Big Win at SCOTUS for Children’s Rights – Porn Industry Can Be Regulated
You might remember us talking about the case before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether pornography websites should be required to verify users’ ages in order to protect children from this harmful content. Under the Texas law (opposed by the porn industry), if “adult...
What Louisiana Pro-Life Leaders Get Wrong About “Protecting IVF”
The appropriate, pro-life response to the Alabama ruling is not to gut Louisiana’s IVF laws. Rather, it is to recognize that ultimately, it is up to the industry to avoid another “Alabama situation” by maintaining standards that would have prevented the events that led to the Court case in the first place, and to reinforce those standards through legislative action that establishes, maintains, and reinforces accountability. Sen. Pressly’s bill does the opposite.
What Republican Legislators Get Wrong about ‘Right to IVF’ Bills
(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...
A decade of disaster for children
(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...
Children conceived by IVF are precious. But IVF is still unethical.
(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...
Birthing persons?
(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...
The cost of conservative hypocrisy
(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,...
A Pro-Child Response to President Trump’s IVF Executive Order
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...
Oklahoma Bill Encourages Marriage With State Tax Credits For Hitched Parents
(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...
By Decriminalizing Paid Surrogacy, Michigan Is The Final State To Commercialize Babies
(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...
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