Gay Marriage Gets Full Support from White House at Democratic Convention
The Hill reports that gay marriage and LGBT rights are a central issue at the Democratic National Convention now occurring in Charlotte, NC. President Obama officially announced his support for…
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Nordic Countries defund Gender Ideology
A devastating blow for “Gender Theory”: the Nordic Council of Ministers (a regional inter-governmental co-operation consisting of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) has decided to close down the NIKK…
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Brazil Notary Formalizes Three-Person Civil Union
A three-person civil union was accepted by a notary in Brazil who argued “what we considered a family before isn’t necessarily what we would consider a family today,” reports the…
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Sabotaging Successful HIV/AIDS Prevention
Uganda was the great success story in reducing HIV/AIDS. Now, a member of the generation that benefited worries that Uganda’s “image of reversing the scourge in the early 1990’s has…
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Prohibition of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis: the ECHR Censors the Italian Law
On 28 August 2012, the second section of the European Court of Human Rights issued its first judgment concerning access to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This technique of screening and…
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GOP Platform shuns treaties that would harm the family
Julian Ku at Opinio Juris ran the following excerpt today from the U.S. Republican party platform: Under our Constitution, treaties become the law of the land. So it is all the…
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EU: Courageous NGO exposes hypocrisy of LGBT Agenda (III)
This is the newest sequel of the European Dignity Watch mini-series in which the propaganda of the homosexualist lobby group ILGA Europe is systematically unmasked. This part of the series…
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Population Decline and Japan’s Defense: Combatibility with International Contributions
Here is the translation of my most recent OpEd from the Yomiuri Shimbun. Bottom line is that fertility and population decline now present a stark choice for Tokyo, one which they…
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Researcher Calls for Abortifacient to be Removed from WHO Drug List
A group of researchers led by Professor Allyson Pollock from the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Barts and the London School of Medicine concluded that there is insufficient…
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Pussy Riot: Russian Democracy Movement has Deserved Better Representatives
There currently is a media hype around “Pussy Riot”, a small group of female hooligans who have won worldwide attention by forcing their way into a Cathedral in Moscow, where…
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Assisted Suicide Performed in UK Despite Illegality
A report in the BBC quoted Arie Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, head of the Royal Dutch Medical Association saying that British doctors euthanize patients despite it being illegal in the UK. These comments…
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Philippine Legislator Says High Maternal Mortality Figures Propaganda
In a senate speech Philippine legislator Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto pushed back against erroneous maternal mortality statistics being widely used by supporters of the RH bill claiming 11 Filipino women die…
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Pastor Convicted for Helping Mother and Daughter
A crowd of more than 100 Amish/Mennonite sang “Amazing Grace” outside a Vermont courthouse yesterday. The verdict in the trial against Pastor Ken Miller had been announced: Guilty. Miller said,…
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Loving the Elderly
When abortion was thrust upon the U.S., pro-lifers realized we needed to help women making the life-and-death decisions just as much as we worked legislatively. It’s the loving thing to…
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Obama Waives Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers
The Washington Times reported the Obama administration waived sanctions that would prevent countries from receiving foreign aid for violating the Child-Soldier Prevention Act. Obama who co-sponsored the legislation in 2008 as…
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Defending Regnerus
Very interesting article at the Witherspoon Institute by Robert Lopez: “Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View”.
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UN Human Rights Council Scraps Universal Values in Favor of Special Interests
Last year a resolution was passed the by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva requesting a study on the relation of “universal traditional values” and human rights. The…
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Nigerian Woman Responds to Gates’ Contraception Campaign
Zainab Usman wrote a thoughtful article on the Gates’ contraception campaign for ThinkAfricaPress.com that got picked up by AllAfrica.com. Zainab is a Nigerian freelance writer currently working in Brussels and…
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Is Religious Freedom Being Intentionally Eroded, Not Merely Overlooked?
Soon after President Obama took office, astute observers noticed a one word change in official pronouncements. That one word carries huge implications, yet arrived with no explanation. This mystery may…
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Pastor On Trial for Helping Mother & Daughter in Same-Sex Custody Battle Travel Internationally
A judge orders that a little girl be taken from her mother and given to a lesbian woman with whom the little girl has no biological ties or relationship. An…
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Abortion Supporters Behind Philippine RH Bill
For the past 17 years the Reproductive Health bill in the Philippines, better known as the RH bill has deeply divided Congress, but members did agree this week to end…
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Abortion and the Cuban Economy
Abortion is free in Cuba and it’s estimated that half of the children conceived on that island nation are killed before birth. The fertility rate is 1.5 children per woman,…
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Does Marriage or Sex Create Babies?
When is the one – and only – time that abortion and family planning advocates acknowledge the procreative aspect of marriage? Not in the debate over same-sex marriage, where they…
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Transfigured by the Bomb
Every year on this date I am bewildered (I admit, saddened) that we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration and recall the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on…
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Rejecting the ICC and Pax Roeana
The International Criminal Court has faced criticism from various quarters, but perhaps not one so elevated and personal as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Until now. Kofi Annan’s soon-to-be-released…
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