Endeavour Forum Inc.
In Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC
Statement by
Denise Mountenay-Canadian Director
To the 45th Commission on
Population & Development
YOUTH & ADOLESCENTS
UNITED NATIONS-New York
April 24, 2012
Mr. Chairman,
Executive Directors, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
We know there is a propaganda campaign agenda by some wealthy NGO’s
and UN agencies to push Comprehensive unrestrained Sexuality education into
nations for young children aged 10 and up, which endorse early sexual
activities, multiple partners, same sex philosophies, experimentation, along
with encouraging children to masturbate. (IPPF)[i]
This is totally unacceptable and inappropriate for children. We
understand that this (CSE) will only lead to more sexual promiscuity, fuel more
epidemics of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, including Syphilis, Herpes, HPV,
and HIV/AIDS. Sex outside of a marriage relationship also leads to more
abortions and emotional distress, according to Dr. Miriam Grossman during her
parallel event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2010. Who is benefiting from the
sex industry? Large multi-billion dollar manufacturing drug companies that
produce chemical steroids (birth control pills, hormonal patches
and injections, and abortion pills), along with the family planning
abortion industry who are profiting from ending the lives of healthy children
in the womb.
Mr. Chairman: Why does the CPD Draft Resolution for Youth
and Adolescence contain only 13% on education and employment opportunities,
while 57% focuses on sex? What has all
this sexual education for teenagers resulted in? Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD’s) are one
of the most critical health challenges facing several nations today. The Centre of Disease Control
(CDC) estimates that there are 19
million new infections every year in the United States.
STDs cost the U.S. health care system $17 billion every year—and cost individuals even more in immediate
and life-long health consequences. Young people represent 25 percent of the sexually
experienced population in the United States, but account for nearly half of new
STDs. The long-lasting health effects are particularly serious for young
people:
- Untreated gonorrhea and
chlamydia can silently steal a young woman’s chance to have her own
children later in life. Each year, untreated
STDs cause at least 24,000 women in the U.S. to become infertile.
- Untreated syphilis can
lead to serious long-term complications
- Studies suggest that
people with gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis are at increased risk for
HIV. Given the increase in both syphilis and HIV among young black gay and
bisexual men, it is particularly urgent to diagnose and treat both
diseases.[ii]
It is tragic that developing countries where women bear more
children per capita; Yet lack infrastructure, education on how to
prosper, sustainable food, clean water and access to sanitary medical services
to preserve all life. They need clean birthing kits to prevent infections,
access to skilled birthing attendants, transportation, doctors and emergency
obstetric care, not abortions.
Dr.
Jean Kagio, MD. Ob/Gynaecologist from Kenya, Africa states that “Legal Abortion
cannot end poverty because the health budget would go higher due to the
increased number of patients, increased mortality and morbidity due to abortion
complications for women…including psychiatric problems and the need
for assisted reproductive health services such as IVF due to infertility
caused by abortion. There are rampant
shortages of essential medicines and basic nutrition for the mothers and
their children due to poverty. It is horrifying that these
families suffer soaring maternal and child mortality rates which remain
high.
It is
unconscionable that nearly three million "wanted" children die every
year during natural labour and delivery due to lack of support in the weeks
just before birth. This is outrageous in this day of modern medicine and
technology. Therefore, we are calling on UN Agencies, Governments and
NGO's to recognize that if POVERTY is the enemy, then let's eliminate
that! (not eliminate children before they are born)
There is
a huge difference between Reproductive "Health" and the
"Right" to have one's child killed while on life support in his or
her mother's womb. Abortion as birth control is not health care, nor is
it usually a medical necessity. As a
former legal-abortion patient from Canada who ignorantly used abortion as a
violent form of birth control, and who got an infection, damaged cervix and
badly scarred uterus affecting my fertility; I know that there is no such thing
as a "safe" abortion. Abortion hurt me, and killed my
children. It is a wrong and not a right!
Many studies confirm that legal abortion
causes cervical and uterine damage and increased risk for pre-term births
in subsequent pregnancies. Other legal abortion consequences include; increased
risk of mental health problems consisting of anxiety disorders, panic
attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts and substance abuse problems. Go
to www.afterabortion.org[iii] Not
one study states that induced abortions are beneficial for women's Reproductive
Health!
Over 50 worldwide studies now reveal
that induced legal abortions may significantly increase the risk of breast
cancer in women. Go to www.abortionbreastcancer.com[iv] for
references and citations.
Most developed nations have had over
40 years of legal abortion on demand, sterilizations and birth control,
but now face aging/dying populations with below replacement level birth
rates! This will bring huge economic catastrophes in the future due
to shortages in the working age population, and especially of doctors, nurses, teachers
and the available labour force.
To conclude
The
Secretary-General launched the Global Strategy on Women's and Children's
Health. This initiative was designed to accelerate the achievement of MDGs 4
and 5, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.
We urge the UN agencies and NGO's to begin
a campaign to encourage youth and adolescents to hang on to their hormones and
to save pregnant women and children.
Please provide funds for pregnant women and
children in developing nations, please supply clean water, access to real
maternal health care and let’s teach youth and young adults that they are not
animals who cannot control their sexual behaviour. According to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights it is the parents, who should teach and
guide their children's education.
Thank you for listening.
From the moment of conception all the DNA is
present, (information and data on if it is a boy or girl, who this child would
look like etc.)
A
person is a person, no matter how small.
Science resoundly declares that human life
begins at the moment of conception/fertilization. From conception every human
being has the potential to live for up to 70+ years. Children and youth
need to learn early that there is beating heart by 3-4 weeks, arms, legs,
fingers and toes by\ 8 weeks after conception. They need to learn about
the value of motherhood and fatherhood, and that choosing sex before marriage
could result in choosing STD's, pregnancy and broken hearts.
The
United Nations has an obligation according the Universal Declaration on
Human Rights, to defend and protect the innocent from violence.
Article 3 states that “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of
person.” Also, the Declaration on the Rights of the Child, 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,” -CRC (1990) Preamble. And ICPD (1994),
Chapter II, Principle 1.
Whether legal or illegal, there is no such thing as a
“safe” abortion. Legal abortions do not equal ‘safe’ abortions. Of
course, the abortion procedure is never ‘safe’ for the living baby inside his
or her mother’s matrix.
The
Elliot Institute reported that the majority of women in the USA do not even
want an abortion as 64% of are coerced or pressured into it by boyfriends,
parents, husbands and abortion clinic workers. Many women suffer
cervical and uterine damage, sterility, pre-term births in subsequent
pregnancies, breast cancer, depression, guilt, remorse, suicidal thoughts,
substance abuse etc….from legal abortions.[ii] www.afterabortion.org and www.abortionbreastcancer.com; www.canadasilentnomore.com
Choice? Just because something is legal,
doesn’t make it right. Africans were sold into slavery for profit, having
no right to life and liberty, to be used and abused. Aboriginal peoples
were classified as non-persons, in North America, and other nations and were
forced into Residential Schools and Reservations; we do not know how many were
slaughtered. World genocides to kill the unwanted occurred
in Mao Ze-Dong’s
China, 1958-61 and 1966-69. Stalin’s Soviet Union, Cambodia and Rwanda
where millions were slaughtered. We also know about the horrors and
brutality of the worst extermination on earth, where millions of Jews and
others were systematically annihilated as part of a Nazi population control
campaign of choice to kill the “unwanted”!
Tragically,
we have come to learn the hard way, as post abortive women, that abortion
is a wrong and not a right.
The
World Health Organization (WHO) target for Millennium Development Goal 5 is to
reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by three-quarters by 2015. Progress: The Lancet, Medical Journal stated, “Our
analysis of all available data for maternal mortality from 1980 to 2008 for 181
countries has shown a substantial decline in maternal deaths. Progress
overall would have been greater if the HIV epidemic had not contributed to
substantial increases in maternal mortality in eastern and southern Africa.”[vi]
We
are very concerned that young women in China who are forced to abort their
children. Many reports are made about human rights violations against
women in China who want children, but are forced to abort. Many are also
undergoing forced sterilizations. Among evidence provided by two human
rights organizations, ChinaAid and Women's Rights Without Frontiers, were
stories of
The ICPD,
8.25 states that “In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family
planning”…also ICPD, 7.24 declares “Governments should take appropriate steps
to help women avoid abortion…”
Therefore,
we urge you to begin an education awareness campaign to bring these truths and
information to light so women and children will be saved from destruction and
violence! It is a matter of life and death. You must intervene to
put pressure on the Chinese Government and all governments that permit this
cruel act, to stop this brutal barbaric policy against women and children in
our generation. Also we encourage you to examine the San Jose Articles on
Abortion and the Unborn Child in International Law.
[[i]] IPPF
Framework for Comprehensive Sexuality Education 7
[[iii]] The
Elliot Instititute; www.afterabortion.org
The ICPD, 8.25 states that
“In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning”…also
ICPD, 7.24 declares “Governments should take appropriate steps to help women
avoid abortion…”
