Another Obama trick

Recent reports have come indicating that the Obama team is pushing for universal access to abortion at a UN conference, contradicting what they officially claim as wanting to reduce the need for abortion.

This gives the lie to Obama’s cool words at the controversial commencement exercises of the US Notre Dame University last May, where he said he wanted to find common grounds with pro-lifers.

With this new development, we seem to observe a defining pattern in Obama. He can be very good at words. But we are worried about what’s really inside his heart. We want to hope that nothing drastic be made, but that hope now appears to be badly bruised.

We need to know immediately what this “universal access” means, since my initial understanding of it is that abortion can be had by anyone, anytime, anywhere and for any reason.

If one abortion is already an abomination, since it’s a killing of an innocent human being, imagine what massive, universal abortion can amount to! Things have gone so bad that abortion is now considered as if it’s just one more item to sell and bargain on negotiating tables.

In the present US proposal, the term used is: “Universal access” to “sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning.” Hillary Clinton already clarified that reproductive health includes abortion.

Before a US House subcommittee some months ago, the sweet-talking Hillary declared: “We (the Obama administration) happen to think that family planning is an important part of women’s health and reproductive health includes access to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal and rare.”

It would be interesting to compare these words with what they are pushing now at the UN—a move for universal access to abortion. In fact, this is not the first time the former First Lady contradicted herself in her public statements. And I’m afraid this will not be the last. There’s seems to be something serial in her.

And in a previous discussion at the UN, it was also clarified that “services” precisely include abortion also. Proponents of abortion usually hide their real agenda behind euphemistic terms.

Together with abortion, they are also promoting the so-called “sexual rights,” that actually is license to do anything sexual as long as there is some kind of mutual consent among the parties involved. Morality is completely down the drain.

Besides this trick, at the World Health Organization (WHO), officials are massaging data to show that maternal mortality is high and therefore a top world killer like cancer, malaria, AIDS, heart disease, etc. This is, of course, a big lie, done to again make abortion legal in all countries. That’s the ulterior motive.

Maternal mortality is not even among the top 10 causes of death these days. It is even lower than deaths caused by car accidents. I suspect abortion is more a killer than maternal mortality. The boldness of the abortion proponents is simply over the top.

Our local population control and family planning advocates should chew on this recently unearthed data to clear themselves of the suspicion they are part of a worldwide conspiracy to make abortion legal in our country.

It cannot be denied that they use the same language, the same statistics, the same ideology. They cannot play coy and say that they are just for family planning sans abortion and wild sexual rights, since they are playing the same game.

Evidence are aplenty that the path to the legalization of abortion in many countries is precisely through family planning programs without abortion yet. And then when the time is ripe, they introduce the demonic bill to a society already made soft and vulnerable.

This is the time to make a clear stand on abortion and many of its guises—reproductive health, health care, responsible parenthood, etc. There has to be a stronger campaign to expose the lies and fallacies of the abortion/sexual-rights bloc.

Let’s be wary when they say they are looking for a common ground with pro-lifers. While continuing dialogue and where possible a certain cooperation are desirable, we cannot be naïve in accepting at face value their invitations to discuss the issues and negotiate.

These latest developments are a clear proof there is lack of sincerity and transparency in their behavior. They play tricks and are not earnest in their words. In fact, they use many camouflaging terms. We should not play footsie with them.

To many of our local Catholic schools that tend to accommodate family planning people, caveat emptor!

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