German citizens do not approve of surrogacy despite a recent campaign to legalize it, according to a new poll.
Citizens in Germany do not view the inability to have children as a justification for surrogacy, according to a recent representative survey conducted by INSA-Consulere on behalf of the Evangelical News Agency IDEA. INSA-Consulere interviewed 2,005 adult German citizens via an online panel from July 17 to 20.

On many levels, the United States is a land that is solicitous toward disability. Over the past half century, it has adopted national legislation to render public services and private establishments accessible to people with a wide range of conditions. Everything from curbs to crosswalks to shop entrances has been rendered safer for people in wheelchairs or with vision and hearing conditions. Access to education, health care, and employment have seen improvements, with resulting increases in lifespan. Special athletic competitions (thankfully without having fully able-bodied people insisting they have a right to compete) have become community staples. Heroes like Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow have emerged, transforming public perception and celebrating the lives of the disabled, including individuals with Down syndrome.

The Assembly of Madrid approved a law requiring that family benefits be granted for children, including those who are preborn, making the Spanish capital the first region in the country to broaden government benefits to families from the beginning of pregnancy.
Known as the “Law on the Unborn Conceived,” the measure enables families to qualify for size-based benefits, like private nursery grants and subsidized school meals, upon providing medical proof of pregnancy.

The U.S. abortion count continues to rise even as travel abortions decrease, a recent study found.
The Guttmacher Institute, a data group that openly supports abortion access, documented a decrease in people leaving their own state to get abortions in other states. Instead, abortion seekers turn toward mail-order abortions, which have seen a surge in recent years.

The global fight over abortion is evolving rapidly, and some of the most important developments in recent years have shifted from legislative chambers to supply chains due to the rise of self-induced abortions with pills.
While the dismantling of USAID and the Mexico City Policy have dealt a severe blow to the global abortion lobby, as Samantha Lejeune of the Population Research Institute (PRI) writes, “the resulting vacuum left by USAID is not simply being filled by new funding sources. It is being filled by a reorganized system.”