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Kenyan Ambassador Says New UN Goals Must Help Children Before Birth
The Kenyan ambassador credited as one of the architects of the UN’s new development goals said the new goals cannot be successful without addressing the earliest stages of life—including before birth.
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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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Scientist Tells UN Babies’ Stem Cells Can Heal Mothers’ Hearts
Unborn children can contribute stem cells that help repair their pregnant mothers’ diseased heart tissue, a scientist told a conference on women’s health at the UN last week.
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LGBT Groups Mull Standstill at UN During Auschwitz Anniversary
The final event in remembrance of the Holocaust at UN headquarters last month was a briefing on “The Holocaust, Homosexuals and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Today.”
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Former UN Official Turns Chile Into Abortion Battleground
When Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet signed a proposal to Congress last month to legalize abortion, it was a televised event that made international news.
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UN Experts Say Mothers Who Killed Their Newborns Must Go Free
Guadalupe was convicted of murdering her newborn baby. Her case failed multiple appeals. But now she is is free, courtesy of a multi-year campaign by abortion groups
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U.S. Senators Urge Funding UN Agency Tied to Abortion and Prostitution
A group of U.S. senators is urging President Obama to fund the UN’s controversial population agency despite its ties to abortion and coercive population control programs
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“Cities for CEDAW” Seeks To Adopt UN Women’s Treaty into Local Laws
Frustrated by the U.S. Senate’s decades-long refusal to ratify the UN Women’s Treaty activists are now asking local governments to adopt the controversial treaty as a city ordinance.
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Is the World Ready for Aging?
UN population experts promoting low fertility were dumbfounded when asked what lies ahead for countries that will grow old before they have a chance to become rich.
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Medical Journal Says “Accept and embrace sex work”
Medical experts say targeting risky behaviors like smoking, excessive drinking, and over-eating could dramatically reduce premature deaths. But when it comes to the well-documented dangers of prostitution
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No Guarantees for LGBT Rights in New UN Development Goals
The new UN development agenda is silent about individuals that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual, but the United Kingdom wants to change that.
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Foreign Abortion Groups Worry New U.S. Congress will Establish Limits
When President Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy six years ago—one week after his inauguration – he opened the financial floodgates to wealthy abortion providers like Marie Stopes International, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and Population Connection, formerly known as Zero Population Growth.
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China’s Black Market for Human Eggs Lures the Young
Illegal clinics are luring high school and college-age girls in China with the promise of large payments for their eggs. The procedure can damage the girls’ health and future child-bearing, and the clinics are offering no legal or medical help if complications ensue.
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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 Hosts International Students for Edmund Burke Fellowship
Ten graduate students convened at C-Fam’s headquarters in New York for a weeklong course on international law, the UN, and the state of life and family issues in a global context.
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General Assembly Readies for Negotiations on New Development Agenda
Activists and governments that promote abortion and sexual rights see a new global scheme on development as an opportunity to change national policies.
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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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Russian Orthodox Condemn UN Children’s Fund For Promoting Homosexuality
As Christians around the world got ready to contemplate the innocence of the child Jesus, last week the Russian Orthodox Church took on a UNICEF paper that says children have LGBT rights.
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Argentina: Court recognizes “human rights” of an orang-utan
Why is judicial activism so dangerous? Because it aggrandizes judges at the expense of the laws they should protect. In the end, however, citizens will simply stop taking laws and judges…
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Diplomats Criticize UNFPA Report; Agency Exec Cuts Off Discussion
Diplomats told a UN agency last week it has gone too far when it tells countries to liberalize laws on issues like “sex work.” But the agency’s executive cut them off before they could finish.
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Abortion Groups Push Obama to Overturn Law Banning US Funding of Foreign Abortions
Abortion groups picketed the White House last week in their newest angle to spread abortion worldwide. They want President Obama to reinterpret a 41-year old law and force Americans to pay for foreign abortions.
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UNICEF gives up children, and instead promotes “gay rights”
The acronym “UNICEF” stands for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, thus indicating the organization’s original purpose: to help children in need. Nowadays, however, the focus is not anymore set…
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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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