Abortion-Inducing “Period Pills” Come to the U.S.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion, activists have been looking for ways to ensure abortion remains available, even if illegal in some states. One strategy—“missed period pills”—is unfamiliar to many in the U.S. but is widely used in Bangladesh as the result of a legal loophole.
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U.S. Pressures Benin to Withdraw from Pro-Life Document
The Biden Administration has pressured the small country of Benin to remove its name from the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a Trump-era document explaining that abortion is not an international right.
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C-Fam Submission Calls Out Bias in LGBT Expert’s Religious Freedom Questionnaire
The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), publisher of the Friday Fax, told the UN’s LGBT expert that freedom of religion and conscience are among the highest principles of international human rights law, while “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI) remain poorly defined and legally controversial.
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Biden Says Economic Empowerment Requires Abortion
The Biden administration released a new strategy to promote global women’s economic empowerment, which directs the U.S. government to “expand equitable access” to “sexual and reproductive health care,” which is understood to include abortion.
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WHO Calls for Removal of Any Law Limiting Abortion
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the removal of any legal or policy standard that might impede access to abortion, at any stage of pregnancy, and for any reason.
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What the UN Treaty Bodies Did this Year
After a year of having their meetings limited by the pandemic, the UN’s human rights treaty monitoring bodies resumed their work reviewing countries’ human rights records in 2022. These UN bodies were quite aggressive in promoting abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism.
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UN Agencies Ignore General Assembly, Promote Radical Agenda in 2022
At the UN General Assembly, abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, and comprehensive sexuality education are not supported by consensus and tend to provoke strong opposition.
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Questions Raised about Charges of Forced Abortion in Nigeria
A recent report from Reuters alleges that more than 10,000 illegal abortions have been carried out by the Nigerian military since 2013, some by force, others by a lack of informed consent. Many of the women and girls became pregnant through rape by Islamist militant groups in the northern part of the country.
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UN Agencies Say Self-Identification Sufficient for Sex Change in Prison
Several UN agencies have issued a brief stating that a man who self-identifies as a woman must be treated as a woman, even in prison, regardless of legal identification or biological characteristics.
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Philippines and Others Pressured to Accept Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage at UN Human Rights Review
A small but vocal group of nations pressured fourteen of their fellow countries on controversial social issues as the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) began in Geneva over the last two weeks.
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Selected Publications
Is there an ‘unmet need’ for family planning? The New Atlantis 49:2016