Dear Colleague,

A quarter-century after abortion entered UN policy with conferences at Cairo and Beijing, it remains highly unpopular with many member nations.  In a largely-virtual event commemorating the 1995 world conference on women in Beijing, some governments firmly denounced abortion, while others promoted it euphemistically.  Nevertheless, UN agencies took the opportunity to aggressively promote LGBT rights, which, like abortion, were not included in the consensus from Beijing.  Stefano Gennarini reports.

The United States, joined by 57 countries, issued a statement reaffirming one of the UN's founding documents, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  But 136 countries refrained from joining, urged into silence by the European Union.  European diplomats, as well as other critics of the Trump administration, expressed concern that refocusing on the founding human rights texts would threaten decades of advances for controversial so-called "rights" such as abortion and the "sexual rights" agenda.  I report.

Here in the U.S., pro-life groups are welcoming the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but not everyone is pleased.  Lisa Correnti blogs about the hysterical reactions from pro-abortion organizations at Turtle Bay and Beyond.

I also participated in a panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation this week, talking about the failures of radical feminism at the UN over the past 25 years.  Check out the video here.

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Yours sincerely,

Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.
Director of Research