New IACHR report labels abortion as a “repercussion” of unwanted pregnancy
Here is some important news from an inside source: A new IACHR report on education and health of sexual assault victims just came out. (Press release here). It refers to…
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Live: Rio +20
Here is what we know so far… The final negotiations are in full swing (known as “Prep Com 3” – June 13th through 15th). Our contacts on various delegations have…
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From the trenches: Rio +20 Begins…Unsustainably
Here is an e-mail I sent out to the C-FAM staff this morning. I plan to be blogging throughout the next two weeks when I have time. Stay posted. Hey…
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EU: Courageous NGO exposes hypocrisy of LGBT agenda
As the followers of this blog will know, I have already at various occasions informed about the fake “non-governmental” organisation ILGA Europe and its very special links to the European…
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Purpose of Gates Summit is to Get Money
An abortion advocacy group could not have made it clearer: The purpose of the upcoming Melinda Gates’ sponsored summit on family planning is “to pour money into family planning in…
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UN Women Allowed to Join UNAIDS
When UN Women reached its one year anniversary last year, it was met with a scathing review in The Nation. Long-time UN advocate Barbara Crossette detailed the travails of the new UN agency….
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Important new study on the effects of same-sex marriage
When I testified last year about a proposed law that would redefine marriage in my state, the legislation’s proponents rested much of their case on a study saying lesbians make better moms than the rest of us. No significant…
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As U.S. Officials Call on Chinese Government to Protect One Woman from Forced Abortion–Reports of Second Woman’s Unborn Baby Forcibly Aborted at 7 Months (graphic photo warning)
While 37-year old and five month pregnant Cao Ruyi has been allowed to return home due to the global public outcry against family planning officials of Changsha city, a U.S. based human…
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Is there a right to exclusively heterosexual marriage?
The UK Government is consulting on its proposal to permit same sex civil marriage. Persons responding are allowed “1225 characters” to explain their view of the proposed change. Here is…
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Detained Woman Possibly Facing Imminent Forced Abortion Under One-Child Policy Asks For Help
Two groups that work to prevent human rights abuses in China, China Aid and All Girls Allowed, have reported that a woman who is five months pregnant from the Hunan Province…
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Will US Soldiers Be Used to Promote Homosexual Marriage Globally?
In a previous post I reported the Obama administration’s new policy of using US government agencies to promote particularly divisive version of the homosexual agenda around the world and wondered if they would use American…
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Rio +20 the Tahrir Square of the Environmentalist Revolution?
Hardly. But according to well known Brazilian activist, politician, and former presidential candidate Marina Silva (above), it could be… “I hope that Rio+20 will become the Tahrir Square of the…
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Debate on Marriage tomorrow night in NY
For those in the NY area: our friends at the Institute for American Values are hosting an event tomorrow night debating homosexual marriage. The conversation features the intrepid Maggie Gallagher. David Blankenhorn is…
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Report Posits Population Control as Solution to Poverty in World’s Least Developed Countries
In the last months leading up to the Rio +20 summit, yet another report was released promoting population control as essential in the fight to eradicate world poverty. The report,…
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EU: Several Member States oppose community funding of embryonic stem cell research. A Swedish minister gets angry.
While EU governments are currently discussing “Horizon 2020”, the 8th multiannual framework programme for research, several countries have announced that they were not going to support the EU funding of…
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PRO-LIFE Soccer Team in Argentina
Here is a picture of a soccer team Atlético Tucumán which rallied behind a pro-life banner before its regular season soccer match in Argentina last Sunday. The president of the…
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Homily of Pope Benedict XVI at the 7th World Meeting of Families
“It is not only the Church that is called to be the image of One God in Three Persons, but also the family, based on marriage between man and woman….
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“Elders” come out in support of the Sustainable Development Goals”
Henrique Cardoso, the former president of Brazil responsible for the country’s miraculous economic recovery in the 1990s, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, the chairman of the UN’s famous Bruntdland commission, have…
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Extra Negotiations lead to limited Success for UN Environmental Conference
After more than a week of extra negotiations on the final outcome document for the UN’s upcoming environmental conference in Rio de Janiero, little progress has been made. The UN…
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Human Rights in Childbirth Conference
In thinking about how activists are attempting to establish new human rights, I came across a conference that concluded yesterday in The Hague for a movement to establish a woman’s human right to choose…
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China Hits Couple With Record Fine for Second Child
If you thought it was costly to have a child, consider how much one couple in China paid. For violating China’s one-child policy by having a second child, the parents were fined 1.3 million yuan…
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Turkey Prime Minister’s Statement That “Abortion is Murder” Causes Panic Among Pro-Abortion Advocates
Last week at an opening ceremony for a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made some strong remarks against abortion indicating the need for more restrictive abortion…
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Africa’s Great Success Story: Child Mortality Declines at Record Pace Irrespective of Birthrates
In the past two decades, the African continent has seen some of the most impressive falls in child mortality rates, defined as the number of deaths of children under 5…
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German Climate Scientist Says China’s One-Child Policy Was “Most Effective Climate Policy of the Last Decade”
Renowned German climate scientist Professor Hans von Storch responded to a question in a correspondence asking how an individual can contribute to reducing climate change. His reply revealing support for China’s…
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Senate Foreign Ops Bill Bans Mexico City Policy and Increases Population Control Funding
The Senate Appropriations committee approved the FY 2013 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, a bill that funds overseas operations of the State Department and global health programs through USAID….
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