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A misguided sham: International Women’s Day

March 08, 2024

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day which proclaims to act as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, “celebrating” the achievements of women, gender equality and reproductive rights. Hashtagged #EmbraceEquity, it is a day for all women: short women, tall women, fat women, thin women, rich women, poor women, women with penises and 18”

Anti-Christian drift of human rights agenda continues with new European ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ report

March 04, 2024

You might think Catholics and human rights lawyers should have a good deal in common. The political idea of universal rights beyond curtailment by secular powers certainly seems to chime neatly with the Christian doctrine of the unconditional preciousness of each individual as a being made in the image of God. Indeed, at one time

Will we allow cyborg ambition and abortion to defeat Christian protest?

February 13, 2024

Stephen Green, an evangelical Christian with a distinguished record in protest, was arrested at the beginning of February and charged, after holding a placard depicting words that mentioned a womb (taken from Psalm 139) within the statutory buffer zone near an abortion clinic. Reflecting on the precedent of the government of the day silencing religious

Catholic hospital’s refusal to implant contraceptive device generates conscientious objection debate in Brazil

January 29, 2024

SÃO PAULO – A refusal by a Catholic hospital in Brazil to implant a contraceptive intrauterine device in a 41-year-old woman has sparked a wide debate in the world’s largest Catholic country, both inside and outside the confines of the Church. The controversy erupted when a São Paulo-based content provider named Leonor Macedo took to

Biden plans to end contraception exemption for Little Sisters

July 09, 2020

Joe Biden pledged to reinstate Obama-era policies that would require the Little Sisters of the Poor to ensure access to birth control and abortifacients for employees in violation of their religious beliefs.

‘We are overjoyed’: Little Sisters of the Poor react to Supreme Court decision

July 09, 2020

“Once again, the Supreme Court has protected our right to serve the elderly without violating our faith,” said Mother Loraine Marie Maguire

Little Sisters have big win in Supreme Court decision

July 08, 2020

The Little Sisters of the Poor had a victory at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, nine years into the religious order’s bouts of litigation over the Obama-era “contraception mandate”

Chinese authorities force contraception on Uyghurs in ‘slow genocide’

June 29, 2020

The Chinese government is forcing Uyghur women to take contraceptives in an effort to slow the growing population. One expert called the campaign "a slow, painful, creeping genocide"