Newly empowered House pro-life leader calls for investigations of Obama/Clinton for exporting abortions worldwide
On December 21 the “worst nightmare” of abortion proponents was realized when pro-life leader Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) was named chairman of a House subcommittee that is very important to pro-lifers. I’ll let pro-abort Jane Roberts explain their fears, who wrote at RH Reality Check right after the November election:
And if Chris Smith (R-NJ), an arch enemy of reproductive health and family planning, chairs one of the subcommittees – the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee that has jurisdiction over FP/RH [family planning/reproductive health], our worst nightmare will be realized. He was the one under George W. Bush who engineered the false charges against UNFPA which resulted in 7 years of the U.S. refusal to release funding….
President Bush did indeed cut off funding to the United Nations Population Fund from 2002-08 for its support of forced abortions and sterilizations in China.
But within 2 months of taking office President Obama restored UNFPA’s funding, and the Democrat-controlled Congress gave it a nice little $50 million bonus.
And so UNFPA has enjoyed a sweet ride on the backs of American taxpayers the last 2 years. But those days are over. Congressman Smith is coming out swinging. According to the upcoming January issue of National Right to Life News:
Smith, a 30-year House veteran, co-chairs the Bipartisan Pro-Life Caucus in the House, and is recognized by all as the leader of pro-life forces in the chamber….
Smith also has been awarded an important new post: He will chair a Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee with jurisdiction over global health issues and human rights issues.
The new chairman of the full Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), also has a strong pro-life record….
Smith told NRL News that his goal as subcommittee chairman would be “to promote a consistent culture of life in all aspects of U.S. foreign policy and international healthcare funding.” He added, “Tragically, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have misused taxpayer funds to aggressively export abortion around the world. It is time to investigate, expose, and end this complicity with procuring death to children and harm to their mothers.”
I hope one of the investigations Smith undertakes is of the Obama administration’s allegedly illegal meddling in the passage of Kenya’s pro-abortion constitution last year. Smith said the USAID investigation clearing Obama was “poorly researched, superficial, incomplete and a whitewash” and called the audit “incomplete.” Now Smith has the power to order an audit that is complete.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
God bless and protect Rep. Smith. He is a hero and champion of Life. I pray he is able to muster support for this and other important tasks, like eliminating Title X funding of Planned Parenthood.
Amen, Jennifer!
God speed, Mr. Smith! My prayers are with you.
Ditto, Jennifer and shel.
It’s time for US to stop exporting the abortion mentality to our friends around the world. With friends like US, who needs enemies?
So, Chris Smith is an “arch enemy of ‘reproductive health'”?
I think more likely he is an “arch enemy of ‘prenatal homicide'”.
The congress had hearings on baseball steroids. Nuff said.
So proud that Chris Smith is from my state! I just wish I lived in his district so I could vote for him! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcowMQKee70&fe… http://www.SaveTheStorks.com check out this new pro-life ministry!
Joe, thanks for the links, I like that a lot!!
I didn’t do it. That’s another Joe.
God bless Rep. Smith and Rep. Pence.
didn’t some on in Washington have former President George W. Bush investigated for his administration’s denial of help to poor countries if they wanted abortion rights?This included food and contraceptives which would have reduced poverty there and prevented many,many abortions.
All the Bush anti-choice policies did was increase human misery in the third world and increase the number of women dying from botched illegal abortions greatly. This is humanitarianism ?
Robert,
I would call sending contraceptives to impoverished countries “meddling”, not helping. We can’t be saviors to everyone, it’s not humanly possible, and some countries don’t want us sending these things in the first place. Also, humanitarian aide provides for the welfare of mankind, not the killing of it. They ARE mutually exclusive.
I left out the word Why.I meant to ask why t Bush wasn’t investigated for his disastrous failure to help poor countries because of his administration’s incredibly foolish anti-choice policies.
Helping poor countries by providing contraception is NOT meddling. If these poor countries had had more contraceptives available,their abortion rates could have decreased markedly.
But the lack of help only INCREASED the number of illegal abortions greatly,and poverty in general. An enormous number of desperately poor children were left without mothers because of this. Bush is a fool, as well as his advisers. Far fewer desperately poor women would have died ,either in childbirth or by botched illegal abortions if Bush had not been so appallingly obtuse.
Under Obama,the lives of many desperately poor women could be saved, fewer children left without mothers, poverty could decrease, and general nutrition could improve.
And you anti-choicers continue to revile our President. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
it is not a ‘choice’ it is killing. Having seen an abortion carried out on youtube I assure you it’s butchery. having seen the pictures of countless corpses of dead babies and piles of body parts of dismembered victims on @priests for life, I assure you its genocide. Pro-choice in philosophy but how many would actually perform one,or as a ‘doctor’ day in day out for aliving. Like working in an abbatoir. Horrific and grizzly. poverty? Western materialism has failed. And, we have our own poor.
Mr. Berger,
If insanity is doing the same over and over again and tenacioulsy clinging to the unrealistic expectation of a different outcome, then you sir are ‘certifiable’.
Give us one demonstrable example where de-criminalizing abortion has resulted in a reduction in the number of people living in poverty and increase in the standard of living and the quality of life for the survivors.
The leftist/progressive/humanists have repeatedly attempted to use depopulation as a strategy to implement their ‘economic/social/political’ systems and the survivors who were able voted with their feet and fled the ‘humanist paradises’.
Many were killed by the barbarians they were fleeing from, some died from exposure to the elements, but they all calculated it was worth the risk, rather than to live in bondage to a barnkrupt bunch of cruel elitists.
As the oldest of six children from a poor family, I find Robert no less than absolutely DISGUSTING.
…Yes, and Killing babies to relieve poverty…(embaressed silence) erm… very tasteful Einstein… I mean Robert!
Go Chris Go!!
” There I was, sat at home, threatening the kids.” -The Piranah Brothers- Monty Python.
Robert,
Corrupt governments drive their people into grinding poverty.
Contraception does nothing to relieve that.
Abortion does nothing to relieve that.
Did you ever stop to think that poor people might actually WANT the children they are pregnant with?
Berger hasn’t made a valid point on this blog yet. Will he ever?