European Union Censors Gender Debate at the UN
UNITED NATIONS, March 20 (C-Fam) The European Union blocked a U.S. resolution to define gender at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. They wouldn’t even let it be debated.
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Costa Rica, EU Block UN Definition of “Woman”
UNITED NATIONS, March 13 (C-Fam) The European Union quashed eight attempts by the United States to define what a woman is and to keep abortion rights out of an agreement of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
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Europeans Create New Censorship Body
NEW YORK, March 6 (C-Fam) The EU Commission launched the European Centre for Democratic Resilience last week, a new body that will ramp-up a complex digital censorship and social control apparatus across the European Union and beyond.
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CIA Promoted LGBT & Abortion to Muslims
NEW YORK, February 25 (C-Fam) CIA Director John Ratcliffe has ordered the intelligence agency to retract and revise nineteen “intelligence products” because they were determined to be highly politicized and contained substandard work. Three of the reports were published by Ratcliffe in a redacted format.
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US & EU Set to Clash at UN Commission on Women
NEW YORK, February 20 (C-Fam) The Trump administration is set to clash yet again with the European Union at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. This time, it will be about transgender issues, abortion, and DEI in UN policy.
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International Gender Crimes Coming From the UN
UNITED NATIONS, January 30 (C-Fam) The UN is set to define new “gender crimes” in international criminal law. Western nations want these to include opposition to abortion and LGBT issues from political leaders and possibly civilians.
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Statement on Redefining Gender in New Treaty
UNITED NATIONS, January 23 (C-Fam) Because of the gravity of labelling anyone hostis humani generis (enemy of the human race), definitions in the new treaty must be precise and not lend themselves to political manipulation. For this reason, we urge Member States to define gender as referring only to men and women in the new treaty or replace the term gender altogether with “sex.”
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Why Won’t Hungary Defend Values at the UN?
UNITED NATIONS, January 9 (C-Fam) Conservatives in the United States are surprised to learn that at the United Nations, the supposedly conservative governments of Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban stand…
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The Worst of the UN in 2025
UNITED NATIONS, December 26 (C-Fam) Despite the Trump administration, real threats to life continued at the United Nations this year. The biggest threat to life and family in the world continues to be the European Union and its allies in the UN bureaucracy.
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The Best of the UN in 2025
NEW YORK, December 26 (C-Fam) The Trump administration has inaugurated a new springtime for the pro-life and pro-family cause internationally. Pro-lifers are energized to go into the new year with a resolution to capitalize on this favorable political moment for life and family.
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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)