Two years ago, Baby Samuel was left at a fire station — a designated safe haven location — in Louisville in the middle of a shift change on May 12, 2022. According to Lt. Col. Bobby Cooper, assistant chief for the Louisville Fire Department, firefighters heard the doorbell to the station ring at about 8 a.m. On the doorstep, they found a newborn baby in a box with a note from his birth mother.
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Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers know that we still have a lot of work to do to end the evil of abortion in the U.S. and around the world.
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It seemed that only a handful of conservative policy experts were willing to point out that these studies were irrelevant to the contemporary question of expanding pre-K. But in a recent Annenberg Institute working paper titled: “Why Are Preschool Programs Becoming Less Effective?” academics noted: “In hindsight, it is naïve to believe that findings from the early RCT studies would generalize to public programs operating at scale that serve millions of children each year at a fraction of the cost.” Yes, it is.
But it’s perhaps worse than naïve to stare at a spate of negative findings and frame them as “less” positive. In their report, the researchers summarize much of the major recent evidence on the effects of pre-K.
North Korea remains the worst nation in the world for Christian persecution, with the situation in Nigeria continuing to devolve, according to a new report on global religious discrimination.
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Fireworks erupted last week after Pope Francis demanded a global ban on the practice of surrogacy. He described it as “deplorable” and “a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child”. “A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract,” he said.
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