Why data on “unsafe” abortion is wrong
Even though abortion advocates and UN agencies have claimed for many years that 13% of all maternal deaths are due to “unsafe” abortion, the fact is that no one really knows. That’s because much of the world doesn’t report the cause of death at all. So says the WHO–yet again. This time in its launch of an [...]
The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
New WHO study on abortion–or is it?
The Lancet published a joint WHO/Guttmacher Institute study which, predictably, concludes that nations must legalize abortion to make childbearing safer. Here is the report’s bottom line: “The substantial decline in the abortion rate observed earlier has stalled, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased. Restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower [...]
Another WHO division in trouble?
The Guardian UK reports that the WHO essential medicines department has been hit by the fiscal squeeze. Here is a previous story on the department’s endorsement of misoprostol.
How To Magically Make Abortion “Safe”
What’s worse than being a statistic? Not even being counted. That’s what is likely to happen to a 42-year old woman who, The Age reports, died on Sunday after a legal abortion at a Marie Stopes International clinic in Australia. Since Australia allows abortion, this will fall into the “safe abortion” category by some researchers [...]
From Russia with Love: 126 non-governmental Organisations in Russia and Ukraine condemn UN attempts to manufacure false “human rights”
On 24 November 2011, representatives from 126 non-governmental organisations in Russia and Ukraine have adopted an impressive statement called the Saint-Petersburg-Resolution, calling the UN and its various organisations to order. The Resolution, which in unconpromising language condemns the “anti-family tendencies prevailing in the UN and various of its committees”, is built on the model of [...]
Red Cross promoting abortion as a human right? Shame on WHO
The latest report on maternal health from the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) will leave some readers thinking IFRC endorses abortion as a human right. That’s because it quotes, in a section on human rights (p.23), a highly controversial report from a UN staff saying all nations must legalize abortion because of women’s [...]
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Endorse Special Rapporteur on Right to Abortion
Just in case anyone was wondering who actually pays attention to anything that goes on within the UN Human Rights machinery… The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCRC) and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health have just issued a report on maternal and child health. In the report they [...]
New Study: Contraceptives Double Risk of HIV/AIDS
The New York Times front page today carried the story of a new study showing that injectible contraceptives double the risk of contracting HIV. The contraceptive is the most popular in eastern and southern Africa (used by some 12 million women). Women who are HIV positive double the chance they will infect their partner. What [...]
New Report: RU-486 Quietly Killing Women
The US Food and Drug Administration, which approved mifeprex for medical abortions, has just quietly released a new report showing how deadly their decision has turned out to be. When the World Health Organization recently added misoprostol to its list of “essential” medicines, pro-life OB/GYNs welcomed its potential to stop post-partum bleeding but were wary [...]
5 UN agencies join to promote universal abortion rights
Under the auspices of condemning the heinous practice of sex selective abortion, 5 UN agencies have issued a statement essentially calling for universal unrestricted abortion. Thanks to Marie Smith for highlighting the following disturbing passages in the document: Various United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies have established that the rights of women and girls [...]
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 [...]
WHO’s HPV guidelines ignore parent’s role
More on the UN’s HPV campaign from my previous story and blog posts. The WHO’s guidelines for countries on how to implement the vaccine notably circumvent the role of parents. The guidelines recommend a school-based program for 9-13 year olds, recognizing that adding HPV to vaccination programs that target infants and children under five are [...]
R.I.P. Bernard Nathanson, Abortionist turned Pro-Life Activist
Dr. Bernard Nathanson died today in New York at the age of 84. Dr. Nathanson was a co-founder of NARAL (National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws), and by his own estimate, performed around 75,000 abortions. Nathanson converted to the pro-life side around 1980 after seeing ultrasound images of the unborn children that he [...]