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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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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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Defending Life at Home and Abroad – The Geneva Consensus Declaration
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black Reproductive health. You would think those two words together would mean freedom from illness or injury when producing offspring. And...
Fostering Resilient Families
By Stephanie Batty Everyone of every age experiences stress - it is an unavoidable and important part of life! It fosters adaptation and growth. We are tuned by stress much like a violin is tuned by fine adjustments made to its strings. Our ability to cope and adapt...
The Cohabitation Fallacy
By Deanne Ririe Shacking up was a term for cohabitation used in the 1940s. Over the years the expression has evolved to living together, sleeping together, moving in together, or hooking up. They are different expressions that mean the same thing; two unmarried people...
The Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation: A Bright Spot of News in Challenging Times
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Rebekah Applegate What does it mean to be a feminist? The answer to that question has changed over the course of history. Mary Wollstonecraft was...
Keeping Abortion Viable by Keeping Women in the Dark
By Rebekah Applegate Are doctors required to give information to patients with which they disagree? I have a metabolic disorder called Phenylketonuria (PKU), which limits my protein intake. Recently I attended a conference to roll out a new drug that revolutionizes...
The Gift of Unstructured Play
By Stephanie Batty I told my kids, "You have two choices: stay inside and clean or go outside and play." Not surprisingly, my children choose to go outside and play ninety-nine percent of the time, and I love it. Don't get me wrong, my kids have chores and things...
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