It’s easy to assume that sharing your story is just about the sharer. It’s personal. But what I’ve seen, over and over again, is that when someone speaks openly, vulnerably, it has a way of reaching and impacting others in ways they may never fully see. There’s a ripple effect.
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Tabasco, Mexico became the epicenter of surrogacy, due to legal changes in the 1990s. Subsequently, surrogacy agencies swarmed to Tabasco to capitalize on competitive medical costs, poor oversight, and the legal ability to publish birth certificates naming individuals biologically unrelated to a child as the child’s parents. Since then, Mexico has become a primarily unrestricted, profit‑driven market where clinics, brokers, and intermediaries have transformed the country’s initially-budding surrogacy landscape into an all-out baby export industry.
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An Indiana school district agreed to pay $195,000 to settle with a school counselor who was fired for speaking to a journalist about the district policy of hiding students “gender identity” from parents. The case involved Kathy McCord, a 37-year education veteran who objected to the school’s mandate “which required her to speak in ways that violate her sincerely held religious beliefs,” reported Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
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The Planned Parenthood abortion business has endorsed Maine Gov. Janet Mills in her bid for the U.S. Senate, praising the Democrat for signing legislation that allowed abortions up to birth. The endorsement comes as Mills, 78, competes in a competitive Democratic primary against oyster farmer and military veteran Graham Platner, 41, and David Costello, 64. All three candidates support abortion.
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Modern Western culture excels in grand but shallow pieties. The menu is rich: “love is love,” whatever that means; “science is real,” but religion is, implicitly, not; “no human is illegal,” unless you’re an unwanted, unborn child; and so on. My favorite is the bumper-sticker wisdom of “war is not the answer.” Well, maybe yes; maybe no. It depends on the question and circumstances. Sometimes war is the morally legitimate choice. The Desecration of Man combines rigorous research with an easy style. In this sense it follows a classic C. S. Lewis recipe: serious scholarship, delivered in an appealing way, for a broad general audience. And his subject matter—the impact on our humanity of an intensely materialist culture.
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