Politics

By Archbishop Aquila, Denver Catholic - Charlie Gard’s brief life and the court battle over his treatment should move us to pray for him and his family and to reflect on the lessons it holds for the ongoing health care debate in our own country… As we consider the future of health care in our country and as some politicians call for a government-run system, we should not gloss over the tendency for such systems to usurp the rights of parents…

By Eric Metaxas, CNSNews - European leaders are begging their fellow citizens to have children. But it seems like a “Do as we say, not as we do,” kind of message. A recurring topic here at BreakPoint is the demographic challenge—“crisis” isn’t too strong a word—facing the industrialized world. From Tokyo to London, people are having fewer and fewer children:

By  Miles Smith,  The Witherspoon Institute - Like slavery, abortion has become in the leftist mind the central political issue, on which the economic and social liberties of the modern United States all hang.