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Help stop abortion agenda behind child abandonment resolution
Dear supporter,
An important European institution will vote on Friday 27
June on the subject of child abandonment. The Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) will debate a draft
resolution entitled "Preventing the first form of violence against children:
abandonment at birth" http://tinyurl.com/5k7dvw The Council of Europe (which is distinct from the
European Union) has a Parliamentary Assembly consisting of representatives who
already sit in the legislatures of the Council's 47 member-states. Although the
Parliamentary Assembly cannot pass laws, it does pass resolutions which may have
significant influence on law, in particular human rights law.
Although it contains some good aspects (e.g. support in crisis
pregnancies), the draft resolution and its accompanying report also
promotes "legal and easier access to sexual rights and reproductive health
services" (article 9.4.) such as "contraception and abortion" (article 33.6). It
is clear that the resolution's message is that it is better for women to kill
their babies by abortion than to abandon them, even than abandoning them to
institutions that will care for them and place them for adoption. Even the
resolution's title ("Preventing the first form of violence against children:
abandonment at birth") implies support for abortion - an earlier
form of violence against children is in fact killing them before birth. This
fact is the reason why the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
says, "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special
safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as
after birth."
The hijacking of the issue of child abandonment by pro-abortion extremism is shocking, but unsurprising considering that
the resolution has been drafted by the strongly pro-abortion British MP Mike
Hancock, under the chairmanship of Christine McCafferty, a leader of the abortion
lobby in the British parliament.
Please contact the
representatives of your country in the Assembly immediately, urging them to vote
to remove all anti-life language from the draft resolution, and to vote against
the draft resolution if the anti-life langauge is not removed. Assembly members
should be asked to oppose articles 7, 9.4, 10.3, 17, 18, 19, 33.6, 33.7 and any
other articles which could be interpreted as support for abortion or other
anti-life/anti-family practices (e.g. mass provision of contraception;
value-free sex education; attacks upon the work of faith communities to save
children; etc).
You may also wish to remind Assembly members of the words of the late Nobel Prize-winner, Mother Teresa:
"These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me."
Contact details for Assembly members can be found at http://tinyurl.com/65tqqg Please remember to email any replies you receive to political@spuc.org.uk
Yours sincerely in defence of life,
Anthony Ozimic
Political Secretary
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