The SPUC team at CPD

Selfie with Maria Madise ( Director SPUC International Operations ), Matthew McCusker ( Assistant Manager SPUC International operations,) and Patrick Buckley who lobbies in New  York and Geneva.

No Document 

So around 6 pm last night the Chair from Qatar announced that there was no agreement and therefore no document. So in the past three years, they have only agreed on a document once. In 2014, no document, in 2015 these was a document agreed, and in 2017 no document. 

Our understanding of what occurred is that deep into last Thursday night the Chair from Qatar agreed on a chairs text with the EU and UNFPA. The Chair wanted family language in the document, and she allowed very bad pro-abortion wording into the document, with a strong sovereignty paragraph. 

When we got the Chair's text we created a firestorm of protest amongst the pro-life countries. Then the US came up with a very poor compromise on paras OP35 and 40. However, the EU was just not happy and there was no agreement.

Then there was the most insane two hours of lamenting and congratulating people. But the most bizarre comment came from the Chines delegate. He was bragging about how low their pre-natal mortality was. I guess he was not counting their hundreds of millions of abortions as mortalities. He was also expressing China's love of UNFPA.

This reminds me of a small discussion I had late last year with the new Chines delegate. He had been avoiding me for most of the year. However last October I was in Conf room 1 and the meeting ended 20 minutes early. When I approached him he tried to claim he had to be at another meeting. I felt like calling him a liar but refrained. I explained that the meeting ended 20 minuted early and he could not possibly have another meeting. I then opened with a very leading question, " Do you think the world would be better off with more Chinese people or less ". An obvious illusion to their one child policy!  He thought for a moment and said he thought more Chinese would be OK. I concurred and we were all happy. I then asked about his personal life. He said he was an only child ( he is in his early thirties ) and his wife is an only child. They have a son and his mother-in-law is there to help with the baby. So he is eligible for getting a second birth permit. I asked , what was your wife's response. He told me she said NO THANKS. 

So the Communist Chines government thinks it can turn off the fertility tap in their country, then turn is back on, they are in for a big shock. LORD HAVE MERCY ON THEM.