Cooler heads prevailed on Disabilities Treaty
The Hill, a newspaper for people who work on U.S. federal legislation, ran Dr. Susan Yoshihara’s op ed today on the defeat of the vote on the UN Disability treaty….
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ICPD Global Youth Forum: It’s five o’clock somewhere
Readers of the late Douglas Adams’ classic book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will no doubt remember the following exchange, which occurs when protagonist Arthur Dent confronts the local…
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U.S. Senate to Vote on Disability Treaty
UPDATE: The Senate rejected ratification of the Disability Treaty. Senators objected that it could create a right to abortion, infringe on sovereignty and interfere with parents’ ability to home-school disabled…
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ICPD Global Youth Forum
Today marks the first day of the ICPD Global Youth Forum taking place from Dec 3rd to Dec 6th. Taking place in Bali, the forum is aimed at promoting global dialogue among…
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Irish Times Reporter Admits: Story about “Woman dying because of Denied Abortion” was Muddled.
There is further evidence of how the tragic death of a pregnant woman in Ireland has been turned into a media hoax by the abortion lobby. Not only did the…
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News Agency Discovers: “Homophobia” is Humbug
From the website of The Christian Institute: News reporters told not to use word ‘homophobia’ Journalists working for the Associated Press have been warned not to use the word ‘homophobia’…
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Lancet editorial uses incorrect data to promote abortion agenda
An editorial published in the November 24 issue of The Lancet claims that “women’s choice” is the key to reducing maternal deaths, and refers to abortion access as the “neglected…
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Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor
Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive session. The motion passed allowing debate to follow. Foreign Relations…
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Germany: no patenting of human embryonic stem cells, if obtained through the destruction of human embryos
The German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH = the supreme judicial instance in Germany in all matters pertaining to civil law) has today issued the final decision in the case Brüstle…
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URGENT: Sign up for UNFPA’s Global Youth Forum!
CALL FOR YOUTH TO SIGN UP! Are you between the ages of 14-25? Do you know someone that age? Then you must register, and tell other to do the same,…
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Beware the next UNFPA Youth Forum
UNFPA expects 900 people at a youth forum scheduled for December 4-6 in Bali. It says the Indonesian Vice-President will open the event with UNFPA’s executive director. Of course, if you followed C-FAM coverage of the UNFPA Youth…
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Should alternative forms of marriage and family become normative?
Since the 1960s most Western societies have experienced a shift from traditional forms of marriage and family to complex alternative forms of marriage and family. In the past years growing…
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UNFPA’s dark view
The new UN Population Fund report is riddled with problems which undercut its call for $8.1B a year for ever more contraception in developing countries. The evidence for this ambitious claim is so…
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Ireland: the story of “the woman who died because she wasn’t allowed an abortion” falls in shambles
For the international abortion lobby, the whole story was just too convenient to be true: at the very moment when the Irish government is discussing controversial plans to liberalize abortion,…
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Still Divide UN General Assembly
Yesterday afternoon the United Nations General Assembly adopted its biannual resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. Once again, the third committee proceedings at which the resolution was adopted, by 108…
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European Parliament Approves Catholic Nominee
The Friday Fax reported last week on the nomination of Tonio Borg to be European Health Commissioner and the campaign by pro-abortion and pro-homosexual activists to disqualify him, a fully…
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Paris: 100.000 say no to homo-folly
In Paris, 100.000 demonstrated on Saturday against the government’s project to introduce “same-sex marriage”.
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UK Newspaper: teachers will be sacked if they fail to promote same-sex marriage
The Telegraph reports today that “school teachers could face the sack for refusing to promote gay marriage once same-sex unions become law”. The intolerance and bigotry of the LGBT-Agenda seems…
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European Commission Nominee May be Rejected over Catholic Beliefs
Can a candidate who embraces the Catholic Church’s teachings on issues such as abortion and homosexuality serve as the European health commissioner? Do such views exist as one of many…
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WHO Prescribes Unsafe Abortion for Poor Women
A new manual by the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to do abortions is facing criticism for advocating substandard medical care and a ban on all limits to abortion….
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UNFPA’s Crass Debasement of “Human Rights”
Parroting UNFPA’s talking point, news stories on the UN’s family planning agency’s annual report focus on the claim that contraception is a human right. The media seem unconcerned that UNFPA…
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UNFPA to American Voters: Thanks!
If you thought UNFPA was thrilled that the American taxpayer would continue to fund their already swollen coffers after last week’s presidential election–you were right. I just received a copy…
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US wins seat on HRC
Just elected or re-elected to the 47-member Human Rights Council are the US, Germany, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Montenegro, Pakistan, South Korea, Sierra Leone, the United Arab…
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European Union: Anti-Religious Hate Groups Join Forces to Oust Catholic Politician
Strange things are going on in the EU Institutions. First John Dalli, the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, was ousted from the European Commission on the basis of…
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Spain Needs a New Constitution
In Spain, the Constitutional Court has irremediably devalued the Constitution of which it was supposed to be the guardian by stating that the law that allows same-sex marriage was not…
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