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Egg Trafficking and Rented Wombs: UN Learns How Not to Make Babies
Every seat in the UN auditorium was filled, with a waiting line outside, to hear about making babies. “Online baby making, buying and selling eggs, renting wombs,” said Jennifer Lahl. “We no longer beget our children, we make our children, we build our families.”
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Countries Avoid Controversy, Reject Abortion at Women’s Conference
NEW YORK, March 13 (C-Fam) This year – the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Women’s Conference – thousands of delegates and civil society representatives are gathered in New York to…
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Hillary’s No Good, Very Bad Day at the UN
Swarms of reporters rushed for UN media credentials yesterday morning to hear Hillary Clinton. But they did not come for her speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Women’s…
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UN to Measure Countries’ Access to Abortion and LGBT Acceptance
Abortion for adolescent girls and homosexual rights may become markers of progress in the new UN development agenda.
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Woman Sues China Over Forced Sterilization
A Chinese woman has sued the government because family planning agents forcibly sterilized her. Xia Runying says the operation in 2012 left her with damaged abdominal veins and other health…
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Obama Tells Faith-Based Groups they Must Refer Refugee Children for Abortions
The Obama administration is getting ready to issue new rules requiring charities to provide abortions to child refugees entering the US without their parents.
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Scotland’s “Named Persons” to Replace Parents
Under a new plan, Scotland will assign a state-employed guardian to every child from birth until age 18, who can intervene without parental consent and share information with a wide…
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C-Fam’s Worst Moments for Life and Family 2014
Unlike its predecessor, 2104 was not a quiet year for life and family. We witnessed a number of new negative developments. The episodes below mostly involve rogue UN experts and officials.
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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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LGBT Activists Meet at UN, Promise to Keep Fighting
On Human Rights Day, homosexual activists converged on UN headquarters to make the case that “LGBT rights are human rights.” But only a few countries within the United Nations agree.
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Pope Francis’ Warning to Europe Lost on Lesbian Politician
Pope Francis starkly warned European leaders last week they have lost trust by enacting policies that are “insensitive” and “harmful.”
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USAID Funding Pro-Prostitution and LGBT Political Activists
Outside the U.S., President Obama is prioritizing lesbian, gay bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) rights has aggravated already sour relations.
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African Bishops at Vatican Meeting Wary of Western Sexual Radicals
At an Extraordinary Synod of Catholic bishops at least one African bishop has complained about the intervention of radical sexual mores being imposed upon Africa by the West.
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C-Fam Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Parental Rights
On Tuesday, Michael Farris, Home School Legal Defense Association, Catherine Ross, The George Washington University Law School and Wendy Wright, Center for Family and Human Rights Institute testify at the…
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Born of Controversy, Youth Coalition is Emerging Voice at UN
NEW YORK, August 22 (C-Fam) In 2010 C-Fam personnel participated in a conference on youth sponsored by the UN Population Fund in Mexico. The conference was intended to inform the…
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UN Ignores Children Born of Rape in War Time
NEW YORK, August 1 (C-FAM) As the issue of sexual violence has risen at the UN, the matter of the children born of that violence has fallen precipitously. Forgetting Children…
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European Court: Gay Marriage is not a Human Right
NEW YORK, July 25 (C-FAM) The highest human rights court in Europe shattered hopes that it would judicially impose same-sex marriage when it told a male to female transsexual and…
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Gay Rights Hit Roadblocks Around the World
NEW YORK, July 11 (C-FAM) The most powerful countries and institutions in the world promoting homosexual “rights” are finding resistance even where gay activists thought the battle had been won….
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Obama Promotes LGBT on International Day of Families
NEW YORK, May 23 (C-FAM) The United States chose the International Day of Families to release a statement on “homophobia and transphobia.” The move underscores a priority in the “Obama…
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Statement by Austin Ruse
I deeply regret and apologize for using the expression “taken out and shot” on the Sandy Rios Show this week. It was not intended to be taken literally. I…
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LGBT Groups Rethinking Strategies After International Setbacks
NEW YORK, March 7 (C-FAM) Groups working for the normalization of homosexuality around the globe are asking themselves what they should do in the face of growing opposition to their…
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Obama Team Tries to Scrap Parts of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
NEW YORK, February 28 (C-FAM) Angry over not getting a same-sex-friendly definition of the family into a new UN document, the Obama Administration tried to delete language agreed upon by…
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Pro-Life Poetry Breaks Out at German Anti-Family Event
NEW YORK, February 28 (C-FAM) Quite unexpectedly pro-life poetry broke out in the German Mission to the United Nations. Twenty-year-old Anthony read a poem about becoming an unmarried father at…
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Croatia Upholds Marriage, Despite Government Threats
NEW YORK, December 6 (C-FAM) Croatians cast their ballots last Sunday and the result was swift and clear: 66% voted to add marriage is a “union between a man and…
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