NEW YORK, November 11 (C-Fam) A major fight broke out in the UN General Assembly Third Committee this week that pitted traditional countries over against powerful Western governments on the questions of abortion, homosexuality, and transgender ideology. The debate occurred during consideration of a resolution on “violence against women.”
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The National Education Association, a national labor union representing public school teachers, tweeted over the weekend that teachers know better than anyone else when students need “to learn and to thrive.”
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Our liberal political order is premised on individual autonomy—the belief that people may justly be bound only by chosen duties and obligations. There is something gritty, American, and admirable about being self-sufficient. But when taken too far and made into an ideology, this ideal ignores basic realities about human existence. We are born dependent and remain dependent throughout our lives in different ways. By making the false ideal of independence the basis of our political and social order, we end up denigrating actual, dependent human lives.
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Conservative school board candidates emerged victorious in a number of elections across the country this week, even as the predicted Republican wave failed to materialize in the nation’s midterm Congressional elections.
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Abortion is often framed as strictly a women’s issue, and men are often siloed off, disallowed a voice in the decision-making process. In Care Net’s 2021 survey of American men whose partners had abortions, 67% of men said abortion is a woman’s choice, and 40% said they think society says men should handle an unplanned pregnancy by neither encouraging nor discouraging their partners’ decisions in any way.
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