In an effort to pass new education legislation, the British Parliament has removed a reform that would have denied both parents and religious schools of their rights. This comes as welcomed news after the House of Commons passed the bill with this dangerous reform last...
A new study released online today reveals some surprising news: maternal mortality rates have dropped worldwide! The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, found that the number of women dying from childbirth or pregnancy dropped from about 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008....
As you probably have heard, Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed into law two new limitations on abortion in the state of Nebraska. The first requires doctors to screen women seeking abortions for mental or physical health factors that may impact the abortion before the...
Live Action has done it again. In this newly released second video of the Rosa Acuna Project, an effort to expose the manipulative tactics of Planned Parenthood counselors, Live Action exposes a counselor in Milwaukee lying to a patient about the development of unborn children and...
According to a survey conducted by the OC Metro and The Value Institute at DGWB, Planned Parenthood is one of the 10 most trusted brands in Orange County, California. “Trust. What is it?” asks OC Metro Publisher, Steve Churm. “Five months ago, OC Metro and the...
There is less than a week remaining to convince the Members of Parliament to vote against a bill to legalize assisted suicide in Canada. Bill C-384, which would allow doctors to cause the intentional death of a patient under defined circumstances, is currently scheduled for...
We just wanted to write a quick post to inform all parents that the National Day of Silence sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network is tomorrow, April 16. Students in schools around the United States will be disrupting classes by refusing to...
The LGBT advocacy group GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) has proclaimed April 16, 2010 a “Nation Day of Silence” in public schools. The Day of Silence website explains, “On the National Day of Silence hundreds of thousands of students nationwide take a vow...
First, the good news The teen birth rate in the United States fell two percent between 2007 and 2008, after rising for the two years prior. The birth rate for the year 2007, however, was an all-time high. This report from the Centers for Disease Control...
Efforts began in November 2009 to get a repeal of Prop. 8 on the November ballot have failed. The LGBT advocacy group leading the repeal effort, Love Honor Cherish, was unable to gather the 700,000 signatures required Monday in order to get the initiative on the...
In a long tradition of taking on controversial issues, HBO will be airing an original movie this month celebrating the life of Dr. Jack Kevorkian—or better known as Dr. Death. The film, You Don’t Know Jack, stars Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian alongside John Goodman,...
With soaring medical prices, everyone is looking for ways to reduce costs—even abortion clinics. Enter a new innovation called “telemed” abortions. Thanks to telemed abortions, Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa are now able to reduce costs and increase profits and perform more abortions without ever requiring...
A few months ago we posted a video of 12-year-old Lia of Toronto giving an impassioned speech defending the sanctity of life against abortion. Well, a year older now, Lia is taking on euthanasia. Not only is her delivery perfect, she also delivers one of the...
The normalization and promotion of homosexuality has reached new heights in Vancouver, Canada. The Vancouver School Board is now taking an active role in promoting homosexuality and redefining gender roles in it schools through a new annual student conference. Promoted as the “first-ever anti-homophobia conference for...
In a blatant “in your face” to the U.S. Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Obama Administration has allowed—no instructed—Census 2010 workers to tell citizens that they can violate the law of the land. The Census Bureau has issued this directive: "Same-sex couples who...
You may not know this, in fact, we suspect nobody knows this, but a provision of California law mandates an end to homosexuality, or at least a cure. Through Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8050, passed in 1950, California requires health officials to seek ‘the...
It appears April is free speech month for the Supreme Court. Two important free speech cases are going before the Court this month and they could have a large impact on your rights to both religious and political speech. Here is a basic overview of...
On April 1 the Parliament of Kenya approved a Draft Constitution that, with approval by popular vote, will become the new highest law of the land, giving more power to the people, protecting more rights, and limiting the power of the government. All together...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s rebuke of the Canadian government last week finally confirms what pro-family groups have been saying for decades: when they say family planning or reproductive health, they mean abortion. If you are unaware of the foreign affairs fiasco we are referring...
Iceland is about to pass a new law banning strip clubs throughout the small country of 320,000 people. This is an achievement unattainable in most Western countries. What is more interesting, however, is the debate within the feminist community over whether this represents a huge...
We know it is a bit late, but if you missed this article, it is a must read. It is the March cover story for The Economist—“Gendercide: The worldwide war on baby girls”—and everyone should read it for two reasons: To learn more about a hugely...
There are times when we at UFI report on things and we wonder: “Do people really believe what we say about the anti-family, anti-life agenda at the UN?” “Do people think we are just overreacting or even making this stuff up?” Then along comes another voice...
A new ad by Polish pro-abortion group SROM has come under harsh criticism by British MPs for promoting abortion tourism to the UK. The ad features a young girl in white lingerie with the words “My choice” written on her stomach. The rest of the ad...
In the wake of the UFI Daily story regarding the State of Washington and the mother who lamented the fact that her high-school age daughter was given an abortion without her knowledge, I went to the Ballard High School website (Seattle, Washington) to take a...
President Obama finally signed the Executive Order (EO) he promised to pro-life Democrats Wednesday afternoon. The EO was the tipping point in gaining Stupak and twelve Democratic pro-life votes for health care reform. Without their votes the bill would not have passed. Before Obama even signed...
