From Nominees to Cakes - The Family is under Attack

This week has revealed with particular clarity how gravely the family in America is under attack.  From accusations against a Supreme Court nominee to a gender transition cake, here are just a few things (listed in reverse order) to consider:

1)     Even after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of Jack Phillips and his case that he could not be compelled to create a custom same-sex wedding cake against his personal faith beliefs, the state of Colorado is fining Jack again, this time for not creating a custom “gender transition” cake. This is significant because individuals’ and families’ religious freedom are constitutionally protected.

2)      California governor Jerry Brown signed into law yesterday California’s End of Life Opinion Act, SB 282, which allows any person to “aid, advise, and encourage” suicide under the state’s assisted suicide law. Until now, these actions were felonies, as the state had a longstanding policy to protect people from self-harm. This law grants complete legal immunity to anyone who facilitates the death of someone who is deemed terminally ill if untreated. This can be very dangerous to families, and particularly to women who tend to be family caregivers.  See Women and Assisted Suicide: Exposing the Gender Vulnerability to Acquiescent Death, 4 Cardozo Women’s L. J. 241 (Winter 1997)(with Britney N. Brigner). This new law is significant because suicide destroys individuals and their families.

            3)     In efforts to be more inclusive, Azusa Pacific, a Christian University in California, has seemed to change its policy on permissible sexuality as from married male & female couples only to include sex between same sex relationships.  This is significant because sexual purity is a principle of marriage and family under foundational Christian faith.

4)  Children's Hospital Colorado decided to drop sex designation from patient wristbands after it created a "gender diversity task force." While still treating patients in relation to their birth sex as it relates to medicine, the hospital says it made the change in order to recognize "unique gender identity." Read more at Fox News.  This is significant because gender confusion can damage individuals and their families.

            5)   The Washington Post recently celebrated letting toddlers ‘choose’ their sex.  This can attack parents’ ability to look out for the best interests of their children.

            6)  California also passed a law allowing 12-Year-olds to get tax-paid transgender treatments. This law assaults family autonomy, parental rights, and the best interest of a child.

            7)  Earlier this summer it was discovered that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed a contract with a procurement organization for human fetal tissue, otherwise known as baby body parts, to be used in experiments with mice. The baby body parts are being used to create “humanized mice,” essentially mice with human immune systems. This means that the FDA is using aborted babies and tax dollars to support the creation of rat-human chimera for drug experimentation and testing.  Annually, over 600,000 abortions occur across America, creating a huge amount of human baby body parts.  This federal government contract inadvertently encourages abortion providers to mislead women about what will happen to their babies once the child is aborted. This is significant because abortion and the experimentation with human baby body parts works to destroy humanity, the sanctity of life, and families.

            8)  Finally, Prof. Christine M. Blasey Ford,  the chief sexual assault accuser against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, has researched and published extensively on the benefits of the abortion drug, Mifepristone, also known as RU-486.  Many on all sides of the debate on abortion see this nomination as key to upholding either abortion rights or the protection of the sanctity of human life.  The professor’s articles include: Trough Plasma Concentrations of Mifepristone Correlate with Psychotic Symptom Reductions: A Review of Three Randomized Clinical Trials (Current Psychiatry Reviews Apr 2013); Efficacy and Safety of Mifepristone for the Treatment of Psychotic Depression (Journal of clinical psychopharmacology Jun 2011); Corrigendum to “A Multisite Trial of Mifepristone for the Treatment of Psychotic Depression: A Site-by-Treatment Interaction” [Contemp. Clin. Trials 30 (2009)284–288]; A multisite trial of mifepristone for the treatment of psychotic depression: A site-by-treatment interaction (Contemporary clinical trials Apr 2009). Each of these articles linked here seem to indicate that drug induced pregnancy elimination reduces depression by terminating the pregnancy and the unborn child.  Each article can also be found at the professor’s ResearchGate page.  One media outlet has found that as a result of this research the professor “has profited from abortion.” Additionally Natural News has reported, that Ford “works for a pharmaceutical company that manufacturers an abortion pill drug, whose profits could be strongly impacted by future Supreme Court decisions on abortion rights. Corcept Therapeutics manufacturers and markets an abortion pill drug called mifepristone, and Christine Blasey Ford is a co-author of at least eight published scientific papers produced by the pharmaceutical giant to promote its pills. ... Blasey’s name [is] listed on several publications at this Corcept.com web page detailing their research papers. Corcept Therapeutics, Inc., a $166 billion market cap company (stock symbol CORT) reportedly has current annual sales of $216 million. The company offers just one drug, mifepristone, which is widely known as an abortion pill or RU-486.”  This is significant because abortion destroys individuals and families.

The destruction of the family is generally always surrounded by sex and money and mendacities about both.  These attacks on the family listed here can result in years and years of family destruction.  You are not imagining it – the family is indeed under attack.