Problems with the East African Community Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill
C-Fam offers a discussion of the more controversial aspects of the bill for the aid of legislators in East Africa and their staff in discussing the bill.
Policy Papers
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
Abortion and the Current Politics of Climate Change
This Definitions examines how the abortion issue relates to the current global political discussion around climate change. It examines how the lingering memory of the “population bomb” that proved to be a dud informs the current debate, the role of the UN in historically pivoting away from the “population control” narrative, and how the rising concern of a “climate crisis” risks reanimating these old and dangerous ideas.
Definitions
“Self-Care” that Harms and Kills: The WHO’s Push to “Demedicalize” Abortion
This Definitions examines how the rubric of “self-care” is being used to remove or bypass all safety and legal guardrails around abortion, how the COVID-19 pandemic has been utilized to accelerate this agenda, and how the groundwork has been carefully laid to ensure that access to abortion is ubiquitous regardless of the law—all with support from the UN’s global health agency.
Definitions
The Significance of the Geneva Consensus Declaration
This Definitions considers the importance of the Geneva Consensus Declaration in the context of the ongoing debates about social issues in the international context.
Definitions
Arguments from International Human Rights Law in the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Abortion Case
This Definitions paper will evaluate the claims that abortion is an international human right asserted in the international law briefs submitted to the court.
Definitions
The Gates Foundation: No Controversy or No Complicity?
At the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made family planning one of its signature issues, using the slogan “No Controversy” to insist that contraception should not be politically divisive, and should be seen as separate from the highly controversial issue of abortion.
Definitions
The Importance of Consensus at the UN
Since the founding of the United Nations, member states have tried to adopt common policy positions on a wide range of issues by “consensus.” This is a standard term in parliamentary procedure common to legislative bodies and boardrooms. It means that that a decision or resolution is adopted without objection or the need for a vote because everyone agrees with the proposed text.
Definitions
Jamaica Under Pressure: A Caribbean nation faces mounting demands by international actors to change its abortion laws
For decades, countries with pro-life laws have faced increasing pressure to liberalize their laws, both by direct pressure by international expert bodies and other governments and through attempts—thus far unsuccessful—to establish an international human right to abortion. In recent months, Jamaica has become the target of a well-organized and well-funded campaign to remove legal protections from the unborn and ensure that abortion is not only broadly legal but also readily accessible.
Definitions
Talking Points on the HELMS Amendment
Democrat control of both houses of Congress sets up the real possibility that the Biden administration will either sign the repeal of the Helms Amendment or re-interpret Helms to allow U.S. funding for abortion overseas. C-Fam offers suggested talking points to defend the Helms Amendment from attacks from both the Democrat controlled 117th Congress and the Biden administration.
Policy Papers
