Commission on Population and Development-Issue of Abortion Takes Centre Stage

MMDNewswire ^ | 4/14/2011 | Press Release

[wheresmyusa]

With more than 50,000 women dying annually from unsafe abortions, especially in Africa and South-Central Asia, Governments everywhere must make greater efforts to ensure that the old-age and widespread practice of abortion was safe, legal and available to all women and girls, today's keynote speaker told the Commission on Population and Development as it continued its general debate.

"When political leaders and policymakers fail to implement known, affordable solutions to an entirely preventable problem, one can only conclude that they do not sufficiently value the women and girls whose lives are at stake," said Eunice Brookman-Amissah, Vice-President for Africa of Ipas, a global non-governmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities resulting from unsafe abortion.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 21 million women underwent unsafe abortions every year, often ingesting poison or inserting sharp objects into themselves, said Ms. Brookman-Amissah, a former Minister for Health of Ghana. Hundreds of millions more women would do the same at some point during their lifetime, particularly in Africa and Latin America, where the practice was largely banned or highly restricted, causing a heavy burden on health systems and impeding realization of Millennium Development Goal 5, on improving maternal health.

She said she was encouraged, however, that since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, Governments were paying more attention to the problem. Most African Governments had ratified the African Union's protocol on women's rights, which granted access to safe abortion for health and other reasons, while several countries had eased legal restrictions on abortion or increased access within current laws. Since 2003, when WHO had provided advice to Governments on how to make abortion safe, deaths from unsafe abortions had dropped 16 per cent, she noted.

[wheresmyusa]

"BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIM, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said the decision to extend the Programme of Action beyond 2014 reaffirmed the centrality of population to sustainable development, as well as the unfinished nature of that "visionary roadmap". The international community must focus on human rights and women's rights -- including the right to sexual and reproductive health -- as well as principles of equity and social justice so as to guide its collective efforts for sustainable development, he said."

"They also committed to the integration of family planning and maternal health into national poverty alleviation plans, he said, urging the Governments of developing countries to make "suitable" policy decisions in addressing climate change in the broader context of population dynamics and sustainable development."

"SHA ZUKANG, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Secretary-General of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, shared his perspectives on the critical role of population in sustainable development. The recent financial and economic crisis and the greater frequency of extreme weather conditions due to climate change had led to a re-evaluation of development priorities and the requirements for long-term sustainability. Most experts assumed that population growth would continue to decline until it reached zero in 2050. He went on to note that United Nations projections were based on the assumption that fertility would continue declining wherever it remained above 2 children per woman until it reached 1.85, a value well below replacement levels. Therefore, population stabilization would only be feasible in the current century if every nation's fertility rate fell below the replacement level. Since fertility decline had been slow in several least developed countries and fertility may stagnate in other countries, it was not certain that all countries would reach sufficiently low fertility levels by 2050, he cautioned. If it were to stop declining at 2.25 children per woman instead of dropping below 2 children per woman, the world population could soar well above 10 billion by 2050 and continue rising over the rest of the century, he said. Ensuring that 9 billion people had enough food and energy by that year already appeared to be a major challenge that would become even greater if the global population surpassed 10 billion."

"Historical evidence suggested that socio-economic progress and fertility went hand in hand, he said, noting that fertility rates were generally higher among the poor and in poor countries. High rates of infant mortality, the absence of social protections, the lack of access to reproductive health and several other socio-economic factors contributed to higher fertility rates among the poor. "Thus, the discussion on fertility and population growth cannot be carried out in isolation. It is an issue at the root of sustainable development," he emphasized. Accelerated implementation of the Programme of Action must be integral to overall poverty-reduction and sustainable development efforts, he said. Hailing the extension of the Programme of Action beyond 2014, he underlined, however, that it must be accompanied by a firm commitment to ensure that sustainable development goals and objectives were met soon."

[wheresmyusa]

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[GOPJ]

With more than 50,000 women dying annually from unsafe abortions, especially in Africa and South-Central Asia...

I don't believe this number any more than I believe the global warming numbers. Big bucks pushing this lie - liberals are on-board - that's enough for me...

[wheresmyusa]

This one about blew me out of my chair....

"The recent financial and economic crisis and the greater frequency of extreme weather conditions due to climate change had led to a re-evaluation of development priorities and the requirements for long-term sustainability. Most experts assumed that population growth would continue to decline until it reached zero in 2050."

Where do they get this stuff?!?

[Soothesayer]

If this number is true then rest assured they don’t give a rat’s ass about those 50,000 women and girls.

This is about killing as many human beings as possible for the sake of their demented Earth worship. It’s also why they actively promote and even fund many of the world’s worst human rights violations (i.e. sex trafficking, Jihad, use of child soldiers, etc).

[GOPJ]

Where do they get this stuff?!?

Out of thin air?

[chickadee]

“With more than 50,000 women dying annually from unsafe abortions, especially in Africa and South-Central Asia, Governments everywhere must make greater efforts to ensure that the old-age and widespread practice of abortion was safe, legal and available to all women and girls, . . .”

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Why don’t we apply this thinking to all forms of bad human behavior? Remove guns from the hands of home owners so burglars don’t get shot. Remove weapons from women so rapists don’t get injured on the “job”.

Oh, wait, they are already working on this.

Never mind.

[oldbrowser]

With more than 50,000 women dying annually from unsafe abortions, especially in Africa and South-Central Asia, s

What about the 50,000 or more aborted babies dying annually from abortion?

This is kind of confusing. Why are they worried about the women? They were babies at one time too. Or maybe they want them to live so that they can abort more babies?

Are they trying to increase or decrease the population?
Is abortion an end in itself?

[exDemMom]

In other words, those who see women as cash cows see that there’s a huge untapped reservoir of potential profit out there.

Notice that there is not a single mention of providing birth control, any kind of information, or any form of real health care to those women. Nope. Just abortion.

I wonder what the numbers are on women who die from “safe” abortions? We already have a pretty good idea on the number of children who die from them, whether they’re “safe” or “unsafe.”

[eclecticEel]

This is kind of confusing. Why are they worried about the women?

They're not. They care nothing that half (or actually somewhat more than half) of all the aborted are themselves female.

[wheresmyusa]

“Are they trying to increase or decrease the population?”

Exactly why the quote in post 4 blew me away. Their whole point seems to be “we need to stunt population growth with our central planning”. And yet, they say that if left unchecked the population will be ZERO by 2050?? Isn’t that what you want dumbasses?? F’ng clueless bastards....

[Sherman Logan]

ensure that the old-age ... practice of abortion

Truly old-age women seldom need an abortion.

Presumably they mean age-old.

Nobody can write anymore.

[little jeremiah]

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The next president and Congress need to kick the UN out of the US and get the US out of the UN. Pouring money into a rathole of leftist scum, jihadi Muslims and crazed dictators is insane. Oh, and homo agenda promoters and death loving ghouls.

[TheOldLady]

And sleazy criminals with diplomatic immunity.

[little jeremiah]

Where I live (very rural) there are more than a few “US out of the UN and UN out of the US” signs.

If it was in the news what the fiends in the UN are up to, there would be a huge outcry to kick ‘em out of NYC. If the US got out of the UN, the UN would cease to exist. Where ever the UN blue helmets go, sex abuse of children goes up. I hate the UN.

[TheOldLady]

Yes, having the UN here is insanity. It needs to go, not only from here, but also from the entire world. It’s a cruel joke and has morphed into an evil monster that has long left behind its usefulness for what is right and good.

[wheresmyusa]

Amen.