Programming to Kids, by Armstrong Williams. “Children should be off-limits, and networks like Nickelodeon must be held accountable if people of moral standing have any leg to stand on. Children are vulnerable, easily influenced and unaware of what adults know, which is all the more dangerous and concerning… Parents could trust television content when I was younger, but those days are long gone; we are ceding the ability to raise kids who can be just kids.” Read more here.
Poll: Voters Hate the Equality Act When They Hear What It Actually Does, by Natasha Chart, Carolina Sagebin Allen, and Wendy Wixom. “When likely voters were asked whether female-only athletic competitions should be banned, only 11 percent said they should, while 74 percent disagreed. Only eight percent supported a ban on female-only homeless and domestic violence shelters, compared to 83 percent who opposed one. Asked whether they support allowing male sex offenders and domestic abusers to serve their sentences in women’s prisons, only 7 percent said yes while 82 percent said no.” Read more here.
The Problems With Laurel Hubbard’s Qualifying for the Olympics as a Woman, by Nicole Williams. “Inclusion for some always means exclusion for others. The female sport category was created to include females in sports by excluding males. Sport is about bodies, not gender identities. In fact, many sports have ‘open’ and ‘female’ categories. But the open category tends to end up looking like it’s only for men. If gender identity is allowed to replace biological sex for those who wish it, the female category, or at least the podium end of it, could end up looking much the same.” Read more here.
When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake, by Angus Fox. “Nearly half attributed their children’s changes in identity, at least in part, to a desire to be part of a positive social movement… Four-fifths thought that their children had been influenced by spending too much time online. Parents have been complaining about their kids’ lifestyle choices and political convictions since the dawn of time, of course. But rarely have such choices involved committing oneself to the possibility of sterility and a lifetime of medical therapies.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Bostock Ruling Opened a Can of Worms for Title IX and Girls’ Sports, by Elad Hakim. “Recently, the Department of Education announced that transgender students are protected under Title IX, which [now] protects people from discrimination based on sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, in any educational setting that receives federal aid. Again, the decision was based on the court’s decision in Bostock and the broad definition of ‘sex.’” Read more here.
Lancet Commission Sanitizes China’s Human Rights Abuses Against Mothers and Children, by Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. and Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The Commission also claims that women benefited from the one-child mandate because fewer pregnancies and births meant fewer birth complications and fewer child deaths, due to fewer children. The Commission also claims that China’s one-child policy ‘accelerated gender equality because of the large number of single daughters who benefited from all household resources.’” Read more here.
This Transgender Lawsuit Will Go to the Supreme Court, by Stu Cvrk. “While the worldwide Left … are [sic] spinning Act 626 as an outrageous violation of human and civil rights and a violation of the 14th Amendment, the reality is that the LGBTQ+ onslaught against existing societal norms is in reality an attack on traditional morality and Judeo-Christian faith. In short, this is just their latest assault on the family by undermining the time-honored practice in society and the law of parental control of minor children – without the state or cultural Marxists interfering in those personal decisions.” Read more here.
The Time I Had to Apologize for America, by Valerie Huber. “…[T]he Biden administration is proving to be the most pro-abortion administration, so the importance that it seems to be placing on dismantling this global coalition is no surprise. The [Geneva Consensus Declaration] coalition is deemed so groundbreaking and significant that pro-abortion and anti-family advocacy groups warn that decades-long gains on their radical agenda are in serious jeopardy.” Read more here.
A Sobering Moment in the Midst of June’s Endless Flood of LGBTQ Pride, by Michael Brown. “…[T]hese were the choices offered (and I quote them verbatim): ‘Female (including transgender women); Male (including transgender men); Prefer to self-describe as ______ (non-binary, gender-fluid, agender, please specify); None of the above.’ So, not only must we be told that ‘female’ includes men who identify as women and ‘male’ includes women who identify as men … [but] we must be given examples of the various ways we can self-describe in case we needed some hints.” Read more here.
The Tokyo Olympics Marks the Beginning of the End for the Integrity of Women’s Sports, by Zachary Faria. “Even while Russia is banned from fielding a team for the next two Olympics over doping, the natural biological advantage of male puberty has received the green light for competition, so long as a mostly useless one-year minimum of testosterone suppression is adhered to. And with transgenderism being a growing trend, we are likely to see more athletes like Hubbard, Wolfe, and Telfer.” Read more here.
Equality Act Slams the Door on Religious Freedom, by Star Parker. “Now that same-sex marriage is law of the land, the option of foster care in the home of same-sex couples should be examined. But they should not be free to shut down organizations insisting on biblical values. Now congressional Democrats are trying to pass the Equality Act that would do just that… The Equality Act is not about equality. It is about forcing the LGBTQ agenda on all Americans.” Read more here.
Fulton Is Not a Case About ‘LGBT Rights,’ by Alexandra Desanctis. “…[T]he agency also does not partner with unmarried straight couples. Presumably, the agency would not place a child with two brothers, straight or gay, who wish to adopt a child together, nor would the agency place a child with two female best friends who live together… [T]he Catholic Church teaches and the agency believes that it is best for children to live in a home headed up by a married mother and father. The sexual orientation of the individuals is beside the point.” Read more here.
A Small Win for the Free Exercise of Religion, by Washington Examiner. “The 9-0 majority in Fulton found that the city of Philadelphia discriminated against a Catholic organization. That’s true, and it’s good that anti-religious discrimination is still barred by the liberals on the Supreme Court. But the Constitution, rightly understood, demands more from our governments. Cities, states, and the federal government owe more than equal treatment to religion — they owe deference.” Read more here.
3 Ways the Left’s Hatred of Women Shows Up In Transgender Ideology, by Jane Robbins. “Much of the left’s misogyny arises from the sudden ‘transgender’ contagion. Trans-accommodating policies have real victims, in addition to the ultimate victimization of the gender-dysphoric. Usually if not always, those other victims are women… President Biden plans to force federally funded women’s shelters to admit biological males, and California now allows male prisoners to transfer to women’s prisons even with no surgical procedures.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Unanimous Gift for Children and Pluralism, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “It’s this hostility that caused the city of Philadelphia to cut off ties with Catholic Social Services — a storied and superior player among foster-care and adoption agencies — because of their views on marriage and the family. But the good news is that the Supreme Court has heard the plea. Things have gone too far. That’s why all people of good will can rally around the Fulton case. People close to the plaintiffs in the case admit that the unanimous 9–0 ruling wasn’t in their wildest dreams.” Read more here.
Will Republicans Step Up to Challenge on Values? by Star Parker. “Those pushing the LGBTQ agenda, the anti-Christian, the anti-traditional values agenda, are totally clear with themselves that this is not about peaceful coexistence, mutual acceptance, or religious liberty. They are in an all-out cultural war to eradicate all influence of biblical values in our culture. And why should they back off? As the data above shows, they are winning.” Read more here.
Catholic Foster Care Wins Unanimously on Religious Liberty, by Dan McLaughlin. “The central front of religious-liberty battles in recent years has been government pressure on religious institutions and individuals to accept same-sex marriage and other aspects of LGBTQI+ ethics in violation of their faith. Fulton is no different. Even the Court’s most liberal justices agreed: This was a case of discrimination — against Catholics.” Read more here.
Young Women Lose Under Biden’s Title IX Edict, by the Editors of National Review. “…[R]edefining sex discrimination for schools across the country has implications beyond youth athletics. In several key contexts, this redefinition will put girls’ privacy and safety at risk, permitting a biological male to enter any female-only space without anything more than an assurance that he identifies as female. One need not be a critic of gender theory to understand why such a situation poses unique risks to female students.” Read more here.
Colorado Just Won’t Leave Baker Jack Phillips Alone, by Becket Adams. “Phillips is obviously the victim of a sustained campaign of harassment. It’s well-known he is a Christian. It’s also well-known he won’t create anything that endorses something at odds with his faith. So, ‘customers’ such as Scardina intentionally ask him to do things they know he won’t do. Asking him to do things he likely won’t do is the entire point.” Read more here.
Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds Religious Freedom of Philadelphia Faith-Based Foster Care Agency, by Bruce Hausknecht. “Despite the 9-0 win, there was some division on the conservative side of the court, and ominous warnings that the decision did not go far enough and left the important issue behind this case and many other religious freedom cases for another day. The Fulton decision can probably be better understood as 6 votes for what Chief Justice Roberts wrote, and 3 votes castigating what Roberts wrote and concurring only in the ultimate result.” Read more here.
Democrats Cite State Abortion Restrictions and ‘Trigger Laws’ In effort to Codify Roe, by Cassidy Morrison. “Blumenthal’s bill, which was re-introduced earlier this month, would establish the legal right to an abortion in all 50 states… The legislation would also outlaw states from enforcing ‘trigger laws,’ which are laws passed by state legislatures that would automatically ban abortions once Roe was overturned.” Read more here.
San Francisco Leftists Are Funding Your Local Library’s Drag Queen Story Hour, by Spencer Lindquist. “The process of Californication, in which California exports its culture to supplant the way of life of other states or regions, isn’t just an issue facing Idaho or Texas, two common destinations for those fleeing the Golden State. It’s an issue that threatens any community with a library and a group of parents who are sick enough to take their four-year-olds to cuddle with registered pedophiles for the sake of social brownie points or the entirely nebulous value of ‘tolerance.’” Read more here.
Education Secretary Prioritizes Transgender Students Over Biological Girls, Does What Supreme Court Hasn’t, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[T]he Education Department has decided that sex-separated spaces, protected by law for decades under Title IX, ought to be sex-neutral, and has opened up single-sex bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, sports, overnight accommodations, and more at every institution receiving federal money to not just girls and women, but also to those who feel like girls and women. And the department will need to sniff out any perceived violation and pursue them one by one.” Read more here.
Mississippi Leans Into Life, by Chuck Donovan. “Planned Parenthood is awash in taxpayer funds, but devoid of pregnancy services and general women’s health care. So we ask you: who is providing Mississippi’s women with the personalized, life-affirming care they want and need? As taxpayers and neighbors, we can say with confidence it isn’t the jaded abortion industry. It’s you and me, and we trust and pray the Supreme Court will hear our arguments and agree.” Read more here.
In Philadelphia Foster Care Case, Roberts Supreme Court Refuses to Protect Christians From Persecution, by Margot Cleveland. “While Thursday’s headlines proclaimed the decision, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a victory for religious liberty, in reality it represented yet another failure by the high court to definitely end the ongoing governmental targeting of faith-based organizations.” Read more here.
Unanimous Supreme Court Gives Win to Religious Foster Care Agency, by Kassie Dulin. “The Supreme Court’s unanimous judgment was a clear win not only for Catholic Social Services but for First Amendment advocates looking for a strong denunciation by the court of blatant religious discrimination by the city government. Even so, the court’s opinion was narrower than some advocates of religious freedom would have preferred.” Read more here.
The Roberts Court Punts on Religious Liberty Again, by Joe Cunningham. “Smith destroys the very foundation of the First Amendment by saying ‘Well, okay, you can abridge the free exercise of religion so long as it’s merely incidental.’ The aforementioned speculation surrounding the 9-0 decision is that Roberts, in order to rock the boat as little as possible, forged a deal with the liberal Justices and got them to sign on to a narrow decision that supports the Catholic group but does not strike down Smith.” Read more here.
Abortion Survivor Testifies Against Abortion Bill: ‘We Are an Inconvenient Truth,’ by Katie Yoder. “Abortion supporters regularly point to women’s stories to justify their position. But now, two pro-life women are sharing their personal stories about abortion in an attempt to expose abortion for what it is: the intentional destruction of innocent human life that negatively impacts women.” Read more here.
Marriage Works. Why Won’t Politicians Back It? by Harry Benson. “More than eight out of 10 young unmarried women and men want to get married. 86 percent of unmarried women and 80 percent of unmarried men under 30 in a relationship say they would ‘like to get married at some point’ in their life, while 76 percent of women and 77 percent of men under 30 say they ‘expect to get married at some point.’” Read more here.
‘Pride Month’ Is Now an Industry Targeting Children as Young as 3, but There Is a Resistance, by Christopher Bedford. “In a recent study of 13 Pittsburgh high schools, about 10 percent of students said they were transgender or ‘non-binary.’ Were these kids actually born with the ‘wrong gender?’ …No, of course not. And today, what we’re seeing is really just teenagers responding to the challenges of growing up by embracing a new ideology that is pushed on them aggressively.” Read more here.
UNAIDS Declaration Seeks to Promote Behaviours That Increase HIV Risk, by Kimberly Ells. “Despite data showing that delaying sexual debut and reducing sexual partners have been the two most effective ways to curb HIV infection, no mention whatsoever is made of these obvious, free, and highly effective strategies in the UN’s grand declaration to reduce HIV infection. …[I]t is an intentional move to promote ‘sexual rights’ ideology which insists that encouraging people to change their sexual behaviours in order to avoid infection or disease is a violation of their ‘sexual rights,’ which are purportedly included under the umbrella of human rights.” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Admit Most Late Abortions Aren’t for Medical Reasons, by Kelsey Hazzard. “Author Becca Andrews criticizes her fellow abortion advocates’ approach: ‘You’re familiar with the milieu, which goes something like this: Abortions after 15 weeks are rare, and these are heartbreaking cases where the pregnancy was wanted and something went horribly wrong. But the reality is, these are simply medical procedures given to those who need them… The reasons why people get them are often not all that different from “early-term” ones…’ Thanks. We’ve only been saying this for years.” Read more here.
Why Do Some Parents Think Prepubescent Sexual Grooming Is Pro-LGBT? by Kylee Zempel. “…[A]t the core of all the rainbow flag-waving and ‘love is love is love’ sloganeering is the sick reality that any Pride activism involving children is the result of adults sexualizing them, fetishizing them, and exploiting them for political or social gain. When a parent posits that their child’s happiness is more important than their security and a drag queen heralds a kid’s gender whims as brave and inspiring, they project their perverted sexual ethics on a generation of innocents who become casualties of the culture war.” Read more here.
Liberal Activists Promote Sex Changes for Minors, Rebranding It as ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Care,’ by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Liberal activists are rebranding sex change surgeries as ‘gender affirming medical care,’ even when discussing these procedures for children. Former transgender people and conservative activists told the Daily Caller News Foundation that this is a deliberate effort to normalize the surgeries and make them more accessible to children.” Read more here.
Why a Court Ruling on Free Speech Should Reset Gender Debate, by Murdo Fraser. “To deliberately ‘mis-gender’ an individual, or use pronouns with which they are uncomfortable, is simply bad manners. Just as it would be ignorant and discourteous to address a woman as either ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs.’ against her wishes, so the use of incorrect pronouns for individuals should be equally unacceptable. However, it would be absurd to extend from that to conclude that ‘mis-gendering’ should amount to a criminal offence.” Read more here.
After Competing Against Transgender Athletes, Mom and Daughter Fight for Fairness in Women’s Sports, by Kelsey Bolar. “Critics of those who question such trends often downplay the growing presence of biological males in women’s sports, along with the implications for girls and women. But each instance of a transgender woman entering and affecting women’s competitions alters the rankings of athletes who were born female.” Read more here.
Left Demands That Big Business Boycott States That Don’t Want Abortion, by Nathanael Blake. “Care for the least among us begins in the womb. Abortion is a turning away from human need and vulnerability in its most elemental form, and a breaking of the primordial social bond of mother, father, and child. Abortion is an assertion of ‘I’ that violently excludes the ‘Thou’ and ‘We’ of interpersonal responsibility.” Read more here.
Watch Furious Mom’s Epic Response to School Teaching Children About Anal Sex, by Grant Atkinson. “…[T]hese young children would be forced to ‘explain the differences between cisgender, transgender, gender non-binary, gender expansive, and gender identity,’ she said… Once the children reach middle school, Swan read that the NSES would require them to ‘define vaginal, oral, and anal sex.’” Read more here.
Biden’s DOJ Threatens to Abandon Legal Protections for Religious Colleges, by Ryan Bangert. “…[T]he DOJ will not even commit to defending Title IX’s statutory religious exemption as applied to religious colleges. Progressive writers have urged that ‘figuring out where Biden stands on religious exemptions and LGBTQ rights is critical right now.’ The DOJ has now given them an answer. But before embracing that path, the DOJ should consider that making war on religious exemptions in the name of LGBT rights represents a false choice, born of an intolerant ideology.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Must Settle the Selective-Abortion Question, by Alexandra Desanctis. “…[T]he Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked key provisions of a pro-life statute in Missouri, including the portion of the law that prohibits abortions knowingly performed after an unborn child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. The decision marks the second time this year that Eighth Circuit judges have struck down a state law attempting to regulate selective abortions following a prenatal Down-syndrome diagnosis.” Read more here.
Your Kids Have Probably Seen Porn, and You Need to Talk to Them About It, by Daniel Weiss. “Research has shown a vast disconnect between what parents believe their children’s online behavior to be versus the actual stark, and often harrowing, truth. A 2016 Indiana University study found half as many parents thought their 14 to 18-year-olds had seen porn as had watched it in reality… Online sexual exploitation of kids is a serious social issue that is only getting worse. We are far past the time when parents can stay silent and hope for the best.” Read more here.
The Biden-Becerra Budget: Equity Is In, Religious Freedom Is Out, by Roger Severino. “A word search of the president’s 33-page budget narrative reveals his administration’s priorities… Gobs of other intersectional buzzwords are layered throughout, with women/gender, race/racial, people of color, minority, black, … sexual orientation, and transgender/gender identity appearing a whopping 90 times combined. Conspicuously missing from Biden’s equity list, however, is any mention of conscience or religious liberty.” Read more here.
Senators Are Determined for Legislation Banning Down Syndrome Selective Abortions to Come to Floor for a Vote, by Rebecca Downs. “In highlighting the ultimate form of discrimination those diagnosed in utero with Down syndrome face, the letter also notes the disturbing situation in Iceland, where virtually all children diagnosed in the womb with Down syndrome have been aborted. According to what information is available, the abortion rate for Down syndrome diagnoses in the United States appears to be at 67 percent.” Read more here.
G7 Shared Agenda Includes Ending the Lives of Unborn Children, by Marie Smith. “They commit ‘to close alignment with the Generation Equality Forum (GEF)’ which takes place in France at the end of the month and includes an action coalition on Bodily Integrity and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights which seeks ‘removal of restrictive policies and legal barriers’ so ‘50 million more adolescent girls and women,’ who currently live countries which protect unborn children from abortion, will have access to abortion by 2026.” Read more here.
Young Children Are Being Targeted With Sexual Content. The Equality Act Would Make It Worse, by Jared Eckert and Makenna McCoy. “By directly targeting children, corporations, media, and schools are seeking to normalize sexual content that is inappropriate and confusing for young audiences. In many instances, the content could be considered pornographic material, and some have described the process of normalizing as the first step in grooming children for sexual acts.” Read more here.
How 2021 Is Becoming Banner Year for Pro-Life at State Level, by Arina O. Grossu. “I researched state bills that contain at least one pro-life provision that have been enacted or advanced in each state so far this year. The bottom line? There are nearly 500 pro-life bills (or bills containing at least one pro-life provision) that have been advanced from January through May. Many of those bills contain multiple pro-life provisions.” Read more here.
Abortion Funding and the G7, by Marie Smith. “The W7 resorted to the use of bullying in its call for the G7 members … to threaten countries with ‘isolation from the G7’ if any dares to enact pro-life foreign policies like President Trump’s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, previously known as the Mexico City Policy, which prevented U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to international NGOs that perform or promote abortion on demand.” Read more here.
Science Is on the Side of Those Resisting Transgender Ideology in Schools, by Glenn T. Stanton. “For reasons still not fully understood, 75 to 90 percent of children struggling with gender dysphoria at young ages revert to identifying with their natural sex and gender by puberty… So when all the adults around such children have ‘affirmed’ their dysphoria by cooperating with name, clothing, pronoun, and other identity changes, it can be exceedingly difficult for the child to revert to their natal sex identity as they desire.” Read more here.
Did the Biden DOJ Just Reveal Its Hand in the LGBT Religious Exemption Lawsuit? by Tyler O’Neil. “It seems the Biden DOJ is winking and nodding at [the Religious Exemption Accountability Project], telling the court that it will defend the religious exemption while preparing to yield key arguments to the LGBT activists when the actual case begins. The DOJ’s rush to revise the filing after LGBT activists condemned the original version only underscores the colleges’ concerns.” Read more here.
Another Reason Birth Rates Are Dropping: We Have Devalued Parenthood, by Erica Komisar. “This me-first mentality has replaced more traditional family and communal values. There is a dwindling interest in marriage and parenthood, especially among young adults, even those who are financially secure. Young women and men do not want to make the sacrifice of time and compromises to their lifestyles that are required to have multiple children… Somehow, we have managed to convince a generation that working 9 to 5 for a corporation is more noble than sustaining and nurturing human life.” Read more here.
Media Largely Ignores Key Takeaways From Recently Released Annual Gallup Poll on Abortion, by Rebecca Downs. “Megan Brenan’s write-up for Gallup highlights that a ‘Record-High 47% in U.S. Think Abortion Is Morally Acceptable…’ That headline is technically true. The plurality, 47 percent of respondents, who find abortion to be ‘morally acceptable’ is indeed a record high. But it’s crucial to look to the results of those who find abortion to be ‘morally wrong.’ That number is at 46 percent, which is nearly identical.” Read more here.
Orban v. Blues’ Clues Pride Parade, by Rod Dreher. “Americans have children’s media, children’s schools, and even children’s breakfast cereal, propagandizing their children to accept transgenderism from an early age, and then in some states, if a child as young as 13 decides that he is trans, the state can take the child away from parents and start the process of transition. This is evil. And this is where the Left wants to take all of us. Don’t believe them when they say otherwise — whether they say it in English, Hungarian, or whatever.” Read more here.
No-Fault Divorce Is Not the Right Way to Achieve ‘Therapeutic Justice,’ by Darius Lee. “While it is good that legal systems have become more sensitive to the psychological effects of the law on participants in the legal process, we should be wary of claims that assert that no-fault divorce is ‘therapeutic’ for divorcing couples or their children. Advocates for the sanctity of marriage across the globe should pay close attention to this shift.” Read more here.
How Transgender Ideology Takes Children Hostage, by Nathanael Blake. “…[S]keptics of the trans-kids movement are accused of being hateful, bigoted child-killers. But they are not the ones feeding vulnerable children a suicide script in which the alternative to transition is death. We should be alarmed by a movement that encourages mentally distressed youth to take themselves hostage… Though those who identify as transgender do commit or attempt suicide at high rates, it has not been demonstrated that early transition will ameliorate this.” Read more here.
Secretary Becerra Still Denies Federal Law Banning Partial-Birth Abortion, by Rebecca Downs. “…Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra denied the existence of federal law when it comes to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003… Not only was Becerra in office as a U.S. Representative for California when the bill was signed into law, which he voted against, he also was in office when the Supreme Court upheld the law… Any such assurances that the secretary will follow the law ring hollow when he cannot even acknowledge it.” Read more here.
To Have Kids or Not: Which Decision Do Americans Regret More? by James L. McQuivey. “…[T]his should give us pause as we consider whether we can so easily tell people that personal choices related to procreation are merely that, just personal choices, some of which we will regret and others we will not. For some reason, most of us really want to have kids. And for those that do, an astonishing 88% agree that ‘having children is one of the most important things I have done.’ This suggests the joy far outweighs the regret.” Read more here.
Networks Program Children With LGBT Agenda During Pride Month, by Tony Perkins. “Say goodbye to the regular plot lines of ‘Blue’s Clues’ and ‘Scooby-Doo’ – and say hello to a 21st-century lesson in transgenderism, sex, homosexuality, nonbinaries, and drag queens. That’s the new reality of radical programming on some of America’s favorite shows… Loveable animals like Arthur and My Little Pony have been commandeered by the far left for lessons that would make most adults’ jaws drop.” Read more here.
When the State Comes for Your Kids, by Abigail Shrier. “Here … are the powers granted to a 13-year-old child by the state of Washington. Minors age 13 and up are entitled to admit themselves for inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment without parental consent. Health insurers are forbidden from disclosing to the insured parents’ sensitive medical information of minor children – such as that regarding ‘gender dysphoria [and] gender affirming care…’ Insurers in Washington must cover a wide array of ‘gender-affirming treatments’ from tracheal shaves to double mastectomies.” Read more here.
Aborting Disabled Babies Is Genocide, so Why Is It Legal? by Sarah St. Onge. “Despite the official stance of the American Medical Association against both euthanasia and medically assisted suicide, academics … encourage the legality of killing disabled newborns. When these ideas are accepted in the highest places of learning, showcased in ethics discussions, and defended in newspapers, we can soon expect to see calls for ending the lives of disabled children after birth.” Read more here.
How the Irish, and Many Others, Lost Their Religious Freedom to COVID Restrictions, by Lois McLatchie. “If you’re hearing a faint solo over the Irish Sea, it might be a ‘hallelujah’ — after almost 12 months of criminalization, churches reopened recently, albeit at a limited capacity. It’s good news for many. However, the Irish government has never acknowledged that the blanket ban was ever wrong. The next time an emergency hits, it will be back to police squadrons and church raids in another bizarre blend of Exodus meets World War Z.” Read more here.
Joe Biden’s Budget Calls Mothers ‘Birthing People,’ by Micaiah Bilger. “Ultimately, the notion that abortion is health care and the belief that ‘mother’ is discriminatory devalue human life… Unborn babies are irreplaceable human beings whose lives are blotted out in the claim that killing them is health care. Likewise, the claim that women and men can both be mothers ignores one of the most special parts of being a woman: the ability to bear children.” Read more here.
How Pro-Lifers in This Texas Town Beat Planned Parenthood, by Mary Szoch. “…[B]ecause the city would not be party to civil lawsuits triggered by the ordinance and would not be enforcing the ordinance, Planned Parenthood—or any other pro-abortion business—does not have standing to sue the city over this ordinance. Hence, once Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit was dismissed, the leader of the culture of death had no option but to comply.” Read more here.
If the Supreme Court Upholds Roe v. Wade, Expect an Uprising, by Willis L. Krumholz and Robert Delahunty. “The majority of Americans support limiting abortions to the first 15 weeks of gestation, as is common in Europe. Most abortions occur before 12 weeks. Yet the people of Mississippi or any other state are precluded by a group of unelected lawyers from using the democratic process to restrict abortion even at 15 weeks? Such an antidemocratic setup makes America’s entire political system brittle, and ripe for a crackup far more momentous than Trump’s election.” Read more here.
Biden Replaces Women With ‘Birthing People’ in Woke 2022 Budget, by Spencer Brown. “’Birthing people’ (along with its related term ‘chest feeder’) is nonsense leftist gobbledygook that’s used to signal tolerance because, of course, saying that women are the exclusive source of children is exclusionary. Or something. Biology means nothing, science is out the window, and to argue otherwise makes you a terrible person, or so leftists—and exceedingly more Democrats including the President of the United States—say.” Read more here.
Pork-Stuffed Bill About to Pass Senate Enables Splicing Aborted Babies With Animals, by Haley Strack. “The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, or so-called ‘Endless Frontier Act,’ has been lauded as a force against China’s technological dominance, but it’s turning into a giant pile of special-interest pork that increases taxpayer outlays for grotesque medical research that splices the bodies of animals with those of aborted human babies.” Read more here.
HHS Puts Abortion Special Interests Over Healthcare, by Denise Harle. “…[T]he text of the statute specifically provides that the funds cannot go to ‘programs where abortion is a method of family planning.’ But the Biden HHS’s proposed Title X rule changes would contradict that clear text in the most egregious way, allowing abortions to be intermingled with Title X services — and then requiring all recipients of Title X funds to counsel and refer women for abortions.” Read more here.
The Inconvenient Truth About LGBTQ+ Activism, by Michael Brown. “…[T]he vast majority of these Gen Z adults who identify as LGBT say they are bisexual, which points more to experimentation or confusion or breaking the norms than it does to a deep, innate sense of being different. And this, in turn, points back to the fruits of the sexual revolution, in particular, the effects of LGBTQ+ indoctrination and activism. And this leads back to my question, what are we do to?” Read more here.
Tinkering With Embryos Up to a Limit of 14 Days Is Wrong. What Happens When the Limit Vanishes? by David Albert Jones and Michael Wee. “These new proposals constitute a rule on embryo experimentation that is, in effect, a shifting goalpost. Considering that abortion is legal up to 24 weeks in Britain, or up to birth for babies with disabilities, one must wonder what principle would protect unborn infants from experimentation up to, or beyond, these same limits.” Read more here.
Scottish Feminist Criminally Charged for Tweets Opposing Gender Self-Identification, by Jonathan Turley. “What is particularly concerning in this case is that Millar was not told which of her tweets were deemed ‘malicious.’ Millar has thousands of tweets and was told that the charge is based on tweets between 2019 and 2020… After she emerged from the station, she quoted the novelist Salman Rushdie: ‘Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.’” Read more here.
As Mexico Votes, Transgender Self-ID Makes a Joke of Gender Parity in Politics, by Michael Cook. “The Tlaxcala electoral commission carried on a spirited debate… Its members concluded that it was wrong to doubt the reality of the candidates’ gender self-identification and that there was no evidence to support allegations of a bogus transition. How could there be? Only the candidates know whether they are male or female or whatever. Biology has nothing to do with it.” Read more here.
Corporations Don’t Care About Gay Rights – Just Money, by Tom Joyce. “Disney has no problem playing both sides of the issue so it can make as much money as possible. It sells Pride Month merchandise online, and its Twitter cover photo now includes a pride flag… This is the same Disney that removed a kiss between two female characters from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when showing the movie in Singapore… Both prison time and caning are legal punishments for gay people in Singapore.” Read more here.
Why Instagram for Kids? by Karl D. Stephan. “Rather than further erode the influence and authority of parents over their children by taking even more of the child’s attention away from the live human beings who care for them and using them as a means of profit as well as providing a dubious service that so far they have done fine without, I hope that Zuckerberg listens to the attorneys general and declares the under-13 set sacrosanct from further intrusions by his firm.” Read more here.
Biden Budget Would Scrap Decades of Consensus on Not Funding Abortion, by Melanie Israel. “Biden’s call for more funding for Title X comes amid his plan to strip the program of important pro-life protections implemented during the Trump administration. Without those protections, abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, would be free to commingle their federally subsidized family planning activities with their abortion activities—in a clear violation of the legislative intent of the Title X statute.” Read more here.
Corporate LGBT Pride Pushes the End of the Constitution, Not Inclusion, by Elle Reynolds. “The marketing branches of these corporations pretend the Equality Act would simply recognize that people in the LGBT community have the same human rights anyone else does. But in actuality, the Equality Act would strip religious liberties, freedom of speech, parental rights, and the safety and privacy of women and girls.” Read more here.
Canada’s Shame: Parliament Refuses to Condemn Sex-Selective Abortion, by Michael Cook. “The issue, of course, is abortion. Whatever the MPs’ views on ‘gendercide,’ they believe that a vote against sex-selective abortion must be a vote against abortion. And that is unthinkable. ‘The debate is over,’ Ms. Monsef declared. ‘Women and women alone are in control of their bodies and their health care choices. This is not a place for politicians to weigh in.’ Maybe the debate is over, but that is bad news for girls in countries like India.” Read more here.
Is Grafting Dead Babies’ Scalps onto Lab Rats Any Better Than Child Sacrifice? by Joe Allen. “Another study, published in Nature, shows pictures of infants’ scalps growing on the backs of pitiful rodents. The viewer knows the soft hair should be growing on a child’s head, but isn’t. The conscience revolts. The spell is broken. You begin to wonder whether any potential benefits to those who are alive are worth something like this.” Read more here.
These Transgender Individuals Regret Transitioning. Parents Need to Hear Their Stories, by Nicole Russell. “Not only did the school’s policy violate the parents’ constitutional rights, but perhaps more importantly, the parents did the right thing in their care for their daughter. The school attempted to subvert their authority and pushed the idea of a transition down their daughter’s proverbial throat, even though they eventually were proven to be hasty and wrong.” Read more here.
The 6th Circuit Was Right: My University Can’t Force Me to Endorse Ideas I Disagree With, by Nicholas Meriwether. “…[T]ransgender ideology is no harmless dysphoria. Falsehoods are rarely harmless, which is why I won’t endorse them. For thousands of children, it leads to intentional infertility through ‘puberty blockers’ and the surgical removal of reproductive organs, all based on confusion that frequently dissipates over time. Endorsing an ideology unsupported by science and that inflicts enormous damage on hurting people is far from compassionate.” Read more here.
In First 100 Days, Biden Redirects U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Abortion, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In public statements in international forums, as well as behind the scenes during multilateral negotiations, Biden appointees have spoken out in favor of ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights,’ a concept that has never been accepted by consensus in the UN General Assembly, but which is understood by its proponents as including a right to abortion and other controversial elements.” Read more here.
Why Would Planned Parenthood Care About Donor Disclosure Laws When HHS Is Handing Them Millions of Taxpayer Dollars? by Rachel N. Morrison. “Although Planned Parenthood’s conspicuous silence on the matter appears surprising, it is not so shocking given that Harris and Becerra are funneling taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood in amounts that will more than make up for any donor shortfalls. Why let a little thing like past disputes over principles get in the way of such a lucrative friendship?” Read more here.
I am a Mother to a Son With Gender Dysphoria. Here Is My Message to Elected Officials, by Crystal. “Accompanying gender dysphoria are issues such as autism, which many counselors don’t take the time to understand. But, the gender affirmation-only approach in states like New Jersey only encourages our children and young adults to transition. We would serve our children better by providing them with proper mental evaluations as to why they experience anxiety in their real bodies.” Read more here.
Institutions Are Destroying Themselves to Appease Science-Denying Transgender Activists, by Zachary Faria. “The extent to which institutions will bend to accommodate the fictional worldview of transgender activists is absurd… The institutional rot of social justice is most evident when it comes to this issue, where dissent is silenced and biology is warped to fit the ideological view of whatever activists demand. These institutions sacrifice their dignity and their independence to please angry ideologues, and it will only get worse before it gets better.” Read more here.
Studies Prove Pro-Life Laws Save Babies From Abortions, by Paul Stark. “Take parental involvement laws. Numerous studies show that these measures reduce the rate of abortion among minors. A study in the American Journal of Public Health, for example, found that the minor abortion rate in Minnesota dropped 28 percent in the years immediately following enactment of Minnesota’s parental notification law (the abortion rate did not decline among women ages 20-44, who were unaffected by the law).” Read more here.
Joe Biden Wants to Overturn Pro-Life Law That Has Saved 2.5 Million Babies From Abortions, by Liberty Counsel. “The Biden administration’s pro-death radical agenda continues as the fiscal 2022 budget proposal includes eliminating the Hyde Amendment, which will destroy a 40-year ban on federal funding for abortions and force taxpayers to pay for the intentional killing of unborn babies.” Read more here.
Meet ‘Gegi,’ the Unicorn Schools Are Using to Turn Young Children Into Trans Activists, by Georgia Howe. “Until very recently in human history, having separate restrooms, sports teams, and sleeping quarters for boys and girls was the norm. However, according to Airton, ‘with these new human rights protections, [those] might actually constitute discrimination,’ and children should be equipped with the knowledge to confront that ‘discrimination.’” Read more here.
Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife: ‘Blue’s Clues’ Is Trans-Propagandizing Preschoolers, by Joy Pullman. “…[T]he only thing that sets LGBT people apart from others is their sexual behavior. Therefore, to talk about the ‘LGBT community’ with preschoolers is to talk about sex. And not ‘sex’ as in age-appropriate basic human biology — men have certain body parts, women have others, and together those parts can make babies — but R-rated sexual techniques like anal sex, oral sex, and masturbation.” Read more here.
From Mickey Mouse to Tony the Tiger, Brands Improperly Target Kids for Pride Month, by Nicole Russell. “Pride Month, and particularly the parades that are staged nationwide throughout the month, often feature drag queens, whose appearance would be confusing to most children. The inherently sexual nature of LGBTQ issues makes the topic inappropriate for children who have yet to understand, let alone wonder about, their own gender, sex, or identity.” Read more here.
Biden’s $6 Trillion Spending Proposal Forces American Taxpayers to Fund Abortions, by Jordan Davidson. “Since the 1970s, Congress has included the Hyde Amendment in spending bills to prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortions except if the mother’s life is in danger, she was raped, or there was incest. Biden’s newest spending plan excludes this provision protecting Americans’ consciences and instead reinstates giving federal finances out to cover killing babies.” Read more here.
Hi, Doc, I’d Like to Order Some Chemo, Please, by Lynn Meagher. “…[I]magine that thousands of children were given chemo, with no diagnostic tests. Imagine further, that the patients began complaining that parts of their bodies were disturbing to them and asked the doctors to remove those healthy body parts. Imagine that the doctors all complied… Can you just picture the outrage? The lawsuits? The media coverage? Nope. Silence… Now open your eyes. It’s actually happening. It’s called ‘gender therapy.’” Read more here.
Incarcerated Women Brace for Influx of Male Inmates, by Abigail Shrier. “For the moment, the transfers are arriving from male prison. But under California law (and … presumably all states, if the Equality Act passes), male convicts will soon not need to begin their sentence at the male prison. They will simply identify as women at time of conviction and go straight into women’s prison as ‘female inmates.’ In other words, they may soon be untraceable by journalists or feminist groups who would want to know how the women trapped in this experiment are faring.” Read more here.
U.S. Taxpayers Don’t Want to Fund Abortion, by Katie Yoder. “Abortion activists frequently argue that abortion should be a private ‘choice’ between a woman and her doctor. But when millions of taxpayers are forced to pay for that choice – one that results in the destruction of a human life – abortion becomes a public issue in an unmistakable way.” Read more here.
Transgender Ideology Versus the Truth Business, by Washington Examiner. “Culture warriors … note the demands of good manners … and leverage this to demand that society as a whole toss aside the notion of biological sex. They say that we may not call biological males ‘males’ if they identify as girls. The culture warriors don’t want to let Mitchell voice her objection to being cheated out of success by boys competing as girls. Instead, they bully newspapers to describe male athletes as ‘transgender athletes.’” Read more here.
China’s New Three-Child Policy Is Nothing to Celebrate, by Reggie Littlejohn. “Most couples in China are not willing to have a second child of either gender, largely because of the expense. For this reason, China did not experience the baby boom it had expected when it moved to the two-child policy in 2016. Indeed, its birth rate has plummeted to the lowest in decades. It is facing a demographic crisis because of its rapidly ageing population. The move to a three-child policy is too little, too late to avert this impending disaster.” Read more here.
Biden Twists History, Using an Islamic Terror Attack as an Excuse to Force His LGBT Agenda, by Tyler O’Neil. “This statement ignores the fact that various aspects of American society, from public schools to literature to corporate America to the Biden administration itself, bend over backwards to kowtow to LGBT activist demands, even to the point of endangering key fundamental rights like free speech and religious freedom. While some people who identify as LGBT do face limited hostility, the LGBT activist movement enjoys immense sway.” Read more here.
‘Gender Nullification Surgery’ Enables ‘Non-Binary’ Patients to Achieve ‘Smooth Genital Area,’ by Georgia Howe. “…[M]y immediate reaction is this is wildly predatory on the part of these doctors. It should be plainly evident to anyone, regardless of medical credential, that a person who wants to remove all genitals, or add supplementary genitals, is someone who requires far more care and counseling than just superficial plastic surgery. I don’t mean to be insensitive to the ‘enbys,’ but this is insane and astonishingly exploitative.” Read more here.
Virginia County’s ‘Diverse Book Collection’ Spotlights Radical Agenda Coming to K-12 Schools, by Jarrett Stepman. “The book ‘Ana on the Edge,’ recommended to sixth graders, is about a female figure skater who meets a girl who ‘identifies’ as a boy and wants to identify as a boy herself… At the eighth-grade level and above, the number of books about transgenderism, bisexuality, homosexuality, and with racial and gender identity topics explodes.” Read more here.
Boom in LGBT Content for Children: Queer Is in, Christian Is Out, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Now that indoctrination is both institutionalized and commercialized, you’re called a conspiracy theorist, bigot, and homophobe for pointing this out. Queer is in, Christian is out, and all you can do is ensure that you keep a close eye on your kids at the library, at Barnes and Noble, and online. The LGBT activists certainly will be.” Read more here.
Kellogg’s LGBT-Themed Cereal Features Preferred Pronouns on Box, by Tony Perkins. “There are rainbow Skittles, gay Mickey Mouses, custom Converse, even Love Is Love Le Creuset, but they’re coming on the market at a time when most Americans are saying: ‘Enough!’ They don’t want their cereal preaching transgenderism or their drinks fighting voter ID… So when Fruit Loops tries to serve up new genders, don’t be surprised if he, she, they, or them don’t buy it.” Read more here.
Chemical Abortion: Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You, by Tessa Longbons and Hannah Howard. “When the in-person requirement is removed, the risk increases dramatically. Without an ultrasound, doctors cannot confirm the age or location of the pregnancy. Instead, women could inadvertently be prescribed the pills at later gestations, when chemical abortion becomes less effective and more dangerous. If a woman has an ectopic pregnancy, which cannot be alleviated by chemical abortion, her life will be at risk.” Read more here.
Lego Releases Set Celebrating ‘LGBTQIA+’ Figures, Drag Queens, by Tony Perkins. “If Lego wants to trot down this same controversial path, it’ll learn pretty quickly that American parents aren’t interested in its building blocks of indoctrination. Most U.S. consumers are wide awake, thanks to the cancel culture, and they’re not about to let a major decision by Lego corrupt a playful tradition that they loved as children themselves.” Read more here.
The Stealthy Cancelling of Mummy Knows Best, by Lizzie Troughton. “Parents need to be aware and suspicious of the trend of sidelining them with the reassurance of ‘trust me, I’m from the government’, advocacy needs effectively to target the policy-makers and school management, and law needs to be clearly and persuasively articulated. Without this, the movement to sexualise children through a public broker will see parental primacy become a memory.” Read more here.
Transgender Activists Do Not Want You to Hear Stories of ‘Gender Transition’ Regret, by Madeline Osburn. “If ‘detransitioning’ wasn’t a growing trend and did not undermine so much of the transgender movement’s message, then by their own logic, they would let them ‘live their truth.’ Maybe even add another letter to the LGBTQQIP2SAA community that supposedly affirms all non-traditional patterns of sexuality and gender.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Promotes LGBTQI Rights in Foreign Policy, Threatening International Religious Freedom, by Grace Melton. “It further promises to fight ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia,’ which means that the US military is now effectively charged with pressuring other countries to change their domestic laws and policies dealing with sexual conduct and other sensitive moral issues. Military leaders are now simultaneously charged with promoting relationships with allies and also promoting LGBTQI+ tolerance and policies. It may prove very difficult to do both.” Read more here.
There Is Nothing Sexist About Opposing At-Home Abortions, by Georgia Gilholy. “It is … impossible to estimate a pregnancy’s gestation over the phone. As of December 2020, there were at least 52 cases reported to the Department of Health and Social Care of women who used pills-by-post beyond 10 weeks gestation, including a case where the pregnancy was a month on from the legal time limit.” Read more here.
‘Gender Fluid’ Celebrities Like Demi Lovato Are Defining New Moral Relativism, by Nicole Russell. “A common misconception is that people are now less afraid to announce themselves as nonbinary thanks to the prevalence of the LGBTQ community in everyday life. However, it makes more sense to view the wave of new nonbinary people as a popularity contest, a contagious frenzy: Making such a claim grants attention to stars who crave it.” Read more here.
Abortion Always Kills a Baby, by Chelsey Youman. “A woman may be capable of undergoing an abortion without permanent physical damage, but an innocent human life is always violently ended. During abortion procedures, babies were once burned alive with saline solution; today, they are more often pulled to bloody pieces while alive by a surgeon’s instruments or expelled in a bloody clump by ‘safe and effective’ pills. This kind of killing is what ‘terminating a pregnancy’ really means.” Read more here.
Trans Ideology Is Warping Our Justice System, by Jo Bartosch. “It is exceptionally rare for women to be convicted of crimes such as those of Brennan, Watts, Wilson and Thompson – 98 per cent of those prosecuted for sexual offences are male, as are 93 per cent of those found to be possessing weapons… Recognising these sex-based patterns of offending is vital for policy and for the protection of the public. But the recording of crimes committed by men as if they were women threatens to significantly distort the figures.” Read more here.
I Was the Fastest Girl in Connecticut. But Transgender Athletes Made It an Unfair Fight, by Chelsea Mitchell. “…[M]ales have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average than female bodies… But Connecticut officials are determined to ignore the obvious. And unfortunately, a federal district court recently dismissed our case. The court’s decision to do so tells women and girls that their feelings and opportunities don’t matter, and that they can’t expect anyone to stand up for their dignity and their rights.” Read more here.
Eliminating People With Down Syndrome Deprives Our Society of Love and Joy, by Eric Schmitt. “Despite these advances, the Down syndrome community today faces an existential threat even greater than the medicalized discrimination of the twentieth century. Due to advances in prenatal screening technology, persons with Down syndrome are targeted for abortion at extreme rates before they are born. In the United States, somewhere between 67 and 91 percent of all infants with Down syndrome are eliminated by abortion.” Read more here.
Xavier Becerra Spearheads Unscientific, Anti-Religious Policy at Biden’s HHS, by Matt Bowman. “Rewriting the meaning of ‘male’ and ‘female’ in the context of medicine is not only anti-science; it’s madness. Hospitals and doctors would be required to do dangerous things such as falsely list females as males in medical charts and codes, adhering to the patient’s gender identity rather than biology. Indeed, a new field of ‘gender-specific medicine’ is being created to supplant basic biological fact.” Read more here.
Why Can’t Academia Tolerate Dissent on Biological Sex? by John Staddon. “We remain uncertain about less-well-established socio-cultural (gender) differences between males and females. Not all gender questions can be decided by science, but political and even ethical decisions that ignore established biology are unlikely to be wise. A Pavlovian reaction to mild dissent is unlikely to advance our understanding.” Read more here.
Family and Marriage Paid Dividends During COVID-19 Lockdowns, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “According to University of Texas at Austin professor Mark Regnerus, recent surveys on marriage wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic show that satisfaction and wellbeing within marriage have remained steady during lockdowns, with significant surveys reporting marriages being stronger despite the stress of the pandemic.” Read more here.
A Back Door Attempt to Include a Right to Abortion, by FSSPX News. “The European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is trying to enshrine abortion rights in the European Union (EU) through the back door… This fraudulent and cautious attempt to introduce a ‘right to abortion’ and to deny conscientious objection is troubling. Unfortunately, this one is gaining ground. This is all the more reason to oppose it in every way, as long as possible.” Read more here.
The Big One? The Supreme Court Accepts Case That Could Deliver a Lethal Blow to Roe, by Jonathan Turley. “Roe was deemed a great victory because it removed abortion rights from legislative discretion by making it a constitutional imperative. Now, Biden is planning to snatch away any legislative discretion given back to the states by preempting state laws on abortion. Before Roe, abortion was viewed as a core state issue that left policies to the voters of each state. The Biden administration would effectively seize any legislative discretion and federalize abortion law.” Read more here.
Over Legal Objections, Biden Moves to Reinstate Family Planning Funds for Abortion Providers, by Melanie Israel. “…[T]he Biden administration has proposed a rule to reverse the Trump administration’s pro-life policies and allow Title X activity to be conducted alongside abortion activity without strict physical and financial separation. The rule would require grantees to refer for abortions, despite sincere moral or religious objections, effectively banning otherwise qualified pro-life grantees from participating.” Read more here.
Transgenderism: All of These Minor Changes Amount to a Cultural Sea Change, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Sure, I get that in the grand scheme of things a cereal company launching a Pride Month Kellogg’s box telling kids to pick their pronouns (‘they/them’ being a grammatically confusing option) is minor, but the reality is that all of these minor changes amount to a cultural sea change that has been surging up the beach, inch by inch.” Read more here.
Fact-Check Sticks It to Biden’s HHS Secretary for Denying Existence of Federal Abortion Law, by Rebecca Downs. “…Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra went before a a [sic] House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he was asked by multiple Republican congressmen about the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003... Becerra denied the existence of the law, leading him to be fact-checked by PolitiFact, which rated his claim as ‘false.’” Read more here.
Five Ways the Pandemic Affected Families, by Robert VerBruggen. “A study published in April put together divorce and marriage numbers for a handful of states with available records. Marriages and divorces both fell in the early months of the pandemic, and they didn’t fully rebound in some states, leaving a ‘shortfall.’ Interestingly, measures of marital contentment also rose in 2020, raising the possibility that some divorces were averted altogether.” Read more here.
Roe v. Wade in Crosshairs as Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Major Abortion Case, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Perhaps the court will take this opportunity to reconsider Roe v. Wade and to see it for what it was – an unwarranted and unwise power grab in which the court crafted a ‘constitutional’ right to abortion out of thin air. Overturning Roe would return abortion policy to the states where it belongs…” Read more here.
Biden Abandons Religious Freedom as First Among Rights, by Grace Melton. “Blinken’s repudiation of the commission’s report is purely political; because the commission highlighted the importance of religious freedom, the progressive left saw the report as presenting a stumbling block to advancing abortion and LGBTQ rights, which are top priorities of the Biden administration.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Abortion Case May Reverse a Key Aspect of Roe v. Wade, by Tyler O’Neil. “The Court’s viability standard allows a woman to kill the baby within her until the baby can survive outside the womb. The Court will not likely rule that the Constitution protects human life from the moment of conception, but it may allow states to ban abortion before the point of viability, reversing a key aspect of Roe v. Wade.” Read more here.
The NCAA Was All Threats and Bluster Against Non-Trans Athlete States, but It Just Crumpled Like a Cheap Suit, by Brandon Morse. “…[I]f you stand firm in the face of threats from the left, chances are that you’re going to win in the end. As you can see, the NCAA’s bluff was proven to be just that, and any state still worried about being punished by the organization for making it clear that a woman is a woman and a man is a man, especially in sports, should now move to do the same as Tennessee or Alabama.” Read more here.
Xavier Becerra Lies About Partial-Birth Abortion, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “During a congressional hearing last week, … Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra repeatedly denied the existence of a federal ban on barbaric partial-birth abortions that has been law for 18 years. Even under the most pro-abortion administration in history, where such shameless lies are par for the course, a new low has been set.” Read more here.
Transgender Activist Triggered by Greeting ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ on Train, by Jonathon Van Maren. “There are now dozens of genders and dozens of pronouns. Conductors cannot welcome Zees and Zirs; I suspect not even trans activists can conjugate more than a handful of these fictitious formulations. And so, instead, conductors and everyone else will just have to dispense with the pleasantries altogether. A victory, I’m sure you’ll agree, for everyone.” Read more here.
Overturn Roe, by National Review Editors. “…[W]ith each passing year, modern medicine finds new ways to save babies delivered earlier and earlier, and modern science finds new ways to bring us face to face with the elementary biological fact that the unborn are individual human beings. Roe was supposed to make law rest on science instead of text and tradition, but real science accepts new discoveries.” Read more here.
The Stakes of the Supreme Court’s New Abortion Case, by Dan McLaughlin. “While that case appears unlikely to settle the 48-year war over the constitutional status of abortion, it offers the first opportunity to witness the 6–3 majority of George W. Bush and Donald Trump appointees in action on the abortion issue. And because the case involves a direct ban on some abortions, rather than a regulation, it potentially puts the entire edifice of Roe v. Wade in the crosshairs.” Read more here.
Kids Can Explore Pronoun Options on Box of Kellogg’s New ‘Pride’ Cereal, by Jonathon Van Maren. “…Kellogg’s went above and beyond to ensure that your kids can go woke just after waking. On the side of the box, children are asked to choose their pronouns, with options like ‘he/him,’ ‘she/her,’ and ‘they/them,’ which, if you haven’t been keeping up, isn’t plural so much as ‘nonbinary’ or just bewildered. There are also some helpful blanks spaces in case you want to fill in your own, because at this stage in the revolution we’re just making stuff up and everyone has to go along with it.” Read more here.
The Case for Medical Conscientious Objection, by Brian Bird. “The basic motivation for conscientious objection is that the health-care service at issue does not help but harms: It injures health and is not care. Physicians who conscientiously refuse to intentionally terminate a patient’s life do so because health care, in their moral judgment, excludes killing. Health care, in their view, seeks to alleviate suffering while preserving life… If health care is laden with moral issues, it is dangerous to restrict the moral agency of health-care workers.” Read more here.
Here’s What ‘Partial-Birth Abortion’ Means, by Katie Yoder. “The secretary of Health and Human Services recently dodged a question about ‘partial-birth abortion’ by claiming that it isn’t a ‘medical term.’ But it’s a term that both Congress and the Supreme Court have carefully described – and the definition is shockingly gruesome.” Read more here.
Don’t Mix Up Adoption and Maternal Health, Worthy Causes, With Abortion, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “Garcia was adopted as an infant. She is in a unique position to change the way our national debate about abortion looks. She could uniquely be a voice for the young scared black and Hispanic girls going into that very clinic day in and day out, and for their babies. The girls could choose adoption and allow the next Kathryn to be born — if we’d rally behind real options.” Read more here.
Don’t Ban So-Called ‘Conversion Therapy,’ by Andrea Williams. “Boris Johnson has since suggested that prayer will not be criminalised, but just what would be criminalised? Conversations about sexual attractions appear to be the target. No free society should ever contemplate criminalising private conversations, yet this is what the government seems intent on doing. Anyone who cares about free speech should realise just how totalitarian and oppressive banning certain types of consensual conversations actually is.” Read more here.
Biden’s HHS Is Lying About Title X to Push Abortion, by Ryan Bomberger. “There is no health equity when it comes to abortion. Women bear the brunt of the physiological and psychological consequences of abortion. Men don’t. There is no health equity, regardless of hue of skin or socioeconomic status, if you’re a victim of abortion. The Biden administration is lying to the American public about Title X… The only thing that should be aborted is the new rule wrapped in old lies.” Read more here.
There Is No Way to ‘Fix’ the Equality Act. It’s Identity Politics or Equality Before the Law, and Republicans Must Choose, by Joy Pullmann. “Statistically speaking, nobody wants gay people forced to die alone without their families, or denied health insurance or a place to sleep at night. There are legal solutions to all such things that don’t involve erasing women’s sports and forcing Christian churches to be bankrupted by lawsuits from anti-religious cranks with axes to grind.” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion Group Too Extreme Even for NARAL Pays for Employee Abortions, by Rebecca Downs. “If you’re looking for an example of disgusting pro-abortion promotion on display, look no further than Avow, a group so extreme that they used to be NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, but ended up splitting to be even more pro-abortion. As Live Action exposed, Avow’s executive director Aimee Arrambide brazenly shared in an interview with ReproJobs that employees and their family members are provided with a stipend for abortions, to the tune of $3,000…” Read more here.
Doctor: Time for Transgender Treatment Industry to ‘Follow the Science,’ by Dr. Patrick Lappert. “Over 80% of children treated this way abandon their cross-sex idea of themselves by late adolescence. However, if you let them fall into the hands of the transgender treatment industry, virtually 100% will continue to suffer from gender dysphoria, and will ultimately have the same high risk of self-harm… This is no longer in doubt. This is why Sweden, Finland, and the UK have abandoned the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery in gender confused children.” Read more here.
The LGBT Movement’s Destructive History and Legacy, by Thomas Coy. “The most widespread intimidation tactic of the LGBT movement has been the creation of the word’s ‘homophobia,’ ‘homophobic,’ ‘homophobe,’ and recently ‘transphobia.’ These terms do not mean fear of homosexuals or transgenders. Rather, they mean being opposed to LGBT social objectives… The terms are meant to slander, shame, and intimidate, in the same manner a racist or bigot uses slanderous words to demean people they don’t like.” Read more here.
Russia: How Will Re-Training of Foreign-Trained Clergy Be Implemented? by Victoria Arnold. “While the number of people affected by the re-training requirement is likely to be small, as most clergy, religious teachers and missionaries in Russia now undergo any formal training inside the country, the burden for those individuals and communities which are affected may turn out to be considerable in terms of costs, bureaucracy and potential problems with law enforcement agencies.” Read more here.
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking – and Anime, by Angus Fox. “Parents of trans-identified boys mention anime repeatedly. The animation style seems to loom large in the lives of many—at least half—of the young men whose stories I’m telling. Many of these boys have anime alter-egos, which function as a sort of stand-in for their real-life trans personae. Two of the boys whose parents I’ve met have even named themselves after the same anime character.” Read more here.
For the G7 [Comprehensive Sexuality Education] Is a Priority, by Luca Volontè. “One has to be speechless when one realizes that the foreign and development policy priority of the seven strongest economies in the world is girls’ education which includes the explicit support of both comprehensive sexuality education (in which early sex, contraceptive use and abortion are included), as well as reproductive health (which has become the equivalent of abortion). Another attack on the health and dignity of women and their freedom to be mothers.” Read more here.
Let’s Give American Families More Time for ‘Kinder and Kirche,’ by Samuel J. Abrams. “As President Biden and many in Congress push for countless new programs that grow the reach of government, citizens should ask for more support around time for faith and family. This is not suggesting that the government regulate personal time but simply help make kinder and kirche easier for millions of Americans. …[W]e have clear evidence demonstrating just how critical these institutions are toward promoting community stability and connectivity.” Read more here.
This Biden Cabinet Member’s Disregard for Violation of Federal Abortion Law Is Disturbing, by Rebecca Downs. “What do you know, the hyperpartisan and super pro-abortion Health & Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, is ignorant on federal law which prohibits the gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion, a procedure which entailed partially delivering a baby, and then either crushing the skull or removing the brain.” Read more here.
Two New Studies May Upend Current Attitudes Toward Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, by Doug Mainwaring. “A second flaw in the majority of LGBT psychological studies is that they’ve failed to take into account pre-[sexual orientation change effort] levels of distress. In other words, researchers failed to ask each participant if they were suicidal before entering counseling to change. The studies only asked ‘Did you attempt SOCE?’ and if so, ‘What is your suicidal tendency now?’” Read more here.
By Blessing Homosexual Unions, German Catholics Are Fomenting Schism – Again, by John Daniel Davidson. “The German Catholics are at it again. Catholic priests across Germany have been blessing same-sex unions this week in open defiance of the Vatican, which explicitly forbade such practices in March, reflecting long-settled and unchangeable Church doctrine.” Read more here.
The United Kingdom Forced Northern Ireland to Legalize Abortion, and the Irish Are Fighting Back, by James Silberman. “The U.K. government has made clear its intentions of forcing legalized abortion on Northern Ireland, but the Northern Irish are making just as clear their intentions of defying Westminster’s tyranny.” Read more here.
Gender Identity Counselling Is Not ‘Conversion Therapy,’ by Joanna Williams. “Alarmingly, the proposed legislation lumps together sexual orientation and gender identity. This makes a ban on conversion therapy very 2021 indeed, and no doubt reveals the motivation of those advocating for it now. Those shouting loudest for bans on conversion therapy are those most likely to demand ‘positive affirmation’ for people questioning their gender identity.” Read more here.
HHS to Force Religious Hospitals, Doctors to Prescribe Puberty Blockers and Perform Sex-Reassignment Surgeries, by Bruce Hausknecht. “HHS failed to mention that doctors and hospitals have conscience as well as medical reasons to avoid performing such questionable surgeries and procedures. The agency framed its action in such a way as to imply that hospitals and doctors were turning away patients simply because they are LGBT.” Read more here.
No, a Four-Year-Old Girl Is Not ‘Really’ a Boy, by Jo Bartosch. “Part of being a child is not knowing where the boundary lies between fantasy and fiction. I remember vividly believing I was the queen and that I could fly. My teachers were not expected to call me Her Majesty, nor to congratulate my imaginary aerobatic skills. It is cruel and unnecessary to give kids a clout for expressing themselves. But much more cruel is for parents to abdicate responsibility and allow themselves to be led by infantile fantasies.” Read more here.
Artificial Wombs and the Right to Life, by Phillip Wozniak and Ashley Fernandes. “Some have defended a right to the death of the fetus based on, variously, a right not to be a biological parent, a right to genetic privacy, and property rights. Others have argued that the advent of [artificial womb technology] requires creating a third status of being, conceptually between fetus (in the womb of the mother) and neonate (newborn baby independent of its mother’s body).” Read more here.
LGBT Rebellion Against the Body Is Making Casualties of More Foster Children, by Nathanael Blake. “Indeed, we all owe our very existence to the embodied difference between men and women. And mothers and fathers matter for raising children, as well as begetting them. This is why faithful Christian adoption agencies do not place children with same-sex couples. Doing so deliberately deprives an already traumatized child of either an adoptive mother or a father.” Read more here.
NY Photographer Challenges State Sexual Orientation and Gender Law That Stifles Her Artistic Freedom, by Bryan Neihart. “…[W]hile New York promotes some artists, it punishes those like Emilee. New York’s laws force Emilee to create photographs and blog posts celebrating same-sex weddings and publish them on her own website because she does the same for weddings between a man and a woman. New York officials incorrectly label Emilee’s artistic choices as ‘discrimination’ to try to paper over the fact that they just disagree with Emilee’s views.” Read more here.
Including Queer Sexuality Actually Means Excluding Women, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Before our eyes, the trans movement is eclipsing the women’s movement. Literally and explicitly, gender studies have displaced women’s studies. Of course, the false and wholly manufactured claim that ‘trans rights are human rights’ cannot peacefully coexist with the inherently true claim that ‘women’s rights are human rights.’” Read more here.
Birth Dearth About Values, Not Economics, by Star Parker. “I don’t think our young people are avoiding marriage and children because of concerns about financial security. I think they are avoiding marriage and children because they don’t want marriage and children… The collapse of marriage, family and the national birthrate is the result of the secularization of our culture. Faith and values have been displaced by materialism and egotism.” Read more here.
What Happens When a Sex Shop Owner Runs the School Board? by Meg Kilgannon. “First grade students … were read a book in class about a child who claims to have ‘a boy body but a girl brain.’ When concerned parents complained that six-year-olds shouldn’t be confronted with such sensitive topics at school, the teacher explained that she was just following school policy. After all, the book is from the school library’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion collection, she informed the worried parents.” Read more here.
Claims That Planned Parenthood Saves Lives Are Contradicted by the Facts, by Brittany Raymer. “Between 1991 and 2020, there has been a 168.2% increase in the number of abortions performed at Planned Parenthood. When added all together, that’s 7,322,364 preborn lives that have ended at the hands of the nation’s largest abortion business. How Planned Parenthood is supposedly saving lives when over seven million souls are not here due to their efforts is unclear.” Read more here.
Swedish Hospital Bans Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones for Gender Dysphoric Youths Under 16. We Should, Too, by Nicole Russell. “Caution seems far more prudent when it comes to a child’s growing body, especially through puberty, but when it comes to transgenderism, prudence, research, and facts have been actively cast aside. Patience, talk therapy, and time are rarely discussed as viable options within the LGBTQ community.” Read more here.
Lack of Money Isn’t the Reason Our Culture Hates Children, by Joy Pullmann. “The real barriers to more healthy American families are an unwillingness to sacrifice money and careers on behalf of kids’ best interests on the part of higher-income Americans, and an unwillingness to reserve child creation for the stability of marriage among lower-income Americans. On both sides of the income spectrum, it’s selfish choices that are harming the nation’s future. And money can’t solve selfishness.” Read more here.
Woke Semantics Like ‘Birthing Persons’ Erases [sic] Women, Ignores Real Problems in Women’s Health, by Madeline Osburn. “We hear testimonies like Bush’s and demand to know how a pregnant woman’s concerns could go ignored, all while hospitals focus on initiatives like replacing ‘breastfeeding’ with ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘breast milk’ with ‘human milk.’ ‘Birthing person’ is not just an innocent word. Adhering to the left’s language means adhering to their doctrine.” Read more here.
Biological Men in Women’s Weightlifting? The Numbers Show It’s Just as Absurd as It Sounds, by Zachary Faria. “The science is quite clear on this. World Rugby concluded that biological men were anywhere from 25% to 50% stronger than their female counterparts. Studies have found minimal decreases in muscle mass among transgender athletes even after a year of testosterone suppression, the arbitrary, unscientific time period upon which the International Olympic Committee bases its regulations.” Read more here.
Canadian Pastor Arrested and Dragged Off by SWAT Team on Busy Highway for ‘Inciting’ People to Go to Church, by Rebecca Downs. “I had written just over a week ago how a judge had granted a warrant for police to arrest Pastor Artur Pawlowski using ‘anything necessary,’ but still, watching a pastor getting arrested and dragged away on a Saturday on a busy highway, along with his brother, Dawid, isn’t something we should get used to, especially when it happens in a first world country, by authorities from our neighbor to the north.” Read more here.
‘Banning Transgender Athletes’ or Protecting Fairness in Women’s Sports? by Nicole Russell. “Banning transgender athletes sounds like something to get upset about; protecting fairness in women’s sports sounds benign. In a bizarre reversal, women’s rights are giving way to men who happen to identify as female and happen to want to compete in a sport they often never have won until they started competing against women.” Read more here.
The Pillars of Transgender Medicine Are Shaking, by Michael Cook. “There are a many journals and squillions of studies which support medical treatment of teenagers’ gender dysphoria. There is never any lack of highly-paid PhDs with active Twitter accounts to sprinkle the fairy dust of statistical jargon over ‘evidence.’ The question is whether their evidence is robust and trustworthy. From this point of view, the NICE study was devastating.” Read more here.
Scientists Want to Grow Babies in the Womb for 40 Days and Kill Them for Research, by Dr. Tara Sander Lee, Dr. David Prentice and Lila Rose. “The lead scientist of the ‘mouse in a bottle’ research team is calling for human beings to be next… Such thoughts and intentions are abhorrent. They set the stage for systematic exploitation of human beings. No human being should be considered disposable, brought into existence as a science experiment and then destroyed.” Read more here.
Using the Term ‘Birthing People’ Erases Women, by Ian Haworth. “The ability to create, protect, and deliver life is a miraculous gift bestowed solely upon women. Men cannot give birth. ‘People’ cannot give birth. Women can give birth. Trying to ram through terms like ‘birthing people’ erases women. The fact that it was uttered under the guise of ‘protecting’ mothers — while denying their basic feminine characteristics — makes it all the more despicable.” Read more here.
The Transgender Debate Has Become a Propaganda War, by Kurt Mahlburg. “There is a notable grassroots pushback against the transgender movement and the threat it poses to women and children. No doubt the Biden administration has played a central role in prompting this pushback… Everyday Americans and sane state legislatures are waking up to the issues. This is why the woke press senses the need to stoke fear and weaponise big business in the culture wars.” Read more here.
Biden Says He Has the Transgender Community’s Back. What Does That Mean? by W. James Antle III. “President Joe Biden had a message in his first address to a joint session of Congress. ‘To all transgender Americans … I want you to know your president has your back.’ The context is a spate of bills in predominantly Republican states that seek to prevent either transgender athletes from competing against biological girls in girls sports or that restrict gender-transitioning treatments for minors. The Biden administration would like to reverse this trend, but its legal options are limited.” Read more here.
Conversion Therapy Bans: Enforcing a Faulty Anthropology on Sex and Gender, by Darius Lee. “While concerns about violent, coercive, fraudulent, or manipulative conduct are legitimate, these are already prohibited under existing laws across all liberal democracies. Instead, by imposing ‘affirmation’ as the only acceptable approach to sexual orientation and gender identity, conversion therapy bans go beyond merely prohibiting harmful conduct to enshrine and enforce a new—and deeply harmful—moral dogma on sex and gender.” Read more here.
How ‘Love Is Love’ Leads to Sexless ‘Marriages Between Friends,’ by Glenn T. Stanton. “So marriage continues to become something else that it has never been. What we are witnessing here is simply the long continuation and devolution of something that started decades ago. Sociologists have called this development ‘expressive marriage,’ or marriage as self-actualization — whatever brings meaning and happiness to the lives of the adults involved.” Read more here.
New Bill Will Ensure Abstinence Until Marriage Is the Focus for Sex Education in Ohio, by Linda Harvey. “The bill … requires that abstinence education include teaching risk avoidance of other unhealthy behaviors like alcohol and drug use, dating violence, bullying, gambling, pornography, and human trafficking and encourage optimal health for all students. This bill would also require schools to inform parents in detail if they plan to teach any other type of sex education. And then, schools must have written permission from parents before they teach this alternative kind of sex-ed, an ‘opt-in’ requirement.” Read more here.
Why Are the Police Handcuffing Street Preachers? by Paul Coleman. “The same consequence-free approach can be said of so-called ‘hate incidents.’ It doesn’t matter that a ‘hate incident’ is, by definition, not a crime. It doesn’t matter that no proof is needed. The subjective perception of ‘hate’ is enough for the police to record a ‘hate incident’ against you without you committing a crime and potentially without you even knowing about it. And it can stay on your record for six years.” Read more here.
Female Athletes Ask Court to Allow Idaho Law Banning Males From Women’s Sports to Go Into Effect, by Virginia Allen. “College track and cross-country athlete Madison Kenyon has been forced to compete against a biological male on five occasions. She lost every time. ‘Losing unfairly to someone who has natural advantages is frustrating and unmotivating,’ said Kenyon … at a press conference after a court hearing on the legality of Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.” Read more here.
Report: The Biden Administration Has Plans to Quash ‘Anti-Trans’ Legislation in Various States, by Beth Baumann. “While the Left is quick to label these bills and laws as ‘anti-trans,’ that label fails to mention the truth behind the legislation. Young girls’ rights are being pushed by the wayside, all in the name of ‘inclusion’ and ‘acceptance.’ These girls are being forced to share restrooms and locker rooms with trans girls. They’re being forced to compete in sports with young boys because they ‘feel’ like a girl.” Read more here.
Texas Bill Would Rightly Ban Transgender Drugs, Surgery for Youths Under 18, by Mary Elizabeth Castle. “Operations and puberty blockers are the opposite of care and cause great immediate and attenuated harm to children… Administering estrogen to boys and testosterone to girls eventually results in permanent sterility. And sadly, 10 to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who undergo sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times as compared with their peers.” Read more here.
Joe Biden Comes Down Against Stay-at-Home Parenting, by Robert Verbruggen. “Joe Biden’s American Families Plan would plop the government’s thumb heavily on one side of the scale, using taxpayer money to massively subsidize child care for the working and middle classes. Stay-at-home parents, who watch their own kids so no one else has to, would no longer pocket the resulting savings for their families. This is far outside the proper role of government, contrary to the values of many American parents, and quite possibly harmful to kids.” Read more here.
Polyamory? What Do They Put in the Water in British Columbia? by Michael Cook. “Justice Wilkinson’s decision makes it clear that the reasoning which has led countries in the Western world to legalise same-sex marriage will eventually lead to pressure to equate other romantic configurations to traditional marriage. Will this lead to huge numbers of polygamous or polyamorous unions? Probably not. What it will do is convince young couples that traditional man-woman-kids-‘til-death-do-us-part kind of marriage is a pointless joke.” Read more here.
Finnish Lawmaker Faces Jail for Sharing Bible Quote About Homosexuality, by Tony Perkins. “In a case that’s stunned the West, Finland’s former interior minister and leader of the Christian Democrats has been criminally charged for posting a picture of the Bible, opened to Romans 1:24-27. She was disturbed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church joining a gay pride event and decided to remind it what God says about homosexuality. Now, after a two-year investigation, the tweet could put her behind bars.” Read more here.
Why We Should Not Extend the 14-Day Rule for Embryo Experimentation, by Bruce Blackshaw. “…[T]here are no compelling reasons to extend the 14-day limit for now, even if the embryo is not considered to be a valuable human being. Doing so might work against the aim of the Warnock committee, which was to alleviate public mistrust of science. Critics have always warned about the dangers of a slippery slope and extending the limit might confirm those fears.” Read more here.
16 States Now Ban Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome, by J.P. Duffy. “These laws prohibit anyone from knowingly aborting an unborn child solely on the basis of his or her sex or disability. FRC’s new issue analysis explains how these laws address the long shared history of abortion and eugenics in America; which states have passed legislation to ensure unborn children are not aborted on account of their race, sex, or disability; and the challenges these laws have faced in court.” Read more here.
The Newest Redefinition of Traditional Marriage: ‘Platonic Marriages,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “Some refer to each other as ‘life partners,’ and say they are pursuing marriage because ‘they want to be legally and socially recognized as a family.’ These days, it seems that people want whatever relationship they pursue formally recognized by the state, which has replaced the church as the body that confers legitimacy.” Read more here.
Biden Spends First 100 Days Expanding Abortion on Demand, by Alexandra Desanctis. “As president, Biden appears to have shed any last vestiges of pretending to believe that unborn human beings deserve even minor protections under the law or that pro-life taxpayers ought not be forced to fund elective abortions. Early in the administration, Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson announced that … they expected Biden to follow marching orders when it came to abortion.” Read more here.
Is Kenya’s Biggest Abortion Provider Trying to Gag Critics? by Mathew Otieno. “[Marie Stopes Kenya] calls itself the ‘the leading provider of sexual and reproductive health services in Kenya.’ It’s no secret, however, that this is a euphemism for ‘the leading provider of abortion in Kenya.’ That abortion is illegal in Kenya seems to be worth less than a roomful of rat droppings to the organisation. In fact, in 2019, MSK got so brazen about its abortion business that it ran a salacious ad campaign on local radio stations to promote it.” Read more here.
Studies Purporting to Show Safety of Telehealth Abortions Are Unpersuasive, by Michael J. New. “…[I]n recent days, supporters of legal abortion and their allies in the mainstream media are working overtime to try to make the case that telehealth abortions do not pose health risks. However, the evidence they provide is weak – and in some cases demonstrates that telehealth abortions actually do pose serious health risks.” Read more here.
Family and the Future of Civilization, by Scott Yenor. “Over the past two generations, opponents of marriage have delivered a wide-ranging critique of this idea of marriage. For many today, the traditional idea of marriage as an enduring community limits individual freedom. They imagine, instead, a marriage dedicated to autonomy, ‘expression, intimacy, and spirituality…’ The new ideas of marriage may have yielded more freedom and equality, but they come at a price.” Read more here.
Humanizing the Victims of Abortion, by Jerry Newcombe. “One of the great blessings of the United States is that written into our national birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, is the acknowledgement that we are endowed by our Creator with the right to life. But the right to life is under assault today through the widespread practice of abortion—and has been for decades.” Read more here.
‘Gay Conversion Therapy’ Can Work, No Matter What Joe Biden Says, by Michael Cook. “Elsewhere bans are spreading. Some jurisdictions in Australian forbid it. The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning it. Malta, Ecuador, Brazil, Taiwan and Albania and Germany have effectively banned it. The legislative energy invested in these initiatives is puzzling. In the past coercive and abusive programs to ‘cure’ people of homosexual urges did exist. But nearly all of these disappeared long ago. What’s the point of banning them today?” Read more here.
President Biden’s First 100 Days Full of Pro-Abortion Agenda, but Pro-Lifers Are Fighting Back, by Rebecca Downs. “…[T]here are groups out there which have put together resources to expose such a pro-abortion agenda and educate voters on what went on during President Biden’s first 100 days in office, and why that’s so detrimental to protecting the right to life. The very existence of these resources, though, shows that the pro-life movement hasn’t given up, but rather is going to ramp up their efforts even further.” Read more here.
India Kills 22 Million Girl Babies in Sex-Selection Abortions, Where Are the Feminists? by Micaiah Bilger. “A 2019 report in Newsweek … exposed how not one single baby girl had been born in a three-month period in all of the Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand state, northern India. Birth data from the district showed that all of the 216 babies who were born were boys, according to the report. Authorities suspect the reason was sex-selection abortions.” Read more here.
Purchase Orders Show FDA Bought ‘Fresh’ Livers of Viable Babies Killed in Abortions, by Micaiah Bilger. “On June 28, 2017, the FDA asked ABR for an estimate for 16 livers and 16 thymuses from second-trimester aborted babies. It specified that the babies’ bodies must be ‘free of known chromosomal abnormalities’ and ‘fresh and never frozen.’ According to the document, the FDA wanted livers and thymuses ‘approximately two to three times per month.’” Read more here.
What Will You Do When Teachers and Trans Activists Try to Force Your Children to Violate Their Conscience? by Amy Haywood. “One of the most egregious arenas where children’s civil liberties are being violated is in our nation’s public schools… Schools are … urging students to keep social transitions to another gender secret from parents and are directed by policies pushed by activists and the National Education Association to hide changed names and pronouns on official school documents that an unsupportive parent might see.” Read more here.
LGBT Activists Are Taking Aim at Christianity Itself, by Tyler O’Neil. “Ultimately, LGBT orthodoxy is at odds with biblical Christianity. There is no escaping it. Christian colleges and universities should have the religious freedom to operate according to their beliefs, and prospective students should make decisions accordingly. If students choose to attend a Christian college with a code of conduct that applies biblical morality, they should not be surprised when the college refuses to kowtow to their sexual identities.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood: Abortion Is ‘Critical Expression of Freedom,’ by Katie Yoder. “Abortion is critical to the freedom and imagination of Americans, according to the head of Planned Parenthood. But in reality, it’s the reason why millions don’t exist today – their freedom lost along with their lives.” Read more here.
One Hundred Days of Abortion Extremism, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration have brought an unprecedented tsunami of anti-life extremism. Almost daily, there are fresh assaults not only on the unborn and their mothers, but on the foundations of America itself as pro-abortion Democrats hurry to push through their agenda before the 2022 midterm elections.” Read more here.
UN Agencies and Western Donors Reveal Sexual Agenda Ahead of HIV/AIDS Summit, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Under the guise of addressing HIV/AIDS, UN agencies and Western-backed non-government groups called on governments to legalize drug use, and prostitution. This occurred during a General Assembly consultation last week where they also called for sexual autonomy for children.” Read more here.
Are Streaming Services Like Disney Plus and Netflix Really as ‘Family Friendly’ as They Claim to Be? by Josh Shepherd. “…[P]arents’ advocates are under no illusion that technology alone solves complex problems. For years, PTC has noted a conflict of interest in how networks and streamers rate their own shows. How titles are categorized matters just as much, with Netflix continuing to stock its Teen category with TV-MA titles.” Read more here.
College of the Ozarks Stands Up to Biden’s Transgender Executive Order, by Nicole Russell. “Traditional views on gender and sex may seem antiquated to the LGBT community, but the college’s policies are rooted in thousands of years of Judeo-Christian history. Regardless of culture’s changing definitions of gender and sex, the school should be able to hold to this, protected both by the Constitution and federal law, without so much as a slap on the wrist for ‘discrimination,’ or ‘bigotry.’” Read more here.
Texas Bill Would Provide Array of Supports to Women Seeking Abortion Alternatives, by Melanie Israel. “Fully 75% of women seeking an abortion report that under different circumstances they would choose to keep their child. The legislation looks to change circumstances by offering women seeking an abortion a ‘resource access assistance offer.’” Read more here.
Governments Don’t Get a Pass on Violating Religious Freedom in a Pandemic, by Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins. “Recently released, our 2021 annual report documents how governments treat religious practice during the pandemic. Some measures to restrict in-person religious activities were justifiable on public health grounds, while others unfairly targeted religious communities and were troubling.” Read more here.
Activist Judge Dismisses Connecticut Suit That Would Protect Girls’ Sports From Male Competitors, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Can a judge who orders plaintiffs’ counsel to call biological boys ‘females’ – even though the very nature of the Title IX lawsuit involves questions of males’ competitive advantage in scholastic sports – render an impartial ruling on defendants’ motion to dismiss the suit? It would seem the answer is ‘no.’” Read more here.
Uncle Sam Does Not Belong in Girls’ Dorms or Showers, by Jerry C. Davis. “Young women should not be forced to share private spaces — including showers and dorm rooms — with men, and a religious institution should not be forced to betray its religious beliefs. The government’s threats include harmful fines that could easily amount to six figures, in addition to punitive damages and attorneys’ fees. Fair Housing Act violations can even put someone in jail.” Read more here.
The Inequality Act, by Debbie Wuthnow. “Under the Equality Act, discrimination against Americans of faith would be condoned and upheld by federal law—nationwide. Christians would be among those singled out for penalties if they expressed or lived out their faith in business or many other areas of life. Their biblical beliefs regarding marriage and sexuality would be antithetical to this law.” Read more here.
Top 10 Sickening Details About How Federal Employees Trafficked Baby Body Parts, by Edie Heipel. “FDA’s purchases were calculated according to ABR’s current ‘Fees for Services Schedule,’ which maintained the same prices for all buyers. One procurement log records the sale of a 21-week-old baby with Down Syndrome. This child’s limbs, organs, and skin were sold at hundreds of dollars apiece. ABR made $2,600 in total from the sale of this baby.” Read more here.
Do We Really Want Hate Speech Laws Under Which Children Will Shop Their Parents? by Lizzie Francis. “…[I]t is fair to say that caution should be given to children in these localities posting their support for their favourite author, J.K. Rowling, and her views; writing their thoughts on sexual ethics taught in Sunday school; or disagreeing with their school’s new policy to make bathrooms gender neutral. Opinions should be ‘mainstream’ only. Not conservative, and certainly not orthodox.” Read more here.
Abortion Pills Are Not ‘Medication,’ by Katie Yoder. “In order to distinguish from surgical abortion, many in the media already use ‘medication abortion,’ ‘medical abortion,’ or ‘chemical abortion’ to describe an abortion administered by pill. But only recently have major outlets begun switching the words around to use phrases such as ‘abortion medication’ to call abortion itself a type of medicine.” Read more here.
Why the Cultural Assault on Natural Womanhood Robs Women of Fulfillment, by Carrie Gress. “We have dismissed womanhood and all its attending realities, like having children and raising them. Meanwhile, we’ve encouraged women to become so men-like that we can’t tell the difference anymore. If we can, we aren’t supposed to say that part out loud. We have scarcely any idea what true womanhood or manhood is anymore.” Read more here.
Here’s the Latest Roundup of How Governors Voted to Protect Girls in Sports, by Rebecca Downs. “When it comes to being ‘not welcoming,’ biological males are still welcome to compete in sports against biological males. The governor takes this from the perspective of worrying about transgender ‘children and families,’ but the focus must be on worrying for young women and maintaining their Title IX protections.” Read more here.
Only Pro-Lifers Can Offer Women a Real ‘Choice,’ by Emily Berning. “When you show women considering abortion that, contrary to what the abortion industry tries to tell them, they are not alone, that thousands of good people are ready to help them face the challenge of motherhood, their whole outlook changes. The fake ‘choice’ they’ve been presented by selfish boyfriends and assembly line abortion providers fades away, and a real choice becomes clear to them.” Read more here.
LGBT Activist Urges the Government to Fight ‘the Pernicious Power of Prayer,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “How do ‘conversion therapy’ bans restrict everyday church practices? These laws forbid any attempts to ‘change’ a person’s sexual orientation. If a Christian experiences unwanted same-sex attraction, and a pastor preaches the Bible passages forbidding homosexual activity, that may be considered ‘conversion therapy.’” Read more here.
Salon Piece Says ‘Pro-Choice Ethics’ Prove Abortion Isn’t Murder, by Katie Yoder. “There’s a moral and ethical case to be made for abortion, according to two experts writing for Salon. Nathan Nobis … and Jonathan Dudley … argued that abortion supporters should employ ethics to undercut the pro-life position. They went so far as to propose a few ‘ethical arguments’ of their own – arguments rife with fallacies.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Disavows Its Founder (but Not Abortion), by Michael Cook. “From now on, says McGill Johnson, PP will tone down its association with Sanger and commit itself to combat racism and all forms of dehumanisation… This, she says, might seem like virtue signalling. But it’s not… Yet, as critics of McGill Johnson’s statement immediately pointed out, PP is still proudly the largest abortion provider in the United States. And black babies are over-represented.” Read more here.
Five States Send a Powerful Rebuke to Joe Biden’s Attack on Women’s Sports, by Tyler O’Neil. “The NCAA argued that its approach ‘requires testosterone suppression treatment for transgender women to compete in women’s sports,’ following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) policies. Yet a study in The Journal of Medical Ethics concluded that the IOC’s policies allow biological males who identify as female to maintain a key advantage that constitutes ‘intolerable unfairness.’” Read more here.
When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV, by Angus Fox. “Therapists dealing with bulimia impress upon young people the long-term consequences of their behaviour, such as low bone density and weak tooth enamel. When the discussion turns to issues of fertility and reproductive health, and the child in question responds by saying, ‘I don’t want kids anyway,’ therapists will push back, pointing out that many people feel that way early on in life, only to change their minds later. These same medical risks apply to cross-sex hormones, but in this case, mentioning these risks suddenly becomes taboo.” Read more here.
Agenda to Lower the Age of Consent, by Binary Australia. “Arguments to lower the age of consent are usually framed so as to grant more freedom to teenagers to explore sexuality with one another. The results of course would be starkly different, as teens would become available to adults of all ages without fear of legal prosecution.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Moves to Force Religious Hospitals to Uphold Transgender Mandate, by Madeleine Kearns. “Religious objections aside, the idea that an invasive and high-risk treatment on a highly vulnerable population for which there is (at best) conflicting evidence of safety and efficacy, should be mandated makes no sense. But then, neither does the ideology behind such aggression.” Read more here.
New California Law Could Put Male Serial Rapists Into Women’s Prisons, by Margot Cleveland. “…[W]ith federal law tying their hands and state law mandating the absurd, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will talk the talk, while slow-walking men to the women’s prisons. If this solution is a step forward for LGBTQ people, it’s only because society cares not for the women stomped on during the march.” Read more here.
Biden Ramps Up Abortion Agenda, by Mairead McArdle. “Biden’s attacks on the Hyde Amendment propel Democrats into relatively new ideological territory. Even Biden’s former boss, President Obama, signed an order preserving the amendment, which attempts to ensure that taxpayers who do not support abortion are not forced to fund something at odds with their conscience.” Read more here.
Illinois Bill Would Force Health Insurers to Buy Babies for Gay and Single People, by Elizabeth Bauer. “The new bill in Illinois, HB 3709, actually has nothing to do with infertility. Instead, it would mandate that all health insurance plans sold in the state pay for fertility-related services for single people and same-sex couples regardless of whether, physiologically, they have any impairment in their fertility at all.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Is Indoctrinating Public School Children With Pro-Abortion Propaganda, by Christina Stierhoff. “Did you know that Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion provider, has infiltrated the public school system? In their own sneaky and conniving way, the abortion giant has convinced school administrations through veiled language that they can provide important assistance to their students.” Read more here.
Study: A Manly Father Is Good for Children, by Annie Holmquist. “We have today what authors Warren Farrell and John Gray call a ‘boy crisis’ – a crisis where boys fail to become men, struggle in school, get in trouble, and have difficulty finding wives. Would we see that crisis begin to be resolved if we encouraged fathers to practice and model their manly virtues once again, showing not only love and gentleness, but courage, competitiveness, and an adventurous spirit as well?” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Is Trying to Exploit the COVID-19 Crisis to Rake in More Taxpayer Funding, by Kristan Hawkins. “If you haven’t already guessed, Planned Parenthood isn’t pushing for reduced safety standards out of concern for women. The only thing the abortion business cares about is making a profit, no matter the cost. And COVID-19 has presented it with the perfect opportunity to seize more money and more power.” Read more here.
UN Commission Agrees on Food Security, Not Abortion and LGBT Rights, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The apparently innocuous theme of this year’s session of the commission, ‘Population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development,’ did not stop powerful countries from attempting to add abortion, LGBT issues, and sexual autonomy for children on the menu. In the end, they were unsuccessful.” Read more here.
Lockdowns Are Feeding the Transgender Obsession, by Angus Fox. “Much of this is about schoolteachers, many of whom have recklessly encouraged kids to explore their so-called ‘gender identity’ knowing that someone else will mop up the inevitable mess. Shielded by Zoom, these crypto-activists can now let loose, safe in the knowledge that parents are now the only ones in loco parentis. Turn up, clock in, subvert the ubiquitous patriarchy, sign out.” Read more here.
Morality Has Little Hope in Government, by Charles Lewis. “Opposing sex-selection abortions, however, should have been easy. The practice has a dark side to it. To decide to end a pregnancy because one prefers a boy or a girl – usually it’s a boy – seems the absolute height of selfishness… A sex-selection abortion reeks of a form of soft genetics and has echoes of China’s obscene one-child policy.” Read more here.
Pornography in Schools: Teachers Suffering in Fearful Silence, by Georgia Howe. “According to at least 10 sources in LISD, including parents and teachers, a significant majority of LISD teachers (across the political spectrum) vehemently oppose the use of graphic sexual content in their classes. However, every teacher I spoke with stated unequivocally that they believe they would lose their job if they publicly dissented from the new curriculum.” Read more here.
Proposed Partnership Agreement Between EU, Developing Countries Builds on Past Negotiation Losses, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The European Union (EU) is working with countries in the Pacific, Caribbean and African regions to finalize a new twenty-year development cooperation agreement. If adopted, the proposed agreement text would add further leverage to the EU’s efforts to promote controversial issues like abortion and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in those developing regions.” Read more here.
Another Look at the Horror of the Porn Industry, by Alexandra Desanctis. “Her story is just one example of a reality we prefer to ignore, because to address it would require taking a real look at the costs of an essentially unregulated porn industry. Perhaps her story … will be the occasion for another small reckoning, this time for an even larger pornography site and maybe even for Google, which appears to have no scruples about facilitating users in their search for illegal content featuring the abuse of minors.” Read more here.
Sin of Planned Parenthood Is Abortion, Not Margaret Sanger, by Star Parker. “Johnson takes one step further into the moral abyss, noting that Planned Parenthood is remiss for having ‘excluded trans and nonbinary people’ from its programs. She writes that Planned Parenthood pledges ‘to fight the many types of dehumanization we are seeing right now.’ Dehumanization has one cause, of which Planned Parenthood is among the guiltiest in the nation: lack of respect for the sanctity of life.” Read more here.
How to Talk to Someone Struggling With Gender Confusion, by Walt Heyer. “During my transgender years, people exhibited true compassion not in affirming me in a false identity, but by asking uncomfortable, but caring, questions. My compassion is motivated by wanting to protect people from unnecessary body-mutilating procedures. True compassion means not collaborating with the rush to medical intervention.” Read more here.
Taxpayers Must Now Fund Trafficking of Baby Body Parts, by Liberty Counsel. “Now the Biden HHS, under Xavier Becerra, will no longer require extramural research applications for NIH grants and contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions to be reviewed by an independent advisory board. Research using fetal tissue will now move forward and taxpayers will pay for barbaric experiments using the body parts of aborted babies.” Read more here.
Keeping the Faith, by Christian Smith. “The empirical evidence is clear. In almost every case, no other institution or program comes close to shaping youth religiously as their parents do – not religious congregations, youth groups, faith-based schools, missions and service trips, summer camps, Sunday school, youth ministers, or anything else. Those influences can reinforce the influence of parents, but almost never do they surpass or override it.” Read more here.
Americans Say Why They’re Pro-Life: My Baby Was ‘Sucking His Thumb,’ by Katie Yoder. “They recently flocked to Twitter to share why they are pro-life. Lila Rose, president of pro-life group Live Action, prompted them by asking, ‘What was the moment you realized you were pro-life?’ Hundreds of people responded and many openly shared what inspired them to identify as pro-life, from realizing what abortion entails to being personally wounded by abortion.” Read more here.
Poll Showing Americans Are ‘Overwhelmingly’ Pro-Transgender Ideology Is Misleading, by Madeleine Kearns. “Participants were asked, ‘Do you support or oppose legislation that would prohibit gender transition-related medical care for minors?’ Out of 1,066 participants, only 26 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of Republicans said that they would support such legislation. But I wonder how many it would have been if they had asked Do you support or oppose legislation that would prohibit the chemical castration of children as was recently outlawed in England?” Read more here.
Chemical Abortion by Mail Is Cruelty to Women and Girls, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “A political party and ideology of sexual revolutionary values should care about these girls and women having some medical supervision as they are dealing with a cocktail of drugs starving the baby within them to death and forcing the baby to be expelled from the uterus… Does anyone care what is going on in the heart and mind and soul of a child going through this and the side effects — physical and otherwise?” Read more here.
PBS Poll Claiming Americans Reject Transgender Legislation is Full of ‘Euphemisms to Prevent Understanding,’ by Rebecca Downs. “Polls love to ask about taking away or ‘prohibit[ing]’ medical care, and why wouldn’t they, when it fires people up so much. Having minors transition is hardly ‘medical care,’ but in reality the opposite. It can range from hormone therapy, to gender mutilation, to sterilization, of a minor who can’t properly consent.” Read more here.
American Dollars Should Have No Part in China’s Forced Sterilizations, by Arielle Del Turco and Connor Semelsberger. “A Jamestown Foundation report found funds from the Chinese central government went towards funding sterilizations in Xinjiang, sufficient for almost 200,000 sterilizations. The UNFPA should not be partnering on ‘family planning’ efforts with a government that brutally employs sterilization and abortion to commit genocide against a minority group. The fact that the UNFPA continues to do so is more than enough reason for the United States to halt all contributions.” Read more here.
Does Daniel Andrews Have New Bars on Free Speech Coming? by David Limbrick. “…[B]ureaucrats and judges would only need to be satisfied that a person recklessly engages in conduct that is ‘likely to incite hatred against, serious contempt for, or revulsion or severe ridicule’ of a person based on whether they possess or associate with someone who possesses a ‘protected attribute.’ The list of attributes would expand to include race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, intersex status, disability, and HIV/AIDS status.” Read more here.
A Victorian Health Organisation’s Non-Binary Propaganda Campaign, by Binary Australia. “To suggest that young people are suiciding because society uses terms like mum, dad, girlfriend or boyfriend is, frankly, bizarre. In the strange post-modern vortex of radical gender ideology almost any proposition might fly. For people grounded in the real world, this looks like a cruel joke. They are using vulnerable children as a human shield for their political agenda and playing the highly emotive card of suicide to bully the rest of us into playing along.” Read more here.
The Complex Cultural Issues Surrounding Abortion, Including Sex-Trafficking and Pornography, by Wendy Smith. “Consider how medical abortion removes all barriers for traffickers… Perpetrators will avoid being exposed, purchasing the abortion pill over-the-counter or on-line, without prescriptions, eliminating the need for evaluation by provider. The victims might not know what they are taking, or they could be forced to take the pills. If victims experience complications, more than likely they would be told they’d had a miscarriage.” Read more here.
As French Senate Tightens Church Controls, Christian Advocates Avoid Fear, by Kami Rice. “In particular, churches face increased requirements for declaring themselves to the government and stringent new rules related to finances… The law would also increase government surveillance of pastors’ teaching and increase religious leaders’ legal liability, proposing steep sanctions for speech deemed to encourage disrespect of laws.” Read more here.
Biden Administration Repudiates Unalienable Human Rights, Elevates Sexual Rights Instead, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The new emphasis on ‘sexual rights’ signals the intention of the Biden administration to elevate controversial social policies, including abortion, LGBT issues, and sexual autonomy for children as human rights. And it is consistent with the positions taken by the Biden administration at the United Nations alongside the European Union.” Read more here.
The Dark Truth About Chemical Abortions, Explained, by Virginia Allen and Lauren Evans. “We know that with chemical abortion, the complication rates are four times higher than they are for surgical abortion. Which is crazy to think about because the abortion lobby says that chemical abortion, it’s so easy. It’s like having a heavy period. You can do it at home. It’s no big deal. They really downplay the risks and offer it as being this great alternative to surgical abortion.” Read more here.
When Sons Become Daughters, Part II, by Angus Fox. “They call the phenomenon ‘institutional capture:’ healthcare practitioners are either indoctrinated with absolutist beliefs about gender identity that would have been seen as radical until just a few years ago, or are so terrified of running afoul of affirmation dogmas that they simply refer patients on to someone else. As a result, Christine’s trust in the medical profession has collapsed.” Read more here.
When Sons Become Daughters, Part III, by Angus Fox. “Maya now speaks openly with colleagues and friends about [Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria], and has become active online. She’s increasingly vocal about the erosion of parental rights, whether in the healthcare system or in schools. She worries that she must sound like a conspiracy theorist when she explains what’s happening in clinics and classrooms and chatrooms, but she doesn’t care. ‘I’m done being scared,’ she says. ‘Now I’m pissed.’” Read more here.
Scientists Want to Remove Ethical Limitations on Human Embryo Research, by C. Ben Mitchell. “The International Society for Stem Cell Research will recommend abolishing a longstanding ethical limitation on human embryo research. For decades the scientific community has observed the so-call 14-day rule… The ISSCR wants the rule lifted so that human embryos can be developed to a more mature stage.” Read more here.
The Online Safety Bill Is an Assault on Free Speech, by Radomir Tylecote. “The government plans to censor what it calls ‘offensive material,’ as if giving offence is a harm from which a fragile public needs protection by the state. The ‘duty of care’ for online companies proposed by the bill covers tackling content that could produce an ‘adverse … psychological impact on individuals.’ This ‘psychological impact’ could mean almost anything.” Read more here.
Is Abortion a Global Public Health Emergency? by Michael Cook. “Their argument works like this. If the foetus is a human person, abortion must be regarded as a global health emergency which is even more serious than Covid-19. There are an estimated 50 million abortions every year — about the total number of deaths of infants, children and adults from all causes. Deaths from Covid are far lower.” Read more here.
Miscarriage as Bereavement in a World of Abortion, by Carolyn Moynihan. “Do women who miscarry mourn ‘the end of a pregnancy?’ Surely, they grieve for a child; that is the only way to make sense of the term ‘bereavement’ as a description of what has happened. It is not just a change in a woman’s body, but the loss of a relationship with a person, a new human individual who is your own flesh and blood.” Read more here.
UK Research Review is Sceptical of Medical Treatment for Gender Dysphoria, by Michael Cook. “All of the studies in the review of the literature were flawed. They were all uncontrolled observational studies, which are subject to bias and confounding; they had relatively short follow-up; most of them did not report comorbidities (physical or mental health); most of the studies were poorly reported and used a confusing variety of scoring tools and methods.” Read more here.
School Districts Are Hiding Information About Gender-Transitioning Children From Their Parents. This Is Unconstitutional, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Stunningly, the policy prohibits personnel from communicating with parents on any of the above actions, and goes so far as to direct teachers and staff to deceive parents by reverting to a child’s birth name and corresponding pronouns whenever a child’s parents are present.” Read more here.
Arkansas and the Politics of Experimenting on Children, by Mark Regnerus. “…[T]he legislature knows something the governor apparently does not: hormonal treatment of adolescent gender dysphoria continues to yield little demonstrable benefit across samples and studies, save perhaps for idealized self-image—a subjective outcome once considered unworthy of dramatic intervention. Critics will claim otherwise (they already are), and will seek to weaponize the risk of suicide in a manner long considered dangerous and unethical.” Read more here.
Where Is the Evidence for Transgender Youth Suicide? by Michael Cook. “The North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network is currently running a campaign … which advises schools to avoid words like ‘mum,’ ‘dad,’ ‘boyfriend’ and ‘girlfriend’ to help to lower the suicide rates of LGBTQI+ young people. It also wants to bring in unisex bathrooms, non-gendered playing teams and rainbow flags to be more inclusive and make gender non-conforming young people more comfortable.” Read more here.
Keira Bell Deserved Better Than Puberty Blockers, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “…[W]hat did the adults do? They experimented on her. Five years later, she would de-transition. But a double mastectomy cannot be undone. That ‘pause’ on puberty and testosterone shots have a lifetime of consequences. Teenagers don’t think about infertility and breastfeeding. That’s why there are adults. But the adults failed Keira Bell. And the adults increasingly seem nowhere to be seen on these dangerous issues of gender confusion and ideology…” Read more here.
Why All Pregnant Women Should Be Concerned About a Change to Britain’s Abortion Laws, by Naomi Marsden. “But here’s the rub: if decriminalisation gets through and section 58 of the OAPA is repealed, there will be no explicit criminal penalty for causing a woman to miscarry… Furthermore, if the ILPA is repealed, there will be no criminal penalty for child destruction for a preborn baby right up to term. The law in this area is already failing to get justice for women.” Read more here.
Parent in New York Sues to ‘Marry’ Their Adult Child, by Michael L. Brown. “…[T]he moral, legal, and societal wall against incestuous relationships helps remove the possibility of such relationships (and sexual unions)… Take down that wall, and anything can happen. That’s why challenges to incest remain more marginal than mainstream. But make no mistake about it. If marriage could be so radically redefined so as to remove the requirement of a man and a woman, it can be further redefined to include family members or to expand the number from two.” Read more here.
Biden’s New Policy on Transgender Troops Will Weaken Our Military, by Thomas Spoehr. “Allowing mistrust or uncertainty into the unit weakens this critical bond. It breeds resentment. It causes doubt where once was certainty. This is the heart of the transgender service debate. If those with gender dysphoria are at a much higher risk of suicide, crippling anxiety or other mental breakdowns than their peers, those serving next to them will be reluctant to rely on them. Permitting them to serve also violates the principle of not placing individuals at greater risk of injury in harm’s way.” Read more here.
UN Committee Calls for Internet Channels for Child Sexting, by Austin Ruse. “The Committee dealt with what is now commonly called ‘sexting…’ Sexting can be illegal when done by children, and the Committee wants it made legal. The Committee says, ‘Child-friendly channels should be created to allow children to seek advice and assistance where it relates to self-generated sexually explicit content.’” Read more here.
Anti-Life and Anti-Christian Attack at the European Parliament, by Grégor Puppinck. “…[A] few parliamentarians want to promote abortion, even though this subject does not fall within the competence of the European Union, and we are experiencing a serious moral and demographic crisis. According to this text, having women ‘carry their pregnancy to term against their will … is a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based violence.’” Read more here.
My Story, by Keira Bell. “…[T]he further my transition went, the more I realized that I wasn’t a man, and never would be. We are told these days that when someone presents with gender dysphoria, this reflects a person’s ‘real’ or ‘true’ self, that the desire to change genders is set. But this was not the case for me. As I matured, I recognized that gender dysphoria was a symptom of my overall misery, not its cause.” Read more here.
Arkansas Law Lets Kids Be Kids, by Autumn Leva. “In recent years, parents have grown wary of giving their children meat or dairy products filled with artificial hormones. Yet, these same parents are pressured to accept that children should receive unnatural levels of hormones for the politically popular cause of so-called gender affirmation.” Read more here.
When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering, by Angus Fox. “The parents … are nervous of losing their jobs… While most have expressed to their families their scepticism regarding their sons’ announcements, all are wary of the parent-child relationship worsening. But they did let me in, even with these fears, and took me on a whirlwind ride over the terrain of the new gender ideology.” Read more here.
Stop Hedging, Start Marrying, by Mary Harrington. “…[A]s the first generation to be raised wholly on those messages of freedom begins sliding into unhappy, lonely and childless middle age, it’s time to rethink this belief. Much of the freedom we’ve gained has been bought at the cost of meaning. Interdependence ties us down; but even in America, today’s wellspring of radical individualism, 69% of respondents to a Pew poll indicated that family is their primary source of meaning in life.” Read more here.
Why the World Rugby Guidelines Banning Trans Athletes From the Women’s Game Are Reasonable, by Jon Pike. “If we are to have two classes of sport — male and female — then the division is justified by the existence of male advantage. Those who claim male advantage (including residual male advantage for transwomen) doesn’t matter are actually arguing for unisex sport.” Read more here.
The Crisis at the Tavistock’s Child Gender Clinic, by Hannah Barnes. “The findings make for sobering reading with inspectors raising ‘significant concerns’ about the way the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) works… With Care Quality Commission inspectors recently confirming many of the risks highlighted still remain, some have expressed concern about why neither GIDS, nor NHS England, which has ultimate responsibility for the service, have done more to help the children and young people it cares for.” Read more here.
Activists Deliberately Amplified Transgenderism to America’s Gullible Kids, and Few Are Protecting Them, by Jean C. Lloyd. “…[N]o generation has ever had ‘the normalization of body dissociation’ directly marketed to them for profit. Doctors use Instagram to market top surgery, and hormones are available essentially on demand. Similar to the ubiquitous commercials directing us to ‘ask our doctor about the purple pill,’ the array of options for medicalized identity interventions are finding their target audience, primarily the young.” Read more here.
European Catholics Fear Erosion of Religious Freedoms Across Continent, by Jonathan Luxmoore. “Fears of an incremental assault on religious freedom have long been expressed by church leaders in Europe, where antireligious incidents are logged by the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians, and publicized by human rights bodies such as the European Centre for Law and Justice.” Read more here.
Children With Gender Dysphoria Need Responsible Adults, Not Affirmation, by Eddie Scarry. “Of the few scientific studies that otherwise exist about transgenderism, indications are that the people afflicted with gender dysphoria will be dealing with lifelong issues of severe depression and even physical ailment… However, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that, well, maybe letting minors tinker with their bodies and their chemical makeup isn’t something that should cause us all to leap for joy.” Read more here.
Parents of Nonbinary Autistic Child Say Child Asked to Be Called ‘They’ at 6, by Sarah Taylor. “Shira and Ari said that they take Hallel to ‘special needs camps,’ spend a lot of time explaining ‘nonbinary’ to the curious, and attend ‘nonbinary meetups’ to further Hallel’s comfort level with the announcement… The family say they often struggle to maintain using ‘they’ when referring to Hallel, but the 9-year-old has a suggestion: ‘Refer to me as a group of people.’” Read more here.
In the European Parliament the Right to Life Is Under Attack, by Redacción. “…[I]t is an attempt to map and stigmatize pro-life citizens, organizations, politicians and governments, creating a kind of ‘black list.’ The result will be their exclusion from European political life as they will be presented as ‘dangerous for democracy and contrary to the values of the EU.’” Read more here.
GLAAD Yanks Blacklist of Anti-LGBT Figures, by Ellie Gardey. “The probable reason GLAAD pulled the blacklist is the sheer carelessness and brainlessness with which the profiles are written. The profiles systematically make use of ideological talking points rather than evidence, contain inaccuracies, use strange and erroneous grammar, and criticize statements with which only the most hardline transgender acitivists [sic] would disagree.” Read more here.
Arkansas Bill Would Bar Doctors From Transgender Drug, Surgical ‘Experimentation’ on Minors, by Jared Eckert. “Given that no lasting psychological health benefits are gained as a result of transitioning, bills like Arkansas’ measure that prevent gender dysphoric children from rushing into irreversible sex-change interventions, whether chemical or surgical, actually save lives and ensure health.” Read more here.
My Friend Was Pressured to Have an Abortion After Scan Showed Chance of Disability, by Nora Sullivan. “The data mirrors the disturbing anecdotes: A study in the medical journal Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights found that a quarter of doctors admitted trying to influence a mother’s decision about whether or not to continue with her pregnancy when faced with a tough diagnosis. Most encouraged mothers to terminate.” Read more here.
Where Do UN Delegations Really Stand on Life and Family? by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “In recent weeks, these socially conservative governments blocked new elements of the LGBT agenda from entering UN policy. Several made declaratory statements opposing ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and saying that the term ‘gender’ only refers to biological men and women and insisted on respect for their sovereignty and national laws.” Read more here.
Arkansas Is Taking the Health of Transgender Children Seriously, by Zachary Faria. “Chemically or physically altering gender dysphoric children through puberty blockers, hormones, or surgery, setting them on a path at the age of, say, 13 years old, that 80% or more will regret is not ‘affirmation’ or ‘acceptance.’ It is cruelty and abuse. Arkansas legislators made a prudent decision, and the dozen or so states considering joining them with their own legislation should follow suit.” Read more here.
6th Circuit Reaches Right Conclusion on ‘Preferred Pronouns.’ Other Courts Should Follow Suit, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “The court’s opinion in Meriwether v. Hartop is long overdue comfort to those who refuse to bend the knee on leftist groupthink—the kind that forces a subjective and manipulable view of one person’s self to become a defining reality for everyone else. It is a stake in the ground on behalf of religious dissenters and academic freedom.” Read more here.
New Profits for Planned Parenthood: Hormone Therapy for Those Who Identify as Trans, by Heather Sells. “Planned Parenthood’s 2019-2020 annual report shows the extent of the new venture. Two hundred centers in 31 states now welcome patients who desire hormone therapy. It’s labeled gender-affirming hormone therapy which typically means few if any questions are asked that would challenge a young person’s thinking. It also typically means no mental health support is needed to obtain the hormones.” Read more here.
Connecticut School Shows Cartoon of Man With Erection Standing Over ‘Sad’ Girl – to SECOND GRADERS, by Mike Miller. “…[T]he voice-over explains that ‘some children have experienced an adult touching or putting their penis in the child’s private parts or mouth,’ saying they’re ‘terrified that this will happen again.’ Yes, this is insane. I wonder what the over/under is on children walking away from that video with more questions than answers, and a troubling newfound fear in something awful that will likely never come close to happening to them?” Read more here.
Why a Trans Woman Is a [sic] Not a Woman, by Glenn T. Stanton. “If a trans woman was actually a woman, the ACLU would simply declare ‘a woman is a woman.’ But what they … are trying to do is broaden and redefine what a woman is. They should just be honest and admit that the universally understood definition of woman that all cultures have used across history is simply inadequate for their new agenda of redefining what it means to be human.” Read more here.
Why Are Lone-Parent Families Declining in the UK? by Harry Benson. “…[T]he proportion of lone-parent families in 2020 is now down to levels not seen since the 1990s. What’s happened is that, as marriages have become more stable over the past 25 years, the reduction in family breakdown from fewer married families splitting up has more than offset the increase in family breakdown from the increase in relatively unstable cohabiting families.” Read more here.
U.S. and EU Delegations Bully and Make False Claims About Smaller States, by Lisa Correnti. “In addition to abortion, LGBTQI+ rights, and sexual rights for children, this year, progressive countries worked hard to minimize language on the importance of protecting the family, recognition for motherhood, and the role of mothers as leaders in society. All this was wholly ignored by the media reports.” Read more here.
State Legislatures Have Introduced Over 500 Pro-Life Bills in 2021, by Brittany Raymer. “Despite a pro-abortion administration in office, 2021 should be considered the year of the pro-life bills. According to a report created by Planned Parenthood, lawmakers have introduced 516 pro-life pieces of legislation, entirely on the state level… And the abortion industry is concerned.” Read more here.
Gender Ideology May Be More Successful Than I Thought, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The dozens of genders? Phrases like ‘her penis’ and ‘his breasts’? Activists and academics might believe this, sure — but most ordinary people would not. But between the entertainment industry’s drive to normalize transgenderism, the media’s insistence on pretending that this is what we’ve believed all along, and the total takeover of public schools and even many private schools, it appears that this movement may be more successful than I thought.” Read more here.
It’s Not ‘Transphobic’ to Question Whether Rachel Levine Can Be Objective When It Comes to Hormone Blockers or Sex-Change Surgery for Children, by Ian Haworth. “The medical objectivity of those who work in the private sector is less important than those who work in the public sector, because private figures are making less impactful decisions regarding the entirety of society. As the primary advisor on matters of public health, however, Levine’s personal beliefs could impact health care policy on a national level. With this in mind, questioning every element of Levine’s background becomes crucial, as the health of our nation is at stake.” Read more here.
Military Touts ‘Wonderful Teams’ of Doctors for Transgender Troops, but Combat Concerns Remain, by Abraham Mahshie. “In announcing the April 30 implementation of new transgender policies, the Pentagon … declined to comment on a Washington Examiner question about how unit cohesion might be affected, citing ongoing litigation.… In an email response to the Washington Examiner Thursday, DOD spokeswoman Lisa Lawrence admitted that military readiness for medical treatment will be affected but will improve in the end.” Read more here.
Graphic Sexual Content Assigned to Texas Students, by Georgia Howe. “According to one parent … their concerns were not received with tolerance by some involved in the process. Proponents of the pornographic content, including both teachers and parents, lashed out at the concerned parents… Before we move on to the deranged behavior that ensued next, let’s just pause to appreciate that there are actually activists among us who defend pornography in K-12 schools.” Read more here.
Parents Beware: This Nickelodeon Show Smuggles LGBT Identities Into the ‘ABC Song,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “The Blue’s Clues & You video did not just celebrate transgender identity, however. Many of the identities represented by the flags in the video involve sexual desires and sexual activity, such as lesbianism and bisexuality. The video seems more geared toward normalizing all forms of LGBT identity, but some parents may fear that videos like this are trying to sexualize their young children.” Read more here.
Mum and Dad Lite: Parenting Without Sex, Romance, Co-Habitation or Marriage, by Michael Cook. “Amongst the myriad new family forms springing up as traditional marriage loses popularity is platonic co-parenting. This is not co-parenting after divorce, with all of its acrimony and competition for a child’s affection. Instead this involves two strangers making plans to conceive children (naturally or artificially) and taking joint responsibility for raising them – but without marriage or living together.” Read more here.
The Equality Act Would Trample on Doctors’ Religious Freedom, by Jonathan Imbody. “Your medical judgment against transitioning draws upon scientific evidence that gender dysphoria in children typically resolves within a few years. But under the Equality Act, any counsel against gender transitioning now traps you inside a thorny bush of legal hazards that trigger sex discrimination charges.” Read more here.
‘It’s Demonic:’ Religious Mothers Mourn How Trans Movement Is ‘Devouring’ Sons, Find Solace in Secret Online Group, by Jon Brown. “Paulina warned adults online are grooming children with underlying mental health issues and sexual confusion to believe they are trans. ‘The answer that these kids are getting is that there is something wrong with [their body] and that the solution is that they are trans,’ she said. ‘They’re being told a lie … The medical industry is devouring and grooming our boys to be medicalized for life.’” Read more here.
Unintended Births Among Disadvantaged Women, by Maria Archer. “The majority of abortions are performed on poor or low-income women; however, disadvantaged women are more likely to carry out unintended pregnancies than highly educated ‘afluent’ [sic] women. The reasons for this vary… The majority of women who courageously carry out ‘mistimed’ or ‘unwanted’ pregnancies are unmarried women with limited resources, who often also lack models of healthy family life.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Sits on Potentially Blockbuster Abortion Case, by Nicholas Rowan. “Even if the court ultimately rejects Dobbs, Quigley said, anti-abortion groups have an entire arsenal of other state bills that they plan to send its way. ‘Nearly 400 pro-life bills have been introduced in this year alone in state legislatures across the country,’ she said. ‘As case after case heads their way, the Supreme Court should realize that this issue is not going anywhere.’” Read more here.
Canadian Father Jailed for Talking About Court-Ordered Transgendering of His Teenage Daughter, by Jeremiah Keenan. “…Hoogland told me in a phone interview that he did not regret his choice to speak out publicly under his own name. When asked whether he regretted saying Wong and Hursh’s names, he was emphatic: ‘No.’ Hoogland views the doctors as ‘criminals’ who were ‘doing something wrong,’ harming healthy children with cross-sex hormones that render them sterile.” Read more here.
Why Christians in Scotland Are Breathing a Sigh of Relief, by Lois McLatchie. “Canon Tom’s case is now the first in the UK to overturn disproportionate Covid-19 restrictions… It proves that freedom of worship is an essential human right that runs through the bloodstream of a democracy, and cannot be lightly overridden. Religious views may have a decreasing popularity in Scotland; but perhaps this is all the more reason to protect the freedom of those who bear them to live out their faith to the greatest extent possible.” Read more here.
Happily Never After: Democrats Push a Modern-Day War on Women, by Doreen Denny. “Polls consistently show that people are deeply concerned with the impact of gender identity ideology on women and children. But they are not being told the truth about legislation with nice-sounding titles claiming ‘equality’ or campaigns that weaponize wokeism through corporate boardrooms. It’s time to expose these details to public scrutiny before it’s too late.” Read more here.
Biden, Pelosi Seek to Close Christian Adoption Agencies, by Robert G. Marshall. “They support HR 5, the so-called ‘Equality Act,’ which manipulates the meaning of the word ‘discrimination…’ If a church does not agree with the sexual practices or the social policies of the LGBTQ+ agenda, they will be charged with illegally ‘discriminating’ under the Civil Rights Act just as if they were burning crosses on front lawns and wearing white sheets to intimidate their African American neighbors.” Read more here.
Dad Jailed for Discussing Teen’s Gender Dysphoria, by Mary Jackson. “Despite the Canadian government’s efforts to silence Hoogland, his story has brought to light the dangers for parents in the country who resist or question school officials, therapists, and doctors intent on fast-tracking gender-dysphoric children into medical treatments and surgeries.” Read more here.
The Trans Agenda Uses Exactly the Same Tactics as Woman Abusers, by Natasha Chart. “The two men who introduced the Equality Act could claim the right to stay at a women’s shelter or shower with women at the gym as a result of the bill’s text. Their female colleagues have been told to smile and cheer, or there will be consequences. They aren’t kept hostage by traditional means, but by a false ideology wearing feminist clothes…” Read more here.
Nebraska Eyes Teaching Kindergarteners Gender Identity While Eleven-Year-Olds Study Pansexuality and Demigenderism, by Alex Parker. “As for the older folks, fifth graders will be able to ‘Explain that gender expression and gender identity exist along a spectrum.’ And sixth graders will progress to defining ‘sexual identity and explain a range of identities related to sexual orientation (e.g. heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, two-spirit, asexual, pansexual).’” Read more here.
How the Equality Act Would Legalize Religious Bigotry, by Yaakov Menken. “This piece of legislation mandates the ‘desegregation of public facilities [by] sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity).’ This directly forbids traditional Jewish practice in any such location. Lest you imagine that such a Jewish event would be protected by its religious nature, the act goes out of its way — for the first time in history — to prohibit recourse to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).” Read more here.
How Equality Act Could Become Classroom Bully With Biased, Unscientific Curriculum, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “…[W]hat of the curriculum the Equality Act might force schools to teach? Could it compel teachers to peddle unscientific notions that gender is ‘fluid,’ or that a student’s subjective self-identity is superior to the biological reality of his or her chromosomal makeup? Unfortunately, due to some legal sleight of hand, the answer is very likely ‘yes.’” Read more here.
A Federal Judge Has Hidden 200 Hours of Undercover Footage About Abortion Atrocities for 5 Years, by Madeline Osburn. “Late one Friday in July 2015, District Judge William Orrick of San Francisco issued a restraining order blocking the release of undercover videos at the National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention showing Planned Parenthood employees negotiating the sale of aborted fetus body parts. After nearly six years, more than 200 hours of that footage are yet to be seen by the public…” Read more here.
U.S. Pushes Controversial Abortion and Sexual Rights at U.N.’s Conference on Women, by Grace Melton. “Unfortunately, the pursuit of gender equality at the U.N. has become corrupted by the promotion of abortion, sexual rights and even radical gender theory. The U.S. should buck this trend and champion a real pro-woman agenda that respects women as equal in dignity and entitled to exercise their authentic human rights, and leave abortion out of it.” Read more here.
SCOTUS: Americans Can Hold Government Accountable for Violating Religious Freedom, by Kristen Waggoner. “Two lower courts … said that victims couldn’t continue a lawsuit against government entities for violating their rights unless the victims could prove a quantifiable injury. But violations of constitutional rights aren’t often susceptible to easy price tags… When there are no consequences for violating constitutional rights, we deny victims justice, we undermine our nation’s commitment to the First Amendment, and we embolden the government to disregard those rights again and again.” Read more here.
Throuples? Ho Hum, No Big Deal, by Michael Brown. “Haven’t we seen this before? We sound the alarm about a dangerous cultural trend, warning about what is coming around the corner. In response, our critics tell us that we’re crazy, that no such thing will ever happen, that we’re just fearmongers and fanatics. Then, little by little, the very thing we warned about becomes reality. In response, our critics say, ‘So what’s the big deal? Stop being such babies. This is the real world. Get over it.’” Read more here.
The Equality Act Is a Push for Ideological Submission, Not Civil Rights, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “Biological boys playing on girls’ teams? Foster-care and adoption services banished for having traditional views that Barack Obama and Joe Biden and all of mainstream America believed about ten seconds ago, relatively speaking? Can we please unite together against ideological tyranny here? Care about Ryan T. Anderson’s book being banned on Amazon, because it’s going to be you not submitting in some way or some form soon if this Equality Act passes.” Read more here.
A Grim Reminder That Fetal Tissue Market Is Still Open for Business, by Tara Sander Lee and David Prentice. “A recent scientific review tells the horrid tale of fetal tissue research and the tangled web it weaves. Ongoing destruction of human life is required. And as long as a constant source of funding remains, the supply-and-demand chain is not broken… It is unconscionable that fetal tissue research continues at all, let alone at taxpayer expense.” Read more here.
H.R. 5: The Final Nail in the Coffin of Religious Liberty, by Marc Little. “There are very few clergy who seem to understand that the steamroller of the federal government is infested with radical leftists, and it has had enough of the church preaching ‘hate speech’ for biblical marriage between one man and one woman and that God made two genders, for instance. And clergy have become more compliant by the day; the cancel culture … is cancelling the church right under its own nose and there is nary a whimper to say, ‘No more.’” Read more here.
‘Inclusivity’ Does Not Trump Fairness or Science in Protecting Women’s Sports, by Zachary Faria. “Female athletes at all levels deserve a level playing field. Whether they are chasing athletic scholarships or simply a spot on a team, allowing biological men to compete denies them that. It flies in the face of science and common sense, and it makes for a lousy definition of inclusivity.” Read more here.
Confronting the Lie That Pro-Lifers Don’t Care Once a Child Is Born, by Robert Knight. “In 2019, the latest year tabulated, about 2,700 pro-life pregnancy centers nationally served nearly two million people… This included distributing more than two million baby outfits and nearly 1.3 million packs of diapers to needy parents. At virtually no charge, clients receive counseling before and after births, various tests including ultrasounds, and information about alternatives such as maternity homes and adoption.” Read more here.
Justices’ Title VII ‘On Basis of Sex’ Ruling Spawning Unintended Consequences in Lower Courts, by GianCarlo Canaparo and Nicole Imhof. “The Bostock decision immediately raised the question of whether ‘on the basis of sex’ means sexual orientation and gender identity for all other laws that use that term—and there are several… Now that some time has passed, we’ve been able to look at what the lower courts have done with Bostock, at least so far, and, sure enough, they’ve applied it to other statutes.” Read more here
Father Jailed After Referring to Biological Female Child as His Daughter, by Erin Perse. “The Canadian state has taken a drastically wrong turning by institutionalizing transsexual medical procedures for children, then imposing draconian constraints on free expression to conceal the full horror of what it is doing to a generation of children. It seems unwilling to consider the implications of the decision in Keira Bell v Tavistock in the UK.” Read more here.
Actress Ellen ‘Elliot’ Page Talks About Transitioning in ‘Time Magazine’ Interview, by Brittany Raymer. “The claim by individuals and gender ideologues that there are seven or 64 or an infinite number of genders has no basis in biological reality. And the idea that someone can transition from one sex to the other also has no basis in biology. Every cell in Page’s body remains XX – female, regardless of hormones and surgeries to look male. But these lies have invaded society and have resulted in many young people struggling with their bodily realities. This is especially true for young women.” Read more here.
Biden Establishes White House Gender Policy Council, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order establishing a new White House Gender Policy Council… Despite the announcement of the council on March 8, International Women’s Day, the executive order repeatedly mentions ‘equity and equality,’ where ‘equity’ is defined as including ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons.’” Read more here.
When Transgenderism Discards My Daughter, I Will Still Be Here for Her, by Lynn Meagher. “My daughter, like a lot of bright girls, experienced challenges socially. She was often left out and rejected by other kids. She was sensitive and it hurt. I’m sure she believes her new identity will heal those wounds. I’m also sure it will not. When it doesn’t, what will she be left with? I want to believe that she will be alright. I’m here, waiting for her. I pray she knows I’m still here, waiting, for as long as it takes.” Read more here.
4 Highlights From Senate Hearing on Liberals’ Equality Act, by Virginia Allen. “If passed, the Equality Act would prohibit discimination [sic] on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity within ‘places of public accommodation,’ which, in a break with legal tradition, would include churches, mosques, temples, and other places of worship.” Read more here.
VP Harris Avoids Controversy in UN Speech but Behind the Scenes U.S. Pushes for Abortion, by Lisa Correnti and Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Delegates close to the negotiations told the Friday Fax that U.S. diplomats have joined the European Union in promoting the new and ambiguous phrase ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ in UN policy. The phrase is used by UN agencies to promote abortion, LGBT rights and sexual autonomy for children.” Read more here.
In Abortion Case, the Supreme Court Can Stop Biden From Pushing Extreme Rules in Secret Deals, by Margot Cleveland. “Elections have consequences. Abandoning the rule of law should not be one of them. That matters not, though, to the Biden administration, which has abandoned the legally mandated rulemaking process… To stop the administration from gutting the governing Title X regulations on abortion providers, however, Ohio and a contingency of 18 other states could also stop these shenanigans with a petition now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.” Read more here.
Father Arrested After Continuing to Call His Child ‘She’ After Court-Ordered Gender Transition Treatments, by Jonathan Turley. “I personally disagree with the father in the use of the pronoun if his son has made this choice. I would yield to the child’s preference on how the child is referenced… Yet, arresting a parent for continuing to oppose such a transition or referring to the wrong pronoun is chilling. There is an utter disregard of the countervailing interests and rights of parents in these decisions.” Read more here.
‘Detransition Awareness Day’ Highlights Those Embracing Their True Identity, by Jeff Johnston. “March 12, 2021 was the first ever ‘Detransition Awareness Day,’ created by a coalition of groups and individuals ‘to raise awareness and break down the stigma around detransition.’ The term ‘detransition’ refers to the process people go through of stopping a ‘gender transition’ – trying to live as the opposite sex – and embracing their bodily sex.” Read more here.
The Equality Act and the Rise of the Anti-Theological State, by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “The Equality Act … represents the threat of government coercion against a certain structure of theology, doctrine, and morality. This means the threat of the state directed against any claim of divine revelation that contradicts the new morality, the newly minted definition of marriage, and the newly constructed ‘rights’ of the LGBTQ revolution.” Read more here.
If Conversion Therapy Is Banned, It Is the Bible That Will Be Silenced, by David Robertson. “…[T]he truth is that most politicians are largely ignorant of what conversion therapy actually is. All they know is that it is ‘bad,’ and they will get hassle if they don’t join in with the mob – and virtue points if they do. And so, they will. But there will be little thought, little reality and little awareness of the consequences of passing a law that they do not understand.” Read more here.
The Equality Act Would Make Protecting Your Child an Act of Bigotry, by Melissa Moschella. “…[I]f the Equality Act or the Fairness for All Act becomes law, you would not only find it difficult to protect your daughter from the irreversible harms of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, but your failure to unquestioningly affirm your daughter’s new identity and your refusal to consent to hormone treatment for her could be considered abusive or neglectful.” Read more here.
Slate Columnist: ‘I Don’t Want to Be a Parent’ Is Fine Reason for Abortion, by Katie Yoder. “Here’s what someone should tell her: It’s normal to be scared. It’s normal to be terrified about the unexpected – especially if it’s something as life-changing as a baby… But know that you are strong. That you are not alone. That you are loved. That abortion is not your only option. That it’s worth considering keeping your baby – whom you already refer to as your ‘second child’ – because you have that superwoman ability.” Read more here.
Equality Act Would Cancel Religious Freedom, by Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall Perry. “By excising the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from the legislation equation altogether, the Equality Act gives government free rein to restrict, compromise, or even eliminate the fundamental right to practice religion in pursuit of the Equality Act’s political agenda… This would be the first time that Congress not only provided inadequate protection for religious freedom, but deliberately and publicly repudiated it altogether.” Read more here.
Equality Act Danger: Cross-Sex Hormones Could Create Transgender ‘Menopausal Teens,’ by Dr. Susan Berry. “The Equality Act, if passed in the Senate and signed into law, could be used to punish medical … professionals who do not immediately affirm a teen’s stated desire to be treated with damaging cross-sex hormones. For teens with gender dysphoria who insist on receiving cross-sex hormones following puberty-blocking drugs, the end result could be a fast-forward to middle age and all the health concerns that normally come to those in their 40s and 50s.” Read more here.
Dead Supreme Court Justices Prevent Arkansas From Implementing Will of the People on Abortion, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Fourteen states have seen lawmakers propose sweeping abortion bans across the United States in 2021… Until — or if — Roe falls, these bills illustrate that the public and political will to protect the pre-born exists in many states, but thus far the wall set up by the Supreme Court is blocking the way to full recognition of the humanity of America’s youngest citizens.” Read more here.
‘Equality Act’ Will Make Mother’s Shocking Experience Commonplace, by Liberty Counsel. “The AST supervisor called Jane later and told her they had a new behavior technician, a woman, who will arrive the next Monday. On that Monday, a man dressed like a woman arrived at her door! Jane called AST and said she did not want her child working with a man dressed as a woman. Then Jane was told she was discriminating against the ‘woman in question.’” Read more here.
There Is No Epidemic of Trans Murders, by Rod Dreher. “NBC reports that Braxton used to be involved in prostitution, and was planning to create an account online with OnlyFans, where Braxton could share nude images of himself with paying customers. Police have given no further details on this killing — such as, if it had to do with prostitution, as so many transgender murders do. There is no reason at all to believe at this point that Braxton’s murder was a hate crime. But of course the LGBT activist organizations pump it up, and the media go along with it.” Read more here.
Where the Government Decides What Your Child Should Learn About Sex, by Elizabeth Francis. “Parents in Wales should brace themselves: the Welsh Government is one step away from transferring the right of parents to decide their child’s best interests about sex and religious education to the State. Legal reforms aim to hand over the decision about what is appropriate to the maturity and development of children to the government and schools – to the exclusion of parents, and without their consent.” Read more here.
Seventh Circuit Ban on Parental Notice for Underage Abortions Tees Up Supreme Court Review, by Margot Cleveland. “On Friday in a split 2-1 decision, a federal appellate court declared unconstitutional Indiana’s parental notification law for minors seeking abortions. The Seventh Circuit’s majority decision in Planned Parenthood v. Box II is wrong, but also providential because it provides a perfect vehicle for the Supreme Court to revisit its abortion jurisprudence.” Read more here.
LGBT Activists Sue Canadian Pastor for Preaching Biblical Sexuality, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Van Mackelberg, who fundraises for LGBT causes as a drag queen under the moniker Flo Mingo, was happy to tell the CBC why he’d decided to organize against a Christian pastor for saying Christian things. ‘Unfortunately, we’re not in a place yet where we are fully accepted and we can live our true lives,’ he said, without explaining why Murphy’s views prevent him from doing anything.” Read more here.
Transgender Activists are Trying to Bully the NCAA Into Conformity, by Zachary Faria. “Transgender activists hope to bludgeon the NCAA into complying with their contradiction-filled gender ideology, destroying the integrity of women’s sports and putting many female athletes at increased risk of injury. In doing so, they hope their heavy-handed tactics silence all opposition and chill the expression of opposing opinions.” Read more here.
Here’s What Else Democrats Want to Make You Fund: International Abortions, by Rebecca Downs. “The bill’s name sums accurately sums up a Democratic talking point: ‘Abortion is health care, health care is a human right, and it must be paid for,’ even abroad. When introduced, the bill received attention in the form of supportive tweets… A common them [sic] to such coverage is that opposing taxpayer-funded abortions is racist. As if seeking to end the lives of these targeted populations somehow isn’t worse.” Read more here.
States Need to Protect Children From Trans Abuse by Investigating Planned Parenthood Now, by Margot Cleveland and Joy Pullman. “Absent whistleblower or patient complaints, state boards of medicine may be powerless to protect the public until it is too late. State legislatures, however, could and should ensure that their citizens, especially minors, are protected from the profit-seeking vultures at Planned Parenthood by more stringently regulating the prescribing, dispensing, and injection of opposite-sex hormones.” Read more here.
An Easter Egg From the Government Won’t Roll Away Months of Unfair Treatment of Scottish Christians, by Lois McLatchie. “Since January, they have watched off-licenses, dry cleaners and bicycle shops be given permission to open with safety measures in place to protect public health. Large, airy church buildings have remained tightly locked. The faithful have been forbidden from gathering, even at a masked distance, to worship and to receive communion. How can Christians be more contagious than bicycle enthusiasts?” Read more here.
Nebraska Abortion Darling Seeks to Allow Non-Physicians to Commit Abortions in Dangerous, Misogynistic Move, by Kristan Hawkins. “Name another surgery for which we are trying to downgrade the health and safety standards and licensing requirements for a medical free-for-all… Sure, it might be easier for abortion vendors to hire less-skilled individuals to carry out abortions. It would be cheaper and enlarge their employee pool. But that’s not a valid reason to do it.” Read more here.
Detransitioners Open Up About How Transgender ‘Medicine’ Left Them Scarred for Life, by Tyler O’Neil. “All people should treat those suffering from gender dysphoria with compassion, and the medical community should pursue gender dysphoria treatments other than medical transition. These detransitioners prove that encouraging transgender identity in opposition to the truth of biological sex can cause serious harm — and not just social harms like allowing biological males into women’s restrooms or males into women’s sports.” Read more here.
The Future of Women’s Sports, by David Applegate. “Allowing boys and men to compete against girls and women in high school and college sports will largely discourage most women and girls from competing at all, deprive them of these benefits, and defeat the very purposes of Title IX. No matter what courses we may take in other areas of life, it is high time that American and Western culture return to accepting the lessons of actual science and human experience when it comes to basic biological differences between men and women.” Read more here.
‘Equality Act’ is Bad for Women, by Liberty Counsel. “Julia Beck, a self-described radical lesbian feminist and the former law and policy co-chair of Baltimore’s LGBTQ Commission, has testified before the committee with a surprising revelation of truth of what will become reality if HR 5 becomes law. ‘This would eliminate women and girls as a coherent legal category worthy of civil rights protections. There is no way to tell if someone is lying about being transgender,’ said Beck.” Read more here.
Biden’s COVID-19 Plan: Force Taxpayers to Pay for Abortions, by Terry Jeffrey. “When Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill … was being considered in the House, Reps. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., offered a Hyde-type amendment to prevent it from funding abortions. This amendment was co-sponsored by 203 of their colleagues… But Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee rejected the amendment and the House Rules Committee refused to allow it to be considered on the House floor.” Read more here.
Chilling Effect: How the Hate Crime Bill Threatens Free Speech, by Lucy Hunter Blackburn. “Most of the current criticism relates to Part 2, which will extend the criminal offence of ‘stirring up hatred,’ and the likely impact of this on freedom of expression. In particular, significant concerns remain in relation to issues around sex and gender identity, and the risk of furthering chilling effects in an area of debate that people are already afraid to enter.” Read more here.
Data Reveals a COVID-19 Baby Bust in the U.S., but the Problem Lies Far Deeper, by Bettina di Fiore. “Perhaps Noah Smith, a former assistant professor of finance, hit the nail on the head when he said, ‘Most important[ly], the U.S. simply needs to change its mentality.’ Our culture of death must be transformed into one that embraces life. We must stop sending taxpayer funds to organizations that are obliterating the future of our nation — like Planned Parenthood — and redirect those funds to agencies and programs that support and protect families and children.” Read more here.
Biden’s ‘Transgender’ Order Imperils Victims of Abuse, by Clare Morell. “Anecdotal evidence also shows that some women fear that non-transgender, biological men may exploit the process of self-identification under the rule to gain access to women’s shelters. Perpetrators perpetrate. That is who they are. We must not lie to ourselves that abusers won’t take advantage of policies such as these to commit further abuse.” Read more here.
Gaming Platform Teaches Children It’s ‘Womxn,’ Not Women, by Douglas Blair. “Twitch’s young audience provides fertile ground for indoctrination. Children won’t even notice that the site they watch ‘Fortnite’ on is pushing leftist ideology. They’ll just passively absorb what Twitch tells them, be it ‘women aren’t real’ or ‘it’s offensive to say “blind.”’” Read more here.
Biden Celebrates International Women’s Day by Forcing Girls to Share Bathrooms, Sports Teams, With Boys, by Tyler O’Neil. “President Joe Biden … issued a glowing statement about women’s empowerment, launched a Gender Policy Council, and signed an executive order barring ‘sex discrimination’ — including discrimination on the basis of gender identity — in public schools. On one hand, Biden celebrated women’s advancement, and on the other, he forced schoolgirls to share bathrooms and sports teams with biological boys.” Read more here.
Liberals, Please Grow a Spine and Say No to Child Gender Transition, by Georgia Howe. “It feels like just yesterday that liberals were fretting about hormones in non-organic milk causing precocious puberty in girls. They weren’t crazy. Hormones are powerful even in small doses, and kids’ bodies are fragile. The fact we are even considering the use of hormones in high enough doses to alter the normal healthy growth of children is stunning. It is not ‘right-wing’ to feel stunned.” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Offer Dubious Claims to Attack Helms Amendment, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Many countries that receive assistance from the U.S. prohibit abortion in all but extreme cases, such as where the life of the mother is at stake or where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. In such places, the vast majority of abortions currently occurring ‘unsafely’ are already illegal, and the U.S. could not assist in making them ‘safe’ without violating the sovereign laws of that country.” Read more here.
Why Christians Must Not Support Republican-Sponsored ‘Fairness for All Act,’ by Travis Weber. “…[T]he philosophical approach of [the Fairness for All Act] sends the message that religious liberty is something that can be ‘carved out’ of a broad SOGI mandate like this bill. Religious liberty is a broad, over-arching principle that extends throughout the public square. Yet this assumption is not present within FFA, and this bill cannot be acceptable to anyone who cares about religious liberty.” Read more here.
San Diego ‘Throuple’ Lays the Groundwork for Legalised Polyamory, by Michael Cook. “Americans were assured that same-sex marriage would merely open up the institution of marriage to gay couples and lesbian couples. There was no intention whatsoever to alter the fundamentals of marriage. Etc. Etc. Well, six years on, it seems that throuples are being normalised and mothers are being erased. If those aren’t fundamental changes, what is?” Read more here.
‘Equality Act’ Makes Abortion a Federal Right, by Liberty Counsel. “The ‘Equality Act’ will make abortion a federal right from fertilization through full birth and will override every state law, including informed consent, parental consent and notification, waiting periods, and even late term abortion procedures like Partial Birth Abortion. The bill will also require state and federal funding and require insurance companies and employers (including religious employers) to provide coverage for chemical and surgical abortion.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Makes Millions Killing Babies, It Doesn’t Need Our Tax Dollars, by Right to Life of Michigan. “Planned Parenthood isn’t close to being in danger of closing because of this pandemic downturn. In the last five years they’ve made a profit of more than $600 MILLION DOLLARS. They made their most recent hefty 8-figure profit in spite of President Trump’s Protect Life Rule, which cut their funding from the Title X family planning program—which President Biden plans to restore.” Read more here.
‘Equality Act’ Bans Life-Saving Counseling, by Liberty Counsel. “The so-called ‘Equality Act’ not only threatens the free exercise of religion and free speech, but it will also be used to prevent people of all ages who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions, behavior, or gender confusion from getting the counseling they desire. HR 5 will be used to ban licensed and unlicensed counselors from providing consenting minors and adults with talk therapy.” Read more here.
Universities Are Now Trying to Cancel Students for Saying Men Cannot Become Female, by Joshua Arnold. “What ‘conceptual framework’ of education censors basic scientific fact? Apparently one that has grossly reinterpreted its provision that teachers must foster ‘a diverse campus community marked by mutual respect for the unique talents and contributions of each individual.’ On paper, this is innocent, boilerplate lip-service to free academic inquiry. In New York, it now justifies woke administrators dangling students over a cliff until they affirm blatant falsehoods.” Read more here.
Health Professionals Have Lost Jobs for Their Pro-Life Beliefs. The Equality Act Will Make It Worse, by Bettina di Fiore. “’I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.’ This is part of the original Hippocratic Oath, which all physicians were once required to take… Today, health care workers who attempt to practice Hippocratic, pro-life ethics are openly discriminated against, and if the Equality Act becomes law, the situation will only get worse.” Read more here.
Biden’s Memo on LGBTQ Policies Abroad is Ideological Colonialism, by Grace Melton. “American efforts to bully these countries—whether with a carrot of additional aid or a stick of withholding aid—into liberalizing their laws on marriage or other issues of sexual morality will surely cause friction with proponents of national sovereignty and religious believers alike, especially in Muslim- or Christian-majority countries.” Read more here.
A Child is Born With Three Legal ‘Dads,’ Proving Yet Again That the Slippery Slope is Real, by Matt Walsh. “Sure, the men feel great about their Dad Trio, but their emotional needs aren’t the primary concern of normal and sane people. We are worried about the children, who are being regarded more as fashion accessories than human beings. To respect their humanity is to acknowledge that children need mothers, too. It is an absurd idea that the role of the mother can be adequately replaced just by adding more dads into the equation.” Read more here.
Bride’s Shocking Experience Will Become Common Under ‘Equality Act,’ by Liberty Counsel. “When ‘Ann’ arrived, the salesperson was wearing a COVID mask, dress, tights and heels. The salesperson proceeded to help ‘Ann’ in the dressing room, touching private areas of her body while helping her in and out of wedding dresses. Then ‘Ann’s’ sister and mother pulled her aside and notified her that the salesperson was a man. ‘Ann’ had never undressed in front of a man and felt violated and deceived by the bridal store.” Read more here.
Huge Increase in LGBT Identification Casts Doubt on ‘Born This Way’ Claim, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Being LGBT is not a clinical sexual attraction, nor is it a medical or scientific term. No one is simultaneously a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender person (much less all of the other letters that seem to be added every year). This designation is merely a socio-political mash-up — a broad and imprecise term of political or ideological identity.” Read more here.
A Society That Can’t Debate Trans Ideology’s Effects on Kids Isn’t a Democracy, by Jonathan S. Tobin. “If having a free society should mean anything, it ought to mean it’s possible to debate contentious issues on which reasonable people (and the experts) can disagree. But we’ve gotten to the point where any debate about the treatment of children is shut down. That’s not only unethical and harmful to our kids — but incompatible with democracy and American ideals.” Read more here.
Using the Word ‘Womxn’ is as Silly as It is Illogical, by Ian Haworth. “This argument rests on the fact that you cannot make a gendered term ‘gender neutral.’ The word ‘woman’ relates entirely to biological sex, with its sole use being to assign or describe sex and/or gender… Ultimately, the purpose of words like ‘womxn’ is not to include men who think they’re women, but to exclude those who believe that sex exists by removing our vocabulary to argue otherwise.” Read more here.
At the Coalface of Teenage Gender Change, by Michael Cook. “An undercover investigation by the London Telegraph has found that an online clinic run by suspended doctors is willing to organise sex-change drugs and puberty blockers – without a face-to-face consultation. The website, GenderGP, circumvents the law in the UK by using overseas doctors and exploiting a legal loophole.” Read more here.
The Equality Act Must Die in the Senate, by Washington Examiner. “The Equality Act is a declaration of war against anyone who dares to speak out against the Left’s wild theories about sex and gender identity. It is an attempt to force the rest of the country to accept a bigoted ideology by making it legally binding and then removing the means by which concerned citizens can object.” Read more here.
Snapchat is a Transgender Propaganda and Grooming Machine, by Evita Duffy. “There is no free marketplace of ideas in the Discover section. Snapchat’s editorial team has total control over its content. Millennial editors in Silicon Valley carefully hand-select radical leftist propaganda to give straight to children. LGBT content is very prevalent on Snapchat, and transgender content is specially [sic] common.” Read more here.
The Explosion in Queer Sexuality Among Kids is Not a Natural Trend, by Chad Felix Greene. “Rather than reflecting the natural progression of openness to human variation in sexuality and gender identity, it seems to better reflect a pop culture fad to be included in the LGBT spectrum in any way possible. This seems especially true for younger people, who are inundated with LGBT education, culture, and positivity and … find meaning in being different, unique, and rebellious, along with their friends.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood is Providing Fewer Breast Screenings, Wellness Exams, and More Abortions, Transgender Services, by Melanie Israel. “The Charlotte Lozier Institute notes that over the last decade, Planned Parenthood performed roughly 129 abortions for every adoption referral. The institute … also highlights that in the last decade, cancer screening and prevention services have decreased 63%, prenatal services have decreased 79%, and the number of unique patients has decreased 20%.” Read more here.
Why Do 1 in 6 Gen Z Adults Identify as LGBT? by Michael Brown. “Today, there is an increasing body of evidence that teenagers, especially female, are more prone to identify as transgender in a mistaken effort to get to the root of some of their own emotional and psychological issues… So, it is no surprise that more young adults are identifying as transgender, along with gay, lesbian, and bisexual.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood More Involved in Transgender Revolution Than You Realize, by Nicole Russell. “Planned Parenthood has over 600 ‘health centers.’ If each affiliate provided cross-sex hormone treatment to 300 patients a year, the statistic cited by one affiliate in Massachusetts, that’s upward of 180,000 people per year. And it’s almost as easy as setting up a dinner reservation.” Read more here.
‘Abortion Monopoly’ Planned Parenthood Now the Second-Largest Provider of Trans Hormones in the U.S., by Jonathon Van Maren. “FRC’s report also noted that transgender hormone therapy is now available at 200 Planned Parenthood facilities in 31 states, making the abortion giant the second-largest provider of trans ‘treatments’ (if they can be called that) in the country.” Read more here.
Rand Paul is Right: Transgender Interventions for Kids Can Include ‘Genital Mutilation,’ by Jared Eckert. “Paul is right to make the comparison between genital mutilation and ‘transgender care’ for minors. In any other case, the physical destruction of a minor’s genitalia as a result of social pressures to conform and be accepted by others would be condemned as genital mutilation. Indeed, this is the description of genital mutilation, according to the World Health Organization. Inflicting such irreversible harm to children’s bodies should be condemned for what it is.” Read more here.
Gallup and Major Media Report LGBT Identity is Growing. Is That Really a Thing? by Glenn T. Stanton. “…[T]he general media lazily accepts that ‘being LGBT’ is mere short-hand for being experimental. It is not an objective, scientific thing, but merely an elastically loose identity rooted in politics and self-perception. That is why this new data doesn’t even really tell us anything, other than that people are simply becoming more liberal and elastic in how they identify themselves regarding their sexuality and gender. And of course, they are. It’s the fashion of the day.” Read more here.
The Equality Act Would ‘Potato Head’ All Americans, by Kylee Zempel. “We’re talking about erasing sex and gender distinctions altogether and punishing anyone who resists that gender is fluid, any feminists who don’t think men should be allowed on women’s sports teams, and any church that doesn’t want to hire a transgender staff member. The legal meaning of bigotry and discrimination is about to define anyone who still believes in science.” Read more here.
Therapy Bans, APA Talking Points and Counseling Choice, by Andrè Van Mol, MD. “…[T]he desire for help in addressing unwanted same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria is usually and necessarily driven by the patients themselves, though critics often frame therapy as otherwise. Were it otherwise, change-allowing therapy would have collapsed long ago. Supply and demand dictate there is no market for what is not wanted.” Read more here.
Big Business Sides With Leftists in Pushing Highly Destructive ‘Equality Act,’ by Emily Jashinsky. “Because this progressive-or-bigot binary has such a chilling effect on free expression, extreme elements of the trans agenda like undermining Title IX, hormone treatments for children, and men in women’s shelters are enforced without robust debate. The cost of speaking up far outweighs the benefit for most people.” Read more here.
No, the FDA Shouldn’t Make the Abortion Pill More Accessible, by Grazie Pozo Christie. “Given how sensible the restrictions instituted by the FDA for the use of Mifeprex are, it may seem surprising that those who want to see them abandoned or disregarded should proclaim themselves the champions of women. They seem, rather, to be champions of the abortion industry and its leader, Planned Parenthood, which both stand to make fortunes by selling the drugs without proper oversight.” Read more here.
With the Insane ‘Equality Act,’ the Democrat Party Has Declared Total War on Reality, by Matt Walsh. “Let us try to wrap our heads around the sheer lunacy here… Under the Equality Act, one’s perception of themselves — even if incorrect — takes precedence over the reality of who they actually are. Indeed, the reality is no longer legally recognized at all. Delusion and fantasy supplant truth. Falsehood wins the day.” Read more here.
5 Things You Need to Know About the Extremist ‘Equality Act’ House Democrats Just Passed, by Margot Cleveland. “While Americans may shrug at The Equality Act’s Orwellian use of language, they will be made to care because the proposed law defines ‘gender identity’ so broadly that there is no limit to whom may demand to be treated legally as the opposite sex.” Read more here.
The ‘Equality Act’ is the Greatest Threat to Religious Freedom in Our Lifetime. We Must Stand Against It, by Gary Hamrick. “…[O]ver time we have forgotten God. And worse than forgetting God is the usurping of His authority by drafting laws that dishonor Him because they conflict with His moral code… In a free country, people have the freedom to deny God’s righteous standard. But that should not infringe upon the rights of those who wish to comply with His righteous standard.” Read more here.
Illinois Abortionist With Unsafe History Says State’s ‘Dangerous’ Parental Notification Law Must End, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “Parental notification laws further help expose child abuse and trafficking, as abusers and traffickers are highly motivated to bring girls for abortions without their parents’ knowledge… Perhaps the most telling reason that abortion providers argue for the repeal of parental notification is the impact on their financial bottom line. Illinois Right to Life previously noted that abortions on minors dropped by 55% after the state’s parental notification law took effect in 2013.” Read more here.
‘Blessings of Liberty’: How ‘The Equality Act’ Viciously Attacks Christians, Freedom, Society, Sex, and You, by Christopher Bedford. “Meanwhile, Catholic school and other forms of religious education, rare alternatives to increasingly failing and liberal public education, will be compelled by the act to teach a concept of marriage antithetical to their faith, as well as the popular but absurd claim that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.” Read more here.
Standing Up to the Intolerant Equality Act, by Rep. Robert Good. “The Equality Act would make wholesale and damaging changes to our nation’s civil rights laws, with little to no debate in Congress regarding how this legislation will affect the daily lives of Americans and the institutions they hold dear. While the Equality Act purports to be an ‘inclusive’ piece of legislation, it … would ultimately put civil rights law at odds with long-standing religious beliefs pertaining to sex, sexuality, and other moral issues.” Read more here.
The ‘Equality Act’ Destroys Religious Liberty: Here’s What You Need to Know, by Ian Haworth. “Under such legislation, it is clear that religious liberty is trumped by this version of subjective ‘equality,’ all while ignoring other rights such as freedom of association. Further adding to this worry is that much of the language is intentionally vague, meaning that concrete rights such as religious freedom can be cast aside in favor of subjective and emotionally-driven assumptions and interpretations of ‘discrimination,’ whether or not that was the intent or reality.” Read more here.
The Equality Act: Gaslighting Reality, by Emilie Kao. “’Cisgender normativity’ might be an easy concept to dismiss along with erasure of mother and father, and the introduction of ‘chestfeeding.’ But to think of the gender identity revolution as merely another chapter in ‘woke’ wonderland would be to miss the import of the linguistic, cultural, and political revolution for the integrity of education, medicine, and science.” Read more here.
How ‘Equality Act’ Would Impose Transgender Ideology on Everyone, by Jerrett Stepman. “Proponents of the Equality Act, according to Baylor, maintain that the law would mean enforced LGBTQ curriculums, opening up private spaces for boys who ‘identify’ as girls, the participation of biological males in female sports, mandatory ‘preferred pronoun’ use, and a host of other policies for recipients of federal funds.” Read more here.
Democrats Block Laws Stopping Infanticide Even Though Babies Are Born Alive After Abortions, by Wesley Smith. “I don’t see any excuse for opposing abortion-survivor laws — even if one is adamantly in favor of unlimited abortion rights. A living baby outside the womb is not a fetus, but a neonate in medical terms. At that point, nobody is forcing the baby’s mother to gestate against her will. No one is controlling her body. Indeed, such laws do not prevent a single abortion because they only apply in an abortion’s aftermath.” Read more here.
Why the Equality Act is More Extreme Than the Bostock Decision, by John McCormack. “Laycock, a longtime supporter of gay marriage and proponent of enacting a federal gay-rights law, explained that the Equality Act ‘regulates religious non-profits and then it says that [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act] does not apply to any claim under the Equality Act. This would be the first time Congress has limited the reach of RFRA. This is not a good-faith attempt to reconcile competing interests. It is an attempt by one side to grab all the disputed territory and to crush the other side.’” Read more here.
The Equality Act: What to Know and What to Do, by John Stonestreet. “To be clear, you should only care about the Equality Act if you are a Christian, or a person of faith, or a woman, or own a business, or run a non-profit, or go to school, or teach at a school, or are a medical or mental-health professional, or (especially) are a female athlete, or under the age of 18, or ever use a public restroom. That’s not an exaggeration.” Read more here.
‘Equality Act’ Guts Religious Freedom, by Liberty Counsel. “Religious and nonprofit schools that violate the bill could lose their tax-exempt status and schools could lose accreditation – which means they could not accept student loans and many graduates would not be able to be accepted into graduate schools. The expanse of the bill includes church and college overnight stays with youth and/or students, dorms, sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers.” Read more here.
5 Things to Know About the Anti-Family Equality Act That Could Pass This Week, by Raymond Wolfe. “With control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, Democrats are finally poised to enact their extreme anti-family and anti-life agenda into law… If the Equality Act makes it through Congress, the Biden administration has made clear that it will be approved by the White House and become law, ushering in a hard-left onslaught against religious rights in the United States.” Read more here.
The Counterfeit Equality Act: The Left’s Assault on Religious Liberty, by Ken Blackwell. “…[T]he Equality Act would reinstitute the kind of legal system discrimination the civil rights movement sought to undo, only on ideological rather than racial grounds… While the civil rights movement sought educational opportunities for all, the Equality Act will ensure the closure of Christian colleges and universities that are faithful to the Bible’s teachings about marriage, sexuality, and gender.” Read more here.
Amazon: Buy Anything You Could Ever Want, Except This Book Challenging Transgenderism, by Jeremy Beaman. “One has to assume, considering some quite illiberal social trends, that Anderson was struck down for suggesting that human nature and physiology have certain constancies, a notion that is anathema to progressivism… Amazon is treading on dangerous ground, shutting off debate over an issue with very serious implications that have by no means been settled.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood’s New Report Reveals More Than 8.6 Million Abortions, by Katie Yoder. “But not all numbers rose. Prenatal services decreased from 9,798 in 2018—2019 to 8,626 in 2019–2020. Likewise, adoption referrals dropped dramatically from 4,279 in 2018—2019 to 2,667 in 2019–2020. These numbers reveal Planned Parenthood’s priorities.” Read more here.
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology, by Quillette Magazine. “Thankfully, lawmakers and sports officials aren’t confined to this (as the expression goes) false policy binary, because there are ways to protect the integrity of female athletics while also treating transgender individuals with dignity and respect. One promising option, for instance, would be to preserve the traditionally defined female category while also rebranding the male category as an ‘open’ category that’s available to anyone.” Read more here.
These Girls Are Hurt by Transgender Competition, by Salena Zito. “Alanna Smith’s dedication to her sport is profound. Just listening to the elite high school track star explain her training schedule is exhausting. Yet no matter how hard she trains, if she has to compete against biological males, she stands no chance of winning. ‘There is simply a biological advantage that males have over females,’ explained the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lee Smith.” Read more here.
Yes, Biden’s HHS Pick Advocates Puberty Blockers, Medical Transition of Minors, by Amanda Prestigiacomo. “Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s pick as Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), advocates for the use of puberty blockers and the medical transition of minors… Levine has spoken publicly about support for the medical transition of minors and the use of puberty blockers for children who ‘just start puberty’ as a way to make sure they don’t ‘go through the wrong puberty.’” Read more here.
Equality Act is Trojan Horse for Abortion Lobby and More, by Melanie Israel. “Because of the way the Equality Act is drafted, this new definition of sex discrimination—understood to include a medical condition such as abortion—would be applied to areas of law, such as federally assisted programs, public accommodations, and Obamacare’s nondiscrimination provision. In practice, it could mean that a health care provider would be discriminating on the basis of sex if they refused to perform an abortion procedure; …and health insurance plans could be discriminating on the basis of sex if they do not include coverage for elective abortions.” Read more here.
Joe Biden’s ‘War on Women’: Equality Act to End Legal Recognition of Biological Sex, by Dr. Susan Berry. “Schilling warned while the ‘Equality’ Act sounds virtuous, ‘every member of Congress should recognize’ that a vote in favor of it ‘is a vote against women, particularly women and girl athletes, as well as a vote against Americans of faith.’” Read more here.
The Institution of Marriage and the Virtuous Society, by David Lutz. “The transition from a traditional to liberal society has been accompanied by a transformation in our understanding of marriage from an institutional model to a romantic model. While romantic love is a powerful motivator to form personal relationships, it often fades when those relationships become rocky. Traditional marriage is a social institution with moral obligations; it forms the core of families, promotes social stability, and endures, fluctuating emotions notwithstanding.” Read more here.
Why the ‘Equality Act’ Democrats Want to Pass This Week Should Really Be Called the ‘Destroy Our Daughters Act,’ by Margot Cleveland. “America’s girls deserve better than to be sacrificed on the altar of the extreme transgender movement that holds the support of powerful politicians and corporate media. To date, all but a few parents have remained silent, either out of misplaced compassion for those declaring themselves transgender or out of fear of public shaming. But if average Americans don’t rise up now and make their voices heard, it will soon be too late—and their daughters will suffer the consequences.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Kills More Babies in Abortions Than Anyone in America, by Steven Ertelt. “When looking at the Guttmacher figures, Planned Parenthood killed 41.1% of all babies whose lives are unceremoniously ended in abortions every year. And compared to the CDC figures, Planned Parenthood kills 57.2% of all babies who die in abortions on an annual basis.” Read more here.
Why Democrats’ Equality Act is Dangerous to Women, Children, and Gay People Like Me, by John Paul Moran. “This bill would require Americans to consider gender identity and even biological sex a personal choice, not an objective fact… This will turn any recognition of the difference between biological sexes, or any preference for traditional sexual relationships or genders, or even the scientific definition of the two sexes, into potential ‘hate’ crimes.” Read more here.
Biden’s Executive Order on Gender Discrimination Has Muddied Waters on Title IX. Challenges Could Clear That Up, by Sarah Parshall Perry. “Either these activities and facilities can be separated by biological sex, or they must be sex-neutral and open to anyone for any reason. Doing that, of course, would vitiate 50 years of progress women have made toward sex parity in education. Gender identity cannot replace biological sex in federal law with the simple stroke of a presidential pen.” Read more here.
Before Rejoining UN Human Rights Council, U.S. Should Commit to Authentic Human Rights, by Elyssa Koren. “If the U.S. joins the ranks of these progressive champions of faux rights – advancing issues such as the ‘right’ to abortion or elimination of ‘hate speech’ – its ability to play a real role in the revitalization of the international human rights system will be jeopardized. Unfortunately, thus far, the Biden administration has not shown a willingness to put consensus-based efforts before divisive agendas.” Read more here.
Three Gay Men All Identify as the Father, by Binary Australia. “The redefinition of marriage in recent years has paved the way for many interpretations that challenge the concept of family and identity. From the age-old, time-honoured definition of one man and one woman, we are now left to navigate a de-gendered society that also includes ‘throuples.’” Read more here.
Promise to America’s Children Warns of Destructive Equality Act LGBT Agenda, by Emilie Kao and Jared Eckert. “After 1964, federal courts ordered public schools to teach black history to remedy discrimination against African Americans. In like fashion, federal courts could also order schools to teach the sexual orientation and gender identity curricula… Imposing one political viewpoint on students on questions about gender and sexual orientation stigmatizes those who hold disfavored views.” Read more here.
Expert Warns: Smartphone Generation ‘Raised on Hardcore Porn,’ Church Must Address Coming ‘Tsunami,’ by Leah MarieAnn Klett. “Shimer acknowledged that talking about porn in the church is ‘awkward, uncomfortable, and surrounded in shame,’ but stressed that it’s ‘not going away…’ The father-of-four also encouraged parents to have the ‘porn and sex talk’ with their children at earlier ages, warning that the ‘world will fill in the blanks if we don’t.’” Read more here.
Entering the Age of Trans Amazons, by Carolyn Moynihan. “Barbara Ehardt, a legislator from Idaho … told the Montana Judiciary Committee hearing that allowing a transgender woman to compete on a collegiate women’s sports team would force teams at other schools to change their recruiting practices and seek transgender players of their own in order to remain competitive.” Read more here.
House to Consider ‘Equality Act’ – a Threat to Life and Freedom, by Jeff Johnston. “The ‘Equality Act’ would elevate these to the same level as other protected characteristics, such as race, color, religion, sex and national origin. In doing so, it threatens First Amendment freedoms such as religious liberty, free speech and freedom of association. The legislation creates even more havoc, threatening women’s sports, conscience rights, charitable institutions, privacy and safety.” Read more here.
Protecting Newborns is Common Sense. Time for Congress to Take Action, by Rep. Ann Wagner and Rep. Steve Scalise. “The fact remains that the law of the land cannot and should not tolerate one premature baby being taken to the intensive care unit, while another baby—at the same age, born during an abortion—is left to die. The Born-Alive Act doesn’t just deserve a vote on the House floor, it deserves to be voted on, passed, and permanently enshrined into law.” Read more here.
Countries Ask to Change UN Procedures to Impose Abortion and LGBT, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. and Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The longstanding way UN negotiations come to agreement is with consensus rather than voting. Though consensus has changed over the years, it still allows a relatively small group of countries to block the political wishes of larger groups. This may be changing. Progressive countries are increasingly frustrated that consensus has in some venues blocked both abortion and the LGBT agenda.” Read more here.
Conservative Groups Lament Reintroduction of ‘Conscience-Crushing,’ ‘Orwellian’ Equality Act, by Ryan Foley. “Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, described the Equality Act as ‘Orwellian’ and ‘legislative malpractice that turns equality on its head,’ adding, ‘It isn’t drafted as a shield to protect vulnerable minorities from unjust discrimination, but as a sword to persecute those who do not embrace new sexual and gender ideologies.’” Read more here.
LGBTs Lose Again at UN Commission, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “’Family-oriented’ is the compromise between those who want to mention ‘the family’ and those who want ‘family diversity.’ The EU will always block ‘the family’ and conservative countries will always block ‘family diversity.’ Conservatives tend to consider ‘family oriented’ as a win, however, since ‘diversity’ is considered an outright reference to homosexual and other couplings.” Read more here.
The Backlash to Biden’s Transgender Agenda is Already Brewing, by Tyler O’Neil. “Many of these bills have a good chance of becoming law, and these efforts represent a long-overdue backlash to the radical activism of transgender identity in various aspects of American society. Unfortunately, most of the legacy media has bought into the worldview of transgenderism. Outlets like CNN have reported these legislative efforts as ‘anti-LGBTQ bills.’” Read more here.
Feminists Now Call Abortion Drugs ‘Missed Period Pills’ to Make Killing Babies Sound Better, by Petra Phn. “According to the Contraception article, the ‘missed period pill’ would be a uterine evacuation drug or combination of drugs, like mifepristone and misoprostol (which are the two main drugs used in a medical abortion procedure). The true purpose of these drugs are [sic] to bring on a period by causing an abortion if a woman is late for her period because of pregnancy.” Read more here.
Academics Called Breastfeeding ‘Ethically Problematic’ Because It Endorses ‘Gender Roles.’ Their View is Gaining Traction, by Benjamin Zeisloft. “U.S. academics wrote in study [sic] published in 2016 that the promotion of breastfeeding as the ‘natural’ way to feed infants is ‘ethically problematic.’ The academics argued that the term ‘breastfeeding’ could ‘endorse controversial set of values about family life and gender roles.’ Now, major hospitals in the United Kingdom are echoing these points.” Read more here.
UN’s Sexual Orientation-Gender Identity ‘Expert’ Aims to Bully Foes of LGBT Agenda, by Elyssa Koren. “Rather than focusing on holding governments accountable for legitimate abuses, the office instead has delved into the promotion of so-called sexual rights, which have no foundation in international law. Moreover, it has evinced a commitment to advancing radical ‘sexuality’ education for minors, even at the cost of crushing fundamental human rights, such as the rights of parents and the right to freedom of religion.” Read more here.
Leftist Activists Try to Ban Researchers From Studying Transgender People, by Chad Felix Greene. “The University of California at Los Angeles’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior was preparing a National Institute of Health-backed study to better understand brain structures and responses among people living with gender dysphoria… Its researchers were seeking transgender participants when LGBT activists demanded the study be shut down.” Read more here.
‘Transition’ Treatment Harms Kids, Veteran Psychiatrist at UK Gender Clinic Says, by Nicole Russell. “Newman asks the psychiatrist in the interview whether children are at risk while receiving treatments at Tavistock. Bell replies: ‘They’re less at risk now because the puberty blockers have been stopped. The puberty blockers have been stopped because there is no evidence base for them at all… By putting them on that pathway, it rather becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.’” Read more here.
Behind the Curtain of Planned Parenthood’s ‘Gender Factories,’ by Tony Perkins. “And if you think these profit-first radicals are going to involve parents — think again. Just like abortion and radical sex ed and everything else Planned Parenthood offers, ‘you can walk into a clinic at 15 in some states — without your mom or dad’s permission, without so much as a therapist’s note,’ Abigail warns, ‘and get a course of testosterone that day.’” Read more here.
The Equality Act Could Force Faith-Based Organizations to Close Their Doors, by James Whitford. “Charitable work has always been done by people, not cogs in a social-assistance machine. These are individuals who make considerable sacrifices to aid the poor in their communities. The love that drives these humanitarian efforts is rooted in a deep faith. Forced to ignore something as fundamental as sex, not only faith-based shelters, but also Christian counseling services, Catholic adoption agencies, and even single-sex schools would be unable to fulfill their missions.” Read more here.
UN Human Rights Office Prepares Global ‘LGBT Hate Groups’ Blacklist, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The UN rights office is collecting the names of anyone who opposes the LGBT agenda in any way. Politicians, religious leaders, and organizations from around the world who defend life and family will likely be put on a blacklist by the UN office for human rights. The drastic new measure may be used to impose sanctions on pro-family advocates and expose them to terrorist attacks.” Read more here.
As Illinois Considers Comprehensive K-12 Sex Ed, Here’s What Parents Should Know, by Anne Marie Williams. “The REACH Act places heavy emphasis on ‘consent,’ which it defines as ‘knowing, affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in specific interpersonal, physical, or sexual activity at any given time.’ While the Act goes on to specify myriad, drawn-out details of ‘consent,’ research on college-age men and women has consistently shown that ‘consent’ remains a notoriously murky concept at best.” Read more here.
Snapchat is Indoctrinating Children Even More Than Their Teachers Are, by Evita Duffy. “Simply sharing my everyday feed should make it obvious Snapchat clearly seeks to indoctrinate American youth. It provides slanted news from legacy media publications that are selective and misleading. It confuses children’s sexuality. It presents bizarre relationships as normal, lying to kids by labeling these ways of life happy and healthy.” Read more here.
The War on Women’s Sports: Wisconsin Man Wins Women’s Cycling Race, by M.D. Kittle. “The winner of the USA Cycling-sanctioned event was Kenzie Statz, a cyclist who was born male and now identifies as a transgender woman… Statz has been finishing in the money in a number of races. Before transitioning and competing in the women’s events, it appears Statz didn’t fare nearly as well in the men’s competitions.” Read more here.
Feminists Torn: Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood Now Major Player in Transgender Industry, by Dr. Susan Berry. “Feminist organization Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), which also supports abortion rights, has been at the forefront of challenging the elimination of women’s and girls’ sports as a result of the willingness of the Biden administration to make biological sex subservient to gender identity. The group tweeted Shrier’s post, asserting, ‘It’s infuriating’ that Planned Parenthood has been ‘hijacked…’” Read more here.
Global Family Planning Coalition Subsumed in Abortion, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Between providing opportunities for IPPF and MSI to promote their broader agendas, the event showcased FP2020’s crowning achievement: 60 million additional users of modern contraception since 2012. This fell significantly short of the partnership’s goal of adding 120 million new users in that time.” Read more here.
Is There Really ‘No Wrong Way to Be a Woman?’ by Ann Farmer. “We cannot be too surprised that having dehumanised and destroyed unborn females in the name of female choice, those females who do get to be born are subjected to dehumanisation, albeit the rather less violent form of being ditched from the dictionary. ‘There is no wrong way to be a woman?’ Let’s not kid ourselves. In the eyes of UN Women and feminist ideologues, one way is very, very wrong indeed: it’s called being a mother.” Read more here.
Inside Planned Parenthood’s Gender Factory, by Abigail Shrier. “The Planned Parenthood clinic where she worked was located in a small town of roughly 30,000. Abortions were the clinic’s ‘bread and butter,’ something this employee fully supports. But, she noted, ‘trans identifying kids are cash cows, and they are kept on the hook for the foreseeable future in terms of follow-up appointments, bloodwork, meetings, etc., whereas abortions are (hopefully) a one-and-done situation.’” Read more here.
Why Not SRHR? by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “In the quarter century since the Cairo and Beijing conferences, the progress made by gay and lesbian (and, increasingly, transgender) activists has in many ways surpassed that achieved by proponents of abortion. While both topics still remain far from global consensus, the barriers to the inclusion and definition of ‘sexual rights’ in global negotiations are facing a battering ram of ever-increasing size.” Read more here.
Why Every Child Deserves Married Parents and a Society Who Helps Them Get That, by Ryan Everson. “Every child deserves to live with a married mother and father who love their child and are committed to each other. Parents play an irreplaceable role in helping their children learn proper discipline and moral values, taking their child to extracurriculars that strengthen persistence and teamwork skills, and much more. The data clearly show that married parents are best able to provide these numerous benefits.” Read more here.
Catholic Schools and Transgender Students, by Gerard V. Bradley. “Incarnation no doubt teaches that the earth is spherical and that it revolves around the sun. Flat-earthers are not permitted to opt out; they flunk earth science. Those who deny the truth of heliocentrism flunk astronomy. Were Incarnation to make the little girl’s sex a matter of opinion or individual conviction, it would sharply distinguish the reality of one’s sex from scientific facts. It would make the stubborn objective reality of being male or female a matter of subjective belief.” Read more here.
Africans Plead With Joe Biden to Stop Paying Their Countries to Kill Children, by Helen Raleigh. “Stella Marris, an entrepreneur in Nigeria, lists five things Nigerians need more than abortions: poverty alleviation, education, employment, electricity, and better infrastructure. She also points out that abortion is illegal in Nigeria. She pleaded with President Biden: ‘Please help us, don’t kill us.’” Read more here.
The Science-Denying Woke War on Women and Girls is Speeding Up, by Stacey Lennox. “As mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and women, we must stand up for our girls and their right to continue to have equal opportunities … without competition from biological boys. Compassion does not require acquiescence, and to protect girls, we must loudly proclaim the unique, extraordinary, and essential role biological women play in society in a word [sic] gone mad.” Read more here.
What Does It Mean to Be Trans, Anyway? by Glenn T. Stanton. “…[B]eing ‘trans’ is not a function of the body, but of the mind, of one’s own, subjective self-perception. It is psychological and not physiological, rooted in feelings of identity and not the physical body. And this is the problem with transgenderism as a social and public issue. Trans politics requires everyone else to deny objective biology in favor of one individual’s subjective perception.” Read more here.
First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children, by Susan Evans and Marcus Evans. “It’s worth re-emphasising the importance of not separating gender dysphoria from other aspects of a person’s mental functioning, since many of the young people who present with gender incongruence have co-morbid problems. The denial of the psychological factors influencing the desire to transition can unwittingly lead the patient and health professionals to embrace concrete, affirmative solutions, while ignoring relevant aspects of the individual’s mental-health situation and personal history.” Read more here.
Biden’s Trans Rights Proclamation Tramples Women’s Rights, by Larry O’Connor. “’The president’s belief is that trans rights are human rights.’ There it is. In one fell swoop, the Biden Administration negated (or at the very least watered-down) the famous proclamation that ‘women’s rights are human rights’ declared by none other than then-First Lady Hillary Clinton.” Read more here.
‘Pregnant People’ in Parliament, by Maya Forstater. “Like parts of the NHS websites it studiously avoids the word woman or female pronouns and talks about a ‘person [who] is pregnant’ and a ‘person [who] has given birth to a child’ as though this might be a situation that Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees Mogg, or Winston Churchill or Benjamin Disraeli before them, might have found themselves in.” Read more here.
We Must Protect Women’s Sports, by Nikki Haley. “If this trend isn’t stopped, the achievements of so many brave women over so many years will be erased. That’s wrong. It’s insulting. And women know it, too, whether they’re retired athletes, middle-aged mothers, or a 16-year-old girl thinking of signing up for swimming. They’re just afraid to speak out, because they know they’ll be silenced and called bigots.” Read more here.
New App Could Connect Gender-Confused Minors With Hormone Treatment for $99 a Month, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Girls can do an end-run around parents, psychiatrists, and others who might caution them, and for a monthly fee of only $99, ‘customers telechat with a Plume doctor and then get hormone blockers shipped directly to their front door.’ They provide a lot of bang for your buck, too…” Read more here.
I Know What Happens to the Kids in ‘Transhood,’ Because It Happened to Me, by Walt Heyer. “We need to stop pretending that doctors have scientific backing for their recommendations to transition children socially and medically. They do not. In fact, a great amount of research shows transgender treatments are medically harmful to children.” Read more here.
Texas is Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid. We Are Not Powerless, by Lauren Enriquez. “The fact that Planned Parenthood is subsidized by taxpayers anywhere to begin with is mind-boggling. The abortion Goliath, according to its own annual report, kills 947 children a day. That’s analogous to four dozen kindergarten classrooms full of children, snuffed out by one catastrophically violent organization, day after day.” Read more here.
Women Shouldn’t Accept Third Place in a Race They Won, by Kelley Paul. “Some transgender advocates insist that hormone therapy erases the physical advantages of male athletes. Hogwash. Hormone therapy cannot and does not magically decrease the size of a male’s larger and longer bones, his larger and stronger tendons, nor his larger heart and lung capacity.” Read more here.
Religious Freedom in Europe is Becoming More of an Issue, by John Burger. “Europe is not the first place most people think of when they hear talk about threats to religious liberty. But Church leaders there have recently been cautioning about trends in that direction.” Read more here.
ACLU ‘Myths and Facts’ About Transgender Athletes Debunked, by Penny Starr. “The election of Joe Biden has opened the floodgates to activists advocating for erasing the lines between biological sexes… It has also caused left-wing organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to put forth a narrative that turns science on its head by creating ‘facts’ about what it means to be transgender.” Read more here.
Transgender Madness is Destroying Girls Sports, by Michael Reagan. “…[U]nless millions of fathers – and mothers – unite in their anger, in five years there’s liable to be no female sports at all in our public high schools or colleges. What sane young girl is going to want to get deeply involved in a sport like swimming when she sees that transgender women are unfairly dominating it?” Read more here.
Seattle Schools Teach K-5 Students to Pick Gender, Disrupt Nuclear Family, by Jason Rantz. “All the lessons and resources center on 13 guiding principles, which include being queer and trans affirming. They tell young children to do ‘the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk.’ Teachers are specifically informed that their ‘students need to see how problematic our binary notions of gender are.’” Read more here.
The Moral Incoherence of ‘Family Privilege’ Ideology, by Daniel Frost and Hal Boyd. “Marriage is by definition a kind of relationship that society identifies as uniquely dignified and valuable. To argue that marriage is no more valuable than any other relational form is therefore to undermine the notion itself. It was precisely for this reason that many same-sex couples objected to the idea of civil unions, even though they were legally identical to marriage.” Read more here.
5.8 Million Fewer Babies: America’s Lost Decade in Fertility, by Lyman Stone. “The loss of babies in the U.S. will have momentous consequences in the future, as the next generation is smaller than the one before it. The economic consequences of low fertility can be dire… But these societal effects are of secondary importance to what low fertility means in the lives of those who experience ‘missing births,’ ranging from rising loneliness to aging alone to less happiness.” Read more here.
Honduras Bans Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage Over Objections of UN Experts, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The UN office argued that complete bans on abortion have been declared violations of human rights by UN experts because they prevent abortion from being addressed as a public health issue. The UN office it lamented the measure against ‘marriage equality’ because it might ‘increase inequality and discrimination on the basis of gender.’” Read more here.
For Female Athlete, Biden’s Transgender Executive Order is ‘Heartbreaking,’ by Nicole Russell. “…[T]o require biological males and females to compete against each other, under the guise of anti-discrimination laws, is to require that we as a society either deny these scientific facts or state that Title IX is now null and void. We cannot accept both that men and women are exactly the same and that women are protected from sex discrimination.” Read more here.
We’ve Been Erased by Victorian Politicians, by Leah Gray. “I know from personal experience that there are many ex-LGBT voices like mine which testify to the life-saving benefits of counselling for unwanted homosexual or transgender feelings… But our experience and our research are being ignored by the Victorian government and by the media. When we attempt to speak up, we are dismissed as ignorant bigots by LGBT activists.” Read more here.
Biden’s HHS Nominees Lack Basic Competence in Public Health, but Boy, Do They Protect Abortionists, by Tom McClusky. “While in Congress, Becerra received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion NARAL Pro-Choice America. As California attorney general, Becerra used his power to protect Planned Parenthood from a baby body parts trafficking scandal, instead using his office to file charges against the organization that exposed the outrage.” Read more here.
Why Rand Paul and LGBT Champion Martina Navratilova Agree About Transgender Athletes, by Jack Hunter. “For the record, I have defended transgender Americans and pleaded with others … to try to understand and be more compassionate toward one of the least understood groups of people in our society. But this does not mean that people who were born biologically male but now identify otherwise should be able to compete athletically with females. This is basic common sense, as both Paul and Navratilova have expressed in different ways.” Read more here.
How Hollywood and Washington Can Better Protect Children From Harmful Media Content in 2021, by Tim Winter. “What will be the ultimate result if we don’t reverse this trend of sexualized content marketed to children? A generation of children who are desensitized to their own sexual exploitation; a more accepting sexualized culture; and programming standards that foment the appetites of sexual predators and pedophiles…” Read more here.
10 Steps for Resisting Joe Biden’s Order to Transgender Public Schools, by Joy Pullman. “Every single one of us needs to understand the stakes here are not at all about a few trans kids playing on opposite-sex sports teams… The obvious reality that men and women are different in meaningful ways that require us to treat them differently in some contexts is a hill to stake a claim on and refuse to budge no matter the outcome.” Read more here.
The Biden Doctrine on Abortion, by Valerie Huber. “Instead of giving priority to meet the family planning needs of low-income families, as we did and as the Title X legislation requires, this executive action sets in motion the unlawful subsidization of the abortion industry, likely leaving poor women to suffer.” Read more here.
How to Protect Human Life After Conception, by Rep. Alex Mooney. “Also, thanks to science, we know a baby’s heart starts to beat at about six weeks into pregnancy; nails begin to form starting at 10 weeks; and babies have fingerprints by 13 weeks. Our understanding of life and pregnancy has grown with scientific advancement, further confirming the humanity of children long before birth.” Read more here.
On Abortion, the ‘Show Me’ State Shows the Way, by Michael J. New. “During the Biden administration, it will be difficult for pro-lifers to change federal public policy. They will have to play defense and work to save the Hyde amendment, which prohibits direct federal funding of elective abortion. But there is still plenty that pro-lifers can do at the state level… Missouri’s multi-pronged strategy of street-level activism, church involvement, pro-life legislation, and support for pregnant women should serve as a model for other states to follow.” Read more here.
Social Media Platforms Ban Christians for Disagreeing With Transgender Ideology, by Movieguide Staff. “Social media’s censorship of anyone who disagrees with their viewpoints will, undoubtedly, bleed from politics into biblical truths. It is vital for Christians to stand up for what God says about human biology and sexuality as pressure from the government, big tech, and the world increases. As Brown puts it: ‘In the end, Twitter may suspend me or block me (and countless others). But they cannot change the truth.’” Read more here.
YouTube Megastar Followed by Millions of Young Children Comes Out as LGBT, by Jonathon Van Maren. “YouTube personalities like Siwa are called ‘influencers’ for a reason — it’s because they have influence in spades, and their audiences listen to them. Siwa, obviously, didn’t start this parade — she’s just getting on the bandwagon. In fact, she’s part of a trend where teen girls actually worry that they’re ‘dumb and boring’ if they’re straight, especially now that there’s so many other options to choose from…” Read more here.
Human Rights Campaign Releases Report Showing Enormous Corporate Support for LGBT-Identified Individuals, by Jeff Johnston. “It’s not enough to simply hire LGBT-identified individuals, supervisors must undergo training that ‘includes gender identity and sexual orientation as discrete topics’ and ‘provides definitions or scenarios illustrating the policy for each…’ Firms must have ‘gender transition guidelines with supportive restroom, dress code and documentation guidance.’” Read more here.
It’s Not Just ‘Gender Dysphoria.’ It’s Now ‘Rapid Onset Marxism,’ by Walt Heyer. “Intentionally or not, men who live as women, as I did, make a mockery of what it means to be a woman. Requiring the other 99.7% of the population to play along denies biological reality and amounts to gaslighting, forcing them to agree that men can become women and vice versa simply by declaring it. On the other hand, forcing people to use non-gendered designations for family relationships further dehumanizes and demoralizes relationships.” Read more here.
Why I Support the Unalienable Right to Life, by Rep. Ralph Norman. “My grandson was 1 pound, 15 ounces when he was born. Now, he is my daily reminder that the lives of millions of premature infants, whose heartbeats are detected, can be cut short due to the legalization of abortion and current laws that insufficiently prevent infanticide.” Read more here.
Biden Cancels Women, by Rob Jenkins. “In that [Executive Order], he essentially declared that, as far as the law is concerned, men can be women. And in doing so, he utterly wiped out an entire category of human beings known for centuries as ‘women.’ For, as Matt Walsh and others have persuasively argued, if anyone can be a woman, the distinction, the designation itself, becomes meaningless.” Read more here.
Investigation of 50 States Reveals Horrific Conditions in Abortion Clinics, by Steven H. Aden. “California law protects dogs, cats, and other animals from unscrupulous veterinary clinics… Why, then, does California law provide no standards whatsoever to safeguard women experiencing abortion from dirty and dangerous abortion businesses? Because every single one of the commonsense medical standards that use to protect California women from fly-by-night abortionists … have been wiped off the books by state courts or pro-abortion lawmakers, at the urging of abortion practitioners and advocates.” Read more here.
Why Are We Killing Babies When Babies Are Wanted? by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “One of the problems here, of course, is that abortion isn’t mere health care. It isn’t your heart medication or chemotherapy for cancer… Abortion is the ending of a life. It’s the severing of the most precious bond there is, the one between a mother and child.” Read more here.
On Nation’s Report Card on Life, These States Score Highest, by Katie Glenn. “Over 20 states have acknowledged the medical reality that unborn babies feel pain, and they’ve passed laws prohibiting abortions on that basis. At least 36 states recognize mother and baby as separate victims of homicide or assault, providing justice for both when a violent crime occurs.” Read more here.
Is Abortion for Down Syndrome ‘Eugenics’? by Michael Cook. “’The point is not that parents facing perhaps the most difficult decision of their lives should be branded eugenicists, but simply to indicate that despite protests to the contrary, eugenics has not been fully consigned to history’s dustbin. As a society, we are still deciding who is and is not born based on genes…’” Read more here.
Small-Town Iowa Public Schools Teach Preschoolers Transgenderism and Judging People by Skin Color, by Joy Pullman. “On the school district’s webpage about this ‘week of action’ slated for Feb. 1-5, it reprints the ‘Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles,’ which include the following: ‘6. Queer Affirming – We are committed to fostering a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking or, rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless s/he or they disclose otherwise.’” Read more here.
Insuring Rights for ‘Wrong’ Bodies, by Jean C. Lloyd. “The analogy has been made before, but can you imagine a woman self-diagnosing breast cancer and referring herself for a mastectomy? What competent physician would accommodate her request without investigation? Moreover, does someone have the right to use health insurance to induce a state of unhealth in the body—with no demonstrated benefit for the mind—especially if that someone is a minor?” Read more here.
President Biden Signs Executive Order to Fund the Global Abortion Industry, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Biden’s order effectively forces U.S. taxpayers to fund abortion giants International Planned Parenthood Federation, Marie Stopes International and hundreds of foreign groups that perform and promote abortion across the developing world, including by lobbying to repeal protections for the unborn.” Read more here.
Uniting Virtually, Pro-Lifers Will Continue to Protect Life, by Kay C. James. “…[T]he virtual nature of the event doesn’t change the urgency of the cause for the pro-life movement. A new administration and Congress are poised to roll back protections for the unborn and do even more to promote abortion, including ending the bipartisan Hyde Amendment to allow for the direct taxpayer funding of abortions.” Read more here.
Thirty-Five Nations Declared There is No International Right to Abortion, but Now There Are Only 34, Because Biden Has Pulled the U.S. Out, by Jonathan Abbamonte. “Despite the departure of the U.S. from the agreement, the Declaration remains valid as strong evidence that a significant number of countries do not consider abortion to be a human right under international law. The Declaration is currently being hosted by the government of Brazil and will remain open indefinitely to additional countries that wish to sign the Declaration.” Read more here.
Will the International Community Join in Condemning China’s Uighur Genocide? by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “China’s size and power have made UN entities reluctant to provoke it, which had devastating consequences when the World Health Organization was slow to respond to the growing COVID-19 pandemic and instead repeated the Chinese government’s talking points. For many countries, defending China on human rights issues could mean keeping a valuable trading partner.” Read more here.
Why the Mexico City Policy is So Significant, by Matt Hadro. “As pro-abortion groups withdrew from partnership with the U.S. over the pro-life requirements, their funding shortfall was not insignificant. The International Planned Parenthood Federation estimated in 2017 it would lose $100 million annually in funding, while Marie Stopes International estimated an $80 million funding shortfall.” Read more here.
BLM Targets Its Own Children Via Gender Confusion and Sterilization, by Marc Little. “Many black parents think BLM diversity lessons uplift black children, but one of the main goals is to make them question their gender. Once children question their gender by saying they are ‘unsure,’ they are placed in the LGBTQ+ category, because Q means Queer or ‘Questioning.’ When children become ‘unsure’ they are counseled by a ‘trusted adult’ to ‘explore’ or ‘experiment’ with their gender at school via gender expression.” Read more here.
Federal Court Upholds Conscience Protections for Doctors, by Nicole Russell. “While this ruling should be applauded, this lawsuit should not have been necessary in the first place. Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment, religious providers should not have to give care in a way that violates their beliefs, but lawsuits suggesting otherwise challenged that concept.” Read more here.
There’s an Industry to Provide Transgender Kids With ‘Accessories’ They Weren’t Born With, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A cottage industry to service this need has popped up, with “packers” for girls who identify as boys to put in their underwear to mimic a penis (the sophisticated ones are advertised as capable of permitting gender dysphoric girls to pee standing up just like a real boy); binders, which girls can use to flatten their breasts and present as male prior to obtaining double mastectomies; and a wide range of carefully tailored apparel.” Read more here.
Researchers Find Promoting Marriage is the Key to Asia’s Demographic Woes, by Shannon Roberts. “While many governments have tried adopting family-friendly policies to raise the fertility rate, including extending parental leave, providing flexible working hours, and offering a baby bonus, the effect of these policies has been modest on their own according to Chen and Yip. Thus they concluded that, if governments can remove the barriers to marriage and raise the marriage rate, there would be a significant increase in total fertility rates…” Read more here.
Biden’s Politically Correct Assault on Girls Sports, by Washington Examiner. “This anti-woman policy is being propounded in the name of a politically correct gender ideology that rejects basic biological facts about men and women in the name of ‘tolerance.’ This gender ideology now demands the submission of all who question it, under penalty of lawfare and personal cancellation.” Read more here.
Despite Its Good Intentions, Victoria’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bill Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents, by Mark Sneddon. “The Bill will effectively force clinicians to affirm a person’s desire for body transition and prescribe the drugs for body transition because to do otherwise will leave them open to the accusation of engaging in a ‘suppression’ of gender identity inviting criminal investigation, Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission investigation and compliance notices and presumably professional sanctions.” Read more here.
Five Reasons Biden’s Move to Rejoin the WHO is Bad News, by Kimberly Ells. “The WHO not only supports sexual rights for children but is a strong advocate for eliminating parental consent in regard to abortion, contraception, and other sexual services for young people. With these five reasons in view, it is dumbfounding that the Biden administration made a top priority of ensnaring the US in this ethically corrupt organization once again.” Read more here.
State Legislation Would Protect Gender-Confused Children – Here’s How You Can Help, by Jeff Johnston. “While most eyes have been on the presidential transition and inauguration, many state legislatures are already in session. Legislators in at least eight states have proposed new bills that would protect gender-confused children and teens from permanently altering and irrevocably damaging their bodies with puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.” Read more here.
What the Biden Administration is Expected to Do About U.S. International Policy on Human Rights, by Elyssa Koren. “Perhaps of greatest impact, on the issue of U.S. foreign aid, the Biden administration is expected to revoke the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy. As a result, billions of U.S. dollars that currently go toward maternal health assistance abroad would be used to promote abortion. U.S. taxpayer dollars would fund abortions in the developing world, including in many countries where the practice is either illegal or heavily restricted.” Read more here.
The Transgender Agenda Will Eviscerate Title IX, by Rob Jenkins. “Transgender advocates argue that boys who identify as girls actually ARE girls. No, biologically, they’re not—and in sports, biology matters. Others insist that males have no inherent physical advantage over females. I’m sorry, but anyone who believes that is either seriously delusional or has never played sports (or both).” Read more here.
Virginia Values Act Makes Everyone Who Disagrees a Bigot, by Nicole Russell. “In the United States, citizens of a certain sexual orientation or gender identity must be able to live peacefully with those who espouse traditional Christian beliefs without one labeling the other a bigot. Unfortunately, the Virginia Values Act elevates protections to another level, criminalizing anyone who dares to hold different beliefs and practices.” Read more here.
Equality Act’s Attack on Religious Liberty, Medical Conscience, by Wesley J. Smith. “The bill guts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as a defense against acts deemed discriminatory in the bill. Among other wrongs, this could force Catholic hospitals to permit sterilization, contraception, abortion, and transgender surgeries on premises despite their being prohibited by Catholic moral teaching.” Read more here.
Biden’s Trans Agenda Threatens the Military, Science, and Women’s Rights, by Tyler O’Neil. “Biden’s transgender agenda threatens to erode basic biological facts in the military, the health and science establishment, and the culture at large. His agenda threatens the safety of women’s private spaces, fairness in women’s sports, clarity in medicine, and best practices in the military. While the Biden administration touts ‘inclusivity,’ a rush of transgender people into the military may seriously harm morale, as female troops fear abuses at the hands of ostensibly transgender men and as suicide rates may increase.” Read more here.
Abortion – The Issue That Will Not Die, by Jerry Newcombe. “Where’s the most dangerous place to be in America today? In your mother’s womb. It should be the safest. The Court has unleashed this nightmare, provoking the wrath of Almighty God against the nation that sheds innocent blood – and so much of it too. ‘We the people’ did not get to decide this. The Court did.” Read more here.
Roe v. Wade’s Millions of Ghosts in the Cradle Haunt Us All, by Nathanael Blake. “At the time, it might have been said: forgive them, for they know not what they do. For most people in 1973, the womb was a black box; few knew much about fetal development. But we know. We excitedly share ultrasound photos via text and social media, and we stick the printouts on our fridges… We know. We have seen the moving limbs and the tiny fingers and the beating hearts.” Read more here.
Victoria’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bill is Too Broad and Too Harsh, by Mark Sneddon. “Instead of trying to define and ban ‘harmful’ conduct and practices, the Bill makes illegal all practices and conduct (including a conversation or family discussion, counselling, pastoral care, prayer) engaged in for the purpose of ‘suppressing or changing’ a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, even if the conduct was requested and consented to by the person and even if that person experienced the conduct as beneficial rather than harmful.” Read more here.
Roe is Ripping America Apart, and It Must Go If the Republic is to Survive, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On abortion, unity is impossible. Those of us who recognize the humanity of the pre-born and abhor the destruction of innocents can never be united with those who believe killing children in the womb is a right. But if America is to survive, overturning Roe is an essential first step.” Read more here.
Seven States Introduce Bills to ‘Save Girls Sports’ – Here’s How You Can Help, by Jeff Johnston. “The good news in all this is that some states are pushing back, working to protect girls and women’s sports… LGBT activists and their allies in the media, academia, and the business world are already attacking these legislative efforts, saying they ‘target’ and ‘attack’ gender-confused students and are ‘discriminatory’ and ‘cruel,’ so it’s important for concerned people to weigh in and support these bills.” Read more here.
The Fight for Life Continues in States Throughout the Country, Despite New Pro-Abortion Administration, by Brittany Raymer. “For those that remain concerned about the radical abortion policy that will likely be introduced by the newly inaugurated administration of Joe Biden, there’s some hope. In states across the country, legislatures and state governments are fighting for life.” Read more here.
Inside the Many Ironies of Argentina’s Abortion Legalization, by Alice Lemos. “How sad that the Argentinians who backed this bill – which would allow girls over 13 years of age to obtain abortions without the consent of the parents – see this as a historic moment which will ‘solve a public health problem.’ Poor women in Argentina deserve better than abortion, as do their American counterparts.” Read more here.
The Real Cost of President Biden’s Radical Transgender Activism, by Michael Brown. “We’re not talking about a legitimate civil rights issue, such as telling a black man he cannot drink from the white man’s water fountain. Or telling a black woman she cannot sit in the white man’s seat on the bus. We’re talking about six-year-old girls being forced to share their school bathroom with a biological boy who believes he’s a girl.” Read more here.
Bill C-6 and Religious Freedom, by Jonathan Griffiths. “Among other penalties set out within the Bill, anyone who causes a child to undergo ‘conversion therapy’ under this definition is liable to a prison term of five years. So, if a preacher, counsellor, or parent engages in any ‘practice’ … that encourages a minor to repent of any non-heterosexual sexual behaviour or to recognize their body as a good gift from God, that person could be liable to face prison.” Read more here.
Biden’s Pick to Head USAID Samantha Power is Committed to Woke Imperialism, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “If Power makes abortion and LGBT issues conditions of U.S. foreign assistance, as is anticipated, it may put faith-based groups in a difficult position. Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others with moral objections to these policies may no longer be able to partner with the American people in delivering aid to the poor overseas.” Read more here.
Will Biden Place Political Correctness Ahead of Military Readiness on Transgender Policy? by Thomas Spoehr. “Military service is inherently stressful. Military suicide rates already exceed the U.S. average. Exposing individuals already predisposed to mental injury—such as those with gender dysphoria—would be immoral and simultaneously present a clear risk to military readiness.” Read more here.
Biden’s Trans Health Official Prioritizes the Pink Police State Above American Lives, by Kyle Sammin. “In throwing a political bone to his transgender supporters by nominating one of their own, Biden will elevate one of the least effective state health officials to a federal job, rewarding Levine’s dangerous incompetence and shocking hypocrisy with a promotion.” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Cheer Biden-Harris Inauguration: ‘Sexual Health Champions,’ by Katie Yoder. “’The inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris closes a chapter, one of the darkest in this nation’s history,’ Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL insisted. ‘But even more, it portends such a bright future.’ Nevermind the future of the unborn baby.” Read more here.
After Inaugural Rhetoric on Unity, Biden Signs Divisive Transgender Executive Order, by Ryan T. Anderson. “…[H]ere’s what it means: Boys who identify as girls must be allowed to compete in the girls’ athletic competitions, men who identify as women must be allowed in women-only spaces, health care plans must pay for gender transition procedures, and doctors and hospitals must perform them. Sounds unifying, right?” Read more here.
A New Phase in Latin America’s Pro-Life Movement? by Jonathon Van Maren. “Without public opinion on their side, abortion activists have had to rely on other tactics… Honduran lawmakers have realized that public opinion does not always dictate public policy, and they are taking steps to ensure pre-born children remain protected by law. Perhaps this is the start of a new phase in the Blue Wave movement’s political strategy.” Read more here.
Two Parents, More Parenting, by Robert VerBruggen. “He also notes that the kids of married moms get lots of time with their dads, and that married moms tend to be more satisfied with their lives. An important upshot of Hamermesh’s findings is that ‘children of non-partnered mothers receive much less parental care—perhaps 40% less—than other children; and most of what they receive is from mothers who are less satisfied with their lives.’” Read more here.
On ‘Day One,’ Joe Biden’s Transgender Executive Order Destroys Women’s Rights, by Ian Haworth. “This means that children — defined by the federal government by anyone who is younger than age 18 or who is not an emancipated minor — have the ‘right’ to decide which restroom or locker room they use. What does this mean, in raw actuality? Girls who believe they are boys can enter bathrooms and locker rooms designated for boys and, more worryingly, boys who believe they are girls can enter bathrooms and locker rooms designated for girls. Don’t like it? Too bad.” Read more here.
UK Transgender Treatment Centre Urged to Speed Up Its Controversial Service, by Ann Farmer. “In reality the biggest risk these children face is getting the treatment they seek — cross-sex hormones and ‘cosmetic’ surgery to align their bodies with their mental self image. It can be argued that making them wait is actually doing them a favour, sparing them from irreversible changes that may only make their mental health worse.” Read more here.
Young Men and Society, Part 2: Social Isolation, Gaming, and Porn, by Philip Zimbardo. “Finally, the solution that we think would have the biggest impact that doesn’t involve institutions, the media, or the government is for more adult men to organize and spend time volunteering and mentoring the younger men in their communities. Parents who are not spending enough time with their boys need to step up their involvement, while helicopter parents who micromanage their child’s development need to give them more space to roam, make mistakes, and discover their resiliency.” Read more here.
How Joe Biden Will Open the Floodgates to Transgendering Public Schools, by Joy Pullman. “All schools that receive federal funding, Biden’s plan says, will be required to treat people as the sex they claim to be… This means your freshman daughter could be placed with a male as her college roommate and the Biden administration could prosecute the school if it allows her to switch.” Read more here.
Victoria’s Conversion Practices Bill is as Bad as They Say It Is, by Neil Foster. “The Bill creates a powerful set of bureaucratic mechanisms by which religious groups presenting the classic teachings of their faith may be subject to investigation and ‘re-education’ by human rights officers. It arguably makes the presentation of some aspects of Biblical teaching unlawful if the aim of that teaching is to encourage someone to follow that teaching in their own life.” Read more here.
Media Claim Abortion Drug in SCOTUS Ruling Ends ‘Pregnancy,’ by Katie Yoder. “Abortion ends a human life, but Americans wouldn’t know that from reading recent news reports. Instead, many in the media claim, abortion drugs ‘terminate pregnancies’ and ‘expel’ the ‘contents’ of a woman’s uterus.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Protects Women’s Health by Reinstating FDA Restriction on Chemical Abortion, by Mary Szoch. “In his concurrence granting the stay, Roberts wrote that the ‘courts owe significant deference to the politically accountable entities with the “background, competence, and expertise to assess public health.”’ In other words, Robert’s [sic] deferred to the FDA rather than specifically voting because of the risk to women’s lives.” Read more here.
Germany Will Be Forced to Think About the Future of Parenthood, by Shannon Roberts. “With a birth rate of just 1.54 babies per woman (the replacement rate is about 2.1), there have been more deaths than births in every year since 1972. In 2010, the German birth rate hit just 1.39 babies per woman… So why so few German babies?” Read more here.
The Term Ladies Has Been Rendered Meaningless, by Binary Australia. “Extremists, also known as gender activists, have successfully threatened reasonable people so much that even men with penises will be accepted as ladies these days – deny it and you will surely face penalties!” Read more here.
Virginia Plans for All Public Schools to Allow Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms and Sleepovers, by Casey Chalk. “The ‘model policies’ represent an attempt by the state not only to aggressively intervene in the privacy of Virginia families but pit children against their legal guardians… Children live under the guardianship of adults (such as parents or grandparents) precisely because they lack the maturity, prudence, and experience to make safe, responsible decisions for themselves.” Read more here.
Rockstar Gov. Kristi Noem Wants Down Syndrome Babies Like My Sister to Be Protected, by Evita Duffy. “My family and I are truly thankful that Noem has taken on this important life issue, which has a long and disturbing history. The genocide of children with Down Syndrome is a continuation of the eugenics movement that many wrongly assume ended in Nazi Germany. It is selective breeding, unethical, intolerant, and as Noem put it, ‘appalling.’” Read more here.
To Honor Women, Don’t Erase Us, by Ashley McGuire. “It all seems farcical, and yet both the changes to the House Rules and correspondingly-timed gender prayer are just the latest in a rapidly accelerating trend to whitewash society of sex difference in the name of inclusion. The result, however … isn’t just the denial of basic, non-offensive reality and science, but the erasure of women.” Read more here.
Under Biden/Harris, Abortion May Become a Mandate in International Aid, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Once abortion funding is allowed through such a reinterpretation of the Helms amendment, there is nothing to stop abortion from becoming a requirement of U.S. foreign assistance. It could happen with the stroke of a pen. The Biden administration could simply add abortion to the list of essential services that U.S. foreign aid recipients are required to provide.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Keeps Lying About Babies Who Survive Abortions, by Micaiah Bilger. “…Republicans in Congress have been trying to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act for years… The bill would require that the same basic medical care be provided to babies who survive abortions as would be provided to any other baby born at the same gestational age. It also would impose penalties on medical workers who neglect to provide that care. However, Democrat lawmakers who receive campaign donations from Planned Parenthood blocked the legislation dozens of times.” Read more here.
Arkansas Case Shows Path Forward for Banning Down Syndrome Abortions, by Michael Cook. “…[A]bortion law, like all law, has to serve the advancement of humanity. Currently it privileges a woman’s right to choose. But what if the state recognized that there are higher issues than the right to choose — like the danger of creating a radically unequal society divided between people who are gene rich and people who are gene poor?” Read more here.
My College Tried to Stop Me From Speaking About Religion. Now, We’ll Meet In the Supreme Court, by Chike Uzuegbunam. “Students frequently stand in public areas to speak about issues that are important to them. I did that, too, talking about my beliefs, offering Christian pamphlets and engaging cheerfully with interested students… One day, in 2016, a security guard approached, telling me I could not talk publicly about such things except in one of the college’s two ‘speech zones’ — and a reservation would be needed.” Read more here.
Social Issues Amid COVID Crisis Cause Abortion Rate in Canada to Rise, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Canadian media outlets are now confirming our fears, with abortion activists and workers indicating that they believe the abortion rate is rising… With so many careers threatened, businesses at risk, and jobs disappearing, many feel that it is a bad time to have a child. Additionally, many fear going to the hospital; it is also difficult for partners to be part of the process due to COVID-19 health restrictions.” Read more here.
Skyrocketing Lesbian ‘Divorce’ Rates Show Failure of Same-Sex Couples Imitating Marriage, by Joseph Shaw. “Drew offered her clients the chance to have a baby without the involvement of a man — at least, without the involvement of a man they had to have very much to do with. What she could not so easily banish was the masculine role: the role of the person who has not had the baby, who is needed for other tasks to protect and sustain the household while childbirth and child-rearing are going on.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Loses Medicaid Funding in Texas – It Won’t Be Hard for Clients to Find New Providers, by Brittany Raymer. “Will Planned Parenthood patients find it difficult to find a new provider? Probably not, given the plethora of other available options. Many of these clinics also offer much more care than Planned Parenthood does, including pediatrics and advanced medical screenings like mammograms or lab work related to cervical cancer screenings.” Read more here.
UN Pressures Argentina Into New and Extreme Abortion Law, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Argentina’s new law doesn’t just decriminalize abortion. It declares abortion-on-demand in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy an international human right. It refers to ‘gestating persons’ instead of pregnant women. Girls as young as 13 will be able to get an abortion without parental consent under the new law.” Read more here.
State and Federal Laws Move to Erase Biology and Women, by Nicole Russell. “Notice another subtle change in language: Breasts are now ‘abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects.’ That a public official would make such an egregious, misleading statement about basic biology and steer insurance companies to do the same in order to provide coverage is one of the most outlandish things California has done to promote LGBTQ groupthink.” Read more here.
The Endgame of Transgender Ideology is to Dismantle the Family, by Kimberly Ells. “Dethroning the family creates a void that can and must be filled—though it is impossible to adequately fill it. If we are to avoid the destruction of the family and the domination of the state that necessarily follows, we must resist efforts to cancel biological sex.” Read more here.
Abortion Supporters Are No Longer Lying About Their Cruelty, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Say what you will about their sincerity when the ‘safe, legal, and rare’ crowd said it, but at least it was a glimmer of humility and recognition of what abortion produces: a dead child and unspeakable pain for the mother that never truly goes away. That has all changed.” Read more here.
Three Things America Stands to Lose With Taxpayer-Funded Abortion, by Nancy Flanders. “The claim that the Hyde Amendment is racially discriminatory is blatantly false. Eliminating the Hyde Amendment would deeply wound American society and allow widespread, government-funded eugenic abortions fueled by racism and discrimination against the underprivileged. America stands to lose a great deal if taxpayer-funded abortion becomes the order of the day.” Read more here.
New UN Report Builds Rationale for Abortion, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Abortion has never been an international human right, and neither UNFPA nor the UN’s human rights mechanisms such as treaty bodies have the power to make it a right. Nevertheless, the insinuation that such a right exists has been steadily imposed by treaty bodies and then echoed by other parts of the UN system, including UNFPA and the World Health Organization.” Read more here.
Campus Preaching, Christian Foster Care: 4 Cases That the U.S. Supreme Court May Impact in 2021, by Michael Gryboski. “The case dates back to 2018 when Philadelphia stopped the placement of children in homes of foster parents affiliated with Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Bethany Christian Services of Greater Delaware Valley. At issue was the fact that both groups refused to place children with same-sex couples for religious reasons, with the city arguing that it wanted to prevent discrimination.” Read more here.
Good News for Families in 2021, by Alysse ElHage. “One of the main reasons for the improvement in teen mental health cited in the report is that teens are spending more time with their parents and siblings, ‘which might have mitigated the negative effects of the pandemic.’ Specifically, 56% of teens said they were talking to their parents more than before the pandemic, 54% said their families ate dinner together more often, and 68% said their families were closer.” Read more here.
New England Journal of Wokeness Erases Its Medical Credentials With False Article About Gender Identity, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Disappointment that your objectively documented birth certificate is contrary to your newly realized gender identity is not a medical issue. It is a psychological and emotional issue, and a problem that can’t be blamed on either the official documentation or the medical professionals who ‘assigned’ your sex at birth.” Read more here.
The Sexism of the Transgender Movement is Officially the Most Dangerous in American History, by Kira Davis. “Not only are we being told we are not allowed to challenge letting men into women’s sports, we’re not allowed to refer to our menstrual cycles as periods or refer to nursing our babies as breastfeeding. We’re not even allowed to be called women now … we’re just vagina owners. I’ve never heard of anything more sexist in my life. We’re not even people anymore, we’re just the keepers of vaginas.” Read more here.
Sickening Experiments Using Baby Body Parts Only Confirm the Humanity of Unborn Children, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The very crimes we commit against these tiny people confirms their humanity, because if they were not human, they would not be useful for human research. These experiments confirm their humanity—and that we are losing ours.” Read more here.
Democrats Attempt to Erase the Words ‘He,’ ‘She,’ ‘Mother,’ and ‘Father’ From the House, by Paulina Enck. “Words such as ‘mother’ and ‘father’ would be replaced with ‘parent,’ ‘aunt’ and ‘uncle’ with the awkward ‘parent’s sibling,’ and ‘grandmother’ and ‘grandfather’ becomes ‘grandparent.’ I wonder if Pelosi will bring her commitment to language policing to Twitter and remove ‘mother, grandmother’ from her bio.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Pres.: It’s ‘Not a Big Deal’ That We Do Abortion, by Katie Yoder. “Planned Parenthood … has repeated the misleading statistic that abortion is ‘only’ three percent of its ‘services’ throughout the years. But now, the nation’s largest abortion provider is identifying as a ‘proud abortion provider’ – and says that downplaying the number of its abortions actually ‘marginalizes’ and ‘stigmatizes’ abortion.” Read more here.
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In 2021, Watch What the Supreme Court Does With Philadelphia’s Ban on Christians Parenting Foster Children, by Yaakov Menken. “The threat here is clear, and not limited to Catholics… Rather than demonstrating the First Amendment’s respect for different traditions and beliefs, Philadelphia is demanding universal conformity to state doctrine.” Read more here.
Enough Already With Using Cartoons and Cookies to Sell LGBTQ Agenda to Kids, by Nicole Russell. “Brands that provide products or entertainment typically reserved for a younger audience have been transparent, honest, and even persuasive that they are using their brand to look appealing and progressive, and to normalize LGBTQ issues, particularly transgender-related ideas.” Read more here.
Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts? by Pat Buchanan. “Former New England Patriots’ star, Benjamin Watson, a pro-lifer, described the absurdity of what the legislature did. A teenage girl still needs her parents’ permission to get a Tylenol from the school nurse, but she doesn’t need permission to have an abortion and kill their grandchild.” Read more here.
Cartoons Are the Left’s New Weapon to Target Your Kids, by Douglas Blair. “One of the new flagship programs for the channel is ‘Steven Universe.’ The show follows Steven, a young boy who goes on adventures along with his magical, humanoid alien friends. ‘Steven Universe’ has received praise from many LGBT organizations, and in the words of LGBT-focused magazine Them, is ‘the queerest cartoon on television.’” Read more here.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Leads Condemnations of New Argentina Abortion Law, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Abortion activists have been hoping that the narrow Senate vote will herald a new shift away from protections for pre-born children across the continent, but the reactions thus far indicate that the pro-life majority is holding strong in the face of the Argentine tragedy.” Read more here.
Ofcom on the Offensive, by Ann Farmer. “The UK’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom … now defines hate speech as ‘all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, social origin, sex, gender, gender reassignment, nationality, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, colour, genetic features, language, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth or age.’” Read more here.
Medical Journal: Hide Everybody’s Sex Because a Handful of Trans People Get Bottom Surgery, by Chad Felix Greene. “The authors of this paper further argue that the best solution is to remove all acknowledgment of a person’s sex altogether. This should be done with passports and other identifying documents since the LGBT left sees no purpose in legally identifying sex at birth for anyone, when all that matters to them is gender identity.” Read more here.
Thank You, British High Court, for Your Gender Dysphoria Ruling, by Andrè Van Mol. “The British High Court has done a great service to gender dysphoric youth worldwide with the decision that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are indeed experimental, their long-term safety and efficacy are not established, PBs are a ‘stepping stone’ to CSH, PBs and CSH hinder bone density and growth, they do not improve mental health and self-harm, and minors really don’t have the ability to provide truly informed consent to them.” Read more here.
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Man Convicted of Raping His Daughter Approved for Transgender Surgery, by Tyler O’Neil. “It remains unclear whether the DOC or Peterson acknowledged any serious concerns about placing a male rapist in a women’s prison before he undergoes surgery. If this rapist had no qualms about abusing his own daughter, what makes the authorities certain he won’t take advantage of the women in prison?” Read more here.
Dizzying 27 Alternate Pronouns Displayed on College Business School Application – Along With an ‘Other’ Option, by Dave Urbanski. “If the latter choices don’t pass muster with applicants, there are seven more groups of alternate pronouns to choose from that display a whopping 27 words of some sort, such as ‘ey,’ ‘xie,’ ‘hir,’ ‘vis,’ and ‘eirs.’ The kicker? If none of those choices suffice, the application leaves a space at the bottom of the section in which hopefuls can list their ‘other’ pronouns.” Read more here.
C-Fam’s Top 5 Moments for Life and Family Internationally, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “This year has been possibly the most momentous year in U.S. pro-life diplomacy, and therefore for the pro-life cause overall. These are the highlights of the year 2020.” Read more here.
Democrats’ Pro-Abortion Extremism in New Jersey, by Timothy P. Carney. “Murphy would outlaw group and individual health insurance plans that do not cover abortion at 100% with no restrictions or prior authorization. Again: abortion on demand, without explanation, at any point, and paid for by people who oppose abortion. Murphy’s bill would exempt some ‘religious employers,’ but that doesn’t help regular New Jerseyites who don’t want to finance abortions with their health insurance premiums.” Read more here.
The ‘Sexual Rights’ Movement is Gaining Power Globally. Here’s What to Expect, by Kimberly Ells. “Last February, when asked in an interview, ‘Do you think that sex work ought to be decriminalized?’ Harris said, ‘I think so, I do.’ She went on to say that it is a complicated issue and that ‘we should really consider that we can’t criminalize consensual behavior as long as no one is being harmed.’” Read more here.
Pornography is Fueling the Spike in Child Sex Abuse By Normalizing Pedophilia, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The simple fact is that pornography is mainstreaming dangerous behaviors and pumping poison into our cultural groundwater—and we’ve been ignoring the issue. In the process, we’ve been creating an entirely new category of pedophiles and child abusers by creating widely available sexual material that serves as sex education for young people.” Read more here.
Like It or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria, by Quillette Magazine. “From a medical point of view, artificially halting puberty is a dangerous shot in the dark. Yet endocrinologists and other medical experts who’ve raised the alarm about puberty blockers in recent years have routinely been smeared as transphobic. We know of no other area of health policy in which alerting the public to clear and well-established health risks (among children, no less) is stigmatized in this way.” Read more here.
In VOA Nominee Fight, Washington Post Insists Christians Can No Longer Hold Public Office, by Casey Chalk. “Granted, it is no surprise that Bennett, Sullivan, and the Washington Post take issue with Reilly’s views on homosexuality. What is alarming, however, is how they tacitly declare any person who subscribes to Catholic teaching on this issue to be effectively ineligible for public office.” Read more here.
Trump Officials Reflect on Four Years of Pro-Life Battles, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Valerie Huber, Special Representative for Global Women’s Health in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services described how hard it was to convince countries to support U.S. pro-life diplomacy… Huber explained that even countries with pro-life laws had become afraid to speak out on life issues because of the ‘aggressive and continuing intimidation and threats.’” Read more here.
Trans Activist Makes Case for Putting All Kids on Puberty Blockers, by Matt Walsh. “…[T]he demented and evil idea presented by Zinnia Jones … is entirely consistent with every other demented and evil item on the radical ‘gender identity’ agenda. In fact, it is the logical conclusion. If sex is ‘assigned’ at birth by unspecified nefarious forces, then puberty is a part of that unfair assignment. If we must break free from this ‘assigning’ process by letting children choose their gender, then they should also be able to choose when and if they undergo puberty.” Read more here.
A Landmark Lawsuit for Gender-Confused Minors, by Madeleine Kearns. “…[N]ot only are these drugs experimental, but they are also, in almost every instance, followed by a regimen of cross-sex hormones that compromises a young person’s fertility and sexual function. Puberty blockers are not a ‘pause button,’ then, but a nuclear button, setting children on the path to irreversible bodily impairment they may well deeply regret.” Read more here.
Tulsi Gabbard is Right on Title IX Protecting Women’s Sports From Transgender Athletes, by Zachary Faria. “The United States is currently trailing global sports organizations in confronting this absurd push by transgender activists. While Idaho is under legal and cultural pressure for taking the basic step of affirming that women’s sports are for biological women, organizations such as World Rugby and World Athletics have already started addressing this issue.” Read more here.
Dems Predict Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Next Year, by Katie Yoder. “Taxpayer funding makes abortion a very public issue. Then again, abortion can never be a private issue because the intentional destruction of innocent human life is something that threatens a thriving society – and contributes to a throwaway culture where human persons of inherent dignity and worth are considered disposable.” Read more here.
Human Rights Campaign Wants Christian Schools to Abandon Beliefs or Lose Accreditation, by Nicole Russell. “By suggesting LGBTQ rights need to be protected more, the blueprint perpetuates the myth that somehow in the freest country in the world, with more sexual parity than almost anywhere else, LGBTQ individuals remain marginalized and disenfranchised. There’s little evidence to show that’s the case.” Read more here.
Transgender Tyranny is Getting Chaotic, Like the French Revolution, by Joseph Shaw. “It is interesting to see in the trans debate a phenomenon I have noted in relation to under-age consent: that the courts are more concerned about outcomes, while social workers, doctors, and teachers can be dazzled by the idea that children should be allowed to consent, whatever this may lead to, despite the fact that consent is not really possible in the circumstances.” Read more here.
Think Twice Before Changing the Military’s Transgender Policy, by Thomas Spoehr. “Gender dysphoria, under current policy, is also a disqualifying disorder … because both military and civilian medical data unequivocally reflects that transgender individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria experience ‘high rates of mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorders.’” Read more here.
Shaming Feminists Who Believe in Basic Biology Isn’t Working Anymore, by Libby Emmons. “With very little discussion, the left has decided, wholesale, that a person born male, with a male reproductive system, can be a woman if he merely says he feels like he is one. This is perceived as the compassionate thing to do. Compassion alone, however, is not a good reason to abandon reality and rational thought.” Read more here.
Africa, Aid and Abortion: What Will Biden Do? by Kurt Mahlburg. “Much social critique today takes place through a postcolonial lens… It should shock us, then, to realise that Western imperialism continues on the continents of Africa, Asia and South America today – though under a subtler banner: ‘reproductive healthcare.’” Read more here.
Buyer Beware: Virtual Abortion Pill Websites Are Seeking to Profit During a Pandemic, by Carole Novielli. “…[I]n the days following abortion’s legalization, unscrupulous abortion profiteers with zero to little medical training flooded the marketplace, opening abortion facilities with slick marketing tricks, all in an effort to make a profit selling abortions. Today, the same thing is happening, with the advent of largely unregulated virtual abortion pill websites popping up across the nation.” Read more here.
Social Media and Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, by Binary Australia. “The adverse roll of social media in the rise of ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’ has been raised in light of the recent British High Court judgement against transitioning treatments for children… The court ruling has put a stop to children undergoing similar treatments. Now the spotlight is being shone on the role of the internet.” Read more here.
Australia’s Fertility Crash, by Marcus Roberts. “Overall, since 2012 Australia has seen strong population growth of 11.6 percent. But that is despite, not because of, its fertility rate. In the same period the number of registered births in the Lucky Country has fallen by 1.2 percent.” Read more here.
Australian LGBT Laws vs. UK Verdict, by Claire Chandler. “Last week, just as the UK High Court was finalising its findings that puberty blockers are an experimental treatment for which young children are unable to give informed consent, the Victorian government introduced legislation which criminalises discussion of the very same issues highlighted by the court. The Victorian legislation makes any conduct or practice that is not seen as gender affirming potentially illegal.” Read more here.
Why Other Queers Are Stuffing Lesbians Back in the Closet, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Non-binary and queer are the cool new things. Anything that smacks of being a genuine woman is not. The stubborn fact that male and female each have an objective nature will ultimately be the end of contemporary gender theory, and it looks like lesbians are the canary in that coal mine.” Read more here.
Pornhub Profits Off Exploitation and Abuse of Children and Women. It’s Time for the Government to Crack Down, by Matt Walsh. “And while the efforts to protect the people in the videos is virtually non-existent, the efforts to protect the people watching the videos are literally non-existent. Pornhub makes no attempt to prevent children from accessing the hardcore filth on its platform… Any random 8 year old can go to its URL and watch gang bang videos without having to jump through any hoops at all. This gives you an idea of how serious Pornhub is about protecting anyone, least of all children.” Read more here.
LGBTV – the ‘V’ is for Victimhood, by Ryan Bomberger. “Despite constantly comparing themselves to African-Americans and the hard-fought civil rights plight in America, LGBT activists have been trying to sell this lie: Gay is the new black. It’s not. Not even close. The problem when we compare one dissimilar situation with another is that, inevitably, it trivializes the preceding one.” Read more here.
No, Recognizing the Rights and Obligations of Biological Fathers is Not ‘Anti-Gay,’ by Curtis Hill. “Anytime a child is adopted, the adoptive parent enjoys the same legal rights and interests associated with the child as a biological parent. Objections to Indiana’s fatherhood-presumption law ignore adoption as an available means to attain parenthood.” Read more here.
Does a Recent Court Decision Signal the End of ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bans? by Laurence Wilkinson. “The clear problem with this approach is that it inserts the government into the counseling room and seeks to regulate what can and cannot be said. In reality, these are not ‘conversion therapy’ bans, but ‘counseling censorship laws’ that intentionally restrict the right of both patients and counselors to engage in conversations they want to have, and to hear or express ideas they believe to be true.” Read more here.
To Control ‘Toxic Masculinity’ and Heal the Family We Must Appreciate the Differences Between the Sexes, by Willis Renuart. “It is still possible to respect the differences between the sexes while preserving the opportunities of women… There is much that can be done once the differences between the sexes are appreciated. It is time we stop talking down to boys as if they were dim-witted girls and offer them opportunities to build character and provide meaning to their lives.” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion Members of Congress Are Pushing for Taxpayer-Funded Abortion. Here’s What You Need to Know, by Melanie Israel. “The Hyde Amendment is good policy as a matter of principle. It is also a popular policy, too. After all, 6 in 10 Americans oppose taxpayer funding for abortion, including 42% of independents and one-third of Democrats. So why the calls to do away with a popular, consensus policy? Three words: the abortion lobby.” Read more here.
Britain Stops Young People Gambling While Approving Contraception and Abortion, by Ann Farmer. “Allowing children to become addicted to gambling is no light matter… But neither is an abortion a minor thing like having a haircut or a manicure, or even a minor operation; there is a separate human being involved, and the after-effects of abortion even on adult women can last for decades.” Read more here.
Analysis: What a Becerra HHS Could Mean for Catholics, by Matt Hadro. “Becerra’s record in California shows that he, perhaps more than any other state attorney general, has been willing to wield the power of the state to enforce pro-abortion policies against religious and pro-life groups. And if appointed as Health Secretary, he would have authority to craft far-reaching policy across a number of controversial ‘culture war’ issues.” Read more here.
Xavier Becerra for HHS Means Biden is Dead Serious About Sticking It to Religious Freedom, by Jeremy Beaman. “In July, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania that the administration has the authority to issue such broad exemptions. It would also mean that a subsequent administration has the authority to remove them, and Biden plans to do that.” Read more here.
Pornhub Makes Money on Videos of Rape and Assault of Children, by Jeff Johnston. “He went on to tell heartrending stories of individuals who had videos of themselves, as teenagers, posted on Pornhub. Even when the company takes down these videos, many have already been downloaded from the website – and often reposted on Pornhub or other pornographic websites.” Read more here.
Activists Promoting New Way to Overcome Abortion Stigma, by Michael Cook. “The people were asked whether they would be interested in a pill which would bring on bleeding like a menstrual period, and which would terminate the pregnancy for nearly all people who were pregnant. The key point is that they would never know whether or not they had been pregnant.” Read more here.
Declaring War on Nuns, Biden Plans to Nominate Abortion Extremist Xavier Becerra for HHS Secretary, by Madeline Osburn. “Becerra served in Congress for 24 years, where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortion, voted against making it a crime to hurt an unborn child during another crime, and voted for taxpayer-funded abortions.” Read more here.
Yahoo Posts Disgusting Guide Showing People How to Pay to Kill Their Baby in an Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “The implied goal of the guide is to help women in need. It’s written in a style similar to articles that inform struggling families about food banks or organizations that provide toys to children over the holidays. But instead of food or gifts, these groups provide money to kill unborn babies.” Read more here.
Argentina and Learning the Wrong Lessons About Abortion, by Kathryn Lopez. “In the United States alone, there have been tens of millions of abortions since 1973. That’s a brutal reality to come to terms with. As we approach a half-century of legal abortion here, we ought to reflect on how much other violence might stem from this, our most poisonous export.” Read more here.
The Dangers of Joe Biden’s Extreme Abortion Agenda, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Biden and Harris have both endorsed the idea of using the executive branch to scrutinize (and presumably reject) pro-life legislation brought forth in the states. Their authority to carry out this aggressive violation of the separation of powers is dubious at best.” Read more here.
UK Issues Landmark Ruling Protecting Kids From Life-Altering Hormone Replacement Therapy, by Nicole Russell. “For years, the U.K. has been zealously embracing transgender ideology while demonstrating a laissez-faire attitude toward the harmful effects of hormone replacement therapy. This ruling puts the brakes on that hazardous approach and protects children and their bodies.” Read more here.
Smorgasbord of Choices for Trans Inmates, by Binary Australia. “Under the new policy from the Department of Justice prisoners who are transgender or gender diverse can [sic] who are on remand or sentenced to incarceration can ask to be housed in a facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” Read more here.
Milk-Man is Not a Scientific Concept, by Binary Australia. “Biological reality reveals only ‘breasts’, not chests, have the capacity to produce milk. Female mammary glands develop at puberty due to estrogen and then produce milk (lactation) during pregnancy and beyond due to the presence and increase of the hormones progesterone and prolactin. In the very rare cases of males lactating it is always the result of illness or abnormality.” Read more here.
Abortion Groups That Backed Biden Are Coming to Collect, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “After the election was called for Biden, the president of California’s Planned Parenthood affiliates delivered a statement highlighting the ‘blueprint’ document. ‘The list is long,’ she acknowledged, but promised that Planned Parenthood ‘will be there to hold this administration accountable for its promises to the American people every step of the way.’” Read more here.
Norway Criminalizes Hate Speech Against Transgender People … In Private Homes or Conversations, by Jonathan Turley. “For free speech advocates, we need to educate the public on where this road leads in places like Norway. What is at stake is the very right that has long defined us as a nation. Once we cross the Rubicon into speech criminalization and controls, Europe has shown that it is rarely possible to work back to liberties lost.” Read more here.
Don’t Let the Abortion Lobby Hijack ‘Women’s Issues,’ by Melanie Israel and Grace Melton. “…[T]he GWI office was used to advance ‘sexual and reproductive health’ under the umbrella of ‘gender equality.’ Those terms, while seemingly innocuous at face value, are often code for policies that neither empower women, nor protect their inherent human dignity; namely, the promotion of abortion.” Read more here.
No, the UK Lockdown Has Not Led to a Divorce Boom, by Harry Benson. “…20% of married parents said their relationship had improved, compared to 9% who said their relationship was worse. The remaining 71% said their relationships had remained the same. So the reality is that lockdown was good news for twice as many marriages as it was bad news.” Read more here.
EU Parliament Attacks Poland for Pro-Life Ruling, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The resolution represents a watershed moment in European politics. Only 33 out of 187 members of the European People’s Party voted against the resolution. A majority of members of the center-right party previously opposed such extreme social policies and an international right to abortion.” Read more here.
2020, the Year South Korea Began to Shrink, by Marcus Roberts. “As these figures show, South Korea is currently an aged society and will very soon be a super aged society (with over a fifth of its population aged 65 years or older). It will also be a declining society. One in which births are rarer and old age and deaths more common.” Read more here.
Religion, Childbearing Costs, and Poland’s Baby Bump, by Laurie DeRose. “Poland is a highly religious country: 61% attend religious services at least monthly, and 87% are affiliated with the Catholic Church. And yet Polish women are currently averaging 1.4 children per woman. Bein, Mynarska, and Gauthier’s research makes it abundantly clear that higher fertility among the more religious can coexist with low overall fertility.” Read more here.
Keira Bell: The High Court Hands Down a Historic Judgment to Protect Vulnerable Children, by Transgender Trend. “The judgment is a damning indictment of clinical practice at the GIDS. The case was decided on facts and evidence known to the Tavistock, and ultimately on the lack of facts and the weakness of the evidence in the Tavistock’s defence. The GIDS lacked even basic data on children who had been given puberty blockers.” Read more here.
The Left’s Gender Theories Are Anti-Scientific Nonsense, but They’re Gaining Ground, by Ben Shapiro. “…[F]or an ardent fan of abortion on demand such as Blow to characterize a gender reveal party celebrating the sex of an unborn baby as ‘violent’ while characterizing the in utero dismemberment of that same unborn baby as ‘choice’ is so morally benighted as to boggle the mind.” Read more here.
Victorian Labor Makes Prayer a Criminal Offence, by Freedom for Faith. “In the most aggressive action ever taken by an Australian government to attack freedom of religion, the Labor Government in Victoria proposes to make it a criminal offence, punishable by several years’ imprisonment, for a person to pray with another person about issues they are having concerning their sexual orientation or gender identity. It will not be a defence that the person actually wanted prayer.” Read more here.
Huge Setback for Transgender Activism in UK, by Michael Cook. “The result of the High Court’s decision – which is sure to be appealed – is modest. It does not ban transgender treatment. It simply declares that it is highly doubtful that children under 16 should be given puberty blockers because they cannot give informed consent. In the UK, children over 16 are deemed to be competent to consent to treatment.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s 5-4 Ruling Shows How Religious Liberty Hangs by a Thread, by Cal Thomas. “When government sets itself up as the ultimate authority on all things, including the right to gather and worship freely, other liberties can quickly be at risk… Once the principle that government endows rights is established, it is a very short step for government to take them away.” Read more here.
Late-Term Abortion Must Stop in the US, by Katie Yoder. “When it comes to late-term abortion, even the terminology is disputed. Many in the media say there’s no such thing as ‘late-term abortion’ because the phrase isn’t ‘medical’ – although media have readily used that exact term in the past. But one thing seems clear: unborn babies who are the exact same age as born babies are still perishing in abortion.” Read more here.
‘Transhood’ Documentary Shows Parents Brainwashing 4-Year-Olds Into Transgenderism, by Chad Felix Greene. “In other words, if a child is not quite one gender or the other, or is possibly both or neither, the medical experts and LGBT activists believe intervention is necessary, which parents must affirm and support. As a result, parents frantically attempt to interpret how a child feels about himself before the kid has any chance to live in his natural body.” Read more here.
Victoria’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bill is a Violation of Human Rights, by James Parker. “Hilton also said that ‘LGBTIQ Victorians are welcome and valued members of our community, entitled to live their lives authentically and with dignity and safety.’ No one disagrees. But what about ex-LGBTQ+ Victorians? Are they not welcome and valued community members worthy of dignity and safety? Is she not Commissioner for both?” Read more here.
The Push for Children’s ‘Sexual Rights’ is Coming, by Mattea Merta. “Sharon Slater is the President of Family Watch International… She stated, ‘This submission of Human Rights Watch to the UN expert on the “right to privacy” was predictable. It promotes the legalization of abortion, autonomous sexual rights for children beginning at age 10, harmful comprehensive sexuality education, and, under the guise of protecting privacy, it promotes the violation of private spaces for females, such as bathrooms and showers, by members of the opposite sex.’” Read more here.
Marie Stopes’ Most Famous Memorial Scrubs Her Name Off the Brand, by Michael Cook. “Problem is, there are grubby eugenic fingerprints all over the brand. Marie Stopes, the pioneering birth control provider after whom the group was named, was an ardent eugenicist who even advocated compulsory sterilization. So the organisation is changing its name to MSI Reproductive Choices. Problem gone. But is it?” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Got Church Restrictions Right, by The Editors. “The Court’s ruling is neither surprising nor alarming. Cuomo’s rules discriminate against religious services and thereby run afoul of the Constitution. And to fix the problem, Cuomo would not need to exempt houses of worship from the law everyone else follows, but merely ensure that churches aren’t relegated to second-class status.” Read more here.
A Major Legal Victory Against LGBTQ Tyranny, by Michael Brown. “And remember: under these oppressive ordinances, to sit and talk with the child was forbidden by law if that child wanted to feel at home in her own body. But to put her on puberty-blocking hormones as a child, then remove total healthy parts of her body, then put her on hormones for life, was allowed by the law. To call this perverse is an understatement. Child abuse would be more accurate.” Read more here.
It is Not ‘Humane’ for The Atlantic to Sympathize With Killing Babies With Down Syndrome, Like My Little Sister, by Evita Duffy. “Whether your justification is to ‘spare… [potential] suffering,’ decrease strain on a universal health care system, or on public taxes, or you want to have a career, or you are worried about potential health concerns for your child, killing a disabled child is still wrong. There is no ‘humanity’ in killing a child. There is no ‘humanity’ in targeting the weak. There is no ‘humanity’ in eugenics.” Read more here.
Child Abuse? HBO Max Documentary Celebrates 4-Year-Old Boy’s Transgender Identity, by Tyler O’Neil. “…[T]he disturbing advocacy of transgender identity for young children — likely later to involve experimental treatments that amount to chemical castration — is utterly sickening. Episodes like this should jolt Americans out of their complacency on this issue, and encourage them to stand up for truth against this nefarious movement.” Read more here.
CDC Counts Lowest Abortion Numbers Since Roe v. Wade, by Katie Yoder. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly publishes its annual Abortion Surveillance report around the Thanksgiving holiday… This year’s report released new numbers for 2017 and 2018 that showed an overall decrease in abortion. That’s something that pro-life Americans should celebrate, even if the numbers don’t tell the full story.” Read more here.
Justice Alito: If You’re Worried About Religious Liberty, Follow News in Higher Education, by Terry Mattingly. “In his Federalist Society address, Alito stressed that it is now common to hear students and professors, including many in law schools, express fears about the consequences of being honest about their religious convictions.” Read more here.
LGBT Activists Send Christmas Wish List to Biden and Harris – Asking Them to Assault Religious Freedom, by Jeff Johnston. “HRC hopes to ‘eliminate discrimination against beneficiaries in charitable choice and faith-based initiatives,’ forcing Christian homeless and domestic violence shelters to place men who claim to be women in all-female facilities. Religious adoption agencies would be compelled to serve same-sex couples. LGBT extremists and their allies view religious exemptions in these cases ‘a license to discriminate.’” Read more here.
Pornhub’s Teen Sex Ed Course, by Karen Farris. “Pornhub says it is aiming to provide access to information and advice about sexuality, sexual health, and relationships. It’s all free — but the curiosity of a new young audience will undoubtedly result in the porn content they will be willing to pay for later. Pornhub appears to be capitalizing on the COVID-19 pandemic, with more teens on their screens— and offering ‘clean’ content under the guise of sex education.” Read more here.
Who’s Converting Whom? Sexual Orientation, Gender and Politics, by Barbara Kay. “The bill is deeply problematic, beginning with the preamble, which claims it is a ‘myth’ that gender identity ‘can or ought to change.’ It is no myth that gender identity can change. If one or two of Canada’s top-tier experts in gender dysphoria research had been consulted in the bill’s creation, the working group would have learned that without invasive intervention, 80 per cent or more of gender-dysphoric children who identify as the opposite sex revert to comfort in their natal sex post-puberty.” Read more here.
Remember When the UN Declared the Unborn Should Be Protected? by Ryan Bomberger. “In those historic documents, the UN declares: ‘the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.’ Did some air just get sucked out of the room? Yes, the United Nations—not once but twice—declared that.” Read more here.
The Left Targets Kids, Teens With Gender Fluid Ideology, by Tony Perkins. “In a country where 12% of millennials now say they identify as transgender or ‘nongender conforming’—more than 1 in every 10—the last thing our children need is a generation of parents indulging these dangerous fantasies. And yet, that’s exactly the goal of Apple TV and their extremist cheerleaders.” Read more here.
Why Catholic Bishops Worry Biden’s Abortion Policy Will ‘Confuse,’ by Katie Yoder. “These policies are new for Biden, who voted repeatedly against abortion – for decades. He noticeably flipped on the issue as he prepared for the 2020 election and ran on the Democratic Party platform that calls for ‘safe and legal abortion.’ His switch on abortion became most obvious when he condemned the Hyde Amendment last year – the day after he reaffirmed his support for it.” Read more here.
Thailand Moves to Legalize Abortion Despite It Violating a Key Buddhist Teaching, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Backlash is expected from Thailand’s Christian leaders, and abortion is also considered to be a violation of a key tenet of Buddhist teaching, which requires that people refrain from killing (Buddhists believe that aborting a child is denying a soul the opportunity to be reincarnated.) Under relentless pressure from international organizations, the Thai government seems determined to push ahead nonetheless.” Read more here.
After Trans Activists Try to Ban ‘Irreversible Damage,’ It Becomes a Bestseller, by Chad Felix Greene. “Whether … LGBT activists like it, a huge market for critical thinking and honest discussions surrounds these issues. Meanwhile, they continue bullying businesses into removing content through fear tactics and threats of persecution rather than by countering the message with their own better one.” Read more here.
Fewer Americans Are Marrying Now Than Ever, but Those Who Do Love It More, by Glenn T. Stanton. “While fewer couples are marrying today, as shown in the graph below, these couples who are marrying are doing so later in life. They are more affluent, more selective in choosing a mate, and more likely to be religious than the general population. ‘These are all factors that reduce the risk of divorce,’ Wang explained.” Read more here.
Pandemic Could Lead to Profound Shift in Parenting Roles, Say Experts, by Alexandra Topping. “Research has shown that while women bore the brunt of extra childcare during the initial coronavirus lockdown and are being disproportionately impacted by the economic fallout, there has been also a huge surge in the number of hours men are spending with their children. This could lead to a permanent re-evaluation of the value of fatherhood and a shift in working patterns…” Read more here.
The Transgender Murder Epidemic That Never Was, by Michael Cook. “Back in October, Biden declared that violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people was an ‘epidemic that needs national leadership’… No one could object to acknowledging the humanity and dignity of transgender people. They should have the same rights and obligations as everyone in the US and elsewhere. But is it a fact? No, it’s not. It’s clever fake news from the Ministry of LGBTQ+ Truth.” Read more here.
Religious Freedom at Risk, by Jerry Newcombe. “Jump forward to today, 400 years after the Pilgrims arrived, and in the land for which they sought refuge, religious freedom is at risk… It would appear that Christophobic bigots are using the pandemic to curb religious freedom in a country that was born for religious freedom.” Read more here.
Fulton v. Philadelphia: The Future of Church-State Cooperation in the Social Welfare Arena, by Helen Alvare. “The larger implications of this case arise because many social services that religious institutions provide overlap areas in which the state wields significant oversight and financial power… During the oral argument in Fulton, the government pressed Philadelphia’s attorney on the question, asking whether, if the government assumed full control over homeless shelters or hospitals, it could thereafter bar many religious entities from serving in those arenas.” Read more here.
Surveys Show Vast Majority of Western Catholics Support Same-Sex ‘Marriage,’ by Michael Haynes. “Compiling the results of studies conducted over the past few years, the figures demonstrate a wide-scale rejection of Catholic teaching on same-sex ‘marriage’ and homosexuality, which the Church describes as ‘intrinsically disordered’ and something that ‘can in no case be approved of.’” Read more here.
This is How Transgender Activists Win: A Relentless Willingness to Fight, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Pause, for a moment, to consider the fact that a once-prestigious newspaper has lapsed into such ridiculousness that it uses phrases like ‘his female reproductive system’ and ‘his menstrual cycle’ and not only considers those phrases to be accurate, but believes that not using them would be bigotry.” Read more here.
The New Department for Education RSE Guidance: What Should Schools Look Out For? by Transgender Trend. “Teaching children to understand themselves through the model of ‘gender identity’ encourages children to believe their personalities are ‘wrong’ for their sex and their bodies are ‘wrong’ for not matching their gender identity. The idea of gender identity is inevitably based on gender stereotypes, there is no other way for children to understand it, and it gives children no way to be ‘right’ with themselves if they reject those stereotypes.” Read more here.
Burning an Anti-Transgenderism Book Gets Cheered by a College Professor – at the Birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, by Alex Parker. “The university, as you know, gained fame as the birthplace of the free speech movement. But movements are sometimes like people — they die in the same place they were born. Hence, Grace took to social media to condemn author Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.” Read more here.
Pompeo Takes Religious-Freedom Agenda to Istanbul, by Jimmy Quinn. “The U.S. government has considered religious freedom to be a ‘universal human right’ since 1998… Since taking the reins at the State Department, Pompeo has built on that foundation, unveiling a flurry of initiatives toward that end. Among the most notable of these is the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, an ambitious effort to coordinate international action.” Read more here.
Hungary Proposes Constitutional Amendment Protecting Family, Marriage, and Gender, by Jonathon Van Maren. “All of this would, circa 2000, seem so obvious that articulating it would have seemed vaguely ridiculous. Oh, you have eyes too? But in 2020, a statement reflecting reality is now wildly offensive… I continue to watch the Hungarian experiment with great interest. I hope they are modeling a solution that can be adapted by other dying Western countries in the future.” Read more here.
GoFundMe Censors Billboard Fundraising Campaign, by Nicole Russell. “GoFundMe, the private fundraising website, has halted the ability of a group of parents to raise money for a giant billboard that would expose transgender disinformation. GoFundMe claims the fundraising efforts violated its user rules.” Read more here.
Why Is the Federal Government Promoting Censorship Abroad? by Sean Nelson. “’Hate speech’ is simply an unworkable and dangerous concept. The incantatory repetition of the word ‘hate’ to stand for all manner of different kinds of speech needs to stop. Ideas should be debated and defended freely and honestly. No U.S. government body should suggest otherwise.” Read more here.
Even Mainstream Dictionaries Have Bowed to Transgender Insanity, by Jonathon Van Maren. “I’ve noted frequently in this space that the media have now entirely adopted the terminology required of the transgender movement — ‘gender affirmation surgery’ or ‘sex change surgery’ vs. genital reconstruction to imitate the opposite sex; using the ‘preferred female pronouns’ of male rapists and pedophiles, etc. If you control the language of the debate, you inevitably control the debate. Culturally speaking, trans activists have done an incredibly effective job of doing this.” Read more here.
Massachusetts Measure Would Allow Abortions on Teen Girls Without Their Parents Knowing, by Michael New, Ph.D. “The ROE Act would reduce the age of consent to 16; if the bill becomes law, 16- and 17-year-old girls could obtain abortions in Massachusetts without parental consent. Considering that a high percentage of abortions performed on minors are obtained by 16- and 17-year-olds, this should greatly concern pro-lifers.” Read more here.
Abortions Likely to Continue Falling or Increase Under Democrat Administration, by Brittany Raymer. “There’s a belief, rumor if you will, that abortions decrease under a Democrat administration due to increased access to contraception and other preventative measures. This line of reasoning is used by people who want to vote for a pro-abortion president, despite claiming that they are pro-life. It’s not entirely true and is actually a misinterpretation of the facts.” Read more here.
Biden Would Be a Disaster for the Unborn at the UN, by Austin Ruse. “Mr. Biden will begin pushing abortion in UN documents under the phrase ‘reproductive health.’ One of the pro-life movement’s proudest achievements was making that phrase controversial again. The Trump administration pledged to remove the term, replace it, or narrowly define it. Furthermore, other governments followed the U.S.’s lead.” Read more here.
Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them? by Abigail Shrier. “To its credit, Spotify has not yet removed the episode. But the controversy delivered a warning shot to other media companies: Unless you want trouble, do not challenge the narrative of unquestioning ‘affirmation’ for every child who claims to be trans—no matter the age, context, or lack of responsible medical oversight provided to the family.” Read more here.
Silencing Ex-Gays, by Belinda Brown. “There is a particularly extreme ban in Canberra which … could result in parents, guardians or teachers being imprisoned if they even had a conversation with their children who were experiencing gender dysphoria and counselled them to think carefully about gender transitioning.” Read more here.
Predicted Divorce Surge During COVID Didn’t Happen, by John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris. “And, maybe, instead of just leaving when conflict started, couples were forced to stay together. Maybe, they experienced the long-term relational and personal improvements that comes when conflict is faced and resolved, as opposed to running away from each other.” Read more here.
Vulnerable British Children Being Dumped in ‘Disgusting’ Care Homes, by Ann Farmer. “The question of which system of care provision to adopt is indeed an important one, but it can all too easily turn into a political debate about what to do with children, rather than what to do for them. Rather we should be asking an even more fundamental question: why are so many children in need of State care?” Read more here.
Cohabitation and Children’s Outcomes in Africa and Latin America, by Laurie DeRose. “I interpret their results differently. It looks to me like their hypothesis was right for three of the outcomes (no remaining association after including couple and community characteristics), but that they underplayed the disadvantage associated with cohabitation for child survival and schooling.” Read more here.
The Unscientific Roots of Bans on ‘Conversion Therapy,’ by Belinda Brown. “The two main pieces of research supporting the ban … exhibit deeply flawed sampling methods and inadequate questionnaire design. For example, they only asked LGBT people about the effectiveness of therapy. This is a bit like exploring the effectiveness of marriage counselling from those who are divorced.” Read more here.
The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low, by Wendy Wang. “Divorce in America has been falling fast in recent years, and it just hit a record low in 2019. For every 1,000 marriages in the last year, only 14.9 ended in divorce, according to the newly released American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau. This is the lowest rate we have seen in 50 years.” Read more here.
Canadian Pro-Life Politician Runs Beautiful Pro-Child Ad. Abortion Activists Melt Down, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As it turns out, the idea that children might be beautiful like flowers was wildly offensive to many Liberals, who gave the game away by immediately assuming that a pro-child ad was obviously anti-abortion.” Read more here.
Will Laws Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban Teaching the Bible’s Views on Sex? by Law and Religion Australia. “No-one should be coerced using invasive medical and psychological techniques to change their sexuality against their will. But the law must not prevent those who are committed to a religious world-view from receiving sensitive and caring help to change their behaviour to allow them to serve their God.” Read more here.
Toronto Catholic School Board Flouts Own Rules in Joining LGBT Attack Against Catholic Trustee, by Joe Volpe. “On November 4, the TCDSB met in camera (private) … to consider reopening the matter and curry favor with the Minister for his announcements. In their rush, they neglected to report to public session as required by the rules and the law… Nevertheless, the next day the report found its way into the hands of a Toronto Star reporter, and presumably in those of the Minister and in other hands of the LBGTQ+ community.” Read more here.
How Catholics Around the World See Same-Sex Marriage, Homosexuality, by Jeff Diamant. “In the Americas, majorities of Catholics in several countries said society should be accepting of homosexuality… In Eastern Europe, acceptance was weaker, with roughly half or fewer of Catholics saying that homosexuality should be accepted by society in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania.” Read more here.
Polish Government Backs Down Over Abortion, by Michael Cook. “The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, once a supporter of severely restricted access, has backtracked a bit. He now favouring and [sic] exception for fetuses with ‘lethal’ abnormalities. But this would still ban abortions in case of other conditions such as Down syndrome. This compromise does not appear to satisfy either side.” Read more here.
Religious Conservatives Hopeful New Supreme Court Majority Will Redefine Religious Liberty Precedents, by Michelle Boorstein. “The possibility that the newly 6-3 conservative-majority court could overturn Smith and set a new precedent about the legal status of religion comes as the country is deeply unsettled about how to balance LGBTQ and other rights with the rights of religious traditionalists.” Read more here.
The Freedom to Change Your Sexuality, by Belinda Brown. “The lobby justify the ban by arguing that if someone wants to change their homosexual behaviour, this implies it must be a disorder. However, seeking help to change behaviours or emotions is part of therapy. Our behaviours do not need to be ‘sick’ or ‘disordered’ for us to desire change.” Read more here.
Poland’s Revolutionaries Have Declared That Baby Lives Don’t Matter, by Malgorzata Wolczyk. “Unfortunately, winning the right to life for children with a disability has resulted in an uncontrollable explosion of rage from the populace. Yes, the movement of the indignant came from the grassroots, but it was taken over immediately from above by the radical feminist lobby, the LGBT lobby, the far-left, old communists, and of course the anti-government opposition that looks for opportunities in every riot to overthrow the government.” Read more here.
There is No ‘Right’ to Abortion in the U.S. Constitution, by Nancy Flanders. “The abortion lobby itself (unlike many abortion advocates who haven’t yet gotten the memo) has also stopped claiming, ‘no one wants an abortion.’ Instead, abortion is now celebrated as an act of equality and a step on the path to success. However, it’s none of these things — least of all, a ‘right.’” Read more here.
Virginia’s Pregnancy Centers Are So Successful That National Pro-Abortion Group NARAL is Out to Stop Them, by Olivia Aveni Briscoe. “Instead of allowing abortion industry advocates like NARAL to target the good names of these centers in pro-abortion smear campaigns, communities should rally behind pro-life pregnancy centers and medical clinics in gratitude for all the good they do for women and their families in the state of Virginia.” Read more here.
No, Abortion Numbers Today Are Not the Same as They Were Before Roe v. Wade, by Carole Novielli. “Prior to Roe v. Wade, a handful of states had decriminalized abortion and in those states it was obvious legalization increased abortion. In addition, reported data reveals the number of legal abortions did not exceed one million until several years after Roe was decided.” Read more here.
Abortion in Poland ‘Is Used By the Extreme Left for Cultural Revolution,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “There have been days of protests, with over 100,000 marching in Warsaw last Friday. Aerial photos show an ocean of people converging in the streets, with COVID-19 restrictions still ostensibly limiting groups to only five. By Tuesday, over half a million people had joined the protests, the largest street rallies since the Solidarity protests that toppled Communism.” Read more here.
Geneva Consensus Declaration Draws Backlash From Abortion Lobby, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Countries that joined the declaration are being pressured to reverse their decision. In Kenya, a group of over twenty organizations asked the government to withdraw… It is expected that one of the first actions of a Biden administration would be to remove the U.S. signature to the declaration.” Read more here.
Religious Liberty Endangered by French Draft Law Against ‘Separatism,’ by The European Times Newsdesk. “…[T]he reference to places of worship unduly used to spread ‘hostility to the laws of the Republic’ should not mean that sermons should not be free to criticize laws they regard as unjust. Religion has always had the prophetic function of criticizing laws deemed as unfair, which is different from inciting to violence.” Read more here.
Memo to the Supreme Court: Keep the Faithful Free to Foster, by Ryan T. Anderson. “It’s not difficult to see how in our ever-growing governmental alphabet soups, historic ministries—on health, education, and welfare, for example—are either being regulated or taken over by government. Can the government then say to religious ministries, ‘It’s my way or the highway’? Hopefully the Supreme Court will tell the government to take a hike.” Read more here.
Gay and Transgender Vote for Trump Doubles in Rejection of Identity Politics, by Brad Polumbo. “According to national exit polls, Trump seems to have won an astounding 28% of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender peoples’ votes… But while only a rough and preliminary estimate, it is more than double the 13% of LGBT voters Trump won against Hillary Clinton in 2016.” Read more here.
The Father Effect: More Relational Than Material, by Michael Jindra. “While material need is important, we must be better at incorporating other basic human needs in our plans and programs, like sociality or meaning. These are things that give people stability and the ability to participate more widely in society and eventually help others.” Read more here.
Do Coloradans Know the Evil They Voted to Continue? by Lila Rose. “…[T]hanks to the profound efforts of pro-life activists, Colorado voters had the opportunity to protect children beginning at 22 weeks of pregnancy by voting to pass Proposition 115, a late-term abortion ban. But voters chose abortion over life, with a majority giving abortionists license to continue murdering the tiniest Coloradans at any point in pregnancy.” Read more here.
Louisiana and Colorado’s Abortion Split is Just the Tip of the Iceberg, by Bill Donohue. “Why are the voters in these two states so different? Much of the divide can be explained by looking at their religiosity profile, namely the extent to which they differ on religious beliefs and practices.” Read more here.
Post-Election Shift in U.S. House Could Hamper Democrats’ Abortion, LGBT Goals, by Matt Hadro. “If Democrats were to expand their House majority and gain control of the Senate, along with winning the White House, a number of pro-abortion and pro-LGBT policies were expected to be considered… Now, with a more competitive House and a possible Republican Senate, that landscape may be altered.” Read more here.
No to Sex Education in Schools, by Scholar Elo. “It is undeniable that the family has a major role in tackling the crisis of sexual violence in Nigeria. As the head teacher of Heritage School Ipaja, Adeyemi Victoria Omolara rightly stated: ‘The education system is not in need of a new curriculum to address sex education. Rather it must be instilled from a young age through deliberate actions of parents and guardians.’” Read more here.
Philadelphia vs. Catholic Church and Children, by Terry Jeffrey. “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit stood with the City of Philadelphia against Catholic Social Services. Now, five justices on the Supreme Court will decide. Can Philadelphia force the church of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to either hand over children to homosexual couples or give up helping foster children at all?” Read more here.
Can I Answer a Few Questions About Abortion? by Christopher Kaczor. “…Kristof accuses pro-life voters of ‘abortion extremism.’ Abolitionists were accused of the same thing. Why not compromise? Let half the country have slaves, and the other half be free. If you don’t want a slave, then don’t own one.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Hears Case Pitting Religious Liberty Against Same-Sex Marriage, by Paul Strand. “This is not a unique case, and governments cracking down on religious foster or adoption agencies who hold to the concept of one-man/one-woman marriage is growing… All for their standing firm with what the Bible has said for thousands of years about marriage and homosexuality.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Adoption Case Could Have National Impact on Religious Liberty, by Matt Hadro. “The case could decide the fate of other religious adoption agencies facing nondiscrimination ordinances, but according to Becket—which represents CSS—it could also impact prospective foster parents…” Read more here.
Questions on Abortion: A Dinner Invitation to Nicholas Kristof, by R.J. Snell. “The pro-life claim is that it is wrong to intentionally and knowingly kill the unborn human. The fact that many unborn humans do not come to term does not answer the wrongness of intentionally ending that human life.” Read more here.
There’s No Such Thing as ‘Safe Sex’ for Kids, by Maria Baer and John Stonestreet. “I find it a bit strange–and ironic–that lawmakers and other cultural elites who are so quick to claim power simply throw up their hands and claim to be powerless when it comes to sexual activity among young people. ‘Well, the kids are going to do it anyway,’ they say. ‘We might as well enable it.’” Read more here.
Biden Pledges to Gut Religious Freedom Protections, Saying They Give ‘Hate’ a ‘Safe Harbor,’ by Tyler O’Neil. “Joe Biden made no bones about it: If he wins the presidential election, he will gut religious freedom protections that allow faith-based homeless shelters, charities, and small business owners to act according to their consciences. Specifically, he will shove LGBT ideology down the throats of religious Americans in the name of fighting ‘discrimination.’” Read more here.
Artificial Reproduction May Require Redefinition of Parenthood, by Michael Cook. “Rather than the traditional mother and father, she points out that, with emerging possibilities of reproduction, parenthood could be arbitrarily deemed to be a certain threshold of a child’s genetic heritage, probably between 80% and 20%… It might be better to retreat from a genetic understanding of parenthood and embrace a social model.” Read more here.
Young People Who Identify As Transgender Are Making Irreversible Decisions, by Maureen Collins. “…[W]hat they don’t tell you is that those who undergo ‘transitioning’ surgeries and hormones are still 19 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. There is simply no evidence that surgical or hormonal transition reduces depression and suicide risk for these individuals over the long run.” Read more here.
Abortionist Says Aborting Babies With Down Syndrome is ‘Healing,’ Like Prescribing Antibiotics, by Nancy Flanders. “Potts sees the survival of these individuals as a mistake, even referring to a human being with Down syndrome as ‘a Down syndrome’ instead of as an actual human being. He uses dehumanizing words, masking the humanity of human beings — and even compares killing them to the use of antibiotics.” Read more here.
Maine Decision Asks Shifted Supreme Court to Decide If Only Atheists Can Control Public Education Funds, by Joy Pullman. “In other words, this decision says that in schooling taxpayers must subsidize only one religious view, secularism, but no other religious views, such as those from Christianity, Mormonism, or Islam. It reinforces secularism as the only permissible state-sponsored American civil religion.” Read more here.
Black Pro-Lifers Slap Planned Parenthood With a Lawsuit. Here’s Why, by Beth Baumann. “Throughout the summer, the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA) conducted an internal audit of Planned Parenthood’s national headquarters to see how employees felt about the organization. After interviewing 64 current and 12 former black Planned Parenthood employees, AORTA concluded that the abortion giant has an issue with racism.” Read more here.
Sports Bureaucrats Have Been Captured by Trans Ideology, by Claire Chandler. “Sporting groups who ignore women’s views and deny the realities of biological sex may genuinely believe they are being inclusive, but eroding the safety and fairness of women’s sport will never be the solution to greater participation.” Read more here.
Can We Please Get Serious About Protecting Religious Freedom? by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “So by all means make your RBG shrine, but remember that her greatest legacies were her family and her friendship with Antonin Scalia. There is room for different views in America. That’s what pluralism is all about. That’s what we’ve been about. Let’s not give up some of the best of ourselves under the intimidation of a politically charged mob.” Read more here.
LGBT Issues Come Back Hard at UN Negotiations, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Turning sexual orientation and gender identity into UN statistical categories will legitimize the work of the UN system to incorporate LGBT issues in the 2030 agenda. And it will translate into pressure from UN agencies and international donors to establish offices to track LGBT data and to promote LGBT policies in every country.” Read more here.
Truth-Telling is a Revolutionary Act. Especially About Transgenderism, by James Parker. “Welcome to the LGBTQ+ agenda which hides, lies, undermines, twists and perverts whatever needs to be done so as to completely smash heteronormativity. I know this firsthand. For years I served this agenda myself as a frontline gay activist.” Read more here.
Biological Men Competing in Most Women’s Sports is Unfair. In Rugby, It’s Dangerous, by Zachary Faria. “According to the document, biological men are ‘stronger by 25%-50%, are 30% more powerful, 40% heavier, and about 15% faster’ than their female counterparts. The key takeaway? A female player tackled by a biological man would have a 20%-30% increased risk of injury.” Read more here.
Seeing Beyond Roe, by Julia D. Hejduk. “Addressing the difficult problem of abortion demand will require constructive, forthright discussions about balancing competing goods: How should academia, businesses, and other institutions accommodate parents and children? What should national, state, and local governments provide directly, and what they should enable smaller social units to do?” Read more here.
How Much of Gen Z Will Be Unmarried at 40? by Robert VerBruggen. “By contrast, the more flexible ‘discrete-time event-history model’ predicts the decline of marriage will continue to accelerate. Only 60% of whites from the 1997 cohort marry by 40. For blacks, the share who marry drops to 30% for the 1990 cohort and 23% for those born in 1997. Whoa – if true.” Read more here.
CBC Meltsdown Over Canadian Human Rights Museum Skipping Abortion on Christian School Tours, by Jonathon Van Maren. “This story is another perfect example of the Canadian media’s attempts to invent controversies where none exist. The Canadian Human Rights Museum was, by all accounts, attempting to accommodate Canada’s multicultural communities and the diversity of views on fundamental issues by choosing not to highlight feticide and various sexual revolutionaries during certain tours.” Read more here.
Statistics Show That Late-Term Abortions in Colorado Are Not as Rare as Some Think, by Bridget Sielicki. “Coloradans are gearing up for a November 3 vote on Proposition 115, which would ban late-term abortions after 22 weeks except in cases of life-threatening danger to the mother. In their fight against the proposition, abortion advocates claim that late-term abortions in the state are rare. However, a closer look at the statistics paints a different story.” Read more here.
No Families, No Children, No Future, by Rod Dreher. “Thirty percent of women aged 25 and under have no interest in sex with men. If that does not alarm you as a religious traditionalist or conservative, then you might actually be dead. We absolutely must form right now — not tomorrow, right now — communities that socialize our children into the goodness of marriage and family.” Read more here.
International Coalition of Governments Defends the Right to Life of the Unborn, by Elyssa Koren. “Never before have governments united on this scale with a singular focus on women’s health and the defense of the unborn… To successfully ward off pro-abortion pressure at the international institutions, governments committed to defending unborn life must work together, uniting their sovereign voices to shut down bureaucratic overreach.” Read more here.
Pope Francis, Civil Unions, and Moral Truth, by Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George. “Fundamental moral and metaphysical realities cannot be altered by human willing or declaring. Thus, no public official or religious leader can change the nature of marriage or the moral status of non-marital sexual conduct. But some laws do obscure the nature of marriage and encourage (and even facilitate and license) non-marital sexual acts.” Read more here.
International Religious Freedom Day: It’s Time to Applaud President Trump’s Remarkable IRF Accomplishments, by Lela Gilbert. “During the Ministerial the U.S. joined 34 countries signing a statement of concern about counterterrorism being used as a pretext for the repression of religious freedom; it was as well one of 27 countries signing a statement condemning blasphemy, apostasy, or other laws restricting religious freedom.” Read more here.
Kenya in the Crosshairs: How the Abortion Lobby is Pressuring an African Country From Within and Without, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Kenya is in the top ten most populous countries in Africa, as well as one of the wealthiest, and it therefore has an influential role… While it is far from being the only country targeted by groups seeking to change its abortion laws, it is an informative example of how this process is being done in many countries in Africa, as well as elsewhere in the world.” Read more here.
How Can We Bring Sanity to the Devotees of This Transgenderism Cult? by Dianna Kenny. “Can we, as a society, condone the amputation or paralysis of healthy limbs in people with [body integrity identity disorder]? In the same vein, is the amputation of a healthy penis and healthy breasts ethically justifiable? Disorders of assumption are disorders of perception. Disorders of perception belong in the domains of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, not endocrinology or mutilating surgery.” Read more here.
Abortion is Essential Health Care Service – and Other Falsehoods, by Hendrik van der Breggen. “Sure, every woman has the right to control her own body. But there are at least two bodies involved in an abortion. It’s one thing to control one’s own body — it’s quite another to kill the body of another! We should think critically about abortion, for goodness’ sake.” Read more here.
Governments Launch Pro-Life Declaration at United Nations, by Austin Ruse. “Governments from around the world launched a shot across the bow of UN abortion advocates in a document called the Geneva Consensus Declaration. Signed by 32 countries, the Declaration says what pro-lifers have maintained for decades at the UN, that there is no global right to abortion and that abortion cannot be imposed by the UN because abortion is a matter of national sovereignty.” Read more here.
Joe Biden Bases His Transgender Policies on Fake News, by Chad Felix Greene. “What the Equality Act does demand, however, is further degradation of religious freedom. For example, under the Equality Act, religious adoption and foster care services would be required to adhere to ‘affirming’ LGBT placement and standards.” Read more here.
UK Undermines Plan for Women’s Economic Empowerment Over Abortion, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The United States launched a global plan for women’s economic development today. A sour note, however, was introduced by the United Kingdom’s attempt to put abortion at the heart of the plan.” Read more here.
The Battle Over Transgender Women in Sport is Not About Transphobia, by Martin Fitzgerald. “In LGBTIQ forums the science behind the directive was called into question, which is par for the course when transgender issues arise. The scientists were traduced and called out for transphobia also. This too is now par for the course.” Read more here.
China to Christians: We’re Rewriting the Bible, and You’ll Use It or Else, by Arielle Del Turco. “One way China seeks to Sinicize Christianity is by re-writing the Bible. A complete communist translation has yet to be revealed. The news of one chapter’s government-approved revision left Christians outraged last month… While China may technically allow Christianity, it only allows a version of Christianity remade in the image of the CCP.” Read more here.
America’s Teenagers Are Losing Their Religion, by Timothy Goeglein. “Today’s teenagers are growing up in a society that is increasingly hostile to faith, especially regarding faith-based values, and the social cost of being identified as religious amongst one’s peers is getting higher with each passing day.” Read more here.
Who Are the Real Ideologues in Poland? by Michael Cook. “They claim that many Polish women … are being stripped of their right. Right to what? Let’s look at it from a different angle. They want the right to eliminate Down syndrome children. It would be much more honest if their placards read: ‘disabled children have no right to live’ or ‘retards must die.’ But that wouldn’t sound so good, would it?” Read more here.
Newly Discovered Letter Shows Endocrine Society Urged Experimenting on Trans Children, by Jane Robbins. “Even though trans-identification is psychological and DSD/intersex conditions are physical, the Endocrine Society repeatedly blurred the distinction in its 2013 letter. This deliberate confusion of psychological and physical conditions is central to the Endocrine Society’s radically unscientific denial that humans are either male or female.” Read more here.
Protect Good Medicine, Stop the Censorship of Good Counseling, by Ryan T. Anderson. “Activists use emotionally charged language, labelling all such techniques ‘conversion therapy.’ They do not apply this label only to certain discredited techniques (such as electro-shock therapies), but to any therapeutic service—including basic talk therapy—to help a gender dysphoric youth feel comfortable without ‘transitioning.’” Read more here.
The Pope Hasn’t Changed His Mind About Same-Sex Marriage, by James Parker. “Spanish-speakers are reporting that the Pope has been misquoted and misrepresented once again by the mainstream media — he did not even mention ‘civil unions.’ His words were ‘convivencia civil,’ not ‘unión civil’… So the Pope is talking about a civil coexistence and not the endorsement of same-sex unions.” Read more here.
Divorce is Down During COVID, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Lyman Stone. “Divorce is surging. This is the impression many media reports have conveyed, suggesting marriage in America is crumbling under the pressures of lockdowns, job losses, school closures, and the general uncertainty of 2020… But there is some good news to report about the state of our unions in 2020.” Read more here.
With the Lowest Birth Rate in the World, South Korea Figures Out a Way to Make It Sink Further, by Michael Cook. “Paradoxically, South Korea has another reproductive health problem: there’s not much reproduction… And now South Korea is liberalising its abortion law. Does making it easier not to have children make any sense — in a country which is melting away for lack of children?” Read more here.
NH University’s Transgender Athlete Rule Must Go, Education Department Decides, by Doreen Denny. “For female athletes at the high school and college level, insist on your rights under Title IX. Any school that defies federal civil rights law by denying women equal opportunities in athletic programs or forcing women to compete against transgender athletes who are biologically male stands to lose.” Read more here.
Celebrating a Victory in War on Women’s Sports, by Virginia Allen. “…[W]e’re hoping that this case really does send the warning signal to universities and colleges that they have a responsibility under federal civil rights law to ensure equal educational opportunities for women in sports. And that is based on sex. It’s not based on gender identity.” Read more here.
Pope Francis Contradicts Clear Church Teaching on Same-Sex Unions, by Glenn T. Stanton. “So it is clear that these reported comments from Pope Francis, if true, are indeed directly contrary to official Catholic teaching and do not hold authority for any Christian because the Pope spoke them… Any leader who makes statements diametrically at odds with the clear belief of the institution he leads has failed to be a leader. He has become a revolutionary.” Read more here.
Religious Weddings and Funerals Banned As Illegal Activities, by Han Sheng. “In August, a Christian family in Anyang city invited their church choir and musicians to sing hymns at a deceased family member’s funeral. When local government officials heard about this, they threatened to arrest any church member who came to the funeral. Not a single congregation member dared to go.” Read more here.
5 Most Shocking Abortion Policies Biden-Harris Openly Support, by Casey Chalk. “Harris has voted against legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and in support of late-term abortions. In 2019 and 2020, she voted to refuse protections for babies born alive after an abortion.” Read more here.
‘Trans Lives Matter’ – Biden Pledges to Sign Bill to Force Schools to Allow Boys to Play Girls’ Sports, by Mike Miller. “In yet another glaring example that today’s Democrat Party is not the same Democrat Party of not all that long ago, Joe Biden pledged on Friday to sign the so-called ‘Equality Act’ — a bill that would force public schools to allow biological boys who identify as transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports. Let’s just let that sink in for a moment.” Read more here.
October is ‘LGBT History Month’ – Who Are Your Children Learning About in School? by Jeff Johnston. “But the history teacher and those promoting the month do not recognize that labeling any historical figure ‘LGBTQ+’ is anachronistic. The whole idea of homosexuality as an identity is something that has developed in the past century. It places a contemporary, socially constructed label on people who wouldn’t even understand making sexual attractions or behavior the basis for an identity.” Read more here.
Sexual Orientation is Not What You Think It Is, by Glenn Stanton. “So, when we speak of protecting people ‘whatever their sexual orientation,’ we must realize the term is not anywhere as simple as most assume. As we have seen, there are age-based orientations, as in pedophilia. There are romance-based orientations. There are multi-partner orientations, such as polyamory. There are practice-based orientations, like BDSM… There are even abrosexuals who seem to change their sexual orientation often and effortlessly.” Read more here.
Religious Freedom Isn’t Hypothetical, Federal Judge Tells Washington State, by John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera. “Judge Mendoza’s ruling was not only strong, it clarified how the state is expected to handle the religious freedom of its citizens. While not rejecting the state’s interests when it comes to LGBTQ kids, regulations must be applied in a neutral manner. In this case, clearly, they were not.” Read more here.
Joe Biden at Odds With Science on So-Called Transgender Kids, by Glenn T. Stanton. “In fact, one of the most significant studies on the topic found that only 2 to 27 percent of gender dysphoric children persist as such into their teen and adult years. This means that 98 to 73 percent of such children come to realize they are not transgender at all, but actually are the boy or girl they were born as and desire to live that way as they enter their teen years.” Read more here.
‘Crying Shame:’ Aggrieved Father Makes Comprehensive Case Against Bishops on Sex Ed, by Tom Rogers. “…[W]e’re now experiencing this state takeover of parenting through the education systems of western democracies, particularly in the area of sex education, where the liberal comprehensive sex education and LGBT agendas are being imposed, often ruthlessly, against the will of parents.” Read more here.
Pushback Against Males in Women’s Sport, by Binary Australia. “Sport Australia has led the way in encouraging biological males to compete as females. 8 national sporting codes have already jumped on the bandwagon with more set to follow. Opponents are joining forces to present scientific and reasonable arguments to protect women’s sport.” Read more here.
Fact Check: Abortion Industry Claims ‘Majority of Americans Support Roe v. Wade,’ by Dr. Susan Berry. “Others who conduct and analyze abortion polls affirm that failing to provide more nuances or specifics in questions about terminating pregnancy to survey respondents often leads to a misread on the true views of Americans.” Read more here.
How the Amy Coney Barrett Hearings Reveal Flaws in LGBT ‘Marriage’ Logic, by Peter Sprigg. “It seems self-evident that if a person has a homosexual ‘orientation’ (often defined as having same-sex sexual attractions), then that person ‘prefers’ sex with people of the same sex. The terms ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘sexual preference’ are essentially synonyms. And they were treated as such in the dictionary — until Tuesday night, when Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary suddenly added a statement that using ‘preference’ as a synonym for ‘orientation’ is considered ‘offensive.’” Read more here.
Christian Leaders React to Joe Biden’s Support for 8-Year-Old Kids Identifying As Transgender, by Brandon Showalter. “’Joe Biden thinks 8-year-olds, have the capacity to make a life-altering decision to change their gender and says for someone to deny them that right (I assume parents included) is discrimination! Either he is pandering for votes or he’s totally lost it,’ Family Research Council president Tony Perkins commented on Twitter…” Read more here.
Biden Endorses the Idea That 8-Year-Olds Can Choose Their Gender, Proving That He Is Owned by the Radical Left, by Matt Walsh. “It is a little hard to decipher his stream-of-consciousness, but he is clearly affirming the notion that a young boy may in some mystical way discover his own inner girlness and that the child ought to be able to act on that discovery by ‘becoming’ a girl. He also amplifies the dubious claim that ‘transgender women’ are the victims of some sort of hate crime epidemic.” Read more here.
Catholic University: The Best U.S. States for Women Graded on Abortion Access, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Georgetown University recently released its ‘U.S. Women, Peace and Security Index’ designating the best and worst states to be a woman. One of the indicators they measured was what percentage of women aged 15-44 lived in a county that had an abortion clinic.” Read more here.
A Landmark Ruling for Religious Schools, by Joshua Dunn. “They were designed to punish religious minorities, but more recently, they have effectively punished low-income parents—who are disproportionately members of racial minorities—seeking better opportunity for their children. Liberated from the threat of losing in litigation, more state policymakers may proceed to deliver on the promise of equal educational opportunity.” Read more here.
Sorry Netflix, But You Don’t Get to Lecture Americans on Moral Understanding, by Michael Brown. “Second, we did not misunderstand the movie. We get the fact that the movie speaks against the sexual exploitation of children. But, as we have stated repeatedly, you do not sexually exploit children to convey the message that sexually exploiting children is wrong.” Read more here.
So-Called ‘Virginia Values Act’ Undermines Religious Freedom, by John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera. “If the exemptions to the Virginia Values Act barely protects religious institutions, individual Christians in Virginia receive none at all… In short, the Virginia Values Act, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom, violates the U.S. Constitution, the Virginia state constitution, and existing state laws. Other than that, it’s great!” Read more here.
FACT: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Support Abortions Up to Birth at Taxpayer Expense, by Micaiah Bilger. “Democrat presidential team Joe Biden and Kamala Harris support aborting unborn babies without restriction and want to force taxpayers to pay for them. But major news outlets are not doing their job to expose the candidates’ radical pro-abortion stance to the public. In some cases, they are doing the opposite.” Read more here.
Media vs. the People: The War Over Pedophilia, by Deborah Franklin. “After promoting the idea that pedophiles deserve special sympathy, the press campaign introduced the insidious concept that children are capable of consent… From there, the campaign inevitably moved on to bitter accusations against right-wing haters who find the practice objectionable… In other words, if you don’t accept the sexual exploitation of children, you’re the problem.” Read more here.
How a DC Court Sided With a Church That Wants to Meet, Not the Mayor, by Rachel del Guidice. “What ended up happening here is that for whatever reason, the District of Columbia did not offer any kind of real medical evidence as to why an outdoor religious assembly was any different than some of the other outdoor activities that they had already allowed. And so, as a result, they weren’t able to demonstrate that they have this compelling interest.” Read more here.
LGBT Websites Now Say ‘Sexual Preference’ Is an Offensive Term. They Were Fine With It Last Month, by Ashe Schow. “Merriam-Webster dictionary updated its definition of the term to include the word ‘offensive,’ even though last month the dictionary made no such distinction. Further, many of the Democrats now attacking Barrett for the phrase have used it themselves in recent years, despite claiming it has been offensive for ‘decades.’” Read more here.
Teen Well-Being During Quarantine, by Jean Twenge, Sarah M. Coyne, Jason S. Carroll, and W. Bradford Wilcox. “Teen well-being was also impacted by financial distress during the pandemic: 25% of teens whose parent had lost a job reported being depressed, vs. 16% of teens without a parental job loss. And 26% of teens who were worried about their family not having enough money were depressed, vs. 13% who did not have this concern.” Read more here.
As the Child of a Low-Income Woman, I Support the Hyde Amendment, by Georgia Caitlin Gallagher. “For decades, the Hyde Amendment was a point of unity between Republicans and Democrats. This year, however, Democratic leaders have vowed to abolish it. Kamala Harris claims that it victimizes ‘poor women,’ by limiting their ability to control their ‘reproductive health.’ This push to repeal the Hyde Amendment sends a clear message: low-income children are better off dead.” Read more here.
Fighting Japan’s Low Birth Rate With More Abortions, by Christian Martini Grimaldi. “After a three-decades-long effort to instill in the public’s mind the necessity for more pregnancies, now Japanese authorities plan to tell women that bearing a child is not such a serious matter after all, and that avoiding it is tantamount to dodging a fever, since buying a morning-after pill will be put on the same level as a self-medicating drug, just like an aspirin… Does anyone see a contradiction?” Read more here.
College Professor: Students Will Be Kicked Out for the ‘Slur’ of Misgendering, by Alex Parker. “’Intentional misgendering, as with any attempt to slur another student’s personal integrity on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, will result in immediate dismissal from class for that session. Continued abuses will result in disciplinary action with the appropriate administrators.’” Read more here.
The United Nations Continues Its Abortion Advocacy, by Elyssa Koren. “By collaborating on ‘mitigation strategies’ to reduce disruption in abortion access, in addition to ‘procurement and funding’ for abortion services, the goal of the partnership is for Big Abortion and the U.N. to make abortion available and accessible on demand everywhere.” Read more here.
Rampant Illegal Abortion in South Africa Exposes Women’s Underlying Unmet Needs, by Petra. “Given that much of the population already oppose abortion based on moral grounds, it stands to reason that many women are making decisions for abortion against their closely-held moral or religious values and economic or relational circumstances may be driving them to consider an option they do not want.” Read more here.
Young Woman Who Transitioned Prosecutes UK Health System, by Ann Farmer. “And yet in recent years, in uncritical TV programs and on the internet, young people have been sold the really harmful idea that a man can become a woman, and a woman can become a man — or even that they may have been born into the wrong body. The Government has now made clear that such messages must be excluded from sex and relationships lessons, and yet they still cling to the fiction that adults can ‘change sex’…” Read more here.
Despite Abortion Industry’s Denial, Abortion ‘Significantly’ Increases Risk of Mental Health Disorders, by Nancy Flanders. “Women who have suffered the effects of abortion trauma often suffer in silence, shamed by the abortion industry into believing abortion is a ‘right’ they should applaud. However, there are women who have come forward with their heartbreaking stories showing that abortion did not empower them.” Read more here.
Biden-Harris Would Deal a Huge Blow to Religious Liberty, by Josh Hammer. “A Biden-Harris administration would be a disaster for conscience protection. They would follow the lead of Barack Obama, who shamefully took a convent of nuns to court for years to try to coerce them to violate their faith and subsidize abortifacients, and aggressively prosecute men and women of faith — the First Amendment and relevant statutory law, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, notwithstanding.” Read more here.
Surely We Have a Right to Reconsider Our Sexual Orientation, by James Parker. “The glaring problem around NCOD is this: protagonists only permit a person to come out once and in one direction, towards LGBTQ+ identity and gender ideology. They refuse to entertain or proclaim any other avenue.” Read more here.
Wikipedia Forbids User Profiles Expressing Opposition to Gay Marriage, by T.D. Adler. “Wikipedia users are no longer allowed to include ‘userboxes’ on their profile page that express opposition to gay marriage following a discussion where predominantly left-wing editors argued such a stance was ‘discriminatory’ and against site policy.” Read more here.
The Demographic Wipe-Out Facing Australia, by Marcus Roberts. “But it is not just COVID to thank for lower population growth: there are many barriers which prevent families from having the number of children that they want. There are economic barriers such as the cost of childcare and the effect taking maternity leave has on women’s careers. These will continue even once the effect of this pandemic has subsided.” Read more here.
The Threat to Life and Liberty From the United Nations’ Abuse of Human Rights, by Grace Melton. “This recent report is among the boldest attempts by progressives within the human rights bureaucracy to assert new rights, promoting abortion and affirming expressions and conduct associated with sexual orientation and gender identity, while sacrificing the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion and conscience protections in the process.” Read more here.
Lawmakers Create Legal Protections for Sex Traffickers While California Burns, by John Cox. “There are ramifications beyond allowing a 24-year-old to have relations with a 14-year-old without legal recrimination. Beating the wrap [sic] of a sex offender list would enable predators to live within our communities without residents’ knowledge or law enforcement’s watchful eye.” Read more here.
Is the Divorce Rate Really Declining? by Glenn T. Stanton. “Less than 1% of ever-married women were either separated or divorced in 1900. Today 21% are. But the divorce rate (the number of divorced women for every 1,000 unmarried ones) has been declining since reaching its apex in 1980.” Read more here.
Kamala Harris Must Be Held Accountable for Her Abortion Extremism, by Jeanne Mancini. “Harris’s record has made it clear that if she’s elected vice president, no pro-life policy will be safe… Laws that ban taxpayer funding of abortion, mandate ultrasounds prior to an abortion, require parental consent for minors seeking abortions, and ensure strong oversight of abortionists and abortion facilities would all be targeted.” Read more here.
Do Four People Have a Right to Marry One Another? by Terry Jeffrey. “’In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well,’ wrote Thomas. ‘Today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter. It appears all but inevitable that the two will come into conflict…’” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Attempting to Deceive Constituents in Its 2020 Voter Guide, by Brittany Raymer. “The proposition is perfectly reasonable, as babies have been born outside the womb and survived at 21 weeks. This isn’t a ‘barrier’ or an ‘obstacle’ to women seeking an abortion, as most women know they are pregnant by this point, but what it does is acknowledge the humanity of the preborn.” Read more here.
The Push for Abortion By Newly Appointed UN Special Rapporteur, by Elyssa Koren. “As a medical expert, the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, should be well aware that chemical abortions are 4 times more dangerous for women than surgical abortions… Why then the dangerous insistence on a practice that is antithetical to the wellbeing of women?” Read more here.
New Research Shows Religious Liberty Drives Human Flourishing – And Why This Matters Now More Than Ever, by Christos A. Makridis. “I found that religious liberty is an integral prerequisite for democratic governance… This shouldn’t come as a surprise: limiting the freedom to choose and arrive at even the most basic judgments about one’s identity stifles creativity and increases the potential for corruption by overly zealous and powerful bureaucrats.” Read more here.
Babies Are Being Left to Die in America. President Trump Just Helped More of Them Live, by Jonathan Lange. “Prejudicial and preemptive determinations about a person’s future prospects should not substitute for on-the-scene evaluations from trained emergency medical technicians. They only create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course, ‘the child won’t survive long’ if you deprive her of the very means of care that gives the possibility of a long and fruitful life.” Read more here.
Abortion Still Unpopular After 25 Years of UN Lobbying, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Macron’s statement was a sobering reminder of how politically unpopular abortion remains today… And this is despite the massive lobbying efforts to promote abortion by UN agencies and UN human rights mechanisms in the ensuing years, precisely under the rubric ‘sexual and reproductive health.’” Read more here.
We Need Commonsense Protections to Safeguard Women’s Sports, by Senator Kelly Loeffler. “Now, this level playing field is being tilted by schools that allow males to compete in girls [sic] sports. Males, regardless of how they self-identify, have physical differences such as larger bodies, more muscle mass, and larger lung capacities that give them advantages over females. That’s a basic biological fact.” Read more here.
EU Leads Opposition to Human Rights Statement, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “A European diplomat said the U.S. was ‘cherry picking’ human rights even though the statement was broad, about principles and not specifics. It appears opposition to the statement came primarily from abortion and LGBT activists who referred to the statement as dangerous to the progress they have worked to achieve through UN human rights bodies.” Read more here.
Keeping Male Bodies Out of Women’s Rugby, by Linda Blade. “Those who enjoyed the advantage of having a trans-identifying player on their team, on the other hand, were sometimes found to be lacking in sympathy. On one occasion, a team captain was quoted as saying that their male-bodied player had ‘folded an opponent like a deck chair.’” Read more here.
Four Ways the Equality Act Would Harm Children, by Andrea Jones. “The Equality Act would require medical professionals to perform irreversible gender-transition procedures on minors, regardless of conscientious objection or best medical judgment… The bill’s findings also pave the way for an eventual ban on any counseling intended to help children with gender dysphoria accept their bodies.” Read more here.
Airline Eliminates Sex-Specific Greetings to Passengers. Here’s Why it Matters, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Every person boarding a Japan Airlines plane is either male or female, a boy or a girl, a lady, or a gentleman. Every. One. There is no third option. ‘Non-binary’ is not a thing, and no amount of wishful thinking can change that.” Read more here.
44 Years of the Hyde Amendment Amounts to Millions of Lives Saved, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “A study … found that at least 2.4 million lives have been saved by the Hyde Amendment, which prevents Medicaid and other federal government programs from paying for most abortions. Conversely, other studies and reports have found that when the government does fund abortions, the number of abortions increase.” Read more here.
UN Should Recommit to Pro-Woman Agenda by Dropping Push for Abortion, by Grace Melton. “The unfortunate truth is that women’s rights have become nearly synonymous with ‘sexual and reproductive rights,’ which in U.N. speak includes abortion… To elevate women’s status and advance women’s rights, the United Nations should pursue a pro-woman agenda that is guided by the principal goal of promoting and preserving human dignity and unalienable human rights.” Read more here.
Experts Insist USA’s Porn Epidemic Has Spread to Women, Must Be Addressed, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Because men and women are wired differently, they responded to smut differently. But as digital porn with 24-7 availability has swept the culture, that has been changing rapidly. Several years ago, the percentage of women regularly using porn spiked to over 50%. One former female porn-user told me she suspects that the number is substantially higher than that.” Read more here.
Protecting First Amendment Rights to Free Speech and Religious Freedom, by Emilie Kao and Arthur Milikh. “Similarly, the department promulgated a new rule in May 2019 protecting the ability of health care workers in agency-funded programs to decline to participate in procedures such as abortion, sterilization, and assisted suicide that would violate their conscience or religious beliefs.” Read more here.
Just Defund Planned Parenthood Already – Here’s How, by Lila Rose and David Daleiden. “Congress failed to defund Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire in 2017. But Planned Parenthood’s lawlessness demands federal consequences, and the executive branch is tasked with safeguarding the responsible use of public funds and ensuring program integrity in big spending such as Medicaid.” Read more here.
COVID Lethargy Stalks UN General Assembly, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Despite U.S. opposition, the UN system insists on promoting abortion, depending on ever decreasing oversight by UN member states. The diminished transparency and lack of accountability during the UN lockdown was exploited to promote abortion.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Should Rule for the FDA in COVID-19 Abortion Suit, by Denise Harle. “In the recent June Medical decision, Chief Justice John Roberts reaffirmed that government bodies have ‘wide discretion’ to regulate abortion ‘where there is medical and scientific uncertainty.’ If those words have meaning, then the Supreme Court must reinstate the FDA’s patient protections while this lawsuit continues. It is true, after all, that lives are at stake.” Read more here.
Newsom Signs Bill Assigning Inmates Based on Gender Identity, by Bronson Stocking. “The new bill abandons the long-established practice of assigning inmates to separate facilities based on their sex. California inmates are now able to request a men’s or women’s facility based upon their gender identity. And surely we can trust violent felons not to abuse the system.” Read more here.
Is It Lawful for Doctors to Override Parental Rights? by Binary Australia. “Is it really appropriate for doctors to prescribe cross sex hormones for minors? Should it be done with or without parental knowledge or consent? Senior Family Court Judge Garry Watts argues it is not.” Read more here.
What Has the UN Done For Women’s Rights? by Elyssa Koren. “The UN is brazenly committed to changing sovereign laws relating to abortion. In addition to railing against patriarchy, the Secretary General also identified ‘reproductive health services’ (abortion) as the most important part of the international pandemic response.” Read more here.
Task Force Aims to Protect Children From Sex Ed Programs That ‘Groom’ Children for Sex, by Jim Sedlak. “The battles go on and the advocates for the horrendous sexual grooming programs are well funded, continue to make inroads, and are extremely good at putting parents on the defensive. In the midst of all of this, there has emerged a program in the state of Florida that is taking a very specific approach to fighting this decades-long battle.” Read more here.
Abortion and the Battle Over the Supreme Court, by Jerry Newcombe. “You can read the Constitution until you’re blue in the face, and nowhere will you see even remotely the right for an abortion, the right to terminate one’s pregnancy. It’s not there. It had to be imposed onto the Constitution by activist judges.” Read more here.
The Good and Bad News About Marriage in the Time of COVID, by W. Bradford Wilcox, Lyman Stone and Wendy Wang. “Most states have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels of marriage certificates, let alone made up for the lost marriages. It’s possible that, after COVID, there will be a period where marriages run above trend due to delayed marriages getting finalized, but it’s unlikely to fully offset losses given increasing relationship strain, economic turmoil, and decreased romantic coupling.” Read more here.
‘Mandalorian’ Star and MMA Fighter Gina Carano Takes on Transgender Bullies on Twitter, by Joy Pullman. “’I’m not against trans lives at all,’ she wrote pointedly. ‘They need to find less abusive representation.’ Rather than bend to the heat that resulted from boldly speaking her mind, Carano continued to reject the barrage of bullying that ensued, even playing with her would-be tormenters.” Read more here.
Armageddon and Abortion, by Michael Brown. “If these statistics are accurate, then at least 95 percent of all abortions performed have nothing to do with rape, incest, the health of the fetus, or the health of the mother. Most abortions are performed because a pregnancy would get in the way of the mother’s career or education. Or there were financial concerns about caring for another child. Or the mother didn’t feel ready to have a baby.” Read more here.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Death Spurs Pro-Abortion Mom to Join Satanic Temple, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In short, Smith writes, she joined the Satanic Temple for her young daughters. She now fears that their ‘right’ to get an abortion is under threat, and the Satanists are fighting like Hell to ensure that abortion remains legal for her and for them.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood’s Youth Partner Pushes Birth Control Experiments on 11-Year-Old Girls, by Sharon Slater. “Eleven-year-old girls should be playing with Barbie dolls and weaving friendship bracelets—not worrying about birth control pills. Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth, and their ilk have a singular goal to sexualize children. And the earlier, the better.” Read more here.
Parents Are More Concerned About Their Boys Becoming Successful Adults Than Their Girls, by Erica Evans. “When American parents think about their kids becoming successful adults, it’s boys, not girls, they worry about the most. But they struggle to admit it. That’s according to the sixth annual American Family Survey, a nationwide study of 3,000 Americans…” Read more here.
Media Figures React to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death: ‘Stock Up on Abortions,’ by Katie Yoder. “The media should remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life in the wake of her death. Ginsburg fought for the rights of women, even if she failed to apply the same protections to women in the womb. But the media’s extreme push for abortion to memorialize the Supreme Court justice is not the way to go.” Read more here.
Loeffler Deserves a Medal for Bill to Protect Women’s Sports, by Peter Sprigg. “There is a reason why, even when discrimination based on sex is outlawed, we still allow separate sports teams (not to mention separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers) for males and females. That reason has nothing to do with their psychological ‘gender identity.’ Instead, it has everything to do with the fact that males and females have different anatomies from birth, with those differences accentuated after puberty.” Read more here.
Research Shows Planned Parenthood Expands Targeting Minorities as it Spurns Racist Founder, by Susan Willke Enouen. “Despite Planned Parenthood of Greater New York’s recent disavowal of eugenicist founder Margaret Sanger, the abortion giant has undeniably and continuously focused on targeting minority babies for abortion. This face-saving renunciation does not alter its abortion strategy.” Read more here.
Unpregnant: Abortion Infomercial as Chick Flick, by Jonathon Van Maren. “As Bailey has already pointed out earlier in their journey, abortion is normal: One in four women have one. Everyone is in this together — minus the children in the womb, of course. The clinic worker tells Veronica how the ‘fetus’ will be suctioned out of her, and when she awakes in the recovery room, the camera pans out to show a room filled with women and girls — relieved, relaxed, and above all — unpregnant.” Read more here.
How Facebook Censors Science in Trans Debate, by Binary Australia. “The ’fact-checkers’ did not site what was factually wrong with the ad but slapped the fake-news label on it anyway. Feelings have overruled facts in this instance where politics is exalted over and above scientific facts.” Read more here.
How Public Versus Private Schooling Influences Students’ Future Family Lives, by Albert Cheng, Patrick J. Wolf, Wendy Wang, and W. Bradford Wilcox. “The results suggest that boys and girls who attend private schools are more likely to avoid a nonmarital birth and to get and stay married. This pattern is especially pronounced among Protestant-school attendees, which suggests that these schools are more likely to foster a kind of ‘Protestant Family Ethic’ among their students. This is an ethic that seems especially conducive to strong and stable families.” Read more here.
New California Law Could Increase Risk of Child Sexual Abuse, by Nicole Russell. “While I don’t agree with some headlines that proclaimed Wiener’s bill will ‘legalize pedophilia,’ the AP reported recently, the law does seem to offer cover, intentionally or not, for adults up to age 27 to have any kind of sex with someone age 17 (or a 24-year-old to have sex with a 14-year-old) without being labeled a sex offender.” Read more here.
Pro-Life Intervention of the Holy See at the UN General Assembly, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “’In particular, the Holy See rejects the interpretation that considers abortion or access to abortion, sex-selective abortion, abortion of fetuses diagnosed with health challenges, maternal surrogacy, and sterilization as dimensions of ”reproductive health,” or as part of universal health coverage.’” Read more here.
At the Mercy of Equality, by Miriam Sciberras. “If Bill 96 sails through without including an overriding clause on religious freedom and conscientious objection, faithful believers will be sued and will be at the mercy of a police state where they will be suddenly under a gag order if they fail to endorse what they do not believe in.” Read more here.
Child Trafficking Expert: Netflix ‘Cuties’ Could Be Used to Groom Kids for Sexual Exploitation, by Robert Kraychik. “Travers reiterated, ‘The way they groom is operate from alienation of family and friends.’ Cuties illustrates the archetypal sexual predator’s technique of separating children from trusted persons, Travers noted.” Read more here.
International Organizations Target Slovakia as Pro-Life Movement Grows Exponentially, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Once again, Amnesty International is pushing back against pro-life laws in Europe—and this time, Slovakia is the target. Parliamentarians in Slovakia are considering amendments to the current abortion regime, including extended waiting periods as well as a new layer of medical authorization for abortion and requirements for disclosure of motive.” Read more here.
Keeping Kids From Seeing Smut Will Take a Lot More Than Canceling Netflix, by Emma Freire. “In my experience, many parents just don’t give this issue much thought. They are genuinely surprised when you suggest maybe their five-year-old is too young to be listening to certain music or watching certain videos. Our culture is constantly telling parents otherwise.” Read more here.
Is a Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters? by Marcia Segelstein. “Almost as upsetting as those accounts is learning about the role that medical professionals play in spreading the contagion of gender ideology… Simply stated, therapists are to adopt their patients’ beliefs of being in the ‘wrong body;’ they are not to examine what led them to those beliefs.” Read more here.
New Study Sheds Light on Controversial Reason Many Modern Relationships Fail, by Suzanne Venker. “This finding will almost certainly step on some toes, so you won’t hear about it in the media. But that doesn’t change the uncomfortable fact that when the two individuals to whom a child is most attached stop loving one another, it disrupts that child’s ability to bond later in life. Without a model for how love and commitment work, he or she will be shooting blanks down the line.” Read more here.
Christianity’s Global Marriage Problem, by Mark Regnerus. “In an era of new options, more choices, greater temptations, high expectations, consistent anxiety, and endemic uncertainty, nothing about the process of marrying can be taken for granted—even among those belonging to a faith that has long encouraged it. In an era of independence, intentionally becoming interdependent seems increasingly risky.” Read more here.
U.S. Marshals Service Reveals Majority of Rescued Sex-Trafficked Children Came From Foster Care, by Megan Fox. “The State Department recently confirmed that a large number of children involved in sex trafficking in the United States are coming from foster care. Why is the foster care system not under federal investigation? … What more will it take to convince the powers that be that there is a serious problem in our child welfare agencies?” Read more here.
Virginia School Continues to Defend Sensible Bathroom Policy, by Peter Sprigg. “Hopefully, the full Circuit Court and the Supreme Court will find that separate shower, locker room, restroom, and housing facilities for the sexes—long permitted under Title IX and its regulations—can continue to be implemented on the basis of biological sex, which is the basis for the separation in the first place.” Read more here.
COE Commissioner – Slovak Lawmakers Should Reject Pro-Life Bill, by Marie Smith. “The legislation includes enacting reasonable measures to help to reduce the number of abortions such as extended waiting periods so a woman considering abortion can reflect on the information she has been provided about abortion… If enacted, it would increase financial assistance to parents of children born with a disability and to all children at birth, not just the first three born to a family as is now the case. It would also prohibit advertising for abortion.” Read more here.
Just One Pregnancy Center Saved 575 Babies From Abortion, There Are Thousands Nationwide, by Maria Gallagher. “In all, some 575 women who made contact with Morning Star in 2019 chose life for their children… That would be the equivalent of more than 20 kindergarten classes. It is frightening to think what would have happened to those precious children, and what grief their mothers would have suffered, if they did not have Morning Star to turn to.” Read more here.
Correction: Transgender Surgery Provides No Mental Health Benefit, by Andre Van Mol, Michael K. Laidlaw, Miriam Grossman and Paul McHugh. “How about children who are ultimately sterilized by puberty blockers followed by cross-sex hormones and even gonad removal? These unethical surgeries are receiving funding by the very NIH that claims to be working to correct problems of irreproducibility. These experiments are beyond reproducibility problems: they are ethical failures by which doctors cause long-term harm to children and adolescents, all based on political activism supported by faulty science.” Read more here.
The Depravity of a Culture That Celebrates the Sexploitation of Young Girls, by Michael Brown. “So, it is not just the film critics who are sick. It is not just those who exploited those young girls in ‘Cuties’ (this includes their parents, who allowed it) who are sick. No, our whole nation is sick, drowning in a sea of depravity… In short, either we have a massive spiritual and moral awakening, or we perish.” Read more here.
NARAL Complains That Mainstream Media Doesn’t Use Enough Pro-Abortion Language, by Sarah Terzo. “As noted above, in addition to using the term ‘Heartbeat Bill,’ NARAL does not like the media to include pro-life quotes referring to ‘infanticide,’ even though abortion supporters have adamantly opposed laws requiring medical care for babies who accidentally survive abortions. They also object to the term ‘partial-birth abortion,’ which is also in the name of a law.” Read more here.
Non-Binary Opposition to Gender Reveal Parties Reveals an Inconvenient Truth, by Susie Moore. “Agree or disagree with this premise, one thing that cannot be denied is that it advocates for the ‘agency’ of the unborn. The argument here is that even the pre-born deserve the right to self-determination, particularly when it comes to gender identity… If we’re going to accept the contention that the unborn have the right to determine who they are, should we not also recognize their fundamental right to be?” Read more here.
Comedians Discovering That Joking About Transgenderism Will Get You Canceled, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It appears that Noah has struck on the only thing dumber than causing a natural disaster by wildly overdoing your gender reveal party: believing that children choose their gender at some random point, presumably after they have been told they have options. These are the folks who believe that doctors ‘assign gender at birth,’ as if physicians are just sort of taking a stab at it.” Read more here.
Trump Administration’s Pro-Life Mexico City Policy, by Jeanne Mancini. “Make no mistake, the protection of unborn life in the U.S. and abroad is on the ballot this November. As pro-abortion politicians and international abortion corporations like Planned Parenthood work tirelessly and spend millions for the political power to ensure this popular and compassionate policy comes to an end, Americans everywhere who support it should take note.” Read more here.
Child-Sexualizing ‘Cuties’ Movie on Netflix is Even Worse Than We Thought. It’s Time to Cancel Netflix, by Matt Walsh. “But you can’t judge a movie by its child porn cover, we were lectured. And then yesterday the film was finally released. It turns out, unsurprisingly, you can. As fuller clips from the film now circulate online, it is clear that those of us who criticized the movie actually understated the case. It is, if anything, way worse than we assumed and feared.” Read more here.
Promoting Pornography-Free Schools: The Role of the U.S. Dept. of Education, by National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “In accordance with the Dept. of Education’s mandate to identify the major issues and problems in education and focus national attention on them, the Department could take significant measures to highlight the growing problem of exposure to pornography and harmful sexually explicit material through school-issued devices and research databases.” Read more here.
The Flag Waving Has Gone Too Far, by James Parker. “Therapists and pastors who genuinely care for those in pain are not the true abusers. Rather, it is the politicians who have taken on lead roles to proclaim misleadingly that a person cannot change sexual attraction or experience of gender when this is simply untrue.” Read more here.
Religious Liberty Has Nothing to Do With the Satanic Temple’s Campaign to Tear Down Pro-Life Laws, by Jordan Lorence. “It is difficult to take the pro-abortion advocacy of The Satanic Temple seriously because of its long history of disdaining religious believers with sloppily conceived, publicity-seeking campaigns and lawsuits meant to disrupt and diminish religious liberty protections for all.” Read more here.
The Mysterious Power of an International Transgender Declaration That No One Has Ever Heard Of, by Geoff Holloway. “You may have never heard of either document. But trans activists have turned them into powerful propaganda tools for transforming transgender rights into human rights… The trouble is, they are not worth the paper they are written on.” Read more here.
Why Sex Education Has So Successfully Increased Promiscuity, STDs, Abortion, by Jonathon Van Maren. “That is why our public schools are so involved in handing out condoms and ensuring ready access to birth control pills — because they assume that people, even children, are entirely incapable of abstaining from sex outside marriage. Sex education, in essence, proceeds directly out of that assumption.” Read more here.
Dictionary.com Aims to ‘Help Eliminate Heterosexual Bias in Language’ With ‘Biggest Update Ever,’ by Michael L. Brown. “The revisions are intended to ‘help eliminate heterosexual bias in language,’ and they were ‘informed’ by the gay activist (or, gay activist-driven) organizations GLAAD and the American Psychological Association. No wonder LGBTQ websites like Out.com are celebrating the changes.” Read more here.
Debate Heats Up Over Biological Males Competing in Women’s Sports, by Penny Starr. “Idaho is the first state to pass a law to protect women athletes, even as colleges vow to embrace men who ‘identify’ as women and who want to compete against women. But as the debate and legislative and legal maneuvers continue, the debate is growing about giving up fairness to comply with demands for inclusion.” Read more here.
Parents Have Every Right to Be Alarmed About Govt-Funded Sex Games for Kids, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Most people simply do not believe that public education would be engaged in the deliberate and systematic corruption of children or that activists are using public education to ensure that the upcoming generations embrace the entirety of sexual liberty and the LGBT agenda or that the eradication of chastity could be the entire point of all of this. But as story after story over the past several decades reveals, that is precisely what is unfolding across the West.” Read more here.
Review of Mexico City Policy Shows International Abortion Providers Decline U.S. Aid, by Frank Pavone. “And while it’s certainly regrettable that the decisions of the few organizations unwilling to accept aid lead to under-served people missing out on vital, life-sustaining healthcare, it is not the policy that’s at fault. The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Marie Stopes, Planned Parenthood and their partners that believe abortion is more important than treating patients with AIDS and other diseases.” Read more here.
Record Number of Pro-Life Women Run for Congress, by Karen Cross. “While pro-life women were running for office, leading pro-life organizations, establishing pregnancy care centers, sharing their experiences after abortion, organizing marches, lobbying lawmakers, and more, pro-abortion forces minimized their accomplishments and characterized the entire pro-life movement as ‘just old white men.’” Read more here.
Promoting Abortion in Schools: A Challenge to Peter Weir, by Philip Lynn. “According to these recommendations, schools will not be able to opt out of the promotion of abortion to underage girls, regardless of the school’s character or ethos. Furthermore, the Gillick Ruling (1985) also means that there is no requirement that parents be informed that their daughter is seeking an abortion.” Read more here.
Tasmanian Senator Not Intimidated by Vacuous Labels, by Binary Australia. “Several times in recent weeks Senator Chandler has boldly pointed out in the federal parliament that women’s sport is at risk from biological males participating as women. The Senator sticks to reciting scientific data and biological facts while her opposition can only resort to slurs and misplaced insults – without a fact in sight.” Read more here.
Did California Legislators Just Vote to Protect (Gay) Adults Who Have Sex With Minors? by Michael Brown. “The real focus should have been on the protection of the children rather than on lessening the penalty for certain sexual acts. With that in mind, a bill could have been passed calling for equal penalties for any of these sex acts, be they ‘heterosexual’ or ‘homosexual’ acts. Instead, gay activists pushed to lessen penalties for sexual acts that are even more common in the homosexual community. How telling.” Read more here.
Corporations in the Classroom: What are Google and EBSCO Teaching Our Kids? by National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “A middle school searches for ‘city dwellers’ on EBSCO in Minnesota brings up pictures of group sex, language detailing violent acts against women, and links to Pornhub (which is known to be rife with videos of actual rape, sex trafficking, and child sex abuse). Typing in ‘bullying’ in Colorado produced links to ‘horny little Latina girls here…’ Examples like this abound in schools everywhere.” Read more here.
California Legislation: Transgenderism, Abortion and Removing Mandatory Reporting for Some Cases of Statutory Rape, by Jeff Johnston. “One bill sent on to the governor is AB 2218, which establishes a ‘Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund.’ The fund would provide grants for services to sexually-confused individuals – including opposite-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adults.” Read more here.
Poly Parenting and the Value of the Family, by Matthew Lee Anderson. “The limits that marriage imposes on one man and woman are more efficient than any boundaries that polyamorous proponents could devise, and also more fruitful. Diminishing the amount of time adults spend navigating their own relationship frees them to focus on children, empowering the whole household to look beyond its own walls toward the good of their neighbors.” Read more here.
Tightening Up Parental Controls in a Pandemic World, by Ashley McGuire. “Even the strictest parents hoping to delay the introduction of a personal device may find their elementary-aged child learning on a Chromebook or other personal device from the school. If parents thought restricting maturity ratings on Netflix or the like was frustrating, they now have to reckon with the entire world wide web dropped in the laps of their children.” Read more here.
How American Civil Society Depends on Marriage, Family, by Virginia Allen. “American civil society is facing a serious domestic threat: Marriage is declining and family stability with it. Between 1962 and 2019, the percentage of women ages 15 to 44 who were married fell by nearly 30%… The number of children born outside of wedlock grew from just 5% in 1960 to 40% in 2019.” Read more here.
Biden, Harris, and Abortions Late in Pregnancy, by Ramesh Ponnuru. “All in all, then, the evidence justifies the conclusion that Biden and Harris believe abortion should be legal at any stage of pregnancy so long as an abortionist is willing to say it will promote the mother’s emotional health — and journalists who assert otherwise are creating confusion where none need exist.” Read more here.
Artist Becomes Target of Hate Campaign After Refusing to Create LGBT Image, by Brittany Raymer. “Throughout the years, her business as an animator and artist has become so successful that she was able to pay for an entire year and semester at a private university. But due to her views on same-sex marriage, she has become the target of an intense campaign of hate.” Read more here.
President Trump Releases Letter to Pro-Life Americans: ‘I Will Fight in the Trenches for Unborn Children,’ by Steven Ertelt. “President Donald Trump released a letter to pro-life Americans … promising to continue fighting against abortion during his second term in office, saying he would ‘fight in the trenches for unborn children and their mothers.’” Read more here.
New Pregnancy Help Director Seeks to Engage Men in Defeating Abortion, by Kim Hayes. “Roquemore was given a vision to lead men to understand their failings which led to abortion becoming legal in the first place. In his mind, fatherlessness has been a primary issue driving women to abortion… Believing men are called to be providers and protectors, Roquemore advocates for men to take the lead in changing the abortion narrative.” Read more here.
Will European Nationalists Ever Stop LGBT and Pro-Abortion EU Diplomacy? by Stefano Gennarini. “Recognizing the right to life of the unborn in their constitutions will not mean much if abortion is declared a human right. Similarly, all the talk of helping families will be of little help if EU policy redefines the family. Boosting fertility is not going to stop EU-backed governments from putting parents against obscene sex education in prison. Social allowances for families won’t stop governments from taking children away from parents who won’t let their kids ‘change sex.’” Read more here.
UN Attempts to Exploit COVID-19 to Push Abortion, by Elyssa Koren. “The U.S. is unequivocally correct — there is no right to abortion in international law… One could make a strong case for the opposite of what the U.N. contends: International law, in fact, mandates the protection of the right to life for everyone at all stages of life.” Read more here.
Zero Out International Abortion Funding, by Jonathan Abbamonte. “…[S]tructures ought to be put in place at the Department of State to screen international organizations for violations of the Siljander Amendment. In addition to extending the Mexico City Policy to multilateral organizations, this is a necessary step to ensuring that U.S. funds are not used to subsidize the promotion of abortion in foreign countries.” Read more here.
Anchorage Therapy Ban Not Anchored in Truth, by FRC Action. “Late on the night of Wednesday, August 26, the Anchorage (Alaska) Assembly (the municipal legislative body) passed an ordinance, AO-65, to prohibit sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts (SOCE or GICE) by any licensed professional counselor. The final vote was 9-2 in favor. The vote came despite widespread community opposition, with a majority of the 65 people who testified opposing the bill.” Read more here.
Why WAP Matters, by Leonard Sax. “If you were to move to Mexico City or to Cairo, you would be sure to learn about the local culture and neighborhoods. You would find out what areas of the city are high-crime, and you would make sure that your kid didn’t wander alone in those areas after dark. You now need to execute the same due diligence with regard to the Internet, YouTube, and social media. If you don’t, who will?” Read more here.
University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’, by Nicholas Meriwether. “I also believe I should have a certain amount of freedom, within my own classroom, to determine the exact language I do and do not use when teaching my class. The university denied me that freedom, as well. And it also denied my grievance.” Read more here.
The Polys Are Coming, and That’s a Problem, by Jim Daly. “Over the last 50 years, we have seen great changes with family formation, more in this relatively short time-span than since the dawn of humanity. Very few of these changes, if any, have enhanced the well-being of children, women and even men. The social science research on this matter has been robust and conclusive.” Read more here.
Female Minister for Women Can’t Define What a Woman Is, by Binary Australia. “This woman, Minister for Women’s Interests Simone McGurk, actually can’t define the term woman for fear of falling foul of the bullies at the Human Rights Commission that have stolen our identity by refusing to define the term ‘woman.’ Unfortunately, none of these women who are state premiers or ministers for women will have the guts to stand up to them.” Read more here.
You Can Oppose Abortion and Defend Life. You Must, by John Stonestreet. “The difference between millions of people dying every day by natural causes and those who die by murder is intent. It is wrong to take an innocent human life… any innocent human life. Fertilized eggs, embryos, fetuses, newborns, teenagers and adults are all human beings.” Read more here.
The Gender Agenda: How the LGBT Movement is Hijacking Women’s Rights, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Changing the definition of gender to an open definition in UN policy or international law, or discarding the definitions of gender in UN policy and international law altogether would open the door to as many different meanings of ‘gender’ as there are individuals… It includes proposed novel genders including: agender, androgyne, androgynous, bigender, cis, cisgender, cis female, cis male, etc. This will inevitably have implications for parental rights, medical ethics, and the protection of the family.” Read more here.
The Macabre Proposal to Tolerate Infanticide, in the Name of Abortion Rights, by Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues. “El Salvador has one of the strongest laws in the world protecting the lives of unborn children. This fact has led to a false narrative that has gone global about a group of 17 women about whom it is claimed have been, or were, imprisoned in El Salvador for miscarriages… The reality is that these women, and others like them, were convicted for infanticide…” Read more here.
What’s at Stake as Judge Pauses Law on Transgender Sports, by Nicole Russell. “While this is only a preliminary ruling in a lawsuit that’s far from over, it’s frustrating to see a law that Idaho legislators and constituents overwhelmingly supported placed on hold. It is also important to note that transgender women competing with biological women is hardly consistent with Title IX, the federal civil rights law that forbids discrimination based on sex in education programs.” Read more here.
How Attacks on Religious Freedom Threaten the Church in Montenegro, by Evstatije Dragojevic. “… now the church and its members are under attack, as the government earmarks its property, including sacred churches, for their ownership. Under economic pressure predating the coronavirus, the government has looked for new revenue streams. It looks though they will come at the expense of believers.” Read more here.
The Dangers of ‘Sexxx Ed,’ by Jerry Newcombe. “Planned Parenthood is now the nation’s largest sex educator in our public schools. And they profit off of the abortions they provide to sexually active teenagers. This reminds me of the old phrase, ‘Follow the money.’” Read more here.
Bill Would Ban Gender Reassignment Procedures on Minors, by Andrea Jones. “Performing hormonal or surgical interventions on minors because they are experiencing discomfort with their bodies is a serious breach of medical ethics and leaves young patients with irreversible consequences… Contrary to activists’ talking points, the effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are neither risk-free nor reversible.” Read more here.
The Washington Post Just Proved Abby Johnson’s Point on Abortion as a ‘Horror Show,’ by Madeline Osburn. “Johnson didn’t have to describe a routine part of the abortion procedure as a ‘ghoulish jigsaw puzzle’ to conjure up that image in mind of her audience. Hesse came up with that image herself after hearing Johnson laying out the facts. Johnson was simply describing what Planned Parenthood locations call ‘Products of Conception’ rooms, ‘where infant corpses are pieced back together to ensure no extra body parts remain in the mothers.’” Read more here.
Meet the Gender Transcendent Mermaid Royalty, by Michael Brown. “The reality, however, is that this is gender madness. Mai is neither nonbinary nor gender transcendent, neither a mermaid nor a Queen-King. Biology can be a very stubborn thing… But none of this is surprising in the least. As I’ve been shouting for the last 15 years, once you depart from God’s simple order, you can end up with anything, including nonbinary mermaid royalty. Why not?” Read more here.
Snopes Falsely Claims Democrats Didn’t Vote for Infanticide, by Micaiah Bilger. “Initially, Snopes argued that Democrats were ‘not really’ voting to allow babies to die because state and federal laws already prohibit infanticide. Later, however, it acknowledged that the legislation is not redundant, as Democrats claimed when they voted against it, but it adds new protections for babies nation-wide.” Read more here.
New York Times Sympathizes With Adults Who Pursue Sex With 13-Year-Old Girls, by Holly Scheer. “There’s no reason to create sympathetic narratives around these situations and the people snared by these online ads. Decrying the sentencing because a real child’s life wasn’t actually destroyed, just planned to be destroyed, is baffling and horrifying. The very last thing we need is child solicitation and rape to be normalized in any way, in any medium, in our society.” Read more here.
Netflix’s New Film Cuties and the Hypersexualization of Children, by Rachel del Guidice. “All in all, it is only normalizing the sexualization of children, which is becoming a crisis in this country… Combine this with the fact that pornography use rates only increase, have increased in the last 10 years dramatically, that the rate of child porn only mushrooms every single year. So this is an epidemic in our country and globally. And for Netflix to be part of the problem is completely inexcusable.” Read more here.
After Correction, Study That Claimed Mutilating Trans People Helps Them Now Finds the Opposite, by Glenn T. Stanton. “What do we know about the effects of hormone and surgical treatments for gender-dysphoric patients? … The prevailing narrative is that parents and patient advocates who disapprove of surgeries or hormone treatments are both evil and dangerous. The best research, however, indicates just the opposite.” Read more here.
USAID Gender Policy Emphasizes Women and Girls Rather Than Trans, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The new policy clearly characterizes ‘gender equality’ as referring strictly to equality between men and women and boys and girls. This drew outrage from those on the left, who slammed the policy for adopting ‘a conservative framing of human rights’ and erasing any mention of transgender issues or people who identify as LGBTQ.” Read more here.
Study: Kids Whose Moms Don’t Work Full Time More Likely to Get Into Stanford, by Joy Pullman. “Contrary to the reigning narrative that women want to live similarly to men by investing their major energies into full-time paid employment, Putnam found ‘virtually all the increase in female employment over the last two decades of the twentieth century was by necessity, not by choice.’” Read more here.
Conversion Therapy Laws and Religious Freedom, by Neil Foster. “No-one supports coercive electro-shock or other oppressive practices imposed on someone without their consent, to change their sexual preferences or identity. But the problem with the recent legislative proposals is that the laws do not target these practices alone (as to which it is hard to find any evidence of them occurring in Australia in recent years), but seem to reach further and to prevent religious groups sharing the teaching of their faith.” Read more here.
Sexualized Toys Created for Children: A Disturbing Trend, Not a Coincidence, by Melissa Henson. “If any one of these were isolated incidents, it would be easy enough to write them off as simple mistakes, lapses in judgment, or just a mind-boggling lack of awareness — or to simply assume that there were no malign intentions. But taken together, they suggest a growing pattern of sexualizing and exploiting children for entertainment. It is a cancer in the entertainment industry that is metastasizing.” Read more here.
Fetal Therapy Think Tank Works to Advance Medicine to Save Preborn Lives, by Nancy Flanders. “In the future, the Fetal Health Foundation and the Fetal Therapy Think Tank aim to help develop new devices, research, and therapies in fetal medicine and create a fetal medicine curriculum to motivate medical students to pursue a career in fetal medicine.” Read more here.
Margaret Sanger’s Racist Eugenics Still Defended, by Bill Donohue. “The organization she launched continues to serve her goal of eliminating the poor, albeit with greater certainty: it facilitates killing them in utero. This means, of course, that a disproportionate number of black babies are killed every year.” Read more here.
Life is Winning – Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “In terms of the provision of legitimate health care services, the abortion giant is an insignificant player. Charlotte Lozier Institute found that Planned Parenthood provides just 1 percent of HIV tests and Pap tests performed in America but dominates the abortion market, carrying out approximately 40 percent of all abortions in the nation.” Read more here.
Dr. Dobson Comes Out Swinging Against CA ‘Gender Mutilation and Sterilization’ Bill, by California Family Council. “No rational society or compassionate individual could possibly celebrate the mutilation of adolescents or adults. And yet this bill would fund procedures including double mastectomies on adolescent girls and genital amputations and reconstructive procedures for individuals older than 18. This isn’t the fulfillment of personal autonomy – this is the celebration of acts of cruelty.” Read more here.
Professor Says ‘A Solid Body of Research’ Shows the Effectiveness of Pro-Life Laws, by Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN. “New also noted that parental involvement laws, which require minor girls either to notify their parents or receive parental permission before obtaining abortions, have caused abortion rates among minors to decrease… ‘There’s kind of a consensus that if your state passes a parental involvement law, the minor abortion rate falls by about 15%.’” Read more here.
Outrage for the Children, by Michael Brown. “Young kids grow up singing the most salacious lyrics, gyrating sexually as they mouth the words, being exposed to filth long before they can even understand it. And kids as young as 8 are regularly encountering porn. How have we let this happen? How have we let our children be emotionally and morally raped?” Read more here.
The Role of the United States in the Revitalization of the International Human Rights Project, by Michael Farris and Elyssa Koren. “The rejection of fundamental rights points to an ultimate denial of objective truth. Religious freedom, for example, allows religion to serve as a reference point for moral action. It therefore makes sense that promoters of progressive agendas would devalue religious freedom in the interest of relativistic ‘rights’ for the radically autonomous person. The abortion-advocacy group Ipas embodies this approach.” Read more here.
Fancy a Vaginoplasty? Think Again, by Michael Cook. “…transgender surgery in the United States is a kind of Wild Wild West of medicine. In 2017 The Journal of Sexual Medicine published a survey of 20 American doctors who perform transgender vaginoplasty. Some comments about their colleagues were dismaying.” Read more here.
Hopes and Fears for Religious Freedom in Vietnam, by James W. Carr and Rep. Glenn Grothman. “We urge the State Department to work with the Vietnamese government to expand this policy to all similarly situated Hmong and Montagnard communities across the country. With Vietnamese leadership and U.S. encouragement, Subdivision 179 could potentially serve as a model for ameliorating the plight of Christian minorities in the Central Highlands.” Read more here.
Study: African-American Women Fare Worse With Abortion, by Michael Cook. “The effects of abortion on African-American women seem to be significantly worse than on white or Hispanic women, according to data from Medicaid between 1999 and 2014.” Read more here.
When Can You Refuse to Bake a Cake? by Rachel Alexander. “What does requiring bakers to make certain kinds of cakes mean? It means they are not allowed to run their business unless they agree to someone else’s worldview. Some say this type of refusal should be treated the same as categories protected under anti-discrimination laws, typically age, race, national origin, religious beliefs, gender, disability, pregnancy and veteran status. But this isn’t refusing to service someone because of their status. This is merely refusing to provide one service.” Read more here.
There’s a Reason That Netflix is Sexualizing Young Girls, by Andrea Widburg. “The movie may indeed be about culture clashes in modern Paris or about pressure on immigrant children (which is what the producer seemed to say), but it still sounds like pedophile porn — and that’s certainly how Americans understood Netflix’s promotional campaign.” Read more here.
Democratic Party’s Platform Promises Taxpayer-Funded Abortion, ‘LGBTQ+ Inclusive’ Sex-Ed, Pro-Roe Judges, by Michael Foust. “The platform approved by Democratic National Convention delegates last week supports taxpayer-funded abortion, judges who will ‘respect and enforce’ Roe v Wade, and ‘LGBTQ+ inclusive, age-appropriate sex education’ for schools. It is likely the most socially liberal Democratic platform in party history.” Read more here.
Sexual Insanity Begins With Language: These Words Don’t Mean What You Say They Mean, by Anthony Esolen. “Adults in the grip of this sexual delusion are now encouraging children to join them. They are subjecting the children to irreversible mutilation of the body, castrating little boys and performing mastectomies on teenage girls, to live a fantasy, a pretense. For there are well over six thousand physical differences between males and females, and all the surgeries can do is to mimic some appearance of the opposite sex…” Read more here.
As Students Begin Online School, Parents and Guardians Must Be Aware of Their Child’s Media Consumption, by Dr. Jack Graham. “We also can’t simply rely on movie, television or video game ratings to tell us what our children should or shouldn’t watch. And just because content is labeled ‘educational’ doesn’t mean that it is. Internet locks and video censoring systems, while helpful, are no replacement for meaningful interaction and discussion.” Read more here.
Raising a Child in a World Obsessed With Transgender Contagion, by Nicole Russell. “The progressive left is enamored with pushing the LGBTQ movement into the mainstream—particularly transgender issues—even though the number of young people struggling with their sexual orientation remains small.” Read more here.
Poly Parenting and the Value of the Family, by Matthew Lee Anderson. “Technological optimists have done much to try to philosophically distance contemporary reproductive programs from nefarious historical applications of eugenics, like those of Nazi Germany. But if moral objections do not matter in the face of our rush to satisfy our desires, there is nothing to prevent us from enacting all manner of social evils.” Read more here.
Netflix to Air ‘Cuties’ Movie About 11-Year-Olds ‘Twerking Their Way to Stardom’ Through ‘Sensual’ Dancing, by Matt Walsh. “The synopsis tells us that Amy, through her ‘sensual’ dancing, will ‘ignite awareness of her burgeoning femininity.’ But will the girls successfully ‘twerk their way to stardom’? You’ll have to watch to find out. That is, if you’re on a registry somewhere and interested in this kind of content.” Read more here.
No Matter How Much the New York Times Pumps Polyamory, It’s Not Good for Kids, by Glenn T. Stanton. “The traditional family of a husband and wife raising their own biological or adoptive children with the encircling help and support of extended family is not the norm because of a lack of other creative options. It exists, and endures, because no society has ever found a better family form for raising its essential next generation of healthy, happy, well-educated, hard-working, and law-abiding citizens.” Read more here.
Poly-Parenting: Is This the Brave New World We Want? by Hal Boyd and Alan J. Hawkins. “And it’s not just traditional couples that can produce a child. But, if a group of three or four can purchase a designer baby, what about a group of 7 or 8? Could, say, a fraternity pay for their own baby mascot for the right price? Such a vision is capitalism unchecked by common sense, let alone human conscience and the rights of innocent, unborn children.” Read more here.
Post-Abortive Women Challenge Writer Calling Abortion Her ‘Best Decision,’ by Katie Yoder. “The media regularly shine a spotlight on the women who celebrate their abortions. But, at the same time, they ignore or overlook the women who mourn their abortions. They exist – even if their stories are all too often left untold.” Read more here.
Latest Marriage Data Suggests Dark Future for America if Things Don’t Change Fast, by Tim Goeglein and Craig Osten. “If we are going to keep our society from crumbling, we need to repair marriage and the family first. A critical element in doing so is the restoration of religious faith and the values that come with it: strong marriages, monogamy, and seeing each person Imago Dei, in the image of God.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Ideology ‘Killing the Family,’ Ex-Volunteer Says, by Virginia Allen and Lauren Evans. “Planned Parenthood is a business. Simply put, America’s largest abortion provider loses profit if young people are not having sex.” Read more here.
I’m the Colorado Cake Artist, and I Believe in Artistic Freedom for All, by Jack Phillips. “When my case was going up through the courts, three other Colorado cake artists were asked to create cakes that expressed a message of opposition to same-sex marriage. I supported them too, because even though we have different beliefs about marriage, we all have the right to choose what we express through our art. Tolerance is a two-way street.” Read more here.
The California Transgender Bill That Should Alarm All Americans, by Jane Robbins. “The bill states repeatedly that the resources will be used for trans-identifying ‘people’ or ‘individuals’ – nowhere limited to individuals 18 years of age or over. In fact, the ‘findings’ section of the bill gives statistics about the number of ‘youth 12 to 17’ who are viewed as gender-nonconforming. Why would this be in the bill if children weren’t covered?” Read more here.
Fired for Accidentally Calling a Transgender Student ‘She,’ Teacher Takes Case to Court, by Rachel del Guidice. “The West Point School Board voted 5-0 on Dec. 6, 2018, to fire Vlaming, saying his refusal to follow orders to use male pronouns in referring to the transgender student ‘harassed and discriminated against the student’ and meant Vlaming was ‘insubordinate.’” Read more here.
Peadophile Threat Escalates in South Africa, by Errol Naidoo. “Pro-peadophilia propaganda has increased dramatically on the internet since the global lockdown took effect in March this year. Peadophiles are aggressively rebranding themselves as ‘Minor Attracted Persons’ (MAP) in attempts to remove the negative social stigma associated with peadophilia. The phrase ‘love has no age’ is trending on social media networks.” Read more here.
‘A More Private Experience:’ How the Abortion Industry Soft-Peddles Dangerous At-Home Abortions, by Nancy Flanders. “All of these situations are dangerous for women, yet the abortion industry benefits financially from a faster turnover rate of patients whom they never have to actually see in person — much like the industry’s current reputation for rushing women through surgical abortions ‘like cattle.’” Read more here.
New Bill in Kenya is Attempting to Force Medical Professionals to Do Abortions, by Elyssa Koren. “Inspired and supported by various UN proclamations, abortion activists argue that now is the time to move Kenya, and Africa, in line with the ‘human rights’ values of the West. But, the bill is predicated on an egregious violation of international law, sure to jeopardize Kenya’s hard-won progress in the consolidation of its constitutional democracy.” Read more here.
How the United Nations Promotes an Anti-Family Agenda, by Virginia Allen. “Kimberly Ells arrived at the United Nations excited to engage in work to strengthen families around the world. What she found was an agenda to dismantle the traditional family, promote sexuality to children, and reduce parenthood to a burdensome civil construct.” Read more here.
The Link Between Sex Trafficking, Abortion, and Planned Parenthood, by Nancy Flanders. “Despite clear signs of abuse, abortion businesses frequently fail to report these instances to authorities, though they are mandated to do so. Instead, they collect money for abortions and return victims to their traffickers and abusers… It’s a cruel, inhumane, brutal circle in which Planned Parenthood can often be found at the center.” Read more here.
21 States Move to Support Coach Kennedy for Round 2, by Nicole Russell. “I’m especially heartened to see so many state attorneys general—representing nearly half the states—support the right of a faith-filled person to act on his religious beliefs while in ‘secular’ employment. It’s not only Kennedy’s religious right, it’s all of ours.” Read more here.
Who Won the ‘Conversion Therapy’ Debate in the Queensland Parliament? by John Whitehall. “The Bill contains an ambiguity concerning ‘conversion therapy’ that should not be overlooked by those supporting the right for a person troubled by unwanted sexual pre-occupations to seek and receive help, and by those seeking to prevent gender-confused children from being introduced to a pathway of hormonal and surgical ‘affirmation’ in pursuit of an identity incongruent with chromosomes.” Read more here.
Tasmanian Senator Defends Biological Reality, by Binary Australia. “Opponents have labelled her a bigot and transphobic but the Senator refuses to be intimidated. Trans activists appeal to feelings, not facts, when it comes to their reasons for demanding they be accepted as females when they are in fact biological males.” Read more here.
Progressive Sex Education and the Battle for Our Children, by Virginia Allen. “Progressive activists seek to expand sex education in schools across America to include topics such as sexual orientation and gender identity. Their proposed curriculum also promotes abortion.” Read more here.
Sudan Has Come a Long Way on Religious Freedom in One Year, by Tony Perkins and Anurima Bhargava. “One year after its formation, Sudan’s transitional government has made remarkable progress in advancing religious freedom and protections for previously disenfranchised groups — particularly religious minorities and women and girls. Notably, the transitional government has taken concrete steps to repeal laws and regulations that restricted individual freedoms under the previous regime.” Read more here.
Belgian Neonatologists Support Eugenic Late-Term Abortion and Infanticide, by Wesley J. Smith. “So, vast majorities of surveyed medical professionals who deal with newborns support aborting viable fetuses who would survive with a disability, and some would abort healthy fetuses. And good grief, more would want to kill these children in the womb than care for them properly after they are born.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Abortion-Affirming Decisions Aren’t as ‘Settled’ as Some Say, by Clarke D. Forsythe. “The 4-1-1-3 decision reaffirms that Roe is radically unsettled. There are many reasons for that: the widespread use of obstetric ultrasounds that have humanized unborn children for four decades, legislative limits on abortion in more than half the states, a significant drop in the abortion rate, public opinion, as well as other social, political, and legal reasons.” Read more here.
Drag Queen Story Hour UK Reveals True Colors With ‘Love Has No Age’ Tweet, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For those who might claim that it is incendiary and slanderous to point out that the phrase ‘love has no age’ has pedophilic associations, it must be pointed out that the British-run Paedophile Information Exchange (known colloquially as PIE), which operated between 1974 and 1984, campaigned to lower the age of consent using the slogan ‘no age limit on love.’” Read more here.
Cash-Strapped Treaty Bodies Expand Pro-Abortion Lobbying Amid Calls for Reform, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “They have called for the complete decriminalization of abortion, its legalization at least in certain circumstances, and the removal of barriers to access such as parental or spousal consent or the conscience rights of health service providers. Other UN entities … then refer back to the OHCHR and the treaty bodies when implying that access to abortion is a human right.” Read more here.
Gender-Transition Surgery Does Not Improve Mental Health After All, by John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera. “To be clear, ‘gender affirmation’ is a backwardly defined phrase. It does not refer to attempts to align one’s thinking to the biological realities of the body. Rather, ‘gender affirmation’ affirms the dysphoria, seeking to realign one’s body to feelings, either by dress, counseling, hormone manipulation, or physical mutilation.” Read more here.
The Foundation of Human Society: A Christian Case for Parental Authority, by Colin J. Smothers. “… the natural structure of the human family undergirds and informs human society. What would it be, then, to undermine this structure? Would it not be to attack “the root of humanity,” to unsettle the very foundation of all human authority? The child who is given permission, either by church or state, to ignore the authority of his source … is a child primed to throw off respect for any human authority.” Read more here.
8-Year-Old James Georgulas’ Father Has Court Victory Overturned, Mother Given Power to ‘Transition’ Child, by Bonchie. “It’s possible there’s more to the story, but as I said in my original thoughts on the matter, there are no extenuating circumstances which make it acceptable to transition a child, much less a child who is only 8 years old.” Read more here.
Gorsuch’s Transgender Ruling Paving the Way to Destroy Single-Sex Bathrooms, by Jonathan Abbamonte. “The attorneys representing the employers seeking relief in Bostock warned the court that redefining ‘sex’ to mean ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ would have far-reaching unintended consequences and they warned that such a redefinition of ‘sex’ would make it legally unsustainable to maintain single-sex restrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes. Now we have proof that they were right.” Read more here.
Biden-Sanders’ ‘Unity Plan’ Doesn’t Mention God Even Once. LGBT Mentioned 17 Times, by Michael L. Brown. “Put another way, young ladies in high school, get ready to have boys who identify as girls sharing your bathrooms and locker rooms, by federal mandate. And individual states, expect to lose your federal school funding should you refuse to comply.” Read more here.
How the Transgender Movement Destroyed a Family. A Mother Tells Her Story, by Mass Resistance. “Most people are told about the ‘transgender’ movement through the rose-colored lens of the mainstream media and the ‘social justice’ push in schools, colleges, corporations, government, and even the medical establishment… But almost no one hears about the terrible damage this sexual perversion and mental health disorder causes for virtually all the people it touches.” Read more here.
Parents, Beware: The Global Assault on the Health and Innocence of Children, by Sharon Slater. “Systematic sexual indoctrination would be a better description of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education programs being dished up—sometimes daily—to children in countries as diverse as Namibia, Nepal, and Nauru, and in U.S. states from Montana to Michigan to Maine.” Read more here.
Teachers Openly Fret That Parents Might Hear Them Brainwashing Children, Call Parents ‘Dangerous,’ by Matt Walsh. “One teacher said she’d also been ‘thinking about’ the problem Kay described, and had decided that she’d ask students about their preferred pronouns via survey — though she still worries that ‘caregivers’ might see it and learn something about their children that they weren’t supposed to know.” Read more here.
Why a Generation of Girls is Fleeing Womanhood, by Jean C. Lloyd. “Psychologist and well-known researcher Ray Blanchard points out that there is ‘there is no apparent way to record a detransitioned patient for clinical or research purposes.’ Trans activists don’t want people to know that detransitioners exist, but they do, and their numbers are growing.” Read more here.
No, California Shouldn’t Decriminalize Adult Sex With 14-Year-Olds, by Chad Felix Greene. “This all comes down to the LGBT fixation on treating minors as adults capable of adult decision-making. Yet there is simply no reason for someone between the ages of 14 and 16 to be in a relationship with an adult. This should be non-negotiable, regardless of the sexes involved.” Read more here.
Why the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Should Not Ignore Abortion, by Stefano Gennarini. “… the neutral posture of the commission on abortion may even hurt the pro-life cause. The foremost experts on human rights in the United States could not agree that international human rights law affords children in the womb any protections at all. How can U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his team be expected to contradict them in U.S. diplomacy?” Read more here.
The Abortion Pill is Wreaking Havoc on Children and Women, by Lila Rose and Michael New. “Overall, as the number of surgical abortion facilities in the U.S. continues to decline, the abortion industry will continue its attempts to increase abortion pill sales. The public must be alert and proactive, urgently demanding the removal of this deadly drug from the U.S. market. The lethal dangers of the abortion pill must be better communicated to women, policymakers, and the public at large.” Read more here.
Abortionist Ignores Science in Favor of Pro-Abortion Propaganda, by Brittany Raymer. “What he’s talking about aren’t ‘restrictions’ but regulations, like requiring a woman to see an ultrasound or waiting periods. These opportunities are there to allow a woman to fully evaluate her decision. It’s likely, that in his world, no restrictions means that the abortion pill could be handed out like candy, a dangerous proposition indeed.” Read more here.
Pope May be Key to Preserving Italy’s Social Compact on Abortion, by John L. Allen, Jr. “Ultimately, the concern among Italy’s pro-life movements and politicians is that the RU 486 decision could signal an unraveling of the social compact on abortion that’s held more or less since 1981, leading to pressure from the country’s left-leaning forces for expansion of abortion rights on other fronts.” Read more here.
The Federal Government Must Stop the Deadly Abortion Pill, by Ted Cruz & Lila Rose. “The Mifeprex regimen has unleashed horrors on America’s women and children while providing no medical benefit. Killing innocent children, endangering mothers, and abusing the health-care system to do harm is tragic. And as long as this deadly drug remains on the U.S. market, it will pose a serious health risk.” Read more here.
The Collapse of the Traditional American Family, by Star Parker. “To the large but dwindling number of Americans who care about traditional biblical morality, the collapse of marriage and family, the openness to other lifestyles prohibited by biblical morality, is of concern. It is not a healthy sign about what is happening in our culture. For those whose concerns are more secular, … a large body of research exists showing the social benefits of traditional marriage and family, and the social costs of their collapse.” Read more here.
The Growing Threat to Religious Freedom in Health-Care Provision, by Wesley J. Smith. “The attacks on medical conscience are likely going to increase into a nationwide legal conflagration, perhaps culminating with the Supreme Court determining whether the constitutional guarantee of free exercise of religion retains vigor or will be shriveled to a puny ‘freedom of worship’ concept.” Read more here.
New Social Capital Project Report Examines Family Instability in the U.S., by Robert VerBruggen. “From all this, it seems clear that kids would be better off if adults waited until they were in stable marriages before procreating, and if married parents stayed together even through unhappy rough patches that research shows often improve with time for couples who don’t give up.” Read more here.
Beautiful Baby Born After Mom Changes Her Mind in the Middle of the Abortion, by Kim Hayes. “Rethinking a decision that had been based on false scenarios, Wisdom began researching whether the abortion medication’s effects could be reversed… Within 12 hours of having taken the first abortion pill, Wisdom was at CPC receiving critical care. They had told her on the phone she had 24 hours to get the reversal regimen started.” Read more here.
Mexican Court Turns Down UN-Backed Abortion Lawsuit, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Their statement may have violated a U.S. law known as the Siljander Amendment. The Siljander amendment prohibits recipients of U.S. foreign aid, including UN agencies, from lobbying for or against abortion. The four agencies receive over $200 million from U.S. taxpayers annually.” Read more here.
What a Groundbreaking Study Using 43 Data Sets Reveals About Relationship Satisfaction, by Scott Stanley. “Is relationship satisfaction all in your head? The short answer? Of course it is—at least, mostly. But a large part of the story of relationship satisfaction is explained by how satisfied or committed (and a host of other things) you believe your partner to be.” Read more here.
Cleveland, We Have a Problem, by Linda Harvey. “216Teens is NOT ‘medically accurate’ and ‘evidence-based’ as it claims to be. All the best medicine and evidence points to providing youth with an unequivocal message that delaying sex until marriage is positively correlated with life success and healthy outcomes. Premature sexuality leads to the opposite result.” Read more here.
Ted Cruz Has Renewed the Fight for Religious Liberty on Two Key Fronts, by Nicole Russell. “Cruz’s letter comes on the heels of a piece of legislation he spearheaded last week. If passed, the Safeguarding Americans from Coronavirus and Religious Exercise Discrimination Act will block federal funding for COVID-19 relief to state and local governments that discriminate against people of faith.” Read more here.
Democrats Take Aim at Longstanding Law Holding Back Global Abortion Lobby, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “The Helms Amendment plays a critical role in protecting U.S. humanitarian assistance from being co-opted by the abortion lobby… Unlike its domestic counterpart, the Hyde Amendment, the Helms Amendment does not contain exceptions, but focuses on broadly restricting U.S. funding for the means to procure abortions.” Read more here.
Argentina Pro-Lifers Recently Mobilized Millions to Stop Abortion. Their Aug 8 Digital Rally Will be Massive, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Abortion activists, for the moment, appear to have the political power, while the growing pro-life movement has the manpower. The pro-lifers of the Light Blue Wave are inviting pro-lifers from around the world to join them on August 8, and seek their support and solidarity from afar.” Read more here.
Smart Women Don’t Send Nudes to Strangers, and Other Tales of the Sexual Revolution, by Casey Chalk. “It also appears our culture is so saturated in pornography that activities once considered rare, immoral, obscene, and stupid are now condoned, if not celebrated… Television and movies bring all manner of once-obscure sexual fetishes into American homes. Smartphones make the most obscene pornography accessible to us anywhere; they’ve become, as columnist and scholar Chad Pecknold puts it, a ‘red-light district in everyone’s pocket.’” Read more here.
When Men Compete in Women’s Sports, Women Lose, by Nicole Russell. “Fair play in women’s sports will be the next battleground in schools, once schools and universities begin functioning at full capacity again. Given how malicious Outsports was in doxxing those who had the courage to stand up for women, this is obviously a topic the transgender lobby believes should already be in the bag.” Read more here.
Abortion Advocates Defend Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Off Babies’ Limbs, by Dave Andrusko. “Dismemberment abortions are every bit as brutal, as inhumane, and dehumanizes the abortionist every bit as much as partial-birth abortions. This ‘technique’ tears and pulverizes living unborn human beings, rips heads and legs off of tiny torsos as the defenseless child bleeds to death.” Read more here.
‘Transitioning’ Procedures Don’t Help Mental Health, Largest Dataset Shows, by Ryan T. Anderson. “The world’s largest dataset on patients who have undergone sex-reassignment procedures reveals that these procedures do not bring mental health benefits. But that’s not what the authors originally claimed. Or what the media touted.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood is Helping to Free El Salvador Women Who Stabbed and Strangled Newborns, by Nancy Flanders. “Pro-abortion organizations in El Salvador are working overtime to free women convicted of brutally killing their newborn babies, despite photographic evidence and witness testimony against them. Helping to fund the efforts to free these women, Planned Parenthood stands to benefit financially should public pressure lead to a liberalizing of the country’s abortion laws.” Read more here.
China’s Repression of Religion Gets Worse, by Arielle Del Turco and Tony Perkins. “One Uighur woman who worked at a hospital recounted witnessing forced abortions: ‘The husbands were not allowed inside. They take in the women, who are always crying. Afterwards, they just threw the fetus in a plastic bag like it was trash. One mother begged to die after her 7-month-old baby was killed.’” Read more here.
UN-Safe Abortion: How the Abortion Industry Has Used UN Agencies to Legitimize Abortion, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. and Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “‘Unsafe abortion’ and ‘safe abortion’ are terms used by international agencies and the abortion industry lobby to pressure countries into changing their laws to make abortion legal. The assumption behind this use of the terms is that governments must do everything in their power to prevent women from seeking abortions in unsafe conditions, or what have been commonly called ‘back-alley abortions.’” Read more here.
Abortionist Who Cuts Unborn Babies’ Cords so They Can’t Scream Now Does Abortions in Alabama, by Dave Andrusko. “In one case, you use forceps if there are problems delivering the baby. In another, you use forceps ‘to loosen the pregnancy’ (maybe the all-time, all-time abortion euphemism). In fact, forceps most commonly are used to grasp and tear the baby apart. At one end of the spectrum we have a live baby handed over to her mother. At the other end we have a dead baby delivered in parts to be disposed of as ‘medical waste.’” Read more here.
14 Parents Sue a School District Over Secretive Transgender Policy, by Nicole Russell. “It’s hard to tell what’s worse here, that teachers are encouraged to hide a child’s secret transgender life at school behind the backs of concerned parents, completely subverting parents’ natural and legal right to this information, or that teachers essentially are encouraged to evade federal law to make this happen.” Read more here.
ACLU Trying to Force Catholic Hospital to Kill Babies in Abortions, by Wesley Smith. “Specifically, the ACLU wants to force the merged system to practice medicine in a secular fashion, meaning the Catholic hospital would be required to perform abortions, transgender surgeries, and assisted suicides — all legal in Washington, but all also prohibited in Catholic moral teaching.” Read more here.
Britain’s TFR is Shrinking, by Marcus Roberts. “Migration has of course been the answer for many countries faced with low fertility rates. Not only do migrants top up the natural population growth, they also tend to increase the birth rate as they have more children than their native compatriots. In 2019, nearly 30 per cent of the new babies in England and Wales were born to immigrant parents. But immigrant fertility rates are also falling: in the last 15 years it has suffered a precipitous drop of 0.5 children per woman, to 1.97.” Read more here.
The Core Message of a Major Transgender Study Was Wrong, by Michael Cook. “The reality is that there is no rigorous evidence for treating boys and girls and men and women who suffer from gender dysphoria with hormones and surgery. It is basically experimental medicine, a 21st century version of the disasters of thalidomide and frontal lobotomies.” Read more here.
Woman Brags About Killing Her Baby in an Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “In a recent column at Newsweek, Sherman, who leads the pro-abortion group We Testify, celebrated the 15th anniversary of her abortion… ‘It was—and still is—the best decision I ever made.’” Read more here.
Women Are Changed by Chemical Abortion – Their Voices Must be Heard, by Kim Hayes. “Between triggering events (such as due date, anniversary of abortion, etc.) and emotional pain, these women who have undergone chemical abortion carry a burden of shame and embarrassment. The report showed that 60% had feelings of isolation and alienation.” Read more here.
Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s ‘Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2020,’ by Elyssa Koren. “Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky has introduced the ‘Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2020’ to repeal the Helms Amendment, which prohibits the use of U.S. foreign assistance to pay for abortion as a method of family planning. But, the Act, even in its title, assumes more than many Americans are willing to accept.” Read more here.
23 Countries Will Lose Half Their Populations by 2100, by Shannon Roberts. “It is no wonder that women do not have very many children if they do not feel their contribution is important and valuable to society, as well as a more personal experience of love and growth. Studies such as this one show once again just how crucial valuing the role of parenthood is.” Read more here.
Which is Really More Dangerous, Hydroxychloroquine or the Abortion Pill? by Brittany Raymer. “As scientists and researchers continue to debate and examine the usefulness of hydroxychloroquine when treating COVID-19 patients, the professionals should not ignore the obvious threats of the abortion pill. Based on what authorities have found in Britain, not only is the abortion pill dangerous but deadly to the babies and the women.” Read more here.
Why Religious Freedom is Special, by Emilie Kao. “The United States has sought to protect religious freedom for everyone everywhere, not simply because it is a value of Americans. It is more than that. It is an unalienable right protecting something special about being human as we seek truth and live according to our consciences.” Read more here.
UN Reports North Korea’s Abuse of Women: Rape, Forced Abortion, by Katie Yoder. “Media commentators and feminists regularly promote abortion nationally in the name of women’s ‘freedom.’ But they would do well to take a look internationally, or, more specifically, North Korea, to see how abortion is wielded against women.” Read more here.
Abortionist Says Doctors Shouldn’t be OB-GYNs Unless They Will Kill Babies in Abortions, by Micaiah Bilger. “Abortion activists are engaged in an intense push to legitimize the killing of unborn babies by calling abortions medicine and insisting that medical workers either participate in these killings or give up their livelihoods.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Imperils Parents’ Right to Pass Their Values on to Children, by Melissa Moschella. “The current culture already makes it difficult for parents to teach their children that, for instance, maleness and femaleness are grounded on objective biological reality rather than subjective self-perceptions… And whatever one’s beliefs about these issues, parents, not the state, should be the ones to decide what their children are taught about these controversial and sensitive matters.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s Decision Allows Nevada Governor to Favor Caesars Palace Over Calvary Chapel, by Zack Smith. “But as Alito and Kavanaugh pointed out, that broad discretion is less defensible in this particular case. More time has passed, and the Nevada governor treats similar activities differently based only on whether they are religious in nature. There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution.” Read more here.
Netflix’s ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Writer: We’re Making Tween Trans Propaganda on Purpose, by Chad Felix Greene. “Despite ideological efforts, medical staff will always be required to deal with the objective realities of people’s bodies, regardless of how they wish to be perceived. They cannot expect someone else to defend them for the rest of their lives and bully others into pretending along with them.” Read more here.
U.S. Lawmakers Renew Interest in Defunding UN Bodies Over Abortion, by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “Funding for foreign aid cannot be used to lobby for or against abortion, according to U.S. law. There is growing interest among U.S. lawmakers in enforcing that standard against the UN and its various agencies.” Read more here.
Even With Removing Margaret Sanger’s Name, Planned Parenthood is Still Influenced by Racist Founder, by Kay C. James. “Planned Parenthood still considers certain people less than human and rejects the science of prenatal development by calling babies in the womb ‘clumps of cells,’ ‘tissue masses,’ and ‘products of conception.’ Planned Parenthood also still targets minority communities.” Read more here.
First Principles on Human Rights: Freedom of Speech, by Michael Farris and Paul Coleman. “…there is no identifiable and agreed-upon category of speech that can be labelled ‘hate speech’; so-called hate-speech laws are powerful tools in the hands of those who wish to censor unpopular opinions, silence political opposition, and remove irritating voices that speak out against the orthodoxies of the day.” Read more here.
The Little Lives Being Saved by Covid, by Helen Watt. “Abortion is something many women mourn, particularly those who were conflicted or coerced, who wanted the baby, or who believed that abortion was morally wrong. Surprising as this may seem, even if the baby is terminally ill, abortion seems to produce for women significantly more despair, depression and avoidance than going through with the pregnancy.” Read more here.
Bostock Fallout Begins, by Steve West. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s term has barely ended, but LGBT advocates are wasting no time in pushing for gains from their landmark win in Bostock v. Clayton County… In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito warned the decision would be ‘virtually certain to have far-reaching consequences.’ His prediction has borne out in two recent lawsuits.” Read more here.
Why ‘I Stand With Planned Parenthood’ is a Slogan in Trouble, by Carolyn Moynihan. “Ultimately, though, a movement stands or falls on its principles, and the right to kill an unborn child is a much harder sell than a child’s right to live. No matter how it is dressed up – as women’s right to choose, or reproductive health, or the plight of ‘involuntarily pregnant people’ (to quote Crispin) – ‘abortion is tragic.’” Read more here.
Parents Must Protect Their Children From Netflix’s Transgender Indoctrination, by Denise Shick. “Far from being ‘smart … sweet and self-aware’ as Netflix claims, the series is dangerous to both the mental and physical well-being of the children who watch it. Far from being a sign of ‘hope,’ as Dommu suggests, this brand of insidious propaganda may very well lead to the dangerous health risks associated with puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.
Why Are Ex-Gays Such a Threat? by Michael Brown. “Really now, in today’s world, if someone wants to go to a new age healer who allegedly makes contact with UFO’s, they can do so… Yet if someone says, ‘I would rather not take hormones for life and remove perfectly healthy organs in order to feel at home in my body. Instead, I would prefer finding wholeness from the inside out, and I’d like to meet with a professionally trained counselor,’ they will be told that such counseling is forbidden.” Read more here.
Police Investigating Murder of 28-Week-Old Baby After Mom Took Abortion Drugs, by Jonathon Van Maren. “They are supposed to utilize ‘telemedicine’—consulting with a physician via phone or video—who will prescribe them the pills, after which a kit with the necessary abortive drugs can be mailed to their homes. There are no reports as of yet indicating whether doctors signed off on the drugs that were used to kill late-term babies in the womb. But we do know that these tragic stories are just beginning.” Read more here.
Speaker: Most Parents Have No Idea Their Kids’ Schools Are Pushing Insane Transgender Ideology, by Allison Schuster. “Shrier provided the stunning example of a kindergarten class in California where teachers inform their five and six-year-old students that their sex was randomly decided at birth and tell them it is now their mission to find what their gender is. They’re then instructed that anyone who questions this is abusing them. If one of their parents inquires about their gender identity quest on religious grounds, Shrier said it’s considered spiritual abuse.” Read more here.
A Student Punished for Privately Sharing Religious Views, by Allie Langhofer. “If colleges are to remain open, free, and safe spaces for all students, students must never be punished for having differing beliefs. The true path to diversity is to allow students to wrestle with reality, come to an understanding of the truth the best they can, and live in line with that understanding.” Read more here.
We Can’t Roll the Dice on Religious Liberty: Nevada, the Supreme Court, and Churches, by Ed Stetzer. “Here’s the thing. You don’t have to agree that churches should be meeting. You don’t have to agree that it is safe. However, we can and should agree that churches should not be treated differently than similar contexts. That’s fundamental to our approach to religious liberty and in general.” Read more here.
Media Matters Targets Christian Organization Helping People Leave Homosexuality – But They’re Fighting Back, by Jeff Johnston. “MMfA … says conversion therapy is the ‘discredited practice that seeks to turn LGBTQ people straight.’ That may have been the goal of some ministries, counselors or strugglers, but groups like RHN have always been clear that the goal isn’t for the same-sex attracted or gender-confused ‘to become straight,’ but to follow Christ, which involves obeying His teaching and pursuing a deep relationship with Him.” Read more here.
Study Reports a 27% Increase in the Number of Women Ordering the Abortion Pill Online, by Brittany Raymer. “There has been a growing movement within the pro-abortion community before the pandemic to try and deregulate and increase access to the abortion pills, bypassing any medical oversight. These challenging times gave them the perfect excuse.” Read more here.
An Unborn Baby is More Than a ‘Fetus,’ A Preborn Child is a Unique Human Being, by Maria Gallagher. “…in my journalism classes, instructors taught me to avoid, at all costs, the phrase ‘unborn baby’ when reporting on abortion. Instead, I was to use the Latin term ‘fetus.’ Other than an occasional ‘status quo,’ how many times do you see Latin terminology, without explanation, used in news stories? Instead of showing a lack of bias, ‘fetus’ serves to depersonalize and dehumanize the child in the womb.” Read more here.
Seizures, Blood Clots, and Depression: Why Many Women in the UK Are Leaving the Pill Behind, by Anne Marie Williams. “Several of the women additionally experienced new onset mental illness. One woman recalled, ‘I would be awake for three days straight, because I had such insane anxiety attacks that I couldn’t sleep’ and also would ‘have depressive attacks so bad that I couldn’t get out of bed, couldn’t go to school.’ Even antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications did not resolve her struggles.” Read more here.
Nebraska Will Vote to End Dismemberment Abortions That Tear Babies Limb From Limb, by Tony Perkins. “Dismemberment abortion is something a lot of doctors never get used to. Dr. Levatino certainly didn’t. When he and his wife lost their five-year-old daughter, the grief of destroying other people’s unborn children gradually overwhelmed him. He quit those abortions. And he’s hoping — along with so many others — that Nebraska will as well.” Read more here.
HUD Moves to Protect Women in Homeless Shelters – Transgender Activists Call This ‘Discriminatory,’ by Jeff Johnston. “Of course, not all transgender-identified individuals threaten women. But activist groups like the ACLU and NCTE refuse to acknowledge that women have been harmed in sex-segregated facilities – by men who claim to be women. Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal aid group, compiled a list of 79 such incidents between 2006 and 2017.” Read more here.
A School District is Evading Federal Law to Hide Information From Parents, by Maureen Collins. “There really shouldn’t be any reason why teachers aren’t forthcoming with parents when it comes to their children’s education. But in Madison, Wisconsin, a school district has adopted a policy that encourages teachers to deceive parents about their child’s claimed ‘gender identity.’” Read more here.
UN Human Rights Council Exploits COVID-19 Pandemic to Support Funding for Abortion, by Elyssa Koren. “The resolution backs the view that the denial of comprehensive sexuality education constitutes discrimination against girls, and is thus a human rights abuse… Proponents of comprehensive sexuality education who claim that denying children this ‘learning’ equals discrimination exploit tragic circumstances to spread their ideology.” Read more here.
1.5 Million Sign Petition to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Pornography, Sexual Abuse, by Allison Schuster. “Human trafficking, which Exodus Cry estimates victimizes 21 million people per year, has steadily gained attention throughout this year. Their website calls the practice ‘highly-organized and lucrative business,’ generating $150 billion every year.” Read more here.
Media Must Keep Reporting: China Weaponizes Abortion, Women’s Bodies, by Katie Yoder. “Media commentators, feminists, and abortion supporters … should be focusing their gaze on China, as reports accuse the country of weaponizing abortion and birth control against women.” Read more here.
Next Up: Abortion Needs to be Canceled, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “As a people, we cloak ourselves in all kinds of euphemisms when it comes to abortion — and other difficult issues. But how about talking to women about what abortion has done to them?” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion NGOs Rocked by Charges of Racism, ‘White Supremacy,’ by Marie Smith. “Women Deliver and International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) are both facing charges by former staff who claim racism and what is described as a ‘white savior complex’ perpetuated by white women running the organizations and serving on the boards. As these organizations evaluate their internal actions for racism, they would do well to evaluate their external actions for racism and elitism.” Read more here.
‘Cancel Culture’ Finally Comes Knocking at Planned Parenthood’s Door, by Michael Cook. “Like other progressives of the early 20th century, she favoured sterilization of the genetically unfit, keeping the diseased and ‘feebleminded’ from immigrating, and segregating so-called illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, and dope fiends.” Read more here.
Britain Comes Close to Defeating Trans Overreach, by Debbie Hayton. “The (LGB)T activist agenda has long stopped being a campaign for trans rights — which are well established — but rather a manifesto of trans demands. This belligerence has been disastrous for us as well as for women. We have a lot of work ahead of us if we wish to restore the trust and confidence we used to take for granted…” Read more here.
European Abortion Promotion Out of Step With UN Security Council, by Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. “Last week the UN Security Council debated how to stop sexual violence in conflict. While most nations agreed to prioritize preventing violence and ending impunity, European nations said UN response must include abortion.” Read more here.
If Unborn Lives Don’t Matter, No Lives Matter, by Laura Hollis. “All told, more than 20 million black children have been aborted since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973 — more than the entire number of people brought from Africa during 350 years of the Atlantic slave trade.” Read more here.
Another Catholic Hospital Sued for Refusing Transgender Hysterectomy, by Wesley J. Smith. “Secularists may not understand it, but they should hope this case collapses. Catholic hospitals supplement already strained public-health systems. Many Catholic hospitals will close before being forced to practice medicine in ways that violate Catholic doctrine. That could leave a lot of communities with reduced access to quality health care.” Read more here.
Marriage and Money: How Much Does Marriage Explain the Growing Class Divide in Happiness? by Jean Twenge. “This growing marriage gap matters for happiness because married people are happier than unmarried people by a fairly large margin. In the GSS, for example, 42% of married Whites said they were very happy, compared to 22% of unmarried Whites; 33% of married Blacks said they were very happy, compared to 17% of unmarried Blacks.” Read more here.
The Atlantic’s ‘Science’ Writer: Men No Longer Have to Menstruate, by Glenn T. Stanton. “What The Atlantic science writer and editors refuse to acknowledge is that no science supports the idea that a trans woman, or biological man, is actually a woman. Science has found nothing in DNA, the brain, nor any other part of the human body that demands this conclusion. ‘[T]rans men or nonbinary people who get periods are simply women. Desiring reality to be different does not make it so.” Read more here.
Report on Unalienable Rights Fails on Abortion, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights, comprising some of the most respected human rights experts in the United States, released its first, and much anticipated report last week. The Commission opted to remain neutral on abortion.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Must Cancel More Than Margaret Sanger, by Katie Yoder. “Planned Parenthood is condemning its founder, Margaret Sanger, for her ‘eugenic ideology’ and ‘racist legacy.’ But if the nation’s largest abortion provider really wants to erase her legacy, it will also have to erase itself.” Read more here.
As At-Home Abortions Rise, Will Women See the Humanity of the Babies They’ve Killed? by Jonathon Van Maren. “Shielding women from what they have just done is essential to maintaining the fiction that abortion is a simple health care procedure, and it is for this reason that people — especially those who have had abortions — often react with shock when they come face to face with imagery of aborted babies… With at-home abortions, however, many — if not most — women will actually see the baby they have aborted.” Read more here.
Abortionist Jen Gunter Claims Childbirth is Worse Than Killing a Baby in Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger. “Comparing childbirth to abortion is nonsensical because one involves bringing a valuable human child into the world and another involves destroying that child’s life. If anyone should know this, it’s a medical doctor – especially an OB-GYN.” Read more here.
College Women, Take Heed: Prioritize Marriage and Family, by Suzanne Venker. “These women aren’t just in debt—they’re crestfallen. All they want is to have a family of their own, but they’ve been so conditioned to believe marriage and motherhood constitutes a lesser life, they don’t dare admit this desire. I can’t tell you the number of single women who tell me they’d give up their career in a hot second for a husband and kids.” Read more here.
Kids Thrive When Their Parents Are in Love, by Justin Coulson. “One study in Nepal over 12 years showed that children with parents who loved each other stayed in school longer and married later in life. Another recent study shows that the more the love between parents goes up, the more challenging behaviour in the child goes down.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood is More Committed to Abortion Than Women’s Health Care. Here’s Proof, by Randall O’Bannon, Ph.D. “Maybe Dr. Wen really thought abortion was healthcare, but clearly, Planned Parenthood knew better. The abortions Planned Parenthood performs aren’t health care. They never were.” Read more here.
Sex, Gender and Gender Identity: A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence, by Lucy Griffin, et al. “The counterargument to unquestioning gender affirmation is that the process of medical transition may itself prove to be another form of conversion therapy, creating a new cohort of life-long patients dependent on medical services and turning at least some lesbian and gay young people into simulacra of straight members of the opposite sex. Psychiatry sits on this knife-edge: running the risk of being accused of transphobia or, alternatively, remaining silent throughout this uncontrolled experiment.” Read more here.
Freedom to Think: The Need for Thorough Assessment and Treatment of Gender Dysphoric Children, by Marcus Evans. “The so-called ‘affirmative approach’ persuades schools and others to accept unquestioningly the child’s claims. Clinicians work in a take out zone where question is not welcomed. These various forces combine to ensure that these children very often get an assessment that is nowhere near adequate.” Read more here.
Amazing New Science Finds Thousands of Tiny Preemies Can Survive, by K. Mockaitis. “A study at the University of Iowa found that 64 percent of 22-week babies and 82 percent of 23-week babies who were alive upon delivery and whose parents wanted resuscitation survived to hospital discharge (one baby in the sample was excluded because of a congenital anomaly).” Read more here.
Left Comes for Religious Hospitals With Surgical Precision, by Tony Perkins. “Six activists on the Supreme Court think they’ve done Jesse a favor by ordering America to help her live as a man. But what about the hospitals that want to live as Christians? We need justices who will stand up and protect them.” Read more here.
You Won’t Believe What Kind of Sex Ed LGBT Activists Want in Texas Public Schools, by Jonathan Covey and James Wesolek. “This type of radical sex education encourages exploring sex at any age, with any gender, that gender is ‘fluid’ and has nothing to do with biological sex, and that birth control and abortion are basic rights which should be unapologetically promoted.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood May Disavow Margaret Sanger, but It Still Kills Black Babies in Abortions, by Cheryl Sullenger. “Sanger is well known for her eugenics ideology that included a reprehensible desire to purify the human race by reducing the population of certain minority races, including Blacks. The Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood’s location lends itself to targeting poor urban women of color for abortions.” Read more here.
Massachusetts Town Legalizes Polygamy Using Same Arguments for Gay Marriage, by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning. “Polygamy was the obvious evolution of redefining marriage. After all, every argument supporting gay marriage—’Love is love,’ ‘we deserve equal protection under the law,’ and ‘we’re not harming anybody’—also supports group marriage.” Read more here.
Majority of Babies With Down Syndrome are Aborted, Here’s a Pro-Life Law to Help Stop That, by Maria Gallagher. “’Chloe’s Law,’ also known as Act 130 of 2014, is landmark legislation which ensures that families receive the education they need to traverse the unchartered territory of life with a child with an extra chromosome.” Read more here.
New Zealand’s Outrageous New Abortion Law: A Low Point or a Turning Point? by Shane Morris & John Stonestreet. “Even more horrific still, New Zealand’s new law includes no requirement that babies born alive after botched abortions be given medical support. This was no accident. Prime Minister Ardern was herself among the loudest voices resisting any attempt to add protections for babies born alive.” Read more here.
UK Rightly Pushes Back on Gender Transitioning for Minors, by Andrea Jones. “The changes to the Health Service’s website and the minister’s comments provide reason to hope that they will move toward a more cautious approach to treating children with gender dysphoria, protecting vulnerable youth from rushed, ideologically motivated—and often irreversible—interventions.” Read more here.
Bostock Ruling Shouldn’t Make the Military a Transgender Free-for-All, by Elaine Donnelly. “A vote for repeal would endorse the unscientific notion that sex is ‘designated’ or ‘assigned at birth,’ an ideological theory that disregards biology. Science teaches that sex is determined long before birth, in human DNA that exists from the moment of conception in every cell of a person’s body.” Read more here.
Parents in the UK Report Stronger Relationships With Their Kids During Lockdown, by Brienna Perelli-Harris. “In the May survey, nearly 40% of parents who reduced their hours to look after their children reported their relationships had become better, and only 6% said their relationships had become worse.” Read more here.
Legalizing Polyamory: Following Bad Ideas to Their Logical Conclusion, by John Stonestreet & David Carlson. “The worldview of the sexual revolution is built on three ideas. First, sex, marriage, and babies are separable. Second, men and women are interchangeable. And, third, sexual autonomy is human dignity. Various forms of reimagined marriage, like polyamory and incestuous unions, are the necessary conclusions of these ideas, but there will be more.” Read more here.
Forced Birth Control of Uighur Women is Genocide – Can China be Put on Trial? by Ryszard Piotrowicz. “Uighur women in China’s Xinjiang province who have more than the approved number of children are being forcibly sterilised… These alleged practices are egregious violations of the human rights of Uighur women, and in my opinion, constitute genocide of the Uighur people.” Read more here.
Action Aid’s Policy Goes Right to the Top, by Maya Forstater. “Try talking about threats of a sexual nature without acknowledging that sex exists. Try having a robust safeguarding culture where there is ‘zero tolerance’ for anyone admitting that they do think male and female bodies exists , or disagreeing with the idea that any male who self-determines as having a female identity should be allowed to share spaces where women and girls are undressing.” Read more here.
Roe v. Wade Attorney: Use the Abortion Pill to ‘Eliminate the Barely Educated, Unhealthy, and Poor,’ by Carole Novielli. “Disturbing correspondence from a co-counsel of Roe v. Wade, the decision which legalized abortion nationwide, reveals that a eugenics and population control ideology has long been behind the push for the abortion pill’s availability.” Read more here.
Lockdowns, Protests Causing Big Spike in Child Trafficking, by Tim Ballard. “Law enforcement has reported that, during the government shutdowns, as they have monitored chatter on the deepest reaches of the Internet, child predators like Danny Hardman are openly admitting to one another that pandemic time is harvest time. They confess to one another they are living a pedophile’s dream.” Read more here.
BBC Reports on Disturbing Female Pedophilia Case. The Catch: She’s Not Really Female, by Jonathon Van Maren. “This is a clever way of redefining reality even more completely in the public sphere than they already have. Soon, I suspect, we’ll be told that referring to a ‘transgender woman’ is slightly transphobic, because to add the ‘transgender’ prefix is to imply that the person being referred to isn’t just like any other woman (a term trans activists and their allies now refuse to define).” Read more here.
Democrats Vote to Support Infanticide, Oppose Caring for Babies Born Alive After Abortion, by Tony Perkins. “Dr. Harris introduced a commonsense amendment that asked hospitals in the Tricare network to certify that they’d provide medical care for any baby born alive. One of the conditions of taxpayer funding, he proposed, is that they have a policy on the books guaranteeing that the newborn abortion survivor would ‘be taken care of and resuscitated.’” Read more here.
Transgenderism is Now Rated G, by Arielle Leake. “As a young woman, I am disappointed to see a show that will be viewed by many young and impressionable girls espousing such harmful views… Instead of giving young girls a proper view of what it means to be a woman, The Baby-Sitters Club presents womanhood as something that is merely a product of your feelings and not a God-given identity.” Read more here.
‘If It’s Us Now, It Will be the Pastors Next’ – Mike Davidson on Why Gay Conversion Therapy Should Not Be Banned, by Christian Today. “And what about those who tell us that their feelings for the same sex arose after being sexually abused and they want help with that? Are we honestly saying that they cannot receive that help? Because if we are, that is inhumane.” Read more here.
COVID-Endangered Women in Poor Countries Need Better Medicine, Not Risky Abortion Drugs, by Christina Francis and Elyssa Koren. “Handing a woman pills then leaving her to suffer alone through not only an abortion, but also the likely complications, is a form of reproductive violence that no medical professional should sanction — not unlike the ‘unsafe abortion’ it is designed to combat.” Read more here.
Nine CA Senators Can Stop Bill to Fund Teen Sterilization, but Will They? by Greg Burt. “Van Meter warned legislators that the state would be sued in the coming years for funding transgender affirming treatments for troubled and vulnerable children because they destroy healthy body tissue, sterilize the recipient, and cause irreversible damage.” Read more here.
Religious Liberty After Bostock and Our Lady of Guadalupe, by John McCormack. “… in a few short years the transgender revolution has led to a radical redefinition of common sense and common decency that has implications for children who attend our common schools. Bostock was yet another victory for that revolution, and its consequences for public schools are a big reason why many religious Americans feel angst despite a string of victories that preserve the First Amendment rights of religious schools.” Read more here.
Tasteless LGBT Activists, Publication Jeer at People Who Died From Coronavirus, by Chad Felix Greene. “Where is the line between encouraging public health and public shaming? For LGBTQ Nation and many on the left, it seems to depend on your cultural and political views. The publication’s headline, ‘A transphobic veteran returned from war & refused to wear a mask. He died on the Fourth of July,’ illustrates the mindset entirely.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Religious School Decisions Aren’t Inconsistent, by Dan McLaughlin. “There is, in short, no contradiction between allowing religious institutions to participate in generally applicable government programs while still being religious institutions that control how they teach and practice their own faith. Any other outcome would offend one or both of the two values protected by the religion clauses: the equal rights of religious believers to exercise their faith, or the prohibition on the government controlling how churches are taught and led.” Read more here.
Never Forget: Planned Parenthood Was Caught Selling Baby Parts, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “The tapes showed senior Planned Parenthood officials talking about selling aborted babies’ body parts for profit and how Planned Parenthood manipulated its abortion techniques to procure fresh, intact organs from children killed in late-term abortions.” Read more here.
Expanding Access to Chemical Abortion Poses Health Risks to Women, by Michael J. New. “The risk of a major complication with a chemical abortion was nearly twice as high as the risk of a major complication with a first-trimester surgical abortion. It seems likely that, if a higher number of chemical abortions are conducted without medical supervision, the risks of a complication will only increase.” Read more here.
How Public Schools Groom Kids for Sexual Predators Like Epstein and Maxwell, by Rebecca Friedrichs. “CSE is the gateway for the coalition’s sexually-abusive materials, so parents and teachers are pushing back, but we’re continually shut down by a two-thirds majority Democratic legislature controlled by unions and their brutal coalition. In other words, those grooming our kids for sexual predators give politicians awards while subverting parents.” Read more here.
States Seeking Bailouts Are Making Payouts to Planned Parenthood, by Andrea Jones. “Data from government transparency sites … show that over the course of the last four fiscal years states have paid out more than $300 million to Planned Parenthood affiliates. Now, some of the biggest contributors are asking for federal money to cover their nonpandemic-related budget shortfalls.” Read more here.
Is Violent Porn One Reason Skyrocketing Number of Girls Are Seeking to Change Gender? by Jonathon Van Maren. “During our discussion, I mused that perhaps many girls want to identify as boys these days simply because they do not want to be girls. If girlhood is now a minefield of sexting, pornography, social media, and cyber-bullying, perhaps some of them see masculinity as a sort of escape.” Read more here.
Religious Liberty is Important, but It’s Not Enough, by Ryan T. Anderson. “Through litigation and legislation, we need to make it clear that it’s lawful to act on the convictions that we are created male and female, and that male and female are created for each other, that no institution has to let males compete against females in sports, that no institution has to allow males into women-only locker-rooms and shelters, that no physician has to engage in so-called ‘gender-affirming’ care.” Read more here.
What Use is a Dictionary That Can’t Define Words? by Binary Australia. “A transwoman is a biological male who will NEVER have the capacity to produce female hormones! They do have a male reproductive system and they will always have xy chromosomes. They were identified at birth as male because they ARE male! And vice versa for transmen.” Read more here.
Putting Men in Women’s Shelters is Not the Way to Keep Either Sex Safe, by Kaeley Triller. “The mainstream media and bigwig organizations like the ACLU have sold women out in favor of billionaire funding that prioritizes men’s demands at every turn. Ironically, the ACLU claims ‘women’s rights’ are among its primary priorities, but you can’t successfully champion a group of people you refuse to properly define.” Read more here.
Pro-Abortion Guttmacher Accidentally Proves Trump Was Right to Pull U.S. Out of WHO, by Calvin Freiburger. “For Guttmacher to openly acknowledge that WHO is an active player in the policy fight for abortion only reinforces the conclusion that the U.S. should not be forcing taxpayers to fund something that champions policies opposed by more than half of those taxpayers.” Read more here.
Federal Investigation: Trans Bathroom Enabled Alleged Sexual Assault of Kindergartener, by Jane Robbins. “OCR’s findings reveal school officials were so deeply invested in transgender ideology, they failed to investigate the assault, tried to sweep the problem under the rug, and actively misled local parents about what had happened and what it meant for their children’s safety.” Read more here.
Domestic Abuse Becomes a Political Football in UK Abortion Debate, by Anthony McCarthy. “Sensitivity to a wide range of forms of coercion expressed during the Bill’s debate was, by some, suddenly cast aside when it came to abortion decisions – or perhaps, contrary to the research, it was assumed that emotional or other coercion to end pregnancies does not exist.” Read more here.
UNFPA’s Abortion Doublespeak, by Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. “The UN Population Fund denounced sex-selective abortion this week, in contrast to its advocacy for abortion in general. The agency contradicted its own case against the practice in the report by saying that nations should not curtail abortion, even in an effort to save the lives of the 1.2 million girls killed every year in the practice.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Ensures Religious Schools Can be Religious, by Nicole Russell. “Although the case didn’t get much media fanfare, the ruling ensures that religious schools can make their own decisions and are protected under the ministerial exception. The case, litigated by religious liberty law firm Becket, is tremendous for students, parents, and the administrations of faith-based schools who can better prioritize religious instruction without the threat of government intrusion.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Got It Wrong on Overturning Louisiana’s Pro-Life Law, Here’s Why, by Michael New, Ph.D. “In this particular case, most media outlets provided scant coverage or analysis of the dissenting opinions written by Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh. These dissents contained not only good insights about abortion jurisprudence, but also useful facts that distinguished this case from Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Gorsuch’s dissent, in particular, provided some very valuable information about abortion facility misconduct in Louisiana.” Read more here.
Soros-Backed Organization Wanted US Foreign Aid to Go to Anti-American Groups. The Supreme Court Was Right to Say No, by Elyssa Koren. “At the risk of an untenable hypocrisy, efforts to hold the international system accountable must go hand in hand with the domestic accountability for ensuring American interests that this ruling upholds. As Justice Clarence Thomas emphasized in his concurring opinion, ‘The First Amendment does not mandate a viewpoint-neutral government.’” Read more here.
President Trump’s Decision Getting U.S. Out of Pro-Abortion WHO is a Huge Pro-Life Victory, by Cheryl Sullenger. “The WHO is also a huge promoter of abortion worldwide, and has connections to the Clinton Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other organizations that support global depopulation through abortion.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Upholds Trump Exemptions to Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate… for Now, by Andrew McCarthy. “The ruling is welcome, particularly in its recognition that First Amendment religious liberty is not confined to identifiably religious organizations, such as churches, but to all Americans. Regrettably, however, the justices stopped short of a definitive ruling that would end the litigation, which the Little Sisters of the Poor have had to pursue for seven long years.” Read more here.
Italy Towards Its First Law on Hate Crimes Against LGBT People, by Irene Dominioni. “With the new law, those who discriminate against gay and transgender people would be sanctioned with up to four years imprisonment, and generally any discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, as well as gender-based violence will be punished.” Read more here.
Massachusetts City Approves Polyamory, the Inevitable Consequence of Gay ‘Marriage’, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Once marriage was redefined and placed in a panoply of morally acceptable romantic arrangements, it was only a matter of time before the number of partners would mean as much as the sex of the partners. Which is to say, nothing.” Read more here.
New Supreme Court Decision Will Protect Mexico City Policy, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “The Supreme Court may have crushed the hopes of pro-life advocates at home in the June Medical Services ruling, but it left open the door to pro-life advocacy abroad in Alliance for Open Society International. The decision about U.S. conditions to foreign aid will likely help ward off future legal challenges to the Mexico City Policy, a Republican party policy that denies U.S. funding to foreign groups that promote abortion.” Read more here.
What the SCOTUS Decision on Anti-Trafficking Rules Means for Pro-Life Policies, by Catholic News Agency. “U.S. foreign aid to these groups can be conditioned on them taking certain stances, including anti-prostitution and anti-trafficking positions. Other requirements — such as that foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) not promote abortion — can also be levied, the court found.” Read more here.
There is No Right to Kill Babies in Abortions in the Constitution, There Never Has Been, by Kristan Hawkins. “For those new to pro-life advocacy who may be disappointed, brokenhearted, shocked, and surprised by judicial overreach, welcome to the pro-life movement. We’ve been dealing with activist, abortion-supporting judges since 1973, but this is not the end.” Read more here.
What Does Justice Roberts’s Ruling Mean for the Pro-Life Cause? by Erika Bachiochi. “The record shows that abortion providers, on their own, were clearly not looking out for women’s best interests. It is indeed strange for those now characterizing abortion as basic ‘health care’ not to want to be held to the same standards as, well, basic health care.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s June Medical Decision Doesn’t End the Fight for Women’s Safety, by Kristen Waggoner. “Although the injustice continues, cases like June Medical expose abortion law for what it is: a broken framework that has been a poor fig leaf from the beginning for a ‘right’ that never existed. So we fight on.” Read more here.
Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Further Endangers Women, by Jim Daly. “During its investigation of the abortion industry, the legislature found, for example, that background checks for medical personnel were not even performed at local facilities. In one case, a clinic hired an ophthalmologist and a radiologist to perform abortions.” Read more here.
States Must Protect Women’s Sports From Biological Men, by Zachary Faria. “You cannot claim to be pro-woman and then run roughshod over female athletes. It’s important for states to get out ahead of this issue while they can and while women still have sporting events of their own.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Hands Huge Victory to Families on School Choice, by Lindsey Burke. “The Supreme Court made it clear Tuesday that the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution prohibits discrimination against religious schools on the basis of their religious status—a status that provides families with more education options that best meet the needs of their children.” Read more here.
How ‘Peer Contagion’ May Play Into the Rise of Teen Girls Transitioning, by Abigail Shrier. “So many women were once ‘tomboys,’ as I was — inhabiting femininity itchily, like the floral dress your mother made you wear. But ‘tomboy’ doesn’t exist anymore, as any teenage girl will tell you. In its place is an endless litany of gender categories, from ‘agender’ to ‘non-binary,’ ‘gender fluid’ to ‘trans.’ Imperfectly feminine girls are encouraged to consider their options.” Read more here.
SCOTUS Allows Abortion Industry to Put Its Interests Over Women’s Health and Safety, by Teresa Haney. “Abortion facilities frequently resist laws that require them to meet basic sanitary requirements, keep accurate medical records, and provide a standard of care that all women deserve. How could the abortion industry possibly be looking out for the best interests of women when it challenges these laws?” Read more here.
What Jewel Beetles Can Teach Us About Porn, Men, and Marriage, by Rob Henderson. “These findings suggest that digital porn might be a kind of ‘supernormal stimulus’ (like the male beetles’ example) that replaces sex with a real woman for some men. In the near future, technology will reach a level where virtual reality will be indistinguishable from real sexual intimacy. Unfortunately, the result may be that many of the young men in our lives will begin to disappear, vanishing into the machine.” Read more here.
New Post-Bostock Lawsuit Would Force Doctors to Perform ‘Gender-Transition’ Surgeries Against Their Medical Judgment, by Bruce Hausknecht. “The goal of this lawsuit is to effectively kill religious or medical conscience as a valid objection in the healthcare field when it comes to performing otherwise unnecessary or objectionable procedures or treatments… A modern version of the Hippocratic Oath requires that doctors remember, ‘Above all, I must not play at God.’ This new lawsuit will force doctors to do just that. And punish them if they don’t.” Read more here.
I’m an OB-GYN. Here’s Why I Support Requiring Hospital Admitting Privileges for Abortion Providers, by Damon Cudihy. “I have no doubt that more lives could be saved and many lifelong health complications avoided if such patients could have continuity of care from the doctor who originally performed the surgery.” Read more here.
How Will Newly Elected Members of the UN Security Council Impact Abortion Debate? by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. “While the election will determine whether the U.S. continues to use its powerful position as one of the permanent five council members to promote a pro-life position, the five new members are unlikely to act as pro-life leaders in their own right.” Read more here.
YouTube’s Transgender Problem, by Kristen Waggoner. “Studies show that up to 90 percent of children who experience gender dysphoria psychologically reconcile with their biological sex by the end of adolescence, but such information is now being censored, and young people are encouraged to make irreversible changes to their bodies.” Read more here.
Trump Executive Order on Religious Freedom Could Help Abortion Fight, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “Under the Obama administration, federal agencies systematically imposed mandates related to abortion, contraception, and LGBT issues in federal programming. In the international context, Catholic groups that provide assistance to trafficking victims were shut out of federal programming as a result.” Read more here.
In the Name of Tolerance, California Blacklists Idaho, by Nicole Russell. “A state that’s unwilling to partner with another because the second state wants to treat women with fairness is trading one movement for another, a far more progressive one. I can tell you that the transgender ideology is far less forgiving than the feminist movement ever will be.” Read more here.
Why Evangelicals Can No Longer Avoid Addressing Sexuality, by Stephen Mitchell. “It is imperative that we dialogue with our children and grandchildren about sexuality and gender identity and to be intentional in imparting a biblical perspective on these difficult issues as schools and culture are filling in the blanks for us.” Read more here.
High School Runner Who Lost to Transgender Athletes Will Compete in College, by Kelsey Bolar. “I was encouraged by Soule’s bravery in going public on a difficult issue, but also feared the consequences she’d face for taking such a politically incorrect stance. If she got blacklisted from colleges and universities, would I have contributed by sharing her story? What about future employment opportunities?” Read more here.
The Fight to Save Title IX and Girls Sports, by Autumn Leva and Blaine Conzatti. “The same crowd that once called for equal athletic opportunities for women now cheers gleefully when a biological male mixed martial arts fighter literally beats a woman. And the ACLU—which once championed girls sports—now wants to turn boys into girls sports champions.” Read more here.
The Abortion Industry Does Not Speak for Me, by Alveda King. “Abortionists do not have relationships with their patients. The lie of the abortion industry is the decision is made ‘between a woman and her doctor.’ Yet, the Louisiana case evidence showed the vast majority of women never see their abortionist until the abortion is being performed. Additionally, there is no regular aftercare. Injured women are simply offloaded to emergency rooms with no continuity of care.” Read more here.
Court LGBTQ Decision is Formula for Chaos, by Star Parker. “A society that cannot distinguish between what God creates and what man chooses is a society not capable of being free. This is what our very confused Supreme Court is delivering to us.” Read more here.
The Blindness of Justice Gorsuch’s Woke Textualism, by Megan M. Arago and David Upham. “Many customary practices are now probably illegal, including sex-specific norms of attire, restrooms, pronouns, and other forms of address. Likewise, religious and other conservative employers may no longer reserve spousal benefits to marriage according to its once-universal male-female meaning. The potential cases are countless, the threat to individual liberty severe—but the Court blithely explained that such matters are ‘for future cases.’” Read more here.
Like So Many Countries, Norway Faces a Population Problem, by Shannon Roberts. “By 2050, the country expects to have more deaths than births, meaning that any increase in population from that point on would have to come from immigration, which is also expected to begin to decline from 2022.” Read more here.
Our Country Still Protects Babies From Abortion, but Enemies Want This Stopped, by Dr. Miriam Sciberras. “Malta’s current position in June 2020 is that of a sanctuary for life, a very brave solitary stand which we owe to past and present political leaders, who in spite of multitudes of political pressures have always maintained our right as a sovereign country to defend life from conception.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Should Uphold Louisiana Law Saving Babies From Abortion, by Kelsey Hazzard. “The U.S. Supreme Court traditionally releases its major opinions in the month of June … Next up: June Medical Services v. Russo, which will determine the fate of a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice.” Read more here.
The Insidious Way Netflix Has Replaced Parents, by Melissa Henson. “If the series is indeed for ‘mature’ audiences, it offers no guidance or examples for adults to help teens navigate through these problems in the real world. If, as is more likely the case, it is intended for teens, it succeeds only in leading troubled kids down a dark hole of hopelessness. The show itself is morally bankrupt; but so is Netflix for the dishonest way it labels and markets this series.” Read more here.
Supreme Court: Treat Men and Women as Interchangeable, or Get Sued Into Oblivion, by Margot Cleveland. “By adopting the standard for transgender claimants that it did, the Supreme Court has just told Americans that they too must consider men women and women men in the workplace. We’re likely to see the same dictate extended to public schools and health care settings.” Read more here.
British Abortions Top 200,000 in One Year, but ‘It’s All Good’ Says a Provider, by Ann Farmer. “Dr. Regan famously compared abortion to ‘getting bunions sorted.’ However, bunion removal is carried out for health reasons – after obtaining informed consent – while pregnancy is not a disease. The closest analogy is cosmetic surgery, but having a nose job does not involve killing another human being.” Read more here.
Five Casualties of the Court’s LGBTQ Sex Ruling, by Frank Turek. “’Sex’ in civil rights law now legally means sexual orientation or whatever gender you think you are. That’s the result of a surprising Supreme Court decision (Bostock vs. Clayton County) from Justice Neil Gorsuch. Problem? Yes, here are five casualties of this ruling.” Read more here.
Senate Once Again Rejects Dangerous ‘Equality Act,’ by Bruce Hausknecht. “The Equality Act is so much worse than simply a bad idea. It is an intentional effort to undermine the founding ideals of this country regarding religious freedom, destroys the victories that women have enjoyed up to this point in our nation’s history, and promises to impose a sexual ideology that demands subservience from everyone who might otherwise object.” Read more here.
Get Ready for Slew of Religious Freedom Lawsuits Over Supreme Court’s Gay and Transgender Ruling, by Nicole Russell. “Thus, in our example, let’s say the school fires the teacher for failing to adhere to Catholic doctrine. Based on this Supreme Court decision, the school teacher would likely have a case of sorts to at least file a lawsuit. The teacher may not win — there are several solid religious liberty protections in place in terms of statutes and the Constitution — but it would take the Catholic school’s time and resources to defend itself.” Read more here.
SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling Firebombs the Constitution, by Joy Pullman. “This decision also cements public schools’ status as social enforcers and subsidizers of far-left politics, as they can have no potential legal defense against a teacher switching genders in front of students, putting boys in girls’ locker rooms and sports, or teaching preschoolers that Heather can have two or even three mommies.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court’s Mistaken and Misguided Sex Discrimination Ruling, by Ryan T. Anderson. “Gorsuch’s position would either require the elimination of all sex-specific programs and facilities or allow access based on an individual’s subjective identity rather than his or her objective biology. It is telling that Gorsuch is evasive about which of these outcomes is required by his theory.” Read more here.
Exploiting Child Suicide to Bully Parents of Trans Kids is the Ultimate Science Denial, by Jane Robbins. “More importantly, there is no long-term evidence that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or ‘transition’ surgeries prevent suicide. On the contrary, the best long-term research shows that people who go through medical transition kill themselves at a rate many times greater than the general population.” Read more here.
SCOTUS Decision Redefining Sexuality Will Wreak Havoc on Society, by Daniel Horowitz. “As Justice Alito warns, similar lawsuits may be brought under the Fair Housing Act against colleges that have separate dorms for males and females. Also, female prisoners will be subjected to males living with them. Again, once sex is redefined, it is no longer limited to employment or animus-based discrimination.” Read more here.
After the Bostock Supreme Court Case, by Russell Moore. “Those who decry the sexual revolution, but approve of, or participate in, sexual revolutions of their own—in excusing, for instance, adultery, sexual abuse, or pornography—will have, and should have, no credibility. Instead, what is needed is an ongoing demonstration of counter-cultural fidelity, accountability, love, and a recognition of the kinds of limits that make human life good and livable.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Validates LGBT Protections on Grounds LGBT Activists Reject, by Chad Felix Greene. “By linking the rights of gay and transgender people to sex, the LGBT left has bound itself to whatever definition ‘sex’ takes on. The more fluid and subjective it becomes, the less firm and predictable rights for gay and transgender people will become.” Read more here.
‘A Woman is Not a Scaled Down Man,’ by Binary Australia. “Ideology is meaningless when it comes to the functionality of uniform and equipment. Women have different needs to men and no amount of political posturing can change that fact.” Read more here.
The Supreme Court Just Turned a Law to Protect Women Into a Weapon Against Them, by Jessica Prol Smith. “In light of this challenge, progressive feminists and religious conservatives have found common ground—arguing that being a woman is a biological reality … Although Monday’s decision focused on a small section of American employment law, the effort to rewrite federal legislation could quickly extend to women’s athletic and educational opportunities protected by Title IX.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Ruling on Civil Rights Law, LGBT Workers Will Have Disastrous Effects on Women, by Maureen Collins. “The Supreme Court’s decision circumvents our constitutional order, where Congress creates laws and the executive branch enforces them by allowing the executive branch to rewrite laws. As Justice Samuel Alito explained in dissent, ‘There is only one word for what the Court has done today: legislation.’” Read more here.
Just 40,000 People With Down Syndrome are Still Alive in the UK, Rest Have Been Aborted, by Micaiah Bilger. “Thousands of people with Down syndrome are missing from the United Kingdom. It’s not that they never existed. They are missing because they were targeted and destroyed by abortions while they were still inside their mothers’ wombs.” Read more here.
If More Men Stood for Life, More Mothers Would Choose Life, by Anna Reynolds. “Abortion affects everyone. When a child is killed in the womb, a community loses a member. The more men who can compassionately support pregnant mothers, the more women will have the courage to choose life.” Read more here.
Pressing Pause on the Global Transgender Youth Pandemic, by Jean C. Lloyd. “Unfortunately, trans-identifying youth are not given the same consideration that other minors are given, nor are they treated with the same standard. They are treated not only as adults, but as exceptionally prescient and self-sacrificial ones. As a result, today many of them are being given automatic life sentences.” Read more here.
Stuck Between Two Sexes: The Trans Teen Revolution, by Tony Perkins. “…America has gone from two gender clinics in the last decade to well over 50. But that doesn’t include groups like Planned Parenthood, who, believe it or not, are now one of the biggest dispensers of cross-sex hormones in the country. So along with killing unborn children, they’re also embracing a separate track to make generations completely infertile. All the while keeping parents — as they usually do — in the dark.” Read more here.
This $1,500 Robot Will Talk to Kids So Parents Don’t Have to, by Joy Pullmann. “From before birth, humans are biologically wired to prefer human faces and voices to other visual and auditory stimuli. Parents of the young kids glued to their iPads in restaurants have allowed their children’s natural and appropriate biological preferences for human interaction to be reprogrammed into addictions to inanimate objects.” Read more here.
Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues, by J.K. Rowling. “But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head… Moreover, the ‘inclusive’ language that calls female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women as dehumanising and demeaning.” Read more here.
I’m a Female Student Athlete in Idaho. Please Protect Women’s Sports From Transgender Athletes, by Madison Kenyon. “I take pride in earning my placements fairly and squarely. When it came to the indoor track conference championships, the biological male athlete snagged the gold medal and bumped my teammate into fourth place and off the podium. I was heartbroken. What was happening here?” Read more here.
JK Rowling is Right – Sex is Real and It is Not a ‘Spectrum,’ by Colin Wright. “Advocates of the sex-spectrum model no doubt meant well when these theories originally were developed … But over time, it’s become clear that they created a false theory of biology that distorts human nature and harms vulnerable individuals. When one attempts to achieve equality and justice by distorting reality, inequality and injustice are never eliminated, just relocated.” Read more here.
If Black Lives Matter, Defund Planned Parenthood, Not the Police, by Matt Walsh. “Doing the math, and taking into account the 330,000 abortions Planned Parenthood alone performs every year, it is fair to estimate that Planned Parenthood kills close to 100,000 black people annually. For comparison sake, police killed 1,000 people total last year — white, black, armed, and unarmed. Comparing just the number of unarmed black people killed by both groups, the ratio is 100,000 to 9. And yet police are the greatest threat to black lives?” Read more here.
Beware the Dangerous Push to Expand Telemedicine Abortions, by Jeanne Mancini. “Billed as safe and effective by the abortion industry, chemical abortion is arguably much harder on women’s health than surgical abortion — and there’s certainly less medical oversight. A study out of Finland showed that women are four times more likely to suffer severe complications as a result of chemical abortion than they are as a result of surgical abortion.” Read more here.
Dozens of Abortion Clinics May Close Permanently Because of the Coronavirus, by Micaiah Bilger. “Though Madsen characterized the situation as a crisis, it is good news. Abortion facilities do not perform an ‘essential’ medical service. They kill unique, living unborn babies in abortions, and often leave women with life-long physical and/or psychological scars.” Read more here.
Colorado Supreme Court Excludes Pre-Born Babies From Child Abuse Protection, by Deborah Stilt. “It’s time to acknowledge what we all intrinsically know — that the child in the womb is just as much a person as you and I … We must urge our state legislators to protect all children — born and pre-born by protecting them equally as persons under the law.” Read more here.
Which Coronavirus Vaccines are Being Developed Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies? by Jonathan Abbamonte. “While many COVID-19 vaccines are being developed with fetal cell lines, a number of promising vaccine candidates, such as those being developed by Novavax, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and Sinovac, are using ethically-derived cell lines.” Read more here.
DIY Abortions, by Christian Concern. “The UK government is going to extraordinary lengths to protect lives due to the threat of Covid-19. It appears to fail to see the irony in opening up access to abortion and counting the lives that will be lost as a result of such action.” Read more here.
The Role of Marriage in the Suicide Crisis, by Charles Fain Lehman. “The suicide rate among divorced adults is more than three times that of married adults, while the suicide rate among singles is 1.5 to 2 times the rate among those who are married. In other words, marriage is a protective factor for suicide risk.” Read more here.
Feminists Attack Pro-Life Doctors Because They Oppose Killing Babies in Abortions, by Micaiah Bilger. “It is becoming increasingly clear that abortions are not “essential” or good or necessary. They are not health care or a human right. An abortion is the destruction of a unique, living human being in the womb, and it is an injustice that AAPLOG and others are working to end.” Read more here.
The Rise of Childless America, by Lyman Stone. “Trends in childlessness among women in their early thirties are highly predictive of later-occurring trends in childlessness among older women. Yes, there is catch-up fertility, but it’s very clear that later-in-life childlessness is correlated with earlier-in-life childlessness. And it turns out, childlessness is currently rising rapidly among younger women, and has begun to rise among women in their late thirties too, as expected.” Read more here.
Comedians Laugh About Abortion, Reveal Their ‘Favorite,’ by Katie Yoder. “Winstead is right that there’s a human rights violation that threatens the humanity of persons. But it’s not the accessibility of abortion; it’s abortion itself.” Read more here.
Marriage by Judicial Fiat: The Costa Rica Story, by Peter Sprigg. “Headlines like the one in the New York Post today said, ‘Costa Rica latest country to legalize same-sex marriage.’ But it wasn’t really Costa Ricans who made it happen. Instead, Costa Rica became — like the United States five years ago — the victim of a multi-layer attack of judicial activism.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Decision Could Affect Abortion Debate in America, by Charles C. Camosy. “Finally, history tells us that many outcomes in this case would be significant, even if the Court says nothing direct about Roe. The Court could signal its willingness to overturn abortion precedents, even in the face of some public criticism. The Court could also encourage pro-life lawyers to put even more emphasis on arguments about how abortion effects women.” Read more here.
Interrogating the Transgender Agenda, by Paul McHugh. “As a matter of science, sex and gender identity are so distinct that gender identity cannot properly be read into or replace sex. And with regard to the underlying policy question, there is no reliable evidence that gender affirmation — understood as asking or requiring persons to affirm others’ beliefs that they are the opposite sex — is efficacious.” Read more here.
Abortion is the Leading Cause of Death During the Coronavirus, Killing 10.5 Million Worldwide, by Micaiah Bilger. “Whether from the coronavirus or abortion or another cause, every death marks the end of a unique, valuable human life that can never be replaced. And how much more tragic deaths are when they are preventable. People all across the world made sacrifices to save people from dying from COVID-19. If only more would do the same for unborn babies.” Read more here.
Fertility Rates Fall in the USA, by Marcus Roberts. “If a society is not even guaranteeing its future through replacement generations of children, then it is a failing society. We need to start acknowledging this.” Read more here.
Abortion Pills Without Rh-Testing Could Prevent Many Women From Ever Having Children, by Kristi Stone Hamrick. “Pushing chemical abortion pills allows a predatory industry to make a fast sale and outsource future complications to an emergency room. It’s no help to women to end the requirement for life-saving tests, all in the name of cutting costs and increasing ‘access.’ It’s the abortion industry whose time and money are liberated.” Read more here.
COVID-19 Lawsuits Expose Our Unacceptable Status Quo on Abortion, by Alexandra Desanctis. “To be sure, many thinkers indulge in philosophical discussions about the ethical questions at stake in abortion. But in policy fights, legal-abortion supporters almost never defend abortion qua abortion. They don’t admit that abortion is killing and justify its legality anyway; they don’t explain why we should privilege one person’s bodily autonomy over another’s autonomy and right to life.” Read more here.
Don’t Believe the Media Hype, Women Support Defunding Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz, by Kelsey Hazzard. “Pro-life people recognize the fact that abortion kills humans. We view those humans as children (morally relevant young humans deserving protection). So we view abortion first and foremost as a human rights violation.” Read more here.
Freezing Funding to the WHO Protects Taxpayers From Funding Abortion, by Grazie Pozo Christie. “…consider the founding purpose of the UNFPA. It was founded to limit population growth in developing countries. Never mind the concept of rich countries actively working to keep down the births of poor black and brown children. That’s distasteful enough. But the population control organization’s methods are often dangerous and culturally insensitive.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Calls Pro-Lifers White Supremacists, But It Kills 247 Black Babies Every Day, by Micaiah Bilger. “Though abortions hurt families of every race and culture, statistics indicate that abortions disproportionately hurt the African American community. Census data indicates that African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population, but they have nearly 40 percent of all abortions. And New York City health statistics indicate that more African American babies are aborted in the city than are born each year.” Read more here.
British Politicians Introduce Bill to Ban Abortion for Some Disabilities – But Not All, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “Lord Kevin Shinkwin, a U.K. lawmaker born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, has warned that people with disabilities are facing extinction in the United Kingdom, due to eugenic abortion. He’s previously introduced bills that would ban abortion based on disability, but it seems that ableist mindsets are too pervasive to recognize that preborn children with disabilities have a right to life, just like anyone else.” Read more here.
Official Keeps Planned Parenthood Clinic Open Because Health Inspector Had Never Done Abortions, by Michael New, Ph.D. “Though this decision is certainly disappointing, Missouri pro-lifers should not despair… Missouri is among the most active states in term of enacting legal protections for the preborn. It should come as no surprise that there is only one abortion clinic remaining in the state and that Missouri’s abortion rate is less than one-third of the national average.” Read more here.
Abortion: A Case of Absent Moral Authority, by Jay Atkins. “So what is the morally correct conclusion? Easy, abortion should be outlawed, at all times and in all cases, period. Yes, even in cases of rape and incest (unbearably tragic as they may be)… Always, and in every case, it should be illegal. Because every life is sacred, morality is real and human potential is a gift from God.” Read more here.
Australian Scientists Fail Scientific Test, by Binary Australia. “Men can be awarded scholarships and research funding if they say they are a woman. Men can take positions and opportunities meant to encourage women in science, if they feel like it. The Australian Academy of Science is denying science in favour of an extremist, ideological position.” Read more here.
How Big Abortion Has Circumnavigated State Restrictions Amid COVID-19, by Brittany Jones & Meridian Baldacci. “With the series of lawsuits and the push for ‘telebortions,’ the abortion industry has shown itself to be primarily concerned with preserving its bottom line—above public need and even above women’s safety.” Read more here.
Research Using Cells of Illicit Origin and Vaccines From Fetal Tissue, by Christopher O. Tollefsen. “Some pro-lifers … assert that use of cell lines of illicit origin is wrong for scientific research; and they assert that it would be wrong for pro-lifers to make use of a vaccine derived from unethically procured fetal tissue. But I argue in this essay that … there can be good reasons for pro-life persons to make use of a COVID-19 vaccine even if it results from unethical tissue procurement practices.” Read more here.
Sex and the Census: Why Surveys Should Not Conflate Sex and Gender Identity, by Alice Sullivan. “The postmodernist project is explicitly anti-scientific (Sokal & Bricmont, 1998). It is vital that those of us who work with social statistics understand the origins of the attempt to dismantle sex as a category in postmodernist queer theory.” Read more here.
Scaring Parents of Trans Kids With Suicide Shuts Down Their Ability to Consider Options for Their Kids, by Maria Keffler. “I often hear people who support their child’s transition decried as absolute fools and terrible parents. For the most part, however, the ones I’ve met are neither. Rather, they and their kids have been brainwashed by a powerful team of Machiavellian strategists who have political, social, and financial reasons to suck as many children as possible into the trans pipeline.” Read more here.
Memes, Discourse and the Rhetoric of Trans-Activism, by Umberto Kerouac. “The world becomes a place where dogmatic idea-bites stand in for discourse and, once entrenched, become protected. They are protected not by law, but by cancelling, banning and blocking. By amassing a following and ending conversation.” Read more here.
Why Netflix Still Isn’t Safe for Children, by Tim Winter. “It is ridiculous that a TV-14 rating doesn’t mean the same thing on Netflix as it does on CBS, for example. The ratings systems are supposed to serve parents, not those who might directly profit from exposing children to explicit, adult-themed content.” Read more here.
Born for Each Other: How Family Planning and Porn Keep Company, by Carolyn Moynihan. “Yes, sex boils down to business for the so-called family planning establishment. A business requiring certain products to make it ‘safe’ if not enjoyable for all concerned. And porn is one of those products, nearly as important as the condom itself, and often more effective since it removes the need for any human contact whatsoever.” Read more here.
The UN is Using COVID-19 to Push Abortion. The US is Rightly Pushing Back, by Grace Melton. “The Trump administration … should also consider creating an office within the U.S. State Department for an ambassador at large to protect unborn life. This individual could further elevate the priority this administration rightly has given to partnering with other countries to defend life and family in the promotion of sustainable development and improved health.” Read more here.
Moral Guidance on Using COVID-19 Vaccines Developed With Human Fetal Cell Lines, by Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. “In the current pandemic, the ethical principles that govern the appropriation of evil acts reveal that citizens of virtue can avail themselves of COVID-19 vaccines made with human fetal cell lines if they avoid scandal in the public square by first making their opposition to abortion absolutely clear.” Read more here.
Let’s Talk About Lupron, by Kallie Fell. “Lupron® is also used, with a combination of other drugs, to delay puberty in children who suffer from gender dysphoria and are medically transitioning. Lupron® has never been green-lighted by the FDA for this purpose, nor have there been any peer-reviewed studies done on the drug’s long-term physical and psychological side effects on children.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood Has $2.2 Billion in Assets From Killing Babies, It Doesn’t Need Our Tax Dollars, by Tony Perkins. “While mom and pop shops struggle to survive, the Democrats’ favorite abortion tycoon managed to rip off $80 million from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).” Read more here.
The McHugh Factor: The Ideology of Transgenderism Will Brook No Dissent, by Matthew J. Franck. “Should the Supreme Court decide, contrary to all norms of statutory interpretation as well as to the truth about human beings’ bodily sexual nature, that ‘sex’ in our anti-discrimination laws encompasses self-declared ‘gender identity,’ the result will not be a new birth of freedom but a new legal regime of repression and a forced affirmation of false beliefs.” Read more here.
How Did Planned Parenthood Affiliates Receive Coronavirus Relief Funding? by Kaylee McGhee. “Those funds were specifically designated for small businesses, not individual affiliates backed by a massive parent organization. And it’s a shame that as a result of this abuse, even more of our tax dollars have landed in the lap of a company that proudly takes the lives of unborn human beings. For that reason alone, the public deserves answers.” Read more here.
To Stop a Predator, by Judy Neufeld-Fernandez. “Given the high statistics on children experiencing molest, you will want to do all you can to avoid your child becoming a victim. Cultivating an ongoing conversation with your child increases the chances for you to intervene and stop full fledged abuse from happening.” Read more here.
Woman Brags About Aborting Her Baby During Coronavirus, by Micaiah Bilger. “From the moment of conception, an unborn baby is a unique, living human being with his/her own separate DNA. Her abortion did not stop a potential child from coming into existence, it killed a unique, living child already in existence. The young woman’s sense of grief and guilt suggest she knows this, too.” Read more here.
The United States Stands for Life Against the United Nations, by Elyssa Koren. “The USAID initiative serves as a reminder that preserving human life and defeating the pandemic are one and the same goal—and any authentic victory over coronavirus cannot come at the expense of unborn life.” Read more here.
IDAHOBIT 2020, by Binary Australia. “Today marks the beginning of IDAHOBIT: the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Interphobia. All made up words designed to silence any critical engagement what-so-ever.” Read more here.
If Democrats Really Followed ‘The Science,’ They’d Ban Abortion, by Brittany Clingen Carl. “In 2018 alone, 42,441 unborn babies were killed via abortion in Illinois. Those unborn babies — those children, those lives — were just as deserving of rights, protection, and care as any person fighting for his or her life in a Covid-19 hospital ward.” Read more here.
Teens Charged With Killing Pregnant Cow and Her Unborn Calf, Killing Babies in Abortions is Perfectly Legal, by Micaiah Bilger. “Tragically, British law treats unborn animals with more value than unborn human children. Abortions are legal for any reason up to 24 weeks in the UK, and they are allowed up to birth in a wide variety of circumstances.” Read more here.
The Pro-Life Cause Doesn’t Rest on Jane Roe’s Shoulders, by Alexandra Desanctis. “The abortion-rights activists celebrating her interview in this documentary are the very same activists who have spent decades insisting that McCorvey’s conversion to the pro-life movement proved nothing about whether abortion should be legal and had nothing to do with the substance of the Roe v. Wade decision. And they were right.” Read more here.
Judge Who Banned Calling Trans Athletes ‘Male’ Has a History of Favoring Sexual Predators, by Penny Nance. “Chatigny’s order is a slap in the face of these young female athletes. Without arguments by counsel or any evidence whatsoever, this judge predetermined the outcome of the case in violation of his oath of office.” Read more here.
Abortion Clinic Nurse is ‘Passionate’ About Killing Babies in Abortions, Especially During Coronavirus, by Micaiah Bilger. “Alex Nommay, a British nurse, believes it is her job to protect her patients during the coronavirus, even when it means putting her own health at risk. It would be a praise-worthy sacrifice if Nommay’s work was life-saving. But it isn’t. She works for one of the largest abortion chains in the world, Marie Stopes International.” Read more here.
Woman Who Ran Abortion Clinic for 27 Years Sold It to ‘Spend More Time With My Grandchildren,’ by Micaiah Bilger. “According to the report, Gray bought the abortion facility in 1993. Since then, it is not clear how many unborn babies were aborted at her facility – likely tens of thousands – or how much money she made off them. Though her grandchildren matter to her, apparently other people’s grandchildren did not.” Read more here.
Feminists Exploit Coronavirus to Sell More Dangerous Abortion Pills Than Ever Before, by Denise Burke. “While telemedicine abortion might help abortion businesses maximize profits by avoiding the cost and liabilities of brick-and-mortar facilities, the highly unregulated procedure poses frightening risks for women.” Read more here.
Scotland’s Chilling New Blasphemy Law, by Stephen Daisley. “The new Hate Crime Bill proposed by the Scottish Government is a sweeping threat to freedom of speech and conscience. The draft law radically expands the power of the state to punish expression and expression-adjacent behaviour, such as possession of ‘inflammatory material’.” Read more here.
I’m an ER Physician. Here’s Why Abortion Isn’t an ‘Essential Health Service’, by Dr. Scott French. “An essential health service is a health care action or medical procedure that is essential to protecting the life of a human. But the truth is that rather than helping women through this pandemic, abortion is more likely to worsen the toll of illness.” Read more here.
Three Girls Are Suing to Keep Boys Out of Girls Sports. The Judge Just Rigged the Case Against Them, by Matt Walsh. “The girls’ entire case is that males and females are biologically different and those differences grant males inherent advantages in most athletic competitions. If they cannot make that case, then they cannot make any case. If they have to pretend for the sake of the lawsuit that boys are female, then they lose the very basis for the lawsuit itself.” Read more here.
Do States Pouring Taxpayer Funds Into Abortion Deserve Bailouts? by Tom McClusky. “Before looking to the federal government for a bailout, the states that were mismanaged prior to the pandemic should first reevaluate the failed policies that brought them to this point – including using taxpayer funds to benefit the already flush abortion industry.” Read more here.
Here’s How the Abortion Industry Should Be Remembered for Handling the Pandemic, by Katherine Beck Johnson. “The abortion industry refused to sacrifice their profits to save lives, killing more unborn children, wasting PPE that could have been donated to hospitals, and locking up courts with endless litigation challenging any law that dare question their elective practice of taking the lives of unborn children.” Read more here.
Here Come School ‘Sex Ed Squads’ and Elementary Planned Parenthood Lessons, by Mission America. “Has the California Healthy Youth Act resulted in positive ‘health’ for the state’s students? Or is it just a tool for child corruption backed by adult, sex-oriented special interests?” Read more here.
A New Petition Demands Fairness for Women in Olympic Sports, by Barbara Kay. “Trans activists knew that many legal rights would flow from general acceptance of a collapse in any distinction between biological sex and gender identity, and campaigned so vigorously for the entrenchment of the falsehood that ‘a transwoman is a woman’ that anyone’s refusal to validate the lie is taken, sometimes with material consequences, as a form of hate speech.” Read more here.
Women Share Why Their Abortion Was ‘Beautiful’ in Horrifying, Cold-Blooded Accounts, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Abortion is not beautiful, and the abortion industry is a hellhole where beauty goes to die. No, worse – it is where beauty is murdered.” Read more here.
How Planned Parenthood is Benefiting From COVID-19 Pandemic, by Tony Perkins. “They tell women that it’ll be simple, natural, safe, and private process. They’ll recover in a day, maybe two. What they don’t tell them is that they might deliver a tiny, perfectly-formed child. Or that they’ll experience labor pains, heavy bleeding, vomiting, or lose consciousness.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood President: Killing Babies in Abortions During Coronavirus Pandemic is ‘Essential’, by Micaiah Bilger. “Abortions are not ‘essential’ for women. They are only ‘essential’ to Planned Parenthood, a billion-dollar ‘nonprofit’ that aborts more unborn babies than any other group in the U.S.” Read more here.
The United Nations is Using Coronavirus Funding to Promote Abortion, by Elyssa Koren. “UNFPA references to abortion ‘where legal’ do little to appease concerns that the agency will use pandemic-related funds to perform abortions when against the law. Ample evidence points to UNFPA’s circumvention of prohibitions on abortion via strategic partnerships with on-the-ground providers that perform abortions in countries that ban or restrict the practice.” Read more here.
A Mother’s Impact Reaches Far Beyond Her Children, by Kay C. James. “Most mothers may not even realize that their role has an impact that goes far beyond their own families – a role so pivotal to society that it’s truly one of the most significant things they will do in their lives. That’s not hyperbole, and the research bears it out.” Read more here.
The Wisdom of Children Brings Hope in Gender Policy Debate, by Charlie Peters. “A schoolgirl has stood up to the state, the gender activists, and their boundless cultural support and won. Conservatives must take heed from this. With the right arsenal, the little guy, or girl, can defeat even the most powerful foe.” Read more here.
Father in Law? The Strange Case of the Male Mother, by Ann Farmer. “Feminists in particular should be worried about the danger of airbrushing mothers out of the legal picture, but given their obsession with the right to deprive mothers of their children and children of their mothers – ‘the right to choose’ – the rest of us must be concerned about this campaign to psychologically damage children and wreck the foundation of society.” Read more here.
Poll: Young Americans Care More About Money Than Making a Family, by Joy Pullman. “The continued withdrawal from commitments to God and others portends ill, not just for the young people who have not been properly taught, but also for the culturally impoverished society they will one day inherit without the capacity or the moral sense to steward it well.” Read more here.
Women Claim Killing Their Babies in Abortions Was ‘Beautiful’, by Micaiah Bilger. “The billion-dollar abortion industry claims to free and empower women, but it all is a lie. It hides the ugly truth from women that their unborn babies are unique, living human beings from the moment of conception, and abortion procedures destroy their lives in brutal, barbaric ways.” Read more here.
What Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Have to Do With Abortion? by Jonathan Abbamonte. “For the population control movement every crisis is an opportunity to push abortion.” Read more here.
Why You Shouldn’t Add the Q to LGBT, by Glenn T. Stanton. “There is ample evidence that many members of this supposed coalition don’t wholly respect and stand up for each other… Those outside their movement should certainly not feel compelled or shamed into acting as if this alphabet soup of disagreed-upon letters is an objective class of people who must be addressed in a certain way.” Read more here.
As Long As Vaccines Are Tied to Abortion, Christians Need Exemptions, by Gifford Grobien. “Christians should make clear that the perpetuation of objectionable vaccines and the lack of alternatives is a kind of coercion. A strong Christian voice can restore a situation in which churches have nothing to do with abortion, no longer accepting health benefits at the cost of others’ lives.” Read more here.
LGBT Activists Rallied to Shut Down a Christian Field Hospital. This is What the ‘Gay Rights’ Movement Has Become, by Matt Walsh. “Radical gay activists always claim that they just want to be left alone to live their own lives and make their own choice, but that is exactly what they won’t allow anyone else to do. It turns out that they want to have their choices affirmed, not merely allowed or tolerated, and as far as they’re concerned it’s our job to provide that affirmation.” Read more here.
Trying to Dialogue with Trans Advocate Only Leads to More Gender Confusion, by Joseph Shaw. “One of the things I think many people struggle with in relation to the transgender movement is, well, understanding the movement’s assertions. As a service to the public, I would like to explore some of the things that the movement’s partisans say, in the form of a dialogue.” Read more here.
Parental Consent Laws for Underage Girls Seeking Abortion Help Fight Against Human Trafficking, by Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie. “Sexual predators are happy when their victim has an abortion without the knowledge or involvement of her mother and father. It lets them keep abusing the child undetected.” Read more here.
Minus 18 = Minus Reality, by Binary Australia. “What being a girl certainly DOES mean is having a vagina, a female reproductive system, female hormones, and female chromosomes. No boy on earth can become a girl. No amount of surgery, medication, clothing, makeup or fulfilling stereotypes will magically turn him into a girl.” Read more here.
Media Coverage of ‘Piglets Aborted’ During Coronavirus Reveals Double Standard, by Katie Yoder. “As living creatures, animals should be treated well – free from abuse and cruelty. The predicament of unborn baby animals understandably alarms the media and activists. But the predicament of unborn baby humans should too.” Read more here.
Screen Use Creates a ‘Double Disadvantage’ for Kids in Single-Parent Families, by Peyton W. Roth and W. Bradford Wilcox. “Without having two parents present to regularly invest in their growth and development, many children in single-parent and minority families find themselves filling more of their time with TV and video games, and spending less time on activities that will contribute to their social and educational growth.” Read more here.
Dear Media: Abortion is Not Medicine, by Katie Yoder. “Abortion and medicine are opposing terms; not interchangeable ones. Medicine promotes the welfare of human beings and saves lives every day. Abortion destroys a life that, from the moment of conception, contains a unique set of DNA. Instead of being a disease to fight, the unborn child is a patient to protect.” Read more here.
The Birth Control Wars Return to the Supreme Court. And This Time, Conservatives Have the Votes, by Ian Millhiser. “Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases, Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania and Trump v. Pennsylvania, which could write the final chapter in a multi-year struggle over whether employers with religious objections to birth control may deny insurance coverage of contraceptives to their employees.” Read more here.
Religious Persecution Pandemic Needs Cure, Too, by Tina Ramirez. “Sadly, this pandemic of religious intolerance and persecution is growing — spreading faster and further every year. More than 8 out of every 10 people live in a place where governments put severe restrictions on freedom of religion and belief.” Read more here.
WHO’s Horrifying Sex Ed Guidelines Are Enough Reason to Defund Them, by Matt Walsh. “It is the opinion of the degenerates at WHO that four-year-olds ought to be masturbating. Children at school don’t need to hear anyone’s opinions about sex — especially not that opinion. But that’s what sex ed always comes down to: opinions. And if the curriculum is developed and taught by hedonistic perverts, the children will be taught hedonistic and perverse opinions. There is no way around it.” Read more here.
Education Magazine Publishes Letter Criticizing LGBT Tyranny, Teachers Have Meltdown, by Everyday for Life Canada. “If schools intend to create true inclusive environments then they must work at making schools places where people can respectfully disagree. If the only positions that teachers, administration and students may hold are the ones that fully support those who identify as lgbtq, then we end up excluding others in the name of a fake ‘inclusion.’” Read more here.
How Feminists Are Keeping Abortion on the UN Agenda During COVID-19 Shutdown, by Stefano Gennarini. “Two competing draft resolutions emerged at the UN this week on the impact of COVID-19 on women. One of the main disputes in negotiations is over national prerogatives on abortion.” Read more here.
Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: A Primer, by Benjamin Boyce, Dr. Lisa Littman and Sasha Ayad. “What I saw in these narratives, a lot of things that were surprising to me, is that the parents described, one, that the kids seemed to get worse the more that they announced or took steps; they became really somewhat distrustful of or hostile toward their parents… And they described how the clinicians basically said that the only answer is to get on board with transition and otherwise you’re transphobic.” Read more here.
The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions: The Risks, by Jane Robbins. “Dr. Stephen Levine highlights biological, social, and psychological (mental health) risks in medically ‘transitioning.’ Without explaining these risks and determining that the patient fully understands them, a medical practitioner has failed to obtain informed consent—if such consent is even possible.” Read more here.
Why Pro-Lifers Should Question the Agenda of the World Health Organization, by Samantha Kamman. “WHO has partnered with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in the past to promote abortion and various sexual practices. This collaboration has included promoting the idea that programs geared towards encouraging sexual abstinence are harmful to ‘young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.’” Read more here.
Coronavirus Highlights Differences Between Men and Women, by Binary Australia. “The ABC is usually one of the greatest champions of the gender fluid agenda. But even they have had to concede that the differences between men and women are substantial and crucial when it comes to health.” Read more here.
Access to Abortion Isn’t the Crisis the Abortion Industry Says It Is, by Pamela Whitehead. “I’ve seen women change their mind about abortion almost instantly… They need to be seen, heard, and listened to. Abortion clinics don’t do any of that. Their main goal is to commit as many abortions as physically possible within a certain time frame. There is no real counseling that happens inside abortion clinics. It’s a complete farce that the abortion industry cares about women.” Read more here.
An Active Faith May Hold the Key to a Longer, Healthier Life, by Elisa Di Benedetto and Larbi Megari. “Social and medical sciences are increasingly finding evidence to support how religion promotes better health, including living longer.” Read more here.
Planned Parenthood’s Ambassador to CBS News, by Alexandra Desanctis. “[CBS News Correspondent Kate Smith] tends to hide her liberal beliefs about abortion in devious language, referring to herself, for instance, as a reporter covering ‘abortion access’ — a euphemism wielded exclusively by the most vigorous activists for unlimited legal abortion.” Read more here.
Media Defend ‘Essential’ Abortion During the Coronavirus: ‘Will This S*** Ever End?’, by Katie Yoder. “All too often, abortion is used as a crutch – the great straw man – to distract from the real issues… But there’s something that both abortion supporters and the pro-life movement can agree on: Abortion is time-sensitive. That’s because, without it, a pregnancy still ends – in the birth of a precious human person.” Read more here.
The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions: The Paradigm, by Jane Robbins. “Assisting a gender dysphoric patient in “transitioning” without laying out the full panoply of medical, psychological, and social consequences violates the physician’s ethical obligation to obtain truly informed consent.” Read more here.
World Abortion Leaders Exploit Pandemic to Advance Self-Managed Abortions, by Patrina Mosley. “By placing the burden of inducing abortions completely on women—despite the fact that the health complications that often result from an induced chemical abortion are eerily similar to those of ‘back-alley’ abortions – it is evident that the abortion industry has no regard for human dignity whatsoever – for the child or the mother.” Read more here.
It’s Unethical to Use Fetal Tissue in COVID-19 Research, by Christopher O. Tollefsen. “The use of fetal tissue from aborted human beings in medical research predicates the health of some on the deliberate destruction of the lives and health of others. That predication is incompatible with the fundamental commitments of medicine. In the face of this global crisis, we must hold to our ethical principles more firmly than ever.” Read more here.
TV-Viewing Habits and the Happiness Gap Between Married and Unmarried Adults, by Peyton W. Roth and W. Bradford Wilcox. “The data presented here reflect the reality that marriage continues to be an important anchor for Americans’ lives… Prime-age adults who experience unsuccessful marriages or who never marry tend to spend more hours in the day in front of the television screen, which likely has important ramifications for the happiness and satisfaction of these groups.” Read more here.
Why Child Abuse is More Likely in Polyamorous Homes Like the Woman with Four Boyfriends, by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning. “The mountain of data on family structure reveals children fare best in the home of their married mother and father. For overall child well-being, any two (or five) will not do.” Read more here.
Another Reason to Ditch the World Health Organization is Its Shocking Sex Propaganda for Kids, by Kimberly Ells. “A standing ovation might be in order for the Trump administration and any other administration with the political will to socially distance itself from the sexually corrupt United Nations’ World Health Organization.” Read more here.
Abortion is Planned Parenthood’s ‘Essential’ Billion-Dollar Business, by Melanie Israel. “Abortion proponents insist that ‘abortion is healthcare’ and that it’s no different than any other procedure. But when push comes to shove, from health and safety standards for abortion clinics to postponing elective procedures during the middle of a pandemic, the abortion industry wants special treatment and exemptions that other practitioners comply with.” Read more here.
Mom Celebrates Her Teen’s Puberty-Blocker Induced Early Menopause, by Libby Emmons. “Allowing children to make irreversible decisions about whether they will be able to be parents once they are adults should not be an accepted medical practice. Undergoing elective menopause at 15 years old should not be celebrated.” Read more here.
Facts Don’t Matter to This Police Department, by Binary Australia. “The police have been ordered to operate under compelled speech. They have been ordered to use whatever pronouns the criminal may prefer. I thought police work was meant to be based on facts!” Read more here.
COVID-19 Brings Out America’s Worst: The Shameful Abortion Industry, by Sue Thayer. “Abortion is the service offered by Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice providers that makes them the most money. Quite literally, they cannot afford an abortion ban. What they care about is their own bottom line.” Read more here.
Rise in Young Men Bored by Mainstream Pornography Turning to Child Sex-Abuse for Kicks, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Exposure to pornography at a young age can often lead men to seek out increasingly perverse versions of porn in their search for novelty (many studies have confirmed that pornography functions like a drug), and now digital pornography is creating a generation of pedophiles…” Read more here.
Survey Shows Culture’s Role in Mass-Producing LGBT People, by Bill Donohue. “What these findings suggest is that to a large extent, the LGBT community is a cultural phenomenon, not a biological one.” Read more here.
Abortion Activists Change the Term ‘Surgical Abortion’ to Dehumanize Unborn Babies Even Further, by Micaiah Bilger. “Mahone admitted that the term ‘surgical abortion’ has been widely used by doctors and even abortion activists for many years. However, she argued that the change to ‘procedural abortion’ is necessary for their cause.” Read more here.
A Shutdown That Could Save a Million Lives Every Year, by Matt Walsh. “I would like to suggest that if we are pursuing a policy of shutdowns to save lives, we only need to close one type of business. It’s the one that kills a million babies a year in this country. We can argue about the other shutdowns, but anyone who really wants to protect human life should agree that this is the best place to start.” Read more here.
Sex ‘Education’ Brainwashing Never Stops Even While Schools Are Closed, by Everyday For Life Canada. “One would think that the sex activists would have relented somewhat during this coronavirus shutdown of public schools. But parents beware because they haven’t. The sexual brainwashing continues unabated.” Read more here.
A Virus More Deadly Than Corona Has Burrowed Into the Brains of Americans, by Pat Fagan. “Though the Corona virus infects many more that it kills, its deaths are painful and scare the living daylights out of us. But another virulent virus has taken over the minds and hearts of 75% of America: an indifference to marriage.” Read more here.
UN LGBT Expert Wants to Punish Religious Opponents, by Austin Ruse. “Opponents of the proposed annual report warned that this new office would go far beyond merely producing evidence of violence against gays and would push to make ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ new legal categories of non-discrimination and that religious opponents would be demonized.” Read more here.
Bill Gates-Backed Organization Provides Abortion Pill Access Across the Globe, by Carole Novielli. “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a known financier of pro-abortion organizations, is also funding an international ‘family planning’ organization that distributes the abortion pill worldwide. DKT International operates ‘offices in 24 countries’ and boasts that it is ‘one of the world’s largest providers of family planning.’” Read more here.
The Sad, Intolerant Legal Campaign Against Christian Baker Jack Phillips Continues, by Brad Polumbo. “This whole affair … shows once again that many in the activist Left, particularly, self-described gay and transgender advocates, no longer seek the noble goals of equality or dignity but rather punishment and humiliation for religious holdouts who do not fully embrace their dogma.” Read more here.
Chemical Self-Abortions, the (Other) Looming Deadly Crisis, by Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Logical consistency is no object; abortion proponents argue it’s too dangerous to leave home, but not to take abortion drugs without medical supervision.” Read more here.
A Portrait of Contemporary Family Living Arrangements for U.S. Children, by Wendy Wang. “Children in America today are growing up in much more diverse family settings than they did a few decades ago. In 1970, more than 80% of American children lived in a home with married parents. Today, the share is about 64%.” Read more here.
U.N. Report Promotes Abortion, LGBT ‘Rights’ Over Human Rights, by Emily Kao and Shea Garrison. “By focusing on the promotion of abortion and LGBT+ rights, the U.N. report turns the focus away from serious and pressing issues facing women and girls worldwide. Women comprise 52 percent of the victims of human trafficking each year, but the report makes no mention of this or of the work that religious groups do to combat it.” Read more here.
Finally, a Court Case in Alabama May Start to Decimate Roe v. Wade, by Rachel Alexander. “Abortion is becoming abhorrent to more and more people in society as technology advances and it becomes increasingly obvious that a fetus is a living, breathing person. Abortion proponents can fight back all they want, but they are on the side of a losing battle. It’s just a matter of time. The tide has turned in conservative states and will ultimately move to the last bastions of resistance in blue states.” Read more here.
Abortion is Not an Essential Health Service Now or Ever: How Pro-Abortion Activists Get Women’s Healthcare Wrong, by Brian Fisher. “Abortion is never the correct moral choice – and there is no need to think it is some sort of physical or emotional necessity for women experiencing hardship. Real healthcare doesn’t sell abortions; real healthcare puts women in a position to reject abortion and choose options which provide for the health and vitality of both mom and baby.” Read more here.
UN Religious Freedom Report Fails to Protect Freedom, by Andrew P.W. Bennett. “Religious freedom is inherent to us as people. It is a freedom with which no state, coercive non-state actor, or multilateral body such as the United Nations should interfere—it is not theirs to give or take away. Religious freedom must not be subverted to serve any particular political agenda.” Read more here.
Three Reasons ACLU is Dead Wrong in Trying to Redefine Sex, by Ryan Everson. “The ACLU would have the Court discard all sex-specific employment policies. That means no more women’s-only showers, restrooms, locker rooms, overnight facilities, or professional athletic teams. As a recent ACLU tweet proudly proclaimed on International Men’s Day, ‘Men who get their periods are men.’ And ‘Men who get pregnant and give birth are men.’” Read more here.
Is Marriage a Buffer Against Loneliness Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic?, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Peyton W. Roth. “Our analysis of the survey indicates that marriage acts as a buffer against loneliness for Americans stuck at home, shielding many men and women from feelings of isolation… Even those who were in a cohabitating relationship were more likely to report feeling lonely or isolated at least once than married men and women. Because it supplies people with not only another adult with whom to ride out the pandemic but also higher levels of commitment, marriage may engender a heightened sense of connection for men and women in this difficult time.” Read more here.
Family Still Matters for Key Indicators of Student Performance, by Nicholas Zill. “The results of this analysis of data from a large nationwide survey of students show once again that student performance cannot be understood apart from the family dynamics. At the same time, the findings of this and earlier studies show that students from single-parent and step-families are not all alike in their academic performance and classroom behavior.” Read more here.
Idaho Becomes First State to Protect Female Athletes From Competing Against Males, by Ryan Everson. “Idaho has provided female athletes the level playing field they deserve, and other states would be wise to follow suit. Otherwise, they will learn Connecticut’s lesson the hard way, and our nation’s daughters will continue to pay the price.” Read more here.
Coronavirus Emergency Measures Remove Safeguards Around ‘Home Abortions’, by Philippa Taylor. “The previous President of the [Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists] and vociferous abortion campaigner, Lesley Regan, has said that ‘abortions should be treated no differently from other medical procedures – including something as simple as removing a bunion.’ The irony now is that bunion removal requires fully informed consent, provision of information on its risks, and the direct, face to face, involvement of medical professionals. Bunion removals are not arranged by texts or emails and then left for the patient to carry out!” Read more here.
Sex Ed Bill in Washington State Gets Lots of Boos but Where Was the Religious Community?, by Julia Duin. “Religious folks were very involved in opposing it, but you would have never known that fact by looking at the sparse news coverage … The bottom line, in terms of journalism: I get very suspicious when something that smells of Planned Parenthood gets zero serious press coverage.” Read more here.
Virginia Wants Nurse Practitioners to Be Able to Commit Abortions but Not Help Kids in Foster Care, by Kristan Hawkins. “In other words, a handful of pro-infanticide delegates believe nurse practitioners should be able to kill babies, but trained state employees shouldn’t be allowed to help kids find foster or adoptive parents faster.” Read more here.
Restrict Abortion During COVID-19, by Star Parker. “Five states — Texas, Ohio, Alabama, Iowa and Mississippi — that are prohibiting nonessential medical procedures during the novel coronavirus health crisis have included abortion among these nonessential procedures. These measures have been taken with one objective in mind: saving lives. To suggest otherwise is cynical and obscene.” Read more here.
Coronavirus Exposes Planned Parenthood’s Biggest Lie, by Washington Examiner. “The abortion giant chose to close many of its health centers due to concerns about the coronavirus last week and instead focus its resources on abortion clinics, which have reportedly experienced an uptick in business over the past few weeks.” Read more here.
Proxy Wars Over Religious Liberty, by Ryan T. Anderson. “A movement that claims merely to want personal freedom (‘live and let live’) first repeals laws that purportedly limited their freedom, then uses government to subsidize their preferred choices, then to mandate that other people subsidize them, and finally to punish anyone who disagrees with them.” Read more here.
Can Religious Freedom Survive COVID-19? by Benjamin Marcus. “Despite the reservations I would otherwise have as a religious liberty advocate who is grounded in Jewish history, I fully support the government’s decision to limit religious gatherings to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.” Read more here.
A Down’s Syndrome Foetus Deserves Equal Protection, by Dr Gillian Wright. “It is an interesting (or concerning) paradox of our age that we uphold diversity and promote inclusion but have a programme to allow elimination of those with disability before they are born.” Read more here.
Forget Coronavirus, the Abortions Must Go On, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “As the number of cases of COVID-19 across the U.S. has begun to rise in recent weeks, some insist that now is the time to focus on … abortion … As doctors and nurses struggle to find the supplies they need and work round the clock to keep COVID-19 patients alive and healthy, Planned Parenthood is busy soliciting your help while they keep the doors open to end unborn human lives.” Read more here.
The Empirical Case against “Conversion-Therapy” Bans, by Paul Dirks. “Although it is the disastrous consequences of a conversion therapy ban for gender identity that have generated the most concern, there is also an important argument to be made against bans from the standpoint of compassionate counseling for those who have faced childhood trauma. Research over the last decade has solidified the finding that sexual minorities are far more likely to have faced adverse experiences during childhood.” Read more here.
Professor Sanctioned for Not Using Transgender Pronouns Not Giving up Fight Against Censorship, by Nicole Russell. “While I understand the university’s case that it does have a vested interest to honor a student’s wishes, I also understand Meriwether’s case, that it does not seem constitutional, due to the First Amendment, that a public university can force a professor to violate his religious beliefs or compel speech against his will.” Read more here.
The Intolerance of Tolerance, by Greg Koukl. (video) “Tolerance now means the opposite of what it once meant. ‘Tolerance’ now means ‘intolerance,’ and ‘intolerance’ now means ‘tolerance.’ Confusing? Yeah, I know … To be tolerant today simply means you agree with politically correct, that is, left wing positions. That’s all it means. This is easy to show. Name one position that differs from the Left that they don’t label intolerant. When you differ with the left on any subject, and I mean any, the people who claim to be tolerant don’t attack your position, they attack you.” View it here.
Teen Detransitioners Are Telling Their Stories on YouTube, by Blaire White. “Many of the teen detransitioners on YouTube cite falling into trans activist circles online as a contribution to the mistake they made … What used to be a medical issue that a small but very real segment of the population sought help for has now become politicized and popularized to the point where you’re not TRULY WOKE unless you have some sort of alternative gender identity.” Read more here.
A Counselor Explains How Conversion Therapy Bans Can Cause Harm, by Sasha Ayad, Licensed Professional Counselor. “As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I provide individualized psychotherapy with gender-questioning teens and consult with parents whose children began experiencing gender dysphoria around the age of puberty. My clinical cases indicate that banning the thoughtful exploration of gender identity can prevent clinicians from properly assessing patients and from developing holistic treatments. I offer this personal testimony to explain how current conversion therapy bans prevent vulnerable patients from receiving appropriate psychological care.” Read more here.
Empty Halls, No Abortion Language, Frustrates Feminists at UN Women’s Conference, by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. “There was hardly any applause as speakers delivered remarks at the scaled down Commission on the Status of Women on Monday. The disappointment was palpable in the General Assembly Hall … Pro-abortion governments and allied UN officials are increasingly frustrated with U.S. pro-life foreign policy. The U.S. position has helped countries express their opposition to abortion in UN debates.” Read more here.
The Truth About Trans Must Be Defended, by Mei Ling. “Why are trans activists so afraid of questions and statements which are grounded in basic biology? So much for inclusivity and a grasp on reality, not to mention common civility! Must the whole world conform to their perception? Do ‘trans rights’ override the basic human right of free speech?” Read more here.
As the Supreme Court Considers Abortion Regulation in Louisiana, DC Moves to Ban All Regulation, by G. Kevin Donovan and Xavier Bisits. “The nation’s capital has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in black maternal mortality, yet the D.C. Council is set to absolve itself of responsibility for reasonable, common-sense regulation.” Read more here.
Getting Access to Abortionists Who Hurt Women Isn’t Empowerment, by Mayra Rodriguez. “I worked at Planned Parenthood in Arizona for 15 years, and the number of women I saw harmed by abortionists would shock even the most ardent abortion supporter … I was fired because I reported the gross incompetence of the attending physician, how the number of women who experienced complications under his hand was so much higher than other abortionists, and how shady business practices were interfering with the health of our patients.” Read more here.
The Biggest Cause of the Marriage Crisis, by Suzanne Venker. “Until recently, marriage and family were not only viewed as a singular unit but often seen as the ultimate goal and purpose of life. It was not our jobs or our careers that mattered most in life but our families. Today, marriage and family is viewed as a possible (but not vital) accompaniment to an otherwise fulfilling life. It’s something that happens, if it happens at all after people get their lives in order.” Read more here.
Embedding LGBT Ideology in the Curriculum Carries Serious Risks for Young People, by Belinda Brown. “Children are being taught that sexual relationships with your own sex or the opposite sex are both equally desirable. But this simply isn’t true. Children need to understand that all human beings are equal. However, when it comes to lifestyles, our different choices have costs and benefits attached. For example, being gay can leave a person more vulnerable to relationship instability, mental health problems, dangerous sexual practices and exposure to disease.” Read more here.
Australia Needs a Public Inquiry Into Transgender Medicine for Kids, by Michael Cook. “In Australia, as elsewhere in the developed world, doctors and parents are perplexed about an epidemic of young people, mostly teenage girls, who want to change gender. Back in August the Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, asked the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) for advice on how to treat gender dysphoria in children and adolescents. The RACP’s answer, released last week, is baffling. It responded that (a) this is a very complex issue about which we doctors know very little and (b) we mustn’t tell the public to know how ignorant we are.” Read more here.
Sanity Prevails in Alabama on Transgenderism, by Bonchie. “Using kids as human Petri dishes to satisfy the woke wants of a certain segment of our adult society is not freedom. It’s abuse and it should be treated as such. We don’t allow a mother to give their child cocaine for obvious reasons. Giving kids hormone blockers and drugs that can chemically castrate them before they even reach the age of consent is just as insane.” Read more here.
California Throws the Books at Undercover Reporter Who Exposed Baby Body Trafficking, by Thomas Brejcha. “The accused, David Daleiden, used standard media undercover techniques to investigate and expose Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetus body parts. While the use of undercover techniques like Daleiden’s is a controversial practice even within journalism circles, Daleiden’s upcoming jury trial has far wider implications for journalists. Namely, can and should government criminalize undercover reporting, which historically has revealed otherwise hidden wrongdoing of all kinds?” Read more here.
Woke Walmart Introduces Pronoun Buttons for Workers, by David Marcus. “The buttons, which are available for Walmart employees to purchase, are the wokest of flair for people who aren’t satisfied just doing the bare minimum. Four buttons have come out so far: one that says ‘He/Him/His,’ one that says ‘She/Her/Hers,’ one that says ‘They/Them/Theirs,’ and one that says ‘Ask me my pronouns.’” Read more here.
What Is ‘Conversion Therapy’? by Madeleine Kearns. “As is often the case, politics is making us dumber, and there is a crucial distinction being lost here. Whether it is ethical, in a therapeutic context, to try to change the erotic preferences of an adult patient — a homosexual who desires to be heterosexual — is a debate, and one that many would probably prefer to avoid. Whether it is ethical, in therapy, or indeed in medicine, to try to change the material sex of a child or an adolescent who believes himself to be of the opposite sex — that’s another debate, and one that we must have.” Read more here.
No, Pumping Kids Full of Puberty Blockers Is Not Like Denying Asthmatics an Inhaler, by Chad Felix Greene. A new study, published in the January issue of the medical journal Pediatrics … is being celebrated as proof that using puberty blockers in children is positive, even “life-saving” … The concerns regarding the safety of puberty blockers in children suffering from gender dysphoria are complex, but it seems the scientific justification for their use is becoming more an exercise in affirmation than objective study. This newest study is a prime example of this bias. That experts are citing this new study immediately and without question should strongly concern both the medical community and the public.” Read more here.
Scottish Government Muddles Sex and Gender – and Plans to Legalise the Confusion, by Dr. Rick Thomas. “Biological sex is immutable – it cannot be changed. Leaving aside those (fortunately) rare intersex disorders of sexual development, sex is a biological binary – male or female – based on a person’s chromosomes, anatomy, physiology and reproductive system. For the vast majority of people, including those who may later identify as trans, biological sex is easily determined at birth and is not disputed. The trans person has at some stage come to the view, held sincerely, that their true inner identity is incongruent with their biological sex.” Read more here.
Why ‘Gaying Up’ Straight Marriages Would Make Them Worse, Not Better, by Glenn T. Stanton. “It is well established and widely admitted that same-sex relationships (legally married or not) break-up at startling higher rates than opposite-sex ones do … Just one study presenting long-term data on lesbian ‘marriages’ in the deeply affirming nations of Scandinavia show that these ladies break up at a stunning 77 percent greater than same-sex male unions.” Read more here.
Mental Health Advocacy for Gender Dysphoric Youth, by Andrè Van Mol, MD. “British general practitioner Sally Howard wondered in The BMJ, ‘… The significant majority of children do resolve their gender ID in favour of their natal sex by adulthood. Where is the advocacy for the mental health needs of that majority?’ Where, indeed. Our sexed bodies are such objectively, immutably from conception, and evidenced in every nucleated cell we possess … In contrast to biological sex, gender is an engineered term leveraging linguistics contra biology. Nouns have gender, people have a sex. Whereas sex is biological, gender is ideological.” Read more here.
Can States Protect Women from ‘Unsafe’ Abortion? by Alexandra DeSanctis. “In the course of defending its law, Louisiana has provided abundant evidence that abortion providers in the state have a history of violating other state laws, offering substandard health care, and refusing to ensure that staff members are competent medical professionals. ‘The admitting privileges requirement performs a real, and previously unaddressed, credentialing function that promotes the well-being of women seeking abortion,’ the Fifth Circuit wrote in its opinion upholding the law.” Read more here.
Drag Queens Dancing Suggestively for Kids While Adults Cheer is Simply Child Abuse, by Michael Brown. “It’s tragic and perverse enough that drag queens reading to toddlers is now a national and international craze. But a new video takes things even further, as a scantily-clad drag queen dances suggestively in front of a little girl seated in a chair. Even worse, the adults in the room seem delighted with this act of public child abuse.” Read more here.
If Girls Want to Be ‘Candid’ About Abortion on TikTok, They Should Livestream It All, by Joy Pullmann. “I dare any mainstream media outlet or abortion organization to go full transparent. To preserve the mom’s privacy, you don’t have to show her face. Just show the procedure. Nothing to hide, right? Everything to celebrate, right? Own that rhetoric. Prove it’s true.” Read more here.
FDA Willing to Protect Unborn Babies Against Birth Defects But Not Murder, by Bernadette Tasy. “To take the pro-abortion ‘bodily autonomy’ argument seriously, society must allow women to do anything they want with their bodies and their unborn children. A notable theoretical circumstance includes a woman taking thalidomide, a drug banned by the FDA for use on pregnant women because it causes severe birth defects, purposefully malforming her child to gain sympathy. Should the woman be allowed to do this since it is ‘her choice’ before the baby is born?” Read more here.
RE: Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal Ideation, by Scott S. Field, MD, and Den A. Trumbull, MD. [Letter to the Editor of the journal Pediatrics by members of the American College of Pediatricians] “Given the controversy surrounding the practice of puberty suppression for gender dysphoric adolescents, the article by Turban et al. creates more confusion than clarity. The authors imply causal evidence for a reduction in suicidal ideation with transgender adolescents who received puberty suppression (PS), yet they fail to acknowledge the exceedingly high rates in both groups of suicide ideation (75% and 90%) and suicide attempts (42% and 51%).” Read more here.
Study Finds High Lifetime Number of Sexual Partners Linked to Increased Cancer Risk. The study published in BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health found that people who have had 10 or more sexual partners during their lifetime may have increased odds of being diagnosed with cancer. Read more here.
A Law to Protect Abortion Survivors Shouldn’t Be Necessary, but It Is, by Russell Moore. “Even as Americans debate abortion, surely it isn’t too much to expect our government to protect, at minimum, the life of any person once he or she is born. Because no matter how hard some might try, there is simply no logic, even in the abortion lobby’s best talking points, that could begin to justify such callous neglect.” Read more here.
The Transgender Suicide Myth Exposed, by Michael Cook. “Only a serious reason could justify this brutal mutilation of an 18-year-old’s healthy body. The ghastly and perfectly foreseeable consequences are sterility, possible surgical complications and a lifetime of medication to maintain the appearance of the chosen sex.” Read more here.
The Cowardly Republicans of South Dakota, by Madeleine Kearns. “The Vulnerable Child Protection Act, introduced in the South Dakota House of Representatives … would deter doctors from experimenting on gender-confused minors with hormones and surgeries by forcing them to consider the long-term consequences — if not for their patients, then for themselves.” Read more here.
Bank Reverses Decision, Picks Kids Over LGBT Activists, by Tony Perkins. “Seven hundred kids. That’s how many students would have lost their scholarships—and a chance at a better life—if Fifth Third Bank hadn’t come to its senses. Instead, after a week of uncertainty, the company sat down with Florida parents and pastors and decided not to listen to Florida’s cultural bullies. It’s one thing for a company to support LGBT extremism. It’s quite another, the bank agreed, to hurt needy children in the process.” Read more here.
Think LGBT Cultural Changes ‘Won’t Affect You’? Here’s the Ugly Way They Do, by Jonathan Van Maren. “Some trans activists are openly claiming that any parent showing insufficient enthusiasm for ‘gender affirmation treatments’ is guilty of negligence or even abuse, despite rising numbers of teenagers who are realizing, too late, that surgery was not the right answer for them … In fact, the Journal of Medical Ethics recently suggested that children might be taken away from their parents if the parents disallow their underage children to pursue transgender surgeries.” Read more here.
Inside Social Media’s War Against Pro-Life Information, by Peter Hasson. “Big Tech’s hostility to pro-lifers isn’t terribly surprising in light of how close it is with Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry. Google employees openly support and fundraise for Planned Parenthood inside the company.” Read more here.
Promises Kept: The Trump Administration Has Paved the Way for Promoting the Culture of Life, by Stefano Gennarini and Grace Melton. “The Trump administration has elevated pro-life diplomacy to new highs and has created new pro-life expectations for all U.S. administrations going forward … But despite this unprecedented attention to pro-life concerns, international policy on abortion remains mostly unchanged, largely because the pro-abortion European Union virtually controls UN social policy.” Read more here.
2 Gay Students Are Suing a Seminary. Here’s Why It Matters, by Nicole Russell. “A man and a woman, both in same-sex marriages, have sued Fuller Theological Seminary for discrimination after it expelled them over their same-sex marriages … This case raises significant questions: Does expelling a student for entering a same-sex marriage count as discrimination for legal purposes? And if Fuller has discriminated, should it lose access to federal funding? If so, how would that bode for the hundreds of other similar Christian schools?” Read more here.
Speaking Up for Female Eunuchs, by Helen Joyce. “Every study of pre-pubescent children with gender dysphoria has found that the great majority become comfortable with their birth sex before reaching adulthood. Many turn out to be gay. Now, however, clinicians regard their condition as signalling a cross-sex identity. Transition stories in parents’ blogs and newspaper articles tell of little boys who demand long tresses, dolls and tutus, and little girls who demand buzzcuts, trucks and dungarees—and parents and doctors who conclude that such children are ‘really’ of the opposite sex and must have their bodies fixed to match. Read more here.
Abortion and Sex Trafficking Are Undeniably Linked Abuses Against Women, by Patrina Mosely. “Across numerous global studies of sex-trafficking survivors, abortion is a consistent part of the story. Both abortion and sex-trafficking are businesses that exploit women, sometimes in tandem as organizations such as Planned Parenthood enable the abuse for profit. And both are an affront to human dignity.” Read more here.
Faced With Gender Propaganda at the Hockey Rink, One Coach Says No, by Anna Slatz. “Minivans stuffed with hockey gear and parents sipping drive-thru coffee rink-side are quintessential Canadian suburban scenes. But since 2018, the world of hockey moms and dads has become just another venue for the spread of what one Ontario hockey coach describes as culture-war propaganda.” Read more here.
Transgender Athlete Makes History and Shows Conservative Objections Aren’t About Bigotry, by Brad Polumbo. “Athlete Chris Mosier made history this week as the first transgender man [biological female] to qualify and compete at an Olympic trial … You might have expected, given the woke Left’s insistence that conservatives are ‘transphobic,’ ample attacks on Mosier or backlash to his success. Nope. Almost no one minded it at all.” Read more here.
Modern Feminism’s Hated Enemy: Womanhood, by Kelly Marcum. “Modern-day feminism has succeeded in a spectacular charade, masquerading as a great champion for women while spewing antipathy for men and groaning over the burden of children. But at its core, its real hatred is for womanhood itself. According to the narrative that has dominated feminist discourse since the 1960s, women are weak until we strike out every feminine trait that distinguishes us from men.” Read more here.
The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement, by Jennifer Bilek. “Not long ago, the gay rights movement was a small group of people struggling to follow their dispositions within a larger heterosexual culture. Gays and lesbians were underdogs, vastly outnumbered and loosely organized, sometimes subject to discrimination and abuse … Today’s movement … has become a powerful, aggressive force in American society. Its advocates stand at the top of media, academia, the professions, and, most important, Big Business and Big Philanthropy.” Read more here.
‘Provocative’ Gender Dysphoria Expert Gives Vital Speech at Mcgill, by Barbara Kay. “Sadly, we now see parents who pretend for the sake of ‘wokeness’ that it is a matter of indifference to them whether their child is comfortable in his or her natal sex or prefers to transition. We even see parents who establish an artificial environment of gender neutrality to create a level playing field between the two outcomes. They win fawning plaudits from a vocal band of activists, but the silent majority of people are appalled by such social engineering, the use of one’s own children as gender-theory lab rats.” Read more here.
Faith and Family Play a Bigger Role in Academic Achievement Than Race or Socioeconomic Status, by William Jeynes. “The phrase ‘achievement gap’ refers to the well-documented discrepancies between the scholastic achievements of African American and Latinos on the one hand and white students on the other. What explains the gap? My meta-analysis revealed that if an African American or Latino student was a person of faith and came from a two biological parent family, the achievement gap totally disappeared, even when adjusting for socioeconomic status.” Read more here.
The Creation and Inflation of Prevalence Statistics: The Case of “Conversion Therapy,” by Christopher H. Rosik, Ph.D. “People of good will on both sides of the debate over SOCE and GICE should experience deep compassion for the suffering experienced by so many sexual minorities. Compassion, however, cannot replace sober scientific analysis when research is purported to support if not compel legislation and public policy that impinges on unspecified aspects of professional practice and curtails the free speech rights of licensed mental health providers and ethical religious counselors.” Read more here.
Social Liberal Is Silenced Over Belief That There Are ‘Only 2 Sexes,’ by Nicole Russell. “Progressives not only have weaponized language in a way that’s well beyond what society has deemed normal for centuries, but they also now want to force the rest of society to use language the same way. In essence, participate or be shunned, ostracized, or labeled traditional or mean.” Read more here.
The abortion debate boils down to one thing: Whether it’ okay to kill babies, by Claire Chretien. “In America, you can legally be killed – and, in fact, your murder will be celebrated, politicized, and maybe even funded by taxpayers – as long as you are smaller and less developed than bigger, stronger humans. As long as you’re inside your mother’s body and dependent on her, you’re fair game for an abortionist’s forceps or suction vacuum or heart attack injection.” Read more here.
A Flawed Study Claims that Few Women Regret Abortion, by Michael J. New. “Researchers sought participants at more than 30 abortion facilities located in 21 U.S. states and found 667 women who obtained abortions to participate. However, less than 38 percent of the women they asked actually agreed to take part in the study. It seems likely that the women who made themselves available for the study might have had either a higher level of decisional certainty or fewer moral qualms about obtaining an abortion, skewing the results.” Read more here.
4 Potential Consequences of Passing the Equal Rights Amendment, by Jarrett Stepman. “Perhaps one of the clearest results of the ERA would be that it would almost be impossible to exclude women from the draft. At 18 years old, women would have to sign up for Selective Service just like men. Though the reinstatement of the draft in the near future is unlikely, in any case in which the draft was deemed necessary, women would be included due to the ERA.” Read more here.
The Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Statement on Puberty Blockers Isn’t Just Deceptive. It’s Dangerous, by Michael Laidlaw. “But do we know with certainty that all of the effects of the medications for stopping normal puberty are fully reversible? Has the FDA determined that there is scientific evidence to validate this claim? Have there been any rigorous long-term studies addressing this question? Is social transition truly harmless? Is it ethical to continue this experiment on children? The answer to all of those questions is no.” Read more here.
In the Past 5 Years, the Transgender Explosion Has Wounded More and More People, by Walt Heyer. “I have a new warning for parents of trans kids, based on the past five years of experience. Be extremely aware and wary of school authority figures—teachers, counselors, social workers—and the internet. These often collaborate to misguide teens toward gender change.” Read more here.
Fighting Porn Addiction (1), by Michael Cook. “Given the ever-growing body of research, it can no longer be denied that repeated porn exposure has a tangible effect on consumers, and is connected to declining relationship satisfaction as well as various forms of exploitation. This isn’t a moral argument, it’s simply something to consider given the facts.” Read more here.
Transgender Surgeries Now Covered by Illinois Medicaid Program, by Alex Nitzberg. “The Illinois Medicaid program will now cover transgender surgeries for qualifying patients in the Prairie State. In Orwellian fashion the procedures for so-called gender transition are referred to as ‘gender-affirming’ when in reality they do not affirm biological and anatomical realities but instead affirm a person’s perceived gender identity.” Read more here.
The Reality of Sex and the Lie of “Gender Self-Identity,” by Amy Welborn. “There’s a lot to say and lot to do and much to resist, but here’s the bottom line at the present moment: Resist and reject ‘gender self-identity’ in all spheres of life, including the law. That is to say: you are not a woman because you believe you are; you’re not a man because you’ve decided you are. You’re a woman because you are an adult human female. You’re a man because you are an adult human male. You may be wearing a dress and a wig, but you are still a man. Adult human male.” Read more here.
Weak Data, Small Samples, and Politicized Conclusions on LGBT Discrimination, by Mark Regnerus. “That anti-gay discrimination can diminish psychological and physical health is widely acknowledged. But with society’s recent changes in norms and values, there is little evidence that chronic, repetitive, and intense discrimination based on sexual orientation remains a health issue.” Read more here.
New York Pressures OB-GYNs to Perform Abortions or Leave Medicine, by Regina Frost. “I cannot take the life of a child in one room and guide another child into this world in the next. Nor can I care for one elderly woman while helping another end her life. That would not only undermine my most deeply held religious beliefs and my medical judgment, but also the oath I took as a medical professional.” Read more here.
The Counterfeit ‘Honesty’ of Polyamory, by Daniel Frost and Hal Boyd. “Proponents often tout polyamory as an ethical, ‘consensual’ form of non-monogamy. However, a recent survey, co-sponsored by the Wheatley Institution and Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life, found that less than half of women who had been in a consensual non-monogamous relationship said that both partners desired the arrangement equally.” Read more here.
Transgender Clinics Are Ruining Young Lives, by Walt Heyer. “Gender clinics blithely guide 18-year-olds through the radical steps of gender transition, but abandon them later when they regret it. After exploiting these troubled and vulnerable youths, the clinicians often want nothing more to do with them, and even deny the existence of regret among patients they assisted in transitioning.” Read more here.
What is Online Porn Teaching Our Children?, by Mark Butler, Julie Haupt, Jacob Gossner, Hal Boyd and Daniel Hilton. “Decades of research document myriad harms of pornography, hardly justifying a laissez faire attitude toward adolescent exposure to sexually explicit material. There are strong correlations, for example, between early encounters with pornography and potentially unhealthy sexual pathologies and behaviors.” Read more here.
2019
5 Worst Moments of 2019 for Life and Family [at the UN], by Susan Yoshihara. “Even as the U.S. and a coalition of other sovereign nations promoted a strong pro-life agenda at the United Nations in 2019, UN staff and the United States assiduously removed protections for vulnerable women and children, lowering UN standards on prostitution, child pornography, and the buying and selling of children, and shaming traditional countries for their laws on human sexuality.” Read more here.
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why, by Lisa Marchiano. “The detransitioners I see in my practice are all female, and they are all in their early twenties. At the time they became trans-identified, many were suffering from complex social and mental health issues. Transition often not only failed to address these issues, but at times exacerbated them or added new issues.” Read more here.
The Era of Protected Belief, by Madeleine Kearns. “Maya Forstater was a researcher and writer fired for her belief that women have sex-based rights and for her disbelief in transgenderism (that a person can change sex). The judge decided that the case had failed the fifth point of the Grainger test because her belief in the immutability and binary nature of sex was in conflict with the fundamental rights of others. To be clear: Forstater’s comments — courteously and reasonably expressed — were made outside the workplace.” Read more here.
Decade in Review: Marital Norms Erode, by Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George. “Law shapes culture; culture shapes beliefs; beliefs shape action. The law now effectively teaches that mothers and fathers are replaceable, that marriage is simply about consenting adult relationships, of whatever formation the parties happen to prefer. This undermines the truth that children deserve a mother and a father — one of each.” Read more here.
How Gender Fluidity Wrecks Both Feminism and Transgenderism, by Georgi Boorman. “First transgenderism destroyed the meaning of womanhood. Now, gender-fluidity and non-binary have destroyed the meaning of transgender. And the whole chaotic, destructive process is based on feelings over concrete, objective truth.” Read more here.
Transgender Athletes Playing Competitive Sports Was a Rising Policy Issue in 2019, by Nicole Russell. “The year 2019 saw an uptick in male athletes besting females in female-only sports, citing their transgender identity. Now, lawmakers in three states—Washington, Tennessee, and Georgia—have proposed legislation that would place restrictions on transgender athletes in sports. Might legislation quell this new wave of transgender activism and make sports fair again?” Read more here.
Regulate Pornography: See Centuries of State Obscenity Laws, by Jesse Miriam. “Our lenses have been distorted by the very subject we are trying to analyze. We inhabit a world saturated with the most salacious images imaginable. As a result, we cannot clearly see the harm they have created within our lives. Indeed, there is mounting scientific evidence that Judge Philips in Harmon (1891) was precisely right that ‘familiarity with obscenity blunts the sensibilities.’ Pornography invades our neurological circuitry and transforms how we view sexual intimacy, other people, and ourselves. This impairment makes us unreliable regulators of our own behavior.” Read more here.
Should We Teach Kids About Porn’s Harms? Yes, and Here’s How, by Thomas Lickona. “The sexual revolution normalized pornography. The Internet made it ubiquitous. Why should we be concerned about porn’s effects on our children’s sexual attitudes and behavior—and how can we talk to them about it? Unfortunately, exposure to Internet pornography is happening at younger and younger ages. Experts estimate that in the U.S. and UK, the average age at which boys begin to access Internet pornography is now 11.” Read more here.
Male Transjacking Will Ultimately End Women’s Sports, by Kaeley Triller Haver. “For those tempted to believe the male takeover of women’s sports is such a fringe issue that it’s not likely to be an important or frequent enough problem to merit any concern, think again.” Read more here.
These 2 Cases Show Why Trans ‘Rights’ Could Upend the Rights of All, by Nicole Russell. “By caving to a few students’ demands for policies based on transgender ideology, school administrators are championing the feelings of a few over the privacy and safety of the many, even though gender identity does not have protected status in federal civil rights laws like sex, religion, and ethnicity.” Read more here.
The Document That Reveals the Remarkable Tactics of Trans Lobbyists, by James Kirkup. “People and organisations that at the start of this decade had no clear policy on or even knowledge of trans issues are now enthusiastically embracing non-binary gender identities and transition, offering gender-neutral toilets and other changes required to accommodate trans people and their interests. These changes have, among other things, surprised many people. They wonder how this happened, and why no one seems to have asked them what they think about it, or considered how those changes might affect them.” Read more here.
When Adults Pursue Transgender Fantasies, Children Suffer. I Would Know, by Denise Shick. “The truth is that many children, regardless of their age, feel shame and embarrassment about their family situation. The pressure to accept or protect the ‘transitioning’ parent can generate anger, fear, and anxiety as well as loneliness and feelings of abandonment. Sometimes the children’s prolonged and unresolved grief leads to depression, eating disorders, or substance abuse.” Read more here.
A Tyrannical Minority and Silent Majority, by Madeleine Kearns. “Is it surprising that [transgender] activists rely on the ignorance of the media and general public to push their agenda? Not really, when you consider how obviously dangerous and wrong that agenda is. But there’s more to it. As is most often the case, the success of a tyrannical minority depends on the cowardice of the majority. Not on their action, but on our inaction.” Read more here.
Compelled Sexual Affirmation in the School Bathroom, by Gerard V. Bradley. “Plausible estimates of the number of self-identified transgender students in high schools across the country range anywhere from two to three percent up to nine percent of the total student body. And there is good reason to expect that, as ‘compelled affirmation’ policies and the wider elite-cultural promotion of transgender identity proliferate, so too will the number of confused high-school students. Copy-cat sexual identity questioning is already a documented phenomenon.” Read more here.
Transgenderism and the Olympics, by Ned Barnett. “Next year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically correct touchstone. Men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women’s Olympics, triggering a very public debate on this third-rail subject … The International Olympic Committee — the IOC — recently admitted that it couldn’t come up with fair guidelines governing how and when ‘transgender women’ (that is, men) can compete as women, against actual women.” Read more here.
The Left Claims There’s An ‘Epidemic’ Of Anti-Trans Hate Crimes. They’re Lying. Here Are the Facts, by Matt Walsh. “[Andy] Ngo received the punishment from [Twitter] after he attempted to correct misinformation from Chelsea Clinton. The former First Daughter decided to ring in this year’s ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ by spreading the outrageous and dangerous, yet exceedingly common, lie that trans people are falling victim to a hate crime epidemic.” Read more here.
A Dark Day for Free Speech as Judge Bans Parents’ LGBT Protests, by Will Jones. “Protests should never have been necessary. But the school’s refusal to engage with the parents or show sensitivity to their concerns shows exactly why the right to protest is essential – the necessary last resort to stop schools from trampling on parents’ rights over the education of their children … With each passing day the truth becomes clearer: that in the future, no dissent will be tolerated.” Read more here.
When She Came Out as a ‘Boy,’ Therapists Silenced Her Mother, by Douglas Murray. “Even if there are some people who actually suffer from gender dysphoria, and even if for some of them life-changing surgery is the best possible option, how might they be differentiated from people who have such ideas suggested to them but who later turn out to have made the wrong decision for themselves?” Read more here.
When Will Transgender Clinical Activists Acknowledge Detransitioners? by Madeleine Kearns. “There has been next to no research into the phenomenon of detransition. Despite this, clinicians are proceeding with high-risk and irreversible treatment for gender-confused patients. This is particularly distressing in relation to children. The gender youth clinic at Britain’s National Health Service has seen 10,000 young people in the last three decades.” Read more here.
The Money Behind the Transgender Movement, by Kelly Riddell. “The bathroom debate started in California, where the Gay Straight Alliance Network, an organization based in Oakland, has been lobbying hard for transgender rights … They’ve created Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs in more than 61 percent of California school’s [sic] and have advocated for and achieved 11 pro-LGBT laws in the state, including a 2013 bill that allowed students to join sports teams and use the bathroom of their gender preference.” Read more here.
Abortion “Logic”: Kill Kenyan Children in the Womb to Prevent Killing Outside the Womb, by Laura Nicole. Because of desperate poverty or truly horrific conditions or abuse, infanticide is a growing practice. [Some] believe the solution to this horrific killing is to facilitate more killing — but with abortions. The desperate conditions of women and girls in Kenya must not be papered-over. Mothers are told to feed Coca Cola to their unwanted newborns in order to kill them. Others throw babies into rivers, or latrine pits, or abandon them in the woods, or by a train station, because they lack the resources to feed themselves or other family members. Upsettingly, some ‘medical professionals’ will also kill newborns, born into buckets of water, with hammers.” Read more here.
Media Hype Planned Parenthood Abortion App, Ignore Pro-Life Ones, by Katie Yoder. “Abortion tells women they can’t – they can’t have a child and succeed. But the pro-life movement says that women can. Women can give birth and choose adoption. Women can raise a child and pursue an education or career. Women can have a family and lead a fulfilling life. The media shouldn’t shy away from informing women: Abortion apps aren’t the only ones out there. Abortion isn’t the only option.” Read more here.
The Tragedy of the ‘Trans’ Child, by Madeleine Kearns. “In truth, it’s progressive attitudes that are victimizing the child, and James Younger is not an outlier. There are many more just like him, and some in even more dire straits. For years, the medical and legal establishments have been ignoring evidence and bending their standards to please transgender activists, some of whom are clinicians.” Read more here.
I Feel Like a Natural Woman … Because I Am, by Libby Emmons. “The only way that the trans narrative gains traction is by proclaiming that women are nothing more than a feeling. If that’s true, then anyone who feels like they are a woman can be one, and anyone who doesn’t feel like a woman can opt out. It is only through the eradication of biological sex as a determining factor that trans ideology makes any sense. While the going line has been that trans people are ‘just born that way,’ gendered minds in sexed bodies, a new account is coming to the fore, one that makes trans a choice, not an orientation.” Read more here.
Pro-Trans Advertising Doesn’t Reflect Most of America, by Nicole Russell. “To hear college students and corporate consumer-product commercials tell it, gender fluidity is so normal, popular even, that they’re simply communicating these ideas as a way to reflect the new progressivism in America. Only that’s not exactly the case. Their ideas aren’t at all in sync with the rest of the country. Still, that doesn’t stop college students from talking about the ‘infinite’ number of genders, or corporations from selling Sprite with a commercial about transgenderism and breast-binding to boot, minus any mention of the soft drink itself.” Read more here.
New York Requires Religious Schools, Churches, Hospitals to Hire Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBT Employees, by Holly Scheer. “New York has taken a strong stand against both religious freedom and life causes this year, with three laws that push forward an ethical climate in the state completely incompatible with liberty, true health care, and allowing people to live according to their consciences. These laws push an intrusive agenda, overreaching into every part of people’s lives, including into whether churches can hire and fire people for doctrinal issues.” Read more here.
Why Are There No Celebrated Trans Ballerinas or Gymnasts? Easy: They Are Males, by Doug Mainwaring. “Men who pretend to be women can’t perform and excel in sports that belong solely to women so apparently they’re not even trying. Doing so would shatter the fragile illusion that men can be women. As one young man who aspires to be a ballerina recently admitted, ‘I really was surprised to see that pointe [dance performed on the tips of one’s toes] wasn’t as easy and graceful as other girls made it.’ No wonder. Leotards, tutu, and preferred pronouns notwithstanding, he’s a guy.” Read more here.
‘It’s a Game’: The Travesty of the Daleiden Case, by Mairead McArdle. “Perhaps the most telling moment of all the lawsuits occurred in that case, when longtime California abortionist Dr Forrest Smith testified, shockingly, on behalf of Daleiden, saying that even he cannot support Planned Parenthood’s reckless modus operandi when it comes to procuring fetal body parts. ‘There’s no question in my mind that at least some of these fetuses were live births,’ Smith told the court when asked whether the controversial, more aggressive abortion procedure Planned Parenthood executives describe in one of the undercover videos could result in the delivery of a live infant. ‘Very few people in abortion, outside of Planned Parenthood, do that.’ Read more here.
New York Times Comes Up With ANOTHER Euphemism For Baby’s Heartbeat, by Hank Berrien. Last May, The New York Times decided to refer to a baby’s heartbeat in the womb with a term designed to camouflage there was a real baby there, using the term ‘embryonic pulsing’ to describe the heartbeat. On Monday, the Times decided to utilize another euphemism for the baby’s heartbeat, referring to it as ‘the pulsing of what becomes the fetus’s heart.’” Read more here.
Author Brilliantly Deconstructs 4 Arguments Made by Pro-Abortion Activists, by Frank Camp. “A video was recently posted to the ‘Students for Life of America’ Facebook page showing how easily pro-abortion arguments fall apart under scrutiny. While the video – a speech by Catholic author Trent Horn – is not itself new, it warrants examination.” Read more here.
Why the Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Case Will Likely Hit the Supreme Court, by Margot Cleveland. “No matter the outcome of that appeal, expect the Supreme Court to weigh in on this important constitutional question. When the court does, watch too for the mainstream media to sacrifice its interests in a free speech and a free press to the altar of abortion.” Read more here.
1 Year After Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job,’ by Walt Heyer. “Less than a year after having gender surgery, Nathaniel now says, ‘This whole thing was a bad idea. I am 19 years old, and I feel as though I have ruined my life.’ It’s heartbreaking each time I get a letter from someone who underwent gender-change surgery and regrets it, especially someone as young as Nathaniel.” Read more here.
4 Feminist Lies That Are Making Women Miserable, by Suzanne Venker. “The messages to women about how to have a happy life—as it relates to love and sex, work and family—have merely served to make women miserable. Not only are they unhappier than their mothers and grandmothers ever were, they’re significantly more stressed out; much more so than men … While there’s more than one reason for this sad state of affairs, at the heart of it are the lies feminists have been telling for years.” Read more here.
New Data Show “Gender-Affirming” Surgery Doesn’t Really Improve Mental Health. So Why Are the Study’s Authors Saying It Does? By Mark Regnerus. “Data from a new study show that the beneficial effect of surgery for transgender people is so small that a clinic may have to perform as many as 49 gender-affirming surgeries before they could expect to prevent one additional person from seeking subsequent mental health treatment. Yet that’s not what the authors say. That the authors corrupted otherwise-excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries.” Read more here.
Significant Challenges Remain Before Women Enjoy Same Status With Men, by Kyle McCarter. This week, thousands of people have gathered for the Nairobi Summit … And while we appreciate Kenya’s desire to host this week’s conference as a recognition of progress, the reality is that pro-abortion groups are using it as a vehicle to try and further their agenda … For example, the term ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)’ is being sold as if it were akin to the original consensus terms of sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. This is an attempted overreach, as ‘sexual rights’ is a concept undefined by intergovernmental consensus.” Read more here.
Here Is What Parents and Activists Say About Austin’s Progressive Sex Education, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “An Austin, Texas, school district plans to implement explicit sex education in 2020, but parents and activists warned that this is an agenda-driven curriculum they fear sexualizes their children as young as 8 years old.” Read more here.
Does Marriage Really Make Us Healthier and Happier? by Dr. Marina Adshade. “The cautious answer to this question is, yes: married people do appear to be happier than people who are not married, including people who are never married. And, in fact, … marriage appears to make women happier than men … The larger issue is that people who are happy with their lives are also more likely to get married.” Read more here.
Liberals Continue Fight Against Religious Freedom for Adoption Agencies, by Tony Perkins. “It’s hard enough to get the truth out on a level playing field—but in today’s news, it’s downright impossible. The left has disinformation down to a science, especially when it comes to LGBT issues. That’s dangerous in any situation—but on the president’s new adoption rule, it could mean the difference between a child finding a home and growing up without any love at all.” Read more here.
Immigrant Women 1; Jessica Yaniv 0. Meanwhile, ‘Trans’ Politics Takes a New Turn, by Carolyn Moynihan. “A ruling by a Canadian human rights tribunal last month against transgender woman Jessica Yaniv was welcome news to anyone who had begun to wonder just how far official protection of transgender expression would go. But there are aspects of the case that leave it far from clear that it has drawn a line in the sand of transgender rights.” Read more here.
The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It’s Only Been 96 Years, by Maggie Astor. “The amendment was ratified by only 35 of the necessary 38 states before a 1982 deadline. Nearly four decades later, in 2017, Nevada became the 36th. In 2018, Illinois was the 37th. Now, Virginia’s incoming Democratic leaders have promised to take it up immediately when the legislature convenes in January — and given that it failed in the Virginia Senate by only one vote when the body was under Republican control, passage is almost assured.” Read more here.
What They Don’t Tell Women About Chemical Abortions Will Hurt You, by Bradley Mattes. “The chemical abortion pill, marketed as Mifeprex and referred to as a medication abortion, is the future of the abortion industry. The number of chemical abortions in America has increased dramatically while the overall tally of abortions has declined. Those who advocate for and provide this abortion drug almost always downplay the excruciating process that awaits unsuspecting women, doing a grave disservice to them.” Read more here.
The UN Is Holding An $8 Million Abortion Summit in Africa, by Elyssa Koren. “Cairo makes clear that abortion is not to be used as a method of family planning, and paints abortion in a negative light. It states unambiguously that abortion laws are to be decided at the domestic level — defending national sovereignty from U.N. imposition. Moreover, it addresses a multitude of other topics ranging from health at large, to nutrition, economics and more, which Nairobi fails to capture entirely.” Read more here.
What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard, by Louise Perry. “I do not believe that autogynephilia per se—or any other paraphilia or sexual orientation—can be extirpated through treatment. In my opinion, people can be taught not to do what they want—when what they want is harmful to themselves or others—but they cannot be taught not to want what they want.” Read more here.
Against Gender-Neutral Bathrooms, by Madeleine Kearns. “This year, Yale law-school students successfully sued the state of Connecticut for single-occupant all-gender restrooms … Though Yale has not made public how much this cost, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, another campus in California spent $150,000 on a new gender-inclusive, single-occupancy restroom.” Read more here.
The Quest to Ban Selective Abortion, by Alexandra DeSanctis. “Two years ago, CBS News published a report praising Iceland for ‘eradicating Down syndrome births.’ The article’s headline promised to give readers a glimpse ‘inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing.’ But, as it turned out, Icelandic doctors hadn’t been pioneering cures for the chromosomal disorder; they’d been overseeing a medical system in which nearly 100 percent of pregnant women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome choose abortion.” Read more here.
Will Gay Rights Trump Religious Freedom?, by Luke Goodrich. “Ward’s case offers an example of how the ‘abortion’ model can resolve conflicts between gay rights and religious freedom. In the abortion context, the law recognizes a right to abortion, but it also recognizes the right of conscientious objectors to live by a different moral view. It allows conscientious objectors to step aside. This doesn’t mean doctors can stop women from getting abortions, but it means they can’t be forced to participate.” Read more here.
YouTube Won’t Let a Medical Doctor Say This Sentence, by Katrina Trinko. “This is not about how you think children experiencing gender identity issues should be treated, but whether you think there should be an open conversation on this topic, so that parents can make informed decisions about what’s best for their child. Censoring a medical doctor doesn’t put YouTube on the right side of history. It just shows that it’s a big tech company prioritizing the preferences of the activist left over free speech for all.” Read more here.
The Troubling Rise of Do-It-Yourself Abortions, by Tessa Longbons, “In 2014, 12% of abortion facilities treated a woman who had attempted a do-it-yourself abortion and suffered complications, but by 2017, that figure had reached 18%. That percentage may still be increasing because of Aid Access, a relatively new abortion organization that aims to push self-induced chemical abortions on the United States.” Read more here.
Missouri Has One Abortion Clinic. Here’s What’s Going on in Planned Parenthood’s Fight to Keep it Open, by Mary Margaret Olohan. “Planned Parenthood is fighting to keep the last abortion clinic in Missouri open as health officials say that the clinic violated mandated health requirements and that the clinic refused to cooperate with mandated inspections … The closure of the clinic would make Missouri the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since 1974.” Read more here.
Sexually Explicit Books Were Put in These Virginia Classrooms. Parents Want Answers, by Anna Anderson. “Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged after discovering that thousands of books were placed in classrooms across the school district this year as part of a new “Diverse Classroom Library Initiative.” While most of these books focus on introducing kids to different cultures and ethnicities, parents began to discover that an alarming number of the books focused on ‘sexual diversity,’ contain sexually explicit language, including ‘frequent descriptions of underage drinking, fondling, masturbation, orgasms, oral sex, sexual intercourse, sexual abuse, statutory rape, incest, and rape.’” Read more here.
Could the Threat of Lawsuits Rein in Gender Dysphoria Doctors?, by Michael Cook. “A lawyer from one of Australia’s leading class action firms, Slater & Gordon, told The Australian that ten years ago she had won a confidential settlement for a man who underwent gender change at Melbourne’s original Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic. He told her: ‘I have just the same amount of psychological distress as before (transition) and now I’ve got all these physical (complications from transition) as well.’” Read more here.
Rachel McKinnon Is a Cheat and a Bully, by Madeleine Kearns. “Rachel McKinnon — the so-called defending ‘ champion’ of women’s track cycling — is a man. I’ll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued. He is a man. Maybe my kind-hearted reader is offended by this blunt phrasing. Why am I calling McKinnon a man — when, perhaps for complicated reasons, he would rather be called a woman? Why don’t I compromise and call him a ‘trans woman,’ as others do? Or be polite and address him by ‘she/her’ pronouns, like everyone else in the media?” Read more here.
The Hard Questions About Young People and Gender Transitions, by Andrew Sullivan. “Earlier this week, I met a group of women in their early 20s who are not supposed to exist. They’re women who, in their teens, realized that they were actually men, socially transitioned to the other sex, and then underwent hormone therapy to change their bodies, faces, and voices to become transgender men. After varying amounts of time, however, they all realized they had made a big mistake, stopped testosterone therapy, and ‘detransitioned’ back to being who they were before.” Read more here.
Parents Speak Out: How Health Care Professionals Failed Their Daughter, by The Kelsey Coalition. “In just 45 minutes, a licensed therapist determined that our 12-year-old daughter was a boy. This occurred just two weeks after the first time our daughter ever expressed any form of interest in being the opposite sex. The therapist knew that this was a very recent statement, she knew our daughter obsessed for years about being the very ideal of femininity and that she developed a severe eating disorder. The therapist had all of that information. Yet this professionally-trained therapist told us that our daughter was in fact, a boy.” Read more here.
Pornography is a Public Health Crisis, by Kurt Mahlburg. “Like so many aspects of the sexual revolution, our decades-long experiment with porn has provided us with mountains of research about its culture-wide impact. Its links to mental health problems, sexual dissatisfaction, infidelity and even crime have led American lawmakers to declare porn a public health crisis in 16 states. ‘Porn’s not hurting anyone’ has to be one of the biggest lies ever told.” Read more here.
Kids are Lab Rats in School Boards’ Transgender Social Engineering Experiments, by Cathy Ruse. “No one wants to see a child in distress, especially a child suffering from sex confusion. But solutions like dedicated private bathrooms, or strengthening anti-bullying policies, were shut down. Because it’s not about bathrooms. It’s not about bullying. It’s about forcing all children and families to change their behaviors, their speech, and ultimately their beliefs, to conform to the new government-mandated social orthodoxy. It’s about power and politics.” Read more here.
‘Cold, Calculated, Institutionalized Child Abuse’: Experts Comment on Gender ‘Transitions’ For Kids, by Madeleine Jacob. “In the wake of the James Younger case, experts and children’s rights activists spoke to LifeSiteNews about the ‘devastation’ of subjecting kids to transgenderism, warning that this phenomenon is a ‘social contagion’ with horrible consequences.” Read more here.
Divorce Rates Are Falling, but Put a Hold on the Celebration, by Alan J. Hawkins And Betsy Vandenberghe. “Divorce is, unquestionably, here to stay, offering extrication from deeply troubled, abusive, or necrotic marriages. Yet the most common reasons for divorce — lack of commitment, too much conflict, unrealistic expectations, lack of equality — are all amenable to help and resolution. Most divorces, in fact, are preceded by moderately happy, low-conflict marriages, not dangerous, miserable, or high-conflict relationships.” Read more here.
LGBT Activists Won’t Admit Anything’s Wrong With A Man Flashing Children During Drag Queen Story Hour, by Chad Felix Greene. “The reality is that behind the positive ideals and open and inclusive messaging, the loosely organized events nationwide have caused some genuinely serious concerns for parents … For example, a drag queen performed a song containing profanity and took off layers of clothing while dancing provocatively at a children’s event. At another children’s event, adults passed out condoms, sexual items, and phallic-shaped bookmarks with sexual education material.” Read more here.
Trans Athletes Destroy the Meaning of Women, Then Ask ‘What is a Woman?,’ by Georgi Boorman. “The question of who is a woman has gone from a scientific finality to a ‘cultural inquiry,’ because the end goal of gender ideology’s proponents is to separate identity as a whole from biology. You are what you think you are, not what physical reality reveals you to be.” Read more here.
Normalizing Polyamory, by Rod Dreher. “Last night I got into a Twitter argument with a couple of Catholic guys who don’t understand why I write about everything as if it’s a crisis. My answer is that because we really are in a social meltdown … Things are falling apart rapidly, with the leading institutions in our society having embraced the collapse, and advocating for it as progress. Like Flannery O’Connor said, ‘To the hard of hearing, you shout.’” Read more here.
When They Come for Your Kid, by Rod Dreher. “Do you understand what’s happening here? Within the medical profession, physicians and others who do not agree with the maximal claims of gender ideologues are being driven out of their jobs … It means that you cannot accept stated medical opinion as definitive. There is no consensus in this field.” Read more here.
A Man Won Gold in Women’s Cycling (Again). When Will We Say ‘No More’?, by Nicole Russell. “Science supports what most people intuitively understand: that men and women are physiologically different. Those differences give men certain advantages over women. Anyone who accepts sex segregation in sports understands this, and it’s why many women are outraged at biological men moving into women’s sports.” Read more here.
Dispute Over Texas 7-Year-Old May Prove a Legal Setback for Transgender Movement, by Robert Hutchinson. “The legal dispute between a formerly married Texas couple over whether their 7-year-old son should be given hormone-blocking treatments and ‘transition’ to being a girl may turn out to be the straw that finally breaks the transgender movement’s back – at least in terms of public opinion.” Read more here.
A Swedish Team Takes a Critical Look at Treatment For Gender Dysphoria, by Michael Cook. “One of Sweden’s leading experts in child and adolescent psychiatry, Professor Christopher Gillberg, has put himself on the firing line by denouncing experimental sex-corrective treatment. Earlier this year he told the Swedish Parliament that treating young women who want to become men is ‘one of the biggest scandals in medical history.’” Read more here.
Why It’s Probably Not a Coincidence that the Mother Transing Her 7-Year-Old Isn’t Biologically Related, by Katy Faust. “Beyond the ‘tale of two households’ that set up this court battle, and the ideological madness on display in the proceedings, something else about this case deserves our attention: one of the two parents engaged in this custodial tug-of-war isn’t biologically related to little James. Care to guess which one? Do you think it’s the parent who wants to keep him physically whole? It’s not.” Read more here.
Why Detransitioners Frighten Trans Activists, by James Caspian. “The thing that has most disturbed me in all of this … has been the sheer scale of the denial, vilification, ignorance and, at best, silence that has come from trans-activist groups and their supporters on the subject of detransition. In any other field of medical practice, if evidence began to emerge of a practice that so many patients were saying had caused them harm there would be an inquiry into it.” Read more here.
Andrea Long Chu: Liquid Modernity’s Poster Gal, by Rod Dreher. “We’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the casting-off of Chu’s male genitalia … Nearly a year after the surgery, she says she’s feeling more miserable than she’d expected. ‘It’s perversely vindicating,’ she adds with a wry smile. Dressed in a jumpsuit patterned with blue-and-white flowers, she brushes a curtain of curls away from her face with a flip of her wrist, revealing a tattoo of a geometric vulva on the underside of her forearm. ‘It’s very dangerous to get what you want.’” Read more here.
A Detransitioner Jumps Off the Trans Train, by Rod Dreher. “Watching the story, you feel for these people. The mother had no business doing what she did, but medical authorities, which she trusted, told her Patrick was transgender, and then Patrick threatened to kill himself if he didn’t get what he wanted. She loves her son, and wanted to save his life. She ended up very nearly ruining it. Her, and the doctors treating him.” Read more here.
Transing Children is Child Abuse and Should be Punished, by Joy Pullmann. “Our society has laws against child mutilation, and for good reason: Because it is evil. It’s evil when it’s female genital mutilation, it’s evil when it’s double mastectomies on healthy 13-year-olds, and it’s evil when it’s the slow chemical castration of a perfectly healthy eight-year-old boy whose only crime was to playact as the wrong cartoon character in front of his mother.” Read more here.
These Health Violations at Illinois Abortion Facilities Will Make You Sick, by Holly Scheer. “Legalizing abortion in America hasn’t removed the unsafe facilities but instead given women the idea that they’re receiving safe medical services when they often are not. It’s time to call this out.” Read more here.
The Ghastly Practices of Planned Parenthood, by Michael Brown. “Truth is not only stranger than fiction. Truth is also more disturbing than fiction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the abortion industry, where baby parts are meticulously collected and systemically labeled for immediate, profitable sale. Not only so, but all this takes place without the knowledge of the mother, who recovers in a waiting room nearby. And, if the reports are accurate, some of the slicing and dicing is done while the baby is still alive.” Read more here.
I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn’t Popular, by Steve Jacobs. “I have concluded that one of the biggest reasons the abortion debate can’t be bridged is mistrust. I think this is primarily due to the stakes being so high for both sides. One side sees abortion rights as critical to gender equality, while the other sees abortion as an epic human rights tragedy—as over a billion humans have died in abortions since the year 2000.” Read more here.
Heteronormativity Smashers, by Rod Dreher. “Yesterday a video circulated on Twitter featuring Elly Barnes, a British lesbian who heads the charity ‘Educate and Celebrate.’ Their mission is to transform schools into LGBT-friendly places. In yesterday’s video, in the first couple of minutes, Barnes openly says that the goal is to ‘…completely smash heteronormativity…’ first in the schools, and then in society.” Read more here.
Canadian Court Strips Father of Rights, Allowing Teen to Transition Against His Wishes, by Nicole Russell. “The father’s rights have not fared well. In addition to stripping him of his right to have a say in his child’s medical treatments, the lower court ordered the father to use the child’s chosen pronouns, which are now male. This means that if the father uses his child’s birth name, or referred to his child as a girl—her biological sex at birth—it would be labeled ‘family violence’ under the province’s Family Law Act.” Read more here.
Gender Neutral Bathrooms and the Middle School Girl, by Libby Emmons. “At UCLA, a proposed requirement that there be more bathrooms that are inclusive brought backlash from trans and non-binary students, who are concerned that floor-to-ceiling partitions between stalls are discriminatory against trans and non-binary folks, because that’s not how men’s and women’s bathrooms are constructed. In this case, inclusivity isn’t about adequate privacy, but adequate exposure.” Read more here.
A ‘New’ Normal? An Updated Look at Fertility Trends Across the Globe, by Lyman Stone. “The data shows that very low fertility rates are becoming increasingly normal across the globe. Current declines are probably not just cyclical, but likely reflect a ‘new normal’ with most countries having birth rates between 1.4 and 1.9 children per woman.” Read more here.
‘Justice’ for Trans Athletes is Unfair to Girls Like My Daughter, by Cheryl Radachowsky. “As a parent, it is gut-wrenching to know that no matter how hard my daughter works to achieve her goals, she will lose athletic opportunities to a pernicious gender ideology. Left unchecked, this ideology will in the long run eliminate fair play for all biological females in all sports. As we are seeing in Connecticut, a biological boy’s subjective sense of his gender doesn’t cancel out his physical advantage over girls.” Read more here.
Transgenderism: Thinking Makes it So?, by Terry Heinrichs. “For eons, we believed human beings came in two sexes, with the occasional Hermes crossed with Aphrodite. Today, however, we have come to learn from some sociologists, philosophers, and psychologists, and even some medical associations and surgeons, that there is no such thing as sex or sex differences; there is only ‘gender,’ or what you think your sex is. All that once was sex has now melted into gender. A name (gender) referring to a belief has replaced the name (sex) and its biological referents.” Read more here.
Why Sex and Gender Are Not Two Different Things, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Sex and gender are no more two different things than a so-called gender non-binary person can refer to himself or herself as ‘they.’ If he insists on doing so, he should have the intellectual integrity and honesty to admit he’s just making stuff up. Such people should certainly not insist the rest of us play along in their illusion. It’s madness and should be denounced as such in any sane and rational culture.” Read more here.
Pedophilia Advocate Admits Conservatives Are Right: Yes, Kid Drag Shows Are Sexual, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It isn’t just conservatives who recognize these drag performances for what they are. Chillingly, pedophilia advocates do as well. In fact, [a noted pedophile] goes so far as to call out those denying the sexual nature of these performances and points out why he believes they are doing so.” Read more here.
What I Learned at an LGBTQ Rally: Part 2, by Madeleine Kearns. “Another parent spoke, her voice wavering only slightly: Did you know that most college students can be prescribed cross-sex hormones while attending school, unknown to their parents? I do. Because Rutgers University medically transitioned my son without my knowledge. Did you know most college health care plans will pay for this? I do. Because the hormones that my son was prescribed cost nothing more than a small co-pay.” Read more here.
In the Latest Supreme Court LGBT Cases, the Democratic Process Is at Stake, by Jeremy Dys. “Pundits and politicians will tell you that Tuesday’s arguments in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, Altitude Express v. Zarda, and R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC hold in the balance whether LGBT employees can be wantonly fired from their jobs. In reality, what is at stake is something far more fundamental to the American way of government: the democratic process.” Read more here.
Conservatives: Happier at Home, Worried for the Nation, by Wendy Wang & W. Bradford Wilcox. “They are the group most worried about American families, but when it comes to their own families, conservatives have an edge over others. More than half of conservatives say they are completely satisfied with their family life, compared with about 4 in 10 of liberals or moderates, according to the new American Family Survey conducted by YouGov.” Read more here.
A Mom Fights for Justice After Her Daughter Claims Gender Fluid Child Assaulted Her in Bathroom, by Rachel del Guidice. “The school system wanted this case to go away. This case was exposing the very risk that we were warning them about, and they really wanted, I believe, this mother to go away and treated her … her horribly, so shamefully, and did not want to meet with her.” Read more here.
Canadian Court Strips Father of Rights, Allowing Teen to Transition Against His Wishes, by Nicole Russell. “The father’s rights have not fared well. In addition to stripping him of his right to have a say in his child’s medical treatments, the lower court ordered the father to use the child’s chosen pronouns, which are now male. This means that if the father uses his child’s birth name, or referred to his child as a girl—her biological sex at birth—it would be labeled ‘family violence’ under the province’s Family Law Act.” Read more here.
5 Things to Know About the Planned Parenthood Baby Body Parts Civil Trial, by Lianne Laurence. “Almost four years in the making, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America vs. Center for Medical Progress lawsuit pits those who practice, advocate for, and profit from unthinkably cruel and barbaric acts on the tiniest of humans against a few individuals who had the tenacity, courage, resourcefulness, and faith to walk into the heart of darkness to expose trafficking in the brains, hearts, livers, lungs, and limbs of pre-born babies. The significance of the case cannot be overestimated.” Read more here.
Ask the Female Rugby Players If Biological Sex Is the Same as Perceived Gender, by Michael Brown. “You knew it had to happen sooner or later. It’s bad enough that biological males are beating biological females in races, both in high school and college. It’s bad enough when biological males are beating biological females in weightlifting contests, setting new world records in the process. But it’s even worse when the men are injuring the women in full contact sports.” Read more here.
The True Effects of Watching Porn, by Rachel del Guidice. “One reason [pornography is] a public health crisis [is] because it’s something that impacts individuals and families beyond their capacity alone to correct. So, you can be the most in-touch parents, reading all of the blogs, putting on all of the parental controls, talking to your kids about the harms of pornography, and you cannot stop your child from being exposed to pornography and from potentially becoming a regular user of pornography.” Read more here.
What I Learned at an LGBTQ Rally: Part 1, by Madeleine Kearns. “’Equal justice under law’ reads the engraving on the front of the Supreme Court, where around 70 campaigners for women’s and children’s welfare (and about 700 LGBTQ activists) were gathered … The Court heard three cases related to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts, which prohibits discrimination in the workplace ‘on the basis of sex.’ But as those in attendance know, these decisions will have further implications about whether sex is defined for legal purposes as anatomical, as observed at birth.” Read more here.
Schooling Social Justice Warriors, by Rod Dreher. “They are teaching kindergartners in public school about the basics of LGBT activism. In first grade, they will be training these kids in the basic of transgender theory. Second and third graders will be writing gender ideology fairy tales for the little kids. And on and on. Middle schoolers will be compelled by their public school to embrace LGBT activism.” Read more here.
U.S. Christian Florist: My Longtime Customer was a Friend, Then He Sued Me Over His Gay Wedding, by Barronelle Stutzman. “As I discussed the engagement story of my longtime customer and friend, hugged him and said goodbye, the Supreme Court was the last thing on my mind. Little did I know that conversation in 2013 would lead me to the high court, which I asked to review my case. If it says no, I risk facing financial ruin.” Read more here.
How Illinois Schools Teach Preschoolers to Celebrate Transgenderism, by Joy Pullmann. “Starting July 1, 2020, all Illinois public schools are legally required to teach children LGBT history and only buy textbooks that include the topic … The explicit goal of such laws, which are also in place in California, Colorado, New Jersey, and Oregon, is to make children agree with the left’s views of sexuality, which contradict the historic views of all major world religions. This is not only the open, stated goal of those pushing such laws but also explicit in the curriculum.” Read more here.
UK Court Decision Affirms Transgenderism is a Religion of Complete Self-Worship, by Nathanael Blake. “The central doctrine of transgenderism is the belief that human will determines reality as we create ourselves. A man who identifies as a woman is therefore a woman and has always been. Social, chemical, and surgical alterations are merely the outward affirmation and outworking of this inward truth, and the imperfections of physical transition do not negate the metaphysical truth of gender identity. Not all people who identify as LGBT accept this radical ideology, but the loudest voices preach it aggressively.” Read more here.
Supreme Court Justices Ponder the Meaning of ‘Sex,’ by Elizabeth Slattery. “The Supreme Court, returning this week for the beginning of its 2019-2020 term, heard oral argument Tuesday in three cases asking it to decide whether the definition of sex in U.S. law includes sexual orientation and gender identity. At issue is the meaning of the word “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the primary federal law prohibiting discrimination in employment.” Read more here.
The Chilling Case of Dr. Mackereth, by Madeleine Kearns. “The reason Mackereth feels so strongly about pronouns — strongly enough to lose his job over it and to be mocked mercilessly on national television — is that he believes that the immutability of sex is both a moral and a scientific truth.” Read more here.
What the First Nonbinary American Wants the Supreme Court to Know About Transgenderism, by Nicole Russell. “Unfortunately, all of this turned out to be delusional thinking. By the end of the charade, I’d come to the realization that my sex change was a failure and a hoax and by then I was just as desperate to escape being legally classified as female as I was previously was to solve my mental health problems.” Read more here.
Stop Appropriating My Gender, by Marina Medvin. “In his amicus brief to the Supreme Court, Dr. McHugh tried to wipe away the political nescience that has muddled the legal issues on gender, comparing sex to blood type in his explanation of how resolute sex truly is: ‘The language of “assigned at birth” is purposefully misleading and would be identical to an assertion that blood type is assigned at birth. Yes, a doctor can check your blood type and list it. But blood type, like sex, is objectively recognizable, not assigned.’” Read more here.
What You Need to Know About the Major Abortion Case the Supreme Court Just Took, by Margot Cleveland. “It is not just the new composition of the court making this case consequential, both legally and politically. The case proves of further significance because the details buried in the briefing expose the abortion industry as a self-interested player putting women’s health at risk under the false flag of Roe v. Wade.” Read more here.
I Spent a Year as a Trans Man. Doctors Failed Me at Every Turn, by Sydney Wright. “I can’t wrap my head around all that I’ve done to myself in the last two years, much less the ‘help’ that some health care professionals have done to me. Two years ago, I was a healthy, beautiful girl heading toward high school graduation. Before long, I turned into an overweight, pre-diabetic nightmare of a transgender man.” Read more here.
What’s at Stake in Supreme Court’s ‘Sex Discrimination’ Case, by Ryan T. Anderson. “This week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in cases that ask whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment discrimination on the basis of sex, extends to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and transgender status. It’s an odd legal argument, given that the public meaning of the word ‘sex’ in 1964—and today, for that matter—refers to our status as male or female, not our sexual attractions, desires, actions, or identity.” Read more here.
We Must Fight the Sexualization of Children by Adults, by Andrea Jones and Emily Kao. “In education, the United Nations promotes Comprehensive Sexual Education around the world. In America, groups such as Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign, and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network promote ‘comprehensive’ sexual education, which includes instruction about homosexual practices, transgender theory, and abortion.” Read more here.
A Physician is Worried About Gender Transition in Pediatrics, by Julie W. Mason, MD. I’ve learned that if I refer a patient to the gender clinic, they are going to get the maximalist treatment. They’re not going to get any help figuring out if they really need the full medical/surgical transition. I am now wary of referring to the gender clinic. I’ve learned that there are hundreds, probably thousands of “detransitioners.” Read more here.
Puberty Blockers: Toxic Conversion Therapy for Transgender Kids, by Dr. Michael K. Laidlaw. This is a brief video excerpt of a longer speech given by Dr. Laidlaw, an endocrinologist, who is speaking out on the harmful effects of puberty blockers given to gender-confused children. Watch it here.
Will the Justices Be Bold on Abortion? by David French. “The unborn child never gets the chance to define anything. The ‘attributes of personhood’ are defined for it, sometimes by the ultimate dehumanizing instrument of a doctor’s dismembering vacuum tube.” Read more here.
A Blinkered View of Pornography Leads to Disaster for Children by Michael Cook. “Wouldn’t you think that there would be a correlation between a surge in child pornography and an explosion in adult pornography? A slippery slope in pornography is just a hypothesis, of course, but mightn’t a taste for the legal stuff lead to a taste for the illegal stuff?” Read more here.
Transgenderism is Leading America Over a Cliff and Nobody Is Putting On the Brakes by Peter Skurkiss. “Transgenderism is a revolt against normalcy. It is something that would have been hard to imagine just a few short years ago. And yet, here it is in an advanced stage that’s affecting medical ethics, the law, and even women sports. Current trends show the landscape for “LGBTQ” rights are fast evolving to give these people the same legal status under the law as, say, racial minorities. In the media, transgenders are typically presented as persecuted minorities.” Read more here.
Kids Resist Gender-Neutral Bathrooms, Push Back Against Pro-Trans Adults by Jonathon Van Maren. “I sometimes wonder if the adults creating and imposing these policies remember anything at all about growing up, going through puberty, or being a teenager. Would they have wanted to sit in the bathroom stall next to the girl they had a crush on? Or vice versa? Would they have wanted to use the same change rooms as awkward teens from the opposite gender, just as their bodies were changing and they were trying to make sense of everything? Did they not stop to consider that essentially eliminating privacy for boys and girls—or pretending, with brazen asininity, that there is no difference between the two—would make difficult years even harder?” Read more here.
Once Again, Progressive Anti-Christian Bigotry Carries a Steep Legal Cost by David French. “In the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, it turns out that such rhetoric has cost the state a crucial court ruling, granted a Catholic adoption agency a vital victory, and demonstrated — once again — that anti-religious bigotry can (and should) carry substantial legal costs.” Read more here.
Trans: The Sexual Revolution Turns Totalitarian by Rod Dreher. “[Douglas Murray’s] trans chapter is sympathetic to the challenges faced by people with gender dysphoria. His objection is not to the phenomenon, but to the ideological bullying around the topic. There is only one approved opinion, and anyone who doesn’t share it (and doesn’t stay silent) faces personal and professional destruction.” Read more here.
Mainstream Media Misses the Story Behind U.S. Abortion Decline by Michael J. New. “A far better explanation for the long-term decline in this country’s abortion rate is that a higher percentage of unintended pregnancies are being carried to term. Guttmacher’s own data shows that in 1981, almost 54 percent of unintended pregnancies resulted in an abortion. That number fell to 42 percent in 2011. Mainstream media outlets that have covered America’s abortion decline have almost completely overlooked this fact.” Read more here.
In California, the Right to Gender ‘Transition’ Is Threatening Religious Liberty by Nicole Russell. “In 2016, Minton scheduled a hysterectomy with a surgeon at the hospital to aid in the transition process from female to male. A couple days before the surgery was set to occur, the hospital became aware of the situation and cancelled the procedure, citing its core religious beliefs … Even though Dignity Health offered to find another hospital willing to do the hysterectomy, and another non-Catholic, Dignity Health hospital ended up doing the procedure, Minton went forward with the lawsuit. Read more here.
Stigmatizing and Prosecuting Pornography by Gerard V. Bradley. “What can be (and should be) the role of criminal prosecution in tackling a phenomenon with which so many millions of people are involved, and which now enjoys considerable social approval? How can criminal law and its enforcement productively contribute to ameliorating what is, now, a widespread cultural problem?” Read more here.
No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’ by William J. Malone, Colin M. Wright, and Julia D. Robertson. “Instead of offering counseling, medical professionals now are commonly telling children that they may have been ‘born in the wrong body.’ This new approach, called ‘gender affirmation,’ makes gender dysphoria less likely to resolve, pushing children down the path toward irreversible medical and surgical interventions. If aggressive transition options are pursued early in puberty, the combination of puberty-blocking drugs, followed by cross sex hormones, will result in permanent infertility.” Read more here.
3 Sickening Truths About Aborted Fetus Trafficking We Learned From the Daleiden Hearings by Madeline Osburn. “New details about the trafficking of aborted baby body parts emerged over the last two weeks, as witnesses and Planned Parenthood employees testified during hearings for undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt … The preliminary hearings … ultimately revealed more about the violent crimes of abortion industry titans Planned Parenthood and StemExpress. Read more here.
Abortion Horrors Buried by the Press by Brent Bozell. “The grotesque nature of abortion and the industry that profits from it is routinely hidden by the national press beneath a gauzy layer of rhetorical blather about ‘a woman’s right to choose.’ It’s drummed into the public daily: Abortion is a precious civil right and a sacrament of feminism, never a death, let alone a murder.” Read more here.
Developmental Appropriateness & the Comprehensive Sex Ed Agenda by the Arlington Parent Coalition. “As transgender activists like Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, GLSEN, Gender Spectrum, and others push more and more radical sexualization indoctrination on younger and younger children, it’s imperative that parents and other decision-makers about children’s education understand what appropriate sexual development really looks like.” Read more here.
Abortion Stops a Beating Heart — Unless it is Being Harvested for Research by Anne Hendershott. “The popular pro-life bumper sticker that proclaims ‘Abortion Stops a Beating Heart’ may no longer be true if StemExpress, the alleged harvester of human fetal hearts, is allowed to continue the practice of removing the still-beating hearts of unborn babies in the process of an abortion.” Read more here.
Coming to a Soccer Team Near You: Rainbow Shoelaces by Nicole Russell. “Athletics, competition, and sportsmanship are a healthy part of young people’s lives. They should remain separate from advocacy couched in political agendas, particularly an ideology that could relay discomfort or harm, or conflict with a person’s values.” Read more here.
Is Gender Dysphoria Socially Contagious? by Dianna Kenny, PhD. “By the time the proponents of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents realise the far-reaching damage they have caused by their unthinking political correctness in supporting gender affirmation, the courts will be clogged with lawsuits brought by transgender adults whose bodies and minds have been irreparably damaged by the zealous compliance to the strident voices of the trans lobby.” Read more here.
Arizona’s Supreme Court Notches a Win for Free Speech, Religious Liberty by Nicole Russell. “The two women in this case would gladly serve gay individuals. As their attorneys explained during the case, ‘These women of deep religious faith gladly serve everyone, including those in the LGBT community; their faith simply prevents them from expressing certain messages for anyone.’” Read more here.
A New Report Shows the US Abortion Rate Is Declining. Here Are 4 Things You Need to Know by Melanie Israel. “Guttmacher’s analysis of the declining abortion rate takes great pains to de-emphasize, erroneously, the impact of state-level pro-life legislation. Instead, Guttmacher emphasizes possible factors such as Obamacare’s contraception mandate. But do contraception mandates actually lower rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion? Not so fast.” Read more here.
A California Court Dealt a Blow to Religious Liberty. It’s Time for SCOTUS to Act by David French. “The California Court of Appeals issued a truly remarkable opinion in a truly remarkable case. It held that a Catholic hospital could indeed face legal liability for failing to perform a hysterectomy as part of a female-to-male ‘transition’ — even though its policy broadly bans sterilization surgery generally (not just for trans individuals) and even though the hospital referred the patient to a non-Catholic facility in the same network. The patient obtained the hysterectomy a mere three days after the original scheduled surgery date and sued anyway.” Read more here.
Meeting the Transgender Moment by Nicole Russell. “School administrators and sports organizations are facing new questions about transgender athletes. Medical professionals are weighing how best to treat transgender patients. The Trump administration and the military are waging with internal battles over transgender Americans serving in the armed forces. When the Supreme Court hears a transgender employment case this fall, we could be looking at the Roe v. Wade—or Obergefell v. Hodges—of the transgender movement.” Read more here.
Are Religious Californians Really Harming the Mental Health of People Who Identify as LGBTQ? by Laura Haynes. “Tell students and therapy clients who have LGBTQ experiences the falsehood that they were born that way, and they will believe they can never change and are without hope. Turn them away from their faith, religious community, and family, and they will be isolated and lose the resilience that comes from religious faith. Refuse to acknowledge the trauma that can underlie LGBTQ feelings, and they will be left living with that secret pain. Do all this, and then punish anyone who tries to treat those wounds, and you will create a recipe for suicide.” Read more here.
Telling the Truth on Trans Issues Got Me Cancelled: One Psychologist’s Story by Oren Amitay. “I have questioned why some mental-health professionals, educators and government officials have allowed the most ideologically extreme trans activists to dictate policy in areas of medicine, psychological counselling, academia and family law—in some cases running roughshod over the rights of not only women and children, but also other members of the LGBTQ community.” Read more here.
Pompeo, Azar Get It Right — UN Has a Role to Play in Fighting Abortion by Grace Melton. “Gender equality language is being used to promote abortion in many international contexts. For example, at the recent G-7 summit, the group’s Gender Equality Advisory Council told assembled leaders that abortion restrictions are impediments to achieving gender equality. Similarly, the term ‘sexual and reproductive health’ is now finding its way into a seemingly infinite number of international declarations, documents, and goals, particularly those pertaining to health or development.” Read more here.
2,246 Fetal Remains Found at Abortionist’s Home Should be the Catalyst to End Abortion by Cathie Humbarger. “What kind of man ignores disposal requirements and pockets the babies he aborts as trophies? … We can’t breathe life back into the 2,246 fetal remains just discovered at Klopfer’s home. But we can demand justice for them. And we can demand that pro-life laws and oversight regulations stay in place until we can completely overturn the scourge of abortion.” Read more here.
7 Things I’ve Learned Since My Child Identified as Transgender by Anonymous. “Our child has been trans-counseled behind our backs not only by school staff but also by neighbors and other parents. We’ve been cut off by friends who insist on using our child’s trans name and preferred pronouns—which we do not use—even though those pronouns have changed multiple times over the past year. These woke warriors can’t even keep up, but they insist they are right and we are hateful. I’ve been told that my child will probably commit suicide because of me.” Read more here.
We Like Heteronormativity and We Don’t Want You to Smash It by Belinda Brown. “Much of the anxiety surrounding the teaching of No Outsiders arises from the possibility that it could create an awareness in very young children of sexual activity, particularly homosexual activity. After all, being gay or lesbian is defined by sexual feeling, so how can children be learning about LGBT without some reference to sex?” Read more here.
Discovery of Fetal Remains at Abortionist’s House Shows the Cruelty of Abortion by Melanie Israel. “This disturbing discovery reminds us that abortion victims rarely receive humane, dignified treatment after the procedure that ends their lives … It is heartbreaking that even in death, after having suffered the violence of abortion, the victims are so often not treated with dignity and care. Read more here.
How the Trans Debate Entered the Classroom by Martha Terry. “Adolescence is a time when we try on various looks and throw them off again — 80 per cent of childhood gender dysphoria resolves during this phase. A 1,000 per cent increase in six years after decades of static figures is abnormal. And if we hurtle headlong into affirming every Jess who wants to be James largely due to fear of being branded transphobic, we’re treating this generation of children as guinea pigs in a dangerous experiment.” Read more here.
Landmark Study Determines There is No “Gay Gene” by Peter Sprigg. “Although evidence for those claims has always been lacking, this study debunks them more decisively than any previous one. It is ironic that those on the Left routinely accuse conservatives of being ‘anti-science’—yet in this case, it is they who fear the results of a serious scientific inquiry.” Read more here.
Transgenderism is a Fad Worth Rejecting by Denise Shick. “Yes, that’s the way of fads; they never live up to the hype. These days, if an impressionable young person wants to impress other impressionable young people, declaring oneself transgender is a sure winner—until the new wears off. Then, if the vulnerable young person took the fad very far, he or she is left with deep physical and psychological scars, probably some big financial debt—and, sooner or later, regrets.” Read more here.
Government Shouldn’t Force Teachers to Use Transgender Pronouns by Nicole Russell. “This does not mandate that the government should treat a teacher’s refusal to address a student with a preferred pronoun as bullying. By default, such a refusal insinuates, even establishes, that a person born as a biological male can’t transition to another gender because, unless androgynous, a person may be only one gender—the gender that matches his sex at birth.” Read more here.
Women Don’t Need Planned Parenthood to Get Affordable Care by Chuck Donovan. “Today, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is one of the wealthiest nonprofit networks in the nation. Its annual revenue was $1.66 billion in the last reporting year. It has total net assets of $1.88 billion, and excess revenue over expenses last year alone was $244.8 million—nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.” Read more here.
Who are the real bigots? by James Parker. “If homosexuality is not innate and immutable, what basis is there for describing the LGBTQ+ community as a protected class deserving of preferential treatment? The simple answer is: none whatsoever.” Read more here.
How Oregon Built A Transgender Medical-Industrial Complex on Junk Science by Katherin Kirkpatrick. “Oregon law now considers anyone over 15 an adult for the purpose of consenting to medical gender intervention without parental knowledge (14 when the intervention happens in a mental health setting); and health providers are immune from liability for acting against parents’ objections ‘in good faith.’” Read more here.
I Was A Sex Educator Trained by Planned Parenthood; Here is What I Taught Your Kids by Monica Cline. “Parents are purposely left out. Parents are powerful, possessing a natural instinct to protect their children, and Planned Parenthood wants to undermine that. That is why they say, ‘Parents are a barrier to service.’ The only good parent to Planned Parenthood is the parent who agrees with their ideology. The rest of us need to be made irrelevant, and the organization has great counseling skills to help make us irrelevant in the eyes of our children. I know, because I witnessed it.” Read more here.
National Survey Reveals Generational Differences in Consensual Non-Monogamy by Heather Smith and Alan J. Hawkins. “While one can only speculate, some may argue the exploration of non-monogamous relationships is just the next horizon of the unfolding sexual revolution in the United States. Scholars on NPR and the Netflix documentary, Explained, argue that Millennials believe non-monogamy is a part of evolution, as if the desire to have multiple partners in a relationship is a natural progression for humanity. For some, maybe the next sexual horizon looks bright and inviting.” Read more here.
From Sussex, England, to New England, Gender Activists Are Losing by Madeleine Kearns. “Really, though. Who are we to feel sorry for? The gender-confused man who wanted to come to work in a dress? Or the traditionally minded family business whose owners didn’t want to risk upsetting the grieving families they serve?” Read more here.
Winners and Losers in the Marriage Marketplace by Anne Hendershott. In an attempt to understand why [birthrates are at an all-time low], most social scientists have blamed the changing norms surrounding marriage and motherhood. As more women earned college degrees, entered the workforce and delayed motherhood, marriage became less necessary for their economic survival. Others have blamed a deteriorating job market due to global competition, cheap labor, and de-unionization. Still others claim that the escalating college loan debt has resulted in the failure to form families. Read more here.
How Long Must American Kids Emit ‘Primal Screams’ About Family Chaos Before We Hear Them? By Joy Pullmann. “The plain truth is that private choices about sex have public consequences. There is no such thing as “what happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom.” Innocent and helpless human beings are created inside those bedrooms whether their parents desire that or not, and these children are more likely to become wards of the state in some capacity if their biological parents are not married to each other and stay that way. (Not incidentally, this is one reason all functioning societies have put guardrails on sexual activities.)” Read more here.
Transgenderism’s War on Language is a War on Truth and Reality. Here’s Another Example by Jonathon Van Maren. “In the current war on biological reality as it pertains to gender, the first intended casualty is language itself. In truly Orwellian fashion, the transgender activists have made tremendous progress on this front, … at some point almost the entire news media quietly climbed on board with the transgender agenda, obediently using the pronouns requested (even if they were factually inaccurate) and transforming their language overnight.” Read more here.
How 50 Years of No-Fault Divorce Gave Us a Throwaway Culture by Daniel Davis. “The consequences of no-fault divorce are almost impossible to overstate. It was like dropping a nuclear bomb into our nation’s social ecosystem—the blast wave has hit millions of families, and the fallout is worse than we could have imagined.” Read more here.
What? I Thought I was Born Gay! by David Pickup. “Psychologically, this was a significant effort on the part of many researchers who were brave enough to be unbiased about the single foundation stone on which is built all gay philosophy, the ‘born that way’ theory. Read more here.
The Gay Gene Myth Has Been Exploded by Paul Sullins. “The findings of a study of the genetic basis of homosexuality published last week in the journal Science explode the false narrative that being gay is an innate condition that is controlled or largely compelled by one’s genetic makeup. Rebutting decades of search by LGBT scientists for a ‘gay gene,’ the study’s first author flatly concludes ‘it will be basically impossible to predict one’s sexual activity or orientation just from genetics.’ Read more here.
Why This Christian T-Shirt Printer Has Unlikely LGBT Allies by Jim Campbell. “Rarely are supposedly controversial cases involving freedom of speech, religious liberty, and LGBT interests so clear-cut that they unite people with opposing ideological perspectives. But the Kentucky Supreme Court recently heard a case that does.” Read more here.
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Civil Rights Act Covers ‘Sexual Orientation’ by Alex Swoyer. “The Senate spent the better part of three months in 1964 debating, amending and voting on the Civil Rights Act. Not once did anyone in the chamber use the phrase ‘sexual orientation.’ Yet 55 years later, the Supreme Court has been asked to rule that the law does, in fact, cover sexual orientation in its Title VII ban on employment discrimination based on sex. The court has been asked to add ‘gender identity’ as a protected class. Read more here.
Former Foster Kids Show What Philadelphia Loses by Defenestrating Catholics Over Gay Marriage by Andrea Picciotti-Bayer and Dave Reinhard. “Philadelphia is desperate, but not desperate enough, apparently, to continue working with an organization that placed needy children in loving Philadelphia foster homes for more than 100 years.” Read more here.
Aborting Offspring Frees Men to Be Successful and Happy, Researchers Suggest by Jonathon Van Maren. “In short, men who have fewer children (or have their first children aborted) have fewer financial responsibilities, a fact that we scarcely needed a study to tell us. It is not news that children cost money, and those deliberating the abortion decision often do so for financial reasons, out of selfishness, fear, or both.” Read more here.
The Men Who Feel Left Out of the U.S. Abortion Debate by BBC News. “’If men had to sign off on an abortion, I think you would see a 50% drop, and that’s why the [abortion providers] don’t want men involved … The greatest injustice in this country today is that a man cannot protect his unborn child from abortion [in the same way as] men protecting our children is part of our responsibility.’” Read more here.
The Marvel of the Human Dad by Anna Machin. “Men have evolved to father and to be an equal but crucially different part of the parenting team. By not acknowledging who they are or supporting what they do, we are really missing a trick. Some 80 per cent of men aspire to become fathers. I believe it is time we made the effort to get to know who they really are.” Read more here.
Farewell to the ‘Gay Gene’ Theory by Michael Cook. “The researchers could not find any way to meaningfully predict or identify a person’s sexual behaviour on the basis of their genes. While they did find five genetic variants associated with same-sex behaviour (and many others which may also be involved) at best these genetic differences could only account for between 8 and 25% of variation in same-sex sexual behaviour and could not be used to predict it.” Read more here.
I Am at the Center of a Lawsuit That Is About Everyone’s Freedom of Speech by Blaine Adamson. “Before their message hit my inbox on a Saturday morning, I’d never met Diane and Kathy, a same-sex couple who own a New Jersey promotional print shop specializing in LGBT-themed apparel … Diane and Kathy wanted me to know that I wasn’t alone … During the weeks leading up to that day, I’d been sued because I had declined on behalf of my print shop, Hands On Originals, to print shirts with messages that violate my faith.” Read more here.
Here’s What People Who Used to Be Transgender Are Telling the Supreme Court by Nicole Russell. “The [U.S.] Supreme Court will hear a pivotal case in October on sex, gender identity, and discrimination … As both sides build their cases, numerous influential organizations and individuals have filed amicus (friend of the court) briefs to aid the members of the Supreme Court in their understanding on this topic. One brief in particular stands out. It’s so powerful, it should not only persuade the Supreme Court but influence people on both sides of the transgender debate, particularly the mainstream media.” Read more here.
A Tale of Two Babies Who Died Under New York’s Extreme Abortion Laws by Sarah St. Onge. “Baby K most likely wouldn’t have been eligible for abortion if it hadn’t been for New York’s new Reproductive Health Act. Its “health” exemption for mothers made it incredibly easy for Baby K’s mom to obtain an abortion at such a late stage because health means whatever you want it to mean.” Read more here.
U.S. Federal Appeals Court Picks Up Where Masterpiece Cakeshop Left Off by Jeremy Tedesco. “No matter what you think about marriage, the government has no business telling people what they must say. This fundamental rule protects everyone … The last thing we should do in this moment is give the government new power to squelch speech and mandate uniformity of thought on contentious social, moral, and political issues.” Read more here.
There’s a Lot More to Parenting Than Just Seeing Your Child Happy by Veronika Winkels. “Bullied by doctors who told them that ‘refusing treatment would lead to suicide,’ the parents of Claire (new name Jason) and of Zoe capitulated. They almost felt that they were regarded as criminals if they expressed doubts that a sex change was the answer to their daughter’s mental health problems.” Read more here.
Justice Department Takes Controversial Stand on Transgender Case at Supreme Court by Nicole Russell. “In one of the most important cases the Supreme Court will hear this fall, the Department of Justice has taken a stand, along with a number of influential people and organizations. All of them take specific, strong stances on the definition of sex and gender identity, which center around the questions both the LGBT activists, conservatives, and legal experts have been asking for some time: What is sex, who defines it, and what legal protections does it have? … This case will be to gender identity what Obergefell v. Hodges was to same-sex marriage.” Read more here.
There are Millions of Missing Girls in India by Shannon Roberts. “The increased destruction of young girls would be a depressingly ironic consequence of giving grown ‘feminist’ women greater access to so-called ‘reproductive rights.’ Shockingly, many places do not even keep reliable abortion statistics which might help prevent against the practice.” Read more here.
Gender Clinic Doctor: Plenty of Kids I’m Giving Trans Drugs Have Already Been Prostitutes by Jane Robbins. “Deeper investigation into the pioneering transgender-‘affirming’ pediatrician Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy uncovers troubling information. Olson-Kennedy is the picture of what happens when a physician values political advocacy to the detriment of medical ethics and professionalism.” Read more here.
A Federal Court Strikes a Powerful Blow for Free Speech and Religious Freedom by David French. “One of the key constitutional questions of our time is whether the First Amendment will retain its supremacy and potency even as nondiscrimination rules and regulations expand in scope and reach. In this case, the Eight Circuit answered answered with an emphatic ‘Yes,’ and it did so through a majority opinion that provided a clear roadmap for future courts and future controversies.” Read more here.
The Narcissism of the Trans Movement by Patrick West. “To question’s someone’s identity or personhood, especially one’s chosen gender, is one of the most profound transgressions one can make in liberal circles today. And the key word here is ‘chosen’, because at the very heart of the trans wars is the concept of ‘choice’.” Read more here.
Babies Are Being Born Alive and Left to Die After Botched Abortions. We Deserve to Know Numbers and the Truth by Abby Johnson. “It’s no exaggeration to say babies are aborted close to birth and they are born alive. What happens to these babies who are born alive and left to die without medical intervention is horrific … Eventually, after minutes, or up to hours, the baby’s lungs will begin to collapse on themselves, causing a slow death. While this is happening, the baby will either be thrown into a bucket until the crying stops or placed on a cold counter. Alone. Naked.” Read more here.
Academic Activists Hijack Science to Boost Abortion in Prestigious Journal by Calvin Freiburger. “One of the most pernicious aspects of modern politics is the way the Left uses its dominance of elite, seemingly-impartial publications and organizations to make claims that are subjective at best and fraudulent at worst but wrap them in a veneer of objectivity and authority.” Read more here.
Are Your Sexual Preferences Transphobic? by Madeleine Kearns. “Last year, a study exploring “transgender exclusion from the world of dating” was published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Of nearly 1,000 participants, the overwhelming majority, 87.5 percent, irrespective of their sexual preference, said they would not consider dating a trans person … What’s actually being noted here is the not-so-groundbreaking revelation that lesbians aren’t attracted to male bodies. In other words, that sexuality is tied up with the biology of sex. Who knew?” Read more here.
Scholastic’s New School Catalog Hawks Books to Saturate Kids With Identity Politics by Joy Pullmann. “The end goal of all of this is also extremely clear: fomenting the rise of identity politics among increasingly younger children, to saturate everyone’s families, schools, and public squares with far-left and hugely divisive politics.” Read more here.
What Slowing Population Growth Means for India by Shannon Roberts. “People often think the fewer people there are in the world, the more of the ‘pie’ will be left for them. This is wrong because, in fact, the ‘pie’ gets a lot smaller when there are fewer people, and there is less for everyone.” Read more here.
Bob and the Burning Research Lab by Mike Adams. “Last year, I spoke on the issue of abortion … During the Q&A, a young woman asked a question about rape and abortion. In the process of explaining my opposition to a rape exception to an abortion ban, I said that I believe we live in a world of trade-offs, rather than a world of problems and solutions.” Read more here.
On Title X, the Media Parrot Planned Parenthood’s Misleading Talking Points by John McCormack. “Is Planned Parenthood really giving up $60 million in federal funding simply because it would have to tell clients to Google the phone number of nearest abortionist, who is often operating down the hall? What’s much more likely is that Planned Parenthood would never comply with the regulation because it also requires physical separation between abortion facilities and grantees that provide contraception under Title X.” Read more here.
How Publicly Funded Colleges Encourage Dangerous Sex With Porn, Condoms, and Lies by Kara Bell. “Universities’ efforts to endorse sexually profligate lifestyles often result in cringey attempts to normalize bizarre, risky, and even destructive behavior. Events, curriculum, and programs prodding fornication, kinky activity, and pornography feed off the naiveté of freshman boys and girls to normalize particular avenues of sexual pleasure and ‘disinfect’ campus of ‘heteronormativity.’” Read more here.
About Time! Australian Doctors to Investigate Transgender Treatments for Kids by Michael Cook. “The ethics of irreversible medical treatment have not been settled. ‘Who gave ethics approval for this treatment (at children’s hospitals) when it lacks any scientific basis and therefore is an experiment?’ asks Prof John Whitehall, of Western Sydney University. ‘We should give the psychiatry and psychology a full run before we start castrating children.’” Read more here.
How LGBTQ Groups Are Quietly Dismantling Norms, Changing Education by Dennis Prager. “Virtually every week, there seems to be another issue that preoccupies the country. But while our attention is focused on President Donald Trump, Google, Charlottesville, Russia, impeachment, Jeffrey Epstein, the next elections, racism, a trade war with China, the #MeToo movement or something else, LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their work dismantling ethical norms, making a mockery of education, ruining innocent people’s lives and destroying children’s innocence.” Read more here.
LGBT Site Celebrates ‘Relationship’ Between 49-Year-Old Man and Adolescent Boy by Matt Walsh. “Normalizers of child sexual abuse will never come out and say, ‘We intend to normalize child sexual abuse.’ Instead they’ll encourage us to be open-minded about ‘age gaps,’ and they’ll admonish us for being disturbed by drag queens performing for children, and they’ll insist that there’s totally nothing sexual about men throwing money at a boy dancing in women’s clothes. In other words, they’ll do everything they’re currently doing. And they’ll trust that they can scare us into silence by calling us bigots for speaking out against it.” Read more here.
When Adults Like Caitlyn Jenner Pursue Transgender Parenting Fantasies, Children Suffer by Denise Shick. “I know how these children feel. I lost my dad the day he told me he wanted to become a woman. As I tried to process that revelation, he blindsided me with another. He told me he never wanted to have children. His confessions confused me, and hurt me. I wanted a dad who loved and cherished me, who would make me feel special as a daughter. Instead, I felt rejected and abandoned.” Read more here.