Analysis: UN Rights Experts Take Side with Pimps Against Prostituted Women
The UN human rights office is aggressively moving forward with the full decriminalization of prostitution, including sidestepping UN protocols and procedures, the laws of the overwhelming majority of countries, and the UN General Assembly.
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C-Fam’s Best of 2023
It’s easy to get lost in the sea of bad news. To end the year 2023 on a positive note, here are a few times we were surprised by victories for life and family.
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U.S. Angry that Traditional Countries Blocked Consensus on LGBT Issues
In the open plenary debate at the UN General Assembly this week, an obviously frustrated U.S. delegate to the General Assembly repeatedly scolded delegates from traditional countries for objecting to the U.S. and EU homosexual/transgender agenda.
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Five Worst Moments of the Year
Here are the worst moments of the year 2023 in review. Some are real doozies. They will have implications for the next decade and beyond.
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Editorial: Countries Must Push Back Tuesday on LGBT in General Assembly
Powerful Western countries do not want developing countries to speak out against homosexual/trans ideology and abortion when the General Assembly adopts several resolutions next week.
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UN Panel Explores Connection Between Pornography and Sex-Trafficking
Anti-trafficking survivors and advocates told UN delegates and officials that sex-trafficking was the end stage of sexual abuse that start with pornography and prostitution.
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Traditional Countries Outfox Western Powers on Gender Ideology
Western countries were left fuming last week after traditional countries and China forcibly removed consideration of a resolution on gender ideology from the General Assembly committee that deals with economic development and finance.
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Traditional Countries Reject Biden Push for LGBT at UN
Traditional countries fought back against a U.S. attempt to impose homosexual and transgender policies in a UN resolution last week.
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Biden to Censor Opponents Using Artificial Intelligence
President Biden unveiled sweeping plans for domestic and international regulation of artificial intelligence that will consign conservatives to virtual gulags.
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ANALYSIS: For Western Countries Freedom of Religion Ends Where LGBT Rights Begin
Western governments expressed support for religious freedom in the General Assembly last week even as they attacked traditional religious beliefs about marriage and family around the world.
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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)