THREE DAYS OF DEATH: Unofficial U.N. Conference in D.C. Has a Troubling Focus (Guest in EDT)
A host of independent international and United Nations agencies have assembled together to meet for three days this week—June 7th through the 9th—to conduct part two of the Women Deliver conference.
The first Women Deliver, held in London two years ago, was dedicated to addressing the issues of maternal, child and newborn health around the world. But, in light of what participants back then came to discover about the conference, Austin Ruse, the Director of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), can explain why part two underway right now in Washington is so troubling.
In London, many were taken aback by the conference’s heavy abortion push, operating then and now under the deceptive, euphemism-rich rhetoric of “reproductive rights” for the sake of “maternal health.”
Validating that reaction is this week’s part two meeting, which is exclusively being organized and attended by pro-abortion U.N. agencies, such as the U.N. Population Fund, and pro-abortion advocacy groups, such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
“Until this can be an official U.N. conference and we can get some of the U.N. member states involved that have pro-life delegations we can count on,” writes Ruse in a C-FAM email alert, “the outcome of this conference will be a direct threat to the unborn child.”
In the meantime, while the Women Deliver organization behind the event continues to fight for “maternal health” on the conviction that access to abortion is necessary to save women’s lives, Ruse can point to a recent study by a leading British medical journal that weakens this argument considerably.
Call Special Guests to hear more from a leader in the international pro-life movement who monitors U.N. social policy very closely. Ask for an interview with Austin Ruse, while the Women Deliver conference is taking place right now in our nation’s capital.
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ABOUT AUSTIN RUSE:
Austin Ruse has headed the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) since shortly after its creation in the summer of 1997. Mr. Ruse has held the title of President since 2000.
Ruse or his team have participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997 including the multi-year negotiations that created the International Criminal Court.
He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff. Ruse has also briefed senior government officials, journalists, Church and non-governmental leaders from around the world.
Austin has appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing UN and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC and Fox News and has been published in First Things, The Washington Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, Human Events and Touchstone, as well as newspapers around the world. He is a biweekly columnist for TheCatholicThing.org and founder of the foreign affairs blog, TheNewSovereigntists.org/
A former foreign affairs commentator for EWTN’s weekly news broadcast The World Over, hosted by Raymond Arroyo, Austin also lectures widely on U.N. matters, appearing throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Latin America, the Far East and Europe.
Ruse is a founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and prior to helping found C-FAM, Ruse spent many years in magazine publishing including Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly and Rolling Stone.
Mr. Ruse is a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and is a founding member of the Diplomatic Society of St. Gabriel. He is also a member of Sons of the American Revolution.
Austin holds undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Missouri, and an Honorary Doctorate from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Mr. Ruse is married to the former Cathleen Cleaver, who is senior legal advisor to the Family Research Council. They have two daughters, Lucy and Gigi. They live in the state of Virginia where Mr. Ruse’s family first arrived from England in the early 1700s.
About C-FAM:
C-FAM was founded in the summer of 1997 in order to monitor and affect the social policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions.
C-FAM is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty and the dignity of the human person.
C-FAM personnel have participated in every major UN social policy debate since 1997 including the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court, the Convention on Disabilities, Cairo 5, Beijing 5 and dozens of others.
C-FAM publishes and promotes scholarships related to the proposition that the UN and other international institutions harm a true understanding of international law and, in the process, undermine the family and other institutions man requires for a just, free and happy life.
C-FAM regularly interfaces with diplomats, policy makers, academics, activists and office holders from around the world.