The social media site TikTok boasts over 1 billion monthly active users, placing it in the top five of all such outlets being frequented today.

The platform is known for all kinds of crazy, but a recent post has left even some of its most hardened users shaking their heads in disgust – and others cheering.

Such is the nature of social media, which for good or bad, the medium provides a real-time snapshot of what people believe – and what they’re thinking – or not.

Topics: Current Events Tags: pro-life June 20, 2023 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

I’m delighted to announce that Focus on the Family is officially launching a nationwide “It’s a Baby” ad campaign – today! 

Airing digitally and on television, the spot coincides with the upcoming one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

At Focus, we’re always looking for compelling and even unexpected ways to get the country talking about life. We know that millions will be talking about the issues over the next couple of weeks, and we want to give all people — with varying perspectives — a fresh way to consider those issues. 

Tragically, the culture has gotten too comfortable using antiseptic scientific terms to dehumanize a child in the womb.

Topics: Current Events Tags: pro-life June 14, 2023 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

In the weeks following the reversal of Roe last June, pro-life activists and organizations endured more than 135 separate attacks and assaults – including one pro-life champion who was shot by a man in Michigan. 

83-year-old Joan Jacobson was canvassing an Odessa Township neighborhood last September, encouraging Sharon and Richard Harvey to vote against a pro-abortion amendment that would eventually pass in November.  

According to press reports, an argument ensued between Joan and Sharon, escalating to the point that Richard Harvey wound up shooting the elderly pro-life volunteer in the shoulder. 

Richard Harvey claims the shot was accidental and that he inadvertently pulled the trigger while trying to protect his wife … from Joan’s clipboard. 

Well, that case came to a head this week.

Topics: Current Events Tags: pro-life May 25, 2023 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

In a horrifically tragic and ghoulish turn, a Canadian Parliamentary committee has recommended that its nation’s lawmakers legalize euthanasia for sick children whose deaths are “reasonably foreseeable” or who may be suffering with a disability or those who are in the country’s child welfare system.

Even worse – they think the children should be able to make the decision even without parental consent.

Canadian law already allows terminally ill and chronically ill adults to receive medical assistance to kill themselves, but expanding the legal coverage to include children is but one more heartbreaking development in the movement.

Topics: Current Events Tags: pro-life February 20, 2023 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura