On Wednesday, in Strasbourg, France, according to LifesiteNews.com,
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has passed a resolution to declare unlimited legal abortion an unconditional right. The Assembly passed the resolution with 102 to 69 votes with 14 abstentions. Amendments seeking to make the resolution less extreme in its promotion of abortion were rejected.
Tony Perkins, of the FRC, commented on the Resolution:
In a move that took even member nations by surprise, the Council of Europe has passed a resolution of “unconditional” support for abortion. The body, which shapes policies that are often adopted by the European Union (EU), deals a painful blow to global pro-life efforts.
In a rushed move, the group’s Parliamentary Assembly allowed just three minutes of discussion on the abortion issue, then proceeded to vote with only 185 of the 316 members present. The few amendments that pro-lifers scrambled to introduce to water down the language were rejected. The Council declared a “right to unlimited legal abortion” by a 33-vote margin.
Although the Council of Europe doesn’t create policy, it does influence it, which makes this decision significant as the EU’s clout increases. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that the vote isn’t ‘legally binding.’ However, it sends a disturbing message about the Council’s utter disregard for the sanctity of human life.
As Pat Buckley of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said, ‘Nothing in the European Convention on Human Rights recognizes a right to abortion. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the issue of when the right to life begins is a question to be decided at the national level.’ Clearly, the Council is vastly overstepping its bounds.
We urge member nations to denounce the declaration and call for an honest debate.
Here in the U.S., FoxNews reported on Thursday,
A resolution welcoming and honoring Pope Benedict XVI to Washington hit a temporary rough patch on the way to its eventual approval — and the rough patch involved the always-nuclear topic of abortion.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., crafted a resolution ‘Welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the United States and recognizing the unique insights his moral and spiritual reflections bring to the world stage.’
But when the resolution was circulated for approval of all the members, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., an outspoken ‘pro-choice’ advocate, put on the brakes.
The offending language: ‘Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life.’
A Boxer aide pointed specifically to the last 10 words of that sentence, saying it points directly to “pro-life” language. Boxer, with the support of a number of her Democratic and Republican colleagues, held up the bill for three days, trying to find a compromise.
One senior Republican leadership aide told FOX News, ‘What’s the problem with this? Does Sen. Boxer not value life?…’(more)
Barbara Boxer, who in 1999 voted NO on legislation to “ban the abortion procedure in which the physician partially delivers the fetus before completing the abortion,” and in 2004 voted NO on a bill to “make it a criminal offense to harm or kill a fetus during the commission of a violent crime,” is apparently buying into the Darwinist Elitism that has taken over European politics, and threatens to do the same in the United States. Senator Boxer wrote to President Bush in 2004, urging him to relax the restrictions on the use of human embryos in highly experimental research:
Embryonic stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand deadly and disabling diseases and conditions that affect more than 100 million Americans, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, and many others.
It’s “survival of the fittest,” to citizen-of-the-world Barbara Boxer and her heroes in the European Union.
Question: Does anyone still really believe the push for unresticted abortion worldwide has anything to do with womens’ rights? I hope not. This is clearly a move away from protecting the rights of the individual, and toward governmental population control. Hitler may have died decades ago, but the ideals of the abortion industry which inspired his genocidal reign are still alive and well today.
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April 18th, 2008 - 5:43 pm
I just don’t get it. Why is murdering babies a topic of debate? It’s murder, pure and simple. The only choice involved was when the man and woman decided to have sex. Getting pregnant is a well known possible consequence of that choice.
April 18th, 2008 - 10:17 pm
I don’t get it, either, Alex.
And, thanks for the good info on the Expelled movie.