ANALYSIS: The United States Goes All-In to Advance LGBT in UN Policy
The Biden Administration overcame historic opposition to the LGBT agenda from African and Islamic countries by strategically placing controversial gay rights language in a resolution on fair elections and democracy.
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General Assembly Adds Abortion Language to Resolutions on Clean Water and Rare Diseases
Delegates from Russia and Gulf nations complained about the addition of abortion-related terms in two General Assembly resolutions on rare diseases and access to clean water and sanitation.
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Putin Compares Gender Ideology to Bolshevik Revolution
“Beware of going where the Bolsheviks once planned to go” Vladimir Putin warned Western countries in a landmark speech.
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Biden Administration Issues Gender Strategy Promoting Abortion and LGBT Rights
The White House has released a long-promised “National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality.”
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General Assembly will Test Biden’s Commitment to Abortion and LGBT Rights
Despite making progress for abortion and LGBT rights in the UN bureaucracy, the Biden administration faces an uphill battle to get the General Assembly to explicitly endorse abortion and LGBT issues in UN resolutions.
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UNICEF Endorses “Sexual Autonomy” for Kids/Biden Approves
UNICEF’s Executive Board has approved a strategic plan that endorses sexual autonomy for children and school-based access to abortion and contraception.
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Joe Biden Becomes First U.S. President to Back Abortion as International Human Right
The Biden administration has endorsed a Democrat bill that declares abortion is an international human right.
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UN Experts Meddle in Supreme Court Abortion Decision
In an unprecedented move, a group of UN human rights experts told the U.S. Supreme Court that letting U.S. States decide their own abortion laws would violate international human rights law.
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European Group Attacked for Criticizing Dark Money Influence on UN Human Rights
Over the summer the European Center for Law and Justice issued a report charging that the UN human rights agenda was driven by leftwing foundations.
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Mexico High Court Declares Right to Abortion for Women and “Gestating Persons”
Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the criminal abortion laws of the State of Coahuila de Zaragoza based on what it termed “women’s and gestating persons’ right to choose.”
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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)