Biden Significantly Boosts Funding to UN Agency Complicit in Human Rights Abuses
The newly released White House budget for 2023 requests $56 million for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)and calls for removing stipulations preventing the powerful UN agency from funding programs in China.
Friday Fax
Republicans Block Biden’s Legal Nominee over Abortion Extremism
Senate Republicans unanimously blocked the confirmation of Sarah Cleveland, President Biden’s nominee for Legal Advisor at the Department of State over her position that UN committees trump domestic law over abortion. Cleveland takes the position that abortion is a global human right.
Friday Fax
Problems with Education Cannot Wait Policy and Programming
Education Cannot Wait programs promote access to contraception and abortion. In its 2018- 2021 Gender Strategy document, Education Cannot Wait asserted that “sexual and reproductive health interventions” [includes contraception and abortion] are indispensable for ensuring continued education and preventing pregnancy. Grant recipients were encouraged to link “sexual and reproductive health services to education and learning opportunities.”
Policy Papers
Senate Democrats Fail to Codify Roe v. Wade
Democrat efforts to enshrine abortion-on-demand into U.S. law failed on Monday. Republican Senators accused Democrats of grandstanding for their base while a humanitarian crisis unfolds in Ukraine.
Friday Fax
U.S. Senate Considers Abortion-On-Demand Bill
For the first time ever, the U.S. will vote on a bill to enshrine abortion-on-demand in federal law. The bill would also declare abortion an international right. Though it is not likely to pass, it is being forced by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) as a sop to the abortion lobby.
Friday Fax
U.S. House Democrats Adopt Bill to Prosecute Foreign Opponents of LGBT Agenda
“Is a parent who rejects her minor child’s wish for a sex change operation complicit in cruelty?”
Friday Fax
Supreme Court Snubs UN Human Rights Experts During Oral Argument in Major Abortion Case
The Supreme Court ignored claims from human rights experts and academics that abortion is an international human right during oral arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.
Friday Fax
Biden Administration Restores Abortion to Human Rights Reports
The U.S. Department of State is once again including a section on “reproductive rights” in its annual reports tracking the human rights records of other countries’.
Friday Fax
U.S. Makes First Contribution to UN Distributor of Abortion Supplies
On Monday, the U.S. State Department announced an inaugural $5 million contribution to UNFPA Supplies, the flagship thematic fund of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Friday Fax
Russia Joins Global Pro-Life Initiative
It was announced on Capitol Hill today that the Russian government has joined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women’s Health and Protection of the Family.
Friday Fax