Women's
rights and equality? We are all for it.
But not according to the definition of
the anti-life, anti-family, homosexualist
forces. To them, supported by the United
Nations, women's rights and equality mean
universal access to abortion.
Now they have consolidated their forces
and entrenched themselves in the UN.
We are in for quite a fight.
Abortion Groups Praise Newly Named
Head of UN Women’s Agency
By
Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. and Nicholas
Dunn
NEW
YORK, September 16 (C-FAM) - The appointment
of former Chilean President Michelle
Bachelet as Under Secretary General
of UN Women has garnered praise from
several abortion advocacy groups.
The
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality
and the Empowerment of Women, commonly
known as UN Women, was established on
July 2nd when the General Assembly unanimously
approved a resolution that consolidated
four UN bodies on women’s issues.
The
creation of this super-agency
for women’s issues is largely
attributed to the lobbying efforts of
the Global Campaign
for Gender Equality Architecture Reform
(GEAR), a coalition of abortion proponents.
Not only was the GEAR campaign instrumental
in founding UN Women, the organization
reportedly had a heavy hand in the selection
process of the new under secretary general,
providing the secretary general a list
of questions for candidate interviews.
Charlotte
Bunch, a founding member and leading
advocate of the GEAR campaign, calls
Bachelet a “top notch choice”
who was one of GEAR’s “dream
candidates.” Additionally, Bachelet’s
appointment received praise from the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
who said that Ban ki-Moon's choice “sends
a clear message to the global community
that women’s rights and equality
will be considered at the highest level
of deliberation on international human
rights.”
Bachelet
was viewed as the front-runner when
UN Women was established. As president
of Chile, Bachelet supported the possibly
abortion-inducing “morning after
pill,” and she was the honorary
co-chair of the recent UN-backed pro-abortion
Women Deliver conference in Washington,
D.C.
The
secretary general’s short list
for the head of the new organization
was laden with abortion advocates. Rosario
Manalo was one of the longest serving
members of the controversial committee
that oversees the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW). During her tenure,
the CEDAW committee
pressured more than 90 nations to liberalize
their abortion laws.
Another
candidate, Geeta Rao Gupta, was president
of International Center for Research
on Women (ICRW). Rao Gupta delivered
ICRW’s highly controversial paper
at the 2007 Women Deliver conference
that laid the scholarly foundation for
the ongoing campaign that claims
the Millennium Development Goals cannot
be reached without international abortion
rights. Rao Gupta is a senior
fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
Radhika
Coomaraswamy, a candidate who is now
the UN’s Special Representative
for Children and Armed Conflict, successfully
campaigned for legalized abortion in
her home country of Sri Lanka. As the
UN’s Special Rapporteur on violence
against women, she addressed Nicaragua’s
ban on abortion by saying that “acts
deliberately restraining women from
having an abortion constitute violence
against women by subjecting women
to excessive pregnancies and childbearing
against their will, resulting in increased
and preventable risks of maternal mortality
and morbidity.”
UN
Women will be funded by the combined
budget of the four agencies that are
being merged, approximately $220 million,
to which all 192 member states contribute.
The GEAR Campaign has announced that
it is lobbying to increase funding to
$1 billion within a few years.
This
article reprinted with permission from
www.c-fam.org
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain." (Phil 1:21)