Abortion Drugs Linked to Maternal Deaths in Developing World
NEW YORK, September 7 (C-FAM) Several new studies have found abortion drugs – touted as a solution to illegal, unsafe abortions – are linked to increased maternal deaths and suffering….
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Asian Population Conference Laments Aging But Touts Abortion and Contraception
NEW YORK, August 31 (C-FAM) Top Asian demographers, population experts, and UN staff gathered in Bangkok this week to address the region’s aging crisis. Despite the severity of the low…
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Pro-life Doctors Movement and South Korea’s Abortion Ban
NEW YORK, August 31 (C-FAM) South Korea’s highest court upheld that country’s 59-year abortion ban last week, amidst a surge of pro-life activism led by former abortionists. On Wednesday the…
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Philippine Senator Denounces Global Abortion Lobby
MANILA, August 24 (C-FAM) Senator Vicente C. Sotto III, one of the most popular and beloved politicians in the Philippines, is using all his clout to fight the latest attempt…
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Editorial: Delegates Beware on Sexual Orientation
NEW YORK, August 24 (C-FAM) The UN is in the midst of a multi-year campaign to regularize homosexuality and other behaviors in the scheme of international law. The skirmishes began…
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Traditional Values Resolution Hijacked at Human Rights Council in Geneva
GENEVA, August 17 (C-FAM) Likely the Russians are furious. Last year the Russian government initiated a process at the Human Rights Council in Geneva that was supposed to lead to…
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Disability Treaty Loses Support Over Abortion Worries
NEW YORK, August 17 (C-FAM) U.S. ratification of a UN treaty is stumbling due to a problem that has hounded the treaty since its beginning: does “sexual and reproductive health”…
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Ramps Up Pressure for Special LGBT Rights
WASHINGTON, DC, August 10 (C-FAM) In the span of one month, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued eleven press releases decrying episodes of violence against “gay,” “lesbian,” and “trans”…
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Amnesty International Uses Maternal Deaths to Push for Unrestricted Abortion
NEW YORK, August 10 (C-FAM) Amnesty International, a human rights organization that used to be abortion neutral, is now using the problem of maternal mortality to advocate for abortion. In…
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Lancet Blames Homophobia For Growing HIV Epidemic
WASHINGTON, DC, August 3 (C-FAM) Despite overwhelming medical evidence that AIDS is exponentially growing among homosexuals because of behavioral risks, the widely read medical journal Lancet is telling the medical…
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Book Review: Sovereignty or Submission?
NEW YORK, August 3 (C-FAM) The US Senate may vote this week on ratification of the latest UN human rights treaty, this one on people with disabilities. Does it really…
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International AIDS Conference Provides Forum for Promotion of Risky Sex
WASHINGTON, DC, July 27 (C-FAM) The UN Population Fund partnered with sexual and reproductive rights groups this week to push a controversial agenda of risky sexual behavior at a major…
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Experts Call “Unmet Need” for Family Planning Baseless
NEW YORK, July 27 (C-FAM) At the same time governments pledged billions of dollars to push contraception in poor countries based on the idea of an “unmet need” for family…
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Governments Fight Back Against CEDAW Committee
NEW YORK, July 20 (C-FAM) Countries are fighting back against the CEDAW Committee’s questioning on abortion and maternal mortality as delegates complain about the inaccurate information the Committee relies on…
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Gates Family Planning Summit: What Comes Next?
NEW YORK, July 20 (C-FAM) Pro-life protesters at the Family Planning Summit in London last week signaled that opposition to the multi-billion dollar campaign is not going away. Held on…
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UN High Commissioner Ignores Pro-Life Concerns on Treaty Body Reform
NEW YORK, July 13, 2012 (C-FAM) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has ignored concerns expressed by UN Member States and civil society organizations about UN treaty bodies promoting…
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Gates Summit Raises Billions for Abortion Groups
LONDON, July 13 (C-FAM) “What are women’s attitude toward children,” I asked a representative from a Sierra Leone family planning organization. “Before the war, they were negative. Now they are positive.” “Do…
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Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies as Her Legacy Unravels
NEW YORK, July 6 (C-FAM) Feminist Activist Joan Dunlop died last week at 78, just a week after her legacy of recasting international population control efforts as “reproductive rights” began…
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Muslim World Faces Devastating Fertility Decline
NEW YORK, July 6 (C-FAM) Fertility rates of Muslim populations around the world have almost literally fallen off a cliff, so steep has been their decline. Policy makers at the…
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Abortion Advocates Outraged by Defeat of “Women’s Rights” at Rio +20
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 29 (C-FAM) Admitting a stinging defeat, political leaders joined abortion and population control advocates this week to express outrage over the omission of the term “reproductive…
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Gates’ Contraception Summit To Enrich Abortion and Population Control Groups
NEW YORK, June 29 (C-FAM) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to gather commitments of billions of dollars from heads of state and other leaders for contraceptive programs aimed…
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Abortion Proponents Admit Defeat at Rio Conference
RIO DE JANERIO, June 20 (C-FAM) In an astounding show of solidarity, a diverse group of countries rallied together with the Holy See to successfully remove any mention of reproductive…
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Rio Conference: Parties, Photo-ops, Press Conferences and Protests
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20 (C-FAM) The final negotiations on the outcome document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development ended just yesterday with a whopping 283-point declaration that will…
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Study Shows Homosexual Parenting Not Equal to Heterosexual Marriage
WASHINGTON, DC, June 15 (C-FAM) A groundbreaking study reveals that adult children of homosexual and lesbian parents experience far greater negative social, economic and emotional outcomes than children raised within…
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CEDAW Committee Criticizes Democratic Law Making Process in Brazil
GENEVA, June 15 (C-FAM) The CEDAW Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), has warned Brazil that…
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