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EU to vote on Funding of Coercive Abortion, Forced Sterilisation and Infanticide
Kathy Sinnott MEP for Munster has tabled an amendment to the EU development fund resolution to ensure EU Development Funds within the 2009 EU Budget will not be used to support programmes which include coercive abortion, forced sterilisation and infanticide. This amendment will be voted on by MEPs in Strasbourg tomorrow, Thursday 23rd October. Please contact your MEPs and ask them to support amendment No. 134 to Budget Line 21 01 04 20. For all member states click on the following URL and then click on your country's flag for a list of your MEP's contact details |
America's Choice Now
The outcome of the US election will be critical from a pro-life viewpoint. The Mc Cain Palin team are pro-life and the Obama Biden team pro-abortion.
With just two weeks to go in the US Presedential election Barack Obama has widened his lead over John McCain with two national polls showing voters favor the Democrat by at least 10 points. I have placed a video on my BLOG which clearly shows where both candidates stand on the question of human life Please view this powerful video which sums up the choice American voters are facing in the forthcoming election.
America's Choice Now was made with Christians in mind but it carries a compelling message for all people of good will.
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We have further updates this week on the UK and Northern Ireland. The Human Fertilisation and Embryo bill is before the British Parliament today. We say to Gordon Brown and his Government hands off the human embryo. We also say that legislation permitting the creation of animal human hybrids is completely unacceptable. This is perhaps the most evil measure ever to come before Parliament and it should be binned now.
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ULSTER says NO to abortion
Iris Robinson MP, MLA, and chairman of the Northern Ireland Assembly Health Committee, addressing a major pro-life rally at Stormont on Saturday last Oct. 18th, declared that the Assembly would not accept legal abortion. "Abortion in Northern Ireland? Never, never, never. Ulster says no to abortion!" The pro-life rally held at Stormont was attended by Northern Ireland MP's and MLA's, Pro Life leaders from Ireland and the UK and also attracted large numbers from both Northern and Southern Ireland. The rally was organized by Precious Life and supported by all major pro-life organisations to defend Northern Ireland against the most recent attempt to impose abortion on it. Six pro-abortion Westminster MPs, tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill seeking the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act into Northern Ireland. The third reading of HFE bill is scheduled for Wednesday. Jeffrey Donaldson, Democratic Unionist MP and Junior Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, said that the Northern Ireland Assembly would categorically reject any order by Westminster to accept legal abortion. "If Westminster imposes the Abortion Act," Donaldson said, "as a minister in the Northern Ireland government I will not implement that law." |
Possible reprieve for Northern Ireland?
House of Commons Health Secretary Alan Johnson yesterday on the instructions of Gordon Brown invoked a little used procedural motion which may result in taking abortion off the political agenda completely at the current time. The motion will have the effect of prioritising today's debate and setting out a strict timetable by ensuring that the main issues within the controversial human fertilisation and embryo bill will be taken first possibly resulting in the pro-abortion amendments being timed out. If this is the case it will have the effect of ensuring that the 1967 act will not be extended to Northern Ireland but also that the other pro-abortion amendments aimed at further liberalising the availability of abortion in the UK may not now be debated. Pro-abortion MP's are said to be furious about this. Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP who has led the campaign for a lower legal limit for terminations, said: "Abortion has been slam dunked straight into the long grass." Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said: 'This misguided political opportunism would amount to a shocking act of betrayal of women by government ministers." |
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Bratislava Conference on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Anna Záborská MEP head of the women's committee in the European Parliament has arranged a conference in Bratislava as part of the International year of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - UDHR - (1948-2008), which will take place on Friday 24 October and Saturday 25 October in the Bratislava city hall (Slovakia), under the high patronage of M. Andrej ĎURKOVSKY, Bratislava City Mayor and of European authorities. The theme of this meeting is:
"The UDHR is 60 years old: still good news for life and the family in the world!"
This conference will call for reaffirmation of the UDHR by UN delegates who will gather for the UN General Assembly special session on the UDHR on the 10th December 2008 in New York. This call specifically focuses on articles 3, 16, 18, 25, 26 in respect of life, the family and freedom of conscience.
The conference is supported by a number of pro-life and pro-family organisations including the Family Research Council and the Doha International Institute for Family Study and Development
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