US Protests Exclusion of Pro-Life Groups at UN Conference
From Catholic World News:
New York, Jul. 08 (C-fam.org/CWNews.com) - The acting US Ambassador to the United Nations has sent a letter of complaint to the President of the UN General Assembly over the exclusion of conservative NGOs from recent consultations with the UN General Assembly, the Friday Fax has learned.My Comments:
Sources who have seen the letter say that Ambassador Anne Patterson expresses the US government's strong concerns about a lack of diversity in the consultations since left-wing NGOs seem to have been handpicked to make speeches to the General Assembly as Member States prepare for the upcoming Millennium Development Summit.
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What Member States heard from the handpicked left-wing NGOs was numerous speeches calling for the new Millennium Development Goals to include "reproductive health" and "reproductive rights," UN code words for abortion on demand. Not a single NGO voice of dissent was allowed.
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The task force failed to select any pro-family, pro-life groups for participation in the hearings, although several such groups, including the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, producer of the Friday Fax, had applied. However, the task force chose as participants several radical pro-abortion lobbyists such as International Planned Parenthood Federation, National Youth Network for Reproductive Rights, and Family Care International.
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So, again, I ask: Why is the Vatican so supportive of the United Nations?
Furthermore, does anyone think a Gore or Kerry Administration would be protesting the exclusion of Pro-Life groups from these UN consultations?
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:28 AM
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Anonymous made a fair observation on your other post. Last year I heard a guest on the local Catholic radio (might have been Al Kresta’s show) defending the Vatican’s support of the UN as an entity.
Simply put, the notion is that having an international body of governance is actually a good thing and is within Catholic principles of justice. It’s an argument that I might buy if the entire world had a Catholic – or even a Catholic/Protestant world-view, and the governing body reflected that. However, thinking that the UN could ever be a moral and just institution strikes me as incredibly naïve. Despite the utopian propaganda that encompassed the founding of the UN, it has always been a pro-socialist, anti-American, power grab.
While I agree with Anonymous about JPII utilizing the UN to combat Communism, I would point out that I think the UN legitimized Communism and gave it undue influence. Had the UN not been established, I think Soviet Communism would have died a slow and agonizing death by the seventies and Chinese Communism would have died much sooner. I suppose nobody can say for sure how things would have worked out, but giving the Communists 2.68798 permanent seats on the Security Council served only to make the world a safe place for Communism. (I am attributing the .68798 seat to our French friends)
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