This Week’s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

The Irony: UN Women Says Word ‘Women’ Is Exclusionary.

U.N. Women, the United Nations organization responsible for furthering the cause of women all over the world, seems out to erase itself and any credibility it has as a women’s rights organization.

The issue is more pernicious than increasingly ridiculous semantics. The growing insistence that “womanhood,” “manhood,” and “nonbinary-hood” are up for grabs—genitals and chromosomes be damned—is a movement radical feminist Shulamith Firestone articulated and advocated for decades ago, as have her philosophical descendants. Read more

Why Quitting Porn Can Help Someone Be A Less Angry Partner.

After working with hundreds of individuals struggling with porn, an addiction specialist points to five main reasons for anger in a relationship where porn is a problem. Read more

Dem Lawmaker Calls for Mandatory Vasectomies After Limited Number of Children.

A Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has introduced legislation to mandate vasectomies for men after they father three children or reach age 40, “whichever comes first.” Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Heritage Scholars Condemn Biden Administration’s Use of Federal Law Enforcement to Intimidate Parents.

The Heritage Foundation’s top scholars on critical race theory spoke out Tuesday after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered federal authorities to assess vague, unspecified threats against public schools and school board members.

These actions came just five days after the National School Boards Association, a left-wing special interest group, sent President Joe Biden a hyperbolic letter demanding that he use the PATRIOT Act against critical parents attending the board meetings. Read more

Congress Demands Against Facebook After Hearing Whistleblower Testimony.

Frances Haugen, who used to work as a lead product manager for Facebook’s civic misinformation team, came before the Senate to discuss the company’s internal practices, with special emphasis placed on the ways that these practices disproportionately affect children.

Haugen explained, “I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy.” Read more

The group that’s happiest in the pandemic may surprise you.

There is no question that parenting in the past 18 months has been hard. But the message many in the media have been sending about parenting in the pandemic gives the impression that most parents are miserable and have had it worse than the childless.

There is only one problem with this handwringing: It no longer fits the data. Read more

Sanctity of Life

Media, Abortion Groups Recognize ‘International Safe Abortion Day’.

Abortion organizations and many in the media recently recognized and even celebrated “International Safe Abortion Day.” But, in doing so, they overlooked the pro-life position: There’s no such thing as a safe abortion. Read more

Biden admin ends Trump rule that blocked taxpayer dollars to abortion industry.

The Biden administration moved this week to rescind a Trump-era rule excluding the abortion industry from federal family planning funds.

Former President Donald Trump’s Protect Life Rule required “clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning,” and banned “referral for abortion as a method of family planning.” It reduced Planned Parenthood’s annual funding by almost $60 million. Read more

Massachusetts advocates: Assisted suicide disproportionately threatens the poor, disabled, minorities.

“The desire for assisted suicide is by no means ‘a universal feeling,’ and the desire to hasten death is often one of a ‘privileged segment’ of society, ” explained Dr. Laura Petrillo.

“The vast majority of patients request [assisted suicide] to have absolute control over their moment of death,” she said, not because of pain or other factors. Conversely, people with a history of mistreatment by the medical system–the poor, the disabled, and people of color, “feel like their lives are being threatened by a law like this.” Read more

Religion

Gov’t restrictions on religion at high levels worldwide even before lockdowns.

Pew released findings from its 12th annual study on global religious persecution Thursday, analyzing 198 countries during 2019, the most recent year with data available.

When it came to public policy and laws that infringed on religious practices, 2019 had a similar rate of intolerance to 2018, which was noted as a year with a high rate of government-imposed restrictions. Read more

With a conversion therapy ban on the table, the threat of jail for Christians is real.

What does the just released Cooper Report argue? It is basically a demand that the U.K. government criminalise any form of what they deem to be ‘conversion’ practice, except those conversion practices which enable people to gender transition or ‘discover’ their sexuality. Read more

Attack on Christians in Nigeria described as a ‘massacre’.

Nigeria has experienced rising insecurity since 2009, when Boko Haram, one of Africa’s largest Islamist groups, launched an insurgency seeking to turn Africa’s most populous country into an Islamic state.

The group has orchestrated indiscriminate terrorist attacks on numerous targets, including religious and political groups, as well as civilians. Read more

Sexuality

Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on ‘Sloppy’ Care.

In exclusive interviews, two prominent providers sound off on puberty blockers, ‘affirmative’ care, the inhibition of sexual pleasure, and the suppression of dissent in their field. Read more

Panic and threats as a small fraction of British doctors dissent from LGBTQ+ orthodoxy.

For many people, the term “conversion therapy” evokes nasty scenarios from decades ago, before homosexual activity was legalised, including electric shock therapy and aversion therapy to change sexual orientation, or the subsequent efforts of some religious enthusiasts to simply “pray the gay away”.

What the average person doesn’t realise is that it now includes parents, pastors, teachers and possibly mental health professionals who recoil from the idea of giving drugs to 12-year-olds to stop them entering puberty because the children are unhappy with their sex. Read more

Transgender Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Named Sportswoman of the Year.

Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was recently dubbed University of Otago sportswoman of the year during the Blues awards, according to New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times.

Meanwhile, a comprehensive U.K. report regarding transgender participation in sports said Thursday men who identify as women “retain distinct physiological advantages when competing in female categories, even if they suppress testosterone levels,” Breitbart News reported. Read more