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Happy Mother’s Day!
May 12, 2023 Last week I shared with you the anti-mother/anti-family attack being made on Motherhood and the beautiful speech given by one of our writers, a former UFI intern, at the UN's Commission on the Status of Women this past March. If you missed it (which you...
Mother’s Day is Controversial
May 2, 2023 In the UN world, Mother’s Day has been controversial for a couple of decades, with the CEDAW compliance committee, back in the early 2000s, telling the country of Belarus to get rid of Mother’s Day because it perpetuated “negative stereotypes” and Armenia...
Huge Victory at the UN!
Huge Victory at the UN! Pro-Family Countries Hold their Ground against Western Bullies On April 14, few people were aware of the intense drama playing out in the halls of the United Nations. The Commission on Population and Development, or CPD, was in its final...
Our “You Can Sue Me Later” Society
April 4, 2023 From the desk of Wendy Wixom: Our last Issue Update filled you in on our recent experience at the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women meetings. As noted previously, we didn't think we were going to have a CSW event this year, and last...
“That Image Will Haunt Me”
Report on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) The first in-person UN Commission on Status of Women (CSW), since the onset of COVID, finished up in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 18. The negotiated outcome document or “Agreed Conclusions” was...
Billion-dollar, baby-selling industry
Most of us are familiar with a couple who has experienced infertility and then had their lives blessed through assisted reproductive technologies. We often speak of this in terms of “a miracle of our modern age,” but could it also be true that there is a dark side to...
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A Fish in Different Waters
March 9, 2023 by Jaren McClure The United Nations is a place that I only thought existed in dreams and movies, where people rigorously debate policy to change the world. That was my perception of the United Nations before I had the opportunity to experience it myself...
Hope for Breaking the Poverty Cycle
February 21, 2023 by Alexa Sanwo People all over the world endure the struggles of not having enough. In 2018, there were 38.1 million people living in poverty in the United States alone. Poverty, of course, is terrible. People don’t get to choose whether they are...
Raising Healthy Children Begins with Your Actions
January 25, 2023 by Amanda Henderson Kids are like tiny sponges when it comes to absorbing information from all around them. Therefore, if they see the adults in their lives modeling healthy behaviors, they will do the same. As parents and role models, we have to help...
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December 6, 2022 by Alexis Tarkalson Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas lit the fire underneath the pro-LGBTQ senators when he included a more rebellious comment in his dissent for the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022). This specific...
Respect for Marriage Act, just not the traditional kind
December 6, 2022 by Alexis Tarkalson Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas lit the fire underneath the pro-LGBTQ senators when he included a more rebellious comment in his dissent for the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...
Setting the Record Straight on Hillary Clinton’s Absurd Comparison
December 3, 2022 by Alexis Tarkalson These are the exact words from Hillary Clinton, delivered during an interview with PBS: “We have come along way on so many fronts but we are also in a period of time where there is a lot of pushback and much of the progress...
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