| Americans United for Life Releases Eight New Model Legislation & Policy Guides Americans United for Life (AUL) today released its 2009 Model Legislation & Policy Guides. With the addition of eight new guides this year, AUL now offers 23 pieces of model legislation on key issues related to abortion, protection of unborn victims of violence, bioethics, healthcare rights of conscience, and the end-of-life. Dr. Charmaine Yoest, AUL President & CEO said, "AUL is the leading developer of cutting-edge pro-life legislation that saves lives today and lays the groundwork for a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law." |
December 12, 2008
Eight New Model Legislation & Policy Guides
December 11, 2008
Planned Parenthood Criminal Case Hearing is Dec. 18
Next Hearing is Dec. 18 in Kan. Planned Parenthood Criminal Case
Another hearing in a criminal case in Johnson County against a Planned Parenthood clinic is scheduled for Dec. 18. But the future of District Attorney Phill Kline's prosecution of the clinic in Overland Park remains uncertain. Kline has filed 107 charges against the clinic, alleging it falsified documents and performed illegal late-term abortions. The clinic denies the allegations and challenged Kline's right to keep medical records from 29 of its patients.
Bella Babies
Lives Saved
When Christian actor Eduardo Verastegui devoted his career to serving God, he had no idea what might come out of his decision. He certainly couldn't have imagined that his widely acclaimed movie Bella would literally save lives and souls. But that's the story that author Tim Drake tells so well in his book Behind Bella.
As the book shows, God's hand was on Eduardo and on the making of the movie from the very beginning. To prepare for his role in Bella, Eduardo wanted to find a real-life Nina—the co-lead in the film struggling with her unwanted pregnancy. So Eduardo paid a visit to a local abortion clinic.
Outside the clinic, a Mexican couple who had come to have an abortion recognized Eduardo from his acting days in Mexico. They approached him, and soon Eduardo found himself counseling them against having and abortion and telling them about the story of Bella. They talked for over an hour and on the phone in the days ahead.
A few months later, Eduardo received a phone call from the young man. He explained that his girlfriend had just given birth to the baby—a boy—and he asked for permission to name him Eduardo.
But baby Eduardo would not be the only child whose life would be saved through Bella. An old friend of Eduardo's attended one of the film's pre-screenings in Miami. He came in late to the film, and during the entire screening he was taking phone calls on his cell. His presence was so distracting that one of the film's financers almost asked him to leave.
Three weeks later, however, the man called Eduardo late at night to tell him about a mutual friend whose family was pressuring her to abort her child. She was scheduled to have the abortion the next day. But Eduardo decided to call the woman and counseled her to keep the baby. He even told her he would be willing to adopt the child if she would just carry through with her pregnancy.
The woman postponed the appointment and accepted Eduardo's invitation to come to a pre-screening of the film. After seeing the movie, she decided to keep the child. Months later she Eduardo that she had given birth to a baby girl named Bella.
To date, the producers of the film are aware of some 40 babies whose mothers were contemplating abortion, but who decided to keep their children as a result of seeing the film. Even the film's lead actress, Tammy Blanchard, who played Nina, found life imitating art. Before the film's release, she found herself pregnant. Prior to the making of Bella, she says that she never wanted to have children. She thought it was "pointless." But making the film changed her mind.
And in December 2007, Tammy gave birth to a baby girl, Ava Jean.
Many have donated the film, along with the book, Behind Bella, to crisis pregnancy centers across the nation. By donating both to your own local crisis pregnancy center or buying copies to give as Christmas gifts, you could help the film continue to bear such fruit.
Though the film never received an Oscar, producer Leo Severino is happy with the awards it has received. "The living Oscars," he says, "have been the babies saved and the babies adopted because of it."
Contact: Mark Earley.
Source: Break Point
Source URL: http://www.breakpoint.org
Publish Date: December 11, 2008
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Hewlett Gives Millions to Planned Parenthood
Hewlett Foundation Giving Millions to Planned Parenthood
- Don't buy Their Ink Cartridges Says Pro-life Leader
The Hewlett Foundation has announced $125.1 million in new grants to 214 organizations. First and foremost among the beneficiaries is International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), for whom Hewlett cut the largest check by far, granting $8.3 million to support worldwide abortion.
Of the Menlo Park-based foundation's six program areas, the most money went toward "population" issues, specifically supporting family planning and AIDS prevention worldwide. In all, the foundation's "Population Program" gave $31.8 million to 38 organizations dealing with global population issues. The International Planned Parenthood Federation, based in London, claimed over a quarter of the sum to support its radical agenda.
IPPF is the world's most powerful abortion provider, and has explicitly stated its mission to aggressively dismantle pro-life law and culture around the globe.
Last year IPPF received over $115 million in grants from individual nations, the European Commission, UN agencies like the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and various foundations.
Jim Hughes of Campaign Life Coalition said that the best method for pro-lifers to confront Hewlett on their support for abortion is to attack the "slender thread" upon which the technology giant Hewlett-Packard bases its financial survival: ink cartridges.
Pro-lifers who use Hewlett-Packard (HP) printers can send a message by investing in a new printer from another company, he said, but those who keep their old printers would be able to make a very significant impact by choosing to purchase refurbished ink cartridges. HP makes no profit from refurbished cartridges.
"If Hewlett Packard were whacked with laser beam precision right where it hurts financially for putting itself so firmly behind abortion supporters, that would have an impact on their thinking and actions," said Hughes.
"A sudden lurch the wrong direction (down) in the financial bedrock would be a tremendous blow, fiscally and psychologically. People at the top would notice, they'd want to know why, and they would do the research necessary to figure it out; they would learn."
To contact Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/index.html
To contact the Hewlett Foundation:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
2121 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: (650) 234-4500
Fax: (650) 234-4501
Email: http://www.hewlett.org/More/Contact/Email/contactEmail.htm
Contact: John-Henry Westen, Kathleen Gilbert
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Publish Date: December 9, 2008
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Organizing World's Faiths to Stump for Abortion
Tony Blair Organizing World's Faiths to Stump for Abortion Via UN Millenium Development Goals
Tony Blair, former U.K. prime minister, has teamed up with one of Canada's most well-known pro-abortion politicians, Belinda Stronach, in a combined effort to promote the U.N's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Blair and Stronach met last week in Toronto with representatives of 30 different faiths to discuss their plan to support the Faith Acts Fellowship, a program of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. In its first stage the program involves selecting 30 youth and educating them in how to promote the MDGs. The pair has also established a "steering committee" to determine what direction the joint effort will take in the future.
Critics of Blair's Faith Foundation have observed, however, that during Blair's tenure as Prime Minister, his government interpreted the Millennium Development Goals as including a universal right to abortion. While the MDG's, as stated, make no mention of abortion, pro-abortion forces have insistently interpreted goal #3 ("promote gender equality and empower women") as implicitly including the universal right to abortion.
One of the most prominent of these forces was Blair's own government, which in 2004 issued a "position paper" outlining how the MDGs included access to "safe comprehensive abortion services." (See: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/sexualreprohealthrights.pdf)
Despite Blair's purported conversion to Catholicism after stepping down as PM, to date he has not renounced any of his anti-life views, leading to concerns that his work in promoting the MDG's still retains the pro-abortion stamp. These concerns appear to have been confirmed in a strong way by his choice to team up with Stronach, an unlikely candidate for a "faith" initiative due to her anti-life, anti-family and anti-religious views.
Stronach is the well-connected daughter of Magna International founder Frank Stronach, and is known in part for her personal friendship with former president Bill Clinton – a man whose post-political career has resembled that of Blair, particularly in its global scope (Clinton's current initiative is called the "Clinton Global Initiative") and emphasis on "one world" government and religion.
Speaking in 2006 of government funding for women's groups such as REAL Women of Canada, which are pro-life, Stronach said, "They should be rejected because they're anti-choice and they're also anti-equal rights. They don't support equality." Describing REAL Women Stronach said, "This is a group that is anti-choice, anti-gay, does not support equality for women …".
Stronach has also been a passionate defender of same-sex "marriage," and has been one of the handful of Canadian politicians to march in Toronto's "gay pride" parade.
Also of concern to pro-life advocates is that the Blair/Stronach initiative is being undertaken in conjunction with the Interfaith Youth Core, a group which is financed by a bevy of pro-abortion organizations, including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ashoka, and others.
One of Blair's most vocal critics is John Smeaton, the director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) and one of Europe's most prominent pro-life and pro-family activists.
Speaking of the Blair/Stronach tag-team, Smeaton said, "How much more evidence do religious leaders need about the close-knit ties of Mr & Mrs Blair to the culture of death before they realise they must act to block the Blairs' infiltration of faith communities?"
Following Blair's reception into the Catholic Church, Smeaton repeatedly wrote to the former Prime Minister, asking him if he in any way renounced or regretted his pro-abortion activism.
Smeaton observed in his letter to Blair that during his tenure as a U.K. politician he: in 1990 voted for abortion up to birth three times during Parliamentary debates; personally endorsed his government's policy of supplying abortion and birth control drugs and devices to schoolgirls as young as 11 without parental knowledge or consent; introduced legislation which has led to a law which allows doctors to starve and dehydrate to death vulnerable patients; and personally championed destructive experiments on human embryos.
Smeaton eventually received a response from Blair's office saying that Blair would not comment on his views on the life issues.
The news about Tony Blair and Stronach's joint initiative comes at the same time that Blair's wife, Cherie Blair, is creating a furor due to her invitation to speak on women's rights at a prominent Pontifical University in Rome, despite her pro-abortion and pro-contraception.
Despite having received hundreds of complaints from concerned Catholics, the organizers of the conference at the Angelicum in Rome have stood by the invitation of Blair.
Contact: John Jalsevac
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Source URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com
Publish Date: December 10, 2008
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New UNFPA video series refutes its critics
Population Research Institute claims new UNFPA video series refutes its critics
Following the Huffington Post's recent attack on the Population Research Institute (PRI) for opposing policies of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), PRI challenged its critics to examine its evidence linking the organization with coercive population control programs in China.
Cristina Page, writing in a December 2 essay at the Huffington Post, claimed that the PRI was coordinating the "heckling of humanitarian relief efforts" conducted by the UNFPA. Page claimed that "UNFPA was working with the Chinese government to prove that voluntary family planning would lead to better outcomes for Chinese citizens as well as the Chinese government."
She claimed that the UNFPA was actually persuading the Chinese government to relax its "coercive and brutal one-child policy."
"Bush, eager to lock lips with his fanatical base, ignored the advice of his own state department, as well as many allied nations, and opted to go with the swirly eyed lunacy of the six staffers of PRI," Page charged. "At their request, Bush quickly froze all U.S. funds to UNFPA, which represented 12 percent of its budget."
In a statement from PRI, Steven Mosher and Colin Mason noted that the Huffington Post attack should draw attention to PRI's new video series about its investigation into UNFPA activities.
PRI argued that Page had good timing but "got virtually everything else wrong."
"PRI brought back hard evidence of coercion in China--videotapes, cassette tapes, written and spoken testimony from dozens of witnesses the details, all of which is easily accessed on our web site.
"Not only does The Huffington Post not address this evidence, Cristina Page does not even seem to be aware of its existence," the PRI statement said.
PRI also responded to the claim that President Bush wanted to "lock lips with his fanatical base" by insisting that it was then-Secretary of State Colin Powell who decided to send his own investigative team into China after reviewing PRI evidence.
"When they reaffirmed our findings, only then did he--not Bush--decide to discontinue funding the UNFPA. Colin Powell, who is both pro-abortion and pro-population control, has never shown the slightest inclination to want to lock lips with Bush's supposedly 'fanatical base'."
"The Huffington Post has no real arguments to make, and so it resorts to sandlot slurs," the PRI statement concluded, adding that Page had not tried to contact PRI for her story.
Source: Catholic News Agency
Source URL: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com
Publish Date: December 11, 2008
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Pro-Lifer Faces Year In Jail for Holding Sign
Pro-Lifer Faces Year In Jail for Hold Sign Outside Abortion Clinic
Drew Heiss is a husband and father. He and his wife, Maura, have five young children, all of whom live at home. However, the State of Wisconsin wants to put him in prison for one year. What is his crime? He allegedly held a sign outside a Milwaukee abortion clinic on a public sidewalk closer than 25 feet from the door. Let me give you the details and a little history here.
Abortion Healing Can Restore Russia's Dwindling Population
The Russian government's efforts to reverse the ongoing birth dearth in the former Soviet Union will not succeed until the trauma of abortion is addressed, Dr. Theresa Burke, founder of Rachel's Vineyard Ministries, said today.
"In Russia, 70 percent of pregnancies end in abortion," said Dr. Burke, whose book, Forbidden Grief - The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, explores the dynamics of abortion's aftereffects on women. "In a country where the average woman undergoes three-to-eight abortions, the problem goes beyond a dependence on abortion as birth control. There's a deeper undercurrent at work here."
"After working with thousands of women at Rachel's Vineyard abortion healing workshops and retreats, it's become clear that women who abort and don't experience an effective healing program are more vulnerable to repeat abortions," said Dr. Burke. "The initial trauma of the degrading and painful procedure causes a level of detachment; the abortion experience is so unacceptable that the mind struggles to acknowledge it. This numbness leads to a dysfunctional lifestyle of drug abuse, relationship problems, and multiple abortions. Until the woman's emotional pain is addressed and acknowledged, the cycle of abortion just repeats itself."
"If Russia is to recover from the ravages of abortion, the government needs to do more than offer financial incentives to give birth," added Dr. Burke. "It needs to dramatically increase the availability of healing programs like Rachel's Vineyard so that women and men can both begin to heal from the complicated grief of losing so many children."
Contact: Jerry Horn
Publish Date: December 10, 2008
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State Takes No Action Against Employee Caught in Rape-Coverup
The Indiana Department of Child Services will take no legal action against the employee who was suspended from Bloomington's Planned Parenthood on Wednesday. The employee was suspended without pay after an online video was released of her advising a woman posing as a 13-year-old girl to cross state lines to get an abortion without parental consent. When the woman posing as a 13-year-old girl said the man who got her pregnant was 31 years old, she agreed not to report what would, if it were true, be statutory rape. Steve Vaughn, director of the Indiana Department of Child Services, said child services does not plan to do anything to the employee because there was not an actual minor involved in the incident.
Planned Parenthood Lawyer Files Subpoena to Stop Kline
Planned Parenthood Lawyer Files Subpoena to Stop Kline From Making Copies of Abortion Records
With a month left to serve as Johnson County's district attorney, Phill Kline faces a subpoena from critics who fear he'll copy disputed medical records before he exits. Pedro Irigonegaray, a lawyer representing Planned Parenthood of Overland Park, said Wednesday that he does not trust Kline and issued a subpoena to ensure Kline does not make personal copies of patients' medical records before he leaves office Jan. 12. Kline has filed 107 criminal charges against Planned Parenthood saying records were falsified and illegal late-term abortions were performed at the Overland Park clinic.
Planned Parenthood Criminal Case Hearing is Dec. 18
Next Hearing is Dec. 18 in Kan. Planned Parenthood Criminal Case
Another hearing in a criminal case in Johnson County against a Planned Parenthood clinic is scheduled for Dec. 18. But the future of District Attorney Phill Kline's prosecution of the clinic in Overland Park remains uncertain. Kline has filed 107 charges against the clinic, alleging it falsified documents and performed illegal late-term abortions. The clinic denies the allegations and challenged Kline's right to keep medical records from 29 of its patients.
Teeth Stem Cells
Stem Cells Extracted from Teeth
Can you really get stem cells from your teeth? Apparently so. Dr. Jeremy Mao is soon going to discuss the potential applications of dental stem cells. Dr. Mao is actually one of the leading stem cell researchers in the entire world. Dr. Jeremy J. Mao, DDS, PhD is currently what is called an oral surgeon. He is now a scientific advisor to a specific company. Dr. Mao has already published over 300 scientific papers and a variety of other article on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine using stem cells.
http://www.articlexplosion.com/articledetail.php?artid=150830&catid=159
December 10, 2008
Governor Blagojevich Caught Red Handed Selling Obama’s Seat
Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, one of the most staunchly pro-abortion politicians in the U.S., has been arrested on corruption charges, including, most prominently, conspiring to sell the senate seat recently made vacant by Barack Obama's election to the presidency. According to Illinois law, the governor has the sole authority to fill the empty seat.
In conversations overheard on wiretaps, Blagojevich sought to "sell or trade Illinois' United States Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama for financial and personal benefits for himself and his wife," according to the government affidavit on the case.
One scheme Blagojevich cooked up involved an attempt to trade the senate seat for a position as the Secretary of Health & Human Services in President-elect Barack Obama's administration. Another involved selling it for positions for his wife on lucrative corporate boards.
The affidavit on the case says that during one call Blagojevich stated, "Unless I get something real good for [the senate seat], s--t, I'll just send myself, you know what I'm saying." He later said, "I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain. You hear what I'm saying. And if I don't get what I want and I'm not satisfied with it, then I'll just take the Senate seat myself." He added that the senate seat "is a f-ing valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing."
The Illinois Governor is well-known to pro-life activists for his extreme pro-abortion stance.
In 2005 the governor issued an executive order forcing all pharmacists in the state to fill prescriptions for the abortifacient morning after pill. He boasted in a 2006 interview, "Rather than try to get the legislature to pass something—because we attempted to and they didn't do it—on my own, through executive order action, I forced these guys to fill prescriptions for birth control for women who come in with prescriptions from their doctors."
In 2006, after members of the legislature sought to overturn his executive order, he made known his intent to veto any bills that would have protected the conscience rights of doctors and pharmacists.
In a 2006 State of the State address, Blagojevich said, "Now, I understand that several bills have been introduced that would overturn my executive order to protect women's reproductive freedoms … So let me make something else very clear -- if any of those bills reach my desk, they are dead on arrival."
Also in 2006 he boasted to the Windy City Times, "I'm the only candidate in this race who is 100 percent pro-choice."
He further explained, "Think about what we've been able to do since I've been governor. The reproductive freedoms of women are more protected in Illinois than any state in America. That's in [stark] contrast to the advances and assaults coming from the Bush administration of Washington. We passed a law under my leadership to make insurance companies fill female contraceptives. Illinois had never done that before and we passed that law."
In recent weeks the Illinois governor has garnered the praise of Planned Parenthood and other abortion-promoters by writing to the Secretary of the Department for Health and Human Services. In that letter he expressed his strong disapproval of a proposed Bush administration regulation that threatens health-providers with the loss of government funding if they do not protect the conscience rights of their health care workers.
In statements following the arrest of Blagojevitch, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said that the governor's actions in the last several weeks constituted "a political corruption crime spree."
"This is a sad day for government," he said at a news conference. "Gov. Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low."
"It is conduct that would make Lincoln roll over in his grave."
Also see…
IL Lawmakers to Seek Special Election to Decide Replacement for Obama's Senate Seat
FBI Caught Blagojevich on Tape Trying to Sell Obama's Senate Seat
Contact: John Jalsevac
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
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Publish Date: December 9, 2008
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Pro-Aborts Lose Another Round
Pro-aborts lose another round to Phill Kline
Four times in four years Wichita late-term abortionist George Tiller or Planned Parenthood of Kansas has sued Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline or Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline for investigating them. They have also filed hundreds of pages of ethics complaints, which continue nonstop to this day.
Despite a hostile Kansas Supreme Court, the majority of whom were appointed by a hostile governor who gets campaign money from Tiller and who has even hosted a party for him at her mansion, and various other hostile public officials who are on the dole for Tiller and/or Planned Parenthood, nothing has stuck to Kline.
Despite every attempted roadblock, the criminal investigations against Planned Parenthood and Tiller continue for allegedly violating state laws prohibiting late-term abortions and mandated reporting of underage abortions.
Kline's investigation is so solid two pro-abortion Democrat AGs who wanted the case gone have been forced to continue prosecuting Tiller.
And four judges in five instances have reviewed Kline's evidence and found probable cause to believe George Tiller or Planned Parenthood has committed 156 criminal acts (although earlier this year the Supremes without reason forbad the judge holding the original records indicting Planned Parenthood from testifying).
In this latest round, Planned Parenthood bizarrely asked the Kansas Supreme Court to let it sue its prosecutor, Kline, in a secret hearing, and the Supremes more bizarrely said sure.
Planned Parenthood asked the Kansas Supreme Court to hold Kline in contempt for transferring copies of redacted Planned Parenthood records from his old AG's office to his new DA's office, to fine Kline, to order Kline to return to Planned Parenthood the incriminating records against itself, and to force Kline to pay Planned Parenthood's legal fees for suing him.
Kline's AG replacement, Paul Morrison, sided with Planned Parenthood and then denied Kline representation, forcing Kline to personally pay for his own legal defense. To date, Kline's bills amount to $200,000. (Donate to offset his legal fees at standwithtruth.com.)
Shortly after meddling in the case, Morrison was forced to resign for having an affair with one of Kline's subordinates and asking her to spy on him.
None of these developments has shocked the sensibilities of the mainstream media. Instead they have mercilessly and relentlessly turned on Kline with a vengeance, because the issue is abortion.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood lost its latest lawsuit last week on all merits:
a) that Kline be ordered to hand over all evidence and that it be suppressed – DENIED
b) that Kline be held in contempt – DENIED
c) that Kline be fined – DENIED
d) that Planned Parenthood receive attorney fees – DENIED
The Supreme Court justice writing the majority opinion, Carol Beier, an appointee of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius , was clearly angry she couldn't find a way to stop the decision. She lashed out at Kline so vehemently that upon first read of the opinion the mainstream media thought Kline lost the case, and reported it so.
Perhaps I'm too kind simply to dismiss the media as being unable to read. Kansas media has a history of writing court decisions against Kline regardless of what the decisions actually state. Recall the time Planned Parenthood sued Kline to stop him from obtaining the records in the first place. Kline won and got the records, but the Kansas media reported he lost.
After castigating Kline as well as the woman who bore him, Beier wrote the Supremes were "sanctioning" Kline to give copies of Planned Parenthood's records to the AG he had already offered to give but had been declined.
Beier closed by warning that while they had nothing on Kline now, be ready for something, anything, to pop up in the future to cause the suspension of his license.
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too," Brier would have written had she not feared accusations of plagiarism.
Never doubt the abortion industry and its supporters in public office, the courts and the media are trying to make an example of Kline to intimidate all other prosecutors around the country from messing with them.
Soon Kline's days as Kansas prosecutor will be over, and he can rest as a faithful servant whose job was well done … after he pays his $200,000 in legal fees.
Then all eyes will be on the spines of Steve Howe, Kline's elected replacement, and his babysitter, pro-life Kansas U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, who supported Howe over Kline in the Republican primary.
Contact: Jill Stanek
Source: WorldNetDaily
Source URL: http://www.wnd.com
Publish Date: December 10, 2008
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5.4 Million Names Submitted to UN in Favor o the Right to Life
5.4 Million Names Submitted to UN in Favor of the Family and the Right to Life
Today, December 10th, two Members of the European Parliament, Anna Záborská and Carlo Casini held a press conference in the European Parliament to announce that 5.4 million families had sent a petition to the UN, calling to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child and the family. The Familiokratos coalition, established one year ago on the 10 December 2007 gathers leaders from profamily prolife movements. See: http://familiokratosen.blogspot.com. It has presented this petition to the Gabon ambassador to the Holy See, Firmin Mboutsou, as well as to other UN ambassadors in order to be distributed among UN delegates.
The group was formed in order to remind the world of the good news of the Universal Declaration and to uphold this good news in all international instruments.
As we come to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we celebrate the historic role that the family plays in drawing all these themes together and is acknowledged as the ultimate expression of our human dignity - the recognition of which is the bedrock of the UDHR.
"The family is a cultural anchor universal to all cultures." Said Záborská. She concluded: "The family is where we learn that the authentic role of the state is to serve its people; and not to reinvent humanity along the lines of some artificial ideology: the first and last sign of the approach of totalitarianism is the collapse of the family. Finally, we promote the family because it is the primary repository of love in our society."
The FAMILIOKRATOS CALL in favour respect and dignity of life in the human family asserts that the rights presented in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are inherent to every human being and that governmental representatives, politicians, and all other decision-makers to interpret UDHR in order to respect, promote and reinforce the commitment of their government in the UDHR, and should reaffirm the right to life to all members of the human family, including the unborn child. The petition also calls on governments to: protect the family "as the fundamental group unit of society," give special assistance to motherhood and childhood and promote the rights of parents. (UDHR articles 3, 16, 25 and 26).
Contact: Estelle Duval
Source: FEFA
Source URL: http://familiokratosen.blogspot.com
Publish Date: December 10, 2008
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