Sadly, the abortion industry continues to either deny the level of pain inflicted upon the preborn or bury the evidence by introducing “expert” reports that contain deliberately vague language which seeks to assure mothers that abortion does not cross any moral barriers. Although a consensus on the impact of pain on the preborn would be a positive step in educating the public, the reality is that pain tolerance does not excuse the injustice perpetrated in abortion clinics.
Sadly, the abortion industry continues to either deny the level of pain inflicted upon the preborn or bury the evidence by introducing “expert” reports that contain deliberately vague language which seeks to assure mothers that abortion does not cross any moral barriers. Although a consensus on the impact of pain on the preborn would be a positive step in educating the public, the reality is that pain tolerance does not excuse the injustice perpetrated in abortion clinics.
Sadly, the abortion industry continues to either deny the level of pain inflicted upon the preborn or bury the evidence by introducing “expert” reports that contain deliberately vague language which seeks to assure mothers that abortion does not cross any moral barriers. Although a consensus on the impact of pain on the preborn would be a positive step in educating the public, the reality is that pain tolerance does not excuse the injustice perpetrated in abortion clinics.
Following a three-year legal battle waged by nurses in Darlington, England, the National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust for County Durham and Darlington has finally changed its staff changing-room policy. “In accordance with [the] U.K. Supreme Court ruling (2025), staff must use changing spaces according to their biological sex,” the new policy states. “Alternative unisex changing spaces are provided for staff who choose not to use an alternative facility.”
The group filed a referendum petition Sept. 2 with Secretary of State Bill Galvin and began seeking volunteers to encourage people to sign the petition. They needed to obtain 37,289 certified signatures by Oct. 23 in order to add the repeal to the 2028 ballot, and if they could obtain 49,716, the law could be suspended pending the result of the 2028 voting. The coalition announced this week that they had submitted 99,962 signatures to city and town clerks, well above the threshold to suspend the law. “The people of Massachusetts did not ask for abortion through all nine months, and in a matter of weeks they made that clear.”
Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) opened the first “Detransition Clinic” in the U.S., devoted to helping those harmed by “transgender” medical interventions: puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries. The clinic’s services will be funded by Texas Children’s and be free of charge to all patients for the next five years. Sadly, the cost of treating injured children, adolescents and young adults does not begin to compare with the irreversible destruction visited on them through experimental, body-damaging transgender medical interventions.
A conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia pastor aimed at stopping a proposed state amendment that would redefine marriage in the Virginia Constitution. The Richmond-based Founding Freedoms Law Center filed the suit Oct. 22 in the circuit court of Prince William County on behalf of Ben Purves, pastor of community and member care at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., challenging the proposed Amendment 2 on procedural grounds. Purves and a group of fellow pastors are also calling on Virginians to fast and pray on Election Day.
Our world has become the opposite of what it used to be. The moral and character flaws that are listed in Romans 1:28-32 have always been part of life in a fallen world, but there has long been a clearly defined line between good and evil. Even during the periods of history when evil seemed to be dominant and tyrants were brutal in their rule, people knew the difference between right and wrong, and good and evil. Good was still good, and evil was still evil. Yet Paul says in Romans 1 that when a nation (or the world) rejects God’s existence and authority, a moral perversion will spread and lead to a time when the moral and character flaws in Romans 1:28-32 will become dominant.
A congressional investigation has uncovered evidence of antisemitism, anti-Israel activism, and radical political indoctrination in American public schools, raising serious concerns about what children are being taught and whether Jewish students are adequately protected.
“We want to preserve laws that respect a parent’s right to guard and guide their minor daughters through any critical pregnancy decision,” she writes. “We need to make sure that women are receiving pregnancy treatment from licensed Virginia doctors and medical professionals. Finally, we do not need to see Virginia laws being made by judges and not our own elected officials. The use of this amendment as a jumping off point for endless litigation to remove standing laws puts the well-being of women, girls, and their children in a dangerous place. Ballot Question 1 is simply another example of politics being put ahead of women’s safety. The deceptive wording of the ballot question only confirms it.”
In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired last weekend, reporter Tracy Smith asked Crystal about what he’s gone through. Though thankful to have come through suffering with many parts of his life still intact, he added, “But it doesn’t take away the hurt. It doesn’t take away the loss.” It’s in suffering and tragedies that many people turn to God, so Smith asked, “Have you been talking to God?” Crystal answered, “No—’cause I don’t trust Him. Too many bad things have happened. The earth is in bad shape. This is a weird, scary time. So, no, not any more.”
We need to be praying for Canada. Unless something dramatically changes, euthanasia will only continue to expand in Canada because they have the wrong worldview with the wrong foundation. As long as man’s word and human reasoning are their authority, they will continue to rationalize and glamorize something the Bible calls evil. And how long before it’s considered that people should be put to death because they are seen as a threat to society because of their beliefs? Christians? Think it couldn’t happen? It happens now in some countries. Yes, your starting point matters, and it’s either God’s Word or man’s word.
The Bible forbids all attempts to do any sort of magic, whether communicating with the spiritual world, drawing power from the natural or spiritual world, fortune-telling and astrology, or potion-making and cursing. These practices have found new life on social media, and AI is adding a new and dangerous dimension. How should Christians think about this?
We need to ask ourselves what is happening to the minds of some of our young. The killer’s mother said he was “a good boy, he really was.” How, then, did this “good boy” turn into a maniacal killer — a killer of children — a school shooter? How does our society manage to produce so many people capable of such unthinkable levels of cruelty? We see these things so much that we hardly notice them. It’s like “nose blindness” — when you smell a terrible odor so long that you stop being bothered by it. These horrors are becoming normal to us. Many see violence as the answer to even minor disputes.
Anybody who understands the social pulse of Australia knows that the State of Victoria is the most socially progressive of Australia’s states and territories. Although many Victorians see that as positive, when it means the introduction of laws that directly oppose God’s principles governing life, believers see it as wicked. In a 15 October 2026 X post, Mr Carroll succinctly stated: “Abortion is healthcare. Your bank account and your postcode shouldn’t be a barrier. We’ll fix that.” To avoid appearing one-sided in my criticism of Labor policies, I will point out that the opposition party (who have traditionally been fiscally and socially conservative) have indicated they will also pledge free abortions, much to the disappointment of supporters who have traditionally turned to them in order to act as a counterweight to the anti-God agenda of the Labor Party.
Terry Stoops, who serves as director of Government Affairs for Defending Education, explained during a Monday appearance on “Washington Watch” that the difference between the first and last ranked states is policy. Stoops remarked that in states such as Tennessee, the “state legislatures have implemented to make it clear that gender ideology has no place in the classroom, that schools have a responsibility to inform parents of their children expressing certain expressions of gender ideology at school, and parents are to be informed of sex education courses, that they have a right to opt [their children] out of. … These are policies that enforce parental rights that have a clear statement of what parental rights are for the state.”
The continuing saga over the WNBA’s refusal to define what a “woman” is just got curiouser. In a letter to members of Congress, the league’s commissioner declared that a pair of former NBA players seeking to enter the WNBA 2027 draft are ineligible because they are “both men.”
Joy Stockbauer, a policy analyst for Family Research Council’s Center for Human Dignity, told The Washington Stand that these legislators have lost sight of what really matters. “It appears the Democratic Caucus have forsaken truth for the sake of staying in the good graces of the abortion industry. Their constituents would do well to take notice that the safety, health, and wellbeing of their families will always be secondary in these legislators’ minds. Their priority will always be to appease abortion businesses and keep the Planned Parenthood campaign donations flowing.”
At least 12 high school girls chose to forfeit a cross-country race in Washington on Tuesday rather than compete against their teammate — a boy. About half of the Camas High School girls’ cross-country team walked off the course Tuesday instead of racing against an 11th grade boy who, until September 5, competed with the boys. In his last race with the junior varsity boys, the male athlete placed 76th. On September 15, in his first race with Camas High’s varsity girls, he placed seventh.
Bluzan said that she wants Christian families "to bring up their children in a way that they believe, that they have the ability to” and wants “creators of Christian curriculum to be able to sell their curriculum without having to find workarounds so that it can be funded within the school district.”
A bill to protect parents from losing custody of a child to the state for simply affirming their dependent’s biological sex over trans-identifying preferences has been introduced to the U.S. House and Senate. Speaking on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins,” Miller said: “It is urgently needed federal action to ensure that federal child welfare funds are not going to be used to punish parents across the country.”
“I’ve never been more proud of getting an F than having SIECUS rate Ohio an F on their sex education report card because SIECUS is quite possibly, one of the most nefarious groups working in education in America today." Baer described SIECUS as “the primary ideological drivers behind the hyper-sexualization of kids” and “the gender ideology that’s being forced on children” as well as “promoting pro-abortion ideology to kids.”
“If our national education system continues to claim to foster inclusion and tolerance, this must include tolerance of perspectives with which others disagree. In a free and just society, teachers should not be fired for honestly expressing their deeply-held beliefs in response to questions in the classroom. What happened to me is nothing short of censorship, and this precedent cannot be allowed to stand.”
The campaign to legalize assisted suicide relies on the promise that the drugs used to assist people to die will ensure a peaceful, dignified, and controlled death for those who are terminally ill. The public is often presented with this picture – that you’ll be able to take a harmless drug, fall asleep, and die without distress. However, recent events in Tennessee put that narrative into question.
Let the contrast sink in: when the state’s attempt to kill a convicted murderer fails, doctors rush to save her life. When a mother’s attempt to kill an innocent child fails, Congress still argues over whether the law should explicitly require appropriate care.
A city council meeting in Iowa took a dark turn earlier this week when a former member opened the meeting by praising Satan in his invocation. One-time Ottumwa City Council member Matt Dalbey began the meeting by praying to the “dark father” to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge” before concluding his prayer with “Hail Satan.” But New Life Center Pastor Rick Bick did not go along to get along. As soon as the council concluded their recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance following the demonic prayer, Bick interrupted the meeting by demanding that Dalbey’s evil prayer be renounced.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has signed $8.9 million in contracts to provide child sex changes, putting the city at odds with the Trump administration’s Justice Department, which has launched a nationwide crackdown on such treatments for minors.
The American people deserve the thorough report on abortion drug safety that the FDA has promised for nearly two years, but the agency has again failed to deliver it. The FDA now says it won’t release its final study until March. That will be too late for nearly 90,000 unborn babies who will die between now and then by illegally obtained abortion drugs in states like Louisiana that have taken great care to protect babies and mothers from the harms of abortion.
This November, Idaho voters will decide whether to pass Prop 1, the so-called Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act. A “Yes” vote creates a statutory “right” to abortion in Idaho until fetal viability. A “No” vote would leave in place Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which protects babies from fertilization. Prop 1 is a citizen-initiated statute. If it passes on November 3, it will take effect on January 1, 2027, as new state law.
In a proclamation, the Virginia school district said it “recognizes October 2026 as LGBTQ+ History Month in Loudoun County Public Schools” and encouraged staff, students and community members to “honor and celebrate the rich history and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community” to Virginia, Loudoun County and its schools.
Recently, South Australia’s Health Minister Blair Boyer, and Deputy Premier and Attorney General Kyam Maher, joined voices to urge the Federal Labor Government to allow telehealth appointments for voluntary assisted dying (VAD).
And this week, homeschool families packed a Fremont City Council meeting that normally draws only a handful of people. Pray Vote Stand Chapter leaders from surrounding counties were there, too. Seth told council members what he had taken home from Washington. He said, “We pray, we vote, we participate, we pay attention, and we hold those who serve accountable to the people they represent.” After roughly an hour of discussion, eight council members needed about one minute to cast their votes. The vote was unanimous — five months of indifference, one minute of voting for five months.
The fact that the government now claims that deception to obtain abortion pills is no longer an offence shows how morally corrupt our society has become. In no circumstances should deception to obtain medical treatment be acceptable. The mother is putting her own life at serious risk, let alone the life of her child, which may well end up costing the taxpayer and affecting all those close to her.
A case centered on the Title IX rights of women to have male-free sports has been thrown out by a Biden-appointed judge, leaving Riley Gaines and the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) determined to appeal.