UNFPA Promotes Pro-Abortion “Reproductive Justice” framework
For decades, controversial issues like abortion have complicated, stalled, and stymied UN negotiations. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is betting on a new strategy to push past the opposition to abortion: a framework with origins in U.S. racial politics called “reproductive justice.”
Friday Fax
UNFPA uses deceptive numbers to promote UN-style family planning
In a new report, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) claims that greater investment in contraceptives brings social and economic benefits. A closer look at the data raises doubts.
Friday Fax
Planned Parenthood Offers Online Courses on At-Home Abortions
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) recently launched an online course on the use of abortion pills. The course is based on guidance from the World Health Organization and in collaboration with a website that promotes medication abortion even where it is illegal.
Friday Fax
India’s Supreme Court Legalizes Abortions for Single Women—and Men
India’s highest court cited UN human rights committees in a recent ruling legalizing abortion for unmarried women up to 24 weeks gestation. The decision stipulates that “women” includes “persons other than cis-gender women who may require access to safe medical termination of their pregnancies.”
Friday Fax
UN Agencies and Experts Ignore Decisions of the General Assembly
The UN women’s agency recently released a report denouncing legal restrictions on abortion as an obstacle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This week, a group of UN human rights experts released a statement declaring “safe abortion” to be a right.
Friday Fax
Biden Administration’s Proposed Gender Policy Would Define Women Out of Existence
According to a draft USAID gender policy, sex is a “designation” that is “assigned” at birth and there are about 40 variations of sex characteristics that “cannot be categorized as male or female.”
Friday Fax
UN Committee Says America is Racist
The UN expert committee on eliminating racial discrimination criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs decision and urged the U.S. to expand access to abortion, especially for women belonging to racial minorities.
Friday Fax
UN Population Projections See Global Fertility Decline
Global population will peak sooner and at lower levels than previously thought, according to the latest UN population projections.
Friday Fax
Is U.S. Dobbs Decision Affecting the Global Abortion Debate?
The UK government quietly removed abortion friendly language from a statement on religious freedom. It has drawn a strong rebuke from the sexual left that worries the recent Dobbs decision overturning the federal abortion regime in the United States may be causing negative reverberations around the world.
Friday Fax
WHO Announces Plan to Mainstream Gender Ideology
The Word Health Organization (WHO) announced it is updating its manual on “gender mainstreaming” claiming that “gender identity exists on a continuum and that sex is not limited to male or female.”
Friday Fax
Selected Publications
Is there an ‘unmet need’ for family planning? The New Atlantis 49:2016