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It looks like a benign, if rather anodyne, document expressing support for families. But the “Declaration Pro Familia” signed by Central European governments in May could be used to push an ultra-conservative agenda at the EU level.

Biden’s Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Far Outspends Obama In office for only four months, President Joe Biden has directed almost $500 billion in federal funding to the abortion industry through legislation and executive action. Pictured: Biden signs an executive order on health care Jan. 28 that includes funds for abortion. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) President Joe Biden has funneled nearly 20 times as much taxpayer money to the abortion industry as Barack Obama had at this point ...

Planned Parenthood upset with Biden By May 6, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. (06 May 2021) - American Life League executive director and STOPP founder Jim Sedlak issued the following commentary today as part of the bi-weekly STOPP Report: If you are paying attention to what is happening in our federal government concerning abortion, you most likely think the title of this article is a mistake. From picking Kamala Harris, an avid Planned Parenthood supporter, as his running mate to installing Xavier Bec...

Time to cut the string on the global reproductive health yo-yo Dawn Laguens, opinion contributor © Istock Time to cut the string on the global reproductive health yo-yo Global advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights had a lot to celebrate during the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. The list includes repeal of the global gag rule, disavowal of the Trump administrations anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ Geneva Consensus Declaration, and restoration...

Letter Revealed Announcing U.S. Withdrawal from Pro-Life Declaration

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the virtual signing ceremony for the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Oct. 22, 2020. | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed disappointment at the Biden administration’s failure to emphasize religious freedom and what he described as disowning the "glorious work" of the Commission on Unalienable Rights established under former President Donald Trump. “For four years, the Trump administratio...

The declaration is not legally binding and it is also believed that most countries

US President Biden shines harsh spotlight on Uganda April 7, 2021 An injured protestor US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was blunt and plain-spoken in his unflattering assessment of Uganda’s poor human rights record when he delivered on-camera remarks recently while presiding at the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Uganda’s grades on human rights took a battering before, during and in the immediate aftermath o...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Fernando Antonio In December, masses of feminists donned in green took to the streets of Argentina to celebrate the legalization of abortion in their country. Though a judge recently blocked the new law, the initial move prompted a Central American country to take action but going in a different direction. The Honduran National Congress recently amended the country’s Constitution to declare that the unborn have the same rights under law as those born. “The unborn ...

During the Trump administration we also finalized a common sense rule in 2019 requiring abortion to be separate from family planning and that providers not refer for abortion as family planning. All but one Planned Parenthood affiliate refused and gave up about $60 million annually in federal Title X funding, proving that abortion — not helping poor women with family planning — is their top priority. Instead of giving priority to meet the family planning needs of low-income families, as we ...