When we observe that every human being is utterly unique (even identical twins have different fingerprints, facial expressions, and personalities), can we not conclude that the intentional destruction of an embryo - whether in a womb or a Petri dish - is an incalculable loss to humanity?
And that the destructive act itself fuels a materialistic view of human life, in which every human being is dispensable if a burden or inconvenience to someone else? [Life Insight, Sept/Oct 2003]
August 2007: Abortion
15 of 53 African Health Ministers Vote to Approve Protocol to Legalize Abortion Throughout the Continent / Letter Sent to G8 Summit Leaders and Heads of States in Africa / NEW! Gauteng Declaration
New Jersey Abortion Business Problems Detailed in Health Report
Missouri Abortion Regulation Law
Unborn May Experience Emotional Stress
30 Bags of Baby Body Parts Found in Eastern India
First Female President of India Calls for the End to Female Abortions
Pro-Life Group Names New Planned Parenthood Boycott Targets
NEW!Kansas Abortionist Tiller's Claims without Merit, AUL Amicus Brief Notes
NEW! Americans Urged to Join Nationwide 40 Days For Life...
AFRICAN HEALTH MINISTERS VOTE TO APPROVE PROTOCOL TO LEGALIZE ABORTION THROUGHOUT CONTINENT. African Health Ministers adopted a new proposal Friday that will increase legal abortion throughout the continent, under the policies of the controversial Maputo Protocol on the rights of women, according to a report published yesterday by the Ethiopian Herald online.
Meeting on Easter Monday, April 9, health ministers from more than 40 African countries participated in a weeklong conference discussing health strategies for the continent under the Maputo Protocol that was "approved" by the ministers last October--ratified by just 15 of the 53-member states of the African Union, the protocol calls for all member states to implement abortion legislation.
The official strategy approved by the health ministers on Friday included the increased promotion of abortion services.
"A wider women's health programme should be institutionalised including broad coverage of family planning (repositioned into wider reproductive health programmes),"the document states. "Amongst other factors, …safe abortion services should be included, as far as the law allows."
"I am sure that with our partners, both local communities as well as our development partners we shall do all we can to ensure the full implementation of the Strategy," South African Acting Health Minister and Conference Chairman Jeff Radebe said in a statement.
Nigeria and Uganda have voiced strong opposition to the push for legalized abortion. Dr. Philip Njemanze, chairman of the Nigerian African Anti-Abortion Coalition, has accused some international organizations of violating the Nigerian Constitution in promoting abortion. The Uganda Joint Christian Council has sought protection from Ugandan president Yoweri Mueveni and other political leaders for the country's current laws against abortion.
"We request President Museveni and the delegation that will represent Uganda at the upcoming meeting of the African Union in Addis Abba to reject any policy that would expose Uganda in particular, and Africa as a whole, to mass murder through the legalisation of abortion," said Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) Deputy Secretary for Finance and Administration, Sylvester Arinaitwe.
"We would like to draw the attention of the political leaders of Africa our strong reservations concerning some aspects of Article 14 of the Maputo Protocol that is The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women," Pengo of Tanzania said on behalf of his colleagues.
"Much as we admire the efforts of some of the United Nations Committees…in promoting human rights issues and development in Africa, we equally denounce the unchallenged pressure they are exerting on Countries in Africa," Pengo said. "We observe that the rights of Women to protect and promote their sexual and reproductive health in this article exclude the rights of the couple, the family and the larger Society including civil, traditional, cultural and religious from playing a part in promoting precisely the women's rights to their health care."
Even the World Health Organization has admitted that abstinence programs are most effective at preventing HIV/AIDS infections, while condom use is unreliable.
Letter Sent to G8 Summit Leaders and Heads of States in Africa
AFRICAN ANTI-ABORTION COALITION
Chidicon Medical Center, No 1 Uratta Road, P. O. Box 302, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria 460242,
Phone 083-231183; 046-660021, email:
www.chidicon.com
27th July, 2007.
Presidency of the G8 Summit 2007
Bundeskanzleramt
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel
Willy-Brandt-Strasse 1
10557 Berlin, Germany
Her Excellency,
2nd Anniversary of the 2005 Declaration of G8 Africa Action Plan
The G8 Africa Action Plan, charged African governments to show leadership in promoting Women’s and Men’s rights to sexual and reproductive health. Governments were held accountable for ending the stigma and gender discrimination associated with sexual and reproductive services.
There is no doubt that this document is a further extension of the MAPUTO PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE OPERATIONALISATION OF THE CONTINENTAL POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS 2007-2010 - Sections #3.3, #4.1-4.3; and THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA - Articles #14 (1a, 2c), #26. The agenda is simply, to muscle Africa into legalization of “abortion on demand”.
The definition of the term REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH to mean ‘abortion on demand’ has been authoritatively given by Andras Vamos-Goldman (Canadian Representative at World Summit on Children 2001).
Regardless of the international outrage elicited by this definition, it still stands out in all subsequent international documents on Africa. Even though it is known that, humans do not reproduce but procreate, the appropriate terminology of PROCREATIVE HEALTH has not been adopted in subsequent international documents on Africa, including the G8 Africa Action Plan.
Leading experts in Africa addressed these issues at a Pro-Life conference on the theme “African Children Under Extinction”, where U.S. Congressman Christopher Smith was the guest speaker, held at the Pan-African University Lagos on February 23rd, 2007. The experts noted that Western countries have imposed very strict ethical guidelines for use of both embryonic and fetal stem cells in EU countries, but have not demanded that same apply in Africa, before endorsing legalization of abortions.
This double standard, calls to suspect the intention of the donor countries. The experts urged African governments to reject all aids tied to abortion. The participants called for a full US congressional investigation of the matter, even though it involves foreign governments.
The paper delivered by Congressman Christopher Smith on Critic of the MAPUTO PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE OPERATIONALISATION OF THE CONTINENTAL POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS 2007-2010 - Sections #3.3, #4.1-4.3; and THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA - Articles #14 (1a, 2c), #26; were responded to by leading legal and medical experts from Nigeria and other African countries.
The experts concluded that, the pro-abortion advocates like IPPF, crafted the draft in such broad and vague language to achieve the interpretation of ‘free abortion on demand’. For example, article #14.2c states that:
c) to protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the mother or the life of the mother or the fetus.
All legal and medical experts agreed that, the underlined text could be interpreted to mean that, even simple headache, if perceived by the mother as a sign of mental or physical distress, is enough reason to seek an abortion.
Furthermore, article #26.2 which states that:
2. States Parties undertake to adopt all necessary measures and in particular shall provide budgetary and other resources for the full and effective implementation of the rights herein recognized. Experts also agreed that this means State funding of abortion clinics with taxpayer’s money.
Any informed observer of international relations would agree that, no international protocol has included abortion rights to the extent recognized in this protocol. The protocol’s article #28 provided for signature, ratification and accession of the document, in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures.
However, investigations have revealed that, in no African country were the proper constitutional procedures followed. The latter led experts to conclude that, the document said to have been signed and ratified, failed to meet the appropriate constitutional due process, and therefore, must be null and void, and would not enter into force. All African governments were advised to register their protest with the Chairperson of the Commission of the AU. The participants went further to urge, African governments to expel Ipas, IPPF and UNFPA from their respective countries, since these organizations acted against the statues of right-to-life, enshrined in their constitutions.
The participants decried the unsupported false propaganda of pro-abortion advocates that, 4 million unsafe abortions occur in Africa, and was linked to high maternal mortality rate. This is factually wrong.
Regrettably, close to 40 million abortions are performed each year in private and public clinics in Africa by trained medical personnel including doctors, nurses, nursing assistants and birth attendants. The number of abortions performed by untrained personnel continues to fall, though there is a threat that this decline may stall, with introduction of Ipas Manual Vacuum Aspirators (MVAs), which makes it easier for untrained personnel to perform ‘backstreet abortions’ with a big syringe, rather than the elaborate medical procedure of D&C.
The medical reason for the high maternal mortality rate (the number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births) is in most part due to poor access to adequate antenatal care.
Deaths from unsafe abortions are not even part of the maternal mortality rate, by medical definition anywhere in the World. Hospital surveys and periodic reviews reported by medical experts, show that deaths related directly to the medical procedure of abortion in Africa is now rare. Even when complications result from interventions by untrained personnel, mortality remains low.
There are no safe-abortions; abortion like any other medical intervention has an associated risk.
The so-called ‘safe abortions’ which implies the use of Ipas Manual Vacuum Aspirators (MVA), propagated by pro-abortion advocates- the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF, IPAS, and UNFPA) and others, is fast becoming No.1 means, of iatrogenic (related to medical procedure) spread of HIV in Africa. As has earlier been warned by practitioners, MVA use and re-use, poses a great danger, with the potential of complicating Africa’s AIDS crisis.
The AIDS pandemic, mixed in the milieu of abortions with MVA, would assume catastrophic levels of spread. Even the introduction of safety methods with MVAs, such as those used to prevent syringe-reuse, would be countered by ‘local construction’ that would make reuse possible.
There is a rising rate of the triad - HIV, Hepatitis B and C, in clinics in Africa, particularly among young women, who have had recent abortions. This is a dangerous pointer to the looming public health disaster. Simply put, the use of Ipas MVA Plus, has removed abortions from the business of some medical practitioners to the domain of ‘quarks’, and has only but increased the disaster associated with this death business. Doctors and nurse practitioners in South Africa have made known their objection to this, by staging strike actions.
Ipas MVA Plus should be banned in Africa, because it will complicate the African AIDS crisis.
The conference participants examined the motives of the pro-abortion advocates in promoting legalization of abortions in Africa, when they know that their so-called ‘safe abortion’ option is every other thing but safe. It was concluded that the promotion of ‘safe abortion’ option with Ipas MVA Plus has nothing to do with improved reproductive health for African women, however, it has everything to do with the projected trillion dollars in commerce from stem cell fetal tissue trafficking for transplantation. It has been alleged by a number of leading African experts, published in Nigerian newspapers that, pro-abortion advocates act as proxies for the international biotechnology conglomerates. Both are seeking to enthrone a culture of abortion in Africa, especially in the first few weeks of pregnancy.
The use of Ipas MVA Plus is to simplify collection of aborted fetal tissues, for further harvesting of stem cells for transplantation in Western countries. They do not care whether it is safe or not for African women, as far as it is simple, that any ‘quark’ can do it, and get them their cells for money.
A Trans-Atlantic Fetal Tissue Trafficking market would grow, to displace oil and natural product exports in revenue that goes directly to the people. African governments would be placed in a dilemma having to fight the trade in death or choose poverty, as the G8 document already prescribed. For now, it is just the donor money that has been threatened.
As the trade grows and small remunerations are given to patients, to encourage more abortion tissue sales from collection centers, a new dynamics is set in place. In not too distant future, it would be an economic fight for survival, with families relying on food from abortions of their eleven year old daughter.
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