Senate Testimony: Abortion Does Not Help Mothers
Experts told the U.S. Senate this week that abortion is not a solution for maternal mortality.
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Attempts Underway to Redefine “Forced Pregnancy” in International Law
The term “forced pregnancy” is back on the UN agenda as nations begin to negotiate a treaty on crimes against humanity. This is an old debate and one that pro-life nations have so far won.
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Checking the facts about the March 8 Principles by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
There has been a lot of coverage recently about a set of legal principles published by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) titled “The 8 March Principles for a Human…
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UNFPA: Restricting online abortion is violence
Although the UN General Assembly has never endorsed the view that abortion is a human right, the UN’s human rights bodies have repeatedly asserted that it is.
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Abortion Giant Lies About Outcome of Recent UN Negotiation
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) responded to the recently-adopted document of the UN’s annual women’s conference with celebrating language that was—very intentionally—not included in the document.
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UN Commission on Women Ignored Benefits of Marriage
At UN negotiations, including the recently-concluded Commission on the Status of Women, efforts to include pro-marriage and pro-family language in resolutions face increased opposition.
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UN Event Promotes Maternal Health, Pro-Life Consensus
Attendees crowded into a conference room a week ago at UN headquarters to hear expert testimony about the importance of improving women’s health without promoting abortion.
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How UN Officials Use “Intimidation” to Intimidate Pro-Lifers
At a recent briefing ahead of the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), UN officials equated “pushback” against a pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQ agenda.
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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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Selected Publications
Is there an ‘unmet need’ for family planning? The New Atlantis 49:2016