Off to Aus. tomorrow

My plan is to catch my flight at Glasgow airport at 8.50pm tomorrow and land in Hobart at 1.55pm on new years eve. So I will be on Bruny Is with my brother Keith new years eve and not going to a party but getting a good nights sleep, Lord willing!

The next day the slaughter of the fish may commence. Photographic evidence shall appear in early January, watch this space!

I am due back in Scotland 19th January. Plan to be in Holland 24 & 25 January for the 5th birthday party for TCC. Then on 28th January, I will be off to the UN in New York for the NGO committee hearings. Should be home from there 9th Feb.

Christmas dinner early at Rebekah's .

Nice to be with my wife ,2 daughters ,2 son in laws and 2 grandchildren in Scotland.

March for Life - The Hague - Sat . 9 Dec.

This is me giving my speech with Henk translating into Dutch. It was very cold and if I had stubbed my toe on something it might have fallen off with brittle fracture. This shelter was not a bouncy castle, but looked like one!

There was a big screen so people could see us. There were 15,000 people there which was a record.

I was next to a politician, on my left and Henk is in the brown coat on the end of the banner with two of his sons.

Off to the Netherlands today

My speech for tomorrow at the March for Life in The Hague.

Introduction

For the past 23 years, Mr. Smith has lobbied at UN meetings in New York and around the world, in total attending around 140 such events. He has represented the International Right to Life Federation and SPUC and now works for the Transatlantic Christian Council.

Speech

There is no international right to abortion, no treaties legalize abortion. At every UN meeting where abortion is even implied, there is a storm of disagreement.

Recently the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, which  monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has been trying to fabricate a right to abortion

 Article 6 of that covenant states :

1. Every human being has the inherent right to life.

5. Sentence of death…. shall not be carried out on pregnant women.

Now this committee has issued a draft General Comment 36 on the right to life which states:

 States parties must provide safe access to abortion to protect the life and health of pregnant women

So another compliance committee at the UN has invented a right to abortion.  They are not alone, the CEDAW (Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women) compliance committee has been doing this for years. These are fake rights. You cannot make a wrong, that is abortion, into a right.

These compliance committees make many grand pronouncements, but these are not binding on sovereign nations.  The only sure way to force a country to change its laws is by invading it and taking over its government, I am not advocating this. The next way to get countries to change their laws is to trick them. These UN compliance committees are experts in this field.  They proclaim a right to abortion where there is not one. Rich countries donating money to poor countries can also put pressure on them to change their laws. He who pays the piper picks the tune.

The most widely accepts Convention at the UN is the DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD adopted by UN General Assembly in 1959. In its introduction it states:

   WHEREAS 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,

So the UN should be pro-life, but many people in the system are not.

Who would have believed that Communism would fall in Russia and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s? But a Pope preached in Poland, fear not. Ronald Regan said tear down this wall in Berlin. Maggie Thatcher visited Solidarity and encouraged them. People prayed and an evil empire fell.

Now to end, in 1996 there was a big UN conference in Istanbul. Around 140 pro-lifers attended, I was there being a bit of a troublemaker. The pro-abortion countries, mainly the EU, got nothing for their evil agenda at this meeting. There were three Dutch grannies there who prayed, which was wonderful. I call it the miracle of Istanbul.

Continue to pray and lobby peacefully to end abortion.

God bless you.

Last week in London

We had a very nice dinner in Bromley on Thursday evening. My wife got to meet people I had been talking about for years. There was a presentation glass mentioned, but this was presented on Friday.

There was a very nice reception put on for me at Head Office. There was lots of smoked salmon which is my favorite. Maybe Friday was the reason!

I was honored to be invited to Operation Mobilizations Christmas dinner. George Verwer was in great form as usual. I got to share a little about my work for the Transatlantic Christian Council.

Very nice glass award from SPUC Evangelicals, 

Pro-Life Hero  Lifetime Award  1994 to 2017