John,
We just got a call from a UN diplomat from Africa. He wanted our help in understanding a term that caught his eye in a document under negotiation at the General Assembly.
The term was “life skills.”
Is “life skills” a good or a bad term, is what he wanted to know.
How crazy could it be that “life skills” could be a bad or dangerous term?
Well, our amazing staff lawyer Stefano Gennarini (J.D. Notre Dame) looked into the history of the term.
What he found was shocking. “Life skills” is used as a synonym for “COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION!”
It is used for homosexuality, trans, and abortion.
Stefano found it has been used in UN reports for a few years. It is indeed a new term.
We advised the UN delegate how to deal with the term and told him in no uncertain terms that it was poison.
This African delegate did not call any other group. He called C-Fam. Why? Because we are the recognized expert on UN documents. They knew they can count on us to help them block anti-life and anti-family language from coming into international law.