Chet Collins

An unsung victory in overturning Roe is that States are once again free to hold physicians performing abortions and their facilities to the same surgical and licensing standards as every other medical surgical practice. This was a huge patient safety issue.

Really looking forward to the new Rapidweaver tomorrow.

Student-Loan Forgiveness for Public-Service Workers Totals $8.1 Billion Since October - WSJ

When combined, the Biden administration’s efforts to cancel debts held by borrowers with disabilities, students who were defrauded by their schools, borrowers in the public-service program and other moves have resulted in around $26 billion in forgiven loans.

“Forgiven loans” sounds a lot better than the reality, “taxpayer losses.”

Where, O death, is your victory?

1 Corinthians 15:55

Back when I was a kid, The Onion was funny.

Never Enough Government, Says the SEC - WSJ Opinion

Americans get so much government, they find it nearly impossible to get the government they need or want. It’s an American paradox. Taxpayers spent billions over decades to build up the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and yet Washington’s only really useful contribution to the national pandemic—perhaps accounting for 99% of the medical value of all government interventions—was the Trump vaccine program, run out of the White House hip pocket.

Slavery, Civil War, Segregation, Abortion.

America’s capacity to self-correct, to turn away from degradations of the human person without external intervention, is an exception in the history of government.

What a privilege it is to be part of this durable democracy. 🇺🇸

Now the real work begins.

Journalism style guide for covering SCOTUS:

5-4 for Obergefell: “A, historic landmark decision!”

5-4 for Dobbs: “A deeply divided Court.”

Fertility Doctors Move Embryos to Other States in Case of Roe v. Wade Impact - WSJ

Many embryos created through IVF aren’t viable, fertility specialists said, and those that aren’t ultimately transferred into a uterus may be discarded. Some fertility and legal experts said the loss or discarding of embryos could be criminalized by statutes that ban abortion from the moment of fertilization or that grant personhood rights to embryos.

If you’ve ever wondered how the greatest evils in human history have taken root and spread, look no further than the extreme sanitization of language used in this article.

An embryo is a fertilized egg, a unique human life, with its own distinct set of DNA, at its very earliest stage. Frozen in space, not permitted to live or die, with no one advocating for their rights and defense.

They are created, not out of love, but out of a kamikaze drive to achieve pregnancy at any cost. All of this is motivated by the disastoruous belief that parents have a right to a child, a right to another life. IVF, in the statistically rare times that it succeeds in its aims, creates a single life at the cost of dozens. Dozens of created lives, simply thrown away; they are a means to an end, a scientific machination, of no worth or value.

The base, callous treatment of these human lives speaks to the heart of the societal problems we face today. If we can’t recognize the fundamental right to life, dignity, and respect of new human life, how will we ever get over our divisions between sexes, races, religions, or nationalities?

This fatal flaw in our view of the human person infects our entire worldview. It’s the evil upon which all other evils are built.