Obama will fund global family planning: US lawmaker
Wed Nov 12
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US president-elect Barack Obama will lift a freeze on funding for global family planning programs imposed by the outgoing administration, a US lawmaker said Wednesday.
"We are about to see major cultural change in Washington," Democratic lawmaker Carolyn Maloney told reporters at the launch of the UN population agency's (UNFPA) annual State of World Population report.
"One big change is that UNFPA will be funded," added the congresswoman to applause.
"And I am confident that the recommendations in this report will be taken to heart and listened to and studied by our new president," Maloney said of this year's report, which looks at how to promote women's rights by working within the limits of different cultures.
The Obama transition team has not said exactly what the president-elect intends to do upon taking office January 20, though transition co-chair John Podesta said Sunday the incoming adminstration was reviewing "virtually every agency to see where we can move forward."
Outgoing President George W. Bush blocked funding for the UNFPA during his two terms in office, saying the UN agency supports coercive abortion methods in China, a report issued in June by the Guttmacher Institute research group said.
In support of the funding freeze, the Bush administration cited a US law passed in 1985 which prohibits US foreign aid for any organization that the president determines "supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization."
"UNFPA operates in more than 150 poor countries, but does not provide or pay for abortion services in any of them," the Guttmacher report said.
"Instead, UNFPA works to reduce the need for abortion by promoting voluntary family planning," it said.
The Bush administration also backed abstinence-only sex education programs in US schools.
"The new administration will face a lot of challenges but we hope that they support and encourage our programs, especially in family planning and AIDS," said UNAIDS senior adviser Pauline Muchina at the launch of the UNFPA report.
"We believe that family planning is very important... it's not a luxury of whether or not you're going to have premarital sex. People need to have access to certain services," said senior UNFPA culture adviser Azza Karam.
According to the State of World Population report, 60 percent of the world's poorest people are women and girls; two-thirds of the 960 million adults around the world who cannot read are women; and 70 percent of children who do not go to school are girls.
Even when laws are enacted to protect women and girls, such as legislation banning child marriage or female genital mutilation, they are sometimes ignored because of cultural practices, Karam said.
"Sometimes, culture is an issue of life or death. One woman dies every minute somewhere in the world because of complications during birth," she said.
But foisting Western solutions on other cultures will not always help.
"We should not impose our own ideologies, our own systems on any other country. The current administration has proven that just does not work," said Maloney.
"To bring about change," she said, reprising an Obama campaign mantra, "We have to be culturally sensitive."
Building maternity clinics in Bolivia would probably not reduce maternal deaths because women in the Andean country prefer having their babies at home, the aid officials at the launch said.
But a UNFPA program to teach Eritrean and Ethiopian clerics about the potentially deadly effects of child marriage on girls -- they get pregnant very early, go on to have many children and run an increased risk of death from birth complications -- led to an agreement from them to stop blessing the marriages.
"Once fathers understand the impact a practice will have on their daughters, they will act differently," said Muchina.
Maloney, who was re-elected to a ninth congressional term last week, said she was "very hopeful, in many ways" about the Obama presidency.
"Six times under Bush, the House of Representatives and the Senate passed funding to continue the critical work of the UNFPA," she said.
"President Obama will have to do nothing but let the will of Congress go through."
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Obama to fund forced abortions
De-funded during the Bush Administration, US money for the UN Population Fund that supports China's policy of coercive abortion will flow again during the Obama Administrations, say supporters.
By CNA
www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp
Supporters of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are confident that President-elect Barack Obama will reverse the Bush administration’s 2002 decision to stop the $40 million it received in U.S. funding. The policy was instated because of UNFPA’s support for China’s one-child policy, which includes coercive abortion practices.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D – N.Y.) said the funding will be approved by the Democratic majority Congress. Her comments came while speaking Wednesday at a press conference at the National Press Club where the 2008 U.N. report on world population was released.
“You know the president will have to do nothing,” said Maloney. “He will just have to let the will of Congress go through. One of the changes is that UNFPA will be funded,” CNSNews.com reports.
The Bush administration in 2002 had stopped funding the organization, citing the Kemp-Kasten Amendment which prohibits funds from being available to organizations or programs determined to be supporting or participating in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization programs.
In July of 2008, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte announced that for the sixth year in a row, the government had determined that “UNFPA provides support for and participates in the management of the Chinese government’s program of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization.”
Rep. Maloney reported that she discusses UNFPA funding controversies in her book “Rumors of Our Progress are Greatly Exaggerated.” She said the UNFPA was founded “with American leadership” and “was supported strongly by George Bush’s father.”
The new UN report, “Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights,” calls for “cultural sensitivity” to “mitigate and overcome cultural resistance to couples and individuals using modern contraception.” It claims to prepare for the empowerment of women with control over their fertility.
Nevertheless, Rep. Maloney claimed the U.S. will no longer “impose our own ideology” under the UNFPA funding changes.
She said Obama “has already said his administration will change the way we do business in Washington and that improving the role of women around the world is going to be one of his prominent priorities.
“I am thrilled with this report, and I am really thrilled at the new direction of our government,” Maloney said, according to CNSNews.com.
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Congress Will Fund UNFPA, Forced Abortions for Obama, Representative Says
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 13, 2008
www.lifenews.com/int984.html
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- One of the leading pro-abortion members of the House of Representatives says Congress will do the dirty work for incoming president Barack Obama when it comes to funding the UNFPA and forced abortions. Rep. Carolyn Maloney held a press conference Wednesday discussing the taxpayer funding.
Maloney told reporters that the Democratic-controlled Congress, run by abortion advocates, will restore the $40 million annual funding to the UNFPA with Obama's support.
“You know the president will have to do nothing,” Maloney said, according to CNS News. “He will just have to let the will of Congress go through. One of the changes is that UNFPA will be funded.”
Maloney's press conference coincided with a new United Nation's report on population and she told reporters that a major change in attitude towards the pro-abortion United Nations will come into play with Obama in the White House.
“This report could not be more timely,” CNS reporting Maloney saying.
“It’s all about cultural change, and we are really about to see major cultural change in Washington. Part of that hope and change will be a new attitude toward reports like this one, and I am confident we can be very sure (the report) will be taken to heart and listened and studied by our new president," she added.
She said she is "thrilled" with the new pro-abortion direction the Obama administration will take and said the United States will no longer “impose our own ideology” against abortion.
If Congress or the Obama administration restore the UNFPA funding, Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for National Right to Life, tells LifeNews.com it would be looking the other way at a federal law prohibiting the funding of groups that are involved in forced abortion programs.
"Since 1985, U.S. law has prohibited funding any organization that supports a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization," Johnson explained.
"The UNFPA has been a cheerleader for, and participant in, China's coercive population control program. In order to restore funding to the UNFPA, Obama will have to turn a blind eye to the law," Johnson added.
The Kemp-Kasten Anti-Coercion law prohibits U.S. "population assistance" funds from going to any organization that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
The last time Congress voted on the law was in September 2007, when the Senate , in crafting the Fiscal Year 2008 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill, removed the traditional Kemp-Kasten language and replaced it with a far weaker provision.
When the bill reached the Senate floor, pro-life Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, offered an amendment to restore the traditional Kemp-Kasten anti-coercion language.
The Brownback Amendment passed, 48 to 45, but the Senate's membership will lack as many pro-life votes next year and it will be easier for abortion advocates to restore UNFPA funding.
The last House vote came in June 2005 when Maloney an amendment to prohibit enforcement of "any provision of law that prohibits or restricts funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)."
The Maloney amendment failed 233 to 192, but pro-abortion gains in the House will make it easier to adopt the Maloney amendment or remove it if inserted in the budget during the committee markup.
Pro-life advocates may have to rely on a filibuster from pro-life senators to hold up any language in the bill which weakens the Kemp-Kasten law or restores the funding unless it is removed.
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Commentary & research by Infowar:
This is horrible news. This is all part of the plan to depopulate the planet. China is the model for the New World Order. I can't believe how so many of you blindly support the elites pro-death propaganda. The world is screwed up because of the elite scumbags who run the planet. Families like the Rockefeller's & Rothschilds make me sick! Just read the U.N. Convention On Biodiversity plan and find out the shocking truth. Dig deep....the text is long and bland. Running a google search yields tons of info.
Read an article about the Bio diversity plan here: www.freedom.org/reports/srbio.htm
(Google search for: Convention on Biological Diversity)
There is a film out called EndGame that details the elites plan to depopulate the earth of it's human occupants.
The documentary is available on google video here:
video.google.com/videoplay
More info about the film at this link: www.endgamethemovie.com/biblio01.html
Here are a few quotes: (yes these quotes are real,look them up)
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
- Founder of what became Planned Parenthood: Margaret Sanger
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
thinkexist.com/quotes/margaret_sanger/
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/margaretsa391 151.html
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter
www.aim.org/wls/five-percent-of-the-present-popul ation-would-be-ideal/
Source: You Don't Say, by Fred Gielow, 1999, page 189.
Hardcopy: Copy of page 189 from Gielow's book.
Where: During an interview with Audubon magazine.
Read an interesting article about Ted Turner from TIME Magazine (1992)
The article is 9 pages long. Here is an excerpt from the article (Page 8)
"He used to talk about war as an efficient way to weed out the weak members of society"
He invented the Turner Tomorrow Awards to inspire writers the world over to write about "positive solutions to global problems," but the contest this year degenerated into a spat over who should get the $500,000 prize. He has issued what some are calling the Ted Commandments, a list of 10 voluntary initiatives that would make the world a better place. (It includes "I promise to have no more than two children" -- a belated pledge, since he has five.) He has told intimates he hopes to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Article Link:www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974622- 1,00.html
"Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets.Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."
- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/photographer_query
"One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death."
- Psychologist Barbara Marx Hubbard - member and futurist/strategist of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Marx_Hubbard.
“The Aids epidemic, rather than being a scourge,
is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population…
If it didn’t exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.”
-Dave Foreman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Foreman
"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation"
Prince Philip
- Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA)
August, 1988
american_almanac.tripod.com/cull.htm
There are many more quotes and info but for the sake of your attention span I will post more info later. Oh yeah....one more thing. Google search the term Eugenics.
Check out transhumanism too.
