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We’ve written repeatedly about how abortion has fallen to historic lows in Arkansas.
Altogether, from 1991 to 2016, abortion in Arkansas fell by 53.4%.
Teen abortion fell by nearly 79% during that same time.
In 2000, the FDA approved RU486, a regimen of drugs used to perform chemical abortions. From 2003 to 2011, the number of chemical abortions performed in Arkansas generally rose. However, since 2011 the number of chemical abortions performed in Arkansas has fallen by 26.7%.
Across the board, abortion is in decline in Arkansas. Below is an infographic highlighting some of these numbers.
According to news reports, the State of Washington is weighing a proposed rule change that would allow people to list a third “gender” on their birth certificates.
Currently, birth certificates in Washington contain a space to list a person’s sex as male or female. Under the new rule, people who do not self-identify as either male or female would be able to put an X in that space.
Many of the people who support the rule change feel as if they are not truly male or female — calling themselves “non-binary.”
All of this reminds me of an article our friends at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview wrote in 2014:
We’re all familiar with the argument by now: homosexual attraction is an innate characteristic—maybe genetic. Therefore, denying same-sex attracted individuals the ‘right’ to get married is the same as racism.
But an alternate narrative has appeared on the horizon, and by ‘horizon,’ I mean the cover of a recent TIME Magazine issue, where it’s used to promote the ‘T’ in the acronym ‘LGBT.’ The ‘T,’ of course, stands for ‘transgender,’—those who say their biological sex and their perceived gender don’t match. The mantra here goes, ‘I was born this way, but I want to change. In fact, I have a right to change.’
So we’re told that the biology of the ‘L,’ the ‘G,’ and the ‘B’ can’t change. But when it comes to ‘T,’ the biology doesn’t matter.
Confused? Well, you’re not alone.
You cannot in one breath say a person’s biology controls their feelings — as many homosexuals claim — and in the very next breath say a person’s feelings are more important than their biology — as transgender and “non-binary” people claim. The two arguments contradict each other.