Abortion colonization: Harris will hold poor nations hostage
You deserve to know what’s being done in your name. Against the most impoverished and vulnerable nations. With your tax dollars, no less.
When Valerie Huber served as Special Representative for Global Women’s Health in the Trump administration, she defended the equal dignity of women worldwide, advocating for their education, health care, and access to political participation. She also contended that abortion was not an “international right,” the family was the foundation of human society, and that nations had the prerogative to make their own laws on these matters.
She wasn’t alone.
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Along with representatives from over 30 countries, the U.S. Government signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a first-of-its-kind coalition dedicated to improving women’s health and upholding these likeminded values.
The Declaration affirms women’s universal dignity and equality, and all the social implications of thereby. All women are “equal before the law,” and “human rights of women are an inalienable, integral, and indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
It emphasizes that there is no international right to abortion and reaffirms “the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.” Its signatories included representatives from The Republics of Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, and Zambia — even the Republics of Iraq, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A remarkable step of U.S. solidarity with developing nations to ensure women’s human rights.
So remarkable, that on January 20, 2021, it was the only identifiable policy removed from a government website. Before the sun had set on Inauguration Day, the Biden administration took it down. Eight days later, it had withdrawn from the coalition entirely.
I wish that were the end of the story. It would be concerning enough. But it was just the beginning.
“Unfortunately, the U.S. has been an ideological aggressor,” Huber explained in an interview. In nations with great needs and traditional values, too often countries apply ideological conditions before they give assistance. Nations that want to develop are economically strong-armed into adopting politically progressive policies on abortion and sexuality.
In her countless conversations with national representatives, she’s heard them describe how pressures from outsiders are purely ideological, along with the unprompted refrain: “your country is the worst.”
Their priority is not the plight of impoverished nations; their priority is the advancement of their cultural agenda. And note well: it’s the world’s most poor and vulnerable caught in the crosshairs, forced to comply against their cultural values so their children can have a chance.
Now the president of The Institute for Women’s Health Valerie Huber continues to work in countries worldwide. She wouldn’t disclose which nations the Institute is working with to protect them — any public reports of affiliation could make them political targets. She notes the irony of the international community’s both claiming to value “indigenous rights and cultural sensitivity” yet devaluing them as a culture and disrespecting them as individuals.
Some countries couldn’t withstand the pressure. Their need for aid was so dire, they changed their laws.
Thus, the United States government culturally colonizes a sovereign nation in the name of “sexual and reproductive health rights.” With American tax dollars, our leaders are leveraging poverty to ideologically conquer the world’s most vulnerable.
For all the talk of “defending democracy” and “upholding freedom,” the Biden-Harris administration would rather hold aid to needy children hostage than respect and partner with a nation that unapologetically holds traditional values.
In this election, pro-life voters are hard-pressed to find a candidate who reflects their convictions. Understandably, many are considering — for various reasons — to opt out of voting altogether. But you should know these tactics would almost certainly continue, perhaps even escalate, under a Harris-Walz administration.
Remember that when Christian clerics and commentators urge you to vote for a devoutly pro-abortion candidate — whose most notable accomplishment in office was visiting a Planned Parenthood — for the sake of democracy.
Click to find your congressional representative and petition to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration.
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Katie McCoy is the author of To Be A Woman: The Confusion over Female Identity and How Christian’s Can Respond (B&H), and co-author of Humanity, part of the Theology for the People of God series (B&H Academic). She holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from Southwestern Seminary, where she served on faculty for five years. Katie is speaks and writes on gender and cultural issues and is a frequent guest on WORLD Radio’s “Culture Friday” segment.
