Terror spreads in Nigeria as killing sprees spike against Christians
For Salamatu, terror was a way of life. In an earlier wave of violence, the jihadists had swarmed her Nigerian church, shooting the pastor in cold blood. Then, she says quietly, they came for her family. “My husband told me we should pray,” Salamatu remembers of that horrible night. “We said a short prayer and then ‘Amen.’ As soon as we said ‘Amen,’ we heard people pulling at the handles of our gate.” Quickly, her husband ushered her, the children, and grandchildren upstairs. “Don’t cry,” he told them. “Don’t make a noise — not even if you hear gunshots.” He walked outside to face the armed men, and it was the last time she saw him alive.
10 States Allow Killing People in Assisted Suicide. Illinois Should Not Join Them
Hauter’s concerns extend to the erosion of trust, in which he noted that assisted suicide laws “will change [a patient’s] relationship with their physician” as well as with insurance providers, who may see death as “the cheapest care.” Ultimately, Hauter’s cautionary words were a call for policymakers to reject such measures, ensuring that health care remains a beacon of hope and healing, rather than a pathway to expedited endings.
New York Times publishes chilling new justification for assisted suicide
Notorious secular “ethicist” Peter Singer has co-authored an opinion piece in the New York Times positing a chilling new rationale for assisted suicide: the determination that one’s life is simply “complete.”
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Pro-Lifers’ Challenge
This case goes back to January 2023, when the city of Carbondale, Illinois, enacted a law creating 100-foot “bubble zones” around all entrances to city healthcare facilities, including abortuaries. The law prohibited anyone in one of these buffer zones from speaking to another person “for the purpose of . . . engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling.” The law was specifically enacted to prevent pro-lifers from counseling and assisting vulnerable women outside of abortion clinics. However, since it applied to all healthcare facilities in the city, over 150 buffer zones were created where American citizens couldn’t exercise their right to free speech.
Defending Faith and Parental Rights in the Classroom
Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education is denying my husband and me the ability to exempt our daughter from storybooks and instructional materials that promote a narrow and ideologically driven view of gender and sexuality. The school even refuses to inform us when these books are introduced or discussed, leaving us in the dark. Tomorrow, we will take our fight—Mahmoud v. Taylor—to the Supreme Court, asking for the restoration of our fundamental right to guide our child’s education in alignment with our faith.
Florida attorney general announces lawsuit against Snapchat for allegedly empowering child predators
The law signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered social media companies to restrict access to children under the age of 14, but Snapchat has continued to allow full access to minors, according to the lawsuit.
Oklahoma Joins Growing Number of States Pushing Back against Same-Sex Marriage
A 2024 Gallup poll showed that Republican support for same-sex marriage dropped by almost 10% in two years. “This may or may not be the beginning of a long-term correction on how the public sees this issue,” Family Research Council’s Joseph Backholm said at the time. After all, he pointed out, “Same-sex marriage was sold to the public as the tolerant choice, but what we’ve seen since then is that the political movement that brought us same-sex marriage is anything but tolerant.” That has led, some believe, to a growing call for the Supreme Court to reassess — and potentially overturn — Obergefell. In the Times, Harmon points to a burgeoning movement to turn states’ attention back to natural marriage and end what conservatives call a “failed social experiment.”
Ballerina Farm, Homesteading, and the Revival of the Family Economy
It can be easy to dismiss online trends as fads, but the online movement to homestead appears more lasting than that. It is based on a natural desire to have a family economy that represents a mutual effort between man and woman or adult and child to build and nurture a home. There’s something about a son feeding and watering a chicken that the dad butchers and the mom cooks that’s about more than aesthetic farmhouse photos on Instagram. It’s about each member of the family having a direct stake in the economic collaboration of home life.
Cohabitation is Popular, But It’s Still No Replacement for Marriage
Marriage rates continue to decline, with every succeeding generation seeing lower marriage rates than the previous one. In a new report by Delano Squires and myself, Crossroads: American Family Life at the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity, we note that marriage used to be a common part of young adulthood, but that is no longer the case. Given the trends, researchers project that roughly one-third of Gen Zers will have never married by age 45 and may never marry at all.
White House pondering ideas on how to get more babies
There are many issues that come with a shrinking population, including economic, entrepreneurial and quality of life issues. So lower birth rates are of concern globally and locally, across a broad swath of political ideologies, occupations and other demographics.
UK Court Demonstrates It Knows What a Woman Is, Clarifying British Law
The newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court infamously could not answer what a woman is, but the United Kingdon’s highest court declared today that it is very clear on the matter. The British Supreme Court stated, “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”