Category Archives: UNFPA

A President’s Character Is Less Important Than Their Policies. Also, why I’m voting for Hillary Clinton and not Jill Stein

There’s been a lot of news, over the last two weeks, about Trump being a serial sexual assaulter – and although Trump now denies it, many of the accusations match up perfectly with Trump’s boasting. It’s clear that Trump is … Continue reading

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Obama Revokes Global Gag Rule, Is Expected To Restore UNFPA Funding

Back in March, I wrote that I’d vote for either Clinton or Obama, because I was confident that either one of them would restore US funding to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA for short, odd as that may seem). It’s … Continue reading

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Democrats Are Losing Perspective

I’ve seen too many Democrats arguing “I will not vote for Clinton/Obama in the general election, because I don’t like the way Clinton/Obama supporters are acting, because I’ve come to hate Clinton/Obama, because Clinton/Obama is running a sexist/racist campaign,” etc … Continue reading

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The Democrats Taking Congress Might Save Tens Of Thousands Of Lives In The Third World

I’ve blogged a few times about the UNFPA — the UN Population Fund – over the years. To review: The UN Population fund doesn’t fund or provide abortions. But they do save thousands of women’s lives, and tens of thousands … Continue reading

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Ellen Sauerbrey and the UN Population Fund

Over at The Inkwell, the IWF’s blog, one of the Charlottes explains why feminists oppose Ellen Sauerbrey, Bush’s nominee for “Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the United Nations”: [She] supports the Bush … Continue reading

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How to eliminate extreme poverty according to the UNFPA

Via Planned Parenthood, the UNFPA has recently released its 2005 State of the World Population report. Which in my opinion states the obvious. That the elimination of extreme poverty cannot be achieved without ensuring gender equality and making reproductive healthcare … Continue reading

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The UN's Panel on Maternal Mortality

This was forwarded from an email list. It’s now moot – the action it called for ended at noon EST – so I’m hiding most of the entry.

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Symbolic (or is it?) victory for UNFPA, and against Global Gag rule

According to this Planned Parenthood release from Friday: Late last night the Senate approved a 2005 foreign assistance package that restores funding for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and blocks the global gag rule. In doing so, the Senate … Continue reading

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The Desk! The Desk! OR: Why the PRI's accusations aren't credible

A whlle ago, Sara at Diotima asked: I have looked at a lot of the literature out there on the UNFPA and whether or not it supported coerced abortions in China, and I’m just not sure it’s as conclusive as … Continue reading

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The Non-Catholic Version: If you're anti-abortion, you should vote for John Kerry

[This is the “non-Catholic version” of the post below this one; it’s the same post, but I’ve taken out the arguments about Catholicism, so that folks who are uninterested in that debate, might read the arguments for why John Kerry … Continue reading

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