"Internet giants signed up Tuesday to a 'zero tolerance' approach to images of child sexual abuse as the British government announced a new, tougher strategy to find and block illegal content.

"Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook were among the firms summoned to a meeting on the issue at 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's residence, by the UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport."

Read more: Laura Smith-Spark, CNN.com

"In addition to finding a tendency toward criminality, the study of more than 14,000 young Americans also found that those who say they’re 'spiritual-but-not-religious' also 'tend to have lower self-control than those who are religious. They also are more likely to experience such strains as criminal victimization and such negative emotions as depression and anxiety. They also are more likely to have peers who use and abuse alcohol, Franzen said. Those factors are predictors of criminal behavior.'"

Read more: Douglas Todd, Crime and Justice/The Search, Vancouver Sun

"The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of a GOP war on women.

"The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would restrict almost all abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception, defying laws in most states that allow abortions up to when the fetus becomes viable, usually considered to be around 24 weeks."

Read more: Jim Abrams, Yahoo! News

"New studies on peer pressure suggest that teens—who often seem to follow each other like lemmings—may do so because their brains derive more pleasure from social acceptance than adult brains, and not because teens are less capable of making rational decisions."

Read more: Shirley S. Wang, Wall Street Journal

"The House is scheduled to begin debate Tuesday on a contentious bill that effectively prohibits abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive bill to get a floor vote in years.

"This week’s floor action marks the second time that Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican, has tried to push his Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, although last year’s bill applied only to the District of Columbia.

"He amended his bill this year to cover the entire nation, after abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing newly born babies at his inner-city Philadelphia clinic."

Read more: Tom Howell Jr., The Washington Times

"Amid continued nationwide outrage, Chinese authorities issued a rare public apology Thursday to a woman who was forced to have a late-term abortion, and suspended three local officials involved in the incident. . . .

"Two of the three officials suspended were in charge of local family planning. The city government promised further investigation and punishment for those found responsible. It added that a vice mayor had visited the family to deliver the message in person and offer concrete assistance."

Read more: Steven Jiang, CNN

"With their new drama, The Fosters, which airs over the summer season, [ABC Family] is pushing the boundaries of 'family entertainment' yet again, adding gay parenting and possibly transgenderism (more on that below) to their list."

Read more: Megan Basham, WORLD

(H/T Emily Whitten)

"This book addresses Darwin’s most significant doubt and what has become of it. It examines an event during a remote period of geological history in which numerous animal forms appear to have arisen suddenly and without evolutionary precursors in the fossil record, a mysterious event commonly referred to as the 'Cambrian explosion.' As he acknowledged in the Origin, Darwin viewed this event as a troubling anomaly—one that he hoped future fossil discoveries would eventually eliminate."

Read more: Stephen C. Meyer, WORLD

"When televangelist Silas Malafaia gathered 40,000 followers outside Brazil's Congress this week, it wasn't just to raise their arms to the sky and praise the Lord.

"The rally was a show of support for lawmakers who oppose abortion and same-sex marriage and a message to other politicians that they should not ignore Brazil's fast-growing evangelical churches if they want to stay in office."

Read more: Anthony Boadle, Reuters

"This year, numerous governors are promoting new limits on abortion -- or have already signed legislation."

Read more: Linda Feldman and Megan Haggerty, The Christian Science Monitor

"I understand where Jennifer Aniston is coming from. Like many of her peers in Hollywood, not to mention scholars and writers opining on fatherhood these days, she has come to the conclusion that dads are dispensable: 'Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child,' she said at a press conference a few years ago.

"What this view overlooks, however, is a growing body of research suggesting that men bring much more to the parenting enterprise than money, especially today, when many fathers are highly involved in the warp and woof of childrearing. As Yale psychiatrist Kyle Pruett put it in Salon: 'fathers don't mother.'"

Read more: W. Bradford Wilcox, The Atlantic

"Anyone who’s seen the Aurora Borealis either in pictures, on video or in person knows the beauty these 'Northern Lights' can produce. But they’ve rarely produced anything as beautiful as the time they allowed John Sullivan to reconnect with his long-dead father and try to save his life."

Read more: Tony Rossi, Christopher Closeup, Patheos