This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children. We see it with abortion, where a woman’s supposed “right to choose” trumps the right to life of her unborn child. We see it with traditional IVF and other reproductive technologies (which are very hard to do in a pro-life way), where babies are routinely discarded because they don’t “make the grade,” they have a genetic abnormality, they are the “wrong” sex, or the family is simply done having children. And we see it with the creation of LGBTQ families, where children are created to be purposefully deprived of either their mother or their father.
This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children. We see it with abortion, where a woman’s supposed “right to choose” trumps the right to life of her unborn child. We see it with traditional IVF and other reproductive technologies (which are very hard to do in a pro-life way), where babies are routinely discarded because they don’t “make the grade,” they have a genetic abnormality, they are the “wrong” sex, or the family is simply done having children. And we see it with the creation of LGBTQ families, where children are created to be purposefully deprived of either their mother or their father.
This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children. We see it with abortion, where a woman’s supposed “right to choose” trumps the right to life of her unborn child. We see it with traditional IVF and other reproductive technologies (which are very hard to do in a pro-life way), where babies are routinely discarded because they don’t “make the grade,” they have a genetic abnormality, they are the “wrong” sex, or the family is simply done having children. And we see it with the creation of LGBTQ families, where children are created to be purposefully deprived of either their mother or their father.
“The Declaration of Independence gives us three examples of ‘unalienable’ rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life is the first of those rights because it is the condition of the others. It is thus the most foundational of all rights.” Those words come from the opening paragraph of a “Declaration for Life: A Statement from Christian Leaders,” spearheaded by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (R). I joined Senator Hawley in releasing the declaration this week after a prayer breakfast with Missouri pastors who traveled to Washington for the occasion.
In 1925, the state of Tennessee was openly in favor of creation science. The legislature passed the Butler Act, which included the following language: "It shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the state, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." I have a hard time believing that any state in the US ever was so bold in its stance. But Tennessee was. Evolutionists struck back quickly.
Statewide laws restricting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries for minors lead to more suicides among young adults, LGBTQ activists argue. But the recent study, conducted by “Do No Harm” researchers Ian Kingsbury and Jay Greene, claims they have found no evidence of a surge in suicide rates among teens following state bans on such procedures.
“Will you continue to participate in the destructive lie of gender ideology that permanently harms children?” Lorey asked. “Will you kowtow to a radical group whose primary goal will result in the elimination of women’s sports? Will you keep on supporting policies that sideline girls like me in our own sports? Or will you take the truly courageous step to follow through on your promises to women and girls? The choice is yours.”
Whatever ultimately happens in the Clancy case, America should resist the temptation to turn murder into merely another chapter in the therapeutic narrative. We must defend the principle that children are precious, that murder is evil, that justice matters, and that being human means being capable of moral responsibility.
“Every child deserves a loving home, and children suffer when the government excludes people of faith from foster care because of the state’s own ideological crusade,” said ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “Oregon officials turned Jessica away just because of her common-sense belief that parents should help children become comfortable with who they are instead of pushing them down a path of confusion and medicalization. We believe this settlement is a win-win that protects constitutional rights and puts children’s interests first.”
One example of this culture of death occurred recently at the Kentucky State Fair, which took place in Louisville, Kentucky—about an hour and a half from us at AiG. During the fair, an abortion nonprofit called Mayday Health rented a plane to fly a banner overhead that said, “Abortion Pills by Mail,” and included a URL for more information. Yes, they are promoting what the KY Attorney General calls “illegal drugs” because they want women to be able to murder their own children here in Kentucky. What a wicked organization. They do all they can to go out of their way to help people murder as many children in the womb as possible. So, so evil.
Ryan Gardner, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute, countered that thinking. “Parents should not have to wait until their children are irreparably harmed to seek protection from courts,” he asserted. “No family should face the terror of having their children run away to the state and then have those children hidden from them.”
The jury foreperson came across as an activist rather than someone sworn to render an impartial verdict. She told the media how excited she became when she thought they were about to return a verdict of not guilty. She said that if there is a retrial, she will be there in support of Clancy. The majority of jurors became incensed with the one holdout. Even if he didn’t express himself particularly well, he had a legal and moral obligation not to surrender an honestly held conviction merely to reach unanimity. That’s how the jury system works. Another juror said the holdout “had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”
The Department of Health and Human Services announced in August it would no longer allow federal funds to pay for children to receive damaging “transgender” medical procedures, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.
Barring a last-minute court-ordered injunction, Illinois’ physician-assisted suicide law is scheduled to take effect Saturday subjecting patients with terminal illnesses, depression, and disabilities to significant risks of premature death, warn pro-life advocates in the state.
We cannot afford to flinch from our responsibility to face and defeat the evils that threaten our way of life, or to indulge in moral equivalence: Not in 2001, and not today. Scripture tells us, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Let us never forget that lesson, and let us remain steadfast in fighting for what is right and just in the face of those who seek to tear our country down.
"We give God great thanks for showing mercy to Britain today. Today, thousands of lives have been saved and countless more vulnerable people will be able to live their lives without being made to feel like a burden. We are deeply grateful to everyone who stood with us for life over the last two years. But this vote should never have even been close. Now begins the even bigger work of showing the nation that life is precious and that suicide is never compassionate.”
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the Christian Medical & Dental Associations and a Christian medical practice filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Colorado law that forces healthcare professionals to participate in so-called gender transition procedures for children and adults, even when doing so violates their religious, ethical, and medical judgment.
What is the final bedrock of our country’s foundation? The early fathers envisioned a land where people thrived because justice prevailed. In the words of George Washington, “The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice." Franklin Graham recently said, “The Bible teaches that government is ordained by God to deter evil and defend righteousness." Part of this responsibility is establishing and enforcing fair laws. Peaceful societies rely on clear consequences for injustice—an idea that comes not from human reason but from God’s design.
Harkin said the school day needs to stop turning “into a vehicle for activist agendas.” “Parents would be shocked to see the constant stream of activist content children are exposed to in the classroom,” Harkin said. “School children should not be subjected to inappropriate discussions about sexuality and gender and should never be exposed to any of it without their parents’ knowledge and prior consent.”
The New York-based company Mayday.Health is advertising illegal abortion procedures in Kentucky, state Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday. “These out of state activists are not only breaking Kentucky law, they seem to delight in rubbing our faces in it,” Coleman said. “We refuse to allow Mayday to taint our values and put our people at risk.”
At least one police chief in Florida thinks the three-judge panel’s decision is a dangerous miscalculation. "The courts in this case got it wrong," said Pensacola Police Chief Eric Winstrom in an interview with his local ABC television affiliate. "I realized that this is an emerging level of technology. You know, everything changes but the courts have to keep up. And in this case, they failed. "Just because technology is moving at such a fast pace doesn't mean that the courts don't have that responsibility to have to move equally fast to keep up with it.”
An Illinois mother has been charged with murder following the death of her 2-year-old son in what police described as a domestic homicide at the family’s home. Neighbors expressed fears that there was a Lindsay Clancy story in their area, and indeed it was revealed that she was an avid follower of the Lindsay Clancy case.
What we discuss today should make you very upset. The Lindsay Clancy trial is not about whether or not a murderer is on trial. It’s a trial on “mental health,” something entirely different and completely divorced from reality. Let’s begin with an important fact: There aren't versions of the truth—”your truth” vs “my truth”—there is just the truth. Lindsay Clancy is responsible for the death of her children. End of story. Full stop. Videos across Social media are showing women holding plastic baby dolls, making light of casually harming their own children—moms tossing their fake babies over banisters, bashing their heads into doorposts, and putting them in dryers and dishwashers. The caption of one of the videos depicting the harming of infants reads: “postpartum depression got me like…”
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the public school district of Kansas City, Kans. (KCKPS) for guidelines that would facilitate student gender transitions without notifying parents, the DOJ announced Tuesday. This is the first instance of the U.S. government suing a local school district for violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) for such a policy.
Attorneys with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Alliance Defending Freedom filed their opening merits brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday on behalf of a devout Orthodox Jew suing the city of University Heights, Ohio after officials required him to obtain a permit to pray in his home with a small group of friends. The Supreme Court agreed to hear Daniel Grand’s case after lower federal courts threw out his lawsuit and said he needed to finish the permitting process before vindicating his constitutional rights.
Do compulsory education and government-school funding violate the U.S. Constitution and the free-speech rights of parents as enshrined in the First Amendment? A Nebraska court is considering that very question right now. The implications could be far-reaching. A pair of Lincoln families have finally put into a courtroom what Columbia Law School Professor Philip Hamburger has been arguing for years: the government-school monopoly is not merely a bad policy. It is an unconstitutional machine for substituting the government’s speech for the speech of parents.
California could soon add Muslim holy days Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to its list of official state holidays, with lawmakers approaching a final vote that could put the legislation on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk within days.
There is a dark irony in the whispered joke that DEI means “Didn’t Earn It.” Most diversity advocates vehemently reject that characterization. But institutions should understand why such cynicism has gained traction. When race, victimhood or representation outweigh measurable achievement, people naturally begin wondering whether standards have been lowered. DEI is regressive, demeaningly assumptive, demoralizing, and (let’s just say it), racist.
The authors present the result as a gap in how officials look for radicalization. The report noted that “federal agencies and public safety officials are concerned not only with ideology in the abstract, but with radicalization pathways: the content that tells people who to fear, why the situation is urgent, and when force becomes acceptable.” “Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature,” the researchers concluded. “This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable.”
It was quite the spectacle. Hundreds of women marched outside a courtroom, praising a mother on trial for killing her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. Thousands took to social media, parading the mother, Lindsay Clancy, as a new face for “women’s rights,” and millions of dollars have been given to support her. This story is about more than a murder trial—it is a spotlight on the inverted morality that has taken hold of a large segment of the culture, and it is far from the first.
Mothers know this. Not all Girl Scouts of the USA troops are teaching the values your troop likely taught. Troops under the GSUSA banner are operating within Muslim mosques and institutions and incorporating Islamic religious practices and values, independent journalist Natalie G. Winters reports. There is no published nationwide count of Girl Scout troops meeting in mosques. Public records, however, document mosque-based Girl Scout troops in at least several major metropolitan areas, with more than a dozen individual troops readily identifiable from available sources. The actual number is almost certainly higher.
In the wake of Dobbs, Planned Parenthood, our nation’s single largest abortion provider, developed and released a 14-point plan directing Democrat state attorneys general to target pro-life pregnancy resource centers and promote abortion.
After an Idaho district court became the first federal court in the nation to “find” a new federal constitutional right to abortion post-Dobbs, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, serving alongside Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Wednesday to allow the state to protect the lives of unborn children and women.
Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life, said that the law is “designed to scare people of faith off the sidewalks outside abortion facilities by creating the constant threat of prosecution and costly lawsuits,” because prayer, holding a sign, or offering a woman help could be seen as intimidation or coercion.
After decades of cover-ups, union protection rackets, and official indifference, the U.S. Department of Education is finally admitting that government schools are infested with sexual predators preying on captive children. In some of the strongest official comments to date, U.S. Secretary Linda McMahon vowed a nationwide crackdown on teachers, staff, and other adults in positions of authority who sexually abuse and harass students. Speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McMahon made clear that the horrors documented by The Newman Report and others for years cannot continue. “This epidemic of nationwide sexual abuse in our schools must end,” she said.