UNFPA: Birth control for girl sex slaves?

Just days after NYT reported ISIS is using modern contraceptives to turn young women into sex slaves, UNFPA’s chief tweeted  “All #girls need reproductive #health services to help them avoid early #pregnancy…

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Inter-American Court Challenges Costa Rica’s Highest Court of Law on Assisted Reproduction

“Costa Rica cannot prohibit in vitro fertilization (IVF)” according to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Court held that banning this artificial reproduction technique constitutes a violation of the…

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New proposal to “rethink” maternal health aims to leave mothers behind

The position of maternal health as an international priority has changed a lot in the last twenty years. In 1985, leading medical journal The Lancet published an article titled “Maternal…

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How do you measure access to family planning?

“Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health” -Millennium Development Goals, Target 5B Since the mid-1990s, the dominant rationale for family planning groups has been to provide strictly voluntary access…

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Family planning data: whose interests are being served?

A major flaw in the concept of the “unmet need” for family planning is that it reduces the question of whether one desires to become pregnant to a simple yes-and-no…

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Scalia the Internationalist

Kudos to Julian Ku at Opinio Juris for correcting the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s detractors and touting the jurist’s authentic approach to the relationship between the Constitution and international…

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End to China one-child policy brings baby bust

The much-touted “end” to China’s one child policy was done for economic and not human rights reasons. The replacement, two child policy, is just as harsh and now, new Chinese birth…

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OAS – Mothers, drugs, jail: what to recommend?

The Organization of the American States (OAS) hosted an important event on women and drug-related crimes. Motherhood was its particular focus. The meeting marked the release of a publication recommending…

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LGBT Rights Become UN Currency

The UN bureaucracy has just issued a series of six commemorative LGBT stamps through the UN stamp office. The stamps are explicit and depict both male and female same-sex couples…

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In the Congo, What Does A War Rape Victim Want?

The latest wedge campaign by abortion advocates is to exploit rapes committed in war. The U.S., they argue, ought to pay for abortions in other countries where there is conflict…

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Creeping toward quotas

Why the latest family planning measurements threaten to erode women’s agency and contain ominous echoes of past (and present) coercive practices. When family planning groups speak to the public, they…

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What No Ones Talking about at the Family Planning Conclave

Nothing, not even a hurricane, will stop family planning advocates from the mission at hand – reducing the number of children among poor women – even if it means promoting…

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Family Planning Conclave: Drones to Deliver Birth Control

Where there’s a will – there’s a way! A recent update at the International Family Planning conference in Bali revealed drones are being used to deliver contraception to women and…

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How a proposed UN measurement disparages countries where women aren’t using contraceptives

During a recent U.S. presidential debate, Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley urged people to stop using the phrase “boots on the ground” to refer to military personnel deployed abroad. He argued…

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New book on the folly of China’s population policy

The Guardian recently featured Mei Fong’s new book, One Child: the Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment. commending the author’s use of personal stories and interviews in examining the cost to individuals…

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How to improve maternal and child health initiatives: measure real results, not hypothetical ones

It’s hard to question the motive of programs seeking to end preventable maternal and child deaths in developing countries. These efforts enjoy global support, and why not? Saving the lives…

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Whose side are we on?

Dale O’Leary reminded her readers recently to be clear about who is engaged against us on the other side of the battle for our culture, and whom we are defending:…

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Expert: China’s 2 Child Policy “Still Coercive”

In case you missed it during the busy holidays, there has emerged a disconnect between media reports about China’s family planning policy changes (i.e. that China “abandoned” or “dropped” its one child per…

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Guess What is Most Popular Book at UN?

“What was our most popular book of 2015?” tweeted the UN Library. “Immunity of heads of state and state officials for international crimes.” Really. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

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Contraceptive Spin Machine Takes On Family Planning “Myths”

When it comes to family planning and international policy, there is no shortage of myths. According to the most recent figures from UNFPA and the Guttmacher Institute, 225 million women…

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Slovenia: same-sex “marriage” law reversed

No, despite of what politicians and mass-media would have you believe, the legal recognition of same-sex “marriages” is neither inevitable nor irreversible. On the contrary: where people are allowed to…

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EU Parliament Condemns All Forms of Surrogacy

All forms of surrogacy are human rights violations. So says a resolution of the EU Parliament. Here is the link to the resolution. The relevant para states: 114. Condemns the practice of…

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“European DOMA” compatible with EU fundamental values, Commission says

The European Commission has announced yesterday that it will officially register the new European Citizens’ Initiative “Mum, Dad & Kids”, which intends to collect signatures in support of a law…

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Planned Parenthood’s “Gospel of Reproductive Rights”

Which is worse, blasphemy or breaking the law? A local abortionist brags that he climbed high into the Andes to spread the “gospel of reproductive rights,” teaching the precious few doctors there…

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Poland and Hungary Foil Plans to Impose Faux Marriage on Europe

It looks as though immigration is not the only issue on which European Countries believe sovereignty matters. Marital rights also matter. Poland and Hungary blocked an agreement that would have obliged…

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