UN To Start Discussions On New Billion Dollar Agency
After giving the green light to a billion dollar super-agency for women last fall, the UN is scheduled to start informal consultations next week regarding the specific mission, staffing and funding…
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Mugged by Ultrasound
It is January and so it is appropriate to recommend the essay, “Mugged by Ultrasound” in this week’s Weekly Standard. Authors Jon Shields and David Daleiden recount (all too vividly)…
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Abortion and Human Slavery
The Washington Times ran a story yesterday that has become, at long last, more prominent in mainstream media over the last year: the connection between abortion and human slavery. Specifically,…
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IPPF’s Big Earthquake Haul: Half a Million for Haitian Abortions, Courtesy of Hewlett Foundation
As if you would think people would never take International Planned Parenthood Federation’s (IPPF) call for funds to pay for sexual and reproductive healthcare seriously, today the William and Flora…
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March for Life Forces Grow Globally
The March for Life is an ultimate show of force in pro-life America in defense of the unborn. Last Friday, over 300,000 people showed up in Washington, DC alone to…
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UN Report: World Population Aging 2009
The latest working paper updating the UN’s population aging report released recently by the UN Population Division on the statistics side of the UN set forth bracing conclusions. It makes…
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Another View on Uganda’s Homosexual Laws
The US is threatening to withdraw develoment aid from the government of Uganda if the draconian anti-homosexual law is passed into law. In a January 12 letter from US Trade…
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6 Out of 10 Americans Find Abortion Morally Wrong
While thousands of pro-lifers marched on Capitol Hill today on the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the United States, a…
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Council of Europe Attacks Life and the Family
Next week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will be meeting in Strasbourg, France for what may prove to be one of the more important weeks in the…
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The EU Parliament’s Committee On “Women’s Rights and Gender Equality” Searches For A New Strategy
Attached is an invitation to a Public Hearing to be held by the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality on 28 January to discuss a new European…
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IPPF Finds Another Way to Push Their Birth Control Agenda, This Time in the Haitian Rubble
Everyone knows that Haitians desperately need a great deal right now from those who have. They need clean water, food, basic supplies, search and rescue teams and most of all,…
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European Commission: The Fundamental Rights Agency Has No Competence To Monitor Member State’s Legislation
Bernd Posselt MEP The controversial EU Fundamental Rights Agency has received a new blow, this time from the European Commission: replying to a Written Question of the German MEP Bernd…
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Wall Street Journal: Catholic Dissent Dies Out
Mary Daly Just another contribution related to ‘demography’: The Wall Street Journal has published an obituary commemorating two renowned theologians of the Vatican II era, Mary Daly and Edward Schillebeeckx,…
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Elderly Population Set to Overtake Children’s Population in 2045
According to a new report from the UN entitled “World Population Ageing 2009,” 22% of the world’s population will be older than 60 years within forty years – a jump from…
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Oops, they did it again
The Council of Europe has tabled yet another radically socialist document attacking the traditional family. The Draft Resolution, coming from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, is entitled…
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24 Million Single Chinese Men Seeking Soulmate
Yesterday BBC News reported that by 2020 over 24 million Chinese men may find themselves alone. According to the report, due to their countries “one-child policy” an entire generation of…
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Harm Reducing or Harm Enabling?
In many United Nations policy circles it is a given that humans are going to behave in certain ways that are harmful to them, so therefore the goal should be…
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EU: Imminent Attack Against Catholic Commissioner Designate?
The Catholic news portal ZENIT reports today that left and liberal Members of the European Parliament plan to launch an attack against the appointment of Viviane Reding from Luxemburg as the new EU…
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Spain: In the Extremadura, schoolchildren are taught how to masturbate
A couple of days ago, this blog published a short notice to inform its readers that Spain was taking over the presidency of the European Union. Maybe this will be…
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Portugal Takes Leap Towards Gay Marriage
Today Portugal’s parliament voted to take the first steps towards legalizing homosexual marriage. Parliament also voted today to deny a petition organized by pro-life groups and signed by over 90,000…
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Abortion Rights Groups Praise Obama/Clinton State Dept.
In a recent op-ed in anticipation of Sec. Clinton’s speech reaffirming the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Kavita Ramdas, president of abortion rights organization the Global Fund for…
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Why we should care about Copenhagen…again
Anyone who has endured the intrigue and underhandedness of UN negotiations will delight in a recent article by Mark Lynas in the Guardian subtly entitled, “How do I know China…
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The New Population Bomb
The latest issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s flagship publication Foreign Affairs leads with Jack Goldstone’s essay on “The New Population Bomb.” A worthwhile read. Goldstone joins the ranks…
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Will USAID be Funding Abortions Worldwide?
Yesterday U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on the future of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on the eve of the swearing in of its…
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Secretary Clinton to Reaffirm ICPD Tomorrow
At 2:30 p.m. EST this Friday, January 8, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will make a major speech commemorating the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and…
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