A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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The Dutch health minister is planning to extend their euthanasia regime to children. The sad decline and fall of the Netherlands continues.
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At Run with Life, Pat Maloney has the newest data on Canada’s abortion regime.
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Pornhub, the world’s largest smut monopoly, appears to be imploding under the weight of their own scandals—both the CEO and COO have now resigned.
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The story of the twenty-year-old young man planning to die by assisted suicide in British Columbia is so, so tragic. As our government expands Canada’s suicide industry to those with mental illness, I am afraid that we will become inured to these stories—because they will become so common.
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Ritchie Herron thought the solution to his problems was to become a woman. He’s now suing the NHS claiming he was fast-tracked into making ‘the biggest mistake of his life’ and has been left infertile, incontinent and in ongoing pain. Watch:
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In the UK, the Norfolk constabulary has issued a list of 37 genders to help officers deal with the public. No, that’s not a joke.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered yet another victory for religious liberty in affirming a high school football coach’s right to public prayer. This is absolutely one of the most pro-religious freedom courts America has ever had.
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Jonathan Kay is bang-on here once again:
This CBC article claims that anyone who protests drag story-time hour is a bigot. But the drag performer who's featured in the CBC article itself (stage name: "Justin Toodeep") also hosts something called "Sex Toy Bingo." Drag is fun & entertaining for adults. It's not for kids https://t.co/zztXj8Ix2S pic.twitter.com/Ll1e74mMKl
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) June 27, 2022
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The Gospel Coalition debunks some popular myths about Christianity.
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At The Postliberal Order, Joshua Craddock explains why America needs a federal ban on abortion.
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This is grotesque.
Thank goodness we don’t have a totalitarian religious ideology, complete with public festivals, to justify the erasure of women. Or we really would be in a Handmaids Tale type dystopia pic.twitter.com/lcvDPLg5XD
— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) June 26, 2022
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Ross Douthat has an excellent column in the New York Times on the death of Roe v. Wade.
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Declan Leary’s take at The American Conservative is also worth the read.
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Over at First Things, Rusty Reno offers his “greetings from the Rainbow Reich.”
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More soon.