New Supreme Court Decision Will Protect Mexico City Policy
In a decision that may have far-reaching implications for the pro-life cause internationally, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that foreign organizations don’t have free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution.
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Trump Executive Order on Religious Freedom Could Help Abortion Fight
An Executive Order on religious freedom internationally could become another important tool to fight an international right to abortion at the United Nations.
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How will newly elected members of the UN Security Council impact abortion debate?
Last week, the nations of the world voted in five new members for the UN Security Council, starting their two-year terms at the beginning of next year.
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WHO Urges Telemedicine and Do-it-Yourself Abortions During COVID Pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its guidance on essential medical services during the COVID-19 pandemic, explicitly including abortion to the full extent allowed by law.
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War Continues Between U.S. and UN Over Abortion Promotion in COVID Response
The U.S. government criticized the Secretary General for promoting abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Democrats Lash Out at USAID Head for Opposing Abortion in COVID-19 Response
A group of pro-abortion U.S. senators have released a letter condemning the Trump administration for trying to exclude abortion from the UN’s COVID-19 aid appeal.
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U.S. Fails to Stop Pro-Abortion Mandate for the UN Population Fund
The Executive Board of the UN Population Fund approved a change to the agency’s strategy that will allow the agency to promote abortion as a humanitarian right.
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U.S. Blocks UN Agreement Over Pro-Life Concerns, UN Member States Ignore
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations has rejected a draft agreement on humanitarian assistance for emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, that would have given cover for UN agencies to promote abortion. But it will not be enough to stop the agreement.
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UN Report Condemns Talk Therapy for Homosexuality
A United Nations representative has issued a scathing report condemning talk therapy for those with unwanted sexual desires and behaviors, usually related to homosexuality.
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Breaking News: U.S. Blocks UN Agreement Over Abortion
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations has rejected an UN agreement on humanitarian assistance for emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, that would have promoted abortion.
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UN Expert Group: “Sexual and Reproductive Health Services” Includes “Safe, Legal Abortion”
A UN human rights group criticized several U.S. states for declaring abortion a nonessential service during the COVID-19 shutdown this week, declaring “safe, legal abortion” a key component of “sexual and reproductive health services.”
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UN Human Rights Boss Claims Credit for Judicial Activism and Political Strife on Homosexual Marriage in Costa Rica
The head of the UN human rights office praised the Supreme Court of Costa Rica for judicially imposing homosexual marriage, then claimed credit for the court’s activism in a video message this week.
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Top UN Official Leaves Post, Charged with Phony Credentials
The UN quietly let go a top human rights official and abortion activist rather than hold her accountable for having fabricated her credentials to justify her top-level position and high salary.
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World Health Assembly Includes Reproductive Health in COVID-19 Resolution, U.S. Objects
NEW YORK, May 22 (C-Fam) Health ministers from around the world adopted a resolution on health policies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic early this week at the World Health…
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USAID Head to UN Secretary General: Stop Peddling Abortion as COVID-19 Relief
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development told the UN Secretary General to stop treating abortion as “essential” humanitarian relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter is unprecedented in its direct criticism of the UN bureaucracy’s promotion of abortion as humanitarian aid.
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Pandemic and Geopolitics Will Collide at Next Week’s World Health Assembly
The annual meeting of the World Health Assembly opens next week amid the worst global pandemic in a hundred years and heightened tensions between the United States and China.
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$9B Global Aid Bill to Fight COVID Would Give Away U.S. Sovereignty and Fund Abortion
Democrat Senators released a bill to reverse President Trump’s COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, his pro-life policies, and cede Presidential prerogatives to deal with pandemics to international agencies.
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Supreme Court May Strike Down Mexico City Policy After Global Right to Free Speech Case
The U.S. Supreme Court could pave the way for the judicial repeal of the Mexico City Policy if it recognizes a global right to free speech for foreign non-governmental organizations affiliated with U.S.-based organizations.
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Governments Allow Do-it-Yourself Abortions During COVID-19 Crisis
For years, abortion advocates have been working to increase access to do-it-yourself abortion drugs and information where the procedure is illegal and there are few trained abortionists.
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State Department Keeps Funding WHO Regional Office that Violates U.S. Law
Last week, the U.S. State Department decided to continue funding the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), while defunding its parent organization, the World Health Organization (WHO).
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How Feminists Are Keeping Abortion on the UN Agenda During COVID-19 Shutdown
Two competing draft resolutions emerged at the UN this week on the impact of COVID-19 on women. One of the main disputes in negotiations is over national prerogatives on abortion.
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The WHO Abortion Agenda: Another Reason to Defund It
President Donald Trump announced last week that he was stopping $400-$500 million in funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including WHO’s parroting misleading talking points from the Chinese government.
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UN Disabilities’ Czar Lambasts “Liberal Eugenics” But Promotes Abortion
A UN human rights expert on disabilities criticized “prenatal testing, selective abortion and preimplantation genetic diagnosis” in a report to UN member states, but fell short of calling for an end to the selective abortion of children with disabilities.
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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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UN LGBT Expert Wants to Punish Religious Opponents
One of the great debates at the UN over the last few decades has been over how to wedge the LGBT issue into the UN dialogue. Member states were largely uninterested. Conservative and religiously minded countries knew the issue was a radicalizing one.
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