U.S. Faces Major Pro-Life Test at UN
UNITED NATIONS, December 5 (C-Fam) The Trump administration faces its biggest international pro-life test to date. Next week, UN member states are expected to adopt a UN resolution that guides…
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Pro-Life States Win by Losing at UN
UNITED NATIONS, November 28 (C-Fam) More governments than ever voted for eliminating controversial language related to abortion and LGBT issues in the ongoing UN General Assembly.
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BREAKING: US Wins UN Vote to Combat Child P*rn
UNITED NATIONS, November 21 (C-Fam) The U.S. won a key vote against child pornography and pedophilia in the General Assembly’s Third Committee today.
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UN General Assembly Expands Global Censorship
UNITED NATIONS, November 21 (C-Fam) The United States, Argentina, and Paraguay were the only three governments to vote against a UN resolution calling for UN sponsored global censorship programs under the guise of combating “disinformation” and “hate speech.”
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Trump Spoils the UN Party
NEW YORK, November 14 (C-Fam) In a move that has shocked the UN diplomatic corps, the U.S. government voted against more than a dozen UN resolutions this week because they were deemed ideological, wasteful, or contrary to the Trump administration’s America First foreign policy. The resolutions are typically adopted unanimously, without a vote.
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Clash Over Censorship at UN
UNITED NATIONS, November 6 (C-Fam) The U.S. and European governments are clashing over censorship in a UN resolution.
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Not Playing at All —Trump’s New UN Jiu-jitsu
UNITED NATIONS, October 31 (C-Fam) The Trump administration will not play games during the current meeting of the UN General Assembly. Rather than spend countless hours negotiating dozens of controversial resolutions with little to show for it, the Administration will not negotiate at all and will simply vote against any resolution that is not aligned with the President’s agenda.
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Trump Sends Message to Pro-Life Governments
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 24 (C-Fam) President Trump said he was “proud” to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a pro-life international declaration launched during the first Trump administration that Joe Biden reneged on his first day in office.
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Euros Bring Abortion to Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, October 10 (C-Fam) Liberal Western governments pledged to make abortion and feminism a central component of global security policy at the UN Security Council on Monday.
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Populism Roars Back at UN
UNITED NATIONS, October 3 (C-Fam) U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s return to the United Nations was a triumph of populism over globalism. He was one of several populist world leaders who criticized the European Union and the United Nations for open borders, climate, and gender policies.
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ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY
UN ‘Gender’ Treaty Would Wage International Lawfare Against People Who Believe Men And Women Are Different, The Federalist (December 9, 2024)
What If Our Ruling Class Has Women’s Workforce Participation And GDP All Wrong?, The Federalist (August 28, 2023)
Hungary and Poland Should Stand Against the EU’s Sexual Imperialism, The European Conservative (July 16, 2023)
The United Nations Meddles in US Abortion Law, The American Spectator (October 13, 2021)
American Conservatives Should Take the United Nations Seriously, Public Discourse (March 10, 2021)
Will European Nationalists Ever Stop LGBT and Pro-Abortion EU Diplomacy?, Public Discourse (September 1, 2020)
Why the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Should Not Ignore Abortion, Public Discourse (August 11, 2020)
Can Unalienable Rights Be Rescued from Human Rights?, Public Discourse (July 15, 2019)
The International Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade, Public Discourse (February 22, 2019)
The Conservative Disadvantage, Public Discourse (February 7, 2019)
Abortion: The Original Sin of the United Nations’ Human Rights Project, Public Discourse (January 8, 2019)
Nikki Haley’s Pro-Life Dilemma at the UN, The Stream (June 12, 2018)
The Trump Administration Must Keep Abortion Out of International Law and Policy, Public Discourse (June 4, 2018)
The Future of the Pro-Life Movement is in Africa, Public Discourse (April 12, 2018)
Beyond Roe: A Global Roadmap for the Pro-Life Movement, Public Discourse (February 14, 2018)
How Their Refusal To Tolerate Dissent Is Creating A Global Backlash Against LGBT People, The Federalist (January 11, 2018)
The Problem with Pro-Life “Lite”, The Stream (November 12, 2017)
Rules for (Pro-Life) Radicals, The Stream (November 1, 2017)
What Happened at the Vatican’s Bio-Extinction Conference, Catholic World Report (September 21, 2017)
Can We Stop an International Roe v. Wade?, Public Discourse (September 13, 2017)
And LGBT Roadmap for President Trump, The Stream (July 29, 2017)
Spadaro’s American Christian Straw Man, The Stream (July 21, 2017)
The Paris Accord Epitomizes Why All Bureaucrats Need Term Limits, The Federalist (June 5, 2017)
The Genius of the Mexico City Policy and the Pro-Life Legacy of President Trump, Public Discourse (May 17, 2017)
Population Control Ideologue Paul Ehrlich Speaks at the Vatican, The Stream (February 27, 2017)
We Must Fight the Global War on Marriage, The Stream (October 3, 2016)
One Year Since Obergefell Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, The Stream (June 25, 2016)
Pope Francis and the Human-Rights Issue of Our Time, National Catholic Register (September 25, 2015)
“Reproductive Health” is a Trojan Horse, First Things, First Thoughts (July 1, 2015)
The Wrong Way to Respond to Critics, First Things, Web Exclusives (May 29, 2015)
Allow Abortion—Or You’re Guilty of Torture, First Things, Web Exclusives (May 13, 2014)
A Strong Note of Caution on Reproductive Health and Family Planning, First Things, Web Exclusives (May 16, 2012) (Austin Ruse, co-author)
IN THE NEWS
Training the Next Generation of U.N. Pro-Life Advocates, National Catholic Register (January 19, 2015)
Officials Denounce Claims that Kenyan Vaccine Meant for Population Control, The Washington Times (November 14, 2014)
Weighing a Catholic Change for LGBT and Divorcees, NPR OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, (October 16, 2014)
U.N. Panel Says Vatican is Lax Over Abusive Priests, New York Times (May 23, 2014)
U.N. Committee to Vatican: Change Church Teaching, National Catholic Register (February 8, 2014)
UN Abuse Report: From Policy to Ideology, Zenit.org (February 6, 2014)
BOOK CHAPTERS
The diffusion of sexual and reproductive rights through the UN human rights framework, in Aleksander Stepkowski (ed.), PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE IN ITS EARLY STAGE: INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND MEANS (Peter Lang Editions 2014) (link)