Emma Waters is a policy analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation.
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After a resounding 99-1 defeat last summer, efforts to enact an artificial intelligence moratorium are back, this time with a push to force it into… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The best pro-family policies are those that champion the entire family—not just from the moment of conception, but the lifelong health and well-being of parents… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The topic of infertility has received unprecedented attention in national politics since February, when the Alabama Supreme Court held that for the purposes of the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In a recent sting operation, the FBI arrested and charged a Chicago man for knowingly distributing material on child sexual assault and boasting about sexually… Read More
LawCommentary
The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held a hearing on in vitro fertilization and the future of reproductive rights. One witness, a female doctor… Read More
LawCommentary
A sweeping Senate bill would radically expand in vitro fertilization and other reproductive technologies for military service members without regard to their sexual orientation, gender… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Liberals are trying to use the controversy over a state court decision about IVF to jam through expansive legislation with massive consequences. On Feb. 16,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In a landmark decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of protecting embryonic human life from wrongful death. Embryos are created routinely through… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In a show of bipartisanship outrage at a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham castigated the CEOs… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Thousands of members of the pro-life movement will gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 51st annual March for Life. While there is plenty… Read More
SocietyNews
Hannah Neeleman, a Utah-based cattle farmer and mother of eight, is perhaps the most popular Instagram “tradwife”—a growing category of social media influencers who reject the not-so-traditional… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Same-sex couples and singles, no matter their sexual orientation, now qualify as infertile. That is, at least, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine,… Read More
LawCommentary
State lawmakers in Michigan are gearing up this week to vote on the state’s first assisted reproduction and surrogacy parentage act. That may sound like… Read More
LawCommentary
Kara was 11 when her family first sold her body for drugs. Sydney was 14 when she met an older man online who promised her… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The latest trend to come from leftist lawmakers and the reproductive industry alike should shock everyone with a conscience: selling babies. For the sexual Left,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Ask any TikTok user about the app’s “For You” Page, and many will say that it “knows them better than they know themselves.” Between its… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Like the resilient undead, the Equal Rights Amendment is back. This time, the ERA has emerged from its grave in the form of a joint… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address got one thing right on Tuesday night: Children are not “baggage.” Of course, the context was a… Read More
LawCommentary
In his State of the Union address last night, President Joe Biden affirmed “our duty to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms.” But whose… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Netflix documentary “Our Father” exposed a jarring truth about the fertility industry. Jacoba Ballard knew that her mother used a sperm donor to conceive… Read More
Health CareCommentary
If an unborn baby in the United States is a girl, her chances of being born are much lower than if she were a boy…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
In the final days of the just-ended 117th Congress, Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Patty Murray of Washington introduced the Right to Build… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In just a couple of hours, the Senate is gearing up for a final vote on the misnamed “Respect for Marriage Act.” The vote is… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A mother was recently arrested in New York for allowing her 10-year-old son to get a tattoo. Had the boy instead decided to take puberty… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The pro-abortion industrial complex is at it again. The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper that reaches an estimated 8.8 million readers each day across all platforms,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
After cosmetics superstore Ulta Beauty released a podcast Oct. 13 featuring a biological male who “identifies” as a woman discussing “girlhood” and “motherhood,” real women… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this summer, abortion did not become illegal… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Department of Education’s 90-day comment period ended Monday for proposed rule changes for Title IX. What is the Biden administration trying to accomplish? Nothing… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Democrats continue to weaponize the administrative state, from the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago to the vast expansion of the Internal Revenue Service. Shortly after… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The abortion lobby wants women to think that abortion is the best—or even only—option when it comes to lifesaving maternal care. To achieve that, the… Read More
