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January 12, 2023

Raising Children in an Anti-Child World, by Anna Reynolds

By Anna Reynolds, Crisis Magazine - Amid all the drama of the voting line, a man ahead of us described for his neighbor the culture of his wife’s native Brazil, in which, according to him, there was a high degree of honor conferred on mothers with young children and the elderly. In a line, mothers with young children and the elderly would be given first place, and in waiting rooms they were ushered ahead of everyone else. That sounded fabulous right around the time the toddler started bellowing for more snacks and the infant in the next segment of the line began protesting the confines of his stroller. ...

January 12, 2023

Emails Reveal White House Colluded With Twitter to Censor RFK, Jr., by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Children's Health Defense - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel of Children’s Health Defense referenced other ongoing and forthcoming legal cases on related matters, on his part and from CHD, telling The Defender: “We are already involved in a number of First Amendment cases. We’re involved in the litigation against Facebook on behalf of CHD... We’re about to file an antitrust suit against the Trusted News Initiative, which includes all of the social media sites... “... This is the government and the White House directly. We’re reviewing that right now, as public officials are not allowed to censor.”

January 12, 2023

118th Congress to Vote on Born Alive Infant Protection Act, by Erika Ahern

By Erika Ahern, CatholicVote - On January 9, 2023, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-MO, reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill ensures that infants who emerge from the birth canal alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protections and care as any other newborn... “It pains me that this fight has to be fought at all, but medical care for babies should not be a partisan issue,” said Wagner. “Now, with Republicans in the Majority, the House will finally take action and vote to protect the fundamental right to life.”

January 12, 2023

Apples and Oranges – and Abuse, by Stephen P. White

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - It must be said that the Church ought to be held to a higher standard precisely because of what the Church claims to be, because of what she is. The conduct of Catholic priests and bishops ought to be measured, ultimately, against the demands of the Gospel, not merely the standards imposed by civil law... The Church deserves no awards for being better at preventing and reporting the sexual abuse of children than large public-school systems. But she ought to be seen – and ought to see herself – as a model for others in combating the scourge of abuse, which touches every part of society.