Over the last year, the overturning of Roe v Wade in the United States and the strengthening of Poland’s pro-life laws have sparked the abortion debate.
The tragic death of Polish woman, Izabela, caused abortion activists to falsely proclaim that it was not medical error, but Poland’s restrictive abortion laws that have contributed to her death and that this was bound to endanger more women. This is horribly misleading for several reasons.
onservative Christian author, Kirk Cameron, has been rejected by roughly 50 public libraries on the basis of his religious beliefs, according to information released by his publisher, Brave Books. The Rochambeau Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, openly dismissed Cameron’s request to share his new children’s book, “As You Grow,” saying, “We are a very queer-friendly library. Our messaging does not align.”
Cameron responded to the rejections by saying, “Publicly funded libraries are green-lighting ‘gender marker and name change clinics’ while denying a story time that would involve the reading of a book that teaches biblical wisdom. How much more clear can it get?” He is, of course, correct.
As a society, we’ve made significant strides in human rights. Once marginalized communities now thrive. We continue to develop toward less injustice and more equality. Looking back, we could never imagine a modern world where women can’t vote or people are enslaved based on the color of their skin. And yet, there is one major human rights atrocity that we seem to still be decades behind on: abortion.
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By now, it’s not news to anyone that America’s fertility rate is falling. But there are different ways fertility can fall. One way is that the average family size can shrink as people shift from having four kids to three, two kids to one, etc. But the other way is by people not forming families at all. Most of the drop in fertility in America in the last two decades is driven by this second factor: more Americans are staying single and never having children at all, as Wendy Wang recently documented on these pages. But among people who have children, fertility rates have been comparatively stable.
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