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Members of Parliament - MPs - UK - List Why Chris Elmore MP Must:Oppose the killing of children by abortion, contraception, Further Information UK Parliamentary Constituencies - Make Abortion History Campaign UK Political Parties - Make Abortion History Campaign All-Party Parliamentary Groups - Make Abortion History Campaign For access to MP’s voting records click here . For information on the UK General Election click here . United for Life Submission to: Life in the womb (9 months in 4 minutes) HD - Presented to You from PSNX  A Youtube Video A Single Abortion Raises the Risk of Premature Birth in Future Pregnancies Medical Daily - Sep 5, 2012Report claims - Biotech company, Senomyx, use cells from aborted fetal tissue to test flavours - Senomyx “collaborators” included food giants PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé . Natural Fertility Awareness & NFP should be taught in Schools and Universities See NFP Website Pro-abortion Midwives' Chief Resigns  Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) 17 January 2017 Contents:1. Introduction2. Every organ of society - regardless of remit 3. The definition of slavery 4. Non-persons 5. Slavery - depriving others of their life 6. The slave-trade today - trafficking in human lives 7. Child sacrifice and the sale of children - a form of slavery 8. How the slavery of killing children by abortion is genocide 9. Rooting out cultural practices 10. Human embryos have human rights 11. Female Genital Mutilation - FGM - a form of enslavement 12. The UN's lack of care for women 13. Women are safer in countries where abortion is not legal 14. Environmental and population control groups 15. The natural environment and natural habitat of the unborn 16. The leaching of estrogens from contraceptives and other sources into the environment 17. Natural Family Planning is eco-friendly, woman-friendly, human-life-friendly 18. A sliding scale of ‘human value’ violates human rights 19. Poverty, abortion and the Millennium Development Goals 20. The G8 Summit ‘Force Abortion on Africa’ 21. Parents Right’s and the killing of children by abortion 22. Defending human rights equally 23. True liberty - what is it? 24. Conclusion 25. The Commitments we want from charities and others 1. IntroductionUnited for Life's Make Abortion History campaign, our First and Second letters to charities and other organisations, demonstrates that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects the right to life of ‘ all members of the human family ’ , and that, since the unborn are members of the human family the UDHRs protects the right to life of the unborn.
United for Life also demonstrates that the Declaration on the Rights of the Child applies to the unborn, which states that, ‘ ...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 UDHRs proclaims these Rights as ‘ a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations ’ and that ‘ every individual and every organ of society ...shall strive ...to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance ...among the peoples of Member States. ’ United for Life wrote to a number of charities, human rights and other organisations , to ask them to join the Make Abortion History campaign. Some organisations claim they do not work on abortion and would not join the Make Abortion History campaign while others claim they work for the elimination of other human rights abuses worldwide in accordance with the definition of international human rights instruments. United for Life would like to demonstrate to Chris Elmore MP how the killing of children by abortion, contraception, sterilisation and related activities such as human embryo experimentation, human cloning and IVF, violate international human rights instruments including instruments on slavery and therefore should be addressed by national and international human rights programmes and campaigns. We will do this by demonstrating :
2. Every organ of society - regardless of remitThe Universal Declaration proclaims that ‘...every organ of society... shall strive by teaching and education ...to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance ...among the peoples of Member States.’ Therefore every organ of society, regardless of ‘remit’, shall strive to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance. No ‘organ of society’ can excuse itself from the requirements and obligations under the Universal Declaration on grounds of ‘remit’ or any other grounds. The Universal Declaration proclaims these Rights as universal, inherent, and inalienable; universal because they are for all (members of the human family), inherent because they are not given, and inalienable because they cannot be taken away. If a particular group of human lives are being excluded from universal protection, such as the unborn, then, ‘...every organ of society ...shall strive by teaching and education ...to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance ...without distinction.’It is right therefore that United for Life should call upon Chris Elmore MP to commit himself to implement in full the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in regard to the unborn , which states that, '...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.' 3. The definition of slaveryAll United Nations Conventions must be read in the light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , including the Slavery Convention and Supplementary Convention , which apply to ‘all members of the human family without distinction.’ According to international human rights instruments the definition of slavery is ‘...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised...’. The exercise of ‘ownership’ includes the disposal or destruction of the object of ownership not wanted by the owner. When a child is killed by abortion this is exactly what happens; a tiny human life is treated as ‘property to be disposed of’. To treat human lives as if they are owned or as if they are ‘property’ is the bench mark definition of slavery. This is what happens to the unborn when he or she is killed in an abortion and to human embryos created for research and for IVF and other related activities. The modern slave-trade consists of such practices. On contemporary forms of slavery the UN claims ‘...there are no clear distinctions between different forms of slavery...’, and declares ‘...slavery and the slave-trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.’ United for Life agrees. 4. Non-personsThe claim that some human lives are ‘not persons’ or ‘have no legal status’ or ‘have no rights to protect’ have been used to justify slavery and the slave-trade, the Nazi persecution of the Jews and others, the persecution of indigenous peoples and of women who, for instance in Canada, had the status of ‘non-persons’ up until 1925. Recourse to claim that others are ‘non-persons’ is used to remove the moral and social obstacles for committing acts of violence. In the USA in 1881 legal scholar George F. Canfield claimed ‘...an Indian is not a person within the meaning of the Constitution’, and that ‘Congress may prevent an Indian leaving his reservation, and while he is on a reservation it may deprive him of his liberty, his property, [and] his life... ’. The State, in exercising ownership over the Native American Indians, demonstrates that slavery includes depriving others of their life. To claim that some human lives, including the unborn, are not persons or are ‘non-persons’ in order to defraud them of their ‘right to life’ or to claim they have no rights or to claim they have no right to legal protection, or for any other reason, is prohibited by Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that, ‘Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.’ All human life including the unborn are protected by the UDHRs and cannot be treated as ‘non-persons’ void of the universal, inherent and inalienable ‘...right to life...’ before the law. The Declaration on the Rights of the Child proclaims that the child ‘...needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.’ This is because the child, before as well as after birth, needs more protection not less, because before birth the child is more vulnerable from being used or destroyed by abortion and by human embryo experimentation, including IVF and human cloning. In fact, in March 2005 the United Nations banned all forms of human cloning as did the European Council in 1998. 5. Slavery - depriving others of their lifeWe have already illustrated above that the 1881 Native American case shows that slavery includes killing. Anti-Slavery International claims that ‘...the word ‘slavery’ now covers many practices which would not immediately be associated with it, such as the killing of persons for organ trafficking...’ This shows that killing is an act of enslavement.
This is how abortion law works, at least in the UK. The abortionist will not be prosecuted for the killing of the unborn child. The joint NGO statement on the draft European Convention against trafficking in human beings had, by November 2004, been signed by over 160 organisations including Anti-Slavery International. The NGO statement claims that, ‘Trafficking is an abuse of human rights. It results in the abuse of the human rights of trafficked persons including... [their right to] ...life ' . Clearly, those being trafficked have a ‘right to life’ and trafficking can involve the taking of human life. Pro-abortion law legitimises violence against the unborn as pro-slavery law legitimised violence against slaves which has included the killing of slaves. 6. The slave-trade today - trafficking in human livesModern forms of slave-trade includes among other practices :
7. Child sacrifice and the sale of children - a form of slaveryIn an abortion a tiny human life is torn apart and thrown away. Over eight million (8,000,000) children have been killed by abortion in Britain since the 1967 Abortion Act came into force. An additional 180,000 children will be killed by abortion each following year using current figures. Every week in Britain, 3,500 children are deliberately killed by surgical or chemical abortion, including the use of RU486, and an untold number of tiny human lives are killed because they are unable to implant in their mother’s womb as a consequence of their mothers taking the Pill or the ‘morning after pill’ (otherwise known as ‘emergency contraception’) , or because their mothers were using IUD’s, Norplant or Depo Provera. Still further tiny human lives are killed during IVF and human embryo experimentation, including human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. In the United States, since abortion became legal in 1973, nearly sixty million (60, 000, 000 and counting) children have been killed by abortion. United for Life believes that any nation, charity, organisation or individual that supports, advocates or carries out the killing of children by abortion violates the human rights of the unborn, violates the Declaration and Convention on the Rights of the Child, violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on Slavery and a number of other Conventions. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) protects the child ‘before as well as after birth.’ Article 24 (3), goes on to declare, ‘States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children.’ The killing of children by abortion is a traditional practice exercised both in ancient and modern times. The killing of children by abortion is ‘prejudicial to the health of children’ - the child is killed. The unborn are by definition ‘under 18 years of age’ and the unborn are defined as children both before as well as after birth by the Convention.
Killing children by abortion is clearly an ‘...act ...whereby a child is transferred by, ...[a] ...person or groups of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration.’ In addition, killing children by abortion for ‘economic reasons’ is the economic exploitation of the unborn and such exploitation applies likewise to other grounds on which the killing of children by abortion are applied. Article 7 of the Convention on the Sale of Children provides for the ‘...seizure and confiscation ...of ...goods, ...materials, assets and other instruments used to commit or facilitate offences under the present protocol ...[and to] ...take measures aimed at closing, on a temporary or definitive basis, premises used to commit such offences.’ Clearly this outlaws all facilitation of all forms of killing children by abortion as described and listed by United for Life in this document. Child sacrifice and the sale of children, including the killing of children by abortion and the sacrifice of unborn embryonic children, whether for religious, cultural, secular or any other reason, is a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a number of UN Conventions. 8. How the slavery of killing children by abortion is genocideWe have already established that slavery includes the act of depriving someone of their life. The UN Convention on Genocide describes genocide as the intention ‘...to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.’ To destroy part of a national group is defined as genocide. The unborn are part of a national group. The unborn are also a group within a national group. Clearly the killing of children by abortion destroys part of that unborn group. The UN Convention defines genocide as ‘...killing members of the group...’ and ‘...imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.’ The killing of children by abortion is a measure ‘intended to prevent births within a group.’ Clearly the UN Convention on Genocide protects the right to life of the unborn from acts of being killed by abortion or any other acts intended to prevent the birth of the unborn . In addition, contraception and sterilization are also ‘...measures intended to prevent births within the group.’ 9. Rooting out cultural practicesThe Baltimore Anti-Slavery website states that ‘Contemporary slavery is not always easy to identify or root out because much of it is accepted within a culture.’ Killing children by abortion, contraception, human embryo experimentation, IVF and related activities are claimed by some to be cultural practices now imbedded in society. Such practices form the ‘culture of death’ gripping Britain and the rest of the world. This means that since the killing of children by abortion is ‘rooted’ and even ‘accepted within [our] culture’, it will be difficult to root it out. However, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other UN Conventions, including the Slavery Convention, call for such cultural changes to take place. 10. Human embryos have human rightsThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares these rights for ‘all members of the human family ...without distinction of any kind such as ...birth or other status.’ Clearly human embryos are members of the human family and therefore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects the right to life of human embryos. Throughout history ‘non-person’ arguments have been used to justify acts of violence and the use of humans as property, and this is no less the case for human embryos. Human embryo experimentation is simply the exploitation of a vulnerable human life. Like other members of the human family human embryos may not be subjected to ‘inhumane or degrading treatment’, or treated as ‘property’. Human embryos are unborn members of the human family. They are embryonic children which the Convention on the Rights of the Child declares have the right to ‘... legal protection, before as well as after birth.’ United for Life believes that any nation, charity, organisation or individual that supports, advocates or carries out human embryo experimentation, violates the right to life of human embryos, violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Conventions on Slavery and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 11. Female genital mutilation - FGM - a form of enslavementDr John Fleming, a foundation member of UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee which developed the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 11 November 1997), shows in his paper entitled : What Rights, If Any, Do The Unborn Have Under International Law? , that it is a UN principle of international law that no-one may place themselves or their dependence into slavery because this would legalise the slave-trade. This is important because it relates to all forms of slavery and is reflected in Article 6 of the Supplementary Convention on Slavery. As a form of enslavement female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional practice of mutilating the genitals of females and is carried out in many parts of the world. United for Life opposes all forms of FGM. Sterilisation whether surgical, chemical or by device (i.e. contraception) is female genital mutilation - an act of violence against women and their bodies whether self-inflicted or inflicted by others. The activity of removing or incapacitating normal healthy organs or body parts is not only unethical in itself but bad medicine whatever part of the body is being mutilated. Self-mutilation is always unethical and no-one may place themselves or their dependence into this or any other form of slavery. 12. The UN’s lack of care for womenDespite years of international activity and funding for contraception and for the killing of children by abortion the care of women giving birth has little priority. Dr Robert Walley , founder and director of MaterCare International ‘...blames lack of international funding for maternal care for high rate of death among Third World women. While billions are spent on birth control programmes, very little goes to the provision of emergency obstetric care.’ A C-FAM article about Dr Walley shows that the UN cares little about women and that UNICEF confirmed this as a ‘...conspiracy of silence...’. The human rights organisation C-FAM , reporting on the UN World Mortality Report 2005 , shows in their report entitled : UN Data Show Banning Abortion Doesn't Increase Maternal Mortality , that countries with legalized abortion have higher maternal deaths and that countries where abortion is illegal have lower maternal deaths. C-FAM, in another report on a meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women , March 2006, states that the meeting ‘focused almost solely on sexual and reproductive health’ until the meeting was presented with the WHO’s 2002 World Health Report which showed that, ‘1.9 percent of women’s deaths [were] on maternal conditions’, and that, ‘89 percent of deaths of women and girls are attributable to causes unrelated to sexual and reproductive health ...forcing states to begin discussions on the other health care needs of women.’ 13. Women are safer in countries where abortion is not legalAccording to a report entitled : 'False Notions About So-Called Safe Abortions' by the National Right to Life Coalition , the United Nations own demographic evidence shows that women are safer in countries where abortion is not legal. For instance, in countries which have similar healthcare standards such as Britain and Ireland, the country where abortion is legal, that is Britain, has a three and a half times higher maternal death rate than Ireland.
A LifeSiteNews article entitled : UN Health Data Show Liberal Abortion Laws Lead to Greater Maternal Death shows that nations around the world with pro-life laws, protecting the life of the unborn, have by far the lowest maternal death rates thereby protecting women’s lives. LifeSiteNews, August 13, 2009. United for Life agrees with NRLC that national and international agencies must invest their money and energy in improving overall medical conditions in the developing world and we encourage Chris Elmore MP to lobby for such action and change in order to save women's lives. 14. Environmental and population control groupsThe killing of children by abortion, contraception and sterilization form part of the practice of population control programmes and have at times been implemented by force or by coercion although for the unborn all chemical and surgical abortions are 'forced abortion'. The environmental pressure group ECO campaigns with OPT for human population reduction. According to a review by ECO entitled : Population, Environment and Development - seeking common ground (updated 16 March 2003) Friends of the Earth ...agreed that environmental groups should campaign on population issues... and that Friends of the Earth accepts that ...in order to reduce the environmental impact of our lifestyles, a range of restraints might have to be imposed * on people...., but that Duncan McClaren, Sustainable Research Officer of Friends of the Earth, is quoted as saying that, "I think this is closer to interfering with basic human rights....". Clearly then human rights is an issue which some environmental organisations have been concerned about not violating. United for Life calls upon Chris Elmore MP to support the right to life of the unborn as a basic human rights issue. 15. The natural environment and natural habitat of the unbornThe natural environment in which unborn children live is constantly under threat by national and international governments, organisations and individuals. The womb, together with the fallopian tubes during the first 5 or 6 days of life, is the natural habitat of the unborn, yet the womb has become one of the most dangerous environments on earth for children to inhabit since the unborn often have little or no legal protection. To live in an environment where little or no legal protection exists for the smallest and most vulnerable human lives is a situation we must all take responsibility for. In Britain alone such environmental degradation destroys 3,500 children by surgical abortion every single week and over six million eight hundred thousand (6,800,000) children have been killed by surgical abortions since the 1967 Abortion Act. Polluting the natural environment of the unborn, especially the environment of embryonic children, is often the first assault on early human life and often in the form of chemicals including estrogens from the Pill and other contraceptives. One of the ways in which the Pill works is by making the lining of the womb, the natural habitat of the unborn, hostile to implantation. The environment of the womb becomes uninhabitable and the new human life dies. If the new human life manages to survive this environmental attack the Morning-After-Pill, which is 50 times the dose of the normal contraceptive pill, is designed as the next line of environmental destruction by also preventing implantation. The next line of chemical attack on the lives of the vulnerable is the drug RU486 designed to kill the unborn child up to 9 weeks gestation by breaking down the lining of the womb after the embryo has already implanted. The number of deaths of these early human lives has to be added to the number of surgical abortions to understand the extent of the environmental destruction taking place. For further information on the impact of the Pill on implantation, and the concern of the Pill as an abuser of human rights, view research by Prof. John Wilks B.Pharm. MPS MACPP entitled : Impact of the Pill on Implantation and The Pill - How it Works and Fails , also view his book : A Consumer's Guide to The Pill and Other Drugs . In addition to abortion destroying the unborn, research by Professor Joel Brind, (President of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute ) and others over the past 50 years or so, shows that abortion is linked to breast cancer. The effect on the environment from chemotherapy and other drugs used in the treatment of cancer has to be considered. For further information on the link between abortion and breast cancer view : Abortion and Breast Cancer - Is There A Link? by Dr Greg Gardner of the Christian Medical Fellowship . 16. The leaching of estrogens from contraceptives and other sources into the environmentThe leaching of estrogens from contraceptives such as the Pill into the water system and into the soil is yet another consequence of environmental irresponsibility. The world's leading scientists have developed these environmentally destructive and life threatening drugs which are now raising both national and international concerns.
The Prague Declaration has been signed by over 100 scientists to bring attention to this very serious environmental issue. The BBC On-line News article, 10 July 2004, entitled : Pollution 'changes sex of fish' , states that, 'Hormones in the sewage, including those produced by the female contraceptive pill, are thought to be the main cause' and that, 'A third of male fish in British rivers are in the process of changing sex due to pollution in human sewage, research by the Environment Agency suggests.' These reports show how the killing of children by abortion, contraception and sterilization lifestyles impacts on the environment and why Chris Elmore MP should be working to oppose such environmental and human rights abuses. 17. Natural Family Planning is eco-friendly, woman-friendly, human-life-friendlyContrary to popular myth contraception and sterilisation are not required for the number and spacing of children.
Contraceptives treat women’s natural menstrual cycle as if it is a disease to be prevented by attacking her body with carcinogenic environmentally destructive chemicals. However, natural family planning is eco-friendly, woman-friendly and does not destroy a human life. United for Life urges Chris Elmore MP to embrace WOOMB's eco-friendly outlook on human life which is in keeping with the environmental claim of Friends of the Earth to ‘...make life better for people.’ For further information on how natural family planning helps people to live with nature view the following web links : WOOMB, NAOMI, Billings Ovulation Method, The London Center for NaPro Technology, and FCCA - NaProTECHNOLOGY® . 18. A sliding scale of ‘human value’ violates human rights
The basic principle of human rights law is that the law protects the weak from the aggression of the strong. It must protect the innocent and vulnerable from exploitation of any kind. The weaker and more vulnerable a human being is the more protection they require. They don’t require ‘more rights’ for we all have equal rights, but they do require more protection. The concept of degrees of human significance is alien to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and contradicts it directly since basic human rights are ‘universal’, that is, they are for ‘all members of the human family’ which include the unborn. Article 7 of the UDHR’s states that, ‘All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.’
Loving our neighbour (the mother) includes loving our unborn neighbour. Mother Teresa once said, ‘Abortion stops a mother learning how to love.’ The truth is that loving women does not mean killing their children and United for Life urges Chris Elmore MP to oppose the killing of children by abortion. 19. Poverty, abortion and the Millennium Development GoalsChris Elmore MP - need to be aware that United Nations bodies and many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) advocate and support the killing of children by abortion in what United for Life has shown to be a violation of the UDHRs and the CRC as outlined above. The human rights organisation C-FAM works to expose what is happening at the United Nations on issues such as population, development and the environment reporting on these regularly in their ‘Friday Fax’. Media organisations such as LifeSiteNews and WorldNetDaily also provide regular updates. WorldNetDaily reported on United for Life's Make Abortion History campaign which they titled : 'Make Abortion History' challenges U.N. - Group combats 'Make Poverty History' effort pushing population control' . In reply to United for Life’s Second Make Abortion History Letter, 10/10/05, the Methodist Church claimed that, ‘As members of the Make Poverty History Coalition, it would be inappropriate for us [the Methodist Church] to be associated with a campaign heading that takes this brand to raise a single issue, and ...hoped that United for Life would reconsider its use of the ‘Make Abortion History’ slogan.’ However, the Make Poverty History slogan is the working name for the United Nations Millennium Project in the UK for which the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed and to which all are invited to make their contribution whatever their field of work. In C-FAM's report entitled : UN Excludes Pro-Life Groups from Important UN Meeting , they show that some very well known non-governmental organisations (NGOs) clubbed together at the United Nations funded by a number of national governments to pressurise the United Nations into accepting (the killing of children by) abortion as part of the MDGs. According to a C-FAM report entitled : UN Steps Up Vigorous Call for Universal Access to Abortion , the UN Secretary-General himself called for ‘reproductive health services’ to be included in the Millennium Development Goals. It was claimed by the NGOs that poverty could not be eradicated unless (the killing of children by) abortion was made accessible to all. C-FAM claims that, ‘In UN parlance, sexual and reproductive services refer to abortion’ . The pro-life organisation SPUC (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) has produced a very important paper entitled : The International Finance Facility, the Millennium Goals and Abortion , in which they claim that the World Health Organisation ‘defines the term ‘reproductive health’ to include abortion on demand’ and that, ‘ ‘maternal health’ can and would almost certainly include reproductive health.' The SPUC document exposes a number of organisations as working to ensure that the killing of children by abortion is incorporated in the Millennium Development Goals including the Department for International Development (DfID), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), UN Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW), UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group, International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and the European Union. LifeSiteNews reports that UNFPA is 'pitching abortion as a means to reduce child poverty' at the UN's annual economic meeting.
Child-poverty is addressed by the Millennium Development Goals. Child-poverty includes child-abuse. The ultimate form of child-abuse is the killing of children. In an abortion a child is torn apart and thrown away. It is right therefore that United for Life should claim that to make poverty history, we must make abortion history. In fact the campaign name ‘Make Abortion History’ has a much earlier history in the pro-life movement itself. In 1996, a well known pro-life book was published entitled : ‘Make Abortion Rare’ . However, although well received the reaction of at least some pro-lifers was, ‘I don’t want to make abortion rare, I want to make abortion history’, and this is what pro-lifers have been working for ever since the killing of children by abortion was legalised. 20. The G8 Summit ‘Force Abortion on Africa’The G8 Summit held at Glen Eagles, Scotland in June 2005, was lobbied hard by the Make Poverty History campaign and yet one of the results of the G8 Summit was to force the killing of children by abortion on African nations. LifeSiteNews produced an important report on the Glen Eagles Summit entitled : G8 Summit Push to Force Abortion on Africa , in which it claims that the G8 working document ‘...encourages aid being made conditional on Africans accepting abortion.’ 21. Parents Right’s and the killing of children by abortionAcknowledging yet again that the Convention on the Rights of the Child proclaims that the child needs special ‘...legal protection both before as well as after birth’, it should be noted that the Declaration on the Rights of the Child ‘...calls upon parents, upon men and women as individuals, and upon voluntary organisations, local authorities and national Governments to recognise these rights and strive for their observance.’
Parents clearly have an obligation to protect children both before as well as after birth. Parents also have the ‘prior right’ in the ‘kind’ of education that their children shall receive. This includes the education of their teenage children. However, parents right’s are seriously threatened and undermined by the State in the arrangements that the State makes for the law, for schools, for youth leaders and social workers, doctors, nurses and others, where the ideology of removing from parents their right to bring up their children as they see fit, is promoted. In addition to the promotion of contraception, abortion and explicit sex education both in schools and elsewhere, there has been a great effort to remove parental rights in this area of their children’s lives in order to promote even greater use of contraception, the killing of children by abortion and sex education. It should be noted that the removal of parents right's is specifically aimed at issues of sexuality, sex education and disciplinary activity reinforced by issues of confidentiality. The excuse often used is that, ‘parents do not have the right to know’ or, ‘do not care enough’, or ‘do not understand their own children’, and should not have responsibility for this area of their children’s lives. A number of court cases have re-emphasised this stance . The present system, in Britain at least, does not trust parents in this area of children’s lives. In his book, Lessons in Depravity , Dr ES Williams states that, If the purpose of sex education has been to protect young people against the damaging consequences of sexual activity, then it has been a spectacular failure. However, if the real purpose of sex education has been to promote the sexual revolution, as I argue in this book, then it has been remarkably successful. Under the section Parental Responsibility he continues, ...it is the responsibility of parents, Christian and non-Christian alike, to teach their children a moral framework on which to build their lives ...those children who have been taught about chastity and self-control gain no benefit from being told about contraceptive techniques and how to be prepared for sex. 22. Defending human rights equally
In an e-mail to United for Life someone claimed that, Womens reproductive rights are also a human rights issue, and if the two are in opposition then I support the rights of the sentient being, the woman, above one which is only potentially sentient. United for Life’s reply was that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares these rights ‘...for all members of the human family.’ Clearly the unborn are members of the human family. Regarding the rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn the e-mailer claimed that the ‘two are in opposition’. However, the concept of the ‘two are in opposition’ is alien to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and contradicts it directly since basic human rights are 'universal', that is, they are for ‘all members of the human family’, which include the unborn. The first line of the Universal Declaration declares these rights as ‘equal’. We hold these rights ‘equally’, not in opposition with each other. There is no such thing as ‘opposing rights’ in the Declaration since they are ‘equal rights.’ Article 7 of the UDHR’s states that, ‘All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law’, and Article 6 declares, ‘Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.’ The definition of a human rights defender as provided by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General means that it would not be acceptable to defend the human rights of women but to deny that the unborn, including human embryos, have equal rights. For human rights to be applied correctly and equally as proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both men and women as well as Chris Elmore MP must defend the right to life of the unborn, including the right to life of embryonic children. 23. True liberty - what is it?United for Life does not endorse any political party. The notion of liberty is a factor of most if not all political parties in democratic countries. The Libertarian Party, founded in 1971, is the third largest political party in the United States. It may come as a surprise to many who consider themselves liberal but an organisation called Libertarians For Life shows how (the killing of children by) abortion is not only a violation of liberty but that (the killing of children by) abortion is in fact a threat to liberty itself. Their document entitled: ‘Abortion and rights; applying libertarian principles correctly’ , skilfully undermines any notion or argument that liberty requires the killing of children by abortion. 24. ConclusionUnited for Life believes that it has demonstrated to Chris Elmore MP that the killing of children by abortion, contraception, human embryo experimentation, IVF, human cloning and other related activities, violates the right to life of the unborn, violates international human rights instruments, are modern forms of slavery and destroy the environment, and should therefore be addressed by national and international human rights programmes and campaigns. We therefore ask Chris Elmore MP whether or not he is committed to implementing in full the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in regard to the unborn , which states that, ‘...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.’? 25. The commitments we want from charities and othersUnited for Life's 'Make Abortion History' CommitmentsUnited for Life has written to a large list of charities, organisations and government bodies to urge them to make abortion history. United for Life also urge them to ensure that their partner-organisations and any programmes which they or their partner-organisations support, make abortion history by making the following commitments:
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