Tuesday, May 18, 2021

FAMILY WATCH NEWSWIRE 05/18/2021 (lengthy)

 Submitted by: J Cryots

Family Watch Newswire

The Family Watch Newswire is a service of Family Watch International that highlights important news items and useful analysis on the family and family related issues from around the world.

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LIFE

SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Major Abortion Case. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a major abortion case that will give the justices an opportunity to reconsider the precedent set by the landmark Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions. Read more here.

White House: Biden ‘Committed to Codifying’ Roe v. Wade. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden is “committed to codifying” Roe v. Wade after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that will allow the justices to reconsider the precedent set by the landmark Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions. Read more here.

UK Medics Demand End to Abortion Pills by Mail. More than 600 medics have demanded that Boris Johnson end the controversial “pills in the post” abortion scheme, citing evidence that chemical abortions were being performed when the fetus was beyond the ten-week limit. Read more here.

Russian Health Ministry Notes Substantial Decline in Abortions. The number of abortions in Russia in 2020 dropped to about 450,000, almost 35% less than five years ago. Read more here.

Russian Orthodox Church Pleads for Reduction of Abortions to Fight Demographic Crisis. The Orthodox Church in Russia has urged women to refrain from abortions and instead give their children to church institutions, in part to help alleviate the country’s demographic problem. Read more here.

Nicaraguan Archdiocese Urges That Abortion Not Be an Election Issue. The Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua stated that the “abominable crime” of abortion should not be on the agenda for November’s Nicaraguan general election. Read more here.

Montana Gov Signs Bill Ending Taxpayer Funding of Abortion. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a law which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund Title X family planning programs which include abortion. Read more here.

Top Kansas Court Upholds Law Barring ‘Wrongful Birth’ Suits. Kansas’ highest court upheld a law barring so-called wrongful birth lawsuits against doctors in a case in which a couple sued because they weren’t told of serious fetal defects until after an abortion could have been obtained. Read more here.

 

GENDER

Company Sells Crocheted Prosthetic Penises to Pin to Children's Underwear. A San Diego-based company is selling crocheted prosthetic penises for children who identify as transgender as an alternative to silicone prosthetics which “do not come in sizes appropriate for smaller bodies.” Read more here.

Biden Admin Extends Humanitarian Exceptions to Migrants Who Identify as Transgender. More migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border are being granted humanitarian exceptions because they are considered the most vulnerable, including people who identify as transgender. Read more here.

Nine Transgender Athletes Hope to Compete in 2021 Summer Olympics. At least nine individuals who identify as transgender — seven biological men and two biological women — hope to compete at the Olympics in July in Tokyo. Read more here.

UK Ministers Tell Architects All New Buildings Must Have Separate Restrooms for Men and Women. Public buildings in the UK will have to have separate 'ladies' and 'gents' lavatories in the future in a blow for campaigners who want more gender-neutral facilities. Read more here.

CA Bill Forces Stores to Sell Gender-Fluid Clothes and Toys. A California bill that would force retail stores to sell gender-neutral clothes and toys in a separate section sailed through two committees and is favored to pass a third. Read more here.

UK Schools Are Actively Supporting Kids’ ‘Gender Transition’ Without Telling Parents. Schools in the UK are increasingly sanctioning the use of male names for girls as young as 13 without the consent of their parents. Read more here.

Scottish Student Faces Expulsion for Stating Biological Fact. Final year law student Lisa Keogh faces formal disciplinary action from Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland for her alleged “offensive” and “discriminatory” comments affirming biological differences between men and women. Read more here.

Twitter Suspends Spanish MP for Saying Men Can’t Get Pregnant. A Spanish MP was temporarily suspended by Twitter for calling out a news article that claimed a pregnant man gave birth to a child. Read more here.

Texas Lawmakers Intentionally Derailed Bill to Ban Child ‘Gender Transitioning,’ Insiders Say. A bill banning chemical and surgical “sex changes” for children younger than 18 failed to be scheduled for a vote in the Texas House after stall tactics were deployed, according to activists and insiders. Read more here.

 

HUMAN SEXUALITY

FRC Clarifies ‘No Compromise’ on Equality Act. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said Fox News’ story suggesting faith groups met with staff members of several senators in order to craft a “compromise” on the Equality Act is misleading. Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

PP Board Member Aided in STD Experiments on Prisoners and Mental Patients. Recently unearthed documents reveal that a former Planned Parenthood board member was involved with abhorrent syphilis experiments in which Guatemalans were intentionally infected with STDs without their consent. Read more here.

 

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

State Dept Report Shows 80 Percent of People Live Under High Restrictions on Religious Freedom. The U.S. Department of State’s 2020 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom shows that most people in the world live in environments with significant restrictions on freedom of religion. Read more here.

Jailed Alberta Pastor Released on Bail. Pastor Artur Pawlowski, whose arrest for holding church services in defiance of Alberta’s Public Health Act drew international attention, recounted his experience in jail and reiterated his warning to Canadians about growing state tyranny. Read more here.

 

GENERAL INTEREST

Census Shows China Has 30M Unmarried Men. A once-in-a-decade census in China shows that the country has about 30 million unmarried men, and the nation’s preference for male babies has many worried about a shortage of brides. Read more here.

 

OPINION & ANALYSIS WORTH NOTING

Kids Can Explore Pronoun Options on Box of Kellogg’s New ‘Pride’ Cereal, by Jonathon Van Maren. “…Kellogg’s went above and beyond to ensure that your kids can go woke just after waking. On the side of the box, children are asked to choose their pronouns, with options like ‘he/him,’ ‘she/her,’ and ‘they/them,’ which, if you haven’t been keeping up, isn’t plural so much as ‘nonbinary’ or just bewildered. There are also some helpful blanks spaces in case you want to fill in your own, because at this stage in the revolution we’re just making stuff up and everyone has to go along with it.” Read more here.

The Case for Medical Conscientious Objection, by Brian Bird. “The basic motivation for conscientious objection is that the health-care service at issue does not help but harms: It injures health and is not care. Physicians who conscientiously refuse to intentionally terminate a patient’s life do so because health care, in their moral judgment, excludes killing. Health care, in their view, seeks to alleviate suffering while preserving life... If health care is laden with moral issues, it is dangerous to restrict the moral agency of health-care workers.” Read more here.

Here’s What ‘Partial-Birth Abortion’ Means, by Katie Yoder. “The secretary of Health and Human Services recently dodged a question about ‘partial-birth abortion’ by claiming that it isn’t a ‘medical term.’ But it’s a term that both Congress and the Supreme Court have carefully described – and the definition is shockingly gruesome.” Read more here.

Don’t Mix Up Adoption and Maternal Health, Worthy Causes, With Abortion, by Kathryn Jean Lopez. “Garcia was adopted as an infant. She is in a unique position to change the way our national debate about abortion looks. She could uniquely be a voice for the young scared black and Hispanic girls going into that very clinic day in and day out, and for their babies. The girls could choose adoption and allow the next Kathryn to be born — if we’d rally behind real options.” Read more here.

Don’t Ban So-Called ‘Conversion Therapy,’ by Andrea Williams. “Boris Johnson has since suggested that prayer will not be criminalised, but just what would be criminalised? Conversations about sexual attractions appear to be the target. No free society should ever contemplate criminalising private conversations, yet this is what the government seems intent on doing. Anyone who cares about free speech should realise just how totalitarian and oppressive banning certain types of consensual conversations actually is.” Read more here.

Biden’s HHS Is Lying About Title X to Push Abortion, by Ryan Bomberger. “There is no health equity when it comes to abortion. Women bear the brunt of the physiological and psychological consequences of abortion. Men don’t. There is no health equity, regardless of hue of skin or socioeconomic status, if you’re a victim of abortion. The Biden administration is lying to the American public about Title X… The only thing that should be aborted is the new rule wrapped in old lies.” Read more here.

There Is No Way to ‘Fix’ the Equality Act. It’s Identity Politics or Equality Before the Law, and Republicans Must Choose, by Joy Pullmann. “Statistically speaking, nobody wants gay people forced to die alone without their families, or denied health insurance or a place to sleep at night. There are legal solutions to all such things that don’t involve erasing women’s sports and forcing Christian churches to be bankrupted by lawsuits from anti-religious cranks with axes to grind.” Read more here.

Pro-Abortion Group Too Extreme Even for NARAL Pays for Employee Abortions, by Rebecca Downs. “If you're looking for an example of disgusting pro-abortion promotion on display, look no further than Avow, a group so extreme that they used to be NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, but ended up splitting to be even more pro-abortion. As Live Action exposed, Avow's executive director Aimee Arrambide brazenly shared in an interview with ReproJobs that employees and their family members are provided with a stipend for abortions, to the tune of $3,000…” Read more here.

Doctor: Time for Transgender Treatment Industry to ‘Follow the Science,’ by Dr. Patrick Lappert. “Over 80% of children treated this way abandon their cross-sex idea of themselves by late adolescence. However, if you let them fall into the hands of the transgender treatment industry, virtually 100% will continue to suffer from gender dysphoria, and will ultimately have the same high risk of self-harm... This is no longer in doubt. This is why Sweden, Finland, and the UK have abandoned the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery in gender confused children.” Read more here.

The LGBT Movement’s Destructive History and Legacy, by Thomas Coy. “The most widespread intimidation tactic of the LGBT movement has been the creation of the word’s ‘homophobia,’ ‘homophobic,’ ‘homophobe,’ and recently ‘transphobia.’ These terms do not mean fear of homosexuals or transgenders. Rather, they mean being opposed to LGBT social objectives... The terms are meant to slander, shame, and intimidate, in the same manner a racist or bigot uses slanderous words to demean people they don’t like.” Read more here.

Russia: How Will Re-Training of Foreign-Trained Clergy Be Implemented? by Victoria Arnold. “While the number of people affected by the re-training requirement is likely to be small, as most clergy, religious teachers and missionaries in Russia now undergo any formal training inside the country, the burden for those individuals and communities which are affected may turn out to be considerable in terms of costs, bureaucracy and potential problems with law enforcement agencies.” Read more here.

When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking – and Anime, by Angus Fox. “Parents of trans-identified boys mention anime repeatedly. The animation style seems to loom large in the lives of many—at least half—of the young men whose stories I’m telling. Many of these boys have anime alter-egos, which function as a sort of stand-in for their real-life trans personae. Two of the boys whose parents I’ve met have even named themselves after the same anime character.” Read more here.

For the G7 [Comprehensive Sexuality Education] Is a Priority, by Luca Volontè. “One has to be speechless when one realizes that the foreign and development policy priority of the seven strongest economies in the world is girls’ education which includes the explicit support of both comprehensive sexuality education (in which early sex, contraceptive use and abortion are included), as well as reproductive health (which has become the equivalent of abortion). Another attack on the health and dignity of women and their freedom to be mothers.” Read more here.

Let’s Give American Families More Time for ‘Kinder and Kirche,’ by Samuel J. Abrams. “As President Biden and many in Congress push for countless new programs that grow the reach of government, citizens should ask for more support around time for faith and family. This is not suggesting that the government regulate personal time but simply help make kinder and kirche easier for millions of Americans. …[W]e have clear evidence demonstrating just how critical these institutions are toward promoting community stability and connectivity.” Read more here.

 
 

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