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| How the "Right to Die" Erodes the Right to Life |
|  | This year marks 23 years since Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and as in previous years, the reasons that patients sought to end their own lives were primarily loss of autonomy and a decreasing ability to participate in activities that made life enjoyable. Additionally, over half expressed a concern that they were “becoming a burden” to their family and caregivers. In other words, fear and discouragement have been major factors motivating people to end their own lives, and rather than being offered help and hope, they were offered lethal drugs. And yet, as people continue to turn to assisted suicide out of fear, the assisted suicide lobby consistently calls for the erosion of any safeguards that are in place. This is because the logic of assisted suicide allows no limits. Even when proponents claim that safeguards will be in place, those safeguards without fail begin to erode within decades or less. Dr. Joshua Brisoce, a hospice and palliative care physician and professor at Duke University, recently pointed out where the logic of assisted suicide leads, writing, If suffering warrants assisted suicide, why should seemingly arbitrary limits like terminal illness or even autonomous choice limit it? For surely non-terminally ill, incapacitated patients can suffer — and for longer than a cancer patient with 6 months to live! If the answer to suffering is death, then we quickly run out of scenarios where embracing life makes sense. Furthermore, if assisted suicide is about autonomy, as the assisted suicide lobby claims, then allowing the medical community to establish any sort of limits also doesn’t make sense. Briscoe continues, … If assisted suicide is meant to honor the autonomy of the one who chooses it, then forcing them to submit to the medical establishment’s arbitrary limits of terminal illness or suffering is a slight against that autonomy. |
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| Tell the Department of Education: DON'T Change Title IX |
|  | In recent years, radical progressives have been pushing radical policies in local school districts. This agenda forces girls to share locker rooms with boys, allows boys to steal sports opportunities from girls, and forces children to learn about gender ideology at a young age.
Now, the U.S. Department of Education is working to do the same thing- nationwide.
But you can help STOP THIS.
Similar to a local virtual school board hearing, on June 7-11 the President Biden’s Department of Education will be hosting a public hearing about incorporating “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” in national education policies. These policies will force girls to share locker rooms and showers with boys, impact girls’ sports opportunities, and punish those who disagree.
You can weigh in at this “national school board meeting” and tell the Department of Education you STRONGLY OPPOSE ANY CHANGES in their education policies that redefine “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Biden’s Education Department has no place attempting to implement this radical agenda into every local school district in the country.
Click here to submit your comment NOW! We’ve provided some comments for you to use, but the more personalized you can make your comments, the better!
Thank you for using your voice to protect children! |
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| 60 Minutes Shines a Light on Dangerous Cross-Sex Hormones |
|  | “I went for two appointments and after the second one I had my letter to go get on cross-sex hormones.” “[My therapist] didn’t really go into what my gender dysphoria might be stemming from. We only did a few sessions.” “When everything that I set out to do was done, I still felt incomplete.” These are the words of the young men and women who recently spoke to 60 Minutes about why they left the transgender movement. In each case, they sought help for gender dysphoria and depression and were very quickly put on a path toward cross-sex hormones and surgery only to experience regret after the fact. Sadly, stories like theirs are becoming all too common. Amid a rise in rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) the transgender movement continues to push for unquestioning affirmation when a young person is struggling with the feeling that they were born in the wrong body and encourage young adults, teenagers, and even young children to undergo puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries. Around the world, people who have been harmed by this movement are speaking out and their courageous stand is effecting change. Kiera Bell won her case against the U.K.’s Tavistock clinic late last year. Sweden recently announced that they would no longer be following the “Dutch Protocol” — using puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones as “treatment” for gender dysphoria in children, and here in the U.S., states are taking steps to protect children from these so-called “treatments.” Most recently, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law banning the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children with gender dysphoria who have not yet reached puberty. This bill is a step in the right direction, but it does not go as far as Arkansas’s recent law and does not do enough to protect children and teens who are experiencing gender dysphoria. These “treatments” are harmful, experimental, and dangerous at any age. Tennessee is absolutely right to protect young children from these “treatments,” but by limiting the scope of the bill, they are failing to protect vulnerable children and teens during and after puberty. |
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| Unwoke - Episode 4 - How Can Christians Help Young People Struggling with Gender Identity? |
|  | Our culture is lying to children and young adults about "gender identity." In this video, we discuss the biblical truth that we are created "male and female," and how God's good design offers comfort to those who are struggling. Share this video with family and friends - don't let our culture have the last word on this tough subject. We discuss several resources in this video. To get confidential help finding a trusted counselor in your area, contact us at [email protected]. To download our guide for schools, churches, and families, click here: https://genderresourceguide.com. To subscribe on YouTube so you get our next videos as they come out, click here. |
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