Experimenting on Breastfeeding Babies: Guest Column

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A 50-year-old man who identifies as a woman was able to “breastfeed” his grandchild after taking a series of experimental hormones. The researchers who made this possible proudly announced that this unidentified man was able to have this “experience” without any detrimental side effects to himself, as if that’s what breastfeeding is about, the experience of the adult. 

Not only has the FDA not approved these experimental drugs, it, in fact, strongly warns against them. Most medical professionals warn mothers against even taking cold medicine when breastfeeding and yet, somehow, proponents are praising this experimental use of these drugs as a step forward in “gender-affirming care.” 

Maya Forstater, the executive director of Sex Matters, rightly criticized, “Men should not be permitted, still less supported, to get between babies and their mothers or to use babies as props to validate their beliefs that they are women.” 

Children should never be social experiments to fulfill adult fantasies.   

Copyright 2024 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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Subcommittee Advances Measure to Support Women, Address Maternal and Infant Mortality in Arkansas

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On Thursday the Special Language Subcommittee of the Joint Budget Committee at the Arkansas Legislature passed S.B. 64 by Sen. John Payton (R – Wilburn).

This good bill provides $2 million in state funding for pregnancy help organizations that promote maternal health and provide women with options besides abortion.

In 2022 Family Council worked with the legislature and the governor to secure $1 million for pregnancy centers. This funding provided grants to more than 20 pregnancy help organizations.

Last year we worked with lawmakers to renew this funding. This grant money has gone to more than two dozen good organizations across the state that give women and families real assistance when faced with an unplanned pregnancy.

S.B. 64 would make improvements to the grant program. It would increase state funding from $1 million per year to $2 million. This would put Arkansas’ funding on parr with other states’.

The bill also clarifies that “pregnancy help organizations” include nonprofit organizations that promote infant and maternal wellness and reduce infant and maternal mortality by:

  • Providing nutritional information and/or nutritional counseling;
  • Providing prenatal vitamins;
  • Providing a list of prenatal medical care options;
  • Providing social, emotional, and/or material support; or
  • Providing referrals for WIC and community-based nutritional services, including but not limited to food banks, food pantries, and food distribution centers.

The measure includes language preventing state funds from going to abortionists and their affiliates.

On Thursday the Joint Budget Committee’s Special Language Subcommittee overwhelmingly approved S.B. 64. We appreciate the committee members choosing to support this good legislation.

You can watch Sen. Payton’s presentation of S.B. 64 and the subcommittee vote on the bill below.

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Arkansas Attorney General Leads 23 State A.G.s Asking Court to Uphold West Virginia Pro-Life Law

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On Monday Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to uphold a West Virginia law prohibiting abortion in most cases.

Family Council joined a separate brief in the case on Monday as well.

The A.G.’s team filed the brief on behalf of the Arkansas Attorney General’s office and 22 other state attorneys general.

After the 2022 Dobbs decision reversed Roe v. Wade, West Virginia strengthened its pro-life laws, but abortion drug manufacturer GenBioPro sued the state. A federal court partially dismissed the lawsuit last August, upholding West Virginia’s pro-life law, but GenBioPro appealed the case to the Fourth Circuit.

In the brief filed Monday, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin led his colleagues, arguing, “West Virginia’s generally applicable abortion ban doesn’t conflict with the FDA’s regulation of [the abortion drug] mifepristone. Rather than attack any particular abortion method—or render a differing judgment on the safety and efficacy questions the FDA has addressed— West Virginia’s law says, on entirely distinct moral grounds, that abortions may not be performed altogether.”

This federal court case in West Virginia could affect pro-life laws around the country in the future. With that in mind, it’s good to see Arkansas’ attorney general leading the way in defending pro-life laws in federal court.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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