Uganda: World Bank Loans 30 Million for Abortions
The World Bank recently announced that it will be giving Uganda a $130 million loan to improve the countries health care, “with a focus on maternal health, newborn care and…
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Boy Scouts and American Heritage Girls Form Alliance
As a follow-up to our reporting on the problems facing the Girl Scouts, including their extensive ties with Planned Parenthood, a reader has offered the following helpful information. The American…
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Mexico Supreme Court Ruling Mandates Distribution of Morning After Pill
According to news reports, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled in a 10-1 decision to uphold a federal regulation that requires all hospitals, public or private, to provide the abortifacient morning-after…
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Spain’s Last Hope Against New Abortion Law
Yesterday, the Spain’s conservative Popular Party challenged the new abortion law, set to take effect early next week. The party filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court stating that, the…
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White House Declares June LGBT Pride Month
For the second year in a row, the Obama administration has proclaimed June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” From the White House Statement: Much work remains to fulfill…
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Contraception and Abortion Museum Receives Award
You won’t believe who received the 2010 European Museum of the Year Award; The Austrian Museum of Contraception and Abortion. The museum, the only one of its kind, was given…
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Illegal US Dollars for Abortion in Kenya
Yesterday, Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) stated that the illegal US taxpayer funding of Kenya’s draft constitution may now exceed $10 million dollars, five times more than originally expected. Rep. Smith…
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Top academics step up abortion pressure on G8
Yesterday the heads of the U.S. National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada — along with their counterparts from Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Russia and…
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Marie Stopes Abortion Peddling Stretches Legal Limits in UK
On Monday, Marie Stopes International launched a television ad in Britain that is causing quite an uproar. The ad is the first time an abortion provider has advertised on television…
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Clarifying Kagan’s Harvard legacy
Apparently the Washington Times has it wrong when it argues that Elena Kagan got rid of constitutional law as a required course at Harvard Law. That happened before her tenure….
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Kagan’s foreign law sympathies scrutinized/defended
The Washington Times today called on Congress to question Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s actions and statements indicating a “transnationalist” mindset during upcoming confirmation hearings. Relying on evidence provided by Americans United for Life…
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Investigation into US Administration’s Promotion of Kenya’s Pro-Abortion Draft Constitution
The controversy around Kenya’s draft constitution that enshrines a new right to abortion continues to grow. For previous coverage on this issue, see our blog posts here and here, as…
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Same-sex Marriages; ’till Divorce Do Us Part
While homosexual pressure groups everywhere are clamoring to get gay marriage rights, homosexual couples are also clamoring to end their marriages. The Daily Beast published an article this week entitled,…
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ADF Files Motion on Behalf of 32 Members of European Parliament in Italian Cross Case
The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) on Wednesday filed a motion for third party intervention in the European Court of Human Rights case of Lautsi v. Italy, more commonly known as…
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New Online Resource for the Family Launched At UN
Yesterday at the United Nations, the Doha International Institute for Family Studies and Development (DIIFSD) launched a new research tool aimed specifically towards families and children. The Global State of…
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US Supreme Court Again Uses “International Law” to Confirm its Moral Judgments
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Graham v. Florida, in which Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-4 decision, struck down…
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More on Kenya’s abortion controversy
Today in a story ostensibly about Kenya’s controversial proposed constitution, the New York Times criticizes “American Christians” by arguing that those raising awareness about the document’s pro-abortion clauses also worked…
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Ban ki-Moon on Maternal Health
UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon’s mother’s day message deserves note for what it did not say. I winced when it included a story of maternal death from Kenya, a country…
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Council of Europe proposes “Gendercide” Resolution
On Tuesday, 22 members of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly made a motion to discuss a resolution condemning sex selection as “gendercide.” The resolution was sponsored by Mr. Luca…
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UN rapporteurs’ condemnation of Arizona law criticized
UN special rapporteurs and treaty body members often over step their mandates to push special agendas such as abortion rights, going well beyond accepted interpretations of the treaties. This week…
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New Study Follows the Money on Billion Dollar Abortion Industry
Vicki Evans, the Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has just published a 72 page study focused on the commercial markets created by legalized abortion. The study…
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Gendercide Comes to North America
The National Catholic Register recently reported on the Economist’s gendercide article. The Register points out that the killing of baby girls is not limited to Asian countries, but has come…
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Amnesty International and ACLU call on Obama for Executive Order on Human Rights
According to this May 4 Press Release, Amnesty International and the ACLU are teaming up with the “Human Rights At Home Campaign” in calling for an executive order from President…
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Obama to Nominate Social Liberal to U.S. Supreme Court
According NBC and Julian Ku’s blog at Opinio Juris today where I picked it up, President Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General and former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan to…
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Center for Reproductive Rights to Brief Treaty Bodies on “Reproductive Rights”
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) announced yesterday that they will be conducting their first-ever thematic briefing with two UN treaty monitoring bodies in Geneva on the issue of reproductive…
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