Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

Rebecca Oas is the Director of Research for the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in Washington, D.C.

Before joining C-Fam, Rebecca earned her doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University.  She has written for Human Life International as a Fellow of HLI America and is has served as a Contributing Editor for HLI.

Among her focus areas are global maternal and child health and family planning, and her articles on these topics have appeared in such publications as the New Atlantis, the Hill, and the Christian Journal of Global Health.

Rebecca is a graduate of Michigan State University and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.

New Manual: Abortions for Pre-Teens Without Parental Consent

An inter-agency group that includes several UN bodies has been working to create a right to abortion in humanitarian settings.

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Abortion Groups that Backed Biden are Coming to Collect

WASHINGTON, D.C. December 4 (C-Fam) Pro-abortion organizations that strongly supported Joe Biden in the recent U.S. presidential election are hoping that after being inaugurated in January, he will immediately move…

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UN Agency Wants to Force Controversial Sex-Ed on All Children

With students around the world struggling to continue their education in the midst of the pandemic, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has published a guidance document to ensure they receive the UN’s controversial sex education, wherever they are.

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U.S. Pushes Back on Abortion at Human Rights Council

At the UN in Geneva last week, European countries attacked the U.S. record on abortion. The U.S. pushed back.

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Geneva Consensus Declaration Draws Backlash from Abortion Lobby

When the U.S. and over thirty other countries presented the Geneva Consensus Declaration reiterating that abortion is not an international human right, and that the family is the natural and fundamental unit of society, a backlash from the global abortion lobby was inevitable.

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Catholic university: the best U.S. states for women graded on abortion access

Georgetown University recently released its “U.S. Women, Peace and Security Index” designating the best and worst states to be a woman. 

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EU Leads Opposition to Human Rights Statement

The United States just issued a statement at the UN reaffirming fundamental human rights long agreed to by UN Member States going back to the founding of the world body. Only 57 countries agreed to the statement; 136 did not join it.

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UN Agencies Pressure Malawi to Liberalize Abortion Laws

Legislators in Malawi are facing heavy pressure to liberalize the country’s abortion laws during the current parliamentary session.

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Dubious Data Used to Promote Abortion Bill in Kenya

For the second time the Kenya Senate is considering a “reproductive health” bill that would promote abortion, jeopardize the conscience rights of health care providers, and enshrine in law a right to assisted reproductive technology, including surrogacy.

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USAID Gender Policy Emphasizes Women and Girls Rather than Trans

The Trump administration struck at the heart of gender ideology in a new draft policy released last week by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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