Pro-Life Women Urge Lobbying of G8 Members on Abortion Push at G8 Summit
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Background
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as President of the G-8 this year, stated in January 2010, that maternal health care would be a priority at the G-8 meeting. He has stated that maternal health would include only positive assistance to women and children, which includes clean water, inoculations and better nutrition, as well as the training of health workers to care for women and deliver babies.
Canadian feminists and population control groups, however, have now formed an organization called “White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood” to lobby members of the G-8 countries to include sexual and reproductive health and rights, i.e., abortion, in the proposed maternal health care plan.
They are currently circulating a 13-page “Call to Action: Maternal and Child Health at the G-8 Summit.” This document is being distributed to development, human rights and feminist organizations around the world in the hope that the latter will pressure their respective governments to keep “sexual and reproductive health and rights” in the Summit’s agenda, so as to facilitate abortion, i.e., a population control policy in developing countries.
Maternal Health and Abortion
The UN World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have repeatedly asserted that access to abortion reduces maternal mortality, which they claim has not decreased in decades.
However, the leading British Medical Journal Lancet, in April 2010, reported that maternal mortality has decreased an average of 35% globally since 1980 and that the UN agencies have significantly overstated maternal mortality rates.
The study in Lancet cites the increasing availability of basic medical care, including “skilled birth attendants” – people with some medical training to help women give birth - as one of the reasons for the decline in maternal mortality.
To include abortion in the G-8 proposal is to impose western values and practices on developing nations, contrary to their culture and religion. Such a policy correctly can be described as elitist western imperialism in that it imposes population control under the guise of maternal health.
The G-8 countries are: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, the United States, and, in addition, the European Union. (It has a total of nine participating members – but it’s still referred to as the G-8.)
The names, addresses, fax numbers and email addresses of the G-8 officials listed found here (click here) do not necessarily include all the faxes and email addresses. Where no email address is available, there is included the web mail address which normally includes a “contact us” section with a pop up email form.
Contact: Gwen Landolt and Cecilia Forsyth
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Publish Date: May 4, 2010
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