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Beth Serio - "Do No Harm" Medicine

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There were 813 children and underaged teens in Pennsylvania who received surgical or hormonal treatments to alter their gender. Another 1100 New York minors were also treated with what advocates refer to as "gender-affirming care". Opponents have described such medical interventions as dangerous or unnecessary and as "mutilation of children".

An advocacy group called "Do No Harm" Medicine has reviewed four years of insurance payments and funds from government sources which paid for the chemical and surgical treatments of minors. Family Life News interviewed Beth Serio as they were announces results of this nationwide research in November. 

Now, in this follow-up interview, Serio talks more about the social, financial and emotional issues which surround gender disphoria and the signficant growth in gender-related treatments in for-profit and non-profit medical entities.

The database is searchable by state and by community. It highlights how often each children's hospital -- and every other facility -- carried out the removal of body parts or the introduction of cross-gender hormones. It is available at the links below:

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Rewinding to some of 2024's big issues in the faith-vs-culture battles

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As we approach the end of the year, "Faith Under Fire" host Greg Gillispie samples some of the interviews we've aired in the past 12 months. These are some of the voices from the religious and values-based battlefields in our culture.

You can go to www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts and scroll through ALL the episodes of Faith Under Fire. On our website and on many popular podcast players, you can hear the full interviews with these guests, and all the issues we cover on Thursdays during the Family Life Noon Report and 5 O'Clock Report. You can also subscribe to get notified each time a new episode is posted.

Faith Under Fire: Parochial School Families sue for access to extracurriculars at the State College Area Public Schools.

A Christian organization is encouraging men to unplug from the workplace to nourish their faith and their family life this Christmas season.

Joe Beckler says it can be easy for all people to get caught up in the everyday grind all year, but the schedules, tasks and responsibilities are particularly pronounced at this time of the year. In addition to all the school concerts, church programs, shopping, parties and festivities, the business marketplace often adds year-end reports and obligations.

In this Family Life News interview, Beckler offers three specific goals which can help men (and others) to prioritize, focus, and be present for their family, friends and workplace partners.

Joe Beckler is vice president for development, marketing and communications for the Christian Business Men's Connection. CBMC was launched in 1930 when Chicago area business professionals wanted to encourage each other to stay strong in their faith throughout their vocational and personal lives.

It now is national and global in its scope and outreach. The website is www.CBMC.com.

Three western PA school districts sue over cultural indoctrination mandates -- and win

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Two years ago, Governor Wolf's Education Department enacted mandates, requiring teachers and students to buy-into certain popular cultural beliefs.  A group of school districts, teachers and families sued, and won a legal challenge against those state guidelines.

Butler attorney Thomas Breth worked with the Thomas More Society on behalf of the Mars, Laurel and Penncrest school districts and other involved citizens. These plaintiffs sued Department of Education for violating Pennsylvania law, including when those "guidelines" were tied to state money for local schools.

Breth tells Family Life's Greg Gillispie that the win is a victory for local control of local schools, and an inspiration to others who are opposed to the liberal drift of their government. He says even a relatively small group of concerned citizens can bring about change in governmental policies.

Ten states decided proposed amendments to their constitutions in the October and November voting, a little more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the national Constitution does not include rights to abortions, leaving the decision on any limits (and taxpayer funding) to each individual state.

Seven of those state approved pro-abortion ballot measures, but three did not. Family Life News asked Kelsey Pritchard of Susan B. Anthony Prolife America to offer a pro-life perspective on the election results. Pritchard is the public affairs director for SBA Prolife is South Dakota, one of the three states that turned aside constitutional protections for this practice of ending pregnancies.

She also notes that the states where abortion proposals were approved by majorities of voters, abortion is already legal and accessible in each of those states.

She not only points to the example of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, but other ways that public opinion was swayed. In this expanded conversation, she also talks about lessons from Florida, South Dakota and Nebraska that can be used to protect preborn babies elsewhere when legislatures and electorates make their future determinations.

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“Faith Under Fire” invites you to listen to the voices from religious battlegrounds in this nation. Our weekly Thursday interviews delve into social, religious and political matters from health to freedom to faith practices. This feature airs on the Family Life Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report, and bonus content is also included in many of our podcast versions as well.

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