Here’s a good news story to start off 2023: In Louisiana, it’s now harder for minors to access porn sites. Thanks to a law passed in 2022 that went into effect Jan. 1, porn sites now are required to ask visitors who live in Louisiana to prove their age via a system, called LA Wallet, that relies on using their driver’s license. The law puts in place various safeguards to ensure that porn sites can’t keep data from driver’s licenses.
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House Republicans have introduced new legislation that would stop infanticide and protect babies who survive abortion. This is a similar measure to one that pro-abortion former Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked 80 times when she ran the House. It would also penalize doctors who allow such infants to die or who intentionally kill a newborn following a failed abortion.
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The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says. By overruling its decisions inventing a constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court held in June in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that “the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.” With the constitutional blockade lifted, legislatures are confronting the reality that a majority of abortions now result from drugs, rather than surgery.
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Hungary is one of many countries facing a falling birthrate that will lead to catastrophic societal breakdowns in the next few decades, but it’s one of the few that’s doing something to turn the trend around. Those who really hate taxes (looking at you, libertarians!) will especially love this one: Moms who give birth before they turn 30 will never have to pay income tax again.Hungary has taken several measures in recent years to encourage its citizens to have more children, including three years of paid parental leave and state-funded daycare.
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A deeper look into how the brain works reveals that addictions to harmful substances like tobacco have striking similarities to porn compulsion, including impaired decision-making. On the surface, tobacco and porn don’t seem to have much in common. Because of its well-known harmful effects, tobacco is kept behind the counter at the gas station and requires an adult I.D. to purchase.
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