Pro-abortion EU parliamentarians launch campaign with false stats and knock-off slogan

The pro-life European citizens’ initiative “One of Us” may have failed so far in achieving its purpose of getting the European Parliament to recognize the human embryo as a person…

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UN Demographer-in-Chief Chides Climate Change Establishment

Are you worried that overpopulation will increase humanity’s carbon footprint? Maybe you shouldn’t. It was one of the questions on everyone’s mind at a special expert panel on population dynamics…

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New Study: Getting Married and Having Kids Brings More Prosperity not Less

Check out the New York Times précis of a new report on the shrinking American middle class. Among other things, it shows that those slipping down the scale tend to be unmarried, while…

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Scotland’s “Named Persons” to Replace Parents

Under a new plan, Scotland will assign a state-employed guardian to every child from birth until age 18, who can intervene without parental consent and share information with a wide…

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Schoolgirls in China paid large sums to donate eggs to infertile couples on black market

News China reports yet another horrific story about what Chinese women and girls are enduring, in a country where they already suffer so much under the 30 year old One…

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EU: LGBT lobby is worried about “Neo-Conservative Threats to Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights in the EU”

The following has been posted on the AGENDA EUROPE Blog: Conspiracy theories: gay & abortion lobbies unmask dangerous “neo-conservatives”… A reader has drawn our attention to a rather scurrilous document that…

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Why China’s one-child policy is the world’s worst law

  China’s one-child policy has killed more people than Mao’s Great Leap Forward.  The Center for Family & Human Rights’ Susan Yoshihara reports for the January issue of Townhall Magazine.  The article can…

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Argentina: Court recognizes “human rights” of an orang-utan

Why is judicial activism so dangerous? Because it aggrandizes judges at the expense of the laws they should protect. In the end, however, citizens will simply stop taking laws and judges…

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Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains

I recommend Scientific American’s recent article on the study finding the physical connection between mother and child “deeper than anyone thought”: Cells may migrate through the placenta between the mother…

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UNICEF gives up children, and instead promotes “gay rights”

The acronym “UNICEF” stands for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, thus indicating the organization’s original purpose: to help children in need. Nowadays, however, the focus is not anymore set…

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Late abortion and infanticide: the testimony of a midwife

When a child is born very prematurely, everything is done to save him. If this is not possible, he received comfort care and is surrounded until his death. Neonatal palliative…

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100 NGOs tell European Commission: “Dump controversial ‘Equality’-Directive, respect civic freedoms!”

As the pressuring of some lobby groups for a speedy adoption of the “Anti-Discrimination Directive” increases, so does the resistance against it. 100 NGOs have now jointly sent an open…

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Universal Periodic Review: Western pressure on sexual orientation and gender identity

Recently, I wrote about the troubling trend of Western countries using the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) system to pressure Latin American countries to change their laws on abortion. In a…

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CDC Stands by UNICEF Vaccines in Kenya

Following is a response of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to questions from C-Fam on the tetanus vaccination in Kenya sponsored by WHO and UNICEF. The questions are…

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The Council of Europe refuses to oppose neonatal infanticides.

 The ECLJ calls on the Parliamentary Assembly.  Every year, children are born alive at the time of the abortion procedure after the 20th week of pregnancy in Europe. They are,…

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What is a Child’s Right to Be Heard?

I was at an event at UN headquarters yesterday on the “Child’s Right to Participation”, a buzz phrase for the principles of art. 12 and 13 of the Convention on…

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Over 700 Women Killed in Indian Sterilization Camps Between 2009-2012

According to an informative opinion piece in the Indian Express over 700 women (probably many more) have died as a result of India’s population control programs in only a three year period….

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Universal Periodic Review: Europeans pressuring Latin Americans to allow abortion

El Salvador recently had its turn to receive recommendations from other countries as part of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which is a mechanism that is supposed to engender…

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New York Times Whitewashes Dangerous Contraceptive for Poor Women

Big pharma, a rich philanthropist, government aid and a children’s non-profit announced yesterday that they would make a controversial injectable contraceptive more widely available to poor women in developing countries….

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C-Fam Exclusive: UNICEF Denies Giving Kenyan Women Birth Control Vaccine Without Their Knowledge

This is an exclusive interview of C-Fam with James Elder, UNICEF’s Chief of Communications for East Africa. The interview follows allegations of the Kenya Catholic Bishops Conference and the Kenya Catholic Doctors…

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USAIDs Family Planning Incentive Program Problematic

In the last week two troubling reports of coercive family planning programs in developing counties have surfaced. A mass sterilization program in India left several women dead and hospitalized. And…

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How Human Rights Are Becoming ‘Post and Trans-Human Rights’

Gregor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice explains how human rights are becoming “trans-humans rights” under the influence of individualism, skepticism and biotechnologies. Human rights…

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Congress Should Investigate Tainted Tetanus Vaccine Sterilizing Kenyan Women

A UNICEF/WHO tetanus program in Kenya which Kenyan Catholic bishops have criticized for being a disguised population reduction method has proven to have merit. MaterCare International announced this week that doctors…

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Pro-Gay members of European Parliament find democracy “distasteful”

In the Slovak Republic, the Constitutional Court has given its green light for a referendum that would insert into the country’s constitution a clarification that marriage is only between a…

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Paul VI and Rockefeller III

There is an article from Jennifer Roeback Morse on The Christian Post about a 45 minute meeting between American heir/philanthropist Jon D. Rockefeller and Paul VI in Rome where they discussed population control….

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