Developing Countries Thwart Sexual Left at UN Negotiation
In the UN social policy committee this week, traditional countries blocked an effort to undermine parents’ ability to monitor and restrict children’s access to information about homosexuality, transgender issues, and abortion.
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Traditional Countries Rally on Transgender, Homosexuality, and Abortion at UN
A major fight broke out in the UN General Assembly Third Committee this week that pitted traditional countries over against powerful Western governments on the questions of abortion, homosexuality, and transgender ideology.
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New UN Treaty Would Make Homophobia a Crime Against Humanity
The General Assembly is discussing a treaty on crimes against humanity that could be used by prosecutors around the world to fine and jail religious conservatives and anyone who objects to the homosexual and trans agenda.
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U.S. and EU Hold Food Relief Hostage to LGBT Agenda
Conservative countries blocked a UN agreement on a set of international guidelines on gender and food security because it included homosexuality and transgender issues.
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Holy See to UN: Pornography Contributes to Child Abuse
During UN debates this week, the Holy See delegation, which represents Pope Francis at the United Nations, denounced abortion, pornography, and surrogacy, as “practices that reduce the human person to an object.”
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UN Bureaucrats Claim “Backlash” Against Abortion Rights
In the General Assembly this week, top UN officials and human rights experts criticized what they see as a “backlash” against abortion and gender ideology.
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Hungary’s President Sharply Rebukes United Nations for “Irrelevant” Gender Ideology
After recent criticism from social conservatives that Hungary has been on the wrong side of abortion debates at the United Nations, Katalin Novák, President of Hungary, came out strong on these issues in her speech to the General Assembly last week. Novák lambasted Western countries and the United Nations system for promoting “ideological indoctrination.”. Novak suggested that gender ideology is “fiction.”
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UN LGBT Czar Attacks America on Transgender Issues
The UN Czar for homosexual and transgender ideology attacked the U.S. Supreme Court and pro-life and pro-family Americans in his latest human rights report.
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Delegations Accuse Japan, Sierra Leone, and Western Powers of Manipulating UN Debate
Twenty-one delegations, including Nigeria, Egypt, and India have lambasted the tactics and misrepresentations of Western countries in their efforts to impose new human rights related to contentious social policies.
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ANALYSIS: Can the West Impose a Human Right to Abortion and Homosexuality?
In a public but unguarded moment on Friday at the UN, U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis sidled up to abortion and LGBT lobbyists sitting in the UN gallery and told them that the document about to pass the General Assembly would add to a “customary international right” to abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism.
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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)