Prevalence of Contraceptives in Bulgaria Due to Lack of Church Presence
This afternoon when answering questions asked by the CEDAW committee experts on the accessibility of contraceptives in Bulgaria, the delegate explained that it is very easy to gain access to…
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EU: Courageous NGO exposes hypocrisy of LGBT agenda (II)
Some weeks ago, I reported on a mini-series in which the NGO European Dignity Watch comments on the agenda promoted by the homosexual lobby in Brussels, based on a photo…
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CEDAW Committee Expert Grills Indonesian Delegation about Abortion and Maternal Mortality
One of the CEDAW Committee experts bombarded the Indonesian Delegation about what the country is doing to prevent maternal mortality and about the limited situations in which abortion is legal….
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Inside the Gates’ Summit on Family Planning
It was almost embarrassing to watch. African presidents stepped up to the stage to make promises to Melinda Gates and donor countries, as European leaders held out the elusive dream of ‘development’ …
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Gates Family Planning Summit Raises $4.6 Billion
The UK Family Planning summit has concluded and the total financial commitment by attending countries and foundations amounts to $4.6 billion, which exceeds the $4 billion goal. The Gates Foundation…
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Melinda Gates Pledges $1 Billion for Family Planning
In the afternoon session of the UK Family Planning Summit Melinda Gates pledged to increase support for family planning by $560 million through 2020. This addition to current funding will…
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Woman Asks Britain PM How to Get Holy See to Stop Interfering with Women Issues
PM David Cameron appeared at the UK Family Planning Summit showing wide support for the global contraception program set to secure commitments from governments in the amount of $4 billion…
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Governments Commit More Aid for Contraception at UK Family Plannning Summit
Today on World Population Day, government officials and charitable foundations have convened at the UK Family Planning summit co-sponsored by the Gates Foundation and DFID – the UK’s development aid…
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Abortion Advocates Introduce Outline to Advance Contraceptive Services as a Human Right
A one day conference meant to be a lead-up to the UK Family Planning Summit in London reporting the findings of a series of Family Planning studies by Lancet medical…
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Guyana Delegation Agrees: Maternal Mortality Not Linked to Unsafe Abortions
As the Chilean study found, the reduction in the maternal mortality rate is NOT related to the legal status of abortion. The CEDAW Committee once again tried to show that…
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CEDAW Expert Supervillains Keep Hurting Women
Staff from every major, and not so major, UN entity, human rights agency, program and organization showed up yesterday morning in Conference Room 3 of the temporary North Lawn Building…
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Kicking Off 30 Years of Women’s Rights
The 30th Anniversary session of the CEDAW Committee kicked off yesterday in New York at UN Headquarters. After listening to Ms. Silvia Pimentel (Chair of the CEDAW Committee) and…
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Lancet’s Push for Contraception Falls Flat
The Lancet medical journal launched its series on contraception today with a rah-rah introduction at an event held in conjunction with the Summit on Family Planning in London. “The link…
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European Parliament Condemns China’s One Child Policy and Sex Selective Abortion
A Resolution at the EU Parliament last week raised alarm bells regarding the recent controversy in China surrounding the forced abortion that Feng Jianmei was forced to undergo. The resolution calls into…
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The UNFPA’s Miserable Failure to Control the World’s Population at Rio +20
The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into…
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4 Problems with the London Family Planning Summit Goals
1. The London Family Planning Summit expects governments to provide permanent funding for contraception programs. Where will the money come from? – Developed countries will likely siphon scarce funding from…
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What’s Blocking Access to Contraception?: Religion
UK news paper the Guardian, has decided to poll its readers with the question “What’s blocking access to contraception?” in preparation for the upcoming London Family Planning Summit. Each day…
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London Family Planning Conference: a rebirth of Nazi ideology?
In one of the previous posts on this blog, I read about the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe issuing a declaration in which, inter alia, it is stated…
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European Parliament Supports London Family Planning Summit
The shadow event is being reported on by “Countdown 2015 Europe” which describes itself as “a consortium of 16 leading European non-governmental organizations working to ensure sexual and reproductive health…
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The Council of Europe votes on the London Family Planning Summit
The parliamentary assembly has composed a declaration supportive of the London Family Planning Summit and asked members to vote on it voluntarily. The declaration commits only those countries that have…
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Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies
Perusing the Sunday New York Times yesterday I saw that Joan Dunlop died on Friday at 78. I wondered how many pro-lifers would even know the name. The obit did her no justice. Couched in…
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Melinda Gates and the New Population Control Movement
Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her…
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Catholic Church Should Put Nuns on Birth Control
An article in Lancet by two Aussie researchers calls on the Catholic Church to put nuns on birth control because of the increased risk of contracting uterine, ovarian and breast…
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Round-Up: Supreme Court Decides Affordable Care Act
Much ink will be spilled in the coming weeks and months over today’s Supreme Court ruling, which preserves the Affordable Care Act. Today, we link you to some of the best…
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EU: Gay politicians “deeply worried” over civil society
As the EU Observer reports today, the European gay rights lobby and its allies are deeply worried about the fact that the opponents of their radical agenda appear to win…
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