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Having participated in each of the current series of UN
conferences on population, social development, women, housing and development
and food security, I have witnessed an attack on traditional moral values that,
if allowed to continued, will ultimately destroy the family as the basic unit of
society. The ideologies being
imposed by powerful nations upon poor nations at these conferences foster a
promiscuous lifestyle that is permeating all cultures and societies.
We find that what should be a truthful effort to enhance, respect, and
dignify humanity at these conferences has become an initiative for advancing an
elitist population-control agenda. The
radical population-control policy of the United Nations—will eventually be
seen as a global failure—a disaster of cataclysmic proportions that will
adversely affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
I say this not only because of my experience as a delegate from Guatemala
to the conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul and Rome, but also
because of my own personal concerns as a woman, mother, and new
grandmother.
Regardless of the title, these UN conferences (be it the
conference on Women, Food Security, Social Development, etc.), there seems to be
an underlying agenda of globally and radically reducing the world’s
population. The ideological dogma
created by radical population controllers was neither written nor influenced by
the right people. Rather than
turning to the moral, religious, and civic leaders of our time, undue influence
has bee given to organizations like International Planned Parenthood Federation
which have a vested interest in population control.
Such groups have convinced First World governments that population
control is critical and that the end (a smaller population) justifies the means
(barbaric practices of birth control, sterilization, and abortion.
These conferences, bearing the name, authority and prestige of the
United Nations, have been universally co-opted by non-governmental organizations
with a need to legitimize their
agenda. We must not allow this
blatant corruption of the rights and freedoms of people to continue expanding to
every corner of the world.
In Beijing, the anti-family coalition aggressively sought to
remove all reference to religion, spirituality, morals or ethics—except where
they were portrayed negatively, such as when associated with intolerance or
extremism.
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Convention of
the Rights of the Child made special provision for parents’ rights and
responsibilities regarding the education and upbringing of their children.
The Western delegations worked to eliminate recognition of parental
rights and responsibilities from key sections of the draft—even rejecting
direct quotations from the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
One pivotal paragraph in the Declaration was changed to give first
mention to “rights of the child to access, to information, privacy,
confidentiality, “ implying that these rights supersede those of the parents.
Often countries are singled out as dissenters for standing up for
the family, motherhood and parental rights.
Many countries are sacrificing their moral values and ethical principles
in the hope of economic concessions that may never come.
How can we eradicated the poverty, hunger, and misery of the Third World
when humanitarian aid is really used as a bribe?
Recently at the United Nations World Food Summit Conference in
Rome, the Western countries applied the same coercive pressure on the poor
underdeveloped nations to use family-planning programs to decrease populations,
as if population is the reason for hunger.
If these poor countries did not adopt these family-planning programs,
they would not receive the food aid they need and other favors promised them.
The time has come for telling the truth about “humanitarian”
family planning programs that are nothing more than chemical warfare against
women and families. As a
Guatemalan, I can tell you that government officials and the people of my
country have long been pressured into accepting such pernicious programs. I can assure you there is nothing humane about them.
The contraceptive mentality has degenerated to such a degree that
doctors generally fail to inform their patients of all the dangers to their
health and the abortifacient effect of the many methods of artificial birth
control. The most commonly used
methods include the Pill, Norplant, Depo-Provera, and the Intra-Uterine Device.
(All of These methods were first tested in experiments on the poor in the
Third World.) To give you an idea
of the detrimental affects these artificial methods of birth control have on the
malnourished bodies of poor women, I am going to tell you a true incident that
took place in Cameroon, Africa just one month ago:
I received a call from one of our Natural Family Planning
instructors, Malea Todoke (real name has been changed for her protection).
Going to visit her friend’s house in Cameroon, she was alarmed to find
a trail of blood. She followed the bloodstains and hound her friend crying in
pain. Malea fell to her knees and
reached for her friend, asking, “What happened?” Her friend, a nurse, told Malea that she had been asked by
her boss to participate in an experimental trial of the Norplant birth control
implant. She was given $150 to have
the Norplant inserted in her arm for one year.
Of the 100 other women who were likewise experimented on, many
experienced the same profuse bleeding. When
asked why she did not call for help, she said she was determined to endure the
pain for fear she would have problems with her boss who was responsible for the
study. Cameroon radio news later
reported that the Norplant implants had a 100-percent effectiveness rate.
Studies that show a link between the hormones in such chemical devices
and a significant increase in cancer (as well as numerous other serious
consequences) are ignored.
The United Nations is oftentimes an arena in which poor countries
are bribed and coerced into using artificial birth control methods, abortion,
and sterilization—population-control methods which directly violate the
constitutions of most Third World governments which recognize life from the
moment of conception. How can these
practices being pushed by the UN advance the interests of Third World Countries
while directly violating their constitutions?
The United Nations offers global potential for reaching millions
of people in need through dignified programs of promise. But
unfortunately, recent United Nations conferences have not been global gatherings
producing positive results; rather they have become opportunities for special
interest groups to push their often times harmful, yet profitable agendas.
The future of humanity is in our hands. We must rescue the family from the grip of negative United
Nations policies and agendas. Our
influence as parents and educators can prepare a generation of respectful,
faith-filled and dignified men and women for a world trying to silence them.
I would like to end with a quote from the final paragraph of the
recent United Nations speech of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II:
We must not be afraid of the future. We must not be afraid of man.
It is no accident that we are here.
Each and every human person has been created in the ‘image and
likeness’ of the One Who is the origin of all that is.
We have within us the capacities for wisdom and virtue.
With these gifts and with the help of God’s grace, we can build in the
next century and the next millennium a civilization worthy of the human person,
a true culture of freedom. We can
and must do so! And in doing so, we
shall see that the tears of this century have prepared the ground for a new
springtime of the human spirit.
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