Abortions have increased in states with rigid bans: The downside of legislating morality and God’s path to joyful transformation
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
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A new analysis shows that abortions have increased in nearly every state that banned abortion, as women responded to these bans by traveling to clinics in states where abortions were legal or ordering abortion pills online. Legislating morality is essential to a functioning society, but it doesn’t necessarily make us more moral. What, then, is the path to transforming our souls and our society?
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Thursday, October the 24th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. Today's |
| 0:09.6 | daily article is written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins. |
| 0:17.7 | A new analysis shows that abortions have increased in nearly every state that banned abortion |
| 0:23.6 | as women responded to these bans by traveling to clinics in states where abortions were legal or ordering abortion pills online. |
| 0:31.6 | Legislating morality is essential to a functioning society, or we cannot have speed limits and prohibitions against murder. |
| 0:39.3 | But it doesn't necessarily make us more moral. |
| 0:42.3 | For example, despite laws against sex trafficking, prostitution, and abusing the elderly and those with disabilities, |
| 0:50.3 | former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO has been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges. |
| 0:57.2 | Popular culture is continuing to normalize prostitution, euphemistically calling it sex work. |
| 1:04.1 | Elderly dementia patients were unknowingly fueling political campaigns. |
| 1:09.0 | American Airlines has been fined $50 million for mistreating passengers |
| 1:14.0 | with disabilities. If laws are not enough, how do we change a broken culture? One approach is the |
| 1:20.7 | October theory. The Wall Street Journal explains that, quote, people are using the beginning of |
| 1:26.5 | fall as the best time to reset their goals and values, in quote. |
| 1:31.3 | Another approach is to treat politics like religion. New York Times columnist David Brooks observes. |
| 1:37.7 | In an increasingly secular age, political parties are better seen as religious organizations that exist to provide believers with meaning, membership, and moral sanctification. |
| 1:49.0 | In quote. |
| 1:50.0 | Many invest in political parties and candidates in the belief that they will make the world that is into the world they wish to see. |
| 1:58.0 | Yet another approach is to define ourselves by what we do and then work |
| 2:03.1 | hard at it. Psychologists call this quote-unquote enmeshment. In this view, our value lies in what we |
| 2:10.6 | achieve, so the more we achieve, the more valuable we become. And the more we engage with the |
| 2:16.8 | world, the better the world becomes. |
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