POLISH PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ADVANCE BILL THAT DECRIMINALIZES ABORTION, by Jerzy Kwaśniewski. “On November 8, the Polish Sejm (parliament) voted on a bill decriminalizing both the performance and the aiding and abetting of illegal abortions. The Left (Lewica) party’s radically pro-abortion bill was thus sent for further parliamentary work. Thanks to the efforts of the great coalition of pro-life advocates, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) of the government coalition voted against it. However, supporters of a debate on the legalization of killing won the vote this time. We are facing the most difficult time in years for the defense of life.” Read more here.
RUSSIAN WOMEN SAY NYET TO CHILDREN, by Michael Cook. “The world’s population is becoming greyer, getting sicker, and growing fewer. …There will be shortages of workers and – this must be giving generals everywhere nightmares – soldiers. So governments are experimenting with schemes to boost the number of babies. There have been all sorts: subsidized IVF, baby bonuses, generous parental leave, and awards for fertile mothers. Singapore even experimented with a government dating service. None of these carrots has worked. So Russia is trying a stick. A new law criminalising ‘child-free propaganda’ passed the lower house of parliament earlier this month. It still have to be passed by the upper house and signed by President Putin.” Read more here.
REPORT: CORPORATE AMERICA WANTS TO DELAY WOMEN WORKERS HAVING KIDS, by Breccan F. Thies. “A report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) shows that while some pro-family policies have been adopted at top corporations, the balance weighs heavily in favor of delaying or destroying families. ‘In addition to offering praiseworthy parental-leave policies and assistance with the costs of adoption or child care, a significant number of these corporations have simultaneously begun promoting and incentivizing options such as surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, and travel for abortions — options that encourage female employees in particular to postpone or even forego motherhood in order to advance in their careers.’” Read more here.
I THOUGHT BEING A GAY MAN WOULD SAVE ME FROM WOMANHOOD (IT DIDN’T), by Laura Becker. “It’s been seven years since I had my breasts removed. Eight years since injecting testosterone. Almost eleven years since I learned about the concept of ‘gender identity’—a discovery (if that is the right word) that set me on the road to believing I was transgender. It was 2014. … I learned the hard way that ‘queering’ oneself is (at best) a semantic exercise. It doesn’t lead to any kind of endpoint of acceptance or emotional growth. Rather, its purpose is to validate a posture of defiance and alienation.” Read more here.
KEEP OUT: HOW I LED THE SUCCESSFUL FIGHT TO BAR TRANS ‘WOMEN’ FROM MY ALL-FEMALE COLLEGE, by Macy Gunnell. “It was just another Tuesday at my campus job in the admissions office at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, when I overheard something startling. A new policy had slipped through the cracks of my all-women’s college, a policy that would admit applicants who ‘consistently live and identify as women,’ in other words, biological men. …I knew that something had to be done, and I knew that I had to do it. I could not sit back and watch something so insulting destroy the very fabric of what made my women’s Catholic college so special. I knew the battle would not be easy, but that didn’t stop me.” Read more here.
REFLECTIONS ON HARVARD’S SEX WEEK, by Richard Y. Rodgers. “In the once-hallowed halls of Harvard University, we were confronted with a disappointing spectacle: the 12th annual event known as Sex Week. It was disheartening to see a purportedly educational initiative promoting a culture that leans toward excess and encourages an unsettling disregard for the traditional virtues of intimacy and self-respect. The discussions that unfolded during Sex Week—a week filled with explicit explorations of disordered, harmful sexual acts that blurred the line between intimacy and perversion—signalled a capitulation to the basest instincts of human nature.” Read more here.
