(Full news release at bottom)
“Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, who is considered close to Pope Benedict XVI, told the newspaper that the repeal of the abortion-funding ban was done with "the arrogance of those who, having power, think they can decide between life and death."”
“Obama's Reversal Of American Abortion Aid Policy Reaches Into African Slums”
CBS News and AP: NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 31, 2009
(Full news release at bottom)
CBS News and AP: NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 31, 2009
(Full news release at bottom)
“Its critics call(ed) it the "global gag rule," because it prohibit(ed) funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method. That can affect a range of services provided by private groups on a continent where governments can meet few of their citizens' health needs.”
““She said, groups that could have helped distribute the condoms the U.S. was supplying to fight AIDS were denied funding because of their stance on abortion. But the laws have simply pushed abortions into back rooms instead of ending the practice, 300,000 Kenyan women seek dangerous, illegal abortions each year.””
“Clinics serving over 1.5 million women closed in Kenya. Contraceptive availability in Zambia was reduced. AIDS programs run by family planning groups in Ethiopia were affected. "We are struggling with poverty, health issues, even hunger," he said. "We should let families decide for themselves how many children to have."”
““She said, groups that could have helped distribute the condoms the U.S. was supplying to fight AIDS were denied funding because of their stance on abortion. But the laws have simply pushed abortions into back rooms instead of ending the practice, 300,000 Kenyan women seek dangerous, illegal abortions each year.””
“Clinics serving over 1.5 million women closed in Kenya. Contraceptive availability in Zambia was reduced. AIDS programs run by family planning groups in Ethiopia were affected. "We are struggling with poverty, health issues, even hunger," he said. "We should let families decide for themselves how many children to have."”
Real Story, “Vatican fears the Truth - a Fetus has no Soul”
Obama knows the truth, a Human Soul doesn’t enter a human physical body until a baby’s first breath. An unborn human fetus has no Soul, a fact that the pope knows!
Finally, the demonic, religious “Pale Horse Rider” George Bush has left office.
Finally, the world has Obama, the humane, spiritual “Black Horse Rider”.
Of course, demonic Christian conservatives like Rino, the pope and Bush are angry.
Having been inside the Vatican, beneath the Vatican, and invited by the Pope’s bodyguard to a special Mass, I can tell you that former Cardinal Ratzinger in charge of Inquisitions, who is now the Pope, does fear Obama and as the “Red Horse Rider”, he greatly fears the release of additional hidden Vatican secrets by an “insider”.
When the Vatican’s “insider” “misfiled” a “secret document” in the Vatican’s public library, “Ratzo” feared other documents were also “misfiled” and quickly ordered the library closed, so all public files could be examined. Suddenly, the Vatican declared all floors of the huge and previously “open” Vatican Library had to be immediately closed, for an extended period of time, to do some “repairs”.
Nine hundred year old Knights Templar documents and 3,500 year old scrolls from the Ark of the Covenant are secretly hidden in the Vatican’s vast network of basement vaults. These documents specifically state the Soul of a permanent Heavenly Angelic Light Body connects to a temporary earthly physical body with a baby’s first breath.
A new DVD in April vividly describes exactly how our permanent Human Angelic Light Body, (called a “Holy Spirit” by the Vatican), continues to reincarnate into temporary human earthly physical bodies until one attains sainthood and becomes an Angelic Ascended Master or fully graduates as an Archangelic Ascended Master.
A vast number of ancient secrets from Knights Templar documents about the “True Jesus”, not the Roman Empire’s “fake Jesus” are online at www.theTrueJesus.org. The “True Jesus” book and DVD by the Guardians of Ancient Knowledge give one the true history of humanity, available only at http://www.thetruejesus.org/order.php
The same day, the secular Milan daily Corriere della Sera published an interview with a top Vatican official lashing out at the new U.S. President. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the newspaper that the repeal of the abortion-funding ban was done with "the arrogance of those who, having power, think they can decide between life and death." Troubled by the swiftness of Obama's pro-choice move, Fisichella brushed off earlier vows by the new President to try to cut the number of abortions while ensuring a woman's access to the procedure. "On ethical questions, you can't play with words," said the Italian Archbishop, who is considered close to Pope Benedict XVI. "Hiding behind sophisms isn't worthy of he who has a responsibility towards citizens. People want clarity."
It's too early to predict a deep rupture in U.S.-Vatican relations. There was no mention of the issue in Sunday's regular Angelus ceremony, and the Pope personally sent warm messages of congratulations to Obama after both his election victory and the Inauguration. But don't count on Benedict staying silent as Obama ushers in more liberal laws for abortion or stem-cell research. If he does speak out, the Pope is likely to use his representatives in America. The front-page Sunday story in L'Osservatore Romano focused on the U.S. bishops' response to the abortion-rights decree. A recent video advertisement being aired by Catholicvote.com puts Obama in the middle of the abortion debate, implying that the future President, an African American raised by a single mother, was himself at risk of being aborted.
Benedict knows that abortion is legal and widely available throughout the West, including virtually every country in Europe. It is the most glaring sign for the Pope of what he describes as the moral failings of contemporary life. But in the U.S., Benedict sees fertile possibility to challenge the status quo. On his trip to Washington and New York last April, Benedict heard how Catholics in America are being reinvigorated by a steady flow of more-traditional immigrant Catholic groups. That matters. Fisichella concluded his interview by saying, "What happens in the U.S. influences other parts of the world. For this [its leaders] must be capable of listening, having humility and maybe even asking others for help."
Obama won a majority of Catholic voters, in part because he was able to convince them that he was both the right man to lead the country and generally in tune with their values. In his public speeches and private diplomacy, Benedict will use his notable intellect to reaffirm for American Catholics what those values are. It would be a chance to influence abortion legislation both in the U.S. and around the world. On abortion, in other words, Benedict might be itching for a fight with Obama. If so, the new President will have to work hard to keep from getting bruised.
Obama's Reversal Of American Abortion Aid Policy Reaches Into African Slums - NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 31, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/31/ap/world/main4766178.shtml
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(AP) Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America's battle over abortion.
Aid workers and experts say President Barack Obama's decision to allow aid money to flow again to international groups that offer abortion counseling will help restart programs desperately needed in Africa, the continent hardest hit by a so-called "gag rule."
Dr. Walter Odhiambo, the country director for Marie Stopes Kenya, said his family planning organization had been limping along on European aid because of the U.S. rule Obama overturned on Jan. 23 in one of his first presidential acts. Now, Odhiambo said, he would be applying for U.S. funds he hoped to use to expand counseling and other services, particularly in rural Kenya.
"Family planning was not given the prominence it needs," Odhiambo said.
The policy banned U.S. government money from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. Its critics call it the "global gag rule," because it prohibits funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method. That can affect a range of services provided by private groups on a continent where governments can meet few of their citizens' health needs.
"The biggest impact has been in sub-Saharan Africa," said Wendy Turnbull, a researcher for Washington-based Population Action International, which lobbies on family planning issues and applauded Obama's move.
Turnbull applauded the Bush administration for spending millions to fight AIDS and other health threats in Africa, but said the gag rule undermined that effort.
For instance, she said, groups that could have helped distribute the condoms the U.S. was supplying to fight AIDS were denied funding because of their stance on abortion.
"When you are making rules, it's not right to just look at the immediate effects," said Nkandu Luo, a Zambian former minister of health who currently heads her country's independent Society for Women and AIDS. "It's important to look at the long-term implications."
A study by the Washington-based Center for Reproductive Rights said the policy hit hardest in Africa, the fastest growing and poorest continent. Latin Americans and Asians were more likely to accept the ban and keep funding, either because they embraced its intent or relied more on U.S. money, the study concluded.
Clinics serving over 1.5 million women closed in Kenya, homeland of Obama's father, said Marie Stopes Kenya and Family Health Options Kenya. Contraceptive availability in Zambia was reduced. AIDS programs run by family planning groups in Ethiopia were affected.
Even without the U.S. policy, abortions would be controversial here. They are illegal in almost all African countries, many of which have conservative Christian or Muslim populations ... one of the reasons women interviewed about their abortions declined to give their full names.
But the laws have simply pushed abortions into back rooms instead of ending the practice.
Marie Stopes Kenya, which does not offer abortions, closed two slum clinics after losing its USAID funding because of its association with Marie Stopes International, one of the world's largest family planning organizations.
Odhiambo, the country director for Marie Stopes Kenya, said it was likely that women who would have used his group's contraceptive services became pregnant instead and joined the 300,000 Kenyan women that Marie Stopes says seek dangerous, illegal abortions each year.
Two years ago, Joyce and her cousin Carolyne went to a Kibera slum clinic for a contraceptive injection. Because supplies were low, the doctor shared one between the two. Joyce, then a shy 18-year-old high school student, became pregnant. Her boyfriend deserted her and she had an illegal abortion.
"The fetus came out but she did not stop bleeding," ecalled 29-year-old Carolyne. By the light of a small kerosene lamp, the two women used every sheet and towel in Carolyne's small house to try to stop the blood. Joyce spent the night twisting in pain on the floor, crying out for God to forgive her and screaming for her mother.
At dawn the two women went to a government hospital and had to plead with doctors to treat Joyce without informing police of the abortion.
Dr. Louis Machogo, the pharmacist for another Kenyan family planning group, said politicians may not understand the dilemmas that their policies forced on poor families.
"We are struggling with poverty, health issues, even hunger," he said. "We should let families decide for themselves how many children to have."
The U.S. ban was established by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984, ended by Democrat Bill Clinton in 1993 and reinstated by Republican George W. Bush in 2001.
"We now have a challenge, as the representatives of women's groups, (to) make sure that even if we have another president from the Republican party, we don't go back to this rule," said Luo, the ex-minister. "We shouldn't just sit back and celebrate. We need to go out and campaign and get the Republicans to realize the impact of these decisions."
Associated Press Writer Donna Bryson in Johannesburg, South Africa contributed to this report.
An aborted fetus has no soul, a fact proven by the Vatican’s own records
Finally, the demonic, religious “Pale Horse Rider” George Bush has left office.
Finally, the world has Obama, the humane, spiritual “Black Horse Rider”.
Of course, demonic Christian conservatives like Rino, the pope and Bush are angry.
Having been inside the Vatican, beneath the Vatican, and invited by the Pope’s bodyguard to a special Mass, I can tell you that former Cardinal Ratzinger in charge of Inquisitions, who is now the Pope, does fear Obama and as the “Red Horse Rider”, he greatly fears the release of additional hidden Vatican secrets by an “insider”.
When the Vatican’s “insider” “misfiled” a “secret document” in the Vatican’s public library, “Ratzo” feared other documents were also “misfiled” and quickly ordered the library closed, so all public files could be examined. Suddenly, the Vatican declared all floors of the huge and previously “open” Vatican Library had to be immediately closed, for an extended period of time, to do some “repairs”.
Nine hundred year old Knights Templar documents and 3,500 year old scrolls from the Ark of the Covenant are secretly hidden in the Vatican’s vast network of basement vaults. These documents specifically state the Soul of a permanent Heavenly Angelic Light Body connects to a temporary earthly physical body with a baby’s first breath.
A new DVD in April vividly describes exactly how our permanent Human Angelic Light Body, (called a “Holy Spirit” by the Vatican), continues to reincarnate into temporary human earthly physical bodies until one attains sainthood and becomes an Angelic Ascended Master or fully graduates as an Archangelic Ascended Master.
A vast number of ancient secrets from Knights Templar documents about the “True Jesus”, not the Roman Empire’s “fake Jesus” are online at www.theTrueJesus.org. The “True Jesus” book and DVD by the Guardians of Ancient Knowledge give one the true history of humanity, available only at http://www.thetruejesus.org/order.php
Full News Release
“The Vatican Slams Obama over Abortion”
By JEFF ISRAELY TIME Monday, Jan. 26, 2009
President Obama is probably not itching for a fight over abortion. But he might get one. With unusual speed, the Vatican has condemned Obama's Jan. 23 repeal of the ban on U.S. funding for foreign family-planning aid groups that offer abortion services. The repeal fulfills a campaign promise Obama made to pro-choice supporters. But if the late-Friday-afternoon signing was an attempt to get the change in under the radar, it didn't work. Top Vatican officials, usually hesitant to respond directly to Washington's domestic-policy decisions, pounced quickly. By Saturday afternoon, the Holy See was e-mailing reporters the Sunday edition of its official daily, L'Osservatore Romano, which features a front-page headline describing Obama's decision as "very disappointing." (Read "Shhh. Obama Repeals the Abortion Gag Rule, Very Quietly.")“The Vatican Slams Obama over Abortion”
By JEFF ISRAELY TIME Monday, Jan. 26, 2009
The same day, the secular Milan daily Corriere della Sera published an interview with a top Vatican official lashing out at the new U.S. President. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the newspaper that the repeal of the abortion-funding ban was done with "the arrogance of those who, having power, think they can decide between life and death." Troubled by the swiftness of Obama's pro-choice move, Fisichella brushed off earlier vows by the new President to try to cut the number of abortions while ensuring a woman's access to the procedure. "On ethical questions, you can't play with words," said the Italian Archbishop, who is considered close to Pope Benedict XVI. "Hiding behind sophisms isn't worthy of he who has a responsibility towards citizens. People want clarity."
It's too early to predict a deep rupture in U.S.-Vatican relations. There was no mention of the issue in Sunday's regular Angelus ceremony, and the Pope personally sent warm messages of congratulations to Obama after both his election victory and the Inauguration. But don't count on Benedict staying silent as Obama ushers in more liberal laws for abortion or stem-cell research. If he does speak out, the Pope is likely to use his representatives in America. The front-page Sunday story in L'Osservatore Romano focused on the U.S. bishops' response to the abortion-rights decree. A recent video advertisement being aired by Catholicvote.com puts Obama in the middle of the abortion debate, implying that the future President, an African American raised by a single mother, was himself at risk of being aborted.
Benedict knows that abortion is legal and widely available throughout the West, including virtually every country in Europe. It is the most glaring sign for the Pope of what he describes as the moral failings of contemporary life. But in the U.S., Benedict sees fertile possibility to challenge the status quo. On his trip to Washington and New York last April, Benedict heard how Catholics in America are being reinvigorated by a steady flow of more-traditional immigrant Catholic groups. That matters. Fisichella concluded his interview by saying, "What happens in the U.S. influences other parts of the world. For this [its leaders] must be capable of listening, having humility and maybe even asking others for help."
Obama won a majority of Catholic voters, in part because he was able to convince them that he was both the right man to lead the country and generally in tune with their values. In his public speeches and private diplomacy, Benedict will use his notable intellect to reaffirm for American Catholics what those values are. It would be a chance to influence abortion legislation both in the U.S. and around the world. On abortion, in other words, Benedict might be itching for a fight with Obama. If so, the new President will have to work hard to keep from getting bruised.
Obama's Reversal Of American Abortion Aid Policy Reaches Into African Slums - NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 31, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/31/ap/world/main4766178.shtml
------------------------------------------------------------
(AP) Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America's battle over abortion.
Aid workers and experts say President Barack Obama's decision to allow aid money to flow again to international groups that offer abortion counseling will help restart programs desperately needed in Africa, the continent hardest hit by a so-called "gag rule."
Dr. Walter Odhiambo, the country director for Marie Stopes Kenya, said his family planning organization had been limping along on European aid because of the U.S. rule Obama overturned on Jan. 23 in one of his first presidential acts. Now, Odhiambo said, he would be applying for U.S. funds he hoped to use to expand counseling and other services, particularly in rural Kenya.
"Family planning was not given the prominence it needs," Odhiambo said.
The policy banned U.S. government money from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. Its critics call it the "global gag rule," because it prohibits funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method. That can affect a range of services provided by private groups on a continent where governments can meet few of their citizens' health needs.
"The biggest impact has been in sub-Saharan Africa," said Wendy Turnbull, a researcher for Washington-based Population Action International, which lobbies on family planning issues and applauded Obama's move.
Turnbull applauded the Bush administration for spending millions to fight AIDS and other health threats in Africa, but said the gag rule undermined that effort.
For instance, she said, groups that could have helped distribute the condoms the U.S. was supplying to fight AIDS were denied funding because of their stance on abortion.
"When you are making rules, it's not right to just look at the immediate effects," said Nkandu Luo, a Zambian former minister of health who currently heads her country's independent Society for Women and AIDS. "It's important to look at the long-term implications."
A study by the Washington-based Center for Reproductive Rights said the policy hit hardest in Africa, the fastest growing and poorest continent. Latin Americans and Asians were more likely to accept the ban and keep funding, either because they embraced its intent or relied more on U.S. money, the study concluded.
Clinics serving over 1.5 million women closed in Kenya, homeland of Obama's father, said Marie Stopes Kenya and Family Health Options Kenya. Contraceptive availability in Zambia was reduced. AIDS programs run by family planning groups in Ethiopia were affected.
Even without the U.S. policy, abortions would be controversial here. They are illegal in almost all African countries, many of which have conservative Christian or Muslim populations ... one of the reasons women interviewed about their abortions declined to give their full names.
But the laws have simply pushed abortions into back rooms instead of ending the practice.
Marie Stopes Kenya, which does not offer abortions, closed two slum clinics after losing its USAID funding because of its association with Marie Stopes International, one of the world's largest family planning organizations.
Odhiambo, the country director for Marie Stopes Kenya, said it was likely that women who would have used his group's contraceptive services became pregnant instead and joined the 300,000 Kenyan women that Marie Stopes says seek dangerous, illegal abortions each year.
Two years ago, Joyce and her cousin Carolyne went to a Kibera slum clinic for a contraceptive injection. Because supplies were low, the doctor shared one between the two. Joyce, then a shy 18-year-old high school student, became pregnant. Her boyfriend deserted her and she had an illegal abortion.
"The fetus came out but she did not stop bleeding," ecalled 29-year-old Carolyne. By the light of a small kerosene lamp, the two women used every sheet and towel in Carolyne's small house to try to stop the blood. Joyce spent the night twisting in pain on the floor, crying out for God to forgive her and screaming for her mother.
At dawn the two women went to a government hospital and had to plead with doctors to treat Joyce without informing police of the abortion.
Dr. Louis Machogo, the pharmacist for another Kenyan family planning group, said politicians may not understand the dilemmas that their policies forced on poor families.
"We are struggling with poverty, health issues, even hunger," he said. "We should let families decide for themselves how many children to have."
The U.S. ban was established by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984, ended by Democrat Bill Clinton in 1993 and reinstated by Republican George W. Bush in 2001.
"We now have a challenge, as the representatives of women's groups, (to) make sure that even if we have another president from the Republican party, we don't go back to this rule," said Luo, the ex-minister. "We shouldn't just sit back and celebrate. We need to go out and campaign and get the Republicans to realize the impact of these decisions."
Associated Press Writer Donna Bryson in Johannesburg, South Africa contributed to this report.
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