Here’s How Much Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Provided in a Post-Roe America

 

A report released Friday from the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that in 2022, nearly 3,000 pro-life pregnancy resource organizations offered an estimated $358 million in services and goods to women in need. 

According to the report, Hope for a New Generation, services provided to women who visit these centers can range from pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to providing mothers with baby clothing, formula, as well as parenting classes. According to the report, almost 975,000 new clients received services from pregnancy centers in 2022. 

Of the 16 million visits that took place, the self-reported client satisfaction level was 97.4 percent. This study was a collaboration between CLI with Care Net, Heartbeat International, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates. 

Of the 16 million+ client sessions that took place, 97% self-reported a positive experience.

Pregnancy centers are meeting the challenge, serving generously with love and compassion to meet the needs of families in the Dobbs era.

Our 2022 report: https://t.co/gu3XkdQXNy pic.twitter.com/bUtZtmpfkH— Charlotte Lozier Institute (@LozierInstitute) December 15, 2023

“In the Dobbs era, the demands upon pregnancy help centers have increased daily,” Chuck Donovan, the president of CLI, said. 

“Many states are responding with new funds and new policies to support the centers’ work. At the same time, new attacks are launched daily by violent radicals and by politicians who should know better. Some would find these challenges daunting, but as our report shows, pregnancy help center leaders see in this situation new opportunities to serve generously with love and compassion for those in need,” he added. 

Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, added that the pregnancy centers offer services free of charge to “help women have alternatives to abortion.”

“Every week pregnancy centers open their doors, free of charge, to help women have alternatives to abortion.”
– @jorelg, President, @HeartbeatIntl

Read about the life-affirming work of pregnancy centers in our new report ➡️ https://t.co/gu3XkdRvD6 pic.twitter.com/5nHWWhjuq0— Charlotte Lozier Institute (@LozierInstitute) December 15, 2023

Last year, Townhall covered how Heartbeat International continued their efforts to help women experiencing a crisis pregnancy after Roe v. Wade was overturned. 

“The amount of support and love that was poured into me directly from staff but also all these community agencies and resources saved me. So, pro-life for me isn’t just about a fetus or an embryo, it was about me,” Danielle, a mother who chose life with the help of HI, told Townhall.

“It’s not just about the babies. It really is about the woman and what she needs and it wasn’t forced, wasn’t pushed on me, it was ‘what do you want and how can we help you get there?’ I was met where I was at. It wasn’t an agenda that they were trying to reach. It was ‘we want to know what you’re trying to accomplish and what that looks like and how we can get you there,’” Danielle added.

Here’s the Message Tucker Carlson Brought to Major News Outlets This Week

 

Days after announcing his new streaming platform, Tucker Carlson got busy advertising to mainstream outlets. 

Billboard trucks with his image on the side that read “Corporate Media is dead,” set up outside the headquarters of The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, and CNN in Washington, D.C. and Manhattan. 

🚨 MASTER TROLL: Tucker Carlson parks trucks in front of The New York Times, CNN, and Washington Post that say “Corporate Media is Dead” pic.twitter.com/uokqjrBM8n— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 14, 2023

In an interview with The Daily Mail, Carlson said corporate media is “doomed.”

“And on some level, they know they’re doomed, which is why they’re hysterical. The era of dominance by a few big media companies, the era of total control over all information by you know, nine people, that’s done.”

He added, “We’re not doing it out of cruelty and hope we’re not rubbing this in anyone’s face or making the people who still work there feel bad, but they’re doomed…they misused their monopoly. You need new institutions to fill that smoking crater left by lying news organizations.”

While Carlson is ‘enraged’ over how much the media lie to the public, also pointed out that there hasn’t been any “interesting or true thought expressed on the Today Show in a generation.” All the compelling content is taking place in independent media, he argued. 

Carlson also spoke about his departure from Fox and emphasized he was always treated well during his 14 years at the network and was never told what he could or could not say or think.  

“I will always appreciate that. And I don’t care what happens next. There are people there I think mistreated me or I don’t respect or whatever, but I don’t want to whine about it.

“In the end, I’m a lot happier and I’m just I’m grateful for the experience and I’m not gonna attack them,” he continued, referring to his ouster. “I’m glad that I’m doing this.”

Biden’s Border Crisis Just Keeps Getting Worse, 13 Million Illegal Aliens Now In U.S.

 As the 2024 election rounds the corner, President Joe Biden’s border crisis is at the forefront of voter’s minds— which has exceeded a staggering 13 million illegal aliens now in the United States. According to a new report, the growing number of “gotaways” has reached a record high as migrants illegally enter the U.S. through the southern border. Steven Camarota, the research director for the Center for Immigration Studies, said that there are now nearly 50 million foreign-born citizens in the U.S.— driven solely based on the Biden Administration’s open border policies. This number is far more than the government previously expected. He said this is the most significant percentage of foreign-born immigrants in the U.S. the country has ever seen. However, Camarota said that number is just an estimate and could be much larger than recorded. His report also found that illegal border crossings under Biden have exceeded far beyond the presidencies of Obama and Bush. Could the number be bigger than we think? Yes. Could it be a million, maybe even two million bigger than we think? Yes,” he said. “Focusing on the period after President Biden took office in January 2021 shows an increase of 4.5 million. The increase during Biden’s first 34 months is unprecedented. What is so striking about the recent run-up in the number of immigrants is that the increase represents a net change, not merely a new inflow. Looking at each presidency shows that growth since the start of the Biden administration is dramatically higher. So far, it has averaged 137,000 a month since President Biden took office compared to 42,000 a month during Trump’s presidency before COVID-19 hit — January 2017 to February 2020. The average increase during Biden’s presidency is nearly double the 76,000-a-month average during Obama’s second term and significantly more than double the average increase of 59,000 in Obama’s first term. If Obama’s presidency is taken as a whole, growth averaged about 68,000 per month. Averaging many months together reduces month-to-month fluctuation and shows that the pace of growth during the Biden administration has been much higher than his immediate predecessoBill Maher Brutally Eviscerates Palestinian Grievances Meanwhile, as Biden’s unwillingness to secure the border continues to wreak havoc on the U.S., experts are warning that the crisis is exposing the country to a Chinese security risk. NewsNation footage caught Chinese migrants being encountered in California, confirming Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data indicating that encounters with Chinese migrants at the U.S. border are on the rise. The outlet points out that there is a “sabotage risk” of potentially dangerous entrants, which has caused concerns that the next major terrorist attack could take place in the United States. “It took only 19 terrorists on 9/11 to kill 2,977 Americans in one day, and what we’re allowing is thousands of potential saboteurs into our country. There are no words to describe the Biden policy,” Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute senior fellow, told Mornings With Maria. Chang also pointed out that “a lot” of “pro-Iran elements” exist in the State Department and National Security Council. “You’ve got to remember that 9/11 deal this year when President Biden gave clemency to five Iranian operatives. Only two of them decided to go back to Iran. Three were released into the U.S. And, remember, we’re still providing Secret Service protection to mid-level Trump officials because they’re under threat of assassination by Iranian operatives,” he added.

Thoughts on Marriage: A Post-Wedding Dispatch

 

I write this week as a very different man than I was when writing my last column. Then, I was merely engaged; now, after the single greatest week of my life culminated in the single greatest day and night of my life, I am married.

I am filled with immense, overwhelming gratitude. My wife and I are blessed with wonderful family and loyal friends — in America and worldwide. We are surrounded by those who love and care for us, and we do not want material comforts. Perhaps most important, we are anchored by our Judaism and strive to live lives — and, God-willing, build a family — rooted in a particular meaning and purpose, and guided by a particular set of values and customs. Even at the very beginning of our lifelong journey together, we, therefore, already have everything we truly need.

Unfortunately, marriage these days is something of a countercultural phenomenon. According to a 2020 Pew Research survey, the percentage of married 23- to 38-year-old Americans steadily decreases by generation: 81% for the Silent Generation, 61% for baby boomers, 53% for Gen X, and 44% for millennials. The percentage of unmarried Americans 15 years or older has risen from 23% in 1950 to 34% in 2022.

No one should expect Gen Z to stem the tide, either. According to a Thriving Center of Psychology survey, 41% of Gen Z men and a whopping 52% of Gen Z women believe that marriage is an “outdated tradition.” Alas, what else would we expect from a generation hopelessly addicted to Chinese TikTok spyware and indoctrinated by left-wing activist teachers to think of the nuclear family as “patriarchal” and “repressive”?

Millennials and Gen Z are the “participation trophy” generations: They are the ones who came of age receiving trophies and accolades not for being victorious or otherwise triumphant, but for simply showing up and playing. “Second place is just the first place loser,” NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt once said; “everyone is always a winner,” respond the cosseted brats of Gen Z and Gen Y (millennials).

America has raised successive generations to believe demonstrably untrue things: Every person is of equal worth (not in the true sense that we are all God’s creations, but in the untrue sense that we are all of equal acumen, skills and so forth); every culture and lifestyle is of equal dignity (including whether to marry and whether to raise children); and the only person who truly matters is  “me”  (and not one’s parents, grandparents, community members, countrymen, coreligionists and so forth).

In short, we have raised successive generations to reject the meritocratic, values-based and sacrificial lifestyle of yesteryear for the uber-egalitarian, nihilistic and solipsistic lifestyle flaunted by today’s elites. We have replaced the wisdom of traditional Judaism and Christianity with the moral relativism of the “Mystery Passage” from Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992): “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” We have replaced the duty and altruism of the Greatest Generation — those who stormed the beaches of Normandy and risked life and limb for God, family and country — with Ayn Rand’s “Virtue of Selfishness.”

No wonder, then, that marriage rates have been declining for so long. The very essence of the marital relationship — the fusing of two into one, the subordinating of the individual to the couple, learning to approach life’s challenges not as “me”  but as “us”  — is anathema to the “newer” ways of thinking. There is no “participation trophy” in marriage; there is teamwork, sacrifice for one’s spouse and children alike, and a mutual commitment to a specific (ideally religiously based) lifestyle.

Are millennials and Gen Z actually better off today for rejecting the tried-and-true ways of the past? Our skyrocketing rates of drug overdose, depression and deaths of despair would seem to provide a clear answer: No.

As I said, although we will grow and learn, and although we will (hopefully) acquire more wisdom and material possessions alike, my wife and I at this earliest stage already have everything we truly need. We greatly look forward to what is to come in the many decades ahead. And in our own small way, we hope to demonstrate a more viable and meaningful lifestyle than that pushed by societal elites today. Please pray for us as we embark on our journey.

How Were the Universities Lost?

 

After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses.

Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic.

But immediately after October 7 — and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces — the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.

Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted antisemitic hatred. Often, they threaten and attack Jewish students, or engage in mass demonstrations calling for the extinction of Israel.

Why and how did purportedly enlightened universities become incubators of such primordial hatred?
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After the George Floyd riots in 2020, reparatory admissions — the effort to admit diverse students beyond their numbers in the general population — increased.

Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called “white” incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 percent, despite whites making up 68-70% of the general population.

The abolition of the SAT requirement, and often the comparative ranking of high school grade point averages, have ended the ancient and time-proven idea of meritocracy. Brilliant high school transcripts and test scores no longer warrant admissions to so-called elite schools.

One result was that the number of Jews has nosedived from 20-30% of Ivy League student bodies during the 1970s and 1980s to 10-15%.

Jewish students are also currently stereotyped as “white” and “privileged” — and thus considered as fair game on campus.

At the same time, the number of foreign students, especially from the oil-rich Middle East, has soared on campuses. Most are subsidized by their homeland governments. They pay the full, non-discounted tuition rates to cash-hungry universities.

Huge numbers of students have entered universities, who would not have been admitted by the very standards universities until recently claimed were vital to ensure their own competitiveness and prestige.

Consequently, they are no longer the guarantors of topflight undergraduates and professionals from their graduate programs.

Faculty are faced with new lose/lose/lose choices of either diminishing their course requirements, or inflating their grades, or facing charges by Diversity/Equity/Inclusion commissars of systematic bias in their grading — or all three combined.

The net result is that there are now thousands of students from abroad, especially from the Middle East, far fewer Jewish students, and student bodies who demand radical changes in faculty standards and course work to accommodate their unease with past standards of expected student achievement.

And, presto, an epidemic of antisemitism naturally followed.

In such a vacuum, advocacy “-studies” classes proliferated, along with faculty to teach them.

“Gender, Black, Latino, feminist, Asian, Queer, trans, peace, environmental, and green”-studies courses demand far less from students, and arbitrarily select some as “oppressed” and others as “oppressors.” The former “victims” are then given a blank check to engage in racist and antisemitic behavior without consequences.

Proving to be politically correct in these deductive gut-courses rather than pressed to express oneself coherently, inductively, and analytically from a repertoire of fact-based knowledge explains why the public witnesses faculty and students who are simultaneously both arrogant and ignorant.

At some universities “blacklists” circulate warning “marginalized” students which professors they should avoid who still cling to supposedly outdated standards regarding exam-taking, deadlines, and absences.

All these radical changes explain the current spectacle of angry students citing grievances, and poorly educated graduates who have had little course work in traditional history, literature, philosophy, logic, or the traditional sciences.

Universities and students have plenty of money to continue the weaponization of the university, given their enormous tax-free endowment income. Nearly $2-trillion in government-subsidized student loans are issued without accountability or reasonable demands that they be repaid in timely fashion.

Exceptions and exemptions are the bible of terrified and careerist administrators.
Faced with an epidemic of antisemitism, university administrators now claim they can do little to curb the hatred. But privately they know should the targets of similar hatred be instead Blacks, gays, Latinos, or women, then they would expel the haters in a nanosecond.

What is the ultimate result of once elite campuses giving 70-80% of their students As, becoming hotbeds of dangerous antisemitism, and watered-down curricula that cannot turn out educated students?

The Ivy league and their kindred so-called elite campuses may soon go the way of Disney and Bud Light.

They think such a crash in their reputations is impossible given centuries of accustomed stature.

But the erosion is already occurring — and accelerating.

At the present rate, a Stanford law degree, a Harvard political science major, or a Yale social science BA will soon scare off employers and the general public at large.

These certificates will signify not proof of humility, knowledge, and decency, but rather undeserved self-importance, vacuousness, and fanaticism — and all to be avoided rather than courted.