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Abortion Giant Joins Attacks Against Nicaragua
By Aracely Ornelas (NEW YORK – C-FAM) One of the world’s largest abortion advocates joined the onslaught against Nicaragua’s decision to ban abortion in two recently published Spanish language…
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World Congress Speaker Calls for Monogamy Men to Take Back the Culture
(WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) Patrick Fagan, family scholar at the Family Research Council, told the World Congress of Families last week in Amsterdam that there are two competing cultures…
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Amnesty International Slams Nicaragua for Abortion Ban
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Amnesty International is slamming yet another Latin American country for its pro-life laws. In a recently released report , Amnesty has called Nicaragua's total ban…
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UN Health Data Show Liberal Abortion Laws Lead to Greater Maternal Death
By Aracely Ornelas (NEW YORK – C-FAM) The world's largest abortion provider, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), has recently acknowledged an alarming "surge" in maternal deaths in South Africa,…
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U.S. Signs Disabilities Treaty, Sparking “Reproductive Health” Concerns
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Late last week, United States (US) Ambassador to the Untied Nations (UN) Susan Rice signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities –…
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Rocco Buttiglione Clarifies Remarks on Abortion, Assuages Pro-Life Concerns
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Italian parliamentarian Rocco Buttiglione said he would do nothing to break pro-life "unity," reassuring those who were concerned that the Catholic and pro-life icon was…
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New Book by Conservatives Finds UN is “Neither Irrelevant nor Indispensable”
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A book to be released next week details widespread ineffectiveness and overreach at the United Nations (UN) in ten key areas, urging policy makers to…
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Mit allen möglichen Mitteln das Leben verteidigen – Klarstellung von Bemerkungen über den Schutz des ungeborenen Kindes
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Am 15. Juli 2009 überraschte das italienische Parlament durch die Initiative zu einer Resolution der Vereinten Nationen, die zwangsweise Abtreibung verurteilen soll. Der Antrag wurde…
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Italian UN Surprise Intrigues Pro-Lifers
Coauthored by Aracely Ornelas (NEW YORK – C-FAM) Italy's Parliament passed an emphatic measure last week directing the Italian government to push for a United Nations (UN) General Assembly…
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Feminists Plan Commemorative “Beijing +15” Reproductive Rights Push
By Lisa Giunta (NEW YORK – C-FAM) The "NGO Committee on Women" met last week at UN headquarters in New York to plan commemorations marking the 15th anniversary of…
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Amnesty Again Agitates for Abortion This Time in Peru
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The human rights organization Amnesty International has just issued a report on maternal mortality in Peru that promotes abortion in the pro-life nation while advancing…
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CEDAW Committee Accepts “Hard Case” Pushed by Abortion Advocates
Co-authored by Pilar Vazquez (NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is representing a Peruvian teenager who sought an abortion after a rape and suicide attempt…
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Recent WHO Report Presents Skewed Data to Advance Abortion Agenda
By Elizabeth Walsh (WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) In its recently released annual report on the state of global health, the World Health Organization (WHO) presents statistics that misleadingly appear…
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Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to…
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Pro-Lifers Largely Prevail at Geneva Human Rights Council Meeting
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC), meeting this month in Geneva, Switzerland, has adopted a resolution on maternal mortality and human rights that…
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Feisty Timor Leste Bucks Abortion Lobby, Upholds Right to Life
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The parliament of East Timor – a small, Catholic nation in South East Asia recognized as an independent state in 2002 – has resisted concerted…
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Social Conservatives to Descend Upon Amsterdam for Global Meeting
(WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) Up to 4,000 social conservatives are expected to descend upon liberal Amsterdam, Netherlands, on August 10-12 for the biennial World Congress of Families, a meeting…
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UN Committee Says Nicaraguan Pro-Life Laws Violate Torture Convention
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations (UN) committee charged with monitoring compliance with the Convention Against Torture has declared that Nicaragua’s full protection of fetal life violates the…
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New Approach to Abortion Rights at UN: Motherhood and Apple Pie
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Abortion rights advocates at the United Nations (UN) are pursuing a new approach – one that avoids mention of abortion, promotes a right to maternal…
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Worlds Most Powerful Population Lobby Targets Dominican Pro-Life Reforms
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Dominican Republic has come under fire from some of the world’s most powerful abortion advocates, aiming to block a proposed constitutional amendment that would…
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CEDAW Committee Targets East Timor on Abortion
By Amy De Rosa (NEW YORK – C-FAM) As pre-session working groups of the committee charged with overseeing compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of…
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New Report Details Fudged WHO Numbers on Maternal Mortality
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A newly released research paper identifies structural flaws in United Nations (UN) data collection and analysis of global maternal health, finding that UN maternal heath…
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EU Intervenes in Internal Philippines Reproductive Health Debate
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The head of the delegation of the European Commission in the Philippines, Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, has vocally intervened in a contentious legislative debate in that…
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Amnesty International Twists International Law in Dominican Abortion Debate
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The politicized human rights organization Amnesty International has again taken a pro-abortion position in a nation’s internal debate over abortion, coming out against the Dominican…
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Transnational Supporter of Abortion Advances to Top U.S. Legal Job
(WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) It was clear from the opening moments of the Senate hearings for the proposed new top legal advisor at the United States (US) State Department…
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