This is from Samantha Singson of Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute:
At United Nations (UN) headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil. The US proposal calls for “universal access” to “sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning.”
The continued advocacy for abortion as a fundamental “human right” shows an ideology that is bent toward death.
In recent weeks the new US administration has interpreted "reproductive health" to include abortion. In April, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a US House subcommittee, “We [the Obama administration] happen to think that family planning is an important part of women’s health and reproductive health includes access to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal and rare.” In this statement, Clinton also contradicted the agreement reached at the Cairo Confernence which said that abortion can never be used as a part of family planning. This was a document that Clinton helped to negotiate.
This advocacy is quite frightening.
July 6, 2009 at 10:00 pm
“safe, legal and rare.” Is it not an admission that there must be something wrong with killing a fetus if you concede that it should be rare? If Mrs. Clinton advocates that it should safe and legal, why does she also think that it should be rare? What is rare? 1000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000? Is it OK for poor people, but not for the wealthy. Is it OK to abort black babies but not white? Just when is it acceptable? The fact is, “legal”, means on-demand, no matter what the reason – or is it justifiable homocide?
This advocacy really is frightening!!!
July 6, 2009 at 10:09 pm
You are absolutely right Rob!
The concession of “rare” is simply a politically savvy way of including those who are a little squeamish over the entire issue.
But what should we expect from the 2009 Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood award winner?
I’m just about to post an embedded youtube video on the issue. Check it out!