UFI Blog

May 7, 2010

Let your voice be heard!  Vote on the current UFI poll question -  Should it be more difficult to get a divorce? Click HERE and scroll to bottom of the page to cast your vote!...

May 7, 2010

Reading the “comments” section of blogs and internet articles can be even more educational—and often more entertaining—than the article itself.  This was certainly the case with a “comment” that I copied and saved a while back.  I don’t remember the content of the article, but...

May 6, 2010

Join us on Voice of the Nation as we talk with two of the most influential mothers in the United States about their experiences as a mother and why protecting and valuing motherhood is so very important! Also – get some tips on how to...

May 6, 2010

In the ongoing battle over the Boy Scouts’ use of San Diego’s Balboa Park, this week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case--allowing a Ninth U.S. Circuit court decision to stand.  The case will now return to the federal and state courts for...

May 6, 2010

Think pornography is a huge societal problem now?  If the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gives the go ahead to a proposal to create a .XXX domain, it could get worse.  A possible ruling by ICANN this month (May) would create the...

May 5, 2010

So does that mean if you are against abortion (pro-life) that you must be “less educated “ or dare I say “less smart?”  There are studies out there that claim that atheists and people who identify as “liberal” have higher IQ’s and thus go on...

May 3, 2010

We’ve been shocked and very troubled by the report coming out of Italy of a newborn baby who was subject to an attempted abortion and then left by the abortionist/physician to die.  The UFI Daily also passed on a follow-up story.  One’s mind has to...

April 30, 2010

For those of you who followed the Steve Leavitt debate a few years ago on his theory that legal abortion lowered crime rates, we’ve got a study, albeit a few years late, to enlighten the debate. For those of you unfamiliar with what we are talking...

April 29, 2010

Yesterday we posted a speech by Orson Scott Card describing the power of narrative and storytelling in shaping a culture's values and expectations. An interesting example of this is the story our society is telling (or isn’t telling) about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). You may not...

April 28, 2010

“A Strong Culture must have powerful stories explaining why it is a Good Culture — or it will die,” explained Orson Scott Card at a recent gathering of the Management Society of Brigham Young University. Card is the well-known author of over 50 works of fiction,...

April 27, 2010

Does the fact that the world is becoming increasingly less religious correlate with the fact that fertility rates have plummeted worldwide?  In women, does irreligosity and childlessness go hand in hand?  If a study of women in the U.S. is any indication, the answer to...

April 26, 2010

Pediatricians are not happy with what is occurring in schools across the country.    On April 1, 2010, a letter was mailed to school superintendents across the United States, urging administrators and school personnel to refrain from validating or promoting homosexual behavior.  “We are increasingly concerned...

April 23, 2010

In the current economic state of high unemployment, thus a highly competitive job market, marriage might hold the key to employment success.  Economists from American University in Washington D.C. and Israel’s Haifa University* studied labor markets and concluded that marriage has a “positive effect on...

April 22, 2010

We reported last week that the signature drive to overturn California’s Prop 8 had failed.  Gay activists had hoped to place on the November 2010 ballot a measure that would repeal Prop 8.  For now the California state constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man...

April 21, 2010

Puning county in the southern part of China is in the middle of what you might call a “sterilization drive.” Nearly 10,000 women, identified as the worst violators of  China’s “one-child policy,” have been selected for sterilization in a 20 day push. The campaign was launched...

April 20, 2010

Dr. Jack Kevorkian was interviewed by Anderson Cooper last week and that everybody should watch. Kevorkian, often called as Dr. Death, is famous for his advocacy for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. The interview is a clear continuation of that work and presumably comes as part...

April 20, 2010

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...

April 19, 2010

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....

April 16, 2010

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...

April 15, 2010

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...

April 15, 2010

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...

April 15, 2010

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...

April 15, 2010

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...

April 14, 2010

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...

April 14, 2010

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...