Women Who Have Children Live Longer
A new Australian study on the relation between childbearing and mortality published in the Oxford Journal Age and Aeging has found that women who have children are likely to live…
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Demographic Trends Will Spoil Nations’ Plans
The Daily Caller, a snazzy news website, interviewed C-FAM’s Susan Yoshihara on trends that impact the future of nations. “Demographic trends are poised to spoil Beijing’s plans for a Chinese…
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Not “Rights” vs. “Freedom” – Reclaiming the Universal Declaration from the Left (and Defending It from the Right)
The latest issue of the New Criterion contains an article by Andrew C. McCarthy, entitled “Future Tense, VIII: Enter Totalitarian Democracy: On the Difficulties of Making Law in the Modern…
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US Bishops Issue Call to Action on Religious Freedom: “An unjust law cannot be obeyed”
The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops ad hoc committee for Religious Freedom issued an urgent summons to fellow Catholics and Americans as religious liberty continues to erode here and abroad….
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Uzbekistan Runs Secret Sterilization Program
Uzbekistan is allegedly running an under-the-table program to sterilize women, sometimes without their knowledge or consent. A report by Natalia Antelava of BBC World Service reveals a disturbing trend of forced…
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Miracle baby
A story from Argentina about maternal and child health, parental rights, stillbirth, and rebirth: After being issued a death certificate for their prematurely born fifth child, Analia Bouguet and Fabian Veron went to…
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Panel on “Population Decline” on April 17
Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics Tuesday, April 17 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be served. Click here to register. For decades scholars have maintained that…
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UNFPA, UK Government, And Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch Family Planning Summit
Even though it hasn’t made the local news yet, the UK government is preparing to host a family planning summit this coming June in London just before the Olympics. Sponsoring…
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Melinda Gates: I’m Catholic and Contraception is not Controversial
On Holy Thursday, Melinda Gates publicly professed her Catholic faith and then personally attacked her Church over its position on contraception. I could not help but be reminded of Judas…
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UNICEF and Rio+20
UNICEF briefed UN delegates yesterday on its approach to Rio+20, the upcoming global green conference. If anyone doubts the importance UN agencies are placing on Rio+20, Richard Morgan, UNICEF’s director…
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How Obama Uses Religion to Undermine Religious Freedom
Piero Tozzi unveils how the Obama administration misuses religion to promote homosexuality — and names the officials doing it — in this article on The Christian Post. : In Pushing…
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US Charity to Remedy “Acute” Shortage of Expert Abortion Practitioners in the UK
Medical Students for Choice (MSFC), a US group set up to provide abortion training for medical students, will provide grants for up to 15 British and Irish students to train…
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Fertility Decline May Unhinge Asian Security, Expert Panel Says
By C-FAM Staff NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The global fertility freefall is about to cause geopolitical upheaval in Asia, a panel of experts said this week. The experts, all…
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UN Treaty Bodies Want More Power-Governments Argue Back
NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The UN treaty body system may be on the verge of collapse due to a huge backlog of government reports and insufficient resources. In additional…
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Grotesque: EU Fundamental Rights Agency fabricates data on “LGBT discrimination”
Allegedly it was Winston Churchill who said: “Never believe statistics you haven’t made up yourself.” The EU Fundamental Rights Agency provides us these days with a brilliant example how to…
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Abortion- Breast Cancer Link Debate Resumed
The recent introduction of bills in New Hampshire, Kansas and New Jersey legislatures requiring physicians to warn women seeking abortion about the abortion-related risk of breast cancer (ABC link) has regenerated…
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Abortion and eugenics before the European Court of Human Rights
The Court is called upon to adjudicate on the existence of a “right to eugenic abortion” Strasbourg, 4 April 2011 – The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) currently has…
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Sex Rights for Children = The Right to Child Rape
As the UN considers creating “sexual rights” for children as young as 10, a court in Brazil shows what this would mean. Adult men can rape girls or boys with…
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Reaching Doctors Through Video
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists – a group worthy of your attention – recently sent this e-mail to their members. Be sure to watch the video: …
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UN Elites’ Secret Plans for Global Green Summit
Top UN chiefs recently met to scheme how to use an upcoming Summit on sustainable development to gain control of the global green economy, expand its reach on social policies,…
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UN May Recognize Sex Rights for Ten-Year Old Children
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General…
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Argentine Supreme Court Falls Prey to UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) In a surprising ruling, the Supreme Court of Argentina has declared abortion is a woman’s right in case of rape under international law. Under the…
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Rwanda Considers Liberalizing Abortion Restrictions
Rwanda’s Parliament is considering making abortion available beyond what is now permitted. Currently abortions are allowed when the life of the mother is endangered, for rape and incest, and for fetal…
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Chinese women suffer increased mental health risks associated with abortion despite its prevalence
The most recent study published in the Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology by Huang and colleagues from the Anhui Medical College in China finds that women who had an induced abortion…
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Day of the Unborn Child in Slovakia
On Sunday 25 March, civil society activists in Slovakia came up with an original idea to commemorate the Day of the Unborn Child. They arranged 13,000 children’s shoes in the…
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