Posted on 11/10/2008 12:57:02 PM PST by NYer
ROME, November 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Catholic Doctors’ Association of Kenya said last week that the election of Barack Obama as the new president of the US is a direct attack on the families and children of Africa. Dr. Stephen Karanja, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist from Nairobi told LifeSiteNews.com that those in Kenya “who know what is good for their world,” had feared the election of Obama because of his pro-abortion and anti-family positions.
“We in Kenya know him (Obama) as a person who is anti-family,” Dr. Karanja said. “A person who would support abortion. In America they can do all right killing their babies. But they must not associate us with the people who would want our babies to be killed.”
In an interview at an international conference of obstetricians and ethicists in Rome, Dr. Karanja said that Africans are now under threat, with Obama having made his radical support for abortion without restriction a key point of his campaign. “Now we are in big trouble because of these Americans,” Dr. Karanja said.
Dr. Karanja expressed his frustration at the result of the US election: “They have no business electing a person who is going to destroy our countries. And that is what they have done. This is something that a lot of people don’t realise, that what these Americans do affects innocent people thousands and thousands of miles away.”
“The truth is that they have put a bad man in the most powerful office in the whole world. And are putting people outside your borders in danger.”
Africa, he said, has been “saturated” with contraceptives by US-based international aid organisations, pushing an anti-child, anti-family ideology. The anti-family efforts of many international aid organizations, however, were frustrated by the Bush administration, which severely restricted overseas funding for contraceptives and abortion. The election of Obama, on the other hand, has been hailed as a victory for many such organizations, such as International Planned Parenthood, which expect a massive influx of funding and support from an Obama administration.
90 per cent of those in Kenya polled over the last twenty years, said Dr. Karanja, hold abortion to be an “abomination.” “And therefore the people who want abortion in our country, 90 per cent of them would consider them an abomination.
“And that is what Americans are bringing to us: an abomination.”
Dr. Karanja described the work of US-based international aid organisations that have condoms, abortion and population control as the foundation of their work overseas: “Those organisations that come to our country ... we don’t need them. We don’t need them at all. They come in our country for the purposes of trying to sell an ideology to us, an ideology we do not need.”
“There is something in Africa we have that they should come and learn,” he continued. “Something called ‘respecting the family’ respecting the elders, respecting the children, hoping for the best, and not being ruled. And people from the west have a problem with this.”
The “one thing” that many Kenyans fear from Obama’s presidency, said Karanja, is the renewal of the attacks on the family and the unborn. “The only resource we have that is truly ours,” he said, “is our people.
“Don’t attack them and we’ll be alright. And this administration of Obama, is going to be a nightmare for our people.”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
2008 UNAIDS Report: Condoms, Condoms, Condoms (Did We Mention Condoms?) and…Drugs
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08073101.html
Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072101.html
Interview With a World Leader in AIDS-Prevention
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072104.html
Ping!
Remarkable, a person of direct African dissent, the head of the free world,is whole heartedly blessing the infanticide that will occur. I guess this is what legacies are made of.
Now this is the kind of Kenyan I respect. I was reminded by my oldest son who is in a Christian ministry that he has been in touch with Kenyan missionaries that have come over here to spread the Gospel. He said that they have huge hearts, speak English well and have winning personalities, amazing! Our once Christian nation receiving missionaries to get us back on track—from Kenya!
What an amazing world...
Obama...
A lot of tough love from his peeps...
Ya know you’re a loser if your own family condemn ya...
I am adding this man and his nation to my prayers.
I am also beginning to author letters to my congressman and my senators on this issue and other issues of concern. I intend to follow up with phone calls at the appropriate time(s).
I hope to sway my legislators away from the culture of death that this nation has embraced these last several decades.
Wow, he doesn’t mince words! Bookmarked for later reading. Dr. Karanja is very courageous to speak out. He’s right of course.
Ping!
How ironic! First we send missionaries to convert them; now they send missionaries to re-convert us.
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What a courageous man. May God bless him, protect him, and keep him safe.
And the dictatorship of relativism, which declares there is no right or wrong, no good or evil. It's all relative...but to what?
Leftists have always been particularly skilled in mass murder. This is a tragic fact.
Obama is an obamanation to us as well. It is said that we get the ledership we deserve. May God have mercy on this country.
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