Why don’t women in the developing world use contraceptives? It’s not lack of access
A pro-abortion group recently announced the theme for its May 28th Call for Action 2013: “Access to Contraceptives is a Human Right.” In November, the United Nations Population Fund released their “State of World Population 2012: By Choice, Not By Chance – Family Planning, Human Rights and Development,” which stated: “Recent statistics show that 867 [...]
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 [...]
Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
Obama Funds LGBT in Other Countries During Sequestration Cuts
In the midst of sequestration cuts that have left flyers in American airports stranded in long delays and furloughed some federal workers, the Obama administration announced it will spend development aid on promoting homosexuality and transgender confusion in other countries. From the announcement on April 8: http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/usaid-announces-new-partnership-promote-lgbt-human-rights-abroadUSAID ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP TO PROMOTE LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS [...]
Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Anti-Prostitution Policy for AIDS Relief
Abortion advocates blame the Helms amendment and the Mexico City policy for contributing to abortion stigma — likewise some HIV/AIDS advocates blame a PEPFAR anti-prostitution policy for contributing to the stigma that’s associated with prostitution. Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear opening arguments in the case of USAID v. AOSI — a case challenging [...]
Every Dollar Spent on Condoms Means Less Dollars in Taxes
An article from Keith Riler at First Things fleshes out the long term effects of population control efforts among the poor in America. Riler suggests that the FED and States should gladly spend $11,000 worth of Medicare on births among poor Americans, rather then spend for family planning. Riler sees it as an investment. The argument is [...]
Offensive USAID-Funded Ad Pulled in Kenya After Public Outcry
Just one day after USAID released a progress report on development reform, a US and UK funded AIDS prevention ad was pulled for being offensive and immoral for its promotion of extramarital affairs. While Christian and Muslim religious leaders called on the Communications Commission of Kenya to remove the ad from airwaves, it was a [...]
UN statisticians have solved the “unmet need” for “demand”
The concept of “unmet need” for contraception was invented in an attempt to induce countries to pledge billions of dollars to send contraceptives to developing countries. Experts have denounced this measurement as baseless: “The usual numbers bandied about for estimates of ‘unmet need’ do not correspond to any definition of ‘unmet need’ that any economist [...]
Condoms or Water?
Here is a great new add for a group that is helping provide potable water to children. The Gates Foundation and UNFPA who are asking for 8B USD a year to give condoms to subsaharan women should take the cue…
USAID Report Highlights Family Planning over Maternal and Child Health
Once again the Obama administration reveals its priority to family planning over maternal and child health care needs of poor women and children in developing countries. Yesterday USAID released the 2012 Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Strategy, which is an overview of the Agency’s 2011–2015 plan to implement and accelerate health programs to [...]
Synthetic analysis of the ECJ Case C-34/10 Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace e.V. and its ethical consequences
October 18th 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered an important judgment in the area of the protection of the human embryo in the case C-34/10 Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace e.V. In this case the judges in Luxembourg précised the legal definition of the human embryo, and relying on the respect due [...]
Rep. Blackburn Introduces First Pro-Life Bill in 113th Congress
Just two weeks shy of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade – the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in this country, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has introduced a bill that if passed would prevent U.S. taxpayer money from flowing to abortion businesses. As a woman I believe America deserves better than abortion. America [...]
Post-Family Planning Summit: Pressure Governments Despite What Women Want
Now that the London Family Planning Summit is a memory and world leaders have gone home, what comes next? Melinda Gates is keeping the spotlight on her priority of encouraging women not to have children by writing articles from her travels that are posted on partner organizations’ websites. Partner organizations are hiring consultants and holding [...]
USAID Launches New LongTerm Contraceptive Implant for Poor Women
USAID used the occasion of World Contraception Day to announce a new commitment to provide the longterm contraceptive implant – known as Jadelle, to women in the poorest countries of the world. The WHO-approved contraceptive implant lasts up to 5 years, is said to be reversible and can be administered by trained healthcare workers. [...]
Child Survival Improves, While Maternal Deaths are Politicized
Good news came from UNICEF today. The number of children under age 5 dying globally has dropped nearly in half since 1990. (This, of course, would not include the number of babies who die before they are born.) In 1990, nearly 12 million children died. That dropped to 6.9 million in 2011. UNICEF and the [...]
The Hidden Cost of a UN Interpretation of New UN Treaty
Will ratifying the newest UN human rights treaty place additional financial burdens on the U.S., international institutions and others? Advocates are heavily lobbying the U.S. to ratify the newest UN human rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. Some promise U.S. decision-makers that ratification will not change anything domestically, but will [...]
Nordic Countries defund Gender Ideology
A devastating blow for “Gender Theory”: the Nordic Council of Ministers (a regional inter-governmental co-operation consisting of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) has decided to close down the NIKK Nordic Gender Institute. The NIKK had been the flagship of “Gender Theory”, providing the “scientific” basis for social and educational policies that, from the 1970s [...]
Sabotaging Successful HIV/AIDS Prevention
Uganda was the great success story in reducing HIV/AIDS. Now, a member of the generation that benefited worries that Uganda’s “image of reversing the scourge in the early 1990’s has since dissipated.” Why? Because messages of abstinence and fidelity – the keys to preventing HIV/AIDS – have been abandoned as money flows to groups that [...]
Obama Waives Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers
The Washington Times reported the Obama administration waived sanctions that would prevent countries from receiving foreign aid for violating the Child-Soldier Prevention Act. Obama who co-sponsored the legislation in 2008 as an Illinois senator, has now permitted aid to countries that have used children as young as 11 to fight under a “national interest” exclusion within [...]
Does Marriage or Sex Create Babies?
When is the one – and only – time that abortion and family planning advocates acknowledge the procreative aspect of marriage? Not in the debate over same-sex marriage, where they scoff at such notions. Nor in conversations on the sanctity of marriage. There is one time, however, in a twisted fashion they link marriage as [...]