The United Nations Population Fund has jumped on the bandwagon and tied “reproductive health” and population control to climate change in it’s State of the World Population 2009 report, subtitled “Facing a changing world: women, population and climate.” Piero A. Tozzi Jr., of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, which monitors the UN and international issues, writes about the report, saying it is a “thinly-veiled attempt to harness popular environmental concerns in service of population control.” LifeSiteNews.com also covers the Population Fund’s report.
Politico reports that Senator Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) says he will fillibuster the health care reform bill if it does not contain language that forbids federal taxpayer subsidies for abortion. Writing at The American Spectator Online, W. James Antle III says the vote is a “moment of truth” for Nelson and other pro-life Democrats in the Senate.
Wesley Smith has a very long, but very worthwhile article in this month’s First Things on conscience rights.
John Smeaton of the Society for the Proctection of Unborn Children in the United Kingdom notes how that country’s Children, Schools and Families Bill will lead the education system to promote abortion within schools.
World Net Daily reports that California “Schools let students seek secret abortions.”
The Vanier Institute of the Family has a report, “Divorce: Facts, Causes & Consequences.” The National Post has coverage of the report as well as a column by Barbara Kay.
Rick Santorum, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, asks “Diversity, but at what cost?” in regard to the Fort Hood shooting.
