THEFEDERALIST (John Daniel Davidson) - Surrogacy Is A Form Of Slavery. It Should Be Abolished
A complex legal dispute over an unborn child has exposed the inhumanity and cruelty of commercial surrogacy.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - 'Surrogacy is not adoption': Catholic doctor, adoptive mother makes her case | One Nation Under God
On this week's episode of "One Nation Under God," host Susie Pinto and Dr. Grazie Christie dig into the case putting surrogacy back in the headlines: a Canadian surrogate being sued by the couple whose child she carried, after she says she refused their request to end the pregnancy over a cleft lip. Dr. Grazie Christie, who's a radiologist, senior fellow at The Catholic Association and member of the Florida State Board of Education, walks through how commercial surrogacy works, what it costs and why she believes the practice can't be made ethical, arguing it turns women into what she calls reproductive labor and children into commodities, with the greatest risks falling on poor women in countries with little oversight. Speaking as the…
THEFEDERALIST (Jordan Boyd) - Florida IVF Mixup Proves Reproductive Tech Always Puts Children Last
The biggest loser is the baby, whose life was treated as a commodity that could be implanted or thrown away at adults’ will.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Evie Solheim) - Did Social Media Kill Girlhood?
Despite an interesting thesis, Freya India’s GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything falls flat. The post Did Social Media Kill Girlhood? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Did Social Media Kill Girlhood? Despite an interesting thesis, Freya India’s GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything falls flat. (Photo by Richard Baker/In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images) Painters think in brushstrokes. Directors think in scenes. Women under 30 think in Instagram stories. Young women’s travel, clothing, hobbies, and even their romantic relationships are subconsciously selected based on what would look best photographed, filtered, and ironically captioned. Digital life and real life are not in competition; they’ve melded. Social media isn’t a hobby or a…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Evie Solheim) - How the Influencer Economy Ruined Childhood
What’s it like being the child of an oversharing mom or dad with millions of social media followers? The post How the Influencer Economy Ruined Childhood appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books How the Influencer Economy Ruined Childhood What’s it like being the child of an oversharing mom or dad with millions of social media followers? (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online, by Fortesa Latifi. Gallery Books, 288 pp. Last Halloween, a clever costume “won the Internet,” as the saying goes. Kate Snyder of Brooklyn posted a picture of herself in a tiny smocked dress, knee-high socks, and a white cardboard heart surrounding her white-painted face. Her caption reads “[I’m] the toddler of a celebrity mom who wants to protect my identity…Open
BITCHUTE - The Smartening Up of Music – #SolutionsWatch
Anyone who listens to the Top 10 on Spotify knows all too well just how far music has been dumbed down in recent decades. Key changes, interesting song structures and challenging rhythms have been sacrificed at the altar of easily digestible, mass marketable bubble-gum entertainment. But as usual, we don’t have to passively accept this dumbing down. Instead, we can take steps to expand our musical knowledge, deepen our musical vocabulary, and take advantage of the healing properties of music that the would-be elitists are so desperately trying to detach us from. Today we talk to music educator and trained composer Vinnie Caggiano about what we can do to combat the dumbing down of music with a smartening up of music. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR…