{"id":12636,"date":"2020-03-25T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:08:19","slug":"wcf-soros-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/wcf-soros-and-abortion","title":{"rendered":"WCF, Soros and Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Kyiv Post<\/em><\/a> republished an article from openDemocracy<\/em><\/a> (the official media engine of George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations network). The article begins without any subtlety: \u201cAbortion has been legal in Ukraine for decades \u2013 but groups empowered by Trump\u2019s White House are misleading vulnerable women about their options.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already in\nthe first sentence, we can see that this article is a gem of misinformation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of\nall, it conveniently \u201comits\u201d any mention that abortion was legalized in\nUkraine, as elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc, by the Communist Soviet\nregime\u2014a grim memory for Ukrainians, where the Holodomor<\/em> (the deliberate\ngenocidal starvation policy orchestrated by Stalin and his minions) killed\naround five million <\/em>Ukrainians during the 1930s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, who\nis really misleading vulnerable women? Is it pro-life organizations which offer\nto help them to keep their babies, or Planned Parenthood which pretends that\nabortion is a trivial operation without any consequences? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m always\nfascinated by the conspiracy theories of anti-conspiracy-theory-people: from\nthis first sentence of the openDemocracy article, one would think that Ukrainian\npro-life organizations receive official or financial support from the White\nHouse. But this notion is insane. Of course, Donald Trump supports the pro-life movement morally<\/em>,\nbut supposing that the collaboration between pro-life groups all over the world\nis decided in the Oval Office is a very different idea \u2013 and a crazy one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remainder\nof the article is no more serious than its opening. The \u201cjournalist,\u201d Tetiana\nKozak, explains how she placed a phone call to the Karkhiv Pregnancy Assistance Center<\/a> (a center publicly and officially\nsupported by the beautiful organization Heartbeat International<\/a>). As one might imagine, Kozak\u2019s\nphone call involved lying: she pretended to be a young student and an \u201cinternally-displaced\u201d\nperson (i.e. <\/em>a de facto<\/em> foreign refugee) who had become pregnant due\nto rape and was now considering abortion. (I would remind readers here that\ninternational journalistic standards and ethics generally prohibit<\/em> this kind\nof deceitful practice. Outside very rare cases\u2014like filming warlords or mafia\ncriminals\u2014a journalist should normally introduce himself as a journalist<\/em>\nwhen conducting investigations. But, of course, Ms. Kozak probably thinks that\npro-lifers are<\/em> dangerous criminals!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, the\nwoman on the phone advised Kozak against abortion, spoke to her about her baby,\nabout post-abortion syndrome risks, and other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kovak\u2019s\narticle hardly disproves the claims of the pregnancy workers. The only arguments\nshe can come up with are these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. We don\u2019t have any proof (in her\nreading of the data) that breast cancer risks are higher after an abortion;<\/li>
  2. The Karkhiv Pregnancy Assistance\nCenter is supported by powerful foreigners (including the White House), a claim\nfor which she offers no evidence;<\/li>
  3. The website of the Center doesn\u2019t make\nclear that it\u2019s a faith-based operation.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    These arguments are less than persuasive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Firstly, it doesn\u2019t take religious faith to see that abortion\nkills a human being. One only needs\njust a little bit of biology from school to know this is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Furthermore,\nher \u201creasoning\u201d about breast cancer risks associated with abortion is pure\nsophistic evasion. First, there IS published medical data available linking\nincreased breast cancer rates to abortion. Second, the onus shouldn\u2019t be on pro-life\npeople to prove<\/em> that abortion is risky beyond reasonable doubt, but\nrather for pro-abortion people to prove<\/em> abortion is indeed harmless.\n(Good luck!) There is simply no preponderance of evidence that abortion is\nrisk-free to the mother. And, by the way, Soros\u2019s friends speak often about\nprecautionary principles when it comes to dealing with animals or plants; that\nwe should err on the side of doing no harm. Yet it seems they are unwilling to\napply the same principles to dealings with human beings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Regarding\nthe matter of \u201cforeign support\u201d of the Karkhiv Center, I have admitted already\nthat Heartbeat International is in fact an official supporter of the center.\nBut is a Planned Parenthood clinic in a foreign country subject to the same\nscrutiny and charges of \u201cforeign support\u201d? I won\u2019t even mention again the\nmatter of the supposed support from the White House: it\u2019s too patently absurd.\nI\u2019m sure Donald Trump is happy to learn that some babies are saved in Karkhiv,\nbut do you think he doesn\u2019t have enough to do In the United States? If Ms. Kozak\nis still unconvinced, I can assure her that American pro-lifers have plenty of\nwork to do at home where almost 1.3 million abortions are performed every year.\nKovak is simply and deliberately conflating moral support (and, of course,\nevery pro-life organization all over the world shares this kind of common and\nmutual support) with an imaginary broad conspiracy from the Oval Office. Moral\nsupport exists, indeed it is growing and becoming stronger\u2014thanks, in\nparticular, to the huge work of the World Congress of Families. But it is idiocy\nto imagine the global pro-life movement as a monolithic (and managed-from-Washington)\nnetwork. Perhaps Kovak can be forgiven this mix-up, given the way America\u2019s\nliberal elites funnel their money around the world to spread abortion and same-sex\n\u201cmarriage\u201d in countries that want no part of this ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I particularly\nlove this sentence in Kovak\u2019s article which follows the summary of her phone\ncall to the Center: \u201cA\nwoman in trouble and looking for help may not realize that the Kharkiv center\nhas an agenda \u2013 or such powerful foreign friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It freezes\nthe reader\u2019s blood! One envisions an underground network of dangerous\nterrorists! But, the truth is quite the opposite: the agenda is to save babies\nand the reach of Heartbeat International is nowhere near as powerful as George\nSoros\u2019s international cabal and, what\u2019s more, it\u2014unlike Soros\u2019 network\u2014doesn\u2019t\nhide its values!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Kovak\u2019s\npropaganda piece continues with her lamenting that the Karkhiv Center operates\nindependently from the State Health Ministry. She probably ignores that there\nare some countries which are not (or, like Ukraine, are no longer) communist. I\nguess this is sad for her, but around the world religious congregations and\nprivate philanthropy offer more health care than Governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The\nfunniest aspect of Kovak\u2019s article, though, is this: that her \u201cinquiry\u201d is part\nof a broader project funded by openDemocracy (which is \u2013 as I already mentioned\n\u2013 a foundation funded by George Soros: that is clearly a sign of scientific\nobjectivity!). And the article goes on (after detailing Kovak\u2019s so-called\n\u201cinquiry\u201d) to quote Hillary Margolis<\/a>, Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher on\nWomen\u2019s Rights in Europe and Central Asia, mentioning that Margolis thought\nKovak\u2019s findings are \u201cdisturbing.\u201d Well! Surely the world is ending: Kovak\u2019s\nfound a single \u201cexpert\u201d who considers her \u201cresearch findings\u201d to be \u201cdisturbing\u201d!\nBut Margolis isn\u2019t just any researcher: she works for the very liberal Human\nRights Watch\u2014which is (shock!) heavily funded by George Soros. Margolis\u2019\n\u201cexpert opinion\u201d is no more a valuable comment on Kozak\u2019s work than Kozak\u2019s own\nopinion of her findings. What wonderful and objective journalism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But let\u2019s\ncome finally to the criticism in Kozak\u2019s piece for\u2026 us.<\/em> Yes, dear\nreaders, in this wide pro-life conspiracy, centered at the White House, the\nWorld Congress of Families, and \u201cultraconservative group\u201d chaired by iFamNews\nfounder and publisher, my friend Brian Brown, is a central cog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Do you want\nproof? Brian was, just a fortnight ago, in Kiev for a meeting of the \u201cValues,\nDignity, Family\u201d caucus of Ukrainian parliamentarians, which involves lawmakers\nfrom across the Ukrainian political spectrum, and is run by another friend of\nmine, Oleg Voloshin. Horror!\nIf the Ukrainian pro-life movement is also supported by Ukrainian pro-life\npoliticians, what is the world coming to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is the\nshocking finding from the \u201cinvestigative journalism\u201d of our friends in Soros\u2019\npocket. They are clearly worried. But, at least in that they are probably not\nmistaken\u2026\n\nYes, we can tell them: we are indeed happy\nthat\u2014particularly thanks to the work of the International Organization for the\nFamily, with its World Congress of Families events and this very news service\u2014the\nculture of life worldwide is<\/em> growing. And we make no pretense about our\npublic and explicit hope that, in the future, all women in every country will\nbe able to benefit from the work of pregnancy centers like the Karkhiv Center\nand be able to welcome and embrace their babies\u2014for their own joy and the joy\nof all society. This isn\u2019t a shocking global conspiracy. But it is a part of\nour work, and we\u2019re proud of it!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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