Vice President JD Vance and Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, spoke at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday night, keynoting the “This is The Turning Point” Turning Point USA tour stop.
Vice President JD Vance and Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, spoke at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday night, keynoting the “This is The Turning Point” Turning Point USA tour stop.
Students happily lined up in the cold and rain at Ole Miss hours before the event began, wearing “Freedom” shirts in tribute to the slain TPUSA founder.
“We’re honoring Charlie Kirk and his message to the world and I think that it’s really important as a student to stand for what you believe in so that’s why I’m here, and we’ve been standing in the rain,” one student shared.
Vice President Vance began his remarks by repeating advice Charlie would frequently give to young people: “The most important advice he ever gave you was fall in love, get married and start a family. I can’t honor Charlie without repeating that most important advice.”
Vance talked about his own family life, noting his wife, Usha Vance, was present in the audience.
A new Colorado abortion clinic offers third trimester abortions “for any reason.”
Reproductive Health, Inclusive Care, Support and Empowerment (RISE) Collective describes itself as “one of only a handful of clinics in the country trained to provide abortion care in all trimesters.”
The Boulder-based clinic began providing “later abortion care” — a euphemism for abortions in the third trimester — on Oct. 14.
Per its promo video, RISE Collective will perform these procedures on any mother who asks.
“We believe that any reason you have for needing abortion care is yours — and it is the right one.”
The new clinic is founded and staffed by former employees of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, an infamous late term abortion vendor run by Warren Hearn that closed in May.
The clinicians began raising money for RISE Collective as soon as the Boulder facility closed down, Alicia Moreno, the executive director of RISE and former chief operating officer of the defunct Boulder clinic, told 9News.
“[Boulder Abortion Clinic] was one of the five clinics in the country that worked in this space,” Moreno explained. “So going down to four was a big hit to patient access that’s already really strained.”
By “this space,” Moreno means ending the lives of babies in the third trimester, which begins at 28 weeks gestation.
It’s been almost two months since Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was killed by a radical assassin at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
In the weeks following his tragic death, Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, has made a few select public appearances — including her first since her husband’s death on a college campus last week at Ole Miss.
Returning to an academic venue was a “spiritual reclaiming of territory,” Kirk told students. “And the more that I am coming to grips with the permanency of this nightmare, the more that I am starting to realize and witness that the enemy, he doesn’t want you.”
“He wants your territory. He wants your influence. And I could just hear Charlie in my heart. I could just hear him say, ‘Go reclaim that territory … the battles that God’s love conquers.’ And that’s why I’m here today,” she continued.
College campuses have long been a hotbed for the robust exchange of ideas. Often monopolized beginning in the 1960s by liberal activists eager to launch a social revolution on various fronts, conservative groups like TPUSA and Young America’s Foundation have enjoyed a growing presence at both high school and colleges across the country.
Appearing alongside Vice President JD Vance last week, Erika Kirk encouraged the thousands of students in attendance to “earn” their voice. “You are the courageous generation,” she told them.
Choking back tears, Erika shared a moving story about sleeping on her late husband’s side of the bed and waking up to see a sign on a bookshelf that he had put there: “They will be known by the boldness of their faith.”
A young New Zealander, Issy, recently went public to tell her story of growing up with sexual identity confusion and being irreparably damaged by “transgender” ideology and medical procedures.
Only when she turned to God, learning that He loved and accepted her, and embraced her true identity as a woman, did she find peace and healing.
Issy recounted her story in a video from Family First New Zealand, “The Untold Stories of Kiwi ‘Detransitioners’ — Meet Issy.”
It’s a powerful story of a troubled girl’s journey toward grace and redemption.
Family First NZ, led by Bob McCoskrie, is a fierce advocate for families, marriage, life and freedom.
The Christian organization proclaims the truth that there are only two sexes, male and female, and transgender ideology and medical procedures have brought terrible harms to many young people.
Issy is one of the first young women in New Zealand to publicly share her journey into the darkness of transgenderism — and out again, through faith in God.
In the video, Issy described what it was like growing up and thinking of herself as a boy.
“I always had friends that were boys, and I did all the boy things. It wasn’t until I was age 11, when I started going through puberty, that I realized that I wasn’t, and I faced the reality of what my gender was, and I played the part and just became as feminine as possible,” she said.
Feminists say marriage harms women; men often refer to marriage as the “old ball and chain.”
A writer proclaimed in The Guardian, “Marriage is not now and never has been designed with women’s happiness in mind.”
Weak-minded influencer Andrew Tate infamously proclaimed, “There is zero advantage to marriage in the Western world for a man. … There is zero statistical advantage.”
Unsurprisingly, younger adults are less likely to see the personal and societal benefits of marriage, according to Pew Research Center.
The same research, however, also shows marriage significantly boosts both spouses’ well being, especially when comparing marriage to cohabitation.
Social science data has shown for years that marriage is beneficial, both physically and mentally for men and women.
“Robust literature links being married to better physical and mental health outcomes,” a 2022 study published in the Journal of Family Psychology explains. “Studies consistently show long-term rather than short-term benefits to well being of getting married.”
A new joint study from the University of Michigan and Singapore Management University examined 5,000 adults in the United States and Japan.
They found that “single adults in both cultures … reported worse physical health and lower life satisfaction than their married counterparts.”
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