Human Life Archives - C-Fam
World Health Organization Urges Decriminalization of Suicide
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a policy brief calling for the decriminalization of suicide, arguing that removing legal penalties for suicide attempts will reduce suicide rates due to decreased stigma.
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Analysis: Washington Post Gets PEPFAR Abortion Story Wrong
A recent article in the Washington Post discussed how abortion has roiled the U.S. government’s international HIV/AIDS program.
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Feminist Conference Livid at Presence of Pro-Family Head of State
If you aren’t an outspoken activist for abortion without restrictions or stigma, you are part of the problem. This was the central message at the international feminist conference called Women Deliver going on this week in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Senate Testimony: Abortion Does Not Help Mothers
Experts told the U.S. Senate this week that abortion is not a solution for maternal mortality.
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UN Event Promotes Maternal Health, Pro-Life Consensus
Attendees crowded into a conference room a week ago at UN headquarters to hear expert testimony about the importance of improving women’s health without promoting abortion.
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Abortion-Inducing “Period Pills” Come to the U.S.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion, activists have been looking for ways to ensure abortion remains available, even if illegal in some states. One strategy—“missed period pills”—is unfamiliar to many in the U.S. but is widely used in Bangladesh as the result of a legal loophole.
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Biden Says Economic Empowerment Requires Abortion
The Biden administration released a new strategy to promote global women’s economic empowerment, which directs the U.S. government to “expand equitable access” to “sexual and reproductive health care,” which is understood to include abortion.
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C-Fam’s Top 5 Moments of 2022 for Life and Family at the United Nations
The deck was stacked against the unborn as 2022 came around. Pro-lifers expected a gradual retreat from traditional countries. But that is not what happened. Traditional countries stood their ground against an onslaught from the United States and the European Union.
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Five Worst Moments at the UN 2022
Each year, C-Fam lists the five worst moments at the UN in the previous 12 months. It was a pretty bad year. The U.S. under Joe Biden, and the European Union worked in concert on all of these. The unborn child and the family took the brunt of their synchronized firepower.
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UN Committee Moves to Block Pro-Lifers
The NGO Committee of the UN Commission on the Status of Women has issued participation guidelines which will have the effect of blocking pro-life and pro-family groups from an upcoming UN conference.
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Thai Conference Shows Abortion and Family Planning Intimately Connected
The UN determined 25 years ago that abortion could not be included in family planning. Yet a UN and government sponsored family planning conference in Thailand last week placed abortion as an integral means of family planning.
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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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Leftwing Congressmen Ask State Department to Announce Global Right to Abortion
Seventy-one mostly leftwing members of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to State Department legal advisor about the status of abortion in international law.
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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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India’s Supreme Court Legalizes Abortions for Single Women—and Men
India’s highest court cited UN human rights committees in a recent ruling legalizing abortion for unmarried women up to 24 weeks gestation. The decision stipulates that “women” includes “persons other than cis-gender women who may require access to safe medical termination of their pregnancies.”
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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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Nigeria Leads Fight Against Abortion at the UN
Nigeria stood up to the United States and the European Union in a heated debate about abortion in the General Assembly on Friday.
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Biden Nominates Pro-Abortion Globalist to International Court
The Biden administration has nominated controversial Columbia Law School Professor Sarah Cleveland to the International Court of Justice despite being rejected for a top job by the U.S. Senate only months ago.
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UN General Assembly Poised to Declare Abortion a Human Right
The European Union, along with the Biden administration are attempting to force the General Assembly to adopt a resolution that claims abortion as a human right.
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International Body Begins to Draft New Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Member states of the World Health Organization approved a blueprint for a treaty on pandemic preparedness that could be used to promote abortion and gender ideology.
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ANALYSIS: “Keeping Girls in School Act” has Little to Do with Keeping Girls in School
There was an eerie silence, a feeling of apprehension in the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Congressman Gregory Meeks called for comments on the “Keeping Girls in School Act” last week.
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Is U.S. Dobbs Decision Affecting the Global Abortion Debate?
The UK government quietly removed abortion friendly language from a statement on religious freedom. It has drawn a strong rebuke from the sexual left that worries the recent Dobbs decision overturning the federal abortion regime in the United States may be causing negative reverberations around the world.
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U.S. House Tries to Codify Roe v. Wade Again, Bill Heads to the Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) today, legislation that cites the non-binding opinions of UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies that abortion be “accessible” and “affordable” and condemning restrictions and barriers to abortion.
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