Sept. 2, 2016 headlines - addenda
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Canon212.com
I was going to add these yesterday before I had to attend to my 'day job', because I had wanted to underscore the headline in both aggregates referring to JMB's 'gratification' over UN goals - which, surely, he knows very well, rest a great deal on so-called 'reproductive rights' which is liberalspeak for population control by any means possible.... Voice of the Family had this reaction.
Pope 'gratified' by UN goals that demand
'universal access to sexual and reproductive health'
September 2, 2016
Pope Francis has said that he is “gratified” by UN goals that call on member states to “ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health” by 2030.
The term “sexual and reproductive health”, as generally defined, includes access to contraception, including abortifacient methods, and, often, other forms of abortion.
In a message entitled “For the celebration of the world day of prayer for the care of creation”,
Pope Francis stated that he was “gratified that in September 2015 the nations of the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, and that, in December 2015, they approved the Paris Agreement on climate change”.
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, agreed by nation states in September 2015, consist of 17 goals and 169 targets, which will determine the direction of international aid and action until 2030. These goals were endorsed by the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Among other things, the Sustainable Development Goals call on member states to:
“ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs” (Goal 7 Target 3)
The term “sexual and reproductive health care services” is defined by United Nation bodies as including contraception, including forms that have an abortifacient mode of effect.
The United Nations Population Fund states that “sexual and reproductive health” includes access for all to “the safe, effective, affordable and acceptable contraception method of their choice”. Furthermore it is used by many international governments, including that of the United States, and by agencies such as Planned Parenthood, to include other forms of abortion.
The World Health Organisation also considers abortion to be integral to “sexual and reproductive health”.
The WHO “develops norms, tools and guidelines on reproductive health in general and abortion services in particular, and supports countries in reforming their health systems. Its role includes:
- distributing existing evidence on abortion;
- assisting Member States in evaluating health systems’ response to the needs of women with unwanted pregnancies;
- promoting methodology in quality control of abortion services; and
- training of trainers in, for example, counselling and abortion care.”
The WHO, as part of its work to promote “sexual and reproductive health”, actively works to “improve access to abortion and the quality of their abortion services” in “countries such as Ireland”, which currently have restrictive abortion laws.
The implementation of the SDG’s call to “ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services” will necessarily involve the further extension of attempts by UN agencies and international organisations to radically increase contraception use and access to abortion worldwide.
It will be instructive therefore to consider what is already being done in the name of “universal access to sexual and reproductive health care”.
The “Maputo Plan of Action for the Operationalisation of the Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” aimed at “Universal Access to Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Africa”. It was produced in 2006 following a special session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health in Maputo, Mozambique.
The document specifically identified “Abortion Care” as an integral part of sexual and reproductive health. It’s plan of action for “Implementing the Continental Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy Framework ” included the following resolutions:
5.2.1a Train service providers in the provision of comprehensive safe abortion care services where national law allows.
5.2.2 Refurbish and equip facilities for provision of comprehensive abortion care services.
5.3.1a Provide safe abortion services to the fullest extent of the law.
5.3.2 Educate communities on available safe abortion services as allowed by national laws.
The “Maputo Plan of Action” targets for attaining “universal access to sexual and reproductive health”
explicitly includes access to “family planning” and “emergency contraception”.
The document also specifically targets children, stating that “Addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and youth” is a key component of sexual and reproductive health.”
The “Maputo Plan” is one of many projects in which the promotion of abortion and contraception is integral to efforts to achieve “universal access to sexual and reproductive health” around the world.
The implementation of the SDGs will lead to the further spread of abortion and contraception worldwide, bringing about the deaths of countless numbers of unborn children and causing immense harm to individuals and societies.
And yet, Pope Francis has professed himself “gratified” by international targets that will result in unimaginable devastation and suffering for an untold number families around the world.
This is perhaps the most tragic example of the now well-entrenched collaboration between the Holy See and the world’s leading proponents of abortion, contraception and population control, under the guise of promoting sustainable development.
A selection of Voice of the Family’s commentary on this collaboration can be found below.
Holy See rep “welcomes” UN target for “universal access to sexual and reproductive health”, 3 June 2016
Pro-family Catholics disturbed after reports of pope’s comments on contraception, 18 February 2016
Climate agreement welcomed by pope but pro-lifers concerned about language that promotes abortion, 22 December 2015
Cardinal Turkson: Pope Francis ‘has invited people to some form of birth control”, 10 December 2015
‘Sacrilege’: Catholic leaders react to Vatican’s climate change light show, 9 December 2015
Synod adopts alarming sociological approach in place of clear doctrine, 12 November 2015
Voice of the Family statement: Parents are the primary educators of their children, 15 October 2015
Synod fathers who compromise on contraception will be responsible for greater abortion, 6 October 2015
African families gravely threatened by western governments, international agencies and Vatican departments, 18 August 2015
Professor Schellnhuber: climate science and the population problem, 26 June 2015
Launch of new encyclical by head of Catholic agency accused of funding contraception shows urgent need for reaffirmation of Humanae Vitae, 19 June 2015
Voice of the Family statement on the encyclical letter Laudato Si, 18 June 2015
Any discussion on the environment must stem from understanding that the family is the key to sustainable development, 21 May 2015
Vatican endorsement of UN Sustainable Development Goals threatens unborn children, 29 April 2015
Leading global pro-abortion advocates speak at Vatican conference, 28 April 2015
JMB is not naive or stupid. He knows exactly where the UN and the rest of the uber-liberal international bureaucracy stand on population control. He obviously thinks that the SDG goal of 'ending poverty, war and hunger by 2030' - than which nothing could be more hubristic and presumptuous against God's plan for mankind after the Fall, not to mention IMPOSSIBLE - along with their far-out and totally unnecessary plans for climate control, far outweighs the evils of abortion and other kinds of population control.
If you had any doubt at all about where this so-called pope is at, this should cure you of it. Remember that for all his occasional lip service against abortion, he has also said that the Church - and people in the Church - should stop talking about it so much!
And so, when he addressed the UN General Assembly last September, he unconditionally endorsed the UN SDGs, knowing exactly the boobytraps they contain for Catholic teaching. Very few commentators even noted this endorsement at the time, but I have found it one of the more blatant dishonesties of this so-called pope, and twice - first last September, and then again earlier this year, I did my best to underscore it on this thread
P.S. I don't go out of my way to read any Bergoglian text unless it is necessary to do so in order to comment fairly on the whole or part of the text. I do think it is worth reproducing the entire passage which begins with JMB's 'gratification' at the UN SDGs, etc. To wit:
I am gratified that in September 2015 the nations of the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, and that, in December 2015, they approved the Paris Agreement on climate change, which set the demanding yet fundamental goal of halting the rise of the global temperature.
Now governments are obliged to honour the commitments they made, while businesses must also responsibly do their part. It is up to citizens to insist that this happen, and indeed to advocate for even more ambitious goals.
Changing course thus means “keeping the original commandment to preserve creation from all harm, both for our sake and for the sake of our fellow human beings.”
The 'original commandment'??? By whom??? It's not in the Tablets brought down from Sinai by Moses, nor is it in Jesus's Great Commandment. Do you see how insidiously JMB sneaks in phrases like that to push his agenda?
Obviously, consciousness of human responsibility for safeguarding God's creation is an outcome of a properly formed conscience, which in turn, arises from living as God commanded man to do in the Ten Commandments. Of which, the first three teach us our duty to God, and the last seven, our duty to others.
In Jesus's formulation of the Great Commandment, the first is to love God above all else, and the second, to love our neighbor as ourself. Again, first what we owe God, and then what we owe each other.
If one follows these teachings well and properly, then respect and care for creation follow. We see it as our duty because Creation is God's gift to us, and because we all partake of Creation. As Jesus said, "Seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides", and he did not mean just material things.
When God created man, he said, "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth. God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food. And so it happened."
God did not verbalize any commandment here - but man to whom all these things were given for his good did not have to be told he had to safeguard them so they could continue being good for him. His God-given reason tells him that.
Of course, after the Fall, God-given reason in man-expelled-from-Eden proved easy prey to what God called, in the time of Noah, human wickedness: that which led him to wipe out all of Creation on this earth with the Great Flood - all except Noah, his family, and the animal and plant life on the Ark who would populate the rebirth of Creation.
When the LORD saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil, the LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved.
By ourselves, we are easy prey to evil, but surely, using air-conditioning or failing to sort our garbage cannot be sins - certainly not done out of wickedness - especially when JMB and his followers think adultery, as in remarried divorcees, is not necessarily a sin, even when Jesus himself said so!
And is the supposed Vicar of Christ on earth, by his own standard, not 'sinning' when he chooses to leave his carbon footprints so prodigally in his frequent globetrotting? He may be guilty of rank hypocrisy, yes, but is he thereby wicked?
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 04/09/2016 11:31]