AB and Poland

Dear ProLife Colleague: We have discussed the current Administration’s (and ACOG and other groups’) pervasive, persistant attempts to make elective abortion the Standard of Care in this country. It is important that you and I realize that this agenda is world-wide. The fight for Life goes beyond our borders. On the world scene, there is plenty of money and political power to push the pro-abortion agenda. On our side, our tools are the Sanctity of Human Life, and the Right of Conscience, and exposing the horrible fallout– emotional, social, and physicial — that abortion visits on many women. When the United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006, it established a process to review countries’ human rights records every 4 years. REMEMBER, THE PRO-ABORTION MANTRA IS ”LEGAL ABORTION EQUALS SAFE ABORTION EQUALS REDUCED MATERNAL MORTALITY. (Both these assertions are the Pro-Abortion Gospel on a world-wide scale.) Although in 2006 member states rejected the proposed “Universal Access to Reproductive Health” because of its sponsors’ clear intent to use this proposal as a means to promote legalization of elective abortion worldwide, the bureaucrats running the UN council keep pushing that agenda. The current pressure on POLAND is seen below, taken from: http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2010/06/furious-polish-diplomats-are-fighting.html “A huge attack on Poland’s restrictive abortion legislation has been launched by United Nations officials at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.” UN official “Mr Grover said that in 2007 the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) voiced concern in relation to Poland’s obligations on women’s equal right to access health-care services,”… (read, “TO ABORTION”). “The Polish delegate Mr. Branislav Lysák told the meeting that in the last 20 years infant mortality had dropped by 71% and maternal mortality in Poland was down by 82% in the same period. These figures according to Mr. Lysák contradict the assumption that liberalization of abortion improves maternal mortality.” “Abortion access according to Mr Lysák was available on social and economic grounds in Poland between 1956 and 1993 and Polish experience proves that there is no simple correlation between liberalization of abortion and improvement of maternal health …”Mr Lysák told the meeting that there is no universal right to abortion and regulation of that issue is the exclusive competence of States as set out in various international documents such as the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)” jdc/aaplog