Policymakers abroad: on Families & Children

Pope Francis: No ideological colonization of contraception & abortion

That's a highly sensitive issue in Peru, since former President Alberto Fujimori launched a family planning program in 1996 that involved the sterilization of thousands of women. Justified at the time by a desire to reduce poverty, the program stirred controversy when many women, mostly members of the country's Amazonian indigenous groups, reported that they had been sterilized without their consent.

Vladimir Putin: Monstrous to teach children that a boy can become a girl

"People who dare to say that men and women still exist as a biological fact are almost ostracized. Not to mention the simply monstrous fact that children today are taught from a young age that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa. Let's call a spade a spade: This simply verges on crimes against humanity under the banner of progress."