Empathy is widely celebrated in our public life. We are told it should guide our politics, shape our policies, and soften our judgments.
Empathy is routinely elevated above truth, rather than ordered beneath it. When that happens, moral clarity is sacrificed in the name of sensitivity, and judgment is portrayed as cruelty rather than responsibility.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled plans to open two new clinics dubbed “Elevate You,” specifically for young people aged 16 to 25, under the guise of providing behavioral health, primary care, and “reproductive care”—including abortions.
Pro-life advocates decry this as a taxpayer-funded push to normalize the destruction of innocent lives, prioritizing death over true support for mothers, families, and life-affirming alternatives.
Nintendo’s latest release, “Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream,” rated PEGI 3 and marketed for all ages, has sparked outrage for allowing young players to create non-binary and bisexual characters. The game offers gender options including male, female, and non-binary, with dating preferences that can include one gender, more than one, or none—effectively promoting LGBT identities in a title accessible to three-year-olds.
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Poland’s population is declining at a rate that currently seems less like a faraway concern and more like a civilizational warning for the near future.
Poland’s population could shrink even more than previously forecast, according to a new simulation by the state statistics agency that assumes current record-low birth rates will continue.
Many people think the fight for life ended when Roe v. Wade was overturned. It didn’t… It simply changed tactics.
Today, abortion expansion is no longer just being pushed loudly through abortion bills. It is being ushered in quietly through healthcare regulation, especially through the growing regulation, medicalization, and state control of midwifery.
Digital platforms should be held accountable for allowing misinformation on abortion. These agencies working in tandem say pro-life speech is tantamount to “misinformation” and should be stopped.
The UN’s human reproduction program (HRP), housed in the World Health Organization (WHO), recently published the first of a series of papers examining the impact of abortion “misinformation” as it relates to human rights.
Jimmy Lai is a devout believer in Jesus Christ and a firm defender of democracy — a toxic combination for Communist China.
Locked away in solitary confinement since December 31, 2020, Lai was convicted by Hong Kong’s High Court on a variety of charges
The tension came to a head in August of 2020 when Jimmy Lai was arrested under China’s “National Security Law” — legislation intended to root out pro-democracy agitators and anyone whose behavior was deemed subversive.
“I have seen how these tech platforms have specifically hired psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists,” the watchdog relays.
“The allegation is that these people have been hired specifically to figure out how to hook kids and adults on the platform.”A potential landmark case currently winding its way through the California court system could hold Big Social Media accountable for intentionally designing their platforms to be addictive to children and teens.
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