Unwanted Abortion: Man Slips Misoprostol to Woman with Wanted Child
A woman is suing her boyfriend for tricking her into taking misoprostol to kill her unborn baby. Here is the lawsuit filed in Florida. Remee Jo Lee was thrilled to be pregnant. Her boyfriend Andrew Welden took Remee Jo to his father, a doctor, to confirm the pregnancy. Andrew then claimed she had a bacterial [...]
Famous Chinese Filmmaker Investigated for Breaking One-Child Policy
Family planning agents are investigating China’s most famous film director for reportedly having 7 children with 4 women. If guilty of breaking China’s laws, Zhang Yimou could face $27 million in fines. Zhang designed the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. His films, like Raise the Red Lantern, have won international acclaim. Reports of his [...]
The Incremental Approach to Taxpayor Funded Abortion for All
Abortion groups are using the tragic circumstances of rape to advance their cause – unrestricted abortion for all. They rely on the reluctance of members of Congress to speak out against abortion in the case of rape. Events during the last election cycle where candidates statements on rape were used to help defeat them has [...]
Nordics Launder LGBT Advocacy through UN Human Rights Office
The UN human rights office is desperate for funding. Navi Pillay, the head of the office, is in New York this week to report on her agency’s work to UN diplomats. Overwhelming her presentation is an unabashed plea for money. The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights has more work assigned to it [...]
This Week’s Pro-life Victories in Mexico
The Mexican Supreme Court yesterday upheld two state constitutional amendments from Oaxaca and Guanajuato that had protected life from “conception,” rejecting an attempt by two pro-abortion justices to reopen an issue that many had hoped was closed by a 2011 Supreme Court decision. Earlier in the week the Supreme Court also struck down another amendment but [...]
Judges, Journalists, and Activists Re-Inventing Science
When judges, journalists, and activists start messing with medicine and science I think everyone should start worrying. After all, science should not be subservient to government policies or politics. Here is an excerpt from the AP story about the NY Judge that ruled the sometime abortifacient morning after pill should be available over the counter to 15 [...]
Putting the Right Back into Human Rights
This Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which serves as the hub for much of the United Nations’ various human rights activities – and, indeed, a good deal of its mischief too – recently sent out a request to civil society organizations for submissions on what concerns it should put on its [...]
Generation that Aborted Will be Euthanized
Call it the new population control. Dr. Peter Saunders of Christian Medical Fellowship looks at the combination of demographic decline, financial crises and disrespect for life and comes to a sobering conclusion: The generation that killed its children will in turn be killed by its own children. In other words legalised abortion will lead to [...]
LGBT try to get climate change funding
Abortion leaders have shamelessly discussed how they can tap into the massive global funding on HIV/AIDS. Now LGBT leaders are eyeing the flood of money going toward climate change. Noelene Nabulivou, from Fiji, is a member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She proposed this theory at a panel on Development [...]
Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight
Here is a post published on the Blog “Constitution Project” of the University College Cork (UCC), an inter-disciplinary research group looking at issues surrounding constitutional law, history, governance and politics. It may also be of interest for the readers of Turtle Bay. Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight Posted on March 22, 2013 We are delighted to [...]
Global Abortion Lobby Stuck at the Rubicon. A Hobbit is Sneaking By…
“Though Shalt not pass!” Last week at the Commmission of the Status of Women, nations that cherish traitional values were able to halt the advance of the global abortion lobby towards abortion as a human right. Despite attempting to do so for over 40 yrs, nations and groups that want abortion to be a human [...]
Groups Ask U.S. to Back Off Demand for Abortion at UN
Over 20 groups are asking U.S. Secretary of State to end the U.S. obstruction over abortion at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Here is the letter sent today: Dear Secretary Kerry, This week the United States has an opportunity to advance international efforts to prevent violence against women and girls through the [...]
US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN
As countries are deadlocked over negotiations going late into the night at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US and European Union have played a deadly card. One that contradicts a foundational principle of citizens and civilizations worldwide, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. [...]
The story of a statistic: how one activist is exploiting a good cause and bad data to push abortion on an unwilling world
As negotiations intensify over the outcome document of the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), many participants in the two-week event are hearing the same sobering statistic being repeated, unaware that it is a disingenuous misrepresentation of the facts, and that one of the women who created it twenty years ago is currently [...]
Monitoring the Monitors
As reported in last week’s Friday Fax, Alliance Defending Freedom took the floor recently at a General Assembly forum on how to reform United Nations Treaty Bodies, calling on the Treaty Bodies not to usurp functions that do not rightfully belong to them. These treaty monitoring bodies, also called “Compliance Committees,” are generally empowered to [...]
Slanted media reporting on Commission on the Status of Women
As the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women begins today, two news stories are already disingenuously implying that the Holy See, the Russian Federation, and Iran are effectively enablers of violence committed against women. These and several other UN member states oppose the inclusion of language that could be used to [...]
Abortion on demand violates European Human Rights Convention, expert says
Grégor Puppinck, a frequent author on this blog, has published a legal analysis on the website of the renowned European Journal of International Law, in which he concludes that laws allowing abortion on demand are in clear contradiction to the European Human Rights Convention, which in its Article 2 protects the Right to Life. The [...]
WHO Illegal Abortions Underway in Latin America
Here is an article about abortion hotlines in Latin America that use WHO guidance on DIY abortions. The volunteers that run the hotline are not medical practitioners of course, they are abortion activists. Now they no longer need to rely on information from IPPF and Marie Stopes, now they can rely on WHO info, except that info [...]
Biolaw emerges as a discipline in its own right
While bioethics is a well established academic discipline, biolaw is often overlooked. Unlike bioethics, which is concerned with the question of what should be done or avoided, biolaw aims to answer the question what must or must not be done. Often, issues of biolaw are considered to fall into the purview of health care law. [...]
Pro-Life Organizations Engage Human Rights Council
Several pro-life and pro-family organizations have submitted statements to the Advisory Committee to the Human Rights Council to ask that universal values shared by all civilizations and cultures, including the right to life of unborn children and the natural family as the fundamental unit of society, are not forgotten in the quest to promote and protect [...]