The most\nprolife Administration in US history has taken another major step to protect\nthe unborn, this time by sounding a clarion call for the United Nations to cease\nusing the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to promote abortion. In a letter\nissued May 18 to Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the United States urged,\nin respectful but unmistakably strong terms, that \u201cthe UN should not use this\ncrisis as an opportunity to advance access to abortion as an \u2018essential\nservice.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The letter,\nsigned by John Barsa as acting administrator of USAID (the US agency that\ndescribes itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s premier international development agency and a\ncatalytic actor driving development results\u201d), called out the UN for \u201ccynically\nplacing\u201d in its Global Humanitarian Response Plan \u201cthe provision of \u2018sexual and\nreproductive health services\u2019 on the same level of importance as\nfood-insecurity, essential health care, malnutrition, shelter, and sanitation.\nMost egregious is that the Global HRP calls for the widespread distribution of\nabortion-inducing drugs and abortion supplies, and for the promotion of\nabortion in local country settings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The inclusion\nof abortion in the Global HRP shows that the UN failed to listen when President\nDonald J. Trump told last year\u2019s General Assembly, \u201cAmericans will also never\ntire of defending innocent life. We are aware that many United Nations\nprojects have attempted to assert a global right to taxpayer-funded abortion on\ndemand, right up until the moment of delivery. Global bureaucrats have\nabsolutely no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to\nprotect innocent life. Like many nations here today, we in America believe\nthat every child\u2014 born and unborn\u2014 is a sacred gift from God.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Referencing President Trump\u2019s remarks, Mr. Barsa minced no words. \u201cThe UN should not intimidate or coerce Member States that are committed to the right to life. To use the COVID-19 pandemic as a justification to pressure governments to change their laws is an affront to the autonomy of each society to determine its own national policies on health care. The United States stands with nations that have pledged to protect the unborn\u2026 I ask that you remove references to \u2018sexual and reproductive health,\u2019 and its derivatives from the Global HRP, and drop the provision of abortion as an essential component of the UN\u2019s priorities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d The letter\u2019s further reminder of the massive funding provided by USAID to the United Nations, including its Global HRP, clearly implied the possibility that continued funding could depend on the UN\u2019s response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Trump\nAdministration speaks with a voice of power, but we believe that all who raise\ntheir voice for the rights of the unborn speak with the power of truth. One of\nour most faithful supporters told us of the indelible impression made upon him\nby the speaker at his 1982 graduation ceremony from Harvard, a non-assuming nun\nwhose diminutive stature\u2014barely five feet in height\u2014belied her towering\ncourage. Her name was Mother Teresa, and standing there addressing the\ngraduates, she fearlessly spoke up for the unborn. \u201cIt is something\nunbelievable that today a mother, herself, murders her own child, afraid of\nhaving to feed one more child, afraid to educate one more child. This is one of\nthe greatest poverties. A nation, people, family that allows that, that accepts\nthat, they are the poorest of the poor.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might expect her remarks to have elicited scorn from one of the most liberal institutions on earth. Not so, reported the Harvard Journal. \u201cMother Teresa spoke with almost mesmerizing conviction; her excellent English had an accent and cadence compounded of her native Yugoslavia and India. What she said struck many listeners as anomalous in Harvard Yard on Class Day, but she received a long, standing ovation from the unusually large crowd come to hear a saintly woman.\u201d We urge all who likewise revere the sacred right of life to raise their voice for truth, for the unborn, for those who, as Mother Teresa described on another occasion, are \u201cthe most vulnerable among us.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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