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Sweden Targets Africans Using “Unsafe Abortion” Study
An African-based research center is performing studies on “unsafe abortion” in seven African countries with the goal of influencing health ministers and policymakers to remove laws that protect unborn children from abortion.
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GAO Report on Expanded Mexico City Policy Reveals Abortion Creep in Global Health Assistance
A new report commissioned by Democrat lawmakers shows that the Trump administration’s pro-life foreign policy is achieving its objective of protecting life, showing that 54 abortion groups declined U.S. taxpayer funds.
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Abortion Groups Panic as Senators Target Loopholes in Mexico City Policy
Abortion groups are scrambling to keep U.S. government funding after Senate and House Republicans caught them exploiting loopholes in the U.S. pro-life foreign policy that forbids them to receive taxpayer monies to promote and perform abortions abroad.
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Population Control Making a Comeback in the U.S. Congress?
U.S. Congressman Ami Bera said population control is a national security issue and that USAID and Congress are working together to get Republicans to spend more on contraception overseas.
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U.S. Ambassador Fuels Public Row Over Homosexuality in AIDS-Ravaged Zambia
A war of words has broken out between the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote and the government of Zambia over that conservative country’s laws on homosexual behavior. The U.S. Ambassador has even threatened to withhold financial aid to this AIDS ravaged African country.
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Once More Trump Keeps Abortion Out at UN Security Council
For the second year in a row, the U.S. kept abortion-related language out of a UN Security Council resolution on women in crisis and conflict.
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Sexual Left Organizes Against Pro-Life Nominee to the UN
Rarely if ever has a nominee for federal office answered the abortion question as clearly, succinctly, and even bravely as Andrew Bremberg did last month before the Senator Foreign Relations Committee.
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Critics Question New Study Asserting U.S. Policy Increases Abortion in Africa
According to a new article published in The Lancet Global Health, so-called Mexico City Policy is linked to increased abortions in sub-Saharan Africa, due to reduced contraceptive use and more unintended pregnancies.
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Study Disputes Link Between HIV and Depo Provera; African Women Insist Results are “Not Good News”
For decades, an international debate has raged over whether the use of the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera increases women’s risk of contracting HIV when exposed to the virus.
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Political Activism Supplants Medical Evidence in New International Diagnostic Manual
Transgender rights activists are claiming a major victory as the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted an updated version of its diagnostic manual, removing “transsexualism” from its chapter on mental disorders and putting “gender incongruity” into a newly-created chapter on sexual health.
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Abortion Hard-Liners Want U.S. Kicked Out of G7
In a series of catty comments on social media, abortion advocates, including one former government minister, have questioned whether the United States should be allowed to remain in the Group of 7 (G7) coalition of the world’s largest economies.
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Scholars Accuse UK Government of Censoring Research Findings
Two British scientists have charged the UK government with censorship for omitting information that cast a negative light on government programs related to “unwanted pregnancies.”
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UN Intervened to Change New York Abortion Law
Hardly anyone will have noticed that the United Nations, at least a part of it, was involved in the controversial New York State law that codified the U.S. Supreme Court decisions imposing abortion on demand up to birth.
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Activists Call for Abortion in Universal Health Coverage Resolution, U.S. Pushes Back
The United States pushed back on attempts to insert abortion into the World Health Organization’s resolution on universal health coverage at the agency’s just concluded executive board meeting.
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Five Best Moments of the Year 2018 for Life and Family at the UN
There have many important moments in 2018 for the pro-life cause internationally, maybe even epochal shifts. Only history can tell.
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Kenya Bans Marie Stopes from Performing Abortions
For years, international abortion giant Marie Stopes International has been accused of performing illegal abortions in Africa.
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Abortion Dominates Family Planning Conference
Family-planning potentates donned super-hero masks at a conference in Rwanda this week, touting their “family-planning super powers.”
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Report Charges UK with Exaggerating Lives Saved Through Family Planning
A new report claims that estimates of lives saved by UK foreign aid efforts are greatly exaggerated.
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Putting Tanzania’s family planning announcement into perspective
As my colleague, Lisa Correnti, wrote in this week’s Friday Fax article, the president of Tanzania has placed restrictions on foreign funding for contraceptive advertising in his country. Before delving…
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No Matter the Question, Contraception’s the Answer
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13 (C-Fam) Family planning advocates are working hard to position contraceptives as the key to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As an event on Tuesday…
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Capitol Hill Event Examines Intersection Between Human Trafficking and Health
Washington, D.C., May 18 (C-Fam) Women and girls trafficked for sex suffer a wide range of physical health problems resulting from repeated acts of violence and rape, and bear an…
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Lancet, Guttmacher Publish Abortion-Centered Wish List Ahead of World Health Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11 (C-Fam) Advocates for abortion and “sexual rights” have worked for decades to advance their agenda at international institutions, but have never won global consensus. This week…
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Pots, Kettles, and Unintended Pregnancies
When the United Nations Population Fund released its flagship report “State of World Population” last fall, my attention was drawn to one particular page: The words “43% of pregnancies in…
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Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies: Promise or Pretext?
As discussed in last week’s Friday Fax, “healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies” (HTSP) has become accepted as both the most acceptable rationale for the promotion of family planning by…
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Opinion: If Family Planning is the Solution, What’s the Problem?
Washington, D.C., May 4 (C-Fam) What is the problem that faith-based organizations and family planning groups are partnering to solve, and how will they know if and when they have…
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