Mexican Supreme Court Rejects Decriminalizing Abortion
Mexico does not have a Roe v. Wade. Despite fears that the Supreme Court of Mexico would judicially impose a right to abortion on the entire country, the Court may have actually…
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Mexico’s Roe v. Wade: it could happen tomorrow.
In a few hours, Mexico may have its own Roe v. Wade. As the Mexican attorney Luis Antonio Martinez Guzman reports in the following analysis, the prediction is that the…
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Senate Democrats Prioritize Funding Abortion Groups over Zika Help
Senate Democrats are blocking a $1.1 billion Zika package passed last week by the House due to it prohibiting funding to domestic and overseas abortion groups. The House bill contained…
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Republican lawmakers block Zika funding to abortion groups
Democratic lawmakers are unhappy with the House bill that passed yesterday to fight the Zika virus. The $1.1 billion package takes concrete measures to eradicate the virus excluding hundreds of…
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Surprise! Surprise! Telling Kids the Truth About Sex Actually Works!
Just earlier this month, Valerie Huber, President of Ascend, a group on the conservative side of sex education in America arguing for Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) approaches, wrote a fascinating piece…
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Uruguay vs. Uruguay. The OAS closes its doors to Deputy Carlos Lafigliola.
The Deputy of Uruguay, Carlos Lafigliola, a strong defender of life and family, is being denied access to the General Assembly of the OAS. He was supposed to be there,…
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Video of transgender violence.
This video shows how Gregory Mertz and Jean Marco Pumarol were assaulted by members of the LGBT community at the 46th General Assambly of the OAS, in Santo Domingo. The…
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There will be no “Obergefell” Decision at the European Human Rights Court
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), otherwise rather ill-reputed for its unfettered and legally unfounded judicial activism, will not follow the example set by the US Supreme Court to…
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Civil Society meetings at the OAS: the uneven fight for life and for family.
The General Assembly (GA) of the Organization of the American States (OAS) regularly includes a whole day program dedicated to the Civil Society representatives. During this day, which precedes the…
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LGBT rights and abortion as a fundamental right: the 46th General Assembly of the OAS.
The Dominican Republic is about to host the General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). As observers predicted, this year also the resolutions that the member…
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Mexicans defend the family – and the whole world joins them. #DefendemosLaFamilia
After the recent declarations of the Mexican President, who is pushing for same-sex marriage and for constitutional amendments, more than one thousand Mexican NGOs have reunited: to defend the family….
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“Hope betrayed”: same-sex unions are part of Italian law. Same-sex adoptions too.
The Italian President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, did not listen to the requests of the legal scholars. Without exercising any sort of veto power, he “obediently” signed the bill…
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Reality check on SOGI at the Universal Periodic Review
The 25th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recently came to a close, with fourteen countries facing evaluation and recommendations on their human rights records from their fellow UN…
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Sweden teaches homosexuality in pre-school: will it be a leader?
While Sweden decided to lead the deconstruction of the sexes and to teach its pre-school children that sexuality is fluid, other European countries are showing resistance. The Swedish Equality Ombudsman…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 7
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) A setback and a redirection for “unwantedness” When Edward Pohlman published his nearly-500-word opus The Psychology of Birth…
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The Mexican President wants same-sex marriages – and all that comes with it. What about Mexicans?
On Tuesday, May 17th, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his intention to change the Constitution to allow same sex marriage. His…
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Forming a family is not like playing blackjack
Family planning groups and economists have long debated the causes and policy implications of changes in global fertility. In 1994, Harvard economist Lant Pritchett published an influential paper making the…
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The last Italian hope against homosexual “marriage”
“Three centuries ago, Giambattista Vico wrote that societies collapse when these the three fundamental categories are undermined: the altars (meaning religion, with a capital “r”, not the specific confession),…
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Russians for life
Russians were the first to legalize abortion in the modern era, beginning in 1920. Partly as a result, the country’s population has contacted by more than 10 million since 1988….
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The World Bank thinks “unintended pregnancy” is a big problem…but why?
The World Bank has highlighted “unwanted pregnancy” as a key issue in the latest update to its volume on disease control priorities in the area of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and…
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Aspiration and inspiration: good for goals, bad for measurements
There’s no doubt that the UN’s shiny new 2030 Agenda is ambitious: the total elimination of global poverty is only the first of its seventeen(!) goals. Political commitments like this…
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“Zika is an extraordinary opportunity for the advancement of human rights”. A viral disease is the new El Dorado of abortion advocates.
The recent outbreak of Zika is a severe health emergency. UN experts and international scholars, however, call this disease an “extraordinary opportunity” for the advancement of Human Rights. Gathered at…
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European Citizens’ Initiative “Mum Dad & Kids” now open for signatures!
The citizens’ committee organizing the European Citizens’ Initiative “Mum Dad & Kids” has announced that the one-year-period during which statements of support can be collected for the initiative begins today…
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CSW60: Abortion Groups Still Stymied by John Paul the Great
NEW YORK, March 25 (C-Fam) St. John Paul the Great is the man whom did more than anyone in history to promote the right to life of children in the…
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Bureaucratic Overreach, also on LGBT Rights, Takes Front Seat at UN General Assembly
The Non-Aligned Movement at the United Nations, a group comprising two thirds of the 194 UN member states, delivered a biting reproach to the UN Secretary General and the sprawling…
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