If, as expected, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota">Minnesota</a> Democratic governor signs a bill just passed by the Minnesota Senate, the state will permit a right to abortion at any time of a woman’s pregnancy.
“Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth, or obtain an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise this fundamental right,” the bill, known as the Protect Reproductive Options Act, <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1&amp;type=bill&amp;version=0&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. Every Democrat voted for the bill; every Republican opposed it. Walz has stated he will sign the bill into law.
Late term-abortions are often performed by using gruesome procedures that can include crushing or dismembering the baby before it is removed from the mother’s body, or in some cases, injecting a lethal drug in to the baby’s heart.
“Minnesotans don’t support elective third-trimester abortion. They just don’t. But that’s what this extreme bill entrenches in our state law: the right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth,” Cathy Blaeser, the executive director for Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) <a href="https://www.mccl.org/post/senate-votes-for-abortion-up-to-birth-in-minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Under this bill, even babies who are old enough to live outside the womb and to feel excruciating pain have no protection from lethal violence. The extremism of H.F. 1 puts Minnesota in the same category as just a handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China.”
“The lack of parental involvement allows the most heinous of criminals—human and sex traffickers—to hide behind the doors of the unlicensed, uninspected abortion facility,” she continued. “These traffickers are happily watching this legislature advance extreme, unfettered abortion bills that enable them to continue to traffic their victims.”
“We have a duty to answer the call of Minnesotans to truly protect those reproductive freedoms, to enshrine them not simply in case law, but in our statutory law,” stated the bill’s author, state senator Sen. Jennifer McEwen, as MPR <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/01/28/minnesota-senate-votes-to-guarantee-abortion-rights-sends-bill-to-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “These are our values, this is the practice in Minnesota. This is what we believe.”
But GOP Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson countered, “Today we are not just codifying Roe v. Wade or Doe v. Gomez as the author has indicated. We are enacting the most extreme bill in the country regarding youth sterilization, late term abortions and public viability for a vast array of new reproductive rights.”
Republicans tried to amend the bill 35 times and failed each time, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-senate-passes-abortion-bill-opponents-call-most-extreme-nation">Fox News</a> noted.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/police">Police</a> are now saying they believe a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cartels">drug cartel</a> was behind the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mass-shooting">shooting</a> that killed six people in Central <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a>, including a 6-month-old baby and her 17-year-old mother.
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://abc30.com/goshen-shooting-six-people-killed-tulare-county-home-mother-baby-shot-drug-activity/12708739/">told</a> KFSN that the shooting occurred in Goshen just after 3:30 a.m. and that people who called 9-1-1 thought there was an active shooter in the neighborhood due to the number of shots they heard. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-16/six-people-including-mother-and-baby-killed-in-tulare-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Los Angeles Times</a> that the crime is likely a targeted attack.
“I think it’s specifically connected to the cartel,” Boudreaux told the outlet. “The level of violence … this was not your run-of-the-mill low-end gang member.”
“If [they] are specifically shooting everyone in the head, they know what they are doing &#8230; [and] they are comfortable with what they are doing,” the sheriff added.
The names and ages of all the victims have not been released, but authorities told the Times that some appeared to be family members.
Boudreaux also told the outlet that a sheriff’s deputy found the youngest victim, the 6-month-old baby, was found cradled in her 17-year-old mother’s arms in a ditch outside of the home where the massacre occurred. Both had been shot in the head.
A third female victim, an elderly woman, appeared to have been “shot in her sleep,” Boudreaux said. Three men were also killed, one of whom was alive when deputies arrived but died later at the hospital. At least one of the men will need to be identified using DNA testing because his face was so damaged by the weapon or weapons used in the attack.
Two women survived the shooting by hiding in a trailer home, the Times reported. They told police that people on the property saw the shooters approaching via surveillance cameras.
“They could see two men sneaking onto the property … but by the time they came on [the video feed], it was too late to do anything,” Boudreaux said.
County Supervisor Eddie Valero said the deaths were “everyone’s worst nightmare.”
“These senseless acts of violence, especially with infants, children and young adults, have no place in our communities,” Valero said in a statement to the Times.
Police also said they believe there were two shooters and that the incident was related to gang activity. Authorities continue to search for clues as to what motivated the shooting, the Visalia Times Delta <a href="https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2023/01/16/multiple-dead-in-goshen-gang-shooting-including-infant/69811812007/">reported</a>. A search warrant had been served on the house just one week prior, with police looking for narcotics. Boudreaux told the Times that a man was arrested during the search and that guns, marijuana, and methamphetamine had been seized.
Tulare County is a hotbed of drug trafficking, with cartels moving drugs from Mexico to Tulare and on to the rest of the United States. Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, former leader of the Zetas cartel, was born in Tulare, while others involved in Mexico’s drug wars have been tied to the county as well, the Times reported.

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Drug Cartel Behind Central California Massacre Of Six, Including Mom And Baby: Sheriff

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Six people, including a 6-month-old baby and 17-year-old mother, were killed following a shooting in central California early Monday morning.
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://abc30.com/goshen-shooting-six-people-killed-tulare-county-home-mother-baby-shot-drug-activity/12708739/">told</a> KFSN that the shooting occurred in Goshen just after 3:30 a.m. and that people who called 9-1-1 thought there was an active shooter in the neighborhood due to the number of shots they heard.
When police arrived at the residence, they immediately noticed two victims in the doorway of a home, with a third nearby. Police found six total victims, with one person still alive. That person died after being taken to the hospital, Fox 26 <a href="https://kmph.com/news/local/shots-fired-deputies-investigating-in-tulare-county-sheriffs-goshen-ca-california-morning-heard-information-anonymous">reported</a>. The two victims who were minors both had been shot in the head, police told the outlet.
Police also said they believe there were two shooters and that the incident was related to gang activity. Authorities continue to search for clues as to what motivated the shooting, the Visalia Times Delta <a href="https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2023/01/16/multiple-dead-in-goshen-gang-shooting-including-infant/69811812007/">reported</a>. A search warrant had been served on the house just one week prior, with police looking for narcotics.
It does not appear as though anyone has been taken into custody for the shootings.
Deputies have closed off the area surrounding the house as they continue to investigate, with several search warrants served. Police are also asking neighbors for video surveillance that may show the killers.
The investigation remains active, sheriff&#8217;s spokeswoman Liz Jones told the Delta.

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Millions of Fisher-Price Rock’n Play Sleeper infant seats are being <a href="https://kfor.com/news/consumer/millions-of-fisher-price-baby-seats-recalled-after-more-than-100-infants-die/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recalled</a> an additional time after the seats have now been connected to the deaths of over 100 babies. 
Around 4.7 million Fisher-Price Rock’n Play Sleepers were first <a href="https://www.wtnh.com/news/millions-of-fisher-price-baby-seats-recalled-after-more-than-100-infants-die/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recalled</a> in 2019 after over 30 babies had reportedly passed away. However, over 70 more deaths have been reported since they were originally recalled.
Eight of those reportedly transpired after the recall was declared. 
In 2019, the American Academy of Pediatrics <a href="https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/9742?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to take the baby sleeper off the market. The demands came with reference to a Consumer Reports <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/fisher-price-rock-n-play-sleeper-should-be-recalled-consumer-reports-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> that discovered 32 babies had died while in the baby seat since 2011, which included ten since 2015 that were discussed in a Fisher-Price and CPRSC safety alert <a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-ALERT-CPSC-and-Fisher-Price-Warn-Consumers-About-Fisher-Price-Rock-N-Play-Due-to-Reports-of-Death-When-Infants-Roll-Over-in-the-Product" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> in 2019.
“I am thrilled that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Fisher-Price took the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics and issued a recall of the Rock ‘n Play Sleeper,” Ben Hoffman, M.D., chair of the AAP Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention said at the time. “This product is dangerous and I urge parents and caregivers to stop using it right away.” 
“As a pediatrician and a father, I know that infant sleep is a major concern for families, and pediatricians are ready to work with as many parents as possible to find solutions to help everyone sleep safely and soundly,” Hoffman noted. “We know that inclined sleepers like the Rock ‘n Play are not safe and put babies’ lives at risk. I am glad to see this product off the market and urge all parents to talk to their pediatricians about how to keep their babies safe during sleep time and any time.”
Fisher-Price <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/fisher-price-rock-n-play-sleeper-should-be-recalled-consumer-reports-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Consumer Reports in the 2019 report about the investigation that it knew of around 32 deaths, but it did not think that &#8220;any deaths have been caused by the product,&#8221; pointing to &#8220;the many situations where a medical/health condition was identified as the cause of death, and/or those in which the product was clearly used in a manner contrary to the safety warnings and instructions.&#8221;
Early last year, Consumer Reports <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/baby-product-recalls/deaths-linked-to-fisher-price-rock-n-play-after-recall-a1183945428/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that dozens of people who bought the sleeper were suing Fisher-Price and parent company Mattel, claiming that they were never notified about the recall. 
It’s common for companies to get low responses for recalls on items, but the situation was especially concerning.
“It’s outrageous that millions of these dangerous products could still be out there, with babies at risk of being seriously injured or killed,” Oriene Shin, Consumer Report’s product safety policy counsel, said at the time. “Fisher-Price has had years to get Rock ’n Plays out of people’s homes yet, at best, appears to have done the bare minimum. Slow and ineffective recalls can have terrible consequences, and parents deserve better from a company they rely on for safe baby and toddler products.”

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alabama">Alabama</a> couple who share the same birthday will have room enough for three after they welcomed a baby girl on the same day.
Cassidy and Dylan Scott were both born on December 18, two years apart. Last week, Cassidy gave birth to the couple&#8217;s firstborn daughter, Lennon Kate, at 12:30 A.M. on December 18. According to the Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children, there is just a 1 in 133,000 chance of a father, mother, and child all sharing the same birthday.
&#8220;Congratulations to Cassidy and Dylan Scott who just welcomed their firstborn child into the world!&#8221; Hunstville Hospital for Women and Children wrote on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HHWCFan/photos/a.317447745086287/2498406836990356/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>. &#8220;This is an exciting time for any family, but it&#8217;s extra special for this family because they all share the same birthday. That&#8217;s right! On Sunday, Dec. 18, a chance that&#8217;s one in 133,000 occurred when their daughter Lennon was born. She held on until 12:30 a.m., just in time for the celebration. Please join us in wishing this sweet family a very happy birthday!&#8221;
Messages of congratulations and well wishes for mother, father and baby poured into the comments under the post. At least one commenter wrote that she shares a birthday with her husband and firstborn son. &#8220;Enjoy&#8230;and get used to people being amazed when you tell them lol!&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Happy birthday to you all!&#8221;
In an interview with <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/mom-dad-newborn-daughter-birthday-scott-family-rcna63138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TODAY</a>, the Scott family said that baby Lennon Kate was due to arrive on December 27th. “I didn’t want her to be born on my birthday at first because I wanted her to have her own day,” Cassidy Scott told TODAY. “The closer I got, Dylan talked me into it. He had me come around to the idea of wanting it to happen.”
But while the couple was out at a restaurant to celebrate their shared birthday, Cassidy&#8217;s water broke. “I started having contractions, and I was like, Oh my gosh, this might actually happen,” she said. “And so I didn’t really have a choice at that point. I had to come around.”
Cassidy was born on December 18, 1996. Dylan was born on the same day two years later, in 1998.
“I always say now I don’t have a day to myself,” Dylan said. “But now I really don’t have a day to myself.”
The couple told TODAY that family and friends are already encouraging the couple to try to have their next child on the same day. &#8220;[W]e’ll try, but you know, no problem,&#8221; said Cassidy.
“If we can do it once, we can do it twice,&#8221; added Scott.
A similar phenomenon made headlines <a href="https://apnews.com/article/oddities-la-state-wire-baptist-mississippi-ms-state-wire-920e288dd42e41d9979342a25782aae5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in 2017</a>. Luke and Hillary Gardner were also born on the same day, and their son Cade Lee Gardner was born on the same birthday as both his parents. The Gardner family has something else in common with the Scotts: they were also all born on December 18. Luke and Hillary were not separated by years, though; they were born just six hours apart, on December 18, 1989.
The odds of a husband and wife sharing a birthday is about 1/365.

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Couple With The Same Birthday Welcomes Newborn Baby On The Same Day

Alabama Couple Welcomes Newborn Baby On Their Shared Birthday

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The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration has approved the bivalent COVID vaccine for babies as young as six months old.
The new vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are supposed to be given to babies in three doses. Bivalent vaccines differ from the previous mRNA vaccines in that they combine the original vaccine with a reformulation allowing the vaccine to attack the BA.4 and BA.5 viruses that sprang from the Omicron variant.
“More children now have the opportunity to update their protection against COVID-19 with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, and we encourage parents and caregivers of those eligible to consider doing so,” FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf stated in a <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-updated-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-children-down-6-months" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
The announcement from the FDA flies in the face of a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02162-x.epdf?sharing_token=bSt7RbjEV6duzuqHRP14fNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O55kjE4Ba-TZKm8omkM3glZlJHfOQW-lQdj665iNT7YCw_s6cT7RN18l7tbNnErj91Gj0MsaGs2kgFoL_fdD0OVZhlB3L_mI8dmlvYCYwNqlXP3uBTvfYYYS3KxHbLWKjw3uw7zkF1KbFw-tP-Tr1PJkigdWk1VqwnvYDqz1eZOQ==&amp;tracking_referrer=www.cnbc.com&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=commission_junction&amp;utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&amp;utm_content=textlink&amp;utm_term=PID100032693&amp;CJEVENT=47923cd6772211ed82b00a720a82b824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new study</a> showing that a rising COVID subvariant called BQ.1.1,  is emerging as the dominant form in the United States and is proving much more resistant to the new bivalent vaccines than other variants present in the country.
“The BA-5-bivalent booster did not produce robust neutralization against the newly emerged BA.2.75.2, BQ.1.1,  or XBB.1,” the study asserted.
“Vaccines remain the best defense against the most devastating consequences of disease caused by the currently circulating omicron variant, such as hospitalization and death,” Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, claimed, adding:
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Based on available data, the updated, bivalent vaccines are expected to provide increased protection against COVID-19. Parents and caregivers can be assured that the FDA has taken a great deal of care in our review, and we encourage parents of children of any age who are eligible for primary vaccination or a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster dose to consider seeking vaccination now as it can potentially help protect them from COVID-19 during a time when cases are increasing.
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In October, the FDA approved the bivalent vaccines for children five years and older. Marks <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3684463-fda-authorizes-bivalent-covid-boosters-for-younger-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated at the time</a>, “Since children have gone back to school in person and people are resuming pre-pandemic behaviors and activities, there is the potential for increased risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19. Vaccination remains the most effective measure to prevent the severe consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.&#8221;
Last June, President Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/17/statement-by-president-biden-on-fda-authorization-of-the-first-covid-19-vaccines-for-americas-youngest-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bragged</a>, “We are the first country to protect our youngest children with COVID-19 vaccines, offering safe and highly effective mRNA doses to children as young as six months old.”
“The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices,” the FDA states.

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Early Saturday morning, police received a call about an injured child on a street in Phoenix, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona">Arizona</a>, near the city’s largest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homeless">homeless</a> encampment.
When police arrived, they found a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/babies">baby</a> that had been abandoned. The baby was pronounced dead on the scene by the Phoenix Fire Department, 12 News <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/newborn-found-dead-in-central-phoenix/75-48ca5098-7a79-4fff-bb60-626b7a0bbd14">reported</a>.
Police said the infant was believed to have an estimated gestational age between 20 and 24 weeks. The body has been turned over to the Office of Medical Examiner for a postmortem investigation, while police look for information about how the baby was abandoned.
Joel Coplin, who lives near where the baby was found, told 12 News that the scene was “utterly horrific.”
&#8220;They thought it was a doll at first, but it wasn&#8217;t,&#8221; he told the outlet.
Coplin also said he saw the police outside and asked his neighbor about the situation later. His neighbor reportedly saw someone lighting something on fire.
&#8220;[He told me] his fiancé came and was trying to put the fire out, and then he went to stomp on it to put it out and realized it was a baby in there,&#8221; Coplin told the outlet. &#8220;He saw the head, a perfectly shaped head, and little arms, hands, legs, chest. He grabbed his fiance and turned away so she wouldn&#8217;t see it, and he was freaked out. He called 911.”
Coplin added that he wasn’t surprised that something like this would happen in the area.
&#8220;Anything can happen around here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re right down here in &#8216;The Zone,&#8217; and anything and everything does happen.&#8221;
“The Zone,” is what locals call the homeless encampment, where upward of 1,000 people live in tents. The increase in the homeless population has led to a spike in crime in the area, with theft, assaults, and drugs plaguing the makeshift town, Fox 10 Phoenix <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/crimes-zone-theft-assaults-drugs-unsanitary-conditions-plague-downtown-phoenix-tent-city">reported</a>.
The outlet found that since 2019, police have responded to 801 incidents within The Zone, 278 incidents in 2020 alone. So far this year, nearly 185 incidents have been called in as of September, putting 2022 on pace to surpass 2021’s total calls.
Thefts are the most commonly reported crime in The Zone, with almost 300 cases since 2019. In the past three years, police have also responded to 229 aggravated assault calls and 130 drug offenses, with fentanyl being one of the biggest concerns.
Robberies, rapes, and burglaries are also reported. There have been six reported murders and four reported arsons as well.
These are just the reported crimes. J.R., who has lived in The Zone for eight years, told Fox 10 that crime is underreported.
&#8220;Not everybody’s gonna tell on you out here,&#8221; he said.

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‘Utterly Horrific’: Baby Found Dead On Arizona Street, Police Seeking Answers

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Government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lockdowns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lockdowns</a> enacted in response to the spread of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> may have caused the “first major reversal” in nearly two decades for American <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/population" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fertility rates</a>, according to a new <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30569/w30569.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working paper</a> from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The analysis, written by economists Martha Bailey, Janet Currie, and Hannes Schwandt noted that forecasts originally predicted a dramatic baby bust of 300,000 children to 500,000 children as a result of the lockdowns. Instead, births declined by only 76,000 more than the baseline, while American-born mothers saw a net increase in births of roughly 46,000 children by 2021.
The “baby bump” was therefore the first salient disruption to falling American birth rates since 2007 and was “large enough to reverse two years of declining fertility rates,” according to the working paper. The trend was most noticeable among mothers experiencing their first births and women under 25, suggesting that many women were led to “start their families sooner” amid the phenomena of the past two years.
“Early data from California shows the baby bonus has persisted through August 2022,” Bailey noted to The Daily Wire, adding that the researchers are still awaiting nationwide statistics. “Elevated birth rates for younger women also suggest that the long decline in childbearing for this group may be shifting.”
Commentators have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-warns-civilization-will-crumble-without-people-having-more-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long discussed</a> the economic and cultural ramifications of declining American birth rates. Other nations, including China and Russia, recently implemented policies meant to encourage higher fertility, with the former eliminating its notorious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-updates-child-policy-amid-population-growth-worries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-child policy</a> and the latter enacting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-to-give-1-million-rubles-to-women-who-birth-10-or-more-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial incentives</a> for women who build large families.
Indeed, the number of births in the United States increased for the first time in more than seven years as of 2021, marking a 1% overall rise in births from 2020, according to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220524.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the National Center for Health Statistics. In contrast, fertility declined 4% between 2019 and 2020.
The baby bump was also pronounced among women between 30 and 34 years old, according to the working paper, as well as women between 25 and 44 years old who had received a college degree. Highly educated individuals were “more likely to retain their jobs” during the lockdowns and transition to virtual work. Wealthy families likewise experienced higher economic stability as equity from the housing market and stock market increased their prosperity. Meanwhile, abortion facilities were “disrupted” or “completely shut down.”
“We think that increased flexibility in the workplace could be a major driver,” Currie explained to The Daily Wire. “We know that about 40% of days worked are still being worked from home as of June 2022. Also, we see the biggest fertility increases among college educated women, who are more likely to be able to work from home. These findings highlight the time costs of having children and the value parents place on the ability to work from home.”
Most of the decline in births was seen among foreign-born and nonresident women, who accounted for 23% of births as of 2019. Because the decrease in fertility among foreigners and migrants began at the “very beginning of the pandemic,” the authors of the paper suggested that government travel restrictions and a sudden unavailability of economic opportunities in the United States may have led to the decrease.
Nevertheless, without foreign-born women, the overall American birth rate “would be much lower and closer to other low-fertility countries found in Europe or Japan.” While the European Union saw a fertility rate of 1.53 children per woman as of 2018, Japan saw 1.42 children per woman, according to <a href="https://data.oecd.org/pop/fertility-rates.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Lockdowns May Have Caused Baby Boom As Young Women Start Families And More Mothers Work From Home

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/babies">Babies</a> born during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID-19</a> pandemic may experience delays in some communication skills, a new study has revealed.
The research was published on Tuesday by researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland.
The <a href="https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2022/09/19/archdischild-2021-323441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> ranked &#8220;10 parentally reported developmental milestones at 12-month assessment&#8221; among more than 300 babies born during the pandemic. The results were compared with the historical records of more than 1,600 infants studied between 2008 and 2011.
The results found that fewer infants born during the pandemic lockdowns had one definite and meaningful word, with 76.6% compared to 89.3% among those studied prior to the pandemic. Fewer 12-month-old children in the study could also point (83.8% vs. 92.8%) or wave goodbye (87.7% vs. 94.4%).
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BABIES: Pandemic-associated social isolation may have impacted the social communication skills in babies born during lockdown compared with a historical cohort. ..should improve with re-emergence and social interaction<a href="https://t.co/Qfpqe5Pm67">https://t.co/Qfpqe5Pm67</a>
&mdash; Monica Gandhi MD, MPH (@MonicaGandhi9) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1580051322077790209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pandemic-associated social isolation may have impacted on the social communication skills in babies born during the pandemic compared with a historical cohort,&#8221; the researchers concluded. &#8220;Babies are resilient and inquisitive by nature, and it is hoped that with societal re-emergence and increase in social circles, their social communication skills will improve.&#8221;
On the positive side, the study also found that a higher percentage of pandemic infants could crawl at 12 months, with 97% crawling compared to 91% from those before the pandemic. Researchers suggest that it&#8217;s likely due to parents being at home more with their children during lockdowns and the infants spending less time in strollers and car seats.
The Irish study is not alone in research following the developmental abilities of infants born during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Columbia University study published in January conducted research on 255 infants born between March and December of 2020, noting the children ranked significantly lower on motor skills than infants born in the years before the pandemic.
The Columbia study <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2787479" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded</a> the lockdown period in 2020 included &#8220;differences in neurodevelopment at age 6 months. These early findings support the need for long-term monitoring of children born during the COVID-19 pandemic.&#8221;
A similar <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8527007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> by Chinese researchers during its nation&#8217;s lockdowns also found a higher risk of delay in fine motor skills and communications at one year of age.
While many have noted concerns about the impact of lockdowns on school-age children, the new study regarding infants notes potential issues among those born during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-covid-pandemic-led-to-millions-of-children-missing-routine-vaccinations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in July that lockdowns and restrictions during the pandemic have led to related health concerns, including approximately 25 million children worldwide missing their routine vaccinations against potentially life-threatening illnesses.
“This is a red alert for child health. We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunization in a generation. The consequences will be measured in lives,” Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, said in the organization’s <a href="https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/WUENIC2022release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
“While a pandemic hangover was expected last year as a result of COVID-19 disruptions and lockdowns, what we are seeing now is a continued decline. COVID-19 is not an excuse. We need immunization catch-ups for the missing millions or we will inevitably witness more outbreaks, more sick children and greater pressure on already strained health systems,” she added.

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A British nurse who has been accused of murdering seven premature babies allegedly sent a condolence card to the parents of one of the babies she is charged with killing.
Lucy Letby, who is also accused of seven murders and the attempts to murder ten more babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016, admitted to police she had sent the card, claiming the action was “not normal.”
In her trial she acknowledged she had an image of the card on her cell phone, according to testimony. The card came after the nurse had allegedly attempted to kill the child three times before succeeding on the fourth attempt.
Although the child was doing well until Letby “got her hands on her,” prosecuting attorney Nick Johnson asserted, after that the baby vomited and exhibited breathing problems. He added, “It was persistent, it was calculated and it was cold-blooded,” as <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11309843/Cold-blooded-nurse-Lucy-Letby-murdered-baby-girl-fourth-attempt-sent-sympathy-card.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> reported.
Letby allegedly injected babies with insulin, air or overfed them with milk at night when the parents were not present.
Johnson also <a href="https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/police-find-note-saying-i-25252240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed the jury</a> an image of a yellow Post-it note kept by Letby. He declared that she wrote, “I don&#8217;t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I&#8217;m not good enough,” “I am a horrible evil person,” and in capital letters, “I AM EVIL I DID THIS.”
Johnson concluded, “Well, ladies and gentlemen, that in a nutshell is your task in this case. Whether or not she did these dreadful things is the decision you will have to make when you have heard all the evidence.”
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Police investigating the murders of seven babies found a note in the home of neo-natal nurse Lucy Letby saying &#39;I am evil, I did this&#39;, a jury heard this morning.<a href="https://t.co/EggAmV6fWf">https://t.co/EggAmV6fWf</a>
&mdash; Dan Haygarth (@DanHaygarth1) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanHaygarth1/status/1580531676819558401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The prosecution at Letby’s trail claimed she tried to kill twins more than once and in June 2016 murdered two babies who were part of triplets while the third baby survived.
In the case of the first child Letby is alleged to have murdered, the prosecution claimed she first injected air into the baby’s stomach before trying twice more. After the third attempt the baby was transferred to another unit, making a substantial recovery, but then was returned to Letby&#8217;s care where the baby collapsed and needed cardiac compressions.
When the parents arrived after the baby’s death, they were asked if they wanted to bathe their baby. Johnson related that as the baby&#8217;s mother “bathed her recently departed child, Letby came into the room and, in the words of the mother, was ‘smiling and kept going on about how she was present at Child I&#8217;s first bath and how much [the child] had loved it.&#8217;’”
“A post mortem revealed that all the loops in the infant&#8217;s bowel were significantly dilated due to increased air content,” The Daily Mail reported.
“We suggest that it is highly significant that children within the orbit of Lucy Letby persistently and consistently suffered unexplained collapses,” Johnson contended.
“Sometimes the evidence of her hand at work is more obvious than others and it is remarkable that on many occasions when children who had suffered unexpected spectacular and life-threatening collapses were removed from her orbit, they had exceptional recoveries,” he asserted.

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A new <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2796427?guestAccessKey=1c13d17c-1c25-4828-b261-9f321e5126a1&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social_jamapeds&amp;utm_term=7701881843&amp;utm_campaign=article_alert&amp;linkId=183092079">study</a> published Monday revealed trace amounts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> vaccine mRNAs were found in the breast milk of some lactating women.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published since 1993, released the study to the public and has now issued a warning for women breastfeeding infants younger than six months.
“Caution is warranted regarding breastfeeding infants younger than six months in the first two days after maternal COVID-19 vaccination,” the journal said in a tweet.
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Trace amounts of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> vaccine mRNAs were detected in the breast milk of some lactating women. Caution is warranted regarding <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/breastfeeding?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#breastfeeding</a> infants younger than six months in the first two days after maternal COVID-19 vaccination. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Research?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Research</a> <a href="https://t.co/zH8nyLleVC">https://t.co/zH8nyLleVC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Research?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Research</a>
&mdash; JAMA Pediatrics (@JAMAPediatrics) <a href="https://twitter.com/JAMAPediatrics/status/1574519182624190464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The study included 11 healthy lactating women that were asked to collect and immediately freeze samples of their breast milk after receiving either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine within six months of delivering their newborn babies.
Participants also provided breast milk samples before vaccination and for five days post vaccination.
Of the 11 volunteers, 7 samples from 5 women showed trace amounts of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, with the mRNA samples appearing in higher concentrations than whole milk.
The study said, however, that no vaccine mRNA was detected in pre-vaccination or post-vaccination samples beyond two days of collection.
“The sporadic presence and trace quantities of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA detected in EBM suggest that breastfeeding after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination is safe, particularly beyond 48 hours after vaccination,” the study reads.
Officials said that despite believing it is safe to breastfeed after maternal COVID vaccination, they did not “test the possible cumulative vaccine mRNA exposure after frequent breastfeeding in infants.”
“In addition, the potential interference of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA with the immune response to multiple routine vaccines given to infants during the first 6 months of age needs to be considered,” the study reads. “It is critical that lactating individuals be included in future vaccination trials to better evaluate the effect of mRNA vaccines on lactation outcomes.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration held off on approving vaccinating infants younger than six months until more data on how it could impact their immune system became available.
However, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/pregnancy.html">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> has recommended offering the COVID mRNA vaccines to breastfeeding women.
&#8220;Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) blasted President Joe Biden over his &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; by pushing a vaccine mandate.
&#8220;Now we find out that Biden’s vaccine mandates caused infants (for which no safe dose has been established) to receive mRNA through their mother’s breast milk,&#8221; Massie <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1574589998216904709">said</a>. &#8220;Does abuse of power get any more evil?&#8221;

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas">Texas</a> woman who allegedly killed another woman in order to steal that woman’s unborn baby went on trial Monday in a case that’s eerily familiar.
Taylor Rene Parker, 29, allegedly killed Regan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, and her unborn daughter in New Boston on October 9, 2020. Parker has pleaded not guilty to capital <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">murder</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kidnapping">kidnapping</a>, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-accused-killing-woman-unborn-baby-trial-89775563">reported</a>.
“How did we get here?” Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp asked the jury on Monday. “How did it get this far? She is an actress, an actress of the highest order. The lies and fraud go on and on; the layers of fraud are staggering. You are going to have to understand the fraud to understand what happened on Oct. 9. This started months and months ahead of time until it passed the point of no return, and it ended up in homicide.”
Crisp was referring to allegations that Parker pretended to be pregnant for nearly 10 months, wearing a disguise to make her belly look bigger and providing her boyfriend with fake ultrasounds. She also allegedly held a gender-reveal party and made numerous posts on social media about her supposed pregnancy. She did all this, Crisp reportedly said, while looking for an actual pregnant woman whose baby she could steal.
Parker allegedly found Simmons-Hancock and stabbed and cut her more than 100 times. She also allegedly crushed her skull with a hammer and used a scalpel to remove Simmons-Hancock’s unborn baby.
Parker allegedly left as Simmons-Hancock lay dying in her home with her other daughter, who was just three years old. Parker allegedly took the baby she cut out of Simmons-Hancock’s womb, who was still alive, and drove away. She was later pulled over by police, who sent the baby to a nearby hospital, where the child later died.
Witnesses said at trial that Parker couldn’t conceive due to a hysterectomy and had offered $100,000 for a surrogate. She allegedly told her boyfriend that she was inducing labor the day she killed Simmons-Hancock.
Parker faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of capital murder.
Parker’s case is eerily similar to that of Lisa Montgomery, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/execution-date-set-for-only-woman-on-federal-death-row">was executed</a> in January 2021 after she was convicted of killing Bobbie Joe Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time of her death. Like Parker, Montgomery told friends and family that she was pregnant, even though she had been previously sterilized. After killing Stinnett, Montgomery cut out her unborn baby and drove away with the infant.

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