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When Texas intervened to protect vulnerable children against transgender child mutilation, Google was one of the companies to sign a letter warning that preventing child abuse was "against the values of our companies." A recent lawsuit provides a small insight into just what the Big Tech giant’s “values” might be. Recently a former Google employer filed a lawsuit accusing the company of discrimination. “I was fired from my team there in February of 2021 because I raised alarm about a cult within Google, a group called the Fellowship of Friends. The group is well-documented: There are allegations of child abuse,...

The Church of Scientology faces the prospect of a police investigation in Australia after being accused of torture and embezzlement and of forcing employees to have abortions. Nick Xenophon, an independent senator, presented letters to the Australian Parliament from seven former Scientologists which he said showed that the secretive church was a front for physical violence, intimidation and blackmail. “I am deeply concerned about this organisation and the devastating impact it can have on its followers,” he told the Australian Senate in Canberra. He called for a Senate inquiry. The State Crime Command of New South Wales police yesterday confirmed...

In a rare disclosure of sensitive family-planning statistics, the state-run China Daily newspaper blamed ignorance about contraception for the figure. It described the widespread use of abortion as "unfortunate and avoidable" but did not clarify whether the number was rising. Wu Shangchun, a Family Planning official, said research showed 62 per cent of women undergoing abortions were under 29 and usually single. She added that the real total may be far higher since a large number of abortions were performed in unregistered clinics, especially in the countryside. A further ten million "morning after" contraceptive pills are sold each year. At...

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States'...

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States'...

'"Six days before the due date, 10 strong strangers came to my house, forced me into a truck then took me to a family planning clinic, where the doctor gave me an injection," she said. "The child began struggling in my womb and one of these scum even kicked me in the abdomen. Then the baby came out and they threw it into a rubbish bin. I could even see it was still moving." An even more horrifying story, reported on hundreds of websites, concerned a case of infanticide in Wuhan, central China, last September. A farmer named Huang Qiusheng...

We are entering a challenging time for the pro-life movement. Barack Obama will soon take office and, if his rhetoric is any guide, he is determined to overturn existing pro-life policies and promote abortion both at home and abroad. Specifically, Obama has promised the abortion movement that he will refund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Over the years, this United Nations agency has been implicated in horrible human rights abuses in country after country. From China to Peru, from Vietnam to North Korea, we at PRI have documented how the UNFPA has been complicit in forced abortion and sterilization...

Pregnant Mother's Case Drew International Attention and OutrageA six-month pregnant mother of two who faced a forced abortion by Chinese authorities has been freed and allowed to continue her pregnancy, according to Radio Free Asia. The case had attracted international attention and outrage. Arigul Tursun was scheduled to undergo the abortion against her will as early as today because authorities said she was entitled to only two children, according to the Uyghur Human Rights Project. "I am all right and I am home now," Tursun told RFA. The local population control committee chief reportedly said Tursun was released because "she...

A STORM of international protest is building over a Chinese ruling that a Muslim Uighur woman who is six months pregnant must have an abortion or lose her home.

Bush Admin Asks China to Release Forced Abortion Activist Chen Guangcheng Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Bush administration has asked China to release an activist who is being held by local officials in the eastern city of Linyi after exposing a brutal campaign of forced abortions and sterilizations there. This is the second time Bush representatives have pressed for his release, this time more formally.  Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey said she made the request during a meeting of the China-U.S. Global Issues Forum, going on in Beijing.  "We believe that there has been a certain violation of normal...

Gloating E-Mails Reveal Power of Abortion Advocates in European Union Copies of e-mails obtained by the Friday Fax reveal some of the world's leading pro-abortion advocates gloating over their powerful influence on a recent European Community committee ruling. E-mail comments from officials with International Planned Parenthood, Catholics for a Free Choice and the Center for Reproductive Rights concerned a 40-page opinion from the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. The opinion was critical of a proposed treaty between the Vatican and Slovakia which would provide strong protection for medical professionals who to refuse to participate in abortions and...

Excerpted from the Brussels Journal.A European Union advisory panel has issued a statement saying that medical professionals are not allowed to refuse to participate in abortions. According to the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights doctors should be forced to perform abortions, even if they have conscientious objections, because the right to abort a child is an “international human right.” The Network, which consists of one expert per EU member state, assists the European Commission and the European Parliament in developing EU policy on fundamental rights. The Network wrote a 40-page opinion stressing that the right to conscientious...

Wednesday November 16, 2005 Hilary Clinton Urges President Bush to Discuss Forced Abortion on China Trip By John-Henry WestenWASHINGTON, November 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After years of being urged by pro-lifers and Christians to condemn China's one-child policy, President George W. Bush is now being urged in the same direction by none other than Democratic Senator Hilary Clinton.  In a letter to the President dated November 10, Clinton wrote, "I hope you will raise with the Chinese government the following points," the first of which concerns the coercive one-child program."Since first introduced in 1979, China's one-child policy has evoked strong...

Hillary Clinton came out swinging Thursday against Red China for its forced abortion policies. Speaking in Washington at an American Bar Association symposium, Senator Clinton used her speech to urge President Bush to challenge China's "forced abortion" policy when he meets with Chinese leaders on his planned visit to Beijing next week. Sen. Clinton described China's one-child policy as a "fundamental injustice." The New York Sun also quoted Sen. Clinton as saying she had recently written directly to China President Hu Jintao about the abortion policy and other human rights abuses. The paper said "in the letter, Mrs. Clinton urged...

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- Chinese attorneys are risking their own freedom by pressing for the release of an activist against forced abortions detained by local officials in the eastern Chinese city of Linyi. They have released an open letter calling for authorities to release Chen Guangcheng, who has been under house arrest for the last month after exposing the brutal forced abortion and sterilization tactics of population control officials. The letter comes at a time when Chen may be charged with passing on government secrets because of an interview he conducted with Time magazine about the scandal. Chen said that...

Chinese prison officials have forced a pregnant inmate found guilty of transporting heroin to undergo an abortion so that she could be eligible for the death penalty, according to a report published on Wednesday, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. Ma Weihua in January was arrested in Gansu province for transporting 56 ounces of heroin from Xinjiang province. Under China's criminal code, individuals convicted of trafficking that amount of heroin can be executed. However, following Ma's arrest, prison doctors discovered during a routine physical exam that she was approximately seven weeks pregnant. Under Chinese law, pregnant women and people younger than age 18...

BEIJING - A Chinese woman facing possible execution for trafficking heroin was forced by police to have an abortion so she could be punished, a report said yesterday. Ma Weihua, 29, was arrested in January by police in Lanzhou, the capital of the north-western province of Gansu, for transporting 1.6kg of heroin in a vest, the Beijing Youth Daily said. She had agreed to help a friend take the drugs from Urumqi, the capital of neighbouring Xinjiang, to Lanzhou for 5,000 yuan (S$1,000), the newspaper report said. The amount of drugs she was carrying was enough to make her punishable...

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Tuesday, July 15, or Wednesday, July 16, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on an important pro-life amendment. Pro-life groups and citizens are being encouraged to contact their U.S. House members to urge them to support the Smith-Oberstar-Hyde Amendment to the State Department authorization bill (H.R. 1950). A close vote is expected. At issue is an important pro-life law, the Kemp-Kasten Anti-Coercion Law. The Kemp-Kasten law, which has been in effect for 18 years, prohibits U.S. funding of any organization that "supports or participates in the management of a program...