Is International Planned Parenthood Abetting Criminal Activity?
International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Carmen Barroso sent around an e-mail today soliciting year-end donations. She illustrates the role IPPF plays throughout the Western Hemisphere by telling the story of Valeria, a young Argentine woman: “This year, we provided vital health services to individuals like Valeria, a young Argentine woman who never received sexuality education at [...]
URGENT: Sign up for UNFPA’s Global Youth Forum!
CALL FOR YOUTH TO SIGN UP! Are you between the ages of 14-25? Do you know someone that age? Then you must register, and tell other to do the same, as a delegate at the UNFPA’s Global Youth Forum that will take next week in Bali, between December 3-6. The Forum is being sponsored by [...]
European Union: Anti-Religious Hate Groups Join Forces to Oust Catholic Politician
Strange things are going on in the EU Institutions. First John Dalli, the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, was ousted from the European Commission on the basis of (rather flimsy) charges of wrongdoing. Requests to Commission President Barroso to explain why exactly he forced Mr. Dalli to resign have been left unanswered. As [...]
Will UN Disability Treaty Burden Abortion Clinics?
They didn’t see that coming. Planned Parenthood’s support of the UN Disability treaty has put the abortion group in an awkward position. In the abortion group’s zeal to support the treaty because it endorses the right of persons with disabilities to access “reproductive health care,” it neglects to notice that the same treaty would require [...]
Philippine Legislator Says High Maternal Mortality Figures Propaganda
In a senate speech Philippine legislator Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto pushed back against erroneous maternal mortality statistics being widely used by supporters of the RH bill claiming 11 Filipino women die daily from childbirth complications. Sotto had his staff research maternal deaths in the Philippines and found the figure to be less than half of what [...]
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 [...]
4 Problems with the London Family Planning Summit Goals
1. The London Family Planning Summit expects governments to provide permanent funding for contraception programs. Where will the money come from? – Developed countries will likely siphon scarce funding from other programs to comply.- Current family planning funding in the developing world is $4 billion (1) – The Gates Foundation is a large stakeholder in [...]
London Family Planning Conference: a rebirth of Nazi ideology?
In one of the previous posts on this blog, I read about the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe issuing a declaration in which, inter alia, it is stated that: “We the undersigned Members of Parliament … (…) Stress that one US dollar spent on family planning saves governments 4 dollars on health, housing, [...]
Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies
Perusing the Sunday New York Times yesterday I saw that Joan Dunlop died on Friday at 78. I wondered how many pro-lifers would even know the name. The obit did her no justice. Couched in the fuzzy, cryptic terms about health and women’s rights editors use these days for abortion, it was hard to tell that she was a giant in the arena [...]
First Babies, Then the Elderly . . .
As activists gear up for a global summit in London to pressure governments to spend more money on family planning, a British doctor is claiming thousands of elderly patients are killed each year due to a lack of hospital beds and caring nursing staff. Some say the population control movement is dead. These events show [...]
Chen’s Sabbath
Chen Guangcheng’s weary plea as he sought refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing was, “I have not had a Sunday in 7 years.” Arriving in the U.S. this weekend, his first day in America was, appropriately, Sunday. This was the last leg of a harrowing journey that began with an escape from [...]
House Committee Right To Cut Aid to UNFPA and International Abortion Rights Groups
On Thursday the House Appropriations Committee passed the FY’13 State and Foreign Operations bill which provides funding to the State Department and other foreign operations. The $40.1 billion package makes significant prolife strides and curbs funding to United Nation agencies pending necessary reform. The $39 million requested by the Obama administration for the United Nations [...]
Ban in Vogue
Ban Ki-Moon made the cover of a fashion magazine. In an issue dedicated to “Rebranding Africa,” the Italian edition of Vogue magazine profiles the UN Secretary General in an interview conducted by the editor that could be mistaken for a high-school journalism paper. Pundits speculate that Vogue focused on Africa in a scramble to [...]
Catholic Bishops Question Girl Scouts Programs
The Girl Scouts have been criticized for years for its leadership pulling the wholesome organization into the trendy world of sexual and gender activism. The piecemeal flare-ups accumulated until, in 2010, revelation of one incident at the UN (in this Friday Fax, and this one) exposed the whole stinking mess. Now the U.S. Conference [...]
U.S. House Foreign Ops Bill Would Reinstate Mexico City Policy and Defund UNFPA
The House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations subcommittee released its FY 2013 appropriations bill making serious cuts to international organizations that perform or promote abortion. President Obama rescinded the Mexico City policy shortly after taking office which allowed funds allocated for reproductive health to flow to groups like International Planned Parenthood and others. The Obama [...]
Sexual Rights, Overpopulation, and what they have to do with Youth
Yesterday marked day two of a week long conference on “Adolescents and Youth” held by the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD). While the conference is supposed to address a wide range of topics related to population, development and youth, it has focused almost exclusively on promoting the sexual and reproductive rights of youth, [...]
Abortion Advocates Provide “Tool Kit” to Advance Sexual Rights through UN Human Rights Council
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), a coalition of international organizations that advocate for sexual and reproductive rights at the United Nations, released a “toolkit” to encourage advocates to document sexual and reproductive right abuses in their countries. It is their intention that these complaints be used in the Universal Periodic [...]
Sex Rights for Children = The Right to Child Rape
As the UN considers creating “sexual rights” for children as young as 10, a court in Brazil shows what this would mean. Adult men can rape girls or boys with impunity. This won’t grant rights to children, but to abusers who are perversely sexually attracted to children. LifeSiteNews reports that a Brazilian federal appeals court [...]
EU Funding of Abortion Giants Exposed by European Dignity Watch
The non-profit advocacy group European Dignity Watch has published a report that exposes and denounces EU funding of International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, the two largest abortion providers in the world. The report uncovers substantial contributions of the EU to IPPF and MSI in contravention of EU Law prohibiting support to abortion [...]
The Great Divorce: Planned Parenthood’s international plan for youth and their families
Ever wondered what IPPF really thinks about the relationship between parents and their children? Well, at the UN’s upcoming Commission on Population and Development their agenda couldn’t be clearer. I will let you judge for yourselves (emphasis added): “The theme of the Commission on Population and Development in 2012 is ‘Adolescent and Youth.’ IPPF believes [...]