(Originally published in The Washington Stand) A seemingly innocuous in vitro fertilization approach that has been embraced by conservative lawmakers in multiple states is to propose bills that clarify that the “right” to IVF is protected in state law. Unlike more...
(Originally published in World News Group) A non-binding resolution in Idaho is challenging Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court’s 2015 gay marriage ruling. Shaky judicial grounds aside, Idaho argues marriage law is a matter of states’ rights—SCOTUS lacks the...
(Originally published in Live Action News) I recently had a conversation with a fellow Christian about Trump’s Executive Order to reduce barriers to accessing in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures. This discussion revealed to me that many people, even in Christian...
(Originally published in World News Group) When Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers proposed changing the term “mother” to “inseminated person” in the state budget, many people rightly laughed at the absurdity of the terminology— with Elon Musk chiming in to say “Hi Mom, I mean...
(Originally published in World News Group) One-man-one-woman marriage, pro-life convictions, the importance of mothers and fathers, and sex within marriage are mainstays of social conservatism, and for good reason. If we can't conserve the iron triad of man, woman,...
IVF has made a business of violating the rights of children. It circumvents, rather than heals, infertility. Infertility is heartbreaking for married couples who desperately want to welcome a baby into their family. These couples deserve compassion, but never at the...
(Originally published in The Federalist) The United States has the world’s highest rate of kids being raised in single-parent homes. This is alarming, considering the benefits children gain when being raised by their married parents, including greater academic...
(Originally published in The Federalist) The “Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act,” which decriminalizes surrogate motherhood in the state of Michigan, is planned to take effect in March of this year. Michigan is the last state to decriminalize paid...
(Originally published in The Federalist) In December, gay father Balázs Boross published “Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy” in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. The essay “explores how encounters with...
(Originally published in WORLD magazine) I’ve told all four of my children once they were old enough to understand, “You may not be looking for porn, but porn is looking for you.” They need to have a basic explanation of what porn is and why it’s harmful. Like most...
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