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Transgender Series, Part 2: ‘Truthful Therapist’ Explains Why Parents Can’t Trust Mental Health Professionals
Editor’s note: This is the second podcast interview in a series on transgender phenomena, science, and the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits. Check out the first interview, on rapid-onset gender dysphoria. Unfortunately, parents can’t trust mental health professionals on the issue of a transgender identity, a veteran social worker warns. Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a therapist and… -
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Restoring Trust on Public Health Issues After COVID-19 Rests Squarely on Public Health Officials
At this year’s annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, panelists convened to discuss their “Global Risks Report 2024.” Among the many world problems they decided they needed to solve, they identified “misinformation and disinformation” as one of the most severe threats facing the planet in the near term. Public health officials, struggling… -
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Abortion Pill Reversal Saved Her Baby Girl’s Life
Katelynn Perry sat in her bathtub doing Google searches on her phone. Was there a way to save her unborn baby? She had taken the first chemical abortion pill that day and had decided she was not going to take the rest. After visiting Planned Parenthood, Perry says she “knew that taking that first pill… -
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‘Did Not Align With Our Mission’: Catholic University Fires Professor Who Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Catholic University confirmed to The Daily Signal that it has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Catholic University President Peter Kilpatrick announced to students on Jan. 30 that… -
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SHOCKING: Catholic University Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’ Who Coaches ‘Pregnant Men’ Through Giving Birth
A self-declared “abortion doula” spoke this week to Catholic University of America students about her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching “pregnant men” to deliver in what she called a “seahorse birth,” according to audio of the class lecture obtained by The Daily Signal. A Catholic University nursing student described… -
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Abortion, Sacred Truths, and Politics
Speaking Jan. 5 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden said that the 2024 election is about whether “democracy” is “still America’s sacred cause.” But is democracy “sacred”? Is the process by which we make choices “sacred,” or is what we choose “sacred”? This is the time of year we think about the sanctity of… -
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It’s Lunacy to Give ‘Free’ Health Insurance to Illegal Aliens
Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and break into rich countries. The United States is their No. 1 destination. The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life…. -
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CDC’s Latest Abortion Numbers: A Sobering Reminder of Monumental Task Ahead
The most recent report on abortion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out and, as usual, it’s grim. The number of abortions rose from 620,327 in 2020 to 625,978 in 2021. The key drivers in this depressing increase are a greater use of dangerous chemical abortion pills and weakened safety protocols governing… -
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Abortion Back on the Docket for Supreme Court Term. This Time It’s a Chance to Check Runaway Agencies.
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop virtually all safety precautions for obtaining and using abortion drugs. The Supreme Court’s involvement in any case related to abortion provokes all sorts of hysteria. But the court’s decision here will not just be about… -
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Pro-Life Experts Warn Leftists Are Using Texas Woman’s Abortion Battle as ‘Highly Public Flashpoint’
Kate Cox asked the Texas Supreme Court to give her permission to abort her unborn baby, a baby that has a condition known as trisomy 18. On Monday, her lawyers said that she will go to another state to end the baby’s life. That same day, the court said Texas law didn’t require her to… -
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Supreme Court to Weigh Major Case on Abortion Pill Approval
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it is taking on a case regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations filed a lawsuit against the FDA in November… -
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What’s Driving Gen Z’s Poor Mental Health? Psychologist Breaks it Down
No generation struggles with mental health more than Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012. Only 41% of Gen Z respondents said they’re “thriving” in a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation poll released earlier this year and reported by CNN, but 60% of millennials surveyed said they were thriving when asked at the same… -
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Study: Gender Reassignment Is No Cure for Mental Health Issues
People experiencing gender dysphoria cannot expect gender-reassignment interventions to solve other mental health issues, according to a large, Finnish study published last month in the journal European Psychiatry. People with gender dysphoria “present with many more common psychiatric needs” than the general population, the study reported, “even when medical GR [gender-reassignment] interventions are carried out.” Based on… -
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Why Do-It-Yourself Abortion Pills Are So Dangerous
The Biden administration continues removing safety measures for the distribution of do-it-yourself abortion pills, turning local pharmacies into abortion clinics. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration is being sued for approving these dangerous drugs in the first place. After the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization struck down Roe v. Wade,… -
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Nun Hails Legal Victory for Life, Privacy in Pro-Abortion State
After filing a lawsuit, a Catholic community of sisters in New York has won a victory for life and for privacy. In June 2022, New York passed a law allowing state officials to access pro-life pregnancy resource centers' sensitive information. The state Department of Health was granted permission to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers via demanding… -
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Some Christian Nonprofits Support Abortion, Charity Watchlist Finds
Christian organizations are among nonprofits that support the abortion industry, especially since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, according to a “watchlist” that monitors such connections. “Unfortunately, our research showed that many of these organizations responded to Dobbs by funding abortion,” Hugh Brown, executive vice president of the American Life League, told The… -
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Cosmopolitan’s Unintentional, Unironic Reminder That Abortion Is Satanic
Cosmopolitan magazine is trash. Most sane people would agree. But sometimes Cosmopolitan unironically publishes something that horrifyingly illustrates just how far gone and evil our society, and the culture of death, is. Case in point: Cosmo’s recent post on social media to promote its article highlighting “satanic abortion.” (I’m including screenshots just in case the… -
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On Ohio’s Issue 1, OB-GYN Debunks Deceptive Abortion Narrative
Exit polls in Ohio clearly showed that most voters oppose unlimited abortion on demand, yet that’s what 57% of the Ohioans voted for with the passage of Issue 1 on Nov. 7. Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and its allies persuaded a lot of people who believe in limits on induced abortion to vote in… -
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25 Years of Healthy Marriage in Utah: State Commission Strengthens Institution
Utah just celebrated the 25th anniversary of its healthy marriages initiative, a statewide effort to help people build and maintain strong marriages. There’s a great need to strengthen marriage in the U.S., given its decades-long decline and the many consequences of family breakdown, particularly among lower-income communities. Utah’s initiative is an example other states’ leaders… -
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Women ‘Deserve Better’ Than Misinformation on Chemical Abortion, Physician Says
The abortion pill ends one life and damages another, Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said Monday during a panel on chemical abortion held by The Heritage Foundation, referring to the death of the baby and its effects on the mother’s mental health. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “We need to…