How the U.N. Ignores Nations to Push Through their Reproductive Rights Agenda

Development Conference Document Ignores the Desires of Nations

American taxpayers should demand that the U.S. defund the United Nations. It would help our bottom line and preserve many third world countries from population control measures that kill their children in exchange for our foreign aid. What kind of choice is that?

Pro-abortion liberals in the U.S. depend on the "reproductive rights" language in U.N. documents to impose the culture of death on the poor. It is the worst kind of imperialism to consider solving the problem of poverty by killing the children of the poor.

That Hideous Strenth

Do you ever think about evil? C.S. Lewis did. He got into the mind of the devil in The Screwtape Letters and he showed the perfect icon for evil in That Hideous Strength. And what was that icon? A bureaucracy. We can see the appropriateness of his image in the little Nazi clerk, Adolph Eichmann sitting at a desk in an office ticking off his death victims on long lists. The Gestapo, the KGB, China's population enforcers - they all belong to the bureaucratic establishment. Evil is ordinary and the bureaucracy dilutes responsibility. "I was just doing my job," says the agent of evil pointing to his boss and his boss's boss, up the line. Lewis saw bureaucrats in pinstripe suits not Darth Vaders in black capes as agents of the Evil Empire. And when the anti-Christ comes he will no doubt be a man of the world standing before a teleprompter in front of a world logo wearing a subdued tie with a handkerchief poking out of his breast pocket. Evil is planned in elegant offices in multi-story buildings in big cities and we have our very own in New York. It's called the United Nations.

The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute is the primary watchdog over the evil agenda at the U.N. which includes spreading abortion far and wide around the world. Hillary Clinton recently addressed a U.N. meeting sponsored by the Office for Population to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Cairo meeting which went all out for controlling population by abortion. C-FAM's press release describes the Secretary of State's pledge to promote "reproductive health" (codespeak for abortion on demand) to every country on the planet:

(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In Washington last week, United States (U.S.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States would engage in a massive funding push over the next five years to promote “reproductive health care and family planning” as a “basic right” around the word. Clinton has previously stated for the record that this includes abortion. The plan includes potentially siphoning off funds currently directed towards fighting HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and malaria.

Commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the controversial International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Clinton said there were only five years left to achieve ICPD’s goal that “all governments will make access to reproductive healthcare and family planning services a basic right.” Read more...

Population control is endemic to U.N. programs. It pervades UNICEF, one more program to "help" children by killing children. They have direct connections to abortion promotion in the third world and are up to their necks in the culture of death.

How much money does the United States funnel into this evil bureaucracy? For 2009 the assessed amount was almost $600 million, 22% of the U.N.'s budget, the annual U.S. bailout. The U.N. can only do its evil because of our financial support!

When all those doomsday scenarios are hawked by the global warming fanatics I can't help thinking one would be a blessing - the sinking of the U.N. into a fissure that takes it straight down to hell where it belongs.

Should We Respect These Elders?

Have you heard of "the Elders?" They are a group of international big names who have been selected for their self-proclaimed "collective wisdom." Among them are former Secretary General of the U.N. Kofi Annon, former president Jimmy Carter, former Irish president Mary Robinson, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and a handful of others. According to their website they were convened in 2007 by Nelson Mandela to "offer their experience and support for peace building and collaborative approaches to addressing major causes of human suffering."

How do they work? "The Elders are committed to listening to the views of all groups and individuals – and especially women and young people....The Elders amplify the voices of those who work hard to be heard, challenge injustice, stimulate dialogue and debate and help others to work for positive change in their societies."

In their website video Kofi Annon says of the elders (including himself), "They do not have careers to build, elections to wins, constituents to please. They can talk to anyone they please and are free to follow any paths they deem right." The elders then, are being promoted as an independent group of wise leaders able to advise the global village to solve the problems of mankind. Religion has little role in this enterprise. In fact, the elders see it as a primary oppressor of women and a source of many of mankind's problems.

This is particularly evident in the discussion of one of the main issues listed on the website, "equality of women and girls." The page addressing the issue specifically targets religion as a source of discrimination. Jimmy Carter, writing in his role as an elder, elaborated on this recently when he quit the Southern Baptist Convention because of their position against ordaining women as deacons and pastors. In a commentary article in The Age, an Australian Newspaper, he made it clear that religions that will not ordain women are antiquated and discriminatory. "The carefully selected verses found in the Holy Scriptures to justify the superiority of men," Carter wrote, "owe more to time and place - and the determination of male leaders to hold onto their influence - than eternal truths." This was clearly a swipe at all faiths, including the Catholic Church, that do not ordain women. It is the same language adopted by feminist groups advocating women priests.

Carter also used not so coded language to attack the Church for its opposition to abortion. "The belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives." While the Elders' website carries nothing about abortion, the language that fills U.N. documents about women "controlling their bodies" and women's reproductive rights should concern anyone about the ultimate goals of this group, especially since many are well known for their abortion advocacy. Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Kofi Annon, Desmond Tutu, and Nelson Mandela all have extreme pro-abortion backgrounds.

In fact, the Elders looks like one more group of elitist ideologues who believe that human effort can bring about Utopia. Their cumulutive record of pro-abortion and pro-population control politics makes it questionable whether they really have the interests of individual people at heart. As Screwtape, C.S. Lewis' senior devil, always advised his nephew Wormwood, keep man's attention on humanity as a whole and he'll overlook the hungry man next door.

For more on The Elders:

Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, and Other Global Council of Elders Slam Christian Churches for Not Ordaining Women

Nelson Mandela's Group of Global "Elders" a Who's Who of Pro-Abortion, Pro-Population Control Movement

The Elders a group of eminent global leaders say Religious and traditional practices discriminate against women and girls