Failed public policies are undermining the institution of marriage in America. Rates of both marriage and child births have been trending down for decades, but the current cost-of-living crisis is poised to accelerate these declines. If you can’t afford a place to live, chances are you won’t get married and have kids.
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The court ultimately determined that “the text of the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act is sweeping and unqualified. It applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation. It is not the role of this Court to craft a new limitation based on our own view of what is or is not wise public policy.” They added, “That is especially true where, as here, the People of this State have adopted a Constitutional amendment directly aimed at stopping courts from excluding ‘unborn life’ from legal protection.”
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“Women should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs. The FDA’s own label for abortion drugs says that roughly one in 25 women who take them will end up in the emergency room. But the FDA recklessly removed essential safeguards like the ongoing care of a doctor leaving women to suffer serious complications all alone,” said ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley, vice president of the Center for Life and regulatory practice. “It is appalling that the FDA eliminated in-person doctor visits based on studies that the agency admitted were inadequate. Women deserve better.”
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A Department of State spokesman is defending a recent internal cable that urged staffers to avoid using gendered language like “brave men and women,” calling the memo “standard government practice” simply meant to “encourage people to just to be respectful.”
It instructed State Department employees to use “gender-neutral language whenever possible.” Instead of using terms like “manpower,” “you guys,” “ladies and gentlemen,” or even “mother/father,” “son/daughter,” or “husband/wife,” it is better to say “labor force,” “everyone,” “you all,” and “parent,” “child,” or “partner,” according to the cable.
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the states of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri from intervening in an upcoming abortion pill lawsuit. The Court will soon begin hearing arguments.
In its February 20, 2024 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court did not give a reason why it denied intervention to the three previously mentioned states, writing simply that “The motion of Missouri, et al. for leave to intervene is denied.”