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The Contempt at the Heart of “Family Planning” Policies
Mildred Fay Jefferson was the first black women to graduate from Harvard Medical school. Not only did she graduate, she had 28 honorary degrees. She said, “I became a physician in order to help save lives… I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of...
Perpetuating Disunity: The Executive Order on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Though on the outside President Biden’s Executive Order on “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” may sound fair and reasonable, it’s the brutal reality of how it uniquely harms women and girls where we need to...
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Hello Friends: United Families International has been hard at work! This week we want to introduce you to two new opportunities to become better acquainted with the issues and challenges impacting the family, parenting, religious freedom and more. Gaining Clarity...
Canceling Cancel Culture – A Goal for 2021 We Can All Embrace
Happy New Year, Friends! 2020 was a crazy year. We saw natural disasters, a world-wide pandemic and needed discourse escalating into looting and violence. 2020 left many feeling insecure or even fearful, for a variety of reasons, to participate in what had...
2020 – A Blessing of Thin Times and Places
From the Desk of Wendy Wixom: “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go,” may not be the scene for many this holiday season. What a change this year has been. Often during December our to-do lists grow and the holiday season gets busy as we...
Twenty-seven Year-Old Babies: The Promise and Perils of Embryo Adoption
One day I was getting my hair done when my hairdresser asked, “Do you want to hear the craziness that has transpired since I last saw you?” Her husband had done a DNA test. When his DNA test arrived, he learned he was adopted. Within weeks a biological sister, who...
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Video Games: Healthy Pastime or Pathway to Addiction?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Chelsea Jones In 1992, David* received his first video game system. His parents, like many others, were unaware of the potentially damaging...
What Happens if Abortion is Codified?
By Chelsea Jones No one expects secondary infertility, and yet, I am in the 10% who experience it. We (my husband and I) got pregnant with our first child in the first month we tried. This was not the case when we tried to get pregnant the second time. We endured...
How Redefining Marriage Has Undermined the Rights and Wellbeing of Children
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. By Katy Faust for United Families International A landmark custody dispute between same-sex “parents” is back in the news. In 2000, Lisa Miller and Janet...
The Contempt at the Heart of “Family Planning” Policies
Contributed by Tori Black On the day before the 2021 March for Life, the annual event that marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, President Biden signed a memorandum reversing four years of pro-life actions by former...
Perpetuating Disunity: The Executive Order on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black After an inauguration speech calling for unity, President Joe Biden entered the oval office and proceeded to sign a raft of executive...
Canceling Cancel Culture – A Goal for 2021 We Can All Embrace
Contributed by Tori Black “How can you convince somebody that has never met you and the only thing they’ve ever seen of you is that three-second clip?” Mimi Groves was a freshman in high school when she posted a video celebrating her new driver’s permit, in which she...
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