EU: pro-life-petition gains in support, and the abortion industry panics
There are still more than two weeks to go, but the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us” has already collected 1.3 million signatures, which places it comfortably above the 1-million-signatures…
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EU and civil society: the European Commission’s Dialogue with itself
The British think tank “Institute of Economic Affairs” has dedicated a new study on the European Union’s policy of financing fake “non-governmental organizations. Here are some extracts: With public confidence…
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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to rule on a right to assisted suicide
Grégor Puppinck, PhD. Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ –Strasbourg) Strasbourg, 8 October 2013. At its last meeting (7 October 2013), the Grand Chamber panel…
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Follow the Money
John Batchelor Show 10-2-13 Here is my conversation with John Batchelor and Gordon Chang on the discovery that family planning officials in China collected $2.7B in fines from poor families…
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The Defusing of Brazil’s Sexual Rights Activists
Inevitable. So we are told. Abortion and sexual rights (like same-sex marriage) will become universally accepted, so opponents might as well surrender. Not so fast. Take a look at what…
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Demographics and Divorce in Russia
Russians are considering an increase to the divorce tax by some 7500% (from $13-$941 US) according to Forbes.com’s tax girl Kelly Phillips-Erb. The plan could render 19 billion rubles ($595 million US). Another,…
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USAID, Gates, Planned Parenthood Push Dangerous Contraceptive on Poor Black and Latina Women
A recent congressional briefing examined the lethal side effects of the long-acting contraceptive injectable Depo Provera and the targeting of Black and Latina women to receive it. Congressman William Lacy…
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UK: Homosexual hate crimes drive Christian couple out of business
While the gay lobby continues pushing for the new “anti-discrimination” legislation at EU level, it becomes increasingly clear that the predominant purpose of such legislation would be for gay bigots to…
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New Totalitarianisms Exposed in Academic Lecture
I recommend to followers of this blog the lecture recently given by Stephen Baskerville at Patrick Henry College, in which he describes how social liberalism today slowly but inevitably generates new…
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The Newest Human Right: Toilet Paper
Interesting story on Bloomberg.com: Venezuela Orders National Guard to Oversee Toilet Paper Factory By Nathan Crooks – Sep 20, 2013 11:30 PM GMT+0200 Venezuela’s government issued an order to occupy…
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The Europe-wide citizen’s initiative “One of Us” has now more than 1 million signatures
Among the various initiatives that have been launched since the new instrument of a formal “European Citizen’s Initiative” (ECI) has been introduced last year, “One of Us” is only the…
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Proposal to set up a new Thought Police is warmly welcomed at European Parliament’s “Civil Liberties” Committee
European Dignity Watch has an interesting report on a recent meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE), in which a lobby group called the “European Council on…
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Babatunde’s Contraddictions
With an article published in a vietnamese news outlet titled “People-centered Development, Not Population Control” Babatunde Osotimehin, head of UNFPA, suggests that population control is a thing of the past, a…
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The German “Green Party” haunted by its paedophile past (and present)
A few day ahead of the national elections in Germany, the leftist-ecologist “Green Party”, which has imbitions to replace, as part of a coalition with the Social Democrats and the…
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Pro-Life Event at UN General Assembly
Yesterday Alliance Defending Freedom hosted an event at UN headquarters in New York on the importance of protecting human life and dignity and strengthening families in order to achieve old…
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Abortion Group Holds Fundraiser Featuring “Democratic Studs” in Nation’s Capital
NARAL Pro-Choice America held a fundraiser this week in Washington, DC called “Men for Choice — and the Women Who Love Them” featuring as labeled by Roll Call — the…
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Overpopulation icon to critics: you’re just silly
Erle Ellis’ New York Times OpEd on his research on population and agricultural production in China is worth reading. Says Ellis: The important message from these rough numbers should be…
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Misguided Advocacy: It’s ok to abort when child is unwanted but not if unwanted girl?
Last week a congressional hearing examined the gendercide taking place in India due to a culture that prefers sons. The skewed sex ratio brought about by coercive population control programs…
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Bishops Condemn Foreign Efforts to Legalize Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage in Nigeria
At the close of the 2013 Plenary Meeting the Nigerian Bishops Conference released a statement directing Nigerians to reject the value-void policies coming from foreign aid agencies. This includes pressure…
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Population Control Goes Out With a Whimper
Here are three articles from the past week that address the slow hard fall from grace of population control… 1. Jonathan Last’s Review of a book that exposes Paul Ehrlich…
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UN honors Mother Teresa: Establishes International Day of Charity but silent on abortion
Yesterday the UN established September 5th as the “International Day of Charity” named for Mother Teresa and the extraordinary life she lived dedicated to works of kindness and charity. The…
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U.S. Supreme Court to Look at RU-486 Drug Abortions
When RU-486, the abortion pill, was approved in the U.S. — after a scandalous campaign of political arm-twisting, media-pressure, and fudging of trial data by abortionists — it came with…
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Tweet New US Ambassador on “What Matters”
Samantha Power, the new U.S. ambassador to the UN, wants to know: how can she best promote American values and human dignity? What should the U.S. stand for in the…
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Funny: marginal group thinks that the pro-life movement is “marginal”…
Have you ever heard about a group called “Catholics for Choice”? Maybe not. Or maybe you have. Some years ago, one author has aptly described this tragicomic organization as “one…
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House and Senate Differ on Funding For Population Control Programs
On Wednesday the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY2014 Foreign Ops bill that allocates funding for global health initiatives. Population control advocates are crying foul play with Family Planning funding…
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