This week, how China miscalculated its way to a baby bust.

France enshrines abortion in its constitution.

Leaks from a scientific professional society expressing skepticism about gender affirming treatments

and the new technology that may someday enable two men together to conceive conception of an embryo.

These are the stories we'll discuss today on the Think

biblical weekly cultural update. We'll also answer some of your questions. I'm your

host Scott Ray and sitting in for Sean who's on the road speaking is my

colleague Rick Langer. We're coming to you from

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Rick, thanks so much for

sitting in for Sean. Really glad to have you with us. Yeah, thanks for

inviting me, Scott. Here's story number one China's baby bust and some

United States statistics on the importance of marriage and bearing children.

Rick what's the story here and why does it matter? Well it's really interesting to look at the

events in China over the last like four decades because they instituted the one

child policy back in the 19 I think it was the 1970s even.

And they were concerned at the time for economic growth and development

and they were feeling like the overpopulation burdens

kept everyone in poverty so they instituted these kind of

draconian measures to moderate population growth and those draconian measures ultimately worked in terms of decreasing the population.

And I don't know there was a causal connection, but they definitely modernized their economy.

Well, all of a sudden people are beginning to look and going, wait a minute, where's the babies?

By around 2010 or thereabouts, people were beginning to predict that China would see a drop in population by I think their first

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