Country singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maren-morris">Maren Morris</a> announced on social media that she is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pride-month">bisexual</a>.
The 34-year-old star posted the news to social media on Sunday, sharing several photos of herself with her 1.5 million followers on Instagram. “&#8217;Happy to be the B in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ+</a>, happy pride!” Morris wrote in the caption. The images were from her RSVP Redux tour stop in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday. A few of the pictures show the singer waving a Pride flag.
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The news comes less than a year after the singer filed for divorce from her singer-songwriter husband, Ryan Hurd, following five years of marriage. The Grammy Award winner has a 3-year-old son, Hayes Andrew, with Hurd. 
Fans have been questioning Morris on her sexuality for some time as she was perceived to be acting very affectionate with female friends in photos. An image from April 23 showed her kissing and embracing photographer Sonya Jasinski.
The country star has been an outspoken advocate for LGBT issues. During a highly publicized appearance in April, Morris defended taking her young son to a drag show. 
“We were doing a benefit at Bridgestone last year when they were doing the drag ban in Tennessee,” Morris told Kelly Clarkson during an appearance on her podcast, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/completely-harmless-maren-morris-defends-taking-her-toddler-to-drag-show">reported</a>. “There were drag queens like throughout, entertaining as well, and one actually danced with me when I was singing my song, ‘The Middle.’ And it was just amazing and fun.”
“My son loves watching me, like sit in the makeup chair and just is like fascinated with the colors … it was just like completely harmless,” she went on.
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“But I think it’s just such an amazing expression of artistry, and so I just think like normalizing it and making it seem like these are just people that love dressing up too, is an amazing thing,” Morris said. “It was an all-ages show so, it was completely family-friendly.”
“Yes, I introduced my son to some drag queens today, so Tennessee, f***ing arrest me,” the singer previously said during the Love Rising concert in Nashville in 2023. Morris was referring to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/so-tennessee-fing-arrest-me-maren-morris-tells-crowd-she-introduced-her-2-year-old-son-to-drag-queens-in-their-dressing-rooms">legislation</a> that would prohibit minors from attending drag shows.
Last fall, the “My Church” singer said that many country music fans are “misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic” and that certain “hyper-masculine” country is, in her opinion, “butt rock.”
“I don’t want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore,” Morris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/country-singer-maren-morris-files-for-divorce-from-ryan-hurd">said</a> about her decision to move away from the genre. 
Katie Jerkovich contributed to this article.

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/miley-cyrus">Miley Cyrus</a> said she’s not sure she ever wants to become a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/motherhood">mom</a> but mentioned that she considers her fans to be stand-ins for children anyway.
The 31-year-old celebrity made the remarks during a recent <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/miley-cyrus-cover-interview-2024">interview</a> with W Magazine released this week. 
“I love being an adult,” Cyrus told the outlet. “I have a rule that I don’t look up or don’t look down at anyone. I just look, which allows me the clarity to see the world for what it really is and people for who they really are.”
She added, “I look at myself almost every day in the mirror and I say, ‘I am a woman.’ I’m 31 now, and I still don’t know if I want kids or not. I feel like my fans kind of are my kids in some way. I’ve heard Dolly [Parton] say that too, because she didn’t have kids.”
The “Flowers” singer mentioned at another point in the conversation how other artists frequently refer to themselves as “mother” in relation to their fans and that the fans say the same. 
“The word ‘mother’ is the most all-encompassing word,” she said. “The mother can be [drag queen] RuPaul; the mother can be Beyoncé. Our fans call us ‘mother.’”
Cyrus said, “With the word ‘mother,’ we can talk about the planet, we can talk about agriculture, we can talk about medicine, we can talk about injustices, reproductive care.”
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This isn’t the first time the recording artist brought up her feelings about motherhood. In 2019, she <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a28280119/miley-cyrus-elle-interview/">told</a> Elle that she wasn’t happy with how women were pressured to have kids. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re expected to keep the planet populated. And when that isn&#8217;t a part of our plan or our purpose, there is so much judgment and anger that they try to make and change laws to force it upon you — even if you become pregnant in a violent situation,&#8221; Cyrus said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t want children, people feel sorry for you, like you&#8217;re a cold, heartless b*tch who&#8217;s not capable of love.&#8221;
She continued, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been doing the same thing to the earth that we do to women. We just take and take and expect it to keep producing. And it&#8217;s exhausted. It can&#8217;t produce. We&#8217;re getting handed a piece-of-shit planet, and I refuse to hand that down to my child,” she said. 
&#8220;Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I&#8217;m not bringing in another person to deal with that.&#8221;

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Photos of a baby lying on the ground at the Paris stop of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>’s Eras Tour on Friday night have gone viral online, sparking outrage.
Per <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/05/taylor-swifts-youngest-fan-photo-sparks-online-outrage-1235912919/">Deadline</a>, X user @jacnights13, a Taylor Swift fan account, circulated an image that caught everyone’s attention, though that original post has since been deleted. Plenty of other social media users have reposted the photo and shared others showing what appears to be a baby sleeping on a purple coat on the ground at the La Défense Arena as other concertgoers stand around.
“Not to be one of those people but I would genuinely call security if I saw a baby in the pit because it is NOT safe there,” the original poster wrote on the since-deleted post.
Another X post with 1.8 million views expressed similar concerns. “get ur baby off the floor and GO HOME,” that user wrote in the caption. 
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“[J]ust to paint the full picture this is general admission at the Paris show tonight… and that baby is somewhere in the floor AT THIS SHOW! Like WTF they have lost their minds! terrible parenting,” the poster wrote in a follow-up, which included a photo of the crowded stadium.
“All it takes is one misstep….. this angers me, idk why a parent would think this is ok!” one commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/ReadyForBritt/status/1789058400556368207">wrote</a>.
“I have a baby and I couldn’t imagine bringing him to the PIT let alone setting him ON THE FLOOR???!! Like hold him???” another account <a href="https://twitter.com/trinityjclay/status/1789030755689263125">agreed</a>.
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“I hope someone called social services,” a third comment said.
The outlet also noted that the arena’s website had a section warning attendees that it “doesn’t recommend bringing children under the age of 4, even if accompanied, particularly due to the high volume.” Several commenters noted that the baby in the photos appeared to have ear protection.
Swift began the European leg of her Eras Tour on Thursday in Paris. She’ll visit 18 cities before returning to the United States and Canada to close out the year. The tour has raked in more than $1 billion in revenue, making it the most lucrative music tour ever.

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POLITICO Magazine published an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/28/natalism-conference-austin-00150338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> at the end of April framing efforts to encourage marriage and raising children as a right-wing conspiracy.
Author Gaby De Valle shared stories from &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; of the Natal Conference — which, according to the <a href="https://www.natalism.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, would connect people who were concerned about the growing number of countries and cultures where birth rates were rapidly dropping below &#8220;replacement levels.&#8221;
&#8220;We are living through the greatest population bust in human history. The future belongs to those who show up,&#8221; the conference website states — and De Valle wrote, &#8220;The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough babies.&#8221;
De Valle went on to suggest that the motives behind natalism seemed more political than practical.
&#8220;As the speakers chart their roadmaps for raising birth rates, it becomes evident that for the most dedicated of them, the mission is to build an army of like-minded people, starting with their own children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal democracy and who, perhaps one day, will amount to a population large enough to effect more lasting change,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This conference suggests there’s a simple way around the problem of majority rule: breeding a new majority — one that looks and sounds just like them.&#8221;
She went on to suggest that there were ties to white nationalism and those who were afraid that the demographics would continue to shift toward a more diverse population.
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While he was not mentioned in the article, X owner Elon Musk has often spoken about the possible collapse of the population if birth rates do not increase.
&#8220;Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,&#8221; he said in 2022 — and has warned that because of rapidly declining birth rates, &#8220;America is trending towards extinction.&#8221;

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ryan-gosling">Ryan Gosling</a> said he’s not taking on certain roles that could affect his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">family</a>.
The 43-year-old Canadian-born <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actor</a> had previously explored more psychologically complex characters, including roles he played in “The Notebook” (2004), “Blue Valentine” (2010) and “Drive” (2011). But he has a new perspective since becoming a dad.
&#8220;I don’t really take roles that are going to put me in some kind of dark place,&#8221; Gosling told WSJ Magazine during a recently published <a href="https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/ryan-gosling-fall-guy-barbie-fame-c7c8a5bf">interview</a>. 
&#8220;This moment is what I feel like trying to read the room at home and feel like what is going to be best for all of us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The decisions I make, I make them with [girlfriend Eva Mendes] and we make them with our family in mind first.”
Mendes and Gosling have two daughters – Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 8. He said after they were born, he started exploring different genres. 
“I think &#8216;La La Land&#8217; was the first,” Gosling told the outlet. “It was just sort of like, oh, this will be fun for them, too, because even though they’re not coming to set, we’re practicing piano every day or we’re dancing or we’re singing.&#8221;
The actor said his daughters helped influence his decision to accept the part of Ken in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” a role that nabbed him an Oscar nomination earlier this year.
“They were already making little movies about their Barbies on the iPad when it happened, so the fact that I was going off to work to make one too, we just felt like we were aligned,&#8221; Gosling explained. 
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“I’m trying to just figure out who they are and be there for them in the way that I can,” he went on. “They’re such clear and distinct personalities that it’s sort of becoming obvious.”
The actor is currently promoting his new action comedy, “The Fall Guy,” which hit theaters May 3. 
During a previous interview with <a href="https://people.com/ryan-gosling-reveals-fall-guy-stunt-daughters-asked-him-not-to-do-exclusive-8642135">People</a>, Gosling said his daughters told him they don’t approve of him playing with fire on set.
“My kids didn&#8217;t want me to be set on fire,” he told the outlet. “Even though I said, ‘Well, it&#8217;s actually, technically the safer thing to do because there&#8217;s a lot of protective stuff involved.&#8217; [They] “were like, ‘No. No fire.’ So I didn&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Gosling said.

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Anne Hathaway</a> said she recently celebrated a major “milestone” amid her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sobriety">sobriety</a> journey.
The 41-year-old Academy Award winner said she’s been avoiding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alcohol">alcohol</a> for five years now. Hathaway discussed the topic during a recently published New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/magazine/anne-hathaway-interview.html">interview</a> after being asked to share her thoughts on turning 40 and officially reaching middle age.
“There are so many other things I identify as milestones. I don’t normally talk about it, but I am over five years sober,” she told the outlet.
“That feels like a milestone to me. Forty feels like a gift,” Hathaway continued. “The fact of the matter is I hesitate at calling things ‘middle age’ simply because I can be a semantic stickler and I could get hit by a car later today. We don’t know if this is middle age. We don’t know anything.”
The actress, whose films have grossed more than $6.8 billion worldwide, previously discussed giving up drinking in part because of the responsibilities of motherhood.
“I’m gonna stop drinking while my son’s living in my house,” Hathaway said during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2019. 
“I don’t totally love the way I [drink] and he’s getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the mornings,” she continued. “I did one school run one day where I dropped him off at school, I wasn’t driving, but I was hungover and that was enough for me. I didn’t love that one.”
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The actress and her husband, Adam Shulman, are parents to Jonathan, born in March 2016, and Jack, who joined the family in November 2019.
She also spoke about going alcohol-free during a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/anne-hathaway-cover-story">Vanity Fair</a> interview published last month.
&#8220;I knew deep down [drinking] wasn&#8217;t for me,&#8221; Hathaway said. &#8220;And it just felt so extreme to have to say, &#8216;But none?&#8217; But none. If you&#8217;re allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don&#8217;t argue with it. So I stopped arguing with it.&#8221;
&#8220;My personal experience with it is that everything is better,&#8221; she said of maintaining sobriety. &#8220;For me, it was wallowing fuel. And I don&#8217;t like to wallow.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Jill Dillard</a>, nee Duggar, said that her fourth child was stillborn.
The 32-year-old former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/duggar-family">reality star</a> announced the news on her blog and Instagram, sharing photos of herself and her husband, Derick, cradling what appears to be a crochet bear.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the stillbirth of our beautiful baby girl, Isla Marie Dillard,” she wrote in the post caption. “Jill was 4 months pregnant (due in August) when we found out that our baby died in utero. From the moment we found out we were pregnant, we couldn’t wait to meet our baby. Isla was much loved from the start, and her 3 big brothers were so excited to introduce her to their world.”
She concluded, “We appreciate your prayers as we continue to grieve and heal from the loss of our little Isla Marie.”
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The comments were flooded with support for the former “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Counting On</a>” star, including a message from her sister, Jinger Vuolo. “Love you so much, sis. Continuing to uphold you all in prayer. Sweet little Isla will be missed,” she wrote in her reply.
The Duggar family rose to fame as part of the TLC reality series “19 Kids and Counting.” The show followed the lives of a family with 19 children whose names all began with the letter J. The parents were Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, devout Christians who homeschooled their children.
The series was canceled in 2015 amid controversy stemming from the couple’s eldest son, Josh Duggar, admitting to molesting several of his sisters. A spinoff show starring some of the older daughters in the family, including Jill, debuted in 2015. “Counting On” was canceled in 2021 after Josh was arrested for child pornography possession.
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Dillard wrote a book about her experiences, saying being on the show negatively impacted her marriage. “It caused a lot of frustration in our marriage,” the former reality star told People in September 2023, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-duggar-said-being-on-reality-show-caused-frustration-in-her-marriage">reported</a>. “Especially early on, where he would feel a certain way about filming something. I’d be like, ‘I hear you, I feel you, I also don’t want to do whatever it is they’re asking us to do either. But we have to.&#8217;”
“It definitely got between us,” she said.
“I saw how deeply we were in an argument one time, and I was like, ‘Whoa, this is not okay,&#8217;” Dillard continued. “When I saw how it was affecting our marriage, I think that was another wake-up call for me. It was like, okay, we need to either fight this battle together, or it’s going to rip us apart. So yeah, we had to join forces at that point.”

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Pro-life activists have long believed that fetuses are deserving of human rights because of the scientific belief that human life begins at conception. Contrary to what some may think, this goal is not out of reach. States are <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/personhood-bills-ivf-restrictions-alabama-rcna140228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> to enshrine fetal rights into law, recognizing fetuses as human beings who should be given the same rights as people who have already been born. 
As of March 15, 23 pieces of legislation had been introduced in 13 states that would create fetal personhood and outlaw abortion, according to the pro-abortion <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-legislation-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guttmacher</a> Institute. With fetal personhood as the end goal for many in the pro-life movement, how these laws would impact the fertility treatment of in vitro fertilization (IVF) is now a main point of discussion. 
A recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court essentially <a href="https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that embryos must be considered children under the letter of the law. It ruled that embryos fall under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, which creates a way for parents to receive punitive damages over the death of a child. It found that embryos qualify as “unborn children” and stated that the Act “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.” The decision called into question whether or not the IVF industry will be able to continue its treatments under pro-life legislation. The pro-life movement and the practice of IVF can co-exist, but their bond would be stronger if the procedures surrounding IVF were altered because of new laws protecting unborn life.
Although fetal rights will inevitably have a major impact on the IVF industry, this does not mean that supporters of IVF should shy away from such rights being enshrined into law. Many pro-life advocates, as well as conservative Christians, view IVF as an essential means to starting a family. A Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=christian%20ivf%20support&amp;sde=Abo6mQGTwumSH8ghiQqAvvjPX7NFviMO4wSBhxr6grIQwUayjg5k0ye5FNdIS2HCiLkkJOB-TfP5YV29lVJ9zt3H" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> “Christian IVF Support” has 2,000 members and conservative women have begun to speak out in favor of IVF practices. 
Hannah Nelson, a Christian mother who received IVF treatment in order to give birth to her son, responded to a post by conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey in late February. “There is an ethical and Christian way to do IVF,” she wrote, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/01/ivf-embryos-alabama-ruling-conservative-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Washington Post. “I am curious why you’re against that means of creating a family.”
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told me about natural cycle IVF, a <a href="https://www.shadygrovefertility.com/article/stimulated-ivf-vs-natural-cycle-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">process</a> that <a href="https://lomalindafertility.com/is-natural-cycle-ivf-your-best-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">takes</a> one egg at a time from a woman during her menstrual cycle. The egg is <a href="https://www.ohioreproductivemedicine.com/2018/02/21/natural-ivf-and-mini-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fertilized</a> outside of the body, and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/did-i-need-to-make-extra-embryos-to-have-a-baby-a6b0c584?st=l0ewceljhfags4n&amp;reflink=article_imessage_share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transferred</a> back into the woman, similar to traditional IVF, but without the use of drugs or multiple embryos. 
“There is natural cycle IVF which I believe only extracts a limited number of eggs and implants every embryo into the mother,” Hawkins explained over text. “I think many who are pro-life would be okay with [natural cycle IVF] as you aren’t ‘screening out’ humans or freezing them.”
There is also the process of “Minimal Stimulation IVF,” or “Mini IVF,” which <a href="https://fertilitynj.com/ivf/mini-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incorporates</a> less medication to produce fewer eggs, resulting in fewer embryos. This could be another option for people who have concerns over the vast number of unused embryos that are frozen through the traditional IVF process, possibly to never be implanted and given a chance.
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Without <a href="https://www.theregreview.org/2022/08/13/saturday-seminar-the-regulation-of-assisted-reproduction/">cohesive</a><a href="https://www.theregreview.org/2021/08/10/verniero-wild-west-fertility-clinics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> regulation</a>, the IVF industry as a business is not pro-life. One doesn’t have to look far to find pro-life parents who have gone through the IVF process and were forced to seek alternative clinics or received pushback when they wanted to implant all of their embryos.
The IVF industry does not promote pro-life practices in part due to clinics’ desires to have high success rates and make money. The procedure of in-vitro fertilization, however, can be completed in a way that gives value to the lives of unborn children. Laws that protect the unborn at all stages of life — whether in utero or prior to being implanted — will change the IVF industry for the better.
Legislators in the United States need only glance across the pond for a model on how to better protect human life created through fertility treatments. European countries have stricter laws on IVF and other fertility procedures. According to fertility treatment <a href="https://ivi-fertility.com/blog/regulations-legislation-assisted-reproduction-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> IVI, as of January 2022, 20 of the states in the European Union <a href="https://ivi-fertility.com/blog/regulations-legislation-assisted-reproduction-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">permit</a> donation of sperm and only 17 allow egg donation. The process of freezing one’s eggs or sperm is allowed in all countries in Europe if it is done because of medical reasons that could negatively impact a person’s ability to have children. In many other countries, however, it is not allowed for social reasons. The only states that permit &#8220;fertility preservation” for social purposes include Germany, Spain, Switzerland, as well as the United Kingdom. 
Even the United Kingdom, which <a href="https://www.fertilityclinicsabroad.com/ivf-abroad/ivf-united-kingdom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> access to IVF, has restrictions. The law does <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/5360625/danielle-lloyd-gender-selection-legal-uk-early-foetus-identification/#:~:text=The%20only%20way%20you%20can,a%20technique%20which%20does%20this." target="_blank" rel="noopener">not</a> permit parents to pick which embryo they would prefer based on the child’s sex unless it is for a medical reason. In the United States, this is widely <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/04/fertility-clinics-advertise-gender-selection-ethical-wuandary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepted</a>, even though several states ban sex selection for abortion, even when some of them <a href="https://www.abortionfinder.org/abortion-guides-by-state/abortion-in-kansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> the <a href="https://www.abortionfinder.org/abortion-guides-by-state/abortion-in-north-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">procedure</a>. According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of August 2023, eleven states <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-bans-cases-sex-or-race-selection-or-genetic-anomaly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibit</a> abortion because of the sex of the baby.
No one conceived through fertility treatments — or parents who utilized these procedures — should be judged or ostracized. As Kristan Hawkins pointed out in our conversation, “those who were conceived via IVF are valuable persons who we are glad are here.”
The pro-life movement does not need to exist apart from IVF, but it can and should positively influence laws surrounding fertility treatments so that humans at all stages of life are given the rights they deserve.
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The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 
Disclosure: The author formerly worked with Students for Life of America.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paris-hilton">Paris Hilton</a> said she hopes her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children">children</a> are less obsessed with screens than she is herself.
The 43-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">reality star</a> made the remark while attending the &#8220;A Day of Unreasonable Conversation&#8221; summit in Los Angeles on Monday and speaking on the panel alongside  U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, as People <a href="https://people.com/paris-hilton-says-she-hopes-her-kids-wont-be-as-addicted-to-social-media-as-she-is-8620487">reported</a>.
The socialite said she hoped her kids would &#8220;grow up in a world that&#8217;s kind,&#8221; adding that such an atmosphere would be more achievable with less emphasis on social media.
&#8220;I just want my children just to feel just so loved and seen and want to be that next generation of someone that brings positivity to the world and just to have big hearts and big loving,&#8221; Hilton said during the panel. &#8220;That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s really important to me.&#8221;
&#8220;And also to live a world outside of social media and being on their phone all the time. So I feel that&#8217;s really taken a lot from children. Kids are not going outside anymore and playing as much because everyone&#8217;s just so busy on their phones,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;So hopefully my kids won&#8217;t be as addicted to social media as I am,&#8221; Hilton concluded.
Hilton shares son Phoenix, 14 months, and daughter London, four months, with her husband Carter Reum. They have been married since 2021 and had both children via surrogate.
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The “Simple Life” star said she went through multiple rounds of IVF so she could have a daughter after creating 20 male embryos. 
Hilton also said she opted for surrogacy because she was nervous about giving birth. 
“I’m just so scared,” she said, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-have-20-boys-paris-hilton-reveals-shes-frozen-20-male-embryos-and-is-waiting-for-a-girl">reported</a>. “When I was in ‘The Simple Life,’ I had to be in a room when a woman was giving birth, and that traumatized me&#8230; But I want a family so bad, it’s just the physical part of doing it. I’m just so scared,” she continued. “Childbirth and death are the two things that scare me more than anything in the world.”
The celeb said her friend Kim Kardashian, who also had a child via surrogate, convinced her to do it.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eva-mendes">Eva Mendes</a> says putting acting on hold after having <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">children</a> was not a difficult decision at all. 
The 50-year-old actress has been dating fellow movie star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ryan-gosling">Ryan Gosling</a> since 2011 when they met on the set of “The Place Beyond the Pines.” The couple has two daughters, born in 2014 and 2016.
Mendes mentioned her career pause during an <a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1772630680872038651?s=20">interview</a> that aired Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show.
“It was like a no-brainer,” the “Training Day” star said of leaving acting behind. “I’m so lucky. And I was like, if I can have this time with my children – and I still work, I just didn’t act, because acting takes you on locations, it takes you away,” Mendes explained.
“It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement that it was like, okay, he’s going to work and I’m going to work. I’m just going to work here,” she said.
Mendes has been focused on projects off the camera, including launching a cleaning product line and providing voiceover work for the popular animated series “Bluey.” 
Gosling also took a <a href="https://www.today.com/news/ryan-gosling-announces-hes-taking-break-acting-1c8989279">break from acting</a> beginning in 2013 but has since returned and was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Ken in the summer blockbuster “Barbie.” 
Mendes&#8217; statements come just after a source confirmed the pair had moved away from Hollywood to shield their children from “celebrity kids.”
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“For them, the most important job is their girls,” the source told People earlier this month, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eva-mendes-ryan-gosling-leave-hollywood-because-they-dont-want-their-kids-around-celebrity-kids-report">reported</a>. “Everything else comes second. And their girls are thriving. They left L.A. to live a bit further north, away from Hollywood.”
“They didn’t want the girls to grow up around other celebrity kids,” the source continued. “Eva and Ryan love their life. It’s admirable how they’ve been able to create balance and boundaries. They care so much about their marriage and just want their girls to live a happy life.”
Other Hollywood moms have struggled with their decision to balance work life and family. During a recent podcast interview, actress Christina Ricci said her relationship with her toddler daughter was affected by her filming in another country.
“Last year I was commuting back and forth to Vancouver for ‘Yellowjackets.’ [my daughter Cleo] didn’t know me. We had no bond. So that was very upsetting,” Ricci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christina-ricci-said-she-had-no-bond-with-toddler-daughter-while-filming-yellowjackets-in-canada">said</a>.

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Christina Ricci</a> says she struggled to get close to her young daughter while splitting her time between her home and Canada for work.
The 44-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actress</a> spoke about what happened during a recent appearance on the “Let&#8217;s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty” podcast. Ricci shares daughter Cleopatra, 2, with her husband Mark Hampton. She also has a 9-year-old son, Freddie, with ex-husband James Heerdegen.
&#8220;Last year I was commuting back and forth to Vancouver for ‘<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">Yellowjackets</a>.’ [Cleo] didn&#8217;t know me. We had no bond. So that was very upsetting,&#8221; Ricci <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13239079/Christina-Ricci-no-bond-daughter-Cleo-filming-Yellowjackets.html">explained</a>. 
&#8220;My kids do not like it when I travel. When I&#8217;m away, I try to take my son with me as much as I can,&#8221; she added. Ricci also addressed why she chooses to travel solo rather than bringing her kids along to stay on set, like some other stars do.
&#8220;If you&#8217;re a series regular, you have to pay for everything, so I can&#8217;t&#8230; every time I go up and down, I can&#8217;t pay for four people, four flights, you know, and the rooms that you would need and all&#8230;it&#8217;s just too expensive to travel with everybody all the time,&#8221; the “Wednesday” star explained. 
She said it’s &#8220;difficult&#8221; trying to achieve work-life balance as an actress but claims she’s “managing it.”
&#8220;I try to get back as often as I can,&#8221; Ricci said during the interview. &#8220;I think really the thing that I learned, especially with my son, is mixing him into my work life. Why can&#8217;t he come for the weekend to a convention and see what it&#8217;s like?&#8221;
The actress also claimed her ex-husband made life more difficult because he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t help me at all with anything.” Ricci said raising Cleo has been easier. 
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&#8220;I went and shot ‘Wednesday’ in Romania when she was 2 months old, and Mark did every single night all night long. Like I just slept and worked the next day, and it made such a huge difference. It was so much easier this time around. You know, you have to have a good supportive partner,&#8221; she said.

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