United Nations: Church’s position on abortion is “torture”
by Kelli
According to the great and mighty UN, prohibiting abortion is a grave human rights abuse against women and the Vatican better do something about it.
The one and only American on the U.N. Committee Against Torture, Felice Gaer [pictured], went even further by labeling the Church’s position on abortion was [sic] a form of torture….
Imagine that. We live in a world where Muslims kill people for their Christian faith, where school girls are held hostage and forced to convert in Nigeria… in which women are subject to everything from genital mutilation to subservience before Sharia law but the high and mighty of the UN have decided that being anti-abortion trumps all of this!
~ Pastor Larry Peters, reacting to the UN’s recent attack on the Catholic Church’s pro-life position, Pastoral Meanderings, June 15
[HT: Pro-Life in TN, photo via diariochaco.com]
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.
Progressivism at its core is misanthropic, because it can’t abide the existence of people as they are, they must destroyed and remade to suit the whims of the society they wish to create.
Ms Gaer’s comments reflect the mindset ubiquitous in the UN, government agencies, and college campuses by those claiming to be liberal: “Anyone with whom I disagree must be labled a criminal. Then there must be no exchange of ideas with those bad anti-choice people and organizations because they are criminals.” Hardly a classic liberal approach.
So does the UN do anything of value these days? It seems that lately their entire purpose is to push abortion.
The United Nations is Becoming Irrelevant, Exhibit #693. (so far this year).
Wicked
Abominable
Hell-bound
Interesting that China’s behavior on the subject isn’t a problem.
I find it interesting that Pastor Larry Peters brought up the fact that Muslims in a number of different countries are truly guilty of torture. It’s true and he’s right. But the elephant in the room when it comes to abortion is really from a different group, which is our Jewish friends. The woman pictured in this story is Dr. Felice Gaer. She’s the one who actually said that the Church is guilty of torture for its position on abortion. If you look at Dr. Gaer’s background, she is the director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights at the American Jewish Committee. That’s ironic: a woman leading a “human rights” organization who considers those who are AGAINST abortion as being guilty of torture. Go down the line and see how extremely over-represented our Jewish friends are when it comes to legalizing abortion and in spreading propaganda to advance the widespread acceptance of abortion as a woman’s right. Dr. Bernard Nathanson (may God rest his soul) was a Jewish doctor who performed thousands of abortions. By the grace of God, he repented, became a Catholic, and wrote about how he and many other Jewish friends of his were behind the push for legalizing abortion in the United States and in manipulating data to make it appear that the vast majority of Americans were in favor of it. Look to Canada and you will find Dr. Morgenthaler, a Jewish man, who is the so-called “hero” of the abortion movement. You go to France and you find Jewish woman Simone Veil being one of the most instrumental in the abortion movement. You look at polls and you see that over 90% of Jews in America are in favor of abortion. Am I being anti-Jewish? Absolutely not. But I am pointing out facts, one of which is that many of our Jewish friends are very much in favor of the murder of innocent, unborn babies. They may not exactly word it that way, but a disproportionate number of them are busy advancing policies and propaganda so that the babies are in fact relegated to globs of tissues without a right to life. Finally, while the Muslims are very much guilty of the torture and murder of many Christians (and people of other faiths), and in fact you wouldn’t hear me complain if the Church called for another Crusade to save the innocents in lands like Nigeria, Iraq, etc., but it also has to be pointed out that a disproportionate number of our Jewish friends are the ones guilty of torture – of the unborn.
Nothing enrages me more than the trivialization of slavery, rape, and torture by comparing any of these to an unwanted pregnancy or opposing abortion. It is most often by people who have no concept of the true horror of these despicable crimes.
I even read a woman making the comparison of women paying for their own birth control to slavery! I was so enraged I wrote and asked her if she had any concept of the history and horror of slavery in all its forms, then and now, and how on earth this compares to a woman having to buy her own contraception? How dare she trivialize the horror and injustice endured by millions by such a comparison!
Never did get a response.
Pastor Larry seems excessively angry about his own ignorance of the UN’s opposition to religious violence, forced conversion, and genital mutilation.
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