New UNFPA report twists the message of the ICPD Programme of Action
Today, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched its annual State of World Population Report, focusing this year on reproductive health services in humanitarian settings. On the subject of abortion,…
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Abortion Not a Solution to War Rape
One of the heart-wrenching acts of war and terrorism is rape. Women and teens captured by Boko Haram and ISIS, or violated by enemy soldiers, can consequently find themselves pregnant….
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FY16 Omnibus: US Foreign Assistance Should Assist — Not Limit Births or Push Dangerous Pharmaceuticals
The letter below from C-Fam president Austin Ruse was sent to Congressional leaders regarding funding for overseas family planning within the FY2016 omnibus spending package. We ask leadership to consider…
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Drowning in Alphabet Soup
Why rapidly expanding acronyms are not the best prescription for global maternal health Earlier this year, the World Health Organization issued a report titled “Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality…
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Democrat Senators want abortion funding for refugees
As refugees are welcomed into neighboring Middle East countries Democrat senators want to make sure abortion in available funded by US taxpayers. Senator Richard Blumenthal drafted a letter to President…
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New Citizen Initiative Asks EU to Protect Marriage and Family – Will Europe get a DOMA?
One year and a few months ago, a controversial 5-4 judgment of the US Supreme Court emasculated the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal statute according which the term…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 6
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) A Solution in Search of a Problem By 1970, overpopulation alarmists were congratulating themselves for having fabricated an argument that…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 5
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) ‘A modest proposal’ for the twentieth century When Paul Ehrlich published “The Population Bomb” in 1968, it was an enormous bestseller, predicting…
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UN Committee Says Children in the Womb Have No Right to Life, But Drops Claims of “Right to Die”
The first draft of a new “general comment” of the Human Rights Committee (HRC), a mostly unknown but influential committee that reviews and records the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil…
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Planned Parenthood Grilled by U.S. Congress
Planned Parenthood’s president was grilled by a U.S. congressional oversight committee today. Undercover videos exposing horrific practices committed by the abortion group have raised questions beyond illegal practices of killing babies…
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Pope visits the country with highest abortion rate in the world. And it’s not the US.
At evening prayer in Cuba last night Pope Francis lamented that “too often, when a disability is detected in an unborn child, the child is ‘sent back,’ and not given…
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Beware the peer reviewed study
A few years ago I testified before a State judiciary committee at which the chair raked my colleagues and I over the coals for not having enough “peer reviewed” studies to back…
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European Central Bank: Migrants could stem Europe’s “demographic suicide”
A top European Central Bank official leaned into the migration debate. According to TIME, ECB vice president Vitor Constancio said, “To change the demographic trends, promoting birth is not enough…It also has to be…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 4
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) From taking a survey to being a statistic Consider the sales pitch of a telemarketer – you answer your phone and are greeted with…
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Planned Parenthood’s Brutality Criticized at Hearing
“There is no act too brutal” to stop defending Planned Parenthood, a congressman said of his colleagues. Rep. Randy Forbes was stunned at the Democratic congressmen and their witness testifying at…
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Chinese woman considers illegal abortion at 8 months to save husband’s job
Despite the propaganda, Beijing’s one child policy still takes millions of lives. Its cruel enforcement mechanisms wreak havoc on millions more. This week the South China Morning Post reported on…
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Pro-life victory — or will Obama double-speak backdoor funding for abortion overseas?
Amidst the current Planned Parenthood scandal revealing the horrific acts against unborn children for monetary gain — President Obama could hardly publicly support more US funding for abortion — but…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 3
(Part 1, Part 2) Hype in High Places Prior to the twentieth century, the phrase “unwanted children” conjured the image of children who were orphaned or whose parents were, for…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 2
(Part 1) Why a series on “unwantedness?” In my previous post, I discussed two recent papers that dealt with the concept of the “unwanted” pregnancy and/or child, for the purpose…
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The Pursuit of the Unwanted, part 1
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said that her guiding principle was that “every child should be a wanted child.” In response, pro-life activists have said, “there are no…
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Girl Exploited by Amnesty Int’l Names Baby “Miracle”
The young mother named her baby “Milagros.” That is Spanish for Miracle. Amnesty International wanted the baby aborted. The brave girl in Paraguay was allegedly raped by her stepfather,…
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Planned Parenthood’s worldwide contempt for the law
While Planned Parenthood’s United States affiliate is facing public outrage for selling aborted baby parts for medical research (the Center for Medical Progress released its latest video yesterday), the scandal…
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China’s Brave Pro-Life Christians
In a country that jails pregnant women and fines family members for having an ‘unlicensed’ baby, a small cadre of Christians — who are also targets for persecution — are…
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China’s Demographic Dividend “already pocketed”: India will overtake it six years sooner than expected
The latest UN demographic numbers are out and Gordon Chang has outlined how bleak they look for China and how much rosier for its top competitor, India. This year’s UN estimate…
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Joint Statement of CSOs on Family in the Post-2015 Summit Outcome
THE FAMILY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A Statement of Civil Society on Paragraph 38 in the Final Draft of the Post-2015 Summit Outcome Many Member States have articulated the view that…
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