UN update
While our attention is otherwise focused….
The United Nations is quietly beefing up its programs exporting abortion, thanks to the politicians in power now.
Congressional Democrats have unveiled their new omnibus spending bill that will fund federal government programs through the autumn months. The measure, H.R. 1105, contains language that would restore the money President Bush withheld from the UNFPA because of its abortion activities.
Sending taxpayer dollars to the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, has been controversial because the group both advocates for abortion and has been involved in China’s population control program.
Several investigations have shown the UNFPA to work hand-in-hand with the family planning officials in China that enforce its coercive one-child policy with forced abortions and sterilizations as well as other human rights abuses.
Every year during his presidency, President Bush withheld tens of millions in taxpayer funds from the UNFPA, but Congressional Democrats, with a friend in Barack Obama in the White House, have restored the funds.
The omnibus bill adds language that makes it so the president or his administration is not required to sign off on the funding and make sure the UNFPA is not violating the Kemp-Kasten law which forbids funding groups involved in forced abortions.
Think that sentence through…
The president will not need to make sure the UNFPA is not violating the law that forbids funding groups involved in forced abortions.
As a result, even if the UNFPA were to violate provisions of law unrelated to abortion, it would still receive funding.
Is there any ray of light for the beleaguered pro-life movement? Yes. When your feet are to the fire, you either move fast or you get burned.
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In a 2002 report to Colin Powell, the US Government study of UNFPA China policy found this…
“We find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the PRC.”
But if we want to be really be fair and balanced, let’s consider this. China is one of the most repressive countries when it comes to women’s rights. Even today it’s one or two child policy per family in cities is tatamount to a Sopie’s Choice situation. That movie with Meryl Streep in the eighties was the story of a woman from Poland who, in the Second World War, in a concentration camp was forced to choose between her two boys, one to live and one to die, and the effect this choice had on her life. Consider this movie being played out in Chinese families today. Not to mention China’s repressive policy on religion.
Now think about this. China is holding most of our debt. Yes, China that bastion of repression is holding the country of freedom and liberty at hostage! You will remember Clinton left us debt free. Bush was not as resourceful. The wars cost a lot of money. China was willing. Now we are in debt to China, and now we must borrow more because of a catastophic debauchery that left our financial system broken, a gift left on our doorstep by Phil Gramm, Harvey Cox, Jim Leach, Thomas Blyley, George Bush and other culprits too numerous to name. In addition to the wars, this too must be repaired, and we must borrow more funds to repair our real infrastructure, the financial community. To let our country sink was a Sophie’s Choice scenario that Obama was not willing to face. You wouldn’t either I’ll bet. So we are saddled to a debt to China that binds us to a nation with reprehensible policies.
While we complain about a few million dollars that go to support UN programs which actually help people more than hurt them, trillions of dollars are being borrowed from a nation that not only allows abortion but encourages it. Some will claim that this debtor relationship puts our country in a stronger position to deal with China since we are true partners. In the Bible Proverbs 22:7 states, “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”