U.S. PUSHING PRO-FAMILY STANCE AT CHILDREN S SUMMIT

Zenit ^ | 10-May-2002 | ZENIT.org News Agency

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U.S. PUSHING PRO-FAMILY STANCE AT CHILDREN´S SUMMIT

Europeans Object to American Opposition to Abortion, Redefinition of Family

NEW YORK, (Zenit.org).- European leaders at the United Nations´ children´s summit accused the U.S. delegation of being stubborn because it wants to bar maneuvers supportive of abortion or anti-family values.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who is leading the U.S. delegation, stood firm in private meetings Wednesday in the face of strong European objections to U.S. positions such as abortion and redefinition of the family, the Washington Times reported.

European delegations are pushing for the redefinition of the family "in its various forms." Language in documents of prior world conferences dating to 1995 give primacy to the natural husband-wife unit.

The United States is demanding the inclusion of other language stating that "marriage must be entered into with the free consent of the intending spouses, and husband and wife should be equal partners," sources familiar with negotiations for a final summit document told the Times.

The U.S. delegation also is battling European insistence that "reproductive health services" be guaranteed by member states to all children, which, a senior Canadian negotiator recently admitted, included abortions.

A State Department legal adviser, Michael Dennis, told the Washington Post that the U.S. delegation wants the final document to promote abstinence.

Meanwhile, the European Union and certain Latin American countries of the so-called Rio Group removed language that said implementation of international health and reproductive health programs would take into account "national laws, religious beliefs and cultural values" of countries.

Removing that language, in effect, could give the U.N. document more power to overcome resistance in Christian and Muslim countries, the Washington Times said.

[A Navy Vet]

Not an ounce of difference between the Bush adminstration and the toon's...so I hear. I'm sure Gore would have fought this, and Kyoto, and ICC, and re-structured foreign aid, and change 2nd Amendment policy, and led a real war on terroism, and shutdown a number of worthless agencies, and pushed through a tax cut, and...

Yes, I also disagree with some of his policies, but there IS a difference.

[patent]

>>>>Yes, I also disagree with some of his policies, but there IS a difference.

Two ounces? ;-)

[Tomalak]

God bless America.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't mean to minimize what the Bush administration has done here, but I often wonder what can possibly be accomplished in this kind of setting if a future administration can (and will) simply undo everything with the stroke of a pen.

[Siobhan]

This is better than Clinton, but if Bush wanted me to be a true believer in his cause he would sign an Executive Order banning Partial Birth Abortion immediately.

Using my father's ping list, let me know if you want on or off of it. God bless.

[Paleo Conservative]

I don't mean to minimize what the Bush administration has done here, but I often wonder what can possibly be accomplished in this kind of setting if a future administration can (and will) simply undo everything with the stroke of a pen.

First, Congress can refuse to fund these idiotic programs. Second, these policies are already leading to the demographic implosion of several European countries. When the Islamic population in those countries becomes a majority, I predict that their positions on these issues will change.

[Maceman]

Not an ounce of difference between the Bush adminstration and the toon's...so I hear. I'm sure Gore would have fought this, and Kyoto, and ICC, and re-structured foreign aid, and change 2nd Amendment policy, and led a real war on terroism, and shutdown a number of worthless agencies, and pushed through a tax cut, and...

I think we all can agree that there is more than an ounce of difference. Unfortunately, we need many tons of differences, and those are not forthcoming.

BTW, if there have been a number of worthless agencies shut down, I haven't heard about it. What did I miss? Please enlighten.

[Alberta's Child]

One of the problems is that many of these hags do not rely on government funding -- they represent various Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) at these conferences.

Of course, by the time Islam is the dominant religion in Europe the natives there will have far more on their minds than any "childrens' summit."

[A Navy Vet]

Sorry, I can't recall what two of them were, but I do remember the feel-good liberal woman's program or agency he shut down. Maybe some other posters can help me here...

[SunStar]

But there's no difference between Bush and Gore, right?

[lady lawyer]

I hear from my pro-family, pro-life friends at the UN that the Bush administration is performing brilliantly. When I was there watching the Clinton administration negotiate, the US was taking the same position as the North American Man Boy Love Association -- that kids have a right to sex.

[Siobhan]

Hats off to the Bush Administration on this one. May God bless their efforts to erase the rot from Clinton and his minions.

[Domestic Church]

"This is better than Clinton, but if Bush wanted me to be a true believer in his cause he would sign an Executive Order banning Partial Birth Abortion immediately."

Double Ditto Ping!(and keep on the list please...I'll never find half this stuff on my own.)