A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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Good news from Hungary:
Hungarian women wanting an abortion will be made to listen to the foetus’ heartbeat before going through with the procedure, according to a new change in the law announced on Tuesday. The measure, signed off by Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, obliges pregnant women seeking a termination to first obtain a report from an obstetrician-gynaecologist, stating that they have been confronted “in a clearly identifiable way” with the “vital functions” of the foetus.
Read the whole thing (warning: it is a very biased article).
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At Unherd, Mary Harrington has a sober reflection on how the end of the print era and the beginning of the digital age could eventually do away with democracy altogether. She makes a worrisomely compelling case.
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A recent book titled Sex Education for 8-12 year oldsadvocates allowing children to watch their parents have sex—and worse. Never, ever trust our culture’s “sex educators.”
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This is child abuse, straight up. This “transgender model” has—you guessed it—two transgender parents:
Predictably, sane school board candidates who do not think kids should be taught gender ideology are labeled “transphobic” in Canada—but it is encouraging that candidates are running specifically to address these issues.
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Canada continues its slow trudge towards international cautionary tale where people kill themselves with state support because they cannot get the help they need. An Alberta man is considering assisted suicide because of poverty.
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On that note, doctors admit that so-called “safeguards” to present this sort of thing regularly fail. That admission comes too late for many.
