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A Look Back and a Peek Forward
UN radicals are rightly peeved at their lack of progress. This year, like in the previous twenty, they did not advance their agenda on abortion even one syllable beyond what they got at the Cairo Conference in 1994.
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C-Fam’s Five Best Moments for Life and Family in 2014
It is not all bad news at the UN, no matter what you read in the Friday Fax each week! Here is C-Fam’s “Best List” from 2014.
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Review: “The Obsolescence of Customary International Law”
Abortion advocates have argued unsuccessfully for decades that abortion is a human right under customary international law.
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C-FAM Exclusive: UNICEF Denies Sneaking Birth Control Into Tetanus Vaccines
In an exclusive interview with C-Fam’s Friday Fax, UNICEF denies allegations from the Catholic bishops of Kenya that a tetanus vaccine program
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Danish-Dutch Fund For Overseas Abortion/LGBT Groups May Inflame Laws on Foreign Funding
NEW YORK, October 10 (C-Fam) As Africa is ravaged by ebola and terrorism, Denmark and Netherlands announced a new fund for the beleaguered region. Health providers exposed to the deadly…
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UN Population Fund Angles For More
NEW YORK, September 12 (C-Fam) “This is the first time I’ve had no need of tranquillizers ahead of a board meeting,” the head of the UN Population Fund joked. The…
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Abortion Advocates Say Social Engineering Trumps Improving Health
NEW YORK, August 15 (C-Fam) “We do not mostly provide preventative medical care [or] cure diseases or prevent them. What we do is social change.” So writes Daniel E. Pellegrom…
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C-FAM: New UN Goals Must Do Better for Mothers
NEW YORK, July 11 (C-FAM) — Pay attention to mothers! So says a new paper for UN delegates as they nail down new goals that will guide international development until…
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Problems with the International Violence Against Women Act of 2014
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) is deeply concerned about women and girls throughout the world who suffer because of the egregious crimes of physical and sexual violence. That…
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Global Summit to Stop Sexual Violence in War Snubs Abortion Groups
NEW YORK, June 13 (C-FAM) Abortion is not among the legal and health policies in the latest global effort to end sexual violence in war. This week countries and non-governmental…
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Canada Leaves Abortion out of International Aid
NEW YORK, June 6 (C-FAM) The defining feature of Canada’s ambitious multi-billion-dollar international plan to help mothers and newborns is not what it provides, but what it leaves out, namely,…
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White House Poised to Fund Abortions Overseas
WASHINGTON DC, May 15 (C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that the Obama administration may try to circumvent the long-standing Helm’s Amendment and allow for taxpayer-funded abortions overseas. The change…
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New Guttmacher Chief Doesn’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Advocacy
NEW YORK, May 9 (C-FAM) The Guttmacher Institute announced its new president this week: an abortion advocate who argued against transparency with health statistics, preferring to “lock all the academics…
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New Paper Exposes Hidden Agenda of the Sex Ed Establishment
NEW YORK, April 25 (C-FAM) Reporters called one program “x-rated.” Another was dubbed “kindergarten sex ed.” A World Health Organization version led to a spectacular defeat in the European Parliament….
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High Court Guts Contraception Bill
NEW YORK, April 25 (C-FAM) The Supreme Court of the Philippines struck down key provisions of a new contraception law in order to protect human life in the womb, as…
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New Paper: UN Report Emphasizes Abortion Instead of Maternal Health
NEW YORK, April 3 (C-FAM) A UN agency says abortion should be a maternal health priority and is distorting data to make its point as countries discuss a new global…
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The Unhappy Shotgun Marriage of Abortion and Maternal Health Advocates
NEW YORK, March 7 (C-FAM) Global health advocates agree the rate of women dying in childbirth worldwide is unacceptably high. Usually, getting help from experienced advocates with political clout would…
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Attempt to Conceal Leaked Documents on Gates/USAID Contraception Fails
WASHINGTON DC, January 10(C-FAM) Lawyers for US agencies have failed in an initial attempt to force a watchdog group to remove leaked documents from the group’s website. The documents describe…
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