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SECRETS OF PRO-ABORTIONISTS EXPOSED
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is
a feminist, non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated
to promoting abortion world-wide. For example, it successfully
managed to have feminist ideology and policies included in
the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty when it was
set up in Rome in 1998.
By a stroke of luck, however, internal secret
memos of CRR were recently obtained by the Catholic Family
and Human Rights organization (C-FAM) in New York, which monitors
the UN on behalf of international pro-life/family organizations.
These memos disclose CRR's strategy in all its bare ugliness.
According to these documents, CRR's strategy
includes the following:
a. International
CRR plans to produce an international right
to abortion-on-demand by way of a Trojan Horse of deceit
and deception by twisting words and definitions referred
to in international treaties to be interpreted as requiring
abortion to be a human right. According to the CRR documents,
"there is a stealth quality to the work; we are achieving
incremental recognition of values without a huge amount
of scrutiny from the opposition. These lower profile victories
will gradually put us in a strong position to assert a broad
consensus around our assertions … we have to fight
harder, be a little dirtier." By doing this, CRR hopes
to become what they describe as the "midwife to the
global choice movement." In short, CRR plans to arrange
pro-abortion interpretations of UN treaties which, when
repeated by international bodies will establish the legitimacy
of these "rights" under international law. This
result will be achieved due to the fact that international
law is developed not by way of direct or specific language,
but rather by broad language that is "interpreted"
and becomes the law by way of custom or usage. If an interpretation
is applied a sufficient number of times, it then evolves
into "law." International law, therefore, is not
really "law" at all, but is actually only applied
politics.
This memo confirms long-standing fears of
some legal scholars that international negotiations on human
rights laws are no longer being conducted in good faith,
and are jeopardizing national sovereignty.
b. Domestic Goals
CRR plans to bring legal challenges to:
- Oppose any parental involvement in abortion
decisions, by removing those parental rights currently recognized.
- Force hospitals to perform abortions
and force taxpayers to fund abortions by way of state and
federal funds. So far in the U.S., courts have ordered 13
states to provide abortion coverage.
- Challenge laws mandating the reporting
of child abuse of children being engaged in sexual activities
with adults, which CRR labels as "non-abusive sexual
relations." That is, it plans to initiate legal challenges
to reduce the age of consent laws.
- Overturn by court order any standard
medical regulation of abortion clinics that CRR refers to
as TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers).
According to CRR, TRAP laws impose burdensome requirements
on abortion clinics that, in truth, are put in place to
protect women from harm and possible death at the hands
of abortion clinic workers. Some examples of regulations
include those requiring abortionists to hold valid medical
licences; abortions to be conducted under supervision of
registered nurses; and abortionists to have staff privileges
at local hospitals in order to allow a quick response to
life-threatening complications that may arise during an
abortion.
- Bring legal challenges against "Choose
Life" licence plates, which are used as fundraising
for Crisis Pregnancy Centres, etc. These licence plates
for cars have been legal in Florida since 1998, raising
over $70,000 per month for maternity clinics, counselling
services, non-profit adoption centres, and pregnancy counselling
centres.
The above objectives are all to be carried
by an aggressive campaign of lawsuits. In fact, the strategy
of threatening a lawsuit was applied against C-FAM itself
by CRR because it claimed that disclosure of its secret memos
would cause CRR "irreparable harm." CRR has demanded
that C-FAM return all copies of memos, and "cease and
desist from any further dissemination, and identify all persons
and organizations, including e-mail addresses to which C-FAM
has disseminated this … information." Focus on the
Family (U.S.) and Canada's Life-Site News have also been contacted
and have been warned of legal consequences for publishing
the contents of these memos. So be it. However, in truth CRR's
threats of legal action are not alarming, because on December
8, 2003, CRR's internal secret memos were read into the permanent
U.S. Congressional Record by pro-life Congressman Christopher
Smith (Republican) of New Jersey. Hence, this material is
now a matter of public record and information.
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