Australian YouTuber TJ Woolf is 50 years old and pregnant with her second child. And this isn’t the first time she’s had a baby at an advanced age. She had her first child — whom she calls “Star” online — in 2021 when she was 48 years old. Woolf describes herself as a “single mother by choice.” She explains on her YouTube channel that she always thought she would meet a man to start a family with‚ but nothing ever worked out. When she was 46‚ she realized that the clock had run out on meeting someone and decided to try for a baby on her own through in vitro fertilization. At first‚ Woolf attempted to have a baby using her own eggs and donor sperm‚ but the process failed given the age of her eggs. She then decided to create a baby using both a donor egg and donor sperm. This means Star was created using the egg and sperm of a woman and a man who are strangers to her‚ to each other‚ and to Woolf. (RELATED from Ellie Gardey: Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams’ Use of Surrogacy Showcases the Practice’s Grotesqueness) Woolf is ecstatic to have given birth to a child in her advanced age after her career as a lawyer and life coach. In one of her YouTube videos‚ Woolf sings‚ “Dreams can come true‚” while she rocks baby Star. TJ Woolf shows off her pregnancy at the age of 50 (MyBabyDream/YouTube) Woolf is far from alone. More and more women over the age of 45 — after which it is incredibly difficult to naturally conceive — are turning to IVF to have children. The CDC announced last year that the number of women who gave birth after age 45 increased 12 percent from 2021 to 2022. Linda Kahn‚ assistant professor at New York University Grossman School of Medicine‚ explained to USA Today that this increase is almost entirely driven by the growth of IVF. “Naturally‚ it’s very rare without any kind of intervention to get pregnant after 45‚” she explained. “That’s where you’re zeroing in on the effect of IVF.” It is almost impossible for women to conceive naturally after age 45 because of the age of their eggs. For this reason‚ women who give birth after that age through IVF most commonly use donor eggs or eggs that they froze when they were younger. For example‚ Good Morning America covered the story of Judy Lederman‚ who gave birth to twins at the age of 53 (after she already had grandchildren from a previous marriage). In addition‚ Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth gave birth to her two children at age 46 and 50 through IVF; she has not specified whether those children were conceived with donor eggs. Giving birth at this age is fraught with dangers. Take‚ for instance‚ the shocking title of an article published in 2013 in the American Journal of Perinatology: “IVF is safe over 50 if it is not fatal.” The authors concluded that article by stating: “[T]here must remain a question of what death rate would make it unethical for doctors to perform an elective request procedure.” There are a number of complications linked to advanced maternal age‚ including “placental adherence with severe hemorrhage‚” “severe hypertensive morbidities‚” and death. There is also an increased risk for preeclampsia and gestational diabetes. In addition‚ older women who use IVF with egg donation are at greater risk for “pregnancy-induced hypertension‚ preeclampsia‚ preterm birth‚ low birth weight‚ twin pregnancy‚ and prolonged labor requiring cesarean section.” In the case of TJ Woolf‚ she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes during both her first and second pregnancies. Women who have publicly started families at an age beyond what would typically be naturally possible have been unapologetic about their decisions. Woolf started the “My Baby Dream Community” for women who are considering having a baby at an older age‚ by themselves‚ or with donor eggs; over 100 women have joined the group. Woolf insists on her great health and the ease of her pregnancy to those who follow her. “If I didn’t even look down and see this bump‚” she told her audience‚ “I wouldn’t even know I was pregnant‚ honestly.” Meanwhile‚ Tammy Duckworth has used her experience with IVF to advocate for the procedure‚ especially following the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that recognized embryos produced through IVF as children. Duckworth is also unapologetic about the embryos she created and later destroyed. (READ MORE: Follow Alabama’s Supreme Court. IVF Is Disgusting and Evil.) On Tuesday‚ the Minnesota House of Representatives heard a bill that would officially legalize surrogacy‚ which operates via IVF. During the hearing‚ Rebecca Delahunt‚ the director of public policy at the Minnesota Family Council‚ spoke persuasively on the evil of purposefully cutting off children from their mother and/or father‚ as happens in IVF when donor eggs and/or sperm are used‚ such as in the case of TJ Woolf. “Children are already facing significant mental health struggles and identity craving‚” said Delahunt. “What will happen when we create a sizable population of them who are cut off from their mother and/or father?” “Children have a natural right to their biological mother and father‚” Delahunt asserted. “We all understand that people crave to know where they’re from. It’s why adopted children face what is often called the primal wound. They sense the loss of being cut off from their identity.” Delahunt explained that creating children to purposefully deprive them of their biological parents is different from adoption because‚ in adoption‚ a child is “not created with the intention of separating him or her from parents.” Surrogacy and IVF‚ on the other hand‚ she explained‚ create “a marketplace for adults to pay for potentially unrelated children.” Indeed‚ when TJ Woolf created her two children by IVF‚ she purchased eggs‚ purchased sperm‚ and paid to put them together. She thus purchased her children for the sake of her own happiness‚ not caring that doing so deprives her children of their biological parents. The post 50-Year-Old Woman Is Pregnant Through IVF — And She Is Far From Alone appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

The Christian story started very simply: a mother delivered her baby‚ truly God and truly man‚ amid the squalor of straw and livestock. Such humble beginnings begat a new vision of motherhood that became the archetype for the Church — Holy Mother Church. Embraced by all Christians for centuries‚ ecclesial motherhood was cast in art‚ music‚ poetry‚ and culture. Even the word for church is feminine in the romance languages. Architecturally‚ the wide-reaching and iconic arms of Saint Peter’s Square in Rome remind Christians that the Church is meant to be home‚ nurturer‚ comforter‚ and nourisher to us all. She is our mother. Since Eve‚ motherhood has been a gift unique to women. Historically‚ it was understood as a wide category that included the wise grandmother‚ the religious sister‚ the mentoring teacher‚ and the guiding aunt. Holding the needs of others in focus‚ motherhood encompassed sheltering‚ nourishing‚ caring for‚ and assisting others to grow and live abundantly. This article is taken from The American Spectator’s latest print magazine. Subscribe to receive the entire magazine. For decades now‚ that maternal image‚ as it relates to both women and the Church‚ has worn thin. Our modern conception of motherhood has narrowed to include only the biological birthing or adoption of children. This is not due to lax or scandal-ridden pastors and clergy‚ activist bishops‚ or even a confusing pope. Motherhood has become threadbare because feminism has successfully supplanted the Christian creed and its connection to motherhood with the communist vision of a genderless worker. Subscribe to The American Spectator to receive our latest print magazine‚ which includes this article and others like it.  Most Western women consider feminism a gentle‚ benevolent friend who at times has gone astray. Voting‚ property rights‚ employment opportunities‚ education‚ and public office all speak to the positive goods that most women think feminism has brought women; few understand the commanding power it now has over Western culture and the way in which it has quietly but resolutely made itself the deadliest ideology in human history. The slide downward began with the rise of socialism in the 1800s‚ when activists used consciousness raising‚ a tool of Mao’s Communist China‚ to stir up women’s emotions of anger and outrage‚ making them aware of their own oppression. In 1897‚ the socialist paper Lucifer encouraged readers to “preach the gospel of discontent to women‚ to mothers‚ to the prospective mothers of the human race.” Through these efforts‚ socialism spread one family at a time. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia enshrined female discontent. Private property was eliminated‚ everyone was sent to work‚ child raising was collectivized‚ and abortion was legalized. Women‚ mimicking men‚ became model workers under the Soviet system; abortion‚ the default birth control. The grisly practice became so common that the Soviets had to later encourage women to have children because of plummeting birth rates. One Russian woman decades later spoke of having had eighty abortions.  In the 1920s‚ the Soviet Communists‚ desperate to win out over capitalism‚ found an ally in feminism. Initially‚ there had been discord between the communists‚ who viewed feminists as too bourgeois‚ and the feminists‚ who viewed the communists as too ideological. Clara Zetkin‚ the head of Communist International‚ believed working-class women were key to the worldwide revolution. She saw the effectiveness of the gospel of discontent among feminists and pushed for more of it. “Female employees‚ especially intellectuals … are growing rebellious‚” Zetkin wrote. “More and more housewives‚ including bourgeois housewives‚ are awakening…. We have to utilize the ferment.” Internationally‚ women continued to flock to communism. The two groups fused together seamlessly. Feminism — focused on free love‚ a restructuring of society‚ and the occult — easily blended with the communist concepts of free love‚ restructuring society‚ and atheism. Doctrinaire communists could easily overlook witchcraft‚ mediums‚ and seances if it meant they got bourgeois women‚ especially when both groups sought‚ above all‚ the destruction of the nuclear family and the Christian faith.  In 1946‚ Bella Dodd established the Congress for American Women (CAW) in the United States. Dodd‚ who later risked her life in 1949 to abandon communism‚ explained that the CAW was established to influence and control women. First‚ it aimed to decrease women’s spending in order to starve capitalism; second‚ it resolved to make women “a reserve force of the revolution because they are more easily moved by emotional appeals.” The CAW attracted many highly influential women‚ such as the ex-wife of a US senator; academic women like Eleanor Flexner‚ author of the feminist history Century of Struggle; Susan B. Anthony II (niece of the first); and Betty Friedan. It was dissolved in 1950 by the House Committee for Un-American Activities after being denounced as Soviet propaganda. Although disbanded‚ the CAW’s influence did not fade. Betty Friedan latched onto one of Friedrich Engels’ ideas: [W]e see already that the emancipation of women and their equality with men are impossible and must remain so as long as women are excluded from socially productive work and restricted to housework‚ which is private. The emancipation of women becomes possible only when women are enabled to take part in production on a large‚ social scale‚ and when domestic duties require their attention only to a minor degree. Friedan was focused on getting women out of private homes and into “productive work.” In 1963‚ she published The Feminine Mystique‚ which sold three million copies in the first few years. Its appeal lay in how she used psychology to stir up women’s discontent and tap into their fear of missing out on and envy of the lives men led. She went so far as to call the home a “comfortable concentration camp.” Ironically‚ for a woman who claimed to hate Hitler‚ she was promoting the very idea emblazoned on the gates of a real concentration camp: Arbeit macht frei. Work will make you free. Simone de Beauvoir reemphasized Friedan’s point in the 1970s: “No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be different. Women should not have that choice‚ precisely because if there is such a choice‚ too many women will make that one.” Friedan‚ de Beauvoir‚ and the second-wavers who followed convinced women that husbands are not important and that children are an obstacle to happiness. For the lifestyle this ideology promoted to work‚ one measure was needed: abortion. As in the Soviet Union‚ abortion had to be legalized. Workers’ fertility had to be suppressed. These second-wave concepts reached a new level with the sexual revolution and the neo-Marxist efforts of influential women like Kate Millett and Angela Davis. Using the ideas of the Frankfurt School‚ they took the Marxist idea that the world is divided between oppressors and oppressed and applied it to women. Men were considered the automatic oppressors simply because they were men‚ and women were deemed oppressed because they were women. Driven by this newfound claim to victimhood‚ the gospel of discontent overtook the culture. Women joined consciousness raising groups and infectiously stirred up anger for themselves and their friends. Meanwhile‚ good men were silenced‚ and bad men were emboldened. The gospel of discontent is alive and well today. Women’s marches are no ladies’ tea party; they are saturated with bitter and acrimonious rhetoric and punctuated by vulgar hats. Abortion activists have firebombed churches and pregnancy resource centers. The gentleness and compassion for which women used to be known‚ as well as their care for the smallest among us‚ has soured into a general bravado and bombast to “shout abortions” and “smash the patriarchy.”  Christian Women Christians have largely been unable to deflect the shock waves of the gospel of discontent. Most denominations have caved and fully absorbed the feminist/Marxist agenda. The social justice movement‚ with its woke trappings‚ has become the active ethos in most mainline churches‚ and the results are grim. Our churches are emptying‚ marriages and religious vocations are evaporating‚ and birth rates are falling. The family is in tatters. There are now more Wiccans and pagans than Presbyterians‚ and the “nones” outnumber everyone. Even abortion has gone from something liberals hoped would be “safe‚ legal‚ and rare” to being hailed by Christian pastors as a blessing. Christian women are aborting their children at the same rates as secular women‚ making abortion the greatest cause of death worldwide. Forty-four million children were killed by abortion in 2023. While the gospel of discontent may feel energizing and enlightening‚ the one thing it cannot ever provide is real human flourishing. Women today are less happy and more medicated than they were before feminism’s arrival. The desire for motherhood hasn’t been extinguished; it has just been redirected. American homes now have more pets than children as women have become dog moms to fill the gap where children and grandchildren used to be. Try as we might to deny or escape it‚ women are made to mother.  Christians and conservatives‚ meanwhile‚ grapple with how to navigate the new post-Roe waters of abortion‚ but few are willing to take a hard look at all that women have unwittingly absorbed. Why is it that we have such a hard time defining what a woman is? Why do so many women hold the firm conviction that abortion is a preeminent right? Women have come to believe feminism is a friend because there are injustices it has righted. Whether or not that is true‚ what feminism has done is redefine injustice to the mere fact of being a woman. In this respect‚ feminism has been not our friend but a type of cancer that has robbed us of who we really are and replaced it with something ugly‚ bitter‚ and foolish. Christian women‚ like most other women — from Barbara Walters to Taylor Swift — have bought deeply into this gospel of discontent. The malignant voice that has whispered to women for decades is not the still small voice of Our Savior. The future of the Church will continue this path until Christians realize that motherhood must be restored back to the beautiful‚ compelling‚ and dignified icon it was meant to be. The restoration of Christian motherhood (and fatherhood) might not be glamorous‚ but it offers a true gospel of hope‚ peace‚ purpose‚ wisdom‚ and contentment‚ the very essentials for building a well-lived life‚ here and beyond. Subscribe to The American Spectator to receive our latest print magazine on America’s changing religious landscape. Carrie Gress is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Destroyed Us and The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity. The post The Gospel of Discontent: How Feminism Shattered Our Understanding of Motherhood appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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The Story So Far has revealed they will release their fifth studio album‚ “I Want To Disappear‚” on June 21st. The album comes nearly six years after “Proper Dose‚” which debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200 chart. “I Want To Disappear” features “Big Blind” and the band’s new single “Letterman“.  The California Pop-Punk band‚ who took their name from a New Found Glory song‚ will embark on a tour this June with A Day To Remember. “I Want To Disappear” Tracks: 01. All This Time02. Watch You Go03. Letterman04. Jump The Gun05. Big Blind06. Nothing To Say07. Keep You Around08. You’re Still In My Way09. White Shores10. I Want To Disappear The Story So Far:  Parker Cannon (Vocals) Kevin Geyer (Guitar/Vocals) William Levy (Guitar) Ryan Torf (Drums) The post The Story So Far’s New Album appeared first on RockinTown.

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