http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/in-vitro-fertilization-defended-in-court-inside-costa-rica/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/in-vitro-fertilization-defended-in-court-inside-costa-rica/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 18:06:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133302 InsideCostaRica: According to Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Piero Tozzi, ADF pointed out that Costa Rica was acting within its sovereign capacity in outlawing the procedure, which almost always results in the destruction of “spare” human lives at the embryonic stage of development. ADF argued that the Court should grant Costa Rica a “margin of appreciation,” whereby it may decide the best way to protect the life of a developing human being, and that the Court should not exceed its authority by intruding upon an area that is solely within the competence of Costa Rica. “No one should try to usurp the sovereign right of a nation to determine the best way to protect life. The court should not exceed its authority by intruding upon an area of domestic policy that is solely Costa Rica’s to decide,” he said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/in-vitro-fertilization-defended-in-court-inside-costa-rica/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/adf-comment-on-brief-to-defend-costa-rica%e2%80%99s-ivf-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/adf-comment-on-brief-to-defend-costa-rica%e2%80%99s-ivf-laws/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 22:24:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133239 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/adf-comment-on-brief-to-defend-costa-rica%e2%80%99s-ivf-laws/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/piero-tozzi-on-the-judgment-of-the-federal-court-of-abortion-in-brazil-centro-de-bioetica/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/piero-tozzi-on-the-judgment-of-the-federal-court-of-abortion-in-brazil-centro-de-bioetica/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:34:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131804 Centro De Biotica (translation below by Google) ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/piero-tozzi-on-the-judgment-of-the-federal-court-of-abortion-in-brazil-centro-de-bioetica/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/attorney-latin-american-babies-under-siege-one-news-now/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/attorney-latin-american-babies-under-siege-one-news-now/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:38:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131530 One News Now: Pierro Tozzi, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, explains what he sees happening across the South American continent. "It's part of a trend in Latin America where you have supreme courts imposing abortion where the people and the legislature are opposed to abortion," says Tozzi. "They use the hard cases -- cases like rape or eugenic disabilities -- to chip away at the pro-life protections that exist in the laws of most Latin American nations." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/attorney-latin-american-babies-under-siege-one-news-now/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/18/brazil-court-allows-abortion-in-case-of-anencephaly-sbc-ethics-and-religious-liberty-commission/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/18/brazil-court-allows-abortion-in-case-of-anencephaly-sbc-ethics-and-religious-liberty-commission/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:02:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131461 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/18/brazil-court-allows-abortion-in-case-of-anencephaly-sbc-ethics-and-religious-liberty-commission/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/brazil-condemned-for-allowing-abortions-on-disabled-babies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/brazil-condemned-for-allowing-abortions-on-disabled-babies/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:11:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131382 LifeNews: Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Piero Tozzi responded to the decision to allow, what he calls, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal’s decision to “decriminalize the killing of pre-born children for eugenic reasons.” “Every innocent life deserves to be protected. Instead, Brazil’s high court has approved of slaughtering the country’s most vulnerable people, the severely disabled. Eugenic abortion further erodes respect not only for human dignity in general, but the dignity of the disabled in particular. Protecting the innocent is a chief duty of the legislature, and the court was wrong to overstep its authority and tear down the protections long ago established by Brazil’s lawmakers–protections that are consistent with the pro-life views of most Brazilians.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/brazil-condemned-for-allowing-abortions-on-disabled-babies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/adf-comment-on-brazil-high-courts-decision-to-approve-eugenic-abortions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/adf-comment-on-brazil-high-courts-decision-to-approve-eugenic-abortions/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131330 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/adf-comment-on-brazil-high-courts-decision-to-approve-eugenic-abortions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/piero-tozzi-not-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9cfreedom%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-reclaiming-the-universal-declaration-from-the-left-and-defending-it-from-the-right/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/piero-tozzi-not-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9cfreedom%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-reclaiming-the-universal-declaration-from-the-left-and-defending-it-from-the-right/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:18:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131091 Piero Tozzi at Turtle Bay and Beyond: A word of caution is in order before adopting the framework and verbiage proposed by McCarthy in its entirety, however, for he throws out the baby with the bathwater, and his characterization of the “utopian” Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 fails to give a rounded appraisal of that landmark document. Moreover, his underlying premise of “freedoms” vs. “rights” is historically both incorrect and unessential to adopt in order to get to where the author wants to lead us. The concept of “rights,” properly understood, was very much part of the Founding Fathers’ vocabulary — as in the “bill of rights” (!!) and “unalienable rights” based on the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” The tension is thus not between “rights” and “freedoms,” but rather between “negative rights” and “positive” ones — a tension that is reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/piero-tozzi-not-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9cfreedom%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-reclaiming-the-universal-declaration-from-the-left-and-defending-it-from-the-right/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/piero-a-tozzi-in-pushing-homosexual-agenda-globally-obama-admin-seeks-to-co-opt-marginalize-religion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/piero-a-tozzi-in-pushing-homosexual-agenda-globally-obama-admin-seeks-to-co-opt-marginalize-religion/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:37:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130639 Piero A. Tozzi at the Christian Post: In a major foreign policy address last December in Geneva before United Nations delegates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton identified "deeply-held … religious beliefs" as among "the obstacles standing in the way of protecting the human rights of LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender] people." Criticizing those who "cite religious or cultural values" to oppose "LGBT" rights, she then made a doctrinal point: if properly understood, "religious traditions" actually support the progressive march of "human rights" and sanction homosexual behavior. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/piero-a-tozzi-in-pushing-homosexual-agenda-globally-obama-admin-seeks-to-co-opt-marginalize-religion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/piero-a-tozzi-%e2%80%9cobama-wars%e2%80%9d-over-contraception-move-to-u-n-front-and-the-administration-loses-a-battle/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/piero-a-tozzi-%e2%80%9cobama-wars%e2%80%9d-over-contraception-move-to-u-n-front-and-the-administration-loses-a-battle/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:41:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128912 Turtle Bay and Beyond: The annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting broke up today after failing to reach consensus on “agreed conclusions” – a very rare occurrence. The impasse was due to the insistence by the United States delegation on changing language regarding “family planning” that had been agreed upon and in continuous use since the mid-1990s in favor of the term “modern forms of contraception.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/piero-a-tozzi-%e2%80%9cobama-wars%e2%80%9d-over-contraception-move-to-u-n-front-and-the-administration-loses-a-battle/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/adf-comment-on-argentina-supreme-court-ruling-in-abortion-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/adf-comment-on-argentina-supreme-court-ruling-in-abortion-case/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:26:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128882 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/adf-comment-on-argentina-supreme-court-ruling-in-abortion-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/un-security-guards-confiscate-pro-life-literature-from-students/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/un-security-guards-confiscate-pro-life-literature-from-students/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:10:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127392 C-FAM: Alliance Defense Fund attorney Piero Tozzi told the Friday Fax, "The UN cannot censor speech it does not agree with. Both the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and the Human Rights Committee have recently emphasized the need to protect this fundamental freedom. Why then is speech by respectful, clean cut kids on a topic vital to keeping young people healthy being censored at the UN?" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/un-security-guards-confiscate-pro-life-literature-from-students/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/latin-america-teeters-on-edge-of-abortion-abyss-national-catholic-register/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/latin-america-teeters-on-edge-of-abortion-abyss-national-catholic-register/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126740 National Catholic Register: “It’s part of a trend in Latin America that often doesn’t get noticed: that there is the ‘latex left,’ and certainly countries like Uruguay and Argentina — they’re pushing this pro-abortion, pro-same-sex ‘marriage’ agenda, (and) the justices in Mexico City [are too],” said Tozzi. “But elsewhere the left is more of an old left that emphasizes economics rather than the ‘latex left’ issues,” he added . . . Tozzi sees signs of hope in other countries as well: “You also have the example of Ollanta Humala in Peru, who was elected president about half a year ago, with broad left-wing support. For a variety of reasons, he has rejected the ‘latex left’ agenda. His women’s affairs minister, a big pro-abortion supporter, was fired by him about a month ago and replaced with a woman who’s an evangelical Christian. So there are certain elements of the left in Latin America that are distinct from the latex left, which people sometimes overlook.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/latin-america-teeters-on-edge-of-abortion-abyss-national-catholic-register/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/26/peru-revaluation-of-the-family-inspires-human-development/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/26/peru-revaluation-of-the-family-inspires-human-development/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:42:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124105 Acipresna.com: (translated to English from Spanish by Google): Reassess and highlight the values ​​of family inspires a genuine human development is one of the conclusions of the International Symposium entitled "Why go for the family ? " held on 18 January in the city of Chiclayo, a city in northern Peru . . . The symposium, organized by the Family Grows (CreceFam), was attended by Dr. Piero Tozzi, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund of the United States, which addressed the theme of "family status in the global context." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/26/peru-revaluation-of-the-family-inspires-human-development/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/piero-a-tozzi-clash-of-competing-rights-claims-raises-free-speech-concerns/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/piero-a-tozzi-clash-of-competing-rights-claims-raises-free-speech-concerns/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:39:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122854 C-Fam Friday Fax: Tension between free speech advocacy and efforts to curb “hate speech” has arisen over the past year as the result of recent initiatives at the United Nations (UN) and by the Obama administration. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/piero-a-tozzi-clash-of-competing-rights-claims-raises-free-speech-concerns/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/18/inter-american-commission-criticized-for-%e2%80%9cinsidious%e2%80%9d-push-for-sexual-orientation-lifesitenews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/18/inter-american-commission-criticized-for-%e2%80%9cinsidious%e2%80%9d-push-for-sexual-orientation-lifesitenews-com/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:40:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118985 LifeSiteNews.com: Piero Tozzi, Senior Legal Counsel, Global, with the Alliance Defense Fund, criticized the Commission. “The IACHR has repeatedly overstepped its mandate these past two years, placing ideology over rule of law principles. For example, in the Karen Atala case, the Commission actually demanded that Chile’s executive power ‘punish’ Chilean Supreme Court judges for discriminating on the grounds of ‘sexual orientation’ for determining that placing children with the father over their mother, a self-described ‘lesbian,’ to be in the children’s best interest.” “If the IACHR weren’t so blinded by advancing the homosexual agenda, they would understand that undermining the independence of the judiciary and violating the principle of separation of powers actually undermines rule of law and the integrity of the Inter-American system,” Tozzi told the Friday Fax. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/18/inter-american-commission-criticized-for-%e2%80%9cinsidious%e2%80%9d-push-for-sexual-orientation-lifesitenews-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/international-conference-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-culture-of-death-lifesitenews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/international-conference-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-culture-of-death-lifesitenews-com/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:54:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118436 LifeSiteNews.com: Speakers included HLI President Fr. Shenan Bouquet, Brazilian pro-life activists Fr. Paulo Ricardo de Azevedo and Fr. Lodi da Cruz, Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Piero Tozzi, Ecuador’s Fr. Juan Carlos Chavez, and LifeSiteNews’ Latin America Correspondent Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, among many others. It was organized by Felipe Nery, director of the St. Benedict School at the same monastery. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/international-conference-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-culture-of-death-lifesitenews-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-piero-tozzi-speaks-at-human-life-international%e2%80%99s-second-international-congress-for-truth-and-life-in-brazil/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-piero-tozzi-speaks-at-human-life-international%e2%80%99s-second-international-congress-for-truth-and-life-in-brazil/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:00:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118385 Turtle Bay and Beyond – International Law, Policy, and Institutions has embedded the video. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-piero-tozzi-speaks-at-human-life-international%e2%80%99s-second-international-congress-for-truth-and-life-in-brazil/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-global-right-to-abortion-rejected-at-brazilian-pro-life-conference/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-global-right-to-abortion-rejected-at-brazilian-pro-life-conference/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:41:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118254 Catholic News Agency (CNA): “This is (the) strategy of the opposition – manipulate the truth by claiming that there is a global right to abortion and repeat it over and over again,” said Piero A. Tozzi, senior legal council at the Alliance Defense Fund, in a speech to Human Life International's Second International Congress for Truth and Life. “Repeated enough, perception becomes reality,” he warned, as he described the attempt to raise non-binding statements about abortion “rights” into “something that must be followed and obeyed.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-global-right-to-abortion-rejected-at-brazilian-pro-life-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/american-expert-there-are-no-international-laws-that-guarantee-abortion-as-a-right/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/american-expert-there-are-no-international-laws-that-guarantee-abortion-as-a-right/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:00:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118180 Second Union News: (translated from Portuguese by Google) To counter what some pro-abortion groups that practice anti-life must be approved in Brazil because of international agreements that the woman's right to propose Dr. Piero Tozzi of the Alliance Defense Fund in the U.S., offered a lecture at the Second Congress Life for Justice and Human Life International in Sao Paulo this weekend, which ensured that there is no international law requiring the approval of abortion and that this is not a "right" reproductive. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/american-expert-there-are-no-international-laws-that-guarantee-abortion-as-a-right/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/international-congress-for-truth-and-life-to-be-held-in-brazil-in-early-november/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/international-congress-for-truth-and-life-to-be-held-in-brazil-in-early-november/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116997 LifeSiteNews.com: Other speakers will include the eminent Brazilian pro-life activist Fr. Lodi da Cruz, speaking on the issue of abortion, HLI’s Raymond da Souza on dechristianization, Fr. Paulo Ricardo on cultural Marxism, Alliance Defense Fund’s Piero Tozzi on the claimed “right” to abortion in international law, and LifeSiteNews’ own Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, speaking on the goals, methods, and history of the homosexual movement. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/international-congress-for-truth-and-life-to-be-held-in-brazil-in-early-november/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/13/audio-piero-tozzi-exiting-a-dead-end-road-a-gps-for-christians-in-public-discourse/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/13/audio-piero-tozzi-exiting-a-dead-end-road-a-gps-for-christians-in-public-discourse/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:50:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116016 TheDove.us Audio: ADF Attorney Piero Tozzi co author of Exiting a Dead End Road: A GPS for Christians in Public Discourse-Mr. Tozzi discusses Christianity vs. P.C., European Socialism. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/13/audio-piero-tozzi-exiting-a-dead-end-road-a-gps-for-christians-in-public-discourse/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/family-and-marriage-on-trial-chilean-human-rights-case-involving-lesbian-relationship-could-have-far-reaching-effect/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/family-and-marriage-on-trial-chilean-human-rights-case-involving-lesbian-relationship-could-have-far-reaching-effect/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:28:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115811 NCRegister.com: But Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Piero Tozzi, who is also a senior fellow with the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), cautions that international human-rights decisions have been cited as precedents by U.S. courts. A notable example was the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling striking down Texas’s anti-sodomy law. Noted Tozzi, “What happens abroad impacts the U.S.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/family-and-marriage-on-trial-chilean-human-rights-case-involving-lesbian-relationship-could-have-far-reaching-effect/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/26/mexico-supreme-court-plan-to-impose-abortion-as-a-%e2%80%98right%e2%80%99-is-%e2%80%98frankly-confused%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/26/mexico-supreme-court-plan-to-impose-abortion-as-a-%e2%80%98right%e2%80%99-is-%e2%80%98frankly-confused%e2%80%99/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:11:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=114479 LifeSiteNews.com: A proposed Mexican Supreme Court decision that would nullify pro-life amendments to Mexican state constitutions suffers from flawed reasoning, is “arbitrary,” and “frankly confused,” according to Piero Tozzi, an international human rights law expert and senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/26/mexico-supreme-court-plan-to-impose-abortion-as-a-%e2%80%98right%e2%80%99-is-%e2%80%98frankly-confused%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/15/book-review-exiting-a-dead-end-road-a-gps-for-christians-in-public-discourse/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/15/book-review-exiting-a-dead-end-road-a-gps-for-christians-in-public-discourse/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:00:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110710 The University Bookman: Directions Back to the Public Square: About a third of the way through the book is an essay by Piero A. Tozzi, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, wherein the decline of universal rights is demonstrated to help the reader see that—minus an acknowledgement of, and adherence to, universal rights—the losses suffered by the Church must also be suffered by society at large. For instance, Tozzi writes about the “restoration” of ’48: a moment wherein both Europe and the world were emerging from the Nuremburg trials and subsequently reaching for “a universe whose rules were governed by natural law.” There was bald revulsion at what the Nazis had done, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) was penned to serve as a restraint on such things in the future. Tozzi is describing a point in time where even the secularists were brought face to face with the heinous outworking of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” paradigm, and even they had to seek a means to constrain behavior by re-asserting universal rights across the board. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/15/book-review-exiting-a-dead-end-road-a-gps-for-christians-in-public-discourse/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/05/latin-american-nations-pressured-by-europe-to-weaken-pro-life-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/05/latin-american-nations-pressured-by-europe-to-weaken-pro-life-laws/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:26:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110041 LifeNews.com: However, these assertions have no support in international law, either by treaty or custom. Piero Tozzi, a senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund told the Friday Fax, “No ‘right’ to abortion exists in international law. Consistent with international treaties and customary norms, nations can (and should) protect the unborn child. UN bodies and outside actors grossly exceed their competence when they demand that sovereign nations alter their domestic laws protecting the unborn, and states should categorically reject such unwarranted claims.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/05/latin-american-nations-pressured-by-europe-to-weaken-pro-life-laws/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/two-child-policy-in-the-philippines/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/two-child-policy-in-the-philippines/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:23:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107932 NCRegister.com (7/8): The pressure has been “intense and sustained,” said Piero Tozzi, global senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a U.S.-based group that monitors religious liberty . . . Tozzi also noted UNFPA’s bankrolling of a controversial “Adolescent Reproductive Health Program” that was halted in court last year after parental-rights activists brought a court action to halt the sex-ed program that they said encouraged promiscuity and violated parental rights. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/two-child-policy-in-the-philippines/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/10/mexico-human-rights-in-shades-of-gray/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/10/mexico-human-rights-in-shades-of-gray/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:34:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=106066 NCRegister.com: Piero Tozzi, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, noted that this manipulation could be carried out from the judge’s bench, especially since the new text of the constitution calls for a “broad application” of human rights. “As it does not specify which ‘human rights’ are to be incorporated and elevated on par with the constitution, while instructing that these undefined rights are to be given broad application, it potentially gives a judge latitude in expanding or even fabricating rights beyond what was contemplated when treaties were drafted and ratified,” he said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/10/mexico-human-rights-in-shades-of-gray/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/piero-a-tozzi-on-the-zeb-bell-show-eu-court-rules-crucifixes-can-stay-in-italian-classrooms/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/piero-a-tozzi-on-the-zeb-bell-show-eu-court-rules-crucifixes-can-stay-in-italian-classrooms/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:07:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98634 Piero A. Tozzi appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss the ruling. A related ADF press release is here. | MP3 audio 10:46 mins ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/piero-a-tozzi-on-the-zeb-bell-show-eu-court-rules-crucifixes-can-stay-in-italian-classrooms/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/08/chile-wins-u-ns-protect-life-award/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/08/chile-wins-u-ns-protect-life-award/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:56:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=97359 CBN (includes video): Every innocent life deserves to be protected, and every pregnant mother should receive the help she needs to care for that life," ADF Senior Legal Counsel Piero Tozzi said at the 2011 Meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. "We couldn't be more pleased to present this honor to the people of Chile for their painstaking and diligent efforts to help pregnant women and protect their preborn children," he continued. [more quotes by Piero Tozzi] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/08/chile-wins-u-ns-protect-life-award/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/01/chile-gets-pro-life-award-opposing-abortion-helping-women/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/01/chile-gets-pro-life-award-opposing-abortion-helping-women/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:29:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=96884 LifeNews: Every innocent life deserves to be protected, and every pregnant mother should receive the help she needs to care for that life,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Piero Tozzi.  “We couldn’t be more pleased to present this honor to the people of Chile for their painstaking and diligent efforts to help pregnant women and protect their preborn children. Those efforts are based on constitutional protections that serve as a model to the rest of the world.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/01/chile-gets-pro-life-award-opposing-abortion-helping-women/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/01/chile-presented-with-int%e2%80%99l-protect-life-award-by-adf-pro-life-organizations-at-u-n/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/01/chile-presented-with-int%e2%80%99l-protect-life-award-by-adf-pro-life-organizations-at-u-n/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:00:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=96822 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/01/chile-presented-with-int%e2%80%99l-protect-life-award-by-adf-pro-life-organizations-at-u-n/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/08/the-oas-promotes-abortion-option-open-in-latin-america/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/08/the-oas-promotes-abortion-option-open-in-latin-america/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:10:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=94878 AICA.org: (Translation from Spanish by Google): "According to the report, one of the greatest threats in Latin America is the support that the OAS would be providing a draft international treaty for the region called "American Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights." This convention would be the first binding document that would recognize the so-called sexual and reproductive rights. . . . Experts like Marie Smith (Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues) and Piero Tozzi (Senior Counsel of Alliance Defense Fund) stated that the Convention continues to work privately within various entities of the OAS and could be approved without any discussion at the next Assembly General to be held in El Salvador in June 2011 . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/08/the-oas-promotes-abortion-option-open-in-latin-america/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/21/homosexual-advocates-launch-new-guide-to-make-homosexual-rights-a-reality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/21/homosexual-advocates-launch-new-guide-to-make-homosexual-rights-a-reality/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:14:15 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=87883 C-FAM: "Homosexual activists just launched a new 'toolkit' which outlines methods to promote a controversial document which asserts that states have a legal obligation to fulfill 'rights' to gay adoption, reproductive technologies and state-funded sex changes . . . [Piero Tozzi], Senior Legal Counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund's global practice group, stresses that multiple citations of the Yogyakarta Principles do not mean there is a new international norm." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/21/homosexual-advocates-launch-new-guide-to-make-homosexual-rights-a-reality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/26/turning-christian-speech-into-hate-speech/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/26/turning-christian-speech-into-hate-speech/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:45:59 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=78491 OneNewsNow: "Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has joined other groups in urging the United Nations to protect religious expression in a civil rights covenant . . . 'One [provision] provides for freedom of expression. Another provision, however, would limit that,' [ADF Attorney Piero Tozzi] explains. 'It's the following article that says: "Any advocacy of national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence shall be prohibited by law."'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/26/turning-christian-speech-into-hate-speech/feed/ 0