From Abortion Pill “Scumbags” to Biblical Studies, Here is a Look Back at the Week’s Headlines

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Here’s a quick recap of the week’s top stories from Family Council and our friends:

From Family Council

💊 Pro-Life Group Highlights Abortion Pill Horror Stories. 40 Days for Life has produced a summary of some of the horror stories surrounding mail-order abortion pills. For example, the group says a Kansas man “was sentenced to nearly a decade in prison for conspiracy to commit murder following allegations that he sprinkled a crushed abortion pill on his girlfriend’s pancakes to cause an abortion.” Keep Reading.

💰 Trump Administration Cuts Millions of Dollars to Planned Parenthood Sex-Education Programs. Late last month the Trump administration moved to eliminate millions of dollars in grant money to Planned Parenthood and other organizations teaching comprehensive sex-education to teens. Keep Reading.

🧑‍⚖️ U.S. Department of Justice Memo Directs Prosecutors to Address Fraudulent “Birth Tourism.” U.S. citizenship is guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment for “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” and courts have held that nearly everyone born within the country’s boundaries is a U.S. citizen. But testimony before members of Congress has shown that foreign nationals are using fraudulent tourist visas and international surrogacy contracts to have children born on American soil with U.S. citizenship — a practice commonly referred to as “birth tourism.” Keep Reading.

📝 Story Underscores How Commercial Surrogacy Hurts Women and Unborn Children. A recent story from the pro-life group Live Action underscores how commercial surrogacy contracts turn women and unborn children into commodities. Keep Reading.

🚌 Texas Brings the Bible to the Classroom. The Texas State Board of Education’s new reading list requirements for public school students will include Bible stories alongside literary classics likes Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The new curriculum takes effect in 2030. Keep Reading.

From Our Friends

Faithfulness in Hong Kong. From Breakpoint.

How ‘Pride’ 2026 Showed That the LGBT Movement Is Imploding. From Daily Citizen.

Lawsuit Against Snapchat Latest in Social Media Accountability Push. From Daily Citizen.

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Story Underscores How Commercial Surrogacy Hurts Women and Unborn Children

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A recent story from the pro-life group Live Action underscores how commercial surrogacy contracts turn women and unborn children into commodities.

In commercial surrogacy, corporate agencies hire women to carry children for paying customers. But if those customers back out of the contract, they may pressure the surrogate to abort the child. Live Action writes:

Unlike many other countries, the United States has relatively few restrictions on surrogacy — and that’s a problem.

News outlets have reported that a sex offender convicted of crimes involving children was able to obtain a child through surrogacy in Pennsylvania as a result of lax state regulations.

The Daily Wire recently visited several homes in Houston that the State of Texas says are helping Chinese nationals travel to the U.S. on tourist visas “for the sole purpose of giving birth.”

Last year The Wall Street Journal uncovered how Chinese billionaires are taking advantage of America’s surrogacy industry to create what some call “mega-families” with dozens or even hundreds of children.

The Wall Street Journal also has written about allegations of financial fraud among commercial surrogacy businesses.

In December, The New York Times and NBC News both reported about investigations into a surrogacy agency that abruptly shutdown, causing clients to lose an estimated $2 – $5 million total.

The list goes on.

Stories like these underscore why social commentators and policymakers worldwide have raised concerns about commercial surrogacy.

It’s bad when commercial surrogacy goes wrong — but it’s important to remember that surrogacy never “goes right” either.

Commercial surrogacy deliberately deprives children of their biological mothers or fathers.

It treats pregnancy like a “service” that can be purchased, and it treats women like commodities.

Human beings are not products that can be made to order and sold at a profit, but that is what commercial surrogacy does to unborn children. That’s why it’s essential for policymakers to enact real restrictions on commercial surrogacy contracts and agencies.

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