“Pesky Issue of National Sovereignty” in the way of Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Larry Bell writes in Forbes about “More U.N. Insanity Paid For By U.S. Taxpayers”. He claims UN officials want to achieve “global governance” through an international tax system. An underlying position paper theme those top U.N. bosses grappled with was how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty that interferes with their global [...]
Sec. Clinton to International Family Planning Conference: “U.S. commitment and involvement in this issue is of paramount importance”
In a letter addressing family planning advocates at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal, Secretary Clinton emphasized the timely importance of providing reproductive care around the globe. She pledged the commitment of the United States in helping women access what she feels is a “basic right” – “information and means to [...]
Kenyan OB/GYN Confirms Destructive Power of US Population and Development Programs
This is testimony from a doctor working on the ground that needs to be read by everyone working in the international population and development field. Here is a sampling: Population Control – The Kenyan Perspective By Dr. Stephen K. Karanja, M.B.CH.B.M.MED O/G – Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist The first birth control clinic was opened in Nairobi, the [...]
For Better or Worse, U.S. Soft Power
In an interview with FrontLines, Lt. Gen. John R. Allen (who President Barack Obama nominated last month to take Gen. David Petraeus’ place as commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan) told the reporter: There are adversaries in the CENTCOM region who understand and respect American hard power, but they genuinely fear [...]
Reducing Risky Behavior: The Ultimate HIV Prevention
Much is being made of a new study released last week that is a breakthrough in HIV prevention. USAID, in particular, lauded the study: Results released today from the HPTN 052 study confirmed that effective use of oral antiretrovirals by people living with HIV can significantly reduce—in this case by up to 96 percent—the risk [...]
Want to Really Save Children’s Lives? Put Family Planning Funds into Malaria Prevention
The folks over at Population Research Institute have produced an excellent short video on how the US should fulfill its promise from 2008 to fully fund malaria programs. The US has consistently given more money to family planning than malaria. If the controversial family planning funding was eliminated and some of that money was given [...]
State Dept. and USAID: What’s Really First For Maternal Health?
Today, Sec. Clinton delivered a brief speech at the launch of the Global Partnership on Maternal and Child Health, where she mentioned that we have to step away from traditional methods of improving maternal health, and innovate to save lives quickly. Yet, Sec. Clinton’s first solutions – skilled birth attendants and tech to resuscitate newborns [...]
US Administration’s Complicity in Youth Prostitution Starts with Obama
Recently, C-FAM broke the story on a US-funded project that promotes the normalization of youth prostitution. Shortly before this story, Live Action carried out a series of undercover stings on Planned Parenthood, which resulted in workers from at least seven Planned Parenthood clinics being caught on tape offering advice for covering up underage sex trafficking. [...]
Reality Check for RH Reality Check
Today, RH Reality Check accused Rep. Latta (OH) of being a bully, and then went on to define the term “pro-life” in wholly disingenuous terms while worrying about cutting US tax dollar contributions to international “family planning.” Yet, a brief look at RH Reality Check’s definition and scare tactic statistics shows that they aren’t really [...]
US State Department: Hypocritical Transparency-Speak
Today, amidst talk of government transparency and accountability, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw the press out of strategic discussion with “civil society.” After a 30 minute introduction to a round-table discussion generically titled the “Strategic Dialogue With Civil Society,” Secretary Clinton said, “the press is going to leave so that we can begin [...]
US-Funded Marie Stopes’ Video Promotes Anal Sex to Avoid Pregnancy
Abortion giant Marie Stopes International, which is funded by UNFPA and USAID, sponsors a website called “Have a LARC” (for Long Acting Reversible Contraception). Prominent on the homepage of the website is the deplorable video “Use Ya Head”, by some outfit called The Midnight Beast. The graphic video features simulated sex with a naked blow-up [...]
Family Life Education Not So Family-Friendly
Using American money to normalize commercial sexual exploitation of youth is not all the Interagency Youth Working Group is up to. A look at their program area on “Sexuality and Family Life Education” reveals harmless looking images of Muslim and Indian families, talk of preparing young people to make good decisions as they “transition to [...]
USAID and Abortion as Youth-Friendly Healthcare
Following up on our earlier post, a brief look at some of the resources provided by the Interagency Youth Working Group demonstrates their focus on pushing abortion as reproductive healthcare for youth. The document pushes even further and places abortion in the context of healthcare services to which youth have a right. At IYWG’s website, [...]
Girl Up! Or, How “Investing” in Adolescent Girls is Code for Abortion Rights
Let’s follow the trail of all of the new campaigns focused on investing in adolescent girls. Not surprisingly, they all seem to end up in explicit abortion promotion. First, as reported last week, the new UNFPA head made “youth reproductive health services” a priority for the agency. Then, just this morning, UN Women tweeted about [...]
US Foreign Aid Money Reducing Abortion?
The United States government launched a new website in an effort to make foreign aid more transparent. The site is called the Foreign Assistance Dashboard and includes information related to the budgets of the US Department of State and USAID, and will have further information on other USG agencies going forward. The data is divided [...]
New Congress: Defunding Abortion Business Beyond America
With a majority in the House of Representatives, and an encouraging increase in the Senate, conservative elected officials now have a new responsibility. When it comes to defending the lives of unborn children, it is obvious that a major policy initiative of the new Congress should be to deprive US abortion businesses of federal tax [...]