WHO: Free Guidance for Melinda
Melinda Gates has just received a free lesson on how to spend the four billion dollars collected by her foundation and the UNFPA to promote and provide contraception in Sub-Saharan…
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Either Dishonest or Uninformed
This report from the Seattle Times says the “UN” has announced that the Philippines should pass a controversial reproductive health bill. I have no doubt whoever said something wants the…
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Russian Demographic Outlook: Good News Fleeting
A new report from a Moscow-based investment bank says the slowing of Russian population decline is temporary. Extremely low birthrates in the 1990s means the number of women of childbearing…
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Eliminating People to Help People?
Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate…
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Human Rights Roulette: What it Means to Ratify a New UN Treaty
The United Nations Convention on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities is certainly a nobly inspired document, but it creates more problems than it solves. The Senate thankfully has not been able…
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Post-Abortive Women File Complaint Against China’s One Child Policy
In the last several years, women who regret their abortions have been active at the UN telling delegates and bureaucrats how abortion hurt them. Now they are spearheading a coalition…
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Family Planning Officials Receive Incentives to Enforce One-Child Policy
In an article in the South China Morning Post, Dr. Jackie Sheehan, associate professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, notes that one-child policy enforcement…
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US women welcome children after all
Melinda Gates take note: a new Guttmacher study says that those modern, long-term contraceptives she wants inject into developing countries aren’t working in her own. USAToday reports: Researchers thought unintended births overall might drop…
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What about “unmet need” and child spacing?
This article from Africa Review shows how the Kenyan government is all in favor of getting Melinda Gates’ billions for family planning. But the article does not use Gates’ messaging that this…
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House Members Letter Highlights Problems with UN Disability Treaty
The UN Disability treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), is advancing due to Senator Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expected filing of…
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Namibia High Court Rules in Favor of Sterilized HIV Women
The Namibian High Court ruled in favor of 3 HIV-positve women who were coerced into receiving sterilizations when they went to state hospitals to have their babies. The women reported…
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Media Bias and Distortion on Abortion in Spain
Media outlets, in both Europe and the United States, have been reporting that nearly one hundred people in Madrid (I doubt even that many) have shown up to protest the…
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Lancet Gets Political on Homosexual HIV/AIDS Epidemic
The Lancet has launched a new frontier for homosexual activism with its latest series on the AIDS epidemic among homosexuals, calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality and the combating of…
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Aborted Babies Found in Russia: Illegal Abortions or Stem Cell Research?
Russia Today is reporting on the disturbing story of 248 aborted babies found in a mountain area near the town of Nevyansk. The fetuses ranging in age of 12-16 weeks…
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Zambia Bans Marie Stopes for Illegal Abortions
Zambia is banning British abortion giant Marie Stopes for committing over 500 illegal abortions. The Zambian Watchdog reports: In a letter to the Provincial Medical Officer dated 20th July 2012…
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The BBC’s Strawman
The remarkable Dr. Robert Walley wrote an open letter to the BBC about the debate we blogged on earlier. Following the Gates’ Summit on Family Planning, the BBC titled the segment…
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US States Increasingly Hostile to Abortion, Guttmacher Study Finds
A Guttmacher Report released last week expresses concern that today only 1 out of 10 women in america lives in a state that is not hostile to abortion.
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BBC on “Should We Promote Contraception in Developing Countries”
The BBC Sunday Morning Show tackled the topic “Should We Promote Contraception in Developing Countries.” A follow-up to the Melinda Gates/DfID Summit, the debate in studio was two guests against…
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Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Contraception Mandate
A federal judge dismissed a case brought by seven attorney generals from Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas and three Catholic organizations ruling that the states and the groups…
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New Zealand Not Interested in Liberalizing Its Abortion Laws
During the CEDAW Committee’s review of New Zealand this afternoon, the country’s delegate stated that the New Zealand government has no interest in expanding its abortion laws. This was in…
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Noblesse oblige: the Prince of Liechtenstein risks his crown – and defeats the abortion lobby
In a previous post we reported about the attempts of the anti-life lobby to leganize abortion in Liechtenstein, a small principality in Central Europe that, as one of the last…
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Homosexual lobby: moral bankruptcy followed by financial bankruptcy… taxpayers’ money urgently needed
The strange phenomenon that governments use taxpayers’ money to maintain radical homosexualist lobby groups is apparently not limited to the notorious case of ILGA-Europe, which is kept alive by funds…
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Melinda’s Message to Dying Mothers: “Sorry, You Should Have Used a Condom”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health is telling mothers that die because they choose to have children that using condoms could have prevented their complications…
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Morning-after Pill Putting Sex Clinics out of Business?
Watch out Planned Parenthood! This Irish Times article may give you cause for alarm… The Well Woman Centre, a reproductive health service provider/reproductive rights advocacy group in Ireland is complaining…
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The right to marry for transgendered people before the European Court – Ten years after Christine Goodwin.
11 July 2012 Ten years after its famous ruling in the case of Christine Goodwin v UK, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is required again to rule on…
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