A brief report about the 33rd. session of the September 2016 Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. ADF International and a number of pro-life and pro-family civil society advocates participated in negotiations of important resolutions and the outcome reports on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). ADF International delivered as well 9 Oral Statements to the…
On 21st September 2016, for the second time, the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rejected a controversial resolution on surrogacy presented by the Belgian Senator Dr. Petra De Sutter. However, the Committee approved to propose the draft recommendation “European guidelines to safeguard…
By Nicolás Jouve, Professor of Genetics, President of CiViCa (member of the One of Us Federation) On February of 2015 a request formulated by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), to apply a method of obtaining three-parent human embryos (two mothers and a father), was approved by the House of Commons in the United Kingdom.…
The Polish Parliament is scheduled to consider a new bill this week that would provide more protections for unborn babies by banning all abortions. The strong Catholic country already prohibits most abortions. In Poland, abortion is legal in cases of rape and incest, the life or health of the mother or severe fetal deformities –…
It is a first time in the history of Romania when such a large number of citizens support an initiative for a constitutional amendment ballot. The new phrasing in Romania’s Constitution is also aimed to enhance the parental right to raise and educate children by the parents’ values and beliefs: „A family is established through…
For years, Planned Parenthood has tried to bolster its public image by saying that abortion “is only three percent” of its activities. Now, a new video from Live Action explodes that myth, exposing the sleight-of-hand the nation’s largest abortion provider uses to artifice such a low number.
According to its most recent annual report, in the 2014-2015 fiscal year Planned Parenthood performed 323,999 abortions and saw a total of “approximately” 2.5 million patients – not all of whom are women. That’s one abortion every 97 seconds.
That also means that one of every eight patients will have an abortion – making the percentage of abortions Planned Parenthood performs more than four times higher than it commonly reports.
Madrid, 24 de mayo de 2016 El Ministro de Recursos Humanos de Hungría, D. Zoltán Balog, a petición de la Ministra de Familia, Dña. Katalin Novák, ha entregado esta mañana el Premio “Pro Familiis” a D. Jaime Mayor Oreja, “en reconocimiento a su inmensa y incansable labor por los valores de la familia, como fundamento…
The ONE OF US Federation welcomes the rejection by the Council of Europe of a report legalizing surrogate motherhood as a clear step toward the stop of women and children trafficking Brussels, March 16th. 2016. The ONE OF US Federation applauds the rejection of the “de Sutter” report on Human Rights and ethical issues related…
-Jaime mayor Oreja, Presidente de la Federación One Of Us: “All PP le exigimos que abandone ese proyecto, aunque sólo sea por lealtad a sus votantes». -Ana del Pino, Coordinadora Ejecutiva Europea de la Federación One Of Us: “La maternidad de alquiler, más conocida como vientres de alquiler o gestación por sustitución, no constituye ningún…
-“Todos tenemos derecho a la vida. Yo he llegado a esta convicción gracias a las experiencias que tenido con Gammy”. – “A las familias que esperan un niño con trisomía 21 les quiero decir que van a tener una perla entre las perlas, un regalo que le va hacer ver las cosas de manera distinta y…
