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.

UN Committee May Say It’s Racist Not to Allow Abortion

Not long after going after the U.S. for overturning the right to abortion, the UN’s human rights committee on the elimination of racial discrimination is preparing to unleash pro-abortion pressure on the rest of the world.

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Appointee on Women’s Issues Supports Legal Prostitution

Senate Democrats voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee for Ambassador-At-Large for Global Women’s. The vote was close and partisan.

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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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