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Austin Ruse is president of C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He is also a bi-weekly columnist with Crisis Magazine.

Articles by Austin Ruse

March for Life Expects 500,000

Up to 500,000 mostly young people are queued up to rally for unborn children on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, January 22, in what has become the largest ongoing civil rights march in American history.

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The Dangers of a World Without Women

A few years ago the New York Times ran a story about North Korean farmers selling their daughters for food to Chinese men. New stories are coming to light about Burmese women being sold on the Chinese market. The Chinese

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US House to Vote on 20 Week Abortion Ban

On the 42nd anniversary of Roe V. Wade coming up on January 22, the US House of Representatives will vote on banning abortion after the 20th week of gestation.

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Washington Post: Will Abortion Ban Halt Japanese Death Spiral?

Japan as a society may be on something of an irreversible death spiral. Is banning abortion the answer? An article in the Washington Post notes that some have wondered whether this could help. More than a quarter century ago, Japan became

AFP PHOTO / Toru YAMANAKA

Gay ‘Poster Boys’ for Surrogacy in Britain Condemned by US Critics

U.S. campaigners against surrogate motherhood have told Breitbart News they are not at all surprised by the controversy swirling around two gay millionaires who became the first LGBT men to have their names entered on the birth certificate of children born from gestational surrogacy.

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Left-Wing Lawyers Ponder End of Legal Abortion

In its January issue, the magazine of the Washington DC Bar Association mulls over the end of Roe V. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in all 50 States.

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How a Judge Made the Gay Marriage Debate Even More Confusing

A US District Court judge named Robert Hinkle decided last August that two gay men in Washington Country, Florida could not be stopped from getting married and that the Florida law making it a misdemeanor for a county clerk to issue a marriage license to same-sex couples violated the US Constitution.

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Maryland Diocese Admits Female Bishop Killed Cyclist in Hit-and-Run

The first female bishop of the Episcopalian Church and the second in command of the denomination in Maryland has been named by her diocese as the driver of a car that mowed down a father and beloved Baltimore bicycle maker two days after Christmas.

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How to Make an Abortion Clinic Beautiful

After years of protests and legislative regulations have closed all the other abortion clinics in the state, the shocking-pink Jackson Women’s Health Organization is the last one in Mississippi—and it may be headed for reconstruction to make it “extraordinarily beautiful.”

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Has Polygyny Spawned Islamic Violence?

Perhaps the strongest drive that mankind feels is to procreate. Catholic theologians say the drive to continue the species is one of the few aspects of natural law that humans know without being taught.

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Is ‘The Pill’ Killing Off Sperm?

There are transsexual fish in the lowland rivers of England. Boy fish are turning into girl fish, or at least developing female attributes.

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Heavy Porn Use Harms Sex with Real Live Girls

Along with the reported exodus of young men from relationships with women comes an academic report that college-aged men are using online porn at epidemic levels, and its use is having a generally negative effect on their relationships with real live girls.

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Academic Left Unleashes Fury at Conservative Marquette Professor

Professor John McAdams has not only been suspended by the Marquette University administration, he has also come under fire from liberal academics from around the country and has taken fire from at least one fellow conservative. McAdams is the tenured

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Left Livid at Failure of Climate Talks

(UNITED NATIONS) — Activists are upset over the failure of recent negotiations on “global warming” that closed this week in Lima, Peru. Governments met yet again aiming to hammer out an agreement that would limit the greenhouse gases the left

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Anti-Porn Crusader Arrested for Alleged Sexual Relations with Underage Girl

Anti-pornography campaigner, Donny Pauling, has been arrested in California and charged with sexual relations with an underage girl. Pauling was arrested earlier this month after a 16-year-old girl and her mother walked into the Sutter County, California, Sheriff’s Office and reported

Anti-Porn Crusader Arrested for Alleged Sexual Relations with Underage Girl

Where to Shop if You're Pro-LGBT

A new report from the LGBT Human Rights Campaign (HRC) lists hundreds of retailers and their LGBT-friendly score. The purpose of the list is to encourage shoppers this holiday season to buy LGBT and to avoid companies that are not so enlightened.

Where to Shop if You're Pro-LGBT

Left-Wing Group Calls for Federal Crackdown on LGBT Discrimination

A report from the left-wing Center for American Progress says gays, lesbians, and transsexuals will not fully realize the promise of America unless and until the Federal government extends to them widespread protection from all kinds of discrimination. The 76-page report calls

Left-Wing Group Calls for Federal Crackdown on LGBT Discrimination

UNICEF: Kids Have Human Right to be Gay

(UNITED NATIONS)–In a paper published just last month, the UN Children’s Fund has asserted that “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” are now protected categories in international human rights law. UNICEF calls for the striking down of any and all laws

UNICEF: Kids Have Human Right to be Gay

DC Bans Help for Minors Wanting to Change Homosexual Behavior

The City Council of Washington, D.C., has banned therapy for minors who seek to change their same-sex attraction or behavior. The District of Columbia joins the states of California and New Jersey in banning the practice. Opponents of “sexual orientation

DC Bans Help for Minors Wanting to Change Homosexual Behavior

Protesters Try to Shut Down Christmas Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center

After attempting to shut down the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting, roughly 200 protestors spilled out of Vanderbilt Avenue near Grand Central Station this evening and marched east on 42nd Street.  They carried signs saying “I cannot breathe,” referring

Protesters Try to Shut Down Christmas Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center

Church Conservatives a Tiny Bit Buoyed About Synod Round Two

The election of delegations from the US and Spain have Catholic conservatives at least slightly buoyed about their chances of winning the debate at the next and final Synod on family issues in the Catholic Church. The Extraordinary Synod that

Church Conservatives a Tiny Bit Buoyed About Synod Round Two

Claire McCaskill Denies Hating Cardinal Raymond Burke

Shortly after Senate Democrats voted earlier this month to name Harry Reid their leader, Reid sat down with the The New York Times and vented about Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, who earlier that day declined to vote for him. Reid

Claire McCaskill Denies Hating Cardinal Raymond Burke

Abortion Advocates Expect a Tsunami of Pro-Life State Laws

Abortion advocates were already alarmed with advances made by pro-lifers in state houses around the country. NARAL Pro-Choice America reports that pro-lifers enacted more laws over the past two years than in the previous decade combined. Now, they face even

Abortion Advocates Expect a Tsunami of Pro-Life State Laws