Author: unitedfamilies

David French, What’s Stirring in Christian America is the Holy Spirit

From a rise in Bible sales to large college prayer gatherings to new seekers attending church services for the first time in a long time, there is ample evidence that Americans are hungering for answers to ultimate questions. It was D.L. Moody, an evangelist of another era, who once observed, “If you want to see revival in your country, draw a six-foot circle around your floor and stand in the middle of the circle and say, ‘Lord let it begin here.’”

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Trump’s IVF Policy Could Be Worse, But It’s Still Bad

The Trump administration’s IVF policy unveiled on Thursday is perhaps the least bad that we could have hoped for. The details are still being promulgated, but, as White House officials explained it, there will be no IVF mandate or direct government subsidies for IVF. Those who feared something akin to the Obama contraception mandate or taxpayer funding of abortion can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no direct religious liberty or conscience violations, nor implications for taxpayer funding.

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Human rights expert wants surrogacy ended

Reem Alsalem, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, explained that surrogate mothers often face physical and economic coercion, risks to their health, and the denial of privacy and family life. The children born of these arrangements suffer psychological harm from being ripped at birth from the only mother they have ever known, and are at increased risk of trafficking or being stateless or abandoned in cases where surrogacy arrangements fall through

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