This Week‘s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

Opinion: Breakdown of family, deteriorating education responsible for Baltimore’s demise.

According to WorldAtlas, Baltimore is one of America’s 10 most dangerous cities and has a per capita crime cost of $7,091 and a violent crime rate of 1,461 per 100,000 people. Last year, Maryland lawmakers enacted laws to limit the use of force by police in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Smith believes those policies put more pressure on officers fighting crime than those who engage in crime. Lawmakers should address the root issues that create crime, like education, access to employment and building stronger family support systems through the community, he said. Read more

Thousands of babies survive abortions each year. The abortion industry wants to erase their existence.

The abortion industry is pushing for legislation that could protect it from lawsuits or criminal prosecution if the baby dies or is killed after surviving a botched abortion, or for the baby’s injuries if he or she does not die. Colorado, California, and Michigan passed laws this year under the guise of “reproductive health care” that seem to allow the killing or withholding of postnatal medical treatment from born-alive abortion survivors. The death of the child or any injuries from an unsuccessful abortion are euphemistically called a “pregnancy outcome.” Read more

No, It Is Not Good For Man To Be Alone.

The reality is that many people living alone would prefer not to, but our culture and economic structure are making it harder to form and sustain the family lives that most people want. Consequently, a lot of people give up — for many young people, a happy marriage and family life seem like something from an alien world, while for many of their elders, it seems like something that has been irretrievably passed by or lost.

This reveals the cruel relativism in Bruni’s suggestion that “personal desires” all have equal value — that wanting an uninterrupted morning routine is equivalent to wanting to raise a happy family. This is false. Some desires are nobler and more virtuous than others, and they ought to be encouraged. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Artificial wombs are becoming a reality and not just science fiction.

The author at Science and Stuff believes that there is a “need for a new form of birth.” To buttress this insane claim, the following reasons are stated: “Currently, the World Health Organization estimates that 15% of reproductive-aged couples worldwide are affected by infertility. Indeed, over the last 70 years, fertility rates worldwide have decreased by a staggering 50%.”

Hmmm …I wonder what fertility intervention became widespread within the last half century or so. Almost as if people have been intentionally fornicating without conceiving, having abortions, taking “morning-after” pills, with men neutering themselves like effeminate animals. Read more

CPS: Mom Can’t Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves.

Diane Redleaf, a long-time family defense lawyer, has seen cases like Fields’ many times. It all boils down to “amorphous neglect laws,” she says. The law often says that children must be properly supervised, but fails to define properly.

“This transfers the decision-making over something as basic as when children can play together in a neighbor’s yard to the state’s child welfare authorities,” says Redleaf. The families’ right to raise their kids as they see fit is being eroded. Read more

The dangerous evolution of dolls: from nurturing to narcissism.

Buying a little girl a baby doll these days is seen as encouraging a girl towards motherhood — a grave crime in today’s world. Inspire a girl to become a mere mother? You’ve got to be kidding. And waste all her potential? And waste her time caring for others? And waste her life raising up the next generation of humanity?

Herein lies the problem. We have ceased to sufficiently value nurturing in our society, especially the nurturing of mothers. To nurture means “to care for and encourage the growth and development of someone or something.” And nurturing is something babies need a lot of in order to grow up to be secure, well-adjusted humans and to simply survive. Read more

Sanctity of Life

A reminder on International Human Rights Day: Abortion isn’t a human right, because it kills humans.

Despite claims by abortion proponents, abortion is not a human right.

The reason for this should be obvious: because the act of abortion ends a pregnancy by killing a growing human in the womb. Therefore, abortion — the intentional homicide of a human not yet delivered — cannot be a human right.

Life, however, is a basic, natural human right. It is not a right that the government can give or take away because it is a basic and fundamental right that every human being who comes into existence at the moment of their creation — fertilization — is due. Abortion denies human beings that right in an act of barbaric violence. No human right has a victim count. Read more

Judge Halts Pro-life Law Because it Violates Pagans’ Religious Views.

An Indiana judge has ruled a law that would protect nearly all children from abortion cannot take effect, on the grounds that it would violate the religious beliefs of non-Christians, including pagans.

Indiana’s RFRA — like the national RFRA signed by President Bill Clinton — prohibits the government from substantially burdening anyone’s religious beliefs except “in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest,” and it requires politicians to use “the least restrictive means” possible. The government has a compelling interest in protecting innocent life, and no less restrictive means are available than prohibiting abortion. Read more

Canadian woman cites lack of healthcare access as reason she applied for assisted suicide.

Canada’s increasingly permissive laws have allowed euthanasia to rise 32% since 2020, with more than 10,000 people dying in 2021 alone.

Another Canadian woman with a non-terminal illness is drawing headlines after applying for euthanasia thanks to Canada’s increasingly liberalized laws which pro-life advocates have warned are out of control. Read more

Religion

Woke World Cup reveals hypocritical, dictatorship-like tactics of LGBT-obsessed Western media.

The pressure Western outlets are putting on Qatar for its opposition to same-sex “marriage” and transgenderism is nothing more than hypocritical, geopolitical virtue signaling, something American politicians and international media are quite skilled at.

Consider that the same press that’s complaining about gays not being able to openly flaunt their sexuality in Qatar is the same group of people that’s silent on the U.S.’s corrupt partnership with the Wahhabist government of Saudi Arabia, an Islamist state that decapitates homosexuals. Read more

Philippine law to protect religious freedom.

The new law will guarantee the implementation of rules and regulations on how the state, including all government agencies, would respect the right of Filipinos to choose their religion.

“With this bill, Filipinos will be encouraged to pursue spiritual growth by affording them the freedom to conduct their lives in accordance with their faith or religious belief without the fear of persecution, threat, or punishment,” lawmaker Eddie Villanueva said in a speech endorsing the law. Read more

Gallup report shows growth of religious ‘nones’ is slowing.

Newport also documented some of the complexities of classifying religious belief when polling people, noting that there exist “other measures of religiosity, and they don’t all show the same patterns.”

“Those with no religious identity can still be religious, as measured by their responses to other questions,” he added. “And those who identify with a religion can be quite irreligious, based on their responses to those same questions.”

“Another measure of religiosity involves membership in a church, synagogue, mosque or temple. Trends show such membership has declined over the years. This may reflect the fact that Americans are less interested these days in official ‘membership,’ even if they remain religious.” Read more

Sexuality

Scot Govt ‘ignoring dangers of promoting trans ideology to pupils’.

Writing in The Times, Carolyn Brown highlighted a large increase in pupils self-identifying as the opposite sex and those being referred to NHS Scotland’s gender identity clinic amid “a dearth of questioning” in schools.

Brown criticised the Scottish Government’s 2021 guidance ‘Supporting Transgender Pupils in Schools’ for pushing an “unevidenced belief system”, which assumes that a “‘trans’ pupil exists because the pupil says so”. Read more

Biological Men In Women’s Prisons? The ‘Insane’ And Terrifying Situation Plaguing Female Inmates.

“There seems to be no area of society where this ideology has not invaded.” That’s host Brandon Showalter’s assessment of the transgender movement’s impact on various facets of contemporary culture. In today’s bonus episode of “Generation Indoctrination,” Showalter shifts gears to confront a shocking arena many know little about: the presence of biological men in women’s prisons. This disturbing dynamic has left female inmates terrified, vulnerable, and, according to guests, at risk of assault. Listen now

Cambridge Dictionary Bows to ‘Woke Activists,’ Changes Definition of ‘Woman’.

The updated definition for the word “woman” now states in its secondary characterization that the term describes “an adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” Read more