The Drop in Abortion Funding

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A spike in support following Dobbs may be waning.

Pro-abortion organizations are reporting a “staggering drop off” in funding, according to a press release from the U.S.-based National Network of Abortion Funds. It seems that the spike in support for pro-abortion funds following the overturning of Roe v. Wade was from short-lived “rage” donations.

“Every single abortion fund” in the network—about 100 in total—has witnessed a drop in financial support, according to one director. Also, abortion is banned or restricted in 21 states, which means the funds are subject to higher abortion costs and travel expenses.   

For example, a fund in Mississippi went from paying for about 20 abortions a week to only two or three, while another fund in Tampa reported a 63% drop in funding in the year following Dobbs. Other funds in Ohio, Utah, and New Mexico have paused operations. 

While the fight for life is far from over, we can be encouraged that killing preborn children and reducing women’s healthcare to abortion are hard causes to sustain. 

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

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Keeping Kids Safe Online: Guest Column

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If we’ve learned anything, parents are the only ones who can protect kids with their devices.

The clear takeaway from the U.S. Senate’s recent hearing, “Big Tech and the Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,” is that social media is not safe for children. Senators from both sides of the aisle questioned social media CEOs about the harms their platforms cause to kids. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin noted, “As early as 2017, law enforcement identified Snapchat as the pedophile’s go-to sexual exploitation tool.” Republican Ted Cruz chided Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for Instagram allowing users to view child sexual content.  

For years, social media companies have claimed that better parental controls would protect children, but as CEO of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation Dawn Hawkins argued in a Heritage Foundation panel after the hearing, “[T]he parental controls … do not work. … They’ve designed these platforms without parents in mind.” 

The conclusion is obvious. Tech companies cannot (and will not even if they could) protect kids. Parents have to. 

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

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Pro-Life Activists Targeted by the DOJ: Guest Column

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Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice put pro-life protestors on trial for their role in a 2021 sit-in at an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Each protestor faces over a decade in prison, as well as hefty fines. America has a long history of civil disobedience and peaceful protests, but increasingly the state has grown quite selective in what is tolerated and what is condemned, and now, even convicted. Federal animus toward pro-life activism is increasing, as are examples of hostility from law enforcement. It’s especially odd when compared to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who “declined to comment” about the four men who were released after beating New York police officers. 

Beyond the complexities of the immigration debate and the ethics of civil disobedience, it reflects our cultural mood in which the moral status of individuals is predetermined, based on their group rather than their behavior. The more the state reflects this mood, the more elusive justice will be. 

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

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