News and Views: August 31, 2024

Make love not babies: the culture war on conception 

WHAT IS the real purpose of abortion providers such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service? Given the vast amounts of state funding that come their way, is their primary function to provide safe terminations instead of the notorious back-street abortions of the past? Is it more about keeping women in the workplace rather than on maternity leave? Or is there a broader social mission, purportedly to reduce the burden of unwanted children, but really to reduce the population?

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The hazards of smartphones for kids 

The advent of social media has caused a nearly universal sea change in the fundamentals of daily life for every child and teenager who has access to a smartphone. There is no need to cite statistics on how much time a young person with a smartphone spends on it. Just a circumspice (look around you) will show that unless some powerful outside force intervenes, kids will use literally every spare minute engaged in keeping up with social media posts and rumours and all the other stuff that goes on in their personal cyberspace.

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Mister, we could use a man like Ronald Reagan again  

(Having just seen the movie "Reagan", thought I'd post this...)

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ASU professors: U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding camps’  Two professors discussed dismantling capitalism and electing a female president to restore reproductive rights, and warned of a dystopian future with “cannibalism” and “forced breeding camps"...

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Cancer Researcher: Ivermectin Can Overcome Chemotherapy Resistance of Turbo Cancers Caused by mRNA Jabs Image

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The Week in Pictures: Kamaladammerung Edition