Author: Emma Fuentes Washington Examiner

Gallup’s annual surveys on the moral acceptability of various issues have produced largely predictable results, with social conservatives remaining in the minority on most measures. The findings were generally unremarkable, except on the question of polygamy, which stands out as a growing point of divergence among younger respondents. It remains the case that a strong…

Another new in vitro fertilization startup has emerged, this one with explicit intelligence parameters to play with as a feature of its website. But does it draw people to what children are, or what they are not? The company, called Herasight, recently went public with product promotion, having “already screened hundreds of embryos” for genetic…

When a nightmare situation turns into the subject of a Health and Human Services Department investigation, people pay attention. Such is the case with misconduct in the nation’s organ transplant system. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health Resources and Services Administration directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to…

Society is backward. That impression is more intuitive than concrete, except when examining the modern posture toward parenthood. Then, statistics speak for themselves. For example, “By a ratio of nearly 50:1, women choose to terminate a pregnancy rather than place that child for adoption.” Researchers Ryan Hanlon and Elizabeth Kirk explain as much in an…

A strand of Leftist reasoning wants to decrease the use of in vitro fertilization. Not, of course, because it is wrong, but because it is unfair. In an Atlantic article arguing that “Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom,” the unfairness heads in two directions. For one, men don’t receive the health…

At the University of Pennsylvania, left-leaning faculty warn that ideological policing could have negative effects on the intellectual environment. Dr. Jennifer Morton, a philosophy professor at UPenn, wrote a piece this week for the New York Times on “Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives.” Her warning comes too late, of course,…

If it were a matter of polling, “the land of the free” might rather be named “the land of the family.” Recent Gallup surveys show as much, with family as the top value overall and for almost every subgroup — the postgraduate-educated hold integrity just above it. When asked to choose their three most important…

Colorado faces a lawsuit over its physician-assisted suicide law, with plaintiffs claiming discrimination against the disabled. On June 30, disability rights groups including the United Spinal Association, Not Dead Yet, the Institute for Patients’ Rights, and Atlantis ADAPT, along with one woman who suffers from anorexia and depression, sued the State of Colorado, Democratic Gov.…