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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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Analysis: Madrid Family Confab Mixes Concern with Hope
PHOENIX, June 8 (C-FAM) As pro-life and pro-family leaders from around the world gathered in Madrid over the last weekend in May for the Sixth World Congress of Families, the…
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UN Human Rights Chief Focuses on “Homophobia and Transphobia”
WASHINGTON, DC, June 8 (C-FAM) In the midst of criticism for failing to properly prioritize, Navi Pillay, the UN’s top human rights official, released a video last month focusing on…
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Researcher Says Abortion-Preterm Birth Connection Obscured
WASHINGTON, DC, June 1 (C-FAM) A newly released research paper charges that medical journals and researchers are burying data that shows a link between abortion and dangerous preterm births in…
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Chilean Study Exposes Fundamental Flaws in Maternal Health Research
NEW YORK, June 1 (C-FAM) A Chilean medical researcher published a landmark study on the connection between the availability of abortion and maternal health. He found legal abortion does not…
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WHO Ignores Link Between Growing Incidence of Preterm Birth and Abortion
WASHINGTON, DC May 25 (C-FAM) The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released an important new study looking at the growing and harmful medical phenomenon of “pre-term birth.” The “WHO…
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Friday Fax Analysis: Drop in Global Maternal Deaths Doesn’t Mean Maternal Health Improving
NEW YORK, May 25 (C-FAM) Around the world almost half as many women die in childbirth as they did 20 years ago, a new UN report says. The good news…
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Analysis: A Strong Note of Caution on Reproductive Health and Family Planning
NEW YORK, May 18 (First Things/C-FAM) In two recent papers, Meghan Grizzle of the World Youth Alliance argues that the phrases “reproductive health” and “family planning” are perfectly acceptable and…
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UNFPA Fights to Make Population Control a Priority at Environmental Conference
NEW YORK, May 18 (C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is taking advantage of the upcoming Rio+20 conference in June to promote population control and reproductive rights as the backbone…
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UK Government Funds Forced Sterilizations in India
NEW YORK, May 11 (C-FAM) The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian…
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Opinion: Sexual Left Gains, Developing Countries Lose at UN Population Meeting
PHOENIX, May 11 (C-FAM) My colleagues at the Friday Fax reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that…
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Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual Youth Lobby Sent Home Empty-Handed from UN
NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Youth activists arrived at the UN in droves last week in an attempt to hijack the 45th session of the Commission on Population and Development…
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Analysis: Family Breakdown at the Heart of Global Aging Crisis
NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Is family breakdown the cause or the cure for the global crisis of population decline? Two new articles in top foreign policy journals raise the…
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UN Goals May Play Part in Uzbekistan’s Forced Sterilizations
WASHINGTON, DC, April 27 (C-FAM) The government of Uzbekistan is accused of running a clandestine program to forcibly sterilize women, possibly as a way to meet U.N. goals on maternal…
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LGBT Lawyers Sue Pastor for “Crime Against Humanity”
NEW YORK, April 27 (C-FAM) A law firm known for publicity-seeking tactics is suing an American minister in U.S. Federal Court because he criticized homosexuality in Uganda. The Center for…
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Billionaire’s Wife Attacks Catholic Teaching on Birth Control
NEW YORK, April 20 (C-FAM) Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Catholic, is telling governments to dismiss the controversial link between contraception and population…
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Abortion Advocates Create “Sexual Rights Toolkit” for UN Human Rights Council
WASHINGTON DC, April 20 (C-FAM) Abortion groups have released a “toolkit” for activists to file “sexual rights” complaints against countries in the UN. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Sexual…
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European Development Aid and Funding Abortions
NEW YORK, April 13 (C-FAM) The European Commission is using development funds to pay for abortions in countries that restrict the procedure and funding the two largest abortion providers in…
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Chinese Women Suffer Mental Health Risks From Abortion Despite Abortion Culture
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13 (C-FAM) A new study from China shows that women who have experienced induced abortion have omnipresent mental health problems during a subsequent pregnancy. It also confirms…
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UN Treaty Bodies Want More Power-Governments Argue Back
NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The UN treaty body system may be on the verge of collapse due to a huge backlog of government reports and insufficient resources. In additional…
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