This Week‘s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

Maternity wards are closing everywhere because of a lack of babies; the media desperately want to make it a story about abortion bans.

“So many doctors are being driven away by Idaho abortion ban that this hospital can’t deliver babies anymore,” one headline about Bonner General in Bonner County, Idaho, declared.

It’s the perfect headline for the major media’s preferred narrative, which means two things: Nearly every outlet will pick it up, and it’s mostly bogus. Read more

The oddity — and sadness? — of AI companions.

At this point in my life, it feels like I have tried virtually every dating option available, short of enlisting a matchmaker. But after reading an article from the Huffington Post, chronicling one relationship therapist’s foray into dating an AI boyfriend, I realized that no, I haven’t actually tried everything. And also, maybe I shouldn’t? Read more

What Do Women Want? A Willingness to Protect.

The culture today is saturated with messaging for women that “Strong is the new pretty,” that they are no less physically capable than men. It’s common for advertising, for example, to depict women as muscled, badass, warrior athletes. “Be the hero you never had,” one Nike slogan reads, over the image of a female fencer clad like a medieval knight and roaring in victory.

All this modern, culturally-conditioned confidence and feminist self-reliance aside, do women in the real world still prefer a male partner who is willing to step in and defend her from threats? Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Conservative MPs in UK back stay-at-home mums.

Former Cabinet member George Eustice and backbencher Miriam Cates questioned whether the budget announcement extending free childcare to encourage mothers back into work was family-friendly.

Last week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged free childcare “for eligible working parents of children from 9 months until they start school”.

Speaking in Parliament, Mrs Cates said: “The Treasury thinks the answer to our financial challenges is to send more mothers to work.” Read more

Big tech vs. parents: The battle for our children.

Parents today are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, allowing kids online means exposure to content that threatens their mental health and their innocence. On the other hand, removing online access threatens to socially isolate kids from their friends and peer groups. What are parents to do?

Earlier this month, social media behemoth TikTok announced that it would soon introduce new features designed to limit access to the app for users under 18 to 60 minutes per day to help parents monitor usage and to silence notifications. Unfortunately, these steps are unlikely to provide the silver bullet parents so desperately need right now for at least two reasons. Read more

Sex education is now how-to in schools —parents, beware.

Most sex-ed lessons are not published by textbook companies. Instead, sex ed has been highjacked by well-funded left-wing groups with their own agendas.

These include SIECUS (Sex Ed for Social Change), Advocates for Youth (an LGBTQ group) and the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that children have sexual rights. They all press for comprehensive sexuality education.

The word “comprehensive” is misleading. What the curriculum stresses is pleasure. Read more

Sanctity of Life

Biden administration’s abortion agenda: Push chemical abortion, hide alternative info, and rake in the cash.

The Food and Drug Administration is expanding access to abortion pills, allowing pharmacies to dispense chemical abortions with little to no oversight. This radical change comes while the administration is pushing for regulation against pregnancy help organizations.

Those who benefit the most from the government’s crackdown on pregnancy centers and leniency toward the abortion industry are the pharmaceutical companies. Those who suffer most are women and the children whose chance at life has been taken from them. Read more

Stop Calling My Miscarriage An Abortion.

I lost my baby to miscarriage four months ago and, like Jessa, needed a D&C to safeguard my health. Corporate and social media, as well as people I’ve talked with, insist I had an abortion, which makes me feel livid and broken-hearted.

I’ve had enough of misinformation on abortion and miscarriages since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The purposeful lies about the realities of abortion by the press and pro-abortion advocates are truly astounding. Read more

Assisted suicide advocates adopt ‘my body, my choice’ slogan.

“It’s a choice issue,” Lorrie Roggers, an 83-year-old living in a senior living facility, told The Washington Post. “My body, my life, my death, my choice.” Rogers was about 30 years old when ‘my body, my choice’ first entered American Politics in order to push for legalized abortion. She wants physician-assisted suicide to be legalized in her state of Maryland, where new Governor Wes Moore (D) has said he would support such a law.

It is unsurprising that this pro-abortion mantra has been adopted by assisted suicide proponents; abortion and assisted death are two sides of the same coin. They both aim to “solve” human problems through the killing of humans. Read more

Religion

New Heritage Report Reveals ‘Systemic Persecution of Christians,’ Uyghurs.

“Christianity is booming in China and has been for some time. While estimates of the numbers of believers vary, some indicate China may be on track to have more Christians than the United States by the end of this decade,” Cunningham told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement. “Yet, since taking power, the CCP’s atheistic regime has engaged in systemic persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.” Read more

Poll Shows American Values Changed Drastically During Pandemic.

A new Wall Street Journal poll, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, finds that support for the values America only had has plummeted.

Now, two-thirds of Americans (67%) see hard work as being very important. Only 38% see patriotism as very important. When it comes to religion and having children, it’s now 39% and 30%, respectively, who see those matters as very important. Read more

Does Research Point to Spiritual Crisis as Possible Cause of Teen Mental Health Crisis?

The report attributes the problem to several reasons like social media, pandemic-related isolation, and political turmoil. Social media certainly plays a large role in the decline in teen mental health. But what can improve these statistics and get kids off the internet and into meaningful relationships?

The study doesn’t look at positive impacts on mental well-being, but thankfully, countless others do. Their research points to church membership and involvement as one of the most important indicators of mental well-being. Read more

Sexuality

Biden Wants UN Soldiers to Push Trans Ideology.

Thomas-Greenfield announced that the Biden administration will propose homosexual/trans specific language in Security Council resolutions and decisions. The Biden administration intends to streamline “LGBTQI+ concerns and perspectives” across all UN reports. She also praised Colombia for initiating the prosecution of “gender persecution” as a “crime against humanity.”

Western countries who attended the briefing took turns in calling on the UN system to advance homosexual/trans policies as part of the UN Security Council’s agenda to protect women in war-torn areas. The reaction of the few non-Western countries in the room was largely negative. Read more

Study: ‘Transgender’ Youth at Highest Risk for Violent Radicalization.

The study authors also explained the concept of violent radicalization, saying that it is “a complex and multidimensional phenomenon defined as a process whereby an individual or a group increases support for violence as a legitimate means to reach a specific (e.g., political, social, and religious) goal.”

The study also pointed out that “population-wide attitudes toward legitimizing some forms of violence may increase social polarization and fuel the emergence of extremist groups, thus providing a narrative to channel despair and rage in vulnerable individuals.” Read more

40 State Legislatures Have Passed or Introduced Legislation to Restrict Transgender Child Abuse.

We undoubtedly are in the middle of one of the largest legislative pushes against child abuse in our nation’s history. This child abuse, masquerading as “gender-affirming care,” has been taken up as a banner of humanity by progressives over the past five years—and they encourage children to mutilate their own bodies if the kids feel they’ve been born in the wrong one. Read more