When
it comes to family and life,
the battle lines are clearly
drawn. The positions of the
two parties are diametrically
opposed, as black is to white
(no pun intended). One is pro-choice
and the other is pro-life. One
promotes the culture of death
and the other the culture of
life.
Where
do you stand? As a Catholic,
with a well-formed conscience,
you can only stand for life.
And for family. And for Christ.
God
bless.
frank
Democratic
Platform Promises, Republican
Platform Rejects More Abortion
Overseas
By
Austin Ruse
WASHINGTON,
DC, October 6, 2008 (C-FAM)
- The platforms of the two major
American parties show a stark
difference in how each presidential
candidate would approach United
Nations (UN) issues. The Republican
platform explicitly rejects
various UN treaties while the
Democratic platform makes clear
its support for the agenda of
wider access to abortion and
a strengthening of the UN system
of enforcing abortion rights.
The
Republican platform rejects
by name two UN treaties that
have been used by UN Committees,
UN agencies and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) to promote
abortion -- the UN Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) and the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child --
and supports the continued defunding
of groups overseas that promote
or perform abortions.
Specifically
the
GOP platform says, "Because
the UN has no mandate to promote
radical social engineering,
any effort to address global
social problems must respect
the fundamental institutions
of marriage and family. We assert
the rights of families in all
international programs and will
not fund organizations involved
in abortion.
We strongly support the long-held
policy of the Republican Party
known as the 'Mexico City policy,'
which prohibits federal monies
from being given to non-governmental
organizations that provide abortions
or actively promote abortion
as a method of family planning
in other countries. We reject
any treaty or agreement that
would violate those values.
That includes the UN convention
on women's rights, signed in
the last months of the Carter
Administration, and the UN convention
on the rights of the child."
This
is the first time the Republican
platform has specifically rejected
these treaties and is likely
a reflection of the increasingly
radical rulings of the committees
empowered to monitor state compliance
with them. CEDAW
has been used repeatedly by
its committee to promote abortion.
The
Democratic platform does not
explicitly support either treaty
but, according to the National
Organization for Women, Democratic
nominee Barack Obama supports
United States (US) ratification
of the CEDAW treaty, as does
vice-presidential candidate
Joe Biden. The platform explicitly
supports the ideas contained
in these treaties and resurrects
a slogan used by Hilary Clinton
at the Beijing Women's Conference,
"Human rights are women's
rights and women's rights are
human rights." This was
a rallying cry for abortion
at the Beijing conference in
1995.
The
platform states, "We must
make the United Nations' human
rights organs more objective,
energetic, and effective."
Critics charge that the human
rights bodies at the UN are
already too energetic and even
aggressive in promoting a left-wing
social agenda. Critics further
charge that these human rights
bodies undermine international
law by ceding power from sovereign
states to bodies made up largely
of NGO representatives.
The
Democratic platform also promises
to begin funding pro-abortion
groups overseas by overturning
long-standing US policy against
it. The platform
also promises that the Democratic
president would return to funding
the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
which the US Government defunded
because of the agency's links
to China's coercive one-child
policy.
This
article is reprinted with permission
from:
"For
to me life is Christ, and death
is gain." (Phil 1:21)