This Week‘s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

Panama Supreme Court rejects legalization of same-sex ‘marriage,’ says it’s not a ‘human right’.

The Supreme Court of Panama last month delivered a crucial win for traditional marriage advocates and a major blow to an ongoing effort to obtain legal recognition for same-sex “marriages” in the Central American country, declaring that a union between two people of the same sex is not protected by the constitution and isn’t a “human right.” Read more

Knock, knock? We’re on a path to extinction! Anyone interested?

South Korea is supposedly a “wealthy” country, but it will not be wealthy without children. The disappearance of East Asia and their ancient cultures proceeds apace. Japan and China are already shrinking with no end in sight. So many young people are not even interested in dating. What for? They have smartphones, video games and social media.

The same situation plagues the West. In what was once known as Christendom – Europe, Russia, the Anglosphere, Latin America – Christianity is being supplanted by thoroughly modern secularism. “Go forth and multiply” does not apply.

Fertility is falling everywhere. Why? Read more

Why men are struggling.

Reeves’ book reflects on the ways in which Western society has overpromised and underdelivered for men and boys.

A father of three sons, he describes how raising them made him aware of social and systemic disadvantages they faced as they grew up. Today in the US, three-quarters of Bachelors’ degrees are awarded to women. One in five fathers are not living with their children. Men account for almost three-quarters of deaths of despair, through suicide or overdose. To top it all, males are less likely than females to be helped by policy interventions. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Actually, Most People Love Being Parents.

The Pew Research Center recently published a new survey on parenting that has been getting a lot of attention. The survey breaks down an array of attitudes about parenting by race, gender, and income levels. It’s fascinating stuff. But for all the deep granular data, there was one thing that surprised me more than anything else but which is largely getting glossed over in the ensuing conversation: The vast majority of parents actually enjoy parenting, find it rewarding, and see it as a key part of their identities. Read more

UK parents outraged after children left ‘traumatized’ by sex ed lesson with drag queen.

The sexual revolution reaches everywhere, and it doesn’t matter where you live. At the Queen Elizabeth II High School in Peel on the Isle of Man, an independent review has been initiated after children were left “traumatized” by a drag queen who was brought in to teach the students that there was 73 genders — and even forced a child who responded by saying “there’s only two” to leave the classroom. Read more

TikTok Influencers Are Trying to Turn Your Kids Trans Behind Your Back, as This Must-See Exposé Shows.

The transgender activist community is one of the most unrelenting and forceful communities in the western world. As one researcher uncovered, their use of tactics to convince the youth to join their ranks and the methods by which they maintain them within the group mimic those of a cult.

White’s video shows that they are actively going to where your kids are hanging out in order to begin the process of roping them in. It proves it’s never been more important to monitor what your kid consume, be they children or young teenagers. Read more

Sanctity of Life

‘Colonization’: Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov’t to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa.

Ugandan Member of Parliament Lucy Akello spoke to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Tuesday, telling the Canadian government that her nation is not interested in abortion being tied to international aid from developed countries like Canada. Read more

Doctor Confirms Abortion Pills are Dangerous, Not Safer Than Tylenol.

Dr. Carrie Mendoza, an emergency medicine specialist and FAIR in Medicine fellow, said the information that some pro-abortion groups are promoting is “medically questionable” and “dangerous” in an interview with The College Fix.

An abortion group claims abortion pills are “safer than Tylenol” and women can take them at home without ever seeing a doctor. But Mendoza said the claim is “potentially dangerous.”

“Tylenol taken as directed is safe to reduce pain or fever while an overdose can cause liver damage,” she told The Fix. “Conversely, abortion pills taken at home induce bleeding and pain that may be severe and result in Emergency Department visits when taken without the guidance of a physician.” Read more

‘Major victory for the pro-life world:’ Court upholds pregnancy center’s First Amendment rights.

An attempt by radically pro-abortion lawmakers in the state of New York to force pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to hire and retain pro-abortion employees appears to have come to an end with a Tuesday decision from a federal court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City reversed a decision by a lower court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by pro-life “hero” Chris Slattery in defense of his organization’s mission to support mothers and families facing crisis pregnancies. Read more

Religion

British Parliament Passes Law Banning Prayers Outside Abortion Centers.

MPs were voting on an amendment to a clause introducing buffer zones around abortion clinics, which had been added into the Public Order Bill at an earlier stage. The amendment sought to specify that silent prayer and consensual conversations outside abortion clinics would not be included in buffer zones legislation. This was defeated by 116 to 299.

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has reacted with disappointment after the vote, that saw throught crimes enshrined into law. Read more

Can America Have Separation of Church and State?

Anti-religious fervor is rising in the United States. In January, the FBI circulated an internal document that targets traditional Catholics for investigation because of their views on such topics as open borders or LGBT issues, and other examples of anti-religious sentiment abound.

Many today suggest that religion should not affect politics in the United States. This has led to many wild claims, including notions that churches should be taxed and that the United States has never been a religious country. Read more

Christians in the West must ‘stand strong’ or risk losing religious freedoms: humanitarian activist.

“We have to realize that religious freedom does not mean that we have the ability to go to church, okay? Religious freedom doesn’t mean that we can wake up on Sunday and go to church and no one’s going to bother us,” she says. “Religious freedom means that we have the ability to practice our deeply held religious beliefs in every area of society.” Read more

Sexuality

USA Powerlifting must allow biological males to compete in women’s division, judge rules.

USA Powerlifting gave plaintiff JayCee Cooper and other trans-identified athletes the option to compete in a separate category, thereby preventing biologically female athletes from having to compete against biological males while not forcing trans-identified athletes to compete in the division that corresponds with their biological sex.

Judge Diamond dismissed this move as inadequate, arguing that by “making a person pretend to be something different, the implicit message being that who they are is less than.”

In his opinion, Diamond cited “expert testimony” maintaining that “From a psychological perspective, forcing a transgender person to act as their sex assigned at birth is harmful and can increase gender dysphoria.” The judge insisted that “the internal distress is often debilitating and the primary way(s) to reduce gender dysphoria is by affirming one’s gender medically and socially.” Read more

Are There More Than Two Sexes?

Perhaps a more revealing motivation for the multimodal model comes when the authors discuss the alleged role that “binary language” is playing in fueling “legislation targeting [transgender and gender nonconforming] people.” “[B]iologists,” they claim, must “push back against misunderstandings of the biology of sexual phenotypes that enact harm on marginalized communities.” Further, “uncritically applying a simple binary . . . completely erases the biological realities of [transgender and gender nonconforming] and intersex people.”

Binary language in biology must therefore be abandoned.But a biologist’s job is to describe and explain the natural world as accurately as possible, not to protect or affirm the identities of “marginalized communities.” Read more

Sending the Wounded to the Front.

The battle against transgender ideology will be won by the wounded.

Chloe Cole’s recent discussion at the Heritage Foundation shows that the victims of the transgender movement are the ones who will defeat it. The eighteen-year-old is a flesh-and-blood refutation of the supposed medical authority and scientific expertise of the trans movement. The wounded bodies and psyches of detransitioners rebut the trans movement’s claims to compassion and expertise. Their scars are marks of its fallibility, and their existence shows that the science is not settled. They are living proof that the affirmation-only approach is hurting people. Read more