Hillary Clinton attempts to redefine U.N. agreement by adding abortion, experts charge

Washington D.C., Jan 15, 2010 / 05:14 am (CNA).- Claiming to honor the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population Control (ICPD), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared in Washington D.C. on January 8 that the U.S. government will push for international acceptance of reproductive health for women, including abortion, contradicting the conference's previous agreements.

The ICPD, which was held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994 with 179 participating countries, was part of a U.N. effort to address population concerns, including reproductive health initiatives for women.

“The Cairo document did not include abortion as part of reproductive health,” stated Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). “As a matter of fact,” he continued, “the Cairo conference formally said that abortion cannot be a part of family planning.”
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Pope Benedict Reframing Environment Issues to Include Humanity, Born and Unborn
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ROME, January 11, 2010  – The protection of the environment must be connected to the protection of human life, particularly the unborn, said Pope Benedict XVI today. In his annual address to the Vatican diplomatic corps, Pope Benedict XVI attempted to disassociate concerns for the environment from the anti-human population control ideologies that often characterise the environmentalist movement.

Referring to his Message for the 2010 World Day of Peace in which he urged “all persons of good will ... to protect creation,” Pope Benedict said, “It is proper, however, that this concern and commitment for the environment should be situated within the larger framework of the great challenges now facing mankind.” Full Story

 

Not Even a Penny for Abortion
BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
1/7/10

The holidays brought with them a welcome truce in the battle over national health care reform. But as surely as the snow flying in January, the debate will begin again, and as it does so, there are lots of reasons to be concerned about the legislation that’s emerging from Congress.

Governor Carcieri aptly summarized the situation in his pre-Christmas statement about the legislation. The Governor wrote, “It is absolutely disgraceful for the United States Senate to push through health care ‘reform’ that is filled with increased costs to states, increased taxes on America’s small business owners, and laden with special deals in exchange for votes . . . The federal government is being completely irresponsible.”

Now, there are lots people who know more about health care legislation than I do, and I’ll leave it to the experts to debate the financial and technical issues, but it seems to me that the Governor raises some very legitimate questions. Even from my rather limited perspective, though, I wonder about the legislative process that led to the Senate version of the bill – voting late at night and early in the morning and even on Christmas Eve. What’s that all about? Why the rush?
 

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Abortionist Faces Revocation in Wake of Abortion Death
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- California abortionist Andrew Rutland faces an emergency suspension hearing today in San Diego based on a nine-count accusation filed on Christmas Eve by the California Medical Board for multiple legal violations associated with the death of an abortion patient in July, 2009.
 
Rutland had committed a second trimester abortion on an Asian woman at an unlicensed office in San Gabriel, CA, during which he administered an overdose of lidocaine. He failed to recognize the symptoms of the overdose and the patient went into cardiac arrest. He and his staff were untrained and unequipped to handle the medical emergency. After a 'significant delay' in contacting 911, the woman was transported to a local hospital where she died.
 
Rutland failed to report the emergency transport, hospitalization, and patient death as required by law.
 
Rutland has a long history of licensure problems. His medical license was revoked in 2003 for severing a baby's spinal column during a forceps delivery, then lying to the parents by telling them that their baby suffered a stroke. The baby later died. His license was reinstated in 2007, and Rutland was placed on 5 years probation with the restriction that he operate under the supervision of another physician.
 

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Obama Pushes Congress to Fast Track Health Care Bill

President Obama pushed congressional leaders Tuesday to fast-track health care legislation behind closed doors despite his campaign promises of an open process.

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President Barack Obama arrives to speak in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010.Rather than setting up a formal conference committee to resolve differences between health bills passed last year by the House and Senate, the decision, made in an Oval Office meeting Tuesday evening, allows for the House to work off the Senate's version, amend it and send it back to the Senate for final passage.

The quick approach to reconcile the bills, unusual but not unheard of, will reportedly exclude GOP lawmakers and reduce the party's ability to delay or force politically troubling votes in both houses.

Presently, the bills passed by the House and Senate both would require nearly all Americans to get coverage and would provide subsidies for many who can't afford the cost.

They differ, however, on hundreds of details, including whom to tax, how many people to cover, whether illegal immigrants should be allowed to buy coverage in the new markets with their own money and how to restrict taxpayer funding for abortion.

The abortion issue has been particularly contentious as pro-choice Democrats have been trying to pass legislation that includes government funding of abortion – a move that conservatives say would be the greatest expansion of government-backed abortion since the infamous Roe v. Wade case made abortion legal.
 

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Serious about reducing abortion? Make women see an ultrasound of the procedure.

A law that requires women seeking an abortion to watch an ultrasound video of the procedure would save lives and enhance 'choice.' 

Buffalo, N.Y.

After watching an ultrasound of an abortion last year, Abby Johnson resigned from her position as director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, and joined a pro-life group. 

Ms. Johnson’s story shows the potential for using technology to dramatically lower the number of abortions by changing people’s hearts and minds. Imagine how many lives could be saved by passing a law that requires abortion providers to show mothers considering an abortion an ultrasound video of the procedure before they are allowed to perform the abortion.

A video would ensure that women have full knowledge of the procedure they are about to undergo. By providing women with more information on which to base a decision, the use of technology would enhance their “right to choose.”

Currently, many women who consider abortion are not fully aware of what it actually entails. Sometimes they are even under the impression that abortion merely destroys a growth of tissue – like removing a wart. How much choice does a woman have if she is not aware of all the facts? 

Upon seeing what happens during an abortion, many women might choose to have their baby rather than go through with the abortion. Like Ms. Johnson, they would see with their own eyes that abortion destroys human life, not merely a growth of tissue. “I could see the baby move away from the probe,” said Johnson. If an ultrasound of an abortion procedure had such a profound effect on a Planned Parenthood director, imagine the influence it would have on women who feel abortion might be the best way to deal with their unwanted pregnancy. "
 

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